Purpose: To explore the implications for all employees’ psychological contracts of a forced change from permanent to temporary employment status for some employees within an organisation. Methodology/Approach: A random sample of 30 employees, stratified by employment status was selected. Each employee undertook a structured card sort of possible emotional responses to change followed by an in-d...

OBJECTIVE To promote evidence-based decision making regarding hospital staffing, the authors examined the characteristics of supplemental nurses, as well as the relationship of supplemental staff to nurse outcomes and adverse events. BACKGROUND The use of supplemental nurses to bolster permanent nursing staff in hospitals is widespread but controversial. Quality concerns have been raised rega...

Whether it is at the fabrication stage or during course of quantum computation, e.g. because high-energy events like cosmic rays, qubits constituting an error correcting code may be rendered inoperable. Such defects correspond to individual clusters and could potentially disrupt sufficiently generate logical errors. In this paper, we explore a novel adaptive approach for surface correction on d...

Estimating the Income Loss of Disabled Individuals: The Case of Spain In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap will be lower after gaining so...

Working conditions in Western countries have changed dramatically in the last twenty years, witnessing the emergence of new forms of employment contracts. The number of "standard" fulltime permanent jobs has decreased, while non-standard work arrangements such as temporary, contingent or part-time contracts have become much more common. This paper analyses the impact of temporary contracts and ...

Temporary pacemakers are classically indicated for severe bradydysrhythmia, especially when the clinical settings require prompt intervention. Implantation of a temporary pacemaker is not a benign procedure since it may be associated with serious adverse events such as infection, cardiac perforation, and lead dislodgment. Accordingly, we recommend, when the clinical condition allows, to proceed...

Two principal mosquito breeding problems that occur in Florida are discussed from the standpoint of a manager of a mosquito abatement district: 1) mosquitoes that breed in standing or permanent water, and 2) mosquitoes that breed in temporary habitats such as floodwater pools. The efficacies of several different types of biological control agents are discussed for each type of problem. Fish are...