BACKGROUND From our experience the toilet paper is folded in the bathrooms in rooms in branded hotels. We aimed to study the total time yearly spent in the world on folding hotel toilet paper. METHOD Three investigators clocked 60 folding toilet paper events and calculated the mean time. The mean folding time was 5.73 s (interquartile range 4.50-6.56). Using the calculated extra time it takes...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the time spent by family physicians (FP) on tasks other than direct patient contact, to evaluate job satisfaction, to analyse the association between time spent on tasks and physician characteristics, the association between the number of tasks performed and physician characteristics and the association between time spent on tasks and job satisfaction. DESIGN Cross-sect...

Abstract Objectives Comparing time use patterns and self-efficacy in two groups of mothers including mothers of children with CP and mothers of children with typical development is the main objective of this study. Method This study was carried out in 2017 in Arak, on 200 mothers. Multiple sources of evaluation were used including Mothers' Time Use Questionnaire and Sherer General Self-eff...

Cyberloafing is the voluntary acts of individuals using their companies’ Internet access for non-work related purposes during working hours. This study examines the impact of sleep deprivation on cyberloafing as measured objectively by time spent by individuals on non-work-related-computing. More specifically, we investigated the effect of individuals’ bed time and wake time after sleep onset (...

Application of aromatic compounds has dramatically increased as raw materials in various industries and different factories have been established to produce aromatic compounds. The current research aims at characterizing industrial waste generation in aromatics production process in petrochemical industries and determining the best feasible alternative for waste disposal. For this purpose, the ...

PURPOSE To assess whether a change in myopia related oculometric parameters of primary school children in Beijing was associated with indoors and outdoors activity. METHODS The longitudinal school-based study included school children who were examined in 2011 and who were re-examined in 2012. The children underwent a comprehensive eye examination including ocular biometry by optical low-coher...

We argue that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners’ earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on their housework, and has not considered the simpler possibility of an association between women’s absolute earnings and housework. Consequently it has relied o...