The aim of the study was to test the relationship between job characteristics (job demands, job control) and perceived stress (e.g., stressed, pressured, tense) with motivators (e.g., recognition, achievement, the work itself, the possibility for growth and work significance) as the mediating variable. In this cross-sectional study a web-based questionnaire survey was conducted among 380 inform...

In recent years there have been several studies of racial discrimination in the British labour market which made use of an experimental technique. Between November 1983 and November 1988 we applied such a technique to provide a direct measure of labour market discrimination in the Australian state of Victoria. The results of our test for sexual discrimination in the labour market have been publ...

The Grid holds great potential for users, software developers and resource owners. Users of the Grid are abstracted away from its complexity, while software developers are being provided with a rich middleware in which to develop their applications without the need for a large investment in resources. Resource owners are able to expose their resources, potentially for financial reward, without ...

Pilot-Jobs support effective distributed resource utilization, and are arguably one of the most widely-used distributed computing abstractions – as measured by the number and types of applications that use them, as well as the number of production distributed cyberinfrastructures that support them. In spite of broad uptake, there does not exist a well-defined, unifying conceptual model of Pilot...

Integrating the social identity and aging literatures, this work tested the hypothesis that there are two independent, but simultaneous, responses by which adults transitioning into old age can buffer themselves against age discrimination: an individual response, which entails adopting a younger subjective age when facing discrimination, and a collective response, which involves increasing iden...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have penetrated all areas of contemporary life. In this context, digital literacy has become much more than the ability to handle computers – just like traditional literacy and numeracy, it comprises a set of basic skills which include the use and production of digital media, information processing and retrieval, participation in social networks...

BACKGROUND Korean Working Conditions Surveys (KWCS), referencing European Working Conditions Surveys, have been conducted three times in order to survey working condition and develop work-related policies. However, we found three limitations for managing the collected KWCS data: (1) there was no computerized system for managing data; (2) statistical KWCS data were provided by limited one-way co...

Grid computing opens up a new computing infrastructure and users gain access to a vast landscape of computing resources that are spread over the world and that are instantly accessible through the Internet. In the future, computational Grids are expected to deliver high-end computing power at the user’s finger tips. Today, typical users of a computational Grid only exploit a single cluster and ...

This study aims to investigate characteristics of job-shop scheduling methods for micro-enterprise. Many scheduling methods have been proposed and evaluated. However, most of evaluations are not focused on application for micro-enterprise. In order to figure out an appropriate scheduling method for micro-enterprise, job-shop scheduling methods are evaluated from the view of applicability for mi...