Long Island University

About: Long Island University is a education organization based out in Brookville, New York, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 2647 authors who have published 4924 publications receiving 108757 citations.

A comparison of methods for measuring relative radical stabilities of carbon-centred radicals

Abstract: This article discusses and compares various methods for defining and measuring radical stability, including the familiar radical stabilization energy (RSE), along with some lesser-known alternatives based on corrected carbon-carbon bond energies, and more direct measures of the extent of radical delocalisation. As part of this work, a large set of R-H, R-CH(3), R-Cl and R-R BDEs (R = CH(2)X, CH(CH(3))X, C(CH(3))(2)X and X = H, BH(2), CH(3), NH(2), OH, F, SiH(3), PH(2), SH, Cl, Br, N(CH(3))(2), NHCH(3), NHCHO, NHCOCH(3), NO(2), OCF(3), OCH(2)CH(3), OCH(3), OCHO, OCOCH(3), Si(CH(3))(3), P(CH(3))(2), SC(CH(3))(2)CN, SCH(2)COOCH(3), SCH(2)COOCH(3), SCH(2)Ph, SCH(3), SO(2)CH(3), S(O)CH(3), Ph, C(6)H(4)-pCN, C(6)H(4)-pNO(2), C(6)H(4)-pOCH(3), C(6)H(4)-pOH, CF(2)CF(3), CF(2)H, CF(3), CCl(2)H, CCl(3), CH(2)Cl, CH(2)F, CH(2)OH, CH(2)Ph, cyclo-CH(CH(2))(2), CH(2)CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH(2), CH(2)CH(3), CH(CH(3))(2), C(CH(3))(3), C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CH, CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH(2), CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CHCH(3), CHO, CN, COCH(3), CON(CH(2)CH(3))(2), CONH(2), CONHCH(3), COOC(CH(3))(3), COOCH(2)CH(3), COOCH(3), COOH, COPh), and associated radical stability values are calculated using the high-level ab initio molecular orbital theory method G3(MP2)-RAD. These are used to compare the alternative radical stability schemes and illustrate principal structure-reactivity trends.

Job Satisfaction and Acculturation Among Filipino Registered Nurses

Abstract: Purpose: To determine the (a) levels of acculturation and job satisfaction, (b) relationship between acculturation and job satisfaction, and (c) effects of select sociodemographic variables in predicting job satisfaction among Filipino RNs educated in the Philippines who are working in the US. Design: Descriptive correlational. A convenience sample of Filipino RNs (N=96) present during the PNAA Eastern Regional Conference in Baltimore, MD was conducted. Methods: A survey was conducted using A Short Acculturation Scale for Filipino Americans (ASASFA) to measure acculturation, Part B of the Index of Work Satisfaction Scale (IWS) to assess job satisfaction, and a participant demographic questionnaire. Data were analyzed using A Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. Findings: Participants had a moderate level of job satisfaction that was positively correlated to a level of acculturation that was closer to American than to Filipino culture. Furthermore, age, length of U.S. residency, and acculturation significantly predicted perception of job satisfaction among this group of Filipino RNs. Conclusions: Job satisfaction among Filipino nurses is related to acculturation and select sociodemographic variables. Further research to determine how best to improve acculturation may lead to improved retention rates of Filipino nurses in countries to which they have migrated.

Evaluation of a decision-making curriculum designed to empower women with mental retardation to resist abuse.

Abstract: The effectiveness of an abuse-prevention curriculum, designed to empower women with mental retardation to become effective decision-makers able to protect themselves against abuse was examined. Thirty-six women with mental retardation were randomly assigned to either an intervention or a control group. Results indicate that the performance of the women in the intervention group was superior to that of the women in the control group on measures of knowledge, decision-making, and empowerment but not on a measure of stress management. The findings suggest that women with mental retardation can acquire effective decision-making strategies and apply them to situations of abuse in their lives.

Information technologies and the sharing of disaster knowledge: the critical role of professional culture.

Abstract: A comparative survey of a diverse sample of 96 US and Italian emergency management agencies shows that the diffusion of new information technologies (IT) has transformed disaster communications. Although these technologies permit access to and the dissemination of massive amounts of disaster information with unprecedented speed and efficiency, barriers rooted in the various professional cultures still hinder the sharing of disaster knowledge. To be effective the available IT must be attuned to the unique settings and professional cultures of the local emergency management communities. Findings show that available technology, context, professional culture and interaction are key factors that affect the knowledge transfer process. Cultural filters appear to influence emergency managers' perceptions of their own professional roles, their vision of the applicability of technology to social issues, and their perspective on the transferability of disaster knowledge. Four cultural approaches to the application of IT to disaster communications are defined: technocentric; geographic,; anthropocentric; and ecocentric.

The influence of self-interest and ethical considerations on managers’ evaluation judgments

Abstract: Recent empirical studies support self-interest as the sole basis for economic decisions (as predicted by agency theory). However, cognitive moral development (CMD) theory suggests that decision makers will allow ethical/moral considerations to constrain their economic behaviour. The purpose of this study is to resolve the essential conflict between the tenets of agency theory and CMD theory. The results of a laboratory experiment suggest that both moral reasoning level and adverse-selection conditions (self-interest) can have a significant effect on managers’ project evaluation decisions. Specifically, managers are likely to continue a project that is expected to be unprofitable only when adverse selection conditions are present and moral reasoning level is low. Thus, agency theory may not be generalizable to accounting-based economic performance.