Since computers were first introduced in the late 1960’s there has been continued debate on the impact of technology, organisations and staff within those organisations. Enid Mumford was one of the key researchers who looked at the Socio-Technical implications through the decades, and as part of her research she developed the ETHICS method to help improve the integration of technology in organi...

1Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Systems research group Universiteit Antwerpen and iMinds Interdisciplinary institute for Technology Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium. [email protected] 2School of Engineering, Aalto University Otakaari 4, 00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland. [email protected] 3Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking National Research ...

The key research question for this study was to ask whether or not innovative teaching practices would lead to the development of learning outcomes essential for preparing the younger generation for the challenges of life in the knowledge society of the 21st century, and if so, how are the pedagogical features related to the different learning outcomes. Preliminary analyses of the case study da...

BACKGROUND People with higher socio-economic status (SES) are generally in better health. Less is known about when these socio-economic health differences set in during childhood and how they develop over time. The goal of this study was to prospectively study the development of socio-economic health differences in the Netherlands, and to investigate possible explanations for socio-economic var...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between anxiety and socio-economic status of adolescents of Amritsar city. The present study also examined the gender differences with respect to anxiety and socio-economic status among adolescents. For this, 200 respondents from Amritsar city of Punjab state were selected. The results of the study reveals no significant differ...

The article discusses the causes of the difficulties and contradictions associated with the management information systems referring to the competences of knowledge workers in organizations. As far as entities are concerned, the reasons are mainly the effects of global phenomena of socio-economic life. Unfortunately, with the increase in the declared need for competences in the knowledge-based ...

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis of the socio-economic effects...

The present study was devoted to identify the evolutionary path of a number of local systems in a Mediterranean country vulnerable to soil degradation (SD) in the last decades. A multivariate analysis was used to evaluate the socio-ecological conditions and to estimate rapidity-of-change of local systems by considering 6 bio-physical factors predisposing soil to degradation and 23 socioeconomic...

OBJECTIVES To examine socio-economic inequalities in cause-specific mortality by examining the independent effects of education, occupation and income in a population-based study of working-age Canadian adults. METHODS This is a secondary analysis of data from the 1991-2006 Canadian Census mortality and cancer follow-up study (n=2.7 million persons). For this analysis, the cohort was restrict...

BACKGROUND Social factors have been shown to be predictors of suicide. It is not known whether these factors vary between countries. AIMS To present a first European overview of socio-economic inequalities in suicide mortality among men and women. METHOD We used a prospective follow-up of censuses matched with vital statistics in ten European populations. Directly standardised rates of suic...