University of New Brunswick

About: University of New Brunswick is a education organization based out in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 10498 authors who have published 20654 publications receiving 474448 citations.

Gender, Context, and Expression of Positive Emotion

Abstract: This study investigated whether positive emotion is differentially prescribed for men and women in self-and other-oriented contexts. Subjects read a scene in which the main character either did or did not express positive emotion toward either the self or another person. After imagining themselves as the main character, subjects rated on a rewards/costs scale how others would respond to them if they had behaved as depicted. Females expected more rewards/fewer costs when positive emotion was expressed toward another person than when it was not, whereas expected rewards/costs did not differ when females expressed and did not express self-directed positive emotion. Males expected more rewards/fewer costs when positive emotion was expressed than when it was not expressed in both self-and other-oriented contexts. Findings indicate that norms for expression of positive emotion are gender differentiated in that women are particularly required to express positive emotion toward others.

Low‐frequency whistler waves and shocklets observed at quasi‐perpendicular interplanetary shocks

Abstract: [1] We present observations of low-frequency waves (0.25 Hz < f < 10 Hz) at five quasi-perpendicular interplanetary (IP) shocks observed by the Wind spacecraft. Four of the five IP shocks had oblique precursor whistler waves propagating at angles with respect to the magnetic field of 20–50 and large propagation angles with respect to the shock normal; thus they do not appear to be phase standing. One event, the strongest in our study and likely supercritical, had low-frequency waves consistent with steepened magnetosonic waves called shocklets. The shocklets are seen in association with diffuse ion distributions. Both the shocklets and precursor whistlers are often seen simultaneously with anisotropic electron distributions unstable to the whistler heat flux instability. The IP shock with upstream shocklets showed much stronger electron heating across the shock ramp than the four events without upstream shocklets. These results may offer new insights into collisionless shock dissipation and wave-particle interactions in the solar wind.

Culture Dimensions of Polish Managers: Hofstede's Indices

Abstract: This paper explores, in accordance with Hofstede's indices, the culture dimensions of young Poles who have had some exposure to business management. It is shown that this group of Polish respondents score high in Power Distance and Uncertainty Avoidance, average in Individualism, are moderately above average in Masculinity as compared to Hofstede's Hermes data-base results. These culture characteristics are discussed from the perspective of their possible impact upon the adaptation of Western managerial concepts in Poland.

Methods for image fusion quality assessment - a review, comparison and analysis

Abstract: This paper focuses on the evaluation and analysis of seven frequently used image fusion quality assessment methods to see whether, or not, they can provide convincing image quality or similarity measurements. The seven indexes are Mean Bias (MB), Variance Difference (VD), Standard Deviation Difference (SDD), Correlation Coefficient (CC), Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), Relative Dimensionless Global Error (ERGAS), and Q4 Quality Index (Q4), which were also used in the IEEE GRSS 2006 Data Fusion Contest. Four testing images are generated to evaluate the indexes. Visual comparison and digital classification demonstrate that the four testing images have the same quality for remote sensing applications; however, the seven evaluation methods provide different measurements indicating that the four images have varying qualities. The image fusion quality evaluation by Alparone, et al. (2004) and that by the IEEE GRSS 2006 data fusion contest (Alparone, et al., 2007) are also analyzed. Significant discrepancy between the quantitative measurements, visual comparison and final ranking has been found in both evaluations. The inconsistency between the visual evaluations and quantitative analyses in the above three cases demonstrate that the seven quantitative indicators cannot provide reliable measurements for quality assessment of remote sensing images.