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Conversational agents in online organization–stakeholder interactions: a state-of-the-art analysis and implications for further research

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to review the extant literature on chatbots and stakeholder interactions to identify major trends and shed light on knowledge gaps.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review was conducted combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. A code book based on early systematic literature reviews was developed and used to extract information from 62 discrete peer-reviewed English articles. An inductive approach was used to analyse definitions of chatbots, topics, metrics, perspectives and implications.FindingsChatbots have been studied by many different disciplines, but not much from organizational, stakeholder and corporate communication perspectives. Existing studies focus on the technical developments of chatbots and chatbot language and conversations skills. Research has remained anchored at the micro-level understanding of the phenomenon, that is, the nature of chatbots, but has not yet taken into consideration the meso (organizational) or macro (societal) levels.Research limitations/implicationsThis study focused only on academic peer-reviewed papers in English and excluded conference proceeding, books, book chapters and editorials that may have offered other important and relevant reflections. The limited number of studies in communication-related disciplines shows that corporate communication scholars could contribute more to the discussion of chatbot–stakeholder interactions.Originality/valueThis is the first research in the field of corporate communication that examines organizational chatbot–stakeholder interactions. Results of this review offer important information on chatbots' organizational capabilities and affordances, which, arguably, must be taken into consideration when stakeholder engagement strategies are set.
Resilience and attitudes toward help-seeking as correlates of psychological well-being among a sample of New Zealand Defence Force personnel

ABSTRACT Research is needed to examine factors that contribute to psychological well-being among military service members. This study examined associations between various indices of psychological well-being, resilience, and help-seeking stigma among New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel (N = 2,805). Participants completed self-report measures of psychological well-being, resilience, help-seeking stigma, and past-year help-seeking behaviors. Greater resilience and a lower degree of help-seeking stigma were each significantly associated with better psychological well-being (i.e., greater psychological flourishing, less psychological distress, and better overall mental health). Though effects were relatively small, engagement in help-seeking behaviors moderated the relationship between (1) greater resilience and less psychological distress and (2) greater resilience and better overall mental health, such that these relationships were stronger among those who had sought help for their mental health in the past year. Findings suggest that greater resilience and less mental health help-seeking stigma may independently contribute to better psychological well-being among NZDF personnel; thus, enhancing resilience and reducing help-seeking stigma may serve to promote psychological well-being in this population. Improving resilience among NZDF personnel who seek help, in particular, may contribute to better psychological well-being. However, longitudinal research among service members is needed to establish a temporal relationship between these constructs.
A Blended Physiotherapy Intervention for Persons With Hemophilic Arthropathy: Development Study

Background Joint bleeds are the hallmark of hemophilia, leading to a painful arthritic condition called as hemophilic arthropathy (HA). Exercise programs are frequently used to improve the physical functioning in persons with HA. As hemophilia is a rare disease, there are not many physiotherapists who are experienced in the field of hemophilia, and regular physiotherapy sessions with an experienced physiotherapist in the field of hemophilia are not feasible for persons with HA. Blended care is an innovative intervention that can support persons with HA at home to perform the advised physical activities and exercises and provide self-management information. Objective The aim of this study was to develop a blended physiotherapy intervention for persons with HA. Methods The blended physiotherapy intervention, namely, e-Exercise HA was developed by cocreation with physiotherapists, persons with HA, software developers, and researchers. The content of e-Exercise HA was compiled using the first 3 steps of the Center for eHealth Research roadmap model (ie, contextual inquiry, value specification, and design), including people with experience in the development of previous blended physiotherapy interventions, a literature search, and focus groups. Results A 12-week blended intervention was developed, integrating face-to-face physiotherapy sessions with a web-based app. The intervention consists of information modules for persons with HA and information modules for physiotherapists, a graded activity program using a self-chosen activity, and personalized video-supported exercises. The information modules consist of text blocks, videos, and reflective questions. The patients can receive pop-ups as reminders and give feedback on the performance of the prescribed activities. Conclusions In this study, we developed a blended physiotherapy intervention for persons with HA, which consists of information modules, a graded activity program, and personalized video-supported exercises.
Global Modeling of Equatorial Spread F with SAMI3/WACCM‐X

We report the first results of a global ionosphere/thermosphere simulation study that self‐consistently generates large‐scale equatorial spread F (ESF) plasma bubbles in the postsunset ionosphere. The coupled model comprises the ionospheric code SAMI3 and the atmosphere/thermosphere code WACCM‐X. Two cases are modeled for different seasons and geophysical conditions: the March case (low solar activity: F10.7 = 70) and the July case (high solar activity: F10.7 = 170). We find that equatorial plasma bubbles formed and penetrated into the topside F layer for the March case but not the July case. For the March case, a series of bubbles formed in the Atlantic sector with irregularity spacings in the range 400–1,200 km, rose to over 800 km, and persisted until after midnight. These results are consistent with recent GOLD observations. Calculation of the generalized Rayleigh‐Taylor instability (GRTI) growth rate shows that the e‐folding time was shorter for the March case than the July case.
Multisensory stimulation for the rehabilitation of unilateral spatial neglect

ABSTRACT Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a neuropsychological syndrome, typically caused by lesions of the right hemisphere, whose features are the defective report of events occurring in the left (contralesional) side of space and the inability to orient and set up actions leftwards. Multisensory integration mechanisms, largely spared in USN patients, may temporally modulate spatial orienting. In this pilot study, the effects of an intensive audio-visual Multisensory Stimulation (MS) on USN were assessed, and compared with those of a treatment that ameliorates USN, Prismatic Adaptation (PA). Twenty USN stroke patients received a 2-week treatment (20 sessions, twice per day) of MS or PA. The effects of MS and PA were assessed by a set of neuropsychological clinical tests (target cancellation, line bisection, sentence reading, personal neglect, complex drawing) and the Catherine Bergego Scale for functional disability. Results showed that MS brought about an amelioration of USN deficits overall comparable to that induced by PA; personal neglect was improved only by MS, not by PA. The clinical gains of the MS treatment were not influenced by duration of disease and lesion volume, and they persisted up to one month post-treatment. In conclusion, MS represents a novel and promising rehabilitation procedure for USN.
Irrigators’ willingness to pay for the adoption of soil moisture monitoring tools in South-Eastern Africa

ABSTRACT Contingent valuation is used to elicit irrigators’ willingness to pay for soil moisture tools in irrigation schemes in Africa, with various econometric methods employed to mitigate potential bias. Key results include that there is a neighbourhood effect influencing adoption, and that being located downstream and spending more on irrigation water positively and statistically significantly influenced willingness to pay for tools. The result suggests that although focusing on economic incentives and promoting farmer learning by those using the tools may promote greater adoption, there is likely to still be a need for co-investment by other bodies.
The knowledge behind Brexit. A bibliographic analysis of ex-ante policy appraisals on Brexit in the United Kingdom and the European Union

ABSTRACT In this article we map and explain the sources of knowledge cited on 85 Brexit impact appraisals, 46 of which were formal impact assessments ordered and published by the European Parliament and 39 ‘sectoral reports’ ordered by the UK Government and released by the House of Commons Exiting the EU Committee. All reports were published between the day after the UK referendum and the year after the start of the UK-EU negotiations. We conducted a citation analysis of 3537 references and tested author push and policy sector pull hypotheses with non-parametric tests. Our findings highlight the epistemic function of the professional referent groups to which authors belong. Authors tend to generate information and cite sources that are congruent with their ‘home group’ in the departmental unit where they work, or their larger professional group, even in urgent high-salient risk situations like Brexit. Differences between policy sectors do not strongly matter.
Lagrangian Modeling of Mixing‐Limited Reactive Transport in Porous Media: Multirate Interaction by Exchange With the Mean

The presence of solute concentration fluctuations at spatial scales much below the scale of resolution is a major challenge for modeling reactive transport in porous media. Overlooking small‐scale fluctuations, which is the usual procedure, often results in strong disagreements between field observations and model predictions, including, but not limited to, the overestimation of effective reaction rates. Existing innovative approaches that account for local reactant segregation do not provide a general mathematical formulation for the generation, transport, and decay of these fluctuations and their impact on chemical reactions. We propose a Lagrangian formulation based on the random motion of fluid particles carrying solute concentrations whose departure from the local mean is relaxed through multirate interaction by exchange with the mean (MRIEM). We derive and analyze the macroscopic descriptionof the local concentration covariance that emerges from the model, showing its potential to simulate the dynamics of mixing‐limited processes. The action of hydrodynamic dispersion on coarse‐scale concentration gradients is responsible for the production of local concentration covariance, whereas covariance destruction stems from the local mixing process represented by the MRIEM formulation. The temporal evolution of integrated mixing metrics in two simple scenarios shows the trends that characterize fully resolved physical systems, such as a late‐time power law decay of the relative importance of incomplete mixing with respect to the total mixing. Experimental observations of mixing‐limited reactive transport are successfully reproduced by the model.
Festival Tourism as Part of International Tourism and a Factor in the Development of Cultural Tourism

The article examines that cultural tourism, by developing festival tours, is able to generate significant tourist flows not only by itself, but also it is a necessary complement to any other tourist product. The purpose. The aim is to analyze the scientific literature on intercultural research and the development of international tourist festivals. Results. The identification and discussion of the three main discourses of festival research made it possible to determine the role and impact of festivals in society and culture, the features of festival tourism and festival management. Classical discourse, emerging mainly from cultural anthropology and sociology, concerns the roles, meanings and influences of festivals in society and culture. Festivals are means for tourism, economic development and local marketing. At this discourse dominated. It is based on consumer behavior approaches and ignores the fundamental needs of celebration and many social and cultural reasons for searching a holiday. It should also be emphasized that festivals are increasingly being used to achieve social and cultural objects, which places them as implements for social marketers.
Juvenile Sex Offenders in Turkey: A Study on Offense Characteristics, Risk Factors, and the Differences between Juvenile Sex Offenders and Other Juvenile Offenders

Based on a data set (n = 920) derived from court files of adjudicated youth in one of the largest court districts in Turkey, this study represents the first systematic attempt to understand juvenile sex offenders (JSOs) and their offenses in this contemporary urban context. The study results show, first off, that sexual offending among Turkish youth has been increasing at a rate comparable to that of other Western societies. Secondly, the victims of the sex offenses examined in the study were mostly of the opposite sex (female), were typically younger than the offenders, and commonly were acquaintances (friends, family, partners). Thirdly, the results indicated that the JSOs were significantly different from other juvenile offenders, and in terms of most of the risk factors used in juvenile justice assessments they had an advantage over the other juvenile offenders. These results are discussed in light of findings reported in previous studies, along with considerations relating to the public policy implications and the research recommendations arising from the outcomes of this foundational research.
Does monitoring without enforcement make a difference? The European Union and anti-corruption policies in Bulgaria and Romania after accession

ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) has made effective corruption control a condition for membership, but it cannot sanction non-compliance once a country has joined. The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) was an institutional experiment to compensate the loss of sanctioning power after accession with continued monitoring. Most commentators dismiss the potential of such monitoring without enforcement. This article’s original coding of the CVM reports with regard to corruption control in Romania and Bulgaria provides an empirical basis to assess the CVM’s ability to foster compliance. It suggests that monitoring can have a positive impact on state compliance even without material sanctions: despite the low expectations in the literature, compliance in Romania was significantly better than in Bulgaria. We explain Romania’s better compliance record with successful domestic institution-building. In contrast to Bulgaria, Romania created strong anti-corruption institutions that served as a powerful institutional base for the fight against corruption. The CVM has not only had a direct effect on institution-building, but also an important indirect effect. As the anti-corruption institutions remain vulnerable to governmental interference, the CVM played a key role as a social constraint on attempts by the government to curb their power and as a focal point for societal mobilisation.
eWOM Platforms in Moderating the Relationships between Political and Terrorism Risk, Destination Image, and Travel Intent: The Case of Lebanon

This study examined the impacts of various electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) platforms (travel websites, social media, photo- and video-sharing platforms, blogs, and online communities) on visit intention in Lebanon. Using data from respondents in the United Kingdom and France, this study revealed that respondents can be categorized into two groups based on their eWOM platform usage: group 1 includes respondents who use only travel review sites, while group 2 comprises respondents who use a wider range of social networking sites. While political instability and terrorism risk are found to negatively and indirectly influence visit intention (through destination image), this effect becomes nonsignificant for group 2, suggesting that using eWOM platforms as opposed to only travel review sites can mitigate political instability and terrorism risk and thus enhance destination image and visit intention. These results help advance existing theoretical tourist decision-making models, as well as provide practical implications for destinations affected by political instability.
Cultural Factors Facilitating or Inhibiting the Support for Traditional Household Gender Roles

Movement toward gender equality has occurred worldwide for the past century; nevertheless, some people still strongly endorse traditional gender norms. We investigated the associations of societal characteristics (gross domestic product [GDP] per capita and the gender empowerment measure) and cultural characteristics, including Hofstede’s, Schwartz’s, and Welzel’s scores (hierarchy vs. egalitarianism, person vs. social focus, mastery vs. harmony, long-term orientation, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity–femininity), with support for traditional household gender roles. To reveal advantageous or disadvantageous conditions for support for traditional household gender roles, we conducted a secondary data analysis with representative samples (n = 59,713) of 41 societies collected by the International Social Survey Program. According to the multilevel modeling analysis, individuals have lower endorsement of traditional household gender roles in societies that value mastery and enjoy economic development (i.e., GDP per capita), gender equality (measured by the gender empowerment measure), and personal focus. Contrarily, individuals have higher endorsement of traditional household gender roles in societies where hierarchy, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and masculine characteristics are valued. Individual characteristics (women, work experience, education, big-city experience, and younger generations) also predict lower support for traditional household gender roles. In addition, gender differences in traditional household gender roles are larger in societies with greater economic development and personal focus and lower emphasis on hierarchy and long-term orientation. Finally, the national means of traditional household gender roles predict concurrent social movement activities and gender equality at a later time. Potential mechanisms are further discussed.
Automatic enrollment and employer match: an experiment with the choice of pension plans

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to identify arrangements of fully funded defined contribution (FF-DC) pension plans associated with the continuity of retirement savings.Design/methodology/approachThe authors adopted an experimental design composed of a control group and two treatment groups. In all groups, individuals made decisions throughout nine periods: five during the working period and four at the postretirement stage. The authors asked participants if they wanted to join a pension plan, and which plan. The authors offered three plans with different risk profiles: plan 1 (high risk), plan 2 (moderate) and plan 3 (low risk) and one risk-free plan, plan 4. In treatment groups 1 and 2, there was an automatic enrollment of the participants in the default plan (moderate risk), and in the following periods they had to decide whether to continue contributing, and in this case, to which plan, with a defined percentage.FindingsIn treatment scenarios, participants chose the riskiest plan in all periods of the experiment, and most of them chose the risk-free plan in period 5. These findings suggest that pension plans with automatic enrollment, employer matching and low risk foster the continuation of retirement savings.Research limitations/implicationsThe research has as limitation the fact that the sample is not representative of the population and therefore does not allow generalizations. This is because the authors use social media ads to prospect respondents.Practical implicationsThe research's findings can be relevant for the design of public policies for private pension plans, suggesting that compulsory automatic enrollment can be used as default in plans offered by the employers. The results encourage the inclusion of behavioral elements in the design of the pension system, paying attention to the nudges. In this sense, it is possible to increase participation in the pension plan and develop low cost programs to increase the amount accumulated by people before retirement.Social implicationsDecision-making architecture, such as automatic enrollment, can improve individuals' retirement decisions, affecting savings and welfare in the long run.Originality/valueAlthough the effect of pension plan designs is widely studied in other countries, such as the United States and United Kingdom, the authors are unaware of a national empirical research that seeks to understand how different arrangements affect an individual choice through an experiment.
Lipidic Matrixes Containing Lemon Essential Oil Increases Storage Stability: Rheological, Thermal, and Microstructural Studies

Lemon essential oil (LEO) is known for having excellent antioxidant properties with applications in the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic sectors. However, its deficient stability to light and temperature compromise this activity. In this study, waxy emulsifiers, such as beewax, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, and ozokerite wax, were employed in order to create lipidic matrixes with LEO as a continuous phase by heating to 80 °C under homogenization, followed by rapid cooling to 25 °C. The thermal, microstructural, rheological, and antioxidant tests were then conducted on such matrixes. The difference in melting, crystallization, and gelling temperatures was explained by the diverse chemical composition (long-chain wax esters in carnauba wax having a high melting point, and short-chain fatty acids and hydrocarbons in beewax and ozokerite wax, respectively). Crystal habits of these matrix systems varied from grainy, oval, to fiber-like shape, whereas there was a prevalent orthorhombic allomorph. The alignment and reorganization of carnauba and candelilla wax crystals led to an increase in the matrix strength as compared to those of beeswax and ozokerite matrixes, which showed a weak texture and poor crystallization behavior. The last two matrix systems showed the best flow and extensibility. These lipidic matrixes showed potential use for topical applications having good oil retention capacity and better antioxidant properties as compared to the raw essential oil.