This was a cross sectional study, which aimed to determine the interaction between situational, factors, role stressors, hazard exposure and personal factors among 246 nurses consisting most of females (78.5%) from the different wards and units in the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). The dominance of female sin the profession reinforce the prevailing notion that the caring professions such as...

Enterprise unions have been viewed as one of the Japanese-style employment systems; following the harsh labor disputes of the 1950s and 60s, the labor-management consultation system was improved and relationships based on collaboration and cooperation with those in management were created. As a result, although enterprise unions have contributed to increases in productivity at companies, they a...

The investigation of hydrodynamic models with partially penetrable obstacles has been initiated by the recent progress in the development of free flow turbines [l] for the purpose of estimating their efficiency limit [2]. In the previous paper [3], an explicitly solvable analog of the Kirchhoff cavitation flow was obtained. As in the classical situation, the main deficiency of the Kirchhoff mod...

Ant Colony Optimization algorithms were inspired by the foraging behavior of ants that accumulate pheromone trails on the shortest paths to food. Some ACO algorithms employ pheromone trail limits to improve exploration and avoid stagnation by ensuring a non-zero probability of selection for all trails. The MAX-MIN Ant System (MMAS) sets explicit pheromone trail limits while the Ant Colony Syste...

We present an algorithm for the quick delineation of capture zones using complex discharge potential. The flow is steady and two-dimensional in a homogeneous domain with anisotropic transmissivity. The procedure accommodates an arbitrary number of injection and extraction wells at any locations throughout the flowfield, as well as regional flow, in the form of a uniform flow component. Capture ...

An investigation was carried out for swirling flow in a rotating pipe with highly viscous fluid containing micro-bubbles experimentally and numerically. In the numerical analysis, bubble trajectory of each bubble was calculated using resultant numerical flow field solutions. From experimental results, with an aid of the numerical simulation, data were obtained for the location of a stagnation p...

Accomplishing useful tasks with a collection of decentralized mobile robots will require control methods that deal eeectively with a number of unique problems that impede the system's progress. Reactive control architectures can easily cause the problems of stagnation and cyclic behaviour , both characterized by a lack of progress in achieving a task. In this paper we present one possible solut...