Collecting valuable consumer data: Motivating consumers to disclose personal information

Collecting and analyzing consumer data is essential in today’s data-driven business environment. However, consumers are becoming more aware of the value of the information they can provide to companies, thereby being more reluctant to share it for free. Therefore, companies need to find ways to motivate consumers to disclose personal information. The main research question of the study was formed as “How can companies motivate consumers to disclose personal information?” and it was further divided into two subquestions: 1) What types of benefits motivate consumers to disclose personal information? 2) How does the disclosure context affect the consumers’ information disclosure behavior? The conceptual framework consisted of a classification of extrinsic and intrinsic benefits, and moderating factors, which were recognized on the basis of prior research in the field. The study was conducted by using qualitative research methods. The primary data was collected by interviewing ten representatives from eight companies. The data was analyzed and reported according to predetermined themes. The findings of the study confirm that consumers can be motivated to disclose personal information by offering different types of extrinsic (monetary saving, time saving, self-enhancement, and social adjustment) and intrinsic (novelty, pleasure, and altruism) benefits. However, not all the benefits are equally useful ways to convince the customer to disclose information. Moreover, different factors in the disclosure context can either alleviate or increase the effectiveness of the benefits and the consumers’ motivation to disclose personal information. Such factors include the consumer’s privacy concerns, perceived trust towards the company, the relevancy of the requested information, personalization, website elements (especially security, usability, and aesthetics of a website), and the consumer’s shopping motivation. This study has several contributions. It is essential that companies recognize the most attractive benefits regarding their business and their customers, and that they understand how the disclosure context affects the consumer’s information disclosure behavior. The likelihood of information disclosure can be increased, for example, by offering benefits that meet the consumers’ needs and preferences, improving the relevancy of the asked information, stating the reasons for data collection, creating and maintaining a trustworthy image of the company, and enhancing the quality of the company’s website.

Management of presenteeism. The effects on productivity of a food processing company

Presenteeism consists in going to work without conditions to produce, which can have a much higher impact than absenteeism on the productivity of an organisation. Presenteeism translates in both physical as psychological perturbations. It is a difficult to quantify reality, as is its translation into direct and indirect costs within the organisation. Our goal was to analyse the effects of presenteeism on the productivity of a company in the food-procession sector through a descriptive and transversal study of exploratory nature. The Stanford Presenteeism Scale SPS-6 (validated by Ferreira et al, 2010) and a semi-structured interview were used. Most of the workers referred having already gone to work feeling ill at least two days in the last year, mentioning that their health condition affected their performance, made them feel desperate and lacking pleasure from work. Management mentioned that presenteeism has a direct impact on productivity without, however, being able to quantify the true costs. Presenteeism is a reality in organisational scenarios, exceling in the educational and health sectors. We underline the importance of making organisations aware of the psychosocial risks and the importance of having healthy leaderships, work stress control and the presence of clinical psychologists and professional coaches.

A dyadic perspective on genito-pelvic pain : trauma antecedents and treatment effectiveness

La vestibulodynie provoquée (VP) est la forme la plus répandue de douleur génito-pelvienne/trouble de la pénétration et la cause la plus fréquente de douleur vaginale chez les femmes pré-ménopausées. Les femmes qui en souffrent rapportent plus de détresse psychologique ainsi qu’un fonctionnement sexuel appauvri, une diminution de la fréquence des activités sexuelles et du plaisir, et plus d’attitudes négatives à l’égard de la sexualité. Les recherches portant sur les couples souffrant de VP ont montré le rôle prépondérant des variables relationnelles dans la modulation des conséquences sexuelles et psychologiques pour les femmes et leurs partenaires. Cependant, aucune analyse dyadique n’a été appliquée au facteur de risque étiologique le plus robuste, soit la maltraitance durant l’enfance. Par ailleurs, malgré des recommandations répétées pour inclure le partenaire dans le traitement psychologique pour la VP, aucune étude à ce jour n’a examiné l’efficacité d’une psychothérapie qui inclut systématiquement le partenaire et dont la cible est le couple. L’objectif général de cette thèse a été d’utiliser une perspective dyadique afin d’examiner les antécédents de maltraitance et l’efficacité d’une intervention conçue pour améliorer les issues des couples souffrant de VP. Le premier article vise à examiner les liens entre la maltraitance durant l’enfance des femmes souffrant de VP et leurs partenaires, et leur fonctionnement sexuel, leur ajustement psychologique, leur satisfaction conjugale et enfin avec la douleur rapportée par les femmes durant les relations sexuelles. Quarante-neuf couples souffrant de VP ont complété des questionnaires auto-rapportés. La maltraitance durant l’enfance chez les femmes était associée à un fonctionnement sexuel plus faible chez les femmes et les hommes, une augmentation de l’anxiété chez les femmes seulement, et une douleur affective accrue durant les relations sexuelles. La maltraitance durant l’enfance chez les hommes était associée à un fonctionnement sexuel plus faible, moins de satisfaction conjugale, plus d’anxiété chez les femmes et les hommes, et une douleur affective accrue durant les relations sexuelles rapportée par les femmes. En se basant sur les recommandations issues des études empiriques, une thérapie cognitive et comportementale pour les couples (TCCC) souffrant de VP a été développée. Le deuxième article présente les résultats d’une étude pilote testant son efficacité, fidélité et faisabilité potentielles. Neuf couples ont complété des questionnaires auto-rapportés pré- et post-traitement. La TCCC de 12 rencontres était manualisée. Les femmes ont rapporté une amélioration significative de la douleur, du fonctionnement et de la satisfaction sexuels, et les partenaires ont rapporté une amélioration significative de leur satisfaction sexuelle. Les couples ont rapporté des niveaux élevés de satisfaction quant à la psychothérapie, et les psychothérapeutes ont rapporté suivre le manuel de traitement de manière fidèle. Le troisième article, s’appuyant sur les résultats prometteurs de l’étude pilote, décrit le protocole de recherche pour un essai clinique randomisé mesurant l’efficacité de la TCCC comparée à une intervention médicale de première ligne, la lidocaïne topique, pour le traitement de la VP. Enfin, les implications cliniques et théoriques de la thèse sont discutées.

Prática de ensino supervisionada em pré-escolar e em 1º ciclo do ensino básico: a promoção do livro e da leitura na educação pré-escolar e 1º ciclo do ensino básico

O presente relatório foi elaborado no âmbito da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada em Jardim-de-Infância e 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, inserida no Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. O objetivo geral foi promover o livro e a leitura, procurando contribuir para a formação de leitores com hábitos de leitura frequentes. O tema surgiu pela necessidade de compreender qual o papel do educador/professor na promoção da leitura, tendo em conta que este deve orientar o seu trabalho no sentido de transformar a escola numa comunidade de leitura, na qual o prazer de ler é uma conquista fundamental. Também foi nosso propósito incidir no papel da família, tendo em conta a promoção do livro e da leitura. A Dimensão Investigativa da PES baseou-se na observação participante; nos registos fotográficos; no caderno de formação e na aplicação de dois inquéritos por questionário, um à educadora e professora cooperantes e outro a uma amostra de seis crianças do grupo de pré-escolar, que ingressavam no ano letivo seguinte no 1º ano do 1º CEB. Os resultados mostram que em ambos os contextos, jardim-de-infância e 1º ciclo do ensino básico, existem poucos momentos de leitura de histórias, como também a utilização frequente da área da biblioteca da sala. Através da análise dos inquéritos por questionário às profissionais de educação, verifica-se que ambas mencionam que existe a rotina frequente de leitura de histórias, salientando-se que esses momentos não foram observados durante a minha observação e intervenção. Com a análise dos inquéritos por questionário ao grupo de crianças do pré-escolar, estes consideram o momento de leitura de histórias promovido pela educadora, satisfatório; Abstract: The present report has been prepared in scope of Practice of Supervised Teaching in kindergarten and 1st cycle of basic education, entered in the master’s degree in Pre-School Education and teaching of the first cycle of basic education. The overall objective was to promote the book and reading, seeking to contribute to the formation of readers with frequent reading habits. The theme came about by the need to understand what the role of the educator/teacher in promoting reading, given that this must orient their work in order to transform the school into a community of reading, in which the pleasure of reading is a fundamental achievement. It was also our purpose focus on the role of the family, taking into account the promotion of books and reading. The Research Dimension of the PES was based on participant observation; photographic records; in the formation and implementation of two surveys, one educator and cooperating teacher and another a sample of six children of the preschool group, which entered the school year following the first year of the 1st CEB. The results show that in both contexts, kindergarten and 1st cycle of basic education, there are few moments of reading stories, as well as the frequent use of the library area of the room. Through the analysis of surveys to education professionals, it turns out that both mention that there is the routine of reading stories, stressing that those moments were not observed during my observation and intervention. With the analysis of the surveys to the Group of children from preschool, they consider the moment of reading stories promoted by the educator, satisfactory.

Discurso pronunciado en la Reinauguración de la Biblioteca Nacional

Ha llegado el momento tantas veces anunciado. Cada vez que sentíamos próxima la conclusión de las obras de remodelación, un nuevo daño nos obligaba a ser cautelosos y a posponer, nuevamente, la apertura de la Biblioteca Nacional.Queridos ciudadanos, ha llegado la hora de reabrir las puertas al conocimiento y al placer de leer. Volvamos a las salas de la Biblioteca Nacional con la seguridad de que el Estado, representado por el Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes, ha cumplido con la obligación de conservar valiosos documentos históricos, ha aplicado costosas medidas que garantizan la seguridad personal de los usuarios, y ha hecho realidad que la ciudad disponga, nuevamente, de un espacio para la ilustración, la investigación, la educación y el esparcimiento.

Resumen

Con agrado, se presenta un nuevo número de la Revista Bibliotecas. Incluye investigaciones de interés acerca de los siguientes temas: arquetipos bibliotecarios, alfabetización informacional e informática en la nube. En el artículo dedicado a los arquetipos, el autor afirma que la profesión bibliotecológica, al igual que ocurre con otras disciplinas, está expuesta a una serie de estereotipos. Tales impresiones y creencias provocan que las personas, motivadas por el prejuicio, no incursionen en una fascinante disciplina; como consecuencia, inciden en la matrícula de estudiantes de primer ingreso. Este escrito expone la situación de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información, de la Universidad Nacional, y plantea una propuesta didáctica en aras de mejorar la concepción de la bibliotecología entre la población estudiantil de secundaria.

Aplicación de técnicas de cocina molecular en la elaboración de propuestas de repostería utilizando mora, uvilla y babaco

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Hábitos de leitura dos alunos dos 2º e 3º Ciclos do Ensino Básico : conceções e práticas da Comunidade Educativa da EBS das Flores

Este estudo tem como objetivo principal conhecer os hábitos, conceções e práticas de leitura dos alunos dos 2º e 3º ciclos do ensino básico, assim como dos seus professores, encarregados de educação e assistentes operacionais, da EB1,2,3/JI/S Padre Maurício de Freitas, ilha das Flores, arquipélago dos Açores. O enquadramento teórico deste estudo está organizado em três partes: a primeira aborda a leitura como uma competência basilar para aceder ao conhecimento; a segunda incide sobre a formação dos leitores e mediadores nessa construção; a terceira apresenta conceções de alunos, professores, pais e assistentes operacionais sobre a leitura. Tendo em conta a natureza do estudo, enveredámos por um paradigma de investigação interpretativo, numa abordagem mista, recorrendo a dados qualitativos e quantitativos. Realizámos, testámos, reformulámos e aplicámos quatro questionários, destinados a cada grupo participante neste estudo. Os resultados do estudo mostram que o gosto pela leitura é transversal a todos os participantes no estudo, embora a prática da leitura seja pouco sistemática. Durante a infância, a maioria dos alunos teve contacto com atividades de promoção de leitura, desenvolvidas pelos pais, embora de forma pouco constante. As conceções que apresentam nem sempre são coincidentes com as práticas, sugerindo mais um desejo do que uma prática efetiva. A maior parte dos participantes vê a leitura como um ato de prazer e associa-a à aprendizagem e ao conhecimento. O estudo revela também que a generalidade dos inquiridos está convicto de que os hábitos de leitura afetam o desempenho/sucesso escolar. Os professores promovem, sobretudo, a leitura funcional e analítica, mais frequentemente na disciplina de Português. A biblioteca da escola é vista, pelos alunos, essencialmente, como um espaço para passar o tempo, o que é, de certa forma, corroborado pelos professores destacados na biblioteca. A generalidade dos participantes aponta várias atividades para dinamizar este espaço; contudo, são os Assistentes Operacionais que mostram maior disponibilidade para se envolver em atividades de promoção da leitura.

Functional Neuroimaging of the Social Regulation of Emotion in Schizophrenia

Negative symptoms in schizophrenia are characterized by deficits in normative experiences and expression of emotion. Social anhedonia (diminished pleasure from social experiences) is one negative symptom that may impact patients’ motivation to engage in meaningful social relationships. Past research has begun to examine the mechanisms that underlie social anhedonia, but it is unclear how this lack of social interest may impact the typically positive effects of social buffering and social baseline theory whereby social support attenuates stress. The present pilot study examines how social affiliation through hand holding is related to subjective and neural threat processing, negative symptoms, and social functioning. Twenty-one participants (14 controls; 7 schizophrenia) developed social affiliation with a member of the research staff who served as the supportive partner during the threat task. Participants displayed greater subjective benefit to holding the hand of their partner during times of stress relative to being alone or with an anonymous experimenter, as indicated by self-reported increased positive valence and decreased arousal ratings. When examining the effects of group, hand holding, and their interaction on the neurological experience of threat during the fMRI task, the results were not significant. However, exploratory analyses identified preliminary data suggesting that controls experienced small relative increases in BOLD signal to threat when alone compared to being with the anonymous experimenter or their partner, whereas the schizophrenia group results indicated subtle relative decreases in BOLD signal to threat when alone compared to either of the hand holding conditions. Additionally, within the schizophrenia group, more positive valence in the partner condition was associated with less severe negative symptoms, better social functioning, and more social affiliation, whereas less arousal was correlated with more social affiliation. Our pilot study offers initial insights about the difficulties of building and using social affiliation and support through hand holding with individuals with schizophrenia during times of stress. Further research is necessary to clarify which types of support may be more or less beneficial to individuals with schizophrenia who may experience social anhedonia or paranoia with others that may challenge the otherwise positive effects of social buffering and maintaining a social baseline.

Arte, prazer e bisturi: construção corporal através da body modification

In view of a field research carried out by a team connected to the universe of body modification, it is possible to discern some uses and meanings linked to these forms of body interventions. Body modification or body change is part of the circuit of piercings and tattoos, although they are socially less thinned and more extreme, like scarifications, subcutaneous implants, bifurcated tongues, surfaces and body suspensions. The aim of this paper is to cast an anthropological glance on these practices, joining at the same context all the subjects involved with these techniques, placing them inside the same relational focus and capturing their journeys and trajectories. The discussions are concentrated on the notion of body building and urban life style. Ideas as personal distinctness and prestige imitation are also present in this universe, as well as matters attached to genre, pleasure, art, and to the so-called alternative circuit . This way, the ethnography so far presented here, reveals the complex and contemporaneous character of these practices of body markings in which the body appears as the central element in the experiences of the subjects of this study

Los jardines "pintados" de Émile Zola, lugares de encuentro entre literatura y arte

The thesis here presented, entitled “PAINTED” GARDENS BY ÉMILE ZOLA, MEETING PLACES OF LITERATURE AND ART, aims to analyze the treatment of the theme of garden in La Curée, the second of the twenty novels that make up the cycle of Les Rougon-Macquart, series published between 1871 and 1893. In this story, the author, an ardent republican, bluntly attacks the imperial regime, emphasizing the confusion of high society, the immorality of speculation occurred under the Haussmann's renovation of Paris, the profusion of luxury and pleasure, and, in short, a dynamism geared exclusively to the sense of destruction or perversion. Hence we have devoted an entire chapter to argue the presentation of this novel as a chronicle of Parisian society of the Second Empire. Also, because reading Zola is to recognize the profusion of metaphorical language, the analysis of the poetic discourse has played an important role in the body of this thesis. This analysis focuses on the two major descriptions of the greenhouse of hôtel Saccard, in chapters I and IV, both aiming to present this garden as a disturbing space, favorable to the discovery of unsuspected amorous capabilities, according to the mentality of the nineteenth century, so full of puritan principles, for which the tropical world of greenhouses meant a sexual freedom which did not understand bans or limitations. The sexual corruption that occurs in this greenhouse, is not only indicative of moral laxity in personal relationships, but also works as a symbolic image of decay and breakdown of society as a whole...

Significati particolari di ἀπάτη e ἀπατάω nel greco koiné e l’interpretazione di ἀπατῶν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ in Gc 1,26

L.T. Johnson ha interpretado ἀπατῶν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ in Sant 1,26 como “indulging his heart”. La propuesta requiere una revisión de los casos en los que ἀπάτη y ἀπατάω tienen un significado diferente del original “engaño” / “engañar” en varias fuentes antiguas. La investigación ha conducido a la identificación de tres significados del verbo y del nombre, todos ellos relacionados con la semántica del placer y la diversión. En Sant 1:26 podemos admitir el significado de “dar placer” para ἀπατάω. Llegamos a la conclusión, sin embargo, que esta interpretación es muy poco probable y es preferible dar a ἀπατάω el sentido de “engañar”.

European Agroforestry Conference. 3rd. Book of Abstracts

Agroforestry is considered nowadays as a sustainable form of land management that is being promoted by different global institutions like FAO and its Global Alliance Smart Climate Agriculture to mitigate and adaptate to Climate change. The European Commission through the protection of landscape features, greening and Rural Development Programs is promoting the essential presence of woody vegetation across Europe, but in a way that is difficult to recognize by farmers. AGROFE and AGFORWARD projects are both demonstrating the important value of Agroforestry at European level, which together with EURAF are pushing European Commission to include measures enhancing Agroforestry. However, there is a need of a European Agroforestry Strategy that recognizes the drawbacks of Agroforestry to be implemented at European level. This strategy should include the main mechanisms to show farmers how to implement it and at the same time to get funded for the important ecosystem services that they provide when implementing agroforestry. AGFORWARD project has identified the main agroforestry practices in Europe, highlighting silvopasture, but showing the importance that others forms of agroforestry have to play like homegardens with multipurpose trees, or the adequate improvement of fallow lands where woody vegetation can enhance the levels of organic matter in the soil if adequately managed. AGFORWARD also shows the lack of information of the real implementation of agroforestry practices like forest farming, in spite of the important productive and ecosystem benefits it provides. EURAF through the participation in the different civil dialogue groups (CAP, Direct Payments and Greening, Forestry and Cork, Organic Farming, Arable, Environment and Climate Change and Rural Development) has included and promoted agroforestry within the European Agenda. The role of Agroforestry has been also enhanced in the Groups of experts of European Structural and Investments funds and as part of the European Network for Rural Development and its derived groups: innovation, evaluation and CLLD/LEADER. EURAF is pleased to announce that Agroforestry will be discussed as part of a focus group of the European Innovation Partnership, so, apply and join the group. This book represents the lastest findings on agroforestry in Europe, integrating the participation of researchers but also policy makers and farmers and farmers' associations. It was a pleasure for EURAF to integrate all this needed knowledge to be disseminated at European levels. On behalf of EURAF, I wish all of you a successful meeting and invite you to strengthen agroforestry within the different European Union countries when you go back home. Rosa Mosquera-LOSADA President of EURAF

Sexual dysfunction in breast cancer survivors: cross-cultural adaptation of the Sexual Activity Questionnaire for use in Portugal

"Introduction: The increasing survivor population of breast cancer has shifted research and practice interests into the impacts of the disease and treatment in quality of life aspects. The lack of tools available in Portuguese to objectively evaluate sexual function led to the development of this study, which aimed to cross-culturally adapt and validate the Sexual Activity Questionnaire for use in Portugal. Material and Methods: The questionnaire was translated and back-translated, refined following face-to-face interviews with seven breast cancer survivors, and then self-administered by a larger sample at baseline and a fortnight later to test validity and reliability. Results: Following cognitive debriefing (n = 7), minor changes were made and the Sexual Activity Questionnaire was then tested with 134 breast cancer survivors. A 3-factor structure explained 75.5% of the variance, comprising the Pleasure, Habit and Discomfort scales, all yielding good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α > 0.70). Concurrent validity with the FACt-An and the BCPT checklist was good (Spearman’s r > 0.65; p-value < 0.001) and reliability acceptable (Cohen’s k > 0.444). The Sexual Activity Questionnaire allowed the identification of 23.9% of sexually inactive women, for whom the main reasons were lack of interest or motivation and not having a partner. Discussion: Patient-reported outcomes led to a more comprehensive and improved approach to cancer, tackling areas previously abandoned. Future research should focus on the validation of this scale in samples with different characteristics and even in the overall population to enable generalizability of the findings. Conclusion: The adapted Sexual Activity Questionnaire is a valid tool for assessing sexual function in breast cancer survivors in Portugal."

Mesmo com o sacrifício da própria vida : vivências de prazer e sofrimento no trabalho entre policiais militares do DF

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração, 2016.