208 research outputs found
Factors Influencing Impulse Buying During an Online Purchase Transaction
An important element in retailing is the use of impulse purchases; generally small items that are bought by consumers on the spur of the moment. By some estimates, impulse purchases make up approximately 50 percent of all spending by consumers. While impulse purchases have been studied in the brick-and-mortar retail environment, they have not been researched in the online retail environment. With e-commerce growing rapidly and approaching 1 donation for a charity to the impulse item increases the frequency of the impulse purchase
Gaining a âFootholdâ on the Diagnosis of Leishmaniasis
Pediatric refugees and immigrants may present with unusual diagnoses due to their extensive migration and potential harsh conditions in travel. Trauma and family separation add to the difficulty of obtaining a history of exposures. We report a case of one of the more commonly neglected tropical diseases, Leishmaniasis. A 15-year-old male refugee patient presented to the hospital with ulcerative lesions to his legs. His migration history was extensive, starting in Central Africa with travel to South America, followed by migration through Central America to Texas. The patient developed ulcerative lesions on his legs, and he was brought to the childrenâs hospital by his refugee organization, where the diagnosis was ultimately confirmed as Leishmaniasis. Providers should become familiar with tropical diseases that refugees, as well as local populations, may acquire from travel. Specifically, pediatricians should become familiar with the more prevalent âneglectedâ tropical diseases as recommended by the World Health Organization
A qualitative study exploring the effects of attending a community pain service choir on wellbeing in people who experience chronic pain
The choir has links to a multidisciplinary pain management service, which is informed by the ethos of solution-focused principles, specifically in identifying and drawing upon patientsâ resources. Seven choir members participated in semi-structured interviews, grounded in lines of enquiry commonly used in SF practice. Thematic analysis of the data uncovered seven themes: Physical Improvements, Emotional Impact, Personal Growth, Interpersonal Processes, Relationship with the âSelfâ, Living Well with Pain and Sharing the Music and Spreading the Word. The choir enabled continued progress towards accomplishing key PMP aims: self-management, coping and living well with pain. Findings expanded upon existing findings relating to singing and wellbeing by highlighting the choirâs role in promoting resilience and acceptance of pain. Clinical implications are explored in relation to psychosocial dimensions of pain
Integration of Pretreatment With Simultaneous Counter-Current Extraction of Energy Sorghum for High-Titer Mixed Sugar Production
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) offers substantial potential as a feedstock for the production of sugar-derived biofuels and biochemical products from cell wall polysaccharides (i. e., cellulose and hemicelluloses) and water-extractable sugars (i.e., glucose, fructose, sucrose, and starch). A number of preprocessing schemes can be envisioned that involve processes such as sugar extraction, pretreatment, and densification that could be employed in decentralized, regional-scale biomass processing depots. In this work, an energy sorghum exhibiting a combination of high biomass productivity and high sugar accumulation was evaluated for its potential for integration into several potential biomass preprocessing schemes. This included counter-current extraction of water-soluble sugars followed by mild NaOH or liquid hot water pretreatment of the extracted bagasse. A novel processing scheme was investigated that could integrate with current diffuser-type extraction systems for sugar extraction. In this approach, mild NaOH pretreatment (i.e., \u3c90°C) was performed as a counter-current extraction to yield both an extracted, pretreated bagasse and a high-concentration mixed sugar stream. Following hydrolysis of the bagasse, the combined hydrolysates derived from cellulosic sugars and extractable sugars were demonstrated to be fermentable to high ethanol titers (\u3e8%) at high metabolic yields without detoxification using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain metabolically engineered and evolved to ferment xylose
Switching roles:a qualitative study of staff experiences of being dialectical behaviour therapists within the National Health Service in England
Many National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in England have invested in dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) for mental health service users. The experiences of NHS staff delivering DBT were explored using semi-structured interviews with six dialectical behaviour therapists working in secondary mental health services within the NHS. The aim was to consider the impact on staff of adding the DBT therapist role onto their existing job role. Interview data were analysed using thematic analysis. Six themes were inductively generated from the data: DBT as a useful framework; DBT as the most satisfying part of the job; âWorzel Gummidge headsââ conflicts in roles; âDBT buddiesââ the importance of informal support; uncertainty about the future; and recursivity â using DBT skills personally. Interactions between themes, implications for the service and future research directions are discussed. Key findings suggest that the addition of the DBT therapist role, as well as the recursive nature of DBT, has a positive impact professionally and personally. However, the service context within which participants were working can lead this additional role to cause increased demands and therefore stress, reducing that positive impact
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