What Nonresident Mothers and Fathers Have to Say About a Mother-Only Coparenting Intervention: A Qualitative Assessment of Understanding DadsTM

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-179
Author(s):  
Jessica Pearson ◽  
Abigail Henson ◽  
Jay Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Father Involvement ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Nonresident Parents ◽  
The Impact

Coparenting between mothers and nonresident fathers is a consistent predictor of positive father involvement and is shown to have a direct positive impact on children’s behavioral outcomes. While many fatherhood programs attempt to improve coparenting relationships using father-only interventions, the information on their effectiveness is mixed. Couple interventions may be more effective than father-only approaches but are very hard to achieve with nonresident parents. Engaging mothers may be more practical and beneficial, although there is very little literature on the impact of mother-only interventions on coparenting relationships. The current study begins to address that gap. It presents qualitative reactions by mothers and fathers to a mother-only coparenting intervention and finds that a mother-only approach can achieve some important goals such as improved communication, reduced conflict, and mother’s understanding of the father’s point of view. Fathers whose parenting partners participated in the mother-only group agreed with mothers’ assessments and also reported less undermining.

scholarly journals The Impact of Innovation Strategy on the Financial, Social and Environmental Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Hamid Saremi ◽  
Masoud Mahmoudi ◽  
Mojtaba Soltaninezhad ◽  
Mohammad Hosseinpour
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Innovation Strategy ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Social And Environmental Performance ◽  
The Impact

The core purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of innovation strategy on financial, social and environmental performance of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The information used is from 129 companies listed on TSE in different industries between 2011 and 2018 (1032 observations). In order to analyze the data, a multivariate regression test was used. The results showed a positive and significant relationship between innovation strategy on financial performance and environmental performance. Also, the relationship between innovation strategy and social performance has a positive but insignificant. Innovation tools are also among the few management tools that can have a positive impact on both financial performance and the company's environmental performance. In this research, an attempt has been made to look at the idea of innovation from a financial point of view, and its results in the long run indicate the right choice of management to invest in the company's research and development unit.

Tourist destination perception and well-being

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Frederik Reitsamer ◽  
Alexandra Brunner-Sperdin
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Destination Management Organizations ◽  
Positive Word Of Mouth ◽  
Intention To Return ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the impact of place perception on tourist well-being to provide an understanding of how destination attributes influence tourists’ response behaviors. Data were collected in a self-administered survey from 631 respondents in three Austrian tourism destinations. Factor analysis and structural equation modeling (Mplus 7.0) were employed to test the hypothesized relationships. Results provide empirical evidence that tourists perceive destination settings holistically and will report higher levels of psychological well-being if a destination provides an adequate combination of sensemaking (i.e. access and amenities) and exploratory attributes (i.e. attractions and activities, entertainment options, and local community). Findings also show that tourists’ well-being has a significant, positive impact on their intention to return and their desire to engage in positive word of mouth about the destination. Most importantly, an indirect-only mediation of well-being on the relationship between both sense-making and exploratory attributes and behavioral outcomes was found. An integrated view of the results can provide important considerations for tourism research and fruitful suggestions for destination management organizations.

scholarly journals Do vody bez obav

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-221
Author(s):  
Viktor Pacholík
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Power And Energy ◽  
The Impact

This list deals with the impact of the Halliwick Swimming Concept on subjective experience and psychical states of people with physical impairment. By means of the Halliwick Swimming Concept, that consisted of 10 swimming lessons, we observed the psychical response of the tested persons to individual lessons as well as to the whole programme within a frame of a case study. The acquired data indicate a positive impact of the swimming programme in the field of elimination of negative psychical state in water environment such as anxiety, discomfort and despondency and gradual increase of psychical well-being, activity and feelings of power and energy connected with positive expectations. Most of these changes proved not only in individual lessons, but also from the point of view of the whole programme evaluation. This paper has been written within a project OP VK CZ.1.07/2.4.00/17.0037 „Development of Pedagogical and Research Activities within the Department of Social Sciences in Sport at the FSpS MU“.

scholarly journals Improving the performance of organizational innovation processes by applying the Six Sigma methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1098-1108
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Ifrim ◽  
Gabriela Elena Biţan ◽  
Dorin Maier ◽  
Teodora Elena Fogoroş
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Statistical Point ◽  
Six Sigma Methodology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Innovation Processes

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to integrate the concept of innovation management with the Six Sigma methodology, focusing on the impact analysis of the quality management principles on the organizational innovation processes. To achieve this objective, the DMAIC methodology was used – define (D), measure (M), analyze (A), improve (I) and control (C). Based on this methodology by introducing innovation in the improvement phase of the DMAIC model, we developed the model called DMAIC - IM (DMAIC - Innovation Management model). A case study related to the implementation of the DMAIC-IM Model was carried out within a company that produces and sells products for the automotive industry. Thus, the performances of the processes were measured, the obtained values were compared with the ideal values from a statistical point of view and the methods for eliminating the variations were identified. Also, the critical factors of the innovation success of organizations were analyzed resulting ways to remove the obstacles that lead to this success. According to the research results, the application of the Six Sigma methodology has a positive impact on the performance of the organizational innovation processes. The proposed solution has a set of indicators and can help organizations to improve their system of evaluating the innovation processes performances.

scholarly journals Estimation of the Perceived Time of Presence of Sources in Urban Acoustic Environments Using Deep Learning Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 1053-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Gontier ◽  
Catherine Lavandier ◽  
Pierre Aumond ◽  
Mathieu Lagrange ◽  
Jean-François Petiot
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Acoustic Environments ◽  
The Impact

The impact of urban sound on human beings has often been studied from a negative point of view (noise pollution). In the two last decades, the interest of studying its positive impact has been revealed with the soundscape approach (resourcing spaces). The literature shows that the recognition of sources plays a great role in the way humans are affected by sound environments. There is thus a need for characterizing urban acoustic environments not only with sound pressure measurements but also with source-specific attributes such as their perceived time of presence, dominance or volume. This paper demonstrates, on a controlled dataset, that machine learning techniques based on state of the art neural architectures can predict the perceived time of presence of several sound sources at a sufficient accuracy. To validate this assertion, a corpus of simulated sound scenes is first designed. Perceptual attributes corresponding to those stimuli are gathered through a listening experiment. From the contributions of the individual sound sources available for the simulated corpus, a physical indicator approximating the perceived time of presence of sources is computed and used to train and evaluate a multi-label source detection model. This model predicts the presence of simultaneously active sources from fast third octave spectra, allowing the estimation of perceptual attributes such as pleasantness in urban sound environments at a sufficient degree of precision.

scholarly journals Spatial Distribution of Investment Incentives and the Impact of New Incentive System for Less Developed Regions in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Onur Sungur
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Incentive System ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Investment Incentive ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Development Gap

Abstract Regional policy has been on the agenda of Turkey since the First Five-Year Development Plan (1963–1967), and so far, Turkey has put into practice to overcome regional disparities, one of the most important is regional-sectoral incentives. Thus, the incentive system, which has undergone many changes until today, has been revised and updated in 2012. Although this incentive system has been put into practice for increasing the investment in eastern provinces/regions, development gap between eastern and western regions still stands. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the success of the new incentive system and to determine whether the new investment incentive system is effective in shifting investments from developed regions to backward regions in Turkey. In the study, the regional distribution of investment incentives during 2001–2016 and the effect of new investment incentive system to change the distribution of investments in favor of less developed provinces/regions will be examined. By using investment incentives data, regional distribution of investments will be revealed with the help of map-graph technique. The study found that both the share of incentive certificates and the share of the investment amount have increased during the period of 2001–2016 in the less developed provinces. From this point of view, it is possible to say that the new investment incentive system has a positive impact on increasing the share of incentives in these provinces.

Location between capitals as a challenge for Russian-Belarusian borderlands socio-economic development

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-85
Author(s):  
T.I. Yaskova
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Border Area ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Labor Resources ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact

Occupying a favorable position from the point of view of spatial analysis, the regions of the Russian-Belarusian border are characterized by such qualitative epithets as depressiveness and peripherality. One of the reasons for this situation, in our opinion, is the situation in the zone of influence of several capitals at once. The article is devoted to a qualitative assessment of the impact of the intercapital location on the development of the regions of the Russian-Belarusian borderlands. The article suggests the content of the concept of «intercapital area» in relation to the object of research – the Russian-Belarusian border area. Based on the methods of statistical analysis, the author compares the indicators of economic and social development of the regions of the Russian-Belarusian border area and the metropolitan regions. There is a significant imbalance in the development of the segments of the intercapital area to the main socio-economic indicators. The ambiguity of judgments about the role of spatial elements in the depression of the border regions has set the goal of the study to further clarify the influence of various factors on the course of socio-economic processes. As a hypothesis of the study, it is suggested that one of the main reasons for the depression of the vast space on the border of Russia and Belarus, which is part of the intercapital area, is the influence of the nearby capitals of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. However, the role of the latter capital due to political and economic processes is not so obvious at the moment. The factors determining the dynamics of centrifugal processes in the intercapital area are proposed. The main ones are: the predominant function of political and administrative borders; the established system of cities, their hierarchy; gradients in the level of development between central and peripheral areas; qualitative heterogeneity of labor resources. It is concluded that the intercapital location mainly has a negative impact on the development of the Russian-Belarusian border area through depopulation processes.

Le Symbole du feu dans la vie des adolescents et dans leur univers religieux

1972 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-458
Author(s):  
Paul Winand
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Level ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
School Students ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

This study concentrates on the impact of this major symbol on teenagers, as may be perceived in the religious context through free associations and impromptu stories, and in the religious context through biblical and liturgical references. The sampling was done according to three variables (sex, age, school) and hoped to reach the highest degree of homo geneity concerning life environment and curricula. For computational reasons, 400 answers were examined so as to have 200 for each series. The aim of this paper is to introduce briefly our findings, taking into consideration the two variables, sex and school. The prospections of the secular context through the analysis of free associations and impromptu stories reveal, from the point of view of sex, that boys experience the world of things as means or obstacles. Girls, on the other hand, being more sensitive to the surroundings and aesthetic overtones perceive the world as values and enter the symbolic domain more easily. As far as ' school ' is concerned, it appears that the evocation of the Fire Symbol is experienced by students according to the characteristic trends of each set up. In the religious context one sees that in general teenagers have a better knowledge of the Bible than of the Liturgy. Courage and strength being attractive, boys refer to « power theophanies » while girls stress the quality and depth of theophanies which may be termed « personal and intimate ». They know the liturgy better and are touched by the words of the liturgy, whereas the boys lose themselves in the rite itself and its materiality. As for the educational variable, the biblical and liturgical culture of state school students is characterised by a statistically broader amplitude. The pupils of the denominational network seem to be more under the influence of a primary-school-level catechesis. Comparison of the two contexts : The symbolic structure in tegrates the same harmonics in both contexts. On the contrary, the choice and polarization of the harmonics differ. The religious overdetermination smoothes out the sexual and educational differential stresses which come out in the natural context. Conclusion : In our contemporary culture, the young are alive to symbols. The Firc Symbol, in the Bible as well as in the Liturgy, has a powerful and positive impact, but its resonance is relative to various stresses in both contexts. secular or religious.

Quality versus volume of carbon disclosures and carbon reduction targets

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anup Kumar Saha ◽  
Bipasha Saha ◽  
Tonmoy Choudhury ◽  
Ferry Jie
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the relationship between the quality and volume of carbon emission disclosures (CED) in UK higher educational institutions (HEIs), with an emphasis on the impact of the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) carbon reduction target on such disclosures.Design/methodology/approachBased on stewardship theory, this study explores the decision usefulness of the CED by HEIs, i.e. whether a larger volume of CED means that it is more useful to readers and stakeholders. A framework was developed to measure the CED quality. The relationships between CED volume and quality were examined using the ordered probit regression model.FindingsCED volume in annual reports and HEFCE carbon reduction target were found to have a significant positive impact on CED quality. There exists a void in research with carbon disclosures by HEIs, an area which has been widely researched with regard to profit-seeking organisations. The study adds to the earlier related studies by its contribution about HEIs to the disclosure literature.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is distinct in investigating the relationship between volume and quality of CED by HEIs. However, the impact of CED would need to be clear to motivate the HEIs to engage in such disclosure. Thus, future studies should investigate the impact of both volume and quality of CED on reputation.Originality/valueThe study recognises that the characteristics of HEIs are distinct from profit-seeking organisations, which have been widely researched in literature. Generalising the research studies on profit-oriented companies for the most publicly funded UK HEIs may mislead any outcome. This study is distinct from the reader’s point of view in exploring whether more CED is more useful in better decision-making.

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