This study investigated the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on firm performance with the firm resource orchestration capability and environmental dynamics in moderating roles. Using survey data collected from 301 Korean manufacturing and servic...
CSR has become a key issue for the qualitative growth of the Chinese economy, while digital transformation has emerged as a crucial strategy for enhancing company competitiveness. Thus, the complex impact of CSR and digital transformation on the firm...
This study investigates how the functional diversity of top management teams (TMTs) affects the financial performance of A-share Chinese companies. To this end, we examine the interaction effects of TMT diversity with organizational innovativeness an...
Investigations on gender variations in the risk factors of cognitive impairment are required to promote future precision medicine among older adults, as well as to contribute to a better understanding of the “male–female health-survival p...
Public bikesharing is an environmentally friendly transportation mode that can remedy the urban “last mile” problem to some extents. Prior studies have investigated many predictors of the public bikesharing usage. For example, researchers...
The purpose of this study was to test if perceived social support and self-compassion will interact to reduce the magnitude of the bivariate relationship (buffering effect) between cumulative trauma and trauma symptoms after controlling for gender an...
The prevalence of depressive symptoms in adolescents is 12–18% and is twice as frequent in females. Sleep problems and thoughts of death are depressive symptoms or co-occurrent phenomena. Family maltreatment is a risk factor for later depressiv...
This study aims to explore the relationship between the digital financial literacy of homestay business owners and economic sustainability. A conceptual model is developed by integrating three primary constructs—performance expectancy, effort e...
CeO2-ZrO2-La2O3 supported Pt-Pd bimetallic three-way catalysts (0.6Pt-0.4Pd/CZL) were synthesized through the conventional impregnation method and then subjected to severe thermal aging. Reactivating treatments under different temperatures were then...
Relationship of users in an online social network can be applied to promote personalized recommendation services. The measurement of relationship strength between user pairs is crucial to analyze the user relationship, which has been developed by man...
Work withdrawal behavior is a type of negative reaction when employees face obstacles at work. Its negative impact on individuals and organizations has caught the attention of academic circles and managers. In this study, data from 596 full-time empl...
15 August 2018
In view of the rapid development of information and communication technologies, the present study sheds light on how work-related smartphone use during non-work time affects employees’ subsequent working day. Specifically, we examine work-relat...
This study explores the sustainability of work groups in the industry by enhancing team commitment via person-group fit and its boundary conditions. Specifically, we examine the relationship between person-group (PG fit) and team commitment, introduc...
Air quality currently poses a major risk for human health. Currently, diesel is widely used as fuel and is a significant source of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM), both hazardous to human health. A good alternative for mineral diese...
Bulk ceria-zirconia solid solutions (Ce1−xZrxO2−δ, CZO) are highly suited for application as oxygen storage materials in automotive three-way catalytic converters (TWC) due to the high levels of achievable oxygen non-stoichiometry δ. In thin film CZO...
Three-way catalyst (TWC) is the mainstream technology for stoichiometric natural gas vehicle gas emission purification to meet the China VI emission standard for heavy-duty vehicles. Due to the high price of Pd-Rh TWC widely used at present, it is of...
6 May 2019
Along with the severe global employment challenges caused by the rapid rise of digital technologies, the job insecurity (JI)–life satisfaction (LS) association has attracted increasing attention. However, there is still a dearth of studies inve...
Food-borne pathogens are a serious challenge in food handling, processing, and packaging systems. The growth of microbial biofilms on food handling surfaces further complicates the management of the microbial contamination of food. Microorganisms wit...
The present work reports the effects of γ-, θ-phase of alumina on the hydrothermal stability and the properties of non- and strongly-interacting Rh species of the Rh/Al2O3 catalysts. Comparing to γ-Al2O3, θ-Al2O3 can not only...
Interactions between plants, insects and pathogens are complex and not sufficiently understood in the context of climate change. In this study, the impact of a root pathogen on a leaf-eating insect hosted by a tree species at elevated CO2 concentrati...
The goal of the breeding process is to obtain new genotypes with traits improved over the parental forms. Parameters related to the additive effect of genes as well as their interactions (such as epistasis of gene–by–gene interaction effe...
The ribonucleoprotein telomerase contains two essential components: telomerase RNA (TER) and telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT, Est2 in yeast). A small portion of TER, termed the template, is copied by TERT onto the chromosome ends, thus compens...
The rhodium (Rh) component in automotive three way catalysts (TWC) experiences severe thermal deactivation during fuel shutoff, an engine mode (e.g., at downhill coasting) used for enhancing fuel economy. In a subsequent switch to a slightly fuel ric...
Distributed hydrological models can be suitable choices for predicting the spatial distribution of water and energy fluxes if the conceptual relationships between the components are defined appropriately. Therefore, an innovative approach has been de...
The Pd component in the automotive three way catalyst (TWC) experiences deactivation during fuel shutoff, a process employed by automobile companies for enhancing fuel economy when the vehicle is coasting downhill. The process exposes the TWC to a se...
Background: The present research relied on the affective events theory to develop a framework explaining how daily micro-events trigger affective reactions that, in turn, influence quality-of-life indicators (i.e., psychological well-being and COVID-...
To address the lack of efficient flexible protection measures for ocean engineering equipment operating in complex coupled wind–wave–current environments, this study develops a coupled “flexible wave-dissipating system” numeri...
This study systematically investigated the combined effects of drying method (mid- and short-wave infrared drying, MSID; hot air drying, HAD; radio frequency-hot air combined drying, RF-HAD), drying temperature (35, 45, 55, 60 °C), and initial we...
In this study, the early activation of plant-defense-related genes during a three-way plant–antagonist–pathogen interaction in a tomato–Trichoderma–Phytophthora nicotianae model system was evaluated. Thirty-day-old tomato seedlings were treated at th...
Lifespan varies among individuals, and this variation arises both from heterogeneity (e.g., in sex or race) and from unavoidable individual stochasticity. Treating a heterogeneous population as a mixture of groups, each experiencing different rates,...
Since their adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while non-binding, have served as a strategic compass, encouraging nations to adopt consistent sustainability measures within their own...
Olive leaves are a by-product of olive farming and have a high phenolic content. However, the effect of farming system, cultivar, and harvest time on their content is poorly studied. In June, August, and October 2022 (108 samples), leaves of trees &l...
The purpose of this quantitative field study is to examine the relationship between perceived leader narcissism and employee proactive behavior, incorporating leader–member exchange (LMX) quality and leader identification as moderators. Within...
26 September 2021
The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) is the faster fading of unpleasant affect than pleasant affect. Research suggests that the FAB is an indicator of general healthy coping, but it has not shown consistent specific healthy coping via differential relations...
We examined the resilience of strains of Aspergillus westerdijkiae in terms of growth and ochratoxin A (OTA) production in relation to: (a) two-way interacting climate-related abiotic factors of water activity (aw, 0.99–0.90) × temperatur...
The development of higher yielding maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids adapted to low input small-holder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa is required. Three-way hybrids (i.e. F1 tester crossed to inbred line) can be produced at lower cost for smallholde...
Background: Social, behavioural, and environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease (CVD) frequently co-occur, but their joint associations are poorly understood. We examined whether social vulnerability and habitual numbing–spicy food co...
Fungal contamination of maize can threaten crop health and food safety, motivating the search for alternatives to synthetic fungicides. Here, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomaterials with nanorod (ZnO-R), lamellar (ZnO-L), and undefined (ZnO-N) morphologies we...
Sensors that detect directly and in situ the status of automotive exhaust gas catalysts by monitoring the electrical properties of the catalyst coating itself are overviewed. Examples included in this review are the in-situ determination of the elect...
Natural resource dependence, often proxied empirically by natural resource rents as a share of GDP, can be associated with intensified ecological pressure, but the conditions under which digitalization moderates this relationship remain unclear. Usin...
5 March 2021
(1) Background: Numerous studies suggest strong associations between childhood maltreatment and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI); this is also true for the roles of dopaminergic genes in the etiology of some psychopathologies related to NSSI. Investiga...
In the world of e-commerce, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention depends on delivering an optimal user experience. As the primary point of contact between businesses and consumers, a user interface’s success hinges on personalized human...
Wisdom in negotiation is increasingly vital in managing conflicts, yet its behavioural expression remains underexplored. This study explores the behavioural signatures of individuals nominated as wise negotiators within an organisational context. The...
Building on the interactionist perspective of organizational creativity, we investigated the relationship between conscientiousness and employee creativity. We surveyed 260 frontline technical workers and their supervisors at three Chinese manufactur...
Background/Objectives: The aging process is typically marked by a reduction in functional fitness, which heightens the likelihood of falling. Although obesity is established as a determinant of poor mobility, the interplay between excess weight and a...
Despite advances in computational RNA 3D structure prediction, accurately modeling multi-branch RNA motifs remains challenging, even with known secondary structures, because their global topology is highly sensitive to the relative orientations of th...
4 January 2023
The burgeoning eHealth campaigns and the emerging daughter-to-mother health communication necessitate a close examination of the intricate mechanism behind recommending preventive behaviors in online settings. The present study addresses existing gap...
There is increasing interest in understanding the nature and impact of emotional intelligence (EI) in educational institutions and the workplace since EI is associated with academic performance, career success, job satisfaction, and management skills...
Background: Quality of life (QoL) in oncology patients is shaped by the interplay of biological, psychological and treatment-related factors. While prior studies have addressed the independent effects of treatment toxicity and psychological distress,...
The use of algorithms is beginning to replace human activities in the news business, and the presence of this technique will only continue to grow. The ways in which public news readers perceive the quality of news articles written by algorithms and...
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