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A blunted diurnal cortisol response in the lower educated does not explain educational differences in coronary heart disease: Findings from the AGES-Reykjavik Study

Groffen, Daniëlle A.I.; Bosma, Hans; Koster, Annemarie; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 143-149

Lower educational attainment generally is a strong predictor of coronary heart disease (CHD). The underlying mechanisms of this effect are, however, less clear. One hypothesis is that stress related to limitations imposed by lower socioeconomic status elicits changes in...

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The Impact of Economic Development on Water Pollution: Trends and Policy Actions in Malaysia

Muyibi, Suleyman; Ambali, Abdul; Eissa, Garoot - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 4, pp. 485-508

The paper examines the impact of development activities on water pollution in Malaysia. Hence, the main objective of this paper is not just to examine the trends of development-induced water pollution around the region of the country but to know where the problems are and the policy measures...

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Public opinion about biofuels: The interplay between party identification and risk/benefit perception

Fung, Timothy K.F.; Choi, Doo Hun; Scheufele, Dietram A.; … - In: Energy Policy 73 (2014) C, pp. 344-355

Using an experiment embedded within a representative survey, this study examined the interactive effect of party identification and risk/benefit perception on public opinion about biofuels. Democrats tended to be more supportive of biofuels than Republicans. However, the effect of party...

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The Effects of Election Advertising Spending and Incumbency on the General Election Results in Great Britain

Lee, Sung-Kyu - In: Review of Economics & Finance 3 (2013) May, pp. 97-118

This paper attempts to estimate the effect of campaign advertising expenditures on vote outcomes in Great Britain?s general election over 1992-2001. It uses an empirical method to estimate the impact of electoral campaign expenditures on votes, but also attempts to develop a signaling model in...

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Insider Trading, Earnings Changes, and Stock Prices

Allen, Steven; Ramanan, Ramachandran - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 4, pp. 653-668

This study empirically examines the relation between reportable insider trading and the information captured by annual unexpected earnings for a large sample of firms, spanning a ten-year period (1978--87). Each observation is assigned to one of four groups based on the direction of net insider...

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Technostress from a Neurobiological Perspective

Riedl, René; Kindermann, Harald; Auinger, Andreas; … - In: Business & Information Systems Engineering 4 (2012) 2, pp. 61-69

Despite the positive impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on an individual, organizational, and societal level (e.g., increased access to information, as well as enhanced performance and productivity), both scientific research and anecdotal evidence indicate that...

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Stress and stress management in a higher education tourism institution

Rok, Marija - In: Tourism and Hospitality Management 17 (2011) 2, pp. 279-290

In modern societies stress has become a widespread phenomenon and therefore an issue of major concern to employees, organizations and the state. Organizations (i.e. management) that want to be competitive in the dynamic environment of today have to handle the problem of stress successfully....

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Positive Automatic Cognitions Mediate the Relationship Between Personality and Trait Positive Affect

Lightsey, Owen; Gharghani, George Gharibian; Katz, Aron; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 14 (2013) 1, pp. 115-134

-being. One of the strongest predictors of PA is personality, particularly neuroticism and extraversion. However, the mechanisms … relationship between neuroticism, extraversion, and PA among 199 college students (137 women, 70% White, 66% first and second year … mediated the relationship between both neuroticism and extraversion and PA. The structural model fit the data well, χ …

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Personality Traits and Subjective Well-Being: Moderating Role of Optimism in University Employees

Jibeen, Tahira - In: Social Indicators Research 118 (2014) 1, pp. 157-172

(neuroticism and conscientiousness) and subjective well-being (distress and satisfaction with life) among university employees … (neuroticism and conscientiousness) of NEO Personality Inventory (Costa et al. in Br J Psychol 78:299–306, <CitationRef CitationID … outcomes. Results indicated that optimism moderated between neuroticism and distress and neuroticism and satisfaction with life …

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Personality, Leisure Experiences and Happiness

Lu, Luo; Hu, Chia-Hsin - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 6 (2005) 3, pp. 325-342

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