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Conclusion: what workers say in the Anglo-American World
No full textOur project has analyzed worker preferences for workplace voice across the major advanced Anglo-American economics. This book carries forward the idea that motivated Freeman and Rogers's (1999) What Workers want: to identify what workers seek in voice at their workplace and to gauge the extent to which labor institutions deliver that voice. ...http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager1727131&vid=UOA2_
Human resource management: scope, analysis, and significance
No full textAbstract: The Scope of HRM: Three Major Subfields – Analytical HRM: Three Key Characteristics – On the Offensive: The Significance of HRM – The Handbook of Human Resource Management: Design and Contributionshttp://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=dedupmrg50796159&vid=UOA2_
Employee voice and voicelessness in New Zealand
No full textNew Zealand is small country with a very tractable legislative framework for industrial relations. The system's pliability is presently helping to narrow the gap between the voice most workers want and the voice they have. New Zealand workers report high levels of employment satisfaction. ...http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager1727131&vid=UOA2_
Introduction: the Anglo-American economies and employee voice
No full textThis book is about employee voice in the workplaces of the highly developed Anglo-American economics: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. These are among the most economically successful countries in the world. ...http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager1727131&vid=UOA2_
Assessing the exposure risk and impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment on individuals and ecosystems
No full textCopyright @ 2013 The authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.The use of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals is increasing. Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of research into potential environmental impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment. A Royal Society-supported seminar brought together experts from diverse scientific fields to discuss the risks posed by pharmaceuticals to wildlife. Recent analytical advances have revealed that pharmaceuticals are entering habitats via water, sewage, manure and animal carcases, and dispersing through food chains. Pharmaceuticals are designed to alter physiology at low doses and so can be particularly potent contaminants. The near extinction of Asian vultures following exposure to diclofenac is the key example where exposure to a pharmaceutical caused a population-level impact on non-target wildlife. However, more subtle changes to behaviour and physiology are rarely studied and poorly understood. Grand challenges for the future include developing more realistic exposure assessments for wildlife, assessing the impacts of mixtures of pharmaceuticals in combination with other environmental stressors and estimating the risks from pharmaceutical manufacturing and usage in developing countries. We concluded that an integration of diverse approaches is required to predict 'unexpected' risks; specifically, ecologically relevant, often long-term and non-lethal, consequences of pharmaceuticals in the environment for wildlife and ecosystems
Provisional findings from a pilot study in a last mile district of rural Ghana: the impact of climate change on the health of vulnerable populations
No full textEarly findings from a study that took place in 2023, in Mion, Northern Region, Ghana.
Provisional findings presented in poster format. Findings are not yet peer-reviewed. </p
The differentiating and proliferative effects of transforming growth factor beta (TGFB) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) on asthmatic fibroblasts
No full textTGFβ2 caused growth arrest in fibroblasts and initiated their transformation into myofibroblasts, as shown by induction of αSMA. EGF induced fibroblasts to proliferate but did not induce their differentiation. In combination, EGF and TGFβ promoted fibroblasts proliferation. Initially αSMA expression was suppressed, suggesting a dominant EGF effect. Upon prolonged culture, TGFβ2 and EGF promoted fibroblast transformation into myofibroblasts indicating a shift towards TGFβ dominance. Changes in TFGβ receptor and ligand expression did not appear to be disease dependent. There was a trend for down regulation of the TGFβ signalling pathway (TGFβ RI, CTGF, αSMA) in quiescent asthmatic fibroblasts, although no difference was seen after TGFβ2 treatment. EGF induced mRNA expression of AR and HB-EGF in normal and asthmatic fibroblasts. The increase in AR in response to EGF was higher in the asthmatic fibroblasts (p=0.019) compared to the normals. TGFβ had no effect on AR expression but caused a marked dose-dependent induction of HB-EGF expression which was significantly higher in the normal compared with asthmatic cultures (p=0.024). AR was detected in conditioned media and its release was promoted by cellular activation with phorbol ester. HB-EGF was detected in conditioned medium after stimulation with phorbol ester, TGFβ2 and hexadimethrine. There was a trend for lower HB-EGF release from asthmatic fibroblasts. My study has revealed novel observations surrounding the complex control of TGFβ and EGF signalling in bronchial fibroblasts. In a TGFβ and EGF rich environment, akin to conditions in inflamed asthmatic airways, fibroblasts can undergo both proliferation and differentiation, potentially contributing to the fibrosis associated with airway remodelling. The suppressed release of AR and HB-EGF, growth factors with potent paracrine activity, lead to a proposal that there is a decline in signalling between the epithelium and asthmatic fibroblasts which may lead to an imbalance in bidirectional communication within the EMTU, leading to decreased epithelial proliferation and an increase in mesenchymal proliferation and differentiation.</p
Book Review: Freeman, R., Boxall, P., & Haynes, P. (Eds.). (2007). What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press. 244 pp. $19.95 (paper)
No full textBook review of What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace by Ted Brimeyer.
Book Review: Freeman, R., Boxall, P., & Haynes, P. (Eds.). (2007). What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press. 244 pp. $19.95 (paper
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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