The paper presents a software agent-based approach that supports the interleaving of Web services composition and execution. A Web service is an accessible application that other applications and humans as well can automatically discover and invoke. Interleaving stands for carrying out the composition and execution of Web services in parallel. This allows handling the execution context of the W...

Abstract The share of paid‐for overtime hours within total worked in Britain has declined from 5.4% to 2.0% between 1997 and 2020. We investigate this decline, focussing on its distribution across full‐time (f/t) part‐time males females 19 one‐digit industries. It is established that f/t are dominant the decline both working hours. explore implications pay as well gender gap. test for economic,...

Background Lingual dystonia is a subtype of oromandibular dystonia, which is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary sustained or intermittent contraction of the masticatory and/or tongue muscles. Lingual dystonia interferes with important daily activities, such as speaking, chewing, and swallowing, resulting in vocational and social disability. Objective The aim of this study was to...

This research presents a formal model of the one machine job shop scheduling problem with variable machine and labor capacity. Primary interest is focused on the trade-off between overtime and detailed scheduling costs. The detailed scheduling problem considered is minimizing the sum of weighted tardiness and weighted flow-time costs for a given capacity plan (e.g., a given overtime schedule). ...

In this paper we use British Household Panel Survey data to examine the relationship between unionization and unpaid overtime in Britain. The findings indicate that in the for-profit, non-caring sector of the economy, union covered employees supply fewer unpaid overtime hours than noncovered ones due to union protection and the weakening of economic incentives caused by union bargaining. On the...

The paper suggests a staffing tool to improve efficiency at a nursing department of a local hospital. The managers consider they are understaffed and try to overwhelm the staffing deficit problem through overtime, rather than hiring additional nurses. The estimates indicate that the shortage at the hospital level corresponds to 300 full time equivalent (FTE) nurses. However, the huge amount of ...

The challenge of balancing the interests of patients with those of healthcare providers is increased when patients fail to show up for scheduled appointments. Overbooking appointments mitigates the lost productivity caused by no-shows but increases patient wait time and provider overtime. In this paper, simulation analysis is used to develop and test the performance of scheduling rules that are...

conclusions based on the study results, making plans to promote mental aspect of nurses, focusing on family foundations like marriage, reducing and distributing working hours, and decreasing night shifts hours of nurses could reduce their depression and improve their quality of life. results according to the final model yielded from path analysis, the most important factors contributing to depr...

AORN conducted its 11th annual compensation survey for perioperative nurses in June 2013. A multiple regression model was used to examine how a number of variables, including job title, education level, certification, experience, and geographic region affect nurse compensation. Comparisons among the 2013 data and previous years' data are presented. The effects of other forms of compensation, su...