Recipe For Success Research Articles

What Is the Recipe for Success in Science?

This article narrates the life journey of a woman in science, drawing parallels between her grandmother’s improvisational apple pie making and her own path to success. Unlike a recipe, her career was shaped by unique, personal ingredients: a fervent love for learning from her parents; the importance of financial independence instilled by her mother; and a supportive network that facilitated both her family and career decisions. Through anecdotes, she emphasizes key life lessons: success is personal and varied; plans can change; guilt over work-life balance is self-imposed; and one should not be confined by traditional career paths. Her story highlights the importance of resilience, adaptability, and the pursuit of meaningful causes over conventional career milestones. Her transformative work in rare disease research underscores her commitment to leveraging her career for the greater good, embodying a blend of scientific curiosity and business acumen. The article concludes with a call to embrace learning, face failures, and build a trustworthy support network.

The growing creative challenge for advertising engagement: An analysis of Super Bowl Ad Meter likeability scores from 2013 to 2024

ABSTRACT In the world of advertising, creativity is king. For at least fifty years, the Super Bowl has reigned as the industry’s annual showcase of creative commercials. This study explores consumer perceptions of television advertising creativity as reflected in the popular Super Bowl Ad Meter likeability scores. Specifically, are there any trends or patterns evident in likeability scores that shed light on emerging audience attitudes toward creativity? Analysis of likeability scores from 2013–2024 indicates that average ratings remain relatively constant. However, an intriguing trend appears with consistently decreasing variance among likeability scores year-on-year. This indicates growing homogeneity in advertising as the distinction between standout creativity and conformity grows more challenging to distinguish. Thus, a critical question for brands is: How can advertisers cut through and engage audiences? Recent Super Bowl favorites indicate potential formulas for success – humor, heartwarming narratives, and celebrity identities. As the advertising landscape evolves, future research should explore emerging opportunities to engage audiences and distinguish brands from a sea of sameness.

Impact of Motivational Speech on Psychological Need Satisfaction and Intrinsic Motivation of Young Adults

This study aimed to investigate the impact of motivational speeches on psychological need satisfaction and intrinsic motivation of young adults utilizing a pretest-posttest quasi experiment method. A total of 25 students was selected via non-probability purposive sampling. The study utilized the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS; Chen et al., 2015) and the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI; Ryan & Deci, 2000). Pretest measurements were taken from participants three weeks before and after viewing the motivational video “Formula for Success”. Post-test data was collected to evaluate the impact of the video. The results indicated a significant increase in psychological need satisfaction after the speech and a positive correlation between psychological need satisfaction and intrinsic motivation. No significant differences were found across gender, educational institutions and area of living. This study highlights the importance of motivational speech in increasing intrinsic motivation and psychological wellbeing offering a basis for future educational and motivational research. This study is likely to provide ground work for future studies.

Cultivating a community from collaboration: The secret to a strong vertical video strategy and system

The University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) central social media team has developed an overarching strategy and system over the course of three years, from 2020 to 2023, to help improve their vertical video production while building a community of practice with other internal campus content creators. This case study will discuss the benefits for campus content collaborators. It identifies three types of social video collaborations employed by UTM communications staff to meet the unique requirements and capabilities of different teams. Pulling from the UTM social media team's findings, this paper shares a formula for success used to create vertical videos that improve key performance indicators while building capacity among practitioners. By highlighting strategic practical tips to utilise when creating higher education video content, the authors aim to illuminate the steps involved for those wishing to set up a similar system and strategy. This case study concludes with a reflection on the lessons learned and pitfalls to avoid when collaborating with other campus content creators.

Right-Sizing Nurse Manager Span of Control: Finding a Formula for Success

Right-Sizing Nurse Manager Span of Control: Finding a Formula for Success

Contemporary Horror Story-Telling: Its Function and Reproduction of the Belief in Ghosts in the Thai Context

This article explores the function and reproduction of the belief in ghosts in the context of current Thailand through contemporary horror story-telling on the Internet. The study reveals that contemporary horror story-telling employs motifs and tale types as key elements in creating fear. Horror stories can be categorized into three tale types: ghost, sixth sense, and haunted place. Key motifs are the characters, objects, events or actions, and places. Contemporary horror story-telling plays crucial roles in creating entertainment, shaping moral standards in the society, reflecting fears, concerns, and problems in the contemporary society, and passing on Buddhist belief and ceremonies in the Thai setting. The transition from traditional horror story-telling to online platform exemplifies a success formula of horror stories on ghosts, which have long been popular in Thai society. Horror stories are reproduced as a vehicle for traditional horror story-telling in the contemporary Thai context. The phenomenon highlights the prevalent notion of traditional ghost stories while also building a new framework of horror stories tailored to the modern period.

A Recipe for Success.

In this article, I aim to give some pieces of career advise for young immunologists based on my own experiences.

The recipe for success in creating frictionless customer journeys

Customers now demand seamless experiences across all points of contact. To deliver on this expectation, organisations need a reliable marketing architecture for accurate omnichannel customer journey analysis. This allows them to identify and eliminate friction points that hinder customer satisfaction. However, disparate channels of data often utilise different customer identifiers, creating a challenge in unifying data for comprehensive analysis. By focusing on a strong customer identity strategy and leveraging technological advancements to seamlessly combine data at the individual level, organisations gain an advantage in crafting consistent and frictionless customer experiences. This approach follows a specific recipe, with key steps to identify and remove friction points. Professionals involved in creating or measuring omnichannel experiences will find valuable insights and practical tips within this paper, along with learnings from renowned customer-centric companies like Uber, Netflix and Amazon. Delivering consistently exceptional customer experiences allows companies to command premium prices, build long-term brand loyalty and solidify their reputation as truly customer-focused organisations.

Communication for a performance evaluation

Annual performance reviews are often met with a lot of stress and anxiety. When the process is unstructured, it can intensify these feelings even more. Mastering communication skills, learning how to take feedback in an objective way and partner­ing with your manager is a recipe for success to co-create your professional development plan and take the fear and frustra­tion out of performance reviews.

¿Qué necesidades perciben los expertos y los futuros profesionales de la Actividad Física y del Deporte para promover un envejecimiento saludable? Visión de profesionales y estudiantes

IntroductionPhysical activity acts as an adjuvant in the treatment of numerous diseases and in the promotion of healthy aging. Increasing longevity entails an increase in the demand for professionals who prescribe physical activity, specifically physiotherapists and physical-activity educators. ObjectivesThe main objective of this study was to explore the perceptions of a group of third- and fourth-year Physiotherapy students (n=9) and Sport Sciences students (n=5), and experts who work with older adults (n=3) about their knowledge of the older adult population and healthy aging. The secondary objectives were to: (a) explore what knowledge future professionals need about physical activity programming and about physical activity programs aimed at maintaining and improving health among older adults; (b) explore what would be the best methodology to acquire such knowledge; and (c) explore whether a relationship is perceived between knowledge about the older adult population and motivation to work with this population group. MethodsTwo discussion groups with students and three interviews with experts were conducted. Discussion groups and interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed through a reflexive thematic analysis, following the steps described by Braun and Clarke (2021). ResultsThree themes were identified from the discussion groups: (1) conception and ideas about older adults, (2) skills and knowledge perceived as important, and (3) proposals for motivational intervention addressed to the older population.Four themes were identified from the interviews with experts: (1) characteristics of the future professional, (2) physical activity programs for older people: the recipe for success, (3) the role of enjoyment as key to success, and (4) barriers/obstacles along the path. ConclusionStudents of both degrees and experts believe that more practical training opportunities are needed, to enable students to interact with the older population and get to know their needs, motivations, and barriers, to increase physical activity levels in this population group.

Ignaz Diener

Ignaz Diener was Vienna’s foremost restaurateur in the mid-1930s. Son of a Jewish tavern keeper, he spent the ten years before the outbreak of the First World War working in top hotels in Paris, London, Geneva and Berlin, acquiring both the culinary knowledge and linguistic skills required to move easily amongst an international clientele, adding Russian to his repertoire while a prisoner of war in Siberia. After the war, he worked for more than a decade for the world-famous Hotel Sacher, latterly as bar manager, before jumping ship to a newly opened restaurant, Zu den drei Husaren (The Three Hussars). His name and reputation were used to promote the Three Hussars ruthlessly as the place to go for smart Viennese society, leading to a lawsuit by Hotel Sacher, claiming unfair competition, which they lost. Diener’s success ended abruptly with the Anschluss in 1938, when The Three Hussars was sold to Otto Horcher, Göring’s favourite restaurateur, and he himself was imprisoned in the Gestapo HQ. Rescue came from the Duke of Windsor’s equerry who had sponsored him to go to England with his family – The Three Hussars was Edward Windsor’s favourite place to eat in Vienna. A year after arriving in London, Diener was interned on the Isle of Man, where he helped to run the canteens. On release, he wrote a highly successful recipe book called Kitchen Parade, explaining how the average family could make best use of rationed food. A friend from Vienna, Alexander Korda, then recruited him to run the canteens at Shepperton Studios, including, appropriately, for the filming of The Third Man. The final chapter of Diener’s career was as proprietor of a restaurant called The Green Monkey on the outskirts of Reading. He died in 1968.

Searching for a recipe for success: environmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements

ABSTRACT Submissions on enforcement matters (SEMs) allow civil society members to assert that one party to a free trade agreement (FTA) is failing to enforce its domestic environmental laws. Submissions that survive every step of the SEM process result in a ‘factual record’ prepared by a secretariat on enforcement matters. Relying on qualitative comparative analysis and an original dataset compiling the 158 SEMs submitted under the framework of US FTAs, I investigate what conditions make submissions more likely to succeed in leading to a factual record. I find that the existence of previous submissions dealing with the same facts, submissions against developing countries, and the presence of at least one non-governmental organization as a submitter contribute to a submission’s success, but only in conjunction with other conditions and for a limited number of cases. This result provides overall evidence that secretariats’ decisions are unbiased by the factors examined in this paper.

Editors' Newsroom: How to get published—A recipe for success

Editors' Newsroom: How to get published—A recipe for success

A Recipe for Success: How Cookbooks Bridge the Gap for Patient Health

Nutrition literacy is a subset of health literacy that helps patients understand which foods are best for their specific health profile. Cookbooks are collections of recipes that teach people how to cook. Through their brightly colored illustrations and easy to read language, cookbooks help patients with low nutrition literacy by both engaging their interest in food and increasing their nutritional education. Cookbooks are essential patient education resources, and healthcare professionals should be aware of the value cookbooks have in increasing patient education. This article explains the importance of nutrition literacy and explores how cookbooks are essential components to create a more robust health information experience for patients and libraries.

Formulation and Evaluation of Idebenone Microemulsion as a Potential Approach for the Transmucosal Drug Delivery Systems

Idebenone, a synthetic analogue of ubiquinone (Co-Q10), is used for the treatment of Leiber’s hereditary optic neuropathy. Although it is almost completely absorbed from GIT, its extensive rate of metabolism makes its oral bioavailability less than 1%. This study aims to formulate the poorly water-soluble drug as nanoemulsion (NE) to increase drug solubility as well as transmucosal permeation and circumventing hepatic biodegradation by using transmucosal routes of administration such as intranasal rout to enhance drug bioavailability. Nanoemulsion components were selected through screening of the preferential solubility of IDB in several oils and emulsifying agents and subsequent formulation optimization through screening for their best miscibility through phase study. Lemongrass oil showed superior characteristics to represent the oil phase in which the drug was dissolved while Cremophor EL® and Transcutol-P® represented the surfactant system. The method of spontaneous-emulsification was used to prepare twelve NE formulas (F1-F12) which were subjected to several characterization tests. Out of four successful formulas, F-11 showed the best globule size (45.6nm), PDI (0.19) zeta-potential (-2.8 mV), low viscosity and suitable pH (5.9). Using sheep nasal mucosa as model, (F-11) was subjected to ex-vivo transmucosal permeation study against plain drug oil dispersion with pronounced enhanced permeation due to formulation as NEs. Permeation kinetic parameters were obtained such as permeation rate 40.9 µg/h/cm2, lag time 15min, permeability coefficient 40.9x10-4 cm/h and enhancement ratio 39. The outcome of this study indicates the possibility of incorporation of this formula into a suitable carrier for finalizing its formulation as non-enteral dosage form with enhanced IDB bioavailability.

GLP-1 Agonists for Obesity—A New Recipe for Success?

This Viewpoint discusses the drawbacks of using glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists to treat obesity and presents an alternative approach of initial, staged GLP-1 agonist treatment supported by long-term lifestyle programming, including medically appropriate groceries or meals (“Food Is Medicine”), to address the cost, health, and equity burdens of obesity.

Cooking up positive company culture during times of business scale: A leader’s recipe for success

A thriving company culture is the foundation on which a company’s success is built. Company leaders are the guardians of this culture with the crucial responsibility to maintain and evolve the culture and values to meet the company’s needs as it scales. Current research touches on the importance of company culture, but there is little in the existing literature that describes how to lead amid times of scaling a business when the culture needs to evolve. In this article, we draw from our own leadership experiences, as well as the experiences of employees at scaling companies, to provide a framework for leaders on how to build, maintain, and adapt a positive company culture during different stages of company growth. The goal is to minimize the growing pains associated with the inevitable changes that occur during the scaling process.

Improving Online Student Retention: Is There A Formula for Success?

Improving Online Student Retention: Is There A Formula for Success?

More than meets the eye: Counterintuitive principles of leadership

Existing management research and practice provide a generalized recipe for organizational success, but they do not work equally well in all situations. In perpetually changing systems (e.g., most modern organizations), standard practices may even prove to be counterproductive. Inspired by and in tribute to Dr. Timothy Baldwin, we identify three leadership domains in which a counterintuitive approach is likely to be useful: (1) motivating subordinates, (2) garnering and wielding social influence, and (3) managing performance. We then provide examples of counterintuitive leadership techniques from each area. Understanding the science behind how and why these techniques work is essential to their effective use in the workplace. Finally, we outline how having a relational orientation as an important corequisite for counterintuitive leadership can yield maximum benefit for organizations and their employees.

Prerequisites and Causal Recipes for Manufacturers’ IT-Enabled Service Innovation Success

For manufacturing firms, success in innovating IT-enabled services is a critical antecedent to benefiting from the digital servitization of their business models. Digital servitization literature has explored mechanisms for success in innovating IT-enabled services, indicating that the phenomenon is multifaceted and needs to be explained from multiple theoretical perspectives. We derive a conceptual model for success in innovating IT-enabled services covering its multifaceted nature by referring to knowledge-based and organizational control theory. We test this model using qualitative cases of IT-enabled service innovation initiatives in manufacturing firms and use set-theoretic analyses to account for the multifaceted nature of the phenomenon. The necessary condition analysis yields that a certain degree of service innovation capabilities is a prerequisite for success. With the results of a qualitative comparative analysis, we obtain five solution terms as causal recipes for success in innovating IT-enabled services. Our results contribute to research by offering a theory-based approach that explains the multiplicity of success in IT-enabled service innovation. Practitioners benefit from our results by understanding prerequisites and causal recipes for success while learning from unsuccessful initiatives in innovating IT-enabled services of manufacturing firms. Our study is also an example of how to rigorously calibrate qualitative data using a structured approach.