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Geopolitical and Ethnocultural Integration of the Ferghana Valley
The Fergana Valley, a strategically significant and culturally rich region in Central Asia, exemplifies the complex interplay of modern international relations amidst geopolitical and ethno-cultural integration. This paper explores the fundamental principles guiding international interactions in the valley, considering the historical context, current geopolitical dynamics, and the unique cultural mosaic of its population. Key themes include the impact of regional power shifts, the role of transnational organizations, and the influence of ethno-cultural identities on diplomatic engagements. By analyzing case studies of cooperation and conflict, the paper highlights how integration efforts shape political stability, economic development, and social cohesion in the Fergana Valley. This study aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the region's international relations framework, offering insights into effective strategies for fostering harmonious and sustainable integration in a geopolitically sensitive and culturally diverse landscape.
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  • 31 Oct 2024
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Mirror-like Responses in Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases
What is the significance of a touch encoded by slow-conducted unmyelinated C-tactile (CT) fibers? It is the so-called affiliative touch, which has a fundamental social impact. In humans, it has been demonstrated that the affiliative valence of this kind of touch is encoded by a dedicated central network, not involved in the encoding of discriminative touch, namely, the “social brain”. Moreover, CT-related touch has significant consequences on the human autonomic system, not present in the case of discriminative touch, which does not involve CT fibers as the modulation of vagal tone. In addition, CT-related touch provokes central effects as well.
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  • 10 Aug 2023
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Caregiving Involvement and Self-Care of Dementia Caregivers
Caregivers often prioritize the needs of the care recipient and neglect their own health needs. It is imperative to understand the factors related to their self-care practices and engagement in self-care activities.
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  • 30 Oct 2023
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Relationship between Burnout and Career Satisfaction
Burnout is one of the most studied psychosocial syndromes in the workplace in recent years, typically shouldered by service professionals. Its best known and most studied definition includes three degenerative dimensions. The first is that of psychophysical exhaustion of the operator. The second is that of depersonalization (or cynicism) towards users and colleagues. The third and final stage is the reduction of professional effectiveness.
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  • 30 Jan 2024
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Sense of Presence for Human Behavior Studies
Sense of presence is a key element of the user experience in the study of virtual environments. Understanding it is essential for disciplines, such as architecture and environmental psychology, that study human responses using simulated environments.
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  • 19 Dec 2023
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Technological Acceptance of Moodle by Higher Education Faculty
Moodle is an open-source learning management system that is widely used today, especially in higher education settings. Although its technological acceptance by undergraduate students has been extensively studied in the past, very little is known about its acceptance by university professors.
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  • 26 May 2023
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Factors Affecting Residential Energy-Saving Renovation Decisions
The industrial, transportation, residential, and commercial sectors add to global energy use. Specifically, the residential sector is responsible for about 21% of global energy consumption, or 17% of CO2 emissions. Increased energy consumption poses substantial risks to public health and the natural environment. Therefore, more efficient energy consumption across the entire energy chain can assist in environmental protection, climate change mitigation, and quality-of-life improvement, combined with money savings and increased national energy security.
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  • 24 Oct 2023
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Exploring the Viability of DAOS in Emerging Economies
In recent years, distributed technologies have garnered significant attention as a model for organizing collective action. Distributed Autonomous Organizations and Systems (DAOS) encompass not only the organizational structure of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), but also the collaborative technologies, ecosystems, and social structures necessary for a self-organizing system to emerge. The focus of a DAOS is on the distributed nature of the organization, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and emergence over decentralization. This paper will explore the guiding principles of DAOS, discuss their limitations, and propose experiments to establish a DAOS that enables collective participation in ecological conservation.
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  • 20 Jun 2023
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Human Capital in the Innovative Performance
The relationship between human capital and innovative performance in service companies has been studied in countries with fast-growing economies and knowledge-intensive companies. The variable training in innovation activities is positively related to service innovation, but not to process innovation, because service innovation requires a greater development of skills and abilities than process innovation in these activities.
  • 308
  • 10 Nov 2022
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Determining Factors in rTMS on Sequence Learning
Sequence learning is a fundamental ability of the human brain. It forms the basis of many cognitive, social, and motor skills. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is an increasingly used non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) tool to examine the functional role of cortical areas and brain networks. In addition to neuroimaging methods, rTMS might contribute to a better understanding of the functional and neural underpinnings of visuomotor sequence learning. 
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  • 27 Oct 2023
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Innovative Behavior on Intrapreneurship Intention and Job Performance
Innovation is stated to be a holistic management process that includes elements such as ideas, technology, manufacturing, and marketing for a new product or production process.
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  • 17 Nov 2023
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Resilience in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is characterized as a syndrome in which the individual exhibits a discreet cognitive decline on neuropsychological tests compared to people of the same age and educational level, but this impairment does not have a notable impact on everyday functioning. People with advanced mild cognitive impairment (MCI) would perceive increased negative psychological outcomes, poorer psychological resilience, and lower levels of subjective wellbeing in contrast to early MCI and healthy participants.
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  • 09 Oct 2023
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The Therapeutic Imagery of the Coastal Zone
Research has shown the therapeutic benefits of coastal restoration, including physiological, mental-emotional, and creativity-related benefits. The coastal zone is also regarded as a daily therapeutic space, where the frequency of visiting blue spaces is positively correlated with psychological well-being, happiness, and physical activity levels.
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  • 13 Oct 2023
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Technology to Automatically Record Eating Behavior
To monitor adherence to diets and to design and evaluate nutritional interventions, it is essential to obtain objective knowledge about eating behavior. In most research, measures of eating behavior are based on self-reporting, such as 24-h recalls, food records (food diaries) and food frequency questionnaires. Self-reporting is prone to inaccuracies due to inaccurate and subjective recall and other biases. Recording behavior using nonobtrusive technology in daily life would overcome this.
  • 267
  • 19 Sep 2023
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Mindful Self-Compassion Practices as Self-Care
All professionals are vulnerable to burnout based on various types of organizational stressors, but burnout is of particular concern for health care service providers who may need to adopt a stance of detachment or emotional distance as relief from intense workloads with clients.
  • 266
  • 07 Nov 2023
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Understanding Perceptions of Leaders by Video Vignettes
Video vignettes are one form of virtualized vignettes that may build upon traditional text vignettes and enable research participants to see and experience a unique scenario that is better translated visually rather than through a written text. 
  • 259
  • 22 Dec 2023
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Employee Involvement in Sustainability Projects in Emergent Markets
Without a doubt, encouraging the behavior of employees in relation to sustainability is one of the most effective tactics that organizations can use to attain their sustainability goals. It is critical that employees take part in sustainability projects in order for organizations to be successful.
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  • 18 Oct 2023
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Behavioural Insights in Corporate Sustainability Research
As a plethora of sustainability challenges are rooted in human behaviour. The ABCD (attention, belief formation, choice, determination) approach, which is meant to assist policy-makers in analysing and diagnosing behavioural problems at an individual level, has been adopted into the corporate context. 
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  • 13 Nov 2023
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ECSR Impacts on Employees’ Green Innovative Work Behavior
Environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) is often defined as “environmentally friendly initiatives that maximize productivity while concurrently minimizing consumptive use of resources to mitigate impacts upon future generations”.
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  • 23 Jan 2024
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Neurobiology of Pathogen Avoidance and Mate Choice
The risk of parasitic infection has a major influence on animal behaviour. Organisms must adjust their behaviour to avoid various modes of parasitic infection and pathogen acquisition. Social species are at an increased risk of parasitic transmission as they spend more time in the proximity of others that may carry parasites. The detection of parasitic risk is also critical in mate assessment and choice. Perceptual systems and behavioural responses have evolved to detect individuals who are parasitized and pose the risk of parasitic transmission. This includes the integration of inputs from various sensory modalities (e.g., olfaction), brain regions and networks, and neuromodulatory systems. Understanding the neurobiological systems involved in detecting the parasite infection risk and the expression of disgust will allow us to better understand the evolution and regulation of pathogen avoidance and mate choice.
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  • 25 Jan 2024
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