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Recommendations to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Vaccine hesitancy is a prevalent and ongoing issue. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, additional attention has been brought to the topic of vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to the population’s health globally. 
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  • 24 Jan 2022
Topic Review
Planning Interventions for Improving Physical Activity
Planning interventions such as action planning (AP) and coping planning (CP) have been recognized as influential strategies in promoting physical activity (PA), but mixed results of existing evidence have been observed. Researchers aim to perform a systematical meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of planning interventions for improving PA in the general population. The findings indicate that planning interventions significantly improved PA behavior, and, in some contexts, the effects performed better. Future research needs to be conducted to explore the underlying mechanisms of planning interventions and validate their effects more extensively.
  • 677
  • 30 Jun 2022
Topic Review
Customer Connections
Brand experience, brand love, and brand behavior outcomes hold significant importance in management research. Their relevance extends to shaping strategic decision-making, fostering a customer-centric approach, and providing insights into the competitive landscape. These concepts are pivotal in understanding the complex dynamics of consumer-brand relationships, enabling organizations to make informed decisions, prioritize customer satisfaction, and stay competitive in the market.
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  • 15 Jan 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
Topic Review
Green Behavior of Civil Servants
The green behavior of civil servants in the workplace is influenced by personal moral reflectiveness and green conscientiousness. Group discussions and initiatives within organizations can also influence individual green behavior. Civil servants with greener lifestyles are more likely to demonstrate green behaviors. 
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  • 18 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Social Disconnectedness and Career Advancement Impact on Performance
Social connectedness refers to the subjective perception of having strong ties with the social world. Career advancement, which is mainly concerned with job advancement opportunities and growth, is affecting employee satisfaction and performance for those who work in remote areas. Job satisfaction refers to an employee’s good attitude or favorable emotion toward the activity performed, which improves the working environment, and thus, contributes to a positive ambiance in the workplace. 
  • 633
  • 19 Jul 2022
Topic Review
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.
  • 624
  • 10 Nov 2022
Topic Review
Critical Thinking, Generalized Anxiety in Satisfaction with Studies
Critical thinking, characterized as a reflective and reasonable process that focuses on making decisions based on rigorous evaluation of evidence, provides the necessary tools to address and resolve professional dilemmas, enhancing the ability to manage and tolerate medical uncertainty.
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  • 24 Aug 2023
Topic Review
Historical Themes of Workplace Training
Organizations have maintained a commitment to using simulation technology for training purposes because it prepares employees for realistic work scenarios they may encounter and provides a relevant method for teaching hands-on skills. Herein, six historical themes of workplace training are presented, which contextualize the evolution of simulation technology. 
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  • 19 May 2023
Topic Review
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
Topic Review
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.
  • 586
  • 20 Jun 2023
Topic Review
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.
  • 581
  • 19 Sep 2023
Topic Review
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.
  • 581
  • 17 Nov 2023
Topic Review
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.
  • 572
  • 13 Oct 2023
Topic Review
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. 
  • 572
  • 27 Oct 2023
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Poverty, Allostasis, and Chronic Health Conditions: Health Disparities Across the Lifespan
Definition: Poverty is an important social determinant of health disparities across the lifespan. Poverty also influences other life challenges such as pecuniary instability, food insecurity, housing instability, educational inequality, and limited career mobility. According to the World Bank, more than 700 million people worldwide live in global poverty, surviving on less than USD 2.15 a day. Poverty may also be viewed as a state of deprivation that limits access to resources that address basic needs (i.e., food, water, shelter, clothing, health), limiting an individual’s opportunity to participate optimally in society. A large body of research has identified a positive relationship between poverty and chronic health concerns such as heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, kidney problems, liver problems, cancer, and hypertension. This entry examines health disparities associated with economic status, discrimination, racism, stress, age, race/ethnicity, gender, gender identity, and nationality from a social justice perspective.
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  • 07 Feb 2025
Topic Review
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.
  • 527
  • 07 Nov 2023
Topic Review
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.
  • 520
  • 09 Oct 2023
Topic Review
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. 
  • 494
  • 22 Dec 2023
Topic Review
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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