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Real-world data: A systematic literature review on the barriers, challenges, and opportunities associated with their inclusion in the health technology assessment process
Authors: Zisis Konstantinos , Pavi Elpida , Geitona Mary , Athanasakis Kostas 
Published: October 2023

AbstractObjectiveThis systematic review aimed to assess the current use and acceptance of real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) in health technology assessment (HTA) process. It additionally aimed to discern stakeholders’ viewpoints concerning RWD and RWE in HTA and illuminate the obstacles, difficulties, prospects, and consequences associated with the incorporation of RWD and RWE into the realm of HTA.MethodsA comprehensive PRISMA-based systematic review was performed in July 2022 in PubMed/Medline, Scopus, IDEAS-RePEc, International HTA database, and Centre for Reviews and Dissemination with ad-hoc supplementary search in Google Scholar and international organization websites. The review included pre-determined inclusion criteria while the selection of eligible studies, the data extraction process and quality assessment were carried out using standardized and transparent methods.ResultsTwenty-nine (n=29) studies were included in the review out of 2.115 studies identified by the search strategy. In various global contexts, disparities in RWD utilization were evident, with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) serving as the primary evidence source. RWD and RWE played pivotal roles, surpassing relative effectiveness assessments (REAs) and significantly influencing decision-making and cost-effectiveness analyses. Identified challenges impeding RWD integration into HTA encompassed limited local data access, complexities in non-randomized trial design, data quality, privacy, and fragmentation. Addressing these is imperative for optimal RWD utilization. Incorporating RWD/RWE in HTA yields multifaceted advantages, enhancing understanding of treatment efficacy, resource utilization, and cost analysis, particularly via patient registries. RWE complements assessments of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) and rare diseases. Local data utilization strengthens HTA, bridging gaps when RCT data is lacking. RWD aids medical device decision-making, cancer drug reassessment, and indirect treatment comparisons. Challenges include data availability, stakeholder acceptance, expertise, and privacy. However, standardization, training, collaboration, and guidance can surmount these barriers, fostering enhanced RWD utilization in HTA.ConclusionsRWD and RWE are recognized as valuable when RCTs are lacking. Acceptance and use of RWD/RWE vary, with challenges including limited availability, methodological issues, expertise gaps, fragmentation, and data quality concerns. Addressing these barriers is crucial for effective utilization in HTA.
Non-redundant roles for the human mRNA decapping cofactor paralogs DCP1a and DCP1b
Authors: Vukovic Ivana , Baranda Samantha , Ruffin Jonathan W. , Karlin Jon , McMahon Steven B. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractEukaryotic gene expression is regulated at both the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels, with disruption of regulation contributing significantly to human diseases. In particular, the 5’ m7G mRNA cap is the central node in post-transcriptional regulation, participating in both mRNA stabilization and translation efficiency. DCP1a and DCP1b are paralogous cofactor proteins of the major mRNA cap hydrolase DCP2. As lower eukaryotes have a single DCP1 cofactor, the functional advantages gained by this evolutionary divergence remain unclear. Here we report the first functional dissection of DCP1a and DCP1b, demonstrating that DCP1a and DCP1b are distinct, non-redundant cofactors of the decapping enzyme DCP2, with unique roles in decapping complex integrity and specificity. Specifically, DCP1a is essential for decapping complex assembly and for interactions between the decapping complex and mRNA cap binding proteins. In contrast, DCP1b is essential for decapping complex interactions with the translational machinery. Additionally, DCP1a and DCP1b impact the turnover of distinct mRNAs. The observation that different ontological groups of mRNA molecules are regulated by DCP1a and DCP1b, along with their non-redundant roles in decapping complex integrity, provides the first evidence that these highly similar paralogs have qualitatively distinct functions. Furthermore, these observations implicate both DCP1a and DCP1b in transcript buffering.
Listing on environmental, social and governance index and financial distress: does the difference-in-differences matter?
Authors: Singh Kuldeep 
Published: October 2023

PurposeEnvironmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have become the cornerstone of investment decisions in firms today. With that, publicly traded ESG indices (like the BSE ESG 100 index in India) have come into existence. The existing literature signifies that ESG generates financial implications and induces stability. The current study aims to test whether the firms listed on the ESG index (ESG-sensitive firms) face less financial distress than those not listed on such an index.Design/methodology/approachThe study applies panel data difference-in-differences (DID) regression by considering ESG as an unstaggered treatment to 74 non-financial firms listed on India's Bombay Stock Exchanges (BSE) 100 index. In total, 42 firms are ESG treated as they got listed on the BSE ESG 100 index, formed in 2017. The remaining 32 firms form the control group. The confidence intervals and standard errors are estimated using clustered robust errors and the Donald and Lang method.FindingsListing on the ESG index matters for financial stability; differences in financial distress are significant on financial distress. ESG-sensitive firms face less financial distress than non-ESG firms (or firms not perceived as ESG-sensitive). The results are consistent across two financial distress measures, Altman z-scores for emerged and emerging markets. Thus, the DID in distress status between ESG-sensitive and non-ESG firms matter.Practical implicationsThe study creates vibrant implications for practitioners using ESG to reduce financial distress.Originality/valueThe study is one of its kind to test the treatment effects of ESG on firm value and quantify treatment effects on financial distress.
Political power and politics: selecting, creating, and preserving liberation movement archives in South Africa
Authors: Netshakhuma Nkholedzeni Sidney 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
The purpose of the study is to assess the role of political power and politics in selecting, creating and preserving Liberation Movement archives in South Africa.

Design/methodology/approach
A review of literature focusing on liberations archives was carried out.

Findings
Politics and the associated power play an essential role in the selection, creation and preservation of liberation movement archives. The study found out that the African National Congress (ANC) selected the University of Fort Hare as the center to preserve liberation movements repatriated from all over the world to South Africa. The National Archives of South Africa did not play a role in the preservation of liberation movement archives. The study also noted that there existed an ineffective collaboration between the ANC and the National Archives of South Africa regarding the preservation of liberation movements archives.

Research limitations/implications
The study focused on the liberation movement archives created by the ANC of South Africa only.

Social implications
The establishment of liberation archives may promote social cohesion.

Originality/value
The liberation movement archives are a part of the history of South Africa and present perspectives on the history of the liberation of South Africa. This study, which builds on the post-colonial scholarship on liberation movement archives, discussed the significance of liberation archives.
Magnetogasdynamic shock waves in a nonideal self-gravitating gas using Lie group theoretic method
Authors: Nath Gorakh , Maurya Abhay 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThe purpose of the present article is to obtain the similarity solution for the shock wave generated by a piston propagating in a self-gravitating nonideal gas under the impact of azimuthal magnetic field for adiabatic and isothermal flows.Design/methodology/approachThe Lie group theoretic method given by Sophus Lie is used to obtain the similarity solution in the present article.FindingsSimilarity solution with exponential law shock path is obtained for both ideal and nonideal gas cases. The effects on the flow variables, density ratio at the shock front and shock strength by the variation of the shock Cowling number, adiabatic index of the gas, gravitational parameter and nonidealness parameter are investigated. The shock strength decreases with an increase in the shock Cowling number, nonidealness parameter and adiabatic index, whereas the strength of the shock wave increases with an increase in gravitational parameter.Originality/valuePropagation of shock wave with spherical geometry in a self-gravitating nonideal gas under the impact of azimuthal magnetic field for adiabatic and isothermal flows has not been studied by any author using the Lie group theoretic method.
Modeling of porous-hardened concrete by rheological-dynamical analogy
Authors: Milašinović Dragan D. 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe various aspects of the visco-elastoplastic (VEP) behavior of porous-hardened concrete samples in relation to standard tests.Design/methodology/approachThe problem is formulated on the basis of the rheological-dynamic analogy (RDA). In this study, changes in creep coefficient, Poisson's ratio, damage variables, modulus of elasticity, strength and angle of internal friction as a function of porosity are defined by P and S wave velocities. The RDA model provides a description of the degradation process of material properties from their peak state to their ultimate values using void volume fraction (VVF).FindingsCompared to numerous versions of acoustic emission tracking developed to analyze the behavior of total wave propagation in inhomogeneous media with density variations, the proposed model is comprehensive in interpretation and consistent with physical understanding. The comparison of the damage variables with the theoretical variables under the assumption of spherical voids in the spherical representative volume element (RVE) shows a satisfactory agreement of the results for all analyzed samples if the maximum porosities are used for comparison.Originality/valueThe paper presents a new mathematical-physical method for examining the effect of porosity on the characteristics of hardened concrete. Porosity is essentially related to density variations. Therefore, it was logical to define the limit values of porosity using the strain energy density.
Impact of relocation in response to climate change on farmers’ livelihood capital in minority areas: a case study of Yunnan Province
Authors: Wu Jiaxin , Zhang Jigang , Yang Hongjuan 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
This study aims to construct an evaluation system for farmers’ livelihood capital in minority areas and evaluate the impact of relocation in response to climate change on farmers’ livelihood capital.

Design/methodology/approach
According to the characteristics of Yunnan minority areas, the livelihood capital of farmers in minority areas is divided into natural, physical, financial, social, human and cultural capital. The improved livelihood capital evaluation system measures farmers’ livelihood capital from 2015 to 2021. The net impact of relocation on farmers’ livelihood capital was separated using propensity score matching and the difference-in-difference (PSM-DID) method.

Findings
The shortage of livelihood capital makes it difficult for farmers to resist climate change, and the negative impacts of climate change further aggravate their livelihood vulnerability and reduce their livelihood capital. Relocation has dramatically increased the livelihood capital of farmers living in areas with poor natural conditions by 15.67% and has enhanced their ability to cope with climate change and realise sustainable livelihoods.

Originality/value
An improved livelihood capital evaluation system is constructed to realise the future localisation and development of livelihood capital research. The PSM-DID method was used to overcome endogeneity problems and sample selection bias of the policy evaluation methods. This study provides new ideas for academic research and policy formulation by integrating climate change, poverty governance and sustainable livelihoods.
Place-based community events and resistance to territorial stigmatisation
Authors: McGillivray David , Walters Trudie , Guillard Séverin 
Published: October 2023

PurposePlace-based community events fulfil important functions, internally and externally. They provide opportunities for people from diverse communities and cultures to encounter each other, to participate in pleasurable activities in convivial settings and to develop mutual understanding. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the value of such events as a means of resisting or challenging the deleterious effects of territorial stigmatisation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors explore two place-based community events in areas that have been subject to territorial stigmatisation: Govanhill in Glasgow, Scotland, and South Dunedin, New Zealand. They draw on in-depth case study methods including observation and interviews with key local actors and employ inductive analysis to identify themes across the datasets.FindingsThe demonstrate how neighbourhood events in both Glasgow and Dunedin actively seek to address some of the deleterious outcomes of territorial stigmatisation by emphasising strength and asset-based discourses about the areas they reflect and represent. In their planning and organisation, both events play an important mediating role in building and empowering community, fostering intercultural encounters with difference and strengthening mutuality within their defined places. They make use of public and semi-public spaces to attract diverse groups while also increasing the visibility of marginalised populations through larger showcase events.Research limitations/implicationsThe empirical element focuses only on two events, one in Glasgow, Scotland (UK), and the other in South Dunedin (New Zealand). Data generated were wholly qualitative and do not provide quantitative evidence of “change” to material circumstances in either case study community.Practical implicationsHelps organisers think about how they need to better understand their communities if they are to attract diverse participation, including how they programme public and semi-public spaces.Social implicationsPlace-based community events have significant value to neighbourhoods, and they need to be resourced effectively if they are to sustain the benefits they produce. These events provide an opportunity for diverse communities to encounter each other and celebrate what they share rather than what divides them.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to examine how place-based community events help resist narratives of territorial stigmatisation, which produce negative representations about people and their environments. The paper draws on ethnographic insights generated over time rather than a one-off snapshot which undermines some events research.
Adaptive neuromuscular control of a simplified muscle tendon-driven musculoskeletal system
Authors: Fan Yerui , Wu Yaxiong , Yuan Jianbo 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
This study aims to improve the muscle model control performance of a tendon-driven musculoskeletal system (TDMS) to overcome disadvantages such as multisegmentation and strong coupling. An adaptive network controller (ANC) with a disturbance observer is established to reduce the modeling error of the musculoskeletal model and improve its antidisturbance ability.

Design/methodology/approach
In contrast to other control technologies adopted for musculoskeletal humanoids, which use geometric relationships and antagonist inhibition control, this study develops a method comprising of three parts. (1) First, a simplified musculoskeletal model is constructed based on the Taylor expansion, mean value theorem and Lagrange–d’Alembert principle to complete the decoupling of the muscle model. (2) Next, for this simplified musculoskeletal model, an adaptive neuromuscular controller is designed to acquire the muscle-activation signal and realize stable tracking of the endpoint of the muscle-driven robot relative to the desired trajectory in the TDMS. For the ANC, an adaptive neural network controller with a disturbance observer is used to approximate dynamical uncertainties. (3) Using the Lyapunov method, uniform boundedness of the signals in the closed-loop system is proved. In addition, a tracking experiment is performed to validate the effectiveness of the adaptive neuromuscular controller.

Findings
The experimental results reveal that compared with other control technologies, the proposed design techniques can effectively improve control accuracy. Moreover, the proposed controller does not require extensive considerations of the geometric and antagonistic inhibition relationships, and it demonstrates anti-interference ability.

Originality/value
Musculoskeletal robots with humanoid structures have attracted considerable attention from numerous researchers owing to their potential to avoid danger for humans and the environment. The controller based on bio-muscle models has shown great performance in coordinating the redundant internal forces of TDMS. Therefore, adaptive controllers with disturbance observers are designed to improve the immunity of the system and thus directly regulate the internal forces between the bio-muscle models.
Export performance and international resources and capabilities: a quantitative study on born globals
Authors: Coudounaris Dafnis N. , Björk Peter 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the internal factors of resources and capabilities of five born globals (BGs) from Estonia. It explores quantitatively the internal factors between a medium BG and four small BGs.

Design/methodology/approach
The study used a survey questionnaire in collecting information from the CEOs of BGs. The questionnaire consisted of 105 questions relevant to export sales related to differences in internal factors.

Findings
The firms’ size and industrial sector play a role in export sales due to differences in internal factors. Small BGs expect financially based rewards, non-financial rewards, the job satisfaction of sales representatives with the export manager, and with work in general, and the representatives’ job satisfaction is higher in the small BGs than in the medium BG. The sales representatives’ job performance, their work performance, sales presentations, technical knowledge, adaptiveness, teamwork, planning, support, the organisational capabilities for business identification, relationship-building and innovation are all higher in medium BGs than in small BGs. Eleven sub-constructs of the model were shown to be important for small BGs.

Originality/value
The current study is focused on BGs from Estonia, i.e. small BGs and medium BGs. The study contributes to the internal factors of resources and capabilities of BGs as well as to the literature review on BGs. It also provides a logical conceptual model, indicating that the export manager’s job satisfaction is the central construct influenced by antecedent factors and is related directly to the export sales performance of the BG.
Acoustic signatures of porous rocks permeated by partially saturated, aligned planar fractures
Authors: Salva Natalia N. , Paissan Gabriel H. , Solazzi Santiago G. , Rubino J. Germán 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThe presence of sets of vertical, parallel fractures is very common in the Earth's upper crust. Notably, open fractures exert critical control on the mechanical and hydraulic properties of the host formation. There is great interest in understanding how fractures interact with seismic waves, as this knowledge could be used to detect and characterize fractures from seismic data. When a seismic wave travels through a fractured formation, it induces oscillatory fluid pressure diffusion between the fractures and the embedding porous background, a physical process that produces attenuation and dispersion of the seismic wave. Although there are numerous studies on this topic, the case of parallel fractures saturated with different immiscible fluids, such as brine and CO2, remains rather unexplored. With these motivations, in this work, we propose an analytical approach to compute the phase velocity and attenuation of P‐waves travelling perpendicularly to a set of planar, parallel fractures. While we consider that the background is saturated with brine, the fractures can be saturated with brine or gas. Our numerical analysis shows for the first time that two manifestations of fluid pressure diffusion arise in these cases. One of them, associated with relatively high levels of attenuation, is due to fluid pressure diffusion occurring between consecutive fractures saturated with different fluids. In this case, the fluid pressure diffusion process is initiated at a fracture saturated with brine and reaches a consecutive fracture saturated with gas. The other fluid pressure diffusion manifestation, on the other hand, arises at higher frequencies, is characterized by lower levels of attenuation and results from the interaction in the background of fluid pressure diffusion processes initiated at consecutive fractures, irrespective of the fluid content. Finally, by considering a stochastic distribution of the two fluids and a classical frequency of interest in seismic experiments, we obtain P‐wave attenuation and phase velocity as functions of the fracture gas saturation. This approach could be of interest for the remote detection and quantification of pore fluids using seismic waves.