Call for a Special Issue on “Mentoring and Coaching in the Workplace” in the journal ⋘Journal of Managerial Psychology⋙ by 31st January 2023.
This special issue focuses on the topics such as exploring mentoring and coaching as specialized forms of leadership; moving toward a better understanding of the overlaps, interactions, and distinctions between workplace coaching and mentoring; building the commonality of coaching relationships as an integral part of one's developmental network; developing an updated understanding of what it takes to build and sustain a learning, mentoring, and coaching culture; moving toward situated, authentic forms of mentoring, drawing on components familiar to the coaching process; enhancing the emergent research on workplace coaching by drawing on theories familiar to the longer-standing academic work on workplace mentoring; etc.
Link: 🔗https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/mentoring-and-coaching-workplace🔗
Call for a Special Issue on “Innovative Start Ups in Emerging Markets” in the journal ⋘Emerging Markets Case Studies⋙ by 1st December 2022.
This special issue focuses on the topics such as innovation, service oriented startups, lean start up, scaling up, start-ups in times of crisis, products launch, funding and venture capital, digital start ups, csr and startups, sustainability innovation, women in start ups, business models and operations market research, and mergers and acquisition.
Link: 🔗https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/innovative-start-ups-emerging-markets-special-issue🔗
Call for a Special Issue on “Algae” in the journal ⋘Scientific Reports⋙ by 28 February 2023.
This special issue focuses on the biology, ecology, conservation and biotechnology of algae, and aims to contribute to the increasing exploration of these organisms towards a sustainable environment.
Link: 🔗https://www.nature.com/collections/idahhbejhg🔗
The authors discovered that the stress transmitter noradrenaline leads you to wake up often throughout the night but it is all part of a regular, good night’s sleep - the level of noradrenaline in the body, which causes us to wake up more than 100 times a night, is constantly increasing and decreasing during sleep in a wavelike pattern.
By using the first mass-scale neurosurgical recordings of the “social brain” (i.e. a technique called electrocorticography to record brain activity at millisecond and millimeter scales using thousands of neurosurgical electrodes), the authors showed that humans have a specialized neural pathway for social thinking that extends from the back to the front of the brain.
Psychology professor Matthew Lieberman provides an answer to the question: “Why are we so certain that the way we view people and circumstances is correct and that the way others see them is incorrect?”
Based on an analysis of over 400 prior studies, he explains it with a part of the brain he calls the “gestalt cortex” that assists us in making sense of ambiguous or incomplete information and dismissing alternative interpretations.
This double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial (63 children, aged 4–12 years old) showed that sulforaphane was effective and safe to use as an adjuvant therapy to risperidone to help reduce irritability and hyperactivity among autistic children.
The authors found a link between prenatal exposure to various endocrine-disrupting chemicals and the rising prevalence of potentially cancer-causing liver disease in children, which highlights the significance of comprehending prenatal exposure to environmental chemicals as a risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (6-10% of the pediatric population are affected by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease).
The authors suggest that “selfish chromosomes” are to blame for the early demise of the majority of human embryos, so their findings have implications for the treatment of infertility.
The authors examined 150 participants who were “healthy underweight” (i.e. very low body mass indexes (BMI) - below 18.5) and 173 people with normal BMIs (range 21.5 to 25) for 2 weeks, and they found that individuals with low BMI are 23% less active and consume 12% less food than those with a normal BMI.
This large-scale survey of persons aged 50 to 89 years investigated if cognitive decline may be identified by sagittal spinal balance assessment based on a radiological approach. The authors found links between sagittal vertical axis (SVA) anteriorization and older age and worse cognitive performance.
The authors suggest that the lifelong production of sperm is possible by a newly discovered stem cell regulator - the enzyme DOT1L (i.e. a stem cell self-renewal factor). The discovery adds another entity to the handful of stem cell renewal factors that have already been identified by scientists.
The authors suggest that the woman’s brain could provide important information about treating dementia due to a mutation known as APOE3 Christchurch that appears to have protected the examined woman (she lived dementia-free into her 70s).
The authors looked at data from 726 people who had imaging-confirmed appendicitis and were given antibiotics at 25 different hospitals between 2016 and 2020. They discovered that antibiotics are often effective in treating patients with appendicitis (46% of the 726 participants who were randomly assigned to receive antibiotics were released from the emergency room), and as outpatient antibiotic management is safe it enables many patients to avoid surgery and hospitalization.
This study of 32 healthy women (aged from 26 to 49; never gardened before) showed that gardening improves mental health by decreasing stress, anxiety, and sadness.
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