Military service is difficult, demanding and dangerous. But returning to civilian life also poses challenges for the men and women who have served in the armed forces, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey of 1,853 veterans. While more than seven-in-ten veterans (72%) report they had an easy time readjusting to civilian life, 27% say re-entry was difficult for them—a proportion that ...

* Anek Belbase is senior research project manager at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR). Alicia H. Munnell is director of the CRR and the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Nari Rhee is the manager of the Retirement Security Program at the University of California at Berkeley Center for Labor Research and E...

Anxiety is rising among mass publics and analysts of governance about whether democratic governments can cope with the policy problems now facing them (Schäfer and Streeck 2013; Berggruen and Gardels 2013). Trust in American government is at a low ebb and more than two thirds of voters in many parts of Europe express dissatisfaction with their country’s direction (Pew 2012a; 2012b). Why is ther...

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Before launching into any discussion about new technologies and the presence of or increasing threat posed by that technology, it seems reasonable to ask ourselves questions such as “how prevalent is this technology/issue?” and “is it likely to get worse or better?”. After all, one could worry about the threats posed by alien superbeings or asteroids to your infrastructure, but it is unlikely t...

Given the immense shifts the social networking sites and applications have brought about, a considerable number of researchers in the field of communication studies have turned to study different aspects of social media usage and factors influencing it. This study gathered data from 33318 US non-institutionalized citizens over 18 including 17079 females and 16239 males; they were members of web...

The diffusion of computer technology has led to an increased interest in computer gaming. A study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (2001) found that over half of teens in the U.S. play or download computer games. Both boys and girls are proficient gamers, although boys are more likely to self-identify as such (Bryce & Rutter, 2003). The combination of the popularity of co...

A. R. Potvin, Ph.D., J. W. Albers, M.D., Ph.D., B. S. Repa, Ph.D., W. G. Henderson, Ph.D., J. E. Walker, M.D., R. F. Stribley, M.S., R. W. Pew, Ph.D., and W. W. Tourtellotte, M.D., Ph.D. Los Angeles, GaUf., Arlington, Tex., Arnes, lowa, and Ann Arbor, Mich. Department of Neurology at Veterans Administration Wadsworth Hospital and University of Califomia at Los Angeles, Bibmedical Engineering Pr...

This study examines the participation of African Americans on social networking sites (SNS), and evaluates the degree to which African Americans engage in activities in the online environment to mitigate social capital deficits. Prior literature suggests that compared with whites, African Americans have less social capital that can enhance their socio-economic mobility. As such, my research que...

This case study summarizes the systems engineering aspects of the next-generation SymbiqTM IV (intravenous) medical pump development. SymbiqTM was developed by Hospira Inc. and documented in detail in Chapter 5 of the National Research Council book, Human-System Integration in the System Development Process. As described in the book, SymbiqTM's purpose was “to deliver liquid medications, nutrie...