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Speech non-linear multiband-time-series analysis for detecting Alzheimer’s disease

Introduction: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder, anticipated to triple in cases by 2050. It constitutes 50-75% of dementia cases and currently lacks a cure. Early diagnosis is crucial, allowing for treatments that may delay its progression. Traditional diagnostic methods, though effective, are invasive and expensive. Speech signal analysis has emerged as a promising non-invasive...

Effectiveness of student teams: The role of team personality diversity

In current educational landscapes, group work has emerged as a cornerstone of pedagogical strategies, offering students opportunities to cultivate essential skills for future professional endeavors. Central to the success of collaborative efforts lies the intricate interplay of team dynamics, with team personality diversity emerging as a significant factor influencing team effectiveness. Building upon existing ...

Cultural differences and entrepreneurial needs

The purpose of this study was to investigate entrepreneurial intentions and cultural differences. The sample represents 1,110 business students from ten cultural clusters. The students completed a questionnaire that focussed on various dimensions of entrepreneurial intentions. Results indicated various statistically significant differences between the cultures. Country specific strategies related to enhancing e...

A call for a national strategy for indoor air quality

Working from home during COVID-19 lockdown: Changing competencies and work-home...

Crisis situations often introduces drastic lifestyle changes. This study is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and aims to shed light on an unprecedented context of forcing employees to work from home with a short notice of companies and the government. The goal is three-fold: i) to understand the extent to which employees were indeed prepared to work from home; ii) to uncover the most important competencies that...

The three–way interactions of gender, supervisor’s gender, and country on the s...

Purpose – This field study investigates the interactive relationships of Millennial employee’s gender, supervisor’s gender, and country culture on the conflict-management strategies (CMS) in ten countries (USA, China, Turkey, Germany, Bangladesh, Portugal, Pakistan, Italy, Thailand, and Hong Kong). Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory study extends past research by examining the interactive effects of...

Emotional labor and emotional intelligence on job performance: comparison of pu...

Emotional labor involves the management of feelings to create publicly observable expressions that are in accordance with the display rules established by organizations (Hochschild 1983). The display rules that shape the expression of such emotional labor are associated with occupational norms and organizational contexts (Grandey and Melloy 2017). Thus, due to the difference in management approaches, culture, a...

The Influence of emotional labor and emotional intelligence on job performance:...

Given the limited knowledge about the effect of contextual factors of organizational ownership types on emotional labor, this research addresses two main questions: (1) whether emotional labouror varies among organizations with different ownership types; and (2) whether emotional labor and emotional intelligence relate to job performance in different ways in public and private organizations. This paper exames t...

Gender differences in the workplace: the case of pharmaceutical industry in China

Gender’s equality is still an allusive phenomenon in twenty-first century workplaces. Previous studies have suggested that gendered assumptions and organizational factors may contribute to gender’s inequality. However, little research has investigated how individuals make sense of their roles in the workplace in the Chinese context. Drawing on cultural constructions of gender’s roles in organizations, we addres...

Multifunctionalization of cotton with onion skin extract

The present study aimed to develop a dyeing process of cotton fabrics with natural onion skin extracts in order to obtain dyed fabrics with antimicrobial and anti-UV properties. The extract was characterized by LC-ESI-MS/MS and the antimicrobial activity of the extract was also evaluated. The dyeing process was optimized considering the influence of the temperature, pH and electrolytes. The effect of cotton pre...