BACKGROUND Several epidemiological studies have investigated the association between occupation and brain tumour risk, but results have been inconclusive. We investigated the association between six occupational categories defined a priori: chemical, metal, agricultural, construction, electrical/electronic and transport, and the risk of glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma. METHODS In a po...

informal sector is derived from capitalism that form important part of economics in many countries specially developing countries and is an important factor in job and income creating . easy condition that existed for participating to this section such as : no limitation for entrance in this activities and little investment , no need for special skill caused that in recent years majority of peo...

There has never been a more important time than the present to be aware of the consultant’s job plan and how it can be changed to improve the work/life balance. One-quarter of physicians have considered either giving up clinical practice or taking early retirement due to antisocial working hours, conditions or domestic difficulties. Formal job planning meetings offer an opportunity either to ch...

AIMS To evaluate fatigue, sub-dimensions, and job satisfaction among workers of Iran Central Iron Ore Co., and obtain the relationship between them. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study, fatigue and the dimensionality were measured using Iranian version of Piper Fatigue Scale questionnaire (PFS). Job satisfaction was estimated with the job satisfaction scale (JSS) as well. RESUL...

Today’s batch computing systems derive from a job scheduling paradigm. In contrast, utility service environments assign measured quantities of resources to long-running customer activities according to policies for resource matching and allocation. In this paper we explore the duality between job scheduling and utility resource management using a leasing abstraction that generalizes reservation...

Business Process Management (BPM) maximizes firm performance by transforming isolated functional activities into streamlined, cross-functional processes. Being a relatively new discipline, disagreement exists regarding the position structure and qualifications required for success. However, certain individual differences have been associated with job performance, both in general and for specifi...