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1 – 10 of 86Summarizes the regulations, statutes, health and safetylegislation, council licensing requirements and British standards thataffect the inspection of boilers and lifts. Suggests…
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Summarizes the regulations, statutes, health and safety legislation, council licensing requirements and British standards that affect the inspection of boilers and lifts. Suggests safety, efficiency, and monitoring inspections to ensure continued running of lifts and boilers. Concludes that regular inspections both ensure safety and save time and money.
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Details the increasing reliance on IT within organisations and its relationship to “world‐class quality”. Suggests IT is used to help automate tasks but can play a vital role in…
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Details the increasing reliance on IT within organisations and its relationship to “world‐class quality”. Suggests IT is used to help automate tasks but can play a vital role in human resource management. Examines how IT can be used to help recruit and retain employees by matching their skills to the appropriate job, beyond simply record‐keeping. Highlights ways a personnel system can be used to advantage in mapping out careers, health and safety and performance.
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Joshua Gottlieb, Roger Davis and John Clark
The authors aim to present a procedure for the parallel, steady and unsteady conjugate, Navier–Stokes/heat-conduction rotor-stator interaction analysis of multi-blade-row…
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Purpose
The authors aim to present a procedure for the parallel, steady and unsteady conjugate, Navier–Stokes/heat-conduction rotor-stator interaction analysis of multi-blade-row, film-cooled, turbine airfoil sections. A new grid generation procedure for multiple blade-row configurations, including walls, thermal barrier coatings, plenums, and cooling tubes, is discussed.
Design/methodology/approach
Steady, multi-blade-row interaction effects on the flow and wall thermal fields are predicted using a Reynolds’s-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) simulation in conjunction with an inter-blade-row mixing plane. Unsteady, aero-thermal interaction solutions are determined using time-accurate sliding grids between the stator and rotor with an unsteady RANS model. Non-reflecting boundary condition treatments are utilized in both steady and unsteady approaches at all inlet, exit and inter-blade-row boundaries. Parallelization techniques are also discussed.
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The procedures developed in this research are compared against experimental data from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s turbine research facility.
Practical implications
The software presented in this paper is useful as both the design and analysis tool for fluid system and turbomachinery engineers.
Originality/value
This research presents a novel approach for the simultaneous solution of fluid flow and heat transfer in film-cooled rotating turbine sections. The software developed in this research is validated against experimental results for 2D flow, and the methods discussed are extendable to 3D.
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Iris Reychav, Ofer Inbar, Tomer Simon, Roger McHaney and Lin Zhu
The purpose of this paper is to investigate enterprise social media systems and quantified gender and status influences on emotional content presented in these systems.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate enterprise social media systems and quantified gender and status influences on emotional content presented in these systems.
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Internal social media messages were collected from a global software company running an enterprise social media system. An indirect observatory test using Berlo’s “source–message–channel–receiver” model served as a framework to evaluate sender, message, channel and receiver for each text. These texts were categorized by gender and status using text analytics with SAP SA to produce sentiment indications.
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Results reveal women use positive language 2.1 times more than men. Senior managers express positive language 1.7 times more than non-managers, and feeling rules affect all genders and statuses, but not necessarily as predicted by theory. Other findings show that public messages contained less emotional content, and women expressed more positivity to lower status colleagues. Men expressed more positivity to those in higher positions. Many gender and status stereotypes found in face-to-face studies are also present in digital enterprise social networks.
Research limitations/implications
Limitations include generalizability: all data were collected from a single enterprise social media system.
Practical implications
Managers establishing codes of conduct for social media use will find this research useful, particularly when promoting awareness of emotional expressiveness in online venues with subordinate colleagues.
Originality/value
This study offers a behavioral measurement approach free from validity issues found in self-reported surveys, direct observations and interviews. The collected data offered new perspectives on existing social theories within a new environment of computerized, enterprise social media.
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It is now forty years since there appeared H. R. Plomer's first volume Dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to…
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It is now forty years since there appeared H. R. Plomer's first volume Dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. This has been followed by additional Bibliographical Society publications covering similarly the years up to 1775. From the short sketches given in this series, indicating changes of imprint and type of work undertaken, scholars working with English books issued before the closing years of the eighteenth century have had great assistance in dating the undated and in determining the colour and calibre of any work before it is consulted.
Knight's Industrial Law Reports goes into a new style and format as Managerial Law This issue of KILR is restyled Managerial Law and it now appears on a continuous updating basis…
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Knight's Industrial Law Reports goes into a new style and format as Managerial Law This issue of KILR is restyled Managerial Law and it now appears on a continuous updating basis rather than as a monthly routine affair.
Summarizes recent debates as to the strengths and weaknesses ofcompetence‐based management development, and illustrates these via acase study. In the case study, key issues are…
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Summarizes recent debates as to the strengths and weaknesses of competence‐based management development, and illustrates these via a case study. In the case study, key issues are raised which reinforce many of the criticisms of competence‐based approaches raised in the literature. Concludes that the limitations of the competence approach, as discussed in the literature, should be recognized in implementing a competence‐based programme, and that it is one approach towards management development which may be taken with others.
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In a world in which “England's green and pleasant land” sets the standard for garden excellence, gardeners in much of the United States will struggle in vain to adapt the British…
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In a world in which “England's green and pleasant land” sets the standard for garden excellence, gardeners in much of the United States will struggle in vain to adapt the British style to their own volatile climates. American regional gardening literature offers a new vision to help gardeners throughout the United States select plants suited to their climates (especially native plants) and use techniques to prevent losses to cold, heat, humidity, or drought. The resulting gardens may not always resemble the traditional English her baceous border, but their beauty and vigor will enhance the often monotonous American suburban landscape.
AAR CORP, have announced that its AAR Cadillac Manufacturing unit has been awarded a contract for the overhaul and repair of cargo pallets by the U.S. Air Force. The contract…
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AAR CORP, have announced that its AAR Cadillac Manufacturing unit has been awarded a contract for the overhaul and repair of cargo pallets by the U.S. Air Force. The contract, including options, has an approximate value of $50 million.
Growing unease exists in many quarters, not least amongst academics, regarding the diploma mill industry. In the UK disquiet surfaces periodically. A Member of Parliament will ask…
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Growing unease exists in many quarters, not least amongst academics, regarding the diploma mill industry. In the UK disquiet surfaces periodically. A Member of Parliament will ask a question in the House of Commons; a newspaper will feature an expose; or that indefatigable consumer watchdog Roger Cook, in his BBC programme Checkpoint, will focus the spotlight on the educational underworld.