1. Commercial level research on poultry welfare is increasingly important because of the insight it gives into what improves welfare in the context of other important drivers such as human health, environmental impact and cost. 2. There are, however, a number of problems with conducting commercial level research - such as conflicts over aims, financial compensation and legal issues - that nee...

There is a global movement for people with a disability towards person-centred practices with opportunities for self-determination and choice. Person-centred approaches may involve individual funding (IF) for the purchase of required support. A shift to a person-centred model and IF should allow people with a disability and their carers greater choice in therapy access. However, individuals who...

High-power thyristors with direct light -triggering and integrated protection functions can be utilized advantageously for applications in which several thyristors are connected in series. This applies in particular to High-Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission, Static Var Compensation (SVC), converters for medium voltage drives, and also to certain pulse power applications. Recent progress in both de...

We empirically examine how corporate governance affects the structure of executive compensation contracts. In particular, we analyze the implicit weights of firm performance measures in explaining CEO compensation. We find that weaker corporate governance is associated with compensation contracts that put more weight on accounting-based measures of performance (i.e., return on assets) than on s...

OBJECTIVE This study of Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees Workers' Compensation (WC) claims for chargeback year 2000 through 2012 aimed to analyze the frequency, rates, and costs of WC claims representing 5% of the DoD annual personnel budget. METHODS A multiyear cross-sectional study of WC claims data identified the top five most frequent causes, natures, and anatomical sites; c...

INTRODUCTION The objective of radiation safety assessment of an operating nuclear power plant (NPP) is to assure that the licensee’s radiation protection program (RPP) has achieved the goal of radiation protection. For this, currently Korean regulatory safety inspection program is aimed at ensuring compliance with licensing requirements and regulations. The legislation requires that inspections...

This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behaviour of labour supply: Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). is different from well-known Added-Worker (AWE) Discouraged-Worker (DWE). The EWE consequence one most important institutions: unemployment benefit (UB). We develop model with uncertainty about results job-seeking transaction costs linked such search process, showing...

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 21 Number 3 Fall 2016 Diagnostic imaging with low-dose ionizing radiation helps physicians save lives and assist in prolonging good health. Numerous publications1-5 based on clinical, epidemiological, and ecological studies have claimed increased cancer risk associated with low radiation doses such as received from diagnostic imaging and other ...

Artificially produced radioactive isotopes are distributed by the Atomic Energy Commission according to strict rules on account of the dangers inherent in the handling of such materials. Before an individual can obtain radioisotopes, he has to present evidence that he possesses the knowledge, facilities and equipment to meet the minimum standards of safe handling. The Isotopes Division in Oak R...

The linear no-threshold (LNT) dose-effect relationship has been consistently used by most radiation epidemiologists to estimate cancer mortality risk. The large scattering of data by International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC (Vrijheid et al. 2007; Therry-Chef et al. 2007; Cardis et al. 2007), interpreted in accordance with LNT, has been previously demonstrated (Fornalski and Dobrzyński ...