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December 19, 1967 Revenue — Selective employment tax — Qualifying activities — Designers of machine tools — Whether establishment engaged in “activities falling under” minimum…
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December 19, 1967 Revenue — Selective employment tax — Qualifying activities — Designers of machine tools — Whether establishment engaged in “activities falling under” minimum list heading “332 Metal‐working machine tools” in Standard Industrial Classification — Whether “manufacturing” — “Activities” — Selective Employment Payments Act, 1966(c.32)s l(2)(a)(i).
David Bright and Terry MacDermott
There has been a steady growth in courses for shop stewards in the United Kingdom in the last decade, much of which is a direct consequence of the increased involvement of the…
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There has been a steady growth in courses for shop stewards in the United Kingdom in the last decade, much of which is a direct consequence of the increased involvement of the TUC. This growth has been paralleled by two other developments, the first of which is the position of skills training as a central element in union education, while the second is the emergence of a group of tutors who are employed to teach almost exclusively on courses for shop stewards and other representatives.
The core of this paper is a reproduction of a study published in 1911 by Clark and Wyatt entitled “Scientific management as applied to women’s work”. The paper is significant…
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The core of this paper is a reproduction of a study published in 1911 by Clark and Wyatt entitled “Scientific management as applied to women’s work”. The paper is significant because it provides a very early eyewitness “warts‐and‐all” account of scientific management as applied to women’s labor. It is also of interest because Frederick Taylor both read the work and corresponded with one of the authors. Hence it provides a rare insight into Taylor’s ideas regarding gender relations and the place of women in industry.
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Reid, Morris of Borth‐y‐Gest, Pearce, Wilberforce and Diplock
February 11, 1969 Damages — Assessment — Fatal Accidents Acts — Dependency — Standard application — Inflation of currency — Not to be taken into account — Disturbance of jury's…
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a teaching model involving an experimental studio project for first-year interior architecture university students.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a teaching model involving an experimental studio project for first-year interior architecture university students.
Design/methodology/approach
Content, process, teaching style and feedback are examined in a project, run over five years, concerning transitioning between environments for people with autism in an attempt to advance design of autism schools. Research methodology, teaching model, outcomes and group dynamics are critiqued.
Findings
Feedback from experienced autism-specific teachers across eight case study schools raise recurring issues framing a series of design problems navigated by students. The teaching model enhances student exploration of how sensory processing difficulties, through spatial transitioning strategies, might be approached, whilst furthering their specialist knowledge as future designers of inclusive spaces.
Research limitations/implications
Each transitioning platform requires deeper research to form a realistic interior typology. A further project to install and evaluate specific “transitioning insertions” into circulation spaces of an autism school is proposed for future research.
Practical implications
The identification of this teaching model illustrates how to embed design for autism in the university curriculum.
Social implications
The project brief helps address the National Autistic Society’s public autism awareness campaign “Too Much Information” highlighting anxieties that “unexpected change” causes. Effective design of transitioning spaces can help people with autism to cope with their environment, reducing behaviours and improving learning.
Originality/value
The creation of the “Co-specialist ASD-educator model” will be of value to universities. “Ten Spatial Transitioning Platforms” were uncovered relating to Transitions. This will be of importance to autism researchers and eventually design practitioners.
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Azim Danesh and Ned Kock
The purpose of research is to examine the communication optimization theory by comparing two business process representation approaches and related redesign guidelines through an…
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Purpose
The purpose of research is to examine the communication optimization theory by comparing two business process representation approaches and related redesign guidelines through an experiment.
Design/methodology/approach
The experiment examined two process representation approaches involving 114 subjects. Each method gravitated around a different business process representation – one placed emphasis on business process activities and their sequencing, and the other on the web of communication interactions found in business processes.
Findings
The key finding was that an emphasis on a communication‐oriented view of processes seems to increase perceived modeling quality and redesign success.
Research limitations/implications
Data were collected from various information systems classes at a university. The participants were not redesign team members in an actual organizational redesign project. Future studies should focus on the characteristics of the designers.
Practical implications
The findings should allow managers and practitioners involved in operational‐level process redesign to acknowledge and focus on the flow of information rather than just the activities performed or at least determine a balance between these two approaches. Further, the information system developers and designers should be able to better align information systems design with business processes techniques. Using communication flow methodologies in the analysis stage should significantly help the design and the development processes.
Originality/value
This research was one of the first experimental studies to test the communication flow optimization theory and its effect on business process redesign.
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M.N. Desai, S.M. Desai, M.H. Gandhi and C.B. Shah
This concluding part reviews the actions of inhibitors to acidic, ammonical, organic, atmospheric and miscellaneous product corrosion on aluminium. The comprehensive reference…
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This concluding part reviews the actions of inhibitors to acidic, ammonical, organic, atmospheric and miscellaneous product corrosion on aluminium. The comprehensive reference list is also concluded.
Between the 1830s and 1990s, thousands of Irish women were incarcerated without due process in magdalen asylums for sexual behaviour that violated the Catholic Church’s moral…
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Between the 1830s and 1990s, thousands of Irish women were incarcerated without due process in magdalen asylums for sexual behaviour that violated the Catholic Church’s moral code. The asylums were operated by congregations of nuns that sought to protect society from the contagion of “wayward” women while simultaneously attempting to reform them through a harsh regimen of laundry work and devotional rituals. Some penitents, as the inmates were often called, embraced the institutional life of labour and prayer with such sincerity that they advanced to the nun‐like status of the Sisters Magdalen. Most simply endured lives of drudgery indistinguishable from slavery until either death or release upon the intervention of relatives. The asylum system had no basis in law and its shadowy existence, its ability to avoid scrutiny or regulation, and its survival until very recent times, illustrate in a striking manner the hegemonic power of the Church in Ireland.
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L.J. Salmon, L.J. Phillimore and L.J. Buckley
July 23, 1970 Revenue — Selective employment tax — Qualifying activities — Press photographic agency — Appropriate classification — Selective Employment Payments Act, 1966 (c.32…
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July 23, 1970 Revenue — Selective employment tax — Qualifying activities — Press photographic agency — Appropriate classification — Selective Employment Payments Act, 1966 (c.32) ss.1(1), (2), 10(5) — Standard Industrial Classification (1963) Minimum list headings 486, 899.2.
May 21, 1971 Charity — High Court control — Industrial training board — Set up by Minister under statute — Ministerial control — Whether charitable — Extent of High Court control…
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May 21, 1971 Charity — High Court control — Industrial training board — Set up by Minister under statute — Ministerial control — Whether charitable — Extent of High Court control for boards to be charities — Industrial Training Act, 1964 (e. 16), s.2(l) — Charities Act, 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. II, c. 58), s.45(1).