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Professional Group Development Trainers’ Personality Characteristics and Affective Profiles
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Background: The Development of Groups and Leaders (UGL), provided by the Swedish National Defence College and mentored by UGL-trainers, is one of the most popular management programs among civilians in Sweden.
Max eRapp Ricciardi +12 more
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Toward a human-centered use of technology: a stakeholder analysis of harm reduction and CBO staff
Harm Reduction Journal, 2020 Background Technology can enable syringe service programs (SSPs) and other community-based organizations (CBOs) operating under a harm reduction framework to work with an increased number of clients and can also enable organizations to offer services ...
Ian David Aronson +2 more
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Setting the table, not running it
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2021 First paragraph: Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) is a vegan food justice nonprofit in northern California. We focus on making a more just and sustainable food system for everyone involved.
Karen Emmerman, lauren Ornelas
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Personality and intelligence: persistence, not self-directedness, cooperativeness or self-transcendence, is related to twins’ cognitive abilities [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Background. A person-centered approach focusing on the interaction of an individual’s temperament-character-life events is essential in the path of individuals’ well-being. In this context, three character traits, Self-directedness (e.g., self-acceptance,
Fariba Mousavi +5 more
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Journal of Immunology Research, 2022 In recent years, there has been ample evidence illustrating the effect of microbiota on gut immunity, homeostasis, and disease. Most of these studies have engaged more efforts in understanding the role of the bacteriome in gut mucosal immunity and ...
Njinju Asaba Clinton +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 COVID-19 has brought a massive psychological impact on individuals' life. The current study sets a significant purpose to test the model whether post-traumatic stress and coping strategies affect stress-related growth regarding the COVID-19 event.
Dian Veronika Sakti Kaloeti +2 more
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Empowerment–An Introduction [PDF]
, 2014 This book chapter is an introduction to and an overview of the information-theoretic, task independent utility function "Empowerment", which is defined as the channel capacity between an agent's actions and an agent's sensors. It quantifies how much influence and control an agent has over the world it can perceive.
Christoph Salge +2 more
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The Sanctuaries for Witch-hunt Victims in Northern Ghana
Modern Africa, 2018 Witch-hunts in Ghana’s Northern Region occur mainly among neighbours and members of the extended family. Triggers for accusations are disease, death and accidents. With many exceptions, the accused are postmenopausal women.
Felix Riedel
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Factor structure of the happiness-increasing strategies scales (H-ISS): activities and coping strategies in relation to positive and negative affect [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Background. Previous research (Tkach & Lyubomirsky, 2006) shows that there are eight general happiness-increasing strategies: social affiliation, partying, mental control, goal pursuit, passive leisure, active leisure, religion, and direct attempts.
Ali Al Nima, Danilo Garcia
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Women’s Empowerment in Manipur [PDF]
Journal of Social and Political Sciences, 2021 Manipur is a state situated in North-Eastern corner of India. Two-thirds of the population comprise the Meiteis, majority ethnic community in Manipur. Meitei women are renowned for their unique role and status in history. Women in Manipur are particularly noted for their active economic participation and are renowned for their collective empowerment ...
Arambam Sophia +1 more
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