background: fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in primary care that adversely affects work, family life, and social relations. the purpose of this study was to survey the relationship between work schedule and fatigue among the emergency personnel of isfahan, iran using the checklist individual strength (cis) standard method in 2010. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on ...

the aim of this paper is to determine if the centrality degree and density of latin-american and caribbean countries (la-c) predicts their citation based performance in academic research in the management discipline. for our analysis, we use publication data of the social science citation index in the field of ‘‘management’’ between 1988 and 2013, extracted from isi web of science. the resultin...

Direct and indirect precursors to parents' harsh discipline responses to hypothetical vignettes about child misbehavior were studied with data from 978 parents (59% mothers; 82% European American and 16% African American) of 585 kindergarten-aged children. SEM analyses showed that parents' beliefs about spanking and child aggression and family stress mediated a negative relation between socioec...

This review provides an update of education and training in family medicine in Singapore and worldwide. Family medicine has progressed much since 1969 when it was recognised as the 20th medical discipline in the United States. Three salient changes in the local healthcare landscape have been noted over time, which are of defining relevance to family medicine in Singapore, namely the rise of non...

Grid is one of the most e ective new paradigms in large scale distributed computing. Only recently Petri nets have been adopted as a formal modeling framework for describing the speci c aspects of the Grid. In this paper we describe a Grid tool for High Energy Physics data analysis, and we show how modeling its architecture with nets-withinnets has led us to identify and solve a number of defec...

UNLABELLED ABSTRACT. OBJECTIVE This investigation examined patterns of heavy drinking among Black and White young adults from a person-centered perspective and linked family and individual factors in adolescence to young adult drinking patterns. METHOD The analysis focuses on 331 10th-grade students (168 Whites, 163 Blacks; 51% males) who were followed into young adulthood (ages 20 and 22)....