Comparison of The Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on The Performance of SMES/MSMEs in Indonesia in The Pre-Pandemic Period and Pandemic: A Meta-Analysis Approach by Akhmad Ali Rusdi, Lily Sudhartio

“…Background: The number of research publications examining the correlation between entrepreneurial orientation and performance in Indonesia increased significantly from January 2015 to June 2023. However, the findings have been inconsistent, with entrepreneurial orientation reported to have large, medium, small, neutral, or even negative effects on the performance of SMEs/MSMEs. …”
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Quality Care Through Clinical Audit: Blood Sampling Practices By Nurses In The Emergency Department Of A University Affiliated Teaching Hospital by Aimen Malik, Muhammad Azam Awais, Maria Aziz, Mubariz Ahmed, Muhammad Furqan Hussain, Usman Qureshi

“…The results of this analysis were used to devise interventions for improvement. Interventions included an interactive training session for the nursing staff, installation of visual cues in the department, ensuring better availability of equipment and formation of a team to ensure that the guidelines are being followed. …”
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Vδ2 T-cells response in people with Mpox infection: a three-month longitudinal assessment by Eleonora Cimini, Eleonora Tartaglia, Francesco Messina, Andrea Coppola, Valentina Mazzotta, Massimo Tempestilli, Giulia Matusali, Stefania Notari, Annalisa Mondi, Gianluca Prota, Alessandra Oliva, Carla Fontana, Enrico Girardi, Fabrizio Maggi, Andrea Antinori

“…We analyzed the kinetics of Vδ2 T-cell response from the acute phase up to three months after Mpox infection. …”
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Examining the Chemical and Optical Properties of Biomass-burning Aerosols and their Impact on Oxidative Potential by Suman Yadav, Taveen Singh Kapoor, Pradnya Vernekar, Harish C. Phuleria

“…Chemical and optical methods were employed to understand PM characteristics, while OP was measured using Dithiothreitol (DTT) assay. The average (± SD) indoor PM2.5, OC, EC, BC, and WSOC during cooking using biomass fuels were 1025 ± 1001, 203 ± 196, 140 ± 133, 112 ± 61, and 130 ± 118 µg m−3, respectively, and the corresponding village outdoor levels were ~12.8 (p = 0.04), 4.9 (p = 0.14), 19.8 (p = 0.09), 23.6 (p = 0.01), and 8.1 (p = 0.12) folds (statistical significance of difference) lower, respectively. …”
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Striving for an Alternative World Order: The Journey of Cuban Anti-Imperialism from History to Modernity by A. Z. Arabadzhyan

“…Following the collapse of the "world system of socialism" and the USSR, during the "Special Period in Peacetime," Cuba was compelled to reevaluate its economic foundations and foreign policy. …”
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Degenerative gluteal tears associated with hip arthroplasty by Dani Gaillard-Campbell, Thomas Gross

“…Methods From 1994 to 2009, the senior surgeon performed 1628 hip resurfacing and 864 total hip arthroplasties without identifying any gluteal tears. We recognized our first case of concomitant abductor tear during a hip resurfacing procedure in April 2009. …”
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Spatial and temporal epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 virus lineages in Teesside, UK, in 2020: effects of socio-economic deprivation, weather, and lockdown on lineage dynamics by Moss, E.D., Rushton, S.P., Baker, P., Bashton, M., Crown, M.R., dos Santos, R.N., Nelson, A., O’Brien, S.J., Richards, Z., Sanderson, R.A., Yew, W.C., Young, G.R., McCann, C.M., Smith, D.L.

“…We used a combination of disease mapping and mixed-effect modelling to analyse the total positive tests, and those of the eight most common virus lineages, in response to potential infection risk factors: socio-economic deprivation, population size, temperature, rainfall, government interventions, and a government restaurant subsidy (“Eat Out to Help Out”). …”
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An Inconvenient Past of World War II in the Historical Policy of the Republic of Croatia by A. M. Ponamareva

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Improved completion rates and characterization of drug reactions with an intensive Chagas disease treatment program in rural Bolivia. by Jeffrey A Tornheim, Daniel F Lozano Beltran, Robert H Gilman, Mario Castellon, Marco A Solano Mercado, Walter Sullca, Faustino Torrico, Caryn Bern

“…Treatment completion rates were higher among prospective than historical patients (82.1% vs. 65.1%), primarily due to lower abandonment rates. Rates of ADEs were lower among prospective than historical patients (56.8% vs. 66.9%). …”
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Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio Predicts Adverse Cardiovascular Outcome in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients Younger than 60 Years Old by Yingsi Zeng, Zijun Chen, Qinkai Chen, Xiaojiang Zhan, Haibo Long, Fenfen Peng, Fengping Zhang, Xiaoran Feng, Qian Zhou, Lingling Liu, Xuan Peng, Evergreen Tree Nephrology Association, Guanhua Guo, Yujing Zhang, Zebin Wang, Yueqiang Wen, Jiao Li, Jianbo Liang

“…Besides, forest plot was investigated to analyze the adverse CV prognosis in different subgroups. Results. During follow-up, 213 new-onset CV events and 153 CV disease (CVD) deaths were recorded. …”
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Intellectualized forensic technique for Android pattern locks by Jiahao QIU, Weidong QIU, Yangde WANG, Yan ZHA, Yuming XIE, Yan LI

“…In the field of digital forensics, how to unlock mobile devices such as phones has always been an urgent problem to overcome.As a special kind of password, pattern lock is widely used in mobile phone screen unlock and software access authorization.Existing pattern lock cracking techniques have several non-negligible disadvantages, such as poor concealment, low practicability, non-intelligence and single application scenario.Two basic threat models were abstracted from shoulder surfing, surveillance camera, and real-time forensics, and a multi-scenario side channel attack on pattern locks was proposed.Based on the data of surveillance camera or manual video, intelligent vision recognition algorithms were adopted to identify, select and track the target device and biological key points in the video dynamically.Then, discrete tracking points were integrated by spatial mapping and pruning algorithm.The denoising algorithm was used to eliminate redundancy and optimize the trajectory.Through procedures above, the original trajectory was simplified into regular polylines defined by several key turning points.Finally, the simplified pattern was compared and matched with the rules of legal pattern locks to inference and retort its actual pattern.Possible candidates will be sorted in the output according to their confidences.Results show that in the surveillance camera scenario, where the device screen is always visible, the cracking success rate of our technique is 89% for 10 attempts and 99.3% for 20 attempts.In the face-to-face scenario, where the subject consciously blocks the screen and his drawing finger, the success rate was 82% after 10 attempts and 89.3% after 20 attempts.In the surveillance camera scenario, the increase of shooting horizontal distance can significantly decrease the cracking success rate.But this effect diminishes with the increase of the number of attempts.Results show that the cracking success rate of the complex password is always higher than that of the simple password during 20 attempts, which means a complex pattern lock cannot play a better protection role if the proposed technique is applied.Shooting angle deflection within 5° has little effect on the success rate of cracking.…”
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The impact of multiple exposures and movement on the fear response of poultry by Alexandra Jackson, Marcela Quino, Anusha Gautam, Melissa Gilpin, Katie Still, Denise Landers, Bethany Baker-Cook

“…This study aimed to assess: 1) the impact of repeated exposure to fear tests on fear response and, 2) how the addition of movement to fear stimuli during a novel object test impacts bird fear response. …”
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Development and application of decontamination methods for the re-use of laboratory grade plastic pipette tips. by Sang Hyuk Lee, William Kastor, Xiao Fu, Vikas Soni, Michael Keidar, Marc Donohue, Steve Wood, Enusha Karunasena

“…In this study we were able to provide fundamental insight into a non-traditional decontamination method for single-use plasticware that could render these products reusable.…”
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Neighborhood Material Deprivation Is Associated with Childhood Asthma Development: Analysis of Prospective Administrative Data by Elinor Simons, Sharon D. Dell, Rahim Moineddin, Teresa To

“…Incident asthma was defined by the time of entry into the Ontario Asthma Surveillance Information System (OASIS) database. We measured the risk of incident asthma using Cox proportional hazards models and the associations between ongoing asthma visits and deprivation by year of life with generalized linear mixed models. …”
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Deep-learning-based canopy height model generation from sub-meter resolution panchromatic satellite imagery by Charles J Abolt, Javier E Santos, Adam L Atchley, Lucas Wells, Daithi Martin, Russell A Parsons, Rodman R Linn

“…Here we demonstrate a method to generate sub-meter resolution CHMs in three forests in California using a more abundant data source: sub-meter resolution, panchromatic satellite imagery from a single sensor. …”
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Using unmanned aerial vehicles to estimate body volume at scale for ecological monitoring by Thomas C. Stone, Katrina J. Davis

“…We apply and validate this method on the grey seal Halichoerus grypus, a pinniped species that spends much of its time at sea but is predictably observable during its annual breeding season. …”
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Association of β-Blocker Therapy at Discharge with Clinical Outcomes after Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients without Heart Failure by Yan Chen, Xiao-fang Tang, Run-lin Gao, Yue-jin Yang, Bo Xu, Jin-qing Yuan

“…Patients were then compared according to the β-blocker prescription at discharge. Results. During a 2-year follow-up, no significant association was observed of β-blocker use with all-cause mortality (with β-blockers 47/5,043 (0.9%) vs. without β-blocker use 8/588 (1.4%); hazard ratio (HR) 0.762, 95% confidence interval 0.36 to 1.64; P=0.485), cardiac death, myocardial infarction (MI), or major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. …”
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A comparison of dynamic warm-up and "warm-up" using self-massage tools on subsequent sit-and-reach displacement. by Michele Aquino, Frederick DiMenna, John Petrizzo, George Yusuff, Robert M Otto, John Wygand

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>A dynamic warm-up (DWU) comprising exercise involving rhythmic muscle actions results in an acute increase in range of motion; however, recent findings suggest that a passive one using self-massage techniques might elicit a similar effect. …”
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Annual Zoledronic Acid for the Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Asif Hussain, Sushil Kumar Saini, Jaydeep Patel, Chandra Prakash Pal, Hemant Singh Chahar, Rohit Yadav

“…Results: The primary outcome was reduced by 79% during the 1-year period in zoledronic acid, compared to placebo (3% in the treatment group vs. 14% in the placebo group; relative risk (RR): 0.21; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.06–0.72, P = 0.01). …”
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Effects of family socioeconomic status on the self-expectations of children under grandparenting in China by QiXuan Hu

“…To determine whether grandparenting was involved, responses from the Children’s parents’ questionnaire were used. Any caregiving arrangement involving grandparents-whether during the day, at night, or both-was classified as grandparenting. …”
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