Background: A nurse’s commitment is the most important factor that influences her performance and depends on other variables. The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between length of service of the nurses with the amount of occupational commitment and organizational commitment. Methods: From Winter 2012 to Spring 2013, 266 nurses were chosen in selected hospitals of Social ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to investigate gender differences with respect to pre-treatment characteristics, clinical presentation, service utilization and functional outcome in patients presenting with first-episode psychosis. METHODS A total of 700 participants (men, n = 360; women, n = 340) aged 15 to 25 years consecutively enrolled in a territory-wide first-episode psychosi...

The rapid popularity of mobile devices especially smart phones has changed human life style greatly. In this paper, we examine the consumer behaviors on several e-commerce platforms based on a large-scale dataset of mobile internet access records for about 3.5 months from a major telecom operator in China, which covers 126,388 users from Shanghai. We provide a preliminary study on users’ daily ...

This article examines vasectomy as a gendered practice of (non)reproductive masculinity. Reporting on interview-based data, in which a number of New Zealand men made sense of the operation, this article used critical thematic analysis to extract themes from semi-structured interviews with participants who had vasectomies in ‘typical’ circumstances. Primary themes of ‘taking responsibility’ and ...

In parallel to the increase of various mobile technologies, the mobile social network (MSN) service has brought us into an era of mobile social big data, where people are creating new social data every second and everywhere. It is of vital importance for businesses, government, and institutes to understand how peoples’ behaviors in the online cyberspace can affect the underlying computer networ...

background: pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts  that  provides accurate interpretation   of   intentions.   the   occurrence    of   the right hemisphere lesions can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and particularly with the processing of nonliteral speech acts. methods: since the objective of this study was to assess different  aspects of pragmatic...

Vou debater o artigo A incorporação de novos temas e saberes nos estudos em Saúde Coletiva: o caso do uso da categoria gênero na perspectiva da área de Política, Planejamento e Gestão em saúde, na qual milito. Mais especificamente, vou levantar, de modo bastante preliminar, algumas questões relativas à vida organizacional e às possíveis implicações da categoria gênero em futuros estudos sobre a...

Several studies have indicated an increased resistance of microorganisms resulting from the widespread use of antimicrobial agents. However, few data are available in the dental literature. The aim of this study was to conduct a survey on the patterns of patient usage of antimicrobial prescriptions agents by dentists. A retrospective cross-sectional study was based on the medical records of 223...