OBJECTIVE To explore what domains of work are important for job satisfaction among doctors, nurses and auxiliaries and to discuss differences between professional groups in the perspective of micro team culture. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey data from hospital staff working clinically at inpatient hospital wards in Norway in 2000. MEASURES Linear regression models predicting job satisfactio...

BACKGROUND Dental caries (tooth decay) is highly prevalent and is largely attributable to unhealthy self-care behaviors (diet and oral hygiene). The conventional (health) education (CE), focusing on disseminating information and giving normative advice, often fails to achieve sustained behavioral changes. This study incorporates two innovative elements into CE: (i) motivational interviewing (MI...

Effective methodologies for efficient preparation of semicarbazones from aldehydes or ketones via milling and the subsequent regeneration of the parent carbonyls by gaseous nitrogen dioxide are described under solid-solid and gas-solid reaction conditions, respectively. These methods are fast, simple and environmentally benign which do not require the use of any auxiliaries such as catalyst...

The evidential meaning traditionally attributed to modal auxiliaries is conveyed in Italian and Greek by complex constructions clustering both modal and aspectual features. The evidential reading of Italian and Greek modal auxiliaries, indeed, is only licenced when the modals take as complements stative, progressive, habitual or resultative subordinates. A feature of aspectual incompleteness of...

Chirality is an inevitable property of our Universe, having enormous impact in different fields, ranging from nuclear physics and astronomy to living organisms human beings [...]

This paper focuses on a design-consistent regression estimator in which the “auxiliaries” are estimated from a stratified cluster sample and the regression coefficients from an arbitrary subsample of the original sample. The reweighted expansion estimator described in Stukel and Kott (1997) is an example of such an estimator. Assuming that the target variable is a linear function of the auxilia...

This study about the productivity and near-synonymy of inchoative construction in Peninsular Spanish reveals that at least 25 verbs can enter auxiliary slot. These auxiliaries are recruited from six semantic domains: (1) superlexical inherent verbs, (2) put (3) throw (4) movement (5) manual manipulation (6) destruction. confirms a hierarchical cluster analysis is suited to investigate semantica...