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Im goldenen Kinderland : ein Buch zum Lesenlernen und zugleich ein Spiel- und Arbeitsbuch
No full textvon W. A. Lay und Max Enderlin ; Bilder von Hellmut Eichrod
Lay-offs in the Blended Economy
Full text linkRecent reports suggest that the Government of India is favourably inclined to change policy and enable establishments employing less than 1,000 workers to lay-off employees and undertake retrenchments or closures without prior permission. Corporate lay-offs in the U.S. indicate an ever-increasing trend and do not make a comforting reading. The year 2001 for example, saw the highest number of job cuts in the Fortune 500 companies than in any year ever since the survey of lay-offs were launched. Japan, despite its tradition of high employee concern, seems also to be overwhelmed with this new trend at least in the I.T. industry. In India, it appears that pressure is building up to similarly allow this enabling facility to all corporations. Prima facie, it appears as if the business is moving towards a state where manpower in an organisation is kept eternally in the transient state. In the process not only ensuring short-term profits but also as a way out of the long-term social security and welfare benefits obligations towards the employees. The paper examines the impact of lay-off and suggests that while individual impact is important in its own right, the research suggests that the effects of lay-offs go well-beyond the physical, material and psychological state of the individual to the organisation, community and the nation. Literature review suggests that several alternatives to lay-offs are available and examples of implementing these alternative solutions are available around the world. The literature also negates the general view that the unions will not cooperate in finding solutions. Example in industry clearly show that unions and workers are not only willing to cooperate but even show new ways of coping with the business problems to avoid lay-offs. The paper examines various reasons proffered in favour of lay-offs and argues that they are not necessarily a good option for an enterprise faced with business fluctuations. The crux of the issue is as to what is more important: the short-term gains in the stock market or the longer term financial health and stability of an enterprise. The paper suggests that a clear, agreed, rational policy that addresses concerns of management, labour and the general society be developed to address the issue.
User characteristics: Professional vs. lay users
No full text(User characteristics: professional use vs lay use by Cifter A and Dong H)
The market success of a product largely depends on whether it correctly addresses the user needs. Understanding the user is increasingly becoming important in the design process. Different user models may determine different approaches to design. This paper identifies the characteristics of different types of users, with a specific focus on professional users and lay users. It gives a definition of professional users and lay users in the context of adapting products originally designed for professional use to the use of lay people (for example, home use medical devices). It summarises, and compares, the characteristics of professional users and lay users, suggesting that designers pay attention to user characteristics and the context of use so as to better address user perceptions and meet user needs
What Discourages Participation in the Lay Judge System (Saiban’in Seido) of Japan? Interaction between the Secrecy Requirement and Social Networks.
Full text linkThe lay judge system, a quasi-jury system, was introduced in Japan from May 2009. This paper attempts to analyze Japanese people’s attitude towards this system by examining whether they show a willingness to serve as a lay judge. The major findings from regression analysis are: (1) In general, people with a spouse inclined to adopt a negative attitude about serving as a lay judge. This tendency is, however, not observed in large cities. (2) Long-time residents and homeowners are more likely to have a negative attitude about serving as a lay judge. These results show that a tightly knitted interpersonal social network discourages people from serving as a lay judge. Because of the life time secrecy obligation and the penalty provisions for those who break this obligation, people with closer interpersonal ties are under greater pressure and strains, leading to larger psychological cost. The obligation and its penalty should be eased to improve people’s attitudes about serving as a lay judge.Lay judge system; Social network; Secrecy requirement
Honorable Donald P. Lay
No full textPart of the video oral history series for the Historical Society of the U.S. Courts in the Eighth Circuit Oral History Project.Interview by Creighton University Law School Professor Richard E. Shugrue with the Honorable Donald P. Lay, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1966-1992, Chief Justice, 1979-1992, Senior Judge, 1992-2007
I'm sure you've heard my story From the Kanney Wagner song,
No full textvoiceCollected by George Lay, Jr. Mr. George Lay
Heber Springs, Ark. January 1959
Reel 361, Item 4
The Kenney Wagner Song
I'm sure you've heard my story From the Kanney Wagner song,
How down in Mississippi I took a road that's wrong.
It was down in Mississippi That I murdered my first man,
The sheriff there at Leakesville,
And justice took its stand.
Then I went from Mississippi To the state of Tennessee,
Two men went down before me And they took my liberty.
And I wandered through the country But I never could find rest,
Till I went to Texarkana Away out in the West.
Again I started drinking And again I pulled my gun,
And within a single moment The deadly work was done.
The sheriff was a woman,
But she got the drop on me;
I quit the game and surrendered,
Gave up my liberty.
I am now in Mississippi,
And I soon shall know my state;
I'm waiting for my trial,
But I do not dread my fate.
For still the sun is shining And the sky is blue and fair,
And my heart it is not pining For I do not fear the chair.
I've had my worldly pleasures,
I've faced many a man,
But it was down in Texarkana Where a woman called my hand.
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Young men, young men, take warning, Oh, take my good advice,
If you start the game and last long, You must surely pay the price.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Lay-user characteristics reflected by their interaction with a digital camera and a blood pressure monitor
No full textThe material is posted here with the permission of the publishers. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material must be obtained from the publisher.There is an increasing and evolving demand from the end-user market for the adaptation of products originally designed for professional-use to the use of lay people, for example, home use medical devices. However, there is a lack of understanding of lay user characteristics by product designers. This paper reports a study investigating lay user characteristics reflected by their interaction with digital products. A digital camera and a digital blood pressure monitor were tested with different user groups: 10 able-bodied young people; 10 healthy older people (65+) and 10 disabled people; and lay user characteristics were summarised
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Farmers' perceptions of the lay health worker on farms in the Western Cape, South Africa
Full text linkThis study is focussed on farms situated in the Boland health district of the Cape Winelands, South Africa. The aim was to explore, understand, and describe the perceptions of farmers of having a trained lay health worker (LHW) on the farm. A qualitative study design was applied. Data were collected during six in-depth interviews and two focus group discussions with participating farmers. The results show that farmers remained positive about the concept of having a trained LHW on the farm, but became frustrated with the lack of recognition of their and the LHWs' contribution by the public health service. Farmers who are willing to participate and remain active are key to introducing a farm community-based LHW intervention. Sustainable LHW interventions are dependent on public health sector support and recognition of all role players.Farm Management,
The Price of Security: On the Causality and Impact of Lay-off Risks on Wages
Full text linkWe examine the impact of lay-off risks on wages. Portfolio as well as search theoreticmodelling predicts higher exogenous lay-off risks to go along with higher wages. But,an impact of wages on lay-off risks (e.g., endogenous job destruction) is also plausible.Using the German BA Employment Panel (2008), we estimate a wage equation withexogenous lay-off risks for the most important industries in West Germany. We addressthe mutual causality by controlling for endogeneity via an instrumental variableapproach. Furthermore, we restrict our analysis to the high skilled to avoid a highimpact on tariff commitment. Our findings suggest the presence of risk premiums inthree of five industries. The level of impact and its significance depends on the industryand on the gender of the employee.Lay-off risk, wages
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