The role of work engagement in promoting service-oriented organizational citizenship behavior

Service-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (SO-OCB) is a form of the extra- role behavior performed by service employees when delivering services to customers. SO-OCB includes three dimensions, which are loyalty, service delivery and participation. In the context of private hospitals, nurses representing the hospital to deliver services to patients and nurses have the most frequent interaction with patients. Therefore, SO-OCB exhibited by nurses is imperative in warranting the outstanding service quality of the private hospitals. This study aims to examine the mediation role of work engagement between organizational resources (training, performance appraisal, and empowerment), social resources (co-worker support and patient cooperation) and SO-OCB among nurses in private hospitals. The sample of this study was nurses in Malaysian private hospitals. A total of 30,335 nurses working in 137 private hospitals in Malaysia were invited to participate in this study. However, only 15 private hospitals agreed to participate in this study. Hence, 345 nurses were involved in this study and 345 set of questionnaires were distributed. Of that, 324 set questionnaires were returned and 318 set of questionnaires were usable. Statistical Package for Social Sciences 22.0 (SPSS) and Partial Least Squares 2.0 (PLS) were used to analyse the data. The findings indicate that work engagement mediates all the hypotheses except the relationship which hypothesized between training and SO-OCB. Based on findings, suggestions and limitations of the study were put forward

The Changing Intention to Practice Healthy Eating Behaviour Among Late Adolescents During Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has generated intention among late adolescents to practice healthy eating behaviour. Although it is not new, there is limited research on this topic. To date, the pandemic has changed the behaviour of late adolescents to practice healthy eating behaviour. As such, it has tremendously grabbed the attention of scholars amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the development process from adolescence to late adolescence stage has become a serious healthrelated issue worldwide. However, most research are focused on adolescents instead of late adolescents. Late adolescence is a special group of the population who has specific health concerns. To discover more about healthy eating behaviours among late adolescence aged between 18-24 years in Malaysia, this study aims to examine the 62 Journal of Business Management and Accounting, Vol. 11, Number 2 (July) 2021, pp: 61–72 determinants that contribute to the eating behaviour in this population. Based on past and current literature reviews, a proposed research framework was developed, along with some untested assumptions which were formulated for the research purpose

American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture Design of Fully-Automated Biopolymer Medium Inlet System for Cells Culture

ABSTRACT The culturing and preparation of cells or tissues normally generates liquid wastes that must be assessed and managed according to the biological, chemical, and radiological hazards contained within them. Potentially infectious cell or tissue culture waste media constitutes a biological waste that must be disinfected prior to disposal. Waste of culture medium contains cells, nutrient, lipids, vitamins etc. This project is to set up a fully-automated biopolymer medium inlet system for the purpose of recycle culture medium and mass producing tissue engineering skin. This prototype has enhance sustainability is medicine. In this project, used culture medium was transported out of the culture tray and then collected in a collector tank where recycle the useful medium. It's a challenge to design the control circuit with proper automation which enables the flow of the medium around the system efficiently. Lastly, this project has showed a good start to health improvement because this project is a life-changing project and may improve the health of the people who requires skin tissue treatment. In terms of profit, this project has a unique build and its marketing potential is very wide. This project proposed innovation and that a real business opportunity exists, should the technology prove feasible

Angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockers prevent aortic arterial stiffness in elderly patients with hypertension

Backgrounds and aims: Increased arterial stiffness may increase cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockers (ARBs) are potentially useful in controlling the central blood pressure and arterial stiffness in mild to moderate essential hypertension, while the effects of ARBs in aged patients with essential hypertension are not entirely investigated. Methods: The carotid-femoral arterial pulse wave velocity (PWV) was measured in aged patients with essential hypertension. Results: In a cross-sectional study, PWV value was significantly higher in these old patients with essential hypertension, compared to patients without essential hypertension. In correlation analysis, PWV was associated positively with age, hypertension duration, and carotid atherosclerosis. However, there was no relationship between PWV and gender in aged patients with essential hypertension. In a perspective study, 6–12 months administration of ARBs (losartan, 50 mg/day; telmisartan, 40 mg/day; valsartan 80 mg/day; irbesartan, 150 mg/day) remarkably reduced PWV in aged patients with essential hypertension. Regression analyses of multiple factors indicated that the effects of ARBs on arterial stiffness were not associated with the reduction of blood pressure. Conclusion: ARB treatment is a negative risk factor of arterial stiffness in aged patients with essential hypertension

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

In 2008, we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy. Since then, this topic has received increasing attention, and many scientists have entered the field. Our knowledge base and relevant new technologies have also been expanding. Thus, it is important to formulate on a regular basis updated guidelines for monitoring autophagy in different organisms. Despite numerous reviews, there continues to be confusion regarding acceptable methods to evaluate autophagy, especially in multicellular eukaryotes. Here, we present a set of guidelines for investigators to select and interpret methods to examine autophagy and related processes, and for reviewers to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of reports that are focused on these processes. These guidelines are not meant to be a dogmatic set of rules, because the appropriateness of any assay largely depends on the question being asked and the system being used. Moreover, no individual assay is perfect for every situation, calling for the use of multiple techniques to properly monitor autophagy in each experimental setting. Finally, several core components of the autophagy machinery have been implicated in distinct autophagic processes (canonical and noncanonical autophagy), implying that genetic approaches to block autophagy should rely on targeting two or more autophagy-related genes that ideally participate in distinct steps of the pathway. Along similar lines, because multiple proteins involved in autophagy also regulate other cellular pathways including apoptosis, not all of them can be used as a specific marker for bona fide autophagic responses. Here, we critically discuss current methods of assessing autophagy and the information they can, or cannot, provide. Our ultimate goal is to encourage intellectual and technical innovation in the field