The alienation of science & technology is a kind of abnormal phenomenon coming from the research or use of science & technology. It makes science & technology from the tool that serves and brings benefit to human into the power that controls and harms human, so the regulation of the alienation of science & technology is the requirement of the sound development of science & technology, and the s...

This study aimed at identifying the degree of alienation of the students of the Syrian refugee residing in both the refugee camps and cities , and to find out whether there were differences among the study sample's degree of alienation attributed to the variables: achievement, gender, number of alienation years, and the place of residence. To achieve this aim, the researcher applied a 70-item q...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial stressors have been shown to predict hypertension in several cohort studies; patterns of importance, sex differences, and interactions with standard risk factors have not been fully characterized. METHODS Among 2357 adults in a population sample of Alameda County, California, free of hypertension in 1974, 637 reported in 1994 having ever used antihypertensive medicatio...

Objective: Referred obese adolescents often display psychological problems. The present study aimed at investigating whether Young’s schema theory constitutes a comprehensive framework to understand psychopathology in youth in general and in referred obese adolescents in particular. Methods: 91 youngsters referred for obesity treatment and 91 normal weight controls (all between 12 and 18 years ...

The paper examines whether individuals who are alienated from their peer group in childhood are at higher risk of depressive symptoms and less able to acquire and use economic and social capital in adulthood. Analyses are undertaken using longitudinal data from a 1970 cohort of British births. Existing literature is used to form hypotheses about the characteristics of children who are peer reje...

Why students respond differently when they are denied admission to a preferred academic major may be explained using a psychological theory of alienation. Using this theoretical perspective, three trajectories producing feelings of alienation are presented. The most intense of these trajectories, the process of disillusionment, is examined using a typology of behavioral responses based on the n...

Contemporary automobilities research is characterised by a fundamental paradox-recognition of driving as a sensate experience alongside a tendency to emphasise the driver’s sensory disengagement from, rather than engagement with the bodily, social and environmental contexts with which s/he interacts. In this article, which builds on previous empirical work I have published, only now in a more t...

The paper investigates firms’ behavior and outcomes (levels of costreducing R&D, output, profit and welfare in equilibrium) in a differentiated duopoly with process innovation. One of the important features in this paper is that spillovers operate in the R&D stage and are tied to the degree of product substitutability as well as the extent of technological proximity/alienation of the research p...