In this paper we examine questions of how the unintended impacts of information and communications technology can be examined in order to anticipate and safeguard against negative consequences. Using the domain of the eGovernment impacts on marginalized members of the community, we examine the theoretical basis of the sociotechnical interaction network (STIN) approach and its applicability to i...

PURPOSE Healthcare organizations often have to provide patient care around the clock. Shift work (any shift outside of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m) and long work hours increase the risk for short sleep duration and sleep disturbances. Thirty-two percent of healthcare workers report they do not get enough sleep. The purpose of the article is to give an overview of the wide range of risks to nurses, patients...

Several studies suggest that the $1.4 billion in government subsidies are encouraging the ethanol program without substantial benefits to the U.S. economy. Large ethanol industries and a few U.S. government agencies, such as the USDA, support the production of ethanol. Corn-farmers receive minimal profits. In the U.S. ethanol system, considerably more energy, including high-grade fossil fuel, i...

Labor demand curves slope down.1 From this statement it is a short leap to the Malthusian proposition that an increase in the supply of workers reduces wages. So short is the leap, in fact, that the title of George Borjas’s (2003) paper “The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market” seems to imply that as a theoretical matter, immigration...

prospective studies of the potential health consequences of trade and investment treaties, such as the trans-pacific partnership, are critical. these studies can make visible to trade policy-makers the potential negative impacts associated to such treaties and can influence the outcomes of such negotiations. however, few researchers have examined retrospectively the consequences of trade agreem...

The arrival of humans in the Galapagos Islands, since their discovery in 1535, brought a series of negative impacts and, in some cases, irreversible damage, such as the extinction of endemic plants and rodents on several islands. A major cause of these impacts was the deliberate or unintentional introduction of non-native organisms. There have been substantial efforts to eradicate introduced sp...

Real progress has been achieved in development: the percentage of absolute poor has been halved since 1990, from 43 to 21 percent. Now the world is debating about future development goals, post 2015. Poverty reduction should remain at the top of the agenda. Ending the extreme poverty of one euro (1.25$) a day and ending hunger are now realistic goals for 2030. But tackling the remaining half-th...

A relief route is a segment of a highway that moves traffic around the central business district of a city. Planners perceive it as a means of enhancing mobility and often associate regional economic progress with construction of bypasses. Though a bypass often means safer, quieter, less-congested downtowns, the communities receiving a bypass generally worry about potential negative impacts to ...

This paper presents a dual-objective facility programming model for a green supply chain network. The main objectives of the presented model are minimizing overall expenditure and negative environmental impacts of the supply chain. This study contributes to the existing literature by incorporating uncertainty in customer demand, suppliers, production, and casting capacity. An industrial case st...