One central determinant of global environmental change is the continued expansion of personal consumption levels. In order to more fully understand the relationship between consumption and environmental degradation, the determinants of consumption must first be identified. Prior research in this area has focused on economic factors, primarily personal disposable income and population demographi...

В статье представлены результаты исследования личностных особенностей и синдрома эмоционального выгорания медицинских работников ГБУЗ «Республиканский психоневрологический диспансер» г. Улан-Удэ. Обозначена цель, перечислены методы методики исследования. проводится анализ полученных результатов изучения выгорания. ходе у выявлен высокий уровень личностной тревожности. У большинства выявлена фаз...

This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of household expenditure. We use consumption expenditure data from four recent “thick” rounds of the National Sample Survey in 1993-94, 2004-05, 2009-10 and 2011-12, and study aggregate services as well as 5 individual categories – education, healthcare, transportation, entertainment,...

background: to compare mental health and well- being in different levels of the perceived discrimination among iranian people living in tehran. method: using multi- stage sampling, 1255 subjects with the average age of 45 years and 9 months (including 672 women and 583 men) were selected and they completed all items of the general health questionnaire (ghq), the social well- being inventory (sw...

background: health-related professionals are at high risk of job burnout which will in turn lead to effects on health services provision. the present study was conducted to define job burnout and its association with personal characteristics among the midwives working in isfahan, iran. materials and methods: this descriptive correlational study was performed on 193 midwives working in health ce...

In this study, Vietnamese households’ expenditure on dairy products for home consumption is analyzed using the latest Vietnamese Household Living Standard Survey datasets in 2010 (VHLSS 2010). Vietnam is the 20 th most important importer of dairy products in the world and it is foreseeable that the demand continues rising. This makes Vietnam a highly potential market for dairy exporting countri...

Accurate quantification of physical activity (PA) and energy expenditure (EE) is a basic prerequisite to evaluate activity promoting measures. A novel approach for determining EE by a person-centered measurement system which operates with motion sensors is presented. The new EE prediction model combines information on the type and intensity of PA as well as personal characteristics. For model c...

This study examines whether firms issue capital expenditure forecasts as a commitment to not engage in expropriation of lenders through opportunistic investment activities. We find that firms with higher leverage and lower credit quality are more likely to issue capital expenditure forecasts and deviate less from the forecasts. Furthermore, for firms that issue capital expenditure forecasts, lo...