Wellbeing initiatives

The impact of creative initiatives on wellbeing: a literature review

Subjective Wellbeing, Objective Wellbeing and Inequality in Australia

In recent years policy makers and social scientists have devoted considerable attention to wellbeing, a concept that refers to people's capacity to live healthy, creative and fulfilling lives. Two conceptual approaches dominate wellbeing research. The objective approach examines the objective components of a good life. The subjective approach examines people's subjective evaluations of their li...

Employee Wellbeing: Evaluating a Wellbeing Intervention in Two Settings

This research presents two studies conducted to evaluate the Wellbeing Game in two different contexts: In a student sample and in an organizational setting. Study 1 investigated the efficacy of the Wellbeing Game, in terms of its effect of wellbeing, stress, and an image valence test, among 60 university students. The results showed that after playing the Wellbeing Game, students reported a sig...

NIEHS Initiatives

THE CELL MEMBRANE is a recognized site for radiation injury (Myers, 1970; Alper, 1971). Chemical agents known to interact with membrane components may therefore amplify cell killing when present during irradiation. Indeed membrane-active agents such as local anaesthetics, analgesics and tranquillizers have been shown to enhance radiation effects on cells (George et al., 1975; Shenoy et al., 197...

Standardization Initiatives

It is predicted that mobile applications will become an integral part of our lives at the personal and professional level. Mobile Payment (MP) is a promising and exciting domain that has been rapidly developing recently, and although it can still be considered in its infancy, great hope is put on it. If MP efforts succeed, they will boost both eand m-commerce and may be the killer service in 2....