Instant Benefits Research Articles

Discovering Nurse Mode: A Phenomenological Study of Nursing Student Role Micro-Transitions

AimTo explore the experiences of undergraduate nursing students in navigating daily micro-transitions between nursing and non-nursing roles. BackgroundNursing students develop professional role identity through socialization, experience and practice while simultaneously managing pre-existing personal roles. This dynamic creates a training ground for future sustainable practice. DesignQualitative, cross-sectional, interpretive phenomenological design with hermeneutics. MethodsSeventeen undergraduate nursing students participated online in semi-structured, audiovisual-recorded interviews until data saturation was reached. The primary investigator conducted manual transcription of each recording. ResultsThree main themes emerged: 1) Strategies for Getting In and Out of Nurse Mode, 2) Cultivating Mindful Nursing Practice; and 3) Nursing Student Socialization and Immersion. Findings indicated that nursing students saw instant benefits in their personal and professional lives as they developed this skill. Findings also suggested that nursing students need support from their educators to ensure they are not trapped in nurse mode while they learn to navigate nurse role identity. ConclusionsUnderstanding and supporting nursing students in managing role micro-transitions are crucial for development. Application of educational strategies and support systems in this area can immediately enhance nursing professional quality of life and quality of nursing practice.

The majority of Canadians likely behaved as myopic rationalists rather than success-based learners when deciding on their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

Successful vaccine promotion communication strategies require knowing how eligible recipients will respond to the opportunity to get vaccinated. Two main classes of recipients are myopic rationalists, those who receive a dose of vaccine only if it maximizes their own instant benefit and if so, do it as soon as possible, and success-based learners, those who learn from others that they perceive to be most successful. A recent study models these two decision-making types, and estimates the population proportion of myopic rationalists in each U.S. state. In this report, we fit a similar model to data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake across the Canadian provinces and territories. We estimated that 64% of Canadians behaved as myopic rationalists in taking the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, compared to an estimated 47% in the United States. Among the provinces, the lowest proportion of myopic rationalists was 0.51 in Saskatchewan, while the highest was 0.74 in Prince Edward Island. The correlation analysis suggested a positive correlation between the proportion of myopic rationalists and the average age across the Canadian provinces (Pearson-r = 0.71). Canadian health management may benefit from these results in tailoring the vaccine promotion communication strategies.

Will “Dual Control of the Amount and Intensity of Energy Consumption (DCEC)” Policy Increase Urban Green Competitiveness?

Urban green transformation is an important part of global low-carbon development. Coercive government policies are critical to achieving success, but, as of now, there is no unified concept of “green competitiveness”. To address climate change, it is necessary to clearly define core concepts and apply measures. For this study, “urban green competitiveness” refers to the continuous improvement of total factor productivity by cities while fully emphasizing resource limitations and environmental issues to achieve economic growth. This article focuses on a Chinese policy of “dual control of the amount and intensity of energy consumption” (DCEC), which has not been fully studied. The DCEC policy incorporates a quasi-natural experiment to assess whether urban green competitiveness has been affected. This paper builds on the multi-period DID model and explores the effect based on city-level data from 2003 to 2019. The conclusion shows that DCEC policy can address climate change by restricting energy consumption and intensity. Success is achieved through the promotion of local green patent innovation and by intensifying environmental regulation. The policy should start from a long-term perspective by promoting structural and technological changes in the economy, rather than short-term quick success and instant benefits.

Use of QR Code in Dairy Sector in Slovenia

The increasing use of smartphones has allowed quick response (QR) codes to build a stronger connection between consumers and products, enabling a bridge between offline and online products and providing quick access to product information, traceability, and food safety. This study focuses on two primary aspects: familiarity with QR codes and their usage by consumers and FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) producers in Slovenia. Additionally, authors examined consumers’ motivations to scan QR codes for food products, particularly dairy products. Data collected through online research, interviews, and field investigations revealed that consumers rarely scan QR codes. To increase its usage, it should be included in an overall advertising campaign to provide instant benefit; consequently, it would increase consumer engagement with the product. Field research and interviews revealed that only a few packaged products are equipped with QR codes, primarily to support trade marketing activities. In addition, most consumers scan the code at home seeking information regarding its origin, which provides insights into future implementation possibilities. Furthermore, from the design point, QR codes should be positioned on the side panel of the packaging together with an invitation to motivate and explain how scanning would benefit the consumer.

Strategy for Minimizing Tech Talent Turnover Through the Implementation of Employee Stock Ownership Plan

This research aims to formulate a strategy for minimizing tech talent turnover by implementing the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) system. The method used in this research is a qualitative method and uses data analysis techniques, namely multiple linear regression using SPSS software. The results of this research have potential implications for organizations looking to reduce tech talent turnover. By implementing the ESOP system, organizations can potentially increase job satisfaction and loyalty, which in turn can reduce turnover. However, the research has shown that stock ownership benefits are not as attractive as cash or instant benefits. Therefore, organizations should consider offering a combination of both stock ownership benefits and cash or instant benefits in order to maximize the impact of their talent retention strategy. Additionally, organizations should consider implementing other strategies, such as providing a comprehensive wellness program, offering flexible work arrangements, and providing career development opportunities, to further reduce tech talent turnover

Impact through a front-line demonstration on yield and economics of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill) in arid Kachchh of Gujarat

It is customary in India to offer fennel seeds after a meal and eating fennel seeds after a meal is considered a healthy practice, primarily because of its ability to keep the digestive system healthy. Seed spices played an important role in the Indian economy under agricultural commodities for a long time. Front frontline demonstrations (FLDs) on Fennel were organized by ICAR-CAZRI, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kukma, Bhuj in different villages of Anjar and Bhuj Talukas of Kachchh from 2019-20 to 2021-22. The high-yielding variety Gujarat Fennel-12 was evaluated at the farmer’s field under the front line demonstration programme (FLDs). A total of 60 demonstrations were conducted in 24 ha area at farmer’s fields against farmer’s practice in arid Kachchh of Gujarat. The average seed yield under improved practice was 2160 kg ha–1 compared to the farmer’s practice (1770 kg ha–1) and increased significantly by 22.08% on average over the farmer’s practice output. The average extension gap, technology gap and technology index were 390.00 kg ha-1, 240.00 kg ha-1 and 10.00%, respectively. Through adopting improved practices, farmers get additional average returns of Rs.22562 ha-1. During this period the extension activities like farmer’s training, distribution of literature, diagnostic visits etc. were taken to provide instant benefit to the farmers. Frontline demonstrations programme created greater awareness, attitude and skill to adopt improved practices of Fennel and therefore, increased their production and economics.

The Grand Lemurrian Siva Sakthi Maha Mudra

The substratum of the Vedas and the Upanishads is that Lord Shiva is static and his counterpart Paarvathi who is also called Sakthi is His consort. It is generally believed that Lord Shiva is Adi Yogi. In the Indian Santana Dharma which also called Truth the yogic practices are inseparable and also indispensable. That is the marvelous beauty of yogic techniques. That’s why in the great Indian epic Mahabharata Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that He created this Universe with His Yoga Maya. All the Indian traditional spiritual knowledge were transmitted and taught to the Seers by Lord Shiva. The yogic asanas help the performers to sit properly for meditation. Prayer is outward appeal to Gods and Goddesses whereas the meditation is PURELY inner travelling. Prayer requires a deity but meditation does not need any Gods. The proper meditation leads the practitioner to Nirvikalpa Samadhi. In the Indian spiritual systems there are hearing, studying, watching and learning. Reading and learning are not at all similar or identical. The main thing is that even learning is not sufficient to attain spiritual peace, bliss and enlightenment. Some meditations are difficult to perform. In this work, the author unlocks the mysteries and instant benefits of the Grand Lemurriaan Siva Sakthi Maha Mudra which was kept very secret by the Sages till this day

Transgenerational fitness effects of lifespan extension by dietary restriction in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Dietary restriction (DR) increases lifespan in a broad variety of organisms and improves health in humans. However, long-term transgenerational consequences of dietary interventions are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the effect of DR by temporary fasting (TF) on mortality risk, age-specific reproduction and fitness across three generations of descendants in Caenorhabditis elegans. We show that while TF robustly reduces mortality risk and improves late-life reproduction of the individuals subject to TF (P0), it has a wide range of both positive and negative effects on their descendants (F1–F3). Remarkably, great-grandparental exposure to TF in early life reduces fitness and increases mortality risk of F3 descendants to such an extent that TF no longer promotes a lifespan extension. These findings reveal that transgenerational trade-offs accompany the instant benefits of DR, underscoring the need to consider fitness of future generations in pursuit of healthy ageing.

Simulation-based education for selected communication skills: exploring the perception of post-graduate dental students.

PurposeThe role of simulation-based education (SBE) in enhancing communication has been established in the literature. To ensure achieving desired outcomes from SBE initiative, the individual learners, their experiences, and environments need to be considered. This study aimed at exploring the perception of post-graduate dental students regarding their participation in SBE sessions, around selected communication skills, designed in alignment with the assumptions of adult learning theory and steps of Kolb’s experiential learning cycle.MethodsThis study utilized a qualitative design. Six focus-group sessions were conducted following the SBE sessions. The generated data was inductively investigated using a multi-staged participant-focused approach to thematic analysis, based upon constructivist epistemology. NVivo was utilized to facilitate text Fragments’ coding and categorization.ResultsForty-three post-graduate dental students participated. The analysis resulted in 16 categories spread across five sequential phases of the SBE experience. The “input” theme referred to the resources needed for the SBE process, and included three categories: facilities, personnel, and teaching materials. The second theme included steps of SBE “process”: pre-brief, simulation, and debrief. The third, fourth, and fifth themes constituted the short- and longer-term results of the SBE intervention. The participants reported instant benefits on confidence in their expertise in communicating with patients and their guardians. Additionally, perceived effects on the empathy and professionalism were reported.ConclusionSBE, that is based upon adult and experiential learning theories, and developed after thorough consideration of the individual learners, and their experiences and learning environments, holds potential in enhancing communication skills among post-graduate dental students.

Research and Practice of Training Effect Evaluation System Based on Kirkpatrick Model—Taking Teacher Training System of Zhejiang Open University as an Example

The present era is a complex, diversified and global knowledge economy era. Adult higher education in China is faced with many challenges in obtaining and maintaining its competitive advantage. In order to deal with these challenges and improve the competitiveness, we must take the increment of human capital of adult college teachers as the premise, and teachers’ continuing education is an important means. However, in the actual operation process, many teacher trainings are eager for quick success and instant benefits, and fails to grasp the rational training strategy of team building from a strategic perspective. At present, some trainers are armchair due to the lack of front-line teaching experience, which makes the training effect too wet to be applied in actual combat or has guiding and reference significance (Shi, 2007). This paper takes Zhejiang Open University teaching staff training center in nearly three years project as the research subject, through the analysis of the existing training effect evaluation model of the commonly used at home and abroad, analyzes the model’s application environment and evaluation level and so on, is open to Zhejiang university system problems that exist in the teacher training effect evaluation activities carried on the investigation and study, and analyzes the reasons of these problems. Through the construction of effective training effect evaluation system and the corresponding evaluation model to solve these problems. Referring to the academic achievements of evaluation models and the application examples of enterprises, this paper constructs a training effect evaluation system for Zhejiang Open University from the perspectives of evaluation objective, evaluation model, main body method and training effect evaluation process. For the training effect evaluation system designed in the paper also gives the corresponding implementation steps, but also gives the case results. In the evaluation, the four-level classification method of Kirkpatrick Model is mainly used for reference, and the evaluation of response, learning, behavior and result is carried out at four levels. To explore the feasibility of applying this training effect evaluation model to Open University teacher training system, and to derive the training effect evaluation system and training effect evaluation model which are in accordance with scientific principles and the actual situation of Open University. On the basis of extensive literature collection and analysis, the expected value of this paper is intended to realize the research on training effect evaluation by combining system with emphasis, examples with theory, model display with logical reasoning, and analyzing practical problems. It is believed that the training effect evaluation system and the training effect evaluation model designed in this paper can provide thinking methods and reference ways for the evaluation of the system teacher training effect of Zhejiang Open University.

Re-Emergence of the Vernacular: The Material Aspirations and the Vanishing Continuum of the Immaterial

The cultural elements drive the people’s way of life and ultimately influence their choice of the buildings they inhabit. Man, and his culture and his living environments are always correlated. While measuring heritage architecture, one tends to ignore the cultural and societal factors as the stakeholders. This isolated study can often paint half a picture of what a place was or could have been. An in-depth understanding of the “human element” will help appreciate the true “spirit of the place” despite the style, geometry, material, or construction method. While looking at a piece of craft, present-day perception focuses only on certain limited qualities such as visual or construction. Instant benefit has led to mass use of fabricated materials while ignoring any cautionary examination. Definition of any material’s sensual, social and symbolic worth often remains out of the scope for judgment. If these values are prioritized well, the architecture can continue to progress as a modest expression, adding a personality or realizing a life rather than producing alienating objects.

The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is???Agenda ID-2020??? and The COVID-19 Pandemic from a GlobalEnvironmental Health

Overarching all is this super hype is profit driven, the quest for instant profit, instant benefits from the suffering of the people. This panic making is a hundred-fold of what it’s worth. What these kingpins of the underworld, who pretend to run the upper world, perhaps miscalculated, is that in today’s globalized and vastly outsourced world the west depends massively on China’s supply chain, for consumer goods, and for intermediary merchandise – and, foremost for medication and medical equipment. At least 80% of medication or ingredients for medication, as well as for medical equipment come from China. The western China dependence for antibiotics is even higher, some 90%. The potential impacts on health are devastating. During the height of the COVID-19 epidemic China’s production apparatus for everything was almost shut-down. For deliveries that were still made, merchandise vessels were regularly and categorically turned back from many harbors all around the world. So, the west has tricked itself into a shortage-of-everything mode by waging a de facto “economic war” on China.

Exploration and Practice of the Training Mode of New Engineering Talents Creative Practice Ability

Under the background of new engineering, according to the characteristics of engineering college students, we should cultivate high-level engineering talents with innovative practice ability to meet the needs of enterprises. Aiming at the problem of great investment and little effect in innovation practice teaching reform, this paper adheres to the principle of effectiveness, combines the characteristics of college students, such as precocious thinking, active thinking, independent personality, impetuous self, eager for quick success and instant benefit, blind self-confidence, strong ability to take an examination, and the status quo of serious lack of cognition and experience of engineering practice and its importance and the characteristics of intelligent manufacturing specialty It is suitable for the cultivation of innovative practice ability of college students and the ways and measures to improve its effectiveness.

QÎMAH KITÂB SIBAWAIH WA JUHÛD AL-LUGHAWIYYÎN AL-‘ARAB AL-MU’ÂSHIRÎN

There are some reasons that appeal me to do research on contemporary linguists’ contributions to Sībawaih’s al-Kitâb. As a pioneer on Arabic linguistics book, al-Kitâb has been the starting point for the classic linguists to study linguistics phenomena. And so are the contemporary linguists. For the later, they place the book in the first raw of references, be it by taking instant benefits from the fundamentals it contains or by keen reading on it. In fact, some efforts conducted by the linguists after Sībawaih can be regarded to as attempts to comprehend his theories, as well as to explain aspects which are still ambiguous to some others. This is what can be understood from the abundance varieties of works produced by later linguists: they criticize the book; they give commentaries, they give preliminary fundaments on further readings on it; they study on the theories; they explain the sources; and they trigger to study the construct of Sībawaih’s thoughts. From these various studies, even if they refer to the same book (al-Kitâb), it can be grasped that the linguist do not meet an agreement one and others in comprehending Sībawaih’s words. In this piece of paper, I try to describe what contemporary linguists do with the al-Kitāb, and how the link it to their theories. After all, this can be regarded as their contributions to the book in developing linguistics theories in a wider context.

“Mean Field Games” as Mathematical Models for Control and Optimization of Business Activity

The article is a review of modern mathematical economic models with the “Mean Field Games” structure. They are currently used for the predictive modelling under given control conditions or for optimizing control actions to achieve the desired result. The mathematical model is a pair of parabolic partial differential equations with a set of initial and boundary conditions for optimizing a given target functional. For them, the discretization is applied to obtain systems of nonlinear algebraic equations which are solved by computer in an iterative way to get the best instant benefit for each agent. This mathematical apparatus is used for the quantitative modelling of the distribution or the use of alternative resources, environmental problems, optimization of wages and insurance, network sales, and other economic activities to predict the aggregate behavior of the great mass of agents looking for instant personal benefit

Higher Education Input, Technological Innovation, and Economic Growth in China

Based on the theoretical analysis of the relationship between China’s higher education input, technological innovation, and economic growth, this paper chooses the 1997–2015 sample data of China, and uses a vector auto regression (VAR) model to test the relationship between the three. The results show that educational input, technological innovation, and economic growth form an interaction mechanism featuring dynamic circulation. Higher education input and technological innovation are two important factors influencing economic growth. In the meantime, higher education input is an important source and driving force of technological innovation, and technological innovation will further promote economic growth. However, technological innovation has a delayed positive effect on economic growth, so higher education input demands a long-term view and thinking for quick success, and instant benefits should be avoided.

When Will China Win the World Cup? A Study of China’s Youth Football Development

What is embarrassing for Chinese sports is that the supply of the sports cannot meet the needs of people with the rapid development in almost every field of sport in China. Furthermore, teenage sport has deteriorated year on year and is very short of backup talents in competitive sports. Faced with China’s devastated football, the appropriate attitude is neither seeking quick success and instant benefits nor ignoring it; the urgent thing for this moment is to establish a feasible and sustainable football system. An analysis of the history of Chinese football, the strategy of football development by the country’s leaders, and the policy of Youth Campus Football in 2009, coupled with sports humanism, suggests that the future lies in instilling a sharing sports concept, promoting the joint efforts of school, society, and family.

Institutional Performance and Vote Buying in India

Inefficient and corrupt institutions provide an incentive for citizens to focus on short causal chains, which prize instant benefits from direct, clientelist exchanges over the promise of uncertain and distant programmatic rewards. Drawing on a tightly controlled comparison arising from the bifurcation of a state within the Indian federal system into two units that have demonstrated marked differences in institutional development post division, and a survey administered across the new state boundary, we show that citizens are more responsive to small inducements in weak institutional settings where the delivery of basic goods by the state is less certain, but that these institutional effects weaken as the size of the inducement increases.

A Review of the Iron and Steel Making Movement in Inner Mongolia

Baotou Iron and Steel Corp (referred to as Baotou Steel) set off the boom of "Steel Making" movement in the "Great Leap Forward" period. In the anti-waste movement, Baotou Steel passively modified the original design, let rich ore directly going into the furnace, completed advance tapping iron; Driven by "Taking Steel as the Key Link" , the Inner Mongolia started "soil law steel" climax, "Large medium and small" Baotou Steel was forced to launch, the region’s small blast furnaces blossomed everywhere, the situation of Inner Mongolia "Steel Making" movement which cantered on Baotou Steel formed. This article combs the history of "Steel Making" in Baotou Steel and Inner Mongolia through local newspapers, collections, archives and some of the party’s memoirs. This movement led to the completion of Baotou Steel and laid the foundation for the great development of Inner Mongolia industry. However, the guiding ideology of "quick success and instant benefit" violated the development law of iron and steel industry avrd a series of technical decision-making failures led to a major setback for the steel industry, such as Baotou steel.

What Make Sport Spectators Scan Quick Response Code? Application of Technology Acceptance Model to MLB Attendees

What Make Sport Spectators Scan Quick Response Code? Application of Technology Acceptance Model to MLB Attendees Geumchan Hwang, Kyu-soo Chung Abstract Mobile marketing has become a powerful tool to attract consumers. In terms of delivering customized messages to a specific segment, one of the most effective technologies is Quick Response code. QR code enables sport organizations to develop diverse marketing activities online. The purpose of this study is to reveal the behavioral patterns of sport consumers in scanning QR codes. Using Major League Baseball spectators in a Midwestern area, the study carries out a self-administered survey; a total of 175 samples were collected. To uncover sport consumers’ behavioral patterns concerning scanning and to identify attributes that influence intentions to scan sport-related QR codes, the study employs hierarchical regression analysis. The hierarchical regression analysis demonstrated that important attributes that affect sport consumers’ intentions to scan sport-related QR codes were ease of use, sport fanship, content attractiveness, and attitude toward new technology. This study suggests that to attract sport consumers’ intentions to use sport-related QR codes, mobile marketers should offer them simple and instant benefits with appropriate name, size, and location of QR codes. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jpesm.v2n2a7