Much effort has been and is being devoted to the reform of the teaching of physics. This has led to many new and imaginative approaches to the delivery of the course material, but a perusal of today’s Introductory Physics textbooks indicates that their basic structure has changed little in over fifty years. A radical restructuring is proposed that begins with a modern atomic picture rather than...

The main objective of this research was to identify factors that affected worker productivity, occupational health and safety in selected industries in a developing country. Fifty production managers participated in the study. Fifty-four percent of the managers reported hot environmental conditions, 28% a noisy environment, and 26% a lack of resources and facilities. Managers received worker co...

We examine the contingencies that sway independent non-core directors of S&P500 firms to heed the norms of the corporate elite or the disciplining forces of the efficient directorial labor market in the context of executive entrenchment. We find support for the corporate elite perspective as the number of independent non-core directors is positively associated with an entrenchment index score. ...

The purpose of this article is to present a methodology and tools allowing the use of online multiple-choice questionnaires to enhance collaborative work. The first goal is to allow the questionnaires generation and setting with a simple and ergonomic manner, but also to let questioned people making comments and proposing new questions to other contributors. The developed system provides a visu...