... Introduction Chapter The Social and Economic Environment of the Study 23 Chapter Family and Power 32 Chapter WorkandtheMidlifeandOlderWoman 68 Chapter Women, Health andthe Repressed Discourse ... literature on the Caribbean much is written about grandmother families These are the families in which the grandmothers are the heads of the households and have in residence with them some of their own ... of workand family andthe power relationships in the lives of women from midlife on as they lived out their lives in Jamaican society The names used in the case studies and elsewhere in the...
... continue to drift And there are several reasons why it tends to drift toward more and more time at work First, there is the matter of income If time at work falls too far, income falls and creates ... family Very often, the person who takes such a stand will command the respect of their peers—many of whom may wish that they too could make a similar commitment Nonetheless, such a stand can also generate ... workand family may be one of the primary ways through which traditional organizations limit their effectiveness and ability to learn By fostering such conflict, they distract and unempower their...
... quarter of the century in the United States and in the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany This coincides with an increase in both access to andthe generosity of publicly provided social insurance and ... health We therefore briefly discuss in section the main elements of the Social Security and pension system in the Netherlands Section presents a model for health andwork decisions of the elderly ... provides the results of the model underlying the instrument γi In addition the results have merit on their own, as it the results give us direct insight into the effect of workandwork history...
... e of work outweigh the risks; • urther incentivise and encourage households and families to move into f workand to increase the amount of work they do, by improving the rewards from work at ... more income when they work, but the gains for many are marginal and incentives are undermined by the need to navigate through the maze of in -work and out-of -work benefits and their interactions ... and then to remain in workand increase their earnings Getting the balance between these two elements will be crucially important We also want to remove the fear that the system will punish them...
... from the account of the things done, as the manner of doing them; from the explanation of the method of adapting ordinary maps and globes to the use of the blind, and of employing gum and sand and ... men and women can learn, labour, and fulfil all the duties of life if their fellow-men are merciful and helpful, and God is on the side of all those who work honestly for themselves and others The ... bedroom at the back, away from the street and over the study, the spare room, was that in which all the children saw the light, and from which eleven of them successively emerged The second and ninth...
... involvement and commitment and their greater control over and say in their work, they work harder (Pfeffer 1998: 33) They also work harder because of contingent compensation that rewards these efforts and ... of the individual’s work environment: 1) the match between an individual andthe characteristics of both the job andthe organization, 2) the existing structure and supervision of the job, 3) the ... for jobs andthe organization, and 4) the nature and enforcement of the implicit contract between employer and employee The essence of the model is that when thework environment enables workers...
... all know, the most outstanding scientist and mathematician of the 17th and 18th centuries He is considered the father of physics andthe founder of the law of gravity But was he really the rational ... to the integers andAnd then it all went quiet again until 1976, the year in which the next step toward progress was made Based on the seminal work of the Cambridge mathematician Alan Baker, the ... invalidated the entire proof Two years later, with the help of Janos Pintz from 26 THE SECRET LIFE OF NUMBERS Hungary, Goldston and Yildirim revised their work They managed to plug the hole, and their...
... for andthe consequences of—their parents’ strategies and choices Mothers and Fathers—at Workand at Home As members of the first generation to watch a majority of their mothers join the paid workforce, ... focus on the context in which their mother’s work unfolded The central issue is not whether their mother held a job, but whether she received the support she needed at the workplace and at home.10 ... Women and Gender, the Sloan Center for the Study of Myth and Ritual in Everyday Life at Emory University, the Sloan Workand Family Research Network, the Working Group on Wealth and Power in the...
... by their means and standardized by their norms, and then the multi-dimensional scaling components were computed using a Euclidean distance on the resulting centered and scaled sample data The ... the miR axes The first principal component is the linear combination of the miRs with the largest variance over the samples of all such linear combinations The second principal component is the ... pediatric and young adults compared with older adults; the results of which emphasize the importance of these master regulators in the transcriptional machinery of melanocytic neoplasms and support the...
... characterize the gait of older adults with a HLGD and their reliance on visual input, we examined the effect of lighting changes on the gait of older adults with a HLGD and compared their response ... and 18 cycles per degree) The chart luminance was standardized according to the light meter supplied with the chart The last patch on which the patient correctly identified the direction of the ... andthe gap between the two groups widened Among the background and vision measures evaluated (e.g., age, gender, visual acuity, contrast sensitivity), the MMSE andthe Charlson scores were the...
... TWL: Thermal work limit Authors' contributions GB conceived the study and collected the majority of the data VM collected some data GB and VM analysed and interpreted the data and prepared the ... from the arms (Tables 1&2) The difference in sweat sodium concentration between the arms and legs may be due to the difference in metabolic activity between the leg and arm muscles The workload ... the sweat response andthe ability of the sweat gland to reabsorb sodium Seasonal change to sodium loss reflects the wellknown acclimatisation response All the subjects were outdoor workers and...
... years andolder As can be seen in Tables and 2, symptoms and activity limitations are very similar in adults and children andthe only change necessary was to alter the activity question about 'work- related ... function and environmental stimuli) are the means of the responses to the questions in each of the domains Symptom and Medication Diary Each morning and evening patients scored how much they were bothered ... randomised, 1770 completed the AQLQ12+ at baseline and either at the end of 12 months or on withdrawal The second study was a 12-week randomised trial comparing three active interventions Of the...
... support from workand nonwork others Second, we conducted the research in Bulgaria rather than in one of the Western nations (such as the United States and Great Britain) that often serve as the context ... nonsignificant (work, /3 = 1.94, p > 05; nonwork, )3 = 1.67, p > 05) In total, these results support Hypothesis and indicate that positive mood mediates the relations between work/ nonwork support and creativity ... interpret the interaction, we used procedures suggested by Aiken and West (1991) We centered the nonwork support and CPS measures on the mean Next, we used the unstandardized heta coefficients and...
... employment, there is a clear need for continued monitoring and support to prevent further decline and to maintain the level of recovery Further studies are required to assess the causes for the low ... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions AS conceptualised, designed, supervised and wrote the study LS statistically analysed the data and wrote the ... psychological and clinical assessments, regular follow-up, and data entry NS reviewed study progress, interpreted data and wrote the paper GC interpreted data, and reviewed, wrote and formatted the Page...
... done, who does what, when, how, and why; (4) advocacy work: the negotiation of contributions andthework done by others on one’s behalf; and (5) emotional work: work related to comforting when ... and management, symptom management, and diagnostic-related work) from everyday work (housekeeping and repairing, occupational work, child rearing, sentimental work, eating) and biographical work ... on evidence synthesis and scoping the literature, empirical work, and developing and evaluating interventions Scoping the literature Prior to carrying out empirical work, we synthesised existing...
... drafted and revised the manuscript HH, IC, IBS, SH, HJ, MZ and NK participated by acquisition and analysis of literature data and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the ... Besides, the cytoplasm of the granular cells is filled with phagolysosomes, and there are no mitochondria The distinction from pituicytoma relies on the evidence of oncocytic change in SCO rather ... assessed because of the complex issue of these tumours andthe lack of large series In fact, among the 14 cases reported in the literature, eight patients had a benign clinical course and six experienced...
... [8] The items in the instrument cover four domains of barriers: the nurse, the setting, the research, andthe presentation In a review including 39 published articles and six theses using the ... was used to test the reliability of the scale [17] The alpha values were 0.81 (the Nurse), 0.87 (the Setting), 0.86 (the Research) and 0.83 (the Presentation) In the present study the alpha values ... (RPs), such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists [12] RNs' work situation in the care of older people differs compared with RNs working in hospitals In the care of older people RNs have...
... variables measured at either the level of the practice or the level of the individual The theoretical models will be tested using standard multiple regression analysis and structural equation ... unpredictable and can be a slow and haphazard process [6] Studies in the USA andthe Netherlands suggest that 30 to 40% of patients not receive care according to current scientific evidence, and 20 ... interval, and practice size together explained 31% of the variance in diabetes management These authors, along with others [4,5], identified the need for a better understanding of the relationship...
... variables measured at either the level of the practice or the level of the individual The theoretical models will be tested using standard multiple regression analysis and structural equation ... unpredictable and can be a slow and haphazard process [6] Studies in the USA andthe Netherlands suggest that 30 to 40% of patients not receive care according to current scientific evidence, and 20 ... interval, and practice size together explained 31% of the variance in diabetes management These authors, along with others [4,5], identified the need for a better understanding of the relationship...
... [8] The items in the instrument cover four domains of barriers: the nurse, the setting, the research, andthe presentation In a review including 39 published articles and six theses using the ... was used to test the reliability of the scale [17] The alpha values were 0.81 (the Nurse), 0.87 (the Setting), 0.86 (the Research) and 0.83 (the Presentation) In the present study the alpha values ... (RPs), such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists [12] RNs' work situation in the care of older people differs compared with RNs working in hospitals In the care of older people RNs have...