We examine whether CEO power can explain the vast amount defined benefit pensions received by them. Analyzing a sample of UK firms from 2003 to 2006, we find that pensions constitutes of almost 15% of the average CEO compensation. Statistical analysis shows that the variables representing increased CEO power have a positive influence on pension pay. We also find that the presence of defined ben...

1 An employee injured at work in the UK is able to claim not only no-fault social security benefit from the state under the industrial injuries compensation scheme, but also damages from the employer if liability in tort can be established. Use of one system of compensation does not lead to exclusion from the other; there is no ‘employer privilege’ preventing an employee claiming from both work...

Limited academic attention has been paid to the applicability of Machine Learning (ML) approaches for analyzing worker-reported near-miss safety reports, as opposed injury at construction sites. Although resource-efficient analysis through ML large volumes such data sites can help guide practitioners in decision-making prevent injuries. The current study addresses this research gap by evaluatin...

Exposure of workers to electric and magnetic fields from radiofrequency dielectric heaters (RF heaters) to process polyvinyl chloride material was surveyed. Measurements of electric and magnetic field strengths were made in 10 workers operating 7 RF heaters at 3 plants in Japan. Six of the RF heaters are of the sewing machine type and the other is of the shuttle tray type. In all the RF heaters...

In order to utilize the distributed characteristic of sensors, distributed machine learning has become the mainstream approach, but the different computing capability of sensors and network delays greatly influence the accuracy and the convergence rate of the machine learning model. Our paper describes a reasonable parameter communication optimization strategy to balance the training overhead a...

This paper presents a supervised approach for relation extraction. We apply Support Vector Machines to detect and classify the relations in Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) corpus. We use a set of features including lexical tokens, syntactic structures, and semantic entity types for relation detection and classification problem. Besides these linguistic features, we successfully utilize the d...

One field in the wide area of simulation applications is the field of manufacturing systems. Within it the human factor is of growing interest. To increase the efficiency and productivity of a company besides investment in new technologies the introduction of alternative working structures becomes more and more important. For the modeling of working structures the modeling of workers is signifi...

The Relationship between Organizational Socialization and Organizational Identity among Physical Education Teachers in Cities of Tehran Province   Sh. Nazari, Ph.D.[1]   This study set out to examine the relationship between organizational socialization and organizational identity among physical education teachers in cities of Tehran province. This applied research had a correlational desig...