When Lisa Parr, one of my co-workers at Emory University, tested chimpanzees on portraits of their own species, they excelled at it.
China has so far survived the global economic downturn with hardly any of the agitation many once feared it might cause among unemployed workers or jobless university graduates.
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To address relatively low rates of women in the workforce, Jordan will work to increase the percentage of women workers, particularly university graduates, from 14.7% to 25% of the workforce, in the next three years.
The UAW event I recently spoke at celebrated the anniversary of the founding the union at Columbia University among clerical workers and others.
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"I think the strike should only be for secondary students and I am angry that university students and workers are getting involved, " says Federico.
Obese workers filed twice the number of workers' compensation claims, had seven times higher medical costs from those claims and lost 13 times more days of work from work injury or illness than other workers, according to a Duke University Medical Center study of the health records of more than 11, 000 Duke University employees.
The study, authored by four academics at Duke University, focused on older workers, aged 51 to 75, and tracked more than 13, 000 people through interviews every other year, from 1992 to 2010.
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He was fired last month from a position at Louisiana State University where he helped train emergency workers to respond to bioterrorism attacks.
One, by Edward Lazear of Stanford University Business School, found that workers installing car windscreens increased their productivity when they were put on piece rates rather than on fixed wages.
An experiment by University of Exeter researchers found that workers who were allowed to "enrich" their work space with their own choice of plants and pictures worked faster and with more accuracy.
Intel often pays for workers to continue their education at nearby Portland State University.
Professor MICHAEL SCANTLEBURY (University of Pretoria): The infrequent workers have energy expenditures that are suggesting that they're doing almost absolutely nothing.
According to Dean Yang, of the University of Michigan, most overseas contract workers are not allowed to bring family members with them.
Some cases have even held that players have had enough indicia of employees in terms of university control to be considered employees for workers compensation purposes.
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Rob Cross, a management professor at the University of Virginia, has found new workers stay on the job longer when they're plugged into a social group early on.
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University of Michigan economist David Albouy found that workers in high-cost cities pay up to 27% more in federal taxes than workers with similar skills in low tax cities.
You have more to offer -- got some of the best workers in the world, you've got an outstanding university.
Dawn Chandler, a management professor at California Polytechnic State University, notes that spending time abroad can teach workers to deal with very different leadership styles.
Android's data scrambling system was good for end users but a "nightmare" for law enforcement and forensics workers, the team at Erlangen's Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) wrote in a blogpost about their work.
Vision breaks are not just important for your eyes - research at Cornell University in New York State has found that computer workers who take short breaks are more productive than those who don't take breaks.
Barry Chiswick of the University of Illinois at Chicago says high-tech foreign workers can depress wages in some industries.
Professor Joel Beinin, head of Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo, says the economic gains the Mahalla workers won are important.
Andrew Smith of Cardiff University, who carried out the second study, said workers should try to avoid split-shifts and other schedule changes that put their body clocks out of kilter.
The problem is just as common in small businesses as large ones, says Wayne A. Hochwarter, a management professor at Florida State University's College of Business, who surveyed 980 workers in March and April on the topic.
The university has had to slash operating budgets, lay off 275 workers and put its ambitious expansion plans on hold.
While studying law at night at New York University, Mr. Kampelman worked for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, an experience he later said made him skeptical of Communists.
Gustavo Gonzaga, an economist at Rio de Janeiro's Catholic University, notes that a remarkable one-third of Brazilian workers are made redundant each year, a fact he attributes in part to the labour laws themselves.
Hobsbawm, who was recently appointed visiting professor in networking at Cass Business School, at City University, London, says in an increasingly global workforce, workers cannot afford to ignore the competitive edge it can give.
Atsushi Seike, a labour economist at Keio University, argues that, since the great bulk of older workers are company employees, the solution lies in fixing the corporate employment and retirement systems to allow people more easily to work for longer.
To be sure, some mental health innovation can also be found in parts of the U.S. Project ECHO, partly funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, is using telephone and Internet technology to link specialists at the University of New Mexico with primary care doctors, community health workers, and health educators in rural parts of the state.
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