BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this work was to investigate how stroke rehabilitation professionals understand the concept of motivation and the ways that they use this concept in their clinical practice. METHODS This qualitative study used semistructured, in-depth interviews with the professionals working in the stroke unit of an inner-city teaching hospital in the UK. RESULTS Motiv...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine medical students' perceptions of team-based learning (TBL) according to their individual characteristics: gender, team efficacy, interpersonal understanding, proactivity in problem solving, and academic ability. METHODS Thirty-eight second-year medical students who took an integrated cardiology course participated in this study; 28 were male an...

Objective: We explored the influence of patients’ proactivity in communication, their age, and co-morbidities on physician recommendations of breast and colorectal cancer screening. We focused on mammogram and colonoscopy/sigmoidoscopy, as the recommended screening tests for these prevalent late life cancers. Methods: Data are based on interviews with 414 independent community dwelling elderly ...

OBJECTIVE This research explored the long-term benefits of engaging in proactive health promotion efforts among old-old residents of Sunbelt retirement communities to empirically test components of the Preventive and Corrective Proactivity (PCP) Model of Successful Aging. Specifically, we examined the contributions of exercise, tobacco use, moderate alcohol use, and annual medical checkups to m...

Proactive behavior at work is about making things happen. It involves self-initiated, anticipatory action aimed at changing either the situation or oneself. Examples include taking charge to improve work methods, proactive problem solving, using personal initiative, making i-deals, and proactive feedback seeking. In this chapter, we define proactive behavior and distinguish it from related conc...

This study investigates the relationship between leaders’ neuroticism and their evaluation of desirability followers’ proactive behaviour. We argue that leaders high in are likely to evaluate follower proactivity as less desirable this is amplified when followers low conscientiousness agreeableness. Based on trait activation theory, we further propose worry threat act underlying mechanisms inte...

This paper focuses on the management and pricing of resources in Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), which are extensively adopted nowadays as a very efficient mechanism for Internet information provision. We elaborate resource model that is aligned with concepts mechanisms capital markets. use concept Stock Options (SOs) to address scarcity potential unavailability CDN resources. Using Predictiv...

Real-time simulation and digital twin (DT) as a part of Industry 4.0 are becoming increasingly relevant, especially when considering production cycles. Most issues with cycles arise from having demand for customized orders, while nonmodular lines medium-to-high complexity in the decision-making process. All these conditions lead to possibility unpredictable consequences. Being able predict beha...