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An Empirical Study of Occupational Stress Transmission in Working Couples
(1993)The associations between work demands, supports, and levels of psychological and physical health have been clearly established by research. There is growing evidence that occupational stressors are transmitted to spouses, ... -
An Empirical Study of User Preference and Performance with UML Diagrams
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2002)Elicitation and validation of user requirements depend, to a large extent, on the effectiveness of the tools and techniques used as a vehicle for discussion between developers and users during the requirements process. ... -
An Empirical Study on Using Visual Embellishments in Visualization
(2012-12)In written and spoken communications, figures of speech (e. g., metaphors and synecdoche) are often used as an aid to help convey abstract or less tangible concepts. However, the benefits of using rhetorical illustrations ... -
The Empirics of the National Minimum Wage and Employment in the U.K.
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Employee Commitment and Turnover Intention: Perspectives from the Nigerian Public Sector
(2021-11-27)This study investigates the conceptualization of employee commitment and turnover intention in the Nigerian public sector using a qualitative approach. Findings sug-gest that (i) employees expressed a lack of sense of ... -
Employee engagement in discussion: Goals, perspectives and recommendations
(2017-10-09)This paper represents a summary of a debate on employee engagement that was conducted in a Business School setting. in this debate, representatives from key stakeholders group participated in this debate. The debate ... -
Employees’ support strategies for mental wellbeing during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Recommendations for employers in the UK workforce
(2023-05-05)Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and beyond for many businesses, employees have had to adapt to new ways of working due to disruptions in traditional practices. It is therefore crucial to understand the new challenges ... -
Employing dynamic fuzzy membership functions to assess environmental performance in the supplier selection process
(2006)The proposed system illustrates that logic fuzzy can be used to aid management in assessing a supplier's environmental performance in the supplier selection process. A user-centred hierarchical system employing scalable ... -
Employment dispute resolution in Great Britain: the case for change - an international perspective
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)This paper investigates the advantages and effectiveness of applying alternative dispute resolution systems (ADR) as part of the thinking and dynamics associated with the current review of employment dispute resolution in ... -
Employment regulation and productivity: Is there a case for deregulation?
(2016-03-03)This article explores empirically the economic validity of the relatively limited approach to the regulation of employment protection pursued in the UK over the last three decades and within the European Union more recently. ... -
Empower Evaluation
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Empower Evaluation: Summary Report
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Empowering Academic Reading: Strategies for Student Engagement in the Digital Age
(2023-11-24)Academic staff express concerns that many students do not engage with academic reading, do not have adequate note-taking skills and lack enthusiasm for academic texts (Hoeft, 2012; Miller & Merdian, 2020). Effective academic ... -
Empowering students to design an online activity: case study
(2006)The presenter led a postgraduate module where students were on campus for a week, then away for 5 weeks then back for a week. These students were all in full time employment and had very demanding jobs. The aim was to ... -
Empowerment : An Introduction
(Springer Nature, 2014)This book chapter is an introduction to and an overview of the information-theoretic, task independent utility function "Empowerment", which is defined as the channel capacity between an agent's actions and an agent's ... -
Empowerment and Relevant Goal Information as Alternatives to Graph-Theoretic Centrality for Navigational Decision Making
(2020-03-17)City planners and architects employ graph-theoretic measures to analyse models of the built environment and predict human navigational behaviour. A recent breakthrough in the neuroscience of spatial cognition has shown ... -
Empowerment and State-dependent Noise : An Intrinsic Motivation for Avoiding Unpredictable Agents
(MIT Press, 2013)Empowerment is a recently introduced intrinsic motivation algorithm based on the embodiment of an agent and the dynamics of the world the agent is situated in. Computed as the channel capacity from an agent’s actuators to ... -
Empowerment as a Generic Utility Function for Agents in a Simple Team Sport Simulation
(Springer Nature, 2017-08-11)Players in team sports cooperate in a coordinated manner to achieve common goals. Automated players in academic and commercial team sports simulations have tradi- tionally been driven by complex externally motivated value ... -
Empowerment as a metric for Optimization in HCI
(2015-04)We propose a novel metric for optimizing human-computer interfaces, based on the information-theoretic capacity of empowerment, a task-independent universal utility measure. Empowerment measures, for agent-environment ...