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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

EducationGreensboro, North Carolina, United States
About: University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a education organization based out in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 5481 authors who have published 13715 publications receiving 456239 citations. The organization is also known as: UNCG & UNC Greensboro.


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TL;DR: Nonfamily firms are better able than family owned firms to use their firm-specific managerial experience to manage the resources and capabilities obtained from networking relationships with community leaders to create value and attenuates the detrimental effects of networking with politicians for both types of firms.
Abstract: The effect of social networking relationships, firm-specific managerial experience, and their interactions on performance between family owned and nonfamily firms are studied. Using data from 106 organizations in Ghana, the findings show that family owned firms benefit more from networking relationships with bureaucratic officials than do nonfamily firms. However, nonfamily firms benefit more from networking relationships with community leaders and firm-specific managerial experience than do family owned firms. Networking relationships with politicians impede performance for nonfamily firms. Nonfamily firms are better able than family owned firms to use their firm-specific managerial experience to manage the resources and capabilities obtained from networking relationships with community leaders to create value. Moreover, firm-specific managerial experience attenuates the detrimental effects of networking with politicians for both types of firms.

159 citations

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TL;DR: The results support the idea that childhood overweight is multiply determined and the one potentially important and changeable factor identified as a target for intervention centers on how children spend their time, especially their after-school time.
Abstract: To investigate ecological correlates of the development of overweight in a multisite study sample of children followed from age 2 to 12. Longitudinal examination of covariates of overweight status throughout childhood, with covariates drawn from three ecological levels: sociocultural or demographic, quality of the child's home environment, and proximal child experience that could directly affect the balance between energy intake and energy expenditure. A total of 960 children participating in a long-term longitudinal study provided growth data at least once; 653 of the children had complete data on covariates. Height and weight measured seven times between ages 2 and 12 were converted to a body mass index (BMI) and entered into a latent transition analysis to identify patterns of overweight across childhood. Ecological correlates measured longitudinally included demographic characteristics obtained by maternal report, home environment quality obtained by observation and maternal report, and proximal child experience factors obtained by observation, maternal report and child report. Four patterns of overweight were found: never overweight, overweight beginning at preschool age, overweight beginning in elementary school, and return to normal weight after being overweight at preschool age. The weight status groups differed on home environment quality and proximal child experience factors but not on demographics. Children overweight at preschool had less sensitive mothers than never overweight children. Children overweight at school age had fewer opportunities for productive activity at home than did never overweight children. School-age overweight children also watched the most TV after school. Multivariate logistic regression analyses further indicated the significance to children's weight status of proximal child experience variables. Less physically active children and those who watched more television after school were more likely to become overweight. Results did not vary by child sex. The results support the idea that childhood overweight is multiply determined. The one potentially important and changeable factor identified as a target for intervention centers on how children spend their time, especially their after-school time. Children who are more physically active and spend less time watching TV after school are less likely to become overweight by age 12.

159 citations

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01 Nov 2006-Emotion
TL;DR: Within-person analyses found that interest and pleasantness were essentially unrelated; appraised novelty- complexity positively predicted interest, but negatively predicted pleasantness; and disturbing pictures were highly interesting but unpleasant, whereas calming pictures werehighly pleasant but uninteresting.
Abstract: Appraisal theories have emerged as a powerful perspective on the elicitation and differentiation of emotional experience (Ellsworth & Scherer, 2003). Given the general acceptance of the appraisal approach, a central task for modern appraisal research is to refine and reconcile the predictions made by appraisal models. The agreement among different appraisal theories is substantial, yet there are cases in which different theories make inconsistent predictions. To date, few studies have directly compared the competing predictions made by different appraisal theories (see Roseman, Spindel, & Jose, 1990). The present research examines two competing appraisal models of the emotion of interest, an emotion associated with curiosity, exploration, and knowledge-seeking (Izard, 1977; Silvia, 2005c, Silvia, 2006; Tomkins, 1962). Smith and Ellsworth (1985) suggest that interest requires an appraisal of high pleasantness (Ellsworth & Smith, 1988a, Ellsworth & Smith, 1988b). A recent appraisal model of interest (Silvia, 2005a, Silvia, 2005c), however, suggests that pleasantness is peripheral to interest—people can be interested in disturbing, unpleasant events. The present research uses in vivo methods (rather than scenario or retrospective methods) to test these competing appraisal structures.

159 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how family ownership and family expectations influence family firm image and entrepreneurial risk taking, and ultimately firm performance, and find support for a fully mediated model, utilizing a sample of 163 Swiss family firms.

158 citations

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TL;DR: Although evidence of a population-level left-handed bias for prosimians and Old World monkeys supports P. F. MacNeilage et al.'s proposal that something other than primate handedness may have been the evolutionary precursor of the right bias in hand-use distribution among hominids, the data from apes, New World monkeys, and individual species of prosimian and New World monkey do not.
Abstract: P. F. MacNeilage, M. G. Studdert-Kennedy, and B. Lindblom (1987) proposed a progression for handedness in primates that was supposed to account for the evolution of a right bias in human handedness. To test this proposal, the authors performed meta-analyses on 62 studies that provided individual data (representing 31 species: 9 prosimians, 6 New World monkeys, 10 Old World monkeys, 2 lesser apes, and 4 greater apes), of the 118 studies of primate handedness published since 1987. Although evidence of a population-level left-handed bias for prosimians and Old World monkeys supports P. F. MacNeilage et al., the data from apes, New World monkeys, and individual species of prosimians and New World monkeys do not. Something other than primate handedness may have been the evolutionary precursor of the right bias in hand-use distribution among hominids.

158 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Douglas E. Soltis12761267161
John C. Wingfield12250952291
Laurence Steinberg11540370047
Patrick Y. Wen10983852845
Mark T. Greenberg10752949878
Steven C. Hayes10645051556
Edward McAuley10545145948
Roberto Cabeza9425236726
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan9029926112
Barry J. Zimmerman8817756011
Michael K. Reiter8438030267
Steven R. Feldman83122737609
Charles E. Schroeder8223426466
Dale H. Schunk8116245909
Kim D. Janda7973126602
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202332
2022143
2021977
2020851
2019760
2018717