What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace

[Excerpt] This book is about employee voice in the workplaces of the highly developed Anglo-American economies: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. These are among the most economically successful countries in the world. Despite being located in three different geographic areas, the Anglo-American countries have a common language and legal tradition, have close economic and political ties, and are linked by flows of people, goods, and capital. Many of the same firms operate in each country. The unions in each pay more attention to their counterparts within the group than to unions in other countries. The Anglo-American brand of capitalism – market oriented and open to competition, with modest welfare sates and income transfer systems – differentiates the countries from countries in the “social dialogue” model of the European Union (although the United Kingdom and Ireland are part of the Union) and from the highly unionized labor system in Scandinavia

Genuine lab experiences for students in resource constrained environments: The RealLab with integrated intelligent assessment.

Laboratory activities are indispensable for developing engineering skills. Computer Aided Learning (CAL) tools can be used to enhance laboratory learning in various ways, the latest approach being the virtual laboratory technique that emulates traditional laboratory processes. This new approach makes it possible to give students complete and genuine laboratory experiences in situations constrained by limited resources in the provision of laboratory facilities and infrastructure and/or where there is need for laboratory education, for large classes, with only one laboratory stand. This may especially be the case in countries in transition. Most existing virtual laboratories are not available for purchase. Where they are, they may not be cost friendly for resource constrained environments. Also, most do not integrate any form of assessment structure. In this paper, we present a very cost friendly virtual laboratory solution for genuine laboratory experiences in resource constrained environments, with integrated intelligent assessment

Changes in Australian Teacher Education : A Proposal for School-based Teacher Education

The structures of teacher education in Australian tertiary institutions should change to take advantage of changes in the context of teacher education. In particular, the teacher education institutions should become more involved in all aspects of school-based teacher education

Land Selection and Development under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

In accordance with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, Alaskan Natives have begun through their corporations to make selections from certain U.S. federal lands in return for their relinquishment of claims to aboriginal rights. Since the selections must be made quickly, one corporation has cooperated with a geophysical institute in the application of satellite imagery to the survey of available lands and resources. The results have been beneficial to the Native interest

Biotic and abiotic influences on the use of Arctic lakes by fish and loons

Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2014The particularly severe effects of climate change anticipated in the Arctic, accompanied by ongoing anthropogenic activities, necessitate proactive and knowledge-based management of the region's aquatic ecosystems. However, the paucity of information on the Arctic's aquatic environments hinders strategic or spatially-explicit management. In this dissertation, I examine the habitat use of poorly studied taxa of the Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP) of Alaska, including freshwater fishes and yellow-billed loons (Gavia adamsii). Distribution studies can be biased by false absences; therefore, I began by determining the detection probabilities of six fish species common to Arctic lakes for five gear types (Chapter 2). Variation in gear- and species-specific detection probability was considerable, suggesting a multi-method approach may be most effective for whole-assemblage sampling. Adjusting for detection probability, I then examine how occupancy probabilities of the six fish species were related to lake and landscape scale covariates (Chapter 3). Three large-bodied salmonid species were influenced by factors associated with the probability of fish colonizing lakes, including whether the lakes had a stream connection. Models for small-bodied fish indicated different strategies for persistence among species. Ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) were widespread and captured in lakes that freeze to the bottom, suggesting rapid dispersal after spring freshet (when snow and ice had melted rapidly and caused widespread flooding) and colonization of sink habitats. In contrast, Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis) distributions reflect tolerance to harsh conditions, while the slimy sculpin's (Cottus cognatus) was indicative of its marine origin. Based on these patterns, I propose a model of primary controls on the distribution of fishes in ACP lakes. Severe winter conditions limit occupancy through extinction events, while lake occupancy in spring and summer is driven by directional migration (large-bodied species) and undirected dispersal (small-bodied species). To provide insight to the relevance of species-specific distributions of prey fish to yellow-billed loons (Gavia adamsii), I investigated loon diet on their breeding grounds using quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (Chapter 4). Tissues were collected from 26 yellow-billed loons (shortly after they had moved from coastal staging areas), nine fish species and two invertebrate groups. Results suggest that yellow-billed loons are eating high proportions of Alaska blackfish, broad whitefish (Coregonus nasus) and three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). The prominence of blackfish in diets highlights the importance of this species' tolerance to winter conditions that permits its widespread availability during the early stages of loon nesting. Broad whitefish and three-spined stickleback are more likely to be encountered in coastal regions at this time, and their importance may reflect pre-nesting period diet, when loons are staging in coastal and brackish waters before lakes are ice free. Finally, I use the prior chapters to inform an investigation into lake occupancy dynamics of nesting yellowbilled loons and loon chicks (Chapter 5). From a total of four years of data (collected over nine years for nests and seven years for chicks), I examine landscape features that influence the distribution and breeding success of breeding loons on ACP lakes (>7 ha in area), including landscape and lake features, and fish prey occupancy. Over this time, nesting yellow-billed loons exhibited a relatively low (< 30%), but stable to increasing, lake occupancy. Local extinction and colonization rates were also relatively stable, suggesting the nesting population in this region may be near equilibrium. A decreasing rate of change in chick occupancy associated with concomitant increases in nesting occupancy implies density-dependence in chick production. The occupancy probability of a prey fish, least cisco (Coregonus sardinella), had a positive influence on the probability of colonization of unoccupied lakes by nesting loons. I confirm that lake size and lake depth were not only positively associated with nesting occupancy, but also with chick production. Large lakes had occupancy probabilities near one for nesting loons and chicks; this, along with the near equilibrium in breeding loon occupancy and the relative rarity of these large lakes over the landscape, suggests breeding habitat is limiting loon populations in this part of their range. Given the lack of data from the ACP on fish distributions and yellow-billed loons, my findings inform current management practices and provide foundation for future research

Herald of Holiness Volume 03, Number 20 (1914)

03 Editor\u27s Survey Open Parliament 05 Christian Prayer Eph. 6:13 Written by Fred Mesch, Jr. 05 Sound Abroad His Praise Written D. Rand Pierce 05 Caring For Our Needy Written by Leroy D. Peavey 06 “Science Falsely So Called” Written, by James Mailley 06 Purity Written by R. T. Williams 07 Ability to Give Written by Clement C. Carey 07 Some Things to Consider Written by Mary C. Woodbury Mother and Little Ones 08 Pa Is Never Late 08 A Story of a Great Sabbath School Superintendent 08 But 09 The Greatness of Motherhood 09 A Boy Who Obeyed Orders 09 Where the Joke Really Was The Work and the Workers 10 Announcements 10 District News 12 Rev. A. S. Cochran 12 General Church News 14 Brother Reynolds Heard From 14 Kansas District Assembly 14 Central Nazarene University 16 Superintendents\u27 Directoryhttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/2944/thumbnail.jp

Herald of Holiness Volume 03, Number 38 (1914)

03 Editor\u27s Survey 04 The Withered Hand — Whole By Amos R. Wells Open Parliament 05 The Great Essential. Part Two Written by James Mailley 05 Some Things That Matter P. F. Bresee, D. D. 06 How to Make the Midweek Prayermeeting a Success by Rev. C. E. Cornell 06 Attitude of the Church to Holiness by Rev. C. F. Wimberly 07 Be Sure! N. B. Herrell 08 Objections to Tithing Written by Thomas Kane 08 Bethlehem Arthur F. Ingler 08 The Coming of the Lord Charles V. LaFontaine 08 The Gadite Written by C. B. Widmeyer Mother and Little Ones 09 How to Help 09 For the Master’s Use—A Parable 09 The Result of a Kind Act 09 Disconted Jamie The Work and the Workers 10 Announcements 10 District News 11 Nazarene University By Prof. J. Eaton Wallace 11 REV. W. O. SELF Pastor Church of the Nazarene SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 11 General Church News 12 Our Slogan and the Envelope System - C. A. McConnell 12 The Latest from the Mission Fields 16 Superintendents\u27 Directoryhttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/2962/thumbnail.jp

Herald of Holiness Volume 01, Number 27 (1912)

01 Editorial 03 Editor\u27s Survey The Open Parliament 05 All Thy Presence WESLEY 05 Trust in God C. A. McCONNELL 05 Bible Lessons for Every Day Living L. B. TROWBRIDGE 05 Thank WILL O. JONES 05 Graves, Hornets, Snakes—Notwithstanding E. F. WALKER 06 The Greatest War in Christendom J. BURRITT SMITH 06 Holiness the Need of the Church E. M. ISAAC 07 The Gospel of Repentance DR. G. W. BUSH The Hidden Life 08 Keep on the Sunny Side VIOLA E. WILKENING 08 The Secret of a Saint 08 Not a Word 08 The Successful Life 08 An Infamy Mother and Little Ones 09 The Morning of Life W. K. Staley 09 What Made Sophie Different 09 A Boy Soul-Winning 09 Brave Berry 09 Two Kinds of Boys 09 A Chance Meeting 10 Announcements 10 Work and the Workers 15 Obituaries 16 Our Sunday School Lesson: Wanderings in Decapolis-Mark 7:31-8:10https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/2839/thumbnail.jp