1,344 research outputs found
Fourier decomposition algorithm for leaky modes of fibres with arbitrary geometry
No full textA new algorithm for calculating the confinement loss of leaky modes in arbitrary fibre structures is presented within the scalar wave approximation. The algorithm uses a polar-coordinate Fourier decomposition method with adjustable boundary conditions (ABC-FDM) to model the outward radiating fields. Leaky modes are calculated for different examples of microstructured fibres with various shaped holes
Rethinking Eurasianism: the Eurasian Union Project of N.A. Nazarbaev
No full textThe article is dedicated to the analysis of basic patterns of the Eurasian Union Project of N.A. Nazarbaev. The author explains the reasons determined absence of interest from the direction of Russian leaders and governments of other CIS’s countries to the initiative of Kazakhstan President in 1990’s and the renewal of Eurasianism in 2000’s. The author also emphasizes the factors defining a special role of Kazakhstan in the processes of integration on the area of Eurasia
Work schedules, wages, and employment in a general equilibrium model with team production
No full textAn analysis of working hours, wages, and employment when production requires coordinating the work schedules of heterogeneous workers. The author shows that this coordination aspect of production can have important policy implications.Hours of labor ; Employment (Economic theory) ; Wages
Environmental impacts during the operational phase of residential buildings
No full textTo date, the focus in the field of sustainable building has been on new building design. However, existing residential buildings inflict great environmental burden through three causes: continuous energy consumption, regular building maintenance and replacements. This publication analyses and compares these three causes of environmental burden and shows that material resources needed for replacements generally have a limited potential to reduce environmental impact. Reducing energy consumption for climate control and electrical appliances is much more effective. According to the author, sustainable measures should be tested for shifts in the kind of environmental impact caused due to the use of alternative types of energy resources and altered material quantities. The sustainability of the electricity supply is essential to decrease the total environmental impact of the residential building stock.Sustainable and Healthy HousingOTB Research Institut
Animal Blood Sacrifice in Left-Hand Path and Satanic Milieu: Case Study of the Author N.A-A.218
No full textKrvavá zvířecí oběť v Left-Hand Path a satanském milieu: Případová studie autora N.A-A.218 Matouš Mokrý English Abstract: The main aim of this paper was to study the meaning and nature of Chaos-gnostic animal sacrifice in the texts of N.A-A.218, to describe its social functions and to put it in its social and discoursive context, and thus to provide further understanding of its occurrence within the Left-Hand Path and satanic milieu whose dominant actors have rejected the act of animal sacrifice. The work deals in more detail mainly with discourses found in the texts of N.A- A.218 which are expressing the conception of sacrificial blood as magically potent substance constituting the seat of animal's life; do ut des principle; traditionality and duty of animal sacrifice and the conception of sacrifice as gradual killing of one's own ego which constitutes the part of a Chaos-gnostic's personality that is tying him to the demiurgic material world and its society. Whereas the discourses of blood as a magically potent substance and do ut des principle harmonize the Chaos-gnostic animal sacrifice with intuitive conceptions arising in connection with animal sacrifice across individual human cultures, the discourse of compulsory tradition shapes animal sacrifice as a tool of building, maintaining and control of..
Characteristics of included studies, arranged by author and year.
No full text<p>WM = wire myograph, PM = pressure myograph, PPM = pressure-perfusion myograph, WOP = whole organ perfusion, IV = <i>in vivo</i>. n.a. = not applicable.</p>#<p>data received by email.</p><p>Characteristics of included studies, arranged by author and year.</p
Psychological distress and job stressors among lebanese workers: Experience from a private sector
No full textNo published data exists on the prevalence of psychological distress (PD) among the Lebanese working population, and its association with job stressors. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2003 among Lebanese employees in a private administrative company. All employees (n = 200) received an anonymous questionnaire by mail. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ- 28) was used to estimate the prevalence of PD. Multiple regression analyses were performed to evaluate the relationship between GHQ-28 Likert score (0-84) and job stressors and other covariates. The participation rate was 79.3percent. PD was identified in 30.0percent of the studied population. A significant association was found between PD and lack of moral support, a recent disturbing event, feeling of job insecurity, and inability to be proactive. The results showed a high prevalence of PD in the studied population with significant association with job stressors. Copyright © 2012 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.Al Bedaiwi W, 2001, ANN SAUDI MED, V21, P106; AlFaris E, 1997, ACTA PSYCHIAT SCAND, V96, P439, DOI 10.1111-j.1600-0447.1997.tb09945.x; al-Haddad M K, 1999, East Mediterr Health J, V5, P21; Alhamad A, 1998, SSFCM J, V5; AlJaddou H, 1997, ACTA PSYCHIAT SCAND, V96, P31, DOI 10.1111-j.1600-0447.1997.tb09901.x; [Anonymous], POSTC DEC WORK PROGR; Arnetz BB, 1997, J PSYCHOSOM RES, V43, P35, DOI 10.1016-S0022-3999(97)00083-4; COHEN S, 1985, PSYCHOL BULL, V98, P310, DOI 10.1037--0033-2909.98.2.310; COOPER CL, 1992, WORK STRESS, V6, P127, DOI 10.1080-02678379208260347; Danesh-Meyer HV, 2007, CLIN EXP OPHTHALMOL, V35, P318, DOI 10.1111-j.1442-9071.2007.01480.x; Faragher EB, 2005, OCCUP ENVIRON MED, V62, P105, DOI 10.1136-oem.2002.006734; Faragher EB, 2004, STRESS HEALTH, V20, P189, DOI 10.1002-smi.1010; Farhood L, 2006, J TRANSCULT NURS, V17, P333, DOI 10.1177-1043659606291549; Gimeno D, 2002, GAC SANIT, V16, P222; Goldberg D. P., 1998, USERS GUIDE GEN HLTH; Goldberg DP, 1997, PSYCHOL MED, V27, P191, DOI 10.1017-S0033291796004242; GOLDBERG DP, 1979, PSYCHOL MED, V9, P139; Hartley J, 1993, J ORGAN BEHAV, V14, P395; Hatch MC, 1997, EPIDEMIOLOGY, V8, P113; Hiro H, 2007, IND HEALTH, V45, P415, DOI 10.2486-indhealth.45.415; HOUSTON BK, 1992, WOMEN HEALTH, V19, P1, DOI 10.1300-J013v19n01_01; James GD, 2001, AM J HUM BIOL, V13, P268, DOI 10.1002-1520-6300(200102-03)13:2268::AID-AJHB10383.0.CO;2-Z; Jones F., 2003, QUALITY HIGHER ED, V9, P21, DOI 10.1080-13538320308162; Kalia M, 2002, METABOLISM, V51, P49, DOI 10.1053-meta.2002.33193; Kang MG, 2005, PREV MED, V40, P583, DOI 10.1016-j.ypmed.2004.07.018; Karam EG, 1998, EUR ARCH PSY CLIN N, V248, P225, DOI 10.1007-s004060050042; Karam EG, 2008, PLOS MED, V5, P579, DOI 10.1371-journal.pmed.0050061; Karam EG, 2006, LANCET, V367, P1000, DOI 10.1016-S0140-6736(06)68427-4; Kessler RC, 2007, WORLD PSYCHIATRY, V6, P168; Light KC, 1997, PSYCHOSOM MED, V59, P360; Luecken LJ, 1997, PSYCHOSOM MED, V59, P352; Maki K, 2008, CEPHALALGIA, V28, P18, DOI 10.1111-j.1468-2982.2007.01462.x; Mino Y, 1999, OCCUP ENVIRON MED, V56, P41; Moreno-Abril O, 2007, OCCUP MED-OXFORD, V57, P194, DOI 10.1093-occmed-kqm013; Pflanz SE, 2006, MIL MED, V171, P861; Reed PL, 2006, AM J EPIDEMIOL, V163, P404, DOI 10.1093-aje-kwj064; Schoen R, 2002, SOC FORCES, V81, P643, DOI 10.1353-sof.2003.0019; Shigemi J, 1997, IND HEALTH, V35, P29, DOI 10.2486-indhealth.35.29; Shigemi J, 2000, EUR J EPIDEMIOL, V16, P371, DOI 10.1023-A:1007646323031; Smith MJ, 1999, IND HEALTH, V37, P157, DOI 10.2486-indhealth.37.157; Stansfeld S, 2006, SCAND J WORK ENV HEA, V32, P443; Wang JL, 2008, J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H, V62, P42, DOI 10.1136-jech.2006.050591; Weissman MM, 1996, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V276, P293, DOI 10.1001-jama.276.4.293; WHO, 1998, WORLD HLTH REP 1998; Willmott S, 2008, J MENT HEALTH, V17, P435, DOI 10.1080-09638230701528485; World Health Organization, 2001, WORLD HLTH REP 2001; ZIMET GD, 1988, J PERS ASSESS, V52, P30, DOI 10.1207-s15327752jpa5201_20
Outsourcing and Skill Imports: Foreign High-Skilled Workers on H-1B and L-1 Visas in the United States
No full textThis working paper looks in detail at the H-1B and L-1 visa programs for temporary employment in the United States. Based on official data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the US Department of State, H-1B and L-1 visa issuance rapidly increased in the late 1990s, followed by a marked slowdown after 2001. This points to the highly cyclical nature of both visa programs. Indian nationals and immigrants working in computer-related occupations dominate the H1-B and L-1 population in the United States, but these two groups are also found to be the most cyclical segment, with very large declines in inflows after 2001. The total population of H-1B visaholders in 2003 is estimated to range between 387,000 and 746,000, of which 160,000 to 306,000 were Indian nationals. As all data on H-1B/L-1 visaholders are gross numbers and gross jobs data for comparable categories are absent, the extent of the impact of these visa programs on the US labor market cannot be gauged precisely. A broad range of US industries and educational institutions are found to be employing H-1B recipients, with the IT industry being the dominant sector. Evidence of aggressive wage-cost cutting, including paying H-1B recipients only the legally mandated 95 percent of the prevailing US wage, is found among some H-1B employers, although no systematic abuse of the system is present.Outsourcing, offshoring, high-skilled labor, immigration, H1B/L-1 visas
Abandoning The “High Offensiveness” Privacy Test
No full textThis article argues that the New Zealand torts of giving publicity to private
information and intruding upon solitude and seclusion would better reflect the true
nature of the privacy interest if the requirement that any alleged privacy interference
be “highly offensive to an objective reasonable person” were abandoned. Courts should,
instead, determine what is prima facie private by reference to the plaintiff ’s “reasonable
expectation of privacy” in respect of the information or activity in question. There are
three main reasons for this: first, the high offensiveness test operates in a manner which
is both uncertain and unpredictable; second, New Zealand courts applying the high
offensiveness test have taken too narrow a view of the nature of privacy harms; and
third, the test is unnecessary
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