Surf’s Up: Reducing Internet Abuse without Demotivating Employees

Child abuse and the Internet

Janet Stanley The past decade has seen rapid development and exponential growth in the use of electronic, computer-based communication and information sharing via the internet, particularly across the western world. Clearly there are many benefits that result from internet usage, but until recently there has been little recognition of the dangers that may also result from the use of such techno...

Reducing Choice Overload without Reducing Choices

Previous studies have demonstrated that a multitude of options can lead to choice overload, reducing decision quality. Through controlled experiments, we examine sequential choice architectures that enable the choice set to remain large while potentially reducing the effect of choice overload. A specific tournament-style architecture achieves this goal. An alternate architecture in which subjec...

PML Surfs into HIPPO Tumor Suppressor Pathway

Growth arrest, inhibition of cell proliferation, apoptosis, senescence, and differentiation are the most characterized effects of a given tumor suppressor response. It is becoming increasingly clear that tumor suppression results from the integrated and synergistic activities of different pathways. This implies that tumor suppression includes linear, as well as lateral, crosstalk signaling. The...

Social capital and job satisfaction among substance abuse treatment employees

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction is an important predictor for management and clinical ratios. Although it is accepted that is affected by many aspects, the influence of social capital remains to be determined. The main purpose of the article is to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and individual social capital for employees offering services in the treatment of addiction. METHODS ...

Telemedicine: Reducing Trauma in Evaluating Abuse