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Understanding gender differences in romantic passion and emotional intelligence through attachment styles
No full textPrevious research explored links between attachment styles and, Romantic Passion (RP) and Emotional Intelligence (EI), respectively. Individual interaction effects between RP and EI, and gender differences within them have yet to be explored. The current study (N= 70) attempts to validate previous research and investigate possible gender differences and correlations within RP and EI. Results revealed that attachment styles significantly determined subtypes of RP and EI, while only RP totals showed significance to attachment. Both RP subscales displayed significant predictions of EI scores and subtypes. Although no significant gender differences in were found, means indicate that males were more avoidant while females more anxiously attached. Both sexes exhibited increased HP over OP but females displayed higher HP and EI over male participants Implications of results were discussed, along with directions for future research
The emotional and financial stress experienced by pilots during a pandemic
No full textThis qualitative study explored the financial and emotional impact on airline pilots during a pandemic. A total of eight semi-structured interviews took place to gather data for analysis. From this, an inductive method was used to create five themes, ranging from financial impact to exploration of values and priorities. Individual interviews occurred at a prearranged location, which were recorded and then transcribed onto word documents. The gathered data was analysed via an nVivo programme in conjunction with the Braun & Clarke 6 step method. It was discovered that participants suffered a severe financial impact, with elevated stress levels and growing concerns regarding employment prospects. However, resilience remained high, with all candidates reporting improved relationships with partners and children. Appreciation of career increased, with the goal of a better work-life balance expressed by all. Additional forums for further open discussion are recommended to mitigate against future problems
Maternity restrictions: the effects on perceived stress, coping skills, social support, and reported pregnancy experience
No full textIn recent years, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruption across all sectors. Many maternity hospitals in Ireland have continued to implement strict measures. Such measures include requesting service users to attend appointments alone, limited partner and no family or friend visits on postnatal wards. Some qualitative research suggests women felt safer with restrictions (Cullen et al, 2021), while others spoke of not seeing their partner for multiple days after giving birth (Panda et al, 2021). 132 participants participated in a quantitative study, with 95 reporting giving birth during the pandemic. Differences in stress, coping-self efficacy and negative pregnancy experience across groups were non-significant. Perceived social support significantly predicted positive pregnancy experience scores, while those who experienced partner restrictions in SCBU had significantly higher negative pregnancy experience scores
Facilitators and barriers to successful project Implementation in the Irish Healthcare setting
No full textHealthcare organisations have embraced the role of project manager and adopted project
management practices for many years in Ireland. The delivery of healthcare is changing and
transformative projects are on the increase as organisations benefit from successful
implementation with improved work processes, enhanced quality and safety of patient care. The
aim is to explore and identify facilitators and barriers to successful project implementation in the
Irish Healthcare setting. The methodology included development and circulation of an online
survey to project managers with experience working in this setting. Data analysed using
Microsoft® Excel and qualitative data with thematic analysis. The results identify stakeholder
engagement, leadership, project management practices and communication as facilitators.
Barriers to overcome are poor definition of project requirements, lack of feedback and rejection
by users. To conclude, recommendations for project managers to incorporate stakeholder
engagement, project management practices and effective communication to positively influence
project implementation success
Exploration of a socio-cultural anthropological approach to humanistic marketing in the French toy sector.
No full textIn today's capitalist Western society, the field of marketing has become synonymous with manipulation. Indeed, with the development of new technologies and the use of user data as new indicators, marketers now have the power to venture into our deepest desires and turn them into needs (The Social Dilemma, 2020). However, if this data is used to more easily give us what we really need, what is the problem? The problem lies in determining whether this is likely to be the case or whether it is just induced by all the stimuli around us. So, in a society with many societal and environmental issues, having such power cannot be left without theoretical reflection. Marketing professionals are therefore increasingly called upon to adopt an ethical approach, taking into account real human needs. This is where the field of anthropology, a science that studies the human being in all its aspects, comes into play. This essay aims to provide further insights into the alliance between the field of socio-cultural anthropology and marketing. To do so, the French toy sector has been defined as the context of study, as the vulnerability of the target market, children, may represent the ideal context to demonstrate the usefulness of the alliance of these two fields. The researcher then decided to conduct individual semi-structured interviews with 6 mothers aged between 25 and 45, with children aged between 2 and 12. In this way, she will be able to gather the point of view of these mothers on their child's relationship with toys in a digitalized era, and then analyze whether the market is in line with the desires and needs of the respondents, the first decision-maker in the purchase. To support this qualitative data, an online questionnaire was also distributed to the same target group. The results revealed that mothers' feelings about the technologies used by their children were mainly negative, and that permission to use them was motivated more by a need to stay out of society than a desire on the part of respondents. Thus, the researcher felt that an anthropological approach would be relevant to the design and marketing of new products in this sector, which would meet both the needs of mothers, which are those of safety, and the needs of children, which are those of psychomotor development, entertainment and education. However, for this alliance to be successful, the different philosophies of the two fields will need to be brought together so that this approach is not just another quest for profit, but a fruitful lever for goodwill and profitability
Relationships between credit card debt, financial well-being, anxiety, self-efficacy and stress
No full textThe aim of this study is to investigate the effects of credit card debt on a range of conditions including anxiety, depression and financial well-being. A survey-based, correlational design was used for the project. The predictor variables were: level of difficulty paying off credit card balance, level of comfort with the debt on credit card and self-efficacy. A total of 126 participants completed 57 questions on an online survey consisting of demographic anxiety, self-efficacy, self-esteem and stress. The study found that difficulty paying off a credit card balance each month had a significant negative effect on happiness and increased anxiety and stress. It was also found that self-efficacy had a mediating effect on concerns over credit card debt and financial well-being
Application Responsiveness & Performance within PaaS on Azure Cloud using Benchmark Testing with JMeter/Azure Loadtesting
No full textThis paper proposes that the same application running in a Platform as a Service
environment, which provides the same performance, will behave differently when using
different code bases. The same website has been built on top of four different coding
languages, Python, PHP, DotNet, and NodeJS, and hosted using the same environment
meaning there is no difference in computing power, location, network, or any other physical
difference one might experience within multiple on-premise datacentres. To measure the
performance, a benchmarking tool named JMeter has been used to run load tests over a
period of 30 days. The results have shown that PHP had the best score of 3.58 on a 5 Point
Likert Scale used in combination with a Weighted Matrix. Future studies should focus on
more complex applications and use other benchmarking tools to further evaluate the
performance within PaaS
Forecasting the price of AWS On-spot instances using Deep Neural Network Architectures
No full textAmong the cloud computing services, the concept of On-spot instance is the most popular which has been introduced by Amazon AWS, in order to utilize their spare capacity. On-spot instance follows the auction-based cloud model, where the price on-spot changes with time. In general analysis, it has been found that AWS On-spot instances are 30-40% cheaper than regular instances. The concept of dynamic pricing for AWS on-spot instance makes it complicated for some users, to bid for an optimal price. In order to help the users for selecting the optimal price with AWS On-spot instances, this research is predicted using the 4 different deep learning architectures which includes CNN, RNN, LSTM and Bi-LSTM for price prediction. To select the best performing model MSE, RMSE and MAE score has been calculated for each model over the test data. The better outcomes is achieved using Bi-LSTM model in terms of performance. In order to implement the concept of ON-spot price prediction, a web-portal using python flask has been developed which provides the predicted price of On-spot instance based on user input such as Region, Operating system, instance type, Time stamp etc
Instagram addiction: role of attachment style, neuroticism, social self-esteem and age
No full textThe current study, correlational in nature, investigates links between Instagram addiction and attachment style, neuroticism, social self-esteem, and age. Existing literature, although growing, remains sparse and often overlooked, and yields mixed results; the current research aims to expand the findings and eliminate some of the ambiguities. 100 participants from multiple nations (female=76, male=24) answered four scales: Original attachment 3-category measure, BFI-2-S 6-item neuroticism scale, 9-item social self-esteem scale and 15-item Instagram addiction scale. The results of correlations indicate that insecurely attached individuals are more neurotic than safely attached ones; additionally, significant positive correlation between neuroticism and Instagram addiction, and significant negative correlation between social self-esteem and neuroticism, as well as between age and Instagram addiction were found. Attachment styles and social self-esteem were not correlated significantly with Instagram addiction. This study demonstrates various factors related to Instagram addiction and highlights the need for more research in this domain
Covid-19 related effects on client communication in management consulting at a professional service firm in Germany
No full textSince its initial discovery in Wuhan in December 2019, the Covid-19 virus has heavily affected
many people's lives. The consulting profession, which traditionally relies on communication
between consultants and clients, suddenly had to deal with the fact that physical contact
needed to be avoided. This led to many consultancies adopting other ways of collaboration,
such as teleworking. Since good communication is arguably one of the most crucial success
factors in consulting, the question arises to what extent this new working environment
influences the communication between consultants and clients. To answer this question, 56
consultants from a professional services firm were surveyed on their teleworking experience
in respect to client communication. The results show a clear shift in the use and preference of
communication technologies. Furthermore, the results point to some challenges that the
teleworking environment brings with it, such as establishing client relationships and
understanding the client firm. However, the results also reveal that many communicative
aspects have not been affected. The study shows that a large proportion of consultants
perceive teleworking as a viable alternative to the traditional form of collaboration and
consider many communication aspects to be unproblematic, although there are certain
challenges