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Associations Between Big Five Personality Traits and Employee Perceptions of Social Media Monitoring at Work

Workplace social media monitoring has become increasingly prevalent, raising critical concerns about privacy and fairness in employee-employer relationships. This thesis investigated the associations between the Big Five personality traits and employee perceptions of social media monitoring in the workplace. Using a quantitative research design, the study examined how openness, conscientiousness,

Key Occupational Concepts : Occupational Engagement, Occupational Balance, Occupational Adaptation, and Participation

With occupation as the core domain of concern for occupational therapy, key occupational concepts need to be explored to discern their relevance in informing and delineating occupational therapy practice. This chapter will present definitions and descriptions of the key concepts of occupational engagement, occupational balance, and occupational adaptation, highlighting their key attributes, theori

Tenure track policies, procedures and career outcomes in a case study university in Ireland - a gendered critique

This chapter is a gendered critique of the tenure track (TT) model in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the oldest and most prestigious university in Ireland, with a record of fast-paced change in gender representation since 2012. The methodology includes a documentary analysis augmented with qualitative data from TT appointees. All of those interviewed who had completed the TT process obtained tenure

The ‘MOAHLFA(P) Index’ : An Attempt to Standardise a Widely Used Array of Descriptors of Patch-Tested Patients

Background: Since its inception in 1980, the MOHL index (% patients who are male, have occupational, hand, or leg dermatitis, respectively) and its later evolutions until the presently used MOAHLFA(P) index (adding % patients with atopic dermatitis, face dermatitis, age 40+ years and positive reaction(s) to ≥ 1 baseline series allergen) have been intended to convey important demographic and clinic

Control of hypercapnia and mortality in home mechanical ventilation : the population-based DISCOVERY study

Background Studies on the survival of patients with home mechanical ventilation (HMV) are sparse. We aimed to analyse the impact of controlled hypercapnia on survival over 27 years among patients with HMV in Sweden. Study design and methods Population-based cohort study of adult patients starting HMV in the Swedish Registry for Respiratory Failure (Swedevox) during 1996–2022 cross-linked with the

The Scale and Extent of Political Economies of the Middle Bronze Age Jazīrah and the Bilād al-Šām (c. 1800-1600 BCE)

The present thesis investigates the material scale of six political economiesdistributed across the dry-farming plains and piedmonts of the Middle Bronze AgeJazīrah and the Bilād al-Šām. This is done using a comparative and interdisciplinaryapproach combining the large-scale analysis of administrative cuneiform texts withthe compilation of relevant archaeological survey datasets. Drawing on theori

Transmission spectroscopy of CF4 molecules in intense x-ray fields

The nonlinear interaction of x rays with matter is at the heart of understanding and controlling ultrafast molecular dynamics from an atom-specific viewpoint, providing new scientific and analytical opportunities to explore the structure and dynamics of small quantum systems. At increasingly high x-ray intensity, the sensitivity of ultrashort x-ray pulses to specific electronic states and emerging

Environment of European Last Mammoths : Reconstructing the Landcover of the Eastern Baltic Area at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition

The Eastern Baltic area stands out as a unique location due to the finds of Europe’s youngest dated mammoth remains (12.6–11.2 ka cal BP). Our study explores the drastic climate and landcover changes during the extinction of these gigantic herbivores at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary. We used macrofossil analysis to determine the major contemporary terrestrial plant genera present in the area a

High migratory potential of fall armyworm in West Africa despite stable temperatures and widely available year-round habitats

The fall armyworm (FAW), an important migratory pest native to the Americas, was first detected in a nonnative region (West Africa) in 2016. In the following years, it quickly spread to multiple regions worldwide. FAW exhibits long-distance seasonal migration in both the Americas and Asia, primarily to take advantage of suitable seasonal habitats as they appear along the migratory pathways. Tropic

A murine pressure ulcer model for evaluating persistence and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infection

Chronic wounds, particularly pressure ulcers, pose significant healthcare challenges, especially in the elderly population. This study presents an experimental murine model of chronically infected pressure ulcers using a single cycle of magnet-induced ischemic injury combined with infection by bioluminescent Staphylococcus aureus. The model addresses previous limitations in studying pressure ulcer

Constraints and Costs : Essays in Corporate Finance

This thesis investigates how firms respond to internal and external financial pressures through four self-contained empirical studies in corporate finance. The first study explores how asset tangibility influences investment behaviour, finding that firms with more physical assets exhibit stronger sensitivity of investment to cash flow, indicating a deeper role for tangibility beyond traditional fi

Electromechanical coupling in polaronic ceria

Oxygen-defective metal oxides like cerium oxides exhibit giant electrostriction and field-induced piezoelectricity due to a dynamic electrosteric interplay between oxygen defects, V O ⋅ ⋅ , and the fluorite lattice. While such mechanisms are generally attributed to oxygen vacancies, recent results also highlight that trapped cationic defects, Ce Ce ′ , i.e. small polarons, can contribute to the el

Valuing drought impact mitigation on ecosystem services in a Mediterranean country

Drought is a complex natural hazard increasing in frequency, duration, and severity worldwide. Although droughts cause both market and non-market impacts, the latter suffers from a dearth of economic studies quantifying their magnitude. In this paper, we investigated how droughts affect selected ecosystem services expected to result in welfare losses in Spain. This study is aimed at quantifying an

Influence of land cover on noise simulation output – A case study in Malmö, Sweden

Determining the land cover (LC) data requirements used as input to noise simulations is essential for planning sustainable urban densifications. This study examines how different LC datasets influence simulated environmental noise levels of road traffic using Nord2000 in an urban area of 1 km2 in southern Sweden. Four LC datasets were used. The first dataset was based on satellite data (spatial re