The relationship between work and leisure, with regard to various aspects of work and its meaning, was examined in two groups of people: leisure-oriented and work-oriented. Leisure-to-work spillover characterized the relations between leisure orientation and the following variables: absolute work centrality, interpersonal contacts, intrinsic orientation, obligation norm, and weekly work hours. ...

We examined in anesthetized macaque how the responses of a striate cortical neuron to patterns inside the receptive field were altered by surrounding patterns outside it. The changes in a neuron's response brought about by a surround are immediate and transient: they arise with the same latency as the response to a stimulus within the receptive field (this argues for a source locally in striate...

Culturally held beliefs about the self and its relations with others affect way individuals view their work. In this study, we examined associations between individualism-collectivism three work orientations (i.e., viewing as a job, career, or calling). We also investigated whether positive effects of calling orientation can be generalized to developing eastern country, Mongolia. Using sample 3...

We determined the amount of time it took for intrinsic and extrinsic visual cues to determine the perceptual upright. The perceptual upright was measured using a probe, the identity of which depended on its perceived orientation (the Oriented Character Recognition Test). A visual background that filled the field of view and contained both intrinsic and extrinsic cues was presented in different ...

The goals of this study were to determine the degree to which subjects could voluntarily modulate static endpoint stiffness orientation and to quantify the effects of simultaneously generated voluntary endpoint forces on this ability. Static endpoint stiffness, which characterizes the relationship between externally imposed displacements of the hand and the elastic forces generated in response,...

The results of a literature review of social work intervention research with adult cancer patients found only a small number of studies conducted by social work researchers. The findings of the review are presented followed by a reflective discussion on the nature of knowledge-building and research knowledge for practice. Knowledge building is considered as a continuous, negotiated process with...