What makes a study comparative is not the particular techniques employed but the theoretical orientation and the sources of data. All the tools of the social scientist, including historical analysis, fieldwork, surveys, and aggregate data analysis, can be used to achieve the goals of comparative research. So, there is plenty of room for the ...
Make Continuous Improvement part of your company's DNA. Cut through the noise and concentrate your efforts where it makes the biggest difference. Comparative Agility enables you to embed continuous improvement as part of your operating strategy. With information targeted at various levels of the organization, you will be armed with the insights ...
Public authorities in European countries are paying increasing attention to the promotion of work ability throughout working life and the best method to monitor work …
Introduction. Taken in an international context, social work is characterized by diversity of country-specific traditions, policies, and practices. Despite this global diversity, the investigation and analysis of social work through comparative research is underdeveloped theoretically and methodologically. In social work the term …
The Work Ability Index (WAI) is a well-established instrument to measure work ability. However, the dimensionality of the WAI remains controversial. To identify the dimensionality of the WAI and ...
The Comparative Tracking Index (CTI) indicates the conductivity of a material. Greater the number, lesser the conductivity. You should assign appropriate CTIs to all components and quilts in an assembly before analyzing the clearance and creepage paths in the assembly. All components and quilts not having a CTI or with a CTI equal to zero are ...
Our comparative approach examined predictors of employment in work relative to two other low-income service or care work occupations: food and beverage serving and barbering and hairstyling. Using data from a study of almost 600 workers from two cities, one in Canada and the other in the United States, we found that both …
This article is focused on psychometric properties of Work Ability Index. The authors have undertaken this task in order to check whether WAI may be considered as a reliable, valid and universal measurement of ability to work in the nursing profession.As an empirical basis authors used the data set obtained from Nurses' Early Exit …
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Comparative fit index. The comparative fit index (CFI) analyzes the model fit by examining the discrepancy between the data and the hypothesized model, while adjusting for the issues of sample size inherent in the chi-squared test of model fit, and the normed fit index. CFI values range from 0 to 1, with larger values indicating better fit. ...
88 rowsDescription. The WAI is an instrument used in clinical …
Index terms have been assigned to the content through auto-classification. Recommendations. Effect of outsourcing perceptions and organizational sector on work-related variables: a causal-comparative study. Read More. Planning Information Technology-Knowledge Worker Systems.
impact of ore hardness as assessed using the Bond work index comparative methodology. Both the Bond work index (BWi) and the operating work index (OWi) are presented as separate overlayed curves (Figure 1). The BWi is an industry-standard laboratory measurement related to the specific energy requirement of an ore for a given …
The Agility Index is thus an excellent way to capture a baseline – a place to start. But the real power of Comparative Agility is to leverage the tool when comparing your organization (the collection and individual teams) to themselves over time. In the end, business agility is about constantly improving the way you work.
Operations Management questions and answers. You currently work at IBM and are applying for a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Manager position. As part of your interview process, you are to create a comparative analysis of IBM and one of its direct competitor's initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion for LGBTQ+ in the ...
The purpose of this research was to statistically evaluate comparative Bond Work Index, BWi, determinations using two different commercial ball mill testing apparatus. These experiments were run ...
The health index measures a person's overall health status which provides useful information for people to manage their health, so developing a precise and relevant health index is urgent. Currently, many researchers have studied the biological age (BA) estimation, one of the beneficial health indices, by applying machine learning and deep ...
The article explores work-life balance policies in five European Mediterranean countries: France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey. The aim is to analyze how the interplay among different role of state, markets, third sector and families shapes work and family-care dimensions, within the economic, social, cultural contemporary …
A Comparative Study of Shift Work Effects and Injuries among Nurses Working in Rotating Night and Day Shifts in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India. ... Standard Shift Work Index Questionnaire (SSI) was used as the study instrument, with selected variables (according to objectives of the study). Data were analyzed using descriptive ...
In this work, we propose a novel index, based on residence time, for micromixing characterization and comparative analysis. For any given mixer, the proposed index identifies the nondiffusive mixing enhancement with respect to the T-mixer. Various micromixers are evaluated using the proposed index to demonstrate the usefulness of …
When Erf/Erp is greater than 1.29, the work index increases as the product size decreases, and when Erf/Erp is less than 1.29 the work index decreases. Eq. (8) suggests that a standard work index Wi100, or the work index at 80% passing 100 microns calculated from the exposure ratios, can be found from the following Eq. (9):
Six different methods of estimating Air quality Index (AQI) based on four pollutants synergistic effect viz., PM10, PM2.5, SO2 and NO2 were used to compare the prevailing ambient air quality in ...
Quality of work refers to the ways and conditions under which the activity of work can affect the well-being of employees, often focusing on the job content, the work conditions and environment. Quality of employment describes all aspects of a job that …
The Work Ability Index (WAI) is a widely used questionnaire in occupational health and research that takes into consideration the demands of work, the worker's health status and resources. It consists of seven subscales regarding work ability compared with the lifetime best in relation to the demands of the job, the number of diseases, the work ...
Download scientific diagram | Work centrality index, comparative position from publication: The Meaning of Work in Chinese Contexts: A Comparative Study | This article explores the meaning of work ...
The Work Ability Index (WAI) is a widely used questionnaire in occupational health and research that takes into consideration the demands of work, the worker's health status …
ArticlePDF Available. The Meaning of Work in Chinese Contexts: A Comparative Study. August 2003. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Newsletter, IEEE 3 (2) DOI: …
Background: Shift work can have an impact on the physical and psychological well-being of the healthcare worker, affecting patients as well as their own safety at the workplace. This study was conducted to compare the health outcomes and injuries, along with associated risk factors between the nurses working in rotating night shift (RNS) as compared to day …
Background: The Work Ability Index (WAI) is a well-established instrument to measure work ability. However, the dimensionality of the WAI remains controversial. Aims: To …
Understanding the comparative effectiveness of candidate interventions or similar conditions is essential for improving the development and delivery of effective health care. Many publications have highlighted the shortfalls of health care delivered in the United States, including the frequency of medical errors (IOM, 2000); wide variation in practice …
Using only the total score of the WAI is not adequate for population analysis of and assessment of work ability to individuals, and the two-dimensional structure of the …
The Bond work index is not solely a material constant but is influenced by the grinding conditions. For example, the finer the grind size desired, the higher is the kWh/t required to grind to that size. Magdalinovic [38] measured the Bond work index of three ore types using different test screen sizes. He produced a correlation between the mass of test …
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An empirical comparative study on biological age estimation algorithms with an application of Work Ability Index (WAI) Author links open overlay panel Il Haeng Cho a, Kyung S. Park a, Chang Joo Lim b. Show more. ... Psychometric properties of Work Ability Index in the light of comparative survey study. Int. Congress Ser., 1280 (2005), …
This article employs comparative methods to explore gender representation and the depiction of innocence and sexuality in two iterations of the 'Snow White' fable: the 1812 Brothers Grimm fairytale 'Little Snow White', and Walt Disney's 1937 screen adaptation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. By conducting literature-based research …
Using only the total score of the WAI is not adequate for population analysis of and assessment of work ability to individuals, and the two-dimensional structure of the instrument must be taken into account. BACKGROUND The Work Ability Index (WAI) is a well-established instrument to measure work ability. However, the dimensionality of the …
The Laboratory Comparative Work Index gives an approximate Bond Work Index for an ore sample. This can then be used with Bond's Third Theory of Comminution to calculate net power requirements needed for grinding. The test depends on laboratory batch grinding and uses a comparison with the grinding of an ore of a known Bond Work Index.
