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Author(s): Haghighi R; Farhadloo M;
Background: The quality of health information on social media is a major concern, especially during the early stages of public health crises. While the quality of the results of the popular search engines related to particular diseases has been analyzed in ...
Article GUID: 41135052
Author(s): Wang Z; Briand M;
Managers often need to stay motivated and effectively motivate others. Therefore, they should rely on evidence-based interventions to effectively motivate and self-motivate. This research investigated how self-determination theory-based interventions affect...
Article GUID: 40723648
Author(s): Chen YP; Hsu YS; Panaccio A; Wang H;
Introduction: Drawing on the Motivation-Ability-Opportunity (MAO) framework and social information processing (SIP) theory, we hypothesized that supervisors demonstrate the highest level of servant leadership when their prosocial motivation (motivation), pe...
Article GUID: 40483067
Author(s): Lahmiri S; Bekiros S;
Background/Objectives: Cardiac arrhythmia (ARR) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are heart diseases that can cause dysfunction of other body organs and possibly death. This paper describes a fast and accurate detection system to distinguish between ARR an...
Article GUID: 40218199
Author(s): Chadwick IC; Landry G; Lefter AM; Panaccio A;
Using a Canadian sample of 146 interns surveyed on three occasions (i.e., before, during, and after their internship experiences), we investigated university students' skills and intentions as critical factors contributing to high-quality intern-supervi...
Article GUID: 40078601
Author(s): Saadé RG; Tsoukas G; Caminis J;
Osteoporosis is a condition characterized by low bone mass and micro-architectural deterioration leading to non-traumatic fractures of the skeleton. It is a potentially debilitating condition especially for senior citizens. There is growing interest for qua...
Article GUID: 16125163
Author(s): Gad Saad
Some evolutionists have construed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as the over-activation of warning systems in areas of evolutionary import. Using evolutionary theorizing, it is posited here that sex differences in the instantiation of specific obsessio...
Article GUID: 16828981
Author(s): Gad Saad
From an evolutionary perspective, suicide is a paradoxical phenomenon given its fatal consequences on one's reproductive fitness. That fact notwithstanding, evolutionists have typically used kin and group selection arguments in proposing that suicide mi...
Article GUID: 17011714
Author(s): Ferguson RJ; Paulin M; Leiriao E;
The ability to attract and retain loyal customers depends on the successful implementation of a customer-centric strategy. Customer loyalty is an attitude about an organization and its' services that is manifested by intentions and behaviors of re-patro...
Article GUID: 18681199
Author(s): Laroche M; Pons F; Richard MO;
The authors focused on the role of language use in measuring ethnic identity. They demonstrated the construct validity of a 3-dimensional measure and examined potential biases introduced by alternative methods such as constant sum scale. Their findings supp...
Article GUID: 19702108
Author(s): Hecht TD; Boies K;
Employees today are involved in many different types of activities outside of work, including family, volunteering, leisure, and so on. The purpose of this study was to understand how participation in such nonwork activities can both enrich and interfere wi...
Article GUID: 19839661
Author(s): Saad G; Gill T;
The authors investigated sex differences in the ratings of physical attractiveness in a competitive context. Participants in an Ultimatum Game experiment offered to split a sum of money with their opponents who could either accept or reject the offers; subs...
Article GUID: 20014522
Author(s): Bhave DP; Kramer A; Glomb TM;
We used social information processing theory to examine the effect of work-family conflict (WFC) at the work group level on individuals' experience of WFC. Consistent with hypotheses, results suggest that WFC at the work group level influences individua...
Article GUID: 20085412
Author(s): Hecht TD; McCarthy JM;
Balancing multiple roles is a challenge for individuals in many sectors of the population. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that individuals have dispositional tendencies to experience interrole conflict and facilitation. We also aimed t...
Article GUID: 20604586
Author(s): Gad Saad
The parental investment hypothesis provides a parsimonious explanation for a wide range of sexually dimorphic traits and behaviors across countless species. In the human context, the hypothesis posits that in light of the differentially greater parental inv...
Article GUID: 20627598
Author(s): Gary Johns
Presenteeism is attending work when ill. This study examined the antecedents and correlates of presenteeism, absenteeism, and productivity loss attributed to presenteeism. Predictors included work context, personal characteristics, and work experiences. Bus...
Article GUID: 21875212
Author(s): Gad Saad
Editor's note: In this engaging talk given last February on a particularly cold and blustery day at Texas Tech University, Professor Gad Saad of Concordia University discusses his work in the area of evolutionary consumption. In making the case for unde...
Article GUID: 24047091
Author(s): Vidyarthi N; Kuzgunkaya O;
Preventive healthcare (PH) programs and services aim at reducing the likelihood and severity of potentially life-threatening illness by early detection and prevention. The effectiveness of these programs depends on the participation level and the accessibil...
Article GUID: 24879402
Author(s): Saad G; Greengross G;
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Article GUID: 24999326
Author(s): Guo T; Lok KY; Yu C; Li Z;
Pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive and irreversible disorder with no appropriate cure. A practical and effective experimental model that recapitulates the disease will greatly benefit the research community and, ultimately, patients. In this study, we test...
Article GUID: 25290944
Author(s): Nemis-White J; Torr E; Gogovor A; Marshall L; Ahmed S; Aylen J; Montague T;
Eleven Health Care in Canada (HCIC) surveys, spanning 1998-2014, offer a comprehensive overview of the changing perceptions of physician, nurse, pharmacist, administrator and public stakeholders of the nation's health status, its burden of illness and i...
Article GUID: 25906461
Author(s): Luo B; Wan L; Liang L; Li T;
Despite the perceived success of educational campaigns and smoking bans in public places in China, the actual effects have not been investigated. This study examines the effects of the two policies by major characteristics of smokers and whether the affecte...
Article GUID: 26064959
Author(s): Vongas JG; Al Hajj R;
Glass cliffs describe situations in which women are promoted to executive roles in declining organizations. To explain them, some authors suggest that people tend to "think crisis-think female." However, the root cause of this association remains elusive. U...
Article GUID: 26617564
Author(s): Marchand A; Haines VY; Harvey S; Dextras-Gauthier J; Durand P;
This study examines the associations between health and stress management (HSM) practices and mental-health disability claims. Data from the Salveo study was collected during 2009-2012 within 60 workplaces nested in 37 companies located in Canada (Quebec) a...
Article GUID: 26644043
Author(s): Montague T; Gogovor A; Ahmed S; Torr E; Aylen J; Marshall L; Henningsen N; Nemis-White J;
The Canadian public is aging. Population levels of excellent, or very good, health are decreasing, and the prevalence of chronic diseases is increasing. Timely access to caring and respectful care from health professionals, with supporting information trans...
Article GUID: 26718249
Author(s): Dominic Martin
Who should decide how a machine will decide what to do when it is driving a car, performing a medical procedure, or, more generally, when it is facing any kind of morally laden decision? More and more, machines are making complex decisions with a considerab...
Article GUID: 27905083
Author(s): Vongas JG; Al Hajj R;
A contribution to a special issue on Hormones and Human Competition. We investigated the effects of competition on men's testosterone levels and assessed whether androgen reactivity was associated with subsequent emotion recognition and reactive and pro...
Article GUID: 28455183
Author(s): Montague T; Gogovor A; Aylen J; Ashley L; Ahmed S; Martin L; Cochrane B; Adams O; Nemis-White J;...
Canadians' health and its care continue to evolve. Chronic diseases affect more than 50% of our aging population, but the majority of public and professional stakeholders retain a sense of care...
Article GUID: 28550701
Author(s): Shipp AJ; Aeon B;
We review recent findings on temporal focus-the degree to which individuals think about the past, present, and/or future. Hypothetically, focusing on each time period could be beneficial as one can learn from the past, savor the present moment, and plan for...
Article GUID: 29734132
Author(s): Roux C; Goldsmith K; Cannon C;
No abstract available
Article GUID: 37359269
Author(s): Leduc JG; Boucher F; Marques DL; Brunelle E;
Purpose: The present study sought to understand the relationships between team identification, leader-member exchange (LMX) quality, and the basic psychological need satisfaction of collegiate athletes, as well as the moderating role of coach-athlete LMX qu...
Article GUID: 38756189
Author(s): Lavoie-Tremblay M; Boies K; Clausen C; Frechette J; Manning K; Gelsomini C; Cyr G; Lavigne G; Gottlieb B; Gottlieb LN;...
Background: Targeted interventions have been found effective for developing leadership practices in nurses. However, to date, no leadership training program based on the Strengths-Based Nursing and...
Article GUID: 38746801
Author(s): Lavoie-Tremblay M; Boies K; Clausen C; Frechette J; Manning K; Gelsomini C; Cyr G; Lavigne G; Gottlieb B; Gottlieb LN;...
Background: Development of nursing leadership is necessary to ensure that nurse leaders of the future are well-equipped to tackle the challenges of a burdened healthcare system. In this context, th...
Article GUID: 38746810
Author(s): Lahmiri S; Boukadoum M; Di Ieva A;
Several natural phenomena can be described by studying their statistical scaling patterns, hence leading to simple geometrical interpretation. In this regard, fractal geometry is a powerful tool to describe the irregular or fragmented shape of natural featu...
Article GUID: 38468046
Author(s): Al Hajj R; Vongas JG; Jamal M; ElMelegy AR;
This paper explains the contradictory findings on the relationship between stress and work engagement by including appraisals as a driving mechanism through which job stressors influence engagement. In doing so, it explores whether stressors categorised as ...
Article GUID: 37851607
Author(s): Emborg M; Lloyd S; Olsen S;
No abstract available
Article GUID: 37641449
Author(s): Isola C; Granger S; Turner N; LeBlanc MM; Barling J;
This study investigates the link between intimate partner violence (IPV) and work withdrawal (including absence frequency, partial absenteeism, and turnover intentions) in the context of partners' interference with victims at work and family supportive ...
Article GUID: 37359457
Author(s): Peters JA; Farhadloo M;
Introduction: To assess the effects of various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) on cases, hospitalizations, and mortality during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: To empirically investigate the impacts of different NPIs on COVID-19-re...
Article GUID: 37362389
Author(s): L' Heureux J; McTaggart-Cowan H; Johns G; Chen L; Steiner T; Tocher P; Sun H; Zhang W;...
Objectives: From the perspectives of patients and caregivers, the objectives were: identifying which result presentations, describing work productivity loss (WPL) outcomes, are most understandable;...
Article GUID: 37276772
Author(s): Cumming D; Hornuf L; Karami M; Schweizer D;
Fraud in the reward-based crowdfunding market has been of concern to regulators, but it is arguably of greater importance to the nascent industry itself. Despite its significance for entrepreneurial finance, our knowledge of the occurrence, determinants, an...
Article GUID: 36779203
Author(s): He S; Rucker DD;
Uncertainty is an inherent part of consumers' environment. A large literature in marketing and related disciplines has found a positive relationship between uncertainty and information search: as consumers' uncertainty about a brand, product, or ser...
Article GUID: 36471868
Author(s): Kryzanowski L; Liu J; Zhang J;
We examine the resilience of Chinese banks during the COVID-19 pandemic by investigating non-performing loan (NPL) ratios. We find that despite the reduction in the growth rate of total bank lending, bank NPL ratios significantly increase during the COVID-1...
Article GUID: 36164498
Author(s): Bjørn A; Tilsted JP; Addas A; Lloyd SM;
Purpose of review: Companies increasingly set science-based targets (SBTs) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We review literature on SBTs to understand their potential for aligning corporate emissions with the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. ...
Article GUID: 35854785
Author(s): Thibault Landry A; Papachristopoulos K; Gradito Dubord MA; Forest J;
In the present research, we validated a new scale developed from self-determination theory (SDT) to assess the functional meaning of cash rewards offered in the workplace. According to SDT, rewards can take on different meanings based on the way they are pe...
Article GUID: 35444597
Author(s): Goldsmith K; Roux C; Tezer A; Cannon C;
In this article, we review research on the discrepancy between consumers' high self-reported interest in sustainable products and these products' poor performance in the marketplace. We offer theoretically derived reasons for why framing sustainable...
Article GUID: 35429922
Author(s): Azarpanah H; Farhadloo M; Vahidov R; Pilote L;
Background: Vaccine hesitancy has been a growing challenge for public health in recent decades. Among factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy, concerns regarding vaccine safety and Adverse Events (AEs) play the leading role. Moreover, cognitive biases are...
Article GUID: 34530804
Author(s): Sucapane D; Roux C; Sobol K;
While consumers have been increasingly trying to reduce their meat consumption due to rising concerns about its impact on their health and the environment, many still find animal-based foods more attractive than plant-based foods, thus hindering their adopt...
Article GUID: 34242733
Author(s): Vongas JG; Al Hajj R; Fiset J;
Personal distress is a building block of empathy, yet has received scant attention in studies of individual differences in leadership. We investigate whether the effect of leader emergence on men's distress is influenced by their personalized power moti...
Article GUID: 33378391
Author(s): Alankar B; Sharma G; Kaur H; Valverde R; Chang V;
Cloud computing has emerged as the primary choice for developers in developing applications that require high-performance computing. Virtualization technology has helped in the distribution of resources to multiple users. Increased use of cloud infrastructu...
Article GUID: 33371361
Author(s): Lahmiri S; Bekiros S;
The main purpose of our paper is to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on randomness in volatility series of world major markets and to examine its effect on their interconnections. The data set includes equity (Bitcoin and Standard and Poor's...
Article GUID: 33286604
Author(s): Gad Saad
Many detractors of evolutionary psychology (EP) presume that adaptive arguments are nothing more than whimsical and unfalsifiable just-so stories. The reality though is that the epistemology of EP is precisely the opposite of this antiquated canard in that ...
Article GUID: 33224071
Author(s): Aktas OU; Kryzanowski L; Zhang J;
The intraday volatility effects of price-limit hits for stocks in the BIST-50 index during a volatile period are examined. Our evidence supports the volatility no-effect, dampening and spillover hypotheses depending on whether the lower or upper price limit...
Article GUID: 32837364
Author(s): Lahmiri S; Bekiros S;
The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected world economies. In this regard, it is expected that information level and sharing between equity, digital currency, and energy markets has been altered due to the pandemic outbreak. Specifically, the resulting t...
Article GUID: 32834621
Author(s): Goldsmith K; Roux C; Cannon C;
People generally respond to resource scarcity through one of two pathways: scarcity-reduction or control-restoration. We draw from recent work on the solidity (versus liquidity) of consumption opportunities to offer a new lens through which to view how the ...
Article GUID: 32801105
Author(s): Lahmiri S; Bekiros S;
We explore the evolution of the informational efficiency in 45 cryptocurrency markets and 16 international stock markets before and during COVID-19 pandemic. The measures of Largest Lyapunov Exponent (LLE) based on the Rosenstein's method and Approximat...
Article GUID: 32501379
