fringe

Examples of fringe in the following topics:

• Fringe Benefits

  • Fringe benefits are various indirect benefits, often of a more discretionary nature than standard benefits.
  • Examples of fringe benefits, depending on employee seniority and job requirement, are take-home vehicles, hotel stays, and first choice of such things as job assignments and vacation scheduling, as well as first option to apply to certain internal vacancies.
  • Other fringe benefits can include employee discount programs at shops, hotels, gyms, movie theaters, and so on.
  • The term "fringe benefits" was coined by the War Labor Board during World War II to describe the various indirect benefits which industry had devised to attract and retain labor when direct wage increases were prohibited.
  • Fringe benefits are also thought of as the costs of keeping employees other than salary.

• The Importance of Fringe Benefits

  • Hiring and retaining employee talent is a critical factor in success, and providing fringe benefits can be an effective tool in this process.
  • As the search for high-quality workers becomes more difficult and health care costs increase, it has become important to offer fringe benefits to gain a competitive advantage.

• The Michelson Interferometer

  • To create interference fringes on a detector (see Figure 2 ), the paths may be different lengths or composed of different materials.
  • Colored and monochromatic fringes in a Michelson interferometer: (a) White light fringes where the two beams differ in the number of phase inversions; (b) White light fringes where the two beams have experienced the same number of phase inversions; and (c) Fringe pattern using monochromatic light (sodium D lines).

• Newton's Rings

  • If the path length difference between the two reflected light beams is an odd multiple of the wavelength divided by two, λ/2, the reflected waves will be 180 degrees out of phase and destructively interfere, causing a dark fringe.
  • The constructive interference of the two reflected waves creates a bright fringe.

• Attention

  • The spotlight model describes attention as having a focus, a fringe, and a margin; the zoom-lens model introduces a size component to the spotlight model.
  • The term "spotlight" was inspired by the work of William James, who described attention as having a focus, a margin, and a fringe.
  • Surrounding the focus is the fringe of attention, which extracts information in a much more crude fashion.
  • This fringe extends out to a specified area, and the cutoff is called the margin.
  • The fringe takes in less detailed information, and the margin is the cutoff for taking in any information.

• Air Wedge

  • The air wedge angle, between the second and third Fresnel reflections, can be adjusted, causing the reflected light beams to constructively and destructively interfere and create a fringe pattern.
  • To minimize image aberrations of the resulting fringes, the angle plane of the glass wedges has to be placed orthogonal to the angle plane of the air-wedge.

• The Spread of Liberal Democracy

  • Liberalism ceased to be a fringe opinion and joined the political mainstream.
  • The political spectrum changed; traditional monarchy became more and more a fringe view and liberal democracy became more and more mainstream.

• Ideological Third Parties and Splinter Parties

  • Beyond the Libertarian, Green, and Constitution Parties, third parties in American politics tend even farther towards the fringe, emphasizing ideology and avoiding speaking to a broad base.
  • Some third parties are organized entirely around one issue, rather than seeking to enact a broad, fringe ideology.

• Suburbanization

  • Suburbanization is a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities.
  • Suburbanization is a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities.

• Nerve and Blood Supply

  • The blood vessels of the synovial membrane terminate around the articular margins in a fringe of looped anastomoses termed the circulus vasculosus (circulus articularis vasculosus).