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Strategic management and regional industrial strategy: cross-fertilization to mutual advantage

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This study critically revisits extant perspectives and theories on strategic management (SM) and regional industrial strategy (RIS) and considers the scope for cross-fertilization to mutual advantage. Despite an extensive literature on value capture/creation and co-creation strategies in SM, few attempts have explored their relevance to building, and capturing value from, advantages at the regional level. Advocates of place-based approaches to RIS acknowledge the need for commercial potential, hence the need not only to create value but also to capture it in the region. The aim is to go further by exploring the relevance and scalability of SM value-capture strategies to RIS, and by showing how the focus of RIS on sustainability and value creation can benefit SM.
Quantitative Large-Area Polarized-Light Microscopy

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Abstract This article describes the elevation of polarized-light microscopy (PLM) to a technique for quantitative large-area material characterization in the Microscopy Today Innovation Award-winning CrystalViewTM laser PLM. CrystalView is enabled by narrow-band laser illumination, bistatic design, and strict qualification of polarization optics, resulting in accurate polarization imaging over an instant field-of-view (FOV) that exceeds 2 cm2. This FOV is effectively demonstrated by the critical concept of seamless stitching, which confirms low error and is then applied to obtain even larger effective FOVs with industrial utility. Linear combinations of image irradiances, known as polarization features, are related to physical material properties, for instance, crystal orientation, through the combination of Mueller matrix polarimeter design and classical electrodynamics. While CrystalView is applicable to any reflective or transmissive material that exhibits PLM contrast, in this article it is demonstrated for orientation imaging of hexagonal and cubic metal polycrystals, titanium and stainless-steel alloys respectively, the latter printed by laser powder-bed fusion (LPBF) and reliant, for texture imaging, on chemical etching that can also reveal phase structure.
C0088 Ultrasound-guided intratissue percutaneous electrolysis, dry-needling, diathermy and eccentric exercise in achilles tendinopathy in runners. a case series

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background

Tendinopathy is commonly used to describe overuse injuries in the absence of histological confirmation and includes a range of diagnoses involving injury to the tendon (e.g., tendonitis, peritendinitis, tendinosis). Kvist reviewed 455 athletes with Achilles tendon problems. He found that 53% of them were involved in running sports. In this case series, we concentrate on tendinopathy of the main body of the Achilles tendon. We shall not deal with Haglund's condition, insertional tendinopathy, or lesions of the myotendinous junction.

Methods

Six patients were included in the study with a given diagnosis of unilateral mid-substance Achilles tendinopathy. This clinical diagnosis had to be confirmed on ultrasound examination. All of them were male runners, with an average age of 35,3±0,7 years, training 12 hours/week and 67±12 km/week. Patients were excluded if they had a previous injection or surgery or if they had bilateral symptoms.

Study protocol

Each patient was examined pre-treatment, post-treatment and at 2 month follow-up. The study protocol was the same at all the measures. It consisted of the following assessments and outcome measures being utilised: Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment-Achilles tendon (VISA-A), Visual Analogue Score (VAS) and mean maximum tendon thickness. All of them receive treatment with ultrasound-guided intratissue percutaneous electrolysis and dry-needling in gastrocnemius muscles (7±3 sessions), diathermy (4,5±0,5 sessions) and a domiciliary eccentric exercise.

Results

Mean VAS scores decreased significantly from baseline to post-treatment review (95% confidence interval (CI), 7,2–1,6, p<0.001) a trend that was maintained at 2 month follow-up (95% CI, 7,2–0,67, p<0.001). Concurrently the mean VISA-A scores increased significantly from baseline to post-treatment review (95% CI, 30.2–92.6, p<0.001) a trend that was maintained at 2 month follow-up (95% CI, 30.2–95.3, p<0.001). There was also a significant decrease in the mean maximum tendon diameter from baseline to 2 month follow-up (95% CI, 8.0–6.7 mm, p<0.001).

Conclusions

In conclusion, this prospective follow-up study demonstrated that US-guided intratissuepercutaneous electrolysis, dry-needling, diathermy and eccentric exercise appears to be a safe and clinically cost-effective treatment option in the management of mid-substance Achilles tendinopathy when delivered in conjunction with an eccentric exercise programme.
Electronic structure of Ti-doped Sr4Sc2Fe2As2O6

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

First principle FLAPW-GGA calculations have been performed with the purpose to understand the electronic properties for the newly synthesized tetragonal (space group P4/nmm) layered iron arsenide-oxide: Sr4Sc2Fe2As2O6 doped with titanium. The total and partial densities of states, low-temperature electron specific heat and molar Pauli paramagnetic susceptibility have been obtained and discussed for Sr4ScTiFe2As2O6 in comparison with parent phase Sr4Sc2Fe2As2O6. Our results show that the insertion of Ti into Sc sublattice of iron arsenide-oxide phase Sr4Sc2Fe2As2O6 leads to principal change of its electronic structure; in result the insulating so-called "charge reservoirs', i.e. perovskite-based [Sr4Sc2O6] blocks became conducting. This situation differs essentially from the known picture for all others Fe-As superconductors where the conducting [Fe2As2] blocks are separated by isolating blocks.
Two neglected moral emotions in university settings: some data on pride and shame

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Pride and shame, two moral emotions partially neglected by the literature, can also be categorised as achievement emotions, because of their salience within everyday school and academic life. Our aims were to explore whether they are organised in a setting-specific manner and whether they differ in two settings, learning exam-relevant material and taking exams. Five hundred and forty university students evaluated pride and shame related to the two settings. A confirmatory multitrait-multimethod analysis (MTMM) indicated higher salience of type of emotion rather than type of setting; however, the structure of pride and shame was best explained when also type of setting was accounted for. A repeated-measure analysis of variance revealed higher levels of the positive emotion compared to the negative emotion, with the latter higher for the evaluative setting. Findings are discussed in light of their theoretical and applied relevance.
Determination on the Content of 10% Fosthiazate Granule by HPLC

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

In order to determine the effective components of 10% fosthiazate granule,the Shimadzu CLC-ODS colunmn(150 mm×6.0 mm,5 μm) was selected,column temperature was 30 ℃,methanol water(65∶35) was selected as the mobile phase,the flow rate was 1.0 mL/min and the detection wavelength was 320 nm,the retention time of fosthiazate was 7.0 min.The results showed that linear relationship was good(r = 0.999 9,n = 5) in the range of 0.053 5~0.855 8 mg/mL,the average recovery rate was 99.12%~99.96% and the RSD was 0.23%.This method was specific,reproducible and accurate to determine the effective components of 10% fosthiazate granule.
Control Aspects of a LCL Grid-Connected Green Power Inverter

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

A full-bridge inverter for interfacing the utility grid is developed for using in a Green Power Inverter application. The inverter is feed from an arbitrary green power source (fuel cell, photovoltaic, small wind turbine etc.) through a rectifier into the dc-link. In order to maintain a sinusoidal grid current with low harmonic distortion and a high power factor, the inverter is controlled to emulate a negative resistance towards the grid. The size of the emulated resistor is determined by the dc-link voltage controller, which tries to maintain a constant dc-link voltage. This is however not possible, while the power into the dc-link is constant and the power out of the dc-link is a second powered sinusoidal with an amplitude of two times the average power. For that reason a small ripple is present. In order to lower the transmitted high frequency current ripple, due to the operation of the inverter, a LCL filter is inserted between the grid and the inverter. It is shown that the LCL filter may be regarded as an inductor for frequencies slightly below the filters resonant frequency; hence the control of the filter becomes easy. One other side, the z-plane poles for the filter, even with parasitic resistances, lie close to the border of the unit-circle. Adding a resistance in parallel with the outer inductor in the LCL filter shows to improve the stability on the cost of a little higher loss. A 1 kW Green Power Inverter was designed and implemented in the laboratory. The result shows that the LCL filter is stable when the damping-resistor is added. The total harmonic current distortion was measured below 4.0 the power factor is better than 0.99 for an input power above 300 W.
Same day bidirectional endoscopy- does the order of the procedures matter?

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Introduction Patients commonly have same day bidirectional endoscopy performed. There is no consensus on which order oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) and colonoscopy should be performed and how this impacts on completion rates, discomfort levels and patient's overall satisfaction. The authors aimed to evaluate these outcomes by comparing patients who had same day bidirectional endoscopy procedures randomised to either OGD first or colonoscopy first. Methods 70 patients who were due to have same day bidirectional endoscopy in a District General Hospital between December 2009 and September 2010 were prospectively randomised to either having an OGD first (Group A, n=35) or colonoscopy first (Group B, n=35). Power calculations to determine sample size based on previously published data1 showed that 70 patients would be required to demonstrate a difference of 10% between groups at the 5% level of significance with a power of 80%. Sex, age, body mass index (BMI) and previous endoscopy experience were recorded. Procedural completion time, quality of bowel preparation and endoscopic findings were documented. Patients were asked to grade anticipated procedural discomfort scores, actual procedure discomfort and postprocedure discomfort scores on a Numeric Rating Scale ranging from 0 to 10 as well as asked to complete a Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Patients were also questioned on their overall satisfaction with the procedures. Results 70 patients (36 male, 34 female; median 68 (36–87) years) were recruited with a mean BMI of 28 (19–54). After randomisation 17 males were in Group A and 19 in Group B. Both groups were similar in mean age, BMI, anxiety score and procedural completion times. Sedation and analgesic usage, previous endoscopic procedures and quality of bowel preparation were also similar in the two groups. Indications for bidirectional endoscopy were iron deficiency anaemia (60), chronic diarrhoea (9) and polyp surveillance (1). No statistically significant difference was noted in the mean discomfort scores given for colonoscopy between the two groups (5.2 vs 5.3). However, there was a significant reduction in the discomfort scores given for OGD when this was performed first rather than second (mean score 4.6 vs 6.3; p=0.02). Overall satisfaction rates were also slightly higher in group A than B (9.7 vs 9.6), but this did not reach statistical significance. Conclusion This results suggest that when undertaking same day bidirectional endoscopy, an OGD followed by a colonoscopy is the favoured order, with reduced patient discomfort. It may be that the abdominal bloating caused by colonoscopy leads to reduced tolerance of subsequent OGD.
A synthetic route to bicyclic pyrazolenines via 3-chloropyrazolines and the ring opening of pyrazolenines to diazoalkenes

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTA synthetic route to bicyclic pyrazolenines via 3-chloropyrazolines and the ring opening of pyrazolenines to diazoalkenesYoshihiko Nakano, Masashi Hamaguchi, and Toshikazu NagaiCite this: J. Org. Chem. 1989, 54, 25, 5912–5919Publication Date (Print):December 1, 1989Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 December 1989https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo00286a022https://doi.org/10.1021/jo00286a022research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views356Altmetric-Citations29LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Measurement Information Infrastructure (MII) Projects and Outlook

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Have you heard of digital calibration certificates? Digital metrology? The digital quality infrastructure? The European Metrology Cloud? These globally scattered initiatives all seek to upgrade our industry from Metrology 2.5 to Metrology 4.0 by automating our remaining manual systems via networked intercommunication. Laboratories have long since automated many of their test and measurement processes, but the global quality infrastructure remains mired in paper and pdf documents that a) require subject-matter experts to interpret, and b) omit information that would have value if automatically put to use. NCSLI’s own initiative, the Measurement Information Infrastructure (MII), envisions a set of normative standards that define data structures, taxonomies, service protocols and security for locating, communicating and sharing measurement information seamlessly among our computing systems with little to no manual intervention. In this panel session, the NCSLI MII & Automation Committee will present its MII Vision, progress and outlook and describe some of the ongoing efforts. An open discussion and Q&A session will follow so that you may understand how an MII might affect your business and value stream.
Multi-priority scheduling algorithm for scientific workflows in cloud

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

The public cloud environment has emerged as a promising platform for exe-cuting scientific workflows. These executions involve leasing virtual machines (VMs) from public services for the duration of the workflow. The structure of the workflows significantly impacts the performance of any proposed scheduling approach. A task within a workflow cannot begin its execution before receiving all the required data from its preceding tasks. In this paper, we introduce a multi-priority scheduling approach for executing workflow tasks in the cloud. The key component of the proposed approach is a mechanism that logically or-ders and groups workflow tasks based on their data dependencies and locality. Using the proposed approach, the number of available VMs influences the num-ber of groups (partitions) obtained. Based on the locality of each group’s tasks, the priority of each group is determined to reduce the overall execution delay and improve VM utilization. As the results demonstrate, the proposed approach achieves a significant reduction in both execution costs and time in most scenar-ios
Phytochemical composition and biological activities of extracts from Astragalus membranaceus arieal parts

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

The application of biomolecules extracted from plants in food and pharmaceutical industry is of great interest. In the light of that fact, our interest has been aroused to study the efficiency of chlorophormic and ethyl acetat solvents for the extraction of the main molecules from Astragalus membranaceus aerial parts (AMA) in order to evaluate the antioxidant, inhibition of α-amylase and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE), antibacterial, cytotoxic activies and in vitro DNA-protective capacity of these extracts. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis showed the presence of methyl petroselinate acid as the main compound (45, 87%) in the ethyl acetate extract (EA-AMA) and the main compound in the chloroform extract (C-AMA) was linolenic acid (16.95%). The ethyl acetate extract exhibited strong antioxidant activity with interesting IC50 values not exceeding 40 μg/mL in almost all activities. The highest in vitro activity against α-amylase and ACE activity was obtained from chloroform extract with an IC50 of 20.36 and 20.77 µg/ml, respectively. The resazurin microtiter assay was carried out to analyze the extract potential against multi drug resistant strains of clinical bacteria origin of which the extracts had powerful antibacterial activity with minimum inhibitory concentration against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (0.039 ± 0 mg/ml) and Escherichia coli (0.039 ± 0 mg/ml). The extracts had a strong protective effect of Fenton-induced DNA damage. The XTT test revealed that the extracts had weaker cytotoxicity profile against EMT6 cell line. These findings suggest that this plant has a wide range of potential applications as a food supplement, a preventative and medicinal agent.
Relaxant and vasoprotective effects of ginger extracts on porcine coronary arteries

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a popular Chinese herbal medicine, which is considered to warm the stomach and dispel cold in traditional Chinese medicine. Ginger is widely used to treat stomach disorders, and it has been reported to exhibit antithrombotic activity via the inhibition of platelet aggregation and thromboxane B2 production in vitro. Cardiovascular disease is associated with the aberrant functioning of the heart and circulatory system; the relatively narrow vessels of the circulation are commonly affected and blocked by atherosclerosis, which may result in angina or heart attack. Numerous drugs and medicines are used to treat myocardial infarction; however, they are often associated with numerous side effects. Therefore, it is important to identify substitutive drugs with no unbearable side effects. In the present study, the relaxant effects of ginger crude extract (GCE) were determined on porcine coronary arteries. The DPPH radical scavenging assay, lucigenin‑enhanced chemiluminescence assay and western blot analysis were used to individually detect antioxidant assay of ginger extraction or superoxide anion produced by endothelial cells and molecular signaling. The results indicated that GCE induced relaxation of porcine coronary arteries in an endothelium‑dependent manner. GCE increased vasoprotection via the suppression of nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase. In addition, GCE possessed antioxidant ability, as determined using 1,1‑diphenyl‑2‑picrylhydrazyl and lucigenin‑enhanced chemiluminescence assays. Taken together, the present study demonstrated that GCE exerts marked vasoprotective effects and free radical‑scavenging activities in porcine coronary arteries.
Interesting | Intercultural | Innovative | Inquiry How real contexts lead to real learning

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Macquarie Primary School has a long-held reputation as a community school, where students, parents and carers, and the broader community, work together with a dedicated professional team to ensure every child achieves success. With families from around the world, our school is proudly multicultural. Creativity and curiosity are nurtured at Macquarie and inquiry is the basis of our learning philosophy. One of the school's strategic priorities is to improve teacher pedagogy around inquiry based learning. A key marker of success in this area has been the continued framing, development and embedding of the Macquarie Curriculum Map, with alignment to the Australian Curriculum.
Endoscopic CO2 laser treatment of supraglottic carcinoma.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Aim of the study was to evaluate whether laser endoscopic microsurgery is a reliable and appropriate approach to treatment of laryngeal supraglottic cancer. A retrospective study was made of 12 patients (11 M/1 F; mean age 62.5 years) treated from December 1995 to October 2001 in the Department of Surgical Sciences and Organ Transplantations, Section of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Cagliari, Italy. Surgical steps and oncologic results are reported. These 12 patients with supraglottic cancer underwent transoral laser surgery (TNM classification: T1, 3 patients; T2, 9 patients; N-, 9 patients; N+, 3 patients; M-, 12 patients). On the basis of the different subsites removed, the following resections were performed: 1 limited excisional biopsy (false chord), 3 wide excisional biopsies (2 or 3 subsites), 2 simple epiglottectomies, 1 extended epiglottectomy, 3 horizontal supraglottic laryngectomies, and 2 horizontal supraglottic laryngectomies that were extended to the anterior commissure and to one arytenoid, respectively. Five patients underwent functional neck dissection, and one patient underwent post-operative radiotherapy at sites of tumour and lymph nodes. Temporary tracheotomy was carried out in 10 patients. Mean follow-up was 33.3 months. No local recurrences were noted. Local control was thus 100%. Aspiration was the main post-operative problem, but there were no cases of aspiration-associated pneumonia. Moreover, no patient needed laryngectomy or a permanent tracheotomy for aspiration. In conclusion, although our experience with supraglottic cancers treated by endoscopy is still too limited to confirm the definitive oncologic validity of this type of surgery, in our hands, it seems to be a reasonable tool in selected cases and a safe, time- and cost-effective alternative to traditional surgery or radiotherapy for selected supraglottic carcinomas.
Responsibility accounting and asymmetry of information

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Abstract This paper uses the principal‐agent model to show that a manager's optimal compensation should generally include non‐controllable factors of production such as the firm's investment in capital. This implies that the managerial accounting distinction between profit and investment centres is artificial. Examples are shown in which the ROI or RI criteria could be optimal for compensating managers implying that the optimal compensation criterion is very much specific to the firm's production and risk parameters. Thus, the debate about which criterion is more appropriate is vacuous.