Midland University

Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading rapidly in organizational settings, yet limited research examines how culture shapes leaders' readiness to adopt these technologies. The current study addresses that gap by exploring cross‐cultural differences in AI acceptance among 434 leaders from Western and Eastern regions, guided by the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). A cross‐sectional, quantitative design, supplemented by short, open‐ended responses, assessed five UTAUT constructs: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and behavioral intention. Results showed that Western leaders report significantly higher average effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and behavioral intention than Eastern leaders, although both groups find AI beneficial. Multiple regression analyses reveal that Western leaders' intention to adopt AI is primarily related to ease of use, whereas Eastern leaders intention is related to organizational support and peer encouragement. Open‐ended responses demonstrate that leaders across regions share ethical and privacy concerns, but Western participants emphasize security and training, while Eastern leaders highlight transparency and real‐time insights. These results imply that AI implementation strategies require cultural adaptation, such as prioritizing the quality of user interfaces and training for Western leaders and ensuring organizational endorsements for Eastern contexts. By identifying how leaders evaluate and integrate AI, the current research delivers practical insights for multinational organizations and deepens theoretical dialogues on leadership and technology acceptance. These findings also address current leadership journal calls by spotlighting AI bias, inclusivity, and ethical governance in distinct regional settings.

The practice of radiography is developing and changing globally. This development is due to the availability of a range of advanced imaging modalities such as ultrasonography (US), computed tomography (CT), mammography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and nuclear medicine (NM) and meeting the changing demands of the healthcare delivery system. The radiography career pathways in Zambia and Zimbabwe were created when advanced imaging modalities were unavailable. With radiographers obtaining specialised qualifications in these imaging modalities, it is necessary to establish clinical specialist radiographer positions similar to medical doctors in our settings and radiographers in most non-African countries. The clinical specialist radiographer position is unavailable in our local radiography career pathway despite the Health Professions Council of Zambia (HPCZ) and Allied Health Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (AHPCZ) having a specialist register for radiographers. In our settings, radiographers also depend on consultant radiologists for clinical leadership. However, radiology and radiography are different professions. To develop the radiography profession and retain radiographers, it is necessary to revise the career pathway and incorporate consultant radiographer positions to provide clinical leadership to their colleagues. This would improve the delivery of imaging services in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Globally, radiographers play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and diseases. Radiographers have ample opportunities to encounter a wide variety of radiographic images throughout their training and careers. For this reason, radiographers are in a better position to communicate their radiographic observations to the referring clinician. However, there is a lack of clarity on the level of radiographers’ involvement in the interpretation and reporting of general radiographic images. Therefore, this educational article has identified and reviewed the three levels of involvement: abnormality detection system (red dot system), preliminary clinical evaluation (commentary reporting), and clinical reporting as identified from the literature. This information is important to the radiography profession and stakeholders in African countries planning to extend the role of a radiographer in image interpretation and reporting on general radiographic images.

Socialization surrounding gender and sexuality is prominent within the familial context. Gender and sexuality are frequently linked with the assumption that gender-expansive behavior leads to nonheterosexuality. Research has largely focused on parental perspectives, leaving queer youth experiences largely invisible. Utilizing semistructured interviews with 10 queer young adults, this project contributes to the existing discussions regarding gender and sexuality socialization while growing up. First, participants described parents’ seemingly natural ability to correctly categorize youth’s sexual orientation, which is often linked to gender nonconforming behavior. Participants reinforced essentialized ideas of gender and sexuality through their discussion of engagement in expansive gender behavior. Furthermore, women discussed more freedom to engage in diverse gender behavior, while being expected to conform to traditional gender roles. Through elevating youth’s viewpoints on gender and sexuality family dynamics, these findings can assist service providers and parents in supporting queer youth across their gender and sexual development.

Students in undergraduate organic chemistry courses are frequently overwhelmed by the volume and complexity of information they are expected to learn. To aid in students’ learning of organic functional groups, a novel card game “ChemKarta” is reported that can serve as a useful alternative to flashcards. This pedagogy is a simple matching game, in which students identify functional groups on molecules. ChemKarta has a large card set to immerse students in course material and to allow teachers to mine the game for class and exam questions. It is easily customized by the addition or removal of cards to adjust content to fit an individual course. Students found the game easy to learn and responded favorably to its use as an educational tool.

ABSTRACT The simple weighted estimator of the survival function of quality adjusted lifetime is a consistent estimator and a proper survival function. It is considerably less efficient than many estimators that are not monotonic and therefore are not proper survival functions. The non monotonic estimators can be modified to be monotonic, but additional work is required to determine the effect of the modification on their consistency and efficiency. As a prelude to the main results, we introduce a new non monotonic estimator and study the positive and negative mass jump points of three estimators. This article proposes several classes of monotonic estimators for the survival function of quality adjusted life. All proposed estimators are shown to be consistent. Two proposed estimators are nearly as efficient as their non monotonic counterparts, when the sample size is large.

Under the random censorship model with extra assumption that all censoring times are known, Chiu (1999) proposed a new estimator for the survival function of failure time. In this article, we explore the most likely uniformly consistent estimators of the survival function in such data settings and study large sample properties of these estimators. It turns out that the classical Kaplan-Meier estimator is of the smallest asymptotic variance among these possible estimators. This fact confirms the optimality of the Kaplan-Meier estimator in term of asymptotic variance and may suggest that the Kaplan-Meier estimator is the most recommendable even in such circumstances.

This study was designed to develop and validate a new nursing diagnosis, altered family processes: alcoholism. The Delphi technique was used to obtain nurse experts' (N = 201) ratings of terms for the definition, related factors, and defining characteristics. Degree of consensus was determined by analyzing the mean, frequencies, and Fehring's (1987) Diagnostic Content Validity Index for items. Findings supported a proposed definition and related factors including family history of alcoholism and lack of problem-solving skills. Defining characteristics were grouped into three categories: feelings (e.g. mistrust, insecurity, powerlessness, unhappiness), roles, and relationships (e.g. disturbed family dynamics, inconsistent parenting, marital problems), and behaviors (e.g. impaired communication, dependency, denial). Future research includes the proposal and testing of nursing interventions for alcoholic families.