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Home Economics in the 21st Century : A Cross Cultural Comparative Study
No full textThis article is reprinted with permission from the International Federation for Home Economics, August 2010Peer reviewe
Home range overlap indices implemented using kernel density estimators with plug-in smoothing parameters and Program R
No full textThese files contain computer code that was reviewed in Fieberg & Kochanny (2005). There are five files in this data set: (1) Indices.txt is a text file containing R functions for calculating the overlap indices in Fieberg & Kochanny (2005); (2) CalcHR.txt is a text file containing functions that calculate HR area, as well as outer contours for different home range isopleths; (3) ExampleData.csv is a CSV containing the data in R's adehabitat package; (4) Example1.txt is a text file containing an R script illustrating index calculations using the adehabitat package data; and (5) Example1.pdf is a PDF snapshot of the output produced by running Example1.txt in an R environment.This collection contains R code to implement the home range overlap indices evaluated by Fieberg and Kochanny (2005). These indices have been incorporated into the adehabitat package of Program R. However, the adehabitat package does not currently (as of April 2014) allow calculation of home ranges using the 'plug-in' method for choosing smoothing parameters when estimating home ranges using kernel density estimates. In addition, the code here allows one to use two separate smoothing parameters rather than a single parameter (as in the current version of adehabitat). An illustrative example is included that makes use wild boar location data contained in the adehabitat package. For references, see README.txt.Fieberg, John R. (2014). Home range overlap indices implemented using kernel density estimators with plug-in smoothing parameters and Program R. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, http://dx.doi.org/10.13020/D6G59W
Where Have All The Home Care Workers Gone?
No full textBecause of the on-going need to co-ordinate care and ensure its continuity, issues of retention and recruitment are of major concern to home care agencies. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting turnover decisions among visiting home care workers. In 1996, 620 visiting nurses and personal support workers from three non-profit agencies in a mid-sized Ontario city participated in a survey on their work and health. By the fall of 2001, 320 of these respondents had left the agencies. Analysis of the turnover data showed a temporal association between the implementation of managed competition and turnover. We mailed a self-completion questionnaire asking about their reasons for leaving the agency and about their subsequent work experience. One hundred and sixty nine (53%) responded to this survey. Respondents indicated dissatisfaction with the implementation of managed competition, with pay, hours of work, lack of organizational support and work load as well as health reasons, including work-related stress, as reasons for leaving. Less than one-third remained employed in the home care field, one-third worked in other health care workplaces and one-third were no longer working in health care. Their responses to our 1996 survey were used to predict turnover. Results show that nurses were more likely to leave if they had unpredictable hours of work, if they worked shifts or weekends and had higher levels of education. They were more likely to stay with the agency if they reported working with difficult clients, had predictable hours, good benefits, had children under 12 years of age in the home, and were younger. Personal support workers were more likely to leave if they reported higher symptoms of stress, and had difficult clients. They were more likely to stay if they worked weekends and perceived their benefits to be good.turnover, home care workers, nurses, personal support workers, managed competition, home care sector, policy, for-profit agency, non-profit agency
Placid beginnings/Turbulent times: Re-thinking home economics for the twenty-first century
No full textThis keynote address looks at the history and future of home economics. Home economics as a profession and how it has been characterised of women's knowledge and in the domain of the home, is discussed. The author argues that there is a need to rethink home economics in terms of education and the role of home economics teachers.Arts, Education and LawFull Tex
Offshoring and Home Country R&D
No full textNational concerns are sometimes raised against offshoring of economic activities to other countries. While most of the existing literature has focused on the effects on labor demand and productivity the effects on domestic R&D have been neglected. This is unfortunate since the decision to offshore activities also includes R&D. We use unique and rich firm level data for the Swedish manufacturing sector to analyze how offshoring impacts domestic R&D and how these effects vary with respect to target region and type of firm. The results suggest that offshoring of production alter a firm’s investments in R&D in Sweden and that a negative impact on home country R&D is confined to offshoring by non-multinationals and offshoring to Europe and EU15 countries.Offshoring; R&D; Manufacturing sector; EU15
The relative importance of home and host innovation systems in the internationalisation of MNE R&D: a patent citation analysis
No full textThis paper examines the phenomenon of home base augmenting (HBA) R&D and home base exploiting (HBE) R&D. It has three novelties. First, we argue that any given R&D facility’s capacity to exploit and/or augment technological competences is a function not just of its own resources, but the efficiency with which it can utilise complementary resources associated with the relevant local innovation system. Just as HBA activities require proximity to the economic units (and thus the innovation system) from which they seek to learn, HBE activities draw from the parent’s technological resources as well as from the other assets of home location’s innovation system. Furthermore, we argue that most firms tend to undertake both HBE and HBA activities simultaneously. Second, we use patent citation data from the European Patent Office to quantify the relative HBA vs. HBE character of foreign-located R&D. Third, we do so for European MNEs located in the US, as well as US MNEs located in Europe. Our results indicate that both EU (US) affiliates in the US (EU) rely extensively on home region knowledge sources, although they appear to exploit the host country knowledge base as well. The HBA component of US R&D in Europe in chemicals, electronics and petroleum refining is stronger than their European counterparts, as is the case for European R&D activities in the US in engineering.economics of technology ;
'What she told us made the world of difference': Carers perspectives of a hospice at home service
No full textCopyright @ 2013 Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal. Posted with publisher's permission.This paper explores the expectations and needs of current and bereaved carers whose relatives
received care at home from a palliative care team. Aim: A hospice at home service was established in
2006 to provide patients with care in their own homes. We examined whether this model of care was helpful in
mitigating carers’ burden and in enabling terminally ill patients to be cared for and die at home. Methods: This
study utilized a survey and interviews. Participants were carers in the midwest of Ireland. Survey responses from 122 carers were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 (SPSS Inc., 2009); interviews with 15 carers were also conducted. Results: Carers’ expectations of the service were often exceeded, and quality of care dimensions were rated highly. Future improvements could include facilitating discussions on place of death and offering bereavement support. Conclusion: The service is supporting carers in facilitating their relatives’ choice to die at home.Atlantic Philanthropies and the Health Service Executiv
The Impact of R&D Offshoring on the Home Knowledge Production of OECD Investing Regions
No full textThis paper investigates the relationship between home and offshore R&D activities on the knowledge production of the investing home region. Debate is ongoing on whether R&D offshoring complements the R&D performed at home. In the light of increased offshoring of innovative activities to emerging countries, we explicitly focus on Brazil, Russia, India, China, Singapore and Taiwan. We suggest that complementarity should obtain, when home region and offshore R&D activities are dissimilar as well as when offshore R&D activities is about modular and less complex technologies. We ground our predictions on arguments related to geographical technological specialisation and reverse knowledge transfer from offshore locations to home regions within the more general open innovation trend. Using a theoretical framework based on the international business literature and the regional system of innovation perspective, we estimate a knowledge production function for a sample of 221 regions from 21 OECD countries with home region patent applications as the dependent variable. Our test supports our predictions on the complementarity between home region and offshore R&D.Home Region R&D; Offshore R&D; Knowledge Production; Complementarity; Emerging Countries
Junior Home High School Cheers
No full textCHEER LEADERS
Minnie Morrison, Twelfth Grade
Alice Hightower, Twelfth Grade
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JUNIOR ORDER HOME HIGH SCHOOL YELLS
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J—J—J—u—n
i—i—i—o—r
J—u—n—i—o—r
Junior Home, Junior Home
Team! Team! Team!
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Rah! Rah! Rah!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Juniors! Juniors! Juniors!
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J—U—N—I—O—R — H—O—M—E (slow)
J—U—N—I—O—R — H—O—M—E (a little faster)
J—U—N—I—O—R — H—O—M—E (real fast)
That’s the way you spell it, Here’s the way you yell it,
JUNIOR HOME!
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Wah Who Wah — Wah Who Wah
Junior Home! Junior Home!
Wah Who Wah — Wah Who Wah
Junior Home! Junior Home!
Team! Team! Team!
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Come on Maroon,
Come on White,
Come on Juniors,
Fight! Fight! Fight
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Team Rah! Team Rah!
Rah! Rah! Team!
Who? Team! Who? Team! Who? Team! Team! Team!
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This program was printed in the Printing Department of the
Junior Order Home Vocational School by students aged 12 to 18
years. Instructors—M. D. MacMahan, in charge; Leo R. Highet,
linotype and composition; Orlan A. Hillis, cylinder press; J. A.
Lansdowne, platen presses.
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SANDWICHES AND DRINKS
are on sale in the booths at each end of stadium. Hot
Dog or Cheese Sandwiches and Hot Chocolate. All
money made by the Senior Class is used for class ex-
penses, such as rings, year book, etc. They will appre-
ciate your patronage.
GIVE THE SENIORS A BIG BOOS
Explaining 'Inertia' in R&D internationalisation: Norwegian firms and the role of home country-effects
No full textWe ask why firms from certain countries show a higher propensity to centralise their R&D activities athome than firms from other countries, using the example of Norway. We highlight that it is the interplaybetween the industrial structure and political and economic orientation of the home economy that plays animportant role in how firms engage in both home and overseas activities, including R&D. In general, nationalsystems of innovation (NSI) and industrial and technological specialisation of countries changes only verygradually, and – especially in newer, rapidly evolving sectors - much more slowly than the technological needsof firms. Thus, firms must either import and acquire the technology they need from abroad, or venture abroadand seek to internalise aspects of other countries’ NSI. In the case of Norway, two groups of firms exist. The firstgroup are large firms in traditional sectors, that are highly embedded, and around whom the Norwegian NSI hasbeen built, and which have a low level of R&D internationalisation. The second group of firms are SMEs inscience based sectors who are (slowly) expanding R&D abroad to seek competences in technologies notavailable domestically. The low R&D internationalisation of both groups reflects their embeddedness in thedomestic NSI, which has acted as a powerful centripetal force, creating a technological and organisationalinertia.research and development ;
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