The Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) near Wilsonville, Alabama, is a joint project of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Southern Company, and other industrial participants currently including the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), and Peabody Energy. The PSDF is ...

Background: The quantity and quality of manpower, especially in health systems, are major factors affecting speed of service delivery, cost, and accuracy, or, in other words, the quality of service. Objective: This study purposed to investigate the manpower required in various units of the laboratory at Shiraz Faghihi Hospital. Methods</stro...

Resource booms can affect student achievement through greater labor demand, where rising wages pull students or teachers out of schools, and through an expanded tax base, where increased school spending alters teacher quality or student productivity. Using shale depth variation across Texas school districts with annual oil and gas price variation, this study finds that resource development slig...

We show that frictions in labor and capital markets can be a source of competitive advantage for a¢ liates of corporate groups over standalone …rms in environments where bene…ts from internal markets’‡exibility are high. We argue that the advantage of ‡exibility in changing labor inputs is related to how di¢ cult it is to change capital inputs. We predict that if substituting labor with capital...

background: the quantity and quality of manpower, especially in health systems, are major factors affecting speed of service delivery, cost, and accuracy, or, in other words, the quality of service. objective: this study purposed to investigate the manpower required in various units of the laboratory at shiraz faghihi hospital. methods: this is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical resea...

Enclosed is WCAP-1 5614, "AP1000 Seismic and Structural Design Activities." The report outlines our proposed approach to use design acceptance criteria in the areas of seismic analyses, structural design, and piping design for an AP1000 Design Certification application. We request your review of this report as part of phase 2 of the AP1 000 pre-certification review. Please direct questions on t...