Knowing Well, Being Well: well-being born of understanding: How Humans Know

Understanding Human Well - being

Behavior and Well - Being : Behavior and Well - Being

The welfare of White Leghorn hens housed in conventional (CON) and modifi ed (MOD) battery cages was assessed by evaluating behaviour during the laying period. CON (30x45cm) (n=84) and MOD (60x45cm) (n=84) each provided 450cm2 of fl oor space for 3 hens. MOD included a perch (30x5cm) and a nest box (NB) (24x45cm), providing an additional 360cm2 of nest area per bird. Location of lay was assesse...

Survey the level of well-being and Psychometric characteristics of hospital nurses’ well-being at work

Background and Aims: mental health problems is common among nurses, because they must face to stressors of their workplace which include work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, financial problems, lack of vacation time, pressures of work, patient communication frameworks  and painful experiences of patients. Based on previous researches psychological resiliency can help them to appro...

Viewpoint: Measuring and understanding subjective well-being

Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. We describe the main measures of subjective well-being (SWB) and provide examples of policy-relevant research findings, including new accou...

Understanding Atomic Interactions to Achieve Well-being.

Voltage-gated sodium channels are among the most active and ubiquitous molecular machines found in animals. Residing in the cell membranes of excitable and other cells, they derive energy for their opening and closing from changes in membrane potential. In some cells, particularly those in sensory information–encoding structures of the central and peripheral nervous systems, these changes take ...