This dissertation investigates the question: why do some regions industrialize and others do not? The large variation in the timing and success of industrialization across countries and across regions within these countries suggests that some places had and still have better conditions for industrial development than others. Debates about this variation in industrial development have identified...

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INTRODUCTION The lack of rural nursing studies makes it impossible to know whether rural and urban nurses perceive personal and organizational factors of job satisfaction similarly. Few reports of rural nurse job satisfaction are available. Since the unprecedented shortage of qualified rural nurses requires a greater understanding of what factors are important to retention, studies are needed. ...

Procrastination is a plague that affects an individual’s working attitude and behavior. In relation, the organization will also suffer its constituents along way. This study assessed demographic profile degree of procrastination among selected employees from higher education institution in Central Luzon, Philippines. The used descriptive-correlational design with adapted questionnaire McCloskey...

Part of the difficulty of introducing social economics into the principles course is the perception that social economics is anathema to mainstream economics. 1 As noted by Warren Samuels, however, "neoclassical economics is already a form of social economics" despite its "pretensions of methodological individualism and value-neutrality" [Samuels, p. 2]. Heilbroner also makes the case that the ...

Osteoporosis, literally “porous bone”, is a disease characterized by weak bone. It is a major public health problem, affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, predominantly postmenopausal women. The main clinical consequence of the disease is bone fractures. It is estimated that one in three women and one in five men over the age of fifty worldwide will sustain an osteoporotic fractur...

The presence of a prevalent vertebral deformity increases the risk of a future vertebral fracture. The aim of this study was to determine whether certain characteristics of the prevalent deformity, including its shape and location in the spine, influenced this effect. The 3100 men and 3500 women who took part in this analysis were recruited from population registers for participation in the Eur...

1. Introduction: The syntactic effects of relativisation in Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic vary in a complex and potentially baffling way between the languages and across their dialects. The crucial components of this variation are resumptivity, " wh-agreeing " complementizers, a differential treatment of locality domains, and variation in the availability of pied-piping. In this paper we arg...

When modeling strictly sequential experimental memory tasks, such as serial list learning, connectionist networks appear to experience excessive retroactive interference, known as catastrophic interference (McCloskey & Cohen,1989; Ratcliff, 1990). The main cause of this interference is overlap among representations at the hidden unit layer (French, 1991; Hetherington,1991; Murre, 1992). This ca...