Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Cecilia Lindsjo, Katarina Sjogren Forss, Christine Kumlien, Anders Kottorp, Margareta Ramgard
Summary: Social determinants of health, such as inequitable distribution of resources, negatively impact the health of migrants, particularly migrant women. This study describes a collaborative women's health initiative that aimed to address barriers to engagement in health promotion activities faced by migrant women, such as language barriers and socioeconomic circumstances.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Amir Mazrooei, A. Sankarasubramanian, Andrew W. Wood
Summary: This study introduces a novel VAR DA method which uses a basin-wide scaling factor to update the soil moisture conditions of the VIC model, resulting in improved hydrologic predictions.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Brian A. Colle, Rosemary Auld, Kenneth Johnson, Christine O'Connell, Temis G. Taylor, Joshua Rice
Summary: The article discusses the challenges of communicating uncertainty for high-impact weather events and the emphasis on impact-based decision support within the National Weather Service. It highlights a collaborative project led by Stony Brook University aimed at training forecasters to effectively communicate risk and uncertainty, with a focus on connecting with audiences and matching messages to stakeholder interaction. Feedback from representatives in emergency management, TV media, transportation departments, and emergency services on the forecasters' presentations and communication skills is also discussed.
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Kaiti Shang, Daisy X. F. Fan, Dimitrios Buhalis
Summary: This study explores how local tour guides operate through sharing economy platforms. It finds that local tour guides improve resilience and performance by utilizing self-efficacy and other resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study reveals that local tour guides use sharing economy platforms to provide flexible tour guide services, adapt to contextual factors through dynamic capability, and coordinate various resources and customers. The findings offer guidance for local tour guides on how to enhance resilience through diverse resources enabled by the sharing economy in uncertain times.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Mei Xu, Chuang Wang, Xiangjing Chen, Ting Sun, Xiaomei Ma
Summary: This study examines the effects of an intensive summer English training program on college students' self-efficacy beliefs and listening and speaking skills. The results show that students' self-efficacy beliefs improved after the program, but there were no statistically significant changes in their listening and speaking skills. Furthermore, the study found that pretest listening self-efficacy predicted posttest listening skills, but pretest speaking self-efficacy did not contribute to the prediction of posttest speaking skills.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Na Li, Guanglai Zhang, Liguo Zhang, Yingheng Zhou, Ning Zhang
Summary: This study analyzes the health inequality in rural China caused by indoor air pollution from traditional energy use, focusing on the effect of clean energy access on women's health outcome. The results show that clean energy applications can significantly improve the health of rural women, with substantial positive effects for specific groups such as middle-aged and older women, illiterate women, and those living in northeastern China. Overall, clean energy plays a crucial role in reducing gender disparities in health inequality.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Marco Stojanovic, Stefan Fries, Axel Grund
Summary: The study found that general self-efficacy predicted habit automaticity but not motivational interference, while habit-specific self-efficacy and automaticity had a positive feedback mechanism. Self-efficacy and habit strength partially mediated the impact of motivational interference on habit building.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Autumn Kirkendall, Anjali Dutt
Summary: This study explores the experiences of refugee women during pregnancy and childbirth in Clarkston, Georgia, US. The findings highlight the challenges and needs of maternal health in the United States, emphasizing the importance of structural change to improve women's experiences.
FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Isotta Triulzi, Fausto Ciccacci, Ilaria Palla, Bryan Mthiko, Darlington Thole, Maria Cristina Marazzi, Leonardo Palombi, Giuseppe Turchetti, Stefano Orlando
Summary: The organization of a special day for men and the deployment of male champions may effectively increase male involvement in the health of their female partners.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Zulqurnain Ali, Abdul Razzaq, Sajid Ali, Sulman Qadri, Azam Zia
Summary: Social media platforms are valuable sources of information through user-generated reviews and comments. Identification and extraction of subjective information from text is a crucial challenge in sentiment analysis. A Prescriptive Sentiment Analysis (PSA) based on features synchronization has been introduced to increase accuracy in text sentiment analysis, showing significant improvement in sentiment analysis efficiency compared to other baseline methods.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Weidong Zhao, Daoxin Liu, Hao Zhang, Jun Liu, Chi Ma, Ruixia Zhang, Tao Huang, Yalin Dong, Chang Ye, Han Ding
Summary: The efficacy of peening treatment can be improved by using high-amplitude short duration pulsed current, as demonstrated in the study of electropulsing-assisted ultrasonic nanocrystal surface modification (EP-UNSM). EP-UNSM process combines ultrasonic peening and electropulsing to enhance the plasticity of the target metal Ti64, resulting in deeper plastic deformation layer, higher surface hardness, and greater compressive residual stresses. The pulsed current effectively improves the peening efficacy, making EP-UNSM an effective method for strengthening Ti64.
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Miranda M. Nadeau, Norian A. Caporale-Berkowitz, Aaron B. Rochlen
Summary: This study found that self-compassion can be enhanced in nonclinical population of women through participation in a self-paced online course. Participants in the treatment condition experienced significant increases in self-compassion and decreases in self-judgment, shame, and perfectionism.
JOURNAL OF COUNSELING AND DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Letter
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jeff Clyde G. Corpuz
Summary: The recently published article proposes involving private-owned companies in the COVID-19 vaccination program and raises awareness about vaccine hesitancy's potential impact on vaccination effectiveness. The article suggests public participation approaches, including dialogue-based methods, incentive-based (non-financial) methods, and reminder-recall methods, based on guidelines from the World Health Organization.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Chengyu Zhang, Liangdong Ma, Xing Han, Tianyi Zhao
Summary: In this study, an improved energy-consumption prediction system is proposed that includes input system modification and algorithm improvement. By considering user behavior and improved swarm intelligence algorithms, the prediction accuracy has been enhanced. The experimental results show that the case using occupant-building interaction inputs and improved swarm intelligence algorithms had the best performance.
JOURNAL OF BUILDING ENGINEERING
(2023)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Kari D. Moore, Debbie Summers, Susan E. Wilson
Summary: National stroke registries can improve patient care quality and outcomes globally, but their utilization and implementation vary across countries. In the United States, stroke center certification requires meeting stroke-specific performance measures, and there are two available registries - the American Heart Association's voluntary Get With The Guidelines-Stroke database and the competitively funded Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry by the CDC. Compliance with stroke processes of care varies, and interorganizational quality improvement initiatives have shown some impact. However, the effectiveness of continuous quality improvement approaches, especially among competing institutions, and a uniform governance for successful interhospital collaboration in stroke care remains unclear.
