BACKGROUND Faculty turnover threatens the research, teaching and clinical missions of medical schools. We measured early attrition among newly-hired medical school faculty and identified personal and institutional factors associated with early attrition. METHODS This retrospective cohort study identified faculty hired during the 2005-2006 academic year at one school. Three-year attrition rate...

PURPOSE Resilience is the individual's ability to bounce back from trauma. It has been studied for some time in the U.S., but few studies in China have addressed this important construct. In mainland China, relatively little is known about the resilience of patients in clinical settings, especially among patients with breast cancer. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the level of resilience an...

Abstract Background In Japan, 55.5% of breast cancer survivors (BCSs) are working age, so various perspectives regarding return to work (RTW) after diagnosis need be considered. Therefore, this study aimed clarify the risk factors for resignation and taking sick leave (SL) among BCSs in continued employment at time diagnosis. Methods A web-based retrospective cross-sectional survey was conducte...

Like question tags, confirmation tags such as the Czech affirmative particle jasně can be used with various prosodic characteristics that augment, reverse or otherwise modify their relatively unspecific lexical meaning. We extracted 172 instances of jasně from several dialogues and assessed their discourse function. 36 prosodic correlates in temporal, amplitude and fundamental frequency domains...

In recent years society has come to expect more from the "socially-responsible" company and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in particular has resulted in some critics saying that the "Big Pharma" companies have not been living up to their social responsibilities. Corporate social responsibility can be understood as the socio-economic product of the organizational division of labor in complex moder...

The article analyzes Heidegger?s relation to National Socialism based on his private writing in the ?Black Notebooks,? published their entirety (nine volumes) this year. Although it is indisputable that Heidegger was an enthusiastic adherent of Socialist program between 1930 and 1934, writings show avowed philosophical delusion ?revolution? Germany going bring about a new beginning philosophy b...