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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"work time"”.
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Variations in Journey-to-Work Time, Distance and Speed Across Metropolitan Areas
Variations in travel time, distance, and speed are identified for four Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas. The unit of analysis consists of the journey-to-work for household heads. These variations are related to various socioeconomic, locational, density, and modal factors. A statistical …
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Development of a system that can quantify the level of heat strain experienced by underground mine workers in real-time
… and excavating deeper underground. Mine workers are also being challenged to enhance their production output. This combination of ever-increasing depth, more heavily mechanized equipment and pressure to escalate production is creating environments of high thermal stress. If mine workers …
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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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Work distribution in global product development organizations
… increasing access to global markets and workforce, has increased the interest of firms in offshoring their engineering and product development activities. However, there exist challenges in coordinating and collaborating across time zones, cultures, geographical locations, and …
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Making Romantic Relationships Tick: Objective and Subjective Time Use and Relationship Quality Among Business Owners
This study assesses the contextual aspect of working in a family business on intimate relationships. Guided by principles of ecological theory, this study explores the unique situation of individuals who work with an intimate partner in a business they own and how this situation manifests itself in …
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Essays on Professionals' Temporal Autonomy
Professionals struggle to control their work time, despite often (1) having relatively greater control over their work tasks, and (2) wanting to control their work time. My dissertation addresses this empirical and theoretical puzzle by refining our understanding of why professionals face …
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The Effects of Workplace Financial Education on Personal Finances and Work Outcomes
… of this research was to examine the effects of workplace financial education on workers' personal finances and work outcomes and determine relationships among financial management (attitudes, knowledge and behaviors), financial well-being, personal finance-work conflict, and work outcomes with …
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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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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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The Redevelopment of Lake Anne, Reston, Virginia
… was built as the model for a new way to live and work; time has affected its economic viability. Deterioration, through age, changed real estate market preferences and the way people live today, have created an opportunity to revitalize Lake Anne. This study offers a view of the future …
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Using Behavior BINGO to Increase Academically Engaged Behavior in a General Education Elementary School Population
<p>Spending instructional and work time addressing disruptive behaviors in the classroom is a common complaint of many teachers. The literature suggests that group contingencies are beneficial for improving behavior on a classwide and individual level. The current study investigated Behavior BINGO, …
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The effect of new literacies and technology on student engagement and transforming the literacy block
… interviews, informal observations, and student work samples. Throughout the study, students showed growth in their ability to interact with technology and one another through the repeated use of technology and the use of new literacies. Data also showed increased student engagement through the …
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His marriage and her marriage: gender differences in time use in China
… of this study were to describe patterns of time use and to identify some of the sources of the gender gap in time expenditures in both urban and rural China. Based on previous theoretical perspectives, a number of individual and family structure characteristics were proposed to form a …
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Electrical characterization of a multilayer low temperature co-fireable ceramic multichip module
… lines are studied and discussed in this work. Time Domain and Frequency Domain measurements are performed and presented in this thesis work for electrical characterization of MCM structures using L TCC systems
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The nature and management of breakdown in foster care placements: developing preliminary management guidelines
… become an increasingly complex task focusing on working contracts, reconstruction work, time limited intervention, behaviour programmes and effective, comprehensive management of the foster placement. An area which seems to be overlooked is the development of appropriate guidelines to deal with …
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Leisure at work in Britain, West Germany, France and Japan : a cross-cultural comparative study
… impact of changing values and attitudes toward work and the workplace in Britain, West Germany, France and Japan. A cross-national approach was adopted in order to gain a better understanding of differences and similarities in behaviour and to identify aspects specific to each society. Although …
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Teacher Leaders’ Perceptions Of Their Influence On The Distributed Leadership Process At A Middle School
… corresponding level of compensation and allotted work time. </p>
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Understanding time use, stress, and recovery among medical resident
… negative health-related consequences due to the workplace stressors they encounter. A primary purpose of the present study was to provide insight into the stress and recovery challenges faced by medical residents in a typical hospital environment. Thirty-eight participants provided rich …
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The upside of downtime: An interpretative phenomenological analysis on recovery experience during discretionary time in men’s professional tennis tour
… with individual’s motivation and performance at workplace, and well-being (Demerouti, Bakker, Geurts, & Taris, 2009; Sonnentag, 2001; Sonnentag & Natter, 2004). Despite the implications for athletic performance, the socio-psychological aspects of recovery, particularly during discretionary time, …
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