DEVELOPING STEP BY STEP AN ONTOLOGY TO SUPPORT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human Resources Management is aimed at ensuring all activities, development, motivation and retention of human resources within the organization to achieve its objectives with maximum efficiency and meet the needs of employees. Because the current economy is dominating by information and technology, the managers of an organization need concise and structured information to cope with problems arising in the activity they lead. The same is happening in the department of human resources, management requires structured and concise information about the employees, activities, processes, tasks, etc. in order to properly manage the entire human resources management. This paper argues for the development of an effective ontology to manage the human resources existing in an IT company.human resource management, ontology, ontology web language

Electromagnetic, heat and fluid flow phenomena in levitated metal droplets both under earthbound and microgravity conditions

The purpose is to develop an improved understanding of the electromagnetic, heat, and fluid flow phenomena in electromagnetically levitated metal droplets, both under earthbound and microgravity conditions. The main motivation for doing this work, together with the past accomplishments, and the plans for future research are discussed

Wage shocks and consumption variability in Mexico during the 1990s

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between shocks to relative male wages, and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s decade, which is a period characterized by high volatility. Apart from performing analysis of this type for Mexico for the first time, the paper has mainly two contributions. The first is the use of alternative data sources to construct instrumental variables for wages. The second is to examine differences across four consumption categories: non-durable goods, durable goods, education and health. Our results for non-durable goods consumption reject the hypothesis that Mexican households are able to insure idiosyncratic risk. For the comparisons across consumption categories, the conclusion is that households in Mexico tend to react to temporary shocks by contracting the consumption of goods that represents longer run investment in human capital, which makes them more vulnerable in the future

Design issues of a variable thermal resistance

Some years ago we have proposed a thermal mount with electronically variable thermal resistance [1]. In this earlier work the feasibility of such a structure has been demonstrated. Now we intend to realize this mount in a maturated form, suitable to the everyday use in the practice of package thermal qualification and modeling. The design of such a device raises a number of new questions and problems. The present paper is dealing with these problems and the possible solutions.Comment: Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions