While studies have shown that graduates from elite universities enjoy high employment rates, they do not tell the story of how students different social class backgrounds experience hiring process. We address this question by interviewing upper-middle-class (UMC) and working- middle-class (WMC) Computer Science Ph.D. at prestigious who are applying for lucrative internships established technolo...

Influenza A viruses pose a major public health threat worldwide, especially due to the potential for inter-species transmission. Farmers could be among the first people to be infected with a novel reassortant virus in a pig herd and may serve as a source of the virus for their communities. In this study, the pig production systems of smallholders in rural Thailand were examined to qualitatively...

The hiring problem is a recent research problem, which has been introduced and studied first by Broder et al. [2] in 2008. It belongs to the category of on-line decision making under uncertainty. In such kind of research, the input is a sequence of instances and a decision must be taken for each instance depending on the instances seen so far while no information on the future is available. The...

BACKGROUND There are no internationally recognized guidelines regarding HIV for employees on cruise ships. The aim of the study was to survey and compare current practices for crews in the cruise industry regarding HIV testing and prevention. MATERIAL AND METHODS Medical representatives from cruise companies were invited to complete a questionnaire on their company's practices regarding HIV-r...

BACKGROUND The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model provides a framework for promoting greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between health and education across the school setting and improving students' cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. By providing a learning environment that ensures each student is emotionally and physically healthy, safe,...

The disciplinary separation between comparative politics and international relations is regularly challenged but persists as a result of institutional inertia and hiring practices. This essay uses the issue of democratization in an attempt to go beyond rhetoric and to develop a framework that integrates the role of transnational activism into the analysis of domestic regime change. Comparative ...

Aesthetic innovations have become increasingly important appropriation mechanisms for firms. Since 2003, the number of design patent applications (to protect aesthetic innovations) has tripled compared to doubling in the numbers of both patent and trademark applications. However, despite the growing interest of firms in aesthetic innovations, knowledge on their determinants is limited. Work on ...

Employees are an asset to organization. Nothing can be achieved without a human resource. Every organization strives intake the best talent and this is possible with different recruitment policies procedure involved for each unique company based on their requirements which makes it from others. And even several factors affect them outline your preferred hiring practices promote consistency with...

In a random search environment with two racial groups each composed of identical numbers of high and low productivity workers, …rms use an imperfect screening device (interviews) to control hiring. If inconclusive interviews lead …rms to hire majority workers but not minority workers, then the unemployment pool for majority workers is of higher average quality. This can justify the initial hiri...