Hasil untuk "Literature (General)"

S. Coughlin

P. Löwdin

N. Kuncel, Sarah A. Hezlett, D. Ones

Jayne Allam, H. Gretton, Andre Haag et al.

M. Pacella, Bryce Hruska, D. Delahanty

C. Raddats, C. Kowalkowski, O. Benedettini et al.

Abstract Servitization describes the addition of services to manufacturers' core product offerings to create additional customer value. This study aims to identify the key themes and research priorities in this body of literature over thirteen years from 2005 and 2017, based on four major research streams (general management, marketing, operations, and service management). Prior multi-theme literature reviews have focused on operations journals, overlooking important work in other streams, particularly marketing. Informed by a systematic literature review of 219 papers, the study identifies five main themes: service offerings; strategy and structure; motivations and performance; resources and capabilities; service development, sales, and delivery. Within each theme, gaps in the literature are identified and eleven research priorities presented. The review shows that the literature has evolved significantly in recent years, becoming increasingly diverse. A recent noteworthy topic is the use of digital technologies, which indicates the increasing relevance of technological developments to manufacturers' service activities. Our review highlights that there are still some fundamental aspects of servitization that warrant further research, primarily the need to replace the focal-manufacturer perspective with a multi-actor perspective that highlights the important role of relationships with existing and potentially new actors as a result of technological developments.

A. O’Hagan

P. Baroni, Martin Wigbertus Antonius Caminada, M. Giacomin

Nathan D. Shippee, N. Shah, C. May et al.

OBJECTIVE To design a functional, patient-centered model of patient complexity with practical applicability to analytic design and clinical practice. Existing literature on patient complexity has mainly identified its components descriptively and in isolation, lacking clarity as to their combined functions in disrupting care or to how complexity changes over time. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING The authors developed a cumulative complexity model, which integrates existing literature and emphasizes how clinical and social factors accumulate and interact to complicate patient care. A narrative literature review is used to explicate the model. RESULTS The model emphasizes a core, patient-level mechanism whereby complicating factors impact care and outcomes: the balance between patient workload of demands and patient capacity to address demands. Workload encompasses the demands on the patient's time and energy, including demands of treatment, self-care, and life in general. Capacity concerns ability to handle work (e.g., functional morbidity, financial/social resources, literacy). Workload-capacity imbalances comprise the mechanism driving patient complexity. Treatment and illness burdens serve as feedback loops, linking negative outcomes to further imbalances, such that complexity may accumulate over time. CONCLUSION With its components largely supported by existing literature, the model has implications for analytic design, clinical epidemiology, and clinical practice.

T. VanderWeele, S. Vansteelandt

G. Staines

B. Liang, L. Goodman, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra et al.

D. Getz, Graham Brown

B. Basberg

André Guaraci DeVito-Moraes, Isabela Souza Vardasca, Miguel Peñarrocha-Diago et al.

This study investigates the mechanical and optical properties of monolithic zirconia used in dentistry, focusing on how different concentrations of yttrium oxide and varied sintering times affect the material. A critical trade-off in ceramics has been reported in the literature, in which increased crystalline content (like in zirconia) leads to higher mechanical strength but lower aesthetic translucency. However, detailed information on this trade-off process for different types of zirconia is lacking. A total of seven types of zirconia varying in yttria content (3 mol% to 5 mol%) were tested across four sintering protocols available in a laboratory zirconia sintering device: Slow (12 h), Standard (8 h), Fast (3.5 h), and Ultrafast (1.15 h). The primary findings indicate that while a higher yttria concentration correlates with lower flexural strength and high translucency, the sintering time generally did not compromise mechanical strength or color variation across most samples. Nevertheless, the Fast and Ultrafast protocols did significantly reduce the translucency of zirconia with a high concentration of yttrium oxide.

Niketa Stefa

I viaggi di Rainer Maria Rilke in Italia ci hanno lasciato numerose descrizioni di paesaggi con ulivi, che fin dall’antichità simboleggiano l’armonia tra la natura e l’uomo nel Mediterraneo. Tuttavia, nelle descrizioni di Rilke, l’oliva e il suo olio assumono significati ulteriori. L’olio è un simbolo sacro come rimedio miracoloso contro il male, ma è anche simbolo dell’essenza dell’arte drammatica e, in senso figurato, rappresenta l’essenza di un amore duraturo.  

Elihuruma Eliufoo Stephano, Tian Yusheng, Li Yamin

Abstract Background Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia are still global public health challenges, with an increased prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to an increase in aging population. Despite different studies estimating the prevalence, there is still a lack of current and updated reviews that have provided the estimated proportions in SSA. Therefore, this protocol will help in developing the review that will help in understanding the epidemiological trends of MCI and dementia in this region, which is crucial for informing and adding knowledge, setting interventions, and planning healthcare. Methods This review will follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and the Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE). We will search studies from an electronic database and manually search from listed references published after 2010 reporting on the prevalence of MCI and dementia among older adults. Two independent reviewers will extract data, and the quality will be assessed using a standardized checklist. Statistical analysis will be performed using Stata version 18 to present descriptive findings, forest plots, subgroup analysis, and meta-regression. Conclusion This study’s findings will provide updated estimates of MCI and dementia prevalence, filling a gap in the current literature essential for developing context-based interventions and health policies tailored to the needs of older adults. Prospero Registration: CRD42024542596

Siew-Chong Tan, Y. Lai, C. Tse

Lise Hestbaek, C. Leboeuf‐Yde, C. Manniche

Petar Milovanovic, Tatjana Pekmezovic, Marija Djuric

Universities and journals increasingly rely on software tools for detecting textual overlap of a scientific text with the previously published literature to detect potential plagiarism. Although software outputs need to be carefully reviewed by competent humans to verify the existence of plagiarism, university and journal staff, for various reasons, often erroneously interpret the degree of plagiarism based on the percentage of textual overlap shown in the similarity report. This is often accompanied by explicit recommendations to the author(s) to paraphrase the text to achieve an “acceptable” percentage of overlap. Here, based on the available literature and real-world examples from similarity reports, we provide a classification with extensive examples of phrases that falsely inflate the similarity index and argue the futility and dangers of rephrasing such statements just for the sake of reducing the similarity index. The examples provided in this paper call for a more reasonable assessment of text similarity. To fully endorse the principles of academic integrity and prevent loss of clarity of the scientific literature, we believe it is important to shift from pure bureaucratic and quantificational view on the originality of scientific texts to human-centered qualitative assessment of the manuscripts, including the software outputs.