Turning a ‘blind eye’ to non-compliance with minimum wage standards is sometimes presented as pragmatic way accommodate higher wages while not harming employment opportunities for workers employed in marginal firms. In this paper, we model firms' and decisions, show that there may be trade-off between employment. The main predictions of the are tested empirically using data from Italian labour ...

background: in a variety of industries, accreditation is recognized as a symbol of quality indicating that the organization meets certain performance standards. in this regard, health records are among the primary documents used by health care facilities to evaluate compliance with the standards set by the accreditation agencies. this study compares the strengths and weaknesses of information m...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of hospital quality assurance interventions on compliance with clinical standards, availability of essential drugs, client satisfaction, and utilization. DESIGN Quasi-experimental, prospective study with four intervention hospitals and four control hospitals. All eight facilities were purposively selected and of comparable complexity. SETTING Ministry of H...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Raimo Nikkilä Name of the doctoral dissertation Automated control of compliance with production standards in precision agriculture Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Department of Automation and Systems Technology Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 84/2013 Field of research Informati...

A significant amount of software is developed all over the world by small and medium size software organizations. These organizations do not have enough infrastructures and resources to implement an austere quality plan. Software inspection is a fundamental component of the software quality assurance process. Formal review methods are rigorous and their implementation is cumbersome for small an...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the level of compliance with the PAOS Code (Publicidad, Actividad, Obesidad y Salud), which establishes standards for the self-regulation of food marketing aimed at minors, in television advertising by food and beverage companies that have agreed to abide by the Code. DESIGN The study sample consisted of food and beverage advertisements targeting children during 80 h of ...

purpose: this study aimed to assess the relationship between religious orientation (internal / external) of library users and their tendency to safekeeping and protect the information resources and heeding library rules. method: the research method was survey and the data gathered using the alport questionnaire of religious orientation and a questionnaire for assessing the tendency of the users...

This paper focuses on the requirements for face images to be used in Machine Readable Travel Documents, defined in the ISO/IEC 19794-5 standard. In particular an evaluation framework is proposed for testing software able to automatically verify the compliance of an image to the standard. The results obtained for thee commercial software are reported and compared.

To deliver high-quality, reliable, and consistent services safely, organizations develop professional standards. Despite the communication and reinforcement of these standards, they are often not followed consistently. Although previous research suggests that high job demands are associated with declines in compliance over lengthy intervals, we hypothesized—drawing on theoretical arguments focu...