Copyright © 2002. Lawrence K. Jones. All rights reserved. Not to be copied in any form without written permission of the author. The author may be contacted at North Carolina State University, Box 7801, Raleigh, NC 27695, [email protected], or at his home office at [email protected]. Your personality type: Realistic Investigative Artistic Enterprising Conventional Compatible work en...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this consat a system for constraint satisfaction, how can you bargain with the thing that ha...

The first is the Garden of Satisfaction. In this garden you get everything you want. The garden fulfills all your desires and it satisfies all your preferences. But there is a price: you don’t get the capacity of the will, and thus you cannot choose anything. In such a garden an important element of agency would be missing: you would be no more than a slave to your passions. The second garden i...

Let us consider what can be called “Ramsey’s Principle” . It is the principle that “truth is the property of a belief that suffices for your getting what you want when you act on it” (Whyte, 1990: 149). When an action results in getting what one wants, i.e. when it leads to the satisfaction of one’s desires, the action is said to be successful. So, according to this principle, there is an inter...

Traveling is not just a means for moving about; traveling is a pleasure. There are few people who do not like to travel. Traveling can mean visiting your family just a few miles away, and traveling can mean going around the world. But deep down, it is all the same: traveling. One of the oldest known examples is that of Herodotus, who traveled around the known world of the time, observing and re...

eyfa’e dein (oath of allegiance) is a general and human issue. it is mentioned in nahj al-balagha. in a famous letter, imam ali to malik al-ashtar warns: “in yours covenant with people, do not try to act according to your interests and break it selfishly”. then hazrat refers to the general and humane aspects of covenant and its importance in survival of humanity and the role of oath of allegian...

You now are at the point in your training where you are beginning to believe that there is life after medical school and residency. This is an exciting time; you are about to get your first job as an attending emergency physician. The next decisions you make may be critical and could shape and define the remainder of your career. Before making these decisions and selecting a position, you shoul...

INTRODUCTION We assessed and tracked perceptions of well-being among employees of member companies of HealthPartners, a nonprofit health care provider and health insurance company in Bloomington, Minnesota. The objective of our study was to determine the concordance between self-reported life satisfaction and a construct of subjective well-being that comprised 6 elements of well-being: emotiona...

Supply chain management is a set of used methods for the efficient integration of suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, and sellers to response customer requirements to reduce system costs and to distribute products at the right place and right time. This study aims to identify and rank the supply chain damages using the analytic network process as a practical case in a fast moving consumer goo...

The extent to which individuals manage multiple role domains has yet to be fully understood. We advance past research by examining the effect of interrole conflict among three very common and critically important life roles-work, family, and school-on three corresponding types of satisfaction. Further, we examine individual-based techniques that can empower people to manage multiple roles. In d...