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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Working time"”.
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The comparative political economy of working time
The social organization of working time profoundly shapes the lives of workers, families and societies, and has historically been the subject of intense social and political contestation. Yet work time has been relatively rarely studied by political scientists. This dissertation seeks to correct …
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Family-friendliness of working time provisions in Australian enterprise agreements
… and a critical factor in this difficulty is time demands. The workplace bargaining provisions and the minimal protection provisions in the Industrial Relations Reform Act 1993 were promoted by the Government as an opportunity to address work and family issues. This study investigates the …
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Darbo laiko reguliavimas Europos Bendrijoje /
The current discussions on working time at national and regional level encouraged revealing the principle aspects of the regulation of work time in the European Community. For a quite a long period the working time standards used to be regulated only at the international level. But it is not the …
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Determining phosphate levels in natural water using a novel electrochemical measurement device
… suffer from their large footprints and limited working time. This is mainly because the wet chemistry of the PMB method requires a constant supply of liquid reagents of which volume determines the footprint and working time of the device. Such limitations of the existing methods make it …
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Slaugos priežiūros komandos psichosocialinės rizikos veiksnių ir socialinės refleksijos sąsajos /
… data of nurses and nursing assistants working in a health care team. 2. To identify psychosocial risk factors of the nursing care team and their links with the sociodemographic data. 3. To investigate indicators of social reflection and their relationship with the sociodemographic data …
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Psychometric Issues Related to the Tinker Toy Test
… properties of this instrument; i.e., working time minimum, gender effects, convergent and divergent validity, and potential intellectual correlates. Participants included 10 male and 30 female student volunteers from a large university in Central Florida. Participants had no history of …
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Characteristics and duties of the secondary school assistant principal in Indiana
… of importance of duties and a percentage of time spent in each of the four areas incorporating the seventy-nine duties.The data derived from the questionnaire were analyzed to determine (1) demographic data pertaining to the position (2) duties for which the assistant principals have full …
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Sedentary behaviour, work, and health-related outcomes : the application of empirically derived accelerometer cut-points to data from the Health Survey for England
… however, the role of occupational sedentary time with health-related outcomes is less clear. Sedentary time in different domains may represent differing associations with health; therefore, there is a need for studies to use more objective, reliable and valid measurements of sitting time in …
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The relationship between occupational stress and locus of control among nurses
… stress and demographics such as marital status, working time and occupational level. Finally, the researcher was able to determine which stressors cause the highest level of stress among the participants. The findings should contribute valuable new information to the employee well-being …
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Steps towards successful cryopreservation of fish gametes: improving laboratory protocols in the Zebrafish model to increase gamete viability and efficiency
… fish species. First, I attempted to extend working time in both eggs and sperm by incubating the gametes in rainbow trout oviductal fluid (RTOF), RTOF + HEPES, or RTOF under a blood-gas atmosphere. Incubation in RTOF under a blood gas atmosphere significantly extended viability in both …
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In Land Container Depots and Container Freight Services Decongestion Strategies: The Case Study of Tanzania Ports Authority
… results of congestion was found to be loss of working time, cargos/parcels and income to the clients, ship traffic, delay of ship turn round time and lastly diversion of cargoes from Dar es Salaam seaport to other ports especially Mombasa seaport. It was also found that in general decongestion …
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Value Loss of Activities Propelled by Digital Transformation: Theoretical Evaluation and Empirical Modelling to Identify Efficiency Potentials to Maximize Value in the Field of Marketing & Sales.
… and outsourcing. The efficiency coefficient of time weights the human labor input while the additive connection with digital technologies as input factor engenders either a complementary, substitutional, or no effect. With a sequential mixed-methods research approach, a further quantitative …
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Education Reform in England and the Transformation of School Teachers’ Working Lives: A Labour Process Perspective
… of these education reforms on school teachers’ working lives through a labour process perspective. A critical realist ethnography of an inner-city secondary academy school was conducted over four months. This comprised a six-week shadowing phase, document collection and 26 semi-structured …
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Three essays on the effects of health insurance and taxation policies
… on related labor market outcomes, particularly working time. Implemented in the last two decades, these policies aim to eliminate differences in mental and physical health benefits among group health plans. The mandated benefits for mental health drive up the costs of providing health insurance …
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“Fit for nursing?” A qualitative analysis of disabled registered general nurses’ and other health professionals’ views on health and illness in relation to nursing employment.
… was then compared with nondisabled RGNs working in the clinical areas of general medical wards, general surgical wards, and day case units, situated in three district general hospitals. Data collection was by partial participant observation, and interviews. The data revealed that both …
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The ‘rule of the recognised helm’: How does European Union membership impact upon UK Parliamentary sovereignty?
… of the freedom of movement of persons and of the Working Time Directive – are employed as evidence that the UK’s helm of state has, since 1973, incorporated EU institutions which unsettles those political precedents of parliamentary sovereignty. On the other hand, the fourth case study, of …
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Initial validation of the arthroscopic skills acquisition tools (ASATs) : a low cost, online tool to develop and evaluate core skills for shoulder arthroscopy
There are increasing time pressures on surgical training, including the European Working Time Directive. Developing arthroscopic surgical skills (keyhole surgery into a joint) has a longer learning curve than open surgery, driving the need to develop efficient training techniques. Virtual reality …
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Physiological recovery from night-call duty - a field study of physicians
… work on night-call entails long and stressful working hours with high demands and disrupted sleep. Incomplete recovery is considered to be the most important link between acute physiological stress reactions, shift work and chronic health effects. Mental and physiological activation naturally …
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Development Of A High Strength Laminate Repair System
… at some point during the life of the part. Working with LM Wind Power, the Chemical and Mechanical Engineering Departments at the University of North Dakota worked to develop a new laminate repair system to be used in composite repairs. Both chemical and mechanical test methods were explored …
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