cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290960
title: Internal Accountability in Police Forces: Exploring the Factors Associated with the Performance in a Military Police Internal Affairs

description: Abstract The aim of this paper is to identify the factors associated with the performance of police internal affairs divisions. Little is known about the performance determinants of organizations crafted to prevent deviant behavior of civil servants. To reach our goal, we analyzed 797 administrative proceedings against 1.195 military police of a given Brazilian state between 2005 and 2012. Our quantitative analysis demonstrated that cases involving more experienced police officers and crimes with increased complexity are less likely to be concluded. Our results also suggest that social norms and internal codes inherent to police forces affects the extent of punishment to implicated officers: some crimes seem to be tolerated while others are abhorred by the police force. Surprisingly, an increased centralization in the investigative activity is not associated with increased efficiency of the investigation process. Actually, investigation commissions formed by police officers specialized in investigating their own peers are less likely to have their cases concluded or to condemn police officers. Our results contribute to theoretical debates on the design of watchdog organizations and the literature on organizational performance of accountability bodies.
DOI: 10.17632/r6nn5s37tp.2
title: Covid-19 Online Articles Dataset

description: This dataset is a collection of articles about Covid-19 published online from May 2020 to September 2020 and stored as a CSV file. The primary providers of these articles are 10news.com, cnn.com, and foxla.com. The dataset contains two columns (text and sentiment). The text column contains text from the articles to which a label applies. The sentiment column contains either the value 1 (positive class) for text with positive sentiment or the value 0 (negative class) for text with negative sentiment. The model used will be published in one of the journals later and will be found on my profile with the title: 'Sentiment Analysis of Covid-19 Articles; The Impact of Bidirectional Layer on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM).'
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290956
title: Are Intra-organizational Networks Inclusive? Utopia and Tests

description: Based on the Theory of the Convention (Boltaski and Thevenot, 1991), I present the "project order" developed by Boltanski and Chiapello and use it as a parameter to assess the primary studies of intra-organizational social networks. I recover from the book "The New Spirit of Capitalism," the Order of Projects' main features. I show how the theoretical construction of the project order is based on a normative appropriation of social network analysis classic studies, especially those of Burt and Granovetter. I argue that the empirical work of intra-organizational networks analysis can be read as "testing" the idea of "connectionism." First, it functions as a way of empirically confirming whether contemporary capitalism is becoming increasingly connected. Second, it provides inputs to managers and policy-makers to adapt the design of organizations in order to favor more open networks. Third, it allows examining how the Order of Projects relates to other orders. These relationships can be conceptual and logical, as well as empirically negotiated. I conclude this article with implications for studies of intra-organizational networks as well as for working with Boltanski and Chiapello's model.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290952
title: The contribution of sociology of knowledge for the studies of institutionalization and legitimation of the knowledge scientific field

description: Abstract The dissemination of new knowledge to society, is subject to specific processes of recognition and incorporation. For these phenomena occur the new knowledge needs to be institutionalized and legitimized. In this sense, this theoretical review of research has as aimed at identifying in the sociology of knowledge, proposed by Berger and Luckmann (2008) the elements that enable their use in studies of institutionalization and legitimization of knowledge of the scientific field. The outcome of the study points out that the argument of the processes of institutionalization and legitimization of knowledge proposed by Berger and Luckmann (2008) is presented as a theoretical framework capable of use in the analysis of scientific fields.
DOI: 10.17632/nkcb8nc7w8.1
title: Single-cell profiling of myasthenia gravis identifies a pathogenic T cell signature

description: Florian Ingelfinger, Sinduya Krishnarajah, Michael Kramer, Sebastian G. Utz, Edoardo Galli, Mirjam Lutz, Pascale Zwicky, Ayse U. Akarca, Nicole Puertas Jurado, Can Ulutekin, David Bamert, Corinne C. Widmer, Luca Piccoli, Federica Sallusto, Nicolás G. Núñez, Teresa Marafioti, Didier Schneiter, Isabelle Opitz, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Hans H. Jung, Donatella De Feo, Sarah Mundt, Bettina Schreiner* , Burkhard Becher1* *Correspondence to: becher@immunology.uzh.ch and bettina.schreiner@uzh.ch
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290951
title: The visually impaired and the school: an ethnographic study based on transformative consumer research

description: Abstract The purpose of this piece of research was to analyze the consumption of educational services during elementary education by visually impaired people. Based on Transformative Consumer Research, the ethnographic research was developed in a NGO which is engaged in the education of students with visual impairment. The data were collected via 16 narrative interviews with elementary school students, six in-depth interviews with managers and teachers of the Lar NGO, five interviews with relatives of these students, and seven months of participant observation. The results indicate that the schoolmates, teachers, school managers and NGOs that work with visually impaired people interfere directly in the consumption behavior of the subjects, being able to contribute or inhibit the subjective well-being of the students. In addition, the powerlessness before unfair taxes and the lack of adequate teaching materials are characteristics of the investigated context that accentuate the vulnerability state.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290950
title: Work-home boundary limits: a study of evangelical pastors’ daily lives

description: Abstract The aim of this research is to analyse the mutual influence in the process of negotiating work-home boundaries and personal and social identity or, in other words, to study the method of adapting and managing domestic and professional conflicts which interfere with the harmony of evangelical pastors’ work and personal lives. We conducted a qualitative study in order to achieve the proposed aims, involving an interpretative approach with the pastors of a specific ecclesiastical institution: The Assemblies of God in Brazil. A total of 20 interviews were held, and, following coding procedures, boundary-work tactics, whose taxonomy falls within physical, behavioural, temporal and communicative dimensions, were found. The results revealed that the sharp distinction seen was that the subjects were more likely to mingle interactions in work-home boundaries. The boundary-negotiation tactics were shown to be multi-functional, as they have dual function techniques, used both to segment and integrate the work-home boundary.
DOI: 10.17632/xfcyrffhy7.1
title: Dataset of Indonesian Women’s Reproductive, High-Fat Diet and Body Mass Index Risk Factors for Breast Cancer

description: This dataset describes a survey presenting reproductive, high-fat diet, and body mass index (BMI) determinant factors for breast cancer among Indonesian women
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290947
title: Solidarity Economy - In search of essential elements of sustainability and solidarity

description: This article discusses the topics sustainability and solidarity in the form of a bibliography research of the Brazilian literature on the field Solidarity Economy, trying to extract from it the requirements to denote solidarity economic enterprises such as constructs. It was found that 16 groups of analysis may be adequate to encompass the elements and traits advocated by the researchers included in the ES literature review performed. These groups are divided by the dimensions of sociopolitical, economic and environmental. Additionally, having found the existence of relevant factors that cut across the three dimensions, they were grouped under the name transversal, constituting a fourth sphere of observation. It was noted be viable to transform the results of research into an input for future investigations that led to the creation of methods for evaluation the stage of sustainability and solidarity of organizations in the other economy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290944
title: Spirituality in organizations?

description: Abstract This article aims to describe how organizational spirituality has been dealt with in national and international research. Thus, a review of literature was carried out, based on a systematic search on literature on the Scopus and SciELO databases. The survey revealed 551 articles, but only 118 were available as full-documents. After reading the articles, 72 were selected for analysis. From the selected articles, seven major themes were identified and are covered in this article: factors that encourage spirituality to develop in organizations; the differences between spirituality and religion; the definition/concept of organizational spirituality; the benefits of spirituality for organizations; the dimensions of spirituality in organizations; the values of spirituality in organizations, and ways of identifying/measuring spirituality in organizations. In general, it was found that the theme of organizational spirituality is gaining momentum among academics and managers and can no longer be ignored. Although research performed until now has provided encouraging results, more research is required, including empirical research, in order to elucidate and consolidate an understanding of the theme, as well as its importance for people and organizations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290941
title: Quality of working life and music in the manufacturing workplace

description: Abstract This study aimed to understand how the insertion of music in the work environment contributes to achieving Quality of Working Life (QWL), from the perspective of biopsychosocial and organisational well-being. The context where the study was conducted was the manufacturing area of a major textile company located in Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The use of a case study was the research strategy adopted, with exploratory and descriptive objectives. The primary data was collected through the focus group technique and semi-structured interviews were used as an additional tool. Respecting the theoretical saturation criterion, four focus groups were formed, each comprising eight randomly selected participants from the seventy-six co-workers in the sector. The data was analysed qualitatively, using the content analysis technique. Twenty-eight QWL attributes were identified. It was concluded that musical insertion provides biological, social and, above all, psychological and organisational well-being to the co-workers, contributing to achieving QWL in the work environment researched.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290938
title: Political articulation for evaluating the financial inclusion promoted by the Central Bank of Brazil

description: Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between (i) political articulation activities created to obtain data and information necessary to evaluate a public policy and (ii) the availability (or unavailability) of such data and information. We studied the financial inclusion policy conducted by the Central Bank of Brazil (BC) from 2009 to 2012 as a case study. The main financial inclusion initiatives related to this policy and promoted by BC in the period are described, as well as the political articulation needed, directly or indirectly, to obtain such data and information. The article concludes that political articulation activities contribute significantly to obtain data and information to evaluate a public policy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290936
title: Development and dependency in Brazil in the contradictions of the Growth Acceleration Program

description: This essay seeks to reveal the contradictory character of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC, in its acronym in Portuguese), the main instrument of the Brazilian development model of the last decade, which attempts to combine an apparent national autonomy for strategic settings, with adjustments of integration to the global economic system. However, the resumption of the initiative of economic planning and public investment by the State lead to a development model based on appropriation of nature, and generate a sparsely diverse productive network, dependent of international insertion that considers Brazil as a supplier of raw materials, leading to the new progressive extractivism as advanced by Gudynas (2009). To understand the integration of the market logic to the interests of the State and the role of management in this construction, the text drawn from the Marxist Theory of Dependence, especially as in Marini (2005) and Osorio’s (2012a, 2012b) discussions about the subordinated position of peripheral economies, combined with the mechanisms of capital accumulation and labor exploitation. Furthermore, it is discussed the epistemic coloniality for development management, taken as the solution for the modernization and development, to the extent that it produces a subordinated integration with the global economy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290935
title: Disciplines and Bibliography for the Teaching of Marketing in PhD Programs in Administration in Brazil

description: This article seeks to present a panoramic view of the subjects covered by marketing courses in Brazilian programs for doctorate degree in Administration, at the aggregate national level, and of the bibliography recommended in the syllabi for these subjects. A descriptive-quantitative approach was applied to data extracted from documents published by Capes in an array of 53 marketing subjects given in 13 programs in a total of 1,425 bibliographical references. From the results, it was found that the number of marketing subjects varies considerably from program to program (from 1 to 11 subjects). Regarding the bibliographical references per subject, the average found was 26.9 quotations covering 277 different sources, noteworthy for including material in foreign languages (67.5%), among it being books, scientific journals, annals of congresses, dissertations, theses and professional magazines. The proportion of didactic books found in the syllabi was 55% and the Journal of Marketing occupied the first place among the most frequently quoted publications. The congress most frequently referred to was EnANPAD and the professional magazine, the Harvard Business Review. Finally the implications of these results for marketing doctorate teaching in the country were discussed.
DOI: 10.17632/gxt74zjybd.1
title: La logicidad de la implicación en lógica Obdulio Banda

description: Los valores de certeza del condicional
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290919
title: The plasma Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α) does not have any correlation with disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs)

description: We performed this study to measure the Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α) plasma level and to survey its correlation with disease activity in the newly diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients and those who were under treatment with the combination of Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (DMARD) plus Prednisolone (PSL).We enrolled 30 newly diagnosed RA patients who received no treatment regarding their disease, 30 patients under treatment with the combination of Methotrexate (MTX) + Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) + PSL and 30 healthy subjects in this case-control study from September 2017 to December 2017. The level of plasma TNF-α was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in each group. For assessment of disease severity, we used Disease Activity Score-28 (DAS-28) formula, and regarding DAS-28, we divided patients into four groups, including remission, low, moderate and high disease activity. There were no significant differences in the plasma level of TNF-α between the newly diagnosed RA patients and subjects who received MTX + HCQ + PSL, as well as healthy controls (p&gt;0.05). There was a significant correlation between plasma levels of TNF-α and DAS-28 in the newly diagnosed patients with RA (r = 0.594, P = 0.001). Targeting TNF-α at the early stage of RA could have more beneficial effects on the amelioration of disease activity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290914
title: Ethnopharmacological activity of Hedera nepalensis K. Koch extracts and lupeol against alloxan-induced type I diabetes

description: In this study, we investigated the protective effects of Hedera nepalensis crude extract, its fractions and lupeol in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Lupeol and n-hexane (HNN) fraction significantly reduced the blood glucose level by increasing insulin level in time dependent manner, and also significantly increased amylase and lipase activity in diabetic rats. Elevated levels of alanine transaminases (ALT), aspartate transaminases (AST), thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), nitrite, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total bilirubin and total protein in blood serum were efficiently restored to normal levels. Suppressed enzymatic activity of catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), reduced glutathione (GSH) and peroxidase (POD) were also restored to their normal levels. Kidney functions were also restored to normal level after treatment with HNN and lupeol. HNN fraction and lupeol of H. nepalensis prevented oxidative stress in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. This study signifies the importance of H. nepalensis and lupeol in ameliorating diabetes by inducing insulin secretion in diabetic model rats.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290912
title: Biological activity of synthesized 5-{1-[(4-chlorophenyl)sulfonyl]piperidin-4-yl}-2-mercapto-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives demonstrated by in silico and BSA binding studies

description: We synthesized a series of compounds bearing pharmacologically important 1,3,4-oxadiazole and piperidine moieties. Spectral data analysis by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, IR and EI-MS was used to elucidate the structures of the synthesized molecules. Docking studies explained the different types of interaction of the compounds with amino acids, while bovine serum albumin (BSA) binding interactions showed their pharmacological effectiveness. Antibacterial screening of these compounds demonstrated moderate to strong activity against Salmonella typhi and Bacillus subtilis but only weak to moderate activity against the other three bacterial strains tested. Seven compounds were the most active members as acetyl cholinesterase inhibitors. All the compounds presented displayed strong inhibitory activity against urease. Compounds 7l, 7m, 7n, 7o, 7p, 7r, 7u, 7v, 7x and 7v were highly active, with respective IC50 values of 2.14±0.003, 0.63±0.001, 2.17±0.006, 1.13±0.003, 1.21±0.005, 6.28±0.003, 2.39±0.005, 2.15±0.002, 2.26±0.003 and 2.14±0.002 µM, compared to thiourea, used as the reference standard (IC50 = 21.25±0.15 µM). These new urease inhibitors could replace existing drugs after their evaluation in comprehensive in vivo studies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290910
title: An in silico investigation of phytochemicals as potential inhibitors against non-structural protein 1 from dengue virus 4

description: Dengue fever has emerged as a big threat to human health since the last decade owing to high morbidity with considerable mortalities. The proposed study aims at the in silico investigation of the inhibitory action against DENV4-NS1 of phytochemicals from two local medicinal plants of Pakistan. Non-Structural Protein 1 of Dengue Virus 4 (DENV4-NS1) is known to be involved in the replication and maturation of viron in the host cells. A total of 129 phytochemicals (50 from Tanacetum parthenium and 79 from Silybum marianum) were selected for this study. The tertiary structure of DENV4-NS1 was predicted based on homology modelling using Modeller 9.18 and the structural stability was evaluated using molecular dynamics simulations. Absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity (ADMET) along with the drug-likeness was also predicted for these phytochemicals using SwissADME and PreADMET servers. The results of ADMET and drug-likeness predictions exhibited that 54 phytochemicals i.e. 25 from Tanacetum parthenium and 29 from Silybum marianum showed effective druglikeness. These phytochemicals were docked against DENV4-NS1 using AutoDock Vina and 18 most suitable phytochemicals with binding affinities ≤ -6.0 kcal/mol were selected as potential inhibitors for DENV4-NS1. Proposed study also exploits the novel inhibitory action of Jaceidin, Centaureidin, Artecanin, Secotanaparthenolide, Artematin, Schizolaenone B, Isopomiferin, 6, 8-Diprenyleriodictyol, and Anthraxin against dengue virus. It is concluded that the screened 18 phytochemicals have strong inhibition potential against Dengue Virus 4.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290907
title: Screening of Ketoprofen-Poloxamer and Ketoprofen-Eudragit solid dispersions for improved physicochemical characteristics and dissolution profile

description: The aim of the present study was to enhance the dissolution rate of an NSAID drug Ketoprofen by formulating it into solid dispersions with water soluble carrier Poloxamer 188 and Eudragit S 100. The solid dispersions of Ketoprofen with Poloxamer 188 were prepared at 1:1, 1:1.5 and 1:2 (Ketoprofen: Poloxamer 188) ratio by Solvent evaporation methods. The same concentration ratio was used for the preparation of solid dispersion with Eudragit S 100 by melting/fusion technique. Further, solid dispersions were investigated by solubility, ATR-FTIR, XRD, DSC, surface morphology, in-vitro dissolution and accelerated stability study. Results demonstrated that both Poloxamer 188 and Eudragit S 100 improve solubility of drugs by 8–10 folds. The result of ATR-FTIR study showed the slight shifting/broadening of principle peaks. In vitro dissolution studies showed that in the solid dispersion system containing Ketoprofen: Poloxamer 188 batch P2 (1:1.5) gives faster dissolution rate of Ketoprofen than the physical mixtures. The solid dispersion with Eudragit S 100, batch E1 (1:1) gives faster dissolution rate of Ketoprofen than the physical mixtures. In phase solubility study with Poloxamer 188 showed concentration dependent solubilization of drug but Eudragit S 100 produced opposite result. The effect of pH on solubility of Eudragit S 100 was carried out which showed solubility at pH 7.4. The dissolution profile of solid dispersion with Eudragit S 100 at pH 7.4 gives excellent result. The Accelerated stability of solid dispersions & its physical mixtures were studied at 400±2 °C/75 ± 5% RH for a period of 1 month. In these studies, Solid Dispersion batches produced an unstable formulation. The Ketoprofen solid dispersions with Poloxamer 188 and Eudragit S 100 could be introduced as a suitable form with improved solubility.