Mandatory Advance Notice of Layoff: Evidence and Efficiency Considerations

CMS overturns its rule on advance patient notice.

an investigation into translation of cultural concepts by beginner and advance student using think – aloud protocols

this research aims at answering the questions about translation problems and strategies applied by translators when translating cultural concepts. in order to address this issue, qualitative and quantitative study were conducted on two groups of subjects at imam reza international university of mashhad. these two groups were assigned as beginner and advanced translation students (10 students). ...

Advance Modelling and Simulation of Industrial Boilers

This paper presents some of the results of the simulation in the radiation section of an industrial boiler using an advanced mathematical model. Calculations are described for the flow, heat transfer, and chemical reaction processes occurring within a gas-fired cylindrical furnace. The calculation procedure is a two dimensional one in which the main hydrodynamic variables are the velocity and s...

Mandatory physician reporting of drivers with medical conditions: legal considerations.

BACKGROUND Physicians are facing ever-increasing legal obligations in all Canadian jurisdictions to report patients believed to be unfit to drive a motor vehicle or pilot an aircraft. In most Canadian jurisdictions these statutory obligations are mandatory; in others, they are discretionary. OBJECTIVES To provide a legal perspective on a physician's duty to report in the various jurisdictions...

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...