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14 Citations
6,418 Views
15 Pages

27 December 2017

Why are some start-ups more successful than other companies? In view of this question, this paper deconstructs the growth mechanism of the present new Chinese ventures from the perspective of Internet entrepreneurship and points out that exploratory...

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1,102 Views
25 Pages

8 July 2025

Exploratory innovation plays a crucial role in the high-quality and sustainable development of organizations, but how enterprises engage in exploratory innovation within volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) contexts remains uncle...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,796 Views
19 Pages

3D representations in applications that provide self-localization and orientation in wayfinding have become increasingly popular in recent years because of technical advances in the field. However, human factors have been largely ignored while design...

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386 Views
40 Pages

3 February 2026

The digital transformation of education demands a comprehensive understanding of how leadership orientations and digital competencies intersect among educators. This exploratory cross-sectional study examined associations between self-reported leader...

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27 Citations
5,527 Views
13 Pages

20 January 2021

In Western society, the fresh-cut fruit market is experiencing significant growth, especially in Italy, where, in 2019, the fresh-cut fruit sales volume increased by 35% compared with the previous year. This study aims to understand Italian consumers...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,782 Views
24 Pages

While electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha desynchronization has been related to anticipatory orienting of visuospatial attention, an increase in alpha power has been associated to its inhibition. A separate line of findings indicated that alpha is affec...

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5 Citations
4,089 Views
14 Pages

Is Virtual Reality Orientation Therapy Useful to Optimize Cognitive and Behavioral Functioning Following Severe Acquired Brain Injury? An Exploratory Study

  • Rosaria De Luca,
  • Andrea Calderone,
  • Antonio Gangemi,
  • Carmela Rifici,
  • Mirjam Bonanno,
  • Maria Grazia Maggio,
  • Irene Cappadona,
  • Isabella Veneziani,
  • Augusto Ielo and
  • Rocco Salvatore Calabrò
  • + 3 authors

Introduction: Severe acquired brain injury (SABI) is a leading cause of death and disability, and it is defined as a brain injury that occurs after birth due to traumatic or non-traumatic causes. Reality orientation therapy (ROT) uses repeated time&n...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,078 Views
19 Pages

22 March 2024

Responding to changing value creation processes in the sheet metal working sector, where the complexity and interchangeability of products challenge traditional differentiation strategies, this exploratory analysis examines the integration of service...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
10,954 Views
19 Pages

30 January 2024

This research aimed to investigate Japanese university students’ entrepreneurial development processes using the happenstance learning theory. The current research was an empirical study investigating the role of risk propensity, lifetime emplo...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,428 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2022

This study aimed to investigate how cultural values affect ethical consumption behavior. For this purpose, cultural values were divided into the following four groups: vertical individualism, vertical collectivism, horizontal individualism, and horiz...

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1,043 Views
21 Pages

1 October 2025

This exploratory study investigates preliminary trends in the optimization of mechanical properties in 3D-printed components produced via Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) using polycarbonate (PC) and polylactic acid (PLA). Through a systematic full fa...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,695 Views
11 Pages

28 April 2019

Background and methods: The aim of this research was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Motivation and Learning Strategies Questionnaire-Short Form (MSLQ-SF), using exploratory techniques with university students. The sample was formed by...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,329 Views
25 Pages

Recently, the Vietnamese government established an ambitious plan that strongly promotes the development of the logistic industry. However, there is an environmental concern regarding this development. In addition, adopting environmental management p...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
18,083 Views
16 Pages

28 February 2018

Prior research has examined the impact of community-oriented policing (COP) on crime extensively. While the implementation of community policing has been considered mainly within the context of large police agencies, there is a paucity of research on...

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1 Citations
2,794 Views
15 Pages

10 March 2025

Adolescents today face significant exposure to social inequalities and environmental crises, including the impacts of climate change, such as heatwaves, floods, and droughts. In addition, they encounter various forms of inequality, such as job insecu...

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633 Views
12 Pages

This pilot exploratory qualitative study used the Modified Grounded Theory Approach (M-GTA) and the Realist Evaluation (RE) framework to clarify the interrelationships between nursing support and Peer Support (PS) in the creation and utilization of C...

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6 Citations
5,314 Views
20 Pages

Transferable skills, such as learning skills as well as oral and written communication skills, are needed by today’s experts. The learning of transferable skills was studied during a multidisciplinary two-week, research-oriented intensive cours...

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2 Citations
3,830 Views
15 Pages

How Does Reciprocity Affect Undergraduate Student Orientation towards Stakeholders?

  • José-Luis Godos-Díez,
  • Roberto Fernández-Gago and
  • Laura Cabeza-García

28 October 2019

Nowadays, students are more aware of the impact of companies on their stakeholders and the need for properly handling their expectations to operationalize corporate social responsibility. Nevertheless, little is known about how certain individual tra...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
27,478 Views
21 Pages

10 February 2015

In this article I explore the contemporary normative meanings of friendship, unpacking the subject through two different questions: “what is a good friend?” and “what is an intimate friend?” Drawing on survey data from a national representative sampl...

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15 Citations
6,120 Views
16 Pages

1 July 2019

This study investigated the complementary effect of three orientations of knowledge management (KM) strategy on firm performance: external and internal, explicit and tacit, and exploratory and exploitive. We propose a theoretical framework for examin...

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330 Views
19 Pages

13 January 2026

This study examines the motivations, socio-demographic profiles, and behavioural orientations of residents in Northern Italy toward mountain and forest visitation, with a focus on their propensity to engage in forest-based health and wellness activit...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,396 Views
11 Pages

19 April 2023

Guidance is a dynamic process that takes place throughout our lives based on various interactions with the environment. Academic and professional guidance is the most important step in a young person’s life, enabling them to make decisions abou...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,850 Views
20 Pages

9 October 2021

Academic research contributes to the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs) of teaching-oriented universities in many ways, such as providing quality education, promoting the healthy and diverse development of academia, and satisfying th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,087 Views
15 Pages

28 May 2022

The corona crisis caused discontinuity within the financial sector, which has further increased the importance of innovation for sustainability and the capability to manage discontinuity. The aim of this research is to investigate how the corona cris...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,388 Views
14 Pages

31 March 2023

Parental involvement in the education and learning processes of children in general has become central in the last few decades. Following this involvement, the home arena is considered highly influential in providing a supportive environment for chil...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,796 Views
23 Pages

10 January 2025

This study brings a novel perspective to the relationship between higher education and work life by examining work-domain goal orientation as a critical factor in preparing students for professional environments. Through an extensive literature revie...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,313 Views
19 Pages

Young Children’s Ideas about Heat Transfer Phenomena

  • Angelika Pahl,
  • Hans U. Fuchs and
  • Federico Corni

In this article, we present kindergarten children’s ideas about thermal phenomena before any educational intervention took place. In order to capture and account for the heterogeneity of the kindergarten group in this study, first teachers obse...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,069 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2022

Rural e-commerce is a specific practice in the context of rural revitalization and common prosperity, but its short average life expectancy is also a serious practical problem. Therefore, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to condu...

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  • Open Access
41 Citations
14,702 Views
22 Pages

26 February 2020

The purpose of this paper is to explore how sustainable marketing orientation (SMO) should be properly implemented in an organization built on the theoretical model of market-oriented sustainability. The aim of the paper is to explore and confirm the...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,154 Views
10 Pages

TextQ—A User Friendly Tool for Exploratory Text Analysis

  • April Edwards,
  • MaryLyn Sullivan,
  • Ezrah Itkowsky and
  • Dana Weinberg

7 December 2021

As the amount of textual data available on the Internet grows substantially each year, there is a need for tools to assist with exploratory data analysis. Furthermore, to democratize the process of text analytics, tools must be usable for those with...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,421 Views
19 Pages

This study tests for the first time the validity of universality and normativity assumptions related to the attachment theory in a non-Western culture, using a novel design including psychiatric and non-psychiatric samples as part of a comprehensive...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,772 Views
20 Pages

13 April 2022

The study analyzes national identity using the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) database for the waves of 2003 and 2013. First, the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and the Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA) are used to find t...

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5 Citations
5,024 Views
13 Pages

24 April 2020

This article presents the Proactive and Preventive Coping with Bad Weather in Outdoor Sports Scale, a tool for diagnosing future oriented coping with bad weather in outdoor sports. A study of the psychometric properties of the Proactive and Preventiv...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,737 Views
20 Pages

Embodied, Exploratory Listening in the Concert Hall

  • Remy Haswell-Martin,
  • Finn Upham,
  • Simon Høffding and
  • Nanette Nielsen

21 May 2025

Live music can afford novel, transformative aesthetic interactions for individual audience members. Nevertheless, concert research tends to focus on shared experience. In this paper we offer an account of exploratory listening that foregrounds embodi...

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1,257 Views
18 Pages

5 September 2025

In the context of universal higher education and labor market polarization, undergraduates in universities of applied sciences (UAS) face growing challenges in forming career orientation. Drawing on data from a UAS in China (N = 3138), this study exa...

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19 Citations
11,919 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2019

Companies’ increasing social awareness has led to the development of a corporate social responsibility orientation, whose implementation impacts on their overall marketing communication, both at its strategic and operational levels. The issue o...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,966 Views
11 Pages

The Mindset Assessment Profile is a popular questionnaire purportedly designed to measure mindset—an individual’s belief in whether intelligence is malleable or stable. Despite its widespread use, the questionnaire appears to assess an individual’s n...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,432 Views
25 Pages

Public Libraries and Walkable Neighborhoods

  • Noah Lenstra and
  • Jenny Carlos

Public libraries constitute a ubiquitous social infrastructure found in nearly every community in the United States and Canada. The hypothesis of this study is that public libraries can be understood as important supports of walking in neighborhoods,...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,334 Views
14 Pages

Achievement Goals, Fear of Failure and Self-Handicapping in Young Elite Athletes with and without Chronic Pain

  • Bodile Molenaar,
  • Charlotte Willems,
  • Jeanine Verbunt and
  • Mariëlle Goossens

Background: Pain is a common problem in elite athletes. This exploratory study compares goal orientations towards sport, fear of failure, self-handicapping and pain catastrophizing between active young elite athletes with and without chronic pain (CP...

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853 Views
11 Pages

Background/Objectives: Shift work in healthcare professionals affects performance in high cognitive processing, especially in complex environments. However, the beneficial effects that working in complex environments may have on auditory–cognit...

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433 Views
22 Pages

3 February 2026

This qualitative study investigates how graduate students engage with academic conferences as sites for professional development and identity construction. Grounded in academic socialization theory and employing an interpretive phenomenological appro...

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176 Views
24 Pages

27 February 2026

This study examines the influence of business analytics, social capital, market orientation, and absorptive capacity on innovation ambidexterity in Indonesia’s emerging market context. Drawing on the socio-technical perspective and dynamic capa...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,985 Views
16 Pages

14 April 2022

Personalized education aims to provide cooperative and exploratory courses for students by using computer and network technology to construct a more effective cooperative learning mode, thus improving students’ cooperation ability and lifelong...

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789 Views
36 Pages

19 November 2025

Earth Observation (EO) satellite data are increasingly recognized as strategic tools for environmental monitoring and EU policy implementation, particularly at local levels, where they can enhance planning and service delivery. However, adoption by l...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,895 Views
23 Pages

In recent years, the disorderly development of local government debt financing and local government financing platforms (GFP) in China has brought huge government debt risks. In order to control the debt increment caused by illegal financing of the G...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,579 Views
30 Pages

Digitalization has forced emerging market (EM) firms operating in resource-constrained environments to adopt market-driven strategies, particularly frugal innovation, to provide affordable, optimized processes and high-value solutions. However, under...

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491 Views
20 Pages

16 December 2025

Background: Feedback Orientation (FO) reflects how individuals value, accept, and use feedback in a way that influences learning, performance, and sustainable career development. While this concept has been empirically examined, the psychometric prop...

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628 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2025

A scientifically robust evaluation system for ecological products value realisation is urgently needed in China. Approaches that rely solely on objective indicators face significant challenges due to data limitations and regional heterogeneity. This...

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6 Citations
3,661 Views
16 Pages

8 January 2023

A critical sustainability task is to communicate an organization’s sustainability values in a manner which yields favorable new hire perceptions and involvement. However, factors influencing the impact of sustainability messaging on new hire pe...

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