Variation Order in UK Law
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NON‐UNION ESTABLISHMENTS IN BRITAIN: THE SPATIAL PATTERN
Given the degree of interest which is developing in issues such as the “North‐South divide”, data drawn from recent workplace industrial relations surveys are re‐examined in order to analyse whethe...... ... the distribution of non-union establishments along regional lines in order to identify those parts of Britain that have an above-average number of ... differences there are few obvious signs of significant spatial variation. Secondly, structural effects (i.e. industry mix) is not a particularly ... ...
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Unpaced production lines with three simultaneous imbalance sources
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of unpaced reliable production lines that are unbalanced in terms of their mean operation times, coefficients of variation and b...... ... in terms of their mean operation times, coefficients of variation and buffercapacities.Design/methodology/approach – Simulations were ... abowl configuration for coefficients of variation and a decreasing order of buffer sizes results in higherthroughput and lower idle times than a ... ...
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Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account
This article outlines a field-theoretic variation of hegemonic-order theory — one inspired primarily by the work of Pierre Bourdieu. We argue that hegemony derives from the possession of a pluralit...... ... NeumannNorwegian Institute for International Affairs, NorwayAbstractThis article outlines a field-theoretic variation of hegemonic-order theory one inspired primarily by the work of Pierre Bourdieu. We argue that hegemony derives from the possession of a plurality ... ...
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Genetic algorithm based fuzzy time series tourism demand forecast model
Purpose: – Many studies have proposed variant fuzzy time series models for uncertain and vague data. The purpose of this paper is to adapt a fuzzy time series combined with genetic algorithm (GA) t...... ... –Different cases are studied to understand the effect of variation offuzzy time series order, number of intervals and population size on the ... ...
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Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations
Multilateral cooperation in international organisations is characterised by regime complexity. The literature usually adopts a policy-focused perspective studying the properties, effects, and dynam...... ... In order to explain this variation, we extract state motivations from the regime ... ...
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Ethnic Labor Market Contexts and the Earnings of Asian Immigrants
Our paper examines how group specific metropolitan level factors affect the earnings of six major Asian immigrant groups in the United States: Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietn...... ... groups in different metropolitan areas inorder to examine how variation in metropolitan context interacts with individual characteristicsto ... communities.We select 25 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) by the order of the total Asian population.Although it is apparently a metropolitan ... ...
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Nowcasting Indian GDP
Nowcasting has become a useful tool for making timely predictions of gross domestic product (GDP) in a data‐rich environment. However, in developing economies this is more challenging due to substa...... ... used for no wcasting GDP with nominal and international series, in order to proxy the variation in missing employment and service sector variables ... ...
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A note on the effect of brand image on sales
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the sales volume of a firm and its brand image. Consumers’ self‐perception and perception of brand image, with respect to congru...... ... )in image attributes will explain the fluctuationsin sales figures.In order to test this hypothesis, consecutivesurveys were carried out, on a monthly ... Therefore, itis reasonable to expect variation or fluctuation in measured image attributesover time, when observations ... ...
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PATTERNS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Personal acknowledgements are commonplace in the scholarly communication process. The scale and significance of the phenomenon vary from field to field, and from journal to journal. Variation in pr...... ... Variation in practice is revealed in a twenty-year analysis of acknowledgements in ... There is a positive rank order correlation between frequency of acknowledgement and citation frequency ... ...
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Factors influencing use of the internet. A questionnaire survey of the students of University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing use of the internet by students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and to establish the variation of this use by students...... ... of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and to establish the variation of this use by students’personal characteristics, and as a result to ... and access by faculty, level of study and gender in order to maximise the use of theinternet services by the students in the ... ...
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