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Duration, lawful termination and frustration of the Employment Contract
No full textThis chapter emphasises the pivotal role that the common law rules on the implied duration and the termination of the contract of employment play in defining the essence and nature of that institution. The claim is made that the implied common law rule treating the employment contract as indeterminate in duration provides explanatory force for the rules on classification, suspension and termination of the employment contract. Turning to the common law of termination, the chapter explains how key House of Lords and Supreme Court authorities such as Johnson, Eastwood, and Edwards do not preclude the addition of ‘just cause’ requirements to the unrestricted reasonable notice rule as a means of furnishing protection to employees falling outside the coverage of the statutory unfair dismissal regime. The chapter moves on to address other common law rules in play in respect of the termination of the employment contract, e.g. those applying in the context of termination by the employer making a payment in lieu of notice, summary dismissal by the employer, resignation and retirement by the employee and the expiry and non-renewal of a fixed-term employment contract. Reforms of these rules are suggested that pursue an ‘integrationist agenda’, i.e. an approach that is designed to gradually assimilate the common law rules with those applicable for the purposes of the unfair dismissal legislation. Proposals for a similar alignment of the common law rules of frustration with the interpretation of that conception for statutory purposes are also made. The chapter ends by exploring how the suggested reforms can be divided into those which promote substantive fairness on the one hand and those seeking to achieve procedural fairness on the other
Duration, lawful termination and frustration of the Employment Contract
No full textThis chapter emphasises the pivotal role that the common law rules on the implied duration and the termination of the contract of employment play in defining the essence and nature of that institution. The claim is made that the implied common law rule treating the employment contract as indeterminate in duration provides explanatory force for the rules on classification, suspension and termination of the employment contract. Turning to the common law of termination, the chapter explains how key House of Lords and Supreme Court authorities such as Johnson, Eastwood, and Edwards do not preclude the addition of ‘just cause’ requirements to the unrestricted reasonable notice rule as a means of furnishing protection to employees falling outside the coverage of the statutory unfair dismissal regime. The chapter moves on to address other common law rules in play in respect of the termination of the employment contract, e.g. those applying in the context of termination by the employer making a payment in lieu of notice, summary dismissal by the employer, resignation and retirement by the employee and the expiry and non-renewal of a fixed-term employment contract. Reforms of these rules are suggested that pursue an ‘integrationist agenda’, i.e. an approach that is designed to gradually assimilate the common law rules with those applicable for the purposes of the unfair dismissal legislation. Proposals for a similar alignment of the common law rules of frustration with the interpretation of that conception for statutory purposes are also made. The chapter ends by exploring how the suggested reforms can be divided into those which promote substantive fairness on the one hand and those seeking to achieve procedural fairness on the other
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
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
No full textHear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
Sponsored by CWU Veterans Center and CWU Libraries.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1252/thumbnail.jp
Iterative actions of normal operators
No full textLet A be a normal operator in a Hilbert space H, and let G⊂H be a countable set of vectors. We investigate the relations between A, G and L that make the system of iterations {Ang:g∈G,0≤n < L ( g ) } complete, Bessel, a basis, or a frame for H . The problem is motivated by the dynamical sampling problem and is connected to several topics in functional analysis, including, frame theory and spectral theory. It also has relations to topics in applied harmonic analysis including, wavelet theory and time-frequency analysis.Fil: Aldroubi, A.. Vanderbilt University; Estados UnidosFil: Cabrelli, Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas ; ArgentinaFil: Çakmak, A. F.. Vanderbilt University; Estados UnidosFil: Molter, Ursula Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas ; ArgentinaFil: Petrosyan, A.. Vanderbilt University; Estados Unido
An approximation problem in multiplicatively invariant spaces
No full textLet H be Hilbert space and (Ω, m) a σ-finite measure space. Multiplicatively invariant(MI) spaces are closed subspaces of L2(Ω, H) that are invariant under point-wise multiplication byfunctions from a fixed subset of L∞(Ω). Given a finite set of data F ⊆ L2(Ω, H), in this paper weprove the existence and construct an MI space M that best fits F, in the least squares sense. MIspaces are related to shift-invariant (SI) spaces via a fiberization map, which allows us to solve anapproximation problem for SI spaces in the context of locally compact abelian groups. On the otherhand, we introduce the notion of decomposable MI spaces (MI spaces that can be decomposed into anorthogonal sum of MI subspaces) and solve the approximation problem for the class of these spaces.Since SI spaces having extra invariance are in one-to-one relation to decomposable MI spaces, we alsosolve our approximation problem for this class of SI spaces. Finally we prove that translation-invariantspaces are in correspondence with totally decomposable MI spaces.Fil: Cabrelli, Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas ; ArgentinaFil: Mosquera, Carolina Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas ; ArgentinaFil: Paternostro, Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas ; Argentin
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