The Effect of Hairdresser's Job Crafting on Customer Orientation and Work Performance

In this study, a total of 311 questionnaires were used through SPSS 21.0 to analyze the effect of hairdressers' job crafting on customer orientation and work performance. The results of the survey are as follows. First, hairdressers' job crafting appeared in three dimensions: cognitive crafting, work crafting, and relationship crafting, and customer orientation came in three dimensions: problem-solving orientation, response orientation, and appearance orientation. In addition, work performance came in two dimensions: individual performance and organizational performance. Second, it was found that job crafting had a significant effect on customer orientation and work performance. Therefore, it was found that the reorganization of the hairdresser's appropriate work (appropriate distribution of work, identifying the importance of work, etc.) affects customer propensity and work performance. This study is expected to be used as basic data for hairdressers' job crafting activities, and research on job crafting related to segmentation by age group and positive psychology of hairdressers is expected to be conducted in the future.

The role of multi-platform news consumption in explaining civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A communication mediation approach

This study employs the orientation–stimulus–reasoning–orientation–response (O-S-R-O-R) framework to examine how multi-platform news consumption is associated with civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic (offline and via social media) and how this relation is mediated by civic talk and civic attitudes. A survey was administered to 1500 adults in Belgium. Results from structural equation modelling indicate how civic talk with weak ties is not associated with civic attitudes or participation. Analysis of indirect effects reveals that multi-platform news consumption stimulates two different types of participation, through civic talk with strong ties and civic attitudes. The results shed light on previously unexplored pathways towards participation, while providing support for the O-S-R-O-R framework and highlighting the role of social media as an emerging arena for civic participation.

Impact of central complex lesions on visual orientation in ants: Turning behaviour, but not the overall movement direction, is disrupted

ABSTRACTWood ants are excellent navigators using a combination of innate and learnt navigational strategies to travel between their nest and feeding sites. Visual navigation in ants has been studied extensively, however, we only know little about the underlying neural mechanisms. The central complex (CX) is located at the midline of the insect brain. It receives sensory input that allows an insect to keep track of the direction of sensory cues relative to its own orientation and to control movement. We show here direct evidence for the involvement of the central complex in the innate visual orientation response of freely moving wood ants. Lesions in the CX disrupted the control of turning in a lateralised manner, but had no effect on the overall heading direction, walking speed or path straightness.

Roadmap to Gaining Customer Satisfaction

The provision of reliable and accurate data through a competent communication tool encourages the significantly competitive public sector and nurtures a prosperous society. The chapter discusses the optimization of digital assets, specifically, allocating accessible two-way communication between the government and its stakeholders which can lead to far-sighted information processing and resourceful decision-making. Simultaneously, it aims to recognize and suggest solutions to the prevailing strains towards the digitalization of operations in the said industry. Accompanied by a thematic analysis of data collected from literature, a qualitative in-depth interview was deployed with a relevant agency to gain enlightenment of the public service in its real context. The results of the study present an essence of the advanced process sophistication, the comprehensiveness, and flexibility of the IT system, the reuse of knowledge, as well as the quality of customer orientation response capabilities.

Magneto-orientation response of ferronematic with a tilted orientation of the director and magnetization

The article considers orientational transitions induced by a magnetic field in a highly dispersed suspension of ferromagnetic particles in a nematic liquid crystal – ferronematic. We research the case when, in the absence of an external magnetic field between the directions of the liquid crystal director and magnetization of the impurity particles, a constant pretilt angle is maintained, and the coupling of the liquid crystal molecules to the surface of the ferroparticles is assumed to be soft and planar. An example of such an impurity is ferromagnetic carbon nanotubes magnetized at a certain angle to their long axes. On the basis of the continuum theory, the equilibrium values of the orientation angles of the liquid crystal director and magnetization are calculated for different values of the pretilt angle. The results of calculations are compared with the previously considered case of planar coupling between the director and magnetization. Analytical expressions are obtained for determining the orientational and magnetic structure of the ferronematic in the case of weak magnetic fields. The magnetization of the ferronematic is studied for different values of the pretilt angle.

Second Screening and the Engaged Public: The Role of Second Screening for News and Political Expression in an O-S-R-O-R Model

Second screening has become a prevalent media consumption behavior. Nevertheless, the political implications of second screening are not fully understood. Using data from a two-wave panel survey in Hong Kong, this study examines the role of second screening in contributing to an engaged public based on the Orientation-Stimulus-Reasoning-Orientation-Response (O-S-R-O-R) model. In addition, second screening behaviors are differentiated into second screening for news and for expression. The findings show that these two behaviors play significant but different roles in influencing citizens’ cognitive (i.e., political knowledge) and psychological (i.e., political efficacy) development. This hybrid media practice also affects political participation directly and indirectly through interpersonal discussion, political knowledge, and political efficacy. Implications of the findings for the development of participatory democracy are discussed.

Attraction of Triatoma infestans (Klug) to adhesive yeast-baited trap under laboratory conditions

Existing methods to detect domestic triatomines have low sensitivity. As early house infestation detection is epidemiologically important, the exploration of better methods is required. Hence, we measured the attractiveness of a yeast-baited trap to adults and nymphs of Triatoma infestans, under laboratory conditions.The assays were conducted in an experimental arena, with an experimental and a control traps placed at opposite sides and one refuge in the center area. Insects where released and the number of triatomines in the yeast and control traps were counted, after 3, 6 and 24 hours of the beginning of the experiment. We use generalized linear models within a multimodel inference approach to model the number of insects in the trap, using insect age classes, time after assay initiation and date of the experiment as predictors.Our results show that the attraction to CO2 depends upon the life stage of the insects. During the 24 hours of experiment a constant number of adults were attracted to the yeast trap, while nymphs show attraction only up to the first three hours after the initiation of CO2 liberation. Undoubtedly, the orientation response to chemical cues deserves further studies to be fully understood.