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Research on formulae production in spreadsheets has established the practice as high risk yet unrecognised as such by industry. There are numerous software applications that are designed to audit formulae and find errors. However these are all post creation, designed to catch errors before the spreadsheet is deployed. As a general conclusion from EuSpRIG 2003 conference it was decided that the ...

A set of physical feature values, called Laban feature set, is proposed in order to explain observers impression of bodily expression. The design concept of the Laban feature value set is based on Laban Movement Analysis, which is a famous theory in body movement psychology. In this paper, for practial application to Human-Agent Interaction(HAI), we consider adopt Human Form Robot (HFR) as a mo...

The UC Davis Ergonomics & Body Mechanics Program provides employees with ergonomic information, training and evaluations.

of paper for T rack 1 “Management, Work and Organisation”, 15 World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association: “The New World of Work, Organisations and Employment.” 24 – 27 August 2009, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia Human Resource Outsourcing and the HR Function: Opportunity or Threat?

Significant societal disruptions are anticipated from mass human migration due to environmental factors, e.g., climate change. Understanding human behavioral responses to these disruptions are critical for informed policy decisions. However this is hindered by a significant data gap. Black et al. defines this gap as the difference between agency (the ability of migrants to self-report) and infe...

(e.g., economic conditions) and situational factors (e.g., drug use) and increases and decreases in homicide rates. The study also examined whether changes in the responses of the criminal justice system appeared to be related to changes in the homicide rates in these cities. The eight cities were selected because their homicide rates were the strongest examples of selected trends. Therefore, t...

In this paper we argue that a more legitimate and responsive state is an essential factor for a more adequate level of tax effort in developing countries and high income countries. While at first glance giving such advice to poor countries seeking to increase their tax ratios may not seem more helpful than telling them to find oil, it is presumably more feasible for people to improve their gove...