cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Les déterminants de la structure du capital des entreprises cotées : Une revue de littérature systématique
Creators: name: DAIDAI, Fouad
name: TAMNINE, Larbi
Publisher: name: Alternatives Managériales Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: Structure du capital ; gouvernance d’entreprise ; déterminants ; entreprises cotées ; coût du capital ; solvabilité ; autonomie financière.

description: Cette recherche se veut une contribution à l’étude des déterminants de la structure du capital des sociétés cotées en bourse. Le choix de la structure du capital optimale a pour objectif de garantir un bon équilibre entre les capitaux propres et les dettes. Plusieurs déterminants interviennent afin d’atteindre l’optimalité. L’article présente les résultats d'une revue de la littérature systématique sur les déterminants de la structure du capital des entreprises cotées, tels qu’avancés dans les articles publiés entre 2000 et 2019. 63 contributions publiées dans 51 revues différentes. Les articles ont été classés en deux catégories en fonction des déterminants, de la méthode utilisée et de la perspective adoptée, dans l’objectif de mieux comprendre la cause du flou conceptuel et des divergences des résultats, tout en recherchant quels sont les facteurs les plus utilisés et qui président à la détermination de la structure du capital. L’analyse a révélé qu’il existe un nombre important de déterminants qui influence la structure du capital des entreprises cotées, ce qui engendre des divergences dans les résultats obtenus. L’analyse atteste un manque de preuves empiriques et de contributions à caractère explicatif de cette divergence, et un manque d’article publié dans le contexte marocain.
description: Alternatives Managériales Economiques, Vol. 4, No 2 (2022)
An Ethnobotanical investigation of traditional knowledge and uses of edible wild plants in the Umbria Region, Central Italy
Creators: name: Ranfa, Aldo
name: Bodesmo, Mara
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: Central Italy; Umbria region; edible wild plants; ethnobotanical knowledge; folk medicinal uses; taste perception

description: These days edible wild plants (EWPs) play a fundamental role in the Mediterranean diet, thanks to their content of mineral elements and bioactive compounds with proven benefits for human health. The present study aims to document ethnobotanical knowledge and uses of EWPs in Central Italy so that this knowledge will not be lost. During various nature fairs and exhibitions in Umbria three hundred subjects were interviewed face-to-face between March and May 2013-2015. The participants provided information on local plant names, where and when the plants were collected, part(s) used, categories used, folk medicinal uses, taste perception and other uses. The results were analyzed using two ethnobotanical indices: the Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC) and Relative Importance Index (RII). The 100 EWPs mentioned by the respondents belonged to 23 families, Asteraceae (33%), Brassicaceae (17%) and Lamiaceae (11%) being the most dominant. The part(s) used were leaves (49%), shoots (17%), flowers and inflorescences (10%). Fourteen food use categories were cited, of which boiled 31%, 28% raw, 12% in vegetable soups, 11% fried in fat, without or with beaten eggs. Twenty-seven plant species were also mentioned as having folk medicinal uses.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol 90 (2017): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Impact de la liquidité des actions sur la liquidité de financement bancaire : Preuves des banques commerciales marocaines
Creators: name: BEN HOUAD, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Alternatives Managériales Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: Liquidité bancaire ; Liquidité des actions ; Vecteur Autorégressif à correction d’erreur

description: Malgré sa solidité et sa résilience, le système bancaire marocain connaît des turbulences au niveau de la liquidité. Depuis 2007, la liquidité de la Bourse des Valeurs de Casablanca a fortement chuté. L’objet de cette étude est d’examiner l’impact de la liquidité des actions sur la liquidité bancaire. En s’appuyant sur un échantillon composé de 70 sociétés cotées à la B.V.C. et 19 banques marocaines et pour une période allant de janvier 2002 au décembre à 2020, et en régressant la liquidité bancaire en fonction de la liquidité des actions selon la méthode des moindres carrés avec des erreurs type robustes, nous prouvons que l’illiquidité des actions influe positivement l’illiquidité bancaire. Toutefois, en utilisant le Vecteur Autorégressif à correction d’erreur, nous concluons que l’illiquidité des actions est moins sensible à l’illiquidité bancaire que la relation inverse.
description: Alternatives Managériales Economiques, Vol. 4, No 2 (2022)
Synthesis and Evaluation of 2,4-Diamino-1,3,5-triazines as Bioactive Agents against Triple-negative Breast Cancer Cells
Creators: name: LIM, HAN YIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340503
subject: Organic chemical synthesis
classificationCode: 321199
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 340599
subject: Organic chemistry not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 321405
subject: Pharmaceutical sciences

description: The thesis contributes to developing new methods for preparing bioactive compounds with 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazine skeleton and potential applications as anticancer agents. The methods were effective for the synthesis of compounds with one, two, and three points of diversity. Some of the prepared molecules were highly active against breast cancer cells. The established structure-activity relationships will be useful for further drug design and development programs.
Contrôle de gestion et pilotage de la performance des entreprises au Cameroun
Creators: name: GUETSOP SATEU, Fabrice Arnaud
Publisher: name: Alternatives Managériales Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: Outils de contrôle ; Pilotage de la performance ; Budget ; Tableau de bord prospectif ; Théorie de la contingence

description: L'engagement d'une entreprise envers l'excellence est largement déterminé par les outils de contrôle de gestion qu'elle a mis en place. Ainsi, sous l'effet de la financiarisation de l'économie et de la culture du résultat, l'entreprise doit pouvoir mesurer et contrôler ses performances. L'observation de la gestion des entreprises camerounaises, quels que soient leur taille et leur secteur d'activité, révèle certains problèmes managériaux qui ne favorisent pas une meilleure performance de ces dernières. La question fondamentale qui se pose est : quelle est l'influence du contrôle de gestion sur le pilotage de la performance des entreprises au Cameroun ? Pour ce faire, nous exploitons les données collectées via un questionnaire durant la période 2010 à 2015, sur un échantillon de 260 grandes entreprises opérant au Cameroun, ayant une fonction de contrôle de gestion et un effectif de plus de 100 employés. La relation entre les outils de contrôle de gestion et la performance des entreprises a été rendue effective par des analyses statistiques et économétriques. Les principaux résultats obtenus mettent en évidence l'importance d'un effet significatif de l'utilisation du budget prospectif et du tableau de bord prospectif comme outils de contrôle de gestion conduisant à une performance des entreprises au Cameroun.
description: Alternatives Managériales Economiques, Vol. 4, No 2 (2022)
'It feels meaningful': How informal mental health caregivers in an LGBTQ community interpret their work and their role
Creators: name: Worrell, Shane
name: Waling, Andrea
name: Anderson, Joel
name: Lyons, Anthony
name: Pepping, Christopher
name: Bourne, Adam
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Many members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, and queer (LGBTQ) communities provide informal mental health support to peers. This type of support is valuable for people who receive it–even helping to prevent suicide. It is also meaningful to those who provide it. In this article, we focus on how LGBTQ people derive meaning from their experiences of supporting peers. In-depth interviews with 25 LGBTQ people in Melbourne, Australia, indicate that those providing informal mental health support to fellow community members recognise their roles as meaningful in three main ways: in terms of self, relationships and communities. Recognising the meanings that LGBTQ caregivers derive from helping fellow community members provides useful information service providers and policymakers seeking to better address mental distress in LGBTQ communities and support caregivers. It is useful to understand this meaningful work in an LGBTQ context as caregiving that challenges gendered and heteronormative assumptions about what care is, and who provides it.
La gouvernance et La performance des entreprises familiales : Une revue de littérature
Creators: name: EL BAHAOUI, Yassine
name: TICHOUA, Y.
Publisher: name: Alternatives Managériales Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: Entreprise familiale ; Performance ; Gouvernance ; Mécanismes

description: Après avoir indiqué les principales recherches sur les entreprises familiales, nous proposons l’importance des travaux sur la gouvernance et la performance des entreprises familiales. Ces derniers ont considéré la gouvernance comme l’un des meilleurs déterminants de la performance des entreprises familiales. L'intérêt de cet article consiste à déterminer les mécanismes de la gouvernance appliqués par les firmes familiales afin d'expliquer leurs impacts sur la performance. Chose qui nous pousse à la question clé de : Dans quelle mesure les mécanismes de la gouvernance appliqués par les firmes familiales influence-t-ils la performance de l’organisation? Au niveau méthodologique, notre recherche préconise une méthode qualitative avec une démarche abductive comme accorde de la primauté au cadre théorique, afin de collecter et d’analyser la littérature par l’approche systématique qui peut suivre tout au long du processus itératif de recherche selon le plan IMRED. Nos résultats démontrent que la gouvernance reste parmi les indicateurs qui donnent à la famille le pouvoir et la légitimité d’influencer la performance de leurs affaires. Ainsi, lorsque les mécanismes de cette gouvernance sont plus efficaces, ils contribuent à la performance et à la planification stratégique et opérationnelle des entreprises familiales.
description: Alternatives Managériales Economiques, Vol. 4, No 2 (2022)
Establishing The Basis For An International Plant Sentinel Network As An Earlywarning System For Future Pest Threats (Ipsn)
Creators: name: Barham, Ellie
name: Lane, Charles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Euphresco, plant health, plant sentinel, botanic garden, arboreta, network, monitoring, diagnostics, pest risk analysis

description: Slide of the Euphresco project 'Establishing the basis for an International Plant Sentinel Network as an earlywarning system for future pest threats' (IPSN)
description: Project funded through the Euphresco network
Additional methods and results from Temporal dynamics and fitness consequences of coalition formation in male primates
Creators: name: Neumann, Christof
name: Kulik, Lars
name: Agil, Muhammad
name: Engelhardt, Antje
name: Widdig, Anja
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Coalition formation is one of the most striking forms of cooperation found in animals. Yet, there is substantial variation between taxa regarding the mechanisms by which coalitions can result in fitness consequences. Here, we investigate the influence of coalitions on dominance rank trajectories and subsequently on reproductive success in wild male crested macaques (Macaca nigra) at Tangkoko Nature Reserve (Sulawesi, Indonesia). We observed 128 coalition events involving 28 males and tested how a variety of coalition properties and factors related to the social environment influenced future male rank. We further used genetic paternity analysis of 19 infants conceived during the study to assess male reproductive success. Our results show that males participating in coalitions achieved higher-than-expected future ranks, while coalition targets had lower-than-expected future ranks. Additionally, all-up coalitions had stronger effects on rank than all-down and bridging coalitions, and these were modulated by the relative strength of coalition partners versus targets. Finally, higher ranking males were more likely to sire infants than lower ranking males. These results provide important insights regarding the mechanisms underlying coalition formation and support the idea that one major path by which coalitions can affect fitness is through influencing male dominance trajectories.
Familien mit einem psychisch erkrankten Elternteil: Bedeutung transprofessioneller Zusammenarbeit und Vernetzung für das Kindeswohl
Creators: name: Müller, Brigitte
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Familien mit einem psychisch ekrankten Elternteil
subject: Kinder psychisch kranker Eltern
subject: 360 - Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

description: Familien mit einem psychisch erkrankten Elternteil haben oft einen komplexen Hilfebedarf. Daraus resultieren multiprofesssionell und -insitutionell zusammengesetzte Helfernetzwerke. Im Referat werden die Bedeutung dieser Helfernetzwerke für den Schutz des Kindesswohls dargestellt sowie auf die Herausforderungen, die mit der Zusammenarbeit in multiprofessionellen Helfernetzen einhergeht, eingegangen.
Strategic Governance in Swiss SMEs. Paper presented at the 11th workshop on Corporate Governance, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM)
Creators: name: Lombriser, Roman
Publisher: name: EIASM - Corporate Governance
Year: 2014
Subjects: Strategic Governance
Corporate Governance
Board of Directors
Top Management
Strategic Dialog

description: Zusammenfassung der Studie zur Strategic Governance in Schweizer KMU
Caregiving Among Older Black Same-Gender-Loving Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From Qualitative Research
Creators: name: Adams M.A
name: Horn J
name: Gautam D.S
name: Poteat T
name: Hall P
name: Ashenden R
Publisher: name: Gerontological Society of America
Year: 2024

description: Background and Objectives: Few data on caregiving during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic use an intersectional lens to attend to how multiple social categories, such as gender, age, race, and sexual orientation, shape caregiving experiences. This analysis sought to explore caregiving experiences of aging Black same-gender-loving women. Research Design and Methods: Sixteen focus groups were conducted with 4-8 participants each (N = 102) from across the United States. Audio-recorded discussions lasted for approximately 90 min and were transcribed verbatim. Two analysts coded transcripts for discussions related to caregiving and used content analysis to identify themes. Results: Participants engaged in caregiving for children, parents, family, friends, and neighbors. They provided physical, economical, instrumental, and/or secondary caregiving; and sometimes received care themselves. The pandemic heavily affected their stress level and mental health as well as their intimate partner relationships. Discussions mostly offered descriptions of increased caregiving difficulty caused by the pandemic. However, a few participants identified ways the pandemic made caregiving easier; changed caregiving without making it easier or harder; or thwarted their ability to provide care. Discussion and Implications: Older Black same-gender-loving women described some pandemic caregiving experiences that diverged from the existing literature, demonstrating the importance of considering how gender, race, age, and sexual orientation affect caregiving experiences during a pandemic fraught with health inequities. Ensuring the multiply marginalized caregivers have access to the practical and emotional support they need is critical for advancing health equity and preparing for future pandemics.
Understanding genetic determinants of obstructive respiratory diseases in cohort studies using diverse phenotypes
Creators: name: Lirio, Alvin E.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024

description: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are major global public health concerns, particularly amongst disadvantaged socio-economic strata. Although many studies have examined cross-sectional disease and related traits, further research is needed on early disease development and disease progression to improve early detection and develop treatment strategies that are relevant across diverse populations. This thesis explores genetic and non-genetic factors which influence phenotypes related to the onset and progression of asthma and COPD in Filipino and UK populations.I conducted a traditional observational, as well as the first genetic association study of self-reported asthma in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS). This provided insight into socioeconomic correlates of self-reported asthma in Filipinos, and detected a known asthma genetic variant in SMAD3 and showed that a genetic risk score was predictive of the same outcome.I identified five signals at p<5x10-6 in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm) using the Extended Cohort for E-health, Environment and DNA (EXCEED), contributing to the largest meta-GWAS of PRISM. None of the 27 SNPs from another GWAS in UK Biobank met a Bonferroni-corrected threshold (p<0.002) for replication in EXCEED. Nevertheless, I demonstrated genetic correlations between the EXCEED and UK Biobank PRISm GWAS, and between PRISm and COPD, as well as with cardiometabolic phenotypes.Finally, a GWAS of longitudinal lung function change in UK Biobank participants with COPD highlighted the utility of electronic health records for studying COPD progression. Fourteen SNPs reached p<5x10-6, including rs34993032 near PIK3C3. PIK3C3 is involved in lung and other cancers, and the PI3K-Akt cell signalling pathway.Overall, this thesis provides a foundational resource for future genetic studies of obstructive respiratory disease in Filipino populations, and contributes towards risk prediction, athophysiological understanding, and therapeutic target dentification for asthma and COPD-related phenotypes.
Les compétences logistiques dans un système Macro-logistique du commerce : Cas Du Maroc
Creators: name: EL KHIDER, Abdelkader
name: MARGOUM, Mohammed Amine
name: AIT DAOUD, L.
Publisher: name: Alternatives Managériales Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: Compétences logistiques ; exportations ; modèle de gravité

description: Il va sans dire que la performance logistique d'une nation repose sur la binarité de l'infrastructure logistique et de la gouvernance. Cependant, les compétences logistiques sont des déterminants essentiels de la performance des entreprises. Elles conditionnent également la qualité logistique d'une nation donnée. A travers ce papier, nous cherchons à répondre à la question suivante : dans quelle mesure les compétences logistiques ont-elles un impact sur les exportations marocaines ? Notre objectif est d'analyser l'impact des compétences logistiques sur les exportations, en commençant par une analyse théorique complétée par une vérification empirique du cas marocain. Notre méthodologie de recherche consiste à estimer un modèle de gravité appliqué aux exportations du Maroc avec ses principaux partenaires commerciaux. Les résultats de notre modèle de gravité estimé attestent de l'effet positif des compétences logistiques sur les exportations du Maroc.
description: Alternatives Managériales Economiques, Vol. 4, No 2 (2022)
Anchor Selection Using the Wald Test Anchor-All-Test-All Procedure
Creators: name: Woods, Carol M.
name: Wang, Mian
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2016

description: Methods for testing differential item functioning (DIF) require that the reference and focal groups are linked on a common scale using group-invariant anchor items. Several anchor-selection strategies have been introduced in an item response theory framework. However, popular strategies often utilize likelihood ratio testing with all-others-as-anchors that requires multiple model fittings. The current study explored alternative anchor-selection strategies based on a modified version of the Wald χ2 test that is implemented in flexMIRT and IRTPRO, and made comparisons with methods based on the popular likelihood ratio test. Accuracies of anchor identification of four different strategies (two testing methods combined with two selection criteria), along with the power and Type I error associated with respective follow-up DIF tests, will be presented. Implications for applied researchers and suggestions for future research will be discussed.
Exploring the effects of social preference, economic disparity, and heterogeneous environments on segregation
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Nancy
name: Ryzhik, Lenya
Publisher: name: International Press of Boston
Year: 2016

description: It is believed that social preference, economic disparity, and heterogeneous environments are mechanisms that lead to segregation. However, it is difficult to unravel the exact role of each mechanism in a complex social system. We introduce a versatile, simple and intuitive particle-interaction model that allows one to separate the effect of each of these factors. As the population size and number of groups with different economic status approach infinity, we derive various macroscopic models for the population density. Through the analysis of the continuous limits, we conclude that, within this range of models, social preference is a necessary but not always sufficient mechanism for segregation. On the other hand, when combined with the environment and economic disparity (which on the their own also do not cause segregation), social preference does enhance segregation.
Port logistics in face of Covid-19: realities and prospects of the port of Agadir
Creators: name: SERGHINI, Meryem
Publisher: name: Alternatives Managériales Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19 ; port ; port logistics ; Information System ; port management.

description: Recent years have seen the emergence of complex supply chains. A model that is based on total interconnection, but also on technologies and transport that promote global flows. In March 2020, the World Health Organization WHO declared a state of emergency and COVID-19 a pandemic, so after closing global borders, supply chains have seen both a gradual drop in industrial supply, a disruption in supplies and an almost total shutdown of consumption in some sectors. This article aims to address the impact of COVID-19 on the port logistics chain of Agadir, by defining the different constraints and prospects for improvements, based on a qualitative study. It is in this perspective that we seek to answer the following questions: What is the impact of Covid19 on the port logistics of Agadir? what are the challenges overcome? and what are the avenues for improvement? The main result of our research is that private actors must now consider the progression, brutality, or recurrence of the pandemic, and study its impact on their organizational strategies and understand the economic value of IS to be able to transform large-scale challenges into lasting change.
description: Alternatives Managériales Economiques, Vol. 4, No 2 (2022)
Phenomenal Vrc (Static) Portal Publicly Available - D6.2
Creators: name: PhenoMeNal Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: VRE

description: The PhenoMeNal VRE Portal is the entry point (gateway) to all the tools and workflows on offer. The Portal is available at http://phenomenal-h2020.eu/portal/ .
Learning from big data: are we undertreating older women with high-risk breast cancer?
Creators: name: Muss, Hyman
name: Sparano, Joseph A
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2016

description: There is increasing interest in leveraging ‘big data’ to address important clinical questions, with the ultimate goal of improving human health, including outcomes for those with cancer.1 Examples include ‘CancerLinQ’, an initiative developed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology to improve patient care by integrating large volumes of clinical data with analytical computing tools,2 and ‘Sentinel’, an initiative developed by the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration to improve drug safety monitoring after regulatory approval of new drugs.3 Mining the big data can sometimes lead to big surprises.
Additional file 1 of Application of impulse oscillometry to detect interstitial lung disease and airway disease in adults with rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Cheng, Wen-Chien
name: Chang, Shih-Hsin
name: Chen, Wei-Chun
name: Wu, Bing-Ru
name: Chen, Chia-Hung
name: Lin, Chi-Chien
name: Hsu, Wu-Huei
name: Lan, Joung-Liang
name: Chen, Der-Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
A Deadly Path: Bacterial Spread During Bubonic Plague
Creators: name: Miller, Virginia L.
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo J.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2016

description: Yersinia pestis causes bubonic plague, a fulminant disease where host immune responses are abrogated. Recently developed in vivo models of plague have resulted in new ideas regarding bacterial spread in the body. Deciphering bacterial spread is key to understanding Y. pestis and the immune responses it encounters during infection.
sj-docx-1-tam-10.1177_17588359231192397 – Supplemental material for Ovarian cancer in the older patient: where are we now? What to do next?
Creators: name: Rousseau, Frédérique
name: Ranchon, Florence
name: Bardin, Christophe
name: Bakrin, Naoual
name: Lavoué, Vincent
name: Bengrine-Lefevre, Leila
name: Falandry, Claire
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tam-10.1177_17588359231192397 for Ovarian cancer in the older patient: where are we now? What to do next? by Frédérique Rousseau, Florence Ranchon, Christophe Bardin, Naoual Bakrin, Vincent Lavoué, Leila Bengrine-Lefevre and Claire Falandry in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Effects of pomegranate extract on blood flow and vessel diameter after high‐intensity exercise in young, healthy adults
Creators: name: Smith‐Ryan, Abbie E.
name: Hirsch, Katie R.
name: Roelofs, Erica J.
name: Mock, Meredith G.
name: Trexler, Eric T.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2016

description: The effects of pomegranate extract (PE) supplementation were evaluated on high-intensity exercise performance, blood flow, vessel diameter, oxygen saturation (SPO2), heart rate (HR), and blood pressure (BP). In a randomized, crossover design, nineteen recreationally resistance-trained participants were randomly assigned to PE (1000 mg) or placebo (PL), which were consumed 30 min prior to a repeated sprint ability (RSA) test and repetitions to fatigue (RTF) on bench and leg press. The RSA consisted of ten six-second sprints on a friction-loaded cycle ergometer with 30 s recovery. Brachial artery blood flow and vessel diameter were assessed by ultrasound. Blood flow, vessel diameter, SPO2, HR, and BP were assessed at baseline, 30 min post ingestion, immediately post exercise (IPost), and 30 min post exercise (30minPost). With PE, blood flow significantly increased IPost RSA (mean difference = 18.49 mL min-1; P < .05), and IPost and 30minPost RTF (P < .05) according to confidence intervals (CI). Vessel diameter increased significantly 30minPost RSA according to CI and resulted in a significant interaction IPost and 30minPost RTF (P < .05). With PE, according to CI, average and peak power output increased significantly in sprint 5 of the RSA (P < .05). There was no significant difference between PE and PL for bench (P = .25) or leg press (P = .15) repetitions. Acute PE supplementation enhanced vessel diameter and blood flow, suggesting possible exercise performance enhancement from increased delivery of substrates and oxygen. The acute timing and capsule form of PE may be advantageous to athletic populations due to ergogenic effects, taste, and convenience.
Association of Dietary Factors with Progression of AA in Stroke/TIA Patients
Creators: name: Kodumuri, Nishanth
name: Hinderliter, Alan
name: Sen, Souvik
name: Giamberardino, Lauren
Publisher: name: OMICS International
Year: 2016

description: OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of dietary factors such as calorie intake and dietary fats on the progression of aortic arch atheroma (AA).
BACKGROUND: In stroke/TIA patients, progression of AA is associated with recurrent vascular events.
DESIGN/METHODS: Consecutive patients with measurable (>1 mm) AA atheroma on baseline transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) evaluation consented to a protocol mandated follow-up TEE at 12 months. Patients that had adequate paired AA images were assessed for progression, defined as Δ ≥ 1 grade worsening (based on plaque thickness over 12 months). Stroke risk factors and fasting lipid profile were assessed at baseline. The patient's nutritional intake was measured at baseline using the Gladys Block Food Frequency Questionnaire.
RESULTS: One-hundred-nine patients (70 strokes, 33 TIAs) had sequential TEEs, of whom 27% (N=30) progressed and 73% (N=79) did not. Patients with progression had higher daily calorie (1778 ± 623 vs. 1378 ± 406 Calories, p=0.008), fat (76 ± 33 vs. 52 ± 23 grams, p=0.0002), carbohydrate (208 ± 78 vs. 169 ± 57 grams, p=0.01) and protein (73 ± 26 vs. 57 ± 21 grams, p=0.005) intake. On Further analysis among different fats showed a higher consumption of saturated fats (25 ± 12 vs. 17 ±8 grams, p=0.00051) as well as unsaturated fats (44 ± 20 vs. 30 ± 13 grams, p=0.002). These differences remained significant after we adjusted for the medication use. However the significance of these differences was attenuated after adjusting for the calorie intake. Cholesterol consumption did not differ between the progression and no-progression group (262 ± 125 vs. 213 ± 149 mg, p=0.2).
CONCLUSIONS/RELEVANCE: Calorie intake plays a significant role in the progression of AA. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings and determine the specific dietary modifications that may prevent AA progression and associated recurrent vascular events.
Le marketing : un levier de commercialisation des produits au sein des coopératives de l’Oriental
Creators: name: MOKHTARI, Nour El Houda
Publisher: name: Alternatives Managériales Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: Marketing ; coopérative ; commercialisation ; produits

description: Dans un monde connu par une concurrence accrue voire acharnée, et un environnement qui se caractérise par une des mutations permanentes. Les coopératives sont dans l’obligation de promouvoir davantage la commercialisation de leurs produits et d’adopter une démarche marketing afin de pouvoir être compétitives. Les coopératives jouent un rôle primordial dans le développement économique et social du pays, elles sont tenues de prendre en compte leurs spécificités d’entraide, de solidarité et d’équité au sein de leur démarche du marketing. Ce travail vise à montrer l’impact des pratiques marketing des coopératives sur la commercialisation des produits à travers une étude empirique sur un échantillon de la région de l’Oriental marocain Une démarche marketing s’impose afin d’instaurer une image de marque propre et d’assurer la pérennité et la rentabilité de leur activité. Dès lors se pose la question suivante :Quel serait l’impact du marketing social sur la commercialisation des produits des coopératives ?Notre échantillon est constitué de 40 coopératives. Nous avons pu vérifier notre hypothèse à travers le test Khi2. Notre hypothèse implique que le nombre important des ventes des produits d’une coopérative est dépendant au volume d’une activité marketing, cette hypothèse est corroborée.
description: Alternatives Managériales Economiques, Vol. 4, No 2 (2022)
PDFgpt: Chat with your PDFs Using Generative AI
Creators: name: Dr. Archana Kumar, Nandini Singh, Ansh Varshney
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This project introduces a PDF-based Question Answering (QnA) system leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable efficient and accurate information retrieval from diverse document formats. Using PyMuPDF, PyPDF2, and OCR through PyTesseract, the system extracts and processes both text-based and image-based PDF content. It then utilizes Sentence Transformers for embeddings, stored in Chroma's vector database for high-performance similarity search. This architecture supports LLaMA3-8b-8192 for contextdriven responses delivered via text and audio through gTTS. Future enhancements include multilingual support, multi-PDF querying, and real-time indexing, providing a versatile solution for complex document interaction across domains
The Impact of Insurance Coverage Types on Access to and Utilization of Health Services for U.S. Children With Autism
Creators: name: Baranek, Grace
name: Zhang, Wanqing
Publisher: name: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Year: 2016

description: OBJECTIVE: The study examined the association of insurance type with access to and utilization of essential health services among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
METHODS: Multivariate logistic regressions were used to illustrate the relationship between the indicators of health services utilization and insurance coverage types among U.S. children with ASD (N=2,041). Analyses used secondary data from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health.
RESULTS: Privately insured children with ASD were significantly less likely than their publicly insured counterparts to receive therapy (OR=.49). The odds of having any out-of-pocket medical expenses for families with private insurance were 11.0 times greater than for families with public insurance.
CONCLUSIONS: The findings reflect current gaps between public and private insurance coverage in the health system for access to and utilization of health services for children with ASD. Special attention should be directed to private insurance plans, where needed health services may be inadequately covered.
Identifying configurations of behavior change techniques in effective medication adherence interventions: a qualitative comparative analysis
Creators: name: Viswanathan, Meera
name: Kahwati, Leila
name: Lewis, Megan
name: Jacobs, Sara
name: Kane, Heather
name: Golin, Carol E.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2016

description: Background Interventions to improve medication adherence are diverse and complex. Consequently, synthesizing this evidence is challenging. We aimed to extend the results from an existing systematic review of interventions to improve medication adherence by using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to identify necessary or sufficient configurations of behavior change techniques among effective interventions. Methods We used data from 60 studies in a completed systematic review to examine the combinations of nine behavior change techniques (increasing knowledge, increasing awareness, changing attitude, increasing self-efficacy, increasing intention formation, increasing action control, facilitation, increasing maintenance support, and motivational interviewing) among studies demonstrating improvements in adherence. Results Among the 60 studies, 34 demonstrated improved medication adherence. Among effective studies, increasing patient knowledge was a necessary but not sufficient technique. We identified seven configurations of behavior change techniques sufficient for improving adherence, which together accounted for 26 (76 %) of the effective studies. The intervention configuration that included increasing knowledge and self-efficacy was the most empirically relevant, accounting for 17 studies (50 %) and uniquely accounting for 15 (44 %). Conclusions This analysis extends the completed review findings by identifying multiple combinations of behavior change techniques that improve adherence. Our findings offer direction for policy makers, practitioners, and future comparative effectiveness research on improving adherence.
Supplemental Material - Patient and multidisciplinary health professional perceptions of an Australian geriatric evaluation and management and rehabilitation hospital in the home service
Creators: name: Cox, Ruth
name: Kyle, Greg
name: Suzuki, Anya
name: Wishart, Laurelie
name: McCusker, Melissa
name: McConnell, Alexander
name: Ward, Elizabeth C
name: Ross, Leo
name: Webb, Clare
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material for Patient and multidisciplinary health professional perceptions of an Australian geriatric evaluation and management and rehabilitation hospital in the home service by Ruth Cox, Greg Kyle, Anya Suzuki, Laurelie Wishart, Melissa McCusker, Alexander McConnell, Elizabeth C Ward, Leo Ross, and Clare Webb in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.
Additional file 2 of Genomic prediction based on selective linkage disequilibrium pruning of low-coverage whole-genome sequence variants in a pure Duroc population
Creators: name: Zhu, Di
name: Zhao, Yiqiang
name: Zhang, Ran
name: Wu, Hanyu
name: Cai, Gengyuan
name: Wu, Zhenfang
name: Wang, Yuzhe
name: Hu, Xiaoxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Principal component analysis (PCA) for the discovery, training and validation populations.
sj-docx-1-ijs-10.1177_10668969231204957 - Supplemental material for Solitary Fibrous Tumor of Breast and Axilla: Clinicopathological Profile of Five Tumors With Comparison of Risk Stratification Models
Creators: name: Hoda, Raza S.
name: Duckworth, Lauren A.
name: Gilmore, Hannah L.
name: Cui, Xiaoyan
name: McIntire, Patrick J.
name: Sciallis, Andrew P.
name: Van Arnam, John S.
name: Zhang, Gloria
name: Rowe, J. Jordi
name: Xiao, Huijun
name: Azzato, Elizabeth M.
name: Goldblum, John R.
name: Fritchie, Karen
name: Downs, Erinn P.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ijs-10.1177_10668969231204957 for Solitary Fibrous Tumor of Breast and Axilla: Clinicopathological Profile of Five Tumors With Comparison of Risk Stratification Models by Raza S. Hoda, Lauren A. Duckworth, Hannah L. Gilmore, Xiaoyan Cui, Patrick J. McIntire, Andrew P. Sciallis, John S. Van Arnam, Gloria Zhang, J. Jordi Rowe, Huijun Xiao, Elizabeth M. Azzato, John R. Goldblum, Karen Fritchie and Erinn P. Downs in International Journal of Surgical Pathology
A cross-study analysis of prenatal exposures to environmental contaminants and the epigenome: support for stress-responsive transcription factor occupancy as a mediator of gene-specific CpG methylation patterning
Creators: name: Martin, Elizabeth M.
name: Fry, Rebecca C.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2016

description: A biological mechanism by which exposure to environmental contaminants results in gene-specific CpG methylation patterning is currently unknown. We hypothesize that gene-specific CpG methylation is related to environmentally perturbed transcription factor occupancy. To test this hypothesis, a database of 396 genes with altered CpG methylation either in cord blood leukocytes or placental tissue was compiled from 14 studies representing assessments of six environmental contaminants. Subsequently, an in silico approach was used to identify transcription factor binding sites enriched among the genes with altered CpG methylation in relationship to the suite of environmental contaminants. For each study, the sequences of the promoter regions (representing -1000 to +500 bp from the transcription start site) of all genes with altered CpG methylation were analyzed for enrichment of transcription factor binding sites. Binding sites for a total of 56 unique transcription factors were identified to be enriched within the promoter regions of the genes. Binding sites for the Kidney-Enriched Krupple-like Factor 15, a known responder to endogenous stress, were enriched (P < 0.001-0.041) among the genes with altered CpG methylation associated for five of the six environmental contaminants. These data support the transcription factor occupancy theory as a potential mechanism underlying environmentally-induced gene-specific CpG methylation.
Comportement des voyageurs marocains après la crise du COVID-19 : Revue de Littérature
Creators: name: BAKKOUR, Anass
name: EL IDRISSI, Meyeme
Publisher: name: Alternatives Managériales Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: Covid-19 ; perception des risques par les touristes ; comportement des touristes en voyage ; hygiène et sécurité perception

description: Les perceptions des risques associés à la pandémie de COVID-19 sont des facteurs importants qui façonnent le comportement des touristes contemporains en matière de voyage. Alors que la relation entre la perception du risque et la prise de décision et le comportement des touristes en ce qui concerne le COVID-19 est déjà un domaine important de la recherche sur le tourisme, le rôle de l'exposition aux médias dans l'aﬀectation des intentions de voyage n'a reçu qu'une attention très limitée. Ceci en dépit de l'importance évidente des médias dans l'influence des perceptions du risque et du comportement de voyage en général. Cette étude propose un cadre reliant la gestion de crise, le système de santé, la solidarité et le marketing de destination façonné par l'exposition aux médias aux intentions de voyage post-pandémie. Cette étude jette les bases de futures recherches sur l'exposition aux médias et le comportement de voyage des touristes en temps de crise. Notre recherche cherche à répondre à la problématique suivante : quels sont les facteurs qui influencent l’intention de voyage post pandémiques des futurs voyageurs ? Les résultats de notre article montrent que les déterminants suivants : la gestion de crise, le marketing d’influence, le système de santé et la solidarité ont un impact positif sur l’intention du comportement des voyageurs marocains en temps de crise ?
description: Alternatives Managériales Economiques, Vol. 4, No 2 (2022)
sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440231205524 – for Productivity Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence From Africa and South America
Creators: name: Duvvury, Nata
name: Vara-Horna, Arístides
name: Brendel, Christine
name: Chadha, Mrinal
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: Education
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440231205524 for Productivity Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence From Africa and South America by Nata Duvvury, Arístides Vara-Horna, Christine Brendel and Mrinal Chadha in SAGE Open
Pain is Associated with Missed Clinic Visits Among HIV-Positive Women
Creators: name: Blackstock, Oni J.
name: Safo, Stella A.
name: Cunningham, Chinazo O.
name: Blank, Arthur E.
name: Quinlivan, E. Byrd
name: Lincoln, Thomas
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2016

description: Pain is highly prevalent among HIV-positive individuals, with women representing a large subset of those with pain. However, little is known about the relationship between pain and retention in HIV medical care. Among a cohort of HIV-positive women of color, we evaluated the association between pain and retention in care, as measured by missed clinic visits. The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Women of Color Initiative was a multi-site observational cohort study evaluating demonstration projects to engage HIV-positive women in medical care. From November 2010 to July 2013, 921 women were enrolled in the study across nine U.S. sites; baseline interviews collected data on socio-demographic, clinical, and risk behavior characteristics. Pain was assessed at baseline based on number of days in pain over the last 30 days and was categorized as no pain (0 days), infrequent pain (1–13 days), and frequent pain (14–30 days), with 14 days being the median. Missed visits over the one-year follow-up period, evaluated by chart abstraction, were dichotomized as ≤1 missed visit versus >1 missed visit. We conducted multivariate logistic regression to assess the association between pain at baseline and missed visits, adjusting for pertinent covariates. Among our sample (N = 862), 52.2 % of women reported no pain, 23.7 % reported infrequent pain and 24.1 % reported frequent pain. Forty-five percent had >1 missed visit during the one-year follow-up period. Overall, we did not find a significant association between pain and missed visits (aOR 2.30; 95 % CI 1.00–5.25). However, in planned stratified analyses, among women reporting current substance use at baseline, reporting frequent pain was associated with a higher odds of missed visits as compared with reporting no pain (aOR 15.14; 95 % CI 1.78–128.88). In our overall sample, pain was not significantly associated with missed visits. However, frequent pain was associated with missed visits among HIV-positive women of color who reported substance use at baseline. A better understanding of the relationship between pain and missed visits could guide efforts to improve retention in care in this population.
sj-docx-1-usj-10.1177_00420980231198147 – Supplemental material for What’s in a name? Place misrepresentation and neighbourhood stigma in the online rental market
Creators: name: Schachter, Ariela
name: Kuk, John
name: Besbris, Max
name: Ho, Lydia
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: Economics
subject: Geography
subject: International Relations
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-usj-10.1177_00420980231198147 for What’s in a name? Place misrepresentation and neighbourhood stigma in the online rental market by Ariela Schachter, John Kuk, Max Besbris and Lydia Ho in Urban Studies
PERKS Webinar - Human-centred and Trustworthy AI
Creators: name: Celino, Irene
name: Azzini, Antonia
name: Følstad, Asbjørn
name: Bessa, Ricardo Jorge
name: Falsetta, Matteo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Introductory slides for the webinar organised by the PERKS project on the topic of Human-centred and Trustworthy AI, held online on October 24th, 2024.

The webinar recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoSvCL0TlKo.
Supplemental Material - Effectiveness of occupational therapy-led computer-aided interventions on function among adults with conditions of the hand, wrist, and forearm: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sheerin, Margo
name: Morrissey, Ann-Marie
name: Galvin, Rose
name: Ryan, Damien
name: Carey, Leonora
name: Robinson, Katie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Orthopaedics
Sports Medicine

description: Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of occupational therapy-led computer-aided interventions on function among adults with conditions of the hand, wrist, and forearm: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis by Margo Sheerin, Ann-Marie Morrissey, Rose Galvin, Damien Ryan, Leonora Carey, and Katie Robinson in Hand Therapy