This study was aimed at developing a method for measuring the relationship between intellectual capital and project manager competencies. Intellectual capital consist human capital, structural capital and relational capital. Project manager competencies have been evaluated based on IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB) and Project Manager Competency Development Framework (PMCDF) includes knowledge, sk...

Background Human resources are consistently cited as a leading contributor to health care costs; however the availability of internationally comparable data on health worker earnings for all countries is a challenge for estimating the costs of health care services. This paper describes an econometric model using cross sectional earnings data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) that...

I provide an economic model with endogenous movements in TFP as a tool for understanding a rationale behind the productivity decline in New Zealand. Cohort quality, measured by a country's human capital distribution determines opportunities for growth. Vintages of human skills are subject to network effects. These network effects, while important for productivity, have the side effect of introd...

Given a network of experts, we tackle the problem of finding a team of experts that covers a set of required skills in order to complete a project. Previous work ranks different teams based on the communication cost among the team members. However, it does not consider the effect of the authority of the experts. The authority of an expert is application dependent and might be related to the exp...

In this paper the design and implementation of an SRAM layout generator is presented. The generated memories are aimed at implementation of system on chips for DSP applications. The purpose with the generator is to increase the design efficiency and reduce the dependency on commercial memories. The generator is implemented in SKILL in order to be easily modified for more advanced processes. The...

Today, skills laboratories or "skills labs", i.e. specific practical skill training facilities, are a firmly established part of medical education offering the possibility of training clinical procedures in a safe and fault-forging environment prior to real life application at bedside or in the operating room. Skills lab training follows a structured teaching concept, takes place under supervis...

The high demand for conservation work is creating a need for conservation-focused training of scientists. Although many people with postsecondary degrees in biology are finding careers outside academia, many programs and mentors continue to prepare students to follow-in-the-footsteps of their professors. Unfortunately, information regarding how to prepare for today's conservation-based job mark...

Although it is widely acknowledged that chess is the best example of an intellectual activity among games, evidence showing the association between any kind of intellectual ability and chess skill has been remarkably sparse. One of the reasons is that most of the studies investigated only one factor (e.g., intelligence), neglecting other factors relevant for the acquisition of chess skill (e.g....

The majority of skill-upgrading in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s was due to within industry shifts in skill-intensity. Traditional trade theory, represented by the HeckscherOhlin model, predicts that trade affects relative employment primarily by shifting resources across industries. For this reason, many economists have concluded that international trade has played a minor rol...

Relevance of the paper to this project: This paper provides a great background and a very good starting point for anyone interested in evaluating surgical skills. This paper shows how motion analysis is a useful measure of surgical skill evaluation, talks about different ways to capture motion in a surgical procedure and discusses a wide variety of methods that have been used to build an evalua...