贸易保护做法要节制——美国服装进口商看中美纺织品贸易

对世界纺织品贸易来说．2005年是一个过渡年。纺织品配额取消了．美国与欧盟却又启动了保障措施等贸易救济措施。了解美国进口商的观点与看法，对中国纺织品出口商或许会很有好处。     

AFAS框架下的东南亚金融服务自由化

东盟服务贸易框架协定（AFAS）是东盟（ASEAN）成员国之间关于服务贸易合作的一个区域性协定。AFAS是在1995年举行的东盟第15次峰会上签署的。协议旨在通过消除区域内的贸易限制以及扩展服务贸易总协定（GATS）规定以外的服务贸易自由化的范围，以此增强成员国之间在服务贸易领域的合作。     

Nursing career fulfillment: statistics and statements from registered nurses

A state-level survey of registered nurses confirmed national findings and raised new issues. Findings revealed that while nurses love the intrinsic reward of nursing, they report workplace, relationship, and stress issues which contribute to frustration and exhaustion. These issues may prevent registered nurses from giving the nursing care they desire to deliver, hastening preventable retirement and costly turnover decisions.     

美国大型制造商2003年第三方物流服务使用情况调查

当大型制造商提出供应链战略时，第三方物流服务的使用是他们所要考虑的一个重要选择。第三方物流提供者给这些公司提供了范围广泛的服务，不仅在国内市场，国际市场也是如此。管理者考虑使用这些服务面临着一个复杂的决策，这些涉及到一系列重要的控制与成本、服务改进之间的权衡，必须在迅速变化的第三方物流产业中进行评估。     

创新研究中的概念问题

本文探讨了目前复合组织创新研究过程中出现的一系列尚未解决的、复杂的概念问题。在把这些问题串联在一起的过程中,通过对影响实证研究中不稳定性因素的探讨分析,我们界定了四种相互独立的导致不稳定性产生的因素,并深入探讨了它们在理论和方法论上的意义。     

Public perceptions of nursing careers: the influence of the media and nursing shortages

The high public regard for nurses has not necessarily translated into an adequate supply of individuals who are willing to be nurses. The expected future demand for nurse labor challenges us to look more closely at the public's perceptions of nursing and nursing careers, and consider how they are shaped by personal experience, media messages, and socio-demographic factors. As part of ongoing efforts to examine factors shaping the future of the nursing workforce, a national survey of Americans was conducted to probe attitudes toward the nursing profession and their experiences with nurses. The data in this national survey of the public about nursing demonstrate that the nursing profession is highly respected and that the vast majority of the general public would recommend nursing careers to qualified students. If the profession is so well thought of and so highly recommended, why are there persistent concerns that not enough people are becoming RNs to avoid or at least slow down the development of future shortages? A prolonged and persistent effort is needed to educate people about nursing careers, to stimulate the expanded production of nursing faculty, and to bring creative approaches to financing nursing education and workforce improvements to convert the large number of seriously interested candidates into the nursing profession.     

Shift work in nursing: is it really a risk factor for nurses' health and patients' safety?

There is evidence in the scientific literature of the adverse physiological and psychological effects of shift work, including disruption to biological rhythm, sleep disorders, health problems, diminished performance at work, job dissatisfaction, and social isolation. In this study, the results of health problems and sleep disorders between female and male nurses, between daytime and shift nurses, and between sleep-adjusted and non-sleep-adjusted shift nurses were compared. Also the relationship between adjustment to shift work and organizational outcomes (errors and incidents and absenteeism from work) was analyzed. Gender, age, and weight were more significant factors than shift work in determining the well-being of nurses. Shift work by itself was not found to be a risk factor for nurses' health and organizational outcomes in this study. Moreover, nurses who were identified as being "non-adaptive" to shift work were found to work as effectively and safely as their adaptive colleagues in terms of absenteeism from work and involvement in professional errors and accidents. This research adds two additional findings to the field of shift work studies. The first finding is that female shift workers complain significantly more about sleep disorders than male shift workers. Second, although high rates of nurses whose sleep was not adapted to shift work were found, this did not have a more adverse impact on their health, absenteeism rates, or performance (reported errors and incidents), compared to their "adaptive" and "daytime" colleagues.