Downsizing became a common business practice in the 1980s and continues to be a common practice today. For 2008, the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 1,517,857 workers were laid off. Given the current economic climate, this is not entirely surprising. However, downsizing seems to be a common practice regardless of the economic situation. In fact, since 2000, the lowest number of l...

ACCEPTANCE This dissertation was prepared under the direction of the Anita Pansari Dissertation Committee. It has been approved and accepted by all members of that committee, and it has been accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in the J. ABSTRACT A ROAD TO ENGAGEMENT Major Academic Unit: Marketing In Essay 1, we hi...

Abrupt environmental pollution accidents cause considerable damage worldwide to the ecological environment, human health, and property. The concept of acceptable risk aims to answer whether or not a given environmental pollution risk exceeds a societally determined criterion. This paper presents a case study on acceptable environmental pollution risk conducted through a questionnaire survey car...

Nowadays developments in Wireless Sensor and Actuators Networks (WSAN) applications are determined by the fulfillment of constraints imposed by the application. For this reason, in this work a characterization of WSAN applications in health, environmental, agricultural and industrial sectors are presented. A case study for detecting heart arrhythmias in non-critical patients during rehabilitati...

In distributed resource allocation a set of agents must assign their resources to a set of tasks. This problem arises in many real-world domains such as distributed sensor networks, disaster rescue, hospital scheduling and others. Despite the variety of approaches proposed for distributed resource allocation, a systematic formalization of the problem, explaining the different sources of difficu...

in this article, it has been tried to analyze the mental satisfaction of the quality of life in different regions in terms of objective development. for this purpose, districts no. 3, 6, and 9 of mashhad city which through the measures of education, income, and employment were respectively among the deprived, the average, and the privileged regions were selected as the case study areas. moreove...

introduction: stress induces impairment of performance is a relatively common issue in pilots of military aviation. the present study aimed at gathering preliminary data on the relationship between stress and job satisfaction among military pilots, so determine to what extent military pilots suffering from job satisfaction. methods: this study was cross- sectional in design and used survey meth...

Although the relationship between job and life satisfaction has attracted much attention, little research has been undertaken in geographically remote settings. The present study addresses this deficiency by testing a causal model that incorporates job related, personal, environmental, and community related variables. The LISREL results based on a sample of 286 male employees from an open-cut c...