Combating the mental health challenge of loneliness among urban youth: could finding meaning in life and experiencing thriving enhance their well-being?

Objective: Loneliness is a growing mental health challenge among youth specially who are residing in urban areas. Factors that might help them combat loneliness need to be investigated. This study investigates the impact of meaning in life on loneliness, thriving, and well-being.

Electric vehicles in transition: Opportunities, challenges, and research agenda - A systematic literature review.

This study conducts a systematic literature review on electric vehicle (EV) adoption, mapping critical themes and presenting an integrated framework to advance understanding of EVs' role in sustainable transportation. Drawing on 917 Scopus-indexed articles and 23 stakeholder interviews, it explores economic, environmental, energy, and social (EEES) dynamics through the Theory-Context-Methodology (TCM) framework and causal loop diagrams. Findings reveal dominant theories, such as the Theory of Planned Behavior and Value-Belief Norm Theory, and underscore the importance of methodological approaches like regression analysis and structural equation modeling.

Life cycle assessment (LCA) of biodegradable linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) manufactured in India.

The global plastic crisis requires urgent attention, as highlighted by a comprehensive review of LCA studies on plastics. Mismanagement of plastic waste has worsened this crisis, affecting all life forms and contaminating natural resources. Plastic production leads to Green House Gas (GHG) emissions.

Rural drinking water supply program and societal development: Evidence from the early implementation phase of India's Jal Jeevan Mission.

With a community-centric approach to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6.1, the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) launched in 2019, aims to improve the living standard of rural communities by addressing various issues related to rural drinking water supply system. The literature evaluating rural water supply programs in India is sparse.

Investigating the barriers to drone implementation in sustainable agriculture: A hybrid fuzzy-DEMATEL-MMDE-ISM-based approach.

Drone integration in sustainable agriculture has emerged as a transformative technological advancement, enabling farmers to achieve accurate crop health monitoring, soil analysis, weed mapping, precise spraying, and livestock monitoring. It facilitates many sustainable measures, such as conserving freshwater resources, reducing soil erosion and pesticide overuse, minimizing agriculture waste, and enhancing productivity and resilience. Despite its benefits, drone adoption faces several barriers, highlighting the requirement of well-structured mitigation strategies to overcome these challenges and ensure successful implementation.

Vulnerability assessment of English and Welsh coastal areas.

The escalating threat of climate change has placed global coastal communities at risk, with rising sea levels and intensified storm events presenting unprecedented challenges. Coastal vulnerability assessments, conducted every 3-5 years, are crucial. This empirical study assesses the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) for the distinct coastal contexts of Dawlish, Happisburgh (England), and Aberystwyth (Wales).

How does social media use enhance employee's well-being and advocacy behaviour? Findings from PLS-SEM and fsQCA.

Despite the extensive use of social media in workplaces, the implications of social media usage in organizational contexts such as employee advocacy and well-being have yet to receive significant attention from a research assertion. Thus, utilizing the conversation of resource theory, the current study analyses the relationship between work-related social media use and social-related social media use and employee advocacy behaviour. Moreover, it examines the mediating role of employee's psychological well-being and social well-being.

CEO's temporal orientation and entrepreneurial orientation of firm: The contingent effects of environmental characteristics.

Extending upper echelon theory perspective, the paper extends the past research literatures on the effects of CEO characteristics in determining strategic choices of firms, and examines the effects of CEO's temporal orientation on entrepreneurial orientation of firms. Moreover, examining the contingent effects of environmental munificence, complexity, and dynamism in the U-shaped relationship between CEO's temporal orientation and entrepreneurial orientation of firm contributes to the understanding of the boundary conditions and determines the strength of the relationship between CEO's temporal orientation and EO of firm. We test our hypotheses using panel data analysis of Indian firms during 2007-2016.

The changing association between pandemic-related stressors and child and adolescent mental health during the waning phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This study examined the relation between pandemic-related stressors and mental health among young people (YP) in India during two time points in the waning phase of the pandemic. We use data from two cross-sectional waves of over 20,000 YP aged 5-19 in February 2022, during the peak of the Omicron wave, and October 2022, during a reduction in infections and easing of restrictions. COVID illness/death in the family's social network, current lockdown stringency, and significant change in household income were examined in relation to adult respondents' reports of YP internalizing symptoms.

Polyphenols in wound healing: unlocking prospects with clinical applications.

Wound healing is a multifaceted, complex process that factors like aging, metabolic diseases, and infections may influence. The potentiality of polyphenols, natural compounds, has shown anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties in promoting wound healing and their potential applications in wound management. The studies reviewed indicate that polyphenols have multiple mechanisms that promote wound healing.

Trend and determinants of tobacco use among Indian males over a 22-year period (1998-2021) using nationally representative data.

Objective: Tobacco consumption is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. India is one of the largest consumers of tobacco worldwide. We assessed the trend of tobacco use among Indian males over a period of 20 years using data obtained from four rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS).

Private provider practices and incentives for hypertension management in rural and peri-urban Telangana, India- a qualitative study.

Hypertension poses a critical threat to health in India, being the predominant risk factor for mortality and disability. With over 70% of outpatient care being provided by the private sector, our study investigated the practices and incentives of private health providers in screening, diagnosing, treating, monitoring, and counseling hypertension patients in rural and peri-urban India. Conducted from April 2020 to February 2021, the qualitative study involved 46 participants, including various healthcare professionals and patients in three Telangana state districts.

Factors influencing perceptions of processed baby foods and feeding practices among Indian mothers: a qualitative investigation.

Objective: To explore how professionally qualified, working Indian mothers conceptualize healthy foods in general, perceive processed infant and baby foods available commercially and what feeding practices they actually follow with their children at home.

Design: Five focus groups with 8-12 participants were conducted around the participants' conceptualization of healthy food, their perceptions about commercially available processed baby and infant foods and their actual feeding practices that they routinely follow with their children. Discussion transcripts were analyzed using an inductive coding approach.

Spatial variation and risk factors of the dual burden of childhood stunting and underweight in India: a copula geoadditive modelling approach.

India has one of the highest burdens of childhood undernutrition in the world. The two principal dimensions of childhood undernutrition, namely stunting and underweight can be significantly associated in a particular population, a fact that is rarely explored in the extant literature. In this study, we apply a copula geoadditive modelling framework on nationally representative data of 104,021 children obtained from the National Family Health Survey 5 to assess the spatial distribution and critical drivers of the dual burden of childhood stunting and underweight in India while accounting for this correlation.

Technological innovation, globalization and ecological quality: A disaggregated ecological footprint approach for BRICS countries.

The ecological footprint (EF) has become one of the leading indicators for environmental assessments. The EF is an indicator that is at the center of researchers' interest in empirical analysis, as it simultaneously reflects air, water, and soil pollution. Analyzing the six sub-components of the EF is essential for assessing the environmental pressures from forestry, construction, fisheries, agriculture, and livestock, as well as for remediating these pressures.

Socioeconomic inequalities in adverse pregnancy outcomes in India: 2004-2019.

Although India has made substantial improvements in public health, it accounted for one-fifth of global maternal and neonatal deaths in 2015. Stillbirth, abortion, and miscarriage contribute to maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. There are known socioeconomic inequalities in adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Developing customer convenience and experience through increased competency and efficiency: A strategic approach to retail operations mastery.

Retailers who are part of supply chains are crucial in attracting customers to physically visit their stores and thereby increase supply chain revenue. Retailers in supply chains are responsible for handling a high volume of transactions and high customer contact, thus better management of retail operations is necessary to provide greater convenience and experience for customers. In this regard, retail operations must be properly managed, particularly during times of crisis like COVID-19, to ensure that customers purchase their basic needs promptly and safely.

Professional Quality of Life Among Mental Health Nurses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

The professional quality of life (ProQOL) is increasingly applied to nurses and is a measure of the positive and negative aspects of their work. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the level of compassion satisfaction, burnout and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in empirical studies. Electronic databases Scopus, PubMed and Web of Science were searched on 7th February 2024, and the review followed PRISMA guidelines.

Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized that the associations of empathic prosocial concern and fear of disease with support towards preventive COVID-19 behaviours would be moderated by trust in the government.

District-level monitoring of universal health coverage, India.

Objective: To develop a framework and index for measuring universal health coverage (UHC) at the district level in India and to assess progress towards UHC in the districts.

Methods: We adapted the framework of the World Health Organization and World Bank to develop a district-level UHC index (UHC ). We used routinely collected health survey and programme data in India to calculate UHC for 687 districts from geometric means of 24 tracer indicators in five tracer domains: reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health; infectious diseases; noncommunicable diseases; service capacity and access; and financial risk protection.