Identifying Characteristics of Jobs of Front-line Personnel that Affect Abnormal Idle Time: A Case Study on a Popular Amusement Center in the Philippines

AbstractA number of studies in manufacturing have investigated on the factors that affect worker productivity. Some of these, for example, have shown that flexible working environments cause productivity loss due to the behavioral effects resulting from the flexible design of work. Although studies have mostly focused on manufacturing systems, the problem on productivity loss is also heavily affecting service organizations. Inspired by the studies in manufacturing and with the objective of increasing productivity of workers in service organizations, this research takes a look at the factors that affect the productivity of service workers. Specifically, the aim is to increase productivity through the decrease of abnormal idle time of workers in service environments. This is done by investigating closely the workers in an amusement center in the Philippines. Characteristics of the job of the worker such as the amount of supervisory/managerial work, the flexibility of the job and the amount of normal idle time are investigated for correlation with the amount of abnormal idle time. Initial results show that among these, the amount of supervisory/managerial work seems to affect abnormal idle time

Os retratos de Maria Isabel e Maria Francisca de Bragança, de Nicolas-Antoine Taunay

Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, French landscape painter, produced also several portraits during his stay at the Rio de Janeiro Court. In this city, in 1816, he paints the queen Carlota Joaquina and all her daughters. In this group, two portraits have a very special way: the paintings still today catalogued as Maria Francisca and Maria Teresa, but probably being Maria Isabel and Maria Francisca de Assis - princesses that, in this year, left Brazil to marry the Spanish King Fernando VII, and his brother Carlos Maria Isidro de Bourbon. In this article, beyond to describe these portraits (and analyse the identities of the portrayed princesses), I analyse their functions in the Court society and the mains artists of this gender in Europe. I will discuss, as well, the hypothesis about the Taunay choices. In this sense, I will analyse the possible circulation of the typologies of portrait between Italy, Portugal, Spain and France, understanding these productions by Taunay and the functions occupied by these portraits in the political relations between Brazil and Europe.Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, pintor de paisagens francês, também realizou alguns retratos durante sua estadia na corte do Rio de Janeiro. Nessa cidade, em 1816, ele pinta a rainha Carlota Joaquina e todas as suas filhas. Nesse conjunto, dois retratos sobressaem-se de modo especial: os hoje ainda inventariados como de Maria Francisca e de Maria Teresa, mas que provavelmente são o de Maria Isabel e o de Maria Francisca de Assis - princesas que, nesse ano, deixavam o Brasil para casar-se, respectivamente, com Fernando VII, o rei espanhol, e com seu irmão Carlos Isidro de Bourbon. Neste artigo, além de descrevermos os retratos (e analisarmos a questão da identidade das princesas retratadas), abordamos suas funções na sociedade das cortes e os principais artistas do gênero na Europa. Discutimos, também, as hipóteses que permeiam as escolhas de Taunay para sua execução. Nesse sentido, tratamos da possível circulação de tipologias entre Itália, Portugal, Espanha e França, buscando entender a forma como Taunay os realizou e as funções que doravante tais retratos ocupariam nas relações entre o Brasil e a Europa.Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)UNIFESPSciEL

Destructive fishing: An expert-driven definition and exploration of this quasi-concept

Data availability statement: Data that breaches the anonymity of responses in this study cannot be made available. Some anonymised and summary data can be found in the Supplementary Information.Data Availability Statement: Data that breaches the anonymity of responses in this study cannot be made available. Some anonymized and summary data can be found in the Supplementary Information.Code Availability Statement: Code for the figures and certain analyses used in this manuscript can be found at https://github.com/arlie-m/destructive_fishing_defintion_delphi.Supporting Information is available online at: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.13015#support-information-section .Numerous policy and international frameworks consider that “destructive fishing” hampers efforts to reach sustainability goals. Though ubiquitous, “destructive fishing” is undefined and therefore currently immeasurable. Here we propose a definition developed through expert consultation: “Destructive fishing is any fishing practice that causes irrecoverable habitat degradation, or which causes significant adverse environmental impacts, results in long-term declines in target or nontarget species beyond biologically safe limits and has negative livelihood impacts.” We show strong stakeholder support for a definition, consensus on many biological and ecological dimensions, and no clustering of respondents from different sectors. Our consensus definition is a significant step toward defining sustainable fisheries goals and will help interpret and implement global political commitments which utilize the term “destructive fishing.” Our definition and results will help reinforce the Food and Agricultural Organization's Code of Conduct and meaningfully support member countries to prohibit destructive fishing practices.Cambridge Conservation Initiative. Grant Number: CCI-05-20-009; Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) at the University of Oldenburg; Brunel University London; Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research; Arcadia; Rothschild Foundation; A.G. Leventis Foundation; Isaac Newton Trust; Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation

Destructive fishing : an expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept

Numerous policy and international frameworks consider that “destructive fishing” hampers efforts to reach sustainability goals. Though ubiquitous, “destructive fishing” is undefined and therefore currently immeasurable. Here we propose a definition developed through expert consultation: “Destructive fishing is any fishing practice that causes irrecoverable habitat degradation, or which causes significant adverse environmental impacts, results in long-term declines in target or nontarget species beyond biologically safe limits and has negative livelihood impacts.” We show strong stakeholder support for a definition, consensus on many biological and ecological dimensions, and no clustering of respondents from different sectors. Our consensus definition is a significant step toward defining sustainable fisheries goals and will help interpret and implement global political commitments which utilize the term “destructive fishing.” Our definition and results will help reinforce the Food and Agricultural Organization's Code of Conduct and meaningfully support member countries to prohibit destructive fishing practices

The cult of Kultur : a comparison of ancient Jewish and modern German imperialisms /

Cover title.; Sermon preached to the Newcastle Synod, 17th May, 1915.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn1966852; FERG copy from Ferguson First World War, 1914-1919 pamphlet collection

Outstanding chiroptical features in thin films of new chiral π-conjugated oligomers

Chirality in organic optoelectronics is a topic which is rapidly gaining interest:1 in fact, it is a means to drive and control the supramolecular order of π-conjugated molecules constituting the active layers of the devices,2 and secondly it opens the way to highly specialized applications, such as producing (CP-OLED),3 or detecting (CP-OFET)4 circularly polarized (CP) light or specifically responding to enantiomers in analytical sensors.5 A current research goal is to obtain thin films of organic semiconductors displaying high discrimination of CP-light in absorption (electronic circular dichroism, ECD) or in emission (circularly polarized luminescence, CPL). Chiral supramolecular architectures of π-conjugated oligomers could be the key to achieve this goal. Starting from this consideration, we synthesized a set of new oligothiophenes functionalized with inexpensive alkyl chiral groups from natural sources (Figure 1a), studying their (chiro)optical features in thin films. Surprisingly, for some of them we found the uncommon property of ECD signal inversion by sample flipping (Figure 1b)6. This is due to the interference between linear dichroism and linear birefringence, called LDLB effect, which is theoretically well understood, but to date only rarely reported in the literature. In particular, we investigated the impact of LDLB in thin films depending on the deposition technique (drop casting vs. spin coating) and the chemical structure (by changing the alkyl chiral chains or the π-conjugated backbone)

Synthesis of novel chiral oligothiophenes showing outstanding chiroptical properties in thin films

Chirality in organic optoelectronics is a topic which is rapidly gaining interest:1 it is one of the most sophisticated expedients to control the supramolecular order of π-conjugated molecules constituting the active layers of devices,2 also opening the way to innovative applications, such as producing (CP-OLED),3 or detecting (CP-OFET)4 circularly polarized (CP) light or sensors specifically responding to enantiomers.5 In this field, a very intriguing research topic is to obtain thin films with high discrimination of CP-light in absorption (electronic circular dichroism, ECD) and in emission (circularly polarized luminescence, CPL). Chiral supramolecular architectures of π-conjugated oligomers can be an efficient approach to achieve this goal. Therefore, we developed the synthesis of new oligothiophenes (Figure 1a) functionalized with inexpensive alkyl chiral groups from natural sources (i.e. (S)-3,7-dimethyl-1-octyl and (S)-2-methyl-1-butyl chains), investigating their optical and chiroptical features in thin films depending on the deposition technique (drop casting or spin coating).6 Some of them revealed the uncommon property of ECD spectrum inversion by sample flipping (Figure 1b): this behaviour, which we called LDLB effect, is theoretically well understood but to date only rarely reported in the literature. Interestingly, it could find very appealing application, implying the possibility to discriminate the direction of sample illumination, if from front or from back