Large industrial enterprises had innovation rates of 84% compared to 63% of similarly sized service enterprises. In excess of 67% of medium sized industrial enterprises engaged in innovation activity in the period while 58% of service enterprises were innovation active. Small industrial enterprises (ten to forty-nine persons engaged) had an innovation activity rate of 51% compared to 38% of sma...

Understanding how to achieve longer work lives: The 2008 Recent Retirees Survey was undertaken to better understand the tools and practices that might encourage workers to postpone their retirement and remain longer with their company. Why do people retire when they do? Respondents typically retired from employers for one of four reasons: retirement becomes affordable, lack of job satisfaction,...

A problem statistical offices and research institutes are faced with by releasing micro-data is the preservation of confidentiality. Traditional methods to avoid disclosure often destroy the structure of data, i.e., information loss is potentially high. In this paper I discuss an alternative technique of creating scientific-use-files, which reproduce the characteristics of the original data qui...

Introduction. We explore predictors of information overload among cancer information seekers who reported having suffered from information overload. These persons were characterized by socio-demographic characteristics, health status, health information and communication environment and behavioural, cognitive, and affective cancer information seeking. Method. A secondary analysis was performed ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the extent to which the prevailing model of smoking cessation (that smokers typically prepare their attempts to stop smoking in advance and that doing so increases their chances of success) is correct. DESIGN Cross sectional household survey. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS 918 smokers who reported having made at least one quit attempt and 996 ex-smokers aged 16 and over...

This article summarizes the principal design features of the Income Survey Development Program (ISDP) and presents initial findings of its 1979 Research Panel. The ISDP was designed to meet the need for improved data--particularly information on cash and in-kind income, assets and debts, tax liabilities, and participation in the major income security programs. The ISDP examined many technical a...

BACKGROUND Suicide is a leading cause of death, particularly among young adults. The rapid growth of social media and its heavy use by young adults presents new challenges and opportunities for suicide prevention. Social media sites are commonly used for communicating about suicide-related behavior with others, which raises the possibility of using social media to help prevent suicide. However,...

A survey by a questionnaire method was undertaken to enquire about the facilities, the level of medical and non-medical staffing, structure and functioning of psychiatric teaching centres offering teaching and training in psychiatry at postgraduate level. The results of the survey are presented and discussed. It is evident that postgraduate teaching centres are inadequately staffed and poorly e...

PURPOSE Using a multi-dimensional measure of perfectionism: the Frost Multi-dimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS: Frost, Marten, Lahart, & Rosenblate, 1990), this study investigates: (a) whether adults who stutter (AWS) display more perfectionistic attitudes and beliefs than those who do not stutter, and (b) whether, in AWS, more perfectionistic attitudes and beliefs are associated with greate...