This paper explores the use of weighted space syntax models to contribute to the process of integrated urban planning for Jeddah as part of a major planning project in the Saudi Arabia. The Municipality of Jeddah commissioned the production of an integrated suite of planning documents. These plans coordinate Strategic, Sub-Regional, Structural and Local plans across a citywide region and aim to...

This article analyses changes in the provision of Japanese occupational pensions since the early 2000s. It shows how Japanese companies have followed strategies of cost and risk reduction by creating multi-layered benefit systems that offer a combination of defined benefit and defined contribution plans whose benefits are becoming increasingly performance-oriented. Analyzing the reasons behind ...

BACKGROUND The physician workforce in Quebec is regulated by a government-controlled plan. Many specialty trainees expressed concerns about securing a position. Our objective was to analyze physicians' employment issues in Quebec and their impact on residents' training in specialty programs. METHODS We distributed a web-based self-administrated survey to all Quebec residents training in speci...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), enacted on August 21, 1996 (Public Law 104-19), provides for improved access and renewability with respect to employment-related group health plans, to health insurance coverage sold in connection with group plans, and to the individual market (by amending the Public Health Service Act). The Act's provisions include improv...

The Strawberry Discovery and Niche Process (SDNP) introduces a workbook, a new systematic method, a compact and cost-effective training process. The trainees are directed in a systematic process to make an inventory of their most valuable resources, including themselves, and plan for additional training or a career. On the basis of their discoveries, they generate: a plan for self-employment, p...

In this paper, we model interdependencies between fertility and women's employment in postsocialist Poland, a country that experienced a rapid decline in fertility and employment after 1989. In view of the fact that finding and maintaining employment became difficult, a hypothesis has been formulated that women postpone childbearing until they find a job. Testing this hypothesis requires taking...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has teetered on the brink of disaster each fall in recent years. The reasons are manifold, but the tipping point seems to rest improbably on a retirement benefit. Back in 2006, Congress decided the USPS should fund its accumulated future retiree health liability over a ten-year period. That translates to more than $5 billion due each September, which the ...