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Denney, Dennis. "Performance Gains With Fifth-Generation Rigs." Journal of Petroleum Technology 55, no. 06 (June 1, 2003): 48–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0603-0048-jpt.

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Ivrlač, M. T., and J. A. Nossek. "Performance gains of MIMO signal processing." e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik 122, no. 6 (June 2005): 210–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03054623.

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Kokkonen, Jouko, Blauer Bangerter, Elmo Roundy, and Arnold Nelson. "Improved Performance through Digit Strength Gains." Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 59, no. 1 (March 1988): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02701367.1988.10605474.

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Li, Bailian, Gary W. Wyckoff, and Dean W. Einspahr. "Hybrid Aspen Performance and Genetic Gains." Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 10, no. 3 (September 1, 1993): 117–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/njaf/10.3.117.

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Abstract The aspen hybrid breeding program has been active in the Lake States since 1955. This study summarizes long-term performance of aspen hybrids in six locations in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Interspecific hybrids of native bigtooth aspen and quaking aspen with other poplar species show improved growth when compared with native aspen species across a range of site quality. Quaking aspen hybrids with Populus tremula (XT-Ta) were the most promising based on growth, wood quality, and disease susceptibility. Individual tree volume growth for the XT-Ta hybrids was more than double that of progeny of pure quaking aspen parents (XT). Other aspen hybrids with P. davidiana, P. alba, and P. canescens parentage exhibited special growth potential on relatively poor and dry-sites, but were susceptible to a bronze leaf disease. Hybridization was more effective in improving aspen growth than breeding within pure species. Hybrid superiority was consistent across a range of site indexes, and showed the greatest potential on high-quality sites. Genetic gains for the XT-Ta hybrids, based on 15-yr height measurements, ranged from 29 to 34% across sites. Gain in volume growth is expected to be over 100%. Short-rotation (20-yr) commercial plantings with aspen hybrids are recommended on low-to medium quality northern hardwood sites. North. J. Appl. For. 10(3): 117-122.
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Matzke, D. "Will physical scalability sabotage performance gains?" Computer 30, no. 9 (1997): 37–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.612245.

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Amir, Rabah, Effrosyni Diamantoudi, and Licun Xue. "Merger performance under uncertain efficiency gains." International Journal of Industrial Organization 27, no. 2 (March 2009): 264–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2008.08.006.

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Indurkhya, Nitin, and Sholom M. Weiss. "Estimating Performance Gains for Voted Decision Trees." Intelligent Data Analysis 2, no. 4 (October 1, 1998): 303–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ida-1998-2404.

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Riley, Christine M., Amber D. Merritt, Justine M. Mize, Jennifer J. Schuette, and John T. Berger. "Assuring Sustainable Gains in Interdisciplinary Performance Improvement." Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 18, no. 9 (September 2017): 863–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000001231.

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Carson, Charles M., Don C. Mosley, and Scott L. Boyar. "Performance gains through diverse top management teams." Team Performance Management: An International Journal 10, no. 5/6 (July 2004): 121–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13527590410556845.

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INDURKHYA, N., and S. WEISS. "Estimating performance gains for voted decision trees." Intelligent Data Analysis 2, no. 1-4 (1998): 303–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1088-467x(98)00028-6.

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Viverita and M. Ariff. "On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms." Managerial Finance 34, no. 9 (August 2008): 644–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03074350810890985.

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Marjan Gusev, and Sasko Ristov. "Performance Gains and Drawbacks using Set Associative Cache." Journal of Next Generation Information Technology 3, no. 3 (August 31, 2012): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4156/jnit.vol3.issue3.9.

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Dahlgren, F., M. Dubois, and P. Stenström. "Combined performance gains of simple cache protocol extensions." ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 22, no. 2 (April 1994): 187–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/192007.192028.

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Morgan, Robert E., and Christopher R. Turnell. "Market-based Organizational Learning and Market Performance Gains." British Journal of Management 14, no. 3 (September 2003): 255–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.00378.

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Weatherby, Robert P., Anthony Giorgi, and Rymantas Kazlauskas. "Retention of Performance Gains following Testosterone Enanthate Administration." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 34, no. 5 (May 2002): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005768-200205001-01788.

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Rice, Stephen, Jamie Hughes, Jason S. McCarley, and David Keller. "Automation Dependency and Performance Gains under Time Pressure." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 52, no. 19 (September 2008): 1326–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120805201905.

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Zeng, Xin, Zhongqiang Luo, and Xingzhong Xiong. "Image Fusion Performance-gains at Different Fusion Levels." Journal of Vibration Testing and System Dynamics 5, no. 2 (June 2021): 121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5890/jvtsd.2021.06.002.

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Finardi, Kyria Rebeca. "Effects of task repetition on L2 oral performance." Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada 47, no. 1 (June 2008): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0103-18132008000100003.

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This study departs from the assumption that speaking an L2 is a complex cognitive ability (FORTKAMP, 2000) whose execution seems to involve tradeoff effects among the different goals of speech production, mainly among fluency, accuracy and complexity (BYGATE, 1998, 1999, 2001b; FOSTER e SKEHAN, 1996; SKEHAN e FOSTER, 1995, 2001; SKEHAN, 1998). Bygate (2001b) studied the effects of task familiarity on L2 speech performance. He found that in repeating a narrative task there were gains in terms of complexity of speech and these gains were achieved at the cost of a loss especially in accuracy. The present study investigated whether the results reported in Bygate (2001b) would be similar in the case of a repetition of a picture description task. According to Robinson (2001), a description is less complex than a narrative task. Four measures of speech performance were calculated following Fortkamp (2000): fluency, accuracy, complexity and lexical density. Results indicate gains in complexity and these gains seem to have been paid, especially by gains in accuracy, thus corroborating Bygate´s (2001b) findings for this task condition.
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O’Connell, Paul G. J., and Melvyn Teo. "Institutional Investors, Past Performance, and Dynamic Loss Aversion." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 44, no. 1 (February 2009): 155–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022109009090048.

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AbstractUsing a proprietary database of currency trades, this paper explores the effects of trading gains and losses on risk-taking among large institutional investors. We find that institutional investors, unlike individuals, are not prone to the disposition effect. Instead, institutions aggressively reduce risk following losses and mildly increase risk following gains. This asymmetry is more pronounced later in the calendar year and among older and more experienced funds. We show that such performance dependence is consistent with dynamic loss aversion (Barberis, Huang, and Santos (2001)) and overconfidence. In addition, prior institutional gains and losses have palpable implications for future prices.
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Carpenter, Chris. "Unconventional Polycrystalline-Diamond-Bit Design Allows Significant Performance Gains." Journal of Petroleum Technology 65, no. 12 (December 1, 2013): 120–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/1213-0120-jpt.

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Cabanda, Emilyn, and Mohamed Ariff. "Performance Gains through Privatization and Competition of Asian Telecommunications." Asean Economic Bulletin 19, no. 3 (December 2002): 254–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/ae19-3b.

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Turek, Marko, and Stefan Eiternick. "Rapid Module Component Testing and Quantification of Performance Gains." Energy Procedia 55 (2014): 369–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.08.106.

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Li, Shaomin. "Predicting productivity gains from parking behavior." International Journal of Emerging Markets 9, no. 4 (September 9, 2014): 462–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoem-07-2014-0100.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use parking behavior as a direct measure of delayed gratification, a cultural trait recognized by scholars as contributing to people's economic success. Backing into a parking space requires more time and effort, but it will enable the driver to exit more easily, safely, and quickly in the future. The author argue that people who park their cars back-in embody a culture of delayed gratification, and societies with a higher back-in parking rate tend to have better economic performance. Design/methodology/approach – The author tested the hypothesis using parking and economic data from the BRIC countries, Taiwan, and the USA. Findings – Results show that there is a strong positive relationship between back-in parking and labor productivity gains. The author also found that back-in parking positively correlates with economic growth, savings rate, and educational attainment. Originality/value – This is the first study that uses parking behavior to predict economic performance. The feasibility of collecting parking behavior data across countries provides a new and viable way to overcome the limitation of relying on attitudinal or experimental data to measure the culture and behaviors of delayed gratification. The author therefore call for a collective effort to establish a “Global Parking Index.” Such an index will help us better understand parking behavior and how it may relate to socioeconomic performance such as learning, saving, and investing.
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McAdams, David. "Performance and Turnover in a Stochastic Partnership." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3, no. 4 (November 1, 2011): 107–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mic.3.4.107.

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Suppose that players in a stochastic partnership have the option to quit and rematch anonymously. If stage-game payoffs are subject to a persistent initial shock, the (unique) social welfare-maximizing equilibrium induces a “dating” process in which all partners enjoy the full potential equilibrium gains from each match. By contrast, maximizing social welfare in non-stochastic repeated games with rematching requires that players burn money or otherwise fail to realize all potential equilibrium gains. Comparative statics on welfare and turnover are also provided, consistent with documented patterns of “survivorship bias” and “honeymoon.” (JEL C72, C73, C78)
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Wickens, Christopher D., Inge Larish, and Aaron Contorer. "Predictive Performance Models and Multiple Task Performance." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 33, no. 2 (October 1989): 96–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193128903300221.

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This symposium presents five models that predict how performance of multiple tasks will interact in complex task scenarios. The models are discussed, in part, in terms of the assumptions they make about human operator divided attention. The different assumptions about attention are empirically validated in a multitask helicopter flight simulation reported in the present paper. It is concluded from this simulation that the most important assumption relates to the coding of demand level of different component tasks. The potential gains to be made multiple resource assumptions remain uncertain.
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Li, Lei, Jiabao Lin, Ofir Turel, Peng Liu, and Xin (Robert) Luo. "The impact of e-commerce capabilities on agricultural firms’ performance gains: the mediating role of organizational agility." Industrial Management & Data Systems 120, no. 7 (July 13, 2020): 1265–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imds-08-2019-0421.

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PurposeThis study aimed to investigate the impact of e-commerce capabilities on agricultural firms’ performance gains through organizational agility.Design/methodology/approachA survey was used to collect data from 280 managers of agricultural firms. The proposed model was tested via structural equation modeling.FindingsThe empirical results indicated that organizational agility plays a mediating role in conveying the positive influences of e-commerce capabilities on agricultural firms’ performance gains. Specifically, managerial, talent and technical capabilities have different effects on market capitalization and operational adjustment agility, with talent capability performing the most important role. Market capitalization and operational adjustment agility have positive impacts on financial and nonfinancial performance gains, respectively.Originality/valueThis study provides a new framework to understand the relationships between e-commerce capabilities, organizational agility and agricultural firms’ performance gains.
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Mansikkamäki, Susanna Reetta Emilia, and Akseli Mansikkamäki. "Knowledge Gains and Efficiency Losses: Member Turnover and Organizational Performance." Academy of Management Proceedings 2020, no. 1 (August 2020): 20921. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.20921abstract.

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McConnell, Ann. "Gains in Performance and Attitude: An Analysis of Effectance Motivation." Perceptual and Motor Skills 67, no. 3 (December 1988): 895–904. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1988.67.3.895.

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Two hypotheses were developed from Staats' 1967 theoretical position. These were tested in four studies that differed mainly in the ages of the subjects from college-age subjects to elementary school-age subjects. The studies with the younger age groups did not support the hypotheses. An additional study with elementary-age subjects was designed to test a possible explanation of the results. When Staats' theory proved inadequate to explain the results, other explanations were examined. Effectance motivation as developed by Harter is used to explain the results and to suggest new research.
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Zhao, Yujuan. "The Relationship between Share Price Gains, Corporate Performance and Risk." iBusiness 05, no. 03 (2013): 110–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ib.2013.53b023.

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Zheng, Qiong, Feng Xing, Xianfeng Li, Tao Liu, Qinzhi Lai, Guiling Ning, and Huamin Zhang. "Dramatic performance gains of a novel circular vanadium flow battery." Journal of Power Sources 277 (March 2015): 104–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.11.142.

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Korhonen, P., and H. Topdagi. "Performance of the AHP in comparison of gains and losses." Mathematical and Computer Modelling 37, no. 7-8 (April 2003): 757–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0895-7177(03)00083-9.

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Berlinschi, Ruxanda, Jeroen Schokkaert, and Johan Swinnen. "When drains and gains coincide: Migration and international football performance." Labour Economics 21 (April 2013): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2012.12.006.

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Amaral, Katie E., and Martin Vala. "What Teaching Teaches: Mentoring and the Performance Gains of Mentors." Journal of Chemical Education 86, no. 5 (May 2009): 630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ed086p630.

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Jian Huang and D. J. Lija. "Balancing reuse opportunities and performance gains with subblock value reuse." IEEE Transactions on Computers 52, no. 8 (August 2003): 1032–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tc.2003.1223638.

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O'Neill, Ciaran, G. M. O'Donoghue, S. M. Archbold, T. P. Nikolopoulos, and T. Sach. "Variations in Gains in Auditory Performance from Pediatric Cochlear Implantation." Otology & Neurotology 23, no. 1 (January 2002): 44–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00129492-200201000-00011.

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Bell, Benjamin, Stacie Billington, Winston Bennett, Ian Billington, and Joan Ryder. "Performance Gains from Speech-enhanced Simulation in Military Flying Training." Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology 7, no. 2 (April 2010): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1548512910365698.

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Beldianu, Spiridon F., and Sotirios G. Ziavras. "Multicore-based vector coprocessor sharing for performance and energy gains." ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 13, no. 2 (September 2013): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2514641.2514644.

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Koyuncu, Erdem. "Performance Gains of Optimal Antenna Deployment in Massive MIMO Systems." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 17, no. 4 (April 2018): 2633–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/twc.2018.2799934.

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Porto, Rafael Barreiros, and Gordon Robert Foxall. "Marketing firm performance: When does marketing lead to financial gains?" Managerial and Decision Economics 41, no. 2 (July 3, 2019): 191–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mde.3046.

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Filmer, H. L., J. B. Mattingley, R. Marois, and P. E. Dux. "Disrupting Prefrontal Cortex Prevents Performance Gains from Sensory-Motor Training." Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 47 (November 20, 2013): 18654–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2019-13.2013.

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He, Qian, Zhen Wang, Jianbin Hu, and Rick S. Blum. "Performance Gains From Cooperative MIMO Radar and MIMO Communication Systems." IEEE Signal Processing Letters 26, no. 1 (January 2019): 194–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lsp.2018.2880836.

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Wu, Mei Jiun. "School Resources and Subgroup Performance Gains: What Works for Whom?" Educational Administration Quarterly 56, no. 2 (April 9, 2019): 220–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013161x19840400.

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Using a fixed effects model, a balanced panel data set of 6,922 schools in California from 2004 to 2011 was analyzed to see whether changes in resources would affect subgroup performance at intraschool level. Seven school resources variables previously demonstrated influential to school or subgroup achievement at interschool level were tested for their effects on Academic Performance Index (API) gains of eight subgroups. Teachers’ in-district experience had the strongest positive impacts on API gains for all subgroups, ranging from 3.367 to 8.958 points, and teachers’ total experience had the largest negative impacts on subgroup API, varying between −1.120 and −5.495 points. Increases in teachers’ in-district experience, shares of highly educated and full-time equivalent teachers all offered promising outcomes for improving APIs of disadvantaged subgroups.
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Hayslip, Kimberly S. Kelly, Bert. "Gains in Fluid Ability Performance and Their Relationship to Cortisol." Experimental Aging Research 26, no. 2 (April 2000): 153–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/036107300243614.

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Li, Changkun, and Wei Chen. "Content Pushing Over Idle Timeslots: Performance Analysis and Caching Gains." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 20, no. 9 (September 2021): 5586–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/twc.2021.3068528.

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Elmsheuser, Johannes, Alessandro Di Girolamo, Andrej Filipcic, Antonio Limosani, Markus Schulz, David Smith, Andrea Sciaba, and Andrea Valassi. "ATLAS Grid Workflow Performance Optimization." EPJ Web of Conferences 214 (2019): 03021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921403021.

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The CERN ATLAS experiment grid workflow system manages routinely 250 to 500 thousand concurrently running production and analysis jobs to process simulation and detector data. In total more than 370 PB of data is distributed over more than 150 sites in the WLCG. At this scale small improvements in the software and computing performance and workflows can lead tosignificant resource usage gains. ATLAS is reviewing together with CERN IT experts several typical simulation and data processing workloads for potential performance improvements in terms of memory and CPU usage, disk and network I/O. All ATLASproduction and analysis grid jobs are instrumented to collect many performance metrics for detailed statistical studies using modern data analytics tools like ElasticSearch and Kibana. This presentation will review and explain the performance gains of several ATLAS simulation and data processing workflows and present analytics studies of the ATLAS grid workflows.
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Zhai, Xiaoxuan, and Xiaowen Tian. "Do performance measures matter in the relationship between high-performance work system and organizational performance?" International Journal of Manpower 41, no. 3 (November 28, 2019): 241–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijm-04-2018-0136.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a resource-based framework to explain the relationship between high-performance work system (HPWS) and organizational performance (OP) and the moderating role of performance measures. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes a meta-analysis approach, and tests hypotheses against data of 47,741 firms and establishments in 192 studies published by June 2016. Findings The paper finds that HPWS has a greater positive effect on operational than financial performance. Moreover, HPWS influences operational performance more strongly in developing than advanced countries and at the firm level than the establishment level, but such variations are not evident in the effect of HPWS on financial performance. Practical implications The paper suggests that managers should treat human resource management (HRM) practices as a system, and develop HPWS for operational gains which in turn lead to financial gains. Managers need to take different approaches to develop HPWS for high performance depending on the country of origin and the level of organization. Originality/value Based on studies of individual HRM practices, previous meta-analytical studies suggested that the HPWS-OP relationship is invariant across performance measures. Taking HRM practices as integral components of HPWS, this paper extends the resource-based theory to demonstrate that performance measures interact with country of origin and level of analysis to moderate the HPWS-OP relationship.
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Petherick, J. Carol, A. W. Beattie, and D. A. V. Bodero. "The effect of group size on the performance of growing pigs." Animal Science 49, no. 3 (December 1989): 497–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003356100032700.

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ABSTRACTThree replicates of three group sizes (six, 18 and 36) of grower pigs were housed with the same space allocation (0·66 m2 per pig), feeding and drinking space per animal. The animals were mixed and kept together for a period of 22 days. They were given food ad libitum, were weighed weekly and a record kept of the group food intake for the 22-day period. Weight at mixing had a significant effect on weight gains during the 1st week. There was a significant interaction between group size and replicates for weight gains; generally weight gains were lowest in the group size of 36 animals during the first 2 weeks, but in the 3rd week there was no difference between the group sizes. Sex had no effect on weight gains. The variation in weights between group members were significantly greater in the group size of 36 than in the group sizes of six and 18 at the start of the trial, but at the end of the trial there was no difference in the variances of weights in the three group sizes. There was no difference between the group sizes in the variances of the weight gains. There was a significant positive correlation (r = +0·36) between weight at mixing and weight gain for the group size of 18. Group size had no effect on food intake, but the food conversion efficiency of the animals in the group size of 36 was significantly poorer than in the group sizes of six and 18.
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Lardner, H. A., B. D. Kirychuk, L. Braul, W. D. Willms, and J. Yarotski. "The effect of water quality on cattle performance on pasture." Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 56, no. 1 (2005): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ar04086.

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In western Canada, dugouts are the primary source of water for beef cattle during the summer months. Over time, drought conditions and/or direct access by grazing animals have a negative effect on water constituents and overall water quality. A study was conducted to determine the effects of improvements in water quality on cattle performance. The effect of pasture water quality on weight gain of beef cattle was assessed with 44 Hereford yearling steers over 5 years and 40 Angus cow–calf pairs over 3 years. From 1999 to 2003, cattle were allocated to 1 of 4 treatments, which comprised untreated dugout water pumped to a trough, aerated water pumped to a trough, and coagulated and chlorinated water pumped to a trough, all compared with direct access by livestock to the water source. Data were collected on livestock weight gains, water consumption, fecal parasites, environmental conditions, water chemistry, biological constituents, and forage production and quality. Water treatment by aeration or coagulation tended to improve steer weight gains (P < 0.05) over untreated water from a dugout in 3 of 5 years. Daily weight gains tended to be improved slightly by simply pumping water to a trough without treatment. Water aerated and pumped to a trough in early summer tended to produce greater (P < 0.05) weight gains in calves than those drinking directly from the dugout. The effect of treatment on improving cattle weight gains appeared to be related to improved water palatability, which increased water and feed consumption. Water chemistry and biological constituents analysed did not identify significant differences among treatments. These results suggest that improving water quality with aeration and pumping to a trough will improve weight gain 9–10% over a 90-day grazing period in most years.
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Demer, David A., and Josiah S. Renfree. "Variations in echosounder–transducer performance with water temperature." ICES Journal of Marine Science 65, no. 6 (April 25, 2008): 1021–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsn066.

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Abstract Demer, D. A., and Renfree, J. S. 2008. Variations in echosounder–transducer performance with water temperature. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 1021–1035. Electro-acoustic transducers are central components of multifrequency echosounders used in remote-target identification and acoustic surveys for fish and zooplankton. Appreciable changes in echosounder system gains can result from shifts in transducer frequency responses with water temperature. Because it is standard practice to calibrate echosounder systems for fisheries surveys in one environment and apply the resulting gains to interpret data collected over the range of sea temperatures encountered during a survey, the results may be biased. Such biases may be different for estimates derived from each echosounder frequency. In moving to quantify and mitigate these effects, the performances have been measured for ten commonly used survey transducers in water temperatures ranging from ∼1°C to 18°C, using three techniques. Results show that the transducer impedances all change with temperature, potentially changing the signal-to-noise ratio from 5 to >20 dB. The resonance frequencies and quality factors also change with temperature, ranging from ∼0.2% to 2.8% and 2.5% to >130%, respectively. Corresponding directly to changes in the echosounder gains, the transmitting-current and receiver-voltage responses changed 1 dB or less with temperature, except for the Simrad ES120-7, which showed a 2 dB increase. Generally, the magnitudes of frequency-dependent biases in echosounder-system gains depend primarily on the temperature-dependent performances of the survey transducers, the range of temperatures encountered, and whether the operational frequencies are less or greater than the resonance frequency.
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Edgar, Fiona, Alan Geare, Jing A. Zhang, and Ian McAndrew. "Mutual gains or conflicting outcomes? How HRM benefits professionals." International Journal of Manpower 36, no. 8 (November 2, 2015): 1248–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijm-12-2014-0254.

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Purpose – Using the mutual gains model as a framework, the purpose of this paper is to explore the important issue of mutuality in employment relationships. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a sample of 215 New Zealand professionals to assess the relationships between commitment-oriented HRM practice, work intensification, work-life balance (WLB) and task and contextual performance. Findings – The authors find commitment-oriented HRM practice does not intensify the work experiences of professionals, but nor does it contribute positively to the achievement of WLB. Both these well-being types do, however, contribute to explaining professionals’ task and contextual performance outcomes. Research limitations/implications – The findings suggest current narrow interpretations of well-being need to be revisited, with the meaning of well-being, its measurement and its role in delivering performance outcomes afforded greater attention within HRM studies. Practical implications – A primary goal of managers is to deliver optimum performance outcomes. For professionals, the research suggests an important means to achieving this is by promoting positive well-being. Originality/value – This study offers some important insights into the role mutuality plays in influencing performance outcomes. In addition, by exploring two contrasting facets of well-being, one health- and one happiness-related, the authors provide some empirical insights into how employees’ well-being affects performance outcomes.
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