Contrasting Patterns of Industrial Relations in Britain

Given that Mrs Thatcher is no longer Prime Minister, now seems an appropiate time to try and provide an assessment of where industrial relations currently stands in Britain, and what has been the impact of Thatcherism on the system. This exercis,e has a certain intellectual as well as practical appeal given the grand claims which have been made about rhe extent of change in the UK since 1979. It is true to say that there ,has be,en considerable change to the national institutions and the legal framework for industrial relations in Great Britain. But, at the same time, there are also tloub,ts as to whether this has been reflected in concrete industrial relations practices at the workplace. Interesting as this debate is however, it is argued here that it ,is misleading because a whole series of assumptions are made about the character of British industrial relations, both in 1979 and in 1991, which are not applicable across the economy as a whole. A much more useful approach is to focus on the variety which exists in British industrial relations, and to outline in a series of patterns of industrial relations rather than trying to describe a universal all embracing picture

Studies of prebiotic physical models towards understanding the emergence of biological homochirality

The homochirality of biological molecules is critical to the structure of biological polymers which form the structures in living organisms that allow them to exist. It is central to the fundamental mechanisms of life such as molecular recognition and the helical structure of DNA; and what is most profound is the universality of it – everywhere we look in nature, amino acids exist in the L-enantiomer and carbohydrates exist as the D-enantiomer, and that homochirality is carried forward throughout the construction of living things on the macro level. The origin of this homochirality has perplexed generations of scientists since it was first discovered by Pasteur in the 19th century and is a fundamental problem within the study of the Origin of Life. In recent years, prebiotic synthesis has leaped forward, identifying a number of not only plausible, but likely routes to the precursors of RNA, thought by some to be the first biological polymer on Earth and the root of simple living organisms. However, it has been demonstrated that for chiral RNA to polymerise, its constituent building blocks (nucleotides) must be enatio- pure, otherwise oligomerisation is inhibited. As yet, chemistry has lacked a robust explanation for how such homochirality would have arisen under prebiotic conditions when all thermodynamic rules should form both enantiomers in equal amounts. Here, we report prebiotically-plausible enantio-enrichment of nucleotide precursor molecules (aminooxazolines, oxazolidinone thiones and oxazolidinones) and related compounds, from near-racemic conditions using crystallographic approaches and applying them to new substrates. This work views the homochirality problem from a new angle and in so doing expands the crystallographic landscape of pre-biotic chemistry, opening the door to crystal engineering in Origin of Life studies

Donations for the Purpose of Teaching

Includes bibliographical reference

Old tradition to new reality: Environmental, social and economic impacts of tourism in Thethi, Albania

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Embedding the provision of information and consultation in the workplace: a longitudinal analysis of employee outcomes in 1998 and 2004

Based on an analysis of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey, this report finds strong positive links between the ‘breadth’ and ‘depth’ of some information and consultation practices and employee commitment. Employee ratings of the helpfulness of some consultation and communication methods are positively linked to job satisfaction and commitment. Employee ratings of managers’ effectiveness in consulting employees and employees’ satisfaction with their involvement in decision-making are also positively linked with job satisfaction and commitment, suggesting that the way in which information and consultation methods are implemented is just as important as the type of practices used.This report was commissioned by DTI under the Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 Grants Fund. The Fund is a Department of Trade and Industry initiative to develop the evidence base in areas of policy interest, raise awareness of this survey and encourage advanced data analysis based on the WERS 2004 datasets

Contrasting Patterns of Industrial Relations in Britain

Given that Mrs Thatcher is no longer Prime Minister, now seems an appropiate time to try and provide an assessment of where industrial relations currently stands in Britain, and what has been the impact of Thatcherism on the system. This exercis,e has a certain intellectual as well as practical appeal given the grand claims which have been made about rhe extent of change in the UK since 1979. It is true to say that there ,has be,en considerable change to the national institutions and the legal framework for industrial relations in Great Britain. But, at the same time, there are also tloub,ts as to whether this has been reflected in concrete industrial relations practices at the workplace. Interesting as this debate is however, it is argued here that it ,is misleading because a whole series of assumptions are made about the character of British industrial relations, both in 1979 and in 1991, which are not applicable across the economy as a whole. A much more useful approach is to focus on the variety which exists in British industrial relations, and to outline in a series of patterns of industrial relations rather than trying to describe a universal all embracing picture

Introduction: Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography, Photoacoustic Imaging, and Microscopy

The editors introduce the Biomedical Optics Express feature issue, “Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography, Photoacoustic Imaging, and Microscopy,” which combines three technical areas from the 2010 Optical Society of America (OSA), Biomedical Optics (BIOMED) Topical Meeting held on 11–14 April in Miami, Florida, and includes contributions from conference attendees