The main goal of the study is to analyse a rarely investigated relationship between leisure-time activities and Schwartz’s 10 basic values in adolescents. sample included 1,349 Serbian high-school students (44% boys; 62% vocational schools). questionnaire consisted groups items related hobbies, sports, following different themes/shows media (TV, Internet, magazines), listening music, going out,...

BACKGROUND We examined the relationship between incident functional disability and social participation from the perspective of number of types of organizations participated in and type of social participation in a prospective cohort study. METHOD The study was based on the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES) Cohort Study data. We followed 13,310 individuals aged 65 years or older fo...

BACKGROUND To date, only a small amount of research on bonding/bridging social capital has separately examined their effects on health though they have been thought to have differential effects on health outcomes. By using a large population-based sample of elderly Japanese people, we sought to investigate the association between bonding and bridging social capital and self-rated health for men...

BACKGROUND Social participation is known to predict longevity. However, little is known about the effect of social participation according to an individual's position in civic groups. We evaluated the influence of social position on mortality, using data from a large cohort of Japanese older adults (the AGES cohort). METHODS Of 14,804 individuals aged 65 years and older enrolled in the AGES, ...

• A representation for sparse data. Consider attributes about an employee, and suppose we wish to record hobbies data. For each hobby, the data we record will be different and hobbies are fundamentally sparse. This is straightforward to model in a relational DBMS but it leads to very wide, very sparse tables. This is disasterous for disk-based row stores but works fine in column stores. In the ...

Combined heredity of surnames and physique, coupled with past marriage patterns and trade-specific physical aptitude and selection factors, may have led to differential assortment of bodily characteristics among present-day men with specific trade-reflecting surnames (Tailor vs. Smith). Two studies reported here were partially consistent with this genetic-social hypothesis, first proposed by Bä...

hSr Proceedings in intensive care and cardiovascular Anesthesia 2012, vol. 4 Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via olgettina, 48 20132 Milan, Italy e-mail: [email protected] personal level. of course, conversation is not necessarily focussed on limited areas of biomedical interest, but on the contrary can deal with such diverse topics as family, hobb...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Sports play an important role in maintaining community health, positively impacting the immune system. Behind scenes of COVID-19 prevention, value exercise has been recognized both individual and collective health needs. Yet, a current scenario its use psychosocial impact to be documented. Objective: Study disease on group sports activities explore residents’ social psych...

Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once. This condition is the on that will make you feel that you must read. If you know are looking for the book enPDFd public relations in the emergency depart...

BACKGROUND A national cross-sectional survey was conducted in Japan. This is because the growing recognition of the social determinants of health has stimulated research on social capital and mental health. In recent years, systematic reviews have found that social capital may be a useful factor in the prevention of mental illness. Despite these studies, evidence on the association between soci...