This article focuses on the restructurings that took place within hospitality sector during economic downturn caused by pandemic. The aim of this is to examine how STW (short-time work) schemes and redundancies affected psychosocial work environment. data material consists primarily 36 interviews with employees managers from three hotels in Sweden implemented schemes, where some were also made ...

Figure 1. Typical sewage treatment works schematic flow diagram in Hong Kong Hong Kong has the geographical advantage of being situated on the coast and therefore it is possible to use dual water supply systems (fresh + sea water systems in two separate distribution networks) for potable and non-potable uses. From the sea water supply system, about three quarters of the population in Hong Kong ...

With the increasing complexity of the emerging embedded real-time systems, traditional design approaches can not provide sufficient support for the development of these systems anymore. They especially lack the ability to trace and analyse real-time system properties. In this paper, we investigate the design difficulties for embedded real-time systems and propose several principles for coping w...

2-Ethyl-1,3,4-trimethylimidazolium is so far the fifth and largest imidazolium cation able to produce the pure silica zeolite ITW. The crystallization is not direct, but occurs as an in situ transformation from either the chiral HPM-1 (STW) zeolite or the new layered zeolite precursor HPM-2 (preMTF) and results in large interpenetrated crystals with a habit so far unseen in this zeolite. The re...

Imprinting is a flexible and straightforward technique to generate selective sensor materials e.g. for mass-sensitive detection. Inherently, the strategy suits both molecular analytes and entire micro organisms or cells. Imprinted polyurethanes e.g. are capable of distinguishing the different xylene isomers with very appreciable selectivity factors. Combining imprinted titanates with surface tr...

Since Dart’s analysis of the Taung skull in1925 in Nature, there has been controversy surrounding the presence of a clearly defined lunate sulcus (LS) in the australopithecines, marking the anterior extent of primary visual cortex (PVC). An anterior position signifies that the LS is in an ape-like position, such as found in Pan troglodytes. A posterior position is a more human-like characterist...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gut disorder with high prevalence. Because of various factors involved in its pathophysiology and disappointing results from conventional IBS medications, the treatment of IBS is challenging and use of complementary and alternative medicines especially herbal therapies is increasing. In this paper, electronic databases including PubMed, Scopus, and...

background physical activity and alteration of temperature as a source of stress may have adverse effects on male reproduction. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of chronic swimming and standing in cold, warm and lukewarm water on mouse spermatogenesis. materials and methods forty-nine male mice (n = 49) were randomly divided into seven groups: c, control; swc, swim...