The article analyses depictions of disability embodiment in a range contemporary North American speculative fiction that depicts post-crisis worlds social and environmental breakdown. It argues each novel bodies are threatened placed under pressure, particularly terms capacity function. While some resolve this through recourse to humanist narratives restitution, others imagine futures which bot...

performing commitment by the third party   yusef mulaei (ph.d.) [1] amir najafi ghamat [2]   abstract by the personal intervention of the third party (other than the indebted) in performing a commitment, a new process will begin that is not out of the following three conditions. one is that the payment is “forcible” according to the legal ruling as is partially accepted by some internal regulat...

This article uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. We argue that increasing knowledge codification made possible by the diffusion of information and communication technologies has made competences less dependent upon individuals. Knowledge has been increasingly embodied in firms themselves which has played an impo...

A simple model of discretionary worker investment in human capital is developed in which worker productivity is affected by a firm-specific match and employers bid strategically for workers. The labor market returns a share of specific capital productivity to workers without Nash bargaining power and without recourse to long-term contracts, because efficient turnover transforms a worker’s forme...

In the development of a speech understanding system, the recourse to stochastic techniques can greatly reduce the need for human expertise. A known disadvantage is that stochastic models require large annotated training corpora in order to reliably estimate model parameters. Manual semantic annotation of such corpora is tedious, expensive, and subject to inconsistencies. In order to decrease th...

Many distributed computing environments are based on the paradigms of peer-to-peer networks and grid-based computing. These environments tend to be structurally dynamic but with volatile resource and service availability. Such environments have rules, constraints, and guidelines that govern how tasks are performed. The rules describe how resources, components and services should be allocated an...

Abstract This article examines the coronavirus counter-measures adopted by East African states from a legal perspective. The focus is whether measures infringe on provisions of Treaty for Establishment Community ( EAC ) and domestic legislations, including countries’ constitutional provisions. recourse citizens in instances where remedies have failed will be examined light role judicial organ C...

We consider power system expansion planning under uncertainty. In our approach, integer programming and stochastic programming provide a basic framework. We develop a multistage stochastic programming model in which some of the variables are restricted to integer values. By utilizing the special property of the problem, called block separable recourse, the problem is transformed into a two-stag...

Opportunities to make sequential decisions and adjust activities as a season progresses and more information becomes available characterise the farm management process. In this paper, we present a discrete stochastic two-stage utility efficient programming model of organic dairy farms, which includes risk aversion in the decision maker’s objective function as well as both embedded risk (stochas...

In this paper, we study a dynamic fleet management problem with uncertain demands and customer chosen service levels. We first show that the problem can be transformed into a dynamic network with partially dependent random arc capacities, and then develop a structural decomposition approach which decomposes the network recourse problem into a series of tree recourse problems (TRPs). As each TRP...