Building on existing research on employee mobility, this paper investigates an inventor?s motivation to move and seeks to answer the question of which inventors move. This paper builds on behavioral and prospect theory, particularly, on the literature on managerial risk taking in order to explore the motivational influences on individual mobility across firms in the pharmaceutical industry spec...

Wage Mobility: Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more regulated and centralized in Portugal, with minimum wages, employment protection, and collective barg...

With the development of location-based social networks, an increasing amount of individual mobility data accumulate over time. The more mobility data are collected, the better we can understand the mobility patterns of users. At the same time, we know a great deal about online social relationships between users, providing new opportunities for mobility prediction. This paper introduces a novelt...

In 1986, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport released results showing that American youth were not in good physical condition and that schools needed to reemphasize physical education. Within the last 15 years, researchers have obtained reliable data on the effects of physical exercise and activity on the physiological functions (including cardiorespiratory fitness) of childre...

This study gives an overview of publications on factors that are associated with the outcome of voice rehabilitation after laryngectomy. A systematic literature review was conducted. Fifty-six manuscripts were analyzed regarding the parameters investigated, the number of participants included, the study designs used, the assessment instruments, and the results. A broad range of factors were con...

Pancharatnam’s [1] notion of ‘in-phase’ is the underlying principle of the quantal geometric phase [2, 3]. It is based on the physical condition of maximal interference: the vector representatives |A〉 and |B〉 of two nonorthogonal quantal states A and B are in-phase if they produce a maximum in intensity when added. This amounts to the condition 〈B|A〉 > 0, and any deviation from it defines the P...

The duty to provide for the medical inspection ofchildren immediately before or at the time ofor as soon as possible after their admission to a public elementary school, and on such other occasions as the Board of Education direct, and the power to make such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the Board of Education for attending to the health and physical condition of the children educated in...

CHAINS OF REUSABLE ARTICLES by Ruth Carrasco-Gallego Submitted to the Departament of Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management and Statistics in partial ful…llment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) at the ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENIEROS INDUSTRIALES. UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID September 2010 c Escuela Técnica Superior de I...

Purpose This study was conducted to evaluate whether a community pharmacist's assistance during the treatment of a patient with a chronic illness would help to discover and improve issues regarding the treatment. Method We employed a prospective intervention study with a control group. The patients ranging in age from 60 to 74, were using one of the six selected community pharmacies in the To...

The opinion of mind-body interaction has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years, as exemplified by accumulating evidence indicating that physical health (body) is associated with emotion and emotion regulation (mind). Yet, the neural basis linking emotion regulation with physical health remains largely uninvestigated. Here we used magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural bas...