Background: A physically active or inactive lifestyle begins with intuitive interest at a very young age. This study examined the impact of selected personal, school, and home variables on young children’s intuitive interests in physical and sedentary activities. Methods: National data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (US Department of Education) were examined using Cohen’s d, hierar...

National surveys reveal notable individual differences in U.S. citizens' attitudes toward freedom of expression, including freedom of the press and speech. Recent theoretical developments and empirical findings suggest that ecological factors impact censorship attitudes in addition to individual difference variables (e.g., education, conservatism), but no research has compared the explanatory p...

This paper develops a methodology for integration of remote sensing and census data within a GIS framework to assess the quality of life in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Environmental variables, i.e. greenness, impervious surface and temperature, were derived from a Landsat ETM + image. Socio-economic variables, including population density, income, poverty, employment rate, education l...

OBJECTIVE To explore socio-economic differences in use of staff canteens and whether frequent use of staff canteens is associated with different food patterns and obesity. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using three self-administered questionnaires, two of them including food frequency questions. Factor analysis was used to explore food patterns. SETTING Oslo, Norway, 2000-2001. SUBJECTS In ...

BACKGROUND Childhood and adolescent overweight is a recognized public health concern as the prevalence is already high and continues to increase. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and overweight status by gender among Korean children and adolescents. METHODS The data used in this study were taken from the 2009 Korean Survey on the Obe...

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain either a concept-based, “general” education or a skill-specific, “vocational” education. General education is costly to obtain, but enables workers to operate new production technologies. Firms weigh the cost of adopting and operating new technologies against increased profits and o...

Urban Migrant Workers in China have been an important power to promote the urbanization in China and economic growth. Because the overall qualities of migrant workers are not high, and they are lacking of professional labor skills, most of those migrant workers are not sufficiently qualified for various industries development, and the high and new technology in widespread use and the optimizati...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of developing e-learning and to examine reasons for adopting or rejecting e-learning as an alternative way to conduct continuing education (CE) for public health nurses (PHNs). A nationwide-based cross-sectional study was conducted with a randomly selected sample of 233 PHNs in Taiwan. A structured questionnaire was used to collect dat...

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of leisure boredom, and investigate the relationship between leisure boredom, substance use and demographic variables among high school students in Cape Town, South Africa. 621 students from 39 high schools selected through a multistage cluster sampling procedure completed a questionnaire which measured substance use and demographic informat...