Accessing the Issues: Current Research in Disability Studies

The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the April 1995 annual meeting of the Chronic Disease and Disability Section of the Western Social Sciences Association and the June 1995 annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, both of which were held in Oakland, California.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1251/thumbnail.jp

高齢者のためのメンタルとアクティビティのケア支援に関する研究

博士（学術）佐賀大

Parental Awareness on Teenage Smoking Behavior in Yogyakarta and Bali

Smoking or being healthy is not a suitable offers to young teenagers (ages 13-15 years), because they have not able to take responsibility for the negative impacts of their choices on smoking behaviors. In addition, they have not been well informed about cigarettes and their dangers. The data indicate that there was a high rate of smoking behavior for adolescents aged 13-15 years (55.71%), including trial smoking behavior. However, only 39% of parents are aware of their children smoking behavior. This study aims were determining the awareness of parents and its form on the smoking behavior of their teenage children after treatment. The design of this study was a pre-posttest experiment with control group design. Around 301 parents of 8th grade boy student from 7 junior high schools were considered respondents. The latter came from 2 locations namely Yogyakarta and Tabanan Bali. For determining the respondents, cluster random sampling was used. The respondents were grouped into 3 groups (X1 treatment group, X2 treatment group and control group). The treatment is to provide information about cigarettes and its danger. It was given once by health workers. The measured variable is the respondent awareness and its form that was obtained from the students using selfreported questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Kruskal Wallis and Chi-square test with 0.05 level of significant. The results showed that there was a significant increase the parental awareness after treatment (p value 0.0001). This can happen because the intervention strengthened the predisposing factor to realize the respondents’ caring behavior as well as the concept of behavioral determinant of LW Green. In the X2 treatment group (non-smoker respondents) showed a higher increase of parental awareness than X1 treatment group (smoker respondents) and control group. This happens because they get support from health workers and get healthy conditions as resulted from their behavior. They will continue to remain as nonsmokers and encourage their teenage children to look up to them in order to get a similar reward, as the law of effect theory by E.L Thorndike made it clear. The form of awareness that many parents chose is the message upholding the primary prevention. The conclusion of the research stresses on continuously fetching more knowledge about cigarettes and its dangers, as one of the best mechanisms that can increase the parental awareness against teenage smoking behavior

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ROMANIA

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main opportunities and limitations of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The survey was defined with the aim to involve the highest possible number of relevant CSR topics and give the issue a more wholesome perspective. It provides a basis for further comprehension and deeper analyses of specific CSR areas. The conditions determining the success of CSR in Romania have been defined in the paper on the basis of the previously cumulative knowledge as well as the results of various researches. This paper provides knowledge which may be useful in the programs promoting CSR.Corporate social responsibility, Supportive policies, Romania

Reform of the public healthcare system in Ukraine: problems and perspectives

1. The development of a public health system in Ukraine is possible only through the implementation and adoption of the relevant Law, as well as the introduction of the basic approach Health in All Policies. 2. It is necessary to prepare a comparable to Health in All Policies National Plan for the Development of Staffing System of the Public Health Care Sector for interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral purposes and for determining the real and possible needs of specialists of different qualifications and educational levels. 3. It is compulsory to learn from valuable European and international experience; then develop and approve educational programs and standards in the sector of public health in order to provide three education levels bachelor's (first cycle), master's (second cycle) and doctoral (third cycle) and continuous professional development. 4. It is essential to introduce Amendments to the National Classifier of Ukraine DK 003: 2010 Occupational Classification in the Public Health sector

The Whitworthian 2007-2008

The Whitworthian student newspaper, September 2007-April 2008.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/whitworthian/1092/thumbnail.jp

An assessment of how mindfulness affect service quality and service experience in Vietnam’s luxury hotels

The development of advanced technologies has penetrated much of contemporary life, altering the way people live, work and travel. It also brings unprecedented challenges and opportunities for tourism and hospitality businesses. The rapid deployment of the Internet and the Web 1.0, as well as the Web 2.0/social media environment, have effectively revolutionized the hospitality and tourism industries (Law et al., 2014). However, in addition to advantages from technologies, common drawbacks of technology application are also found, for example information overload (Frias et al., 2008; Magnini, 2017), technostress (Lee et al., 2014), the problem of “value co-destruction” (Ple & Chumpitaz Caceres, 2010; Sigala, 2017) or de-personalisation of tourist experiences (Tarlow, 2011). Customers seem to be more sophisticated and demanding, the business environment is increasingly competitive, services are starting to look like commodities and service quality is becoming standardized and no longer suffice to establish a competitive advantage. There is a shifting from a service-based to an experience-based economy. Tourism and hospitality industry is also on the way to a more experience-based service industry. Mindfulness refers to the state of being aware, taking note of what is going on within oneself and outside in the world. Beyond improving welfare (Kiken & Shook, 2011), being mindful increases empathy (Winning & Boag, 2015), reduces cognitive biases (Hafenbrack et al., 2014) and influences the consumers’ decision making process (Chan, 2019). Many previous studies demonstrate positive relationships between mindfulness and consumer behaviours such as more satisfaction, greater learning, or more understanding (Moscardo, 1996; Van Winkle & Backman, 2009). In the recent experience literature, mindfulness has gained traction and been considered as a useful tool for managing customers’ experiences in tourism and hospitality (Barber & Deale, 2014; Chan, 2019; Frauman & Norman, 2004). The purpose of this study is to develop an explanatory framework that addresses about how mindfulness (MIND) impacts customers’ perception of service quality (PSQ) and service experience quality (PSE) and to differentiate the two concepts PSQ and PSE in the context of luxury hotel segment in Vietnam. Structured questionnaire was used to gather the perceptions of customers on service quality, service experience and measure their mindfulness as well. The survey was conducted in three luxury hotels in Hanoi. In total, a sample of 395 questionnaires was collected, in which 379 was valid for data analysis. Quantitative methods using exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory analysis and structural equation modelling with Partial Least Square (PLS-SEM) were employed for data analysis. The measurements of PSQ, PSE and MIND have been developed and validated. The interrelationships between the three constructs are examined. The results show that MIND has significant relationships on PSQ and PSE, and PSQ and PSE are distinct constructs in terms of their dimensions. MIND is found to have a stronger impact on PSQ than on PSE, and PSQ has a partial mediating role in the relationship between MIND and PSE. The findings of the research are useful for hotel managers to understand more their guests’ demands in the experience economy which are not only about functional benefits, but emotional benefits from the experiential approach. The findings also help to update the understanding of how an ever-evolving customer-base perceives service quality in such a highly competitive environment of luxury hotels. The conclusions of Mindfulness help hotel managers understand more consumer behaviour in a complex environment where there seems to much information. MIND, PSQ and PSE are modelled as formative second-order constructs, which provides a better specification for each construct. Limitations of the whole study are acknowledged and recommendations for future research are proposed

CIMODE 2016: 3º Congresso Internacional de Moda e Design: proceedings

O CIMODE 2016 é o terceiro Congresso Internacional de Moda e Design, a decorrer de 9 a 12 de maio de 2016 na cidade de Buenos Aires, subordinado ao tema : EM--‐TRAMAS. A presente edição é organizada pela Faculdade de Arquitetura, Desenho e Urbanismo da Universidade de Buenos Aires, em conjunto com o Departamento de Engenharia Têxtil da Universidade do Minho e com a ABEPEM – Associação Brasileira de Estudos e Pesquisa em Moda.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio