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The Chaplain and the Social Worker Even if we disregard the opinion of those who believe that the most important function of a chaplain in a mental hospital is to run the patients' library, I think we must admit that a chaplain's duties are such that he must perforce be very much involved in attending to the social needs of patients and staff. I should feel sorry however, for the newly appointe...

How age-conscious are human resource policies? Using a survey of Dutch employers, we examine how employers deal with the prospect of an ageing work force. We supplement our analysis with an additional survey of Dutch employees to compare human resource policies to practices. Results show that a small minority of employers are taking measures to enhance productivity (training programmes) or brin...

 Understanding dependence structure and relationship between two sets of variables is of main interest in statistics. When encountering two large sets of variables, a researcher can express the relationship between the two sets by extracting only finite linear combinations of the original variables that produce the largest correlations with the second set of variables. When data are con...