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Organizational social entrepreneurship : scale development and validation
2019
Purpose: Social entrepreneurship has become a growing field of research interest. Yet, past research has been held back by the lack of a rigorous measurement instrument. Rather than defining social entrepreneurship as an organizational form that a venture does or does not have, this paper agrees with Dees and Anderson (2006) that the construct is better thought of as a set of practices, processes and behaviors that organizations can engage in to a higher or a lesser degree. In other words, the construct is a set of behaviors that any organization can engage in. The purpose of the paper is to develop scale items to measure the construct of organizational social entrepreneurship (OSE). Design…
Evaluation of Standard Precautions Compliance Instruments: A Systematic Review Using COSMIN Methodology
2023
Background: Standard precautions (SPs) are first-line strategies with a dual goal: to protect health care workers from occupational contamination while providing care to infected patients and to prevent/reduce health care-associated infections (HAIs). This study aimed at (1) identifying the instruments currently available for measuring healthcare professionals’ compliance with standard precautions; (2) evaluating their measurement properties; and (3) providing sound evidence for instrument selection for use by researchers, teachers, staff trainers, and clinical tutors. Methods: We carried out a systematic review to examine the psychometric properties of standard precautions self-assessment …
L'interaction lieu – objet comme modélisation de l'expérience culturelle vécue : définition, mesure et validation empirique dans le cas du spectacle …
2006
This article proposes to reconsider the concept of lived cultural experience. In a first part, we explore the track of value. We try to justify of its interest to apprehend the experience. We also seek to improve the conceptualization of the experience by defining it as an interaction place - object. Then, in a second part, we present an empirical test of this conceptualization in the field of lives performance. This test is followed of a discussion about the results.
Conceptualisation et mesure de la valeur perçue d'un lieu de consommation. Application au domaine du spectacle vivant
2005
This article seeks to understand the role of a place during a consumption experience. We explore the track of value and present a scale of perceived value of a place. In this way, we have done a state of art about the value and we justify for using this concept to grasp the physical environment. We present the stages of the scale's building.
Tensions and Paradoxes of Scaling Up : A Critical Reflection on Physical Activity Promotion
2022
Background: Achieving system-level, sustainable ‘scale-up’ of interventions is the epitome of successful translation of evidence-based approaches in population health. In physical activity promotion, few evidence-based interventions reach implementation at scale or become embedded within systems for sustainable health impact. This is despite the vast published literature describing efficacy studies of small-scale physical activity interventions. Research into physical activity scale-up (through case-study analysis; evaluations of scale-up processes in implementation trials; and mapping the processes, strategies, and principles for scale-up) has identified barriers and facilitato…
Psychrophiles: A source of cold-adapted enzymes for energy efficient biotechnological industrial processes
2021
Biocatalysts are the backbone of bioprocessing industries that are going through a phase of transition with reference to the requirement of extraordinary enzymes for various biochemical processes. This transition is well reported and documented by various researchers through elucidation of different features and applications of mesophilic and thermophilic enzymes. However, there is little information available about psychrophilic enzymes and their involvement in industrial processes. Therefore, understanding the features and functions of psychrophilic enzymes could suggest some of their novel applications in various industries such as food, agriculture, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and waste…
Systematic review of prosocial behavior measures
2018
Measuring prosocial conduct, just as other constructs which are relevant for psychological adjustment, requires a base of knowledge which is orderly and up-to-date, which helps to identify and methodological aspects for its construction. The objective of this study is to identify the instruments for measuring prosocial behavior which are available today in the empirical literature, as well as to analyze their characteristics and psychometric properties.In this study, the bibliographic search was carried out on the databases of web of science (WOS) and Dialnet from 1900 to 2017 with special emphasis on the last decade. Sixteen instruments relevant to prosocial behavior were chosen describing…
Measurement awareness: the Use of Indicators between Expectations and Opportunities
2004
In questo lavoro sono discussi problemi di merito e di metodo che si presentano allorquando ci si imbatte nell''articolato processo di costruzione di un indicatore composto. Alcuni temi discussi con riguardo agli indicatori sociali sono, quindi, richiamati pur senza analizzare la varietà e la specificità degli apparati definitori e dei sistemi classificatori reperibili nella vastissima letteratura. Una particolare attenzione è rivolta all''analisi del rapporto fra indicatori e costruzione delle scale, che si conclude con l''illustrazione di un esempio, ancora in progress, che mette in risalto la distanza che tuttora separa volontà conoscitiva e fattibilità operativa.
Explaining two forms of Internet crime from two perspectives : toward stage theories for phishing and Internet scamming
2017
The two studies in this dissertation examine two pervasive and common forms of Internet crimes from two different perspectives: (1) phishing from the victims’ perspective and (2) Internet scamming from the offenders’ perspective. For the former, previous phishing research is based on models that assume that fixed or static factors explain or predict people’s reasons for complying with phishing emails. These models assume that the reasons for complying with phishing emails are the same across individuals and across time. However, we argue that, whereas the act of clicking on a phishing email is the same across time for phishing victims, the reasons for complying are not the same. We address …
Símbolos en el atuendo de las mujeres mayas de la antigüedad. Una aproximación iconográfica a tres diseños singulares
2021
Este artículo forma parte de una investigación de mayor envergadura que tiene como objeto de estudio la representación femenina en el arte maya a través de los elementos que conforman sus retratos y definen sus identidades. Tanto las joyas, como la pintura corporal, los tocados o las prendas de vestir, establecían un diálogo con el espectador de su tiempo que si se analiza e interpreta en la actualidad, también puede aproximar al investigador al conocimiento sobre sus portadoras. Por ello, en esta ocasión presentamos concretamente el análisis de tres símbolos que forman parte de la indumentaria de algunas mujeres de la élite maya, entre los cuales cabe destacar el que luce la noble Señora …