US industrial research: Kodak feels chill winds

Winds of Change? Japanese Human Resource Practices and Industrial Relations

During an extended period of economic recession for most of the 1990s, broad and striking changes have been made to the Japanese employment system. How fundamental or reversible they are is harder to evaluate. This paper discusses the Japanese employment system and its changes. It is concluded that if the economic recovery prevails, a considerable stabilization of Japanese human resource practi...

Eastman Kodak Company

KODAK I.LAB System Evolution

The KODAK I.LAB digital photofinishing system allows the production of silver halide prints from images originating from both film and digital still cameras. This flexibility allows not only the leveraging of complex and highly optimized wholesale photofinishing workflows to produce high-quality digital prints at low cost but provides a bridge for wholesale laboratories as customers transition ...

Industrial Relations Research Association

The package of increases in defined-contribution pension plan contribution limits that Congress enacted in 2001 could have benefited at most 8 percent of plan participants and 3 percent of all workers. High earners were potentially more likely to benefit than low earners, and potential beneficiaries generally had higher earnings than other participants. The increase in the percentage limit on c...

Scam Feels the Pinch

The paper by Movileanu et al. (2001) in this issue of The Journal describes a test of the applicability of the substituted-cysteine-accessibility method (SCAM; Akabas et al., 1992; Akabas et al., 1994) to the problem of locating the narrowest region of a channel lumen. Movileanu et al. (2001) use unusually large sulfhydryldirected reagents to probe the wide bore channel formed by Staphylococcal...