bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
PENGARUH GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN DAN LINGKUNGAN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA MELALUI KEPUASAN KERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT. SURYA MUSTIKA NUSANTARA AMC – MALANG
Authors: Kholid Mokh. Idham , Utari Woro
Published: July 2023

The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of leadership style and work environment on performance both directly and indirectly through employee job satisfaction. This research is a explanatory research with a quantitative approach. The population in this research were all employees of PT. Surya Mustika Nusantara AMC - Malang totaling 127 people. The number of samples taken in this research were 56 employees. The results of the research and data analysis showed that job satisfaction and leadership style got very good index values, while work performance and environment got good index values. Leadership style has a direct positive effect on job satisfaction, work environment has a direct positive effect on job satisfaction, leadership style has a direct positive effect on performance, work environment has a direct positive effect on performance, job satisfaction has a direct positive effect on performance, influential leadership style indirectly positive for performance through job satisfaction, and the work environment has an indirect positive effect on performance through job satisfaction.
Measurement of Vulnerability to Climate Change in Char Areas
Authors: Saikia Mrinal , Mahanta Ratul
Published: July 2023

Threats caused to the environment and human life by climate change have become an urgent issue. Climate change often aggravates hazards in a given area and has harmful effects on the people residing there. Affected by massive floods, land erosion, and the destruction of agricultural lands, char people live a risky life. Char dwellers are among the communities that suffer the most as a result of the effects of climate change. Few studies discuss the vulnerabilities of communities living in char areas to climate change. This paper attempts to summarize the existing research. It also discusses data-related issues in the measurement of vulnerability to climate change. It ends by raising some policy-related considerations.
A new genus and species of springsnails (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from Northeastern Iran with some new records of freshwater gastropods
Authors: Pešić Vladimir , Glöer Peter
Published: July 2023

We presented findings of six freshwater snails collected in northeastern Iran. A new monotypic genus of hydrobiid springsnails from Semnan Province was described. Khayajehia dianae n. gen. et n. sp. is differentiated by the unique morphology of the penis with a wide and rectangular proximal part and an elongated and slender distal part.
Pelatihan Optimalisasi Social Media Marketing Dalam Peningkatan Brand Awareness pada Jasa Photography Estic Picture
Authors: Hinggo S Hichmaed Tachta , Hardilawati Wan Laura , Nofirda Fitri Ayu , Ramadhan Rian Rahmat
Published: July 2023

Perkembangan Usaha jasa dokumentasi Foto dan Video terus meningkat, banyak bermunculan Studio atau jasa fotografi baru yang terus bermunculan. Untuk meningkatkan kemampuan bersaing, tentunya jasa fotografi ini harus dapat meningkatkan kemampuan pemasaran melalui media social yang akan memberi dampak pada brand awareness jasa fotografi tersebut. Peran media social pada saat ini menjadi sangat vital, terutama dalam peningkatan citra sebuah perusahaan ataupun usaha. Kegiatan pelatihan dan pendampingan mitra pada kesempatan kali ini memiliki focus dalam pemanfaatan secara maksimal social media untuk meningkatkan brand awareness Estic Picture. Pada kegiatan kali ini mitra dan tim pengabdian menjalin sinergi yang baik dalam mencapai tujuan bersama yaitu membantu mitra dalam bersaing dalam dunia bisnis
Diz Lateralinin Avülsiyon Kırığı: Segond Kırığı
Authors: KÖRELÇİNER Hilal Sümeyye , ÖZDEMİR Serdar , OSOYDAN SATICI Merve
Published: July 2023

Segond kırığı klasik olarak tibial plato seviyesinin hemen altında, proksimaltibianınlateralinde oluşan avülsiyon kırığı olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Genellikle dizin rotasyonu sırasında oluşan travmalarda daha sık görülür ve kompleks diz yaralanmalarında Segond kırığı, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) yırtığı için patognomik bir bulgudur. ACL yaralanması olan hastaların %75-100’üne Segond kırığının eşlik ettiği görülmüştür. ACL ile birlikte, lateral kapsül veya lateral menisküs yırtılması ile ilişkilidir ve kronik anterolateral diz instabilitesine neden olabilmesi açısından önemlidir.
TOWARDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION FOR THE BASE OF PYRAMID: SOCIAL BUSINESS MODEL IN URBAN LOW-COST HOUSINGS
Authors: Berawi Mohammed Ali , Miraj Perdana
Published: July 2023

Purpose – this study investigates alternative a small-scale social business model that potentially generate sustainable income for households at the base of the pyramid. A comparison of two low-cost housings that have a different geographical condition and local characteristics is examined.
Research methodology – this research adopted two-stage approach to address the research objective. A pairwise comparison was employed to evaluate alternatives based on selected criteria for decision-making. In the second stage, the proposed business model was assessed by taking into account investment, processing cost, and revenue.
Findings – the findings of this research suggest suitable business model that combine profit orientation and facilitates social mission in urban settings. The business model offers attractive financial feasibility from the investor viewpoint and simultaneously engages low-income households to improve their prosperity level leaving the base of the pyramid (BOP) status.
Research limitations – this paper is not involving division of responsibility between stakeholders in low-cost housing and BOP sector. This study also not discussed how social entrepreneurs play a role in the social business model. There is a need to further investigate how the impact of social entrepreneurs on this model and engage collaboration with interest parties to engage community development.
Practical implications – the findings recommend strategies that can be used by policy-makers and other related stakeholders to scale-up the business model, empower more low-income households, and create new job opportunities for urban poor. The findings of this research also indicate social business model that enables households at the BOP to earn sustainable income and release their current poverty status.
Originality/Value – the research is one of the few studies that explored alternatives to social business models available for urban poor by taking into account project feasibility. No previous research has been attempted to consider both pairwise comparison and life cycle cost approach in the development of social business models. This research can be found useful for those with similar issues not only in emerging economies but also in developed countries.
Global Mapping of Fragmented Rocks on the Moon with a Neural Network: Implications for the Failure Mode of Rocks on Airless Surfaces
Authors: Rüsch Ottaviano , Bickel Valentin T.
Published: July 2023

Failure modes of lunar boulders depend both on rheology and the erosion agents acting in the lunar surface environment. Here, we address the failure modes of lunar boulders and their variations at a quasi-global scale (60°N to S). We deploy a neural network and map a total of ∼130,000 fragmented boulders (width > ∼10 m) scattered across the lunar surface and visually identify a dozen different disintegration morphologies corresponding to different failure modes. Our findings suggest that before a boulder is catastrophically shattered by an impact, there is an internal weakening period with minor morphological evidence of damage at the rock scale at the resolution of the used imagery. We find that some of the rare pre-shattering morphologies (e.g., fractures) are equivalent to morphologies observed on asteroid Bennu, suggesting that these morphologies on the Moon and on asteroids are likely not diagnostic of their formation mechanism (e.g., meteoroid impact, thermal stresses). In addition, we identify new morphologies such as breccia boulders with an advection-like erosion style. We publicly release the produced fractured boulder catalog along with this paper.
Complex network analysis of the Turkish domestic airport system and comparison with worldwide practices
Authors: Güner Samet , Seçkin Codal Keziban
Published: July 2023

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a holistic insight into the performance of the Turkish air transportation network through complex network analysis. While many countries' airport network structures and performances have been widely studied, the rapidly growing Turkish airport structure still needs to be adequately analyzed. Therefore, this paper evaluates the structural properties of the Turkish domestic aviation network from 2012 to 2020 and compares it with worldwide practices.Design/methodology/approach: To evaluate the topological properties of the Turkish airport system, this study utilized five complex network metrics: average degree, diameter, average path length, clustering coefficient, modularity, and density index.Findings: The findings indicate that the Turkish domestic aviation network has a smaller diameter, lower average path length, decreasing clustering coefficient, and lower modularity compared to worldwide practices, which implies low robustness and flexibility. The pandemic has increased the unique paths, density index, and average degree, which implies more connectivity among airports, possibly due to mandatory flights.Practical implications: The analysis of complex networks can help evaluate network characteristics and understand their influence on the Turkish domestic network. The long-term evaluation of the airports' topological properties provides valuable insights into their structural resilience, operational efficiency, and potential for network optimization.Originality/value: This study is the first to analyze the topological structure of the Turkish airport system and compare it with worldwide practices. Moreover, it sheds light on the effects of the pandemic on airport network structure.
The "never-proved" triangle inequality: A GeoGebra & CAS approach
Authors: Kovács Zoltán , Recio Tomás , Ueno Carlos , Vajda Róbert
Published: July 2023

We use a quite simple, yet challenging, elementary geometry statement, the so-called "never proved" (by a mathematician) theorem, introduced by Prof. Jiawei Hong in his communication to the IEEE 1986 Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, to exemplify and analyze the current situation of achievements, ongoing improvements and limitations of GeoGebra's automated reasoning tools, as well as other computer algebra systems, in dealing with geometric inequalities. We present a large collection of facts describing the curious (and confusing) history behind the statement and its connection to automated deduction. An easy proof of the "never proved" theorem, relying on some previous (but not trivial) human work is included. Moreover, as part of our strategy to address this challenging result with automated tools, we formulate a large list of variants of the "never proved" statement (generalizations, special cases, etc.). Addressing such variants with GeoGebra Discovery, ${\texttt{Maple}}$, ${\texttt{REDUCE/Redlog}}$ or ${\texttt{Mathematica}}$ leads us to introduce and reflect on some new approaches (e.g., partial elimination of quantifiers, consideration of symmetries, relevance of discovery vs. proving, etc.) that could be relevant to consider for future improvements of automated reasoning in geometry algorithms. As a byproduct, we obtain an original result (to our knowledge) concerning the family of triangles inscribable in a given triangle.
Mediterranean diet and health in the elderly
Authors: Giuffrè Domenico , Giuffrè Angelo Maria
Published: July 2023

The Mediterranean diet has probably been the most studied diet since the early 1950s. American physiologist Ancel Keys coined the term since it was based on the dietary habits of those populations bordering the Mediterranean basin, particularly the island of Crete and southern Italy. The motivation for the early studies lay in understanding why these populations had greater longevity and lower occurrence of chronic-degenerative diseases and forms of cancer when compared with the peoples of Northern Europe and North America. Traditionally, this dietary regimen was based on the seasonality of foods and the consumption of unrefined grains, legumes, fish, vegetables, fruits, little meat and use of olive oil as a condiment. The purpose of this paper is to understand, based on current scientific knowledge, how the different nutrients present in such a diet can play a preventive role in the onset of today's most frequent diseases.
Estimating large‐dimensional connectedness tables: The great moderation through the lens of sectoral spillovers
Authors: Brunner Felix , Hipp Ruben
Published: July 2023

We estimate sectoral spillovers around the Great Moderation with the help of forecast error variance decomposition tables. Obtaining such tables in high dimensions is challenging because they are functions of the estimated vector autoregressive coefficients and the residual covariance matrix. In a simulation study, we compare various regularization methods on both and conduct a comprehensive analysis of their performance. We show that standard estimators of large connectedness tables lead to biased results and high estimation uncertainty, both of which are mitigated by regularization. To explore possible causes for the Great Moderation, we apply a cross‐validated estimator on sectoral spillovers of industrial production in the US from 1972 to 2019. We find that the spillover network has considerably weakened, which hints at structural change, for example, through improved inventory management, as a critical explanation for the Great Moderation.
The origins and effects of macroeconomic uncertainty
Authors: Bianchi Francesco , Kung Howard , Tirskikh Mikhail
Published: July 2023

We estimate a production‐based general equilibrium model featuring demand‐ and supply‐side uncertainty and an endogenous term premium. Using term structure and macroeconomic data, we find sizable effects of uncertainty on risk premia and business cycle fluctuations. Both demand‐ and supply‐side uncertainty imply large contractions in real activity and an increase in term premia, but supply‐side uncertainty has larger effects on inflation and investment. We introduce a novel analytical decomposition to illustrate how multiple distinct endogenous risk wedges account for these differences. Supply and demand uncertainty are strongly correlated in the beginning of our sample, but decouple after the Great Recession.
Redistribution and the monetary‐fiscal policy mix
Authors: Bhattarai Saroj , Lee Jae Won , Yang Choongryul
Published: July 2023

We show that the effectiveness of redistribution policy is tied to how much inflation it generates, and thereby to monetary‐fiscal adjustments that ultimately finance the transfers. In the monetary regime, taxes increase to finance transfers while in the fiscal regime, inflation rises, imposing inflation taxes on public debt holders. We show analytically that the fiscal regime generates larger and more persistent inflation than the monetary regime. In a two‐sector model, we quantify the effects of the CARES Act in a COVID recession. We find that transfer multipliers are larger, and that moreover, redistribution is Pareto improving, under the fiscal regime.
Visual Asynchrony & Temporally Extended Contents
Authors: Chuard Philippe
Published: July 2023

Temporal experiences, according to retentionalism, essentially have temporally extended contents: contents which represent distinct events at distinct temporal locations, and some of their temporal relations. This means, retentionalists insist, that temporal experiences themselves needn’t be extended in time: only their contents are. The paper reviews an experiment by Moutoussis and Zeki, which demonstrates a colour-motion visual asynchrony (§2): information about motion seems to be processed more slowly than information about colour, so that the former is delayed relative to the latter. This, the paper argues, raises an important difficulty for retentionalism and its account of the temporal ontology of experiences: it suggests that a central background assumption about neural processing presupposed by retentionalism is false, at least in cases of visual asynchrony. The paper then explores the general significance of this result for retentionalism (§3).
Desire-Based Theories of Reasons and the Guise of the Good
Authors: McCormack Kael
Published: July 2023

I propose an account of desire that reconciles two apparently conflicting intuitions about practical agency. I do so by exploring a certain intuitive datum. The intuitive datum is that often when an agent desires P she will seem to immediately and conclusively know that there is a reason to bring P about. Desire-based theories of reasons seem uniquely placed to explain this intuitive datum. On this view, desires are the source of an agent’s practical reasons. A desire for P grounds conclusive knowledge of a reason to bring P about because that desire makes it true that there is a reason to do so. However, this implies that a basic desire for P can never be in error about there being at least some reason to bring P about. We have the conflicting intuition that basic desires sometimes rationally count for nothing. The guise of the good explains this intuition about the fallibility of desires. On this view, a desire for P represents P as good in some respect. Desires and reasons are independent, so a desire might misrepresent one’s reasons. But this independence is usually taken to rule out that desires ever provide conclusive knowledge of reasons. Capturing the intuition about conclusive knowledge rules out capturing the intuition about fallibility, and vice versa. I propose an epistemological disjunctivist version of the guise of the good that reconciles fallibility with the possibility of conclusive knowledge.
The Skeptical Challenge of the Theistic Multiverse
Authors: Pittard John
Published: July 2023

The multiverse theodicy says that because God can without cost create an infinite number of universes, the standards of acceptability that a conceivable universe must meet to be worthy of divine creation are significantly laxer than is typically supposed in discussions of the problem of evil. While the prospect of a theistic multiverse arguably helps the theist to explain suffering, I argue that it also poses a serious skeptical worry. Given the alleged laxity of the standards that a universe must meet to be worthy of inclusion in a theistic multiverse, there is reason to think that God would be justified in creating a great many deceptive universes that, while good overall, are inhabited by creatures who are radically mistaken in their beliefs. And these deceptive universes would arguably be no less abundant than the nondeceptive universes. After developing this skeptical challenge, I assess some possible theistic responses. One of the more promising responses I consider argues that in order to secure the great good of true friendship between God and creatures, God has reason to exclude deceptive universes from the multiverse even when those universes have great intrinsic value.
The Vagaries of References
Authors: Michaelson Eliot
Published: July 2023

Evans (1973)’s Madagascar case and other cases like it have long been taken to represent a serious challenge for the Causal Theory of Names. The present essay answers this challenge on behalf of the causal theorist. The key is to treat acts of uttering names as events. Like other events, utterances of names sometimes turn out to have features which only become clear in retrospect.
On the Reduction of Constitutive to Consequential Essence
Authors: Miller Taylor-Grey
Published: July 2023

Fine has introduced an important distinction between constitutive and consequential essence. The constitutive essence of an object comprises truths directly definitive of the object whereas the consequential essence comprises the class of truths following logically from the directly definitive truths (subject to certain constraints). Essence theorists then face a challenge: how shall we draw the line between the truths directly definitive of an object and those that are mere consequences of them? Fine offers an answer. We start with the object’s consequential essence and then filter out from its consequential essence the propositions that are there on account of being partly grounded in others. The object’s constitutive essence comprises what’s left. I argue against this account by presenting a range of cases where it is clear that certain truths ought to count as constitutively essential for certain objects but where Fine’s account rules them out.
Advice for Analytic Naturalists
Authors: Hambly Jesse
Published: July 2023

In this paper I argue against Analytic Normative Naturalism by suggesting that the view cannot capture the way that normative concepts figure in advice. To establish this conclusion, I identify several links between normative concepts and advice and argue that, if Analytic Normative Naturalism were true, these links would not obtain.
Intentional Action, Know-how, and Lucky Success
Authors: Kirley Michael
Published: July 2023

Elizabeth Anscombe held that acting intentionally entails knowing (in a distinctively practical way) what one is doing. The consensus for many years was that this knowledge thesis faces decisive counterexamples, the most famous being Donald Davidson’s carbon copier case, and so should be rejected or at least significantly weakened. Recently, however, a new defense of the knowledge thesis has emerged: provided one understands the knowledge in question as a form of progressive judgement, cases like Davidson’s pose no threat. In this paper, I argue that this neo-Anscombean maneuver fails because it is founded on an untenable conception of the difference between intentional and merely lucky success. More specifically, the neo-Anscombean view conflates merely lucky success with subjectively surprising success. Unlike the former, subjectively surprising success may well be intentional, for it may well be the result of an exercise of knowledge-how. After sketching an alternative view that better captures the intuitive contrast between lucky and intentional success, I argue that the conflation of surprising and merely lucky success owes to a tacit commitment to the thesis that knowing how entails knowing that one knows how. This thesis is not only false, but distortive of the explanatory role of knowledge-how. This result, in turn, tells us something important about what practical knowledge cannot be.
The Sense of Existence
Authors: Billon Alexandre
Published: July 2023

If I see, hear, or touch a sparrow, the sparrow seems real to me. Unlike Bigfoot or Santa Claus, it seems to exist; I will therefore judge that it does indeed exist. The “sense of existence” refers to the kind of awareness that typically grounds such ordinary judgments of existence or “reality.” The sense of existence has been invoked by Humeans, Kantians, Ideologists, and the phenomenological tradition to make substantial philosophical claims. However, it is extremely controversial; its very existence has been called into question. This paper aims to clarify the nature and reality of the sense of existence by studying a psychiatric condition in which the sense appears to be disrupted: depersonalization disorder (DPD).
Expérience d’implantation d’un parcours professionnalisant en musique dédié aux compositeurs à l’image et aux interprètes-créateurs
Authors: Cayer André , Dodier Chantale
Published: July 2023

Le programme de baccalauréat offert par l’École de musique de l’Université de Sherbrooke a été entièrement transformé en 2018 sous forme de parcours professionnalisant. Cette démarche d’innovation curriculaire visait à mieux préparer le futur musicien professionnel (improvisateur, interprète ou compositeur) à faire face à sa condition simultanée d’athlète musical, d’entrepreneur et de créateur d’un produit artistique. La cohérence (vis-à-vis les réalités du monde musical et à l’échelle du programme), l’autorégulation (spécialement les aspects de volition et d’autonomie) et l’automatisation des processus et des savoir-faire accompagnant les visées créatives étaient au cœur de la réussite de ce projet. À notre connaissance, l’École de musique de l’Université de Sherbrooke est la première institution d’enseignement supérieur en musique à proposer ce changement de paradigme. L’expérience pourrait avoir un impact important sur les capacités créatrices des diplômés et influencer à long terme les approches utilisées actuellement pour l’enseignement de la musique ou d’autre forme d’art. Même si une analyse longitudinale des retombées reste à produire, les constats préliminaires suggèrent des résultats positifs.
Building Teams and Developing a Career in the FOSS Industry
Authors: de Souza Pinto Renê
Published: July 2023

The world has been recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and is coming towards its post-pandemic era. Although many IT companies have experienced big growth during the pandemic caused by the increasing demand of several kinds of services, finding highly skilled IT professionals is essential to the expansion of the business and was never an easy task, even before the pandemic. The leveraging of remote work during the last years collaborated substantially with companies in order to expand their teams across the globe and find talented people that would never have been found within the pre-pandemic environment. However, apart from the new working models and environments in the IT sector, the FOSS model always posed as an outstanding framework not only to leverage projects but also to help in finding talented people throughout the world. This short chapter presents a brief overview about how FOSS can be used to help companies leverage their businesses and expand teams by reaching professionals with a good matching profile.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Model
Authors: De Souza Cesar Henrique
Published: July 2023

Red Hat, Inc. is a leading software company known worldwide for pioneering the FOSS industry. Its history offers a concrete example of a successful open-source business model. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), taken as a study case, is one of the most successful commercial Linux distributions, thanks to its components' stability and company support. This chapter brings a brief historical perspective of the several Red Hat distributions and their communities, highlighting how decisions have impacted the enterprise product. The chapter also introduces the open-source model behind Red Hat's Linux development flow. For this purpose, the Linux kernel provides an excellent example of collaboration that goes through all distributions, maturing to their final destination. The discussion presents some aspects of quality, security, and testing that make RHEL one of the most reliable and secure distributions.
Appraisal of Critical Infrastructure Corporate Performance Upon Sustainability
Authors: Dimitriou Dimitrios , Karagkouni Aristi
Published: July 2023

This chapter aims to review the evolving concept of corporate sustainability in terms of its role in the enhancement of a nation's branding. Effective sustainable governance requires stakeholder approval and knowledge of local sustainability circumstances. Sustainable governance often implies social and economic effectiveness. To be acceptable, these criteria must draw on many widely scattered and publicly recognized values. Both the UN's HDI and the adjusted HDI (PHDI) could be utilized in nation branding. Following a thorough literature review, the link between corporate sustainability and nation branding is demonstrated, highlighting how nation branding may be used to communicate procedures that certify enterprises as sustainable. Furthermore, nation branding legitimizes sustainable business credentials and lends value to such commercial activity in the national context, aiming to make sustainability credentials more acceptable. These differing sustainability architectures in national brands provide recommendations and guidelines to managers, planners, and decision makers.
Engaging Children in Spiritual Conversations Through Children's Books
Authors: Kirmani Mubina Hassanali , Steele Barbara Mangin
Published: July 2023

Children's books are a brilliant medium for nurturing children and youth in their spirituality. When children are provided with the proper time, space, and context for discussing the various facets of a story, they can explore their innate ability to discuss deeper thoughts and ponderings about life, relationships, and experiences beyond their immediate circumstances. This chapter provides guidance to teachers on how to create, within the school day, time for spiritual discussions by using children's read-aloud books for deeper conversations. Educators will learn that activities can be implemented before, during, and after the reading that can unlock new possibilities for learners to internalize and express newfound spiritual concepts and goals for themselves personally, and as a class. A preliminary list of relevant books is presented at the end of the chapter, which were selected based on the research-based framework of the seven spiritual identities to allow young learners to experience their spirituality in a variety of ways.
Building Strong Adult Education Partnerships for the Wellbeing of the Aviation Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Chen Zan
Published: July 2023

This chapter presents a case study of how an air service provider (Evergreen, pseudonym) in Singapore builds an adult education ecosystem with strong partnerships to promote the wellbeing of its badly hit aviation workforce during the Covid-19 pandemic. It illustrates how Evergreen envisions changes and pushes the boundaries by actively establishing partnerships with the institutes of high learning, the government agencies, industry associations, and training partners, and at the same time building a learning culture for a resilient workforce. Everygreen turns Covid-19 from a risk into opportunities to strengthen partnerships with high levels of trust, commitment, and open participation. This is accomplished in part by co-creation of learning materials, experiences, and environments with partners with a focus on resilience and sustainability. The findings identify important qualities that can be established as best practices for organisations and policy makers to further improve their adult education provision and promote the wellbeing of their workforce.
Incorporating Sustainability Into Strategic Management for Maintaining Competitive Advantage
Authors: Duh Mojca , Štrukelj Tjaša
Published: July 2023

The complex and turbulent contemporary business environment requires an understanding that considering sustainability challenges and issues in the strategic decision-making process is essential for building and maintaining a company's competitive advantage. The authors advocate that incorporating sustainability in the strategic planning process and developing sustainability strategies must be part of a company's transformation and reorientation to “a sustainability company.” They explain the interdependences between the company's sustainability orientation, institutional solutions, and instrumental specifics and emphasize the requisite holism of process, institutional, and instrumental dimensions of strategic management for maintaining a company's competitive advantage. They conclude our chapter by presenting a model of interdependence of strategic management dimensions, sustainability, and competitive advantage of a company.
Strategic Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Authors: Tan Eunice , Rudolph Jürgen
Published: July 2023

This chapter discusses the critical value of integrating sound sustainability agendas into an organisation's strategic management strategies. Specifically, the authors debate the benefits, challenges, and counterpoints to authentic strategic sustainability alignment vis-à-vis an organisation's strategic value propositions in the Anthropocene. This perspective on sustainability shifts the paradigm of sustainability analyses from industry, sectoral, and financial indicators to proactive strategic guidelines that support human and societal development without compromising our planetary resources and ecological boundaries. In addition to discussing the implications of sustainable development agendas for strategic sustainability, the chapter also reviews two case studies of organisations that have successfully adopted sustainability into their strategic value propositions. Finally, it discusses Raworth's framework as a model for reinterpreting strategic sustainability management in the Anthropocene.
Enhancing Digital Competitiveness Through the Lens of Digital Government Among Asian Economies
Authors: Sagarik Danuvas
Published: July 2023

This paper aims to thoroughly investigate the role of the digital government, digital competitiveness, and future readiness. A significant amount of research and literature reveals the benefits of digitizing governments as well as digital economy on development. This paper aims to measure digital economy by several digital competitiveness indicators, reflecting on the conceptual framework. The main focus is on the extent to which the implementation of the digital variables, in the context of digital competitiveness across countries, promotes the development of a digital future readiness. The sample of this study included the panel data of 12 countries in the Asia Pacific region from the World Digital Competitiveness Ranking Reports. Fixed-effect multiple regression analysis was used to explain variations in a dependent variable impacted by two or more independent factors. The results clarify that technology plays a crucial role in determining future readiness implying more policy focus in this matter.
Integrating T Cell Activation Signals to Regulate Gene Expression through Cyclosporin-Sensitive NFAT
Authors: Kaye Jonathan
Published: July 2023

This Pillars of Immunology article is a commentary on three pivotal articles: “Nuclear factor of activated T cells contains Fos and Jun,” an article written by J. Jain, P. G. McCaffrey, V. E. Valge-Archer, and A. Rao, and published in Nature, in 1992, https://www.nature.com/articles/356801a0; “The T-cell transcription factor NFATp is a substrate for calcineurin and interacts with Fos and Jun,” written by J. Jain, P. G. McCaffrey, Z. Miner, T. K. Kerppola, J. N. Lambert, G. L. Verdine, T. Curran, and A. Rao, and published in Nature, in 1993, https://www.nature.com/articles/365352a0; and “Isolation of the cyclosporin-sensitive T cell transcription factor NFATp,” written by P. G. McCaffrey, C. Luo, T. K. Kerppola, J. Jain, T. M. Badalian, A. M. Ho, E. Burgeon, W. S. Lane, J. N. Lambert, T. Curran, et al., and published in Science, in 1993, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.8235597.
Tectonic aspects of the Rio Parnaíba Lineament, Duque Bacelar Region, Maranhão State, based on the record of Dinosauria, Spinosaurinae
Authors: Arcanjo Silvia Helena de Souza , Sousa Diogo van Basten Aguiar de , Medeiros Manuel Alfredo , Lindoso Rafael Matos , Sousa Eliane Pinheiro de , Carvalho Ismar de Souza
Published: July 2023

This article shows the tectonic influence of the Parnaíba River Lineament located in the Parnaíba Basin through a paleontological finding of a Cretaceous age close to a Permian sequence. The studied region is in the northeast of the State of Maranhão, near the town of Duque Bacelar, in the vicinity of the lineament. A normal fault in the NNE-SSW direction was responsible for the lowering of the Itapecuru Formation strata (Cretaceous) and the relative upward movement of the Pedra de Fogo Formation (Permian). The unprecedented finding of a Mesozoic (mid-Cretaceous) theropod tooth located topographically at the same level as a Paleozoic unit represents evidence of tectonic activity affecting the stratigraphic successions of the Parnaíba Basin. Keywords: Parnaíba River Lineament, Pedra de Fogo Formation, Itapecuru Formation, Spinosauridae.
Validation and Clinical Utility of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale as Depression Screening Tools in Collegiate Student-Athletes
Authors: Keenan Lindsey , Ingram Yvette , Green Branden , Daltry Rachel , Harenberg Sebastian
Published: July 2023

Context

The National Athletic Trainers’ Association recommends including mental health screening measures as part of the preparticipation examination for all student-athletes (SAs). Despite this recommendation, most mental health screening tools have not been validated in the SA population.

Objective

To validate and examine the clinical utility of 2 depression screening tools in the collegiate SA population.

Design

Cross-sectional mixed-methods study.

Setting

Two Northeastern United States university athletics programs.

Patients or Other Participants

A total of 881 (men = 426, 48.4%; women = 455, 51.6%; mean age = 19.7 ± 1.4 years) National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II collegiate SAs completed the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D); 290 SAs participated in a Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview.

Main Outcome Measure(s)

Depression symptoms were measured using 2 self-report depression screening tools, the PHQ-9 and CES-D, during the fall preparticipation examination. The SAs were selected using a random stratified sampling technique to participate in a Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview as the reference standard comparison for the receiver operating characteristic analysis.

Results

A cutoff score of 6 on the PHQ-9 corresponded to 78% sensitivity, 75% specificity, 17.3% positive predictive value, 98.1% negative predictive value (NPV), 3.2 positive likelihood ratio (+LR), and 0.3 negative likelihood ratio (−LR). A cutoff score of 15 on the CES-D corresponded to 83% sensitivity, 78% specificity, 19.7% positive predictive value, 98.6% NPV, 3.7 +LR, and 0.22 −LR.

Conclusions

This was the first study to validate depression screening tools in the collegiate SA population. The results suggest cutoff scores on the PHQ-9 and CES-D in SA may need to be lower than those recommended for the general population and provide strong evidence for use as screeners to rule out depression. Referral and confirmatory testing should be implemented to confirm the presence of depression for SAs scoring at or above the cutoff thresholds. Given its brevity, inclusion of a suicidality or self-harm question and evidence of −LR and NPV strength, the PHQ-9 is a practical and effective screener for the SA population.
The clinical efficiency and safety of 60W superpulse thulium fiber laser in retrograde intrarenal surgery
Authors: Vaddi Chandra Mohan , Ramakrishna Paidakula , Ganeshan Soundarya , Swamy Siddalinga , Anandan Hemnath , Babu Manas , Panda Rakesh
Published: July 2023

Introduction:

Our aim is to evaluate the clinical efficiency and safety of 60W Thulium fiber laser (TFL) during retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS). The performance of the TFL across different ranges of stone volumes and stone densities is assessed.

Materials and Methods:

Between October 2019 and August 2020, a prospective study was done on 135 patients with < 20 mm renal stones, who underwent RIRS using TFL. Stone parameters, total laser time, total energy delivered (kJ), and fiber burn-back were recorded. Laser efficacy (J/mm3) and ablation speed (mm3/s) were calculated.

Results:

Data of 126 of 135 patients included in the study were analyzed. The mean patient age was 45.04 ± 12.30 years. Mean stone size was 15.19 ± 4.52 mm, and mean stone volume was 1061.85 ± 806.81 mm3. Mean laser time was 19.78 ± 12.32 min. At higher stone volume (>1000 mm3), J/mm3 decreased significantly from 16.18 ± 5.90 to 10.92 ± 3.21 (P < 0.001) and the ablation speed increased significantly (0.77 ± 0.28–1.04 ± 0.28 mm3/s [P < 0.001]). Stone density did not have a significant influence on the laser efficacy [B = -0.31 (-2.45 to 1.82, p=0.771)] or on the ablation speed [B = -0.06 (-0.17 to 0.05, p=0.278)]. Overall SFR was 93.6%. The complication rate was 16.6% (21/126). Out of the 21, 12 patients had hematuria and 9 had fever, which were of Clavien grades 1–2.

Conclusion:

Superpulse TFL is efficient and safe. The work efficiency increases for larger volume stones. The work efficiency remains the same across different stone densities. No complication more than Clavien grade 2 was encountered.
Epidemiology of C2 fractures in the United States: A National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database study
Authors: Berkay Fehmi , Minhas Arjun , Lyons Joseph G. , Fonte Elizabeth , Foster Norah
Published: July 2023

Introduction:

C2 fractures are one of the most common traumatic injuries of the cervical spine, with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Current literature on the incidence of C2 fractures is limited to populations outside of the United States (US), prior to 2014, or specific age cohorts. The purpose of this study is to report the incidence rate (IR) of C2 fractures and associated patient demographics in the US between 2002 and 2021 using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) database.

Methods:

This study analyzed the NEISS database to identify cases of C2 fractures presenting to US Emergency Departments (EDs) from 2002 to 2021. Annual and overall numbers of fractures, IR, and patient demographics were analyzed. IR is expressed as the number of fractures per 100,000 person-years at risk (PYR). Patients were split into three different age groups for comparison (children and young adults, 0–64 years; older adults, 65–79 years; elderly individuals, 80 + years).

Results:

A national estimate of n = 72,764 patients (95% confidence interval [CI] = 54,371–91,156) presented to US EDs with a C2 fracture (IR was 1.17/PYR; 95% CI = 0.87–1.46), and elderly individuals had the highest IR overall (IR = 15.9; P < 0.05). The IR of C2 fractures between 2002 and 2021, reported as average annual percent change (AAPC), increased significantly, regardless of age or sex (AAPC = 10.9; 95% CI = 6.3–15.6; P < 0.0001).

Conclusion:

C2 fractures occur at higher rates than previous years, with especially high IR in elderly individuals. Emphasis of public health efforts toward osteoporosis and coordination difficulties in elderly individuals would likely significantly reduce the overall IR of these injuries.
Sustainability-Driven Consumer Experience Design of an Online Retail System for Household Appliances
Authors: Lu Yichen , Yan Tian
Published: July 2023

INTRODUCTION: In the field of information system design, mobile-based platforms have emerged as a significant and indispensable component in recent years. This research examines the incorporation of sustainable responsibility by a household appliance brand into the consumer experience of a retail mobile application through experience design.OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this study is to develop strategies for consumer experience design driven by sustainability, thereby fostering the adoption of sustainable consumption behaviours that yield positive implications for the environment, public life, and brand values.METHODS: A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was employed, encompassing preliminary user interviews, questionnaire surveys, and in-depth user interviews. Initially, design research explored consumers' comprehension of sustainability, sustainable consumption demands, behavioural habits, and experiential expectations. Subsequently, design strategies were derived through insight clustering analysis, considering functional information, interaction experience, and marketing interaction.RESULTS: The study illustrated sustainable consumer experience design through the interface and interaction design of a retail mobile application, serving as a touchpoint for an online retail system. The overall effectiveness of the design solution was assessed through usability and consumer experience tests and the results were positive and evidently conducive to improve the retail mobile application.CONCLUSION: Based on the evaluation of the design proposal, three key elements were identified for the experience design of retail mobile systems driven by sustainable responsibility: accentuating the sustainable attributes of products, enhancing consumer autonomy and competence, and aligning marketing endeavours with sustainable values.
Technical-financial analysis of conventional and alternative technologies for the treatment of sewage in small to large cities
Authors: Gomides Clécio Eustáquio , Oliveira Felipe Maia , Soares Jaqueline dos Santos , Matos Mateus Pimentel de , Souza Aline dos Reis
Published: July 2023

In Brazil, there is low coverage of sewage collection and treatment, a condition that is even more critical in smaller cities. One reason for this is the lack of resources for investment in conventional reactors. The present study therefore compared the costs of different treatment alternatives based on the average values of construction and operation present in the literature, the values of the price per square meter for land acquisition, electricity tariffs, and final sludge disposal by considering different operating times of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). This allowed inferences about the costs associated with the choice of the configuration of a municipal WWTP. Based on the scenarios studied, it was observed that the conventional systems evaluated are, in general, more costly, especially after several years of operation. However, the choice of these treatment units may be more interesting in scenarios with high cost per square metre and lower electricity rates or where there is no area availability. For smaller cities and with lower real estate pressure, the natural systems evaluated are more indicated due to the low total costs (construction and operation) and adequate pollutant-removal efficiencies.

Keywords: choice of wwtp, methodology of choice sewage treatment, natural systems, treatment costs.
Comparing spacings of Anadenanthera peregrina (L.) Speg stand: response in biomass and carbon stock above and below ground
Authors: Souza Paulo Henrique de , Caldeira Marcos Vinicius Winckler , Delarmelina William Macedo , Trazzi Paulo André , Paula Ranieri Ribeiro , Momolli Dione Richer , Moreau Julia Siqueira , Gomes Gabriel Soares Lopes , Gomes Robert , Sanquetta Carlos Roberto
Published: July 2023

Forests play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. Among the factors that can affect carbon stocks in forest stands, planting spacing stands out. This study verified the effect of spacing on biomass and carbon stock in a stand of Anadenanthera peregrina (L.) Speg at 56 months of age. They were planted with 3 x 2 m, 3 x 3 m, 4 x 3 m, 4 x 4 m and 5 x 5 m spacings. The biomass of the above-ground compartments (stem, branches, leaves and bark) and root biomass was quantified, totalling 16.42 and 6.68 Mg ha-1, respectively. The largest amount of biomass and carbon stock occurred in the denser spacings. Total biomass was twice as large at 3 x 2 m spacing compared to 5 x 5 m spacing. The root biomass represented 40.93% of the total biomass. The order of participation of the components in the total aboveground biomass was branches (44.99%), stem (40.77%), leaves (13.99%) and bark (4.90%). The denser spacings (3 x 2 m and 3 x 3 m) showed higher values of biomass and carbon stock than the wide spacings (4 x 3 m, 4 x 4 m and 5 x 5 m). There was no effect of planting spacing on carbon stock in necromass and soil.

Keywords: biomass, carbon sequestration, silviculture.