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Ei Bin Der, Ei Dann Dat
No full textWords (German and English) that share both a spelling and a pronunciation (roughly)
Mending Canada's Employment Insurance Quilt: The Case for Restoring Equity
No full textUnder the current Employment Insurance (EI) system, long-lasting EI benefits are more easily accessed in regions with high unemployment rates than in regions with low unemployment rates where workers face tighter restrictions to access short-lived benefits. This complicated screening procedure, intended to better support the various circumstances facing unemployed workers across the country, creates a number of undesirable consequences: the most glaring being pockets of high, chronic unemployment. The goals and intentions of the EI regime should be simplified to better address the needs of Canada’s unemployed workers.Social Policy, Canada, employment insurance (EI), EI reforms
Jüri Okas’ ‘specific objects’: diverging discourses in Estonian Art in the 1970s.
No full textPreviously in the University eprints HAIRST pilot service at http://eprints.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/00000367/Article 3 of 6 in issue devoted to the visual culture of the Scandinavian and Baltic region.This article will look at the early works of Estonian architect and artist Jüri Okas and will try to work between diverging languages and interpretations, reading works by Okas against the background of Anglo-american conceptualism and minimalism of the same period. The first part of the paper will analyse a print by Jüri Okas that paraphrases works by the American artist Donald Judd and will try to show how Okas’ concept of minimalism differed from the Western one and the reasons behind it. The second part of the paper will focus on a conceptual book by Jüri Okas, consisting of a series of photographs of everyday and banal architectural objects, and compare it to Rober Venturi’s book on Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Finally, a comparison will be made with works of Robert Smithson in the context of concepts of waste, excess and the remainders of industrial civilisationPostprin
That is IE - or, is That EI?
No full textSeeing wherein neither weirdly-veiled sovereign deigned agreeing, their feisty heirs, leisurely eyeing eight heinous deity-freighted reindeer sleighs, counterfeited spontaneity, freeing rein (reveile, neighing!); forfeited obeisance, fleeing neighborhood. Kaleidoscopically-veined foreign heights being seized, either reigned, sleight surfeited, therein; reinvented skein-dyeing; reinteratedly inveighed, feigning weighty seismological reinforcement
The correlation of employees involvement (EI) and turnover
No full textPlan BThe purpose of this research project is to study the relationship between applying employee involvement and the retention of employees. The interest is driven primarily from the view that employee involvement (EI) has a positive effect on organizational performance. It is believed that a change of any element in organizational culture can have a significant impact on staff including less absenteeism, less turnover, better decision-making and better problem solving among others. Thus, the above scenario supports the idea of determining if there is a correlation between the applications of certain organizational changes, specifically, employee involvement (EI) and employee turnover. Moreover, this research is important because data revealing the relationship between employee involvement and turnover was found. The methodology applied in this study (review of literature and data collection) resulted in the identification of relevant literature that was finally listed in 12 cases. The variety of employee involvement forms was listed as follows: Formal Participative Decision Making (case 1), Quality Circles (case 2), Qualityof Work Life (case 3), Gainsharing (case 4), Job Redesign or Job Enrichment (case 5), Self-Directed Work Teams (case 6), Employee Ownership (case 7), Representative Participation (case 8), and Managing by Objectives (case 9), in addition to the combination of some of them (case 10, 11, and 12). As results, some forms of employee involvement are directly related with turnover (cases 2, 6, 9, 10, 11, and 12), and others are indirectly related (cases 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8). In addition, there was not enough specific data to determine the magnitude of the relationship between employee involvement and turnover. Consequently, the results helped gauge the effectiveness of cultural changes geared toward increasing staff retention based on what is revealed
Center Manifold Theory for the Motions of Camphor Boats with Delta Function
No full textVarious collective motions of camphor boats have been studied. Camphor boats are self-driven particles that interact with each other through the change of surface tension on water surface by camphor molecules. Consequently, even in a one-dimensional circuit, a congested state or jamming can be observed (Suematsu et al. in Phys Rev E 81:056210, 2010). In this phenomenon, the unidirectional motion of each particle is considered a traveling wave, and the concentration of camphor molecules forms a pulse shape. Hence, each pair of particles interacts with each other like a pulse-pulse interaction. Thus, we expect that the center manifold theories proposed in Ei (J Dyn Differ Equ 14:85-137, 2002) and Ei et al. (Physica D 165:176-198 2002) are applicable for the analysis of the collective motion of camphor boats. However, spatial discontinuity in our model, in particular the existence of Dirac delta functions in a linearized operator, does not fulfill the requirement in the reduction process because the authors developed their theories in L2-framework and for smooth nonlinearity in Ei (2002) and Ei et al. (2002). In this article, we extend the results obtained in Ei (2002) and Ei et al. (2002) and establish a new center manifold approach in (H1)*-framework. Finally, we succeed to rigorously reduce a mathematical model (Nagayama et al. in Physica D: Nonlinear Phenom 194:151-165, 2004) coupled with a Newtonian equation and a reaction-diffusion equation including delta functions to an ordinary differential system that represents the motions of camphor boats
EI Espacio y la Identidad en un Contexto Transnacional
No full textLa migracion transnacional ha puesto en dud a las perspectivas tradicionales sobre la migracion internacionalla cual fue caracterizada anteriormente como un cambio pennanente de residencia entre dos estados-naciones, Y la cual ultimaruente Ileva a la asimilacion en el destino del migrante. Sin embargo, en contraste a los migrantes internacionales que han sido estudiados anteriormente, los transmigrantes toman medidas, hac en decisiones, y experimentan preocupaciones conectadas con dos 0 mas sociedades simultaneamente (Mendoza, 2006). Para comprender mejor el proceso de la migracion transnacional en su contexto completo, es importante explorar y entender las causas y los efectos de la transformacion espacial en el proceso ademas de las actitudes que van rodeando esos efectos. Dos areas principales que deben ser cubiertos en esta exploracion del espacio incluyen el concepto de las fronteras y 10 de los espacios transnacionales por lugares locales - una idea formulada pOl\u27 Mendoza (2006)
A Spelling Rule
No full textSpelling English words correctly is not the easiest thing in the world. To help students of the language master the intricacies of orthography, a number of simple, logical rules that govern spelling have been devised. One of these rules concerns the IE and EI diphthongs. The following jingle sets that rule forth clearly and concisely, telling us which words to write with IE and which ones to write with EI
Control-theoretic methods for biological networks
No full textFeedback is both a pillar of control theory and a pervasive principle of nature. For this reason, control-theoretic methods are powerful to analyse the dynamic behaviour of biological systems and mathematically explain their properties, as well as to engineer biological systems so that they perform a specific task by design. This paper illustrates the relevance of control-theoretic methods for biological systems. The first part gives an overview of biological control and of the versatile ways in which cells use feedback. By employing control-theoretic methods, the complexity of interlaced feedback loops in the cell can be revealed and explained, and layered feedback loops can be designed in the cell to induce the desired behaviours, such as oscillations, multi-stability and activity regulation. The second part is mainly devoted to modelling uncertainty in biology and understanding the robustness of biological phenomena due to their inherent structure. Important control-theoretic tools used in systems biology are surveyed. The third part is focused on tools for model discrimination in systems biology. A deeper understanding of molecular pathways and feedback loops, as well as qualitative information on biological networks, can be achieved by studying the “dynamic response phenotypes” that appear in temporal responses. Several applications to the analysis of biological systems are showcased.Accepted Author ManuscriptTeam Tamas Keviczk
Science/Engineering bibliographic databases\u27 future: Collection development issues at the University of Maryland
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