This paper assesses whether impending electricity industry restructuring in an investor-owned utility’s home state encourages the utility to improve efficiency at its generating plants. Under costplus regulation, utilities have little incentive to reduce operating costs since they can pass them directly to ratepayers. Restructuring programs increase utilities’ exposure to competitive markets fo...

et al. Imaginal exposure alone and imaginal exposure with cognitive restructuring in treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Q For people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), does cognitive restructuring with prolonged imaginal exposure lead to greater symptom relief than imaginal exposure alone? METHODS Design: Randomised controlled trial.

In this tutorial, we address the problem of restructuring a (possibly sequential) program to improve execution eeciency on parallel machines. This restructuring involves the transformation and partitioning of loop structures and data so as to improve parallelism, static and dynamic locality, and load balance. We present previous and ongoing work on loop and data transformations and motivate a u...

september/october 2004 M MANY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and South America are freeing up their electric energy industries in search of benefits from competition. This activity is more pronounced in Eastern Europe because restructuring of the electric energy industry is a requirement for accession to the European Union (EU). Some developing countries in Asia are restr...

The global recession has forced the Finnish forest industry to carry out major restructuring activities. Employees have faced different kinds of restructuring, mainly aimed at reducing staff and production. Many studies have shown the negative consequences of restructuring on employee well-being by using negative, ill-health indicators. Our aim is to examine the extent to which change appraisal...

Software restructuring is a form of perfective maintenance that modifies the structure of a program’s source code. Its goal is increased maintainability to better facilitate other maintenance activities, such as adding new functionality to, or correcting previously undetected errors within a software system. Changes to the structure are introduced through the application of transformations. Man...

The Finnish forest industry has undergone extensive transition in recent years. This study investigates the effect of restructuring on the well-being of blue-collar employees who continued working in the organization after the changes. All six factories selected for the study were in the process of restructuring between baseline and the follow-up survey. The factories were grouped according to ...

We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data covering several years after implementation of restructuring. The estimation compares how investor-owned (I...

Background and Objectives: Repeated checking leads to a shift from perceptual to semantic level of information processing, increasing an individual's doubt in their memory. Cognitive restructuring (CR) targeting content of OCD cognitions has demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of OCD. Detached mindfulness (DM) is a novel metacognitive intervention that aims to suspend conceptual processing, ...

In this tutorial, we address the problem of restructuring a (possibly sequential) program to improve execution eeciency on parallel machines. This restructuring involves the transformation and partitioning of loop structures and data so as to improve parallelism, static and dynamic locality, and load balance. We present previous and ongoing work on loop and data transformations and motivate a u...