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The Hiring Problem and Permutations [PDF]
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, 2009 The $\textit{hiring problem}$ has been recently introduced by Broder et al. in last year's ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2008), as a simple model for decision making under uncertainty. Candidates are interviewed in a sequential fashion, each one endowed with a quality score, and decisions to hire or discard them must be taken on the fly ...
Archibald, Margaret, Martínez, Conrado
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A Working Woman in Eighteenth-Century Vilnius: Possibilities and The Character of Work
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 The topic of this study is “A Working Woman in Eighteenth-Century Vilnius: Possibilities and The Character of Work”. The aim of this study is to analyse the labour possibilities and character for 18th century women in Vilnius.
Neda Marcinkonytė
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India's finest, for hire [PDF]
Nature, 2000 By collaborating with western companies, are India's research institutes consolidating their positions or allowing their young researchers to be exploited as a cheap scientific labour force? K. S.
K. S. Jayaraman
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Efficiency in the Market for Financial Advisory Services to Businesses [PDF]
Visnyk of the National Bank of Ukraine, 2018 This paper considers whether company decisions on their advisors promote efficiency in the market for business advisory services. We employ a fixed effects measure of advisor quality and find that no fine-grained measure of performance seems to influence
Shaun Hargreaves-Heap +1 more
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Trials, 2019 Background Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by chronic pain, physical dysfunction, and reduced quality of life. Low-load resistance exercises with blood flow restriction (BFR) have presented results similar to those of high-intensity resistance ...
Mikhail Santos Cerqueira +1 more
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Cost-minimizing team hires with participation constraint. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Team formation, which aims to form a team to complete a given task by covering its required skills, furnishes a natural way to help organizers complete projects effectively. In this work, we propose a new team hiring problem.
Heli Sun +7 more
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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks
Population Ecology, EarlyView.Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu +3 more
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SAGE Open Nursing, 2017 Employee turnover is a key metric and performance indicator when evaluating the fiscal and operational effectiveness of any health-care facility. This article outlines a turnover analysis and onboarding program performance improvement initiative used by ...
Emma Kurnat-Thoma PhD, MS, RN +3 more
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Geographic variation in walking activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
Population Ecology, EarlyView.This study examined whether there is geographic variation in field populations, focusing on the moving activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Results showed significant differences in moving activity among field populations but no correlation with latitude or meteorological factors.
Kentarou Matsumura
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