Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fazil A. Rahman, Kadir Arifin, Azlan Abas, Mahfudz Mahfudz, Muhammad Basir Cyio, Muhammad Khairil, Muhammad Nur Ali, Ilyas Lampe, Muhammad Ahsan Samad
Summary: This article presents a systematic literature review on safety competencies, identifying teamwork, communication skills, and a foundation of safety knowledge as basic competencies for workers. The review highlights the importance of studying safety competencies and suggests future research directions in the context of catastrophic events and the industrial revolution era.
Article
Economics
Kristian Bondo Hansen, Daniel Souleles
Summary: This paper examines the expectations finance professionals have about their work in data- and machine-driven finance, and argues that techno-centric imaginaries of the future tend to prioritize data science skills over financial domain knowledge. However, it shows that these imaginaries may not meet the work-related expectations of financial professionals, as they are challenged and nuanced in reflections about the value of practice-bound domain expertise.
ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Fernando Almeida, Zoltan Buzady
Summary: The study suggests that the FLIGBY serious game can be used to evaluate and develop students' soft skills in higher education institutions. The findings show a significant connection between the game's assessment dimensions and the fundamental skills required in the twenty-first century. This is particularly relevant for institutions seeking to incorporate and foster soft skills competencies in their curricula.
TECHNOLOGY PEDAGOGY AND EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Said Machwate, Rachid Bendaoud, Juergen Henze, Khalid Berrada, Daniel Burgos
Summary: Research has shown the benefits of student mobility in enhancing communication skills, focusing on studying foreign languages and behavioral attitudes. Virtual mobility, as a proactive alternative, can aid in the development of intercultural, language, and digital competencies. By evaluating a telecollaborative online course model as a Virtual Exchange between German and Moroccan universities, the study demonstrates the acquisition of awareness of cultural differences, improvement in language skills, and development of digital skills through practice.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Suzhen Duan, Marisa Exter, Deepti Tagare, Mihaela Sabin, Shamila Janakiraman
Summary: This study focuses on the competencies required by managers in the computing industry, based on interviews with ten individuals in managerial roles. The most frequently discussed skills include leadership, project management, hiring and evaluating candidates, and mentorship. Communication, problem-solving, and lifelong learning are also important, along with attitudes such as a collaborative mindset, lifelong learning orientation, and self-regulation. It is important for professionals in the computing industry to have the opportunity to navigate their preferred career path, whether technical or managerial.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mary H. Kosmidis, Sandra Lettner, Laura Hokkanen, Fernando Barbosa, Bengt A. Persson, Gus Baker, Erich Kasten, Amelie Ponchel, Sara Mondini, Nataliya Varako, Tomas Nikolai, Maria K. Jonsdottir, Aiste Pranckeviciene, Erik Hessen, Marios Constantinou
Summary: The multitude of training models and curricula for clinical neuropsychology has led to efforts to establish a framework of core competencies. Through interviews with experts from 28 European countries, this study found agreement on the importance of academic and clinical training but less importance placed on management, administrative, and advocacy skills. Establishing a specialty certification based on core competencies may facilitate mobility and harmonization of standards among professionals in the field.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Wenjing Lyu, Jin Liu
Summary: Analysis shows that job vacancies in the U.S. energy sector increasingly require high levels of soft skills, but hard skills actually contribute more to firm productivity. Therefore, energy firms should focus more on developing hard skills in human resource management.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Barbara Kowal, Daria Wlodarz, Edyta Brzychczy, Andrzej Klepka
Summary: The implementation of Industry 4.0 technology presents new challenges for employees' knowledge and skills, including digital, technical, social, and personal competencies. In this highly technically based industrial revolution, both technical and soft skills are equally important.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Cecilia K. Y. Chan, Lillian Y. Y. Luk
Summary: This study aims to develop a conceptualization of teachers' assessment literacy in holistic competencies, analyzing teachers' assessment literacy guided by four dimensions. The findings show that positive teacher-student relationships and subjectivity in assessment are particularly crucial in holistic competency assessment.
ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Patricia Green, Elizabeth J. Edwards, Marion Tower
Summary: This study used the Delphi method to identify core procedural skills competencies for Australian medical students and emphasized the importance of maintaining competency in these skills.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Management
Miguel Espinosa
Summary: Firms in the service sector tend to outsource lobbying tasks that demand a large amount of general skills, while assigning firm specific tasks to in-house lobbyists. Difference-in-difference estimations reveal that the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill led to an increase in the use of lobbyists for hire by oil and gas firms due to the increased general skills needed.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Douglas Allchin
Summary: Scientific misinformation and disinformation have become significant problems due to the proliferation of the internet and social media. To address this challenge, it is essential to reorient science education by developing 10 competencies, including epistemic motivation, media source interaction skills, and self-regulation.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Matthew C. H. Jukes, Nkanileka Loti Mgonda, Jovina J. Tibenda, Prosper Gabrieli, Grace Jeremiah, Kellie L. Betts, Jason Williams, Kristen L. Bub
Summary: Two studies conducted in 2017 investigated children's competencies valued by communities in Mtwara, Tanzania. The first study gathered qualitative data from 95 parents and 27 teachers, highlighting the high value placed on dimensions of social responsibility like obedience. In the second study, involving 477 children aged 4-13, factor analysis revealed that obedience explained the most variance in parent ratings, while factors like urban residence, parental SES, and education were associated with different competencies. These findings underscore the importance of culturally specific frameworks for social-emotional learning.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Chen-Ju Lin, Ci-Rong Li
Summary: By examining the effects of team- and individual-level diversity on creativity, this study contributes to the existing understanding of diversity effects. The results indicate that team-level expertise diversity is positively associated with individual creativity, while individual-level expertise dissimilarity negatively affects individual creativity. Additionally, employee social skills and leader social behavior moderate these effects.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Bailey A. Pope, Patricia A. Carney, Mary C. Brooks, Doug R. Rice, Ashly A. Albright, Stephanie A. C. Halvorson
Summary: This study aimed to identify and describe qualities that differentiate highly rated and low-rated physician educators. Quantitative analysis revealed variation in attending physician educators' performance across the ACGME core competencies. The highest-rated teaching qualities were interpersonal and communication skills, medical knowledge, and professionalism, while the lowest-rated teaching quality was systems-based practice. Qualitative analysis identified themes distinguishing high-quality from low-quality attending physician educators, such as balancing autonomy and supervision, role modeling, engagement, availability, compassion, and excellent teaching. This study provides insights into areas where attending physicians' educational strategies can be improved, emphasizing the importance of role modeling and effective communication.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Christine Wallisch, Daniela Dunkler, Geraldine Rauch, Riccardo de Bin, Georg Heinze
Summary: This study explores statistical models stability assessment methods, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of subsampling and bootstrapping for evaluating model stability. Results show that bootstrapping performs better in estimating bias and precision, but the latter requires independence among covariates, emphasizing the need for careful selection of evaluation methods in practice.
STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lara Lusa, Marianne Huebner
Summary: The SHARE study collects health, lifestyle, and socioeconomic data from individuals ages 50 and older in European countries. This research aims to develop a framework and R code for data management in order to prepare for data analysis and demonstrate its application to a specific research question. The framework significantly reduces the time to initiate research studies, facilitates data extraction, and ensures the validity of modeling results.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Hematology
Austin Kulasekararaj, Axel Glasmacher, Peng Liu, Jeff Szer, David Araten, Geraldine Rauch, Chad Gwaltney, J. Rafael Sierra, Jong Wook Lee
Summary: This study developed a novel composite endpoint to assess the overall impact of treatment on patients with PNH. The composite endpoint included selected variables such as lactate dehydrogenase levels, complete terminal complement inhibition, absence of major adverse vascular events, transfusion avoidance, and improvements in fatigue-related quality of life. The use of this composite endpoint provides a comprehensive measurement of overall benefit for patients receiving treatment for PNH.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Dario Zocholl, Manuel Wiesenfarth, Geraldine Rauch, Annette Kopp-Schneider
Summary: This simulation study suggests that small pediatric dose-finding trials with robustified priors may provide sufficient operating characteristics.
JOURNAL OF BIOPHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Willi Sauerbrei, Tim Haeussler, James Balmford, Marianne Huebner
Summary: Most prognostic factor studies are poorly reported and analyzed, which has severe consequences for related systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Article
Mycology
Bruno Maltez Miraglia, Leonel Mendoza, Ram Rammohan, Luiza Vilela, Camila Vilela, Gabriella Vilela, Marianne Huebner, Rinosh Mani, Raquel Vilela
Summary: Early phylogenetic analysis of P. insidiosum revealed three monophyletic clusters, but recent studies identified additional clusters. This study identified a novel sub-cluster within the P. insidiosum complex, which has implications for the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of pythiosis.
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Meinhard Kieser, Geraldine Rauch, Maximilian Pilz
Summary: When applying group-sequential designs in clinical trials with normally distributed outcomes, it is important to consider the potential inflation of type I error rate caused by using approximate critical values. This study proposes a method for computing exact critical boundaries and provides critical boundaries for Pocock- and O'Brien-Fleming-like group-sequential designs. Additionally, six alternative designs are presented for designs with one interim analysis, which control the type I error rate and allow for flexible design modifications. By including futility stopping and optimizing the designs, significant sample size savings can be achieved. Therefore, optimal two-stage designs with futility stopping may be a valuable alternative to classical group-sequential designs, particularly in clinical trials with small sample sizes.
JOURNAL OF BIOPHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS
(2023)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Maximilian Pilz, Carolin Herrmann, Geraldine Rauch, Meinhard Kieser
Summary: Adaptive planning of clinical trials allows modifying the entire trial design at any time point mid-course. In this paper, we propose an approach to construct adaptive designs with defined features by solving an optimization problem for unplanned design reassessment. By using the conditional error principle, we present a method to optimally modify the trial design at an unplanned interim analysis while protecting the type I error rate.
PHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Marianne Huebner, Friedrich Faber, Katharine Currie, Thomas Rieger
Summary: The study found that there are gender differences and regional variations in the training time and concurrent training of older weightlifters. Older females typically train 4 days a week, while older males reduce this to 3 days.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Editorial Material
Biochemical Research Methods
Mark Baillie, Saskia le Cessie, Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Lara Lusa, Marianne Huebner, Topic Grp Initial Data Analysis STRATOS Initiative
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Marianne Huebner, Frank Lawrence, Lara Lusa
Summary: This study quantifies the decline in grip strength with age and body mass and explores whether age affects the decline in grip strength. The results show that the decline in grip strength differs between males and females, with females experiencing an accelerated decline during the menopausal transition while males experience an accelerated decline with increasing age. Higher body mass is associated with an increase in grip strength, but this increase is less pronounced for older males.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marianne Huebner, Wenjuan Ma, Shirley Harding
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether weightlifting increases the risk of urinary incontinence (UI) in female competitive weightlifters and to explore the association between sport-related factors and UI. The results showed that 32% of the respondents had moderate or more severe UI. Higher BMI, previous pregnancies, and depressive mood increased the odds of UI, while age was not associated with it. Athletes who had engaged in high-impact sports before starting weightlifting had a higher risk of UI, but participation in prior strength sports was not associated with UI. The predictive probability of moderate or more severe UI increased with more hours per week of weightlifting training.
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Jan Meis, Maximilian Pilz, Carolin Herrmann, Bjoern Bokelmann, Geraldine Rauch, Meinhard Kieser
Summary: Group sequential trial designs can reduce sample size if design parameters are chosen appropriately. The same applies to the gold-standard designs for non-inferiority trials. However, choosing optimal design parameters for the three-arm gold-standard design is challenging, particularly in terms of futility boundaries. This study presents an extended hierarchical testing procedure that incorporates binding futility boundaries and explores the efficiency gain from including the option to stop for futility.
STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Orthopedics
Marianne Huebner, Mark E. Lavallee
Summary: This study investigated the association of training patterns, prior injuries, and severity of menopausal symptoms with arthralgia in female weightlifters. The results showed that lifting heavier weights was associated with arthralgia in the hips, knees, and hands/wrists, while prior strength training was protective for arthralgia in the shoulders. Furthermore, prior injuries and menopausal symptom severity were associated with an increased risk for arthralgia.
BMC MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Sport Sciences
Marianne Huebner, Wenjuan Ma
Summary: This study used machine learning algorithms to evaluate acute injuries in weightlifters, particularly in Master athletes. It identified training-specific variables, such as choices of training programmes or nutrition programmes, as potential factors in preventing acute injuries.
BMJ OPEN SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE
(2022)
