The Medical Humanities provide an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the profound effects of illness on individuals and the social worlds in which they live and work. Humanities in medical education may offer significant potential benefits to personal future physicians and to the medical community as a whole. The meaning of medical humanities in medical education, reasons, benefits, wa...

This study differentiates the risk perception and influencing factors of climate change along the dimensions of global severity and personal threat. Using the 2013 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSGS) data (N = 2001) as a representative sample of adults from Taiwan, we investigated the influencing factors of the risk perceptions of climate change in these two dimensions (global severity and perso...

Basic software engineering education is an important part of IS education. This paper shows and critically discusses how experiences gained from years of software engineering training in the industry can be transferred to mass university education. The approach relies on cyclic, iterative, and problem based learning and puts equal stress on technical skills (such as object-oriented and database...

A personal assistant has to promote equality in living conditions for persons with severe disabilities. The aim of this study was to explore how personal assistants experience their work and what strategies they employ to alleviate work-related stress. Thirty personal assistants were interviewed and latent content analysis was performed. The findings regarding the experiences of work-related st...

Procrastination is a common behavior, mainly in school settings. Only a few studies have analyzed the associations of academic procrastination with students' personal and family variables. In the present work, we analyzed the impact of socio-personal variables (e.g., parents' education, number of siblings, school grade level, and underachievement) on students' academic procrastination profiles....

Objective: This study was designed to determine the personal hygiene status in primary school students by using a scale that can be used in routine practice. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in Kutahya,Turkey.Three primary schools in the city center were randomly selected for the study sample. The study was conducted among 1521 students between Dec 13 and Dec 31, 2013. Stude...

This paper examines the effects of certain achievement-related personal characteristics on firm-specific variation in the salary attainment of white male managers of a utility firm. Special emphasis is given to assessing the degree to which the effects of personal attributes on current salary are transmitted via starting salary and/or via the rate of increase in salary. Characteristics found to...

We developed a multimedia satellite network system based on the Internet protocol (IP) and personal computers. It enables collaborative distance education between outdoor and indoor environments. Integration of IP technologies and satellite communications enhances the flexibility of the network system. The satellite communication system enables us to communicate to and from outdoor environments...

Sense of control is greater among children who grow up in households of higher socioeconomic status. It is unclear if this childhood advantage persists throughout life or if schooling and adulthood experiences override any early childhood advantage. Using data from 2 nationally representative samples of primarily middle-aged (National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, or MIDUS...