Background and aims: “Study addiction” has recently been conceptualized as a behavioral addiction and defined within the framework of work addiction. Using a newly developed measure to assess this construct, the Bergen Study Addiction Scale (BStAS), the present study examined the 1 year stability of study addiction and factors related to changes in this construct over time, and is the first longitudinal investigation of study addiction thus far.Methods: The BStAS and the Ten Item Personality Inventory were administered online together with questions concerning demographics and study related variables in two waves. In Wave 1, a total of 2,559 students in Norway and 2,177 students in Poland participated.
If passed, the commercial marijuana ban would apply to all areas outside of the borough’s cities. Palmer and Wasilla have already decided to ban commercial cannabis. If the ban passes in October, the city of Houston may be the only place in the vast Mat Su Borough where commercial pot will be legal.
The government had difficulty contacting hundreds of thousands of clinically vulnerable people who were told to shield at the start of the pandemic, a watchdog has discovered. A lack of contingency planning meant officials scrambled to develop a system to find those who might need support while they were unable to leave the house, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). Michael Matheson, the SNP transport secretary, confirmed on Tuesday that all arrivals from outside the UK and Ireland, with very limited exceptions, will have to quarantine under state supervision in hotels from next week.
“We will not kill him again with our silence,” said one demonstrator who gave her name as Nelly. A few military roadblocks and patrolling armoured vehicles were the only sign of the sudden army takeover that threatened to wipe out the country’s recent democratic progress in one audacious swoop. On Wednesday, carefully orchestrated television footage showed a diminutive figure in military uniform conducting government business from a golden, throne like armchair.
Finally, we are starting to reimagine public safety and think deliberately about what jobs are best performed by police and what jobs might best be performed differently. You’ll see some of these changes in the 2021 Executive Operating Budget I am releasing on Tuesday. It will show up in Public Health, Community Development, Transportation, and in the Police budget.
The rover will set the samples aside for retrieval by a fetch rover launching in 2026. Under an elaborate plan still being worked out by NASA and the European Space Agency, the geologic treasure would arrive on Earth in the early 2030s. Scientists contend it’s the only way to ascertain whether life flourished on a wet, watery Mars 3 billion to 4 billion years ago.