BACKGROUND:Equine-facilitated therapy (EFT) is a relatively new treatment for trauma and PTSD. EFT has been introduced and implemented in mental health treatment for children and adults, though the research in support of these interventions has not kept up with practice. In this poster we review studies of EFT with individuals who have PTSD/trauma symptoms. METHODS: We searched relevant databases: Social Work Abstracts, Scopus, CINAHL, ERIC, Web of Science, PsychArticles, PsychInfo, and Google Scholar. Due to the newness of this field, we did not restrict the search based on years nor type of study design. Inclusion criteria were: 1) the study was published in a peer-reviewed journal; 2) horses were used as the primary treatment or as an adjunct to traditional treatment; and 3) the study sample was assessed for PTSD/trauma, and/or PTSD/trauma was measured as an outcome. The search followed the PRISMA paradigm. Each author read each abstract, then met to discuss articles to include. If a decision could not be made based on the abstract, we read the full article to make a final decision. RESULTS:Nine studies -- involving 97 participants, five adult and four youth studies, and all published since 2008 – met search criteria. Two adult studies addressed combat-related trauma, two focused on interpersonal violence and one focused generally on traumatic events. There was one qualitative design, one case study and three intervention studies. Of the studies with youth, one was a correlational single system study and three were intervention studies. Two studies focused on children who had experienced maltreatment or sexual abuse, one addressed historical trauma with American Indian children, and the other did not specify the trauma though all met the criteria for PTSD based on a standardized scale. Findings showed EFT resulted in significant improvements in trauma symptoms and PTSD as well as other areas of well-being (e.g., anxiety, social support, alcohol use, and mindfulness in adults; internalizing and externalizing behavior, self-perception, self-esteem, social adjustment and anxiety in youth). CONCLUSIONS and IMPLICATIONS: Despite the limitations of our review (we did not search for gray material) and of the studies themselves (small sample sizes, lack of a control group), to our knowledge this is the first review of EFT that focused on trauma/PTSD. A primary strength was including only studies where trauma symptoms were objectively measured as an outcome. Findings suggest that EFT is a promising intervention for trauma/PTSD. Broadly, more studies of increased rigor are recommended as well as qualitative studies to address the acceptability of EFT to clients and providers, and issues of implementation. Specifically, future research should further explore EFT for veterans, reflecting the current national response to their mental health needs. Research is also needed to examine the mechanisms by which EFT leads to improved outcomes, investigate possible contraindications of equine therapy, as well as termination issues. In summary, EFT is a relatively new modality that offers promise for treating trauma/PTSD symptoms and the studies in this review provide a base upon which to build.

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Yes / Consumers use online reviews to help make informed purchase decisions. This paper extends existing research by examining how content of online reviews influences perceptions of helpfulness by demonstrating how different emotions can influence helpfulness of both product and service online reviews beyond a valence-based approach using cognitive appraisal theory and attribution theory. This research contributes to existing knowledge regarding the theory of information processing, attribution theory, and cognitive appraisal theory of emotions. Using findings from this study, practitioners can make review websites more user-friendly which will help readers avoid information overload and make more informed purchase decisions.

No / Social media plays an important role in the digital transformation of businesses. This research provides a comprehensive analysis of the use of social media by b2b companies. The current study focuses on a number of aspects of social media such as: the effect of social media; social media tools; social media use; adoption of social media use and its barriers; social media strategies; and measuring the effectiveness of the use of social media. This research provides a valuable synthesis of the relevant literature on social media in the b2b context by analysing and discussing the key findings from existing research on social media. The findings of this study can be used as an informative framework on social media for both academics and practitioners.

Yes / Sustainable servitisation for organisations, as an indispensable part of their sustainable development, has increasingly come to the attention of both academics and practitioners. Whilst the servitisation literature is diverse and growing, our understanding of what sustainable servitisation is and a holistic view of how it is developed and implemented is limited. To address these gaps, we provide a systematic literature review enabled by an active machine-learning tool using 66 journal articles on sustainable servitisation. We have redefined the term sustainable servitisation based on an in-depth literature analysis. From the purview of sustainable servitisation as a mechanism for organisational change, we also synthesised what is known about sustainable servitisation into a holistic framework. Notably, rather than focusing on how sustainable servitisation can be better designed, as most existing studies have done, we argue that a dynamic and processual view of sustainable servitisation is required to advance theoretical and practical knowledge. / The full-text of this article will be released for public view at the end of the publisher embargo on 27 Feb 2025.

Software review is an effective and efficient way for detecting defects in software artifacts. To improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of software review, a variety of software review techniques have been developed. Furthermore, computer support has been used to facilitate the software review process. Accordingly, several software review tools have been developed. Although existing tools provide new solutions to support software review, in general they suffer from a number of shortcomings. In this study, a brief description about major software review techniques is given along with the summary of the process. Additionally, existing tools and their features are briefly explained and a comparison between them is done. This study focuses on the development of a Web based review tool that has a workflow definition capability in order to support every kind of software review processes.

Many individuals and businesses make decisions based on freely and easily accessible online reviews. This provides incentives for the dissemination of fake reviews, which aim to deceive the reader into having undeserved positive or negative opinions about an establishment or service. With that in mind, this work proposes machine learning applications to detect fake online reviews from hotel, restaurant and doctor domains. In order to _lter these deceptive reviews, Neural Networks and Support Vector Ma- chines are used. Both algorithms' parameters are optimized during training. Parameters that result in the highest accuracy for each data and feature set combination are selected for testing. As input features for both machine learning applications, unigrams, bigrams and the combination of both are used. The advantage of the proposed approach is that the models are simple yet yield results comparable with those found in the literature using more complex models. The highest accuracy achieved was with Support Vector Machine using the Laplacian kernel which obtained an accuracy of 82.92% for hotel, 80.83% for restaurant and 73.33% for doctor reviews.

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Many organizations use project management maturity models to improve their project performance. These systematic and sequential frameworks are designed to help organizations quantify their project management maturity and improve their project management processes. However, these models rarely put enough emphasis on project reviews as tools to improve project performance, because, too often, project reviews are considered as non-productive administrative processes. The lack of emphasis on project reviews in project management maturity models is also illustrated by the limited amount of research published on the relationship between project reviews and project performance. Based on the concept of project management maturity models, this dissertation presents a project review maturity model used to measure the project review maturity for four (4) types of reviews (routine, gate, post-mortem, and focused-learning) as well as the overall project review maturity. In addition, this research establishes the quantitative relationship between project review maturity and project performance. This dissertation also quantifies the concept of project review performance and its relationship with project performance for all four (4) types of reviews, as well as for the overall project review performance. Finally, this research provides enablers, barriers, and best practices for effective reviews, based on the answers of written interview questions, and observations from a post-mortem review meeting at a highly-technical organization. The empirical case study and survey analysis conducted by this dissertation led to some unique findings. Five (5) specific conclusions were developed: ●Organizations use all types of reviews in their project management procedures, and view each review role differently. ●Some reviews are more related than others to project performance, although generally, review maturity and performance are significantly relevant to project performance. ●Organization culture (beliefs, expected actions, etc.) is not significantly relevant to project team members when assessing project status or PM procedures during project life-cycle. ●Post-mortem and focused-learning reviews are linked with higher levels of learning than routine and gate reviews. ●Effective reviews need managerial support. This research is the first of its kind to show significant positive relationships between project review maturity and performance with project performance and to provide quantifiable results for organizations to further improve their review processes.

Peer review is considered the gold standard of scientific publishing. Trust in the traditional system of editor – blind-reviewer – author is still high, but it’s authority is in decline and alternative methods are on the rise. The current study investigates opinions of alternative peer review methods, the arguments for and against, and the reasons why academics are searching for new approaches. The opinions were analysed by applying qualitative content analysis to online discussions. The findings were interpreted using two different sociological theories: the Mertonian sociology of science and social constructivism. The results of the study show that the most discussed method was also the most traditional one: closed pre-publication peer review comprised of single blind, double-blind and open peer review (non blinded). Discussions of open peer review (both open publishing of reports and open discussions) were also common. All other alternative methods were discussed much less. But the discussions were lively and each method was discussed in both positive and negative terms. The reasons for preferring certain methods were also manifold, but dominant topics were bias and fairness, quality issues (regarding reviews and publications), issues concerning human resources and communication and exchange among people. The results of this study demonstrate that while ethical norms seems to be a scientific ideal, human nature makes it impossible to accomplish this goal.