Aphorisms that “rising tides raise all boats” or that material advances of the rich eventually “trickle down” to the poor are really maxims regarding the nature of stochastic processes that underlay the income/wellbeing paths of groups of individuals. This paper looks at the implications for the empirical analysis of wellbeing of conventional assumptions regarding such processes which are emplo...

The significance of social development and human wellbeing for all was recognized in the Copenhagen Declaration under the United Nations; hence, the first priorities of the twenty-first century are to achieve social development and to improve human wellbeing. Poverty, in particular, represents the core issue of social development and the urgent need to address a profound social problem that aff...

Availability of real-time information from remote drilling operations means that onshore staff can provide more effective support and reduce non-productive time. This study focuses on the human factors implications of remote operations, which have been largely ignored so far. The job design in five onshore facilities was assessed in terms of (1) providing transparency and control over the syste...

according to recent researches in the field of positive organizational scholarship, one of the effective components on employees’ job performance and psychological wellbeing is the concept “thriving at work” which implies a feeling of vitality and learning by a person simultaneously while doing job tasks. the results of pearson correlation test in this research show that thriving at work has a ...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity prevention is a public health priority. Children spend a large proportion of their waking time in school; therefore this is an appropriate setting to implement obesity prevention initiatives. Anecdotal reports suggest that implementing The Daily Mile in schools has had positive effects on childhood obesity, academic attainment and wellbeing. This trial aims to measu...

OBJECTIVES the objective in this study is to identify the profile of the nursing staff, the work conditions and to describe nursing care at a sanatorium located in Barcelona, Spain between 1943 and 1975. METHOD historical study undertaken between 2008 and 2010, based on oral sources, five direct and one indirect testimonies, and the analysis of written documents. The data from the testimonies...

Sustainability (defined as “the capacity to keep up”) encompasses a wide set of aims: ranging from energy efficient software products (environmental sustainability), reduction of software development and maintenance costs (economic sustainability), to employee and end-user wellbeing (social sustainability). In this report we explore the role that sustainability plays in software product line en...