328 research outputs found
Boston Hospitality Review: Winter 2015
No full textIn Hotels, Health and Spas Equals Wealth by Andrea Foster and Jenna Finkelstein -- Cunard in Boston by Bradford Hudson -- Product Life Cycle: Moving from Theory to Practice by Stanley I. Buchin, D.B.A. -- I Dream of Doughnuts: One Family’s Sweet Saga of the American Dream by Rachel DeSimone -- Delivering Food to the Front Door: A New, Or Very Old, Convenience? by Christopher Muller, Ph.D. -- Thoughts: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Nicco Murator
Poteri del datore di lavoro e obblighi del lavoratore - Capitolo V
No full textEmployer’s powers and employee’s obligations
The essay carries out a thorough review of the state of art of the balancing between employer’s powers an employee’s obligations, taking into account the role of the Law (particularly, the Italian Civil Code) and the room for the employees’ fundamental rights grant by the Italian Constitution (as well as by the Act enforcing it) to workers.
Moving from the analysis of the disputed grounds of the disciplinary employer’s power toward dependent workers, the Author looks at the core powers of the entrepreneur as an employer (directive, control, disciplinary powers), on one side, and at the specific employees’ obligations (obedience, diligence, faithfulness) on the other one. On the background, lies the principle of equality, implemented through the antidiscrimination law, as a general limit for the exertion of employer’s powers
Boston Hospitality Review: Summer 2015
No full textBoston, the Booth Brothers, and the Parker House by Susan Wilson -- Airports Hotels: Laying the Foundation for a Synergistic Relationship by Allison Fogarty -- The Pricing Effects of Heritage at an Iconic Hotel by Bradford Hudson -- The Customer is Always Right, Right? A Look at How Yelp Has Taken Hold of the Boston Restaurant Industry by Rachel DeSimone -- Search Engine Marketing (SEM): Financial & Competitive Advantages of an Effective Hotel SEM Strategy by Leora Lanz and Jovanna Fazzin
George T. Downing and the “Fraternal Unity of Man”: The Battle for an Abolition Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
No full textIn “George T. Downing and the ‘Fraternal Unity of Man’: The Battle for an Abolition Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America,” Erik J. Chaput and Russell J. DeSimone argue that Newport entrepreneur George T. Downing’s leadership role in the national fight for racial justice was especially significant in the period after the Civil War when Black leaders pushed for an extension of rights to formerly enslaved people in the South as well as to Blacks in the North who endured racial oppression. While holding significant positions in a movement to establish racial equality, Downing led the fight for the de-segregation of Rhode Island schools in the 1850s and 1860s. Then, in the postwar period, he took a visible national leadership role in lobbying for legislation that would bolster the civil rights of all people of color. It was a time when many members of the Republican party, formerly the foremost advocates for abolition and racial justice, turned their backs on the fight to end segregation, repression of voting rights and restrictions of citizenship. In their essay, the authors draw on numerous sources, including accounts of “Colored” Conventions that took place in Northern cities in the prewar period.
Erik Chaput is the author of The People’s Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion (2013); Russell DeSimone has published a detailed study, Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion (1992). They have both penned dozens of articles for the Providence Journal, the online journal Common-Place, the Newport History v v New England Journal of History, and the Small State Big History website. Together Chaput and DeSimone will publish a one-volume collection of the Selected Writings of Thomas Wilson Dorr later this year. They are currently collaborating on a monograph on the life and career of George T. Downing
George T. Downing and the “Fraternal Unity of Man”: The Battle for an Abolition Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
No full textIn “George T. Downing and the ‘Fraternal Unity of Man’: The Battle for an Abolition Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America,” Erik J. Chaput and Russell J. DeSimone argue that Newport entrepreneur George T. Downing’s leadership role in the national fight for racial justice was especially significant in the period after the Civil War when Black leaders pushed for an extension of rights to formerly enslaved people in the South as well as to Blacks in the North who endured racial oppression. While holding significant positions in a movement to establish racial equality, Downing led the fight for the de-segregation of Rhode Island schools in the 1850s and 1860s. Then, in the postwar period, he took a visible national leadership role in lobbying for legislation that would bolster the civil rights of all people of color. It was a time when many members of the Republican party, formerly the foremost advocates for abolition and racial justice, turned their backs on the fight to end segregation, repression of voting rights and restrictions of citizenship. In their essay, the authors draw on numerous sources, including accounts of “Colored” Conventions that took place in Northern cities in the prewar period.
Erik Chaput is the author of The People’s Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion (2013); Russell DeSimone has published a detailed study, Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion (1992). They have both penned dozens of articles for the Providence Journal, the online journal Common-Place, the Newport History v v New England Journal of History, and the Small State Big History website. Together Chaput and DeSimone will publish a one-volume collection of the Selected Writings of Thomas Wilson Dorr later this year. They are currently collaborating on a monograph on the life and career of George T. Downing
High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes
No full textWe estimate the relationship between 10th grade binge drinking in 1990 and labor market outcomes in 2000 among National Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative employment effects disappear once academic achievement is held constant. For males, negative employment effects and, more strikingly, positive wage effects persist after controlling for achievement as well as background characteristics, educational attainment, and adult binge drinking and family and job characteristics. Accounting for illegal drug use and other problem behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by the health, income or social capital justifications that are often used for frequently observed positive correlations between adult alcohol use and earnings, we conjecture that binge drinking conveys unobserved social skills that are rewarded by employers.
Determinants of Drug Injection Behavior: Economic Factors, HIV Injection Risk and Needle Exchange Programs
No full textThis study examines the effects of local cocaine and heroin prices, AIDS rates, and needle exchange programs on drug injection and needle sharing by adult male arrestees in 24 large U.S. cities during 1989 1995. Regressions that control for personal characteristics including income, fixed city and year effects, and city-specific trends indicate that needle exchange programs decrease both injection and sharing. Increases in previous year AIDS prevalence reduce injection by both sharers and non-sharers, leaving the proportion of injectors who share unchanged. Higher cocaine prices lead to less cocaine injection and more sharing, but heroin prices do not effect injection or sharing.
Beyond Vasoprotection: Statins and Risk Reduction for Community-Acquired Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
No full textDraft genome of the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi
No full textParasitic nematodes that cause elephantiasis and river blindness threaten hundreds of millions of people in the developing world. We have sequenced the approximately 90 megabase (Mb) genome of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi and predict approximately 11,500 protein coding genes in 71 Mb of robustly assembled sequence. Comparative analysis with the free-living, model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans revealed that, despite these genes having maintained little conservation of local synteny during approximately 350 million years of evolution, they largely remain in linkage on chromosomal units. More than 100 conserved operons were identified. Analysis of the predicted proteome provides evidence for adaptations of B. malayi to niches in its human and vector hosts and insights into the molecular basis of a mutualistic relationship with its Wolbachia endosymbiont. These findings offer a foundation for rational drug design
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