This study aims to identify the potential of alternative tourism villages and external andinternal factors that are owned in Pringkasap Village, Pabuaran District, Subang Regency. Thistype research is qualitative, with method collecting data through FGD. The analytical toolused a SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity threat) analysis, which determine analternative village development strategy. ...

Research on self-affirmation has shown that simple reminders of self-integrity reduce people's tendency to respond defensively to threat. Recent research has suggested it is irrelevant whether the self-affirmation exercise takes place before or after the threat or the individual's defensive response to it, supposedly because the meaning of threats is continuously reprocessed. However, four expe...

We examine how investors perceive audit quality when regulators adopt different enforcement styles to communicate inspection findings, and the firm responds findings. employed a 2 × 3 between‐subjects experimental design, with regulatory style (critical or supportive) response (defensive actions remedial control) as independent variables. find that relatively high level of chooses take actions,...

Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, has many well-studied virulence factors and a characteristic clinical presentation. Despite this information, it is not clear how B. pertussis interaction with host cells leads to disease. In this study, we examined the interaction of B. pertussis with a human bronchial epithelial cell line (BEAS-2B) and measured host transcriptional ...

Past research has shown that health messages on safer sexual practices that focus on relational consequences are more persuasive than messages that focus on personal consequences. However, we theorize that it is defensiveness against personal risk framing that threatens the self among people from more individualistic cultures. Two studies tested this idea. Study 1 showed that European Americans...

As stakeholders struggle to reconcile calls for accountability and pressures for increased patient safety, criminal prosecution of surgeons and other health-care workers for medical error seems to be on the rise. This paper examines whether legal systems can meaningfully draw a line between acceptable performance and negligence. By questioning essentialist assumptions behind 'crime' or 'neglige...