bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Entrepreneurial Orientation, Strategic Networking, and Croatian SMEs Performance: A Configurational Approach
Authors: Milovanović Bojan Morić , Bubaš Zoran , Mikić Mihaela 
Published: April 2022

Abstract

Background: Many studies on entrepreneurship indicate an affirmative entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and small firm performance interrelationship. However, the empirical results are inconclusive, especially when firms face certain contingencies.

Objectives: Strategic networking and environmental dynamism are important to SMEs’ performance; therefore, the goal of this study is to apply a configurational approach for developing a model that promotes the roles of strategic networking and environmental dynamism as moderating variables in the EO-performance relationship.

Methods/Approach: For determining which model fits the data best, a moderated linear regression analysis was used as an analytical method to test the proposed hypotheses. Specifically, configurational, contingency and universal models were examined.

Results: Results reveal that a configurational model provides a statistically better explanation of variance in performance compared to both contingency and universal models.

Conclusions: By adding strategic networking to the EO-performance relationship, our study helps explain why some firms, although restrained with internal resources, can still achieve entrepreneurial projects since required resources can be acquired from external network partners. Limitations of this study encompass the sample size, the use of a subjective scale, questioning of only one representative of the firm, and the short-term aspect of the study.
Performance of Value and Growth Stocks in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis
Authors: Bevanda Lea-Marija , Zaimović Azra , Arnaut-Berilo Almira 
Published: April 2022

Abstract

Background: Due to strong empirical evidence from different markets, existence of value premium became a financial theory standpoint. Although previous studies found that value stocks beat growth stocks in bearish and bullish markets, during the GFC, value stocks underperformed growth stocks.

Objectives: This paper aims to examine the performance of value and growth stock portfolios after the GFC. Subjects of our analysis are constituent companies of the DJIA index, out of which portfolios of large-cap value and growth stocks have been constructed and evaluated.

Methods/Approach: We measure the performance of stock portfolios, which are created based on the naïve diversification rule and random weighting approach. Statistical testing includes Levene’s homogeneity test, the Mann-Whitney U test, T-test, and the One-Sample T-test.

Results: Growth stock portfolios outperform value stock portfolios after the GFC. The dominance of growth stock portfolios compared to value stock portfolios is significant, and the value premium disappears.

Conclusions: Financial theory and investment management implications show that growth stocks have overtaken the dominance over value stocks since 2009. Causes might be in (1) expansionary monetary policy characterized by very low long-term interest rates and (2) high performance of the tech industry to which most growth stocks belong.
Early Student-at-Risk Detection by Current Learning Performance and Learning Behavior Indicators
Authors: Kustitskaya Tatiana A. , Kytmanov Alexey A. , Noskov Mikhail V. 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
The article is focused on the problem of early prediction of students’ learning failures with the purpose of their possible prevention by timely introducing supportive measures. We propose an approach to designing a predictive model for an academic course or module taught in a blended learning format. We introduce certain requirements to predictive models concerning their applicability to the educational process such as interpretability, actionability, and adaptability to a course design. We test three types of classifiers meeting these requirements and choose the one that provides best performance starting from the early stages of the semester, and therefore provides various opportunities to timely support at-risk students. Our empirical studies confirm that the proposed approach is promising for the development of an early warning system in a higher education institution. Such systems can positively influence student retention rates and enhance learning and teaching experience for a long term.
Blockchain-Enabled Supply-Chain in Crop Production Framework
Authors: Radeva Irina , Popchev Ivan 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach to blockchain-enabled supply-chain model for a smart crop production framework. The defined tasks are: (1) analysis of blockchain ecosystem as a network of stakeholders and as an infrastructure of technical and logical elements; (2) definition of a supply-chain model; (3) design of blockchain reference infrastructure; (4) description of blockchain information channels with smart contracts basic functionalities. The results presented include: а supply-chain model facilitating seeds certification process, monitoring and supervision of the grain process, provenance and as optional interactions with regulatory bodies, logistics and financial services; the three level blockchain reference infrastructure and a blockchain-enabled supply-chain supporting five information channels with nine participants and smart contracts. An account management user application tool, the general descriptions of smart contract basic functionalities and a selected parts of one smart contract code are provided as examples.
Visual analysis of search results in Scopus database focused on sustainable tourism
Authors: Klapka Ondřej , Slabý Antonín 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
The enormous growth of research and development is accompanied by growing number of scientific publications in recent decades. These publications are collected and processed by a number of digital libraries. Though digital libraries provide basic search tools, more advanced methods such as visualization and visual analysis can be implemented by using special software only. This article presents the possibilities of visual analyzing content of digital libraries using the CiteViz tool developed in Klapka (2013) and shows the implementation using of the Scopus database. Results of testing the implemented solution in selected areas of sustainable tourism and demonstration of the possibilities of the implemented solution are presented at the end of the article.
Changes in the Role of Agriculture from the Perspective of Innovative Agricultural Entrepreneurs. The Case of Szeklerland, Eastern Transylvania
Authors: Zoltán Biró A. , Sárosi-Blága Ágnes , Kovács Judit-Tünde 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Relying on an interview-based research carried out in Szeklerland (Eastern Transylvania) between 2011 and 2020, the present study investigates the impact of the new rural development paradigm on the first level indicated by Van der Ploeg et al. (2000): changes in the relationship between agriculture and local society. The analysed region does not form an administrative unit, it is the eastern region of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy. It consists of rural settlements and small towns, the population of which is mostly of Hungarian ethnicity. More than half of the households have a small amount of land and are engaged in farming as their main or supplementary activity. Following a brief overview of the regional context, our paper analyzes the essential changes that have been taking place in the relationship between agriculture and the regional society over the last one or two decades. The focus of the analysis is how changes in the relationship between agriculture and the regional society appear in the innovative agricultural entrepreneurs’ practice and interpretations.
Overtourism Hotspots: Both a Threat and Opportunity for Rural Tourism
Authors: Boháč Artur , Drápela Emil 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Overtourism is relatively rare in rural regions of Czechia, in the form of lonely “hotspots” surrounded by areas that suffer from undertourism. Therefore, the article aims to analyse whether these hotspots could be used to develop tourism in the surrounding regions and whether it is a desirable and sustainable situation. The paper examines the reasons that lead to overtourism in the rural environment and explains the concept of three dimensions of overtourism: objective, subjective and temporal. Based on experience from overtourism-affected locations in Czechia, we describe how to know whether a site can be a positive center for tourism development and whether it is desirable or, conversely, dangerous for the surrounding region. We use data obtained through a questionnaire survey, narrative interviews with local people, and field research.
Nomadtown, Manifesting the Global Village Hypothesis: A Case Study of a Rural Resilience Hub Within an Educational Milieu in North Karelia, Finland
Authors: Petz Marcus 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
NomadTown a resilience hub based on learning for emergency prevention, positive impact creation, and adaptation is presented. The educative background of the sub-culture found there are outlined. A thick description of the educational milieu NomadTown is situated in is given. A contextualization of this milieu is provided with a Foucauldian awareness of the dispositif (apparatus). Whether the social ecology of associations, this resilience hub is becoming embedded in, is a suitable way to make the great transition needed to deal with climate change; and how organizational learning, manifesting as network learning, is taking place are considered. Such functioning connections are embodying the networked village concept of Nahrada’s Global Village Hypothesis. I conclude that working through connected networks, in NomadTown’s educational milieu, is an effective way to make change for resilience in our human survival situation when faced with climate change. However, NomadTown needs better connections to industry and government.
The Great Gatsby Avant la Lettre: New York City as a Place of Damnation in Willa Sibert Cather’s “Paul’s Case”
Authors: Ciocoi-Pop Ana-Blanca 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
“Paul’s Case,” suggestively subtitled “A Study in Temperament,” by Willa Sibert Cather, thematizes some of the main concerns regarding the moral decay of American society and the disillusionment with the American Dream that would be addressed twenty years later by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his iconic novel The Great Gatsby. The story provides ample proof of the presence of such skeptical views regarding American society way before the onset of the orgiastic, almost Babylonian, roaring twenties. Published in 1905, Cather’s story is simultaneously an individual and a societal x-ray of the deepest scars, and the darkest demons, of the world’s most iconic capitalist space, New York City. The city becomes a place of personal, as well as collective, damnation, which fails to offer a solution to Paul’s perceived placelessness. Even though it lacks The Great Gatsby’s ethical and narrative complexity, the story can be seen as a brilliant precursor to the feeling of imminent downfall which pervades the literature of the Jazz Age.
Cricket Playing in America: Real and Imagined Places of New York in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland
Authors: Starshova Oksana 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
In his novel Netherland, Joseph O’Neill discusses several issues that arise for a contemporary wanderer or immigrant, namely, issues of adjustment, cultural transition, becoming visible, etc. The search for a new home is accompanied by the idea of a new place and the memory of the native place. Immigrants provide a particular perspective of the city from the position of an outsider. New York is the city that allows seeing the correlation between a geographic perception and the idea of a place that is formed by an immigrant. Real places of New York and their fictional representations in O’Neill’s novel become the focus of this study. The geocritical approach is employed as a productive tool for the analysis of New York spatiality and myth-making.
Precarious Geography: Landscape, Memory, Identity and Ethno-regional Nationalism in Niger Delta Poetry
Authors: Okuyade Ogaga 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Like most conflicts across the world, the Niger Delta crisis has generated a body of works now labelled Niger Delta literature. These cultural art forms, which are not only programmatic in thrust but also carry a dissenting temper that is laden with counter hegemonic rhetoric, are primarily geared towards underpinning a brutish kind of colonization and corporate greed which has become the stamp of toxic dreaming and dubious progress in Nigeria. This literature draws attention to the debility of the Niger Delta people and to the fact that they are trapped under double hegemons – the Nigerian government and transnational oil firms – that have strategically transformed or reduced this precarious geography and its inhabitants to mere commodities. A close reading of texts on the Niger Delta makes one aware of the politics and structure of the Nigerian economy and the corporate cost of petroculture; moreover, issues of ethno-regional identity, the inequity in the distribution of resources, the near absence of government presence in the Niger Delta and the continuous decay of state infrastructures provide a fertile ground for explaining the resentment expressed by these heavily marginalized people. By protesting their marginality, these poets frame a kind of identity that “others” the Niger Delta people, thereby holding the state accountable for its deplorable conditions and the abysmal underdevelopment of the region considering the quantity of wealth it generates for the Nigerian federation. Paying significant attention to the relationship between the representations of landscape and processes of political and economic transformation and how the landscape becomes the defining index for identity formation in the poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Ibiware Ikiriko, I argue that these poets point to the way in which colonialism and environmental devastation are interlocking systems of domination within the Nigerian nation.
Nonlinear Agglomeration of Bimodal Colloids under Microgravity
Authors: Cecil Adam J. , Payne John E. , Hawtrey Luke T. , King Ben , Willing Gerold A. , Williams Stuart J. 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
A study of like-charged, bimodal colloidal suspensions was conducted in microgravity aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA's Advanced Colloids Experiments-Heated-2 (ACE-H-2) experiments. Samples comprised of silsesquioxane microparticles (600 nm) and zirconia nanoparticles (5–15 nm) in 1.5 pH nitric acid were mixed and allowed to agglomerate over time while being imaged with NASA's Light Microscopy Module (LMM). The samples contained 1% of microparticles with varying concentrations of nanoparticles in 0.1%, 0.055%, and 0.01% by volume. Digital images were captured periodically by the LMM over 12 days. Image analysis, including cluster size and distribution, was performed in Python using the “Colloidspy” package. The study found that cluster size had increased over time in at least seven of nine samples, but two samples exhibited nonlinear growth rates, while others showed very slow growth with cluster sizes two orders of magnitude greater than the free microparticles. We hypothesize that all samples experienced nonlinear growth, but early transient effects after mixing were missed due to timing limitations in image acquisition. Transport limitations of clusters in these systems may have dominated agglomeration behavior in microgravity, despite the samples being thermodynamically unstable, but more study is required.
Stream of Conscience? Live Music Streaming: Utility, Capital and Control
Authors: Ehlinger Arthur , Markey John 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This article takes a look at the ever expanding and increasingly commercially significant world of live music streaming through the nexus of electronic dance music. After charting the history of live music streaming, the article outlines the positive impacts that live music streaming has on promotion, sales and preservation of rare ethno-folk musics. However, interviews with industry insiders reveal opaque practices, where copyright enforcement is specifically utilised by a few large broadcasters in such a way as to maintain the dominance of their position within the live music streaming industry. A heightened agency in the hands of major corporations over what music audiences can see or hear is also identified. This article concludes that as live music streaming is co-opted across more music genres, these opaque practices will likely transfer across genre boundaries too. As such, it is important for live music streaming to come under further examination within the academy.
Comparative Study of the Laboratory, Imagery and Therapeutic Profile of Patients Hospitalized at the Gastroenterology Versus Surgery Department Diagnosed with Cholangitis after Cholecystectomy
Authors: Ungur Mariana 
Published: April 2022

AbstractIntroduction.Post-cholecystectomy cholangitis represents a controversial issue within the medical literature due to the polymorphism of the generating causes and due to the difficulties connected to its diagnosis and therapy.Material and methods.The assessment of the study was performed on two batches of patients, namely 221 patients hospitalized at Surgery Departments and another batch of 109 patients hospitalized at the Gastroenterology Department all having post-cholecystectomy cholangitis as their main diagnosis. The assessment criteria were suggestive laboratory and imagery investigations and therapeutic management.Results.If we compare the laboratory profile of both batches, we can see that only the non-specific inflammatory syndrome has shown significant differences statistically (way more frequent in case of patients hospitalized at the Gastroenterology Department), while the biliary-excretion, the cholestatic and hepatic cytolysis syndromes had approximately the same prevalence. In both batches, the treatment methods used were mainly pharmacology methods, and in a small number of cases retrograde endoscopic cholangiopancreatography. There were also a few cases where invasive surgery was applied.Conclusion.An increased clinical suspicion, an early recognition based on laboratory and imagery investigations, a prompt therapy initiation, and a balanced and correct anti-microbial management, endoscopic and surgical, need the implication of complex teams of clinicians.
The Association Between Neutrophil and Lymphocyte Ratio and Exercise Capacity at Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
Authors: Drugescu Andrei , Gavril Radu Sebastian , Gavril Oana Irina , Vasilcu Teodor , Costache Dan-Alexandru , Platon Răzvan , Mitu Florin 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
The neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (N/L) is an indicator of systemic inflammation and a prognostic marker in patients with several cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Exercise capacity (EC) plays an important role in predicting morbidity and mortality especially in patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure. Studies have been conducted to evaluate the correlation between N/L ratio and EC in CVDs. We searched the PubMed (MEDLINE) database using the keywords “neutrophil”, “lymphocyte”, “neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio”, “cardiovascular disease”, “exercise capacity” and derivatives. Considering the dispersion of these studies as well as reports on prognostic value of N/L ratio in CVDs, we have summarized these findings as a review article. A significant association between higher N/L ratio and low EC was identified, both of which has predictive and prognostic value especially for patients with heart failure.
Applying the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for classifying and prioritizing healthcare quality attributes
Authors: Dinulescu Ruxandra , Dobrin Cosmin 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
In any country, the healthcare system is an important sector whose major goal is to provide high-quality medical services and goods to maximize patient satisfaction. The purpose of this research is to introduce an analytical approach for presenting and classifying healthcare quality aspects which might have an impact on patient satisfaction. Therefore, this perspective is achieved by implementing an integrated Kano and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) Model which will grant the support for creating better and improved business strategies, as well as an efficient resource allocation. Our contribution to the literature focuses on the advantage of using an integrated Kano Model and a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process in classifying patients’ needs based on healthcare quality attributes regarding the healthcare staff and clinic’s facility design. Furthermore, this contribution represents a base for further research and completes with the efficiency and sustainability of the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process applied to the healthcare system. The results suggest that healthcare providers should focus more on performance attributes, to increase patient satisfaction.
Market orientation and corporate performance in the health industry
Authors: Kovács Bence , Szakály Zoltán 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This study examines the market orientation and corporate performance of domestic enterprises in the health industry. The aim of the study is to explore the existence and the nature of the connection between market orientation adapted by SMEs in the domestic health industry and the subjective, perceived success, and competitiveness of these businesses. Market orientation was measured by the internationally standardised MKTOR scale. Corporate performance was tested by means of a scale based on subjective perception, during which the relative weight of particular performance categories for the enterprise was taken into consideration. With regard to corporate performance, two categories were examined: competitiveness and effectiveness. The basis for the primary research was provided by personal interviews, including 251 items, conducted with marketing specialists (for lack of them, general managers) of businesses in the health industry. Data collection was carried out in 2018 in collaboration with a market research company. The connection between market orientation and corporate performance was assessed using linear correlation and regression analysis. The results of our primary research revealed a positive, medium-strong relationship between market orientation and corporate performance. With a more detailed examination of the dimensions of market orientation, customer orientation, and competitor orientation were found to significantly explain competitiveness and effectiveness. It has been shown that with the increase in rival spirit, the market orientation of companies accounts for the dispersion of competitiveness to an increasingly lesser extent. This means that, for some businesses with good capacity to compete, the propensity to compete is obviously the result of market orientation. All the while, as regards the rest of those businesses, other factors may play an important role (such as social capital, production structure, and strategy). Their precise result is that these companies are not ‘forced’ in the market to adapt the market orientation. Since the increase in market orientation leads to better corporate performance, companies should lay more emphasis on the improvement of their market orientation, especially in the cases when other factors of competitive ability are not possible for the company to acquire or the costs are too high.