The profession of social work has a long history of work with "clients" with disabilities, but unfortunately, this history often has not included strong advocacy for their rights and creating a place as colleagues within Schools of Social Work (Dunn,…

A fair pay structure is an essential element of the personnel policy of a firm. If the pay structure is perceived as arbitrary by the members of the staff, it becomes a cause of disturbance of the labor relations. Particularly,…

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Ciudadanía y sociedad civil en las democracias contemporáneas.
Citizenship and civil society in contemporary democracies.
de La Vega, Marta



El poder simbólico de los medios de…

Aim: To disclose scientific knowledge about hydroarsenicism in Latin America, as well as to determine the presence of arsenic in water used for human consumption in risk areas of Costa Rica, specifically at the Central, Oreamuno, Paraíso and Alvarado counties…

The authors of this article established the goal to detect and evaluate the wide possibilities for strengthening the value orientation towards innovativeness in the industrial enterprises. For this purpose exploration of the valuation on the innovativeness as a value was…

This research paper provides a HR crisis management reference for Chinese organisations. The aims of this paper are to discover and describe HR crises and management situations in Chinese organisations. The research questions are as follows: 1) – How did…

Brazil nut is widely recognized as the cornerstone of the Amazonian extractive economy. Tight linkages between Brazil nut production, regional income, and intact mature forests have thrust this species into focus as a key component of Amazonian conservation and income…

This paper introduces the system simulation technique and looks for potential application in the biodiesel agribusiness. The simulation basics are presented. It's described the components of a simulation model, the models classification and the model construction process. Some uses in…

A utilização da modelagem matemática pode contribuir para aumentar o conhecimento em sistemas de produção animal, possibilitando a identificação, compreensão e quantificação das interações e problemas nestes sistemas. Por este motivo, o objetivo deste trabalho foi desenvolver um modelo para…