Personal Characteristics and Selective Migration

Personal constructs and personal characteristics.

An important issue in personality is the relationship between the life style of an individual, including his outlook, and his objective characteristics or characteristics of his situation. Certainly it would seem that the wayan individual chooses to construe his environment and his place in it should be related to his own characteristics. Thus, a handsome person might be expected to have quite ...

Performance Characteristics of Personal Samplers in Still and Moving Air

Personal samplers or in general blunt body samplers are widely used in occupational hygiene for collecting air contaminants in the work environments. This work is part of an ongoing research into the performance evaluation of personal samplers, particularly in terms of their aerodynamic properties. Velocity profiles have been measured around and within typical cylindrical sampling devices, ...

Selective Migration and Health

Selective Migration and Health Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health distribution reduces mobility by 32-40%. Non-random attrition from the panel implies that these are lower bounds. By contrast, we find...

Design Creativity and Personal Characteristics

It has been found that design creativity is closely related with personal characteristics and design-related abilities. To verify this fact systematically, I inspected personal characteristics and learning styles. Moreover I assessed spatial perceptual ability, constructive perceptual ability and visual reasoning ability as design-related ability. Also, students were received several designrela...

Selective migration by birthweight.