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Happiness at work: A cross-cultural validation of happiness at work scale.
Nina Fitriana · Fonny Dameaty Hutagalung · Zainudin Awang · Sumaia Mohammed Zaid · 2022-0 · PLoS ONE
The idea of Happiness at Work is drawn from psychology and economic studies. It is often considered as a synonym with 'wellbeing' and defined as a state characterized by a high level of life satisfaction, a high level of positive emotions, and less negative emotions. This research aims to validate the Happiness at Work scale in the Indonesian context. In this study, the researchers conducted cross-cultural adaptation…
Knowledge and attitudes of nurses toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan
Selwa Y Abdeldafie · Sameera O Alaajmi · 2022 · Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: In this study, we look at the role of nurses in dealing with sickle cell disease (SCD) patients in Jazan city. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge of nurses and their attitudes toward SCD patients in Jazan hospitals, Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional, hospital-based study, based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, we recruited 240 nurses from Pr…
IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON EUROPEAN AND TURKEY AIR TRAFFIC NETWORKS
Arif TUNCAL · Suat USLU · Erdal DURSUN · 2021-September · Revista de Investigaciones Universidad del Quindío
Covid-19, which was defined as a result of research conducted in a group of patients developing respiratory symptoms in late December 2019 in Wuhan province of China, spread to other countries in a very short time by infecting from people to people. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the “International Public Health Emergency” due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Travel restrictions have been impose…
The Psychosocial Impact of the Romanian Government Measures on the Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Armenia Androniceanu · Doina-Mihaela Marton · 2021-May · Central European Public Administration Review
The Covid-19 pandemic generated a global crisis involving most countries in the world. State governments worldwide were forced to take appropriate measures impacting different fields. The Romanian government and other local public authorities developed special measures to curb the spread of the SARS-COV-2 virus in Romania in general and in Bucharest, the country’s capital. The purpose of our research was to identify …
Longitudinal analysis of local government spending on adult social care and carers’ subjective well-being in England
Yanan Zhang · Matthew R Bennett · Sue Yeandle · 2021-December · BMJ Open
Objectives Reform of England’s social care system is repeatedly discussed in the context of increasing demand, rising costs and austere policies that have decreased service provision. This study investigates the association between unpaid carers’ subjective well-being and local government spending on adult social care (ASC).Setting and participants Our sample consists of 110 188 observations on 29 174 adults in Engla…
KÜRESEL KRİZİN GİRİŞİMCİLİK ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ: PİYASAYA YENİ GİREN FİRMALAR AÇISINDAN ÜLKE KARŞILAŞTIRMASI
Ahu COŞKUN · 2021-April · Journal of Business Administration and Social Studies
Global crises has negative effect on entrepreneurship in the world. The global crisis has led to a decrease in the number of new established companies. The new initiatives that one of the driving forces behind the economy began to decline with the 2008 crisis. According to OECD data observed that a significant decrease in the number of newly established companies in the United States in 2007, the previous year for wh…
Revisiting British Investment in Latin America: The River Plate Trust Group, 1879–1963
Norma Silvana Lanciotti · 2021-7 · Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business
The article analyses the performance and profitability of the firms controlled by the River Plate Trust Group in Argentina and Uruguay from 1879 to 1960 to challenges the notion that British investments in the Southern Cone involved greater default or insolvency risks because of nationalism, expropriations, and over-taxation. Also known as Morris or Morrison group, River Plate Trust became the most important British …
“The system has to be health literate, too” - perspectives among healthcare professionals on health literacy in transcultural treatment settings
Annika Baumeister · Digo Chakraverty · Angela Aldin · Ümran Sema Seven · 2021-7 · BMC Health Services Research
Abstract Background Effective communication is a central aspect of organizational health literacy. Healthcare professionals are expected to ensure an effective and satisfactory flow of information and to support their patients in accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying health information. This qualitative study aimed to examine the health literacy-related challenges, needs, and applied solutions of healthc…
Progressive Taxation of Individual Income in Islamic Countries
Korneev Volodymyr V. · Khaustova Viktoriia Ye. · Khodzhaian Alina O. · 2021-6 · Problemi Ekonomiki
The economic results of the development of Muslim countries have raised the question of the existence of an increasingly focused Islamic financial and tax model. Taxes in the Islamic economic model provide an implicit link in the relations between the state and individuals, thus determining the limits of conditioned freedom and mutual obligations. The article is aimed at identifying the indicative features of progres…
Correlation between personality characteristics and nursing satisfaction of patients of facial contouring surgery
LIU Yuanfei · PANG Dong · MA Hongtong · HUANG Lan · 2021-6 · Huli yanjiu
ObjectiveTo investigate the nursing satisfaction and personality characteristics of patients undergoing Facial Contouring Surgery during hospitalization and to analyze the correlation between the both.MethodsThe general information questionnaire，the Chinese Big Five Personality Inventory⁃brief version （CBF⁃PI⁃B），and the inpatient nursing satisfaction scale were used to investigate 431 patients who underwent facial co…
Joint effects of ethnic enclave residence and ambient volatile organic compounds exposure on risk of gestational diabetes mellitus among Asian/Pacific Islander women in the United States
Andrew D. Williams · Sandie Ha · Edmond Shenassa · Lynne C. Messer · 2021-5 · Environmental Health
Abstract Background Asian/Pacific Islander (API) communities in the United States often reside in metropolitan areas with distinct social and environmental attributes. Residence in an ethnic enclave, a socially distinct area, is associated with lower gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) risk, yet exposure to high levels of air pollution, including volatile organic compounds (VOCS), is associated with increased GDM ris…
FDI determinants in Europe and Chinese influence
Alena Dorakh · 2021-5 · Serbian Journal of Management
Despite recent concerns about the increasing influence of outside investors on the European Union (EU) and Western Balkans, the developed European countries are still a dominant source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region, confirming the benefits of EU membership. At the same time, fast-growing connectivity and lower trade costs in accession and neighboring countries determine the FDI growth from China, p…
Modelling the trends of the healthcare funding in the EU countries
Nadiya Dubrovina · Russell Gerrard · Stanislav Filip · Vira Dubrovina · 2021-4 · Przegląd Europejski
Healthcare is one of the most important sectors of the public economy in the EU countries. An important task in the analysis and prediction of the values for healthcare funding is the development and application of quantitative models based on different mathematical methods. Three of the most popular indicators used for the macroeconomic description of the funding of healthcare are: (1) total government expenditure o…
Multithreaded two-pass connected components labelling and particle analysis in ImageJ
Michael Doube · 2021-3 · Royal Society Open Science
Sequential region labelling, also known as connected components labelling, is a standard image segmentation problem that joins contiguous foreground pixels into blobs. Despite its long development history and widespread use across diverse domains such as bone biology, materials science and geology, connected components labelling can still form a bottleneck in image processing pipelines. Here, I describe a multithread…
Arts in NEOM project Civilized progress in the northern region in Saudi Arabia kingdom
Wadiah Boker · 2021-3 · Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science
Here in Saudi Arabia kingdom we are facing a scientific revolution that accompany the economic project NEOM that has been launched by the country in the northern lands of the kingdom where a certain set of goals have been assigned for it, to care for the economy and bring prosperity for each Saudi citizen. One of the most significant points that will be supported by the project is caring about visual arts which can c…
Georgian Cultural-Intellectual and National Islands beyond Ideological Frontiers
Ketevan GIGASHVILI · Mzia GIGASHVILI · 2021-12 · Cultural Intertexts
This paper examines the Georgian migrant press, which emerged as a result of the flight of Georgian intellectuals from the Soviet Communist regime. It reviews publications such as Chveni Drosha (Our Flag), Tavisuphali Sakartvelo (Free Georgia), Bedi Kartlisa (Destiny of Kartli) and others, which became cultural-intellectual and national islands beyond ideological frontiers. After the occupation of Georgia, the effort…
Fishing, predation, and temperature drive herring decline in a large marine ecosystem
Daniel G. Boyce · Brian Petrie · Kenneth T. Frank · 2021-12 · Ecology and Evolution
Abstract Since 1960, landings of Atlantic herring have been the greatest of any marine species in Canada, surpassing Atlantic cod and accounting for 24% of the total seafood harvested in Atlantic Canada. The Scotian Shelf‐Bay of Fundy herring fisheries (NAFO Division 4VWX) is among Canada's oldest and drives this productivity, accounting for up to 75% of the total herring catch in some years. The stocks’ productivity…
«LEFT OPPOSITION» IN REVOLUTIONARY SPAIN
Andrey Schelchkov · 2021-11 · Латиноамериканский исторический альманах
The division in the international communist movement and the creation of Trotskyism movement coincided with turbulent revolutionary events in Spain, where the left-wing forces were building up their forces. As in many other countries, the split of the communists was reflected in domestic politics, one of the aspects of which was the confrontation and extreme hostility of the two currents in world communism. The Spani…
Social, Personal, and Innovative Competencies Effect of Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Carlos Capella-Peris · Manuel Martí-Puig · Celina Salvador-García · María Maravé-Vivas · 2021-10 · Frontiers in Education
The purpose of this study was to compare the development of social entrepreneurship competency in physical education teacher education students (n = 89), through two modalities of intervention from the same service-learning program. The student teachers provided a direct service to children with motor functional diversity, promoting their motor skills and counteracting their lack of social attention. The study was co…
A self-control training app to increase self-control and reduce aggression – A full factorial design
Hanneke Kip · Marcia C. Da Silva · Yvonne H.A. Bouman · Lisette J.E.W.C. van Gemert-Pijnen · 2021-09 · Internet Interventions
Background: Research has shown that self-control training (SCT) is an effective intervention to increase self-control and behaviour driven by self-control, such as reactive aggression. We developed an app that offers SCT by asking users to use their non-dominant hand for daily tasks, and aimed to examine whether participants that received SCT via app or e-mail, and received either one daily task or five tasks at once…