Dr. McCormack's Organization Work.

Information Technology and Work Organization Information Technology and Work Organization

Work organization and preferences dynamics

We present a model with intergenerational transmission of preferences providing a joint explanation of preference evolution and of work organization changes in a society. We focus on preference for autonomy dened as individual' s degree of initiative and valuation of self direction. We show that the economy has two steady states with dierent levels of workers autonomy and of coercion degree in ...

Work organization and software development

The current state of traditional software development is surveyed and essential problems are investigated on the basis of empirical data and theoretical considerations. The concept of optimisation cycle is proposed as a solution. The relation of several different kinds of local optimisation cycles to the specifications, the communications, and the optimisation problem is integrated into a conce...

Message from Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization.

An example of our fruitful collaboration and teamwork was the reciprocal and complementary contributions for the development of UNSCEAR and WHO reports related with the Chernobyl and Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accidents. Our successful cooperation also included the evaluation of risks of the exposure to radon and other natural radiation sources as well as the assessment and communication of radia...

The life and work of Dr. Robert Bittman (1942-2014).

-With the passing of Dr. Robert Bittman on the 1 Oct 2014 from cancer, the lipid field lost its most distinguished lipid chemist researcher. Herein, we provide a brief account of Dr. Robert Bittman’s research achievements over a 50 year career. Dr. Robert Bittman’s lasting legacies to the fields of lipid membrane biophysics, cholesterol trafficking and cellular functions of phospholipids and sp...