OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of a worksite social and physical environment intervention on need for recovery (i.e., early symptoms of work-related mental and physical fatigue), physical activity and relaxation. Also, the effectiveness of the separate interventions was investigated. METHODS In this 2 × 2 factorial design study, 412 office employees from a financial service provid...

Social capital plays an important role in enhancing the efficiency of political institutions, and the economic performance of nations. Malaysia is a multiracial country with a population of 22,2 millions. The four main ethnic communities are the Malay, Chinese, Indian and the indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak. The indigenous people account for only about 12 per cent of the population but t...

• Text Questions • Bibliography • Case Study: 1. Action Plan for CSR When an individual develops, organization develops automatically. OD refers to development of following elements of the organization: 1. Developments of individuals, teams and the organizations. 2. Development can only take place when an appropriate knowledge is achieved and passed on to subordinates. Hence it is necessary to ...

In this paper, we investigate how system area networks can deal with transient and permanent network failures. We design and implement a firmware–level retransmission scheme to tolerate transient failures and an on–demand network mapping scheme to deal with permanent failures. Both schemes are transparent to applications and are conceptually simple and suitable for low–level implementations, e....

This paper examines some continuities and ruptures in the use of Web 2.0 such as blogs, social media, user-generated content services etc. vis-à-vis earlier web services. We hypothesize that one of the sociological characteristics of Web 2.0 services is that making personal production public creates a new articulation between individualism and solidarity, which reveals the strength of weak coop...

AIMS To investigate trajectories of negative symptoms during the first 12months of treatment for first episode psychosis (FEP), their predictors and relationship to social recovery. METHOD 1006 participants were followed up for 12months following acceptance into Early Intervention in Psychosis services. Negative symptom trajectories were modelled using latent class growth analysis (LCGA) and ...

From an original sample of 2454 participants free of self-reported psychological distress, 1463 workers completed a 15-month follow-up. Baseline measures included exposure to job demands, decision latitude, social support and need for recovery. Psychological distress was assessed using the General Health Questionnaire at baseline and at follow-up. The findings showed that medium and high exposu...

Scholars in the field of sustainability have often argued that the purpose of establishing and maintaining interorganizational collaboration is to overcome internal limitations of organizations and to strengthen organizational capacity. To examine structural effects of inter-organizational collaboration regarding the ability of networked organizations to effectively manage disasters, this study...

Although earthquake disasters are often termed as a 'natural' disaster, a critical analysis reveals that most of them are in fact man-made, and caused by the human activities that are related to poor construction practices in both developed and developing countries. Damage scenarios of recent earthquakes show ample examples in support of this statement. While risk perception is an important iss...

This paper presents the coding scheme and the timing recovery method of an interface for high-speed cell-based networks. The synchronization technique used in this interface is based on the functionality resulting from combining functions of the fiber channel with the basic features of pure asynchronous transfer mode. The main advantage of this interface is its implementability at high transmis...