abstract background: patient satisfaction with the cosmetic result of spinal fusion surgery was studied in 40 cases of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. neutral or dissatisfied patients were compared with satisfied patients in several physical and psychological characteristics. the aim of the study was to determine whether adolescents generally report satisfaction with the postoperative appearan...

Recent studies suggest psychological differences between conservatives and liberals, including that conservatives are more overconfident. We use a behavioral political economy model to show that while this is undoubtedly true for election years in the current era, there is no reason to believe that conservative ideologies are intrinsically linked to overconfidence. Indeed, it appears that in 19...

Managing knowledge is crucial in our economy. We derive requirements on personal knowledge management (finding, reminding, collaboration, knowledge re-use and cognitively adequate interfaces) from cognitive psychological research and analyse the limitations of current solutions. We introduce a restful, wiki-based, open architecture for semantic personal knowledge management that fulfills the an...

With the rapid development of technology, the comfort of service has become an important issue. Air travels, especially long distance, may cause both physiological and psychological discomfort to passenger. Passenger comfort is clearly a main factor in user’s acceptance of transportation systems. Sleeping is one of the common activities during the long haul flight. In this paper, subjective and...

Development in China SHI Lei*, XING Lu*, BI Jun*, ZHANG Bin* *) State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environment, Nanjing University; Center for Environmental Management and Policy, Nanjing University and Jiangsu Environmental Production Department, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China ABSTRACT Circular economy is a theory which advocates developing economy on the basi...