bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Comparative analysis on R&D internationalization under economy-level technological disparities and ownership-specific technological differences
Authors: Appolloni Andrea , Wong Pohkam , Ho Yuenping , Zheng Supeng , Ding Xiangan 
Published: December 2023

PurposeThis study aims to investigate whether there are disparities in research and development (R&D) internationalization between latecomers from economy-level technological disparities and firms with ownership-specific technological capability differences in the wind turbine industry.Design/methodology/approachEmploying econometric analysis based on patent indicators, the authors examine the patent data assigned by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to the technologically advanced economy and the technologically emerging economy.FindingsThis study finds that latecomers from technologically advanced economies behave with no difference from early leaders in terms of international co-invention (INCO) but do show differences in another indicator – native ownership of foreign inventors (NOFIs). Additionally, latecomers from economy-level technological disparity show significant differences both in both INCO and NOFI. These results indicate that the latecomers from technologically advanced economies not only possess the nature of latecomers which motivates them to seek knowledge from foreign economies but also benefit from their advanced home base, thereby prompting them to internationalize and access cost-effective R&D resources. Moreover, the results demonstrate that latecomers from technologically emerging economies are more prone to engage in R&D internationalization to augment their own home base compared with firms from advanced economy.Originality/valueThis study extends the literature on R&D internationalization by introducing novel perspectives. It distinguishes some apparent distinctions of the tendency of R&D internationalization between latecomers under economy-level technological disparity as well as firms from ownership-specific technological capabilities differences. Additionally, this study disaggregates R&D internationalization into twin key dimensions: INCO and NOFI. These findings allow for a comprehensive understanding of the differences in the firm's R&D internationalization under economy-level technological disparities and ownership-specific technological differences. These findings offer valuable insights for decision-makers in navigating global innovation activities by highlighting the diverse economy-level technological advantages as well as ownership-specific advantages.
Understanding the dimensions of women entrepreneurs’ empowerment: a systematic review of the microfinance literature and avenues for research
Authors: Kivalya Nzanzu Y'Ise , Caballero-Montes Tristan 
Published: December 2023

PurposeThe purpose of the present paper is to provide a systematic overview of dimensions that need to be enfolded or considered in microfinance policies and strategies designs as well as impact studies aiming to empower or assess the empowerment of a specific category of women, namely women entrepreneurs. Afterward, the study aims to suggest some directions for future studies.Design/methodology/approachTo meet its purpose, the paper applies the systematic review approach. The applied methodology follows guidelines for systematic reviews of social and economic interventions as set out by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). More specifically, the authors examine 87 empirical papers from 6 databases investigating the impact of microfinance institutions on the empowerment of women entrepreneurs.FindingsOverall, findings of the study suggest that dimensions of the empowerment of women entrepreneurs are formed and conditioned by normative, cognitive and regulative institutional logics. Additionally, the systematic review suggests key research avenues and calls for more inclusive empirical studies in terms of geographical coverage, microfinance services/products assessed and method designs applied.Research limitations/implicationsFindings of the current review provide clear theoretical contribution and useful practical implications in the field of microfinance and the empowerment of women entrepreneurs. On the one hand, the study suggests to scholars key avenues for future studies likely to bring new insights in terms of theory, context and methods. On the other hand, this study extents the understanding of microfinance practitioners on the concept of women empowerment as the field of female entrepreneurship is concerned. This implication is likely to enable the design of appropriate microfinance strategies and policies, allowing women entrepreneurs to achieve an overall empowerment.Originality/valueThe present paper contributes to the debate around the multidimensionality of the concept, “women empowerment.” The multidimensional nature of the addressed concept is well established in the existing literature. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no study has provided a conceptual analysis of empowerment dimensions of a particular category of women, namely women entrepreneurs. Unlike most of the studies assuming that all women face identical challenges, the present paper brings new insights on the topic as it is built on a different assumption. The paper takes ground from the institutional theory and applies it to the specific case of female entrepreneurship.
Real-time psychophysiological approaches to explore emotional and cognitive processing of VR-mediated sports
Authors: Lee Minkyo , Zhou Xiaochen 
Published: December 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this research was to investigate how VR-mediated sports, as opposed to 2-D screens, affect the emotional and cognitive experiences of fans with the game and its sponsors.Design/methodology/approachThe current study employed a single-factorial experimental design, in which participants were randomly assigned to either watch a soccer game through a VR headset or a 2-D screen. Physiological and self-reported measures were used to measure levels of presence, arousal, attention and memory.FindingsParticipants who watched sports through VR experienced a higher level of presence, greater psychophysiological arousal, and exhibited higher levels of attention toward the game. However, they showed lower recognition for in-stadium signage compared to those who watched the game on a 2-D screen.Practical implicationsThe results suggest that sports teams can use VR to create a more immersive and engaging experience for fans. Additionally, in-stadium signage advertising may not be as effective in VR sport broadcasting contexts, and sports practitioners may want to explore alternative forms of advertising that are better suited for VR environments.Originality/valueMethodologically, this study used a combination of self-reported and real-time physiological measures to capture dynamic and spontaneous changes in fans while watching games. Theoretically, this study utilized the Dynamic Human-Centered Communication System Theory to adopt a human-centered approach to understand how VR impacts the experience of sport game viewers.
Independent directors' ownership and CSR performance: the moderating roles of factors impacting directors' attention
Authors: Thosuwanchot Nongnapat , Lee Min Suk 
Published: December 2023

PurposeThis study aims to examine the impact of independent directors' ownership on corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. In line with the stakeholder-agency paradigm's prediction, the authors propose that higher independent directors' ownership is associated with higher CSR performance. By drawing on the attention-based view, the authors further examine firm-level conditions that impact the situated attention of independent directors holding high equity ownership as they are active agents.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected data covering the years 2009–2013 for firms listed in the S&P 500 index. The authors tested the hypotheses using firm fixed-effects models.FindingsThe results show that higher independent directors' ownership is associated with higher CSR performance. Prior firm performance and available slack resources are found to have diverse impacts on the association between independent directors holding high equity ownership and CSR performance.Originality/valueThis study highlights the importance of examining the performance-based incentives of independent directors on firms' CSR performance. This study also provides a better understanding of factors impacting independent directors' situated attention as boundary conditions.
The impact of real estate agents’ expertise on house prices and TOM
Authors: Fang Lu , Hayunga Darren K. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis study investigates whether the expertise levels of real estate agents impact the fundamental market outcomes of transaction prices and marketing durations. A primary contribution of this article is joint examination of three knowledge categories for both listing and selling agents. Instead of the length of agents’ license periods or recent transaction volumes, the results demonstrate that the important expertise category is agents’ local market knowledge. We consistently find that the economically important determinant of transaction prices is the separation distances between the subject homes being traded and agents’ micromarkets where they have conducted recent transactions. The results further demonstrate that agents who have tighter market concentrations increase prices and vice versa for unfocused micromarkets. We find that agents’ expertise levels do not materially alter marketing durations.
Countering Hegemonic Human Rights Norms through Migrant Labour Organising: The Case of Migrant Justice
Authors: Chamberlain Jacob P. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis article analyses undocumented migrant labour organising in a complicated context and site, the Vermont dairy industry, in relation to Tanya Basok's concept of “counter‐hegemonic human rights”. Taking migrant rights organisation Migrant Justice in Burlington, Vermont as a case study, this work examines migrant labour organising that calls upon notions of human rights for economic migrants in the USA. Migrant Justice works through commodity chain labour organising that transcends the scale of the state, calls on moral geographies of consumption and production, and autonomously redistributes not just capital, but power, from the corporation down to workers. An analysis of literature on migrant human rights in relation to labour organising will lead us to problematise mainstream human rights discourse, explore alternative conceptions of rights, and understand the liberatory components of the “counter‐hegemonic” employment of human rights by subversive actors, which may truly hold the potentials that mainstream human rights discourse claims.
A cross‐sectional survey study exploring provision and delivery of expanded community tier 2 behavioural weight management services in England
Authors: Fong Mackenzie , McSweeney Lorraine , Adamson Ashley , Mathews Claire , Lloyd Scott , Rothwell Charlotte 
Published: December 2023

SummaryGuidelines recommend provision of local behavioural weight management (tier 2) programmes for adults living with overweight and obesity. Following the publication of the UK Government's publication ‘Tackling Obesity: empowering adults and children to live healthier lives’ in July 2021, Government invested around £30 million of additional funding to support the expansion of local authority commissioned tier 2 provision for adults living with excess weight. We conducted a cross‐sectional survey study to scope the types of services available, to whom they were made available, and barriers and facilitators to service delivery. An e‐survey was disseminated to local authority commissioned tier 2 service providers in England from September to October 2022. Through a combination of closed and open (qualitative) questions, the survey collected data on referral routes, participant eligibility criteria, service content and format, and challenges and enablers to service delivery. Quantitative data were analysed descriptively whilst thematic content analysis was applied to qualitative data. We received 52 responses (estimated response rate = 59%) representing all nine England regions and 89 unique local authorities. Most services were multi‐component (84.3%), were 12 weeks duration (78.0%), were group‐based (90.0%), were primarily delivered in‐person (86.0%), and were free to participants (90.2%). Five responses indicated provision of support for other health and wellbeing issues, for example, mental health, assistance with debt. To improve future WMS service commissioning and delivery, WMS providers need to be allowed adequate time and resource to properly prepare for service delivery. Referral systems and criteria should be made clear and straightforward to both referrers and service users, and strategies to manage surplus referrals should be explored.
Unilateral and bilateral compression of the epiglottis during poll flexion in harness racehorses
Authors: Vermedal Hanna , O'Leary John Mark , Klemsdal Anna Emilie , Roen Gina Margrete , Fretheim‐Kelly Zoe , Strand Eric 
Published: December 2023

SummaryBackgroundHorses exercised ‘onto the bit’ with periods of induced poll flexion can demonstrate a unique array of upper respiratory tract (URT) disorders.ObjectivesTo describe a previously unreported exercise‐related disorder of the epiglottis associated with poll flexion in harness racehorses.Study designRetrospective observational study.MethodsMedical records of all harness racehorses that presented for exercising URT endoscopy between 2005 and 2022 were reviewed. These horses were exercised on a high‐speed treadmill using a previously standardised protocol with alternating 1‐min phases of free head carriage (no rein tension on the bit) and poll flexion (driven onto the bit with long reins) until they could no longer maintain the trotting gait.ResultsSeven Standardbreds and 11 Norwegian‐Swedish Coldblooded trotters were diagnosed with unilateral or bilateral compression of the epiglottis during exercise in poll flexion. These horses demonstrated progression of this disorder during the phases of induced poll flexion and showed no signs of epiglottic compression during phases exercised with free head carriage.Main limitationsRetrospective nature of study and limited sample size due to low prevalence.ConclusionsExercise‐related compression of the base of the epiglottis is a URT disorder only evident videoendoscopically when horses are driven onto the bit leading to poll flexion. It is most often seen in association with dynamic laryngeal collapse but can also be witnessed as a solitary disorder. Videoendoscopically, it appears that the compression is initiated by the rostral advancement of the larynx and hyoid apparatus within a progressively narrowing intermandibular space during poll flexion. Visually, this leads to local inward compression of the lateral nasopharyngeal walls and base of the epiglottis. Further studies are ongoing to confirm this hypothesis and to objectively quantify the degree of URT obstruction caused by this conformational narrowing of the epiglottis during poll flexion.
Extractive text summarization for biomedical transcripts using deep dense LSTM‐CNN framework
Authors: Bedi Parminder Pal Singh , Bala Manju , Sharma Kapil 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe most recent and precise biological and healthcare knowledge is critical in the current outbreak such as COVID. In today's small world, everyone needs timely and appropriate medical information to prevent contagious diseases. Extraction of important information from medical conversations and dissemination to patients and doctors may benefit in the treatments of doctor tiredness and patient amnesia.ProblemAutomatic text summarizing is essential for gaining great knowledge in any topic in an efficient and productive manner. The material included in health records is vital to our understanding of kind illness and its manifestations. Creating a comprehensive and standard kind of content is becoming an unavoidable and crucial problem in the medical process as a result of the massive amounts of fragmented data created in many sectors.ApproachThe purpose of this study is to employ NLP‐based deep learning algorithms for text summary that perform well on linguistic text summarization data, and then modify/adapt these for biomedical domain‐specific text summarization. This paper provides an approach developed in‐house for condensing ill‐punctuated or unpunctuated discussion transcripts into more intelligible summaries, which combines topic modelling and phrase selection with punctuation restorations. For autonomous synthesis of medical reports from biomedical transcripts, this research proposes using an end‐to‐end summarization technique, Deep Dense Long Short Term Memory Network (LSTM), followed by Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).ResultsExtensive testing, examination, and comparing have demonstrated that this summarizer works well for medical transcript summarization. The suggested approach achieved an average ROUGE score of 93.5% using a single document summary. Furthermore, by comparing new techniques to previous ones, the utility and accuracy of novel strategies would be shown. The results reveal that models trained on ordinary language provide comparable results on a biomedical testing set, with one model outperforming the linguistic test set.
The valley of death: why Australia failed to develop clinically effective drugs in COVID‐19
Authors: Martin Jennifer H. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThere is a paucity of public discussion of costs spent on drug trials during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and their value, and of large public outlay on research funding for vaccine and drug development that did not deliver medicines nor vaccines for Australians. This oversight left us at the behest of global supply chains, politics and commercial cost‐plus pricing for vaccines. It is possible that these outcomes were the result of some major cognitive biases and the failure of a clinical pharmacologist's voice in the leadership teams. Biases included unawareness of the complexities of taking interesting chemicals in vitro to development into therapeutic use that can be tolerated, show efficacy and have appropriate disposition in humans; lack of a systems approach to therapeutic development; and an understanding of the relevance and translatability of pharmacology, physiology and clinical drug development. We believe that reflecting on and addressing these biases will help Australia reposition itself better with a therapeutics and clinical trial strategy for future pandemics, built into the strategy of a Centre for Disease Control.
Towards tailored cognitive support in augmented reality assembly work instructions
Authors: Vanneste Pieter , Dekeyser Kim , Ullauri Luis Alberto Pinos , Debeer Dries , Cornillie Frederik , Depaepe Fien , Raes Annelies , Van den Noortgate Wim , Said‐Metwaly Sameh 
Published: December 2023

AbstractBackgroundAugmented reality (AR) is receiving increasing interest as a tool to create an interactive and motivating learning environment. Yet, it is unclear how instructional support affects performance in AR.ObjectivesThis study sought to explore how varying the instructional support in AR can affect performance‐related behaviours of students with low cognitive abilities during assembly work.MethodsA total of 90 Belgian secondary school students repeatedly executed four different realistic assembly tasks. Three levels of instructional support (low, medium, and high) in AR as well as a control condition with paper instructions with a high level of detail were systematically varied across tasks and participants.Results and ConclusionsMultilevel regression analyses showed that AR instructions yielded lower assembly times and a lower perceived physical effort than paper instructions. Additionally, participants perceived tasks as less complex when given AR instructions with a high or a medium level of detail than when given a low level of detail. No effects of instructional support were established for other performance‐related behaviours, namely necessary assistance, error‐making, cognitive load, competence frustration, and stress. Effect sizes were small, at least among the instructional support conditions studied, yielding a limited base for adaptivity. Presumably, tailoring the instructional support in AR is only beneficial for highly complex tasks. The results might be useful for the design and implementation of AR in educational settings.
Differences in change of post‐operative antioxidant levels between laser‐assisted lenticule extraction and femtosecond laser in situ keratomileusis
Authors: Chen Hung‐Chi , Yang Shun‐Fa , Lee Chia‐Yi , Hsueh Yi‐Jen , Huang Jing‐Yang , Chang Chao‐Kai 
Published: December 2023

AbstractTo evaluate the change of total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and ascorbic acid (AA) between femtosecond laser in situ keratomileusis (FS‐LASIK) and laser‐assisted lenticule extraction (LALEX). A prospective non‐randomized study was conducted, and 33 and 75 eyes that had undergone FS‐LASIK or LALEX surgeries were enrolled, respectively. The tear films near corneal incisions were collected, and the concentrations of TAC and AA were determined. The generalized linear mixed model was adopted to calculate the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) of TAC and AA between the two groups. The AA reduction was significant 1 month after the LALEX and FS‐LASIK procedures (both p < 0.05), and the decrement in AA level was significantly larger in the FS‐LASIK group compared to the LALEX group (p = 0.0002). In the subgroup analysis, the LALEX group demonstrated a lower decrement in TAC level in the individuals with dry eye disease (DED) than the FS‐LASIK group (p = 0.0424), and the LALEX group demonstrated a significantly lower AA decrement in the participants with high myopia (p = 0.0165) and DED (p = 0.0043). The LALEX surgery causes lesser AA decrement compared to FS‐LASIK surgery especially for the patients with DED.
The Matching Function and Nonlinear Business Cycles
Authors: BERNSTEIN JOSHUA , RICHTER ALEXANDER W. , THROCKMORTON NATHANIEL A. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe Cobb‐Douglas matching function is ubiquitous in labor search and matching models, even though it imposes a constant matching elasticity that is unlikely to hold empirically. To examine the implications of this discrepancy, this paper uses a general constant returns to scale matching function to derive conditions that show how the cyclicality of the matching elasticity affects the shape of the job finding rate as a function of productivity and amplifies or dampens nonlinear labor market dynamics. It then shows that modest variation in the matching elasticity, consistent with recent estimates, significantly affects higher order moments and optimal policy. This motivates research that can provide greater clarity on the matching function specification.