Summary There is growing concern about the evolution of working conditions for employees on European farms. In new Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), financial support to farmers will soon be subject a social conditionality clause. As result this change in CAP regulations, paper we ask if need specific advice can already foreseen? Examining recent investigations that focused forms labour organisa...

There appears to be no single universally accepted definition of health services research. However, in 1976 the XVIII Meeting of the WHO Advisory Committee on Medical Research accepted the definition of health services research as “the systematic investigation and evaluation of a country’s health services in terms of both their interrelationship with all health related factors and such measures...

In this paper, we explore how telephone advisory services (TAS) and the implementation of new technology affect nurses and the nursing profession. This study shows that TAS and applied technology embodies ideas of standardisation and efficiency, and promotes an organisational professionalism such that it challenges occupational professionalism. Torn between organisational and occupational profe...

* Silvina M. Cabrini ([email protected]) is a Graduate Research Assistant for the AgMAS Project in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Scott H. Irwin is the Laurence J. Norton Professor of Agricultural Marketing and Darrel L. Good is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illin...

Appearance of new services in facility management is possible only due to efficient usage of informational potential present in modern buildings. Such services (knowledge-based services) use information that is already present among the general data. Efficient usage of this information requires a close connection between the building automation and building management. This connection is carrie...

The concept of a farmer producer company (FPC) has emerged as an inclusive to address the issues farmers, especially, small, and marginal farmers. present study is examine impact companies on small 150 farmers were chosen through multi-stage stratified random sampling in Osmanabad district Maharashtra state, India assess impact. It was found that organized under FPCs area are not getting adequa...

Hospitals and hospital-based physicians enter into a variety of agreements. Given the recent advisory memorandum from the Inspector General of Health and Human Services and a recent administrative decision, these arrangements may violate the Medicare Anti-Kickback statute.