While the nuclear power industry is trying to reinforce its safety and regain the public’s support post-Fukushima, it is also faced with a very real challenge that affects its day-to-day activities: a rapidly aging workforce. A 2009 Nuclear Energy Institute survey indicates that 38% of the nuclear utility workforce is eligible to retire by 2014, leaving the US nuclear industry alone with about ...

Microbiological contamination of eggs should be prevented in the poultry industry, as poultry is one of the major reservoirs of human Salmonella. ClO2 gas has been reported to be an effective disinfectant in various industry fields, particularly the food industry. The aims of this study were to evaluate the antimicrobial effect of chlorine dioxide gas on two strains of Salmonella inoculated ont...

Recent research on the importance of the antebellum tariff for the survival of the American cotton textile industry has come into highly conflicting conclusions. By examining both the British and American experiences throughout the period, we find that both extreme conclusions are potentially misleading. Our results suggest that both the quality composition of imports from Great Britain and the...

This paper addresses the problem of the general validity of models of the industry life cycle, which have been proposed to analyse the long-term evolution of many industries, exhibiting a typical pattern of shakeout. We study a case of non shake-out in the commercial jet aero-engine industry, marked by a small number of entry events distributed over 40 years of industry evolution, by no exits a...

Nothing has significantly checked the growth of the tobacco industry since the introduction of smoking to Europe, and the industry has easily survived the 40 years since the first authoritative revelations about the health effects of smoking. Some explanations are offered and the tactics of the industry and the response of the UK Government are reviewed. The policies of British-American Tobacco...

Over the past 40 years or so the Indian pharmaceutical sector witnessed rapid growth and transformation. From a mere volume of just Rs. 10 core in 1947, the industry registered a sales turnover of about US $ 5.5 billion in 2004 with an annual growth rate of about 17%. The flexible provisions of the Patent Act of 1970 and other supportive policies of the Government of India played an instrumenta...

The measurement of inter-industry pay differentials and the resulting use of this information to assess the empirical relevance of different labor market theories have been hampered by the fact that measures of total compensation – as opposed to just wages and salaries – are not available in the datasets traditionally used. We improve upon past measures of inter-industry pay differentials by be...

The pursuit of an acting career is a difficult one for anybody. However, studies have yet to factor how disability affects casting opportunities. This study describes the employment of actors with disabilities, along with the unique barriers they encounter in the audition and casting process. Actors with disabilities from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) were recruited to participate in focus grou...

The Companhia Siderúrgica Paulista – COSIPA is an integrated steel plant of the Usiminas System located in the municipality of Cubatão, in the coastal region of the São Paulo state, Brazil. This works produces 4.5 millions tons of steel per year; 1.0 million tons of this output are delivered as rolled plates, which meet a wide range of uses, such as those in agricultural implements, industrial ...