background: the use of psychology in the workplace and accurate scientific findings in this field, in addition to reducing work-related diseases, can promote the performance of employees. nursing is a stressful job and can be the cause of physical and mental disorders. this study investigates the relationship of personality traits and demographic factors with occupational stress. materials and ...

An online integrated information system for Demography is a web-based application that provides inputs and outputs information support to admin/users in order to update their demographic information. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. The absence of virtually any reliable current demographic data has not prevented national and international bodies from generating estimates and proj...

Small-area population estimates for a non-census year are essential for supporting a wide variety of planning processes. Many demographic or geographic-informationbased models have been developed for generating small-area population estimates. Little research, however, attempted to integrate these two types of models to achieve a better estimation. This study explores the feasibility of incorpo...

Genetic data are often used to assess 'population connectivity' because it is difficult to measure dispersal directly at large spatial scales. Genetic connectivity, however, depends primarily on the absolute number of dispersers among populations, whereas demographic connectivity depends on the relative contributions to population growth rates of dispersal vs. local recruitment (i.e. survival a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the predictive accuracy of the Diagnostic Cost Group (DCG) model using health survey information. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Longitudinal data collected for a sample of members of a Dutch sickness fund. In the Netherlands the sickness funds provide compulsory health insurance coverage for the 60 percent of the population in the lowest income brackets. STUDY DESIGN A de...

This article considers the current problem of investigation and development of method of web-members’ socio-demographic characteristics’ profile validation based on analysis of socio-demographic characteristics. The topicality of the paper is determined by the necessity to identify the web-community member by means of computer-linguistic analysis of their information track (all information abou...