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This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the research landscape on Stormwater Quality Improvement Devices (SQIDs) covering 1992–2024. Using data from the Web of Science (WoS) and utilizing Bibliometrix R-package 5.1.0 and VOSviewer 1.6.20, this study identifies key trends, influential contributors, and the thematic evolution within SQIDs research. The findings reveal distinct growth phases driven by policy shifts, scientific advancements, and an increasing global emphasis on sustainability. Keyword analysis highlights a significant thematic transition post-2015, with terms like performance, runoff, and management (Keyword Plus), and stormwater management, green infrastructure, and stormwater (Author Keywords) indicating a strong shift toward sustainable, nature-based solutions. Bioretention system has emerged as the most researched SQIDs, reflecting widespread academic and practical interest. The most prolific countries in SQIDs research are the USA, China, and Australia, while prominent thought leaders include Fletcher (Monash University), Wang (Guangzhou University), Shuster (US EPA), and Deletic (UNSW). Leading publication outlets include the Journal of Environmental Management, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Hydrology, and Water. Overall, this study underscores the field’s maturation toward policy-relevant and interdisciplinary innovations, long-term performances and smart SQIDs using artificial intelligence positioning SQIDs as vital tools in addressing urban stormwater management challenges globally. Full article

Existing educational leadership research consistently emphasizes the importance of empowering and supporting classroom teachers to develop essential teaching experiences and leadership skills, enabling them to become autonomous curriculum developers and thinkers. This study aimed to explore the perceptions and understanding of distributed pedagogical leadership among Kenyan preservice professional actors in their respective contexts. It also examined the significance and impact of this practice on enhancing and strengthening the teaching and leadership abilities of teacher educators, thereby empowering them as effective pedagogical leaders in the classroom. The study employed a mixed methods design with a convergent parallel approach, using purposive sampling to select 83 participants, including administrative leaders, formal teacher leaders, and teacher educators from five public and private preservice teacher training colleges. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions for qualitative insights, and an online survey for quantitative data. Results show that principals and formal teacher leaders play a key role in empowering teacher educators by distributing pedagogical leadership responsibilities among all professional actors. However, teacher educators felt that the distribution of tasks and responsibilities was uneven, which hindered effective implementation. This study also highlights how employer policies, through principals, influence the distribution of pedagogical leadership responsibilities. Full article

Policymakers in Chile have focused on educational leadership since the mid-2000s, recognizing its importance for successful school reforms. This article reviews key structural reforms that promote school autonomy while simultaneously regulating public school leaders’ roles to align with policy goals, resulting in a centralization effect through institutional isomorphism. The discussion is divided into four sections as follows: the first addresses historical policies from the dictatorship that transferred public education responsibilities to municipal governments, fostering a quasi-market model; the second examines initiatives aimed at enhancing public school leadership, including defining principal’s responsibilities and strategies for attracting qualified leaders; and the third evaluates the New Public Education (NEP) reform, which reverts municipalization and introduces a new Directorate of Public Education, collaborating with the Ministry of Education to promote school autonomy within the Local Educational Services (SLEP). The fourth section analyzes policies for school leadership development. Despite the intention of enhancing autonomy, the article contends that autonomy is limited due to the pressures of policy alignment, leading to centralization through high-stakes performance assessments and performance contracts. Research shows that while principals may have some decision-making autonomy, it is often curtailed by the necessity to meet centrally defined targets and limited financial autonomy. Full article

Public sector organizations increasingly face demands for innovation. However, the hierarchical and rule-bound nature of bureaucracy can hinder employees’ ability to engage in creative and change-oriented behavior. This study investigates how organizational identification—a psychological sense of oneness with the organization—is associated with innovative work behavior among South Korean public officials and how this relationship is moderated by charismatic leadership. Grounded in social identity theory and leadership literature, we argue that employees with strong organizational identification are more likely to exhibit innovative work behavior, particularly when supported by leaders who articulate an inspiring vision and embody core public values. Using data from the 2024 Comparative Survey on Perceptions of Public and Private Sector Employees (N = 1012), hierarchical regression analyses reveal that both organizational identification and charismatic leadership significantly promote innovative work behavior. Furthermore, charismatic leadership enhances the positive effect of identification on innovative work behavior. These findings contribute to behavioral public administration research by clarifying how employee identity and leadership style interact to foster innovation, even within rigid procedural environments. Full article

Emotional intelligence (EI) is increasingly recognised as being essential for effective school leadership. However, the direct and cascading effects of school leaders’ EI on teachers and students remain underexplored, particularly in diverse global contexts. This systematic review examined how school leaders’ EI competencies impact teachers’ performance and students’ learning outcomes across contexts. This study synthesised 28 studies published between 2011 and 2024, following the PRISMA guidelines. The findings revealed that self-awareness, empathy, and relationship management emerged as core EI competencies for school leaders across contexts, and principals with high EI positively impacted teachers’ emotional reframing, instructional delivery, and collective efficacy. This study also shows that teacher well-being, instructional leadership practices, and school climate mediated the cascading effects on student outcomes. In addition, this study revealed that cultural and contextual factors modulate EI expression in leadership and that EI metrics showed limitations in cross-cultural applicability. While school leaders’ EI enhances teacher performance and student outcomes through direct and indirect pathways, this review highlights that EI manifestation and efficacy depend on alignment with cultural norms and systemic priorities. Based on these findings, we propose the development of culturally responsive EI frameworks and assessment tools for cultivating emotionally intelligent leadership across global educational contexts. Full article

This article reports the findings of an ethnographic and historical study into an ultras group called Melbourne Croatia Fans (MCF), a group of mostly Croatian–Australian young men in their twenties who support Melbourne Knights (formerly known as Melbourne Croatia) in the second-tier Victorian Premier League competition. The aim is to explore identity formation and negotiation, and how identity formation informs relations with outsider groups. The interviews with the football club president, football club secretary, two MCF leaders, and the participant observation date back to the 2010–12 period. The supporters perceive that the club has fallen on hard times for reasons not of their own making. They participated in the former National Soccer League (NSL) (1977–2004) from 1984 to 2004, which was the first-ever national competition in Australia to involve club rather than state teams. However, the club was effectively banned from the new A-League (2005–present), which began based on a private-equity ownership model and a one-team-one-city concept. Despite this, the club can play in the annual knockout competition, the Australia Cup (formerly the FFA Cup), that features both A-League and lower-league teams. We observe here a group of young Croatian–Australian men, part of the Diaspora of Croatians that left the country, mostly in the communist era and afterwards, who aim to construct workable hybrid identities for themselves in an Anglo-majority nation on the other side of the world. They fight on two fronts—against an Anglo, corporate-style administration that effectively bans their club for reasons of ethnicity from the new national league, and against the Serbian youth who often live in the who live in adjacent or nearby suburbs and follow Serbian-origin clubs. Full article

This study examines the transformative impact of cyberpolitics on political systems in six Latin American countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru—between 2000 and 2024. Over this period, 34 elections and the emergence of 103 new political parties revealed a dynamic interplay between technological innovation and political fragmentation. Digital platforms have revolutionized political communication, enabling hyper-segmentation and direct voter engagement while contributing to the disintegration of traditional party structures. The rise of digital-native parties and outsider leaders highlights the shift toward personalized, campaign-driven politics. The research identifies a strong correlation between electoral cycles and the founding of new parties, with three times as many emerging in election years. While cyberpolitics has democratized participation, it has also intensified volatility, fostering a fragile political landscape. This study underscores the dual-edged role of digital technologies in reshaping democracy, emphasizing the need for further exploration of their long-term implications. Full article

In contemporary democracies, social media platforms are widely used for political campaigning, with political figures seeking to connect with diverse segments of the public. This study aims to illuminate the implementation of online political campaigning in Greece by analysing the content shared on four social media platforms (Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok) by the leaders of the three principal political parties during the 2023 pre-election phase. We employ content analysis to evaluate primarily the textual and secondarily the visual elements of the posts (N = 1.222) found on the relevant accounts, using a coding framework that comprises 32 variables. The research draws on concepts pertinent to the platformised era, such as “virality,” “personalisation,” and “network media logic,” to highlight how contemporary politicians favour direct and easily comprehensible communication patterns with citizens. The results suggest that political leaders in Greece utilise social media as a means of emotionally mobilising voters. X and Facebook emerged as the primary platforms for distributing political messages, while Instagram and TikTok focused more on personalised and non-political content. The elements of personalisation were particularly prominent in the posts made by the leader of the Conservative Party (New Democracy), who demonstrated greater proficiency in utilising TikTok’s features. Full article

Background: The Nursing Work Environment (NWE) plays a critical role in determining the quality of care, staff well-being, and organizational performance, particularly in oncology settings. Despite increasing attention, a comprehensive synthesis of organizational factors shaping oncology NWEs has been lacking. This scoping review aimed to describe the key features of oncology NWEs and to explore the outcomes associated with these characteristics. Methods: A scoping review was conducted following the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines. Peer-reviewed studies published in English or Italian were included without time restrictions. Literature searches were performed in MEDLINE via PubMed, CINAHL, and Scopus between January and April 2025. Results: Twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. Key organizational characteristics of oncology NWEs were grouped into the following four domains: leadership and organizational support; workload and resource availability; ethical climate and collegial relationships; and physical and structural conditions of care settings. Across the studies, a positive NWE was frequently reported to be associated with improved nurse-related outcomes and, to a lesser extent, with patient-related outcomes. However, these associations should be interpreted with caution due to the heterogeneity of contexts and the predominance of cross-sectional designs. Conclusions: The NWE is a strategic element in delivering effective, safe, and sustainable oncology care. Practical actions for nurse managers and healthcare leaders include implementing leadership training programs, ensuring adequate staffing and resource allocation, fostering open communication, and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration. These measures are essential to protect staff well-being and guarantee high-quality, patient-centered care. Full article

To enhance spatial resource complementarity and cross-entity coordination among multi-regional integrated energy systems (MRIESs), an optimized operation strategy is developed based on a bilevel Stackelberg game framework. In this framework, the integrated energy system operator (IESO) and MRIES act as the leader and followers, respectively. Guided by an integrated demand response (IDR) mechanism and a collaborative green certificate and carbon emission trading (GC–CET) scheme, energy prices and consumption strategies are optimized through iterative game interactions. Inter-regional electricity transaction prices and volumes are modeled as coupling variables. The solution is obtained using a hybrid algorithm combining particle swarm optimization (PSO) with mixed-integer programming (MIP). Simulation results indicate that the proposed strategy effectively enhances energy complementarity and optimizes consumption structures across regions. It also balances the interests of the IESO and MRIES, reducing operating costs by 9.97%, 27.7%, and 4.87% in the respective regions. Moreover, in the case study, renewable energy utilization rates in different regions—including an urban residential zone, a renewable-rich suburban area, and an industrial zone—are improved significantly, with Region 2 increasing from 95.06% and Region 3 from 77.47% to full consumption (100%), contributing to notable reductions in carbon emissions. Full article

Formation control plays a vital role in coordinating multi-agent systems and swarm robotics, enabling collaboration in applications such as autonomous vehicles, robotic swarms, and distributed sensing. This paper introduces the formation-control problem, highlights its challenges, and compares centralized and decentralized schemes. We review recent advances and analyze popular algorithms, then propose a hybrid framework that combines leader–follower tracking with an artificial potential field (APF) safety layer. In three-UAV tests, the followers cross paths and one encounters a static obstacle. We run multiple simulations across scenarios with obstacles and varying formations. Results show the hybrid controller maintains the required formation while avoiding inter-agent collisions. Using quantitative metrics, we find the leader–follower baseline achieves the lowest formation error but has the most safety violations, whereas APF greatly improves safety at the cost of higher error. The hybrid combines these strengths—delivering APF-level safety with lower error and negligible runtime overhead—providing a practical balance between precise formation keeping and robust collision avoidance. Full article

Background: Older adults with malnutrition (≥65 years) require coordinated nutrition care during hospital-to-home transitions. A key purpose of integrated electronic medical record (iEMR) systems is to support clinicians in ensuring continuity of care across settings, yet little is known about their use in nutrition care discharge practices. This study explored how clinical dietitians use the iEMR to support nutrition care discharge practices for older adults with malnutrition and identified opportunities for optimisation to enhance care continuity. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 clinical dietitians (11 frontline clinicians, 5 senior leaders) from 10 public hospitals across Queensland, Australia. Analysis combined deductive coding using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research 2.0 with inductive thematic analysis to identify system-level, organisational and behavioural influences on iEMR use and optimisation opportunities. Results: Four themes and ten subthemes were identified. System fragmentation, policy constraints and documentation burden limited dietitians’ ability to coordinate discharge care. Workarounds were common and reflected both practical adaptation and conditional trust in iEMR. Discharge practices were also shaped by local culture, professional norms and variable expectations for iEMR use. Despite these constraints, participants expressed aspirations for an optimised iEMR with embedded referral tools, real-time alerts and analytics to support improved service delivery. Conclusions: This study identified key factors influencing iEMR use by clinical dietitians to support nutrition care transitions for older adults with malnutrition. While current systems present significant challenges, optimising iEMR alongside organisational and policy enablers holds potential to strengthen nutrition care discharge practices and care continuity. Full article

This study examines the impact of job commitment on the adoption of strategic entrepreneurship within organizations, with leadership support considered as a moderating variable. Focusing on information technology companies in Jordan, we integrate perspectives from organizational behavior and strategic management to explore how employees’ commitment (affective, normative, continuance) influences their engagement in entrepreneurial initiatives, and whether supportive leadership environments amplify this effect. This study draws on social exchange theory and organizational support theory to propose that committed employees will reciprocate the organization’s support by innovating and taking initiative, especially when they feel backed by leadership. A quantitative survey was conducted, gathering 384 valid responses from employees across Jordan’s IT sector. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings reveal that all three forms of commitment positively affect the propensity to engage in strategic entrepreneurship, with affective commitment showing the strongest link. Notably, leadership support significantly moderates these relationships: in high-support contexts, committed employees exhibit substantially greater entrepreneurial behavior. These results indicate that committed employees are more likely to pursue innovative ideas and strategic opportunities, especially when leaders encourage and back their efforts. Theoretical implications include an enhanced understanding of commitment’s role in corporate entrepreneurship and the contingent value of leadership, while practical implications suggest actionable steps for IT firms and others in emerging economies to stimulate innovation. This research contributes to the literature by highlighting human and leadership factors as key drivers of strategic entrepreneurship in organizational settings, and by providing empirical evidence from the Middle East context. Full article

Leadership literature suggests that a transformational leadership style can reduce negative employee outcomes, even in challenging work environments such as the education sector, where teachers play a key role in social development. This study aimed to analyze the association between transformational leadership and job satisfaction: the role of gratitude toward the organization in the Peruvian context. A cross-sectional study with an explanatory design was conducted considering 457 men and women who declared themselves teachers, aged between 18 and 73 years (M = 38.63; SD = 10.61), recruited through non-probability convenience sampling. The theoretical model was evaluated using the Partial Least Squares method (PLS-SEM). An adequately fitting measurement model was obtained (α = between 0.893 and 0.969; CR = between 0.897 and 0.971; AVE = between 0.757 and 0.845), demonstrating that transformational leadership is positively associated with the components of gratitude toward the organization and job satisfaction, as well as the association of the components of gratitude toward the organization and job satisfaction. In turn, it was evident how gratitude toward the organization plays a mediating role in these relationships. In this sense, the study provides valuable information for Peruvian educational leaders seeking to improve indicators of satisfaction, gratitude, and leadership in their work environment. These findings enrich educational management, given that it is the first empirical study to demonstrate these links in a challenging sector of an emerging country, offering a solid foundation for the development of more humanized, effective, and sustainable management strategies. Full article

With the increasing deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in scenarios such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and military reconnaissance, the need for secure and scalable formation control has become critical. Traditional centralized architectures face challenges such as limited scalability, communication bottlenecks, and single points of failure in large-scale swarm coordination. To address these issues, this paper proposes a blockchain-based decentralized formation control framework that integrates smart contracts to manage UAV registration, identity authentication, formation assignment, and positional coordination. The system follows a leader–follower structure, where the leader broadcasts formation tasks via on-chain events, while followers respond in real-time through event-driven mechanisms. A parameterized control model based on dynamic angle and distance adjustments is employed to support various formations, including V-shape, line, and circular configurations. The transformation from relative to geographic positions is achieved using Haversine and Euclidean methods. Experimental validation in a simulated environment demonstrates that the proposed method achieves lower communication latency and better responsiveness compared to polling-based schemes, while offering enhanced scalability and robustness. This work provides a feasible and secure decentralized control solution for future UAV swarm systems. Full article