Significant and rapid changes in healthcare delivery are forcing surgeons into collaborative teams. Additionally, surgeons are faced with new bureaucratic requirements that do not directly impact patient care, but nevertheless require allocation of time and attention. Surgeons are required to communicate with an expanding group of individuals at various professional levels, adding further stres...

Recent research by Taneja et al. suggested that digital infrastructures diminish the generational gap in news use counteracting preference structures. We expand on this seminal work arguing an infrastructural perspective requires overcoming limitations of highly aggregated web tracking data used prior research. analyze individual browsing histories two representative samples German Internet use...

A method for calculating genetic drift in terms of changing population fitness variance is presented. The method allows for an easy comparison of different selection schemes and exact analytical results are derived for traditional generational selection, steady-state selection with varying generation gap, a simple model of Eshelman’s CHC algorithm, and (μ + λ) evolution strategies. The effects ...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between generational differences, conflict, communication ability, and job burnout among members of firefighting organizations examine effects conflict ability on burnout. Using a sample 209 firefighters, differences were found be positively related emotional exhaustion, subfactor burnout, was negatively exhaustion. The exhaustion is fully mediat...

Intergenerational solidarity is and important phenomenon for strengthening  social cohesion and is an important immediate mechanism that has major role in the transfer of knowledge from generation to generation. But the distance between parents and youth, among generations, and this gap exists between the social system, with profound social problems facing the generation gap in the process in t...

Structural changes in the Korean population, such as a growing trend toward nuclear families and urbanization, have given rise to a generational gap between older adults and the younger generation. The current study developed a 6-week intergenerational program to facilitate interactions between nursing home residents and high school students. The effects of the program were examined in 120 part...