A Proposed Hospitality Curriculum for Two-Year Colleges in Florida

The expansion of the hotel industry and its related areas necessitates new educational training for those who will occupy positions of responsibility. Two-year colleges provide one possibility for this training. The authors propose a common foundation for all such programs in Florida

Stressful Working Conditions and Union Dissatisfaction

Les conditions de travail stressantes et l'angoisse qui en résulte pour les employés reçoivent de plus en plus d'attention. De telles conditions de travail mènent à des symptômes physiologiques et psychologiques d'angoisse, d'insatisfaction envers le travail, d'aliénation, de basse productivité et de roulement. Dans un tel contexte, les employés syndiqués peuvent se tourner vers leur syndicat dans l'espoir que celui-ci obtienne de meilleures conditions de travail. De plus, on peut supposer que les travailleurs qui perçoivent leur syndicat comme un allié ont envers lui une orientation positive. En d'autres termes, l'hypothèse est à l'effet que plus les conditions de travail sont stressantes, et plus l'angoisse est grande chez les travailleurs, plus leur orientation envers le syndicat sera positive. Cependant, il est également possible que des employés aux conditions de travail stressantes, angoissés et aliénés deviendront insatisfaits non seulement de leur travail mais également de leur syndicat qu'ils peuvent blâmer de n'avoir pu obtenir de meilleures conditions de travail. Peu d'études, à ce jour, ont examiné les relations entre le travail stressant et le degré de satisfaction envers son syndicat. De plus, le peu de littérature qui existe à ce sujet est équivoque. Quelques études concluent que le travail stressant est associé avec la satisfaction envers le syndicat alors d'autres concluent le contraire, ou encore à l'absence de relations entre ces deux variables. Nous cherchons ici à examiner la relation entre les conditions de travail stressantes, l'angoisse des employés et l'orientation des travailleurs envers leur syndicat.Les données pour la présente étude viennent d'une enquête effectuée en 1983 auprès des postiers syndiqués (n=992) travaillant pour Poste Canada à Edmonton. Les conditions de travail sont évaluées par membership syndical (postiers et facteurs), quart de travail, rapports des travailleurs eu égard aux problèmes avec les heures travaillées, nombre de risques eu égard à la santé et la sécurité au travail et les caractéristiques du travail incluant la supervision, l'intensité de travail, l'autonomie décisionnelle, les récompenses financières, les relations entre les travailleurs, les conflits de travail et le degré de routine. Nous avons mesuré le support social au travail en demandant aux employés jusqu'à quel point il pouvait compter sur leur supérieur, le délégué ou représentant syndical et sur d'autres personnes au travail. Nous avons également interrogé les répondants sur leur implication dans leur syndicat et sur leurs perceptions des relations du travail. Finalement, quant au stress vécu par ces travailleurs, nous avons utilisé de multiple mesures de satisfaction au travail, de bien-être psychologique/ angoisse, de bien-être physique/angoisse, et l'impact perçu du travail sur la santé.La variable dépendante pour cette étude est la (in)satisfaction envers le syndicat. Cette variable combine une échelle de rangement de sept échelons du syndicat avec les réponses des employés à une question ouverte « comment votre syndicat pourrait mieux vous servir ? ». Nous avons créé trois catégories: fortes critiques du syndicat (n=192), critiques modérées (n=360) et aucune critique (n=440). Aux fins de l'analyse de régression, les critiques fortes et modérées ont été fusionnées. Les analyses bi-variées montrent que les membres du syndicat des postiers, les travailleurs des quarts d'après-midi ou de nuit, ceux rapportant des problèmes avec les heures de travail et les répondants qui disent être exposés à de hauts niveaux de risques au travail sont plus enclins à être fortement critiques de leur syndicat. De plus, les employés rapportant une supervision pauvre, un défi et une variété limités dans leurs tâches et des collègues et représentants syndicaux qui ne les supportent pas critiquent plus leur syndicat, comme cela est d'ailleurs le cas de ceux qui perçoivent les relations du travail comme hostiles. Finalement, ceux qui rapportent les pires santés physiques et mentales, de plus grands conflits travail-famille, et de l'insatisfaction envers leur travail, sont aussi de forts critiques de leur syndicat. En résumé, il semble que les différentes mesures de conditions de travail stressantes et l'angoisse des employés soient reliées avec une position critique envers le syndicat. Une analyse de régression multivariée confirme qu'un modèle qui inclut ces variables prédit, à un degré statistiquement significatif, l'orientation des employés envers leur syndicat. Plus particulièrement, l'analyse multivariée démontre que les employés qui considèrent leur travail stressant, leur représentant syndical inutile, et leur syndicat inefficace à améliorer les conditions de travail, tendent à être de forts critiques de leur syndicat.En conclusion, cette étude établit que des conditions de travail stressantes et le stress au travail en résultant associés avec un manque de support au travail (supérieur, collègue, syndicat) mènent à une orientation négative envers le syndicat. Alors, des conditions de travail stressantes peuvent non seulement aliéner les travailleurs eu égard à leur travail et compromettre leur santé, mais également les aliéner eu égard à leur syndicat.This paper examines the relationship between stressful working conditions, social support at work, employee distress, and union members' (dis)satisfaction with their union. It might be assumed that under stressful working conditions, unionized workers would turn to their union to seek better working conditions and would have a positive orientation toward their union. However, it is also possible that stressful working conditions and distressed, alienated employees will become dissatisfied not only with their job but also with their union. The data for this study corne from a survey of unionized postal workers employed by Canada Post Corporation in Edmonton in 1983

The actin-myosin regulatory MRCK kinases: regulation, biological functions and associations with human cancer

The contractile actin-myosin cytoskeleton provides much of the force required for numerous cellular activities such as motility, adhesion, cytokinesis and changes in morphology. Key elements that respond to various signal pathways are the myosin II regulatory light chains (MLC), which participate in actin-myosin contraction by modulating the ATPase activity and consequent contractile force generation mediated by myosin heavy chain heads. Considerable effort has focussed on the role of MLC kinases, and yet the contributions of the myotonic dystrophy-related Cdc42-binding kinases (MRCK) proteins in MLC phosphorylation and cytoskeleton regulation have not been well characterized. In contrast to the closely related ROCK1 and ROCK2 kinases that are regulated by the RhoA and RhoC GTPases, there is relatively little information about the CDC42-regulated MRCKα, MRCKβ and MRCKγ members of the AGC (PKA, PKG and PKC) kinase family. As well as differences in upstream activation pathways, MRCK and ROCK kinases apparently differ in the way that they spatially regulate MLC phosphorylation, which ultimately affects their influence on the organization and dynamics of the actin-myosin cytoskeleton. In this review, we will summarize the MRCK protein structures, expression patterns, small molecule inhibitors, biological functions and associations with human diseases such as cancer

‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts

Widely known to promote broader involvement in the processes which define the arts and culture (Webster, 1997), community engagement work in the performing arts — despite employing a set of commonly recognised norms — has tended to be conceptualised differently both historically and contemporarily. Drawing on ethnographic research — particularly semi-structured qualitative interview accounts of numerous British practitioners with a track record of work in the sector, the article explores these different conceptualisations. The article finds that it is the actual ‘work that matters’ and not what it is named, and that the diversity of understandings and definitions among sectoral practitioners is reflective of evolving thinking, values and practice, something that may be destabilising for better or worse

Measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections for Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel at s√=8 TeV with ATLAS

Measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections are presented for Higgs boson production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=8 TeV. The analysis is performed in the H → γγ decay channel using 20.3 fb−1 of data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The signal is extracted using a fit to the diphoton invariant mass spectrum assuming that the width of the resonance is much smaller than the experimental resolution. The signal yields are corrected for the effects of detector inefficiency and resolution. The pp → H → γγ fiducial cross section is measured to be 43.2 ±9.4(stat.) − 2.9 + 3.2 (syst.) ±1.2(lumi)fb for a Higgs boson of mass 125.4GeV decaying to two isolated photons that have transverse momentum greater than 35% and 25% of the diphoton invariant mass and each with absolute pseudorapidity less than 2.37. Four additional fiducial cross sections and two cross-section limits are presented in phase space regions that test the theoretical modelling of different Higgs boson production mechanisms, or are sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. Differential cross sections are also presented, as a function of variables related to the diphoton kinematics and the jet activity produced in the Higgs boson events. The observed spectra are statistically limited but broadly in line with the theoretical expectations

Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb−1 of pp collision data at s√ = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96+0.26−0.30 at Q 2 = 1.9 GeV2, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio σ(W + +c¯¯)/σ(W − + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s−s¯¯¯ quark asymmetry

Measurement of χ c1 and χ c2 production with s√ = 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS

The prompt and non-prompt production cross-sections for the χ c1 and χ c2 charmonium states are measured in pp collisions at s√ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using 4.5 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The χ c states are reconstructed through the radiative decay χ c → J/ψγ (with J/ψ → μ + μ −) where photons are reconstructed from γ → e + e − conversions. The production rate of the χ c2 state relative to the χ c1 state is measured for prompt and non-prompt χ c as a function of J/ψ transverse momentum. The prompt χ c cross-sections are combined with existing measurements of prompt J/ψ production to derive the fraction of prompt J/ψ produced in feed-down from χ c decays. The fractions of χ c1 and χ c2 produced in b-hadron decays are also measured

Search for squarks and gluinos in events with isolated leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum at s√=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The results of a search for supersymmetry in final states containing at least one isolated lepton (electron or muon), jets and large missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider are reported. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy s√=8 TeV collected in 2012, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20 fb−1. No significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed. Limits are set on supersymmetric particle masses for various supersymmetric models. Depending on the model, the search excludes gluino masses up to 1.32 TeV and squark masses up to 840 GeV. Limits are also set on the parameters of a minimal universal extra dimension model, excluding a compactification radius of 1/R c = 950 GeV for a cut-off scale times radius (ΛR c) of approximately 30

Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector

Results of a search for H → τ τ decays are presented, based on the full set of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC during 2011 and 2012. The data correspond to integrated luminosities of 4.5 fb−1 and 20.3 fb−1 at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 7 TeV and √s = 8 TeV respectively. All combinations of leptonic (τ → `νν¯ with ` = e, µ) and hadronic (τ → hadrons ν) tau decays are considered. An excess of events over the expected background from other Standard Model processes is found with an observed (expected) significance of 4.5 (3.4) standard deviations. This excess provides evidence for the direct coupling of the recently discovered Higgs boson to fermions. The measured signal strength, normalised to the Standard Model expectation, of µ = 1.43 +0.43 −0.37 is consistent with the predicted Yukawa coupling strength in the Standard Model

Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using √s=8 TeV proton-proton collision data

A search for squarks and gluinos in final states containing high-p T jets, missing transverse momentum and no electrons or muons is presented. The data were recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS experiment in s√=8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, with a total integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. Results are interpreted in a variety of simplified and specific supersymmetry-breaking models assuming that R-parity is conserved and that the lightest neutralino is the lightest supersymmetric particle. An exclusion limit at the 95% confidence level on the mass of the gluino is set at 1330 GeV for a simplified model incorporating only a gluino and the lightest neutralino. For a simplified model involving the strong production of first- and second-generation squarks, squark masses below 850 GeV (440 GeV) are excluded for a massless lightest neutralino, assuming mass degenerate (single light-flavour) squarks. In mSUGRA/CMSSM models with tan β = 30, A 0 = −2m 0 and μ > 0, squarks and gluinos of equal mass are excluded for masses below 1700 GeV. Additional limits are set for non-universal Higgs mass models with gaugino mediation and for simplified models involving the pair production of gluinos, each decaying to a top squark and a top quark, with the top squark decaying to a charm quark and a neutralino. These limits extend the region of supersymmetric parameter space excluded by previous searches with the ATLAS detector