SUMMARY Human resources are increasingly seen as a key to innovation competitiveness, and there is a need for detailed, systematic data on the demographics of inventors, their motivations, and their careers. To gain systematic data on who invents, we collected detailed information on a sample of inventors in the US and Japan (the RIETI-Georgia Tech inventor survey). The data come from a unique ...

Although a considerable amount of attention has examined potential positive and negative consequences of video game play in children, relatively little research has examined children’s motivations for using games. The current study hopes to address this gap in the literature by examining children’s motivations for video game play in a large sample of youth (n = 1254). Results indicated that vid...

We noted anecdotally that infections designated as health care-associated (HA-) MRSA by epidemiologic criteria seemed to be decreasing in incidence at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) after 2004. We compared MRSA patients seen at any site of clinical care at UCMC and the isolates that caused their infections in 2004-5 (n = 545) with those in 2008 (n = 135). The percent of patient...

T he diagnosis of early obstructive airway disease has long been a source of frustration to physicians. Conventional tests of pulmonary function such as the measurement of lung volumes, flow rates, airway resistance and diffusing capacity have not proved sensitive enough to detect small airway involvement. The flieasureflieilt of “closing volume” ( CV) first described by Dollfuss in 1967’ seems...

Digital communication and social networking continue to evolve as user demand increases. While much of the research examining motivations for media focuses on Facebook, different platforms offer a variety features uses increasing continued use platforms. Instagram includes uniquely visual presentation style when compared Facebook emphasizes public connections rather than known connections, so t...

Crowdsourcing as a model for distributed problem solving has been rapidly gaining in popularity. In investigating what drives the solvers to participate in crowdsourcing, the extant research has one-dimensionally only viewed the origins of motivation. While these studies have revealed that crowdsourcing systems’ use is driven by both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, they fall short of expla...

BACKGROUND In February 2012, the Lesotho Ministry of Health launched a national voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program. To assess the motivations for seeking VMMC, a cross-sectional mixed methods study was conducted among clients aged 18 years and older at four sites. METHODS A total of 161 men participated in individual survey interviews and 35 participated in four focus group di...

This study investigated the generalizability across time of a cluster analysis that identified five groups with differing motivations for visiting a National Historic Landmark. Replication of the initial study after a one-year time period suggested the same visitor types (i.e., clusters) were present in both study years; however, the relative size of the clusters varied by up to ten percent. A ...