The consequences of face-threatening feedback on innovators' psychological safety, affect, and willingness to engage in future innovation projects.

While there is substantial research on how firms successfully end project initiatives deemed unsuitable for them very few studies focus on how leaders and managers communicate termination messages. Drawing from politeness theory and organizational support theory we explore the impact termination messages varying in face sensitivity have on innovators' feelings of psychological safety, affect, and their willingness to continue to innovate We find that face-threatening messages significantly and negatively affect innovators' psychological safety, affect, and willingness to further innovate. The negative effects are amplified when innovators feel high commitment to their projects.

Iodine in Metal-Organic Frameworks at High Pressure.

Capture of highly volatile radioactive iodine is a promising application of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), thanks to their high porosity with flexible chemical architecture. Specifically, strong charge-transfer binding of iodine to the framework enables efficient and selective iodine uptake as well as its long-term storage. As such, precise knowledge of the electronic structure of iodine is essential for a detailed modeling of the iodine sorption process, which will allow for rational design of iodophilic MOFs in the future.

Iodine Adsorption in Metal Organic Frameworks in the Presence of Humidity.

Used nuclear fuel reprocessing represents a unique challenge when dealing with radionuclides such as isotopes of Kr and I due to their volatility and long half-life. Efficient capture of I ( t = 15.7 × 10 years) from the nuclear waste stream can help reduce the risk of releasing I radionuclide into the environment and/or potential incorporation into the human thyroid.

Apprehension of Writing as a Predictor of Message Intensity.

The present study sought to determine the effects of writing apprehension on message encoding strategies. Ninety-eight undergraduate students completed measures of language intensity and writing apprehension. As hypothesized, individuals with high apprehension of writing encoded significantly less intense messages than did those with low apprehension (p < .