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This study aimed to explore how facilitators of group dynamic and structured leadership courses cope with difficult situations during the course, and to relate their coping strategies to general individual characteristics and situation-specific appraisals. The study group consisted of facilitators of two of the most widespread leadership courses in Sweden: 110 facilitators of the course Understanding Group and Leader (UGL) and 111 facilitators of Developmental leadership (DL). A web-based questionnaire included descriptions of two difficult interpersonal course situations and questions on personality, general leadership style as well as situation-specific appraisal and coping. Three coping strategies were identified (factor analyses): Focus on course structure, Focus on psychological safety and Focus on own reflection. These factors were positively correlated. Weak associations were observed between the coping strategies and personality and general leadership style. Situation-specific appraisals covaried more strongly with the coping strategies. The findings suggest that reflection based on these coping strategies can lead to increased self-awareness and self-confidence on part of the facilitator. The findings may also help leadership course facilitators to cope more effectively, which in turn creates trust in the group that they are leading. The study contributes to the understanding of a limited research area; how leadership course facilitators cope with difficult course situations. The results provide guidance on how to cope more effectively. Practical implications include aspects to focus on in the training of leadership course facilitators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current research study was carried out as an approach to examine the mediating effect of IT infrastructure on the relationship between strategic human resource management (SHRM) (Compensation planning, Recruitment, Succession planning, and Employee development) and organizational performance. Quantitative approach was adopted and an online questionnaire was filled by a convenient sample of (193) human resource managers in chemical and pharmaceutical industries organizations in Jordan. SPSS was used in order to screen and analyze gathered primary data; results of study accepted the hypothesis arguing that strategic human resource management has the ability to influence organizational performance through the mediating influence of IT infrastructure, what is meant by that is SHRM is stronger and more able to perform its tasks with a well-built IT base in the organization which can lead to better managing of employees, and as a results better performance of employees which in its turn helps in increasing the efficiency of organizational performance. Study recommended implementing a human resource management system that is effective and efficient and able to track employee performance and provide feedback. Originality of current research lies in the fact that strategic human resource management effect on organizational performance varies depending on the specific organization and its specific needs. However, some key factors that may influence the impact of HRM on organizational performance include the extent to which SHRM is integrated into the overall business strategy, the extent to which SHRM is focused on developing and managing talent in a costeffective way and the extent to which HRM is aligned with the company's overall mission and vision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a subtle attempt to fortify territorial boundaries, the rise of White nationalism and far-right politics worldwide has recently brought to the fore the dangerous conflation of immigration and ecological crisis at the basis of eco-racist discourses fuelling several conspiracy theories. These, in turn, have led to a series of terrorist attacks, including the mass shooting among the Hispanic community which took place in El Paso, Texas, on 3 August 2019 by Patrick Crusius. Drawing on a theoretical framework that combines eco-racism, appraisal theory, and facticity in linguistic analysis, this article aims to analyse Crusius's manifesto - "The Inconvenient Truth" - to highlight the linguistic strategies he deploys to construct his discourse as factual in order to influence readers' convictions. The analysis intends to increase awareness about the implications of the co-articulation of anti-ecological and racist discourses and eventually aid their dismantling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attitudes in the Flemish Political Climate Debate: A Linguistic Analysis This study investigates the climate communication by the main political parties in Flanders. Its aim is to describe explicit and implicit evaluations that parties make about climate change and climate-related policies in the communication on their websites. To analyse parties' opinions on climate action, the study uses the system of Appraisal (Martin & White, 2005), which provides a framework for interpreting expressions of attitude as a social tool to engage with others. The results show that the climate communication by Flemish political parties strikes an overall positive note. Differences in emphases aside (e.g., on quality of life vs. financial profitability), there seems to be a consensus on the need for, and value of, climate action. The communication by Vlaams Belang stood out as an exception: its negative tone, and critical content, gives signs of climate scepticism, forming a counterposition in the political climate change debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: South African legislation promotes the accommodation of employees with disabilities through enabling modifications and adjustments in the workplace. The literature about the experiences of employees with disabilities in higher education environments regarding accommodation is scant. Filling the gap, this research aimed to explore how employees with disabilities at a South African university cope with disability management practices by means of accommodations. Objectives: The objectives entailed exploring the encounters of employees with disabilities regarding accommodation in the workplace, their beliefs about these encounters and the meaning that the employees with disabilities attached to them. Method: The study design is grounded in the subjectivist epistemology of social constructionism and took on a qualitative approach. The bounded single-case study concerned formative evaluations. The homogeneous purposive sampling strategy amounted to 13 employees with disabilities. Twelve semi-structured interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: The participants relied strongly on self-agency to address splintered or unresponsive disability management practices. To avoid marginalisation, they worked extra hard for securing a rightful place at work. Misconceptions of able-bodied peers or managers triggered psychological stress. Conclusion: Coping with the university's disability management practices is mainly a stressful challenge, consequently endangering people's well-being. Contribution: Exploring the coping of university employees with disabilities through accommodations filled a gap in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many individuals have experienced increased stress and distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. College students with disabilities may have experienced the pandemic as more threatening and stressful due to exposure to risk factors for contracting COVID-19 and stressors related to college and health and safety. This study examined differences in general stress, cognitive appraisals of the pandemic (e.g., viewing the pandemic as threatening or uncontrollable), and pandemic-specific stress between southeastern college students with and without disabilities. Analyses of covariance revealed group differences in general stress, threat appraisal of the pandemic, and pandemic-specific stress related to academics, larger societal concerns (e.g., economy, death toll), concern for loved ones' well-being, financial issues, health and safety concerns, mental health concerns, uncertainty about the future, concern regarding access to medical resources, and technology concerns. Participants with disabilities viewed the pandemic as more threatening and stressful than those without a disability. Participants with comorbid mental health, learning, and/or physical disabilities reported greater threat and stress compared to other groups, with those with a mental health disability only also showing this pattern. As policies related to course formats and COVID-19 safety precautions change, further examination of pandemic appraisals and stress should continue in order to provide recommendations to student support professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the positive aspects of information technology (IT) use, it is common for users to experience negative IT incidents. Examples of negative IT incidents include getting lost in an unfamiliar country due to a dysfunctional map application and missing a monetary insurance benefit due to the failure of an activity tracker application. Such incidents can harm IT providers by giving rise to user dissatisfaction, discontinued use, switching, and negative word-of-mouth. To minimize this harm, it is important to understand how users cope after negative incidents. Specifically, information systems (IS) researchers have called for research that uncovers the complex interplay of IT users’ coping strategies (e.g., users’ coping efforts after employing one strategy and combinations of several consecutive strategies). To address these calls, we conducted a mixed methods study that examined mobile application users’ coping strategies after highly negative incidents. We developed a model that explains how users navigate between problem-focused strategies, emotion-focused strategies, and appraisals. As theoretical contributions, we identify coping sequences and distinct routes from the coping strategies, uncover the role of momentary emotional load, and present IT-specific insights. As practical implications, we identify favorable [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thailand became a military dictatorship in May 2014, after the army deposed the democratically elected government. After being chastised for his lack of legitimacy and appeasing his opposition, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha began to give official interviews to the international press in his second year in office and intermittently delivered the mandatory live broadcast address to the public. This paper focuses on English translations of Prayut's 2015 interview with Al-Jazeera and his 2020 televised address. The former is characterised by an impromptu speech that demonstrates his informal speaking style, whereas the latter is a well-scripted address. Using the appraisal framework (Martin & Rose, 2007; Munday, 2012) to analyse both translations, the paper proposes negotiator as an additional resource for examining the speaker's attitude and the translator's evaluative choices in the English written version. This investigation demonstrates the translator's active mediation in both subtitles for media presentation and official translation for national address: maintaining applause for the ruling government while negatively evaluating its critics; modifying the force of attitude; removing any improper features in the premier's manner of speaking. Despite differences in time and commission, the study argues that both translations support and sustain the Thai government's aspiration of gaining international attention in order to improve their post-coup image or save the face of the nation's 'saviour', who staged the coup to help the Thai people from the political dispute. Furthermore, the findings on negotiator can be used to inform quality translation training and practice, particularly the translator's decision-making regarding spoken features in political speeches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: South African legislation promotes the accommodation of employees with disabilities through enabling modifications and adjustments in the workplace. The literature about the experiences of employees with disabilities in higher education environments regarding accommodation is scant. Filling the gap, this research aimed to explore how employees with disabilities at a South African university cope with disability management practices by means of accommodations. Objectives: The objectives entailed exploring the encounters of employees with disabilities regarding accommodation in the workplace, their beliefs about these encounters and the meaning that the employees with disabilities attached to them. Method: The study design is grounded in the subjectivist epistemology of social constructionism and took on a qualitative approach. The bounded single-case study concerned formative evaluations. The homogeneous purposive sampling strategy amounted to 13 employees with disabilities. Twelve semi-structured interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: The participants relied strongly on self-agency to address splintered or unresponsive disability management practices. To avoid marginalisation, they worked extra hard for securing a rightful place at work. Misconceptions of able-bodied peers or managers triggered psychological stress. Conclusion: Coping with the university's disability management practices is mainly a stressful challenge, consequently endangering people's well-being. Contribution: Exploring the coping of university employees with disabilities through accommodations filled a gap in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the findings of the citation analysis of the Bangladesh Journal of Fisheries Research (BJFR). The chief objectives of the study from the year 2008 to 2020 are to reveal the authorship pattern, citation pattern, form of citation, ratio of journal self-citation of papers in the BJFR. A total 102 paperswere published in the period. 2041 citations featuring 102 contributors contributed to these issues. Among the citations, the forms of contribution of journal 1156 (56.64%), books 256 (12.54%), proceeding 212 (10.44%), reports 235 (11.51%), theses 076 (3.72%) and others 105 (5.14%). The ratio of journal self- citation to the total citations is 1: 58 while the ratio of authors’ self-citation to total citations is 1:56. From this study, it is also clear that the majority of the documents, that is, 1356 (66.44%) cited in the issues were published 20 years back or so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Pride events challenge hegemonic notions of sexuality and gender within places they are held. This is particularly the case in rural communities that are perceived, rightly or wrongly, as prejudices towards individuals with a diverse sexuality or gender identity. However, although academic literature has extensively explored Pride events within an urban context, limited attention has been paid to the rural context, and still little to those in their infancy. This article examines how stakeholders responded to the cancellation of a Pride event in the Australian rural township of Wagga Wagga due to COVID19. The pandemic, in this context, provided an opportunity to understand attitudes towards the event and its cancellation. Through this process, eight topics were identified as: council funding, cancellation as homophobic, last-minute cancellation, cancellation regretted, cancellation supported, organizers acknowledged, LGBTIQI+, and Pride event. Based on these findings, implications for the cancellation of social contentious events in response to such circumstances are identified. These implications suggest the need for a more considered approach to communicating about the cancellation to prevent allegations of prejudice and demonstrate the value of such events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One’s beliefs about the nature of stress (e.g., stress mindset) play a large role in the extent to which one experiences the detrimental or beneficial outcomes of stress. Stress mindset has been explored in college students, but there is limited research on stress mindsets in student-athletes. Sport can serve as a buffer to the negative impacts of stress for some student-athletes; however, pressures associated with sport participation increase stress in other student-athletes. Therefore, the purpose was to examine potential differences in stress mindset and perceived stress between non-athletes and college student-athletes. We hypothesized college student-athletes would report higher stress mindset scores but lower perceived stress scores. A total of 272 students (n = 87 student-athletes; n = 185 non-athletes) completed a demographic questionnaire, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Stress Mindset Measure via an online survey. No significant differences were observed between student-athletes’ and non-athletes’ stress mindset scores; however, significant differences were observed between student-athletes’ and non-athletes’ perceived stress. Thus, student-athletes and non-athletes shared a similar view of stress, but student-athletes reported a lower level of perceived stress than non-athletes. While there appears to be no statistically significant differences in stress mindset between college non-athletes and student-athletes, both groups reported holding a stress-is-debilitating mindset. Implications for practitioners working with the college population are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The global trend for at least the last three decades has been that Higher Education Institutions have had to place themselves within the framework of free market economies. One central principle of free market economies is the re-envisioning of Higher Education Institutions as offering products and services to 'consumers' and 'clients. An implication of this current wisdom is that HEIs have had to turn to discourses of marketisation through existing HE genres to sell the products and services that they have. This paper examines the globality of this trend from two perspectives, one being the extent to which marketisation has become a primary concern in terms of how HEIs see themselves in the specific context of Ghana; and the other is the extent to which discourses of marketisation have colonised HE genres such as anthems. Employing Martin and White's Appraisal theory as a framework, the study investigates the anthem as a site for marketing higher education institutions in Ghana by focusing on two traditional universities of Ghana, using the anthems of the University of Ghana and the University of Cape Coast as cases. The analysis reveals that great care and intentionality are invested into the creation of the anthems because they are viewed as a rhetorical apparatus for selling institutions. The choice and use of attitudinal lexis with inscribed and upscaled positive attitudes about the universities, their infrastructure, human capital, services, and reputation are negotiated through a monoglossic stance to stimulate the interest of the audience, positively influence their perceptions about the university, align them with their values, and win their loyalty. An implication of this study is that, although current scholarship suggests strongly that marketisation in HE is a relatively recent phenomenon, it has been at the centre of the genre of higher education institutional anthems in the context of Ghana for a far longer time. The study therefore provides evidence that challenges the current thinking about the extent to which marketisation has been a concern of HEIs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zimbabwe has, for the past five decades, experienced a proliferation of Pentecostal churches. Some Pentecostal churches or prophets own television channels and social media accounts, which they have used for communication and preaching. In some instances, Pentecostal churches run several projects and church activities. All these activities and operations have resulted in the creation of financial, personal, prophecy and project records, among others. Although Pentecostal churches are not archives or records centres, they stand to benefit if they engage in Records Information Management (RIM). The Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFMZ) and the United International Apostolic Faith Church (UIAFC) both experienced splits in 2018, and this has contributed to information loss and the destruction of vital records. This study investigated the efficacy of RIM practices in the AFMZ and UIAFC and was grounded on qualitative and phenomenological research methods. The target population included pastors, secretaries and treasurers from the AFMZ and UIAFC who are part of the RIM chain. The study found that the lack of a RIM policy, trained personnel and physical as well as technological infrastructure contributed to records and information loss. Pentecostal churches are susceptible to splits. Records or information is usually managed by lay workers (volunteers) with less knowledge of RIM; hence this has attributed to information loss and records destruction. It is thus concluded that RIM in Pentecostal churches remains an afterthought. This study established critical RIM factors that Pentecostal churches may find useful, and which can increase their efficiency and effectiveness in operations and business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By scrutinizing Theodore Richards' thirty years career success almost entirely due to the determination of the atomic weights, the author exposes the phenomenon of the pumpkin hour in science. It occurs when an all-embracing transformation of the conceptual background of a subject field that brings to revision of its basic tenets turns the fine carriage of some - not only theoretical but even experimental - results raised to the rank of outstanding contribution into a pumpkin of minor improvements with no crucial role in knowledge. The paper shows the mechanism governing the reappraisal of "pieces" of knowledge and reveals the link preventing the scientific community from proper assessment of new ideas and facts: a discovery is valued the higher the more the value it adds (by consolidating, unfolding, and supporting) to the conceptual background through the lens of which it itself is looked at. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to investigate the associations between patient characteristics, psychological distress, and coping in the diagnostic phase of prostate cancer. A cross-sectional multicentre study was conducted from 2017 to 2019. A total of 250 patients were recruited from three hospitals in western Norway. The patients completed a questionnaire while awaiting their prostate biopsy. Patient characteristics were collected, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Revised Ways of Coping Checklist were used to measure psychological distress and evaluate coping strategies and primary appraisal, respectively. Approximately 15% and 5% of the patients experienced symptoms of anxiety and depression, respectively. Younger age and poorer self-reported health were associated with higher anxiety levels. Anxiety was associated with all five coping strategies but showed the strongest correlation with wishful thinking. The patients who appraised their situation as a threat experienced more symptoms of both anxiety and depression and used more wishful thinking and avoidance than did the patients who appraised their situation as a challenge or benign. A subgroup of patients experiences psychological distress during diagnostic evaluation of prostate cancer. Age, self-reported health, and primary appraisal may contribute to the development of psychological distress. Identification of patient characteristics associated with higher levels of psychological distress may guide nurses in implementing early interventions aimed at supporting beneficial coping and enhancing well-being. • A subgroup of patients experience symptoms of anxiety before prostate biopsy. • Psychological distress is related to younger age and poorer self-reported health. • Psychological distress leads to the use of emotion- and problem-focused coping. • Threat appraisal is associated with more symptoms of anxiety than does challenge appraisal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined staff motivation, discipline and performance appraisal as correlates of staff job performance in university libraries in Bayelsa and Rivers States. Three research objectives and questions were stated to guide the study. Three hypotheses were also articulated. The study adopted survey correlational research design involving a population of 356 staff in six university libraries. The entire population of 356 library staff in the six university libraries in Bayelsa and Rivers States was adopted as sample for the study. Personnel Management Rating Scale (PMRS) and Library Staff Job Performance Rating Scale (LSJPRS) were used to collect data. Mean, standard deviation and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) were used to answer the research questions. T-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result from the analyses of data revealed that: there is very high significant relationship between motivation, discipline and staff job performance in university libraries in Bayelsa and Rivers States. The study recommends that; financial motivations such as, overtime, arrears and allowances should be promptly paid to staff in order to enhance their job performance, University librarians should discipline erring library staff and educate them on the necessity for filling annual performance appraisal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores communing affiliation and out-grouping in a corpus of Trump's tweets about Iran. Communing is a form of 'ambient affiliation' (Zappavigna 2011) which offers a way of understanding how Trump attempts to build alignments with his audience without necessarily directly engaging with them, since he tends to ignore replies to his tweets. The paper focuses on three affiliation strategies: convoking (mustering community), promoting (garnering attention), and finessing (dialogistic positioning). It draws on Martin and White's (2005) Appraisal framework to consider how these affiliation strategies are used to foster communing around ideation-attitude couplings, typically couplings associating Iran with negative judgement or appreciation. Promoting affiliation was found to be the most prominent affiliation strategy used by Trump to garner attention through his rhetorical tendency toward hyperbole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The concept and practicalities of sustainable business development attract increasing interest of general public, companies, legislators, activists, academics and many others. Our understanding of what constitutes sustainability is evolving, especially nowadays when the pandemic and digitalization caused major shifts globally. In such conditions, it is no wonder that managers and business owners may face difficulties in implementation and evaluation of sustainable practices. Therefore, The objective: of the paper is to examine theoretical foundations of the concept of business sustainability and propose an up-to-date model for its appraisal. The paper is divided into two primary parts in addition to introduction and conclusion. The first part is dedicated to the examination of the terms 'stability' and 'sustainability' universally and in business environment. The second part includes description of our suggested evaluation model of economic, social and environmental sustainability perspectives using relevant indicators. Methods/Analysis: the research includes review of academic literature and empirical research on the topic of business sustainability and analytical consolidation of existing approaches to its appraisal. Findings: theoretical contribution to perception and development of the conditions of business stability and sustainability, and evaluation model including specific indicators across the three primary sustainability directions. Application/Improvements: the research is useful to general public, but is of special interest to business leaders interested in implementation of sustainable practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research presents a benchmarking and performance appraisal system used to help libraries in identifying gaps and opportunities for improving performance in university libraries. The paper identified various types benchmarking and appraisal system, and also the approaches by which gaps are identified, how to prepare for performance review session and what to do after gaps are identified to improve performance. Findings showed that benchmarking and appraisal system are effective means of discovering performance lapses which necessitate performance improvement of the university library as an organisation and quality job performance of the library staff in meeting diverse information, curriculum, recreational and creative needs of the students, faculty, researchers and entire members of the university system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since 2014, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has taken custody of a growing number of collections of "born-digital" records, largely through the University Archives. These collections comprise a panoply of digital content formats, ranging from those in common use to obscure varieties from the early days of personal computing. As such, they pose a challenge to digital preservation and access. Knowing what software to use to open files in formats that have fallen out of use is often difficult, let alone installing obsolete software on contemporary operating systems. At the same time, the sheer bulk of collections, as well as an accelerating rate of born-digital accessions from faculty and campus offices, makes it difficult to assess these files at the time of acquisition. These challenges suggest the need for preservation policies on digital formats in collections of electronic records, as well as for firsthand knowledge of the software required to facilitate curator control over and patron access to these collections. This article presents an overview of an evolving approach taken by archivists and librarians at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to build the policies, technical knowledge, and systems for an effective preservation and access program for electronic records. Their implementation of a local digital content format registry, while young, suggests that archivists and digital preservationists would benefit from further development of tools and practices focused on born-digital formats, and the thoughtful integration of institutional knowledge with international format registries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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To determine the effects of prayer as a coping strategy for nurses. Quantitative descriptive design. The population was the 15,000 members of the American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses. Twelve hundred fifty nine subjects completed a demographic questionnaire and the Prayer Functions Scale. The surveys were available on SurveyMonkey.com for 2 weeks in the fall of 2014. Results indicated at α = 0.05 that the nurses surveyed experienced the effects of prayer, providing assistance, providing acceptance, providing calm, and deferring as benefits of use of prayer as a coping strategy. Reduction of nurses' stress through prayer is one way to ameliorate the ill effects that can impact nurses through stress. Nursing administration, nursing organizations, and academics could consider use of prayer as an effective coping mechanism in teaching, studying, and exploration of methods to help nurses cope with the inherent stressors of their profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three ideas, not always juxtaposed to one another in the literature, have had a profound impact on what archivists preserve. The ideas that archivists should create a universal record of human activity, that social justice should inform archival selection decisions, and that archivists hold a unique form of power that can be exercised through appraisal have led some to posit a professional obligation not only to work toward a more equitable future but also toward a moral one. This article argues that these ideas are generally not helpful to archivists. Local autonomy and unique archival missions better define how archivists can best perform their core functions, rather than ideas based on assumptions of universal documentation or social justice, each rooted in a notion of archival power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze positive remarks linguistically manifested through English intensifiers, i.e. very and so, and their collocates in café reviews. The appraisal framework primarily focuses on the feelings or attitudes of speakers or writers. It plays a part in providing communicative resources whereby speech functions are performed subjectively, hence indicating involvement with entities that individuals experience. To understand intensifiers and positive remarks, the appraisal framework comes into play. Previous studies also suggest that intensifiers typically raise degrees of emotivity and evaluation. However, implementing a corpus method to this aspect, especially in such a popular genre as food reviews, should receive more attention. The online reviews of cafés in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from Tripadvisor.com were collected and then analyzed with the aid of a software program called AntConc 3.5.8.0 for Windows (64-bit). The results involve syntactic realizations as well as linguistic behaviors of very and so, along with semantico-pragmatic viewpoints of the English intensifiers in carrying positive attitudinal stances towards the cafés. The two intensifiers which are subsumed under the umbrella of GRADUATION are employed to intensify the review writers' feelings or emotions, together with the desirable qualities of owners or staff; food and drinks; prices of food, drinks, and services; and decoration and atmosphere. In this regard, it works with ATTITUDE including AFFECT, JUDGEMENT, and APPRECIATION to increase the volume of positive remarks. This pragmatically reflects a high degree of involvement. Additionally, there are some observations on the metaphorical nature of expressing positive remarks in the review language. The study also provides pedagogical implications on corpus methods in English Language Teaching, i.e. identifying common language patterns, encouraging language learners' exposure to real language data, providing valuable sources for language descriptions (e.g. nature of opinions), and using concordance as a crucial tool for text and genre analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of cognitive processes in compliment-response (CR) exchanges is an underdeveloped area of investigation. This article aims to probe whether Persian speakers' responses to compliments change in line with their appraisals of the situation. To achieve this aim, Persian speakers' responses to compliments are analysed based on their first and second appraisals of the event. In this study, with a focus on the CR exchanges, Persian speakers (N = 160) were observed and audio-recorded during everyday conversation. The results of this study manifest that Persian speakers have distinct (and even opposite) reactions based on their first and second appraisal of compliments. This suggests, therefore, that Appraisal 1 and Appraisal 2 undergo different sociocognitive processes that reflect automatic and non-automatic responses to compliments. It is concluded that the relation between Appraisal 1 and Appraisal 2 is mostly contradictory rather than confirmatory, in that the first compliment is mostly appraised as a politeness strategy (a social lubricant), whereas the second compliment is frequently appraised as purposeful or strategic praise. In addition, the first compliment is responded to automatically, whereas the second compliment is approached non-automatically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Service Delivery constitutes an activity or series of activities of a more or less intangible nature that normally, but not necessarily, takes place in interactions between the customers and the service providers, which are provided as solutions to customers' problems. Since services are meant to be solutions to consumers' problem, the wishes and desires of the consumer must be taken into consideration. The aim of this study is to appraise the criteria that influence clients in selecting estate firms in agency consultancy jobs using mixed methods of research. The results show various criteria the consumers use to classify the firms regarding the satisfaction the consumers derive from these firms based on certain variables. The paper concludes by suggesting a way forward for the firms to retain their existing clients, whilst attracting more clients through excellent service delivery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this review was to identify and appraise guidelines reporting recommendations for the screening and prevention of type 2 diabetes. Five guidelines were included for analysis and all were endorsed by national or international organizations. All guidelines were recommended for practice with or without modifications for both prevention and screening. The overall appraisal scores ranged from 62.5 to 91.7 for prevention and 62.5-83.3 for screening. The highest scored domain was 'clarity of presentation' and the lowest was 'rigor of development'. Findings call for greater attention to rigor when formulating recommendations for prevention and screening of diabetes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore how transport improvements impact agglomeration defined as accessibility and thereby productivity in mid-Sweden including Stockholm 1995–2006. We apply an accessibility index derived from a multi-modal transport model. This is a more accurate measure of agglomeration than those previously used and also necessary for understanding how governments can impact agglomeration, and thereby productivity, by transport investments. We regress temporal changes in wages on temporal changes in agglomeration by applying a FE estimator. We deal with the potential endogeneity using a novel instrumental variable. Our best estimates of the agglomeration elasticity on productivity lie within the interval 0.028–0.035. • We explore how the transport improvements impact agglomeration and productivity. • We measure agglomeration based on travel times. • We regress temporal changes in wages on temporal changes in agglomeration. • We deal with endogeneity using a novel instrument variable and the FE estimator. • Our estimate of the agglomeration elasticity on productivity is within 0.028–0.035. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract News photos of refugees and migrants tend to be highly evaluative since they capture the moments of human suffering, vulnerability and helplessness. Informed by the works of Martin and White (2005) and Economou (2009, 2008) on Appraisal Theory and evaluative stance, the current paper identifies the visual evaluative resources in Reuters ' Pulitzer-winning photos of refugees and migrants' crisis in Europe for the year 2016. When considering photos evaluative stance, this paper argues, news photos should not be merely viewed as witness or proof of the events, rather they should be acknowledged for their aesthetic properties and compositional perspectives. This marks the importance of introducing delicate refinements to Martin and White's (2005) APPRECIATION model by adding, replacing and removing subcategories to account for the range of visual resources deployed in the photos under discussion. Photos' visual cues and semiotics codes are added to the APPRECIATION model. Doing so, a distinction between the evaluative stances infused by photos aesthetical properties and those arising from photos'content and the depicted participants is established. Two authorial voices are then proposed: the Witness voice and the Artist voice. The delicate modifications introduced to the APPRECIATION model helps to dig deep into the embedded evaluative stance of the photos. Applying the suggested APPRECIATION resources, it is found that Pulitzer-winning photos aestheticize the suffering of the refugees and render it beautiful and photogenic. However, the evoked positive APPRECIATION resources instantiate negative JUDGEMENT values of social exclusion, impersonalization, and Otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cognitive models, from both the appraisal and inferential confusion perspectives, propose that the self is a relevant variable in the development and maintenance of obsessive-compulsive (OC) disorder. In this study, we examined the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Fear of Self Questionnaire (FSQ) and analyzed the role of the fear of self (the sort of person we are afraid of becoming) as a predictor of OC beliefs and symptoms. A sample of 359 non-clinical participants completed a set of questionnaires, including the FSQ. Confirmatory factor analysis replicated the original one-factor solution for both the FSQ-8- and 20-item versions. The FSQ demonstrated excellent reliability, and fear of self predicted OC symptoms and cognitions, especially unacceptable obsessions. • The Spanish version of Fear of Self Questionnaire shows good psychometric properties. • Fear of self plays a role in predicting obsessive-compulsive symptoms. • Fear of self is especially relevant to explain unacceptable obsessions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital preservation relies on technological infrastructure (information and communication technology, ICT) that has considerable negative environmental impacts, which in turn threaten the very organizations tasked with preserving digital content. While altering technology use can reduce the impact of digital preservation practices, this alone is not a strategy for sustainable practice. Moving toward environmentally sustainable digital preservation requires critically examining the motivations and assumptions that shape current practice. Building on Goldman's challenge to current practices for digital authenticity and using Ehrenfeld's sustainability framework, we propose explicitly integrating environmental sustainability into digital preservation practice by shifting cultural heritage professionals' paradigm of appraisal, permanence, and availability of digital content. The article is organized in four parts. First, we review the literature for differing uses of the term "sustainability" in the cultural heritage field: financial, staffing, and environmental. Second, we examine the negative environmental effects of ICT throughout the full life cycle of its components to fill a gap in the cultural heritage literature, which primarily focuses on the electricity use of ICT. Next, we offer suggestions for reducing digital preservation's negative environmental impacts through altered technology use as a stopgap measure. Finally, we call for a paradigm shift in digital preservation practice in the areas of appraisal, permanence, and availability. For each area, we propose a model for sustainable practice, providing a framework for sustainable choices moving forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an account of value ascription as an illocutionary force, based on four claims: (1) that value ascription is a kind of illocutionary force, defining a specific kind of speech act, i.e. valuative speech acts (VSAs); (2) that the point of VSAs is ascribing an axiological value to a referent; (3) that VSAs create a weak, inside-oriented truth commitment; and (4) that they are therefore more about the valuating subject than they are about the valuated object. This illocutionary force is described using criteria taken from contemporary speech act theory as well as others that have proven informative. This description results in a rich taxonomy of VSAs. This shows the viability and fruitfulness of a pragmatic account of value ascription, and it contributes to the development of speech act theory, specifically with regard to the distinction between primary and secondary illocutionary points, and the speech act taxonomy itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background Asthma affects 12.7% of pregnancies in Australia. Poorly controlled asthma is associated with increased maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. Optimal antenatal management of asthma during pregnancy has the potential to reduce complications relating to asthma. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines help to translate health research findings into practice and when implemented can improve health outcomes. National and International guidelines currently provide recommendations for optimal asthma care in pregnancy. Aim To appraise the existing asthma in pregnancy guidelines with respect to their evidence for recommendations, consistency of recommendations and appropriateness for clinical practice. Method The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE II) tool was used to appraise four English language asthma in pregnancy guidelines, published or updated between 2007 and 2016. The recommendations, range and level of evidence was analysed. Results Two of the four guidelines scored highly in most domains of the appraisal. Many of the recommendations made in the appraised guidelines were consistent. Due to the lack of randomised controlled trials involving pregnant women with asthma, most recommendations were evidenced by consensus and expert opinion rather than high quality meta-analysis, systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials. Conclusion The recommended antenatal asthma management was generally consistent among the guidelines but lacked clarity in some areas which then leave them open to interpretation. More randomised controlled trials involving pregnant women with asthma are required to fortify the recommendations made and asthma management guidelines should be included in Australian Antenatal Care Guidelines as they currently are not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Effective transition to practice for new graduate nurses (NGNs) is of national and international concern. Development of NGNs expands well beyond higher education studies and relies heavily on support during their first year of employment. Little is known of the differential development of NGNs, namely the trajectory of developing capability. This study differentiates NGN development during their first year of employment through appraisal of universal domains of nursing practice relevant to the international community. Using a quantitative evaluation design NGN performance was appraised at 1–, 3–, and 9–months from February 2020 to November 2021, using a 23-item appraisal tool and accompanying behavioural cues organised around four universal domains of practice: professional values and behaviours; comprehensive nursing practice; organisational capabilities; personal growth and development; and a fifth domain specific to Australia, that is, legislative requirements. Workplace performance was appraised by clinical supervisors and numerically rated according to intensity of coaching required to meet requisite standards of practice. The shift in rating scores of intensity of coaching required, over three time periods across four key universal domains, were statistically significant (p <.001). These findings which indicate the intensity of required coaching for maintenance of standards reduced over the time period suggest advancing NGN capability. The domain representing professional values consistently rated the highest. The domain denoting legislative requirements largely flattened after three months. These findings corroborate the significant development of NGN capability during the first nine months of employment, especially during the initial three months. Furthermore, they provide empirical evidence that NGNs are most adept at demonstrating professional values; a recognised capability developed through employment during pre-registration studies. Discriminant data is of value to inform both targeted development of individual NGNs and when collated, the education needs of cohorts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous research conducted among caregivers of patients with cancer revealed a poor Quality of Life (QoL) and high levels of distress. In addition to the influence of patients' clinical state, caregivers' appraisals of patients' difficulties should be considered as another predictor of poor caregiver health. This study aims to test the association between caregivers' health (i.e., QoL, depression and anxiety) and their perception of patients' difficulties. 199 caregivers of patients with cancer completed an online survey based on questionnaires measuring their QoL, depression and anxiety, as well as their perception of patients' cognitive, emotional, functional, psychiatric and interpersonal difficulties. It was found that the appraisal of patients' impairments in all domains was mainly correlated with poor caregivers' QoL (Pearson correlations ranged from 0.14 to 0.45; p ≤.05). Furthermore, linear regression analyses showed that, after controlling for age, sex education level, professional activity and living with or without the patient, the appraisal of patients' interpersonal abilities (β = 0.25, p ≤.05), psychiatric difficulties (β = −0.25, p ≤.01) and living with the patient were the main predictors of caregivers' QoL. This study highlights the importance of better understanding the role of patients' social and psychiatric difficulties when examining caregivers' health. This indicates the importance of providing support and offering information to caregivers to alert them to the role of patients' social and psychiatric difficulties on their own health. Future studies should better understand how these difficulties are associated with caregivers' perception of identity/sociability alterations in patients and how caregivers cope with these changes. • What is the link between caregivers' health and their view of patients' troubles? • Caregivers' appraisal of patients' social deficits reduces their quality of life. • Their appraisal of patients' psychiatric problems also reduce their quality of life. • One must alert caregivers about the role of patients' difficulties on their health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]