Case Study on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Remote Work and Compensation in the San Francisco Bay Area

COVID-19 has changed the way that organizations conduct business. Stay-at-home orders shifted many workers, who traditionally worked in-person, to remote work. Research has been done to understand the macro impacts and organization impacts of remote work, but very little research has been conducted on the impact of wages. This paper studies the effects of remote work during and after COVID-19 lockdowns on wages. This thesis uses the San Francisco Bay Area as a case study. The findings suggest that remote workers are being paid higher after the lockdown in the area. I analyze these trends by controlling for a variety of compensation factors using Payscale Crowdsourced Data, which acts as an employee survey. The analysis extends to gender and top industries in the San Francisco Bay Area. The implication of this thesis suggests that remote work will be valued higher in the future and that more research should be done to follow these trends

Bounding solutions of geometrically nonlinear viscoelastic problems

Integral transform techniques, such as the Laplace transform, provide simple and direct methods for solving viscoelastic problems formulated within a context of linear material response and using linear measures for deformation. Application of the transform operator reduces the governing linear integro-differential equations to a set of algebraic relations between the transforms of the unknown functions, the viscoelastic operators, and the initial and boundary conditions. Inversion either directly or through the use of the appropriate convolution theorem, provides the time domain response once the unknown functions have been expressed in terms of sums, products or ratios of known transforms. When exact inversion is not possible approximate techniques may provide accurate results. The overall problem becomes substantially more complex when nonlinear effects must be included. Situations where a linear material constitutive law can still be productively employed but where the magnitude of the resulting time dependent deformations warrants the use of a nonlinear kinematic analysis are considered. The governing equations will be nonlinear integro-differential equations for this class of problems. Thus traditional as well as approximate techniques, such as cited above, cannot be employed since the transform of a nonlinear function is not explicitly expressible

Bruk av ansvarlig fotograf på norske flerkameraproduksjoner - Årsaker og virkning

Amandusprisen deles årlig ut til unge filmskapere, og selve prisutdelingen har blitt produsert for tv av studenter ved Avdeling for TV-fag på Høgskolen i Lillehammer i en årrekke. Amandusprisen 2012 ble produsert på Lillehammer den 29. mars 2012, med sendetid på NRK samme dag. Forarbeidet med Amandusprisen 2012 for min del startet allerede i oktober 2011, da jeg fikk muligheten til å delta på workshop'en for årets produksjon. Dette var en todagers workshop med det formål å se nærmere på målgruppen og deres medievaner, samt å legge ned noen tanker om innhold, form, sendeflate og venue. Jeg hadde ikke blitt tildelt noen rolle ved produksjonen på dette tidspunktet, men som deltaker på denne workshop'en kunne jeg blant annet bidra med tilbakemeldinger på temaer som ville berøre det visuelle og tekniske ved produksjonen. Selv om dette kun var en idémyldring, og en åpen workshop i så måte, bidro dette til å øke eierskapsfølelsen for produksjonen. Årsaken for at jeg ønsket å delta er at jeg ved flere anledninger har merket at det å ha eierskapsfølelse til en produksjon i stor grad er med på å øke motivasjonen for å yte noe ekstra, og at dette er igjen en viktig faktor for et godt resultat. Når stillingsutlysningene kom og søknadsprosessen var over fikk jeg tildelt rollen som ansvarlig fotograf, og det var ut ifra denne funksjonen jeg fortsatte det videre arbeidet med selve produksjonen

Arbeidsgivers sanksjons- og reaksjonsmuligheter ved brudd på konkurranseklausuler.

Master i rettsvitenskapJUS399MAJU

Nonlinear thermoviscoelastic analysis of metallic plane curved beams

Ph.D.GJ Simitse

Comparison of laboratory test performance between asphalt-rubber hot mix and dense graded asphalt concrete

"Reflective cracking in pavements : research in practice" contains the Proceedings of the 4th International RILEM Conference on Reflective Cracking in Pavements (Proceedings PRO11).Asphalt-Rubber Hot-Mix (ARHM) has shown a higher resistance to flexural and reflective fatigue cracking, and also to permanent deformation, than conventional Dense Graded Asphalt Concrete (DGAC). Experience has demonstrated that with ARHM, a significant reduction in overlay thickness is possible, especially in cases where the existing pavement is cracked. This paper reports the efforts done on behalf of the Rubber Pavement Association (RPA) to develop a mechanistic design method to quantify the rehabilitation performance of ARHM and DGAC mixes. Based on the results of widely available performance related tests, such as flexural fatigue, repetitive simple shear, wheel track, and permanent deformation tests, combined with traditionally adopted mechanistic-empirical modeling tools, equivalency factors in terms of required overlay thickness have been derived. The results show that to reach the observed overlay thickness equivalency factor of 0.5, a more appropriate modeling tool based on the test results of an appropriate laboratory test done on properly aged specimens is needed. It appears that new modeling tools and test procedures will need to directly consider the phenomenon of reflective cracking