'I just saw it as something that would pull you down, rather than lift you up': resilience in never-smokers with mental illness

Would you please stop that!?

Purpose – Meetings are ubiquitous in organizational life and are a great source of frustration and annoyance to many employees in the workplace, in part due to counterproductive meeting behaviors (CMBs). CMBs include engaging in irrelevant discussion, complaining about other attendees, arriving to the meeting late, and other similar, disruptive behaviors. Consistent with conservation of resourc...

Would You Like Fries With That?

Continued  Fast food restaurateurs, hotel operators and other franchise owners from around the country arrived in Washington on Tuesday, September 16, but they were not there to order fries. They were there to voice their opposition to a July 29 decision made by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board). In July, the general counsel of the NLRB made a preliminary decision that cou...

Who would you like to be when you grow up?

In February 2005, the Annals of Internal Medicine, a highly respected journal, published a systematic review of 59 manuscripts covering a total of 62 samples that reported on the relationship between medical knowledge/healthcare quality and years in practice/physician age. The implication of the data presented is that throughout their careers, physicians fail to upgrade their knowledge to keep ...

What Would You like to Be When You Grow Up?

If You Own It, It Exists; If You Love It, That Says Something about You, Not It: Semantically Conditioned Case in Finnish

In Finnish, the object of a transitive verb is case marked in one of two ways: with the ACCUSATIVE or PARTITIVE case. Generally speaking, all Finnish transitive verbs are compatible with both accusative and partitive marked objects. Basically, which case is assigned can affect the interpretation assigned to a verb or its object. This suggests an instance of free variation in Finnish; that there...