The objectives of this paper are five-folds, namely (a) to investigate the awareness of management and employees about restructuring exercise, (b) to analyze whether the organizational restructuring has any impact on the employees’ performance and motivation at the Company, (c) to identify whether employees’ attitude will influence their motivation and job performance towards organizational res...

We present a mutiple-perspective collaboration metamodel, which mixes Place-Centred and People-Centred perspectives. It allows instances of the metamodel to be derived and experimented until the more adequate to a particular situation is found. It also allows parametric changes in run-time, enhancing the flexibility of the metamodel. The motivation for this work was extracted from the necessity...

In the light of finite oil reserves, Persian Gulf oil-exporting economies have recently undertaken major investments in their domestic travel and tourism industries. Building on Bayesian SVAR model global market Baumeister Hamilton (2019), we investigate conditional comovement airline stock returns with real prices response to structural supply demand shocks. We find that investing Datastream W...

To probe how ‘good minds’ think, I asked 16 CEOs who ran (or had been running until recently) successful oil and gas companies to read a realistic decision scenario which presented three strategic alternatives: to invest in a new technology, to explore in the Arctic in a joint venture, or to acquire another oil company. The chief executives were then asked to think out loud how they would decid...

Eighty-two out of the 100 hydrocarbonoclastic bacterial species that have been already isolated from oil-contaminated Kuwaiti sites, characterized by 16S rRNA nucleotide sequencing, and preserved in our private culture collection, grew successfully in a mineral medium free of any nitrogenous compounds with oil vapor as the sole carbon source. Fifteen out of these 82 species were selected for fu...

Military personnel deployed to the Persian Gulf War have reported a variety of symptoms attributed to their exposures. We examined relationships between symptoms of respiratory illness present 5 years after the war and both self-reported and modeled exposures to oil-fire smoke that occurred during deployment. Exposure and symptom information was obtained by structured telephone interview in a p...

At present no company develops oil and gas fields without constructing geologic and hydrodynamic models. This is due in particular to the fact that recently the emphasis in design, planning and monitoring has shifted to overdissected and low-permeability reservoirs. To assess economic efficiency and optimal placement of wells and to predict hydrocarbon production levels, it is important to have...

The subject matter of this paper refers to the assessment of the influence of the oil layer thickness on suppression of the acoustic emission (AE) signals generated by partial discharges (PDs) developing in paper-oil insulation of power appliances. The paper presents laboratory research results referring to the analysis of suppression of the AE signals frequency band depending on the thickness ...