Entities, including organisations, brands and individuals, pursue a strategy of difference (a way to be dissimilar others) improve their performance outcomes well-being. In this editorial, we introduce five research articles two expert commentaries that examine some aspects such difference. We further highlight the challenges consumers face when taking action meet goal Using activity theory its...

We present a model with a complex and a real scalar fields and a potential whose symmetry is explicitly broken by Planck-scale physics. For exponentially small breaking, the model accounts for the period of inflation in the early universe and for the period of acceleration of the late universe or for the dark matter, depending on the smallness of the explicit breaking.

Healthcare workers are reporting instances of psychological stress induced by healthcare information technology. IS researchers have established a valuable research program on which to study psychological technostress in healthcare workers. This research stream considers technostress a "dark side" of technology associated with negative perceptions and harmful effects. However, extant literature...

The present study reveals the results of a content analysis of the descriptive, textual communication, and photo content found in 208 college student Facebook profiles. An a priori coding scheme was developed for this investigation based on (1) news reports and stories on controversies surrounding online social network use, (2) research on social uses of the Internet, and (3) insights from the ...

Introduction: Psychological stresses influence brain functions such as learning and memory. Environmental factors like types and durations of stress affect brain responsiveness. This study investigated the effects of two subchronic social and isolation stresses on learning, memory, adrenal glands weight and corticosterone levels in the hippocampus and frontal cortex. Methods: Eighteen male ...

This article introduces the special section on the history of social engineering and Nazism during the 1930s and 1940s. It sketches the object of social engineering, the historiographical debates surrounding it, the place of Nazism in this discussion and the role of transnationality. Moreover, it introduces the contributions and discusses questions for further research.

This document is due to a question by Debasish of the Saha institute of India asked in the Dark Side of the Universe conference, 2010, in Leon, Mexico, and also is connected with issues as to the initial configuration of the arrow of time brought up in both Rudn 10, in Rencontres de Blois, and Fundamental Frontiers of Physics 11, in Paris, in July 2010. Further reference is made as to how to re...

This paper explores the effects of Health Information Technologies (HIT) in Operating Rooms (ORs). When functioning well, Health IT are a boon to mankind. However, Health IT in the OR also create hazards for patients for a number of interrelated reasons. We introduce five interrelated components of hazard situations for medical teams operating in the OR: complexity, overload/underload, inadequa...

Earthshine is sunlight that has been reflected from the dayside Earth onto the dark side of the Moon and back again to Earth. In recent times, there has been renewed interest in ground-based visible and near-infrared measurements of earthshine as a proxy for exoplanet observations. Observations of earthshine allow us to explore and characterize the globally integrated photometric, spectral and ...