Exploring the potential impacts of anthropogenic heating on urban climate during heatwaves by Ansar Khan, Konstantina Vasilakopoulou, Mattheos Santamouris

“…Abstract This study modeled the impact of anthropogenic heat (AH) on urban climates, focusing on Sydney during 2017’s heightened temperatures. The motivation behind this study stems from the increasing significance of understanding urban heat dynamics as cities globally grapple with regional climate change, necessitating targeted strategies for effective climate resilience cities. …”
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A Mathematical Model for the Growth Dynamics of Demand in the Fashion Industry within the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic by John Awuah Addor, Anthony Joe Turkson, Douglas Yenwon Kparib

“…The main purpose of this study was to derive R0 and assess the stability of the model around its equilibrium points. The motivation was to simulate the effect of COVID-19 on the demand for fashion products and how its application has impacted the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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The role of passive surveillance and citizen science in plant health by Nathan Brown, Ana Pérez-Sierra, Peter Crow, Stephen Parnell

“…One solution for general surveillance is to develop and maintain a network of tree health volunteers, but this requires a large investment in training, feedback and engagement to maintain motivation. There are already many working examples of passive surveillance programmes and the suite of options to interpret the resulting datasets is growing rapidly.…”
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Improving the Military Vocational Training of Cadets at Military Institute by Yu. G. Bychenko, T. M. Balandina

“…In modern conditions, a transition is taking place to a broad system of professional development that determines the formation of a wide range of professional potential of future officers, the development of not only narrow professional knowledge and skills, but also potential abilities for active creativity, motivation for systematic collection, processing and use of new informational data. …”
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Self-Reported Violence Experienced by Swiss Prehospital Emergency Care Providers by Simon Savoy, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Nathalie Romain-Glassey, Nicolas Beysard

“…These results illustrate their feelings of insecurity, which may have deleterious effects on work satisfaction and motivation. Trial Registration. Our article does not report the results of a health care intervention on human participants.…”
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International development cooperation and political risks for transnational business: Linking research topics by V. I. Bartenev

“…The first presumption is an acknowledgement of an engrained commercial motivation in any modality of development cooperation and the latter’s ability to serve as a tool to promote foreign economic interests. …”
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Fast and accurate imputation of genotypes from noisy low-coverage sequencing data in bi-parental populations. by Cécile Triay, Alice Boizet, Christopher Fragoso, Anestis Gkanogiannis, Jean-François Rami, Mathias Lorieux

“…<h4>Motivation</h4>Genotyping of bi-parental populations can be performed with low-coverage next-generation sequencing (LC-NGS). …”
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Employees Team Work and Performance of Organizations in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government. by Akansasira, Mathius

“…Lastly, that the study revealed that the factors affecting employee performance as motivation, repertoire, technology, feed back, goal clarity and knowledge of structure. …”
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The Role of Donations and Education Services in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Ampaire, Bronia

“…Some respondents showed that pupils are presented with bursaries, one-off money installments or prizes as part of impetus for enhancing participation and motivation in learning at school Incentives are viewed as more powerful than different mediations since they straightforwardly target children, as opposed to guardians, parental figures or instructors. …”
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Role of National Teachers’ Organizations on The Performance of Teachers: A Case Study Of Rubanda District. by Owomugisha, Elias

“…This will aid the teachers to perform more in their duties and improve their motivation levels.…”
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The Impact of High Labour Turnover on Students Performance in Private Higher Institutions of Learning in Kabale District: A Case Study of African College of Commerce and Technology... by Kemigisha, Maryshivan

“…Clear paths for advancement within the organization can motivate employees to stay and contribute to their professional growth.…”
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Role of National Teachers’ Organisations on the Performance of Teachers: A Case Study of Rubanda District. by Akandinda, Sedrick

“…This will aid the teachers to perform more in their duties and improve their motivation levels.…”
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A mixed methods exploration of self-presentation, authenticity, and role model function on Instagram: perspectives from female influencers in Germany by Daniel Zimmermann, Colleen Schneider, Kai Kaspar

“…Fear of negative feedback, absence of positivity and motivation, wrong cooperation partners (30.8% each) and insecurity (23.1%), among others, may lead to a less authentic self-presentation and use of picture editing. …”
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Feeding Behavior of Mice under Different Food Allocation Regimens by Hiroshi Ueno, Shunsuke Suemitsu, Shinji Murakami, Naoya Kitamura, Kenta Wani, Yu Takahashi, Yosuke Matsumoto, Motoi Okamoto, Takeshi Ishihara

“…Social dominance has a dramatic effect on motivation. Recent evidence suggests that some primate and nonprimate species display aversive behavior toward food allocation regimens that differ from their peers. …”
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The structure and procedure of economic calculations for the organization of remuneration in crisis enterprises by A. R. Bril, O. V. Kalinina, A. A. Sedyakina, S. V. Kalmykova

“…This situation occurs in cases where, in order to preserve the most efficient employees of the enterprise, it becomes necessary to use special methods of motivation and remuneration. To work out the various options for the plan and effectively address these issues, reliable information is needed on the economic and organizational capabilities of the enterprise, the level of risks and the state of the market. …”
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Identifying key risks to the stability of Ukrainian universities during wartime by Olha Doronina, Liudmyla Yurchyshena, Kseniia Bondarevska, Ihor Vechirko, Tetiana Kulinich

“…., uncompetitive average hourly wages, leading to staff attrition and reduced motivation. The findings propose a multi-level classification of risks, categorizing them into external and internal with subcategories such as financial, personnel, and social ones. …”
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Non-pharmacological Methods Used in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by a Selected Group of People with T2DM in Colombo District, Sri Lanka: A Mixed-Method Study by Lakshani Herath, Manisha Kamalsiri, Perananthan Inthuja, Gayani P Gamage, Dinithi Vidanage

“…Hence, there is a need to improve the motivation of the participants to adapt to a healthy lifestyle.…”
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Investigating the effectiveness of theory-based interventions for improving treatment adherence of patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A systematic review of Randomised Control... by Despoina Menti, Caroline Limbert, Georgios Lyrakos

“…Results: The review included reports of 11 interventions, using the Health Belief Model (n = 3), Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) (n = 2), Theory of Planned Behaviour (n = 2), Transtheoretical Model (n = 2), Information-Motivation-Behavioural skills model (n = 1) and Motivational Interviewing (n = 1). …”

A Qualitative Study Exploring Facilitators for Improved Health Behaviors and Health Behavior Programs: Mental Health Service Users’ Perspectives by Candida Graham, Crystal Rollings, Sarah de Leeuw, Lesley Anderson, Brenda Griffiths, Nansi Long

“…Four major facilitator themes were identified: (1) factors of empowerment, self-value, and personal growth; (2) the need for social support; (3) pragmatic aspects of motivation and planning; and (4) access. Participants believed that engaging with programs of physical activity, nutrition, creativity, and illness support would motivate them to live more healthily. …”
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Sensory Diet Program Through In-Person and Tele-Occupationa Therapy in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Single-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial by Simin Dehghani, Marzieh Pashmdarfard, Zahra Pashazadeh Azari, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban, Sima Dehghani, Navid Mirzakhani Araghi

“…Results: According to the sensory profile 2, social responsiveness scale, and Canadian occupational performance measure, processing in the areas of auditory, visual, touch, movement, body position, oral, conduct, social-emotional, attentional, sensory seeking, sensory avoiding, sensory sensitive, low registration, social awareness, social cognition, social communication, social motivation, limited interests, repetitive behaviors, and occupational performance in both groups have a significant difference (P<0.05). …”
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