Extracting incompatible values in the best-sellers current in ELT markets is a real concern. In this study, the researchers tried to bring some claims/counterclaims for hidden ideologies regarding two imported English language teaching coursebooks-Four Corners and Impact Values Series, which are commonly taught within Iranian English language institutes. The main intention was that they might t...

BACKGROUND A national survey of family physicians working in the National Health Service (NHS) of England in 2001 revealed that 1/10 under 50 years of age were intending to leave direct patient care within 5 years, and that the principal predictor of their intention to leave was job satisfaction. Our research addressed two questions. First, does a family physician's stated intention to leave th...

This paper addresses a scheduling problem motivated by scheduling of diffusion operations in the wafer fabrication facility. In the target problem, jobs arrive at the batch machines at different time instants, and only jobs belonging to the same family can be processed together. Parallel batch machine scheduling typically consists of three types of decisions – batch forming, machine assignment,...

Work is a fundamental determinant of how Americans feel about the quality of their life. In the past 15 years, employment has gained a central role in the lives of women as well as men, with married women and single mothers greatly increasing their participation in the workforce (Nieva, 1988). As economic changes trigger workplace shutdowns and reductions in the workforce, an estimated 10 milli...

The focus of this review research is on skill mismatch rather than educational mismatch. Specifically, examines the definition, extent, measurement mismatch, and impact earnings, productivity, job satisfaction employed individuals. Skill occurs when a worker’s possessed skills are incompatible with required task-related skills. underutilization or overskilling arises an individual exceed those ...

Transnational family literature has established that parent-child separations affect negatively on the emotional well-being of migrant parents. Less attention has been paid to other effects separation can have on these parents' lives. Building on insights from transnational family studies and organizational psychology, this article explores the potential link between transnational family life a...

The batch processing machines (BPMs) have the ability to process more than one job together (called a batch). So the scheduling problem of the BPMs concerns not only the priorities of the jobs obtaining the processing service of a BPM, but the number of the jobs processed together on them. According to diverse classified criteria (such as the number of the BPMs and the job families), the schedu...