An Ergonomic Evaluation of Work Place in Steel and Power Industry - A Case Study

Subject. This article deals with the issues relating to improving integrated reporting in terms of dovetailing strategic objectives with capital changes. Objectives. The article aims to develop a system of indicators for disclosure of capital types in integrated reporting of electricity generating companies, as well as recommendations aimed at implementing the fundamental concepts and guiding principles of integrated reporting. Methods. For the study, we used the methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison, generalization, and abstraction. As a case study, we conduct a comparative analysis of the disclosure of six types of capital by the largest electricity generating companies, namely PAO Inter RAO, AO Rosenergoatom and PAO RusHydro. Results. The article formulates proposals for disclosure of capital information to address such a lack of accountability as a contradiction to the principle of coherence. It proposes a system of indicators (core and additional) for disclosure of six types of capital by electricity generating companies. Conclusions. A significant reporting problem is the lack of correlation between key strategic objectives and capital changes. The formulated recommendations for disclosure of capital information can help solve this problem, and increase the attractiveness of the integrated report for capital providers.

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Mining Vehicle Trajectories to Discover Individual Significant Places: Case Study using Floating Car Data in the Paris Region

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.1177/0361198121995500 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 036119812199550

Author(s):

Danyang Sun ◽

Fabien Leurent ◽

Xiaoyan Xie

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

City Planning ◽

Human Mobility ◽

Work Place ◽

Trajectory Data ◽

Floating Car Data ◽

Vehicle Trajectories ◽

Activity Types ◽

Paris Region

In this study we discovered significant places in individual mobility by exploring vehicle trajectories from floating car data. The objective was to detect the geo-locations of significant places and further identify their functional types. Vehicle trajectories were first segmented into meaningful trips to recover corresponding stay points. A customized density-based clustering approach was implemented to cluster stay points into places and determine the significant ones for each individual vehicle. Next, a two-level hierarchy method was developed to identify the place types, which firstly identified the activity types by mixture model clustering on stay characteristics, and secondly discovered the place types by assessing their profiles of activity composition and frequentation. An applicational case study was conducted in the Paris region. As a result, five types of significant places were identified, including home place, work place, and three other types of secondary places. The results of the proposed method were compared with those from a commonly used rule-based identification, and showed a highly consistent matching on place recognition for the same vehicles. Overall, this study provides a large-scale instance of the study of human mobility anchors by mining passive trajectory data without prior knowledge. Such mined information can further help to understand human mobility regularities and facilitate city planning.

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Some life lessons in the work place: Personal narrative/case study

Work ◽

10.3233/wor-131793 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 303-306

Author(s):

Michael Schwartz

Keyword(s):

Personal Narrative ◽

Work Place ◽

Narrative Case Study ◽

Life Lessons

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The State and the Electric-Power Industry in Mexico, 1895–1965

The Business History Review ◽

10.2307/3112602 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 527-556 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Miguel S. Wionczek

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Latin America ◽

Electric Power ◽

Electric Power Industry ◽

Power Industry ◽

The State ◽

Basic Trend ◽

Private Interests ◽

State Participation

Increased state participation in the economy has been a basic trend in twentieth-century Latin America. In the process, however, once-protected private interests may fall—as in this case-study from Mexico.

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Dialect Levelling: A Case Study of Ìkàr??-Àkókó Dialect

International Journal of Language and Literary Studies ◽

10.36892/ijlls.v3i3.640 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 290-315

Author(s):

Esther Olayinka Bamigbola ◽

Fadekemi Rukayat Umar

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Native Speakers ◽

Mother Tongue ◽

Indigenous Languages ◽

Work Place ◽

The People ◽

Restricted Domains ◽

The Status ◽

Lack Of Commitment

This study investigates the factors that are responsible for the levelling of Ìkàr??-Àkókó dialect. Specifically, the paper examines the impacts of Nigerian indigenous languages, especially Yorùbá, on the dialect. The study aims at identifying the patterns of changes in the dialect and their impacts on the ethnic identities of the people. The work is based on the variationist approach pioneered by William Labov in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The tools used for data collection include questionnaire, oral interview and observation. The findings of the study reveal that the dialect manifests different stages of changes, vital domains like home, school and work place, which are supposed to be the strongholds of this dialect are being encroached upon by languages other than the mother tongue in the study area. It was found that the changes in the dialect are not due to the influence of English language only, but to indigenous Nigerian languages, mostly Yorùbá. It was concluded that the gradual levelling of Ìkàr??-Àkókó dialect is caused in part by restricted domains of use, increase in population; lack of commitment to indigenous language use by the native speakers; and suppressive language policy in the nation. The study recommends sensitization campaigns as a way of maintaining and sustaining the status of indigenous languages.

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