Two studies (N = 190 and N = 447) were conducted to investigate the link between living in walkable neighborhoods and satisfaction with life in a city. Additionally, we explore possible mediators of this relationship. In both studies walkability was a significant predictor of perceived quality of life in a city, and overlap between personal and communal identity (in Study 1 and Study 2) and cit...

the goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between motivational structure and marital satisfaction. participants (n = 122; 72% female) were recruited among married students of ferdowsi university of mashhad, who completed personal concerns inventory (pci) and marital satisfaction questionnaire (msq). principal component analysis (pca) was used to summarize the pci data. a summar...

The goal of CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) is to design an automated personal assistant to support a busy high-level knowledge worker. Operating in an inherently dynamic and uncertain domain, CALO relies on constraint technology in several components of its architecture. We outline the challenges and opportunities presented by constraint solving in the presence of change a...

Studies of health providers suggest that satisfaction with life is related to their values and sense of purpose which is best achieved when their professional role is in harmony with personal philosophy. Cross-sectional surveys suggest that personal health beliefs and practices of health professionals influence their clinical counseling practices. However, little is known about the influence of...

The satisfaction of physicians is a worldwide issue linked with the quality of health services; their satisfaction needs to be studied from a multi-dimensional perspective, considering lower- and higher-order needs. The objectives of this study were to: i) measure the career satisfaction of physicians; ii) identify differences in the dimensions of career satisfaction; and iii) test factors that...

evaluation of urmia medical university faculty member views about research obstacles r salem safy ,ma bn ashraf rezaei ,?bsc r sadatian , msc z moshirie , msc n sheikhy , a baniadam , msc received: 7april, 2009 accepted: 27 july, 2009 abstract background & aims: identifying research obstacles, assessment of faculty members’ ability in research skills and faculty members’ satisfaction of researc...