The purposes of this study are to explore flight attendants¡¦: (1) the effect of personal characteristic to emotional intelligence, service attitude and withdrawal behaviors; (2) the relationship among emotional intelligence, service attitude, and withdrawal behaviors; (3) the mediating effect between emotional intelligence and withdrawal behaviors through service attitude. For this research, according to the 232 valid returned questionnaires from the native flight attendants of China Airlines, the results of the study are as follows: 1.Partial personal characteristic has a significant influence on emotional intelligence, service attitude and withdrawal behaviors. 2.Emotional intelligence is significantly positive related to service attitude. 3.Emotional intelligence has a significant negative influence on withdrawal behaviors. 4.Service attitude has a significant negative influence on withdrawal behaviors. 5.Service attitude has a partial mediating effect between emotional intelligence and withdrawal behaviors. Finally, the suggestion has been offered to the managerial level of the airlines and others researchers.

The purpose of this investigation is based on the revision model proposed by Ferris et al.(2002) , the discussion relates to the influence of perceptions of organization politics on job performance and on organizational withdrawal and other issues of employees. It also aims to discuss variables for harmonization of organic politics and results using personality as moderation parameter. It takes 40 organizations in Taiwan as the research object. 2,133 copies of questionnaire have been issued and 1,940 copies have been taken back, the returns-ratio reaches 91.0%. After rejecting 50 invalid copies, the effective volume is 1,890, and effective returns-ratio is 88.6%.The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, item analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis ,correlation analysis, regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. The major results of this study are as fallowing: 1. Perceptions of organizational politics has a significant effect on job performance . 2. Perceptions of organizational politics has a significant effect on organizational withdrawal . 3.Locus of control has a moderate effect on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job performance . 4. Type A personality has no moderate effect on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job performance . 5.Generalized self-efficacy has a moderate effect on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job performance . 6. Task self-efficacy has no moderate effect on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job performance . 7. Locus of control has no moderate effect on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and organizational withdrawal . 8. Type A personality has no moderate effect on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and organizational withdrawal . 9. Generalized self-efficacy has a moderate effect on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and organizational withdrawal . 10. Task self-efficacy has no moderate effect on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and organizational withdrawal .

This research is aimed to look into the relationship among social capital, psychological withdrawal, expatriates¡¦ adaptation and job performance. Questionnaires were sent to 370 expatriates, 163 questionnairs were returned, representing a response rate of 44%. Documents will serve as the basis for research, as well as some statistical metholds such as conducting the poll through questionnaires, factors analysis, descriptive statistic, T test, ANOVA, correlation analysis, regression analysis, path analysis and other relevant analysis. There are several discoveries based on these analysis and studies¡G 1.Individual social capital and psychological withdrawal have negative influence 2.Individual social capital and job performance have positive influence 3.Individual social capital and expatriates¡¦ adaptation have positive influence 4.Psychological withdrawal and job performance have negative influence 5.Psychological withdrawal and expatriates¡¦ adaptation have negative influence 6.Expatriates¡¦ adaptation and job performance have positive influence 7.Psychological withdrawal have moderation effect between social capital and job performance 8. Expatriates¡¦ adaptation have moderation effect between social capital and job performance

Little is currently known about the ability of electronic cigarettes to manage tobacco withdrawal symptoms and their abuse liability. In the current study eight conventional cigarette smokers completed nine within-subject study sessions. In the first session participants practiced using an electronic cigarette containing 16 mg/ml of nicotine over six 10-puff bouts. Remaining study sessions were comprised of four two-day blocks (one for each condition), which assessed measures of tobacco withdrawal symptoms and abuse liability following unrestricted cigarette smoking and 24-hour tobacco deprivation. Study conditions included an electronic cigarette with 0, 8, or 16 mg/ml nicotine concentrations, or preferred brand of conventional cigarette. Following 24-hours of tobacco deprivation, smoking conventional cigarettes ameliorated many of the self-report and physiological symptoms (decreased heart rate) associated with tobacco deprivation, while no attenuation of withdrawal symptoms was indicated following using electronic cigarettes, independent of nicotine dose. On abuse liability measures there were no significant changes following using an electronic cigarette (regardless of nicotine concentration), while conventional cigarettes engendered significant changes on abuse liability measures. Within the conditions of this study, first-generation electronic cigarettes had no measurable efficacy in ameliorating tobacco withdrawal symptoms and a reduced abuse liability compared to conventional tobacco cigarettes.

Prolonged, heavy consumption of alcohol produces marked neuroadaptations in excitatory neurotransmission. These effects are accelerated following patterns of intermittent heavy drinking wherein periods of heavy consumption are followed by periods of abstinence. Studies have shown that neuroadaptive changes in the glutamatergic N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor produces excitotoxicity during periods of withdrawal; however, upstream targets were not adequately characterized. The present studies sought to identify these targets by assessing the role of group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) and intracellular calcium in promoting cytotoxicity of hippocampal cell layers in vitro. It was hypothesized that ethanol-induced activity of mGluR1-and-5 contributes to hippocampal cytotoxicity and promotes the behavioral effects of withdrawal in vivo. In order to identify and test this theory, rat hippocampal explants were co-exposed to chronic intermittent ethanol exposure with or without the addition of a group 1 mGluR antagonist to assess cytotoxicity in neuronal cell types. In a second study, adult male rodents were co-exposed to chronic intermittent ethanol exposure with or without the addition of an mGluR5 antagonist to assess the role of these receptors in the development of dependence as reflected in withdrawal behaviors. Together, these studies help to identify and screen toxicity of putative pharmacotherapies for the treatment of ethanol dependence in the clinical population.

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Substance use during pregnancy can adversely affect both health and social outcomes for the infant and the mother. Many practices related to the care of infants with prenatal substance exposure are not consistent from one facility to another and have been developed on an anecdotal basis rather than based on empirical research. A replication study of a 2002 national practice survey is being planned that will describe some of the practices related to daily care, discharge planning, and community support for this group of infants and their caregivers. In this thesis, I present the findings of a pilot study that was conducted as a prelude to this larger national study. A summary of a literature review of recent survey research is presented along with a description of the process of revising a previously developed instrument to survey the practices used when caring for infants with prenatal drug and alcohol exposure and their mothers in the hospital setting. Content validity of this revised instrument was established with the support of a content expert group and the revised instrument was pilot tested with a small sample of nurses who practice in hospitals that will not be eligible for the national study. The findings from this pilot study will guide the research team in developing and conducting the national survey. / Graduate / 0539 / 0380 / 0573

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2007. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008. / Prepared for: Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology. Title from title-page of electronic thesis. Bibliography: leaves 187-206.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010. / Prepared for: Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Title from title-page of electronic thesis. Bibliography: leaves 109-123.