Work Hard and Play Hard: Perceptions of Play in Early Childhood Programs

Legacy, Leisure and the ‘Work Hard – Play Hard’ Hypothesis

Do people who work hard also tend to play hard? We tested this hypothesis using an online questionnaire-based study of a large volunteer sample of university undergraduate students. Participants responded to questions designed to detect variation in attraction to accomplishment/fame (or ‘work’) and attraction to leisure (or ‘play’). Additional questions were asked, for use in posthoc explorator...

Work Hard, Play Hard - A Work Ethic Forged in the Group Oppolzer.

The author gives an account of his work as post-doc at the University of Geneva in the group of W. Oppolzer, putting emphasis on scientific rigour and ingenuity.

Work Hard, Play Hard: Email Classification on the Avocado and Enron Corpora

In this paper, we present an empirical study of email classification into two main categories “Business” and “Personal”. We train on the Enron email corpus, and test on the Enron and Avocado email corpora. We show that information from the email exchange networks improves the performance of classification. We represent the email exchange networks as social networks with graph structures. For th...

Work hard, play hard?: A comparison of male and female lawyers' time in paid and unpaid work and participation in leisure activities.

There has been a considerable amount of research that documents how women and men spend their time in different work and home tasks. We examine how much time professional women and men spend in paid and unpaid work and how this relates to their participation in different leisure activities. We also explore whether time in paid and unpaid work has gender-specific effects on leisure participation...

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