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Social media platforms are increasingly reshaping content moderation through participatory governance models. In January 2025, Meta announced that its third-party fact-checking program in the United States would be replaced by Community Notes, raisin...

The collective efforts of various social actors from different sectors have contributed to climate change mitigation. Identifying the important antecedents of collaborative behavior to address climate change helps us understand the underlying process...

Background: Most of the existing literature analyzes preschool teachers’ perceptions of information seeking and measures their satisfaction with online support for mental health issues. Seldom has this literature considered the influence of ent...

[Objective] Soil microorganisms are the most active parts in soil and are sensitive to soil additives. This study aimed to clarify the impacts of the addition of biomass materials (corn straw and biochar) and nitrogen application on the compositions...

Numerous firms operate online brand communities (OBCs) in order to build a close consumer–brand relationship. To succeed in realizing this aim, firms must first sustain members’ brand community engagement. While prior studies have examine...

In 2021, Quanzhou, China, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Using the Motivation–Opportunity–Ability (MOA) theoretical framework, this study examines how motivation, opportunity, and ability factors influence community particip...

This study focuses on patient engagement in online health communities (OHCs) and investigates the mechanism related to the impact of social support provided by patients on their personal engagement. Based on social support theory, we put forward a re...

The construction industry is considered a driver of economic growth, especially in developing countries. However, the successful completion of construction projects is a major challenge, due to the lack of competencies. The current study explores the...

Background/Objectives: State self-compassion, a temporary and situationally specific form of responding to oneself with compassion, has been increasingly examined in relation to emotional distress, yet most studies have examined anxiety and depressio...

Promoting pro-environmental behaviors among individuals in the community is crucial to increase community resilience and to address environmental challenges. However, a persistent intention–behavior gap often exists, particularly in separate pr...

Information and communication technologies have become a key driver of sustainable agricultural development, yet the pathways through which they exert this influence remain underexplored. This study investigates how information and communication tech...

Loneliness and social isolation are related but distinct experiences, and their relative contributions to mental health among men who have sex with men (MSM) remain insufficiently studied in Portugal. This cross-sectional online survey of 641 cisgend...

This study investigated the intricate relationships among motivational intensity, foreign language enjoyment, boredom, shyness, and second-language (L2) willingness to communicate (WTC) in Pakistani university students. Using a quantitative cross-sec...

Negative social media usage during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding the spread of misinformation and toxicity in public online discussions. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised method to discover the str...

From a public management perspective, actual household disaster preparedness is an important component of sustainable community resilience because it strengthens households’ capacity to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disruptions. However...

Trust is considered a critical factor in the physician–patient relationship. However, little is known about the development and impact of physicians trusting their patients. A model that is premised on the integrated model of organizational tru...

The breakneck pace of digital technologies has created a dramatic shift in marketing campaigns to engage users through unique and innovative experiences. Focusing on the same grounds, this study relates the market engagement with users’ loyalty...

Floods are naturally occurring extreme hydrological events that affect stream habitats and biota at multiple extents. Benthic macroinvertebrates (BM) are widely used to assess ecological status in rivers, but their resistance and resilience to floods...

This study investigates how topic-specific expression by women delivery riders on digital platforms predicts their community engagement, emphasizing the mediating role of self-disclosure and the moderating influence of cognitive and emotional languag...

Background: Child malnutrition, in all its forms, is a public health priority in Zambia. After implementations based on a previous evaluation in 2012–14 were made, the efficacy of the Rainbow Project Supplementary Feeding Programs (SFPs) for th...

Sulfides should be removed before the recovery of cassiterite from tin-rich minerals due to their similarity in flotation properties. However, the traditional methods used have low selectivity. Therefore, moderately thermophilic microorganisms were u...

Background: Insomnia is common and occurs across psychiatric diagnoses. A prior analysis of this outpatient cohort found that psychotropic medication complexity was associated with insomnia severity, but whether this association is stronger in partic...

The general consensus is that physical activity can prevent and manage lifestyle-induced chronic diseases, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) has been included in several guidelines of WHO as an indicative intensity standard. Numerous...

Arteriosclerosis obliterans (ASO) is associated with impaired walking function and claudication. However, the effects of information and communication technology (ICT)-based wearable interventions on objectively measured gait outcomes in this populat...

The aim of this study was to determine whether emotional labor behavior has an effect on job satisfaction, and if there is an effect, to reveal whether communicative rational action has a moderator effect. This research was carried out in the banking...

Online health communities (OHCs) are a common and highly frequented health resource. To create safer resources online, we must know how users think of credibility in these spaces. To understand how new visitors may use cues present within the OHC to...

Value co-creation by users in a virtual community is a key element of the community’s value and sustainability. This paper first analyzes the effect on co-creation behavior of (1) users’ altruism and (2) users’ interactivity with th...

Life satisfaction of the rural elderly has increasingly become an important issue for society. Based on the social support theory and Cha Xu Ge Ju (pattern of difference sequence), this study investigates the underlying mechanisms and boundary condit...

Background: With the increasingly severe trend of population aging, the well-being of the elderly is receiving growing attention. This study aimed to investigate the association between cognitive social capital in the community (familiarity with comm...

This study evaluated the impact of baseline injury characteristics and one-year functional level on the 10-year community integration outcomes for working-age patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Patients aged 16–55 an...

Clarifying the pathways through which public emergency response capability influences community responsibility holds positive implications for promoting public participation in community disaster prevention and mitigation efforts. Based on a large-sc...

Many studies demonstrate the importance of communication in project performance. However, little is known about how project communication exerts its effects on the outcomes of capital projects that have a large impact on environmental and economic su...

Studies on participation in community gardens have revealed that gardeners’ participation is driven by functional and emotional motives. Most studies, however, have failed to recognize gardeners’ diverse characteristics. To fill this rese...

Grounded in signaling theory, this study explores the influence of user-generated content (UGC) within online healthcare communities on patient purchasing behavior, with the overarching goal of advancing the development of online medical consultation...

This study investigated the moderating role of education on the association between community-based cognitive social capital and self-rated health among older adults in urban Chinese communities. Data were derived from a community survey conducted in...

Sub-moderate temperature (ranging from low to moderate temperature) anaerobic digestion (AD) could balance fermentation efficiency and energy input. We investigated biogas production and the microbial community in wastewater AD at sub-moderate (15 &d...

Background: Structural stigma in the form of discriminatory laws and policies impacts the mental health of sexual and gender minorities, especially with regard to suicidality. However, this relationship could be moderated by resilience. The past two...

Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) is one of the key concepts in L2 communication and learning. Previously, research practice in this area has been more concerned with investigating the relationship between individual negative...

Background/Objectives: Multilevel interventions have demonstrated efficacy in improving obesity and other related health outcomes. However, heterogeneity in individual responses indicates the need to identify the factors associated with responses and...

(1) Background: Social capital linking, bridging, and bonding have become fascinating options for sustainable development in rural Malaysia. (2) Objective: The aims of this research were (i) to evaluate how leadership styles affect the social capital...

This study uses polynomial regression and response surface analyses to investigate the joint effects of agentic and communal goals on bullying and the moderating role of prosocial strategies. The sample included 917 adolescents (M_age = 13.54, SD = 1....

Although a large body of research has indicated that parent-adolescent communication is a crucial protective factor for adolescent Internet addiction, the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. To address thi...

Background/Objectives: Evidence suggests a J-shaped association between alcohol consumption and depression, but it remains unclear whether this reflects a true causal effect, reverse causation, or methodological bias. This uncertainty is particularly...

According to Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory, the interaction between micro- and macro-factors improves human development. Previous studies suggest that community social capital, which refers to the interaction between residents and communit...

Excessive nitrogen fertilizer usage in agricultural often leads to negative ecological and production gains. Alterations in the physical and chemical properties and microbial community structure of agricultural soils are both the cause and consequenc...

The job satisfaction of nurses is reflected in almost all organizational outputs of medical facilities. First-line nurse managers (FLNMs), who are directly related to subordinate nurses, have a great influence on this satisfaction. The aim of our pap...

Background: The demoralization model of depression suggests that PTSD could lead to depressive symptoms. However, not all people with PTSD have co-occurring depressive symptoms. Objective: To examine the moderating role of nonviolent communication (N...

Online health communities (OHCs) face the same problem as other social media platforms in terms of decreasing activity and user attrition. Drawing upon organizational support theory, this study explores how perceived community support affects user in...

Background: Effective communication with angry patients and their relatives is a critical determinant of patient satisfaction and service quality in healthcare settings. Medical secretaries, as frontline administrative healthcare staff, frequently ma...

Vision communication (VC) is an important way for leaders to express their ideas about a blueprint of the future to convince employees that their work is valuable and meaningful in total quality management. This research studies the influence of visi...