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Global Research Dynamics in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour: A Country Citation and Collaboration Analysis
Full text link26 p.As global research networks expand within the fields of human resource management (HRM) and organizational behaviour (OB), understanding international citation patterns and collaboration dynamics becomes essential for evaluating scientific influence and knowledge dissemination. This study investigates the structure of global research networks, focusing on how country-level citation patterns and international collaborations shape the development of HRM and OB literature. Through a bibliometric analysis, the research identifies the countries that play central roles in driving scientific innovation and fostering global partnerships. (1) The study reveals key dynamics within international research networks. Countries such as the United States, China, and the United Kingdom demonstrate high citation influence, acting as central nodes that facilitate global knowledge exchange. Meanwhile, emerging economies, including India and Brazil, show increasing participation through collaborative research efforts, highlighting the growing inclusivity of international scholarly contributions. (2) The analysis underscores geographical disparities and identifies barriers to collaboration, particularly for countries with limited research infrastructure. It emphasizes the importance of fostering equitable partnerships to enhance global knowledge diffusion and improve the diversity of perspectives in HRM and OB research. (3) The findings also uncover patterns of regional collaboration, demonstrating how cultural, linguistic, and geographical proximity influences research networks. This study extends prior research by highlighting the strategic role of international collaboration in enhancing scientific impact, moving beyond citation counts to explore the underlying social and geopolitical factors shaping research dissemination. These insights offer practical implications for institutions and policymakers aiming to strengthen international research partnerships. By fostering global collaborations and addressing structural barriers, academic institutions can enhance the visibility and impact of their research. This study underscores the necessity of developing equitable research networks to ensure a more diverse and globally representative academic landscape in HRM and OB
CYP1A2 genotype and the ergogenic effect of acute caffeine intake on muscular strength and endurance performance in trained individuals
Full text link10 p.This study examined whether CYP1A2 (rs762551) genotype modulates the acute ergogenic effects of caffeine on muscular strength and endurance performance in resistance-trained men and women. Ninety-four resistance-trained participants (47 females, 47 males; 39 AA, 44 AC, 11 CC) completed a randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial. Participants ingested 3 mg/kg of caffeine or placebo before performing standardized bench press and back squat tests. Mean velocity was measured to assess strength performance against different loads (25%-90%) and muscular endurance during a single set performed to failure at 65% 1RM. Data were analyzed using ANCOVA with supplement, genotype, and sex as factors. Caffeine significantly improved strength and endurance performance across conditions (p < 0.01, ? 2 p = 0.077-0.294). Mean velocity increased by 4%-12% in AA and 3%-9% in AC individuals, particularly at 50%-90% 1RM, whereas CC carriers showed minor changes (? 4%). Supplement by genotype interaction was noted only at 90% 1RM in mean velocity (p < 0.05, ? 2 p = 0.094). In the muscular endurance test, mean velocity improved by 4%-6% in AA, 3%-4% in AC, and 2%-6% in CC. No sex differences or ergolytic effects were observed. Acute ingestion of 3 mg/kg caffeine enhances strength and endurance performance in resistance-trained men and women. Although CYP1A2 genotype did not alter the overall effect, benefits were greatest in AA, intermediate in AC, and minimal in CC carriers. These findings support low-dose caffeine as an effective and safe ergogenic aid in resistance training regardless of sex, with individual variability partly explained by genotype.Universidad de AlcaláiSanida
Translating data into art: a conversation with Thijs Biersteker on ecology and the Amazon
No full textNature, and a social revolution in wole Soyinka’s "Alápatà Àpatá"
No full textThis essay is about the agency of nonhumans and its use to achieve a social revolution in Wole Soyinka’s play "Alápatà Àpatá". In Soyinka’s dramatic aesthetics, anthropocentrism is undermined to reflect an African natural world where nature and culture are not dichotomous but entangled. Using ideas from African indigenous knowledge system (particularly of the Yoruba ethnic nation) and material ecocriticism, we argue that the play presents nonhuman beings as the protagonist in the revolution against political oppression. The shift from the human to the nonhuman, in the context of social revolution, suggests that such ecocentric readings can give us an alternative dimension of African literature that foregrounds the roles of African nature in societal progress—roles that have been hitherto marginalized in reading practices that have privileged humans over nonhumans. This study will extend the focus of African literary studies from one that is human centred to one that discusses the complexities of human-nonhumanrelations.Este ensayo trata la agencia de los no-humanos y su uso para conseguir una revolución social en la obra teatral "Alápatà Àpatá" de Wole Soyinka. En la estética dramática de Soyinka se socava el antropocentrismo para reflejar un mundo natural africano en el que la naturaleza y la cultura no son una dicotomía, sino que están entrelazadas. Usando ideas del sistema de conocimiento de los indígenas africanos (en particular de la nació étnica yoruba) y de la ecocrítica material, sostenemos que la obra presenta a los seres no humanos como los protagonistas de la revolución frente a la opresión política. El cambio de lo humano a lo no-humano, en el contexto de una revolución social, sugiere que tales lecturas ecocéntricas pueden ofrecernos una dimensión alternativa de la literatura africana que destaca los roles de la naturaleza africana en el progreso social—roles que hasta la fecha han sido marginalizados en las lecturas que han privilegiado a los humanos sobre a los no-humanos. Este estudio extenderá el foco de los estudios literarios africanos, pasando de la atención hacia lo humano a debatir las complejidades de las relaciones entre humanos y no-humanos
Phytopoiesis: plants in Amazonian women’s poetry
No full textReseña del libro:The ontological turn within anthropology postulates that there is a multiplicity of worlds and that taking Indigenous worlds, realities and thought seriously enriches Western philosophy and culture. Taking a cue from the ontological turn, I argue in this article that Amazonian Indigenous and non-Indigenous literatures offer readers an entry point into worlds where more than human beings take center stage. I analyze the phtytopoiesis, or the poetry on/with plants, by two Amazonian women authors from different countries and generations—Brazilian Astrid Cabral (1936-), and Peruvian Dina Ananco (1985-)—to show the centrality of vegetal life in Amazonia. I contend that these poets reflect upon traditional, communal ties to plants and resignify them to bolster women’s empowerment.El giro ontológico dentro de la antropología postula que existe una multiplicidad de mundos y que tomar en serio los mundos, las realidades y el pensamiento indígenas enriquece la filosofía y la cultura occidentales. Siguiendo el ejemplo del giro ontológico, sostengo en este artículo que las literaturas indígenas y no indígenas amazónicas ofrecen a los lectores un punto de entrada a mundos donde los seres más-que-humanos ocupan un lugar central. Analizo la fitopoiesis, o poesía sobre/con plantas, de dos autoras amazónicas de diferentes países y generaciones—la brasileña Astrid Cabral (1936-) y la peruana Dina Ananco (1985-)—para mostrar la centralidad de la vida vegetal en la Amazonía. Sostengo que estas poetas reflexionan sobre los vínculos comunitarios tradicionales con las plantas y los resignifican para defender el empoderamiento de las mujeres
Narrating in multinatural word and color: vegetal vitality in Lastenia Canayo’s "Los dueños del mundo Shipibo"
No full textShipibo artist and writer Lastenia Canayo’s 2004 visual/textual work “Los dueños del mundo Shipibo” presents images and descriptions of more-than-human beings of the Shipibo cosmovision. The titular Shipibo dueños are often associated with a speci ic type of plant, relating ancestral belief to natural resources in Shipibo territories in Western Amazonia. Throughout her work, Canayo, whose Indigenous name Pecon Quena means “la que llama a los colores” (“she who calls the colors”), emphasizes how Shipibo commitments to their natural environment are a function of their ancestral beliefs, in turn offering a counternarrative of vegetal vitality to extractivist deforestation and destruction on Shipibo Amazonian lands. Canayo’s images—paired with texts written in the Spanish language—invite viewer/readers, Indigenous or not, to come to know and learn from Shipibo knowledge in word and in color. Ancestrality and territoriality, concepts broached by Graça Graúna (2013) and Robert David Sack (1986), respectively, textually and visually unite in Canayo’s work to underscore how cosmogonic knowledge embodied in the “dueños” sustains Shipibo communities, as much in daily life today in the twenty- irst century as well as in imagining Amazonian futures. In presenting a multi-edged vegetal vitality as a force of sustenance in Shipibo communities, Canayo deploys ancestrality and territoriality to textually and visually demarcate Shipibo socioenvironmental relations in Amazonia. Canayo highlights the diverse plant life along the Ucayali river and its tributaries, cosmological beings that multinaturally bridge human and more-than-human Shipibo worlds, to engage with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s (2002/2020) understanding of multinaturalism, and to promote an imaginary of Amazonia that centralizes human and more-than-human socioenvironmental interactions rooted in ancestral knowledge.La obra visual/textual "Los dueños del mundo Shipibo" de 2004 de la artista y escritora shipiba Lastenia Canayo presenta imágenes y descripciones de seres más que humanos de la cosmovisión shipiba. Los dueños shipibos que dan tı́tulo a la obra suelen estar asociados con una especie particular de planta, relacionando la creencia ancestral con los recursos naturales en los territorios shipibos de la Amazonı́a occidental. A lo largo de su obra, Canayo, cuyo nombre indı́gena Pecon Quena significa “la que llama a los colores,” enfatiza cómo los compromisos shipibos con su entorno natural son una función de sus creencias ancestrales, ofreciendo a su vez una contranarrativa de vitalidad vegetal a la deforestación y destrucción extractivistas en las tierras amazónicas shipibas. Las imágenes de Canayo, emparejadas con textos escritos en español, invitan a los espectadores/lectores, indı́genas o no, a conocer y aprender del conocimiento shipibo en palabras y en color. La ancestralidad y la territorialidad, conceptos abordados por Graça Graúna (2013) y Robert David Sack (1986), respectivamente, se unen textual y visualmente en la obra de Canayo para subrayar cómo el conocimiento cosmogónico encarnado en los dueños sostiene a las comunidades shipibas, tanto en la vida cotidiana actual en el siglo XXI como en la imaginación de futuros amazónicos. Al presentar una vitalidad vegetal multifacética como una fuerza de sustento en las comunidades shipibas, Canayo despliega la ancestralidad y la territorialidad para demarcar textual y visualmente las relaciones socioambientales shipibas en la Amazonı́a. Canayo destaca la diversa vida vegetal a lo largo del rı́o Ucayali y sus aluentes, seres cosmológicos que unen de manera multinatural los mundos humanos y más que humanos shipibos, para interactuar con la comprensión del multinaturalismo de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2002/2020), y para retratar un imaginario de la Amazonı́a que centraliza las interacciones socioambientales humanas y más que humanas arraigado en la sabidurı́a ancestral
Handling dissatisfaction in onsite and telephone healthcare interpreting: reflections and insights from empirical data
No full textProviding professional onsite or telephone interpreting services is an effective strategy to address the linguistic and cultural needs of increasingly diverse patients. In this respect, healthcare interpreters contribute to the development of more equitable and inclusive societies by enabling effective communication that allows healthcare providers to fulfil their professional duties and patients to exercise their rights. These rights include the ability to express dissatisfaction with the services received, whether this concerns healthcare professionals, interpreters or both. Drawing on an exploratory approach grounded in observation and discourse analysis, this study examines four interpreter-mediated (both in-person and telephone) interactions to explore how user dissatisfaction is managed. The findings suggest that healthcare interpreters adopt very different strategies and roles depending on the context and underlying needs, including mediation and active involvement in the search for solutions.Facilitar servicios profesionales de interpretación presencial o telefónica es una estrategia eficaz
para dar respuesta a las necesidades lingüísticas y culturales de pacientes cada vez más diversos. En este
sentido, los intérpretes sanitarios participan en la consecución de sociedades cada vez más igualitarias e
inclusivas, facilitando una comunicación efectiva que permite a los proveedores cumplir con sus deberes
profesionales y a los usuarios ejercer sus derechos. Dichos derechos incluyen poder expresar insatisfacción
con los servicios prestados, ya sea por parte de los trabajadores sanitarios, los intérpretes o ambos. Con
un enfoque exploratorio que se nutre de la observación y el análisis del discurso, este trabajo analiza
cuatro interacciones mediadas por intérpretes sanitarios presenciales y telefónicos para determinar cómo
gestionan la insatisfacción de los usuarios. Los resultados sugieren que los intérpretes sanitarios adoptan
estrategias y papeles muy diferentes en función del contexto y sus necesidades subyacentes, entre las que
destacan la mediación o la participación activa en la búsqueda de soluciones.Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciónUniversidad de Alcal
Revealing the structural complexity of ETS-10 using 4D-STEM & electron ptychography
Full text linkAtomic-level structural elucidation of zeolites remains challenging, particularly due to their sensitivity to the electron beam, as in the case of ETS-10, which features a unique 12-membered ring titanosilicate framework with linear Ti-O-Ti chains. In this study, we demonstrate the use of four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) combined with electron ptychography to image Eu-exchanged ETS-10 (Eu-ETS-10) at sub-angstrom resolution. A homemade ptychographic reconstruction algorithm based on the extended ptychographical iterative engine (ePIE) was developed, enabling recovery of high-fidelity phase contrast images. The reconstructed images reveal not only all T-sites, including Si and Ti atoms, but also light elements such as oxygen and extraframework Eu3+ cations. Surface terminations and stacking faults were clearly resolved, allowing identification of the ABA and ABC polymorphs and their local transformations along the three dimensions through multislice reconstruction. These results validate ptychography as a powerful technique for atomic-scale analysis of fragile zeolitic materials offering unique insights into the structural complexity of ETS-10
Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric and conceptual analysis of its impact on organisational decision-making and work design
Full text linkThis study investigates how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is transforming the architecture of the workplace and reconfiguring managerial agency in contemporary organisations. While prior research has explored task automation and human–machine collaboration, scholarship has under-examined to the broader structural and epistemic implications of GenAI on authority, coordination, and organisational decision-making. To address this gap, a bibliometric and conceptual analysis was conducted on a corpus of 212 Scopus-indexed publications (2018–2025). Using VOSviewer and Bibliometrix, the study maps performance trends, thematic structures, and the conceptual evolution of the field. The findings reveal a dynamic knowledge domain where technical constructs such as large language models and generative adversarial networks intersect with behavioural and managerial concepts including autonomy, coordination, and decision-making. Thematic mapping and co-word analysis uncover six coherent conceptual clusters, while a Sankey diagram of thematic evolution illustrates the convergence of lexical frameworks and the pivotal role of a small group of authors in structuring the discourse. The article advances a conceptual framework of the algorithmic workplace, characterised by hybrid agency, decentralised decision-making, and the erosion of rigid managerial boundaries. It suggests a transition from command-and-control models to guide-and-collaborate paradigms, with GenAI acting as a socio-technical intermediary in decision-support processes. By offering a systematic and theory-informed mapping of the field, the study contributes to emerging scholarship on AI-enabled organisational transformation and outlines future trajectories for research at the intersection of technology, management, and decision systems
