Employees’ play a key role in the existence and growth of any organisation, therefore their welfare is essential. During the past few years, both public sector and private sector organisations have been contributing towards the employee’s benefits and also increase their efficiency. Employees’ welfare facilities include housing facilities, free medical facilities, retirement benefits, children ...

The most important efforts that have been reported for the development of generic satisfaction barometers during the last years refer to individual business organisations, industry sectors or the total of national economies. The main aim of these efforts is the data collection either for comparative analysis of companies performance regarding customer satisfaction or for monitoring the evolutio...

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. In the first half of the chapter, I introduce the method of analysis that I use to assess the empirical support for the models and hypotheses presented in the previous chapter. Although no specific component of the analysis represents a new analytic technique or statistical tool, the manner in which they are combined here – and applied to the substantive ...

Tracking is an important field in visual surveillance systems. Trackers have been applied traditionally in the image, but a new concept of tracking has been used gradually, applying the tracking on the ground map of the surrounding area. The purpose of this article is to compare both alternatives and prove that this new usage makes possible to obtain a higher performance and a minimization of t...

This paper examines the output and productivity performance of the Transport and Communication sector in South Korea and Australia, from 1990 to 1999. The aim of the paper is two -fold. First, the paper is the first in a series which compares the performance of various industries within the service sector. Second, it introduces a method for derivation of appropriate currency converters or purch...

BACKGROUND Determining the credibility of qualitative research findings remains a contested area and leaves the way open for additional theoretical and methodological discussion. AIMS In this paper we focus on audit trails and confirmability, within the context of 'expert' qualitative researchers. Having outlined the audit trail process, we develop existing arguments about the 'expert' qualit...

Languages employ different strategies to mark an utterance as a polar (yes–no) question, including syntax, intonation and gestures. This study analyzes the production and perception of information-seeking questions and broad focus statements in Dutch and Catalan. These languages use intonation for marking questionhood, but Dutch also exploits syntactic variation for this purpose. A production t...

Abstract The News Site Contrast (NSContrast) system analyzes news articles retrieved from multiple news sites based on the concept of contrast set mining. It can extract terms that characterize different topics of interest across news sites, countries, and regions. In this study, we used NSContrast to analyze Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) data by comparing news articles ...