This examination has helped to quell long-standing fears that digital media use, as reflected in, for example, game play, texting, and social media posting, is most likely to result in impaired peer interactions and social isolation (see Kraut et al., 1998). In the chapters that follow, ...
“For the first time, I declare my position regarding what is happening in Syria: Bashar Al-Assad is a delinquent, a criminal and a child-killer… The regime of Assad is the most criminal and backward regime of the Arab world. Shame on anyone who continues to remain silent. Every moment...
as we learn in the interaction with others and benefit from it physically, psychologically and cognitively. However, I would slightly disagree with his view that ‘education is not preparation for life’. Any formal education system builds on the rationales of what society needs, what...
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Lack of time as a barrier is also supported by qualitative investigations such as Spiers et al.’s [32] study, which found that locum and part-time doctors had more control over their daily schedules and consequently could maintain better mental health. They found that taking time off work ...
1 Mexican legal culture is characterized by being excessively formalistic. Criminal proceedings (and the trials themselves) can take years to get finally solved. And, while cases get solved, most accused remain in pre-trial detention, as in Mexico one is guilty until proven otherwise. “The ...
The very possibility of a world of coming and going, the fact that I am able to learn that my voice both comes from me and goes from me, may be programmed in part by the exercise and experience of my voice. This is to surmise that the voice is not merely orientated in space, it ...
What is not understood by contemplatives is that: 1. Christian contemplative prayers and meditation are identical with Eastern mantras and Eastern meditation; 2. When Eastern meditation is practiced, and “silence” is achieved, it produces an altered state of mind; 3. Eastern meditative techniques...
Westerners assign more importance to competence-based self-esteem (feeling that one is capable and efficacious; Tafarodi & Milne, 2002) whereas those in the East, assign more value to modesty (Chiu & Hong, 2006), being relationally skilful and accepted by others (Sedikides et al., 2015). ...
To our knowledge, this study is the first to measure health professionals’ perceived implementation difficulties along the 11 theory domains identified by Michie et al.[10] by both self-completion questionnaire and a self-report of implementation behaviour, namely referral of smoking pregnant women ...