The Intelligent Job Site is becoming a reality as applications (e.g., RFID for materials tracking, laser scanning and GPS for surveying and layout) using sensors and mobile computing devices are being developed and deployed commercially. This creates an opportunity for workers to access sensors in an ad hoc manner as they move through a job site. However, re-tasking and re-use of sensor data in...

Psychologists claim that being treated kindly puts individuals in a positive emotional state: they then treat an unrelated third party more kindly. Numerous experiments document subjects indeed ‘pay forward’ specific behavior. For example, are less generous after having experienced stinginess. This, however, is not necessarily driven by emotions. Subjects may also imitate what regard as sociall...

As systems scale towards exascale, many resources will become increasingly constrained. While some of these resources have historically been explicitly allocated, many, like network bandwidth, I/O bandwidth, or power, have not. As systems continue to evolve, we expect many such resources to become explicitly managed. This change will pose critical challenges to resource management and job sched...

An unbiased employer engages in optimal sequential search by drawing from two equally quali…ed subpopulations of job candidates who di¤er in their “discourse systems.” That is, minorities convey noisier unbiased signals of ability than non-minorities. We show that when the employer is selective, minorities are underrepresented in the workforce, …red at greater rates, and underrepresented among ...

1 The threat of automation implies a race between education and technology.1 In most developing countries, education systems are not providing workers with the skills necessary to compete in today’s job markets. The growing mismatch between the demand and supply of skills holds back economic growth and undermines opportunity. At the same time, the returns to schooling are high in most developin...

Cloud infrastructure o ers democratized access to on-demand computing resources for scaling applications beyond captive local servers. While on-demand, xed-price Virtual Machines (VMs) are popular, the availability of cheaper but less reliable spot VMs from cloud providers presents an opportunity to reduce the cost of hosting cloud applications. Our work addresses the issue of e ective and econ...

Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This paper addresses this puzzle. Data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) are...

Poverty is multi-dimensional in character, scope and content. has an economic face, a social face Psychological face. Poverty’s includes joblessness, unemployment, lack of finances to satisfy the family’s basic needs. leads low growth. This reduces productivity labour force growth affected. Landless agricultural labourers means, “Employment rural areas other than agriculture”. In this study are...

This study advances a differentiated understanding of job ad pre-hire effectiveness. It analyzes the utility values for varying levels attributes through hierarchical Bayesian approach to conjoint analysis. method allows not only measure relative importance different on individual level but also explore heterogeneity in evaluations influenced by educational level, international career orientati...

BACKGROUND Increasing demands on general practice to manage chronic disease may warrant organisational change at the practice level. Staff's readiness for organisational change can act as a facilitator or barrier to implementing interventions aimed at organisational change. OBJECTIVES To explore general practice staff readiness for organisational change and its association with staff and prac...