Hard Play

Legacy, Leisure and the ‘Work Hard – Play Hard’ Hypothesis

Do people who work hard also tend to play hard? We tested this hypothesis using an online questionnaire-based study of a large volunteer sample of university undergraduate students. Participants responded to questions designed to detect variation in attraction to accomplishment/fame (or ‘work’) and attraction to leisure (or ‘play’). Additional questions were asked, for use in posthoc explorator...

Janssen PLAYGROUNDS PLAY HARD , LEARN EASY PLAY by HvA & VUmc grounds

Work Hard, Play Hard: Email Classification on the Avocado and Enron Corpora

In this paper, we present an empirical study of email classification into two main categories “Business” and “Personal”. We train on the Enron email corpus, and test on the Enron and Avocado email corpora. We show that information from the email exchange networks improves the performance of classification. We represent the email exchange networks as social networks with graph structures. For th...

Work Hard, Play Hard - A Work Ethic Forged in the Group Oppolzer.

The author gives an account of his work as post-doc at the University of Geneva in the group of W. Oppolzer, putting emphasis on scientific rigour and ingenuity.

Immigration rules create a game too hard to play.

normally do not write about my Franciscan community in Health Progress, but this month I am making an exception. I would like to describe a situation that occurred early last fall — a young member of my community made his final profession of vows as a Franciscan. This is always a big event for Franciscans, and dozens of members from around my Midwest Province attended the ceremony. It is usuall...