Improving the regulation of banks has been at the centre of economic policy actions since the outbreak of the global fi nancial crisis. One of the many and conceptually very diff erent measures proposed is to improve the corporate governance of banks by setting qualifi cation standards for banks’ non-executive directors. To explore the rationale of such a regulation implemented in Germany, we c...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .................................... 576 I. Development of the "Incidental to Patient Care" Test 578 A. Supervisory Status Under the National Labor Relations Act ............................ 579 B. Emergence of the "Incidental to Patient Care" Test ................................... 583 C. NLRA Amendments of 1974 ................. 587 D. The Rise of the "Incident...

background communication skills of operational managers such as head nurses greatly influence the performance of nursing personnel and by extension, the quality of the care provided by them. objectives this study was conducted to identify the role of a development program on communication skills and job satisfaction in head nurses. materials and methods this research was a non-randomized two-gr...

This paper focuses on issues related to implementing timed discrete-event systems (TDES) supervisors, and the concurrency and timing delay issues involved. In particular, we examine issues related to implementing TDES as sampled-data (SD) controllers. An SD controller is driven by a periodic clock and sees the system as a series of inputs and outputs. On each clock edge (tick event), it samples...

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) often have continuous components interconnected with systems described by discrete state space. Examples of such discrete components may be supervisory controllers or components implemented in software. To design large scale CPS in a compositional manner it would be useful to define a notion of passivity for these discrete components as well. As a first step towards...