bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Reading In‐Between: How Women Engage with Messages of ‘Superstar’ Business Role Models
Authors: Adamson Maria , Kelan Elisabeth K. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractWith role models being seen as central for developing women as leaders, recent research has been critical of messages that contemporary elite businesswomen role models promote. But how do women actually relate to female business ‘superstar’ role models’ messages? We argue that the implicit assumption that role models’ effects may be understood through exploring exclusively the kind of messages they send is problematic. Through introducing active audience theory, specifically de Certeau's concepts of ‘tactics’ and ‘strategy’, to analyse interviews with women who read autobiographies of business celebrity role models, we identify three key tactics in which female role aspirants engage with role models’ messages: tactics of confirmation, namely a selective adoption of intended messages; tactics of challenge, namely a contestation of messages; and tactics of change, through which unscripted meanings of collective consciousness and support for other women emerge. In doing so, the paper offers a novel way of theorising the influence of distant role models – as emerging from a process of co‐creation in the ‘in‐between’ space. We argue that theorising the role of models’ influence as co‐creation allows us to systematically incorporate role aspirants’ perceptions into the role‐modelling process and to further understand the unscripted and unforeseen effects of role models.
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction
Authors: Zhang Shuai , Cheng Meili , Ma Wen 
Published: October 2023

AbstractPatients are commonly accompanied to visit clinicians in Chinese outpatient clinics. Although there has been extensive research on the roles of companions in asymmetric interactions within medical settings, there is a paucity of conversation analytic studies that examine the active participation and contributions of companions on an equal footing in medical consultations. How companions on an equal footing participate and contribute in Chinese outpatient clinical consultations remains under‐explored. By employing video recordings of three‐party consultations in the Chinese orthopaedic outpatient clinic as the data and adopting conversation analysis as the method, this study investigated how companions participated in and contributed to the information‐gathering activity and how their contributions were interactionally negotiated and managed by clinicians and adult patients over sequences of interaction. We showed that companions negotiated epistemic rights in reporting and repairing the information about medical problems in the patients’ epistemic domain and displayed different levels of encroachment on patients’ epistemic rights by endorsing patients’ responses, repairing the information in patients’ responses, and offering information directly to clinicians. Companions also exerted deontic authority and shaped the trajectory of the consultations by hindering or facilitating the progressivity of the interaction. We argued that companions’ contributions to the information‐gathering activity might reflect the family‐centred model of the doctor–patient relationship in the Chinese orthopaedic outpatient clinic. Clinicians are suggested to open up opportunities for companions’ participation and contributions while respecting patients’ rights, especially when there is a collision of knowledge claims between patients and their companions.
Transparency in Hierarchies
Authors: HOFMANN CHRISTIAN , INDJEJIKIAN RAFFI J. 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTWe use an agency model to address the benefits and costs of transparency in a hierarchical organization in which the principal employs a manager entrusted with contracting authority and several workers, all under conditions of moral hazard. We define the principal's transparency choices as a decision to allow workers to observe their coworkers’ performances (observability) and as an investment in monitoring worker performance (precision). We find that whereas precision alleviates agency conflicts as expected, observability can exacerbate agency conflicts, especially if the manager's interests are misaligned sufficiently with those of the principal. Our results suggest several testable hypotheses including predictions that opaque performance measurement practices are well suited for small organizational units at lower hierarchical ranks, and in settings where the sensitivity‐precision of the available measures is low, workers’ performances are correlated positively, and managerial productivity is modest.
Trophic niche and adaptation in highland lizards: sex has greater influences than species matching
Authors: YANG Shengnan , QU Jiapeng , TANG Ke , ZHAO Xinquan , ZHOU Huakun , HU Junhua 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThe plateau environments are typically arid, cool, and high altitude, posing formidable challenges to wildlife survival due to resource scarcity and harsh conditions. Unraveling ecological adaptability in severe conditions requires a deeper understanding of the niche characteristics of plateau species. Trophic niche, which is a comprehensive indicator describing the energy acquisition strategy of animals, remains relatively understudied in plateau species. Here, by combining stable isotopes and morphological data, we quantified the trophic niches of two allopatric lizard species (Phrynocephalus vlangalii and P. erythrurus) that live in the hinterland of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, and explored how their trophic niches correlate with morphological and environmental factors. While both trophic niche and morphological traits were similar between species, noteworthy distinctions were observed between male and female Phrynocephalus lizards. The morphological traits associated with predation (i.e. limb length and head size) and reproduction (i.e. abdomen length), annual mean temperature, and sex played influential roles in shifting trophic niches. These results imply that sexual dimorphism may facilitate inter‐sex divergence in resource utilization, leading to trophic niche variations in the highland lizards. Furthermore, extreme environmental stress can constrain interspecific divergence in morphological and trophic traits. Our findings illustrate the dynamic variations of trophic niches in highland lizards, contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the adaptation strategies employed by lizard species in plateau environments.
Long‐term effects of low prenatal alcohol exposure on GABAergic interneurons of the murine posterior parietal cortex
Authors: Licheri Valentina , Jacquez Belkis J. , Castillo Victoria K. , Sainz Dylan B. , Valenzuela C. Fernando , Brigman Jonathan L. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBackgroundFetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are characterized by a wide range of physical, cognitive, and behavioral impairments that occur throughout the lifespan. Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) can lead to adult impairments in cognitive control behaviors mediated by the posterior parietal cortex (PPC). The PPC plays a fundamental role in the performance of response tasks in both primates and rodents, specifically when choices between similar target and nontarget stimuli are required. Furthermore, the PPC is reciprocally connected with other cortical areas. Despite the extensive literature investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying PAE impairments in cognitive functions mediated by cortical areas, little is known regarding the long‐term effects of PAE on PPC development and function. Here, we examined changes in the cellular organization of GABAergic interneurons and their function in PPC using behaviorally naïve control and PAE mice.MethodsWe used a limited access model of PAE in which C57BL/6J females were exposed to a solution of 10% (w/v) ethanol and 0.066% (w/V) saccharin for 4 h/day throughout gestation. Using high‐throughput fluorescent microscopy, we quantified the levels of GABAergic interneurons in the PPC of adult PAE and control offspring. In a separate cohort, we recorded spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents (sIPSCs) using whole‐cell patch clamp recordings from PPC layer 5 pyramidal neurons.ResultsPAE led to a significant overall reduction of parvalbumin‐expressing GABAergic interneurons in PAE mice regardless of sex. Somatostatin‐ and calretinin‐expressing GABAergic interneurons were not affected. Interestingly, PAE did not modulate sIPSC amplitude or frequency.ConclusionsThese results suggest that impairments in cognitive control observed in FASD may be due to the significant reduction of parvalbumin‐expressing GABAergic interneurons in the PPC. PAE animals may show compensatory changes in GABAergic function following developmental reduction of these interneurons.
Patient navigation for pregnant individuals with opioid use disorder: Results of a randomized multi‐site pilot trial
Authors: Cochran Gerald , Smid Marcela C. , Krans Elizabeth E. , Yu Ziji , Carlston Kristi , White Ashley , Abdulla Walitta , Baylis Jacob , Charron Elizabeth , Okifugi Akiko , Gordon Adam J. , Lundahl Brad , Silipigni John , Seliski Natasha , Haaland Benjamin , Tarter Ralph 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBackground and aimsPatient navigation (PN) may benefit pregnant individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) by improving treatment adherence. We examined participant enrollment, session delivery and assessment feasibility for a PN intervention among pregnant participants and compared PN preliminary effectiveness for OUD treatment engagement with participants in usual care (UC).DesignThis study was a pilot single‐blinded multi‐site randomized trial.SettingTwo academic medical centers in Pennsylvania (n = 57) and Utah (n = 45), United States participated.ParticipantsOne hundred and two pregnant adult participants unestablished (fewer than 6 weeks) on medication for OUD (MOUD) were randomized to PN (n = 53) or UC (n = 49).InterventionPN was composed of 10 prenatal sessions (delivered after baseline but before the prenatal assessments) and four postnatal sessions (delivered before the 2‐ and 6‐month postpartum assessments) focused upon OUD treatment and physical/mental health needs. UC involved brief case management.MeasurementsFeasibility assessments included consent, session delivery and assessment rates. Mixed‐effect models for intent‐to‐treat (ITT) and per protocol (PP, received six or more sessions) populations were estimated to compare outcomes of MOUD use, secondary outcomes of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment attendance and non‐prescribed opioid use, and exploratory outcome of overdose at baseline, predelivery and 2 and 6 months postpartum.FindingsWe consented 87% (106 of 122) of the proposed target, delivered ~60% of sessions delivered and completed ≥ 75% assessments. PN ITT and PP had better MOUD adherence, SUD treatment attendance, non‐prescribed opioid use and overdose outcomes than UC. Notable changes included good evidence for greater percentage change in days for PN PP MOUD use from baseline to 2 months postpartum [PN = 28.0 versus UC = −10.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 9.7, 62.1] and some evidence for baseline to 6 months postpartum (PN = 45.4 versus UC = 23.4, 95% CI = −0.7, 48.2). PN PP percentage change in days for SUD treatment attendance also showed good evidence for improvements from baseline to prenatal assessment (PN = 7.4 versus UC = −21.3, 95% CI = 3.3, 53.5). PN compared to UC participants reported fewer overdoses at 2 months (PN = 11.9%/UC = 16.1%) and at 6 months postpartum (PN = 3.8%/UC = 6.2%).ConclusionsPatient navigation appears to be associated with improvements in opioid use disorder treatment engagement and overdoses during pregnancy. This pilot trial shows the feasibility of the intervention and a future large‐scale trial.
Passion is key: High emotionality in diversity statements promotes organizational attractiveness
Authors: Krivoshchekov Vladislav , Graf Sylvie , Sczesny Sabine 
Published: October 2023

AbstractTo attract and retain a more diverse workforce, organizations embrace diversity initiatives, expressed in diversity statements on their websites. While the explicit content of diversity statements influences attitudes towards organizations, much less is known about the effect of subtle cues such as emotions. In three pre‐registered studies, we tested the effect of positive emotionality in diversity statements on attitudes towards organizations. Study 1 focused on the degree to which 600 European organizations employed emotionality in their diversity statements, finding that although their statements differed in the level of emotionality, on average, organizations avoided highly emotional words. Study 2 (N = 220 UK participants) tested the effect of original diversity statements on readers' attitudes towards an organization, demonstrating that the level of emotionality in the existing statements did not influence positive attitudes towards the organization. In Study 3 (N = 815 UK participants), we thus modified the diversity statements so that they contained high levels of positive emotionality that triggered more positive emotions and resulted in more positive attitudes towards an organization. Taken together, highly emotional words (e.g. passionate; happy; wholeheartedly) are key in diversity statements if organizations wish to increase their attractiveness among potential employees.
Early childhood language gains, kindergarten readiness, and Grade 3 reading achievement
Authors: Logan Jessica A. R. , Piasta Shayne B. , Purtell Kelly M. , Nichols Robert , Schachter Rachel E. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractIn this preregistered study, we used latent change score models to address two research aims: (1) whether preschool‐aged children's language gains, over a year of early childhood education, were associated with later performance on state‐mandated, literacy‐focused kindergarten readiness and Grade 3 reading achievement assessments, and (2) whether gains in language, a more complex skill, predicted these outcomes after controlling for more basic emergent literacy skills. There were 724 participating children (mean = 57 months; 51% male; 76% White, 12% Black, 6% multiple races, and 5% Hispanic or Latino). We found that language gains significantly predicted kindergarten readiness when estimated in isolation (effect = 0.24 SDs, p < .001), but not when gains in letter knowledge and phonological awareness were also included.
Transcriptional differences between vesicular hand eczema and atopic dermatitis
Authors: Rosenberg Fieke M. , Wardenaar René , Voorberg Angelique N. , Spierings Diana C. J. , Schuttelaar Marie‐Louise A. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBackgroundTranscriptome analyses of vesicular hand eczema (VHE) indicated a large overlap with atopic dermatitis (AD). However, differentially expressed genes (DEGs) that differentiate VHE from AD are unknown.ObjectiveTo identify distinctive transcriptional features of VHE in comparison to AD.MethodsWe re‐analysed RNA sequencing data of 10 lesional palmar VHE epidermal biopsies and performed DEG analyses. We adjusted the obtained DEG results of 57 lesional whole AD skin biopsies of the upper extremities or trunk to our criteria. Up‐ and down‐regulated DEGs in both skin diseases, VHE‐only, AD‐only, and opposite regulated DEGs were identified. Enrichment analyses and Chi‐squared tests were conducted to test for differences in gene set enrichment between both skin diseases.ResultsComparing 3028 DEGs in VHE (1645 up; 1383 down) with 5391 DEGs in AD (3842 up; 1549 down), revealed 1516 shared DEGs (1179 up; 337 down) and 1512 DEGs unique to VHE (466 up, 1046 down). Interferon signalling and necroptosis were significantly more prominent in VHE compared to AD. Downregulated genes identified only in VHE (like DNASE1L2, KRT2, KRT9 and KRT25) indicate an aberrant epidermal differentiation.ConclusionOur study indicates a common pathophysiology between VHE and AD, but also reveals transcriptional differences between VHE and AD.
Does certification of corporate governance compliance pay off? Evidence from a unique regulatory setting
Authors: Sobhan Abdus , Bose Sudipta , Miah Muhammad Shahin , Razzaque Rushdi Md. Rezaur 
Published: October 2023

AbstractResearch Questions/IssuesUsing insights from agency and signaling theories, we examine the effect on companies' market‐based performance of a unique monitoring mechanism of compliance with a corporate governance (CG) code, that is, independent certification of compliance with a CG code and type of certification provider. Furthermore, we examine the impact of two boundary conditions, family company status and company‐level information asymmetry, influencing the effect of independent CG compliance certification and type of certification provider on the market‐based performance of companies.Research Findings/InsightsBased on 1110 Bangladeshi company‐year observations from 2006 to 2017, we firstly find that independent CG compliance certification is positively associated with companies' market‐based performance. Secondly, we show that CG compliance certification by a chartered secretarial firm is related to higher market‐based performance. Thirdly, we document that family companies attenuate both these associations. Finally, we find that, while company‐level information asymmetry reinforces the association between CG compliance certification and market‐based performance, it weakens the relationship between certification by a chartered secretarial firm and companies' market‐based performance.Theoretical/Academic ImplicationsOur findings are consistent with the agency and signaling theory that independent certification of CG compliance and this certification by a chartered secretarial firm reduce information asymmetry between managers and external investors by signaling enhanced credibility of reported CG compliance information. However, the roles of CG compliance certification and certification by a chartered secretarial firm to reduce agency conflict and provide credible signals are conditional on two boundary conditions: family company status and company‐level information asymmetry.Practitioner/Policy ImplicationsThis study's findings highlight the economic implications of a unique mechanism for monitoring compliance with an adopted CG code. The findings have significant implications for policy makers and regulators in emerging economies.
Impact of regular cold exposure on electrical skin resistance in patients with joint degenerative diseases
Authors: Machnia Marcin , Douzi Wafa , Jdidi Hela , Miller Elzbieta , Dugué Benoit 
Published: October 2023

AbstractObjectiveCommon features in chronic inflammatory disease patients (CIDP) are inflammation, mental stress (MS), and autonomic nervous system imbalance. Whole‐body cryotherapy (WBC) exposure and regular physical exercise are known to regulate these features. In this study, we assessed the impact of regular physical exercise and the use of WBC exposure in CIDP on the level of electrical skin resistance (SR) to evaluate the skin sympathetic nervous activity and and estimate MS levels.MethodsSR was evaluated before and after a 10‐day‐period of daily physical exercise preceded or not by WBC (3 min at −110°C) in two groups of 134 CIDP (WBC vs. non‐WBC groups).ResultsAt baseline, the number of severe MS patients was similar in both groups. However, after the training period, the number of severe MS patients significantly decreased in the WBC group, only. An increase in SR (a decrease in stress level) was noted in the WBC group only, and such increase was higher in men than in women and in patients younger than 60 versus patients older than 60 years old.ConclusionThe use of daily WBC combined with physical exercise induced physiological adaptations and lowered the sympathetic nervous activity that may reflect a reduced level of MS in CIDP. These adaptations seem to depend on gender and age.
1067. Pinus armandii var. dabeshanensis (W. C. Cheng & Y. W. Law) Silba: Pinaceae
Authors: O'Brien Seamus , Stringer Lynn 
Published: October 2023

SummaryPinus armandii Franch. var. dabeshanensis (W. C. Cheng & Y. W. Law) Silba, the highly threatened Dabei Shan pine from the mountains of central China, is illustrated; its introduction, cultivation and horticultural merits are discussed.
Biochar mitigates N2O emissions by promoting complete denitrification in acidic and alkaline paddy soils
Authors: Wei Zhijun , Li Chenglin , Ma Xiaofang , Ma Shutan , Han Zongyang , Yan Xiaoyuan , Shan Jun 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBiochar is an efficacious amendment for mitigating nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in soils. Nevertheless, the underlying mechanisms responsible for reduced N2O emissions by biochar in paddy soils remain inadequately elucidated. Here, using two typical paddy soils with contrasting pH values (5.40 and 7.56), the N2 and N2O fluxes and the associated functional genes were investigated in soil amended with varying amounts of biochar (0%, 0.5%, and 5%, weight/weight) via soil slurry incubation integrated with the N2/Ar technique and qPCR analysis. The results showed that N2O fluxes were significantly (p < 0.05) reduced by 0.65–3.64 times following biochar amendment, concomitant with a significant (p < 0.05) increase in N2 fluxes (5.47–46.14%) in both acidic and alkaline paddy soils. As a result, the N2O/(N2O + N2) ratios were significantly (p < 0.05) reduced by 1.53–4.65 fold in both soil types. In acidic paddy soils, the enhanced denitrification rates and the decreased N2O/(N2O + N2) ratios exhibited a strong correlation with increased pH values. In alkaline paddy soil, these changes were ascribed to the enhanced nosZ Clade I gene abundance and nosZ/(nirS + nirK) ratio. Our findings reveal that biochar primarily mitigates N2O emissions in paddy soils by promoting its reduction to N2.
Effect of different thermal treatments on flavonoids and quality traits of tartary buckwheat and its noodles
Authors: Tang Renyong , Xie Mingzhu , Bai Yuting , Yang Ping , Zhang Feng , Guo Xiulan 
Published: October 2023

SummaryHydrothermal treatments can efficiently inactivate rutin‐degrading enzymes (RDEs) in tartary buckwheat, albeit increasing moisture content. Stir‐frying (SF) is a promising thermal processing. Thus, this study applied steaming in combination with oven‐drying (S + OD), SF, roasting (R) and oven‐drying (OD) to treat tartary buckwheat before noodles were processed with heated buckwheat flours. The flavonoid contents and quality traits of buckwheat and noodles were detected. All thermal treatments reduced noodle breakage and water absorption, S + OD, SF and R inhibited RDEs with lower quercetin and higher rutin, and S + OD had the best effect. S + OD and R enhanced the texture properties of noodles. Correspondingly, S + OD noodles had better textural and taste scores, and higher flavonoids and antioxidant ability, while R reduced total flavonoids and elevated noodles' a*, and SF noodles had inferior textural properties. Therefore, S + OD treatment could better retain total flavonoids and rutin contents of tartary buckwheat and its noodles and improve their quality traits.