Work Hopes Research Articles

Naomi Noble Richard

Naomi Noble Richard

조절초점이 주도적 행동에 미치는 영향

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of regulatory focus on proactive behavior and to examine the mediating effect of work hope between superior’s regulatory focus and subordinate’s proactive behavior. In addition, the purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating effect of interpersonal justice between regulatory focus and work hope, and the moderated mediating effect of work hope and interpersonal justice in the relationship between regulatory focus and proactive behavior. Design/methodology/approach - This study used data 255pairs(510people) collected from Public organizations such as gu office and private organizations that perform various tasks such as human resources, finance, accounting, marketing, and R&D. The Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and the multiple regression analysis were used in order to analyze the data. Findings - The result showed that promotion focus was positively related to proactive behavior. In addition, this study found that the relationship between promotion focus and proactive behavior was mediated by work hope. Regarding the moderating roles of perceived interpersonal justice, the results showed that perceived interpersonal justice significantly interacted with promotion focus in influencing work hope. Finally, the moderated mediation analysis showed that the indirect effect of promotion focus on proactive behavior through work hope was valid only for subordinates with high perceived interpersonal justice. Research implications or Originality - In order to increase proactive behavior, it is necessary to focus on promotion focus and to increase the positive psychology such as hope. In addition, it is necessary to increase perception of interpersonal justice.

Kyra Markham: An Introduction

Kyra Markham: An Introduction

Soundscapes of informalities

ABSTRACT With the growth of children’s population in cities, research on children’s views about their urban lives has gained traction in the literature. Contributing to such a research agenda, this study examines the perception of slum-dwelling Filipino children of their sonic environment, which is an under-researched topic. Analysis focuses on how children’s experiences both create and are shaped by the soundscape of their slum spaces. Drawing from unstructured interviews with Filipino children (aged 9–12 years) in San Jose del Monte City, this study articulates what comprises children’s sonic environment in slums and how they make sense of their soundscapes. Findings suggest that children have a complex sonic relationship with their spaces beyond physical aspects, offering another dimension to thinking about children’s auditory encounters. This work hopes to spark conversations on how soundscapes can inform thinking about and conducting regional studies.

A long-term perspective on the COVID-19: The bike sharing system resilience under the epidemic environment

IntroductionThe sudden COVID-19 pandemic poses a fresh and tough challenge to bike sharing systems (BSS). With this epidemic as a shock event, this paper aspires to shed light on the phenomenon of changing demand and usage regularity in New York City's BSS under the epidemic environment, spanning a period of 18 months. MethodsTechnically, BSS's normal performance and the timely responses to the outbreak could be conceptualized as having four different stages. One provides a comparative analysis of bike sharing spatial-temporal mobility patterns and connectivity of the bike sharing usage network, before and during the public health crisis with a macroscopic perspective. Also, a multivariate investigation of user and trip characteristics on BSS is conducted to uncover the difference in the frequency of outdoor and sojourn time between various user communities. ResultsDue to the impact of the outbreak, BSS registered severe ridership drops, yet it quickly recovered to the pre-pandemic levels within months. The decline of bike sharing usage was felt throughout all the areas during the outbreak. However, there were places where BSS ridership actually increased, particularly in the areas near supermarkets, parks and hospitals. The less densely connected network of the bike sharing usage has also resulted in a reduction in users’ destination heterogeneity. This study also finds evidence of the significant gender, age and cycling pattern gaps in response to potential risk. ConclusionsInvestigating the dynamics of bike sharing usage will help to comprehend how the serious pandemic caused by COVID-19 impacts people's daily mobility. Practically, this work hopes to provide insights into adapting this unprecedented pandemic so as to respond to similar events in the future.

CHAPTER 9: an Exploration of Student Philosophical Literacy in the South African Context

The discipline of philosophy necessitates that budding philosophers learn and enact certain practices. However, while more established philosophers intuitively understand what philosophy is (and, more importantly, how it is practised), it is not always clear that such knowledge is communicated to the students in their classrooms. In this sense, engagement with philosophical disciplinarity often does not explicitly occur pedagogically, and as a result, students might be left to puzzle out the contours of the philosophical endeavour on their own. Concurrently there exists a lacuna, both in terms of philosophical reflection on philosophical disciplinarity and in terms of how such disciplinarity is taught (especially within the South African context). Such reflection is largely absent in both the philosophical and educational literature. This chapter aims to address the gap by means of the reflections of two philosophers from different philosophical traditions on their praxis and possible shortcomings in the philosophical classroom. This chapter takes an autoethnographic methodological approach as a means to share lived experiences in this regard. By engaging explicitly with philosophical disciplinarity from two (often divergent) traditions, this chapter aims to encourage philosophers to think critically about how their disciplinary praxis can and should be communicated explicitly to their students. From their autoethnographic reflections, it becomes apparent that the authors of the current study at times fall short of explicitly engaging with philosophical disciplinarity in their own classrooms, but also that certain corrective avenues are available. By beginning a conversation, this work hopes to ignite a discussion regarding philosophical disciplinarity in South Africa through providing an initial conceptualisation of what this concept may entail.

A ‘just’ hydrogen economy: A normative energy justice assessment of the hydrogen economy

The climate crisis, the renewed importance of energy security and geopolitics, and economic interests are fuelling interest in the hydrogen economy. While still in its nascency, if financial and political commitments are an indication, the hydrogen economy is likely to rapidly develop. Many scholars have noted, however, the significant lack of social assessments of the hydrogen economy. This work addresses this gap through a normative energy justice assessment across the hydrogen economy value chain to provide an initial proactive mapping of potential energy injustices that could occur from its development across four injustice perspectives (distribution, procedural, cosmopolitan, and recognition). Further, this work suggests potential abatement actions that could be taken to reduce the identified injustices. Lacking research on the social impacts of the hydrogen economy due to its nascency, this work benchmarks to energy justice assessments as well as abating actions from other transitions to provide this first mapping. The results of this work show that potential injustices could arise from unjust decision-making, socially irresponsible development, and the poor sharing of ills/benefits on the consumption end. While the hydrogen economy's development pathway is still largely unknown, this work hopes to provide foresight to policymakers and future researchers (who can then study them in more detail) about potential injustices along the hydrogen value chain with the goal of avoiding or reducing them. Being aware of and reducing these injustices during the development of the hydrogen economy should serve to foster public support for its proliferation.

Mapping pleasure and pain on Black women’s bodies: Southern Black feminist geographic interventions

Feminist geographers frequently analyze the body as a site of geographic knowledge. But we have work to do to understand, spatialize, and value Black bodies as sites of theory-making. In this article, I will focus specifically on the spatialities of pleasure and pain experienced in the southern United States by analyzing Black bodies, specifically Black women’s bodies, through the lens of state-sanctioned violence—explicitly police brutality. My work hopes to answer these two critical questions: how are the bodies of Black women treated in society? And how can we lift up, value, and include the spatiality of Black women’s bodies in feminist geography? I use a Black feminist geographic framework to review the environmental, physical, and emotional geographies of Black women’s bodies undergoing this violence, with a focus on both pain and imagined pleasure. Lastly, I contribute to feminist geographic work by bringing a critical and spatial examination of the racialization of pleasure.

Research on Gender Discrimination in Chinese Workplace Based on Social Gender Theory

Gender discrimination in the workplace is a really important problem right now. Based on this backdrop, the purpose of this paper is to investigate this topic and establish the research subject, which will be China’s workplace gender discrimination, with the hope of exploring certain common legislation from the perspective of human resource administration. Through the use of the literature, this study discovered that in the process of China’s human resource management force, the definition of sex discrimination has its own unique meaning, the form has pay with different payment, single gender recruitment, female mating birth is limited by contract, and so on, investigate its reason, women’s natural responsibility under the premise of unit of choose and employ persons does not undertake the cost, and so on. In order to address this issue, the government should reinforce policy support and guidance, better male supported baby rearing, and increase employers’ awareness of their social responsibilities, according to the research published in this journal. The authors of this work hope that this research will serve as a resource for resolving or relieving this situation.

Neighbor connections and contemporary groups in a closed society, in the city of Hajdudoroz

Hajdúdorog is a local closed society, so the religious separation, the Hajdú military past and the agricultural nature of the settlement provide a specific approach to ethnographic researches. In my doctoral research, which includes this article, family and neighborhood relations are analyzed in this settlement. The temporal focus of the research is the 1940s which is the earliest decade that can be researched with informants through interviews. This article pays attention to the neighborhood of Hajdúdorog and contemporary groups, so locality is a key concept. The research question concerns the content of the relationships. How did the relationships in the environment of the neighborhood and contemporary groups, manifest themselves in Hajdúdorog in the 1940s? How did the above features affect this? The research was carried out within the framework of the ethnographic discipline. The article first presents the well-known works of the Hungarian ethnographic literature on the topic and then analyzes the empirical data. I applied the ethnographic method used in social disciplines to obtain empirical data. During the field work, I did in-depth interviews in Hajdúdorog with locals, all older than 75 years. I reached the inteview subjects using the snowball method and the interviews took place in the interviewees’ homes. The article examines the neighboring and contemporary groups separately. Based on the results it can be stated, that in Hajdúdorog the neighborly relations were daily. The tenths, the former special administrative units of the city, were still strong influencing factors in the development of relations in both groups, even during the researched period. The content of the neighborly relations was reflected in smaller household transactions, rental of tools, participation in pigslaughters (disznóvágás), assistance in fieldworks, special folk pastimes (tanyázás) which resulted in more intense relationships than with family relatives. The result of a closed society is that there was a closer relationship between those who lived within one part of the settlement than between relatives who lived in different parts of the settlement. In line with the above, the article seeks to contribute to the researches connected to locality. The subject of the article fits into the sociological neighborhood research category, such as Tönnies and Redfield's research and also fits into the neighborhood research of the Hungarian ethnography, which was also a base for this research. This work hopes to ultimately expand the row of Hajdúdorog’s literature. For further view, the article can encourage research that deals with a more detailed comparison of the role of the neighborhood and the role of neighbors and relatives in Hajdúdorog during the period that was examined in this article.

Vocational peer support for adults with psychiatric disabilities: Results of a randomized trial.

Objective: Peer support services for individuals with psychiatric conditions have burgeoned and now are proliferating within mental health systems nationally and internationally. More recently, variations of peer support have been developed, including those that focus on vocational outcomes. Methods: We conducted a randomized clinical trial in two mental health programs to test a newly developed model of vocationally oriented peer support. We recruited, randomly assigned, and followed 166 individuals for 12 months; 83 received Vocational Peer Support (the experimental condition, VPS) and 83 received peer support services-as-usual. Peer support specialists (PSS) delivering VPS were trained and supervised. We examined vocational and educational outcomes as well as work hope, quality of life, and work readiness at baseline, 6- and 12-month postrandomization. We assessed the working alliance as well. Results: We found a group-by-time effect on domains of work readiness and modest differences in vocational activity. Secondary analyses revealed that VPS resulted in a stronger working alliance with the peer specialist, which mediated some aspects of a better quality of life and greater work hope. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: In the context of the peer relationship, peer specialists are often called upon to support individuals who are pursuing employment, often without adequate preparation or training. Our findings suggest that vocationally oriented peer support affects several aspects of readiness to pursue work-related goals and mediates some aspects of vocational hope and quality of life. VPS may assist individuals receiving peer support as they choose, get, and keep employment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Visible-Light Mediated Metal-Free 6π-Photocyclization of N-Acrylamides: Thioxanthone Triplet Energy Transfer Enables the Synthesis of 3,4-Dihydroquinolin-2-ones.

An efficient thioxanthone-catalyzed triplet energy transfer process for the synthesis of 3,4-dihydroquinolin-2-ones via a 6π-photocyclization is reported. Featuring a rare example of a metal-free formal C(sp2)-H/C(sp3)-H arylation mediated by visible-light, this work hopes to inspire further interest in these small molecules as sustainable alternatives to existing transition-metal photocatalysts in related processes.

Situating children’s lives in coastal cities: Prospects and challenges in urban planning in five Southeast Asian cities

AbstractThis paper examines children’s context in Southeast Asian coastal cities. Through a document analysis, this paper examines City Context Reports from five Southeast Asian coastal cities (Surabaya, Iskandar, Melaka, Cebu and Ho Chi Minh) and identifies opportunities and challenges to urban child friendliness. The results indicate a mixture of achievements and challenges in terms of child‐friendly coastal cities. The identified challenges and potentials in Southeast Asian cities shape an urban fabric characterized by the urban sprawl combined with the geographic vulnerabilities of coastal cities. While the challenges of urbanization in Southeast Asian coastal cities are massive, so are the opportunities. As a way forward, this work proposes a framework for child‐friendly coastal cities in Southeast Asia, with emphasis on: (1) child‐oriented urban policy design, (2) urban policy assessment through participatory research with children, and (3) educational programs for coastal resilience. This work hopes for further dialogues toward an inclusive urban future in the Global South.

Ultrathin SnS2 Nanosheet Decorated B-TiO2 / TiO2 Core Shell Nanorods for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Morphology tailoring and heterostructure designing has emerged as one of the most significant frontrunners in research on photoelectrochemical water splitting. In this work we demonstrate the synthesis of core shell Black TiO2 @ TiO2 nanorods by a one step electrochemical treatment using NaBH4 to partially reduce surface Ti4+ ions to Ti3+ by chronoamperometry in order to generate a core shell structure. The effect of anodic potential for the electrochemical reduction process was studied. The fabricated electrodes were further decorated with SnS2 nanosheets by a facile solvothermal method to generate a ternary SnS2 / B-TiO2 @ TiO2 heterojunction. The photoelectrochemical performance of the fabricated photoanodes were analyzed using A.M 1.5 G solar simulator with a anodic potential sweep from -0.5 V to 2 V. A maximum ABPE % of 1.12 % was observed at 0.61 V using Na2S / Na2SO3 as an electrolyte. DFT calculations were carried out to understand the underlying electronic structure of the heterostructure and charge transfer pathways. Morphological analysis was carried out using characterization techniques like XRD and SEM. Optical analysis was carried out using UV-Vis spectra and PL measurements. Charge transfer kinetics were analyzed using EIS and Mott-Schottky plots. This work hopes to inspire further research in the designing of ternary heterostructures by electrochemical surface treatment of semiconductor nanostructures.

Improvement of thermal management of proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack used for portable devices by integrating the ultrathin vapor chamber

UVC (ultrathin vapor chamber) simultaneously has a high heat-conducting property, excellent temperature uniformity and simple structure. These advantages are very suitable for thermal management of the open-cathode PEMFC (proton exchange membrane fuel cell) stack. In this work, two-type UVCs with different appearances are integrated into a conventional PEMFC stack respectively. The effect of UVC on the output performance, thermal management and operating stability is investigated by the experiment combined with simulation. The results show that UVC can significantly increase the output voltage under high current density. In 35 A, the output voltage of the stack integrated the vertical UVC increases by 20.25% relative to the conventional stack. Thermal management is also improved by UVC. The highest temperature inside the stack decrease by 9 °C in 35 A, and the membrane temperature is decreased obviously. But it still exceeds the optimal operating temperature of open-cathode PEMFC stack due to the poor cooling type in the condensation side of UVC. UVC improves the operation stability of the stack and slows the deteriorative speed of output performance. This work hopes to attract more attention to the application of UVC on the thermal management of portable power sources used open-cathode PEMFC stack.

Activating Joy and Hope in Critical Literacies Instruction: Responding Pedagogically to Youth Skepticism in a YPAR Project

In the face of persistent racial injustice, critical literacy approaches to instruction frequently involve investigating and altering unjust racialized power structures through critical action. However, what happens when youth have become understandably skeptical of action for change? This analysis uses healing frameworks to explore the critical literacies of Black and Latinx youth in a youth participatory action research project that took place in the early days of the Trump administration, as well as the pedagogies employed. The salience and persistence of racial injustice in national politics and the local school district operated against youth’s reserves of hope and belief in change work, introducing tension into a project focused on transformation. As a pedagogical response, the project’s two White coteachers facilitated new pathways for critical literacies that involved joy, care, and new audiences. This response focused on joy in critical work and prompted some, though notably not all, youth to reengage with critical action and articulate hope for justice in their local worlds.

Continuous-Variable Quantum Secure Direct Communication Based on Gaussian Mapping

Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) realizes the transmission of secret messages directly in a quantum channel. A continuous-variable- (CV) based quantum-communication system allows high-speed, large-capacity information transmission in optical telecommunication systems. In this work, we propose a QSDC protocol based on Gaussian mapping. As for Gaussian modulation, the designed Gaussian-mapping scheme effectively solves the problem, which results from the nonuniformity of the secret-message bitstream, and is applicable to different modulation variances. The system performance analysis shows that the proposed scheme can realize inerrant Gaussian modulation of secret messages, and secure transmission of messages under information theory. Moreover, our work hopes to stimulate discussion on experimental realization and practical advance of CV-QSDC protocol.

How We Do It: A Multicenter National Experience of Virtual Vascular Surgery Rotations

To describe the development and implementation of virtual vascular surgery rotations among 6 integrated vascular surgery programs. A collaborative teleconference retrospectively discussing 6 independently developed virtual vascular surgery rotations to make a framework for future use. University of California Davis initiated a joint teleconference among the various integrated vascular surgery programs. Vascular surgery faculty and residents from 6 programs participated in the teleconferences and drafting of a framework for building a virtual vascular surgery rotation. Four specific domains were identified in discussing the framework to build a virtual vascular surgery rotation: planning, development, curriculum, and feedback. Each domain has specific aspects in making a virtual rotation that has applicability to other surgical rotations that seek to do the same. Virtual vascular surgery rotations are feasible and important; these electives can be established and implemented successfully with appropriate planning and consideration. This work hopes to help programs navigate this new space in education by making it more transparent and highlighting potential pitfalls.

The Maternal Body as a Space: Examining the Visuality of Marian Pregnancy in Late Medieval Europe

AbstractThis work offers a theoretically informed analysis of the characterization of maternity in religion using a spatial lens. The maternal body as a space is used as an analytical framework to discuss how Mary’s pregnancy is located and spatialized in Christianity. Through examining selected medieval Marian iconography, this work discusses what kind of space Mary’s body represents in the Christian doctrine. Analysis shows three central themes on the characterization of the maternal body as a space: (1) as a transitional space, (2) as a landmark, and (3) as a liminal space. The images of Marian pregnancy show that the maternal body is beyond its biological purpose in the Bible, but serves as a space that enables various interactions and spiritual events. The examination of Mary’s maternal body as a space offers an alternative perspective to discuss Mary’s character as a point of interface for Christian doctrines, biblical periods, and the Scriptures. In many ways, understanding Mary’s maternal body as a space speaks about the complexities and unveiled aspects of maternity’s role in religion. This work hopes to spark further discussions on how the maternal body intersects with spatiality in the context of religion.

Hope, adaptability, and job-search intensity among individuals living with serious mental illness

BACKGROUND: Increased intensity in job-search behavior is associated with important employment outcomes like job attainment. There is evidence that work hope, and career adaptability are important antecedents of higher job-search intensity. However, there is no evidence that these relationships exist among individuals living with serious mental illness. OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to improve our understanding of factors that contribute to job-search intensity among individuals living with serious mental illness. METHODS: Eighty-five individuals living with serious mental illness completed surveys of demographics, work hope, career adaptability, and job-search intensity. Correlational and regression analysis was used to examine the primary relationships in this study. RESULTS: Education level, employment status, and use of vocational rehabilitation services were background factors related to job-search intensity. Controlling for background factors, regression analysis found that work hope positively predicted job-search intensity, and career adaptability negatively predicted job-search intensity. Our model explained 35%of the variance in job-search intensity. Additionally, individuals who were employed had significantly higher career adaptability than individuals who were unemployed. CONCLUSIONS: Work hope and career adaptability are related to important vocational outcomes among individuals living with serious mental illness.