Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Patricia Takaki, Moises Lima Dutra, Gustavo de Araujo, Eugenio Monteiro da Silva Junior
Summary: This study proposes a framework to evaluate machine learning-based predictive models of academic failure, using a Brazilian undergraduate distance learning course as a case study. In an imbalanced-data context, adopting multiple metrics to identify the best predictive model of student failure can be more effective.
MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
F. Giannakas, C. Troussas, I Voyiatzis, C. Sgouropoulou
Summary: This study proposed a Deep Neural Network framework for early prediction of teams' performance in software engineering, utilizing different activation functions and optimizers, training on a dataset of over 30000 entries grouped in 74 teams, and evaluating the framework's accuracy and learning performance. The results showed that the framework was capable of adequately and accurately predicting teams' performance.
APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Foivos Anastasiadis, Maria Alebaki
Summary: The wine industry is complex with intertwined product and services supply chains involving numerous stakeholders and flows, requiring future research perspectives such as sustainability, resilience, and circular economy. The study aims to provide a tool for designing targeted future research by employing an end-to-end mapping approach using data from the Greek wine supply chain.
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Management
M. S. Reed, M. Ferre, J. Martin-Ortega, R. Blanche, R. Lawford-Rolfe, M. Dallimer, J. Holden
Summary: This study provides a new definition of research impact and impact evaluation, develops a typology of research impact evaluation designs, and proposes a methodological framework to guide evaluations of research impact. The subjective nature of impacts is recognized, leading to the identification of five types of impact evaluation design. Using the proposed guidance, researchers, funders, and stakeholders can select suitable evaluation designs and methods to evidence the impact of research from any discipline.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ndeye Mareme Sougou, Oumy Ndiaye, Farah Nabil, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Samba Cor Sarr, Elhadji M. Mbaye, Guillermo Z. Martinez-Perez
Summary: This study identified barriers to the professional advancement of women researchers in West Africa, including family- and environmental-related barriers, gender insensitive organizational culture and institutional policies, and individual perceptions of professional success. Addressing these challenges will require more medium- and long-term strategic planning to reduce gender disparities.
Review
Business
Verma Prikshat, Mohammad Islam, Parth Patel, Ashish Malik, Pawan Budhwar, Suraksha Gupta
Summary: The research on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in HRM has gained significant traction in recent years. It is observed that contemporary AI applications have enhanced HR functionalities and strategic importance. However, there is a considerable gap in existing studies, particularly in terms of sector-specific research and the link between HRM(AI) and organizational outcomes.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Han Yu, Li Da Xu, Hongming Cai, Shancang Li, Boyi Xu, Lihong Jiang
Summary: This article proposes a stream processing framework based on linked data to address the challenges of information collaboration among multiple energy networks. The framework uses semantic relation discovery approach to model and fuse heterogeneous data, automatically generating semantics-based information transmission contracts and channels to adapt to structural changes in Energy Internet. The framework demonstrates adaptability, feasibility, and flexibility through a real-world case study.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS
(2021)
Review
Sport Sciences
Tzlil Shushan, Shaun J. McLaren, Martin Buchheit, Tannath J. Scott, Steve Barrett, Ric Lovell
Summary: This scoping review provides a theoretical framework and a detailed summary of the use of submaximal fitness tests as proxy indicators of training effects in team sports. Heart rate-derived indices are the most studied outcome measures, while subjective outcome measures and mechanical outcome measures have received less attention. Heart rate indices are more relevant for detecting positive chronic endurance-oriented training effects, but their role in detecting negative transient effects associated with variations in autonomic nervous system function is still unclear. Further research is needed to establish the utility of mechanical outcome measures.
Article
Nursing
Joan R. Bloch, Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow
Summary: Academic nursing research is facing challenges in sustaining and replenishing senior nurse-scientist faculty after a wave of retirements and resignations during COVID-19. There are issues with NIH funding for nurse-scientist faculty, as publicly available data reveal equity and inclusion issues that put them at a disadvantage compared to faculty in schools of public health and medicine. Understanding the complex interplay between academic nursing units, university infrastructures, and academic budgetary models is crucial in supporting nursing deans and their faculty.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Thomas A. O'Neill, Christopher Flathmann, Nathan J. McNeese, Eduardo Salas
Summary: While high-performance teamwork has been studied extensively, the rise of human-autonomy teams (HAT) enabled by artificial intelligence is a new research area. However, this field has not adequately incorporated existing literature, theory, and methods from traditional all-human teaming. This article provides construct clarity and integrates the Input-Mediator-Output model to help researchers classify variables and consolidate findings in HAT research. The construct clarity and theoretical integration offered here will serve as a valuable perspective for current and future research in the HAT field.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Management
Catalina Martinez, Sarah Parlane
Summary: This paper presents a theoretical framework that considers various factors influencing firms' decisions to hire star academics. The scientist's academic ability plays a critical role in the hiring process. When research and development activities are not strong substitutes, the optimal contract encourages multitasking and the firm targets applicants with either the highest or lowest ability. Scientists with the lowest ability are hired in environments where absorptive capacity investments have low returns, academic publications create significant negative externalities for the firm, or the academic sector offers attractive outside options. When academic ability cannot be verified, the contract must only attract scientists with the targeted ability. Top scientists may need to be overcompensated for their research outcomes, while low ability scientists may be excessively compensated for their development outcomes. This leads to a bias in favor of high-ability scientists when research and development activities exhibit strong complementarity, and a higher targeting of scientists with the lowest ability when the cost of conducting both activities increases.
Article
Oncology
Hillary Stires, Igor Bado, Thelma Brown, Martha Carlson, Isaac S. Chan, Gloria V. Echeverria, Andrew J. Ewald, Bora Lim, Carla Lloyd, Julia Maues, Steffi Oesterreich, Robert N. Riter, Kelly Shanahan, Alana L. Welm, Josh Newby
Summary: Incorporating patient advocates into basic cancer research can enhance research intentionality, effective communication, and direct connections between researchers and those they aim to help. However, many cancer research scientists do not collaborate with patient advocates. Through hosting workshops and discussing findings at an international conference, we identified barriers and provided actionable steps to support researchers in working with patient advocates to improve cancer research and achieve our collective goal.
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Maelys Courtat, James Joyce, Sarah Sim, Jhuma Sadhukhan, Richard Murphy
Summary: Environmental rating ecolabels are a new generation of ecolabels that enable consumers to compare the environmental impacts of products. There is a proliferation of different methodologies for deriving product performance ratings, driven by consumer demand for more product information and policy instruments to combat greenwashing. To address this, a framework based on four core principles and 18 guidelines is proposed to promote credible and evidence-based environmental rating ecolabels. An inventory of 33 existing schemes in Europe reveals the potential for improvement and provides a valuable guide for development and evaluation.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Shuo Yu, Feng Xia, Chen Zhang, Haoran Wei, Kathleen Keogh, Honglong Chen
Summary: Collaborative teamwork is crucial for major scientific discoveries, but team recognition is increasingly challenging. The familiarity-based collaborative team recognition algorithm MOTO is proposed to identify cohesive academic teams by calculating the shortest distance matrix and local density. MOTO outperforms baseline methods in recognizing teams with cohesive structures and lower communication costs.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS
(2022)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sofia Moutinho
Summary: A second term for Bolsonaro could have devastating consequences for science and the environment.
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Sujan Ravi, Mahmoud Aryan, William F. Ergen, Laura Leal, Robert A. Oster, Chee P. Lin, Frederick H. Weber, Shajan Peter
Summary: This study demonstrates that a trained registered nurse (RN) can accurately interpret bleeding by observing real-time capsule endoscopy (CE) findings and shows consistency with physician interpretation. Using an RN for interpretation can lead to shorter time for bleeding localization and therapy.
DIGESTIVE DISEASES
(2023)
Article
Immunology
K. M. Hudock, M. S. Collins, M. A. Imbrogno, E. L. Kramer, J. J. Brewington, A. Ziady, N. Zhang, J. Snowball, Y. Xu, B. C. Carey, Y. Horio, S. M. O'Grady, E. J. Kopras, J. Meeker, H. Morgan, A. J. Ostmann, E. Skala, M. E. Siefert, C. L. Na, C. R. Davidson, K. Gollomp, N. Mangalmurti, B. C. Trapnell, J. P. Clancy
Summary: Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) contribute to lung injury in cystic fibrosis and asthma by disrupting airway epithelial barrier function through bronchial cell death and degradation of E-cadherin, which can be limited by exogenous alpha-1 antitrypsin (A1AT).
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Critical Care Medicine
Stephanie G. Patterson, Celia K. Lamb, Wu Gong, Jackson Resser, Christopher J. Lindsell, Sara L. Van Driest, Ryan J. Stark
Summary: This study investigated the prevalence of pediatric Persistent Inflammation, Immunosuppression, and Catabolism Syndrome (pPICS) in patients who died from sepsis-related causes. It found that nearly half of the pediatric patients with sepsis had pPICS. These patients were more likely to have underlying hematologic or oncologic disease or cardiac disease, and were also at a higher risk of fungal infections compared to patients without pPICS.
Article
Infectious Diseases
Alexander M. Kaizer, Nathan I. Shapiro, Jessica Wild, Samuel M. Brown, B. Jessica Cwik, Kimberly W. Hart, Alan E. Jones, Michael S. Pulia, Wesley H. Self, Clay Smith, Stephanie A. Smith, Patrick C. Ng, B. Taylor Thompson, Todd W. Rice, Christopher J. Lindsell, Adit A. Ginde
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) for early treatment of non-hospitalized individuals with COVID-19. The results showed that LPV/r did not significantly improve symptom resolution or reduce hospitalization in non-hospitalized participants.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Susanna Naggie, David R. Boulware, Christopher J. Lindsell, Thomas G. Stewart, Alex J. Slandzicki, Stephen C. Lim, Jonathan Cohen, David Kavtaradze, Arch P. Amon, Ahab Gabriel, Nina Gentile, G. Michael Felker, Dushyantha Jayaweera, Matthew W. McCarthy, Mark Sulkowski, Russell L. Rothman, Sybil Wilson, Allison DeLong, April Remaly, Rhonda Wilder, Sean Collins, Sarah E. Dunsmore, Stacey J. Adam, Florence Thicklin, George J. Hanna, Adit A. Ginde, Mario Castro, Kathleen McTigue, Elizabeth Shenkman, Adrian F. Hernandez
Summary: The study evaluated the effectiveness of ivermectin at a maximum targeted dose of 600 μg/kg daily for 6 days in the treatment of early mild to moderate COVID-19. The results showed that compared to placebo, ivermectin treatment did not improve the time to sustained recovery, suggesting no benefits of ivermectin for patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Aristotelis Astrinidis, Chenggang Li, Erik Y. Zhang, Xueheng Zhao, Shuyang Zhao, Minzhe Guo, Tasnim Olatoke, Ushodaya Mattam, Rong Huang, Alan G. Zhang, Lori Pitstick, Elizabeth J. Kopras, Nishant Gupta, Roman Jandarov, Eric P. Smith, Elizabeth Fugate, Diana Lindquist, Maciej M. Markiewski, Magdalena Karbowniczek, Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, Kenneth D. R. Setchell, Francis X. McCormack, Yan Xu, Jane J. Yu
Summary: This study reveals the activation of sphingolipid biosynthesis pathway in LAM lungs and enhancement of sphingolipid synthesis due to TSC2 gene loss. Inhibition of key enzymes ASAH1 and DEGS1 significantly reduces the viability of TSC2-null cells. Targeting aberrant sphingolipid biosynthesis pathways may have therapeutic potential for TSC and LAM.
Article
Hematology
A. Samer Al-Homsi, Frank Cirrone, Stephanie Wo, Kelli Cole, Andres Suarez-Londono, Sharon L. Gardner, Jingmei Hsu, Kelsey Stocker, Benedetto Bruno, Judith D. Goldberg, Benjamin A. Levinson, Maher Abdul-Hay
Summary: The combination of PTCy, abatacept, and a short course of tacrolimus (CAST) after haploidentical HSCT is safe and effective in reducing the incidence of grades 2-4 acute GVHD. The study enrolled 46 patients with a median age of 60 years, and the cumulative incidences of grades 2-4 and 3 or 4 acute GVHD were 17.4% and 4.4%, respectively. The CAST regimen also showed favorable outcomes in terms of treatment-related mortality, chronic GVHD rate, relapse rate, progression-free survival, and overall survival.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Nashira I. Brown, Lauren Stewart, Laura Q. Rogers, Mary Anne Powell, Claudia M. Hardy, Monica L. Baskin, Robert A. Oster, Maria Pisu, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Dori Pekmezi
Summary: This study assessed the built environment, programs, and policies related to physical activity in six rural counties in Alabama, and found a lack of facilities, policies, and safety features that support physical activity, leading to barriers in rural areas.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Frank E. Litchfield, Robert A. Oster, Chung How Kau, Ejvis Lamani
Summary: This study found that more than half of African American patients experience at least 2 mm of root resorption after orthodontic treatment. However, there is no significant correlation between patient-related factors such as age, gender, dental malocclusion, skeletal classifications, and treatment-related factors with the risk of developing EARR.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Eva A. Mistry, Kimberly W. Hart, Larry T. Davis, Yue Gao, Charles J. Prestigiacomo, Shilpi Mittal, Tapan Mehta, Hayden LaFever, Pablo Harker, Hilary E. Wilson-Perez, Kalli A. Beasley, Neeharika Krothapalli, Emily Lippincott, Heather Stefek, Michael Froehler, Rohan Chitale, Matthew Fusco, Aaron Grossman, Peyman Shirani, Matthew Smith, Matthew N. Jaffa, Sharon D. Yeatts, Gregory W. Albers, Jonathan P. Wanderer, Juliana Tolles, Christopher J. Lindsell, Roger J. Lewis, Gordon R. Bernard, Pooja Khatri
Summary: This study aimed to determine the futility of lower systolic blood pressure (SBP) targets after successful endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke. The results showed that lower SBP targets (<140 mm Hg or <160 mm Hg) did not meet the prespecified criteria for futility compared with a higher target (≤180 mm Hg) among patients with acute ischemic stroke. However, the findings also suggested a low probability of benefit from lower SBP targets after endovascular therapy if tested in a future larger trial.
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Respiratory System
Aamir Munshi, Alan D. Hyslop, Elizabeth J. Kopras, Nishant Gupta
Summary: This web-based survey aimed to investigate the occurrence of spontaneous pneumothoraces (SPs) during pregnancy in patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). Among the respondents, 34% of pregnant patients were diagnosed with LAM due to respiratory symptoms, with SPs being the presenting manifestation in 77% of these cases. 29% of pregnant patients experienced at least one SP, with the majority occurring during the second trimester. This study provides valuable insights for the LAM community regarding the risk, burden, and timing of pregnancy-related SPs.
RESPIRATORY INVESTIGATION
(2023)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Alec R. Raley, Matthew L. Brown, Morgan Frawley, Robert A. Oster, William Seth Edwards
Summary: The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical efficacy and safety outcomes related to the use of vancomycin loading doses. The results showed that routine use of vancomycin loading doses is not associated with improved outcomes in hemodynamically stable patients with MRSA infections.
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Emily Slade, Ann M. Brearley, Adrian Coles, Matthew J. Hayat, Pandurang M. Kulkarni, Amy S. Nowacki, Robert A. Oster, Michael A. Posner, Gregory Samsa, Heidi Spratt, Jesse Troy, Gina-Maria Pomann
Summary: This study evaluates the importance of team science skills among collaborative biostatisticians and identifies 19 essential skills, providing a foundation for improving graduate programs and establishing effective on-the-job training initiatives.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Pediatrics
Alexander Maad El-Ali, Selin Ocal, C. Austen Hartwell, Judith D. D. Goldberg, Xiaochun Li, Jaimelee Prestano, Ranjith Kamity, Laura Martin, Naomi Strubel, Shailee Lala
Summary: This retrospective study evaluated predictive factors for diagnostic ultrasound (US) for midgut volvulus and found that US was most frequently diagnostic in patients with bilious emesis or age less than 28 days. A non-diagnostic US for midgut volvulus requires a predetermined follow-up strategy to investigate potential midgut volvulus.
PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Laura Q. Rogers, Dori Pekmezi, Yu-Mei Schoenberger-Godwin, Kevin R. Fontaine, Nataliya V. Ivankova, Amber W. Kinsey, Teri Hoenemeyer, Michelle Y. Martin, Maria Pisu, David Farrell, Jonathan Wall, Kaitlyn Waugaman, Robert A. Oster, Kelly Kenzik, Kerri Winters-Stone, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried
Summary: This study aims to facilitate replication and future intervention design of web-based multibehavior lifestyle interventions. The paper describes the rationale, development, and content of the AiM, Plan, and act on LIFestYles (AMPLIFY) Survivor Health intervention, which provides support for healthy eating and exercise behavior change for older cancer survivors. The intervention promotes weight loss, improvements in diet quality, and meeting exercise recommendations.