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This chapter shifts focus from the underlying causes of offending to current rehabilitation approaches and models. It begins with an overview of the rehabilitation movement, emphasising the principle of ‘what works’ in offender reform. The discussion then moves on to explore two major frameworks: the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model and the Good Lives Model (GLM). Each model will be briefly outlined and critically evaluated for its effectiveness in preventing re-offending and supporting desistance. The chapter concludes with a rationale for introducing a new approach to rehabilitation, the Compassionate Positive Applied Strengths-based Solutions (COMPASS) model, summarising its potential benefits for enhancing desistance support.

This research is aimed to examine how environmental pollution affects consumers' preference for self-improvement products.

Through a series of three experimental studies, this research substantiates our hypotheses by employing various manipulations of environmental pollution and examining different types of self-improvement products.

The research demonstrates that environmental pollution enhances consumers' preference for self-improvement products via the mediation of perceived environmental responsibility. And the effect is negatively moderated by social equity sensitivity.

The recurrent incidence of environmental pollution has elicited significant concern among the general public and academic scholars. An overwhelming majority of research examining the impact of pollution on consumer behavior has concentrated on its influence on environmentally friendly and healthy consumption patterns. Nevertheless, the current research proposes that pollution fosters a preference for products associated with self-improvement, mediated by perceived environmental responsibility, with the effects being moderated by social equity sensitivity.

This paper aims to study the elasto-dynamic behavior of additively manufactured metallic lattice implants and compare them with human lower-body bone. This work is a step toward producing implants with high similarity of material properties to bone by developing a dynamic design approach.

A suitable topology was selected and admissible design space was established. Implants were fabricated by selective laser melting. Material dynamics, including elastic modulus, damping and natural frequency, were analyzed with experimental and finite element method methodology.

Generally, porosity improves dynamic properties up to an optimum point, which depends on printability, that is, ∼70%. Regarding elastic modulus and natural frequency, it is possible to achieve enough similarity with bone. But, considering damping, the similarity is <23% and <12% with dry and fresh bone, respectively. Damping and strain rate sensitivity increase with porosity. The natural frequency decreases with porosity. Bone ingrowth into lattice implants improves damping substantially while increasing elastic modulus.

Designers, dominantly had quasi-static approach, which considered only elastic modulus. But, the human body is a dynamic structure and experiences dynamic loads; meanwhile, bone, with its damping and natural frequency, regulates dynamic events like shock absorption and elastic wave filtering. Importantly, bone cells sense no load in quasi-static loading and must receive impact loads near their natural frequencies and special accelerations to conduct optimum mechanotransduction. So, it is necessary to develop a dynamic strategy which is comprehensive and describes bone duties.

This study introduces three variables related to brands that have the potential to enhance university students' advocacy intentions. The research explores how university brand identification, the perceived prestige of the university brand and the social benefits associated with the university brand impact students' advocacy intentions. Additionally, the study examines the moderating role of gender in these relationships.

Cross-sectional surveys of 326 undergraduate students enrolled in a Spanish university, and structural equation modeling was used to test and validate the conceptual model.

The findings from the structural equation modeling indicate that university brand identification, perceived university brand prestige and university brand social benefits significantly influence students' advocacy intentions. Furthermore, the multigroup analysis reveals a gender difference in the factors influencing advocacy intentions. Female students demonstrate significance in all three antecedents, whereas male students only show significance in university brand identification and perceived university brand prestige.

The current study's findings provide several insights for higher education institutions in developing enduring and committed relationships with their students.

This study offers relevant insights into the body of research on university branding, explaining the students' advocacy intentions through the variables of university brand identification, perceived university brand prestige and university brand social benefits. Also, this study is a novelty in introducing empirical evidence for the importance of the moderating role of students' gender.

The purpose of this paper is to explore how gender role orientation (GRO) impacts commercial and social entrepreneurial intention and whether value orientation mediates these effects.

Based on a sample of N = 112 entrepreneurs, we tested our model using path analyses with standardized regression coefficients and bias-corrected bootstrapped confidence intervals. Sex was included as a control variable.

The results suggest that masculine GRO has a positive direct and indirect effect on commercial entrepreneurial intention, and feminine GRO has a positive indirect effect on social entrepreneurial intention. There is evidence that these effects are mediated by entrepreneurs’ value orientation. Biological sex showed no effect on both entrepreneurial intentions.

Our findings highlight the importance of including GRO and further gender-related factors in entrepreneurship research. Researchers must continue to challenge stereotypes in commercial and social entrepreneurship, considering that characteristics such as value orientation are socially gendered.

Overcoming entrepreneurial stereotypes is a task for multiple stakeholders within society. We encourage entrepreneurs to reflect on their GRO and value orientation, while entrepreneurial educators should implement programs to facilitate this reflection and promote openness to change and self-transcendence value orientation. To blur gender roles, more feminine-oriented entrepreneurial role models are needed. We also urge policymakers to foster enabling environments for entrepreneurs, while recognizing gender stereotypes in entrepreneurship.

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, our study is the first to link GRO and value orientation with commercial and social entrepreneurial intentions in one integrative research model. Thereby, the study contributes to entrepreneurship research by testing our model on a sample of real entrepreneurs and avoiding overly simplistic sex comparisons by focusing on GRO.

This paper adds to finance pedagogy related to the wealth accumulation stage of retirement planning using techniques that rely heavily on understanding the time value of money (TVM) concepts.

We provide a step-by-step explanation of a retirement wealth accumulation model, accompanied by a detailed numerical example ready for use in the classroom.

We present a systematic approach to estimate the retirement nest egg and the target return required to achieve the nest egg. The estimated target return is suggested as a primary determinant of an investor’s asset allocation for retirement wealth accumulation. Our approach directly links the estimated nest egg with a target return estimation and asset allocation decisions.

This paper contributes to retirement planning pedagogy by employing a unique model that applies TVM concepts relevant to the wealth accumulation stage.

Purpose: This piece delves into the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare field within the emerging realm of Industry 5.0, highlighting a people-focused and eco-friendly approach.

Need for the study: While Industry 4.0 set the foundation for digitization in healthcare, it frequently overlooked the human factor and concerns about sustainability. Industry 5.0 tackles these deficiencies by giving importance to human welfare, efficiency in resource usage, and societal consequences alongside technological progress.

Methodology: This research utilizes a survey of existing written works on Industry 5.0, AI in healthcare, and associated empowering technologies. It also leans on insights from recent investigations and business actions to pinpoint current patterns and future paths.

Findings: This chapter showcases how AI-driven solutions can greatly alter various facets of healthcare. Some of these healthcare facets encompass personalized medicine and treatment, intelligent diagnostics and decision support, robot-supported surgery and care, and enhanced availability and affordability.

Practical applications: This piece offers valuable perspectives for healthcare investors. These investors cover healthcare suppliers, technology creators, rule creators, and patients. By embracing the standards of Industry 5.0, the merging of AI into healthcare brings significant potential for crafting a more competent, sustainable, and people-centered healthcare network that benefits both patients and society as a complete unit. This research investigates the stance, viewpoints, and potential impacts of machine intelligence (MI) in health with an emphasis on Industry 5.0.

This chapter examines Taylor Swift’s strategic response to losing control over her master recordings, showcasing exemplary crisis management. Swift’s decision to re-record her albums illustrates how proactive crisis handling can transform challenges into opportunities. This chapter uses the five phases of crisis management and positive psychological capital to analyze Swift’s approach, highlighting her resilience, optimism, and strategic thinking. By navigating adversity and advocating for artist rights, Swift demonstrates effective leadership and the power of taking control of one’s destiny.

What are the factors that affect social mobility? How are early adulthood educational and labour trajectories correlated with intergenerational mobility? This chapter presents three contributions to the intergenerational mobility literature. First, this chapter develops one of the first attempts to measure intergenerational mobility using administrative panel data sets in a developing country. A panel data set was created using a national educational test and surveys and follows students, starting in 8th grade, and analyzes their intergenerational income mobility in their late twenties. Second, this chapter uses social class and role model proxies and shows that college educational outcomes are related to initial social and educational environments. Third, a detailed analysis of academic and labour market trajectories is used, indicating that students with irregular educational and labour market trajectories show lower intergenerational income mobility. The results of this research open a new approach for analyzing life decisions and expect to provide further guidance for public policies that intend to promote social mobility among low-income individuals.

Humans are the most significant entity in the fast-growing tourism ecosystem. Paradoxically, many of the environmental crises caused by tourism are the consequences of anthropocentrism. Therefore, initiatives for regenerative tourism are imperative. This paper aims to identify and understand the key barriers and their interrelationships under regenerative tourism and provide recommendations for progress.

The literature review and focus group approach identified barriers to regenerative tourism. Then, the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) methodology was applied to analyse the strength and cause-and-effect interrelationships between the barriers.

The scatter plot and digraph of the data set from DEMATEL have provided useful insights. The strongest barrier is the absence of an evolved comprehensive framework for regenerative tourism for each location. A linear mindset and lack of a single-window approach for regenerative initiatives are the two cause barriers. The two strongest effect barriers are the lack of symbiotic relationship/management between various entities in the tourism ecosystem, and operational barriers focused only on short-term routine business objectives.

The DEMATEL approach has brought out useful stakeholder insights. It has set the priorities for focus based on the degree of interrelationship strength and the relationship’s kind (cause or effect). It has provided stakeholders for futuristic regenerative tourism.

Application of the DEMATEL approach for analysing the cause-and-effect dynamics between the twelve barriers to the future of regenerative tourism.