Predictive modeling

adolescents make decisions and take actions without full knowledge of the consequences of these decisions and actions. According to a study in the American Journal of Public Health, researchers concluded that perceptions of smoking related risks were predictive of smoking initiation in adolescents. This study looked at perceptions of long-term risks, short-term risks and perceived benefits. Both long-term and short-term risk perception correlated highly with smoking initiation. “Adolescents who…

Perception and expectation of citizens is an important factor in urban planning, settlement and management. Hence, there is a need of a participatory citizen centric planning of urban settlement based on spatial data. These perception and expectation may be represented in terms of emotions. Determining Urban Emotions is an approach which can be used to map different types of emotions associated with urbanization. In the recent years, some new methods have been presented for the area of urban and…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A butterfly valve is a valve which can be used for regulating flow. A butterfly valve is a flow control device that has a varied applications in the field of piping industries and firefighting applications. Not only it is simple in design but also has low cost, fast closing and opening times, and it is generally favored as they give low head loss in the fully opened position. Butterfly valves are as shown in Fig. 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. The butterfly valve consists of a disc…

Journal of Organizational Behavior J. Organiz. Behav. 25, 67–80 (2004) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/job.243 Workplace deviance, organizational citizenship behavior, and business unit performance: the bad apples do spoil the whole barrel PATRICK D. DUNLOP1* AND KIBEOM LEE2 1 2 Summary School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia Department of Psychology, University of Calgary,…

Anand, R., & UdayaSuriyan, G. (2010). Emotional intelligence and its relationship with leadership practices. International Journal of Business and Management, 5(2), 65?76. http://doi.org/10.1108/02683940910922546. Using two instruments, the EII, and LPI, the authors (Anand & UdayaSuriyan, 2010) surveyed 300 executives selected randomly. The hypothesis examined emotional intelligence and leadership practices. With globalization, employees are expected to accept constant organizational changes.…