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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Department of labor"”.
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A Legal History of the Job Corps
<p><em>Purpose. </em>The purpose of this dissertation was to construct the legal history of the Job Corps. I focus on five basic questions that guide the study: (1) What were the statutes that created the Job Corps? (2) What was the mission of the Job Corps? (3) How did the Job Corps change over …
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The Effectiveness of Juvenile Boot Camps and Their Impact on Minority Youth
<p>The proposal examines the effectiveness of juvenile boot camps and their impact on minority youth by examining literature and by extensive research using mixed methods of two separate programs in Wisconsin. In-depth interviews were conducted, and surveys were administered to staff and boot camp …
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Career ladders and work pathways : organizational shifts toward job-placement programs in Boston
… Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 and related federal grants) and the anticipation of the consolidation of job training programs through the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 have created new relationships amongst local government, for-profit and non-profit sectors. Related …
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Telephone traffic queues in a customer call center
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the unemployment claims filing call center operated by the Tennessee Department of Labor. To do this we primarily utilize traditional Erlang models to analyze performance measure such as call blocking wait times and labor utilization. We find that some …
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Neural Decomposition of Time-Series Data for Effective Generalization
… technique for the analysis and extrapolation of time-series data called Neural Decomposition (ND). Units with a sinusoidal activation function are used to perform a Fourier-like decomposition of training samples into a sum of sinusoids, augmented by units with nonperiodic activation functions …
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Tracking innovation : an examination of university research and its relationship to early stage venture capital
… capital, one must review the historical impact of the Bayh·Dole Act, the amendment of the "Prudent Man" rule by the Department of Labor, the historical association between academia and venture capital, as well as the rise and influence of formal and informal social networks. Within this thesis, …
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Supervisory Impact on Counselor-In-Training Wellness
… wellness is a well-documented need. The risks of neglecting self-care are also well documented, yet counselors struggle to engage in consistent self-care practices (Baker & Gabriel, 2021; Posluns & Gall, 2020). When demand for counselors is constant (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department …
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The Roles and Responsibilities of the Principal as Perceived by Illinois K-8 Principals Who Belong to Generation X
<p>The roles and responsibilities of the school principal have changed throughout the years, and, with that, the face of the principalship has changed, too. The average age of principals in the United States is 57 with a significant portion of those individuals retiring within the next ten years …
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Ability assessment and vocational outcomes: the impact of utilizing an ability measure in predicting choice, aspirations, and satisfaction
… provides incremental validity to the prediction of various vocational outcome variables, such as major and occupational choice, major satisfaction, and career aspiration level. The Ability Profiler (U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, 2002) was utilized as the ability …
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Job Corps to 1973
The largest of the War on Poverty programs, Job Corps, was created to alleviate poverty by providing affective, remedial, and vocational training for disadvantaged youth throughout the country. Job Corps was the first attempt in the United States to establish and operate a national program of …
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Distribuição espacial do emprego: uma análise para a indústria do Estado do Paraná no período de 1994 a 2012
This paper aims to describe and make an analysis of the spatial distribution of industrial employment in mining and processing in the municipalities of the state of Paraná in the period 1994 to 2012 For this demonstration, the percentage change of the shares of formal employment appears the …
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Care Is Not a Family Value: Gender Frames and the Discourse of "Baby UI"
… nation in the world without some form of paid leave to compensate caregivers following the birth or adoption of a child. In 1999,President Bill Clinton attempted to rectify the situation by providing the United States Department of Labor with the executive authority to allow states to …
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Analysis of Anchors and Bracing Configurations for Personal Fall Arrest Systems in Residential Construction
… industry and account for a large number of injuries and fatalities each year (US Department of Labor, 2012). The effects of a fall are catastrophic to the workers and their families as well as the construction company and surrounding community. Prevention of these incidents has been the …
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A Proposed Algorithm for the Identification of Occupational COPD in a Cohort of Washington Workers
Rationale: Approximately 31% of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is caused by vapor, gas, dust and fumes (VGDF). In collaboration with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention Program, we report a new algorithm for …
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Tree Estimation Based on an L(1) Loss Criterion
… constraints were fitted to gene frequency data of Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1994) using both the IRIP approach and a linear programming (LP) approach of Spath (1992, Chapter 5). When coded for ultrametric constraints, IRIP showed faster processing speeds and larger object set size capacity than the …
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The Experiences of Registered Nurses Injured by Interpersonal Violence while on Duty in an Emergency Department
… and reports identify the concerning incidence of work place violence directed toward healthcare workers (Centers for Disease Control, 2013; Gerberich et al., 2004; Government Accountability Office, 2016; U.S. Department of Labor, 2016). Despite efforts over the past few years to reduce …
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A New Rock Bolt Design Criterion and Knowlwdge-based Expert System for Stratified Roof
… in underground construction. However, because of the geological environment, the design process for roof bolt systems is an art rather than a science. To quantify the selection of bolting systems a MSBT (minimum solid beam thickness) approach was developed. The ultimate goal of this bolt design …
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The Effects of a Viniyoga-Based Practice on Mental Health Clinicians' Perceived Stress, Burnout, and Quality of Life
<p>Psychotherapists often experience stress when treating distressed or emotionally troubled patients due to the emotionally taxing nature of their work, which can lead to burnout and other negative consequences (Bell et al., 2023; Maslach & Leiter, 2016; Simionato & Simpson, 2018) Therapists find …
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Needs-based curricular content goals for two-year equine curricula
… is a significant contributor to the economy of any area in which it is found. Products and services oriented toward its recreational and competitive aspects are provided by workers in more than 71 categories of equine occupations. The equine industry is undergoing continuous technological …
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A phenomenological case study to describe the ageism-induced anxiety of job seekers aged 50–83.
… thereby informing the hiring decision-makers of the lived experiences of job seekers aged 50–83 as they seek new employment. This study is important because age discrimination runs rampant throughout the recruitment process. Age discrimination is on the rise as the baby boomers age out of the …
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