Silent Innovations in Federal Civil Service. Argentina 1989-1999

Federal civil-service annuitants and social security, December 1975.

This article examines personal and work-related characteristics of a sample of the nearly 1 million Federal civil-service retirees who were receiving annuities based on their own wage records as of December 31, 1975. Employment patterns and subsequent annuities in civil-service careers have been related to corresponding experience in jobs covered under the old-age, survivors, disability, and he...

Neural Networks in Civil Engineering : 1989 − 2000

The first journal article on neural network application in civil/structural engineering was published in this journal in 1989. This article reviews neural network articles published in archival research journals since then. The emphasis of the review is on the two fields of structural engineering and construction engineering and management. Neural networks articles published in other civil engi...

Computer-Based Discovery in Federal Civil Litigation

the pervasive use of computers. More and more cases involve e-mail, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, and records of Internet activity. In some cases, computerbased discovery can be routine and uneventful. The parties may agree simply to exchange computer disks of documents instead of paper. In many cases, however, computerbased discovery generates disputes over the scope of disclosure, f...

Silver Linings in Federal Civil Justice Reform

Changes in the emergency workload of the London Ambulance Service between 1989 and 1999.

OBJECTIVES To examine changes in the emergency workload of the London Ambulance Service (LAS) between 1989 and 1999. METHODS All emergency responses by the LAS during week 16 in each of 1989, 1996, and 1999 were studied. For each week, 999 call responses were analysed by time and day of call, and age/sex of the patient. Call response rates were calculated using age/sex census population estim...