Controlling the clock: Working hours in the UK hotel sector

The hotel sector is synonymous with working hours that are long, unpredictable and result in poor outcomes for employees. Arguably, they  constitute one of the most significant features of the employment relationship, yet little research exists to explore the factors influencing the  scheduling of hours and the degree of control employees can exert on their pattern of work. This article aims to help fill this gap by exploring what  shapes employee working hours and the extent to which each side of the employment relationship exercises control. Qualitative research was  conducted with purposive sampling used to identify and interview employees in the UK hotel sector, combined with managers responsible for  budgetary control over labour and for setting work schedules. The findings suggest that a combination of customer demand patterns and the  choice by employers to minimise labour costs effectively reduce employees’ ability to control or challenge work schedules. The lack of employee  voice is structured into the employment relationship, depriving workers of a healthy work-life balance, their ability to take breaks and legally  entitled pay

Le cursus honorum de São Miguel d’Odrinhas

Un monument en calcaire a été trouvé avec deux autres en 1505, non loin du Cap da Roca, près de l’embouchure de Colares. Il se trouve à prèsent dans le musée de São Miguel d’Odrinhas. Son texte a été publié successivement par F. Alves Pereira, S. Lambrino et, enfin, par H.-G. Pflaum, qui y a reconnu la carrière de C. Iulius Celsus, sans avoir, pourtant, vu la pièce. Les commentaires portent surtout sur le nom de la divinité de la l. 1 et sur la charge (l. 5) exercée par Celsus en Lusitanie. Pour la divinité, on exprime des doutes sur la lecture Soli aeterno. Quant a Celsus, il se trouvait en Lusitanie au début du règne d’Antonin le Pieux en tant que legatus missus in Lusitaniam ad census.A limestone monument has been discovered, with two others, in 1505, not far from the Cap da Roca, near the mouth of the river Colares. It is now located in the museum of São Miguel d’Odrinhas. Its text has been successively published by F. Alves Pereira, S. Lambrino and, at last, by H.-G. Pflaum, who recognized the career of C. Iulius Celsus, without however having seen the inscription. The commentaries refer especially to the divinity in l. 1 and to the charge (l. 5) fulfilled by Celsus in Lusitania. As for the divinity, the restitution Soli aeterno doesn’t seem convenient. As for Celsus, his presence in Lusitania at the beginning of the reign of Antoninus Pius is justified by the title of a legatus missus in Lusitaniam ad census

Netting Nemo: A Moral Ontology for the Scaled and Slimy

Here I develop an ontology of aquarium fish that articulates the relationships that many fishkeepers hold with their fish and considers how these relationships generate moral responsibilities. The investigation explores the norms already regulating hobbyist discourse and practice, charting the values that are cited to justify recommendations and restrictions and demonstrating how morally responsible fishkeeping participates in a particular moral ontology. Principally I aim to show that the subject of moral consideration in fishkeeping is rarely the individual fish and only sometimes the fish species, but paradigmatically the “community tank.” In getting fish, one has responsibilities to pair compatible species and create a community. From that point onward, having fish is a matter of caring for that community, keeping fish a matter of sustaining the ecological relations that bind the community

Design and Performance Analysis of a Non-Standard EPICS Fast Controller

The large scientific projects present new technological challenges, such as the distributed control over a communication network. In particular, the middleware EPICS is the most extended communication standard in particle accelerators. The integration of modern control architectures in these EPICS networks is becoming common, as for example for the PXI/PXIe and xTCA hardware alternatives. In this work, a different integration procedure for PXIe real time controllers from National Instruments is proposed, using LabVIEW as the design tool. This methodology is considered and its performance is analyzed by means of a set of laboratory experiments. This control architecture is proposed for achieving the implementation requirements of the fast controllers, which need an important amount of computational power and signal processing capability, with a tight real-time demand. The present work studies the advantages and drawbacks of this methodology and presents its comprehensive evaluation by means of a laboratory test bench, designed for the application of systematic tests. These tests compare the proposed fast controller performance with a similar system implemented using an standard EPICS IOC provided by the CODAC system.Comment: This is the extended version of the Conference Record presented in the IEEE Real-Time Conference 2014, Nara, Japan. This paper has been submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Scienc

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