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  Shift work - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shift work was once characteristic of manufacturing industry, where it has a clear effect of increasing the use that can be made of capital equipment, and allowing for up to three times the production compared to an eight-hour day.
Shift work has been traditional in the armed forces: for example sailors must be available to handle a vessel around the clock, and a system of naval watches organised to ensure enough hands are on duty at any time.
Shift work is also the norm in governmental and private employment in fields related to public safety and healthcare, such as police, fire prevention, emergency medical transportation, primary healthcare center urgencies and hospitals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shift_work   (697 words)

  
 Shift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
in music, a shift is a change of level and is similar to but more basic and general than a chord change.
On a string instrument a shift is a movement of the left hand in order to play sounds that are beyond the range of the previous hand position.
Shift the Ape, a character in the Chronicles of Narnia series.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shift   (264 words)

  
 Paradigm shift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paradigm shift is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science.
An epistemological paradigm shift was called a scientific revolution by epistemologist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
The movement, known as the Cognitive revolution, away from Behaviourist approaches to psychological study and the acceptance of cognition as central to studying human behaviour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paradigm_shift   (1135 words)

  
 How Shift Lenses Change your Life
Shift lenses do a few tricks but perhaps the main professional gimmick is letting you control that centerline.
When maximum shift is employed, shift lenses (with their unnaturally wide field of view) can show some light falloff in the corners, due to basic optical properties.
Shift lenses make a picture much wider than a normal lens, but the distance from lens to film is still about 40mm.
www.photo.net /equipment/canon/tilt-shift   (3239 words)

  
 Help: SHIFT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
SHIFT is provided for compatibility with older batch files, where it was used to access more than 10 parameters.
SHIFT -n moves parameters to the right, but it is limited to moving them back to their position on entry to the batch file.
SHIFT /n This form of the command irreversibly deletes parameter %n from the command tail, and shifts all parameters originally to its right 1 position to the left.
www.jpsoft.com /help/shift.htm   (287 words)

  
 IONS - Publications: Shift, the Magazine of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness is the Institute's flagship publication.
Shift articles engage, challenge, and inspire both scientific and lay readers to expand perceptions of what is real and what is possible.
Shift is sent to our members four times a year, and is also available on select newsstands around the world.
www.noetic.org /publications/magazine.cfm   (379 words)

  
 Public Relations Services | Boston & San Francisco
SHIFT has crafted the technology public relations strategy of some famous start-ups, a few turn-arounds and many industry stars such as WebTrends, Quantum Corp., Plumtree Software, Cybertrust, Claria, RSA Conference and Netezza.
SHIFT also represents exciting consumer companies such as Shimano, UGOBE, Oakley and GoFish.
SHIFT has crafted – and executed on – the technology public relations strategy of droves of high-tech start-ups and many established industry stars.
www.shiftcomm.com   (323 words)

  
 Shift Work - SleepChannel
Nearly 20% of employees in industrialized countries are employed in shift work, which requires them to drastically change their sleep habits weekly or even daily.
While there are no statistics for the prevalence of SWC effects, approximately 20% of shift workers report falling asleep during work, which increases the risk of industrial accidents and decreases productivity.
Shift work change affects circadian rhythm, which, similar to delayed sleep phase syndrome and jet lag, desynchronizes the body's sleep-wake schedule.
www.sleepdisorderchannel.com /shiftwork   (474 words)

  
 shift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Shift positional parameters to the left by n.
shift is a BOURNE shell command and a POSIX `special' builtin.
SHIFT - Shift the position of replaceable parameters in a batch file
www.ss64.com /bash/shift.html   (101 words)

  
 SHIFT HOME
SHIFT is a high energy heavy metal band hailing out of Baltimore Maryland, and is a combination of very seasoned veterans from such bands like Mystic Force, Cypher and Burn.
SHIFT's music has a very modern metal sound having tons of hooks, melodic vocals and heavy rhythms.
SHIFT's debut cd will be called "Creating a Monster", and is set to be released in early winter 2006.
www.shiftallaccess.com   (143 words)

  
 Shift schedules enhance employee morale.
Shift schedules affect employees’ lives in so many ways, it’s no wonder that some shiftworkers are happy with their schedules, and some are not.
In some cases, dissatisfaction with the shift schedule is so severe and widespread that the morale of the entire workforce is negatively affected.
The management team may suspect that the shift schedule is the root cause, but they are unsure what to change and how to proceed.
www.shift-work.com /morale.htm   (415 words)

  
 Shift News
Shift and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage have involved nearly 100 students at key points throughout the first 2.5 years of this ten year project.
Shift won top honours in three of the six categories for which they were nominated at this year’s TUANZ (e)-vision Awards.
Shift are proud to have developed the New Zealand Institute website - www.nzinstitute.org – a site committed to generating debate, ideas and solutions on key economic and social policy issues affecting New Zealand.
www.shift.co.nz /news   (2032 words)

  
 Shift key
The shift key is commonly located on both the left and right-hand of the keyboard and is commonly located below the caps lock key and the enter or return key on US keyboards.
In addition to changing the case of the text the shift key is also used as a shortcut key to perform various different shortcuts.
For example, holding down the shift key and pressing your arrow keys will highlight text.
www.computerhope.com /jargon/s/shiftkey.htm   (114 words)

  
 Chris Hughes Shift CD
This site is designed to give you the chance to buy the Shift CD direct and discover more about Chris Hughes' and Steve Reich's music.
Shift was originally released on the Fontana label on the 7th February 1994.
The first solo release by Chris Hughes, the Shift project had been germinating as an idea since 1972 when, as a young gun, his father took him to see the European premiere of Steve Reich's Drumming at the Hayward Gallery, London.
www.chughes.co.uk   (283 words)

  
 SHIFT - "Smart High Integration Flex Technologies" - Introduction
Compared to their rigid board counterparts they show a drastic increase of comfort for the user, and therefore the trend is starting and will become only stronger towards the use of "smart" comfortable mechanically flexible electronic systems.
It is believed that the technologies developed in SHIFT will be usable in a wide variety of applications, besides those actually present in the consortium now : biomedical, smart cards, automotive, consumer are only a few examples of additional potential application fields.
Therefore the dissemination activities in SHIFT are considered to be of the highest importance.
www.elis.ugent.be /ELISgroups/tfcg/projects/shift/welcome.html   (2412 words)

  
 Shift schedules and schedule examples.
One of the biggest differences between European shift schedules and shift schedules in North America and Australia is the length of the average workweek.
This shift schedule is a five-week cycle staffed by five equal crews.
If personnel are not available on-shift to cover for illness and other unscheduled absences, personnel on their day off are needed to provide proper coverage.
www.shift-work.com /shift-schedules/shift_schedule7.htm   (539 words)

  
 Red Shift Internet Services
Red Shift reserves the right to collect from the holder of any account found guilty in a court of law of sending SPAM up to $50 per message or $25,000 per day, whichever is less or that amount which comes out of a legal judgment.
Red Shift will not be liable for any data that is lost, deleted, corrupted or otherwise made unusable by the customer or by Red Shift or one of Red Shift's agents, employees, officers, or anyone acting on Red Shift's behalf.
Red Shift will not be responsible for any damages to customer’s business, the customer themselves, or that others may suffer as a result of using any of Red Shift's services even if it is the result of negligence on the part of Red Shift employees, officers, agents or anyone acting on Red Shift's behalf.
www.redshift.com /copyrights/terms.php   (1890 words)

  
 Part 6: Red Shift
Specifically, the galaxies' light spectra were shifted toward the red end of the spectrum.
Hubble and others realized that the most obvious explanation for the "red shift" was that the galaxies were receding from Earth and each other, and the farther the galaxy, the faster the recession.
This conclusion is based on a cosmological effect that is similar to the everyday "Doppler shift." Doppler shift is what makes a car sound lower-pitched as it moves away from you.
www.arachnoid.com /sky/redshift.html   (541 words)

  
 Microsoft Windows XP - Shift
When command extensions are enabled (that is, the default), the shift command supports the /n command-line option, which tells the command to start shifting at the nth argument, where n can be a value from zero to eight.
The shift command changes the values of the batch parameters %0 through %9 by copying each parameter into the previous one.
After you carry out the shift command, you cannot recover the first batch parameter (%0) that existed before the shift.
www.microsoft.com /resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/shift.mspx   (331 words)

  
 Shift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As the child builds up forward momentum, the wheels shift inward due to decreased weight on the rear wheels, thus causing the balance to gradually shift from the bicycle to the child.
Shift provides more balance at lower speeds when stability is most critical (starting and stopping), by providing a larger stance.
The Shift bicycle features a swinging rear hub, which allows the rear wheels to pitch in and out.
www.designapkin.com /portfolio/index.shtml   (130 words)

  
 CDC - Influenza (Flu) | The Influenza (Flu) Viruses
Antigenic shift results when a new influenza A subtype to which most people have little or no immune protection infects humans.
The other type of change is called "antigenic shift." Antigenic shift is an abrupt, major change in the influenza A viruses, resulting in new hemagglutinin and/or new hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins in influenza viruses that infect humans.
Shift results in a new influenza A subtype.
www.cdc.gov /flu/about/fluviruses.htm   (917 words)

  
 Unleash the Power of SHIFT
Press this key to use shift, and be thankful you're using a friendly Mac instead of a mean old PC with all them confusin' words 'n stuff on it.
Just as the moon appears much larger when it is close to the horizon, your shift keys look larger because of their proximity to other keys.
Before rushing blindly ahead with a lot of shifting, consult the spiritual advisor of your choice for help in dealing with any unresolved issues in your relationship with the Almighty.
www.baetzler.de /humor/power_of_shift.html   (780 words)

  
 Shift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
At Shift, we believe that we all have a mental health problem: the negative effects of the stigma and discrimination that surrounds mental health issues.
Shift is a five year initiative that works in areas where people say they experience discrimination the most.
Shift to hold first international conference on stigma and discrimination
www.shift.org.uk   (619 words)

  
 C-ship: The Doppler Shift
From Doppler's formula, we can expect the frequency of sound approaching the train to be shifted to 10% higher pitch, and sounds receding shifted to 10% lower pitch, roughly the difference between two adjacent white keys on a piano keyboard.
The reason we notice the Doppler shift of sound but not of light is simply the consequence of the tremendous difference in the speed of sound and the speed of light.
The Doppler shift predicted by classical physics is shown in red and the correct prediction of special relativity in green.
www.fourmilab.ch /cship/doppler.html   (756 words)

  
 Shift Font Library
Eight Shift classic fonts in Macintosh Type 1 format
Borrowing from the format of our image library we've relaunched the Shift site with eight classics (and more coming soon).
Shift re-releases include the Euro symbol, extended accent sets, and offer updated Postscript compatibility with OS X applications.
www.shiftype.com   (138 words)

  
 SHIFT Concept Bicycle
The SHIFT bicycle helps children learn how to ride a bike by gradualy teaching them how to balance on their own.
SHIFT provides more balance at lower speeds when stability is most critical (starting and stopping).
As the child builds forward momentum, the bike’s dual rear wheels shift inward, thus causing the balance to gradually shift from the bicycle to the child.
images.businessweek.com /ss/05/06/idea2005/source/74.htm   (141 words)

  
 GLoomis Fly Rods | SHIFT Outdoors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
SHIFT Outdoors offers Layout Boats for duck hunting shipping out of Oakville Ontario Canada.
Carstens Duck Boats have proven themselves to be one of the best small waterfowling boats navigating creeks and marshes putting you where the ducks are.
The Pintail, Carstens two man duck boat and the Puddler their one man duck boat are the ultimate stealth duck boats.
www.shiftoutdoors.com   (167 words)

  
 Paradigm Shift - Defined   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another.
For example, the introduction of the personal computer and the internet have impacted both personal and business environments, and is a catalyst for a Paradigm Shift.
We are shifting from a mechanistic, manufacturing, industrial society to an organic, service based, information centered society, and increases in technology will continue to impact globally.
www.taketheleap.com /define.html   (477 words)

  
 New bike design for toddlers wins international competition
This causes the balance to gradually shift from the bicycle to the child.
"SHIFT provides more balance at lower speeds when stability is most critical, especially when starting and stopping, by providing a larger stance," Shim said.
The two rear wheels shift inward to merge into one wheel, causing the balance to gradually shift from the bicycle to the child.
www.purdue.edu /UNS/html4ever/2005/050428.Shim.bike.html   (805 words)

  
 | Shift Media |
Shift Media delivers insight and practical results in three main areas of expertise:
Shift Media specializes in research into educational and learning markets and situations.
At Shift Media, insight is combined with a focus on practical results.
www.shift-media.co.uk   (141 words)

  
 SHIFT (Salford's Health Investment For Tomorrow) Programme - Homepage
SHIFT is a programme of five projects that will change the face of health services in Salford during the next six years, putting healthcare closer to the local community, providing investment in new healthcare facilities and revolutionising NHS information systems.
It is important to the success of SHIFT that during this period of change patients, staff and members of the public affected by these changes are kept informed about and have the chance to participate in the SHIFT Programme where appropriate.
The SHIFT website and other communication methods will ensure that everyone affected is aware of the significance of SHIFT for the future for healthcare in Salford, whilst at the same time recognising the improvements brought about by SHIFT and addressing issues as they arise."
www.shiftprogramme.co.uk   (279 words)

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