Minority report by the Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland

The Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland (ABFI) is the umbrella organisation for drinks industry manufacturers and suppliers. ABFI works to promote and support an environment that encourages the sustainable and responsible development of the alcohol beverage manufacturing sector in Ireland. The Irish drinks industry is a major national industry providing over 60,000 direct and indirect jobs, generating approximately â,¬2 billion in excise and VAT revenues for the State, and supporting some of Irelandâ?Ts most successful international export products. Last year, our exports were valued at over â,¬1bn, which is comparable to the total exports of prepared consumer foods. Click here to download PDF 210kb

Iowa Division of Labor, January 2006

This is an informational newsletter and stat card about the happenings in the Division of Labor.

Iowa Division of Labor Quarterly Newsletter, April 2006

Iowa Division of Labor Quarterly Newsletter

Evolution of self-organized division of labor in a response threshold model.

Division of labor in social insects is determinant to their ecological success. Recent models emphasize that division of labor is an emergent property of the interactions among nestmates obeying to simple behavioral rules. However, the role of evolution in shaping these rules has been largely neglected. Here, we investigate a model that integrates the perspectives of self-organization and evolution. Our point of departure is the response threshold model, where we allow thresholds to evolve. We ask whether the thresholds will evolve to a state where division of labor emerges in a form that fits the needs of the colony. We find that division of labor can indeed evolve through the evolutionary branching of thresholds, leading to workers that differ in their tendency to take on a given task. However, the conditions under which division of labor evolves depend on the strength of selection on the two fitness components considered: amount of work performed and on worker distribution over tasks. When selection is strongest on the amount of work performed, division of labor evolves if switching tasks is costly. When selection is strongest on worker distribution, division of labor is less likely to evolve. Furthermore, we show that a biased distribution (like 3:1) of workers over tasks is not easily achievable by a threshold mechanism, even under strong selection. Contrary to expectation, multiple matings of colony foundresses impede the evolution of specialization. Overall, our model sheds light on the importance of considering the interaction between specific mechanisms and ecological requirements to better understand the evolutionary scenarios that lead to division of labor in complex systems. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00265-012-1343-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

The eight hours day for wage earning women: United States Supreme Court upholds the California law : List of eight hours laws

National Consumers' League.

Index of all reports issued by Bureaus of Labor Statistics in the United States, prior to March 1, 1902

prepared under the direction of Carroll D. Wright ; for the use of the United States Department of Labor.

Odometer tampering violations analysis: manual for administration of state odometer enforcement programs. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

State administration of bilingual education-- sí o no? : A report /

"Written by Ramona L. Godoy."

California State employment : a report /

"July 1980."

Jobs in the private sector : use of labor market information : a user's guide with detailed appendices /

"October 1980."

Industrial directory of New York State.

Description based on: 1940.

Directory of public employee organizations in New York State.

Mode of access: Internet.

Handbook for estimation of labor supply by use of a community survey.

Title from cover.

The labor market ... reviewed by the Bureau of Statistics & Information.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Bureau of Children's Aid, State Dept. of Finance

Mode of access: Internet.