Search results for " performance."

Determinants of Chairman Compensation

2011

This study examines determinants of chairman compensation in a supervisory board setting and, specifically, the relationship between chairman and CEO compensation. Using a sample of publicly listed firms in Sweden, the study indicates that chairman compensation – despite its fixed nature – is reflective of firm performance via a positive relationship to CEO compensation. As CEO compensation is set before chairman compensation, we argue that the chairman may be inclined to conspire with the CEO in earnings management efforts at the expense of monitoring on behalf of investors. Supporting our argument, we find evidence that the gap between chairman and CEO compensation is less at firms where …

Tour Leaders' Impression Management and Job Performance: Exploring the Moderating Role of Tourists' Self-Monitoring

2012

A tour leader (TL) is a first-line service provider whose performance shapes a tourist's experience and satisfaction during a journey. We examine the moderating effects of the self-monitoring level of group package tour members on the relationship between the use of impression management (IM) tactics by TLs and tourists' subsequent job performance ratings (PRs) of a TL. Data from 485 responses of tourists from 59 outbound tour groups in Taiwan revealed that TLs' use of positive IM tactics – that is, ingratiation, self-promotion, and exemplification – is positively related to tourists' PRs. In contrast, their use of non-positive IM tactics – that is, supplication and intimidation – is negati…

Vigor F7 projekta ietekme uz redzes funkcijām

2017

Maģistra darbs ir uzrakstīts angļu valodā uz 38 lapām. Tas satur 12 attēlus, 9 tabulas, 26 atsauces uz literatūras avotiem un 4 pielikumus. Galvenais darba mērķis ir nodemonstrēt F7 ierīces ietekmi uz redzes sistēmu un tās funkcijām. Tika veikti divi eksperimenti: Eksperiments I (30 dalībnieki, 10 – 40 g.v.), lai izvērtētu Vigor F7 ierīces ietekmi uz redzes funkcijām; Eksperiments II (20 dalībnieki, sportisti, 14 – 48 g.v.), lai izvērtētu Vigor F7 ierīces ietekmi uz dinamisko iemaņu efektivitāti. Abos eksperimentos novēroja statistiski nozīmīgi atšķirīgus rezultātus gan redzes funkcijām, gan dinamiskajām iemaņām, ja izmantoja F7 ierīci.

Fenibuta piemaisījumu kvantitatīvas noteikšanas metodes optimizācija un validācija

2021

Kokina. P., zinātniskie vadītāji: Dr. ķīm. V. Bartkevičs (LU), Dr. ķīm. A. Bolotin (AS Olainfarm). Maģistra darbs, 147 lappuses, 184 attēli, 75 tabulas, 15 literatūras avoti, 16 pielikumi. Latviešu valodā. Maģistra darbā ir veikta divu piemaisījumu(4-amino-3-fenilbutānskābes etilestera hidrohlorīds un 4-fenil-2-pirrolidons) kvantitatīvas noteikšanas analīzes metodes optimizācija un validācija farmaceitiskā preperāta Noofen® aktīvajai farmaceitiskai vielai (AFV) fenibuts. Metodes optimizācija un validācija bija nepieciešama farmaceitiskā preparāta Noofen® kvalitātes kontroles vajadzībām. Fenibuta paraugi tika analizēti ar augsti efektīvo šķidruma hromatogrāfiju (AEŠH). Optimizācija tika vērs…

AnySeq: A High Performance Sequence Alignment Library based on Partial Evaluation

2020

Sequence alignments are fundamental to bioinformatics which has resulted in a variety of optimized implementations. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them are hand-tuned and specific to certain architectures and execution models. This not only makes them challenging to understand and extend, but also difficult to port to other platforms. We present AnySeq - a novel library for computing different types of pairwise alignments of DNA sequences. Our approach combines high performance with an intuitively understandable implementation, which is achieved through the concept of partial evaluation. Using the AnyDSL compiler framework, AnySeq enables the compilation of algorithmic variants that ar…

Alignment-free Genomic Analysis via a Big Data Spark Platform

2021

Abstract Motivation Alignment-free distance and similarity functions (AF functions, for short) are a well-established alternative to pairwise and multiple sequence alignments for many genomic, metagenomic and epigenomic tasks. Due to data-intensive applications, the computation of AF functions is a Big Data problem, with the recent literature indicating that the development of fast and scalable algorithms computing AF functions is a high-priority task. Somewhat surprisingly, despite the increasing popularity of Big Data technologies in computational biology, the development of a Big Data platform for those tasks has not been pursued, possibly due to its complexity. Results We fill this impo…

What happens when software developers are (un)happy

2017

The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding happiness and unhappiness in all its components -- positive and negative emotions and moods -- is an attractive and important endeavor. Scholars in industrial and organizational psychology have suggested that understanding happiness and unhappiness could lead to cost-effective ways of enhancing working conditions, job performance, and to limiting the occurrence of psychological disorders. Our comprehension of the consequences of (un)happiness among developers is still too shallow, being mainly expressed in terms of developmen…

Binder and Mixture Fatigue Performance of Plant-Produced Road Surface Course Asphalt Mixtures with High Contents of Reclaimed Asphalt

2019

The aged properties of Reclaimed Asphalt (RA) binders are one of the main factors working against their utilisation in high-RA content (&gt

Trattamento dell'incertezza epistemica nell'analisi affidabilistica

Toward Optimal LSTM Neural Networks for Detecting Algorithmically Generated Domain Names

2021

Malware detection is a problem that has become particularly challenging over the last decade. A common strategy for detecting malware is to scan network traffic for malicious connections between infected devices and their command and control (C&C) servers. However, malware developers are aware of this detection method and begin to incorporate new strategies to go unnoticed. In particular, they generate domain names instead of using static Internet Protocol addresses or regular domain names pointing to their C&C servers. By using a domain generation algorithm, the effectiveness of the blacklisting of domains is reduced, as the large number of domain names that must be blocked g…