Flexible working arrangements

The company offers employees medical, dental and vision insurance pension plans a 401(k) plan tuition and books reimbursement flexible work arrangements adoption assistance opportunity to buy and sell vacation days and an employee assistance program. 

These strategies effectively drill down into specific features of the work environment addressing issues of work design, flexible work arrangements and managerial style. 

Women and men with heavy family responsibilities thought Big Bank needed to get flexible work arrangements. Women thought this lack of flexibility thwarted career progress. 

As the following discussion suggests, it s to an engineering organization s advantage to keep an open mind about alternative working arrangements and to remain flexible. 

Electrochemical detectors of the waU-jet type (Fig. 9.6, left) are simple, robust and flexible. Working and counter electrodes (if necessary, the reference electrode as well) are positioned in a large solution reservoir. The disc-shaped working electrode is in plane with one of the walls of this reservoir. In front of it, a fine nozzle is arranged. The carrier solution is ejected as a sharp jet directed towards the electrode area. The jet washes away quickly residues of older solution from the electrode surface and generates a powerful convection. Thus, a relatively high value of the diffusion-limited current is achieved with an amperometric operation, as is a fast response if operated potentiometrically. The virtual dead volume of wall-jet detectors is extraordinarily smalL It cannot be derived from the cell geometry, but must be determined experimentally by calibration. 

As described above, the arrangement of the various functional moieties was controlled spatially across the films at molecular dimensions in the form of LB films. In a series of folded type of sensitizer (S) and electron-donor (D) dyads in a previous work, however, the dyad molecules in the LB films can take many conformations due to flexibility of the longer alkyl chain of the dyads so that clear dependence of the photoinduced electron transfer rate on the alkyl chain length, i.e. S-D distance, was not observed [2], By this reason, we are studying the chain length dependence by using a series of linear type S-D dyads, in which the S and D moieties were linked by a single alkyl chain. In the closely packed LB films, the alkyl chain was considered to be extended and the distance between S and D to be... 

Perhaps the greatest value of the internship is that students often gain the opportunity to work on truly significant problems. On campus, their efforts would be limited by the ability of the campus infrastructure to address problems in a real rather than artificial manner. Arrangements would be much less flexible, and less readily adapted to meet the emerging needs of the individual. True, an on-campus base might always be seen to involve less risk and offer greater administrative convenience. However, in our experience, there is no preferred substitute for actual experience. 

The beginnings of the SOFC are recorded in an early East German University patent (Mobius and Roland, 1968) which shows awareness of many of the variables still being worked upon today. The oxides of lanthanum, zirconium, yttrium, samarium, europium, terbium, ytterbium, cerium and calcium are mentioned as candidate electrolyte materials. The proposed monolithic planar arrangement has, however, been abandoned by many companies, on the example of Allied Signal. One notable exception is a reversion to a circular planar concept by Ceramic Fuel Cells of Australia, UK (Section 4.7). The Rolls-Royce all-ceramic fuel cell (Section 4.3), which is monolithic and has one compliant feature, namely a gap, is a major exception. One modern trend is towards lower SOFC temperatures, with the intermediate-temperature IT/SOFC allowing the use of cell and stack arrangements with some flexibility and manoeuvrability based on new electrolytes, metallic flow plates, electrodes and interconnects. 

Tetrahedral (Mootz and Staben, 1992) and octahedral (Rustad etal., 2003) coordination environments are known for HO in crystalline hydrates. Evidently the numbers and arrangements of water molecules coordinating an HO ion are flexible enough to be decided by a crystal environment. Therefore development of the self-consistent molecular field models suggested by Section 7.8 would be valuable. Proximity of a specific cation is an issue, in general, for crystals. But it is interesting that, in crystalline NaOH hydrates beyond the monohydrate, the counter-ion is excluded from the inner hydration shell of both Na and HO (Rustad et al., 2003). The latter work used the PBE electron density functional, and found overall excellent results for crystalline NaOH hydrates. So that electron density functional model is able to properly characterize higher coordination structmes where they are known to exist. 

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