2 ABSTRACT The quantification of the freight movements occurring in each traffic zone disaggregated by supply chain and of the corresponding Origin-Destination trip tables connected with the urban delivery of goods, is essential to evaluate the effects of any city logistic policy in terms of vehicle congestion and polluting emissions, based on the assignment of truck flows to the road network. ...

Nothing is constant but change holds true in this ever transforming business world, technological advancements are one of the powerful driving forces. It has redesigned the way we live, communicate, work and also the way business is conducted. The technology and digitized business communications have enhanced and reformed various organizational activities. The impact of this IT revolution can b...

In an increasingly diverse business environment, managers must be able to navigate through the thicket of habits, gestures, and assumptions that define their coworkers' differences. Foreign cultures are everywhere--in other countries, certainly, but also in corporations, vocations, and regions. Interacting with individuals within them demands perceptiveness and adaptability. And the people who ...

AIM To determine the prevalence of hearing disorders in Singapore military conscripts and describe the profile of hearing loss and associated risk factors. METHODS Population-based descriptive analysis of randomised cohort of 818 Singapore military conscripts presenting for medical examination, using self-administered questionnaire and pure tone audiometry performed for both ears. Main outcom...

The classification of names of people or objects based on the features acquired by the names and the sorting instructions provided is a commonplace occurrence. For example, given the names Renoir, Pollock, James and Voltaire the average adult would be able to classify them differentially based on the instruction to classify them based on vocation or nationality. In general, such a repertoire re...

One of the principal motivations to use the grids computing and data grids comes from the applications using of large sets from data, for example, in High-Energy physics or Life Science to improve the total output of the software environments used to carry these applications on the grids, data replication are deposited on various selected sites. In the field of the grids the majority of the str...

BACKGROUND Most studies regarding the relationship between binge eating disorder (BED) and depression have targeted obese populations. However, nurses, particularly female nurses, are one of the vocations that face these issues due to various reasons including high stress and shift work. This study investigated the prevalence of BED and the correlation between BED and severity of self-reported ...

This article aims to identify occupations at risk of climate change, and explore their spatial distribution by investigating their spatial concentration and cluster patterns in Korea. In order to identify professions vulnerable to climate change, we used three criteria: (1) exposure to the risks of job activities; (2) sensitivity to work environments; and (3) adaptive capacities based on the so...

The purpose of this paper is to sketch some of the implications, prospective and retrospective, of the primacy of method in the present study of politics and to do it by way of a contrast, which is deliberately heightened, but hopefully not caricatured, between the vocation of the “methodist”1 and the vocation of the theorist. My discussion will be centered around the kinds of activity involved...

imone de Beauvoir recalls that when she first made the acquaintance of Jean-Paul Sartre he, then still a young man, proudly and somewhat hubristically declared that when he became older he wanted to be Stendhal and Spinoza (Cérémonie 182, 228). Not satisfied with the dream of being merely a great writer or a great philosopher, Sartre hoped to pursue both academic vocations at the same time. For...