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Staff Matters: Is Our Dental Practice's Culture As Strong As We Think It Is?, Jodi Schafer Sphr, Shrm-Scp

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

This article explores how workplace culture influences employee retention, team morale, and patient experience in dental practices. The author discusses indicators of healthy and unhealthy workplace cultures, leadership behaviors that shape organizational climate, and practical strategies for gathering employee feedback, improving communication, and reinforcing accountability. Small, consistent actions are presented as effective tools for building a positive work environment.

The Invisible Work: On Expertise, Showmanship, And The Trust That Makes Surgery Work, Anish Gupta D.D.S.

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

This commentary examines how clinicians can make their expertise more visible to patients through communication, education, and clinical narration. Drawing parallels to surgical checklists and professional mastery, the author argues that trust is built not only through excellent outcomes but also through helping patients understand the complexity and judgment behind treatment. The article emphasizes communication, transparency, education, and mentorship as important elements of patient-centered care.

The Back Page: A Toast To The Future: From Boomers To Gen Z Zoomers, George T. Goodis Dds, Gerald J. Halk Dds

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

This article highlights a leadership brunch that brought together multiple generations of dental leaders to encourage engagement in organized dentistry. The gathering emphasized mentorship, leadership development, and the transfer of institutional knowledge to younger dentists. Participants celebrated the future of the profession while discussing the importance of community involvement, leadership participation, and professional growth.

Toward A Conceptual And Methodological Understanding Of Supervisor Gaslighting In The Workplace, Gabriela Peschiera

All Dissertations

The term ‘gaslight’ has infiltrated popular media, with articles, TV shows, and podcasts dedicated to identifying gaslighting behaviors and mitigating its effects. Despite the term’s popularity, much of the existing literature solely focuses on gaslighting in intimate partner relationships, medical settings, and political campaigns. As a result, little is known about how it operates in the workplace context and whether it is distinct from other well-established workplace mistreatment constructs. In this dissertation, I explored the mechanisms of supervisor gaslighting by developing a scale and testing its distinctiveness from other workplace mistreatment and positive workplace behaviors. While two scales were recently …

Religious Practice And Attitudes Toward Immigration And Racial Justice In America, Amya Douglas

Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2019 - present)

This study aims to understand how Christians’ knowledge of Scripture and involvement in the church have an impact on their social-political views, specifically, racial justice and immigration. By using the survey responses from the 6th wave of the Baylor Religion Survey, more frequent church attendance and reading Scripture were correlated with a greater recognition of racism in terms of being against white supremacy and white nationalism, supporting racial justice when asked about racial gaps, and possessing greater support for immigrants. This study highlights the distinction between religious affiliation and religious practice, and it suggests that certain policy sentiments can be …

Mda Insurance: Voluntary Benefits Help With Employee Recruitment, Satisfaction, Retention, Craig Start

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

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This article discusses how voluntary employee benefits can strengthen recruitment, retention, and employee satisfaction in dental practices. Topics include health insurance, disability coverage, life insurance, critical illness protection, accident insurance, vision plans, and cafeteria plans. The author explains how benefit offerings can improve workplace competitiveness while helping employees manage financial risks and healthcare costs.

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Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for August of 2026.

Transnational Social Protections And The Market: Seeking Support From The Global Cruise Industry, Yasmin Y. Ortiga

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Migration studies have mostly portrayed employers as paternalistic or exploitative, creating the very conditions that make migrants’ lives insecure and unstable. This paper challenges this view by showing how the market can also be an unlikely source of protections, where extractive work conditions co-exist with a certain degree of social support. Drawing on interviews with 45 Filipino cruise workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, I discuss how migrants used a logic of employee rights to claim benefits such as food, housing and insurance. Cruise lines willingly provided such protections, but only while workers maintained active contracts onboard their ships. Rather than …

Key Success Factors In Aviation–Start-Up Collaboration: A Framework For Innovation And Value Creation, Bruno Pereira, Gui Lohmann, Luke Houghton, Adela Mcmurray, Mauro Caetano

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This study addresses how the aviation sector can create value by fostering innovation in collaboration with start-ups. A novel ‘Key-Success Factors in Aviation-Start-up Collaboration Framework’ is proposed to explain the innovation process, identify key success factors, and generate valuable insights into the aviation sector and start-up partnerships. Drawing on 31 of 80 consolidated key success factors selected from the literature and validated through ten interviews with managers of aviation innovation programs and start-up founders, the proposed framework is structured into three dimensions: (i) antecedents, (ii) governance, support, and development, and (iii) innovation and value creation, and 13 related categories. The …

Gaming The Marketplace: Consumer Opportunism And Beliefs About Societal Hierarchy, Shilpa Madan, Aparna Labroo, Constantine S. Katsikeas

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Consumers often behave opportunistically, taking more than what fair marketplace exchange warrants (e.g., taking excess samples, returning used items). While each individual transgression may be minor, cumulatively they can undermine firm profitability. Thus, addressing consumer opportunism is an important managerial concern. We identify a novel antecedent of consumer opportunism: consumers’ acceptance of societal hierarchy (i.e., power distance belief [PDB]), including firms’ higher position in it than consumers. Nine studies (plus two supplementary studies) employing archival, correlational, and experimental data provide converging evidence that, in marketplace interactions, this belief evokes a need to feel clever (i.e., to feel smart and knowledgeable …

Announcing The 2026 Induction Of Members Into The Accounting Hall Of Fame, American Accounting Association

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Harmonizing Human Touch And Ai Precision In Customer Service, Zhenbin Ding, Yali Zhang, Jun Sun, Mark Goh, Zhaojun Yang

Information Systems Faculty Publications

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots offer a cost-effective solution for customer service, but often fall short in delivering personalized or complex interactions. In response, many merchants invest in AI training and explore human–AI collaboration to leverage the strengths of both automation and human touch. However, this introduces a strategic tradeoff between service quality and operational efficiency. Using a game-theoretic framework, this study examines how merchants can optimally choose service strategies with AI involvement. Our analysis reveals a critical collaboration trap. Contrary to the prevailing belief that increased collaboration consistently enhances service, consumers’ sensitivity to the identity of the service agent erodes …

Medical Firms’ Online Q&A Interactions: Effect Of Language Style On Investor Engagement, Runyu Wang, Keng Siau, Zili Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

PurposeThis study aims to investigate how language styles used by medical firms on digital question and answer (Q&A) platforms influence investor engagement. It examines the linguistic characteristics of managerial responses and compares their effects across industries, with a focus on the distinctive demands of medical communication.Design/methodology/approachWe analyze a panel dataset of 1,223 firm-month observations, constructed from 13,549 individual responses provided by 70 medical firms on a major Chinese web-based firm-investor Q&A platform over a 24-month period (2020–2021). Content analysis is used to assess linguistic features, such as first-person usage, uncertainty, understandability and concreteness. A two-way fixed effects model with clustered …

The Influence Of Leadership On Leader Retention, Ruiwei Li

Dissertations

Prior research provided limited insight into how mid-to-senior leaders experienced and interpreted leadership in relation to retention. This interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study explored how mid-to-senior leaders in a U.S. retail organization experienced and interpreted upper management leadership in relation to their retention decisions. Five leaders with at least four years of tenure participated in semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Each account was analyzed idiographically before patterns of convergence, variation, and divergence were examined across cases. Findings showed that willingness to remain reflected continued internal growth and meaningful influence, supportive leadership that affirmed personal value while preserving agency, and relational and cultural …

Navigating The Dark Side: Emotional Labor's Impact On Hr Professionals' Wellness, Esmeralda Amelia Rendón

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative descriptive study was designed to document and describe how female-identifying human resource (HR) generalist practitioners serving as sole or primary employee relations practitioners in small- to medium-sized organizations across the United States experience and manage emotional labor in their roles, cope with its demands, and how these experiences impact their wellness and perceptions of organizational support. Despite the centrality of emotional labor (EL) in human resource professionals’ (HRPs) roles, little was known about how HRPs in these underresourced environments cope with these demands. Data were collected through semistructured virtual interviews with eight participants and analyzed using Braun and …

The Evolution Of The Modern Library Brand: Transforming Community Engagement Into Sustainable Revenue, Slone Williams

Georgia Library Quarterly

This article examines the development of the Cobb Library Shop, an e-commerce initiative launched by the Cobb County Public Library to generate sustainable funding through brand engagement. Built on a modest startup budget, the shop integrates a multichannel sales strategy and leverages internal talent to create a scalable, community-centered retail model.

The project achieved a full return on investment within 14 days and continues to demonstrate steady revenue expansion. By combining entrepreneurial practices with public service values, this case study highlights how libraries can diversify funding streams, enhance community engagement, and establish a replicable model for revenue-generating library systems.

Information Technology General Controls And The Reliability Of Digital Accounting Systems In Supporting Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, Radina -. Modjaningrat, Titis Wahyuni M.Si., Zahra Raesa Ananda

Jurnal Vokasi Indonesia

Digital transformation has increased organizational reliance on the Digital Accounting Information System (DAIS) to support financial reporting, making the effectiveness of Information Technology General Controls (ITGC) a critical factor in maintaining system reliability and supporting Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICoFR). This study aims to evaluate the implementation of ITGC and explain its implications for the reliability of DAIS, Information Technology Application Controls (ITAC), Information Technology-Dependent Manual Controls (ITDM), and ICoFR. The study uses a qualitative conceptual-evaluative approach through literature studies and analysis of ITGC evaluation documents at a bank. The evaluation was conducted on four ITGC domains: Access to …

An Evaluation Of Green Energy Implementation In The Household Sector : The Use Of Energy-Efficient Lighting In Dki Jakarta, Aldi Gilang Permana

Cities and Urban Development Journal

Background: Rapid population growth and urban activities in DKI Jakarta have led to an increase in energy consumption, particularly in the household sector. This condition highlights the need for the implementation of the green housing concept, especially in terms of green energy, to promote more efficient and environmentally friendly energy use. One of the most common efforts is the use of energy-efficient lighting as a form of energy efficiency in household lighting systems. Although the adoption rate is relatively high, the implementation of green energy remains suboptimal, as the utilization of renewable energy such as solar panels is still very …

Ethics Under Siege: The Conflict In Tigray Through The Lens Of Just War Theory, Daniela Widya Purba

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

This research article explains the ethical principles of the conflict in Tigray based on the Just War Theory. By using the descriptive qualitative methodology, this research article draws data from secondary sources which includes; academic journals, news reports, as well as international legal instruments to analyze the moral trajectory of the conflict. This research begins with jus ad bellum, to assess Ethiopia’s government justification in declaring conflict within Tigray. While the government fulfilled the criteria of just cause and legitimate authority, the question stands on the ambiguous political intentions and the failure to enact peaceful alternatives before resulting in waging …

Presidential Visits As Foreign Policy Instruments: U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy In Trump’S Second Term, Atar Thaung Htet

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

Through an analysis of President Donald Trump's October 2025 travel to Asia, this study investigates the consequences of U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy under his second-term diplomacy. The paper examines three significant diplomatic encounters—the ASEAN Summit in Malaysia, bilateral meetings in Japan, and the APEC Summit in South Korea—using a qualitative case study methodology based on role theory and foreign policy analysis. The results show that alliance-centered security cooperation, strategic balancing toward China, and selective economic engagement were U.S. Indo-Pacific goals. Through extremely transactional and bilateralized relations, presidential diplomacy allowed the United States to fulfill a number of foreign policy responsibilities, such …

The Impact Of Local Content Requirements Policy For 4g Lte Cell Phones On The Performance Of The Indonesian Telecommunications Industry, Gary Dabelza Abi, Mohamad Dian Revindo, Indri Br Situmorang

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

This study examines the impact of Indonesia's 2017 tightening of Local Content Requirements (LCR) for fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G LTE) mobile phones on firm performance in the telecommunications manufacturing industry, a setting characterized by a large domestic market but limited upstream electronics capability. Using firm-level data from the 2016 Economic Census and the 2017-2018 Large and Medium Manufacturing Survey, we examine the effects of raising the minimum LCR threshold from 20% to 30% on firm output, labor productivity, imported input intensity, and foreign capital ownership through pooled regressions with firm-level controls. The results show that the stricter LCR threshold is …

Ripples Of A Global Health Crisis: 2019’S Pandemic And Its Impact On Sharia-Compliant Equities In Oic Countries, Windiya Saputri, Nur Fatwa, Nurwahidin Nurwahidin

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

The outbreak of COVID-19 marked not only a global health emergency but also a strategic shock with profound economic implications, particularly for developing economies. This study investigates how Sharia-compliant stock markets in selected OIC countries responded to the World Health Organization’s declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Using an event study approach, the analysis focuses on abnormal returns (AR) from six major Islamic indices representing Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Qatar. The results reveal that the pandemic announcement carried significant informational content, as reflected in the notable ARs across all …

Unlocking The Past: Chemical Cleaning And Xrf Analysis In The Restoration Of A Renowned Work Of Art, Crisencio M. Paner

DLSU Arts Congress Conference Proceedings

This study presents the conservation and scientific analysis of a painting by Ang Kiukok, a prominent Filipino National Artist. The project emphasized preventive and restorative conservation, focusing on cleaning methods and pigment identification using X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysis. The findings provide valuable insights for developing effective preservation strategies and enhance our understanding of the artist’s materials and techniques, thereby contributing significantly to the documentation and advancement of Philippine art history. Conservation trainees, under expert supervision, followed a structured restoration process. For initial cleaning, three standard materials were used: Vulpex (a non-acidic liquid soap), Artist’s Picture Cleaner, and purified beeswax. These …

Participatory Approach To Revitalization Of Inclusive, Resilient, And Sustainable Public Space, Ma'ruf Ma'ruf, Firman Syakri Pribadi, Sari Surya, Suryadi Suryadi, Yofan Syarif

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 emphasizes the role of cities in providing safe, inclusive, and accessible green public spaces. Therefore, this study investigates the participation process in revitalizing a public space through the perspectives of various stakeholders, including religious, cultural, women, and youth leaders, on the revitalization of historical public spaces in Indonesia. A focus group discussion was conducted to capture stakeholder insights on the design of public space in Pariaman City, West Sumatra. Thematic analysis identified eight key themes relating to the design of Lapangan Merdeka and plans for revitalization. Participants emphasized the potential to evolve into a vibrant, …

Redefining Creativity: Exploring The Value Of Generative Ai In Art, Zaldy D. Duenas Iii

DLSU Arts Congress Conference Proceedings

Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed human activities and industries, including education, business, healthcare, entertainment, and the arts. The creative and artistic sector, in particular, has been significantly impacted, giving rise to public discourse around AI-generated art, commonly termed "AI art ."Advances in generative AI tools have disrupted traditional artistic practices by enabling rapid and seamless image generation from text prompts. These emerging AI technologies have introduced various economic, legal, ethical, and philosophical debates surrounding creativity in AI-generated works. In line with this, this paper examines the implications of generative AI on art and creativity, posing the central question: "Can …

Si Gigi De Lana, Ang Viral Diva: Ang Pagtatanghal Ng Imahen Ng Lokal Na Diva Sa Panahon Ng Makabagong Midya, John Christopher C. Avelino

DLSU Arts Congress Conference Proceedings

Ang diva ay isang konstruksyong kultural at pangmidya na nagtataglay ng mga signipikasyon hinggil sa lipunan at panahong kanyang kinabibilangan. Tinalakay sa papel na ito ang pagtatanghal ng imahen ng lokal na pop diva sa panahon ng makabagong midya, gamit si Gigi de Lana (GDL) bilang pangunahing teksto. Gamit ang konsepto ng ideolohiya bilang teoretikal na lunsaran at intertekstwal na pagsusuri bilang pangunahing metodo, sinagot ng pag-aaral ang mga sumusunod na tiyak na suliranin: 1) ang konsepto ng viral diva; 2) ang pagtatanghal ni GDL sa mga katangian ng viral diva; at 3) ang papel ng teknolohiya ng social media …

Safeguarding Ephemeral History: The Librarian-Archivist As Steward Of Digital Cultural Heritage, John Louie Zabala, Minette Vinzon

DLSU Arts Congress Conference Proceedings

This paper explores the critical role of librarians and archivists in preserving and ensuring access to our rapidly growing digital cultural heritage. In the face of technological obsolescence, data decay, and the ephemeral nature of online content, these professionals face unprecedented challenges in safeguarding our collective digital past. This paper delves into the unique challenges of preserving digital materials, including "bit rot" (data decay), file format obsolescence, and the ephemeral nature of online content. Ethical considerations, such as copyright, privacy, and the ethical implications of digitizing and disseminating sensitive cultural information, were examined. The paper highlights the crucial need for …

"Tabi-Tabi Po!": An Exploration Of Non-Mainstream Art Materials As Medium In Creating Lenticular Art On Philippine Lower Mythology And Cultural Values, Fernando R. Lacson Jr.

DLSU Arts Congress Conference Proceedings

Art functions as a dynamic medium through which cultural beliefs and values are continuously expressed and reinterpreted. Despite the richness of Philippine mythology, its integration into contemporary interactive visual art remains underexplored, presenting an opportunity to recontextualize indigenous narratives for modern audiences. The study focuses on three figures from local folklore—Nuno sa Punso, Tiyanak, and Diwata—and examines how their moral and symbolic attributes may be translated into experimental lenticular artworks. Guided by Functional Myth Theory and Interactive Aesthetics, the study utilizes a practice-based approach, treating artistic creation as both method and inquiry. The research involved the development of two-way lenticular …

Tunograpiya: Creative Placemaking In The Sonic Ecology Of The Urban Green Spaces At The University Of The Philippines, Jerome Aizpuro Suplemento Ii, Clarissa Marie Borra Rodriguez, Anna Patricia Rodriguez Carranza

DLSU Arts Congress Conference Proceedings

As an answer to the clamor for green space while easing into the “new normal”, the University of the Philippines (n.d.) became more known to the public as “one of the remaining patches of greenery in the concrete jungle that is Metro Manila” they can visit. Using ubiquitous technology in human-nature interactions (Terzimehić, etal., 2021), Tunograpiya facilitates creative placemaking (Wyckoff, 2014) through an immersive experience of the University of the Philippines academic oval’s sonic ecology. The result of the project is a beta web application that lets the user experience a unique sonic environment of layers of sonic material from …

What Drives Indonesian Muslims To Waqf? An Analysis Of Behavioral Intention Toward Cash Waqf Linked Deposit (Cwld), Abdullah Zaid Khoiri, Kenny Devita Indraswari, A. Azizon, Tika Arundina

International Journal of Islamic Economics and Business Sustainability

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to find out the factors that affect the intention of Indonesian Muslims to participate in Cash Waqf Linked Deposit (CWLD), a new Islamic banking product that combines cash waqf and sharia time deposits, launched in Indonesia in late 2023 to help overcome the gap between the potential cash waqf in the country and its actual collection.

Design/methodology/approach – This study employed an Extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) model which included religiosity, knowledge, trust and perceived benefit in addition to attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control. The primary data were …