Expanding the role of non-physician medical staff in primary care in Germany: protocol for a mixed-methods study exploring the perspectives of physicians in rural practices by Joachim E Fischer, Heiner Averbeck, David Litaker

“…Possible influencing factors, motives and beliefs regarding delegation to non-physician medical staff and the potential of an expanded role, as perceived by primary care physicians, however, remain unclear. …”
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Educational Policy of Kazakhstan in the Context of Youth Migration by V. Yu. Ledeneva, O. V. Lomakina, A. M. Dzhunusov, B. T. Begasilov

“…The relevance of the study is determined by the gradual expansion of educational contacts of Kazakhstan with other countries and the need to identify the competitive advantages of foreign educational systems over the national higher education system of Kazakhstan.The purpose of the article is to consider the main motives, causes and consequences of educational migration from Kazakhstan, to analyze the activities of the authorities and ways of regulating youth migration, develop new effective methods for regulating external migration processes and provide recommendations on minimizing the risks associated with the outflow of young people from the country.In order to identify the main trends and development of educational migration from Kazakhstan, the study was carried out on the basis of collecting information through a questionnaire, as well as its detailed processing and content analysis. …”
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How journalism experience translates to social entrepreneurship: An intention formation study of the Art Yard at Dadaocheng in Taiwan by Huei-Ching Liu, Chaoyun Liang

“…Social entrepreneurial self-efficacy in communication and marketing management is closely associated with the journalism profession, and the journalistic passion for social justice can motivate social responsibility activities. Careful selection, maintenance, and transformation of business partners for social support are essential. …”
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Patient Perspectives on Home Tonometer Usage for Glaucoma by Thaprawat P, Dugan SP, Zhang AD

“…Patient comments provided insight into sources of difficulty in usage and motivations for home tonometry.Conclusion: Home tonometry was easy to use and comfortable for most patients with proficiency in usage quickly achieved by day 3. …”
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Development of agency skills and creative thinking among students of a technical university: practical cases by Oksana F. Abramova

“…Students studying using the above-mentioned cases participate much more calmly and effectively both in external educational activities, such as design and educational intensive courses, competitions and acceleration programs, and are more motivated and involved in the stages of implementation and protection of their own projects within the framework of disciplinary and end-to-end course projects, as well as final qualification work.…”
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A Study to Determine the Mediating Effect of Novelty Seeking in the Effect of Consumers’ Personal Values on Attitudes Towards Functional Foods by Selçuk Efe Küçükkambak

“…In research conducted in the field of consumer behavior, some of the common goals of researchers are to determine the factors that affect the purchasing decision process of consumers, to monitor the current changes of these factors, to identify the variables that affect these factors, and to try to reveal the dark motives of the consumer that affect the purchasing decision. …”
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Intervention to systematize fall risk assessment and prevention in older hospitalized adults: a mixed methods study by Johann Stuby, Pascal Leist, Noël Hauri, Sanjana Jeevanji, Marie Méan, Carole E. Aubert

“…A rewarding system was deemed motivating by 33% of clinicians. Main implementation barrier was the high workload. …”
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A temporal knowledge graph reasoning model based on recurrent encoding and contrastive learning by Weitong Liu, Khairunnisa Hasikin, Anis Salwa Mohd Khairuddin, Meizhen Liu, Xuechen Zhao

“…While current models consider the fact changes over time and recognize that historical facts may recur, they often overlook the influence of past events on future predictions. Motivated by these considerations, this work introduces a novel temporal knowledge graph reasoning model, named Temporal Reasoning with Recurrent Encoding and Contrastive Learning (TRCL), which integrates recurrent encoding and contrastive learning techniques. …”
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Antecedents of Traveller Identification and Satisfaction As a Consequence of Traveller Decisions by Muhammad Aqsa, Aetken Ibrahim, Suparman Parintak, Anne Attas

“…Background:This research is motivated by the North Luwu Regional Government's concerns that in order to increase and attract visitor interest in the Rinding Allo Tourism Village, Rongkong District, North Luwu Regency, tourist attraction managers must develop the potential of tourist attractions and maximize promotional activities for tourism potential to consumers, so as to foster desire. make visits with the hope of creating tourist satisfaction. …”
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Viability of flax particles to develop cellular construction materials: Physico-mechanical characterisation by Mohamed Hamadou-Ali, Amar Benazzouk, Haikel Ben Hamed

“…The problems related to environmental issues have motivated extensive research on environmentally friendly materials. …”
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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition by Yulia Yu. Erendzhenova

“…The three Lamrim-derived motives — to improve this lifetime, gain liberation from samsaric suffering, achieve enlightenment for the sake of universal well-being — may accordingly direct the intentions of Buddhists toward the use of sacred astrological knowledge to solve problematic situations, identify oneself, understand others, restore the balance of external and internal cycles. …”
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Assessment of emotional intelligence level in intercultural educational environment by T. V. Kuprina, A. A. Evtyugina, S. M. Minasyan, O. V. Taranova

“…The research results help to understand the psychological characteristics of students of the humanities and economics specialities, taking into account the cultural context, which makes it possible to predict the difficulties and problems faced by teachers in the process of work with this type of students, to more accurately determine the characteristics and motives of their behaviour and the characteristics of the professional development of the individual. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Health Care Workers in Tertiary Health Care Institutions in a Developing Country: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study by Chinedu Anthony Iwu, Pius Ositadinma, Victor Chibiko, Ugochukwu Madubueze, Kenechi Uwakwe, Uche Oluoha

“…About 20% and 31% of the respondents, respectively, stated that the government has an ulterior motive and that they did not trust the vaccine manufacturers. …”
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Diabetes beliefs, perceived risk and health behaviours: an embedded mixed-methods analysis from the Richmond Stress and Sugar Study by Briana Mezuk, Katherine Khosrovaneh, Viktoryia A Kalesnikava

“…Introduction Efforts to increase engagement with diabetes prevention programmes largely focus on increasing diabetes awareness, with the logic that risk knowledge will motivate behaviour change. However, the salience of perceived risk as it relates to diabetes prevention is contested. …”
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THE CONTENDING ISSUES AND REALITIES IN NIGERIAN FEDERALISM by BENJAMIN SHAIBUME, AONDOAKAA AFONGU IORNUMBE

“…This was the first genuine federal constitution of the country, and its adoption was externally motivated for administrative convenience of the expatriates. …”
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Examining benign and malicious envy and flourishing among Muslim university students in Algeria: A quantitative study by Aiche Sabah, Musheer A. Aljaberi, Siti Aishah Hassan

“…Understanding how harmless and harmful envy can affect students' flourishing is important, as this emotion can either motivate personal growth or hinder it. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how benign and malicious envy influence the flourishing of university students in Muslim society. …”
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A Study of Occupational Therapy Strategies and Psychological Regulation of Students’ Internet Addiction in the Mobile Social Media Environment by Xueqin Zhang

“…The attitude towards online games is entertainment to kill time, a tool to escape the pressure of study and to gain the fun of friends comparing with each other. The main online motivations of adolescents included individual and situational factors, and behaviors were characterized by pan-entertainment and gamification, mainly through mobile social networks to obtain external information and knowledge, maintain interpersonal relationships, and gain a sense of belonging; they were characterized by a fixation on time, space, and online content. …”
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Hybrid Power Generation Supply Chain Financing and Purchasing Strategies with Option Hedging against Disruption by Guoshu Dong, Qing Xia, Bo Xu, Ziguang Dong

“…Moreover, under the grid’s fund of uniform distribution, it can both motivate power user consumption for clean energy generation and expand the power grid’s capital size.…”
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The external validity of machine learning-based prediction scores from hematological parameters of COVID-19: A study using hospital records from Brazil, Italy, and Western Europe. by Ali Safdari, Chanda Sai Keshav, Deepanshu Mody, Kshitij Verma, Utsav Kaushal, Vaadeendra Kumar Burra, Sibnath Ray, Debashree Bandyopadhyay

“…The unprecedented worldwide pandemic caused by COVID-19 has motivated several research groups to develop machine-learning based approaches that aim to automate the diagnosis or screening of COVID-19, in large-scale. …”
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Preferences of melanoma patients to accept adjuvant therapy and toxicity – a qualitative substudy of the GerMelaTox-A project by Toni Maria Janke, Laura Moysig, Christine Blome, Katharina C. Kähler

“…Therefore, this study investigates the motives of melanoma patients for tolerating or rejecting adjuvant therapy and its side effects. …”
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