Suitability of renewable organic materials for the synthesis of organo-mineral fertilizers: Driving factors and replacement of peat.

In organo-mineral fertilizers (OMFs) with low organic carbon (C) final content, the organic fraction enhances the mineral fraction efficiency. Therefore, a high-quality organic fraction is crucial. While geogenic materials like peat have been used extensively for producing high-quality OMFs, exploring alternative organic sources such as biowastes can add circular value to these fertilizers.

A process model linking occupational strength to attitudes and behaviors: The explanatory role of occupational personality heterogeneity.

This study proposes a mediated process model that seeks to explain how occupational strength influences personality heterogeneity, ultimately affecting attitudes and behaviors. Specifically, it proposes that strong occupations restrict personality heterogeneity (defined as the extent to which there is variability in incumbents' personalities), which mediates the effect of occupational strength on work-related outcomes. Using a sample of 178,087 individuals employed in 315 occupations, the results indicate that strong occupations (operationalized as having high task significance) had advantageous effects on occupational satisfaction, tenure, and turnover intentions, and these effects were partially mediated by personality heterogeneity.

The best laid plans: examining the conditions under which a planning intervention improves learning and reduces attrition.

Planning plays an instrumental role in prominent self-regulation theories (e.g., action regulation, control, goal setting), yet as a scientific community we know little about how people carry out their learning plans.

A meta-analysis of self-regulated learning in work-related training and educational attainment: what we know and where we need to go.

Researchers have been applying their knowledge of goal-oriented behavior to the self-regulated learning domain for more than 30 years. This review examines the current state of research on self-regulated learning and gaps in the field's understanding of how adults regulate their learning of work-related knowledge and skills. Self-regulation theory was used as a conceptual lens for deriving a heuristic framework of 16 fundamental constructs that constitute self-regulated learning.

The effects of technical difficulties on learning and attrition during online training.

Although online instruction has many potential benefits, technical difficulties are one drawback to the increased use of this medium. A repeated measures design was used to examine the effect that technical difficulties have on learning and attrition from voluntary online training. Adult learners (N = 530) were recruited online and volunteered to participate in a 4-hr training program on using computer spreadsheets.