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Saint Mary's University
Education•Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada•
About: Saint Mary's University is a education organization based out in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Stars. The organization has 1931 authors who have published 4993 publications receiving 143226 citations.
Topics: Population, Stars, Galaxy, Volcanic rock, Basalt
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Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment1, University of Wisconsin-Madison2, University of California, Santa Barbara3, State University of New York System4, National Wildlife Federation5, University of Michigan6, Saint Mary's University7, The Nature Conservancy8, University of Windsor9, Great Lakes Commission10, Michigan State University11, University of Minnesota12, University of New Hampshire13, Great Lakes Institute of Management14, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration15, Grand Valley State University16
TL;DR: Joint spatial analysis of stressors and ecosystem services can provide a critical foundation for maximizing social and ecological benefits from restoration investments and find that many important areas for fisheries and recreation are subject to high stress, indicating that ecosystem degradation could be threatening key services.
Abstract: With increasing pressure placed on natural systems by growing human populations, both scientists and resource managers need a better understanding of the relationships between cumulative stress from human activities and valued ecosystem services. Societies often seek to mitigate threats to these services through large-scale, costly restoration projects, such as the over one billion dollar Great Lakes Restoration Initiative currently underway. To help inform these efforts, we merged high-resolution spatial analyses of environmental stressors with mapping of ecosystem services for all five Great Lakes. Cumulative ecosystem stress is highest in near-shore habitats, but also extends offshore in Lakes Erie, Ontario, and Michigan. Variation in cumulative stress is driven largely by spatial concordance among multiple stressors, indicating the importance of considering all stressors when planning restoration activities. In addition, highly stressed areas reflect numerous different combinations of stressors rather than a single suite of problems, suggesting that a detailed understanding of the stressors needing alleviation could improve restoration planning. We also find that many important areas for fisheries and recreation are subject to high stress, indicating that ecosystem degradation could be threatening key services. Current restoration efforts have targeted high-stress sites almost exclusively, but generally without knowledge of the full range of stressors affecting these locations or differences among sites in service provisioning. Our results demonstrate that joint spatial analysis of stressors and ecosystem services can provide a critical foundation for maximizing social and ecological benefits from restoration investments.
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TL;DR: The results suggest that important organizational factors, in addition to job design and engineering systems, may be overlooked when identifying the causes of workplace accidents.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between employees' perceptions of their managers' transformational leadership style and employees' psychological well-being was examined in two studies, and it was shown that active management-by-exception and laissez-faire behaviours negatively affected employee psychological wellbeing by reducing trust in the manager.
Abstract: The relationship between employees’ perceptions of their managers’ transformational leadership style and employees’ psychological well-being was examined in two studies. In Study 1, trust in the leader fully mediated the positive relationship between perceptions of managers’ transformational leadership and employee psychological well-being in a cross-sectional sample (n=436). Study 2 (n=269) (1) replicated the mediated effect found in Study 1; (2) extended the model by showing that active management-by-exception and laissez-faire behaviours negatively affected employee psychological well-being by reducing trust in the manager; and (3) excluded the possibility that these results were accounted for by individual differences or liking of the manager. Theoretical and practical applications, as well as directions for future research are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the innermost planet "e" orbiting 55 Cnc (V = 6.0) was detected transiting with the period (0.74 days) and phase that had been predicted by Dawson and Fabrycky, and with the expected duration and depth for the crossing of a Sun-like star by a hot super-Earth.
Abstract: We have detected transits of the innermost planet 'e' orbiting 55 Cnc (V = 6.0), based on two weeks of nearly continuous photometric monitoring with the MOST space telescope. The transits occur with the period (0.74 days) and phase that had been predicted by Dawson and Fabrycky, and with the expected duration and depth for the crossing of a Sun-like star by a hot super-Earth. Assuming the star's mass and radius to be 0.963{sup +0.051}{sub -0.029} M{sub sun} and 0.943 {+-} 0.010 R{sub sun}, the planet's mass, radius, and mean density are 8.63 {+-} 0.35 M{sub +}, 2.00 {+-} 0.14 R{sub +}, and 5.9{sup +1.5}{sub -1.1} g cm{sup -3}, respectively. The mean density is comparable to that of Earth, despite the greater mass and consequently greater compression of the interior of 55 Cnc e. This suggests a rock-iron composition supplemented by a significant mass of water, gas, or other light elements. Outside of transits, we detected a sinusoidal signal resembling the expected signal due to the changing illuminated phase of the planet, but with a full range (168 {+-} 70 ppm) too large to be reflected light or thermal emission. This signal has no straightforward interpretation and should be checkedmore » with further observations. The host star of 55 Cnc e is brighter than that of any other known transiting planet, which will facilitate future investigations.« less
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined two schools of thought on the cause of customer loyalty in services industries: relationship marketing and service quality perspective, and found that affective commitment and continuance commitment were mainly partial mediators of the service quality-loyalty relationship.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Scott Chapman | 118 | 579 | 46199 |
Michael J. Zaworotko | 97 | 519 | 44441 |
Brad K. Gibson | 94 | 564 | 38959 |
Christine D. Wilson | 90 | 528 | 39198 |
Peter A. Cawood | 87 | 362 | 27832 |
Mark D. Fleming | 81 | 433 | 36107 |
Julian Barling | 75 | 262 | 22478 |
Winslow R. Briggs | 74 | 269 | 19375 |
Ian G. McCarthy | 71 | 204 | 17912 |
Tomislav Friščić | 70 | 294 | 18307 |
Nico Eisenhauer | 66 | 400 | 15746 |
Warren E. Piers | 64 | 217 | 14555 |
Amanda I. Karakas | 63 | 321 | 12797 |
Yuichi Terashima | 59 | 259 | 11994 |
Colin Mason | 58 | 236 | 12490 |