Keeping Australia's older workers in the labour force. A policy perspective.
Introduction As in other western industrialised countries the proportion of older Australians is rising. While structural ageing is not yet as pronounced as it is in Europe, this changing demographic profile has significant labour market implications. Population projections indicate that over the next 25 years around seven...

Tropospheric ozone effects on the productivity of some crops in central Saudi Arabia.
INTRODUCTION The climatic record of the Middle East region for the past five years showed that there were fluctuations in the temperature and a decrease in rainfall over large portions (1). Human activities in Saudi Arabia such as burning fossil fuels and changes in land use that...

Effects of Enron on future Russian business leaders: a time line survey.
Russia has emerged as a new capitalistic country with a prior history of corruption under the state controlled regime. Will word of corruption in America stop efforts for an ethical business climate in the new Russia? Has the Enron scandal affected Russian views of business? In pursuit of the...

Fostering ICT development for growth: measuring the payoffs for Australia and the Asean-5 countries.
INTRODUCTION Technological breakthroughs, especially in information and communication technologies (ICT), have brought unprecedented benefits to economies worldwide. The positive benefits created by ICT are observable in all sectors of the economy-in the ICT-producing sector as well as the ICT-using sector. Generally, ICT enhances business efficiency, enables swifter...

Thermal energy storage in the ground of a greenhouse by the polypropylene capillary heat exchanger.
INTRODUCTION Our terrestrial system can absorb 3 billion tons of carbon per annum whereas we produce the double of this quantity. We will produce the triple in 30 years if the tendencies continue. Gerard Megie, director of CNRS, point out that the carbon dioxide concentration in the...

A critical review of global wind power generation.
INTRODUCTION Wind turbine is a non-polluting means of generating electricity. Large-scale modern wind turbines are presently able to produce electricity in the United States at economically competitive rates in a significant portion of the country, depending upon the average wind speed of the location of the turbine....

Serendipity in physics research.
This paper relates several serendipitous discoveries in physics in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are all experimental in nature and the places range from reputable universities to modern research laboratories. The discoverers could be working in solo or in group. The subject discovered ranges from the finest nucleus...

Effects of fertilization and clipping of Phlomis fruticosa L. on a phryganic ecosystem: the case of Thesprotia, northwest Greece.
INTRODUCTION Plant communities dominated by Phlomis fruticosa L., a semi-deciduous drought-hardy and flammable dwarf shrub of about 150 cm tall (8), are a common vegetation type in western Greece. In Greece, such communities are known as phrygana and they are widespread in areas with long, dry and...

A Multinomial logit based evaluation of the behavior of the life insureds in Romania.
INTRODUCTION The study of the life insured's behavior has attracted the interest of a number of researchers in the past. Theoretical models on life insurance demand have been developed and empirical studies also have been conducted extensively to examine the influence of specific factors on the demand...

Association between paternal age at birth time and the risk of offspring developing schizophrenia.
INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia is a chronic devastating behavioural psychiatric disease whose history turn back to medical science ancientness. Less than 1% of world population attacked by schizophrenia. that have spread in every geographic region. Its prevalence and incidence rate is similar around the world but there is difference...