The effect of therapist ‘dress up’ was studied in the present work to know that how do amalgamation of a therapist dress as an embodiment feel and his client’s perception about his appearance makes the therapeutic alliance beginning successful or otherwise ? The study singled out 70 clients, visiting the OPD of a hospital to seek assistance of a clinical psychologist who received each ten of them in single dress and used seven dress codes (embodiment), usual or remote, to determine the effects of these on the session ratings, performed by the clients on SRS. The results supported the varied impact of various amalgamations.

This study aims to explore the construction and examination of the questionnaire. A qualitative and quantitative method was combined and implied in this study. In the qualitative phase, the in-depth interviews of experts had applied for item development at first. The Delphi technique had used for item modification and alignment. In the quantitative phase, EFA had employed for initial construction validity examination. Hereafter, the CFA in structural equation modeling had implemented for validity and reliability test. Based on this study, a well-constructed instrument for assessing youths’ restaurant entrepreneurship competency had developed for further implementation of entrepreneur education and inspire youths’ entrepreneur potential. The literature on restaurant entrepreneurship competency highlighted a competency and the relationship between the executives of small restaurant companies; the development of the new venture also gained significant attention in the hospitality industry. Therefore, restaurant talents should gain restaurant entrepreneurship competency from the education system. The findings contribute to the understanding of the main attributes of restaurant entrepreneurship competency in the context of Taiwanese practitioners.

In this research, we try to connect sociology with GIS (Geographical Information Science). The main problem in the South-East Serbia present low integration of Roma minority group into society. In that case, better collective ecology conscience may give better inclusion results.

This article shed the light on the methodological divide on the often-neglected issues of the contribution of women's informal business to entrepreneurship and national economic growth. It shows how unprivileged women are able to overcome legal, social and administrative barriers that impede women's ability to start a business and participate in monetized economic activities.

This article discusses the history of the so-called “book program”—a joint effort by the U.S. government, the East European diaspora, and readers of prohibited books behind the Iron Curtain. Between 1956 and 1989 the program purchased some 10 million copies of publications and delivered them to people in Soviet–dominated Eastern Europe in order to undermine communist rule. Using the historical materials of the Polonia Book Fund, a U.S.–sponsored publishing project for Poland, this article contributes new insights on the transatlantic perspective of the cultural Cold War. This article focuses on the program’s early stages, and describes various elements of the transnational smuggling network. The program’s state-private partnership was a workable solution that helped to foster a diversity of opinions in post-Stalinist Poland.

It is new approach using big-data in public health area. I am sure that this approach will provide valuable lessons in suggesting a policy approach.

The manuscript presents the results of an original research. In the experiments presented, we investigated the role of subtle (Experimenter’s gender) and blatant cues (Diagnosticity) on perceived stereotype threat and performance, and showed that perceived stereotype threat can be an informative ecological predictor of performance decrease when added to subtle cue manipulation.

Based on 15 years of online experience and research dealing with SEO, social media and brand positioning the doctorate dissertation emerged. Doctorate dissertation (DBA) titled: “Company Generated Problem-Solving Content on Social Media (SM) and Online Brand Equity: Designing and Testing a Model for Its Effectiveness” deals with online model development using professional value added content with a purpose to aid small and mid-sized enterprises promote their brands online. The four year research period from 2012 to 2016, followed company “Naton HR” as the main research subject using dissertation model to position its brand online. Data was collected and the model confirmed. The importance of professional content and its positive effect on brand visibility and business performance has become an exceedingly important marketing issue. To date, there has been limited empirical literature on professional “content type” in social media (SM). However, there is consensus among researchers that content has a positive effect on brand exposure, and, in fact, results in improved company sales.

For Study 1, both online and offline data collections were used in this study. For the online part of the study, after designing the questionnaire on the Quatrics platform, links were delivered to workers in various industries. Of the 193 individuals who began the online survey, 177 finished it. For the offline part of the study, 125 printed questionnaires were distributed to MBA students of a leading university in Northeastern China; 65 of them were distributed in Marketing classes, and the other 60 were distributed in Strategic Management classes. In total, 111 valid responses were returned. For Study 2, A survey comprising the six-dimensional measures of the causes of complaints was conducted among companies in a province of Northeastern China. Ten MBA students from one of the leading universities in Northeastern China were selected to help with the data collection. The selection criteria of these MBA students were: (a) being willing to help us collect the questionnaires, (b) working for a company but not a non-profit organization, and (c) holding a management position in their company. They were first trained for the purposes of the survey and in questionnaire administration techniques, such as not letting the participants know the purposes of the study and allowing them to complete the questionnaire individually and without interference. Then, 40 printed questionnaires were assigned to each MBA student, and they were asked to return the questionnaires in three days. Four hundred questionnaires were distributed, and we received a total of 362 valid responses, with a valid response rate of 90.5%.

This study manipulated the emotional state of participants by having them watch movies involving comedy, horror, and beautiful scenery. High state anxiety was triggered among the participants who watched a horror movie, and high juice consumption was confirmed among them. The perception of sweetness of the mixed juice was found to be reduced in the horror movie group compared to the other two groups, while the comedy movie group participants were found to have tasted less bitterness than did the horror movie group participants. Furthermore, the relationship between liking the juice and sweetness was found to differ according to emotional state. This study confirms that our emotional state affects our perception of taste, including that feeling fear and anxiety can reduce the perception of sweetness. These findings suggest that our emotional state may affect our perception of taste.

The main body of the research analyzed existing documents on the Libya intervention and NATO’s strategic shifts in the post-cold war era. Another focus was the review of literature on the changes in policy and actions of China and Russia after the intervention and to assess to what extent these changes could be attributed to the NATO intervention. Furthermore, I reviewed primary sources of information such as articles, blogs and interviews by/with members of the US foreign policy establishment before, during and after the time of the intervention.

This study determined and analyzed the challenges encountered and strategies employed by Junior High School Teachers in managing the students’ behavior, who were the respondents of the study, in a private school in Quezon Province that gave way to the creation of a Teachers’ Guidebook on Managing the Students’ Behavior as an output. The descriptive-evaluative method of research was used in the study together with the Weighted Arithmetic Mean (WAM) as the statistical tool. Further, a validated researcher-made instrument was used to gather the needed data in the study. Based on the findings of the study, under the code of conduct related to discipline, the respondents revealed the challenges encountered in managing students’ behavior. The statements that got the highest WAM rating were (1) Failure of students to wear their uniform in official activities held inside or outside the school; (2) Students forget their ID at Home; and, (3) Failure of the students to accomplish their excuse slip form. In addition, the code of conduct related to decorum, the following are some of the challenges encountered by the respondents: (1) Students do not maintain silence when no teacher is around; (2) Students fight with their classmates when they lose their temper; (3) Students disrespect the sacredness of the chapel by uttering nasty words inside the place; (4) Students ignore teacher’s instructions and do some foolishness with their friends; (5) Students disobey the rules and regulations of the school; (6) Students are buying foods even though it is not a break time; (7) Students fail to maintain silence inside the library; (8) Students do not observe silence while buying in the cafeteria; (9) Students do not participate in the mass instead they talk to their classmate; and, (10) Students talk with their classmate while flag ceremony is on-going. The findings of the study revealed that the orientation of the students was needed to familiarize the students on the rules and regulations implemented in the school and to consistently impose discipline. The following recommendations are made by the researcher: The students should understand fully the importance of following the school’s rules and regulations by taking seriously the identified school policy on the code of conduct. The teachers should conduct an annual orientation/re-orientation program that emphasizes the findings of this research, and seriously consider more effective strategies to overcome problems on code of conduct and use the output of this study. The school administrators should issue a school memorandum requiring all teachers and school staff to strictly implement the school policies. The future researchers should make a study on the assessment of the quality of the school policies implemented in the private schools in Quezon Province.

This paper is an attempt to analyze from the Ambedkarian perspective the interpretation of Latif’s poetry by the Progressives to assess its emancipatory potential for the Dalits. Building my critique primarily on the scholarly work of H.T.Sorley, I argue that in an attempt to construct the Sufi image of ‘Sindhi nation’, the Progressives undermine the casteist, fatalist and sectarian import of Latif’s poetry and life-history. Latif’s heterodox and multivocal nature of poetry and ambiguity regarding the originality of his verses gives expression to multiple and contradictory signifiers, including the casteist ones. This heterodoxy of Latif creates the anti-political crises of interpretations and self-contradictory projections that depoliticizes the problem of casteism. It allows the ‘Progressives’, like any other social and political group, to legitimize and popularize the selective verses that may have, at least on surface, the egalitarian and patriotic import, to exonerate Latif from any possible hegemonic impact of the orthodox casteist values and the Ashrafia privileges that he enjoyed during his lifetime, or the Ashrafia-Savarna Progressives themselves continue to enjoy.

Social anxiety disorder has two critical attentional processes, self-focused attention (SFA) and other-focused attention (OFA). These biases are caused by two psychological aspects: Strategies known as positive metacognitive beliefs and negative metacognitive beliefs. A method in which the occurrence of OFA is predicted by eye movement has been proposed. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between SFA and changes of eye movement. The relationship between the degree of SFA and OFA during speech and eye movements was investigated in this study, based on the psychosomatic relationship in which eye movements reflect psychological changes.

Through consulting available social science research and providing therapy to clients mandated by the court system to attend anger management client it became apparent to the writer that compassionate focused therapy response is necessary in the provision of anger management counselling. The importance of moving towards a compassionate oriented provision of anger management is stressed in this article as trauma, victimization, neglect and inconsistent parenting have been found by the available research to be factors found in individuals who are engaging in anger management counselling services. Counsellors are urged to provide counselling from a compassionate lens while also addressing impaired self-regulation in clients.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions attendees have of Professional Development meetings. In addition, attendees were asked to state their preferences for PD follow-up. Data were analyzed in terms of attendee assignment, and career stage (based on Huberman, 1989). Results indicated that both assignment and career stage were not significantly related to perception. Follow-up preferences were varied, indicating individual needs. This information is important for PD providers, who must be kept accountable to attendees for relevant information.

This article serves to highlight the need for policy to support the smooth transition of students with special education needs/disability from early childhood programmes to primary school education. It identifies what is and provides recommendations.