This study argues that entrepreneurship motivation, particularly necessity entrepreneurship, is a determining factor in the process of establishing a new microbusiness. This argument is based on the negative stigma associated with necessity entrepreneurs, that is, entrepreneurs start their businesses due to external pressure, resulting in owners who lack clear business goals. Taking the concept of effectuation logic, we employ a qualitative approach in the context of Indonesia to explain how entrepreneurs' motivation plays a role in establishing a microbusiness. Our findings, presenting that microbusiness owners' motivation is bifurcated based on pressure and opportunity, suggest an effectuation-based process of microbusiness creation.

Is media sentiment a leading indicator of conflict events? Analysis through machine learning and natural language processing techniques allows us to gather and process sentiment data at unprecedented scale, depth, and accuracy. By measuring the emotional intensity and direction of text in news reports, this baseline study shows how media sentiment analysis can deliver new value for peace and conflict research. Using GDELT's global sample of more than five billion media articles, we test the relationship between sentiment data and conflict events. To achieve both spatial and temporal precision we utilize the PRIO-GRID data structure at daily and monthly intervals. We find that more conflictual sentiment is significantly associated with spatially and temporally proximate future conflict events as measured by the ACLED, SCAD and UCDP-GED datasets. We suggest that conflict sentiment can help us analyze conflict escalation processes more precisely.

As a proactive strategy, playful work design allows employees to use ludic or agnostic play to handle hindrances or monotonous tasks. With the help of fun and competition design, they can even transform those tasks into productive work experiences. Drawing on the Job Demands-Resources theory, we analyzed the psychometric properties of the playful work design scale in three studies to adapt and validate the scale for the Romanian population. In the first study, the confirmatory factor analysis results indicated that the two-factor model based on 12 items has a good value of the fit indices. The second study cross-validated the instrument with other constructs that measured playfulness, personal initiative, meaning-making, task complexity, task monotony, flow at work, engagement, and performance. The third study consisted of a longitudinal invariance analysis on the Romanian version of the playful work design scale applied at two different moments. Altogether, the results demonstrate the validity of the Romanian version of this scale, which can be used in organizations to evaluate playful work design as a proactive individual strategy.

Objective: The objective of this study is to achieve cultural equivalence in translating the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) into Hebrew, ensuring it captures underlying concepts, semantic nuances, and functional performance within the Israeli target culture. Methods: The study involves a three-phase translation protocol for the ASQ. Phase 1 entails initial translation into Hebrew by expert clinicians, and Phase 2 includes back translation by bilingual professionals with a quantitative assessment of discrepancies. Phase 3 engages expert bilingual clinicians to review the revised Hebrew ASQ and provide qualitative and quantitative feedback. Results: The initial translation revealed discrepancies, leading to collaborative clarification with the ASQ research team. The back translation phase identified issues concerning the choice of language. The rating of questions revealed strong equivalence, and qualitative feedback emphasized the acceptability of direct language in Hebrew. The resource section was updated to include local crisis support lines. Conclusion: The study successfully established a culturally equivalent Hebrew translation of the ASQ. Future research should focus on validation studies to assess its use in Israel for suicide risk screening, emphasizing the importance of culturally sensitive tools in the field of suicide prevention.

This paper critically examines the nexus between the scientific method and the study of race in the contemporary world. It begins by historicizing the emergence of the scientific method as indispensable to the advent of European modernity. The development of modernity collapsed into the racialization of black subjects as subhuman and criminal. This criminalization of blackness occurs at two critical junctures: the arrest of blacks via plantation enslavement and the concomitant imprisoning of black bodies of thought. The consequence of modernity’s carceral methods implicates the study of race, particularly the formation of Black Studies, by criminalizing black reason. As such, the paper contends for an Afromodern scientific revolution, understood as the emancipation of method and the decarceralizing of science in order to procure black liberation in the modern world.

Through a qualitative, semi-case study design, this paper explores the role of place and place-based funding in enterprise support ecosystems for entrepreneurs. The paper responds to Welter and Baker’s (2021) call in this journal to give prominence to context (business, social, institutional, and spatial) in the theorising of entrepreneurship. It focusses on spatial context, theorising the concept of ‘place’ in entrepreneurship. It achieves this through a consideration of business support providers’ and nascent entrepreneurs’ accounts of the successes and failures of policy and funding aimed at disadvantaged places and people in Devon and Cornwall, Southwest England.

Protection of human subjects in health research is an essential ethical requirement. The question of whether an Academic Council at the Tashkent Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education evaluates research projects from an ethical point of view remains an open one. We conducted a retrospective ethical analysis of the whole sample of research proposals submitted to institute in 2016-2019. Majority research proposals met ethical requirements in 50% with an emphasis on benchmark-1 for collaborative partnership. The MoH prioritized social and scientific value of the research for in country implementation. Other foundational research benchmarks were not necessarily fully compliant. Our findings suggest that there is a need to implement all 8 benchmarks as a requirement for both domestic and international human studies.

A well-designed assessment can assist educators on site. However, suitable large-scale, standardised, multiple text comprehension assessments for primary school children are still lacking. This study addresses this gap by developing the Measure of Children’s Multiple Text Comprehension (MCMTC), which adheres to the principles of the construction-integration and multiple-document models. The test suite, comprising 41 multiple-choice and 17 constructed-response items across a range of text genres, was administered to 1,790 students in grades 3-6. The MCMTC’s internal reliability was confirmed through Rasch analysis, with satisfactory Cronbach’s alpha and suitable item-model fit values. Correlations with established tests showed small to medium effect sizes, supporting the external validity of the MCMTC. In conclusion, this study provides a tool for assessing children’s multiple text reading comprehension, facilitating a deeper understanding across different grades and genders. It also exemplifies a practical model for test development and ability estimation using the Rasch approach.

The objective of this study was to ascertain the impact of Emotional Intelligence (EI) on the effectiveness of leaders in the Oil and Gas industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Another objective of this study was to examine leaders’ viewpoints regarding various topics, culture, creativity, and the efficacy of leadership. The main objective of this study was to examine the impact of emotional intelligence (EQ) on the ethical decision-making process of corporate executives. Furthermore, this paper assesses the advantages and disadvantages associated with the utilisation of Emotional Intelligence in diverse work environments. This study uses the interpretivist approach to conceptualise reality as a complex social phenomenon subject to diverse perspectives. The participants were picked by a random sampling method, and a qualitative research methodology was employed. There were fifteen prominent petroleum and gas corporations’ individuals involved in the process of collecting data were referred to as responders. The interviews conducted with the respondents were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. Emotional intelligence refers to an individual’s ability to comprehend and regulate their emotions and those of others. In contrast, positive psychology aims to foster optimal functioning and subjective well-being. Leaders who possess emotional intelligence and utilise positive psychology principles have been found to foster teams that exhibit increased levels of dependability, productivity, creativity, and resilience. An individual’s leadership style refers to their preferred approach to inspiring and guiding their team members. There is a positive correlation between emotional intelligence and the capacity to lead effectively.

This study aims to provide analysis and recommendations that can be used to optimize the performance of lecturers who contribute to achieving national goals, namely education, research, and community services. Respondents were 360 lecturers from four state universities on the island of Sumatera, Indonesia. The data were collected using a questionnaire, and the research questionnaire used an interval scale. The dependent variable in this study is the performance of the three pillars of higher education in Indonesia, namely education and teaching, research, and community service. This research was conducted at three state universities, and the analysis was developed using a Structural Equations Model (SEM) with a multiple-group analysis (MGA) method based on the college province. The results prove that lecturer job satisfaction plays a significant and dominant role in improving the education, research, and community services performance in the era of disruption. The condition of tertiary institutions in one province may differ from another. In Aceh Province, the most dominant is the need to increase technological expertise in contrast to North Sumatera and West Sumatera, focused on achieving job satisfaction. The results of this research also prove that each province may have different characteristics in optimizing higher education performance.

Collaborative shopping aims to improve the quality of purchase decisions and fulfills a social need for shoppers. Food shopping provides a collaborative shopping context, however, there is a lack of research into collaborative food shopping. This research explored premium beef consumers’ in-store remote collaborative shopping and use of mobile technology through a qualitative study. Six semi-structured interviews were conducted with premium beef consumers to understand their remote collaborative shopping. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The study revealed that the main trigger for remote collaboration was to confirm the purchase with a remote partner. The results also identified that current mobile technology is sufficient for remote collaboration. However, participants were interested in using dedicated technological tools to support their remote collaborative shopping. This paper presents an understanding of remote collaborative shopping and  what factors need to be consider before designing remote collaborative shopping tools and provides direction for future research.

Total Quality Management (TQM) has arisen as a reliable quality and performance method that can meet or even surpass the expectations of stakeholders. This technique is anticipated to improve organizational performance, and has received considerable attention in recent times. Previous studies have not tied effectiveness of overall quality management techniques in business of the Ghanaian telecommunication sector, hence the need for this research. This study investigates the influence of total quality management strategies on the telecommunications industry’s business performance. Questionnaires were used in the study as survey instruments to collect information about the impact of TQM methods on business performance. To assess the situation, eight hundred (800) responses were received from, employees and top management of MTN Ghana Ltd. The study established that principles applied to total quality management have a significant bearing on business performance. It is therefore, recommended that employees in the telecommunication industry need to be well enlightened on the practices of total quality management to increase performance.

Cuteness elicits a wide range of emotional responses, including caregiving, playfulness, and even a desire to consume the cute entity. In this study, we explored four reactions to cuteness: caretaking, socializing, whimsical cuteness, and cute aggression. 105 female and male participants viewed images of young animals and babies (cute) and mature animals and adults (less cute) and reported their emotional responses. Results showed that cute images received higher ratings, evoking stronger emotions and a strong desire for caretaking, socializing, embracing, and playful interactions in both genders. Moreover, our research highlights the predominant emotional response of caretaking and protection elicited by cute entities, which superseded other emotional reactions in terms of intensity. This emotion was shared by both male and female participants, with women exhibiting a slightly higher level of caregiving response compared to men. This study enhances our understanding of emotional responses to cuteness and provides a valuable quantitative perspective and methodological framework for future studies.

Objective:The present study aims to explore the attitudes of Chinese city governments towards deliberative democracy, as portrayed in city promotional films that depict a communicative and democratic urban environment. Additionally, the investigation seeks to discern the influence of geographic factors on the representation of a communicative and democratic city. Subjects and Methods:A comprehensive analysis was conducted on a corpus comprising 2,539 images extracted from 12 city promotional films produced by local governments between the years 2019 and 2021. Categorization of cities and film images into three groups was undertaken based on geographical regions. Utilizing the Baidu AI image recognition platform, each image was systematically labeled according to 12 predefined categories derived from three dimensions of the communicative city concept, including spatial space, imagery space and practice space. Descriptive analysis was employed to delineate the distribution of emphasized dimensions and specific items. The impact of geographic factors was scrutinized through independent sample T-tests. Results:The findings elucidate that all 12 cities allocate substantial screen time to showcase 12 dimensions, thereby presenting a multifaceted communicative city. Notably, the highest emphasis is placed on illustrating imagery space (49.08%), followed by spatial space (40.00%), whereas the practice space receives comparatively less emphasis, averaging around 10.92%. Importantly, the study identifies that geographic factors significantly influence the portrayal of practice space and citizens’ activities. Western cities in China exhibit a lesser concern for practice space compared to their eastern counterparts, and they place less emphasis on citizens’ activities than both eastern and central cities. Conclusions: The notion of the “communicative city” has emerged as a common aspiration for the governments of large and medium-sized cities in China. Furthermore, this study underscores the substantial impact of geographic factors on governments’ perceptions and attitudes towards deliberative democracy, particularly in the realm of practice space.

The study sought to integrate prior empirical work examining educational inequities endemic to Michigan’s public education system and education influencers’ perception of school funding, including officials with responsibility and decision-making authority over school resources. With this phase of the work, specific tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the combination of CRT and Critical Policy Analysis (CPA), the empirical work focused on policy-level analysis to problematizing challenges associated with racial equity relative to public school finances. The degree to how education stakeholders perceive equity within Michigan’s school funding system. The survey results underline the disconnect between perception and reality.

Shallowness of knowledge over fire and rescue services (FRS) leadership and organizational culture (OC) is shown in this systematic literature review (SLR). FRS is a traditional profession familiar to people around the globe. Everyone knows that the sight of a red truck rushing through traffic, and hypothetically this picture guides research focuses also. This SLR paints picture of OC of FRS what it looks like based on previous research data, what we know and what is left unrevealed. SLR was conducted to understand the width of the knowledge gap in research on FRS leadership and OC. Three databases were searched, and of 275 screened articles, 27 were included in this review. Two more studies were found by manual search, for a total of n = 29. Results of included articles were analysed by qualitative content analysis. In this study is shown that FRS OC has problematic characters when it comes to minorities, whether it is gendered, sexual orientation or racial issues, although some progress is seen. Through further analysis light is shed to leadership and OC. Team leaders have relatively authoritarian position in this team-oriented OC which appreciates uniformity, similarity, continuity and self-sacrificing heroes. This we know now, but there are also unknown unknowns to be discovered. Insight of the OC of FRS is weak. To my knowledge, this is the first study to put the pieces together and draw the big picture of FRS’s shift OC, about rest of the staff we don´t know much at all.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between spiritual well-being, anxiety and depression levels of patients receiving hemodialysis treatment. Tools and methodology: The type of this research is descriptive and correlational. The research was carried out at Gaziantep University Şahinbey Research and Training Hospital’s Hemodialysis Unit between September 26 and December 16, 2020. The sample of the study consisted of 83 patients receiving hemodialysis treatment, who met the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate in the study between the specified dates. The data were collected by using an information form, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (FACIT-SP), Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventory. The coding and evaluation of the data were carried out with SPSS 25 statistical analysis software. Number, mean, percentile distributions, independent groups t-test, One Way Anova Variance and Pearson Correlation analyses were used to evaluate the data. Findings: It was determined that the spiritual well-being levels of the participants and the subscales of the spiritual well-being scale, meaning, peace and belief levels were moderate. It was determined that the anxiety levels of the patients receiving hemodialysis treatment were moderate, and the depression levels were mild. Conclusion: A negative significant relationship was found between the levels of meaning, peace, faith, and spiritual well-being of the patients receiving hemodialysis treatment and anxiety and depression. It was observed that as the spirituality of the individuals increased, their anxiety and depression levels decreased.

Research on the stratifying effects of migration status has increased sharply in the last two decades, although efforts have been hampered by the near absence of representative data that include detailed migration status measures. Researchers have developed various statistical and logical imputation methods that have produced widely varying estimates. In this paper, we introduce a new indicator of migration status constructed from two federal surveys matched to the Social Security Administration's Numident file, a database that includes all citizens and legal residents of the U.S. In models predicting poverty, our measure produces estimates comparable to those based on respondents' own self-reports of their migration status. Both the administrative and survey-based measures produce poverty gradients that diverge from those produced by logic-based measures. Our findings contribute to mounting evidence of bias in the use of logic-based algorithms to impute migration status and demonstrate the promise of administrative record linkages in migration status research.