Sabrina Chiodo, Sonia M. Grandi, Jessica Gronsbell
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Introduction
Perinatal outcomes are shaped by clinical, social, and environmental factors, yet Canada lacks a nationally representative pregnancy cohort capturing these influences at the individual-level. This gap has limited the ability to address multifactorial drivers of maternal and fetal health. To fill this need, we established a linked cohort integrating survey, clinical, and contextual data to support equity-focused, precision public health research in maternal health.
Methods
We linked the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS; 2000--2017) to the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) using Statistics Canada's Social Data Linkage Environment. Eligible participants were female (as defined by the binary CCHS sex variable), aged 15-49 years, with a hospital delivery within two years of their CCHS interview. We excluded multifetal gestations and retained only the first delivery per individual. Area-level and environmental exposures (i.e., neighbourhood inequity, pollution, greenspace, neighbourhood walkability, etc.) were appended via residential postal codes using the Postal Code Conversion File Plus (PCCF+).
Results
The cohort includes 13,360 singleton births. Pre-pregnancy data include sociodemographics, health behaviours, chronic conditions, psychosocial factors, and reproductive history. Contextual measures capture neighbourhood marginalization, air pollution, greenness, and built environment characteristics. In the CCHS, individuals who reported being pregnant at interview and those who did not (but later delivered) had similar characteristics (SMDs < 0.1), except for age and marital status. Data quality is supported by Statistics Canada's survey protocols, CIHI's hospital validation processes, and standardised geocoding.
Conclusion
Approved researchers can recreate this dataset within Statistics Canada's Research Data Centres using reproducible R code, which will become openly available on GitHub. The cohort enables research across descriptive epidemiology, causal inference, predictive modelling, and health equity evaluation, supporting investigations into multilevel determinants of maternal health. Future work should prioritise national mother--child linkages to expand life course research.
In the context of Industry 4.0, user demands for industrial robots have shifted toward diversification and experience-orientation. Effectively integrating users’ affective imagery requirements into industrial-robot form design remains a critical challenge. Traditional methods rely heavily on designers’ subjective judgments and lack objective data on user cognition. To address these limitations, this study develops a comprehensive methodology grounded in Kansei engineering that combines Extenics-based semantic analysis, eye-tracking experiments, and user imagery evaluation. First, we used web crawlers to harvest user-generated descriptors for industrial floor-cleaning robots and applied Extenics theory to quantify and filter key perceptual imagery features. Second, eye-tracking experiments captured users’ visual-attention patterns during robot observation, allowing us to identify pivotal design elements and assemble a sample repository. Finally, the semantic differential method collected users’ evaluations of these design elements, and correlation analysis mapped emotional needs onto stylistic features. Our findings reveal strong positive correlations between four core imagery preferences—“dignified,” “technological,” “agile,” and “minimalist”—and their corresponding styling elements. By integrating qualitative semantic data with quantitative eye-tracking metrics, this research provides a scientific foundation and novel insights for emotion-driven design in industrial floor-cleaning robots.
Стаття присвячена формуванню нових наукових рішень щодо дослідження особливостей управління активами на підприємствах України в умовах трансформації ринків товарів та ресурсів (світові, міжнародні, і, особливо, національні, галузеві і регіональні). Розкрита наукова та практична необхідність активізації процесів підвищення адаптивності, гнучкості та ефективності бізнесу в Україні за рахунок управління активами (майном) трансформаційним процесам, які відбуваються на ринках товарів та ресурсів. Метою статті є пошук шляхів підвищення ефективності управління активами на підприємствах України в умовах трансформації ринків товарів та ресурсів (світові, міжнародні, і, особливо, національні, галузеві і регіональні). Методологія: використано комплекс загальних та спеціальних методів на емпіричному і теоретичному рівнях, таких як: метод літературного аналізу для дослідження наукової проблематики у сфері управління активами суб’єктами підприємництва; метод аналізу для визначення тенденцій і особливостей управління активами (майном) загалом, необоротними та оборотними активами на великих, середніх, малих та мікропідприємствах України; метод синтезу для визначення проблематики управління активами (майном) загалом, необоротними та оборотними активами на великих, середніх, малих та мікропідприємствах України; методи індукції та дедукції для формування сукупність рекомендацій щодо підвищення адаптивності, гнучкості та ефективності бізнесу в Україні у контексті управління активами (майном) трансформаційним процесам, які відбуваються на ринках товарів та ресурсів; методи систематизації, групування і логічного узагальнення для систематизації інформації, формування висновків і наукових пропозицій статті. Результати: визначено шляхи підвищення ефективності управління активами на підприємствах України в умовах трансформації ринків товарів та ресурсів (світові, міжнародні, і особливо національні, галузеві і регіональні).
Abstract Ownership concentration is widely recognized as a crucial corporate governance technique. It enables owners with significant shareholdings to exert a notable impact on how an organization operates and manages. This study investigates the effects of ownership concentration on corporate financial performance of publicly traded non-financial corporations for an emerging market perspective. The current investigation utilized system GMM to analyze the correlation between ownership concentration and firm performance. The study used a sample size of 741 observations obtained from 84 publicly listed companies having nine years data set between January 2013 and December 2021. The overall test results document that there was a statistically significant negative relationship between ownership concentration and firm performance. In the same view, the alternative measures of concentration, such as the percentage of shares held by the top two, three, and five entities, negatively impact firm performance. The study's results have substantial implications for regulatory bodies in the market, because they assist in protecting the welfare of investors and encouraging the expansion of investors' investment portfolios.
Neste artigo, discuto os três principais efeitos do hormônio sexual testosterona, a força física, a agressividade e o desejo sexual, para refletir sobre atributos da masculinidade hegemônica, a partir de entrevistas com homens usuários. A fundamentação teórica se baseia nos estudos de Gênero e Ciência e estudos sobre homens e masculinidades. Os dados empíricos decorrem de relatos de história de vida de 21 homens usuários do hormônio e a análise segue o método da análise do discurso. Os resultados apontam para um looping effect do modelo tradicional de masculinidade, que precisa ser expandido para comportar corpos atravessados por diversos marcadores sociais na construção de uma imagem semelhante do corpo masculino.
En este trabajo discutimos los abordajes foucaultianos sobre los procesos de subjetivación de trabajadoras/es de plataforma, poniendo el foco del análisis en los propios sujetos. A partir de datos recolectados en grupos focales, elaboramos cuatro “claves interpretativas” para captar racionalidades, lógicas y prenociones subyacentes en los sentidos construidos por las/os trabajadoras/es. Concluimos que, en un contexto signado por una economía históricamente en crisis, la racionalidad predominante entre las/os repartidoras/es se encuentra más próxima a una lógica de “supervivencia” que a las dinámicas propias de la figura del “empresario de sí”.
Carlos Capella-Peris, Manuel Martí-Puig, Celina Salvador-García
et al.
The purpose of this study was to compare the development of social entrepreneurship competency in physical education teacher education students (n = 89), through two modalities of intervention from the same service-learning program. The student teachers provided a direct service to children with motor functional diversity, promoting their motor skills and counteracting their lack of social attention. The study was conducted using mixed methods with methodological triangulation. Quantitative evidence was gathered through a quasi-experimental design of two non-equivalent experimental groups implementing the Social Entrepreneurship Competency Scale. Qualitative analysis was undertaken by elaborating 12 life histories of multiple crossed stories. Quantitative results provide significant evidence about the social entrepreneurship competency effect of service-learning on physical education teacher education students while qualitative interpretation complements this view, reflecting how this competency was developed. We provide original findings on promotion of personal, social, and innovative social entrepreneurship competency features as well as the promotion of moral and civic values.
This article examines the social equity of e-scooter availability across different socially disadvantaged groups in Minneapolis, MN (USA). The city’s northwestern part with high poverty rates has a higher e-scooter availability rate than its counterparts. Also, this study did not find any significant inequality involved with race or educational attainment. However, while the city performed well on these, areas with a high percentage of commuters, dependent on transit, bike, and walking, have fewer e-scooters available on their streets. As such an area, the local models of this study underscore the need for more e-scooter deployment in areas close to downtown.
Transportation and communications, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Media coverage can affect audiences’ perceptions of immigrants, and can play a role in determining the content of public policy agendas, the formation of prejudices, and the prevalence of negative stereotyping. This study investigated the way in which immigrants are represented in the Danish media, which terms are used, what issues related to immigrants and immigration are discussed and how they are described, and whose voices are heard. The data consisted of media articles published in the two most widely read Danish newspapers in 2019. Inductive qualitative content analysis was conducted. The portrayal of immigrants was generally negative. Overall, immigrants were portrayed as economic, cultural and security threats to the country. The most salient immigrant groups mentioned in the media were non-Westerners, Muslims, and people ‘on tolerated stay’. Integration, xenophobia and racial discrimination were the three immigrant-related issues most frequently presented by the media. The media gave voice mainly to politicians and immigrant women. The material showed that Danes have a strong affinity for ‘Danishness’, which the papers explained as a major barrier to the integration and acceptance of immigrants in Denmark.
Property valuation in the comparative approach requires the determination of the impact of market characteristics on the formation of prices on the local real estate market. Valuers have a variety of methods for determining weights. Some of them require the collection of a sufficiently large database of information on transactions. However, this is not always possible. In the absence of sufficient data, alternative approaches, including an expert approach, may be used. The goal of the article is the proposal of an expert approach at the stage of assessing the influence of attributes on the value of the real estate. The AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method will be used. On its basis, pairwise comparisons of the importance of attributes will be done by experts (valuers). By means of the AHP method, the weights of each attribute will be obtained and, subsequently, the influence of each attribute on the real estate value will be assessed. Research will be done on the basis of 318 real estates in Szczecin.
The article's theme is the dialogue between work and work knowledges in the production of health care, basing itself on the empyrical study realized by a hopsitalar institution in the Rio Grande do Sul. Our main objective is to describe and analyze the ways knowledge is presented on the nurses' activity and techniques. We base ourselves theoretically on the sociology and on work's social psychology, besides studys about work and care. The research is qualiquantitative and had questionnaires, enterviews and field observations. As the results, the study presents the conditioning of the production and acknowledgement of the nurses' knowledge in the context of health work organization. Not less important are the care work specifities, that contribute to the comprehension of the knowledges inherent to it's realization. Lastly, the research points the necessity of more studys that produce the dialogue of the theoretical field of education and work with researchs about gender and care to a better understanding of the characteristics of the workers' knowledge.
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O tema do presente artigo é o diálogo entre o trabalho e os saberes do trabalho na produção do cuidado em saúde, tendo como base estudo empírico realizado numa instituição hospitalar do Rio Grande do Sul. Nosso objetivo principal é descrever e analisar as formas como se apresentam os saberes na atividade de técnicas de enfermagem e enfermeiras, buscando caminhos de pesquisa que possibilitem maior visibilidade e reconhecimento dos mesmos. Buscamos apoio teórico em discussões sociológicas sobre o trabalho, na psicologia social do trabalho e na psicodinâmica do trabalho, além de estudos sobre o cuidado. A pesquisa é de natureza qualiquantitativa e contou com a aplicação de questionários, entrevistas e observações de campo. Como resultados, o estudo apresenta os condicionamentos da produção e do reconhecimento dos saberes das trabalhadoras da enfermagem no contexto da organização do trabalho em saúde. Revelam-se não menos importantes as especificidades do trabalho de cuidado, o que vem contribuir para a compreensão dos conhecimentos inerentes à sua realização. Por fim, a pesquisa aponta a necessidade de realização de mais estudos que promovam o diálogo do campo trabalho e educação com pesquisas sobre gênero e cuidado para um melhor entendimento das características dos saberes dos trabalhadores.
Special aspects of education, Labor. Work. Working class
Diego D. Costilla, Ernesto R. Chavanne, María B. García
et al.
La inscripción de variedades en el Registro Nacional de Propiedad de Cultivares de la República Argentina (RNPC) tiene como objetivo proteger el derecho de propiedad de los creadores y descubridores de nuevas variedades vegetales (derecho de obtentor). La inclusión en este catálogo implica también la inscripción de las variedades en el Registro Nacional de Cultivares (RNC) que habilita su comercialización. Ambos registros son conducidos por el Instituto Nacional de Semillas (Inase), organismo que establece las normas para la incorporación de las variedades en el Catálogo Nacional de Cultivares. Una de estas normas es la realización de un examen de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad de las variedades (DHE) según directrices de la Unión Internacional para la Protección de las Obtenciones Vegetales (UPOV). Este examen, DHE, comprende la evaluación de 54 caracteres botánicos cualitativos y cuantitativos en plantas de 10 a 12 meses de desarrollo en un primer ciclo de corte ("caña planta"). Los caracteres cualitativos se observan en seis muestras, o partes de cada una de ellas, y los cuantitativos en 24 muestras, o partes de cada una de ellas, provenientes de distintas cepas. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la evaluación DHE de TUC 00-19, una variedad de caña de azúcar producida por el Programa de Mejoramiento Genético de la Estación Experimental Agroindustrial Obispo Colombres (EEAOC) que se incorporó en el RNPC de la República Argentina.