John Donaldson, President, F.J. Fielding and F.H. Lawder
May 22, 1973 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Jurisdiction — Employee dismissed — Four employees at termination of employment — Three employed for more than 13 weeks �…
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May 22, 1973 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Jurisdiction — Employee dismissed — Four employees at termination of employment — Three employed for more than 13 weeks — Fourth employed for less than 13 weeks — Whether less than four employees “who” had been continuously employed — Industrial Relations Act, 1971(c.72), s.27( l )(a).
Hugh Griffiths, F.H. Lawder and H. Roberts
October 31, 1973 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Employee dismissed for redundancy — Employers one of group of companies — Employee dismissed without warning and without…
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October 31, 1973 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Employee dismissed for redundancy — Employers one of group of companies — Employee dismissed without warning and without attempt to find him alternative employment within group — Whether employers acted reasonably in “circumstances” — Whether compensation correctly evaluated in relation to unfairness of dismissal — Industrial Relations Act 1971 (c. 72), s.24(6).
John Donaldson, President, J.H. Arkell and F.H. Lawder
December 18, 1973 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Dismissal for redundancy — Employee contracted to work at any of employers' establishments — Employee's refusal to move place…
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December 18, 1973 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Dismissal for redundancy — Employee contracted to work at any of employers' establishments — Employee's refusal to move place of work — Dismissal — Whether dismissal by reason of redundancy — “Where he was so employed” — “Place in which he would be employed” — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), ss. 1 (2) (b), 2 (3).
John Donaldson, President, F.H. Lawder and R. Roberts
May 24, 1973 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal — Contracts Manager's inability to co‐operate with clients — Employers' business suffered — No…
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May 24, 1973 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal — Contracts Manager's inability to co‐operate with clients — Employers' business suffered — No specific warning of risk of dismissal — Tribunal's finding dismissal justified but for lack of warning — Whether warning necessary — Industrial Relations Act, 1971 (c.72), s.24(6).
Hugh Griffiths, R. Boyfield and F.H. Lawder
November 20, 1973 Master and servant — Redundancy — Dismissal — Employee given notice by employers — Employee left of own volition during notice period — Whether employee…
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November 20, 1973 Master and servant — Redundancy — Dismissal — Employee given notice by employers — Employee left of own volition during notice period — Whether employee “dismissed” — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), s.3(1); Industrial Relations Act, 1971 (c.72), s.23(2).
Hugh Griffiths, R. Boyfield and F.H. Lawder
February 5, 1974 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Compensation — Calculation of wage loss — Employment on three months' notice — Summary dismissal — Tribunal's award for…
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February 5, 1974 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Compensation — Calculation of wage loss — Employment on three months' notice — Summary dismissal — Tribunal's award for wage loss less than three months' notice — Whether correct — Whether employee entitled to compensation for manner of dismissal.
Hugh Griffiths, R. Boyfield and F.H. Lawder
July 11, 1973 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Complaint — Time limit — Request by employers not to proceed with complaint pending negotiations — Complaint out of time �…
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July 11, 1973 Industrial Relations — Unfair dismissal — Complaint — Time limit — Request by employers not to proceed with complaint pending negotiations — Complaint out of time — Whether “practicable” to have presented complaint earlier — Whether agreement to limit operation of time limit — Industrial Tribunals (Industrial Relations, etc.) Regulations, 1972 (S.l 1972 No.38), Sch. r.2(l) (a).
John Richard Edwards, Trevor Boyns and Mark Matthews
The use of accounting to help apply the principles of scientific management to business affairs is associated with the adoption of standard costing and budgetary control. This…
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The use of accounting to help apply the principles of scientific management to business affairs is associated with the adoption of standard costing and budgetary control. This first British industry‐based study of the implementation of these calculative techniques makes use of the case study research tool to interrogate archival data relating to leading iron and steel companies. We demonstrate the adoption of standard costing and budgetary control early on (during the inter‐war period) by a single economic unit, United Steel Companies Ltd, where innovation is attributed to the engineering and scientific background and US experiences of key personnel. Elsewhere, significant management accounting change occurred only with the collapse in iron and steel corporate profitability that began to become apparent in the late 1950s. The process of accounting change is addressed and the significance for our study of the notions of evolution and historical discontinuity is examined. The paper is contextualised through an assessment of initiatives from industry‐based regulatory bodies and consideration of the economic circumstances and business conditions within which management accounting practices were the subject of radical revision.
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THE L.A. Conference can be said to have finished off the summer, albeit somewhat ingloriously. Frankly it was not a very inspiring affair. However the papers and atmosphere are…
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THE L.A. Conference can be said to have finished off the summer, albeit somewhat ingloriously. Frankly it was not a very inspiring affair. However the papers and atmosphere are well described in this number by Mr. Jack Dove and in this column we will confine ourself to that excitement‐packed Annual General Meeting which now probably holds the world record for the shortest A.G.M. of a serious professional institution. The opportunity to express an opinion or ask a question on any aspect of the affairs of the library profession comes only once a year, but the only persons who spoke at the Annual General Meeting were the Chairman, the proposer of the Hon. Auditors, the Mayor of somewhere inviting the Association to hold the Conference there next year and a mover of a vote of thanks to something or other. It makes you wonder. After all the past year has not been entirely without interest to librarians. There are some, we know, who are heartily sick of the sound of the word Roberts but is there no one sufficiently moved to express an opinion on the recommendations contained in the report of the Roberts Committee? It is simply astounding that there was not one motion on the agenda on any aspect of that report. At the time that the agenda was prepared, it was not known that there would be a general election immediately after the conference but surely it is important that the profession as a whole should manifest its view of the recommendations of the committee so that the government could prepare legislation which would have our support. Only one of the major political parties has announced in its manifesto to the electorate that legislation will be introduced in a new Parliament to improve the public library service but of course no details of its proposals have been given. We must know that there is no end to the possible stupidities which could be incorporated into an Act—unless all the bodies concerned impress on the Minister the confirmed opinion of their members. The Association of Municipal Corporations and the County Councils Association have not been slow in making their views known. The Library Association Council presented evidence to the Committee which enjoyed (sic) the support of the membership but it cannot be said that the recommendations have the same support. But does anybody care? Apparently not. We shall grumble when new legislation is presented and then spend the rest of our lives blaming “them”. Is it any wonder that in the words of a London Town Clerk, “librarianship is a depressed profession”? Which leads us nicely to that other apparently unimportant event of the past year.
Diogo Tenório Cintra, Ramiro Brito Willmersdorf, Paulo Roberto Maciel Lyra and William Wagner Matos Lira
The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for parallel simulation that employs the discrete element method (DEM) and improves the cache performance using Hilbert space…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for parallel simulation that employs the discrete element method (DEM) and improves the cache performance using Hilbert space filling curves (HSFC).
Design/methodology/approach
The methodology is well suited for large-scale engineering simulations and considers modelling restrictions due to memory limitations related to the problem size. An algorithm based on mapping indexes, which does not use excessive additional memory, is adopted to enable the contact search procedure for highly scattered domains. The parallel solution strategy uses the recursive coordinate bisection method in the dynamical load balancing procedure. The proposed memory access control aims to improve the data locality of a dynamic set of particles. The numerical simulations presented here contain up to 7.8 millions of particles, considering a visco-elastic model of contact and a rolling friction assumption.
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A real landslide is adopted as reference to evaluate the numerical approach. Three-dimensional simulations are compared in terms of the deposition pattern of the Shum Wan Road landslide. The results show that the methodology permits the simulation of models with a good control of load balancing and memory access. The improvement in cache performance significantly reduces the processing time for large-scale models.
Originality/value
The proposed approach allows the application of DEM in several practical engineering problems of large scale. It also introduces the use of HSFC in the optimization of memory access for DEM simulations.