OBJECTIVES Quick service restaurant (QSR) television advertisements for children's meals were compared with adult advertisements from the same companies to assess whether self-regulatory pledges for food advertisements to children had been implemented. METHODS All nationally televised advertisements for the top 25 US QSR restaurants from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 were obtained and viewed ...

This study aims to develop a deeper understanding on talent management strategies encourage employee engagement in the tourism industry of Middle East during and after COVID-19 further reveal impacts customer satisfaction. was conducted qualitatively, where open-ended questions were posed 37 managers through semi-structured interviews. Managers human resource domain numerous hotels across locat...

Qualitative spatial reasoning (QSR) abstracts metrical details of the physical world and enables computers to make predictions about spatial relations even when precise quantitative information is unavailable [2]. From a practical viewpoint QSR is an abstraction that summarizes similar quantitative states into one qualitative characterization. A complementary view from the cognitive perspective...

Commonsense reasoning is a major challenge in Artificial Intelligence (AI). As qualitative descriptions comprise a great deal of our everyday language, commonsense reasoning is concerned with developing and processing such qualitative representations. This applies especially to commonsense reasoning about space, where spatial objects are in particular characterized by their spatial relations to...

Previous research has discussed on the usefulness of humour during online interaction. The positive emotion that evoke tend to also be related sharing behaviour and engagement. However, for more ‘serious’ pressing issue, like case Israel-Palestine conflict, use as a response is rather puzzling. Thus, in this study, researchers aim uncover 1) What are ‘humorous’ target or focal point highlighted...

As discussões que envolvem a governança no âmbito das redes Inter organizacionais vêm adquirindo cada vez mais importância nos últimos anos. Apesar dos esforços direcionados para esse tema, ainda há lacunas específicas sobre compreensão de como pode ser operacionalizada e aprimorada maneira oferecer contribuições eficientes as atividades cotidianas os líderes da rede precisam realizar promover ...

Aim To explore how healthcare professionals in an acute medical setting make decisions when managing the care of patients diagnosed with end stage heart failure, and these impact directly on patient's life experience. Design A constructivist grounded theory approach was adopted. Method purposive sample used to recruit participants that included 16 registered nurses, 15 doctors patients. Data we...

We investigate quantum stochastic resonance ~QSR! in the periodically driven spin-boson system with Ohmic dissipation. For the special case a5 1 2 of the Ohmic coupling strength we present exact QSR results. For arbitrary Ohmic coupling, the amplitude and the phase of the nonlinear response function vs temperature are studied in a vast regime of temperatures and frequencies. It encompasses a di...

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning (QSR) theories have applications in areas such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), robotics, biomedicine, and engineering. However, existing QSR theories primarily have been applied only to 2D data. Herein we introduce a 3D reasoning system that is based on Generalized 2D Region Connection Calculus (GRCC). Our theory, RCC-3D, supports a priori knowledge of the...