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South African Journal of Occupational Therapy — Volume 41, Number 1, March 2011 ❒ 20. Barbalet JM. Boredom and social meaning. British Journal of Sociology, 1999; 50: 631-646. 21. Pavis S & Cunningham-Burley S. Male youth street culture: understanding the context of health-related behaviours. Health Education Research, 1999; 14, 583-596. 22. Scitovsky T. Boredom – an overlooked disease? Challen...

H Wallach began this fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the department as part of UMass Amherst’s interdisciplinary research initiative in computational social science (see related article). Within this new initiative, she is collaborating with new faculty in the departments of Sociology, Political Science, and Mathematics & Statistics. “Computational social science is an emerging re...

PITIRIM A. Sorokin has long been one of the leading figures in American sociology. This paper will describe his career briefly and discuss some of his main contributions to sociological thought. Sorokin was born in a Russian peasant village in 1889. From there he went to St. Petersburg for his secondary and higher education. In 1913, at the age of only 24, he became co-editor of New Ideas in So...

Juan Ignacio Perotti,1 Hang-Hyun Jo,1, 2, ∗ Petter Holme,3, 4, 5 and Jari Saramäki1 1BECS, School of Science, Aalto University, P.O. Box 12200, FI-00076, Finland 2BK21plus Physics Division and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea 3Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, 440-746 Suwon, Republic of Korea 4Department o...

P N Rastogi is Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The success of any organization depends on its leadership. Although a good deal of research has been done on leadership, it is difficult to say what it is. Recent research classifies leaders broadly into two types: transactional and transforming (Burns, 1978). In t...

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introduction: aim of current study is determination of optimal number of nurses in the emergency department of shiraz ali asghar hospital. method: current study is an applied study and belongs to operational research (or) studies. the population has been studied in this research, includes records of referred patients to the emergency department of hospital in 2008. sampling was performed in the...

There are errors in the author affiliations in the XML version of the article. The publisher apologizes for these errors. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Annett Körner, Adina Coroiu, Laura Copeland, Carlos Gomez-Garibello, Cornelia Albani, Markus Zenger , Elmar Brähler 1 Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2 Department of Onco...