Economic downturn hits ORs, but few layoffs of periop staff.

Job Displacement and First Birth Over the Business Cycle

In this article, we investigate the impact of job displacement on women's first-birth rates as well as the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We use mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after displacement. Our analysis is based on rich administrative data from Germany, with an observation p...

Professional Commitment of Information Technology Employees under Depression Environments

This study aims at to what extent the professional commitment of IT staff being affected by the amount of work stress and job satisfaction under the environment of economic downturn, as well as professional jobs IT staff being directly affected by work stress and job satisfaction that is the willingness of taking IT profession as their permanent career. According to the 280 effective questionna...

With elective surgery down, ORs reduce hours, try to avoid layoffs.

شناخت و تحلیل عوامل موثر بر رکود فعالیت فرشبافی در نواحی روستایی( مطالعه موردی: شهرستان ملایر)

Abstract: Carpet weaving is one of the most ancient and prominent Iranian traditional industries that in rural areas constantly, alongside agriculture, considered as a most important source of income. Contemporary, Especially in the past few decades due to structural changes in the national economy, urbanization growth, industrialization and bureaucracy based on oil revenues caused broad social...

Evaluation of Google’s Voice Recognition and Sentence Classification for Health Care Applications

This study examined the use of voice recognition technology in perioperative services (Periop) to enable Periop staff to record workflow milestones using mobile technology. The use of mobile technology to improve patient flow and quality of care could be facilitated if such voice recognition technology could be made robust. The goal of this experiment was to allow the Periop staff to provide ca...