bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Employees' experience of human resource practices under plural form franchising: The impact of front‐line managerial capability
Authors: Butler Peter , Muskwe Never 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe franchising business model has received scant attention within the field of human resource management (HRM). Data tracking workers' experience of this format are more elusive still. This study draws on comparative, qualitative data derived from discussions with 82 respondents working within the corporate and franchised divisions of a market leading, fast food multinational company (MNC). Extant analyses of franchised operations point to shortcomings in franchisees' treatment of staff. This outcome is typically asserted to be the result of the opportunism that flows from the desire to maximise revenues and minimise costs. This emphasis on structural pressures ignores the micro‐level influences and the complexity of the day‐to‐day dynamics of the employment relationship. Specifically, the impact of the leadership skills and competence of front‐line managers (FLMs) is overlooked. The study highlights that differences in FLM capability significantly affect the work climate, further aggravating poor HR activities in the franchised units, while offsetting some of the repressive task features associated with routinised work in the corporate division.
Areas of endemism in the Afrotropical region based on the geographical distribution of Tipulomorpha (Insecta: Diptera)
Authors: Santos Daubian , Ribeiro Guilherme Cunha 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThis article explores the distributional data of 2440 occurrence records for 1415 Tipulomorpha (Insecta: Diptera) species to search endemism patterns in the Afrotropical region and to propose a regionalisation scheme. The results were compared to areas of endemism proposed in previous works for other taxa. Areas of endemism were established using NDM/VNDM based on a grid size of 8° and consensus cut‐off of 24%. In this study, five subregions were found: Arabian, Atlantic, Indian, Southern Africa and Central Africa. These subregions are divided into 12 dominions: Arabian Peninsula, Atlantic Islands, Central Africa, Central Madagascar, Eastern Africa, Indian Ocean, Northwestern Africa, Southeastern Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Madagascar, Southwestern Africa and Western Africa. There is a general congruence of the dominions with the distribution of the main hydrographic basins and divisions of the forests of Madagascar.
Bioclimatic changes in ecoregions of southern South America: Trends and projections based on Holdridge life zones
Authors: Derguy Maria R. , Martinuzzi Sebastian , Arturi Marcelo 
Published: December 2021

AbstractModelling the potential impacts of future climate on ecosystems provides important information for environmental planning and management. The Holdridge life zones system is a land classification based on simple bioclimatic variables that can be used for evaluating the potential effect of future climates on ecosystems. However, information on future bioclimatic changes in ecoregions of southern South America is too coarse, or unavailable. Our main goals were to evaluate the usefulness of a simple bioclimatic classification system to assess the potential effects of climate change on ecological systems, and to what extent such changes would affect the ecoregions of Argentina. We analysed the multivariate distance between ecoregions of Argentina based on the area occupied by each life zone in each ecoregion and conducted an ordination of ecoregions under current and future climate scenarios. We also evaluated the correspondence between the boundaries of ecoregions and life zones. Overall, the ecoregions of Argentina are expected to face substantial change in bioclimatic conditions. In particular, ecoregions at high latitudes (e.g. Bosques Patagonicos) or altitudes (e.g. Altos Andes) are projected to exhibit similar bioclimatic conditions to ecoregions at lower latitudes or altitudes under current climate (e.g. Estepa Patagonica, Puna). The boundaries of ecoregions tended to coincide with those of life zones only in two cases and partial coincidence was the most frequent result. Further, the analysis of uncertainties of local climate data allowed to identify ecoregions where the results might be less reliable. Our study provides insights to improve conservation planning and management in Argentina. Integrating ecoregions and Holdridge life zones proved to be a useful approach for understanding the potential effects of future climate changes on ecological systems.
A frameshift deletion in the GDF9 gene in Icelandic Loa prolific sheep
Authors: Holm Lars‐Erik , Bendixen Christian , Eythorsdottir Emma , Hallsson Jon H. 
Published: December 2021

AbstractSeveral genetic variants have been shown to affect the mean number of offspring in different sheep breeds. Here, we analyzed samples from Icelandic sheep with the aim of identifying the genetic cause of the Icelandic Loa phenotype using three previously identified prolificacy genes as candidates. We demonstrate that a 4‐bp frameshift deletion positioned in the mature region of the GDF9 protein in the Loa animals is a likely causal mutation for the observed increase in prolificacy; however, sequencing showed that not all ewes with a high number of offspring carried the deletion, suggesting the presence of a second mutation segregating within this group of animals.
A Repeated Measures Approach to Pooled and Calibrated Biomarker Data
Authors: Sloan Abigail , Cheng Chao , Rosner Bernard , Ziegler Regina G. , Smith-Warner Stephanie A. , Wang Molin 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Participant-level meta-analysis across multiple studies increases the sample size for pooled analyses, thereby improving precision in effect estimates and enabling subgroup analyses. For analyses involving biomarker measurements as an exposure of interest, investigators must first calibrate the data to address measurement variability arising from usage of different laboratories and/or assays. In practice, the calibration process involves reassaying a random subset of biospecimens from each study at a central laboratory and fitting models that relate the study-specific “local” and central laboratory measurements. Previous work in this area treats the calibration process from the perspective of measurement error techniques and imputes the estimated central laboratory value among individuals with only a local laboratory measurement. In this work, we propose a repeated measures method to calibrate biomarker measurements pooled from multiple studies with study-specific calibration subsets. We account for correlation between measurements made on the same person and between measurements made at the same laboratory. We demonstrate that the repeated measures approach provides valid inference, and compare it to existing calibration approaches grounded in measurement error techniques in an example describing the association between circulating vitamin D and stroke.
Advances and weaknesses of the work process of the oral cancer care network in Brazil: A latent class transition analysis
Authors: Thomaz Erika Barbara Abreu Fonseca , Costa Elisa Miranda , Queiroz Rejane Christine de Sousa , Emmi Danielle Tupinambá , Ribeiro Ana Graziela Araújo , Silva Núbia Cristina da , Hugo Fernando Neves , Figueiredo Nilcema 
Published: December 2021

AbstractObjectiveTo analyse the provision of oral cancer (OC) care services in the Dental Specialties Centers (Centros de Especialidades Odontológicas‐CEO) in Brazil and identify changes over two cycles of external evaluation of the Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality‐PMAQ, in 2014 and 2018.MethodThis is a nationwide panel ecological study, including 916 CEO. Data from interviews with managers and dentists of the CEO were used, including variables related to training on OC, clinical protocols, biopsies, referral for diagnosis and treatment, and registration of users with OC. We carried out Latent Transition Analysis (LTA) to identify patterns (latent status LS) of service adequacy and work processes’ changes between the two assessment cycles. We tested models with three, four, and five LS, selecting the one with the best conceptual interpretability and good model fit parameters. Data from the LS were plotted on choropleth and hotspots maps in Brazil allowing us to identify areas with the better or worse provision of specialized OC services.ResultsThe model with four LS was chosen. The four LS were named: 1.’Most indicators inadequate for OC care’ (the worst); 2. ‘Most indicators suitable for OC care’ (the best); 3. ‘CEO with a poor relation with Primary Health Care (PHC) services’; and 4. ‘CEO with a poor relation with tertiary hospital services’. The comparison of the LS transition between the two cycles revealed that 419 (45.7%) CEO remained in the same LS (1→1, 3→4, 2→2); 228 (24.9%) switched to a worse status (2→1, 2→4, 3→1) and 269 (29.4%) switched to a better LS (1→2, 1→4, 3→2). While the majority of the CEO improved, we identified a decline of 17.8% in those who reported performing biopsies and 18.3% in the number of CEO that had hospitals for referring confirmed OC cases. Almost all Brazilian states had CEO that improved the work process. The Southeast and South regions had the highest percentage of CEO with the better work process in both cycles. Hotspots showed areas concentrating improvements in the work process in the Northeast region. However, some hotspots in the North revealed some CEO where the work process deteriorated or remained unsatisfactory.ConclusionsThere are regional inequities in the provision of OC care in CEO. Most services improved their work process or remained stable. However, the biopsies and the referral to hospital care for confirmed cases declined, indicating that CEO need to improve planning and care provision to reduce OC morbimortality.
User satisfaction with the secondary dental care services: Is there an association between structure and work process?
Authors: Amaral João Henrique Lara do , Vasconcelos Mara , Gomes Viviane Elisângela , Werneck Marcos Azeredo Furquim , Gaspar Gabriela da Silveira , Lopes Amanda Lívia , Pinheiro Elisa Lopes , Ferreira Raquel Conceição 
Published: December 2021

AbstractObjectiveTo assess the association between user satisfaction in relation to secondary dental care services and the structure and process of Brazilian Dental Specialty Centers (CEO, in Portuguese).MethodsThis study used nationwide secondary data from two CEO evaluation cycles. Ten users from each CEO answered questions on the self‐perception of healthcare quality and satisfaction with health services. Latent class analysis (LCA) was performed to identify subgroups of satisfied and dissatisfied users (outcome). The CEO structure included equipment, supplies, instruments, ambience and type of CEO (type I, II or III, according to the number of dental chairs and dental professionals). The work process referred to the planning/monitoring of actions, collaborative care, characteristics of the demand for medical care /the organization of scheduling, and continuing education for employees. Covariables concerned user profiles. A multilevel logistic regression model was used (p‐value <.05).ResultsSeven thousand nine hundred and ninety‐seven users in 794 CEOs, together with 10056 users in 911 CEOs, participated in the 1st and 2nd evaluation cycles, and satisfied users corresponded to 85.3% and 87.1%, respectively. In both cycles, the CEO’s structural characteristics explained most of the variance in satisfaction. CEOs with more favourable structural characteristics showed higher satisfaction. Users from CEOs, type II and III, and those who received dental care where there was an interruption of services due to a lack of equipment or instruments reported a lower level of satisfaction. CEOs that organize their demand through referrals received from primary care dentists who have participated in continuing education actions for dental professionals presented a higher frequency of satisfied users.ConclusionsCharacteristics of the process and structure were associated with user satisfaction, but a quality of care was perceived by users, mainly due to structural characteristics.
Pay‐for‐performance and dental procedures: A longitudinal analysis of the Brazilian Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality of Dental Specialities Centres
Authors: Cabreira Fabiana da Silva , Hugo Fernando Neves , Celeste Roger Keller 
Published: December 2021

AbstractObjectiveEvaluate the impact of a pay‐for‐performance program on changes in the number of dental procedures performed by public secondary dental care services in Brazil.MethodsA longitudinal study was carried out with 932 public Dental Specialities Centres (Centro de Especialidades Odontológicas – CEO) that participated in the pay‐for‐performance Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality of Dental Specialities Centres Services (PMAQ/CEO) and 379 non‐CEO centres with secondary dental production. The non‐CEO and a group of CEOs did not receive financial incentives from the PMAQ‐CEO and served as control groups. Three CEOs groups received additional financial incentives of 20%, 60% or 100% over maintenance values, based on their performance scores. The outcome was the increase (yes/no) in the number of dental procedures between 2011/2013 and 2015/2017. Analyses were carried out using logistic regressions.ResultsThe number of specialized procedures increased in 48.4% of the services, 44.6% among non‐CEO, 52.3% among CEO with no financial incentive and 59.1% among CEO with 100% incentive. The fully adjusted model showed that CEOs receiving 100% of the financial incentive had greater odds of increasing the production of dental procedures (OR = 1.65, 95%CI: 1.09–2.51). Services that increased the number of specialist dentists had (OR = 2.35, 95%CI 1.88–2.94). Municipalities that increased in coverage of private dental insurance had OR = 0.98 (95%CI: 0.94–1.02), and those with higher coverage of primary dental care had OR = 1.02 (95%CI: 0.99–1.05).ConclusionPay‐for‐performance may increase the production of dental procedures by CEOs, and mechanisms explaining it must be further investigated.
Contextual and local determinants associated with the achievement of goals in the endodontics specialty in Brazilian dental speciality centres: A multilevel analysis
Authors: Pinto Rafaela da Silveira , Lucas Simone Dutra , Goes Paulo Sávio Angeiras de , Silva Samuel Lucas da , Neves Érika Said Monteiro , Zina Lívia Guimarães , Vettore Mario Vianna 
Published: December 2021

AbstractObjectivesTo assess which factors were associated with the achievement of endodontic goals.MethodsCross‐sectional study using secondary data from the second cycle of the Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality in the dental speciality centres—in Portuguese PMAQ‐CEO. The independent variables extracted from this database were related to dental speciality centres (CEO in Portuguese). In addition, variables referring to the CEO host city were incorporated into the model. The outcome variable was the number of endodontic goals achieved calculated from the production of the CEO available in the Ambulatory Health Information System in 2018. Descriptive analyses and multilevel Poisson regression were performed with the software SPSS 23.0 and STATA 14.0.ResultsCEOs with more than 20% of patients' absenteeism were 26% less likely to reach the goals of the endodontics specialty; CEOs with availability of endodontists for more than 40 hours a week were two times more likely to reach the goals than those with less than 40 hours in endodontics specialty. CEOs with a waiting time for endodontic procedures greater than 45 days achieved a number of goals 31% lower than those with a waiting time up to 45 days. CEO type I and CEO type II showed 2.10 and 1.20 higher likelihood to reach the number of goals of the endodontics specialty than CEO type III. The number of endodontic instruments in sufficient number was positively associated with the achievement of goals. CEOs located in municipalities that reached more than 5% in the supervised brushing indicator had 2.26 greater likelihood to achieve the goals than those that did not reach this percentage.ConclusionContextual and local determinants are associated with the achievement of goals in the endodontic specialty in the dental speciality centres in Brazil.
A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development
Authors: Kalembo Fatch W. , Kendall Garth E. 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThis review aimed to identify and evaluate interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development. Relevant articles published in the last 20 years were searched in Medline, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Web of Science databases. The quality of studies was assessed independently by two reviewers using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Critical Appraisal Checklists. Thirty out of 3968 articles met the inclusion criteria and were subsequently reviewed. Studies were conducted in six countries (USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, Vietnam and Taiwan). Twenty‐one studies were targeted interventions while nine were universal interventions. The interventions involved parenting education, physical activity, nutrition, father–child socialization, father delivered infant massage and father–infant skin‐to‐skin contact. Authors of the studies reported that the interventions led to significant improvements in positive parenting behaviours and fathers' engagement with their children and better physical health and developmental outcomes among children. Notwithstanding the reported benefits of the interventions, all 30 studies had one or more methodological problems that call in question the generalizability of the findings. Future, well‐designed, RCT studies with larger sample sizes and clear measures of fidelity are warranted to replicate and strengthen findings reported in this review.
Intraoperative adverse events as a risk factor for local recurrence of rectal cancer after resection surgery
Authors: Waldenstedt Sophia , Bock David , Haglind Eva , Sjöberg Björn , Angenete Eva 
Published: December 2021

AbstractAimFailure to achieve a radical resection as well as intraoperative rectal perforation are important risk factors for local recurrence after rectal cancer surgery, but the importance of other intraoperative adverse events for the prognosis is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of intraoperative adverse events during rectal cancer surgery, and to determine whether these were associated with an increased risk of local recurrence.MethodsA retrospective population‐based cohort study was undertaken, including all patients in Region Västra Götaland, Sweden, who had undergone primary resection surgery for rectal cancer diagnosed between 2010 and 2014, registered in the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Registry. Data were retrieved from the registry and through review of the medical records.ResultsIn total, 1208 patients were included in the study of whom 78 (6%) developed local recurrence during the follow‐up period of at least 5 years. Intraoperative adverse events were common and occurred in 62/78 (79%) of patients with local recurrence compared to 604/1130 (53%) of patients without local recurrence. In multivariate analysis intraoperative adverse events were found to be an independent risk factor for local recurrence of rectal cancer, as were nonradical resection, a high pathological T stage, the presence of lymph node metastases, type of surgery and refraining from rectal washout during anterior resection and Hartmann's procedure.ConclusionsIntraoperative adverse events were found to be an independent risk factor for local recurrence of rectal cancer and could possibly be used together with other known risk factors to select patients for intensified postoperative surveillance.
Donor rhabdomyolysis, acute kidney injury, and kidney transplant outcomes
Authors: Zaphiros Nikolas H. , Nie Jing , Noyes Katia , Luong Albert , Kayler Liise K. 
Published: December 2021

AbstractBackgroundDonor rhabdomyolysis may constrain kidney utilization due to anticipated unfavorable graft outcomes—especially in combination with acute kidney injury (AKI). There is a paucity of empiric data to inform organ acceptance decision‐making.MethodsA single‐center retrospective cohort study of adult transplant recipients of deceased‐donor kidneys with reported donor creatine phosphokinase (CPK) levels was conducted between 2014 and 2020. Recipients of CPK ≥ 1000 U/L kidneys were propensity matched to CPK < 1000 recipients according to outcome‐predictive baseline covariates, except AKI.ResultsA total of 254 kidney transplants were propensity matched into CPK ≥ 1000 (n = 90) versus CPK < 1000 (n = 90) groups. Transplant outcomes with high versus low CPK kidneys were similar in terms of delayed graft function (P = 0.64), 1‐year estimated glomerular filtration rate < 25th percentile (P = 0.69) and mean (P = 0.58), and time to all‐cause graft failure (P = 0.58). There was no interaction between AKI and high CPK for these outcomes. Extreme CPK thresholds as high as > 8672 U/L were not associated with overall graft survival in the unmatched sample (P = 0.81).ConclusionsIn a single center study, donor rhabdomyolysis was not associated with short‐term kidney transplant graft outcomes, nor was there an additive effect of AKI. However, studies with greater CPK and AKI severity and longer follow‐up are warranted.
Fire, herbivores and the management of temperate Eucalyptus savanna in Tasmania: Introducing the Beaufront fire – mammalian herbivore field experiment
Authors: Bowman David M. J. S. , French Ben J. , Williamson Grant J. , Prior Lynda D. 
Published: December 2021

SummaryThe temperate Eucalyptus savannas in the Midlands of Tasmania are ancient ecosystems where fire and grazing are intrinsic ecological disturbances. The arrival of Aboriginal people into Tasmania some 40,000 years ago altered natural fire regimes, and since the end of the last ice age, their skilful patch burning increased the grass cover and the abundance of large grazers in the Midlands savannas. This ancient socio‐ecological tradition abruptly ended following European invasion in the early 19th century, which resulted in the rapid establishment of pastoralism, causing profound adverse changes to the ecological integrity of the temperate savannas. These changes include widespread tree clearing, extinction of native biota, establishment of domestic and feral mammalian herbivores, the introduction of exotic plants, broadscale application of chemical fertilisers and more recently irrigation. The Midlands retains a small fraction of the original vegetation, which typically occurs in small fragments on private land. These have been colonised by non‐native plants and animals, and experience altered fire regimes. There is a growing awareness that to effectively manage temperate savanna fragments may require the intentional coupling of fire and herbivory. We describe the establishment of a field experiment designed to test four broad hypotheses: a) herbivore off‐take increases after fire; b) smaller burned areas experience more intense herbivory than larger ones; c) non‐native herbaceous plants are more tolerant of herbivory, whereas native herbaceous species are more tolerant of fire; and d) Eucalyptus seedlings are most likely to reach maturity in areas which are both burned and protected from herbivores. A novel aspect of the fire‐herbivore experiment was that the Tasmanian Aboriginal community were engaged with and were contracted to conduct the burning. The findings of this landscape ecology experiment will inform the management of remnant temperate Eucalyptus savannas.