The over-arching goal of this work is to discuss the user-reported critical incident method, a costeffective remote usability evaluation method for real-world applications involving real users, doing real tasks in real work environments. Several methods have been developed for conducting usability evaluation without direct observation of a user by an evaluator. However, contrary to the user-rep...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the intra-familial relationships between parental reports of feeding practices used with siblings in the same family, and to evaluate whether differences in feeding practices are related to differences in siblings' eating behaviours. Eighty parents of two sibling children completed measures assessing their feeding practices and child eating behaviour...

Science faculty with education specialties (SFES) are increasingly being hired across the United States. However, little is known about the motivations for SFES hiring or the potential or actual impact of this trend. In the context of a recent national survey of US SFES, we investigated SFES perceptions about these issues. Strikingly, their perceptions about the reasons for hiring SFES were poo...

This article presents a longitudinal examination of antecedents and outcomes of work-to-family conflict. A total of 106 employees participating in an experience-sampling study were asked to respond to daily surveys both at work and at home, and their spouses were interviewed daily via telephone for a period of 2 weeks. Intraindividual analyses revealed that employees' perceptions of workload pr...

The principal theme of our work on the phenomenon of stress-induced analgesia has been that multiple neurochemically and neurohormonally discrete paininhibitory systems exist and that these systems can be selectively activated by a single stressor, inescapable footshock. Some of these stress-activated endogenous mechanisms of analgesia involve opioid peptides, others do not. Similarly, some for...

Attributions reported by 115 mothers and 122 adolescents were examined as they related to family conflict. Subjects completed measures of parent-adolescent conflict (Issues Checklist, Conflict Behavior Questionnaire) and the Mother-Adolescent Attribution Questionnaire. The results revealed that parent-adolescent conflict correlated with mothers' and teenagers' negative attributions. Specificall...

Rates of deforestation reported by Brazil's official deforestation monitoring system have declined dramatically in the Brazilian Amazon. Much of Brazil's success in its fight against deforestation has been credited to a series of policy changes put into place between 2004 and 2008. In this research, we posit that one of these policies, the decision to use the country's official system for monit...

Lathyhism has been reported from the time of Hippocrates. Mention has also been made ot this disease in old Hindu literature 1 Bhavaprakash' where it is written that the pulse Lathyrus sativus causes a man to become lanie and crippled and irritates the nerves (Chopra? 1938). In India epidemics of lathyrism have been reported from time to time usually associated with famine and food scarcity. Th...