background: solvents, which are widely used in industry, are able to dissolve another substance for creating a solution. solvents have various effects on human health based on their type and chemical composition. methods: this was a cross-sectional study to investigate the harmful effects of solvents on wood painters in yazd city. to achieve information, a census questionnaire was prepared and ...

taking both work and family roles in society simultaneously results in role conflict. this conflict may prevent one from performing each role effectively and this in turn may provoke serious work-family conflicts. usually there are more expectations for women concerning domestic and family affairs. the current study, applying merton’s theory, good’s theory and social support theory investigates...

In Spain, the high levels of inexperienced workers and the long chains of subcontracting contribute to poor quality of dwellings. Although the Ley reguladora de la subcontratación en el Sector de la Construcción (Subcontracting law) has established quality measures, the number of customer complaints is still increasing. In this paper, a total of 2351 post-handover defects derived from four Span...

Common nursing functions, previously done in face-to-face interactions, are beginning to be done using computer interactions, thus changing the work environment of nurses. This paper reports experiences from a series of projects +bout the potential impact of electronic care delivery systems on nurses’ work systems. Nurses’ attitudes towards technology, values central to nursing practice and nur...

Arguably the fundamental problem faced by employers is how to elicit effort from employees. Most models suggest that employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on heterogeneity across employees, and that is to screen job candidates to find workers with a stronger work ethic who require less monitoring. This should...

We propose a new business cycle theory. Firms need to randomize over firing or keeping workers who have performed poorly in the past, in order to give them an ex-ante incentive to exert effort. Firms have an incentive to coordinate the outcome of their randomizations, as coordination allows them to load the firing probability on states of the world in which it is costlier for workers to become ...

What does it take to become a successful Professor in Information Systems? Hard work and a good sense of humor, obviously. But, is it enough? Unsurprisingly, the familiar confession from the people who have made it through the professorial ranks in our field is " Well, it hasn't been easy ". This panel aims to explore why this may be the case, shedding light in the processes, the practices, the...

We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market. The platform provider faces uncertainty about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. It maximizes the expected present value of its pro t stream in a continuous-time in nite-horizon framework by setting participation fees or quantities on both sides. We show that a price-setting platf...