The literature on employment protection has largely ignored the influence that such policies may have on macroeconomic dynamics. Also, the manner in which exit has been modelled heretofore may understate the effects of these policies. Finally, industrial subsidies to failing plants have largely been ignored as an important element of employment protection. To address these issues, I develop a g...

Facts?Belinda and William Jeter sued Mayo Clinic Arizona for the negligent destruction of five frozen pre-embryos. The pre-embryos were derived from Mrs. Jeter?s eggs and Mr. Jeter?s sperm [7], were allowed to develop a couple of days then preserved for future attempts at in vitro [8] fertilization [9]. Five of the pre-embryos were somehow lost during transportation to another clinic, the Arizo...

BACKGROUND The aviation industry uses crew resource management (CRM) to address the human aspect of error. Dentistry can incorporate these concepts to reduce dental error. The authors provide a checklist to help clinicians mitigate error. METHODS Health care systems have begun to focus on medical error. During the past 30 years, the airline industry has developed mitigation strategies that ar...

Arrogant behavior is as old as human nature. Nonetheless, the factors that cause people to be perceived as arrogant have received very little research attention. In this paper, we focused on a typical manifestation of arrogance: dismissive behavior. In particular, we explored the conditions under which a person who dismissed advice would be perceived as arrogant. We examined two factors: the ad...

The attrition rate in nurse anesthesia educational programs is of interest to educators and the CRNA profession as an important outcome of the educational process. This study reports the beliefs of program directors about the rate of and reasons for attrition in the cohort graduating in 2005. A survey tool was distributed online to all 101 nurse anesthesia educational program directors. Eight p...

Global pressure to increase Australia’s market competitiveness has prompted the government to allow employers more control over the determination of wages and conditions. This change has resulted in concern over increased exploitation of vulnerable cohorts of the labour force, particularly young workers. The circumstances which lead to the breakdown of the employment relationship in young emplo...

The pleading burden that governs securities-fraud litigation is significantly higher than those standards that govern traditional civil cases. The heightened pleading burden applicable to securities cases has transformed the motion to dismiss into something like summary judgment. In fact, to contend with this heightened pleading burden, plaintiffs typically must spend more time in the prefiling...