A disproportionate share of temporary help agency employees consists of young, female, predominantly minority workers, many of them recent or current welfare recipients. In 2001, for example, nearly 60 percent of temporary services workers were women, half of them between the ages of 16 and 34. And whereas the proportion of black and Hispanic workers in traditional employment—around 11 percent—...

The rapid growth in the number of temporary workers in Japan during the 2000s generated greater income inequality and greater job insecurity because temporary workers’ wages are lower and their jobs are more tenuous than those of permanent workers. However, little is established about the relation between globalization and domestic growth in the temporary workforce. This study examines that rel...

the emergent abdominal surgeries from either of traumatic or non traumatic causes can result in situations in which the abdominal wall cannot initially be closed. many techniques have been reported for temporary coverage of the exposed viscera, but the result of various techniques remains unclear. during 94 months, 19 critically ill patients whit an open abdomen underwent surgery using plastic ...

Competent management of patients with an invasive temporary pacemaker is an important skill for nurses who provide care for critically ill patients with cardiac disease. Such management requires familiarity with normal cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, conduction system defects, and rhythm interpretation. With an understanding of the basic concepts of rate, output, chambers, sensitivity, a...

Consider a tree network that has been contaminated by a persistent and active virus: when infected, a network site will continuously attempt to spread the virus to all its neighbours. The decontamination problem is that of disinfecting the entire network using a team of mobile antiviral system agents, called cleaners, avoiding any recontamination of decontaminated areas. A cleaner is able to de...

Conventions are an important concept in multi-agent systems as they allow increased coordination amongst agents and hence a more efficient system. Encouraging and directing convention emergence has been the focus of much research, particularly through the use of fixed strategy agents. In this paper we apply temporary interventions using fixed strategy agents to destabilise an established conven...

Integrity constraints are usually assumed to be permanent properties that must be satissed by any database state. However, there are many situations requiring also temporary constraints, that is, constraints that must hold only for a single database state. In this paper we propose a schema to deene both permanent and temporary constraints, that supports eecient constraint checking and semantic ...

In this paper I study temporary migration and its consequences for immigrant behaviour. A distinction is made between temporary migration where the return time is exogenous and where the migrant chooses when to return. The consequences of both types of temporary migration for migrant behaviour (as opposed to a permanent migration) are illustrated. The specification of the empirical models will ...

Visual working memory (WM) capacity is thought to be limited to 3 or 4 items. However, many cognitive activities seem to require larger temporary memory stores. Here, we provide evidence for a temporary memory store with much larger capacity than past WM capacity estimates. Further, based on previous WM research, we show that a single factor--proactive interference--is sufficient to bring capac...

In this paper we consider the temporary tasks assignment problem. In this problem, there are m parallel machines and n independent jobs. Each job has an arrival time, a departure time and some weight. Each job should be assigned to one machine. The load on a machine at a certain time is the sum of the weights of jobs assigned to it at that time. The objective is to nd an assignment that minimiz...