a i d h t H i o O ur employees are our greatest asset!” is a slogan you often see emblazoned in hallways, boardrooms, and lunchrooms throughout comanies in America. But what does that truly ean to the individual employee? Emloyees in the United States work longer ours and have less vacation time than heir European counterparts, while surassing them in productivity. In fact, toay, half of all Am...

Although a link between lifestyles and social class has long been acknowledged, marketers have more closely identified lifestyles with psychographics and therefore with psychological segmentation. We propose that the origins of lifestyle are more correctly reflected in Weber’s approach to status and that it can be viewed more appropriately as the most relevant form of social stratification for ...

Aquatic hypoxia (low oxygen) provides a useful system for exploring ecological and evolutionary consequences of living under extreme conditions. It is also an environmental stressor of accelerating interest due to human activities that have increased the extent of hypoxic waters on a global scale. This chapter characterizes the distribution of hypoxic habitats, reviews key adaptations of fishes...

The majority of hepatocellular carcinoma occurs over pre-existing chronic liver diseases that share cirrhosis as an endpoint. In the last decade, a strong association between lifestyle and hepatocellular carcinoma has become evident. Abundance of energy-rich food and sedentary lifestyles have caused metabolic conditions such as obesity and diabetes mellitus to become global epidemics. Obesity a...

A classification scheme for household lifestyles, and another for the activities of which they are comprised, are described as a necessary starting point for the analysis of the environmental impact of changes in household consumption. A household’s lifestyle is defined by how it carries out the activities, and households with similar lifestyles are grouped together. Exploratory analysis will b...

OBJECTIVE To assess the lifestyles of nursing students from a Colombian public university. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014. 380 students answered by self-reporting the adapted version in Spanish of FANTASTIC Lifestyles Assessment Questionnaire of Wilson and Ciliska. RESULTS Lifestyles were poor in 9.2%, fair in 31.3%, good in 53.7%, and excellent in only 5.8% of the pa...

The vast majority of well-characterized eukaryotic viruses are those that cause acute or chronic infections in humans and domestic plants and animals. However, asymptomatic persistent viruses have been described in animals, and are thought to be sources for emerging acute viruses. Although not previously described in these terms, there are also many viruses of plants that maintain a persistent ...