High staff turnover at a central city motel

This study aims to investigate the high staff turnover at a central city motel and to develop a human resource strategy to improve retention. The study uses a qualitative approach in which data was collected through semi-structured interviews and was analysed by themes to obtain results. The thematic analysis of results led to finding causes of high employee turnover at the motel and also helped in recommending strategies to curb the issue. The study found that career advancement and work-life balance were the main factors affecting employee turnover. It also found other factors such as training and motivation lead to high turnover. The study recommends that to retain staff at a central city motel, a strategic human resource plan to develop a career pathway should be adopted. Also, to reduce the struggle between work and personal interests, steps to create a balance should be explored. Research must be conducted on a broader platform to analyse employees from other motels and the hospitality industry to determine their views on high staff turnover

Tax avoidance In New Zealand

This study aims to critically review and analyse the causes and solutions for tax avoidance in New Zealand. The research will explore relevant sections of the Income Tax Act and make recommendations for further research and development. Tax avoidance is gaining further awareness amongst people as are the legal implications that surround tax avoidance. This study makes use of secondary research in which data is collected primarily through review of literature that is made available through published journal articles, periodicals and books. During the research, it was found that the general public has different understandings of tax avoidance. The research also aims to review the sections of the New Zealand Income Tax Act 2004, particularly the sections containing the anti-avoidance laws and ways in which the operation of New Zealand's tax avoidance laws can improve. It will also analyse and recommend what a model tax system should be and the legislation that it should follow to eliminate tax-avoidance

Retreat, Submission, and the Private Use of Force

Different jurisdictions disagree on whether a person facing an illegitimate threat is ever required to retreat in the face of it or to submit to it, rather than using force in defence. Those that have attempted to identify the principled position on this issue also disagree about (i) the philosophical source (if any) of the duty to retreat; (ii) the interests that may privately be defended; and (iii) the point of time at which private force becomes available to a defender. I address these disputes by suggesting that rules requiring retreat or submission must be limitations on private force that flow from the state’s monopoly of legitimate force within its jurisdiction. I argue that these limitations on private force operate at two stages. The first stage limitations restrict ‘in-principle’ access to private force to cases in which the threat cannot be avoided non-forcefully, and the second stage limitations ensure that the force privately deployed does not exceed the force that the state could itself have legitimately deployed. Next, I examine whether certain interests often taken to be privately defensible ought to be treated as such. Finally, I describe the model of retreat and submission that follows from the ideas canvassed

UNDERSTANDING THE “HOUSEHOLDER DEFENCE”: PROPORTIONALITY AND REASONABLENESS IN DEFENSIVE FORCE

IN Collins v Secretary of State [2016] EWHC 33 (Admin), the High Court refused to declare that Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, s. 76(5A) – the so-called “householder's defence” – was incompatible with the right to life enshrined in Article 2 of the ECHR, in that it failed to protect the lives of attackers sufficiently. Section 76(5A) was inserted into the 2008 Act by Crime and Courts Act 2013, s. 43, and came into force in April 2013

Measurement of turbulent correlations in a coaxial flow of dissimilar fluids

Axial turbulence measurements in coaxial flow of dissimilar gase

Recursive Implementations of the Consider Filter

One method to account for parameters errors in the Kalman filter is to consider their effect in the so-called Schmidt-Kalman filter. This work addresses issues that arise when implementing a consider Kalman filter as a real-time, recursive algorithm. A favorite implementation of the Kalman filter as an onboard navigation subsystem is the UDU formulation. A new way to implement a UDU consider filter is proposed. The non-optimality of the recursive consider filter is also analyzed, and a modified algorithm is proposed to overcome this limitation