"Keep the Space": Influence of perceived space on wellbeing in restaurants during coronavirus

The restaurant industry has been hit hard by the ongoing pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. Given new surges in COVID-19 cases across multiple regions, the restaurant environment remains largely unpredictable, and consumers continue to be anxious of dining out. Based on a qualitative study, the wellbeing perceptions of restaurant diners in Germany after the initial lockdown in mid-March are explored. The study revealed that wellbeing of restaurant diners is a collective concept comprised of multiple domains of a service system. More specifically, it is found that public health measures of social distancing have led to an increased concern about space and perceived territoriality, influencing how diners feel at full-service dining establishments. A model of spatial wellbeing of guests in dine-in restaurants is developed. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed in detail. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. All rights reserved.

Gender violence and the field of planning and territorial studies: a portrait on violence against women in the municipality of S?o Paulo during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

The article problematizes gender violence in the field of planning and territorial studies from a snapshot of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) in the municipality of Sao Paulo. The first section deals with a theoretical discussion on the thematic that considers the reflection on the practice in health and planning. In this section, we point out the territorialities of care, making use of the WHO Ecological Model. In the following section, the theoretical approach is explored in a portrait of the first year of the COVID Pandemic, based on three approaches to territorialities in the confrontation of violence against women: from the main instrument of territorial planning (Master Plan), by the network of specialized equipment to confront violence, by the social equipment that contribute to prevention and by the support to daily social relations. As a result, it was identified that the Master Plans of 2002 and 2014 did not incorporate the bases of policies to address violence, which represents a certain precondition for the territories when the pandemic period. We identified blackouts of welfare equipment and social distance that represented the decline in the confrontation of violence during the first year of the pandemic.

Contemporary Concept About the Factors of Home Advantage in European Professional Football

Home advantage is an accepted phenomenon in contemporary European football. The home team is more efficient and wins more games. Nonetheless, the factors contributing are still debated. Prominent factors for the home advantage are the presence of supporters and their influence on players, referees bias, travel of the away team to the venue of the match, hormonal effects or territoriality protection, familiarity with the venue of the match, special tactics of playing at home and away. During the global pandemic COVID‑19, most major European football championships had to be played without supporters. This provided a unique opportunity for researchers to explore the contribution of the above factors to home advantage. This article presents an analysis of recent literature data aimed at investigating the factors contributing to home advantage in European professional football. The study found that all of the above factors can influence home advantage. However, it has not yet been possible to determine the main dominant factor of home advantage. Home advantage is a multifactorial phenomenon and exact causal relationships remain to be determined. The strength of the factors varies depending on the development level of football and the geographical size of the country, the skill of the players and teams in the professional league. The information presented in the review can be used by coaches, managers and sports leaders to develop a modern game strategy, taking into account home advantage factors. © Siberian Federal University. All rights reserved.

The disappearance of Bangkok's Artbox: examining the challenges of sustaining a mobile night market during the COVID-19 pandemic

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the reasons for the shutdown of a mobile night market during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lack of tourists was obviously one of the causes but social reasons must also exist. The study investigates territoriality, collectivization and human relations in urban social spaces which are essential for the sustainability of a market than solely short-term profit and unconnected customers. Design/methodology/approach: In this study qualitative methods are used, including reviewing contents, semi-structured interviews with vendors and customers, and informant interviews. Findings: Drawing from urban space theories, this paper argues that trendy markets catering for diverse market segments sustain their business. Once the market has shifted away from local Thai customers to main tourists, it loses its base and becomes vulnerable in territoriality negotiation. Practical implications: The findings and model provide practice information for local authorities, town planners and night market operators in the design of open-air marketplaces. Such knowledge pinpoints the importance of connecting place and people in order to sustain a business. Originality/value: Studies on mobile marketplaces are rare. The findings address the "detaching” process and consequence from the perspective of place attachment. Peer review: The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-04-2021-0218. © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Territoriality in Hybrid Collaboration

Hybrid Collaboration, where remote and co-located team members work together using different devices and tools, has already been trending in recent years (e.g., through globalization and international cooperation) but experienced a further boost since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The reason behind this surge in hybrid practices is probably that the crisis revealed aspects of remote collaboration which proved functional and which many decision makers (in industry as well as academia) plan to retain for the future. Thus, hybrid collaboration is an extremely timely topic which should be further studied in the context of CSCW. One major CSCW-Anchored concept that has most intensively been researched in co-located collaboration settings where it is usually inherently related to spatial aspects and proximity, is territoriality. Already work on territoriality in fully distributed, remote settings has shown that there are significant differences due to the characteristics of the scenario. In this paper, we focus on territoriality in hybrid settings where we identified a significant research gap, and present the results of a user study with 22 teams consisting of four people each (distributed across two locations at two different universities), collaborating on a problem-solving task. Our findings reveal that more dimensions and communication channels, in addition to space, might strongly impact territoriality and territorial behavior in hybrid collaboration. Besides classical spatial territories also auditory territories frequently emerged. In addition, visibility of and accessibility to certain territories need to be rethought. We discuss these novel findings also regarding their interplay with earlier ones and derive design implications for CSCW systems supporting hybrid collaboration. © 2022 Owner/Author.

Future Trends

Given the cultural continuity and persistence of hyper-masculine groups such as outlaw bikers, what is the future likely to hold within the context of contemporary warband societies? With an arguably widening gaps of inequality, increased social tension and an ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, how will young men and women respond? This chapter explores the future for outlaw biker clubs through the concept of the outlaw biker/ community contract, and socioeconomic inequality. It will explore the trends of internationalisation and posit the increased trajectory of the American-styled bikers and Australian clubs impacting the major groups in Europe and post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Asia. This chapter will discuss territoriality and the violence that often follows such moves of internationalisation and assess the implications for conflict. Lastly, there will be some discussion on the outlaw biker/military nexus where clubs are actively recruiting combat veterans and current serving military personnel.

The disappearance of Bangkok's Artbox: examining the challenges of sustaining a mobile night market during the COVID-19 pandemic

Purpose - This study aims to investigate the reasons for the shutdown of a mobile night market during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lack of tourists was obviously one of the causes but social reasons must also exist. The study investigates territoriality, collectivization and human relations in urban social spaces which are essential for the sustainability of a market than solely short-term profit and unconnected customers. Design/methodology/approach - In this study qualitative methods are used, including reviewing contents, semi-structured interviews with vendors and customers, and informant interviews. Findings - Drawing from urban space theories, this paper argues that trendy markets catering for diverse market segments sustain their business. Once the market has shifted away from local Thai customers to main tourists, it loses its base and becomes vulnerable in territoriality negotiation. Practical implications - The findings and model provide practice information for local authorities, town planners and night market operators in the design of open-air marketplaces. Such knowledge pinpoints the importance of connecting place and people in order to sustain a business. Originality/value - Studies on mobile marketplaces are rare. The findings address the "detaching" process and consequence from the perspective of place attachment.

Privacy and housing: research perspectives based on a systematic literature review.

Grounded in psychological and social constructs, the need for privacy is reflected in human socio-spatial behaviour and in our own home. To discuss housing privacy, this article presents a systematic literature review (SLR) that identified theoretical and methodological aspects relevant to the topic. The research was based on consolidated protocols to identify, select and evaluate articles published between 2000 and 2021 in three databases (Web of Science, Google Scholar and Scielo), with 71 eligible articles identified for synthesis. The results showed a concentration of studies in the American, European and Islamic context, and the increase in this production since 2018. This was guided by the inadequacy of architectural and urban planning projects, by new forms of social interaction and, recently, by the COVID-19 pandemic. From a theoretical point of view, the SLR demonstrated the importance of investigating privacy in housing from a comprehensive perspective, observing its different dimensions (physical, social and psychological) and characterizing the issues involved and the context under analysis. Methodologically, the main instruments identified were: (i) to behavioural analysis, questionnaires, interviews and observations; (ii) to built environment evaluation, in addition to the previous ones, space syntax analysis, architectural design and photographs analysis; (iii) for the general characterization of users, the data collection regarding the socio-demographic and cultural context and the meanings attributed to spatial organizations; (iv) to characterize the participants of the investigations, the analysis of personality traits, the ways to personalize the space, user satisfaction/preferences and the influence of social interactions on these perceptions.

Internal Rebordering in the European Union: Postfunctionalism Revisited

The EU has been under severe strain as a free-travel area. The migration crisis of the mid-2010s and the current Covid-19 pandemic have exerted a negative impact on the freedom of movement in the EU and the undisturbed crossing of internal borders within the Schengen area. Direct effects and long-term consequences of the prolonged crisis have shown that the dynamics of integration, which are determined by spillover effects of transnational processes, are counterposed by a politicization of domestically-embedded issues of security governance. This assumption underpins the postfunctionalist approach to European integration proposed originally by Hooghe and Marks. The tendency toward longstanding derogations from the Schengen regime, termed ???internal rebordering,??? should be juxtaposed with efforts of the European Commission toward a full restoration of the Schengen area without controls at internal borders. The argument developed in this article holds that internal rebordering has been embedded in the logic of the EU as an area of freedom, security, and justice comprising the Schengen area as its territorial manifestation. The rebordering processes in the EU and in the Schengen area have questioned the principle of ???constraining dissensus??? underlaying the postfunctionalist approach.

What do psychologists most value in their state organizations? The Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) perspective

Professional psychology has gone through amazing growth and development in recent years. This corresponds with rapid changes to the healthcare landscape and is further accelerated by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Professional organizations are integral to addressing these challenges, with state psychological associations playing a critical role for professional psychologists. Since its creation, the Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) has been championing the needs of its members to the benefit of all psychologists in the state. In 2019, CPA surveyed existing members and all licensed psychologists in Connecticut (CT) on professional concerns and interests. It also sought to engage CT psychologists in professional advocacy efforts and to counter declining membership numbers. The survey development process itself was valuable. Items were tailored to memberships status and included quantitative and qualitative data with thematic content covering: advocacy, networking, professional assistance, educational opportunities, marketing opportunities, and public service. Organizational housekeeping during survey development and the prepandemic timing of data collection proved invaluable. Results and implications are summarized with the discussion of the action steps that followed in the context of an emerging global pandemic. Insights generated by the survey facilitated strategic prioritization of limited resources, helping CPA to navigate the start of the COVID-19 syndemic and to take action steps that successfully increased membership. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement Despite membership declines, professional organizations such as Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) continue to play a critical role in supporting and sustaining professional psychologist needs. Targeted surveys not only provide important insights into an organization's value, but can also facilitate infrastructure development, improve strategic prioritization of limited resources, and generate action steps to increase membership in professional organizations during uncertain times. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies.

ABSTRACT: Social behavior can have a major impact on the dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks. For animals that live in dense social groups, such as the eusocial insects, pathogens pose an especially large risk because frequent contacts among individuals can allow rapid spread within colonies. While there has been a large body of work examining adaptations to mitigate the spread of infectious disease within social insect colonies, there has been less work on strategies to prevent the introduction of pathogens into colonies in the first place. We develop an agent-based model to examine the effect of territorial behavior on the transmission of infectious diseases between social insect colonies. We find that by preventing the introduction of infected foreign workers into a colony, territoriality can flatten the curve of an epidemic, delaying the introduction of an infectious disease and reducing its maximum prevalence, but only for diseases with moderate to low transmissibility. Our results have implications for understanding how pathogen risk influences the evolution of territorial behavior in social insects and other highly social animals. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Infectious disease outbreaks can impose a large fitness cost to animals that live in social groups. The frequency and pattern of contacts both within and among groups can have a large impact on the speed and extent of an epidemic. Using an individual-based model, we examined how the exclusion of foreign workers from a territory around the nest influences disease transmission between social insect colonies. We find that territoriality can protect colonies from outbreaks of low to moderately contagious pathogens by delaying the spillover from other colonies and reducing the maximum number of workers who are infected. These results suggest that the relative threat posed by infectious diseases may have played an important role in shaping the diversity of territorial behaviors seen in different social insect species. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00265-021-03095-0.

We have never been so bounded: Pandemic, territoriality, and mobility.

In this intervention, I examine the bordering dynamics in the nomosphere configured by the global pandemic crisis and their territorial consequences, drawing on an autoethnography of the impact of bordering on everyday life and academic practices. On the one hand, I rely on my observation of Switzerland, and Europe in general, to discuss the bodily and everyday experiences with borders at different scales; on the other, as a British National (Overseas) passport holder in an attempt to get access to Taiwan for doing fieldwork, I document the difficulties in dealing with the border control, showing how the influence of geopolitics and contested identities on the research praxis is complicated by bordering during the pandemic. These legal geographies of territoriality demonstrate that borders are not only constantly becoming and fluid, but also more discursively present and materially visible during the pandemic than other times. The work of bordering, I argue, produces an uneven geography which deserves our attention.