...000 words in the English language that could be used to describe personality traits. Later, Raymond Cattell reduced it first to 171 and then to 16 personality factors using elimination and statistical techniques. According to Cattell, there is a continuum of personality traits. In other words, each person contains all of these 16 traits to a certain degree, but they might be high in some traits and low in others. The following personality trait list describes some of the descriptive terms used for each of the 16 personality dimensions described by Cattell. 1.Warmth: Outgoing vs reserved 2.Reasoning: Abstract vs concrete 3.Emotional Stability: Calm vs high strung 4.Dominance: Forceful vs submissive 5. Liveliness: Spontaneous vs restrained 6.Rule Consciousness: Conforming vs non-conforming 7.Social Boldness: Uninhibited vs shy 8.Sensitivity: Tender-hearted vs tough-minded 9.Vigilance: Suspicious vs trusting 10. Abstractedness: Imaginative vs practical 11.Privateness: Discreet vs open 12.Apprehension: Worried vs confident 13.Openness to Change: Flexible vs attached to the familiar 14. Self-Reliance: Self-sufficient vs dependent 15. Perfectionism: Controlled vs undisciplined .16.Tension: Impatient vs relaxed Cattell also developed an assessment based on these 16 personality factors. The test is known as the 16 PF Personality Questionnaire and is still frequently used today, especially in business for employee testing and selection, career counseling and...
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...Interactions Between Personality and Various Factors at a Local Fire Department By Jennifer S. Skibba A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree With a Major in Applied Psychology Approved: 4 Semester Credits Dr. James Tan, Investigation Advisor The Graduate College University of Wisconsin-Stout May, 2002 The Graduate School University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, WI 54751 Abstract (Writer) Skibba (Last Name) Jennifer (First) S. (Initial) Personality and Job Satisfaction: An Investigation of (Title) Central Wisconsin Firefighters Applied Psychology (Graduate Major) Dr. James Tan (Research Advisor) May, 2002 (Month/Year) 108 (No.of Pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual 4th Edition (Name of Style Manual Used in this Study) The purpose of the present investigation is to evaluate how personality and job satisfaction affect job performance in employees at a Central Wisconsin fire department. Through a process of conducting assessments and gaining access to performance evaluations completed at the department, interactions between the variables was seen. The main effects found were that Factor C (Emotional Stability) and Factor F (Liveliness) of Cattell’s 16 PF had positive correlations with job performance, while Factor H (Social Boldness) had a negative relationship with job performance. The global factor of Realistic on the 16PF also has a positive...
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...DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY IPS 704 – 2012 PSYCHOMETRICS – ASSIGNMENT 1 LECTURER: Mr R Oliver DUE DATE: 26 April 2012 STUDENT 1: Jodine Hoffmann : 2038038 STUDENT 2: Nonstikeleo Mokoena : 3158789 STUDENT 3: Shafeeqah Jacobs : 2561402 STUDENT 4: Simone` Juganath : 3158797 PLAGARISM DECLARATIONI hereby declare that: | YES | NO | a. | I have perused and understood the relevant sections relating to plagiarism, citation and referencing; | √ | | b. | I know that plagiarism is wrong; | √ | | c. | I did not attempt to present the ideas of another as if they were my own; | √ | | d. | I did not attempt to represent the words or work of another as if they were my own; | √ | | e. | I did not utilize the ideas, words or work of another without acknowledgement; | √ | | f. | I did not use the printed text, electronic text, images, computer programme, sound, performance or creative works of another without proper acknowledgement; | √ | | g. | Where I engaged with group of student to create a particular piece of work, the work correctly reflected the contribution made (where a single piece of work is collected generated, all of the group carries the responsibility for that piece of work); | √ | | h. | I have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work. | √ | | i. | I have not copied another person’s assignment, essay or take-home test or any part thereof...
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...Of the big five personality traits, conscientiousness is the one that describes me most accurately. I am known to be reliable, careful, very organized and most of all, dependable. I was not aware of these until I noticed that I was usually chosen to complete high profile tasks at work. One day at a one-on-one meeting with my supervisor, he pointed out that I could not take vacation at a specific time because of some sensitive tasks that was schedule to run during that time. He then explained that I am viewed as a well-organized, reliable and dependable individual. After this experience, I took a step back and look at myself from the perspective of my family and people around me and sure enough, he was right. Every attribute described with the conscientiousness personality trait fully describes me. This is visible by the way I keep things organized in the house, in the vehicle, on my desk at work to the way I approach simple/small insignificant tasks. Planning, being-organized, punctual and persevering are my strengths and are visible day in day out. The upside to conscientiousness is that these qualities positively correlate with work success across a broad spectrum of occupation (Curtis & Manning, 1943, p. 308). Due to the careful nature of conscientious people, it is believed that they live longer than less conscientious people because they tend to take better care of themselves and engage in fewer risky behaviors (Robbins, 2001). These qualities are visible with their eating...
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...toward determining the factors that underlie the tendency to buy impulsively. This study looks at the relationship between impulse buying tendencies and three general personality traitsClack of control, stress reaction, and absorption. Additionally, this study identifies several different types of internal states and environmental/ sensory stimuli that serve as cues for triggering impulse buying. Internal cues include respondents’ positive and negative feeling states. Environmental/sensory cues encompass atmospheric cues in retail settings, marketer-controlled cues, and marketing mix stimuli. Relationships between the three personality traits and specific impulse buying cues are also examined, along with differences among high and low impulse buyers in their sensitivity to various cues. [ to cite ]: Seounmi Youn and Ronald J. Faber (2000) ,"Impulse Buying: Its Relation to Personality Traits and Cues", in Advances in Consumer Research Volume 27, eds. Stephen J. Hoch and Robert J. Meyer, Advances in Consumer Research Volume 27 : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 179-185. Advances in Consumer Research Volume 27, 2000 Pages 179-185 IMPULSE BUYING: ITS RELATION TO PERSONALITY TRAITS AND CUES Seounmi Youn, University of Minnesota Ronald J. Faber, University of Minnesota ABSTRACT - Much of the work on impulse buying has been concerned with defining and measuring the concept. Less effort has been directed toward determining the factors that underlie the tendency...
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...ESSAY “Biological theories of major personality traits have been highly speculative with at least as much disconfirming evidence as confirming” The first who attempt to describe personality traits was the ancient Greek philosopher- Aristotle, he identified three personality traits such as, modesty, bravery and vanity. He was followed by Hippocrates who provided the idea that physical illness it is caused by the balance of bodily fluids; such as blood, black bile, phlegm and yellow bile. He argued that if a person had an excess of black bile than that person would have a melancholic temperament; underlined by the feeling of depressed mood. Those with phlegmatic temperament were described by being very calm and those with sanguine temperament were confident ant optimistic. Another great philosopher who wrote about personality traits was the German Immanuel Kant, who argued the fact that there are four types of personality and those personality traits were underlined by how active the person was and his individual's feelings. These philosophers were focusing about types of personality and not the personality traits. Trait theorists are aiming to find the basic structure of personality and to produce reliable ways of measuring personality differences. Gordon Alport identified 18000 words of which 4500 described personality traits. Alport conceptualised human nature as normally being rational creative, active and self-reliant...
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...Whitby Hydro Energy Services Corp. Power Factor Correction at the Residential Level – Pilot Project Report to the LDC Tomorrow Fund September 12, 2005 Executive Summary In December of 2004 Whitby Hydro applied for funding from the EDA Tomorrow Fund to carry out a pilot project to determine the impact of installing capacitors at residential homes on system capacitance and generation requirements. The study involved 31 homes within Whitby Hydro’s distribution territory. The houses selected were located in a new residential neighbourhood and were consistent in size, age and type of heating. For the pilot, a bench mark had to be established for the loading of each transformer. The three transformers where metered for a two month period prior to the installation of the capacitors. The information gathered included KW, KVAR, volts and amps. Once the benchmark was established homes fed from two of the transformers where equipped with capacitors providing 3.34 KVAR into there distribution panel. Readings at the transformer continued for an additional two month period after the units were installed in the homes. In addition two homes where equipped with metering devices that allowed the measurement of power factor. The information gathered allowed analysis to be carried out to determine if the additional capacitance improved power factor at the home as well as at the transformer. Power Factor at the transformer was the first value to be analysed. KW and KVAR was measured at 15...
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...RESEARCH TECHNIQUES CLASSIFICATION Uni-bi variant techniques • Uni-variant analysis – Frequency Tables (qualitative) – Descriptive Statistics (quantitative) – Summary Tables • Bi-variant analysis – Contingency Tables – Correlation analysis – Variance analysis Research Techniques II 2 Multivariant analysis techniques DESCRIPTIVE TECHNIQUES Factor Analysis Correspondence Factor analysis Cluster Analysis Output Association / Reducing dimensions Typology EXPLANATORY TECHNIQUES Varian Analysis Regression Analysis Discriminant Analysis CHAID AID Conjoint Analysis Multidimensional Analysis Research Techniques II Output Experiment results Prediction / Classification Segmentation Ideal Product Image / Positioning 3 VARIANCE ANALYSIS ONE FACTOR A random design is that where random simples are selected for each treatment. Yij = µi + εij where Yij: it is the answer of observation j who has received the treatment i µi: it is the mean of the treatment i, and εij: it is a specific random part for each observation Hypotheses: H0 : µ1 = µ2 = . . . = µp Ha: At least two treatments have different means. Assumptions: 1. The probability distributions of the p populations follow a normal distribution. 2. The variances of the p populations are equal. 3. Samples are selected randomly and independently from the populations. This model could be also expressed as the following: Yij = µ + τi + εij Where µ: it is the general mean, and τi: it is the differential effect of the treatment i. H 0 : τ...
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...1. Calculate WGBT and make recommendations on work – rest schedule: Q: On a sunny warm day (27 degrees C wet bulb, 30 degrees C globe and 29 degrees C air temp) how would work load affect required controls for heat stress? A: WBGTout = 0.7(WB) + 0.2(g) + 0.1(d) = (0.7 x 27) + (0.2 x 30) + (0.1 x 29) = 27.8 There for: At 27.8 WBGTout the dose of work would equal * Light work @ 100 % * Moderate work @ 100 % * High work @ 25 – 50 % work rest 2. In measuring noise exposure, you have identified several different sources of noise. They produce the following sound pressure levels: 92dB, 90dB, 85dB and 87dB. What is the combined sound pressure level of the four sources of noise? A: ** Start from highest to lowest ** 92dB – 90dB = 2 therefor 92 + 2 = 94 therefor 94 – 87 = 7 therefor 94 + 1 = 95 there for 95 – 85 = 10 therefor 95 + 0 ** because all values have been used the answer is 95. NOTE: numbers in bold and italicised writing are found on adding decibel chart 3. An employee had the following exposures in an 8 hour shift. Are they over exposed? 1hr @ 80dBA 4hrs @ 85dBA 2hrs @ 88dBA 1hr @ 91dBA A: ** First of all 80dBA does not have an exposure level so do not use it ** Dose = (4hrs/ 8hrs + 2hrs/ 4hrs + 1hr/ 2hrs) X 100 = 150% therefor YES the worker is over exposed these numbers are found from OHS code schedule 3 Noise if under 100 % the worker is not exposed, if over 100 % the worker is exposed 4. a) Local...
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...last we express our deepest gratitude to all those who contributed directly or indirectly to bring this report to this final format, because we would never have been able to achieve this by ourselves. Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1 List of Tables 4 List of Appendix 5 List of Abbreviation 6 Abstract 7 1. INTRODUCTION 8 1.1 RATIONAL OF STUDY 8 1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT 9 1.3 AIM OF THE STUDY 9 1.4 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE 10 1.5 RESEARCH QUESTION 10 1.6 DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY 10 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 11 2.1 EXPECTED QUALITY OF SERVICES 13 2.2 PRICE FAIRNESS 13 2.3 ANGER INCIDENT 14 2.4 EFFECTIVE ADVERTISMENT 14 2.5 CUSTOMER SATISFACTION 15 2.6 CUSTOMER LOYALTY 15 2.7 CUSTOMER DEFECTION 16 3. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK (HYPOTHESIS) 17 4. HYPOTHESIS 17 5 METHODOLOGY 18 5.1 POPULATION/SAMPLE FRAME 18 5.2 UNIT OF ANALYSIS: 18 5.3 STUDY SETTING: 18 5.4 STUDY TYPE: 19 5.5 TIME HORIZON 19 5.6 RESEARCHER’S STRENGTH 19 5.7 SAMPLE SIZE: 20 5.8 SAMPLING TECHNIQUE: 20 5.9 DATA COLLECTION METHOD: 20 5.10 INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT: 20 5.11 DATA ANALYSIS TOOL: 21 5.12 DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE: 21 5.13 GANTT CHART 22 6. SPSS WORKING DATA 23 Reliability (Table No 1) 23...
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...Introduction to Machines & Power Systems (EPM1076) Chapter 4c Synchronous Machines Objectives: In this chapter the following topics will be discussed. Introduction to synchronous generator Construction details Principle of operation and emf equation Equivalent circuit and voltage regulation Short-circuit and open-circuit tests Parallel operation Synchronizing procedures Chapter IV EPM1076 2 Introduction to Synchronous Machines A synchronous machine is an ac rotating machine whose speed under steady state condition is proportional to the frequency of the current in its armature. The magnetic field created by the armature currents rotates at the same speed as that created by the field current on the rotor, which is rotating at the synchronous speed and a steady torque. Synchronous machines are commonly used as generators especially for large power systems, such as turbine generators and hydroelectric generators in the grid power supply. Because the rotor speed is proportional to the frequency of excitation, synchronous motors can be used in situations where constant speed drive is required. Chapter IV EPM1076 3 Chapter IV EPM1076 4 Angle in Electrical and Mechanical Unit -For 2 pole machine, when the rotor rotates for one revolution, the induce emf varies for one cycle. i.e. θ = θm, (refer to figure 2) -Where θ is the angle in electrical degrees or radians and θm is the mechanical angle. ...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1. Objectives Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) is the terms that often made headlines for their deals, their investments, their transparency and sometimes the lack of it. They hold the people’s money, hence the scrutiny from public eyes. They also have more aggressive risk appetite than the usual reserve manager of a country which uphold the liquidity, security, and profitability principals and that results in an even more detailed scrutiny to the SWF. The term SWF itself has first mentioned by Rozanov in 2005 when he wrote for Central Banking Journal1, but actually SWF have been around since before that. For example Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Temasek Holdings, the two prominent SWF from Singapore have already been established in 1981 and 1974, respectively. SWF’s asset under management amount is also increasing overtime. Preqin estimated that the growth of asset is up from USD 3.07 trillion in December 2008 to USD 6.3 trillion in March 2015 as seen in Figure 1.1 Sovereign Wealth Fund Assets under Management2. Norway’s Government Pension Fund currently has the biggest asset among them which is amounting to USD 882 billion3. It is interesting to see whether the smaller counterparts from Asia also enjoys the rise in their asset as well. The objectives of this paper is to comprehend and appreciate the dynamics of smaller SWF from emerging and developing Asia (IMF definition)4. 1 Rozanov, Andrew, 2005. Who holds...
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...DESIGN OF SNUBBERS FOR POWER CIRCUITS By Rudy Severns What’s a snubber? Power semiconductors are the heart of power electronics equipment. Snubbers are circuits which are placed across semiconductor devices for protection and to improve performance. Snubbers can do many things: · · · · · · Reduce or eliminate voltage or current spikes Limit dI/dt or dV/dt Shape the load line to keep it within the safe operating area (SOA) Transfer power dissipation from the switch to a resistor or a useful load Reduce total losses due to switching Reduce EMI by damping voltage and current ringing There are many different kinds of snubbers but the two most common ones are the resistorcapacitor (RC) damping network and the resistor-capacitor-diode (RCD) turn-off snubber. This application note will show you how to design these two snubbers. Switching waveforms Before getting into the design of snubbers it is important to understand the waveforms which occur naturally in power circuits. These provide both the motivation for using snubbers and the information needed for their design. There are many different types of circuits used in power converters, motor drives, lamp ballasts and other devices. Fortunately all of these different circuits have a common network and waveforms associated with the switches. Figure 1 shows four widely used circuits. All of these circuits, and in fact most power electronics circuits, have within them the same switch-diodeinductor network shown within the dotted lines...
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...SDSU GE/OM 569 Project Management 3 April 2013 Where are we now? PMBOK – 5th Edition (2013) 1 Executing, Monitoring & Controlling Executing Process group consists of those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications. Results may require planning updates & rebaselining Large portion of budget is expended performing the execution process group 3 Executing, Monitoring & Controlling… The Monitoring & Controlling process group consists of those processes required to track, review & orchestrate the progress & performance of the project, identifying any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes. What work does it monitor & control? Product work Project work 4 2 Executing, Monitoring & Controlling 5 Executing, Monitoring & Controlling 6 3 The Project is Up and Running: Now What? You want what? When! I have jury duty! The software doesn’t do that? That is not what I want! We have to be done by….! The software (critical) will be late! Why not add this?! You never asked for that?!? Just have your team do it! 7 Validate Scope 8 4 Validate Scope Validate Scope is the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables. It includes… Reviewing deliverables with the customer or sponsor to ensure they are completed satisfactorily, and Obtaining their...
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...Link…………………………………………………….…….4 4. Concepts Chosen………………………………………………………………….……..5 4.1 Fingerprint Module……………………………………………………….…….5 4.2 Microcontroller………………………………………………………….……...6 4.3 Transmitter…………………………………………………………….……….7 4.4 Receiver……………………………………………………………….………..8 4.5 Encoder/Decoder……………………………………………………..………..9 4.6 ATTINY45/Relay…………………………………………………….……….10 4. Future Work……………………………………………………………………….…....11 Appendix A…………………………………………………………………………….…13 Table 1. Backup system decision matrix……………………………………….…..13 Table 2. Budget breakdown………………………………………………….……13 Table 3. List of part for transmitter circuitry………………………………….…...14 Table 4. List of part for receiver circuitry…………………………………….…....15 Appendix B…………………………………………………………………………….…16 Figure 8. Transmitter schematic……………………………………………….…..16 Figure 9. Receiver schematic………………………………………………….…...17 Appendix C………………………………………………………………………….……18 Final board layout Appendix D…………………………………………………………………………..…...19 Code for ATMEGA48 in transmitter circuit Appendix E………………………………………………………………………...……...29 Code for ATTINY45 in receiver circuit Important Data Sheets…………………………………………………………………….30 1 1. BACKGROUND Biketronics Inc, a local company in Moscow Specializing in motorcycle electronics requested the help of a senior design team from the University of Idaho. Team ThumbStart has been chosen to research and design a fingerprint scanner system that can replace the traditional key ignition system that is commonly used on motorcycles. The integration...
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