Editorial Material
Urology & Nephrology
Agathe Truchot, Marc Raynaud, Alexandre Loupy
Summary: Understanding the impact of sex differences on graft outcomes is important for improving patient management in kidney transplantation. Vinson et al. conducted a relative survival analysis comparing the excess risk of mortality between female and male recipients after kidney transplantation. This commentary discusses the key findings and challenges of using registry data for large-scale analyses.
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Renaud Hedouin, Riccardo Metere, Kwok-Shing Chan, Christian Licht, Jeroen Mollink, Anne-Marievan Cappellen Van Walsum, Jose P. Marques
Summary: This study presents a pipeline to generate realistic 2D white matter models and simulate their magnetic resonance signal behavior. It demonstrates that 2D white matter models can predict microstructural parameters and provide comparable results using multi-orientation data.
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Business
Luiza Neves Marques da Fonseca, Angela da Rocha, Jorge Brantes Ferreira
Summary: This research explores the divestment behavior of foreign subsidiaries of Brazilian multinational firms and investigates the impact of institutional characteristics on the divestment process. The findings suggest that receiving financial support from the government and witnessing divestment behavior by home country counterparts increase the likelihood of divestment, while having market supporting institutions in the home country reduces the likelihood of foreign divestment.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Jeremy Barben, Ariane Mamguem Kamga, Tienhan Sandrine Dabakuyo-Yonli, Arthur Hacquin, Alain Putot, Patrick Manckoundia, Leila Bengrine-Lefevre, Valerie Quipourt
Summary: Cervical cancer is more commonly diagnosed in older women and is associated with more advanced tumors and comorbidities in this population. Older women have lower treatment rates, a smaller proportion undergo surgery but a larger proportion receive radiotherapy. Age is a prognostic factor for cervical cancer.
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Environmental Studies
Peng Chen, Wei Wang, Chong Qian, Mengqiu Cao, Tianren Yang
Summary: Gravity-based models play an important role in assessing the accessibility of urban parks, but the impact of variable selection and transport modes on accessibility evaluations has been limited. This study investigates the differences in gravity-based models for park accessibility based on varying assumptions about attractiveness factors and travel impedance. The results reveal the importance of factors such as park openness and access to public transport, leading to the development of localized accessibility measurements that incorporate park inclusiveness and multimodal travel options. The refined model produces lower and more varied accessibility levels, which can effectively capture accessibility gaps across different geographic contexts and assist in formulating policies for equitable access to urban public parks.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B-URBAN ANALYTICS AND CITY SCIENCE
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Beata Jablonska, Katrina L. Adams, Panagiotis Kratimenos, Zhen Li, Emma Strickland, Tarik F. Haydar, Katharina Kusch, Klaus-Armin Nave, Vittorio Gallo
Summary: The study identifies Sirt2 as a crucial regulator of oligodendrocyte differentiation and shows that hypoxia reduces Sirt2 expression, leading to delayed oligodendrocyte maturation and hypomyelination. The findings suggest that a balance of Sirt1 and Sirt2 activity is necessary for developmental oligodendrogenesis, and that targeting these proteins may promote repair following white matter injury.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
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Business
John Qi Dong
Summary: Goal setting plays a crucial role in determining the performance and risk of strategic decisions. This study highlights the importance of focusing on external performance goals rather than solely relying on internal goals. Utilizing information from a reasonable reference group for goal setting has been shown to be more beneficial in navigating through technological changes and less useful during unpredictable market shifts.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2021)
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Economics
Jack Britton, Laura van der Erve, Chris Belfield, Anna Vignoles, Matt Dickson, Yu Zhu, Ian Walker, Lorraine Dearden, Luke Sibieta, Franz Buscha
Summary: In this study, a large and novel administrative dataset is used to investigate the returns to different university degrees in the United Kingdom. The analysis, which controls for various background characteristics, reveals significant variation in returns among degrees with similar selectivity levels, indicating the importance of students' degree choices for future earnings. The study finds that returns increase more with university selectivity at the top end of the selectivity distribution, and the variation is larger between different subjects. Furthermore, the observable characteristics of degrees, other than selectivity, show poor correlation with returns, which has important implications for student choices and university incentives.
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Marina Affi Koprowski, Thomas L. Sutton, Nima Nabavizadeh, Charles Thomas, Emerson Chen, Adel Kardosh, Charles Lopez, Skye C. Mayo, Kim Lu, Daniel Herzig, V. Liana Tsikitis
Summary: The study found that early recurrence in rectal cancer is not associated with post-recurrence survival, while symptomatic recurrences and those with elevated CEA levels are related to worse survival. Metastatic disease confined to the liver or lung is associated with improved survival.
JOURNAL OF GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY
(2022)
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Automation & Control Systems
Vidya Muthukumar, Adhyyan Narang, Vignesh Subramanian, Mikhail Belkin, Daniel Hsu, Anant Sahai
Summary: This study compares classification and regression tasks in an overparameterized linear model with Gaussian features. The findings show that under sufficient overparameterization, all training points are support vectors, and the solutions obtained by least-squares minimum-norm interpolation are identical to those produced by the hard margin support vector machine. Additionally, the study reveals the existence of regimes where interpolating solutions generalize well when evaluated by the 0-1 test loss function, but do not generalize when evaluated by the square loss function.
JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH
(2021)
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Information Science & Library Science
Youxing Huang, Na Jiang, Yan Zhang
Summary: This study examines the impact of Internet security environment on Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and finds that a secure Internet promotes Chinese firms' FDI overseas. However, Internet security in surrounding countries can have negative spillover effects that hinder Chinese investment in the host country.
TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS
(2021)
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Hematology
Bruno Paiva, Jesus San-Miguel, Herve Avet-Loiseau
Summary: Multiple myeloma survival is longer with deeper response, but there are conflicting results regarding complete remission and minimal residual disease negativity. Some patients with persistent M protein have undetectable MRD. We reviewed the frequency of this discrepancy and suggest MRD assessment for patients achieving very good partial response or better.
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Food Science & Technology
Shady S. Atallah, Claudia Bazzani, Kim A. Ha, Rodolfo M. Nayga
Summary: This study investigates consumer valuation for craft beer brewed locally and made with locally grown hops through a choice experiment survey. The results show that consumers have a higher willingness to pay for beer brewed in-state, but preferences over hops origin are heterogeneous. By segmenting consumers based on their definition of local beer, the study finds different preferences that can inform product differentiation and marketing strategies.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2021)
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Surgery
Theresa Relation, Yaming Li, James L. Fisher, Allan Tsung, Bridget Oppong, Mariam F. Eskander, Samilia Obeng-Gyasi
Summary: The study found that disease-specific mortality among inflammatory breast cancer patients is primarily associated with tumor biology and patient characteristics rather than treatment disparities or neighborhood socioeconomic status.
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Engineering, Civil
David A. Hensher, Camila Balbontin, William H. Greene, Joffre Swait
Summary: This paper introduces a new choice model with an experience conditioning feature to address endogeneity and exogeneity issues. Conditioning on experience helps purging heterogeneity in unobserved effects and enhances the overall statistical performance of the mixed logit model.