Noise exposure is one of the most common hazards in the work force. There are multiple occupations that experience large amounts of noise exposure to its employees on a regular basis. Flight ground crews and flight maintenance personnel are among the nosiest jobs that exist. Despite the mandatory hearing protection requirements for a job of this caliber, there still remains a chance of an over exposure to noise. Most of the exposure comes from the different types of loud repair equipment and tools, but the greatest exposure comes from a jet engine that can reach 140 decibels. Flight maintenance personnel often work in an environment where the hours are long and there is continuous noise at high decibels. Flight maintenance personnel are typically in multiple places throughout a workday because of the maintenance responsibilities of different equipment, trucks, and planes. This study will examine the noise exposure levels of the service members in the Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE) department on a United States Air Force base. The study will help determine if the service members in the AGE department are being over exposed to noise from their daily routines as flight repair personnel. There has been previous noise sampling done on the AGE department and there will be a comparison of data due to different equipment, change in personnel, and standard operating procedures for the department. The bioengineering/ environmental department is typically responsible for sampling of the AGE department. They have had a difficult time with suggesting engineering controls due to the constant mobility of the maintenance crews. As a result, they have to rely heavily on administrative controls and effective Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). This study will include sampling for a standard workday including day and night shift for the AGE department. The sampling will be done by using personal noise dosimeters and a sound level meter will be used to conduct area sampling for equipment in AGE shop. The AGE department on the Air Force base agreed to allow personnel from their shop to participate in this study. In this study, we will adhere to the Air force safety regulations and sampling techniques

Seminario para optar al grado de Ingeniero en Información y Control de Gestión y/o Contador Auditor / Este seminario expone cómo la teoría realiza la implementación de un Sistema de Gestión por Competencias en los RRHH (SGC) de una organización. Esta herramienta resulta muy útil para administrar los talentos de las personas de un modo integrado, contribuyendo, principalmente, a vincular los objetivos estratégicos de la organización con los de sus empleados y trabajadores. De modo colateral, este seminario también explica cómo el desarrollo de un proceso de certificación de competencias formal contribuiría de forma directa a una reivindicación de la experiencia y el conocimiento adquirido en el trabajo. Varios de estos conceptos serán asociados a lo realizado por la empresa Wella Chile S.A. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar las nociones teóricas sobre el modelo del Sistema de Gestión por Competencias (SGC) e indicar cómo se implementa formalmente mediante ejemplos de su aplicación en la empresa Wella Chile S.A. En el primer capítulo se explican los orígenes y fundamentos que genera la formulación teórica del SGC. Se precisan cuáles son las diversas formas de clasificar y definir estas competencias y la manera cómo ellas convergen para formular una aplicación útil sobre la gestión integrada de los RRHH. El capítulo segundo presenta las etapas que debe ir cumpliendo la implementación del SGC, sus objetivos, procedimientos y las consecuencias de su aplicación. Se da especial énfasis a la revisión de las dos primeras, fundamentales para la plena concreción del proceso. Éstas se refieren tanto a la misión y visión de la empresa, como a las competencias críticas para el éxito (conductuales y técnicas) que se pretende desarrollar en el personal. También se muestra la forma mediante la cual el sistema modifica o impacta el funcionamiento del departamento de RRHH. Los beneficios sobre los RRHH que entrega la utilización de un sistema de gestión elaborado sobre la base de competencias, se abordan en el tercer capítulo. Además, se establecen nexos con el Cuadro de Mando Integral y el Control de Gestión. Del mismo modo, se contemplan las posibles dificultades u objeciones que motivan la reticencia de las empresas frente a su utilización y se sugieren algunas soluciones para motivar su uso y masificación. Por último, se expresan las conclusiones a las que arriba este trabajo. Una de las más importantes es que la implementación de un SGC es una herramienta que aporta una nueva perspectiva a la dirección de RRHH tanto en empresas públicas como privadas, permitiendo el óptimo desarrollo en la administración de su personal. Ello se logra porque este sistema consigue alinear los objetivos estratégicos de la empresa con los objetivos de sus empleados. Además, permite definir las capacidades técnicas y conductuales que poseen los empleados y evaluar cuáles pueden ser potenciadas. Esto resulta relevante al focalizar la inversión de los recursos en capital humano. Sin embargo, la implementación efectiva de un SGC requiere del apoyo y compromiso gerencial y de un equipo profesional multidisciplinario.

Exposure to certain bloodborne pathogens can prematurely end a person’s life. Healthcare workers (HCWs), especially those who are members of surgical teams, are at increased risk of exposure to these pathogens. The proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during operative/invasive procedures reduces that risk. Despite this, some HCWs fail to consistently use PPE as required by federal regulation, accrediting agencies, hospital policy, and professional association standards. The purpose of this mixed methods survey study was to (a) examine factors surgical team members perceive influence choices of wearing or not wearing PPE during operative/invasive procedures and (b) determine what would influence consistent use of PPE by surgical team members. Using an ex post facto, non-experimental design, the memberships of five professional associations whose members comprise surgical teams were invited to complete a mixed methods survey study. The primary research question for the study was: What differences (perceptual and demographic) exist between surgical team members that influence their choices of wearing or not wearing PPE during operative/invasive procedures? Four principal differences were found between surgical team members. Functional (i.e., profession or role based) differences exist between the groups. Age and experience (i.e., time in profession) differences exist among members of the groups. Finally, being a nurse anesthetist influences the use of risk assessment to determine the level of PPE to use. Four common themes emerged across all groups informing the two study purposes. Those themes were: availability, education, leadership, and performance. Subsidiary research questions examined the influence of previous accidental exposure to blood or body fluids, federal regulations, hospital policy and procedure, leaders’ attitudes, and patients’ needs on the use of PPE. Each of these was found to strongly influence surgical team members and their use of PPE during operative/invasive procedures. Implications based on the findings affect organizational policy, purchasing and distribution decisions, curriculum design and instruction, leader behavior, and finally partnership with PPE manufacturers. Surgical team members must balance their innate need to care for patients with their need to protect themselves. Results of this study will help team members, leaders, and educators achieve this balance.

Written in first person, NOTHING NORMAL HAPPENS TO ME is a memoir in essays that traces the narrator’s journey from self-destruction to creation. Part one encompasses the narrator’s lost years, after she breaks free from the tyranny of her mentally ill mother and goes to live on her own at 17. Part two provides context for those bad girl years, exploring her childhood when she identified with her histrionic mother. Part three comprises stories about the narrator’s years of awakening when she seeks out transcendence, faith, and a family of her own. The pieces vary tonally and stylistically as they attempt to trace the maturing voice of the narrator. Like SEEKING RAPTURE: SCENES FROM A WOMAN’S LIFE by Kathryn Harrison, this collection centers on a young girl, who without her mother’s love, struggles to love herself. It is both a cautionary tale and a story of redemption.

La siguiente investigación realizó el análisis de los factores de riesgos psicosociales, en los trabajadores de la Sociedad de Beneficencia de Huancayo. El objetivo fue determinar la prevalencia de las dimensiones de la variable indicada en los trabajadores de la Sociedad de Beneficencia de Huancayo. La importancia de la presente tesis radica en que, debido al actual medio laboral, el colaborador se encuentra expuesto a diversas condiciones laborales, las cuales podrían ser un riesgo psicosocial. El método empleado fue el científico, analítico sintético, deductivo; el tipo de investigación básica; el nivel fue el estudio descriptivo; y el diseño aplicado fue no experimental. / Tesis

A brief survey of the supply of and the demand for consumer credit in Canada discloses a dynamic situation. The increasing income of the Canadian population, among other factors, has brought about changing conditions in this market. One of the most significant changes may be the increased sensitivity of the consumer to finance rates and interest charges. This increase in consumer sensitivity to finance rates may explain the past changes in shares of the consumer credit market that are serviced by the various financial intermediaries. The most significant share of consumer credit market changes have been the gains by the chartered banks and credit unions and the loss experienced by the sales finance companies. This may represent a consumer borrower switch from a higher cost lender (the sales finance companies) to lower cost lenders (the chartered banks and credit unions). This switch may be explained by an increase in consumer sensitivity to finance rates. A model developed by F. Thomas Juster and Robert P. Shay, predicting increased consumer sensitivity to finance rates, is used to forecast future possible share of consumer credit market that may be serviced by sales finance companies. The results are a forecasted decline in the share of a particular segment of the consumer credit market that may be serviced by the sales finance companies. This forecast is the basis for a discussion of strategy and policy decisions that must be made by the management of sales finance companies. Some of the alternative strategies are explored. The conclusion reached is that the sales finance companies will have a difficult time forestalling a loss in share of the consumer credit market. Their most productive competition strategy may be to concentrate their resources in particular segments of the consumer credit market that are not immediately accessible to the lower cost lenders. Sales finance companies may also find that a strategy of diversification, within and without the consumer credit area, is productive. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

L'évolution du statut personnel de la femme au Maroc a connu ces dernières années une évolution importante, en effet, en 2004 un code de la famille a été adopté et remplace l'ancienne moudawana. Des innovations substantielles ont été adoptées consacrant le principe d'équité entre l'homme et la femme. Ainsi, l'âge du mariage a été fixé à 18 ans pour les deux sexes, la règle de l'obéissance de l'épouse à son mari est abandonnée, l'abandon de la tutelle, en effet, dans les nouveaux textes, la femme n'a plus besoin de tuteur (wali) pour se marier, la polygamie, a également été rendu quasiment impossible, placée sous un strict contrôle judiciaire pour des situations exceptionnelles, elle implique l'accord de la première épouse. Le divorce est un droit reconnu aux deux époux sous le contrôle judiciaire. Le nouveau code de la famille est venu rétablir l'équilibre au sein de la famille. Cette réforme du droit de la famille au Maroc a été élaborée sous l'impulsion du Roi Mohamed VI avec le souci de se conformer aux traités internationaux signés par le Maroc, dans le respect des traditions culturelles marocaines fondées sur le droit musulman. Néanmoins, le Maroc n'est pas le seul Pays à avoir réformé son droit de la famille, l'Algérie (en 2005) et l'Egypte (en 2000) ont également procédé à la réforme de leur droit de la famille mais dans une moindre mesure que le Maroc. C'est pourquoi, l'étude du statut personnel marocain sera abordé en premier lieu parce qu'il constitue l'exemple même d'une législation qui a incorporé des règles de la doctrine traditionnelle dans une enveloppe moderne / The evolution of the personal status of the woman in Morocco knew these last years an important evolution, indeed, in 2004 a code of the family was adopted and replaces the moudawana old. Substantial innovations were adopted dedicating the principle of equity between the man and the woman. So, the age of the marriage was fixed to 18 years for both sexes, the rule of the obedience of the wife to her husband is abandoned, the abandonment of the guardianship, indeed, in the new texts, the woman needs no more guardian ( wali ) to get married, the polygamy, was made also almost impossible, placed under a strict judicial review for exceptional situations, she implies(involves) the agreement of the first wife. The divorce is a law recognized by both spouses under the judicial review For exceptional situations, she implies the agreement of the first wife. The divorce is a law recognized by both spouses under the judicial review. The new code of the family came to restore the balance with in the family. This reform of the right of the family for Morocco was elaborated at the instigation of King Mohamed VI with the concern(marigold) to conform to the international treaties signed by Morocco, in the respect for the Moroccan cultural traditions based(established) on the right Muslim. Nevertheless, Morocco is not the only Country to have reformed its law of the family, Algeria (in 2005) and Egypt (in 2000) also proceeded to the reform of their law of the family but to a lesser extent that Morocco. That is why, the study of the Moroccan personal status will be approached first of all because he constitutes the example of a legislation which incorporated rules of the traditional doctrine into a modern envelope

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In this thesis, I defend compatibilism from all manipulation arguments. Manipulation arguments are supported by control cases. These cases purport to be counter-examples to all plausible current compatibilist conditions on moral responsibility. Some compatibilists – historicists – have argued that manipulation arguments can be undermined by endorsing the view that an individual’s moral responsibility for her actions is, in some sense, sensitive to her history. In Part One, I first argue that historicism is without motivation and is untenable. I then sketch a form of compatibilism – the structural-narrative view. This view differs from standard compatibilist accounts because it not only makes clear the synchronic ‘ownership’ (the free will or control condition), but also the diachronic ‘ownership’ conditions (normally taken to be personal identity) on moral responsibility. Both conditions have a narrative component, which I draw from narrative views of personal identity. These conditions insulate my structural-narrative from the manipulation arguments that motivate historicism, thereby providing compatibilists with a tenable alternative to historicism. In Part Two, I argue that the remaining manipulation arguments do not show that compatibilism is false. I first clarify the structure of manipulation arguments. In particular I argue that compatibilists ought to focus their efforts on showing that the control cases that support manipulation arguments are not in fact counter-examples to the compatibilist conditions on moral responsibility. I then distinguish two types of control case: threatening and unthreatening. I argue that the remaining threatening control cases only seem to be counter-examples because of ambiguities in their descriptions that result in us misidentifying the locus of moral responsibility in those cases; once these ambiguities are clarified, the non-responsibility judgement elicited by those cases soon dissipates. I then present three related to arguments to support the claim that unthreatening cases are not counter-examples the compatibilist conditions on moral responsibility; hence I conclude that manipulation arguments do not show that compatibilism is false.

D. Litt. et. Phil / The purpose of this research was to answer the following question: The funding of the church according to the book of Acts: Socialistic or capitalistic? Can this model of giving be developed and defended that promotes and integrates the believer and his material possessions while at the same time respecting the believer as an autonomous agent, who, as such, may be led by the Holy Spirit to give up all his possessions in support of the work of the Lord? In order to answer the research question a discourse analysis of selected verses in the Sermon on the Mount (SM) regarding possessions is undertaken as well as an analysis of verses selected from the book of Acts regarding money and possessions. The ethical guidelines as presented in the SM, can serve as a guideline for each believer as the SM presents God’s standard in a practical manner. Due to the social environment during the first century A.D., which could have had an influence on the manner in which the early believers used their material possessions to support the work of the Lord, a social scientific investigation of the first century A.D. is undertaken. The introduction to the research as well as an Old Testament (OT) background regarding the role possessions played in worshiping the deity is presented in the opening chapters. The conclusion reached was that money and possessions have always played a vital role in the relationship between the believer and the deity. It was also established that specific laws concerning “giving” developed over a period during OT times, which was meticulously followed by Israel. The New Testament (NT), however, takes on a new direction when it comes to giving, and this new standard of giving is investigated against the backdrop of the social and religious environment of the first century A.D. The question as proposed in the study is answered in chapter 5. Guidelines regarding “giving” are submitted in which I hope would free many believers from the legalism clearly evident in many teachings. Chapter 6 contains a critical evaluation of the two “giving” philosophies, presented by scholars. This study xiv reveals that much of what is being taught and practised among believers today with regard to giving to God, is based on the prescriptive patterns of the OT examples of giving. Most of these models or theories fail to provide specific guidelines for the believer to make the crucial distinction between autonomous choices and choices dictated by the Holy Spirit. Chapter 7 concludes with a synthesis of the entire study.