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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Experienced workers"”.
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Quantifying the effects of experience on motor behaviors during simulated occupational tasks
… the work strategies (or work methods) of experienced workers have often been proposed as a training model or a behavior target of training. However, both the specific role of work experience in contributing to WRLBDs and the effectiveness of such an intervention approach are not well …
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Applications of Motor Variability for Assessing Repetitive Occupational Tasks
… as modifiers of MV. Earlier work found that experienced workers adapted more stable movements than novices in repetitive lifting tasks. To expand on this, we quantified how MV differs between experienced workers and novices in different lifting conditions (i.e., lifting asymmetry and …
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Hiring, recessions, and careers : three essays in personnel economics
Workers find wage-growth and job-satisfaction by building careers. However a worker's ability to string together a sequence of jobs relies on the availability of appropriate opportunities either within their current firm or in other firms in the market. In this thesis, I investigate how variation …
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Ethical stress in Scottish criminal justice social work
… data to explore criminal justice social workers’ experience of ‘ethical stress,’ which is the discomfort experienced by workers when they cannot achieve value/behaviour congruence in their practice. The research was operationalised via questionnaires distributed to criminal justice social …
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Socio-demographic Variables as Risk Factors for Neurologic Disease due to Infection by West Nile Virus
… this pathogen. More staff and funds to pay workers and provide support for every aspect of surveillance, prevention and control are deemed necessary. Specifically, there is a great need for personnel with specialized training. The support and encouragement of public health organizations is …
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Factors influencing the incidence rates of injuries and accidents among seafarers and rig workers providing support to the WA offshore oil and gas industry
… injuries and accidents among seafarers and rig workers providing support to the WA offshore oil and gas industry. These incidents cause significant personal and economic burdens for employees, employers and the community in general. A sample of 484 participants were recruited from a workforce of …
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Three Essays on Social Networks in Labor Markets
… region. The second essay models how screening workers through social networks impacts labor mobility in markets with adverse selection. When there is asymmetric information in labor markets, worker mobility is constrained by adverse selection in the market for experienced workers. However, if …
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Outsourcing to the Developing Economy: Its Impacts on GDP and Unemployment. A Case Study of India and the United States of America
… have a relatively small effect on the demand for experienced workers in the United States. Based on the results from the India and the U.S. regression analysis, outsourcing is a win-win thing which is good for both exporting and importing countries on both the long and short run.</p>
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Safe Tumbling of Heavy Objects Using a Two-Cable Crane
… crane are high-risk, and difficult for less experienced workers. Automating the tumbling process is made challenging due to the presence of kinematic and static singularities which are shown to occur when a single-cable crane loses control over the block being tumbled. Here, an autonomous …
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The career maturity of graduate students identified as enhancers or changers
… one's life, especially as it is represented by experienced workers, has been the focus of many studies; the role of education in relation to the traditional college age student's life has also been studied extensively. However, there is limited research concerning the role of education in …
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Offshoring de servicios técnicos de ingeniería: el caso español
… changes generated a deficit of qualified and experienced workers. In consequence, many Spanish companies needed to look at the international market to have access to the required talent, and some of them set-up onshoring, outsourcing and/or offshoring initiatives; which over time could evolve …
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Introducing operator assistance systems in manufacturing in a worker-centric way.
… within planetary boundaries and by positioning workers at the centre of manufacturing. Within this shift, a key design decision is how far to fully automate versus when to augment. OAS supports (rather than replaces) operators, an approach seen as both more socially accepted and, over time, more …
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Identification of quantitative trait loci and comparison of selection methods for barley yellow dwarf tolerance in spring oats and winter wheat
… for data collection but can be performed by less experienced workers in the breeding program. Percent dwarfing is much quicker than percent biomass loss and can also be performed by workers with less experience. BYD rating requires skill and experience to be performed correctly but can be done in …