Physique and Hazardous Occupations

Physique

matter. Director-General Taylor's figures do not indicate that within the last ten years any noteworthy evidence of physical decadence has taken place in recruits except as regards their teeth. This may mean a sign of physical degeneracy or an outcome of more care and strictness in examining and appraising the condition of the teeth. It is argued that sanitary laws and reforms have caused the s...

Physique and Intellect

Physique and Intellect. By Donald G. Paterson. New York: The Century Co. (Century Psychology Series). 1930. There have been during the past few decades many investigations directed primarily toward the determination of the relation between those two factors which the author of this book generalizes under the names physique and intellect. The theoretical and practical importance of the results o...

Behaviour & Physique

Dr. Parnell gives a straight-forward and intelligible account pf the principles of somatotyping; describes the technique of examcation in some detail; and provides several pages of photographs, ^'hich illustrate some combinations of the three components?endoJnorphy, mesomorphy, and ectomorphy. He then goes on to show how the classification-system may be applied to family studies; to Progress in...

Path Dependence and Occupations∗

Path dependence in occupations refers to the observed occupational distribution in a population or in a sub-population at a point in time that depends on changes that occurred years or centuries earlier. Path dependence in occupations can be the outcome of the cumulative concentration of certain productive activities in specific regions over time, it can emerge through the effect of parental in...

Discipline: Physique