The present study investigated the role specific types of alcohol-related problems and life satisfaction play in predicting motivation to change alcohol use. Participants were 548 college students mandated to complete a brief intervention following an alcohol-related policy violation. Using hierarchical multiple regression, we tested for the presence of interaction and quadratic effects on base...

PURPOSE To develop a theory-based questionnaire to assess readiness for change in small workplaces adopting wellness programs. DESIGN In developing our scale, we first tested items via "think-aloud" interviews. We tested the revised items in a cross-sectional quantitative telephone survey. SETTING The study setting comprised small workplaces (20-250 employees) in low-wage industries. SUBJ...

This chapter illustrates how challenging problems in geovisualization may be solved by harnessing activities on a distributed scale: bringing a range of people, a range of data and a range of resources to bear on the problem. The discussion is framed around a scenario of environmental crisis management – a flood emergency – which is typical of the challenges that only a distributed approach can...

BACKGROUND Readiness is an integral and preliminary step in the successful implementation of telehealth services into existing health systems within rural communities. METHODS AND MATERIALS This paper details and critiques published international peer-reviewed studies that have focused on assessing telehealth readiness for rural and remote health. Background specific to readiness and change t...

The importance of drug as a valuable export product in the global economy becomes more clear every day. Understanding the problems of exports and factors affecting it, can be an important step to keep Iran’s position in the world markets and further export development of this product.In this study, Iranian pharmaceutical exports’ supply and demand functions were calculated using co-integration ...

today export diversification has become one of the most important economic objectives of development strategies in the developing countries. for various reasons, such as preventing instability in export prices of primary products in global markets, reducing fluctuations in exchanges of them compared with industrial goods, producing dynamic benefits resulted from exporting various goods and incr...

regarding the importance and high proportion of iranian manufacturing industries' export in nonoil export basket, and their impact on economic growth, it is essential that effective factors on the manufacturing industries' export be investigated. this paper investigates the impact of human capital on the export of iranian industries, using a panel data set of 2-digit isic manufacturing industri...

in this study, the situation of iran, u.s and turkey's pistachio export is investigated. to this purpose, revealed comparative advantage (rca) index is calculated based on agricultural and total economy export, separately, then forecasted by using auto- regressive integrated moving average (arima) approached, for 2008-2013. the results show that considering both commodity baskets, turkey and ir...

BACKGROUND A quick method of assessing readiness to change was needed for a major study of implementing screening and alcohol brief intervention in England. For this purpose, a Readiness Ruler that had been validated among a sample of male college students in the USA was adapted and applied to a sample of excessive drinkers in a general medical practice located in a deprived area of Gateshead, ...