I teach writing and literature at a community college, am third-year Ph.D. candidate. Because balance full-time teaching graduate research, accustomed to the intensity of heavy workload. Still, during this past year, my home work responsibilities have multiplied with that so has anxiety. Stress lack time made it challenging write research. However, two feminist organizations helped me cope rema...

The management model is a strategic and systematic project related on the construction of enterprise’s core competitiveness. As pillars economy people's livelihood national lifeline, how to build that meets company's own development stage long-term needs primary task facing enterprises promote reform group system.

BACKGROUND This paper describes a program of work designed to inform a service model to address a challenge for telephone helplines, namely frequent callers. METHODS We conducted a systematic literature review and four empirical studies that drew on different data sources-(a) routinely collected calls data from Lifeline, Australia's largest telephone helpline; (b) data from surveys/interviews...

This paper analyzes the determinants of successful participation of candidates on the well known television quiz show “WhoWants to Be a Millionaire?”. Our study includes a survey of 660 contestants who participated in the German version of the show between 1999 and 2007. We are particularly interested in two hypotheses. The first hypothesis refers to the assumed advantage of social capital. Con...

UML sequence diagrams are widely used in mod-eling system behaviors in the early design phases of software development. In order to support formal model verification and refinement, sequence diagrams need to be formalized in a formal language. In this paper, we propose an approach to formalize UML sequence diagrams in CSP (communicating and sequential processes) in order to use FDR, a model che...

Lifeline systems are those facilities which provide the main utility or transportation services to a community. The lifeline vulnerability analysis (LLVA) developed in this study is a flexible, risk-based approach which can be used to develop strategies to minimize risks of system failure which may lead to a service disruption. The risk-based approach incorporates the important hazard elements ...