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During the past half century, driver licensing has developed from a tax on the users of highways to a major safety activity, and it has spread to every state in the Union. Con trolling who should drive and under what conditions was less important than taxation in the early days of licensing, but today this relationship has been reversed. Licensing is granting a privilege, and the courts have repeatedly upheld this principle; the public, however, must be constantly reminded that a license to drive is only a privilege and not a right. Laws generally provide for examination of drivers and restriction of licenses, but, based as they are on the theory that high-risk applicants can be detected and rejected, they are so limited in effectiveness that continued driver improvement work is necessary to deal with those whose driving records contain conspicuous numbers of unfavorable reports. Driver licensing depends for success upon supporting activities of police and courts both in en forcing license requirements and reporting driver experience. Years of research will be required to develop its full safety potentialities.

Psychological fatigue is defined as a subjectively experienced disinclination to continue performing the task at hand. It generally impairs human efficiency when individuals continue working after they have become aware of their fatigue. It does not depend on energy expenditure and. cannot be measured simply in terms of performance impairment. The interacting causal contributions to fatigue are the length of continuous work spells and daily duty periods, time available for rest and continuous sleep, and the arrangement of duty, rest, and sleep periods within each 24-h cycle. Empirical evidence for the separate and combined effects of these factors on fatigue, performance decrement, and accident risk are briefly reviewed, and the implications of these findings for driving and road safety are considered, with particular reference to the professional driver. This study shows that fatigue is insufficiently recognized and reported as a cause of road accidents and that its effects stem largely from prolonged and irregular working hours, rather than simply from time spent at the wheel.

This comprehensive book responds to the growing demand to study entrepreneurship as a key driver of innovation and competitive advantage. Challenging the existing idea that technological entrepreneurship exists predominantly in SMEs and as a result of market demands, the author argues that a commitment to entrepreneurship remains the most effective strategy for sustaining wealth generation for both organisations and entire nations. The aim of Technological Entrepreneurship is to provide the reader with additional knowledge and understanding of the concepts associated with the exploitation of technological entrepreneurship, and to demonstrate how associated management principles are somewhat different to those utilised in market-driven entrepreneurship. Validation of presented theoretical concepts is achieved through coverage of processes and practices utilised by real world organisations seeking to achieve maximum wealth generation, with specific emphasis on how technological entrepreneurship is the source of disruptive innovation within service sector organisations and how the philosophy is causing fundamental change in the provision of healthcare.

On the night of Feb 12, 2008, an overweight middle-aged man with a light beard walked from his apartment in the Kfar Sousa district of Damascus to his silver Mitsubishi Pajero, parked in front of his building. It was already 10:15, and he was late for a meeting with Iran's new ambassador to Syria, who had arrived in the country the night before. There was good reason for the man's tardiness: He had just come from a meeting with Ramadan Shallah, the leader of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and before that had spent several hours talking with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The man was Imad Mughniyeh, the world's most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden. His true identity as the violent mastermind of Hezbollah would have come as a shock to his Damascus neighbors, who thought he was a chauffeur in the employ of the Iranian embassy. Adapted from the source document.

Sociologists who study social movements know that grassroots organizing tactics, as social change tools, tend to be favored by institutional outsiders. But recent scholarship and developments in the health care debate suggest that these "weapons of the weak" are increasingly used by powerful insiders.

Im Rahmen einer Untersuchung mit Erwachsenen, die sich um einen Oberschulabschluss bemühten, kam eine grounded action-Methodologie (GA) zum Einsatz. Der GLASERschen Fassung der grounded theory (GT) folgend, wurden neben Beobachtungen in Klassenräumen über 50 erwachsene Student(inn)en aus Erwachsenenförderprogrammen oder Abiturlehrgängen interviewt. Im Rahmen dieser Anwendung wurde eine erklärende Theorie um die Kernkategorie driven succeeding generiert, die fünf Stadien umfasste: sich einlassen, Visionen entwickeln, investieren, verstehen und reifen. In dem Beitrag wird ein Überblick über die erklärende Theorie des driven succeeding gegeben, verbunden mit Beispielen, wie eine zusätzliche operationale GA-Theorie und wie entsprechende Interventionsstrategien (SIMMONS & GREGORY 2003) in der Lehrpraxis implementiert wurden. Die grounded action-Methodology erwies sich in diesem Zusammenhang als hilfreiches Instrument, um das Handeln der Student(inn)en vorherzusagen, sinnvolle und nachhaltige Interventionen zu konzipieren und so einen systematischen Einfluss auf die Gestaltung des Lehrplans und die Förderung der Studierenden zu ermöglichen.