This study examines whether casual work can shorten the time taken to move from unemployment into permanent work using longitudinal data from the Survey of Employment and Unemployment Patterns. The analysis is based on comparison of the transition rate from unemployment to permanent work with the combined transition rates of unemployment to casual work and casual work to permanent work. Hazard ...

Endogenous opiate peptides can regulate neuroendocrine and circulatory responses to behavioral stress and may be important in the pathogenic effects of sympathoadrenal reactivity. We tested this hypothesis by examining the effect of the opiate antagonist naloxone on blood pressure responses to behavioral stress in young adults with high, medium, or low casual blood pressures. Naloxone increased...

This paper describes an acoustic-phonetic comparison of casual and clear speech styles elicited in read and spontaneous speech. For the spontaneous speech, 20 pairs of English talkers were recorded doing a problem-solving picture task in good and degraded listening conditions. Each person also read sentences in casual and clear styles. The read clear speech was an exaggerated form of clear spee...

Ubiquitous computing spaces, which have displays generously embedded into the environment, allow interaction with graphical user interfaces in a much more casual manner than desktop computers, which tie the user a particular desk. But simply putting desktop applications on a ubiquitous display will not make their use casual. We propose applications that can roam among displays as well as to per...

Typically, in digital entertainment, the screen is the center of the player's attention. If the real world was part of the gameplay, the player would also pay attention to what is happening around her. That is the case of pervasive games. Our objective is to find ways of making pervasive play available for a large casual audience, but in a way that casual games are not deprived of their intrins...

In this study, we compared current data and of the census made in 1990s related to vascular flora Capo Mortola (Ventimiglia, Italy), considering 270 taxa not dependent on crop management. The status reported 198 alien species: 5 invasive, 65 naturalized 75 casual, 38 occurring as casual human-dominated systems, but without direct intervention by humans close parent plant, 15 alien, still with s...

Evaluative conditioning (EC) is a central mechanism for both classic and current theories of attitude formation. In contrast to Pavlovian conditioning, it is often conceptualized as a form of evaluative learning that occurs without awareness of the conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus (CS-US) contingencies. In the present research, the authors directly address this point by assessing the...