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5 Best Features Why Bajaj Pulsar 150 is the Best bike in the 150cc Segment
In this highly competitive market, the Pulsar 150 is the most popular motorcycle in the 150cc category and the top-selling model. Let's look at the five best features that have made the Pulsar 150 such a famous motorcycle.
Bajaj Auto is significantly reasonable in pricing its automobiles. In contrast to its competitors, the Bajaj Pulsar 150 retails for Rs 70,757, which makes it an excellent value for money. The reasonable pricing is among the main reasons that the Pulsar 150 still clocks the highest sales figures even with the introduction of new models from competitors.
Design of Bajaj 150
The Pulsar 150 's style is sharp and edgy, which makes it the ideal bike for youngsters. The current design is an update from the original Pulsar 150 which was released in the early 2000s. The prominent design update is another feature that is unique to the Bajaj 150 but the preceding models are still sturdy and reliable. Because of this, the old design style of the Pulsar can still be found on Indian roads.
But it is not to be confused with the new edition of the Pulsar 150 bike on the market that has a unique design. This includes a raked windscreen and a big fuel tank that makes the Pulsar 150 a stunning looking bike. The short rear Segment with incorporated LED tail lamps, beefy dual-tone exhaust mufflers and alloy wheels are other style details. The Bajaj Pulsar 150 is also available in dual-tone shades that improve its visual impact better.
Higher Power Output
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Its higher power output is among the key factors that attract a two-wheeler customer to upgrade to a 150cc displacement motorcycle. And many young people dream of starting their motorcycle journey with a 150cc bike owing to this fact. In fact, for the Indian two-wheeler industry, the 150cc Segment can be labelled as the entry-level Segment for performance motorcycles.
With the first-generation Pulsar 150, Bajaj hit gold due to its healthy power production, and it continues with the new generation Bajaj 150. At 9,000rpm and 12.5Nm of peak torque at 6,500rpm, the 149cc air-cooled single-cylinder engine churns out 15.1PS and the engine is mated to a 5-speed constant mesh gearbox. Although the numbers above might not look groundbreaking, the fact that this bike was introduced in the 2000s is both revolutionary & innovative. Bajaj bikes rule the roost in the 150cc Segment to this day.
For Indian two-wheeler buyers, fuel quality is among the most critical requirements. This is where the 150cc reached a chord among the crowds of customers. Besides offering good performance, the motorcycles in the 150cc category are also decently fuel-efficient. This makes it easier for the rider to enjoy the results without thinking about running out of fuel. To have decent mileage, the Bajaj 150 made use of the DTS-i technology. This technology made it possible for the Pulsar 150 to give a 65 kmpl fuel efficiency figure that is among the highest for a 150-cc category motorcycle.
Style and special design are one feature that is the best in Bajaj bikes, and the Pulsar 150 is no exception to it. The Pulsar 150 is loaded with a digital instrument console half-analogue part, clip-on handlebars, engine kill button, tubeless tyres, DC headlamp, turn indicators for self-cancellation and backlit switches. Other prominent features such as alloy wheels, disc brakes and electric start were the usual fit for the Pulsar 150, although for its competitor bikes, these were not available.
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These factors improved the Bajaj 150's demand quotient even further. All the above features make the Bajaj Pulsar 150, the Best bike in the 150cc Segment.
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Motorola Droid Turbo Review: the best Android phone on Verizon
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There are a lot of good phones out there. From the iPhone 6 to the Galaxy Note 4, the market is saturated with devices clamoring for your attention with their thinness, metal structure or fancy exclusive features.
Motorola and Verizon's Droid Turbo (or the Moto Maxx, outside of the US) isn't like that though. It doesn't try to reel you in with gimmicks, and unlike the heavily customizable Moto X, its design takes second place to functionality.
I've spent a couple of weeks trying out the device since my initial hands-on, and that time has reaffirmed my belief that the Turbo is the best Android phone you can buy on Verizon.
Let's take a look why:
Verizon's Droid phones have traditionally opposed the general trend of creating sleeker, more minimal phone designs. Instead, they have always been about a dark, masculine design language – the Turbo is no different.
Our review unit was of the 'ballistic nylon' variety, which has a texture akin to a woven backpack. It's not the most refined or luxurious look, and it comes off as staunchly utilitarian against a gamut of competitors fighting over who's the shiniest. But then again, I also wouldn't worry about it scratching up after months of use. Besides, there's always the extremely red glass fiber option if you want to attract attention.
In order to fit its huge 3,900 mAh battery, the Turbo is chunkier than most other flagship phones – it comes in at 11.2mm at its thickest point. But it still manages to be smaller than you'd expect, and the in-hand feel is great.
This is partly because the bezels around the screen are kept to a minimum, even with the capacitive buttons at the bottom. The phone is actually about the same size as an HTC One M8, despite having a 5.2-inch display (versus a 5-inch one). Because of the small bezels, stretching to reach the top of the display feels no more difficult on the larger screen.
Moreover, it feels more comfortable to use. The aforementioned nylon back, the rubberized texture around the edges and even the added thickness contribute to making it one of the few flagships that doesn't feel like an accident waiting to happen. Bonus: it's also water resistant for when you're texting on a rainy day, and if you do happen to drop it, Verizon includes one free screen replacement.
The only issue I have with the hardware is that the volume rocker feels a little stiff, which could have something to do with the fact that the rocker is removable and houses the SIM tray.
This phone won't win any beauty pageants, but there's also very little to complain about. And if you get the nylon back, you don't even have to deal with any Verizon logos!
The Droid Turbo features a 5.2 inch 2560×1440 AMOLED display, amounting to 565 ppi, which makes it the smallest and densest QuadHD display to date. It's a PenTile array, but at this resolution, it's extremely hard to tell. The improvement over a 1080p display is very small, but it's there; text and images look extremely sharp.
I'm typically not a fan of AMOLED screens because they tend to oversaturate colors, but the display on the Droid Turbo is one of the tamer ones out there. Colors are still exaggerated, but never to a point that they look garish.
There are a couple of issues though. There's a very faint but noticeable color shimmering when looking at a lot of white space (an ebook, for example), which becomes more obvious at extreme angles. The screen also just a bit too warm – you never seem to get pure white out of the display.
Nevertheless, I expect most users won't notice or care. It's otherwise a gorgeous screen that handles video and images extremely well, and the standard benefits of AMOLED – pure blacks, excellent contrast, even lighting – still apply here.
The Droid Turbo is true to its name – the phone is fast. That shouldn't come as a surprise given its specs: it's got a 2.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor running on 3GB of RAM, which matches the Nexus 6 for power in a body closer to the Moto X's size. And though there's no SD card slot, you get the phone in 32GB and 64GB options.
The phone runs on a build very close to stock Android 4.4 KitKat, so there's little manufacturer software to slow down the device. Throughout my time with it, I never experienced any lagging or stuttering, and it should only get better with a soon-incoming Android Lollipop upgrade.
As typically is the case with Motorola, call quality was good on both ends – I could hear callers easily, and I came through cleanly to them. A bigger surprise was the speaker. It's very loud and clear for what it is, and I had no trouble discerning instructions when using the GPS in my car with the windows down.
Of course, the Turbo includes virtually all of the features on the 2014 Moto X, including customizable voice commands, the Moto Display notification system and a driving mode. These are some of the few legitimately useful manufacturer additions that can get out of your way when you don't need them. For more on those, check out our review on the 2014 Moto X.
There's some Verizon bloatware too, but its limited to individual apps like VZ Navigator, which you can disable if you like.
Motorola's phones have gotten plenty of praise recently, but the cameras often aren't worthy of the same accolades. Mercifully, Motorola has upped its game for the Droid Turbo.
The Droid Turbo is outfitted with a new 21MP chip ,albeit without optical image stabilization [OIS], and the result is a much more enjoyable shooting experience in all conditions. More megapixels don't always mean better performance, but results are consistently better this time around. The images are higher resolution, of course, but more importantly the color rendering seems punchier without being overdone.
Low-light shooting is also a bit of an improvement over the Moto X. The higher resolution sensor allows more sophisticated noise processing behind the scenes, resulting in cleaner images – particularly when sized for sharing on the Web. Additionally, the camera's Auto HDR feature works surprisingly well to reduce noise in static scenes in addition to increasing dynamic range, though it still would have been nice to have OIS.
HDR off
HDR on
The shooting interface itself hasn't really changed – you now have an option for 4K video, but that's about it. This means you don't get to mess around with much more than panoramas, focus/exposure points and HDR.
It's worth keeping in mind the Turbo defaults to a 16:9 aspect ratio to fill up the screen, but by doing so wastes a large portion of the sensor's image area – you should switch to the 4:3 aspect ratio if you want to get the most detail out of the camera.
It's a pretty barebones camera, but at least you've got solid foundation to work with this time around.
The big story with the Droid Turbo is its "48-hour" battery life. Let's get this out of the way: your phone probably won't get through two entire planetary rotations every time. But compared to most of its competitors, it will last a heck of a long time.
I started off pushing the Turbo a bit harder than I'd normally use my phone – alternating Wi-Fi and LTE tethering, doing lots of browsing and messaging, using navigation, making a few phone calls, watching YouTube videos, as well as hours of music streaming. During all this I consistently netted a day and a half of use.
About 6.5 hours of screen on time here, with lots of tethering
On one occasion, I was actually able to get the phone through a legitimate 48 hours, but that involved babying it with a low brightness and avoiding power-hungry apps. On other occasions, I watched videos all day and was able to drain the battery by the next morning. But I never drained it in less than a full day.
It may be difficult to actually reach 48 hours of mixed usage, but that doesn't matter – the point is you'll almost never be left wanting for power, even after a long night out.
I never realized that was something I was missing with my previous phones – I became accustomed to carrying a charger with me and tiptoeing around my phone usage late at night, or avoiding power-hungry apps early in the day. The Turbo's huge battery means I can do pretty much anything I want on my phone and know I'll still be able to get back home safely or make an emergency call. It means peace of mind.
The other part of the battery life story here is the fast-charging ability, which will get you from 0 to around 17 percent battery life in about 15 minutes with the included high-speed charger. (charging rate slows the closer you approach 100 percent). Other phones feature fast-charging, but you normally need to buy a compatible charger separately. There's likely a secondary reason for including it here though: it takes something around four to five hours to fully charge the device with a standard charger.
The Droid Turbo puts practicality over looks and gimmicks. That's a refreshing change of pace.
A month ago, we said the 2014 Moto X was the best Android phone you could buy outside of Google HQ. The Droid Turbo takes all of the Moto X's specs and makes them better: you get a denser screen, a much larger battery, a slightly faster processor, a 64GB storage option and a much better camera.
Of course, the Nexus 6 brings similar upgrades, but some of us prefer a thicker battery to a larger screen. If you can live with the Turbo's design and are on board with Verizon's networks (or live somewhere you can get the Moto Maxx), there simply isn't a better Android phone you can buy. And at a $199 starting point, it's competitively priced as well.
➤ Motorola Droid Turbo
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As someone who moonlights teaching English to adults (technical writing for business of all things), I know the importance of mastering the language, and the earlier you can grasp all of its concepts the better. So you won't hear me complain about the fact that my 15-month-old daughter is well ahead of the curve when it comes to conquering many of the common words you and I use everyday. At last count, I think she had mastered about 50 of them, but more importantly, she is slowly beginning to put two and two together and stringing a couple of words together at a time to make short, grammatically incorrect phrases. Now, I'm not saying she doesn't need some work when it comes to diction, or inflection, or verb conjugation- she should conquer that by junior kindergarten- but for now I'm happy to see that she understands the concept of communication, and its importance to her development.
"Do you want Daddy to take you?"
"Do you want Mommy to take you?"
But what's more amazing is her ability to put ideas together on her own. It's one thing for your daughter to know how to properly use the words "more" and "please," but watching her put them both together for the desired result of conning her father out of his whole bowl of ice cream is priceless. Or seeing her frustration when she's sitting in her Zaidy's lap, and he's not paying attention to her when she wants him to read to her, and she grabs the book, shakes it vigorously and says: "Grandpa.. READ!"
In the words of Hannibal Smith, "I love it when a plan comes together." And, there is nothing that makes me prouder than to watch my daughter conquer the complexities of the English language at such a young age. Sure, all her friends are walking, but I'll take talking over walking any day. Why get something yourself when you can ask someone else to do it for you? My kid knows her first and her last name, her age, and her favorite colour (yellow). She is able to effectively communicate when she is finished eating ("all done"), when she wants the food off your plate ("french fries") and the appropriate way to pet a dog (while gently stroking the beast say: "nice"). She even knows her geography, playfully screaming "Bubbie" when we are within three blocks of her house. Sure, she still likes to say "hi" repeatedly to every person she encounters, forcing me to strike up conversations I don't want to have with complete strangers, but you take the good with the bad. From my experience, and this works for adults too, first you teach them the words, and then you teach them when to use them.


In our previous tutorial, we have seen how to write the file and read the file, and we also know how to open a file in an assortment of different ways. At this time we're going to focus on how to destroy (delete) files. Deleting is too simple but we need to keep two things in mind.
Must have permission on the folder containing the file – we have to make sure that the directory is writable, we could create the file, so we have also to make sure that we could delete the file.
When you are navigating and viewing the contents of a directory, you can see all the files that exist in that directory because the operating system displays the list of filenames. And as a scenario, you can think of these filenames as links that join the files to the directory you are currently viewing. So if you unlink a file, it's causing the system to forget about the it or delete it.
The PHP unlink function is not about removing files, it's about removing a file name. The unlink deletes a name and possibly the file in referring to.
Take note that we have created a "hello.txt" file in our previous tutorial called "PHP File Handling: Accessing File".
At this time, let's create a new PHP file called "deletefile.php" and add the following code performing the unlink function.
And if you are going to check the file in the document root, it is already gone.
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Q: Using visual studio, why a C++ program cannot run in debug mode while run successfully in release mode When I use Visual Studio 2015 to code, i can not debug and run my program in "debug mode", the compile says "debug assertion failed, iterator + offset out of range", however, my program can run successfully in release mode, can also run in other lightweight ide(code :: blocks), what's the reason?

A: The behaviour of your code is undefined.
You're obviously attempting to index an array (or related container) that is outside its bounds. C++ typically doesn't make any run-time checks for that; it's the job of the programmer to make sure that doesn't happen.
Your debug build is helpfully drawing your attention to that.
The undefined behaviour is manifesting itself differently in the release build.
Fix the assertions!

A: You are attempting to move beyond end() on an iterator most likely. You do not get an error in release mode because the assert statement that checks for this issue is disabled in release mode.

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Q: How do I keep an ASP.NET TextBox from HTML-encoding its content? the "problem" is that I do have an ASP.NET TextBox in a FormView with its Text property bound to a database table field. In some cases, there might be HTML-code combined with normal text in the database. The RequestEncoding and ResponseEncoding is set to "iso-8859-1" (whitch is latin1). There are some fields where latin1-characters and cyrillic characters may be combined. This is no problem when typing in cyrillic characters (e.g "д"). Because the RequestEncoding is set to iso-8859-1 and the charset for the browser as well, the browser will change д to "д", which will be saved in the database. That's what I want, but because "д" will be converted to "д" when set to an ASP.NET TextBox's Text-property before the response output is sent to the browser, I do see "д" after saving the data.
Can anybody tell me how to stop ASP.NET from that conversion?
ALternatively: Is there a way to alter the conplete output of an ASPX site after all controls have ben rendered? - I could than replace "&#" by "&#".

A: I have accomplished this simply inheriting from Textbox and overriding the Text property. It currently has the attribute PersistenceMode.EncodedInnerDefaultProperty.  You want to change it to InnerDefaultProperty:
[BindableAttribute(true, BindingDirection.TwoWay)]
[PersistenceModeAttribute(PersistenceMode.EncodedInnerDefaultProperty)]
public virtual string Text { get; set; }

If you want this to apply to all your textboxes, you can use tag mappings to do it.
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A: You can just decode the text before inserting it in the database:
string htmlEncodedText = myTextbox.Text;
string htmlDecodedText = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(htmlEncodedText);

Encoding latinEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("8859-1");
Encoding utfEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
byte[] utfBytes = utfEncoding .GetBytes(htmlDecodedText);
byte[] latinBytes =
    System.Text.Encoding.Convert(utfEncoding, latinEncoding, utfBytes);
string latinString = latinEncoding.GetString(latinBytes);

// TODO: Insert latinString into database

A: I solved my problem (PortageMonkey showed me the way):
First I created a class "IsoTextBox" which inherits from System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox. Because the Text property does always returns a non-encoded string, simply changing the Text properties attribute did not do the job. Instead I overrote the Render method:
protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
    StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
    HtmlTextWriter source = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
    base.Render(source);
    writer.Write(stringWriter.ToString().Replace("&#", "&#"));
}

And than added the tagMapping in the web.config:
<system.web>
      <pages>
        <tagMapping>
         <add mappedTagType="MyNamespace.IsoTextBox" tagType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox"/>
        </tagMapping>
      </pages>
      <globalization requestEncoding="iso-8859-1" responseEncoding="iso-8859-1"/>
</system.web>

This works very well!


After exhausting my iPhone battery for the third time, I bought A London Map Guide. What good is Google Map if the phone dies in a couple hour? Nothing is as satisfying as putting places in relationship with the aid of a proper map. At Erl's suggestion, I went to London museum to trace London's history from pre-Roman, through the plague to the Fire of London ending with currant affairs. As I am a card carrying member of St James Confraturnity, I stopped by for final Camino Information.
Pictured is St. James Confraturnity location at a neighbourhood church.
The Wallace Collection is housed in Sir Richard Wallace's former home which has all the stateliness as Downton Abbey. A stroll through Hyde Park took Joanna and me to Selfridges, another setting for Master Piece Theater. I limited my brows to diamonds and food with far more interest in specialty foods. Joanna treated me to tea at Harrods with their bites of cake each a work of art. The Victoria and Albert Museum resembled NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art as both have a colossal number of exhibits. I chose furniture, architecture, and pottery. A life size horse and rider both in a full suit of armor required pondering…how can anyone fight so encumbered?


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Let's talk the Cubs, Tuesday's election and stubborn hope
Posted on November 6, 2016 July 24, 2018 by svourvoulias
Jason L. Vourvoulias
The World Series winner this year — improbably, against the odds and in defiance of a 108-year curse — is the Chicago Cubs.
My father, a lifelong Cubs fan, would have been stunned by the win. And elated. And stunned. All his wildest, most stubborn hopes were vindicated … this year.
I've been thinking a lot about my dad lately, and not only because of the Cubs. In his latter years my dad had become a political wonk, and he would have been riveted by this electoral season.
My father spent most of his adult life as part of multinational, corporate America. He rose through the ranks of Ray-O-Vac Company (at that time part of the multinational ESB), first in Mexico, then in Madison, and onto Thailand and Guatemala. He came to Philadelphia (where the international division had its offices in one of the Penn Towers) in 1975, to work as a vice president in charge of Latin American operations. Ultimately he led a management buyout of the international division and became CEO and chairman of the board of the resulting corporation.
My dad believed in corporate America, and he was loyal to it. He also believed in the Republican Party. He was a fiscal and social conservative — the quintessential first-generation American who had "bootstrapped" himself into success. And though he lived most of the first 48 years of his life "overseas," he made sure to vote in every election. Most notably (at least for his liberal kids who never let him forget it), he voted for Nixon rather than JFK.
He loved being an American citizen in the way so many first-generation folks do — exuberantly and unabashedly.
My brothers and I were all born outside of the U.S. (Mexico, Thailand and Guatemala) but my dad made sure we were all American citizens from birth (by jus sanguinis which accords nationality on the basis of a parent's citizenship rather than birth place) because, he believed, why would anyone NOT want to be a citizen of this great nation?
So you are thinking right about now that my father, were he still alive, would be a Donald Trump supporter.
Not so fast.
"My father was a refugee's son," wrote my brother Alberto, in a brilliant and beautiful column published in June of this year at Fox News Latino. "Born in the U.S., he was proud to serve his country. […] in a frontline regiment with blacks and whites, Latinos and Asians, children of immigrants and children of the native-born. For him, this mosaic was the strength and promise of America."
A mosaic which Trump has sought to pull apart at every turn of this campaign. Mexican Americans, Muslim Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, immigrants and refugees — time and again Trump has contrived (in word and proposed policy) to diminish and "otherize" the manifold greatness of America.
My father would have agreed with those who say that Trump knows nothing of real sacrifice: Refugees trying any way they can to keep their children alive; folks who have lost loved ones serving in the armed forces; he doesn't even understand the sacrifice of veterans who have withstood torture and lived years as P.O.W.s… All of them have been fodder for hateful characterization and derision from Trump.
Trump knows nothing of the kind of hope that draws from the wellspring of love rather than hate.
He certainly knows nothing of the hope and promise of America that prompted a young man to serve his nation in two wars; that gave him the drive to go to college on the G.I. bill; that got him through jobs so ill-paid some weeks he could only afford to eat bread; that taught him to scrimp and save so someday he might be able to afford a radio on which to listen to a ballgame …
My father was targeted as an American while he was working for Ray-O-Vac in Guatemala, and was kidnapped. The details are terrifying, and throughout the time he was held his kidnappers made clear to him that my mother (a fierce and amazing Mexican-Guatemalan who would have been especially infuriated by Trump's vitriol against immigrants and his entitled attitude toward women) and my brothers and I were next.
My father told me years later that he didn't have time to despair while he was held, he was too busy trying to figure out what he needed to do to negotiate his release so he could whisk us all to safety. My father's hope was as stubborn and resilient as he was — no kidnapped American had been released alive during that time in Guatemala — and, remarkably, he eventually succeeded. He managed to convince his kidnappers to release him and for the ransom to be paid over a 12-month period. He also talked them into cutting the ransom by a third. (When I hear Trump describe himself as a wonderful businessman, I can't help but think his negotiation skills have never truly been tested.)
Despite the ordeal I never heard my father speak of his kidnappers in the foul and hateful terms Trump has used to describe citizen and non-citizen, public figure and private, colleague and ally, during this electoral season.
Later in life, when board upheaval ousted my father as CEO of the company he had bought out and an equivalent position was slow to emerge, my father took on jobs at Wawa and Target to be able to pay bills and to fulfill his financial responsibilities to the country he loved and believed in.
Others were embarrassed for him, but he was not. He believed there was dignity in all work, and he witnessed that his coworkers labored as hard and as loyally at their low-income jobs as his executive colleagues did in their more exalted positions. By the time he returned to his next CEO position, he had reluctantly become a Democrat — because his beloved Republicans seemed out of touch with the economic challenges and realities of so many Americans.
My father would have been horrified that Trump has not only deliberately avoided paying income taxes that sustain everything from our nation's armed forces to education to a fraying safety net, but that the billionaire business magnate has repeatedly welched on paying hard-working, ordinary people for the work they've performed for him.
I think most people are more like my father than like Trump.
I believe most of us will choose to act honorably rather than dishonorably when it comes to our obligations to our fellow citizens, and to the America we love.
And during those moments when I panic that the upcoming election may be as much of a nailbiter as the final game of the World Series was, I imagine my father as a young man in Chicago, listening to the Cubs game on his precious radio.
He never gave up on his wild, stubborn hope for the best.
And neither do I.
I believe most of us will vote against hate.
I hope we will.
I come by that honestly.
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UH Bauer faculty are among the most highly productive faculty of any business school in the world, publishing numerous articles in leading academic journals and books as well as holding editorial board positions. Following is a listing of recent publications by our faculty.
Braddy, P., Sturm, R., Atwater, L., Smither, J., & Fleenor, J. "Validating the feedback orientation scale in a leadership development context." Group and Organization Management 38 (2013): 690-716.
Gary Oddou, Betina Szkudlarek, Joyce S. Osland, Jurgen Deller, Roger Blakeney, Norihito Furuya. "Repatriates as a source of competitive advantage." Organization Dynamics 42 (2013): 257-266.
Sturm, R., Taylor, S., Atwater, L., Braddy, P. "Women's underprediction of bosses' ratings of their leadership." Journal of Organizational Behavior (in press).
Vera, D., Crossan, M., Rerup, C., & Werner, S. "'Thinking Before Acting' or 'Acting Before Thinking': Antecedents of Individual Action Propensity in Work Situations." Journal of Management Studies (in press).
Aguinis, H., Werner, S., Abbott, J.A., Angert, C., Park, J. H. & Kohlhausen, D. 2010. "Customer-centric Science: Reporting Significant Research Results with Rigor, Relevance, and Practical Impact in Mind." Organizational Research Methods, 13: 515-539.
Artz, K.W., Norman, P.M., Hatfield, D.E., Cardinal, L.B. 2010. Firm performance: A longitudinal study of the impact of R&D, patents, and product innovation. Journal of Product Innovation Management. 27: 725-740.
Atwater, Leanne, Brett, J., & Charles, A. 2007. "The delivery of workplace discipline: Lessons learned." Organizational Dynamics, 36, 4, 392-403.
Atwater, Leanne, & Carmeli, A. 2008. "Leader-member exchange, feelings of energy and involvement in creative work." Leadership Quarterly.
Atwater, Leanne, Wang, M. Smither, J., & Fleenor, J. 2008. "Are cultural characteristics associated with the relationship between self and others' ratings of leadership?." Journal of Applied Psychology.
Blakeney, Roger N., G. Oddou and J.S. Osland. 2007. "Repatriating the Goods Back Home: The Knowledge Transfer Process." Journal of International Business Studies.
Brouthers, K.D., Brouthers, L.E., and Werner, S. 2008. "Real Options, International Entry Mode Choices and Performance." Journal of Management Studies, 45(5): 936-960.
Brouthers, K.D., Brouthers, L.E., and Werner, S. 2008. "Resource-Based Advantages in an International Context." Journal of Management, 34(2): 189-217.
Brouthers, L.E., Lascu, D., and Werner, S. 2008. "Competitive Irrationality in Transitional Economies: Are Communist Managers Less Irrational?" Journal of Business Ethics.
Cardinal, L.B., Fern, M.J., Turner, S.F., Burton, R.M. Organizing for product development across technological environments: Performance trade-offs and priorities. Organization Science. [Forthcoming].
Cardinal, L.B., Miller, C.C., Palich, L.P. 2011. Breaking the cycle of interation: Forensic failures of international diversification and firm performance research. Global Strategy Journal. 1(1): 175. 186 [Forthcoming].
Carmeli, A., Atwater, Leanne, Levi, A. "How leadership enhances employee's Knowledge sharing at work: The intervening roles of relational and organizational identification." Journal of Technology Transfer.
Crossan, M., Vera, D. & Nanjad, L. 2008. "Transcendent leadership: Strategic leadership in dynamic environments." The Leadership Quarterly, 19, 569-581.
Elkins, Teri and Susana Velez-Castrillion. 2008. "Victims' and observers' perceptions of sexual harassment: Implications for employers' legal risk in North America." International Journal of Human Resource Management. 19, 1435-1454.
Elkins, Teri, James Phillips and S. Ward. 2008. "Organizational sexual harassment investigations: Observers' perceptions of fairness." Journal of Managerial Issues, 20, 88-108.
Elkins Longacre, Teri. 2007. "Managing Human Resources in North America." New HR Challenges in the Dynamic Environment of Legal Compliance.
Elliot, C., Rouse, M. & Vera, Dusya. 2008. "Learning fusion: Introduction to the dedicated organizational learning, knowledge and capabilities issue." Management Learning, 38, 4: 371-374.
Fern, M.J., Cardinal, L.B., O'Neill, H.M. The genesis of strategy in new ventures: Escaping the constraints of founder and team knowledge. Strategic Management Journal, [Forthcoming].
Fleenor, J., Smither, J., Atwater, Leanne, Braddy, P., & Sturm, R. "Self-other rating agreement in leadership: A review." Leadership Quarterly.
Gelb, Betsy, & Teri Elkins Longacre. "Acknowledging Religious Diversity: Opportunities and Challenges." Business Horizons [Forthcoming].
Hubbard, A. 2010. "Mentoring in a Virtual Work Environment." MBA Review, Vol. 8, issue 12: 36 – 39.
Ivancevich, John, Robert Konopaske and Jacqueline A. Gilbert. 2008. "Formally Shaming White-Collar Criminals." Business Horizons.
Jansen, J., Vera, Dusya, & Crossan, M. 2009. "Strategic leadership and exploratory and exploitative innovation." The Leadership Quarterly.
Keller, Robert T., Dusya Vera and Louise Nemanich. 2007. "Managing the Exploration/Exploitation Paradox in New Product Development: How Top Executives Define their Firm's Innovation Trajectory." International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management.
Keller, Robert T. and Louise Nemanich. 2007. "Transformational Leadership in an Acquisition: A Field Study of Employees." Leadership Quarterly.
Konopaske, Robert, Chet Robe and John M. Ivancevich. "Management's Willingness to Resume Travel: Short and Long-Term Assignments." Management International Review. [Forthcoming].
Liu, Y. & Phillips, J.S. "Examining the antecedents of knowledge sharing in facilitating team innovativeness from a multilevel perspective." International Journal of Information Management. [Forthcoming].
Nemanich, L., Robert T. Keller, Dusya Vera, and Wynne Chin, 2010. "Absorptive Capacity in R&D Project Teams: A Conceptualization and Empirical Test." IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management,Vol. 57, No. 4.
Nemanich, L. & Vera, D. 2009 "Transformational leadership and ambidexterity in the context of an acquisition." The Leadership Quarterly.
Nemanich, L., Banks, M. & Vera, D. 2009 "Enhancing knowledge transfer in classroom versus on-line settings: The interplay among instructor, student, content, and context." Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. [Forthcoming].
Pathak, Seemantini, Peter J. Lane and Balaji R. Koka. 2007. "The Reification of Absorptive Capacity: A Critical Review and Rejuvenation of the Construct." Academy of Management Review.
Penney, L. M., David, E. M., Witt, & L. A. "A review of personality and performance: Identifying boundaries, contingencies, and future research directions." Human Resources Management Review. [Forthcoming].
Pepper, M. B. and Seemantini Pathak. 2008. "Classroom contribution: What do students perceive as fair assessment?" Journal of Education for Business.
Perry, S. J, Witt, L. A. Penney, L. M., & Atwater, L. "The downside of goal-focused leadership: The role of personality in subordinate exhaustion." Journal of Applied Psychology. [Forthcoming].
Perry, S. J., Hunter, E. M., Witt, L. A., & Harris, K. "P = f (Ability x Conscientiousness): Examining the facets of conscientiousness." Human Performance. [Forthcoming].
Perry, S. J., Rubino, C., & Witt, L. A. "General job performance of first-line supervisors: The role of conscientiousness in determining its effects on subordinate exhaustion." Stress & Health. [Forthcoming].
Perry, S., Dubin, D., & Witt, L. A. 2010. "The interactive effect of extraversion and extraversion dissimilarity on emotional exhaustion: A test of the asymmetry hypothesis." Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 634–639.
Priest, Tyler. 2008. "Seismic Innovations: The Business and Technology of Oil Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico." Business History Review.
Priest, Tyler and Jason Theriot. 2008. "Who Destroyed the Marsh? Oil Field Canals, Coastal Ecology, and the Debate over Louisiana's Shrinking Wetlands." Economic History Yearbook.
Sherman, J.D. and Keller, R.T. "Suboptimal Assessment of Inter-Unit Task Interdependence: Modes of Integration and Information Processing for Coordination Performance." Organization Science. [Forthcoming].
Sitkin, See, Miller, Lawless, and Carton. The Paradox of Stretch Goals: Organizations in Pursuit of the Seemingly Impossible. Academy of Management Review. [Forthcoming].
Smither, J., Brett, J., & Atwater, Leanne. 2008. "What do leaders recall about multi-source feedback?" Journal of Leadership and Organization Studies.
Vera, Dusya. 2009 "On building bridges, facilitating dialogue, and delineating priorities: A tribute to Mark Easterby-Smith and his contribution to organizational learning." Management Learning, 40, 5: 499-511.
Vera, Dusya and Gabriel Cepeda. 2007. "Dynamic Capabilities and Operational Capabilities: A Knowledge Management Perspective." Journal of Business Research.
Vera, Dusya, L. Nanjad and M. Crossan. 2007. "Transcendent Leadership: Strategic Leadership in Dynamic Environments." Leadership Quarterly.
Werner, S. High Performance Work Systems in the Global Context: A Commentary Essay. Journal of Business Research. [Forthcoming].
Werner, Steve. 2008. "Managing Human Resources in North America: Current Issues and New Directions for Research." International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19(8): 1395-1396.
Werner, Steve and B.K. Miller. 2007. "Predictors of Helping Behavior Toward Workers with Disabilities." Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Werner, Steve, M. Praxedes and H.G .Kim. 2007. "The Reporting of Nonresponse Analyses in Survey Research." Organizational Research Methods.
Richard S. DeFrank and Cary L. Cooper. "Worksite stress management interventions: Their effectiveness and conceptualization." From Stress to Wellbeing Volume 2: Stress Management and Enhancing Wellbeing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Atwater, Leanne, & Elkins Longacre, Teri. (in press). Diagnosing, understanding and dealing with counterproductive work behavior. In J. W. Smither and M. London (Eds.) Performance management: Putting research into practice.
Atwater, Leanne, & Waldman, D. 2008. Leadership, Feedback and the Open Communication Gap. LEA.
Atwater, Leanne, & Dionne, S. 2007. A process model of leader-follower fit. In C. Ostroff & T. Judge (Eds.). Perspectives of Organizational Fit pp 183-208.
Balthazard, P., Waldman, D., & Atwater, L. 2007. The mediating effects of leadership and interaction style in face-to-face and virtual teams. In S. Weisband (Ed.), Leadership at a Distance pp 127-150.
Blakeney, Roger. 2008. Transfer neu gewonnenen impliziten Wissens von Auslandsbeschäftigten zurück in das "heimatliche System" (Transferring expatriate tacit knowledge gains back to the home system. In Sackmann, S. (ed.), Person and economy: 174-189. Gabler: Wiesban, Germany.
Cardinal, Laura B., S.B. Sitkin, C.P. Long. "Management Control Systems." Encyclopedia of Management Theory (Sage Publications, in press for 2012).
Cardinal, L.B., Sitkin, S.B, Long, C.P. 2010. A configurational theory of control. In S.B Sitkin, L.B. Cardinal, & K.M. Bijlsma-Frankema (Eds.) Organizational Control. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Cardinal, L.B., Sitkin, S.B, Bijlsma-Frankema, K.M. 2010. Control is fundamental. In S.B Sitkin, L.B. Cardinal, & K.M. Bijlsma-Frankema (Eds.) Organizational Control. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Carlin, Barbara. 2007. Instructors Resource for Principles of Management (Hill / McShane). McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Gomez-Mejia, L.R., and Werner, Steve. (Editors). 2008. Global Compensation: Foundations and Perspectives. London, UK: Routledge.
Hitt, Miller, and Colella. 2011. Organizational Behavior: A Strategic Approach. Wiley.
Jackson, S.E., R.S. Schuler, & Steve Werner. Managing Human Resources, 11th Ed.. Southwestern Publishers, 2012.
Jackson, S.E., Schuler, R.S., & Werner, S. 2009. Managing Human Resources, 10th Edition. Mason, OH: Cengage/Southwestern Publishers. Performance Management: Putting research into practice.
McMahon, T. 2010. Leadership Classics, Waveland Press.
Miller, Carl C.. "Sensemaking and Entrepreneurship." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship Research. Blackwell, Fall 2011.
Priest, Tyler. 2007. The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. Texas A&M University Press.
Werner, S. (Editor). 2007. Managing Human Resources in North America. Routledge.
Balkin, D.B., Roussel, P., and Werner, S. "Extrinisic Rewards and Autonomy: Implications for Rewarding Creativity.." 2013 Academy of Management Conference, . Orlando, Florida, , August. 2013.
Ballard, K., Vera, D. "The board of directors' functional background and its effect on firms' corporate social performance." Strategic Management Society. Atlanta, GA, 2013.
Kim, K., & Atwater, L. "Getting to the top: The relevance of gender, aspirations and gender composition.." Society for I/O Psychology. Houston, April.
Kreutzer, M., Cardinal, L.B., Walters, Lechner, C. "Organizational control as an antidote for organizational politics. Academy of Management." Academy of Management. Orlando, 2013.
Krylova, K., Vera, D., Crossan, M. "Paradox no more: The role of improvisation in the 'transfer-inimitability' paradox." Academy of Management Conference. Orlando, FL, 2013.
Latheef, Z.I., and Werner, S. "Organizational Dissonance: Development of a New Construct. ." 2013 Academy of Management Conference. Orlando, Florida,, August 2013.
Li, M., Hatfield, D.E., Cardinal, L.B. "Do CEOs matter? CEO tenure effects on firm innovation and stock market performance. ." Strategic Management Society. Atlanta, 2013.
Samba, C., & Miller CC. "Cognitive Diversity among Senior Managers." Strategic Management Society. Atlanta, GA, US, Sept 28 - Oct 1.
Samba, C., Vera, D. "Toward a Theory of Organizational Resilience: The "Assessment- Acceptance-Amendment Model"." Academy of Management Conference. Orlando, FL, 2013.
Tabesh, P., & Miller CC. "Paradox of Rationality." Strategic Management Society. Atlanta, GA, US, Sept 28 - Oct 1.
TenBrink C., Cardinal, L.B. "Diverging paths: social, human, and intellectual capital across organizational life cycle stages.." Academy of Management. Orlando, 2013.
Angert CJ, Pathak Seemantini. "The Institutional Environment and Gender Diversity on Boards of Directors." Strategic Management Society .
Banks, M., Dusya Vera, & M. Krischer. "A typology of stakeholder management strategies: Academy of Management Conference .
Elkins Longacre, Teri, Leanne Atwater, K. Callison, Z. Lathiff, and Y. Kim. "Gender, conflict handling,styles, and reactions to abusive supervision: An exploratory examination." Academy of Management .
Elkins Longacre, Teri, Leanne Atwater, K. Callison, Z. Latheef, & Y. Kim. "Abusive supervision from the eyes of the abused: subordinate characteristics, coping strategies and outcomes." Academy of Management .
Epstein, D. & Robert T. Keller. "Impact of timing and product development on R&D alliances.." Southwest Academy of Management .
Fabian, F., Laura B Cardinal, & Carl C. Miller. "Where Have All of the Managers Gone? The Demise of Studying Managers in Strategic Management." Strategic Management Society International Conference .
Hall, A., J. Vesey, W. Irfaeya, Teri Elkins Longacre, J. Soto, C. Langford, & R. Zinko. "Social influence and legal claiming: Examining antecedents to invocation of legal rights." Academy of Management  .
Krylova, K., Dusya Vera, & M. Crossan. "Transcending the transfer-imitation paradox through improvisation.." Academy of Management Conference .
Liu, Yuwen and Richard S. DeFrank. "Self-interest and knowledge sharing intentions: The impacts of leadership climate and HR practices." Academy of Management .
Park, Joon Hyung and Richard S. DeFrank. "Job search objective as a mediator between job insecurity and job search behaviors." American Psychological Association .
Pathak Seemantini, Chiu SC, Hoskisson R, Johnson R. "Corporate Restructuring and Governance Change." Strategic Management Society .
Perry, S., N. Lorinkova, E. Hunter, A. Hubbard, J. Timothy McMahon . "Does virtuality expose reality? Examing the role of work-family and virtuality in social loafing. ." Southern Management Association Annual Meeting.
Rude, Dale and Hwanwoo "Howard" Lee. "The Missing Link in Retirement Planning Research-- The Human Resources (HR) Department." Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making .
Rude, Dale and Hwanwoo "Howard" Lee. "The Diffusion of Behavioral Finance Innovations within Organizations: The Role of Human Resources (HR) Departments ." The Annual Meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society .
Rude, Dale. "Pinched: The Great Recession and Its Long-term Impact on Our Students." Southwestern Business Administration Teaching Conference .
Sturm, R. & Dusya Vera. 2011.. "Towards and expanded model of transcendent leadership: Substitutes and the societal level." Academy of Management Conference .
Thanos, I., Carl C. Miller, & V. Papadakis. "Decision Comprehensiveness and the Outcomes of Firms: A Quantitative Synthesis of Several Decades of Research." Strategic Management Society International Conference .
Velez-Castrillon, S, Pathak Seemantini, Dusya Vera. "The Strategic Fit Betweeen Board of Director Characteristics and the External Environment, and its Effect on Firm Reputation." Southern Academy of Management Annual Meeting .
Velez-Castrillon, S., S. Pathak, & Dusya Vera. "The Strategic Fit Between Board of Director Characteristics and the External Environment, and its Effect on Firm Reputation." Southern Academy of Management Conference .
Wang, S. & Yi Liu, "Disentangling I-deals: how different forms of idiosyncratic employment deals impact employee creativity." Academy of Management Annual Meeting .
Abbott, J.L., Elkins Longacre, Teri, & Phillips, J.S. 2010. Using Compassion to Resolve Conflict: An Overview of Apologies and Apology Protection Laws. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Angert, C. J., & Pathak, S. The Institutional Environment and Gender Diversity on Boards of Directors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Strategic Management Society, Miami. Best Conference Paper Award Nomination, 2011.
Angert, C. J., & Pathak, S. The Effects of the Institutional Environment on Gender Tokenism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, 2010.
Atwater, Leanne, Wang, M., Smither, J., & Fleenor, J. 2008. Are cultural characteristics associated with the relationship between self and others' ratings of leadership? Paper presented at the National meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim CA.
Atwater, Leanne, Brett, J., & Charles, A. 2007. Multi-source feedback: Lessons learned, and implications for practice. Human Resource Management Journal, 46, 285-307.
Banks, M., Vera, Dusya M., and Pathak, S.M. 2010. Stakeholder Management at the Origin of Competitive Advantage. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Banks, M. & Vera, Dusya. 2008. "Stakeholder management, institutional forces, and performance: An examination of strategy content." Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Banks, M. & Vera, Dusya. 2007. "Towards a typology of stakeholder management strategies." Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA. This paper also was included in the Best Paper Conference Proceedings.
Brett, J., Smither, J., & Atwater, Leanne. 2007. Leaders' recall of multi-source feedback and its effects. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, NY.
Cardinal, L.B., Sleptsov. A. Short-circuiting information flows: Effects of the firm's structure and internal networks on its innovation output. Strategic Management Society, Rome, 2010.
Cardinal, L.B., Sitkin, S.B., Long, C.P., Miller, C.C. Creating control configurations during organizational founding. Academy of Management, Montreal, 2010.
Cardinal, L.B. Performance and global strategy. Global Strategy Journal Launch Conference by the Strategic Management Society. Chicago, 2010.
David, E., & Witt, L. A. 2010. P = f(M x A x C): A three-way interaction predicting team player behavior. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Dubin, D. F., Krischer, M., & Witt, L. A. 2010. The efficacious employee: The effects of mentorship and supervisor fit. Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta.
Ehrhart, K. H., Witt, L. A., Schneider, B., & Perry, S. J. 2010. Internal service as a moderator of the service climate-outcomes link. In J. Seibus (Chair), The impact of internal customer service on organizations. Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta.
Elkins, T., Atwater, L., Callison, K., Latheef, Z., & Kim, K. Y. (2011). Gender, Conflict Handling Style, and Reactions to Abusive Supervision: An Exploratory Examination. Academy of Management Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2011.
Epstein, D., and Keller, R.T. 2010. Microfoundations of First Mover Disadvantages: The Impact of Organizational Inertia on Entrance and Exit Decisions in Research Areas. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association, St. Pete Beach, FL, October.
Hubbard, A. and Hoskings, T. 2010. Kindles in the Classroom: The Dilemma of the Early Innovator. Texas Distance Education Association Conference, Houston TX.
Kreutzer, M., Lechner, C., Cardinal, L.B. Organizational control and strategic growth initiatives – A contingency perspective. Strategic Management Society, Washington DC, 2009.
Krischer, M., Waite, E., & Witt, L. A. 2010. Antecedents of perceived supervisor support: A multilevel investigation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Krischer, M., & Witt, L. A. 2010. Achieving adaptive performance in the workplace: The compensatory effects of general mental ability and adaptive leadership. Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta.
Liu, Yi, Atwater, Leanne, & Shih, H. 2010. Job burnout, work unit transformational leadership and interpersonal helping. National meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Mesdaghinia, S., Atwater, Leanne, and Keller, R.T. 2010. How Leadership Style Affects Performance of Distant Followers in Creative and Non-Creative tasks. Paper presented at the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, August.
Nemanich, L., Banks, M. & Vera, D. 2009. "Enhancing knowledge transfer in classroom vs. on-line settings: The interplay among instructor, student, content, and context." Decision Science Institute Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Nemanich, L., Banks, M. & Vera, Dusya. 2007. "Knowledge transfer and enjoyment in classroom vs. on-line settings." Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA. This paper also was included in the Best Paper Conference Proceedings and won the Best Paper Award, Management Education Division that year.
Park, J. H. & DeFrank, Richard. Job search objective as a mediator between job insecurity and job search behaviors. At American Psychological Association Annual Convention. Washington, D.C., 2011.
Park, J.H. and DeFrank, R.S. 2010. Proactive personality and workplace bullying: A stressor and strain model. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada.
Park, J.H. and DeFrank, R.S. 2010. Coping with bullying in the workplace. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, California.
Perry, S. J., Lorinkova, S., & Witt, L. A. 2010. Emotional stability and conscientiousness as moderators of the virtuality-performance relationship. In S. J. Perry and L. A. Witt (Chairs), Predicting virtual team effectiveness: Focusing on the micro-level. Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta.
Raisch, S., Zimmerman, A., Cardinal, Laura B. Who says incumbents can't innovate? A contingency perspective on exploratory search and structural contexts. Academy of Management, Chicago, 2009.
Rude, Dale & Lee, H. The Missing Link in Retirement Planning Research: The Human Resources (HR) Department. At Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making. Boulder, Colorado, 2011.
Rude, Dale E., & Epstein, D. E. 2008. The Houston Retirement Project: A Plan to Increase the Aggregate Wealth of 1200 U of Houston Faculty by $1 Billion. Presentation to the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, San Diego, CA.
Rude, Dale E., & Epstein, D. E. 2008. The Comfort Zone Project. Presentation to the Southwest Business Administration Teaching Conference, Houston, TX.
Sturm, R. E. & Vera, Dusya. Towards an expanded model of transcendent leadership: Supplements and the societal level. At Academy of Management Annual Conference. San Antonio, Texas, 2011.
Sweet, K.M. & Witt, L.A. 2008. Managing adaptive performers: The interactive effects of perceived organizational support and leader-member exchange. Presented at the 2008 Southern Management Association annual conference, St. Petersburg, FL.
Velez-Castrillon, S., Vera, D., & Kachra, A. 2009. "An examination of the effect of improvisational decision making in top management teams on performance." Strategic Management Society, Washington, DC.
Velez-Castrillon, S., Vera, D., & Kachra, A. 2009. "An improvisational model of strategic decision making." Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Velez-Castrillon, S., Vera, D., & Kachra, A. 2008. "An improvisational model of strategic decision making." Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Vera, D.M., Rerup, C., Crossan, M. and Werner, S. 2010. Planning and Improvisation: Reconciling Cognitive and Behavioral Perspectives on Action. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Waite, L., Zheng, D., Brothers, S., & Witt, L. A. 2010. The buffering effect of goal congruence on the relationship between organizational constraints and engagement. Paper presented at the conference of the Institute for Work Psychology, Sheffield, England.
Wilson, R., Perry, S. J., Griffeth, R. W., Roth, L. W., & Witt, L. A. 2010. Short-timer syndrome: The downside of autonomy. Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta.


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import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.RadioButton;
import android.widget.TextView;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AlertDialog;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar;
import androidx.vectordrawable.graphics.drawable.VectorDrawableCompat;

import com.facebook.drawee.drawable.ProgressBarDrawable;
import com.facebook.drawee.generic.GenericDraweeHierarchyBuilder;
import com.facebook.drawee.view.SimpleDraweeView;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import butterknife.BindView;
import butterknife.ButterKnife;
import butterknife.OnClick;
import fr.free.nrw.commons.R;

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            alert.setTitle(getResources().getString(R.string.warning));
            alert.setMessage(getResources().getString(R.string.warning_for_no_answer));
            alert.setPositiveButton(R.string.continue_message, (dialog, which) -> dialog.dismiss());
            AlertDialog dialog = alert.create();
            dialog.show();
        }

    }

    /**
     * to give warning before ending quiz
     */
    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        alert.setTitle(getResources().getString(R.string.warning));
        alert.setMessage(getResources().getString(R.string.quiz_back_button));
        alert.setPositiveButton(R.string.continue_message, (dialog, which) -> {
            Intent i = new Intent(QuizActivity.this, QuizResultActivity.class);
            dialog.dismiss();
            i.putExtra("QuizResult",score);
            startActivity(i);
        });
        alert.setNegativeButton("Cancel", (dialogInterface, i) -> dialogInterface.dismiss());
        AlertDialog dialog = alert.create();
        dialog.show();
    }

    /**
     * to display the question
     */
    public void displayQuestion() {
        quiz = quizController.getQuiz();
        questionText.setText(quiz.get(questionIndex).getQuestion());
        questionTitle.setText(getResources().getString(R.string.question)+quiz.get(questionIndex).getQuestionNumber());
        imageView.setHierarchy(GenericDraweeHierarchyBuilder
                .newInstance(getResources())
                .setFailureImage(VectorDrawableCompat.create(getResources(),
                        R.drawable.ic_error_outline_black_24dp, getTheme()))
                .setProgressBarImage(new ProgressBarDrawable())
                .build());

        imageView.setImageURI(quiz.get(questionIndex).getUrl());
        new RadioGroupHelper(this, R.id.quiz_positive_answer, R.id.quiz_negative_answer);
        positiveAnswer.setChecked(false);
        negativeAnswer.setChecked(false);
    }

    /**
     * to evaluate score and check whether answer is correct or wrong
     */
    public void evaluateScore() {
        if ((quiz.get(questionIndex).isAnswer() && positiveAnswer.isChecked()) ||
                (!quiz.get(questionIndex).isAnswer() && negativeAnswer.isChecked()) ){
            customAlert(getResources().getString(R.string.correct),quiz.get(questionIndex).getAnswerMessage() );
            score++;
        } else {
            customAlert(getResources().getString(R.string.wrong), quiz.get(questionIndex).getAnswerMessage());
        }
    }

    /**
     * to display explanation after each answer, update questionIndex and move to next question
     * @param title
     * @param Message
     */
    public void customAlert(String title, String Message) {
        AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        alert.setTitle(title);
        alert.setMessage(Message);
        alert.setPositiveButton(R.string.continue_message, (dialog, which) -> {
            questionIndex++;
            if (questionIndex == quiz.size()) {
                Intent i = new Intent(QuizActivity.this, QuizResultActivity.class);
                dialog.dismiss();
                i.putExtra("QuizResult",score);
                startActivity(i);
            } else {
                displayQuestion();
            }
        });
        AlertDialog dialog = alert.create();
        dialog.show();
    }
}

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These Pumpkin Pie Pecan Oat bars are delicious and perfect for the fall! With the pecans and maple syrup on top, these are sure to please! They also last a few days in the fridge, so you can enjoy them throughout the week.
And on the pumpkin pie spice you can buy it in the store or just google how to make it because you probably have all the ingredients to make your own and make a lot so you can store in a jar.
Mix all dry ingredients together. Into the same bowl, add pumpkin, applesauce and 2 Tablespoons of maple syrup.
Add mix to the dish and press and spread around the dish. .Sprinkle the pecans on top and press down into the bars.
Drizzle 3 Tablespoons maple syrup on top, cover all of it. Use the extra 4th tablespoon of you need more.
Bake for 25 minutes. Let cool and enjoy. Store in fridge.
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Boxing superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao were able to produce the most profitable pay-per-view in history on May 2, due mainly to their broad name recognition. While they are the best boxers in their weight class, they aren't the only welterweights that rank among the best fighters in the entire sport.
The welterweight division is home to some of the world's best boxers, regardless of weight class. Champs in other divisions stand out, as well, and some of the top boxers could soon be fighting at new weights to create exciting fights.
There is a better understanding of which boxers should be considered in the top 10, since the sport's best fighters have already been in the ring for the first half of the year. A new round of bouts are set for the second half of 2015.
Below is a top 10 list of boxing's best pound-for-pound fighters in 2015.
1) Floyd Mayweather: 48-0-0 (26 KOs), welterweight He's never lost and has beaten all of the best boxers in his era, making Mayweather the clear No.1.
2) Roman Gonzalez: 43-0-0 (37 KOs), flyweight The undefeated fighter doesn't even give his opponents a chance, ending 14 of his last 15 fights before the 10th round. The Nicaraguan has plenty left at age 28.
3) Gennady Golovkin: 33-0-0 (30 KOs), middleweight GGG is unbeaten with 20 consecutive knockouts, and the only reason that he hasn't defeated a top fighter is because none of them want to face him. The 33-year-old looks unstoppable at the moment.
4) Andre Ward: 28-0-0 (15 KOs), super middleweight Despite his inactivity in 2014, Ward is one of the sport's best fighters, and he's been so dominant at the super middleweight level that he'll soon need to fight someone from another weight class.
5) Manny Pacquiao: 57-6-2 (38 KOs), welterweight There's no shame in losing to Mayweather, and Pacquiao should have three wins against boxers on this list. He won't be fighting in 2015 due to injury, but expect the 36-year-old to finish his career strong.
6) Wladimir Klitschko: 64-3-0 (54 KOs), heavyweight The famed Ukranian is clearly the best heavyweight, and there might not be anyone in the division who could pose a serious challenge. He might receive a test from Tyson Fury on Oct. 24, but don't expect an upset.
7) Sergey Kovalev: 27-0-1 (23 KOs), light heavyweight The Russian has dominated the light heavyweight division, and Bernard Hopkins is the only boxer to last more than eight rounds with Kovalev in his last 16 fights.
8) Miguel Cotto: 40-4-0 (33 KOs), middleweight He's been rejuvenated since teaming up with Freddie Roach, but Canelo Alvarez could take this spot if Cotto has a bad showing in their November fight. Cotto is among the most savvy fighters in boxing.
9) Guillermo Rigondeaux: 15-0-0 (10 KOs), super bantamweight The two-time Olympic gold medal winner doesn't have nearly as many professional fights anyone else on the list and he hasn't fought in 2015, but he's been dominating opponents for five years and has the skills to keep climbing.
10) Keith Thurman: 26-0-0 (22 KOs), welterweight With knockouts in all but four of his victories, Thurman could be the sport's next top star once he gets his shot at a top fighter in his weight class. He's only 26 and already shows a great deal of maturity.