Casual catastrophe or contentment: is casual employment related to ill-health in young South Australians?

Locked-in casual employment

Low birth weight and obesity: causal or casual casual association?

s identified in the databases (SciELO=75; Google scholar=9; EBSCO =312; pubMed=112; Scopus=30 (n=538) Full articles assessed for eligibility (n=208) Excluded abstracts n=10 for duplicity n=189 for subject n=30 for language n=69 lack of access to full-text n=22 book reviews n=10 editorials Full articles excluded n=118 restricted to intrauterine development n=15 Central topic of obesity n=28 No i...

Are Casual Jobs a Freeway to Permanent Employment?

This study examines whether casual work can shorten the time taken to move from unemployment into permanent work using longitudinal data from the Survey of Employment and Unemployment Patterns. The analysis is based on comparison of the transition rate from unemployment to permanent work with the combined transition rates of unemployment to casual work and casual work to permanent work. Hazard ...

Social Casual Games Success is not so Casual

This article aims to identify key elements explaining success of social casual games in the Facebook context. We argue that game success originates from the relationship between psychological needs of users and the social situation provided by the virtual environment (Facebook). In particular, we will analyze Facebook’s ‘social casual games’ using Murray’s categories. This...

Oral Health and Brain Injury: Causal or Casual Relation?

BACKGROUND To systematically review the current literature investigating the association between oral health and acquired brain injury. METHODS A structured search strategy was applied to PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and CENTRAL electronic databases until March 2017 by 2 independent reviewers. The preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis guidelines were used for sy...