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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,872 Views
15 Pages

This article is concerned with the tenure track (TT) model, which has become increasingly used to extend the period of early career academics’ probation from one to five years across the EU. This article focuses on the TT in Trinity College Dub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,693 Views
16 Pages

6 March 2024

The concept of emotional salary refers to the non-monetary rewards granted to workers, focusing on improving interpersonal relationships, strengthening productivity, and enhancing the competitiveness of organizations. The topic of emotional salary is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,066 Views
16 Pages

6 February 2021

This study explores how female professionals engage in starting their own businesses, known as professional entrepreneurship. In particular, this study specifies what factors foster the likelihood of self-employment of female professionals. Drawing u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,584 Views
20 Pages

Impact of COVID-19-Related Lockdown Measures on Economic and Social Outcomes in Lithuania

  • Jurgita Markevičiūtė,
  • Jolita Bernatavičienė,
  • Rūta Levulienė,
  • Viktor Medvedev,
  • Povilas Treigys and
  • Julius Venskus

2 August 2022

The current world crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed into an economic crisis, becoming a problem and a challenge not only for individual national economies but also for the world economy as a whole. The first global lockdown, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,525 Views
11 Pages

Online Interest in Urology Residency: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Internet Temporal and Geographic Patterns

  • Arthur Drouaud,
  • Ryan Antar,
  • Vincent Xu,
  • Paul Nagao,
  • Sean Tafuri and
  • Michael Whalen

3 May 2024

Urology is one of the most competitive specialties in medicine, creating a challenge for prospective students looking to secure a residency position. Our study aims to assess online interest in urology residency by querying online interaction with se...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,477 Views
2 Pages

17 October 2014

Back in 1981, when I started doing building energy performance simulation for pre-design and energy efficiency retrofit work, building simulation was in its infancy. There were only a handful of building energy simulation programs, with DOE-2, ES...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,156 Views
17 Pages

Six months after starting the National Vaccination Program against COVID-19, a cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted among 1200 salaried and non-salaried healthcare workers (HCWs) in Poland. Its aim was to assess factors including the ris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,694 Views
14 Pages

1 January 2023

As the net effect of agglomeration on entrepreneurship depends on the trade-off between positive and negative effects, urban agglomeration can either promote or discourage entrepreneurial activity in theory. However, there is an unexpected shortage o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,545 Views
10 Pages

In the context of national-level strategies, the importance of tourism in national parks is on the rise. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between the number of visitors to national parks and five variables: area, number...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,227 Views
22 Pages

14 November 2023

With the surge in college graduate numbers, a disparity has emerged where the supply of jobs falls short of demand, intensifying employment pressures annually. College graduates, due to their lack of historical employment data compared with job seeke...

  • Article
  • Open Access
517 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2025

Contemporary issues of particular concern include the current state of the teaching profession, the lack of professional and social respect for teachers, the need for salary increases, the need to reduce the burden on teachers, and performance evalua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
178 Citations
55,786 Views
12 Pages

Current Response and Management Decisions of the European Union to the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Review

  • Krzysztof Goniewicz,
  • Amir Khorram-Manesh,
  • Attila J. Hertelendy,
  • Mariusz Goniewicz,
  • Katarzyna Naylor and
  • Frederick M. Burkle

COVID-19 has proven to be a formidable challenge for many countries in the European Union to manage effectively. The European Union has implemented numerous strategies to face emerging issues. Member States have adopted measures such as the closure o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,565 Views
19 Pages

The Role of Informal Waste Management in Urban Metabolism: A Review of Eight Latin American Countries

  • Beatriz Espinosa-Aquino,
  • Xavier Gabarrell Durany and
  • Roberto Quirós Vargas

18 January 2023

Social and spatial segregation structures in Latin America are perceived as processes for the selective concentration of social or demographic groups in geographic sectors of the city. This voluntary or forced segregation creates poor, wealthy, and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,883 Views
10 Pages

Improving Hospital Length of Stay: Results of a Retrospective Cohort Study

  • Swapnil Patel,
  • Abbas Alshami,
  • Steven Douedi,
  • Natasha Campbell,
  • Mohammad Hossain,
  • Arman Mushtaq,
  • Dana Tarina,
  • Brett Sealove,
  • David Kountz and
  • Arif Asif
  • + 5 authors

(1) Background: Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) is a 646-bed tertiary medical center located in central New Jersey. Over the past several years, development and maturation of tertiary services at JSUMC has resulted in tremendous growth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,684 Views
13 Pages

Gender Perspectives on Self-Employment Among Israeli Family Physicians: A Qualitative Study

  • Irit Chudner,
  • Avi Shnider,
  • Omer Gluzman,
  • Hadas Keidar and
  • Motti Haimi

8 February 2025

Background: While previous studies have shown that occupational choices are influenced by traditional gender perceptions, little is known about gender’s role in choosing self-employment among family physicians. Family medicine, with its emphasi...