OBJECTIVE To determine the ability of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Scorecard to predict changes in health care expenditures. METHODS Individual employee health care insurance claims data for 33 organizations completing the HERO Scorecard from 2009 to 2011 were linked to employer responses to the Scorecard. Organizations were dichotomized into "high" versus "low" scoring...

Ú ̆ ‰ ‡ Ï , È Â ‡ · was an active, if not the most active, character throughout „ Â „ ’s reign. However, the character of È Â ‡ · and his brothers is foggy and puzzling. Although many of us have been taught to classify figures in Tanach into the roles of either ¢ ˆ „ È ̃ ¢ or ¢ ̄ ̆ Ú ¢ to further our understanding of the manifest context © Ù ̆ Ë ® and latent meaning © „ ̄ ̆ ® of the text, È Â ‡ · and ...

This article discusses the identity processes involved in the transition to retirement for emergency service workers, which includes police officers, fire fighters, and emergency medical personnel. The author conducted a study using the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique (ECIT) to determine what helped, hindered and might have helped emergency service workers in making decisions regarding ret...

This paper examines how a particular rural masculinity, termed here the ‘warrior hero’ model of military masculinity, is produced through the process of military training in the British Army. The paper outlines how the concept of masculinity is used, and argues for the utility of the notion of ‘rural masculinity’ in the examination of the interaction between social constructions of masculinity ...

Declaring and thinking about heroes are common human preoccupations but surprisingly aspects of heroism that reinforce these behaviors are not well-understood. In four thematically consistent studies, we attempt to identify lay perspectives about the psychological functions served by heroes. In Study 1, participants (n = 189) freely generated open-ended descriptions of hero functions, which wer...

Scientific research is at the centre of two important literary works published in the early twentieth century: George Bernard Shaw's play The doctor's dilemma (1906), and Sinclair Lewis's novel, Arrowsmith (1925). Both deal with medical science, and in both the hero is an immunologist (or, in the terminology of the period, a specialist in the science of immunity). But the images of immunology i...

Both the equity premium puzzle and the credit spread puzzle address the problem of a reasonable size of agents’ risk aversion. The empirical estimation of risk aversion parameters is impeded by the fact that observed prices depend on risk preferences and probability beliefs. The market for German redemption lottery bonds constitutes a clean environment to estimate risk aversion coefficients fro...

The observation of the psychological makeup of leaders has taken place within organizations and groups of all kinds for several decades. What was considered a psychologically adapted leader at the turn of the twentieth century is now considered rigid, patriarchal, and unnecessarily oppressive. Different models of psychological attributes and characteristics have evolved just as the practice of ...

BACKGROUND The transformation of a surgical trainee into a surgeon is strongly influenced by the quality of teaching in the operating theater. This study investigates the perceptions of residents about the educational environment of the operating theater and identifies variables that may improve the operating theater education of our trainees. MATERIALS AND METHODS Residents in the department...

In 1911, when the Nobel Foundation awarded its coveted Chemistry Prize to a 44 year old Polish born woman, it is likely they may not have expected the action ever duplicated in the more than 100 years that followed. In fact, it was the second Nobel Prize in the sciences awarded to Maria Sklodowska-Curie, whom the world would come to admire, know, and love as Madame Curie. In a time of science d...