the feature of decorating curves in iranian arts, paintings, illumination, cover decorating, engraving carving sudoriferous cloth carpet and several decorations related to architecture including tile, stucco have principles and features of traditional designing. several types of figures of khatayi and ieslimi and their roles in combination and space besides having principles in proportion to gr...

A comparison of 234 call centre agents with 572 workers in traditional jobs with long lasting training revealed lower job control and task complexity/ variety and higher uncertainty among call agents. However, time pressure, concentration demands, and work interruptions were lower in call agents. Within the call agent sample, controlling for negative affectivity and other working conditions, jo...

BACKGROUND To develop a web-based computer adaptive testing (CAT) application for efficiently collecting data regarding workers' perceptions of job satisfaction, we examined whether a 37-item Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ-37) could evaluate the job satisfaction of individual employees as a single construct. METHODS The JCQ-37 makes data collection via CAT on the internet easy, viable and fas...

In many scheduling applications it is required that the processing of some job be postponed until some other job, which can be chosen from a pregiven set of alternatives, has been completed. The traditional concept of precedence constraints fails to model such restrictions. Therefore, the concept has been generalized to so-called and/or precedence constraints which can cope with this kind of re...

The vision of building a successful software product requires teams of individuals equipped with a wide range of social and technical skills. Furthermore, by combining these skills with appropriate job roles, we should be able to improve the productivity of a software organization. In order to identify and compare different roles in software development activities, we conduct a systematic compa...

A national survey of health care administrators was used to assess the acceptability of a job applicant’s qualifications that included a degree earned either online, partly online, or in a traditional program. A questionnaire was sent in response to job advertisements that were posted in newspapers from 38 metropolitan areas throughout the United States. The respondents were asked to select one...

The empirical literature on compensating wage differentials has a mixed history. While there have been some successes, much of this research finds weak support for the theory of equalizing differences. We argue that these negative results can be explained by bias in estimated compensating wage differential regressions. The source of this bias is dispersion in total job values, or “job dispersio...

Background Self-reported occupational histories are an important means for collecting historical data in epidemiological studies. An occupational history calendar (OHC) has been developed for use alongside a national occupational hazard surveillance tool. This study presents the systematic development of the OHC and compares work histories collected via this calendar to those collected via a tr...

Practical optimization problems such as job-shop scheduling often involve optimization criteria that change over time. Repair-based frameworks have been identi ed as exible computational paradigms for di cult combinatorial optimization problems. Since the control problem of repair-based optimization is severe, Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques can be potentially helpful. However, some of t...

Practical optimization problems such as job-shop scheduling often involve optimization criteria that change over time. Repair-based frameworks have been identi ed as exible computational paradigms for difcult combinatorial optimization problems. Since the control problem of repair-based optimization is severe, Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques can be potentially helpful. However, some of t...