Work relations and the multiple dimensions of the work-life boundary: Hairstyling at home

This article proposes a multidimensional approach to analysis of the work-life boundary and examines the affects of particular social and organizational relations on the preservation or porous-ness of different dimensions. In line with Nippert-Eng (1996), it is suggested that different dimensions of the boundary are reinforced or weakened by different social and organizational pressures. Analysis describes a specific type of multidimensional breaching – instances when work is taken outside of the worksite (spatial breaching) and is carried out outside of work-time (temporal breaching). Empirical research was conducted among hairstylists working in salons and barbershops in a city in the North of England. Because of the nature of the tasks involved in hairstyling – that the skills involved are widely exchangeable and so may be employed in extra-work environments and temporalities – hairstylists provide a nice site for investigating the circumstances when this does (or does not) occur. Data collection involved a comprehensive self-completion survey of salons and barbershops in the city (response rate: 40%; N=132) and semi-structured interviews with 70 stylists working in 52 salons or barbershops. Findings demonstrate that work relations (hairstylists’ structural relations of production – whether a worker is an owner-proprietor, chair-renter, on-commission stylist, basic-only stylist, or trainee) are critical in determining both workers’ ability and desire to resist the seepage of work into their social lives as well as the particular dimensions of the boundary that are breached. This is because work relations affect the relative importance of four identified motivations for taking work out of the salon (income production; training; inter-personal reciprocity rooted in social relations; and inter-personal reciprocity rooted in the workplace)

The High Voltage Feedthroughs for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeters

The purpose, design specifications, construction techniques, and testing methods are described for the high voltage feedthrough ports and filters of the ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeters. These feedthroughs carry about 5000 high voltage wires from a room-temperature environment (300 K) through the cryostat walls to the calorimeters cells (89 K) while maintaining the electrical and cryogenic integrity of the system. The feedthrough wiring and filters operate at a maximum high voltage of 2.5 kV without danger of degradation by corona discharges or radiation at the Large Hadron Collider

Peningkatan Hasil Belajar Pendidikan Agama Islam Melalui Model Pembelajaran Terpadu Tipe Integrated di Kelas IV SD 32 Balai Makam Duri.

Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu: a. Untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar Pendidikan Agama Islam melalui model pembelajaran terpadu tipe integrated di kelas 4 Sekolah Dasar Negeri 32 Balai Makam Duri. b. Memperbaiki model pembelajaran mata pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam di Sekolah Dasar Negeri 32 Balai Makam Duri. Permasalahan yaitu 1. Bagaimana menerapkan model pembelajaran terpadu tipe integrated di Sekolah Dasar Negeri 32 Balai Makam Duri. 2. Apakah dengan menggunakan model pembelajaran terpadu tipe integrated dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar Pendidikan Agama Islam di kelas IV Sekolah Dasar 32 Balai Makam Duri?. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian tindakan kelas ( PTK ) yang dilaksanakan di Sekolah Dasar Negeri 32 Balai Makam Duri. Objek penelitian ini adalah siswa Sekolah Dasar Negeri 32 Balai Makam Duri kelas IV dengan jumlah 32 orang yang terdiri dari 17 orang laki-laki dan 15 orang perempuan. Data yang diperoleh dari hasil observasi/ pengamatan kegiatan siswa selama melakukan kegiatan yang dianalisis dengan teknik persentase. Rancangan penelitian ini dilakukan dalam dua siklus yaitu siklus I dan siklus II. Hasil rata-rata persentase meningkatkan kemampuan praktik shalat fardhu dapat dilihat sebelum tindakan: rendah, Siklus I cukup dan tinggi setelah siklus II.Rata-rata hasil tes mulai dari sebelum adanya tindakan (pre tes), siklus I, dan siklus II. Yang mana pada pre tes terdapat (56.88%) rata-rata siswa, pada siklus I (65.44.), dan pada siklus II terdapat (80,41%) rata-rata siswa. Peningkatan rata-rata nilai pada siklus II lebih rendah dari pada peningkatan rata-rata nilai siswa pada siklus I

Transparency, accountability and development outcomes from China's Sino Hydro Dam Project in Ghana

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009."September 2009." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-133).The current Afro-Chinese relations on development projects in Sub Saharan Africa has come under a lot of scrutiny, with some experts in the South-to-South relationship discourse claiming the above short-gun-marriage will hurt Africa in the long run while other experts and African leaders believe it is the best strategy to help Sub Saharan Africa develop economically and infrastructure wise. This thesis examines the Bui hydroelectric dam project, which is currently under construction in Ghana by Sino Hydro (Chinese Company), with financing coming from the Chinese government through the Exim Bank of China. It compares how the Akosombo that was financed by the World Bank in the 1960s handled the social and physical ramifications caused by the project, and how Sino Hydro is approaching the same issues that will be created by the Bui dam project. It reveals that the government of Ghana and the Bui Power Authority were very careful about the planning process they adopted to ensure that displacement and resettlement on the project site was handled professionally by Sino Hydro to ensure the smooth running of the project. They applied International Financial Corporation's (IFC-P7) standard on large development projects, even though the Bui dam was being constructed and financed by China. Supporting the fact in order for Africans to benefit from the Afro-Chinese relations, they have to ensure that the proper structures are in place before negotiating contracts that will result in a win-win outcome with the Chinese, and how these structures are still heavily influenced by the Northern standards.by James K. Habia.M.C.P

Pengaruh Koordinasi antar Pegawai terhadap Peningkatan Efektivitas Kerja (Penelitian di Badan Pelayanan Perizinan Terpadu Provinsi Jawa Barat)

Koordinasi merupakan salah satu faktor yang mendukung peningkatan efektivitas kerja. Koordinasi adalah susunan yang teratur dari usaha kelompok untuk mencipatakan kesatuan tindakan dalam mengejar tujuan bersama. Berdasarkan pergub no 63 tahun 2009 Badan mempunyai tugas pokok melaksanakan koordinasi dan menyelenggarakan pelayanan administrasi perijinan secara terpadu meliputi ketatausahaan, administrasi, pelayanan, monitoring, evaluasi dan penanganan pengaduan, namun pada kenyataannya pelaksanaannya tidak berjalan dengan baik terlihat dari jumlah permohonan perizinan yang lebih tinggi dari tahun sebelumnya, durasi waktu penyelesaian perizinan yang melebihi target durasi yang telah direncanakan, keluhan dari masyarakat baik secara langsung maupun tidak langsung mengenai kinerja aparatur. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengukur berapa besar pengaruh pengaturan dalam koordinasi antar pegawai terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja di BPPT Provinsi Jawa Barat, berapa besar pengaruh sinkonisasi dalam koordinasi antar pegawai terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja di BPPT Provinsi Jawa Barat, berapa besar pengaruh kepentingan bersama dalam koordinasi antar pegawai terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja di BPPT Provinsi Jawa Barat, berapa besar pengaruh tujuan bersama dalam koordinasi antar pegawai terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja di BPPT Provinsi Jawa Barat, berapa besar pengaruh koordinasi antar pegawai terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja di BPPT Provinsi Jawa Barat. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori yang dikemukakan oleh Inu Kencana Syafiie yang menitik beratkan koordinasi pada dimensi pengaturan, sinkronisasi, kepentingan bersama dan tujuan bersama. Peneliti ini menggunakan metode asosiatif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif, metode ini digunakan untuk mengetahui hubungan atau pengaruh antara dua variabel atau lebih. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang peneliti gunakan adalah sensus yaitu teknik yang menggunakan seluruh jumlah populasi yang terdiri dari 73 pegawai. Terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan antara pengaturan terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja di BPPT Provinsi Jawa Barat dengan nilai 〖t 〗_hitung sebesar 3.248 yang dikatakan Ho ditolak karena nilai 〖t 〗_hitung > t_tabel. Tidak ada pengaruh yang signifikan antara sinkronisasi terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja di BPPT Provinsi Jawa Barat dengan nilai 〖t 〗_hitung sebesar 0,251 yang dikatakan Ho diterima karena nilai 〖t 〗_hitung t_tabel. Terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan antara pengaturan, sinkronisasi, kepentingan bersama dan tujuan bersama secara simultan terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja di BPPT Provinsi Jawa Barat dengan nilai 〖F 〗_hitung sebesar 20,841 yang dapat dikatakan Ho ditolak karena nilai 〖F 〗_hitung > F_tabel. Hasil analisis tersebut bermakna bahwa dalam meningkatkan efektivitas kerja diperlukan pengaturan, sinkronisasi, kepentingan bersama dan tujuan bersama. Hipotesis tentang adanya pengaruh pengaturan, sinkronisasi, kepentingan bersama dan tujuan bersama terhadap peningkatan efektivitas kerja menjadi terbukti

Patients With Conversion Disorder and Medical Controls: Comparing Emotional Awareness

Patients with somatoform disorders have physical ailments that cannot be explained by other medical or psychological conditions (APA, 2000). One type of somatoform disorder is conversion disorder. Patients with conversion disorder have symptoms related to the voluntary central nervous system, such as seizures and motor-sensory deficits (APA, 2000). Patients with conversion disorder often have alexithymia (Cox, Kuch, Parker, Shulman, & Evans, 1994). People with alexithymia have difficulty putting their emotions into words (Jones, Schettler, Olden, & Crowell, 2004). The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS; Lane, Quinlan, Schwartz, & Walker, 1990) is used to measure alexithymia. It asks respondents how they would feel in 20 emotionally evocative situations. The LEAS can be scored by hand or by computerized scoring (Barchard, Bajgar, Leaf, & Lane, 2010). This study compared LEAS scores of patients with conversion disorder to LEAS scores of medical controls and to patients with Functional Somatic Syndromes (FSS), using both hand and computerized scoring of the LEAS. In addition, this study examined the relationship between hand and computerized scoring. Several computerized scoring methods exist for the LEAS. In this study, computerized scoring was done through the Program for Open Ended Scoring (Barchard, Bajgar, Leaf, & Lane, 2010; Leaf & Barchard, 2010) using Wordlist 2.4 (Barchard, 2010). The computerized scoring method used was the Highest40-AllinOne. This method sums 40 unique words that have the highest scores across all 20 items. A total of 89 participants completed the LEAS. There was no significant difference between the three different groups, for either hand scoring or computerized scoring. However, there was a high positive correlation between hand and computerized scoring. Thus, the Highest40-AllinOne method may be used instead of hand scoring in certain situations. However, the Highest40-AllinOne method needs to be tested on other clinical populations before being used in place of hand scoring