European tour-operators environmental risk management

European tour-operators have become more involved in building long-term relationships between tourists, governments and local communities across the world. Having an enormous economic and social potential tour-operators have the capabilities to inspire a significant movement towards tourism sustainability. This research presents case studies of three global tour-operators (TUI, Thomas Cook and Kuoni) that are deeply engaged in ecological initiatives. Data concerning environmental protection, nature conservation and sustainable development in their source markets and tourism destinations have been integrated in order to reveal a common environmental risk assessment (ERA) framework. This study also identified a shift between Western and Eastern Europe tour operators in terms of environmental management initiatives

Economic and social disparities of Romania in regional and county profile

Romania's accession to the European Union imposes a new way of approaching the economic and social disparities existing nowadays both at the level of the eight development regions of the country and at the level of counties as well. The analysis of the level and evolution of these disparities can be useful to all the factors that design and put into practice strategies meant to stop the gaps widening on one hand and to fill the existing gaps among the Romanian development regions on the other hand. All these analyses are made from the perspective of Romania's process of integration into the European Union's structures.convergence objective, development regions, economic disparities, EU cohesion, Principal Components Analysis.

Job Polarization in the U.S.: A Reassessment of the Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s

In this paper, we review the evidence for job polarization in the U.S. and provide a description of the occupational employment changes that characterized the U.S. labor market during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. We begin by replicating the existing job polarization trends, which are produced using a modified occupational coding scheme intended to make occupational categories comparable over time. Using two alternative procedures to obtain consistent occupational codes across decades, we show that the finding that jobs polarized in the 1990s relative to the 1980s no longer holds. Instead, we find that occupational employment shifts were very similar during the two decades. In addition, we demonstrate that the method used to rank occupations according to their skill content has a substantial impact on the employment growth in low-skill job categories. Finally, using an additional occupational crosswalk that allows us to obtain consistent occupational categories from 1970 to 2002, we provide evidence in favor of a long-term trend towards employment growth in high-skill jobs and employment decline in some middle-skill jobs, but no sharp contrast between the 1980s and the 1990s. Our findings suggest that the evolution of the occupational employment structure and the divergent wage growth patterns observed during the 1980s and 1990s do not easily fit within the routinization story as usually told.Job Polarization, Occupational Employment, Employment Growth, Wage Inequality

IMPLEMENTING THE NEW TOTAL REWARDS PROCESS WITHIN THE DIGITALIZED SOCIETIES

The society evolved and with it also the human’s professional needs. Employees want and need to be acknowledged for their valuable and extra contributions. Rewards and recognition are powerful tools for demonstrating appreciation and reinforcing those behaviors that lead to superior products, outstanding support, strong supplier relationships, and lifelong customers. Digitalized societies primary tool for providing spot rewards is new total rewards process, a resource for global compensation, benefits, variable pay, equity and rewards plus recognition program information as well as job architecture valuable information. As recognition is being known worldwide as the greatest motivator and one of the greatest strengths of any organization are the people who work there, the necessity of implementing the new total rewards process becomes acute. Long-service employees provide the knowledge, experience, and attitudes that are responsible for much of digitalized societies success. In recognition of this, new total rewards are presented to eligible employees in celebration of their career milestones and to acknowledge their contribution to the company. By introducing the new total reward process the truly effective recognition will be no longer a program or a policy mandated by HR, it will become a way of organizational life that touches all corners of the organization most every day of the working week.total rewards, long-service employees, career milestones, perpetual development, human capital

Aquatic macrophytes in the Lake Shkodra - River Buna wetlands complex

EnThe Lake Shkodra -River Buna wetlands complex is rich in aquatic flora.145 macrophytes have been found.Of these,12 species are stoneworts (Charophyceae),while the others are vascular plants.Four basic formations of plant assemblage are described. Nineteen taxa of aquatic and other hydrophilous macrophytes found in this area which are rare or threatened within Albania are enumerated.Some of these species,i.e.Trapa natans,Nymphoides peltata, Sagittaria sagittifolia,Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae,Baldellia ranunculoides and Marsilea quadrifoliaare found only in 2 or 3 localities in Albania. Spirodella polyrhiza and Caldesia parnassifolia,are found only in Lake Shkodra.Comments on some of the taxa are given

Feedback stabilization of magnetohydrodynamic equations

We prove the local exponential stabilizability for the MHD system, with internally distributed feedback controllers. These controllers take values in a finite dimensional space which is the unstable manifold of the elliptic part of the linearized operator. The stabilization of the linear system is derived using a unique continuation property for systems of parabolic and elliptic equations, as well as the equivalence between controllability and feedback stabilizability in the case of finite dimensional systems. The feedback that stabilizes the linearized system is also stabilizing the nonlinear system in the domain of a fractional power of the elliptic operator

Alison Spedding. Religión en los Andes. Extirpación de idolatrías y modernidad de la fe andina

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