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Anju Seth named R. B. Pamplin Professor of Management
No full textAnju Seth, professor of business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be appointed the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Management and the head of the Department of Management in the Pamplin College of Business in August 2008
Episyron keralaensis Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass 2024, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Episyron keralaensis</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, sp. nov. <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: A292974A-3C0F-423A-973A-8851501BBD46</p> <p>Figures 1–16</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> <b>Holotype</b> ♀, <b>India</b>: Kerala, Wayanad district, Panamaram (11º44’25’’N, 76º04’18’’E), 10.iv.2021, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24957. <b>Paratypes.</b> Kerala: 1♀, Kozhikode district, Madappally (11º38’38’’N, 75º34’14’’E), 28.viii.2020, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/ INV.24958; 1♀ Wayanad district, Panamaram (11º44’25’’N, 76º04’18’’E), 10.iv.2021, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24959; 1♂, Kozhikode district, Balussery (11º26’36’’N, 75º49’05’’E), 27.iii.2019, Coll.C. Binoy.Regd.No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24960; 4♂, Kasaragod district, Ranipuram (12º25’45’’N, 75º21’44’’E), 22.i.2020, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24961–24964.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The female of new species differs from all other congeners by the following set of characters: pale yellow stripes along inner orbits interrupted at vertex; clypeus black with pale yellow markings; pale yellow band along posterior margin of pronotum interrupted at middle; small round spot on mesoscutum postero-medially; hind tibia black with pale yellow fascia in dorsal face basally; tibial spurs pale yellow; basal pale yellow fascia on T2, T3 and T5; head wider than mesosoma; SMC2 and SMC3 almost equal in size; crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> distinctly curved basally; and long black setae on T6 moderate, concentrated laterally.</p> <p> <b>Description of Female.</b> Holotype, female (Figs 1–12). Body length 8.62 mm (8.41 mm – 9.15 mm for paratypes); length of fore wing 7.38 mm (7.1 mm – 7.95 mm for paratypes).</p> <p> <b> <i>Colour</i>.</b> Overall colour black with pale yellow markings as follows: narrow stripes along inner orbits interrupted at vertex, stripes along posterior margin of eyes, stripes along anterior margin of clypeus subapically, band along posterior margin of pronotum interrupted at middle, small round spot on mesoscutum postero-medially, basal fascia on T2, T3 and T5, and fascia at dorsal region of hind tibia basally; antenna brownish black; tibial spurs pale; pale spot on apical dorsal region of all coxae; wings fusco-hyaline, infuscated at apex; veins and pterostigma brown.</p> <p> <b> <i>Pubescence</i>.</b> Pubescence moderate; pronotum, propodeum and T1 having genus specific metallic reflection with bluish white appressed flattened and squamiform setae; whitish pubescence moderate in frons and clypeus; mesosoma highly pubescent in some regions with moderate pubescence on pleura; silver shiny pubescence at base of metanotum and at two concavities of metapostnotum; pubescence on propodeum more concentrated at posterior half; soft long setae on mesosoma, mainly concentrated along lateral sides of propodeum; T6 with long suberect brownish black setae concentrated laterally.</p> <p> <b> <i>Head</i>.</b> Head a trifle wider than high in frontal view (1.12–1.2×), wider than mesosoma (Fig. 3); minutely punctate, punctuations hardly visible over underlying pubescence on frons; shallow median line extending from anterior ocellus to interantennal space; eyes 1.89–1.93× as long as wide (Fig. 5), slightly emarginated above middle frons with MID slightly greater than LID, UID 0.73–0.8× MID (Fig. 3); ocelli in triangle, anterior ocellus slightly wider than posterior ocelli, POD about as long as OOD (0.21: 0.22) (Fig. 4); clypeus large, nearly flat with slight convexity, more than twice as broad as long, anterior margin widely arched, posterior margin transverse (Fig. 3); mandible long, crossing each other, bidentate; malar space reduced, less than half of pedicel; toruli situated slightly above posterior clypeus margin; antennae long, closely placed; F1 the longest flagellomere 1.69–1.73× as long as scape, scape longer than twice its width; pedicel as wide as long; F2–F5 almost equal in length with a slight decrease in length towards the apical flagellomeres; gena narrower than compound eye in lateral view; occiput carinate.</p> <p> <b> <i>Mesosoma</i>.</b> Pronotum 2–2.14× as wide as long, angulate postero-laterally; mesoscutum large, prominent, 1.36– 1.4× as long as scutellum in dorsal view (Fig. 7); abbreviated furrow on each side close to the apex not reaching anterior margin; scutellum with conspicuous prescutellar sulcus, medially triangularly raised; metanotum curved; metapostnotum much reduced with two curves at posterior margin (Fig. 7); propodeum 1.28–1.38× as wide as long along middle, no apparent sculpturing (Fig. 7), posteriorly with rounded steep slope at apex.</p> <p> <b> <i>Legs</i>.</b> Tibiae and tarsi with irregular scattered spines throughout, apically with different length spines; fore tarsus with cylindrical tapering spines, tarsomere 1 with three outer spines; tarsal claws bifid; hind basitarsus 0.62– 0.69× hind tibia, hind tibial spur long, 0.77–0.81× as long as hind basitarsus.</p> <p> <b> <i>Wings</i>.</b> Fore wing with upper margin of SMC2 and SMC3 almost of equal length; length of SMC3 less than half of its distance from the wing apex; SMC2 and SMC3 receiving crossveins <i>1m-cu</i> and <i>2m-cu</i> respectively at the middle; crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> curved basally; marginal cell long about twice its width; pterostigma shorter than vein <i>r-rs</i> (Fig. 12); crossvein <i>cu-a</i> of hind wing arc-like forming obtuse angle with vein <i>A</i>.</p> <p> <b> <i>Metasoma</i>.</b> Smooth; slightly longer than mesosoma, subsessile, T1 thick at base (Fig. 8); apical segment slightly acute.</p> <p> <b>Male.</b> (Figs 13–16).</p> <p>Resembles female in general appearance and coloration with slight variations in markings. However, as in the case of other genera, male is smaller and slender than females with following differences: the genus specific bluish white shiny pubescence seen on T 2 in addition to T1, where as in female, pubescence mainly concentrated on T1; antennae shorter and stouter and ventrally brownish in colour in contrast to the long slender, black antennae of female (Fig. 14); and T6 is pale almost entirely, as compared to the black T 6 in female. Hypopygium and genitalia as in figures 15 & 16.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> Occurrence of both males and females in the same habitat along with the similarity in morphology and colour patterns supports sex association.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species name refers to the Indian state of Kerala, where the holotype was collected.</p> <p> <b>Variation.</b> Pale yellow markings on body segments vary in intensity and distribution in paratypes along with variation in the relative density of pubescence.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> India (Kerala).</p> <p> <b>Comparison.</b> The female of new species <i>E. keralaensis</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, <b>sp. nov.</b> closely resembles <i>E. arrogans</i> in general appearance, morphology and coloration of the body. However it differs from <i>E. arrogans</i> as follows: head wider than mesosoma (in <i>E. arrogans</i>, head not wider than mesosoma); fore wing with upper margin of SMC2 and SMC3 almost equal in length (in <i>E. arrogans</i>, SMC 3 is smaller than SMC2); crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> of fore wing basally curved (in <i>E. arrogans</i>, crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> is almost straight); and forewing SMC2 receives crossvein <i>1m-cu</i> medially (in <i>E. arrogans</i>, SMC 2 receives crossvein <i>1m-cu</i> beyond the middle of basal margin).</p>Published as part of <i>Anju, K., Kumar, P. Girish & Thejass, P., 2024, Review of the spider wasp genus Episyron Schiødte, 1837 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from India, with description of three new species, pp. 562-576 in Zootaxa 5405 (4)</i> on pages 565-568, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.4.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10603907">http://zenodo.org/record/10603907</a>
Episyron nigrocalcarius Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass 2024, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Episyron nigrocalcarius</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, sp. nov. <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 8A4CD7D8-A1A3-41A3-8DDD-E79B718DFEAF</p> <p>Figures 17–28</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype, ♀, <b>India:</b> Kerala, Wayanad district, Thondernad (11º46’27’’N, 75º50’29’’E), 29.ix.2021, Coll. T.A. Arvind, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/WGRC/IR/INV.24965.</p> <p> <b>Paratypes.</b> Kerala: 1♀, Kasaragod district, Ranipuram (12º25’45’’N, 75º21’44’’E), 22.i.2020, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24966; 1♀, Kozhikode district, Kakkavayal (11º29’36’’N, 75º58’24’’E), 26.vii.2017, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24967; 1♀, Wayanad district, Vythiri (11º33’11’’N, 76º02’21’’E), 4.iii.2019, Coll. P.M. Sureshan & Party, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC/IR/INV.24968.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The new species differs from all other congeners by the following characters: Clypeus entirely black; hind tibia black without any marking; tibial spurs black; numerous long black setae on T6, almost uniformly distributed; and paired basolateral transverse fascia on T2 and T3.</p> <p> <b>Description of Female.</b> Holotype, Female (Figs 17–28). Body length 10.15–11.13 mm; length of fore wing 9.18–10.23 mm.</p> <p> <b> <i>Colour</i>.</b> Body largely black with following markings creamy yellow/yellowish white: narrow stripes alopng inner orbits in the median part of frontal face, stripes along the posterior margin of eye more narrower and pale, medially interrupted band on posterior margin of pronotum, paired basolateral transverse fascia on T2 and T3 and spot on apex of all coxae; very narrow orange brown smooth line along anterior margin of clypeus; tibial spurs black; wings fusco-hyaline, broadly infuscated at apex; veins and pterostigma brown.</p> <p> <b> <i>Pubescence</i>.</b> Pubescence moderate; pronotum, propodeum and T1 having metallic reflection with bluish white appressed flattened and squamiform setae; head moderately pubescent with whitish pubescence mainly concentrated below the antennal region and clypeus; pubescence on clypeus uniform with pubescent-free anterior medial region; few smooth long setae along lateral regions of mesosoma; silver pubescence at joining region of scutellum and metanotum; metapostnotum with silver shiny pubescence at cavities; bluish white shining pubescence on plural region minimum; pubescence on propodeum concentrated towards posterior half; T6 with numerous long black setae.</p> <p> <b> <i>Head</i>.</b> Head slightly wider than high in frontal view (1.09–1.13×), wider than mesosoma (Fig. 19); hardly visible minute punctuations on frons; shallow median line or furrow present from anterior ocellus to interantennal space; eyes 1.92–1.98× as long as wide (Fig. 21), slightly arcuate above, the rest parallel; MID as long as LID, UID 0.66–0.71× MID and LID (Fig. 19); ocelli equal sized forming acute angle; POD about as long as OOD (0.25: 0.22) (Fig. 20); clypeus large, convex in lateral view, semi-circular in frontal view, anterior margin boldly arched, posterior margin straight, more than twice as broad as long (Fig. 19); labrum small, concealed beneath clypeus, not visible in frontal view; mandible long crossing each other, bidentate; malar space reduced, shorter than half of pedicel; toruli situated little above posterior clypeus margin; antennae slender, closely placed, F1 the longest flagellomere, 1.8–1.9× as long as scape, almost 1.7–1.82× as long as F2 and F3, scape slightly longer than twice of its width, pedicel about as wide as long; gena narrower than compound eye in lateral view (Fig. 21).</p> <p> <b> <i>Mesosoma</i>.</b> Pronotum 1.8–1.9× as wide as long; mesoscutum large, prominent, 1.34–1.48× as long as scutellum in dorsal view (Fig. 23), abbreviated furrow on each side not reaching the anterior margin; scutellum smooth with conspicuous prescutellar sulcus, medially triangularly raised; metanotum curved; metapostnotum much reduced with two curves posteriorly (Fig. 23); propodeum 1.2–1.3× as wide as long along the middle, smooth without apparent sculpturing (Fig. 23), gradually sloped at apex.</p> <p> <b> <i>Legs</i>.</b> Tibiae and tarsi with long hard spines throughout, apically with different length spines; fore tarsus with cylindrical tapering spines, tarsomere 1 with three outer spines; tarsal claws bifid; basitarsus 0.51–0.59× hind tibia, hind tibial spur long, 0.67–0.71× as long as hind basitarsus.</p> <p> <b> <i>Wings</i>.</b> Fore wing with SMC3 smaller than SMC2; length of SMC3 less than its distance from the wing apex; SMC2 receiving crossvein <i>1m-cu</i> beyond middle of base, SMC3 receiving crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> medially; crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> curved basally; pterostigma elongated, about as long as vein <i>r-rs</i> (Fig. 28); crossvein <i>cu-a</i> of hind wing arc-like forming obtuse angle with vein <i>A</i>.</p> <p> <b> <i>Metasoma</i>.</b> Smooth; subsessile; as broad and long as mesosoma (Fig. 24); apical segment slightly acute.</p> <p> <b>Male.</b> Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species epithet is derived from black coloured hind tibia and tibial spur.</p> <p> <b>Variation.</b> Pale yellow markings on body segments vary in intensity and distribution in paratypes.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> India (Kerala).</p> <p> <b>Comparison.</b> The new species <i>E. nigrocalcarius</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, <b>sp. nov.</b> shows similarities with <i>E. arrogans</i> and <i>E. keralaensis</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, <b>sp. nov.</b>, in general body coloration but can be segregated from them by its entirely black clypeus, hind tibia and tibial spurs all without any markings.</p>Published as part of <i>Anju, K., Kumar, P. Girish & Thejass, P., 2024, Review of the spider wasp genus Episyron Schiødte, 1837 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from India, with description of three new species, pp. 562-576 in Zootaxa 5405 (4)</i> on pages 568-571, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.4.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10603907">http://zenodo.org/record/10603907</a>
Episyron rufotibius Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass 2024, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Episyron rufotibius</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, sp. nov. <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F3D00A1D-0A3F-4744-BE96-C9 ACE 64B531A</p> <p>Figures 29–40</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype ♀, India: Kerala, Kasaragod district, Ranipuram (12º25’45’’N, 75º21’44’’E), 22.i.2020, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24969.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The new species differs from all other Indian congeners by the following characters: primary colour of hind tibia red, dorsally without any coloured spot, tibial spur yellowish red, fore and mid tibial spurs reddish brown; small yellow spot at medial posterior region of mesoscutum and on T2, paired basolateral transverse fascia on T3 and T5; and propodeum with a steep slope to apex.</p> <p> <b>Description of Female.</b> Holotype, female (Figs 29–40). Body length 8.53 mm; length of fore wing 6.69 mm.</p> <p> <b> <i>Colour</i>.</b> Body largely black with following markings pale yellowish: narrow stripes along inner orbits interrupted at vertex in frontal view and stripes along posterior margin of compound eyes, stripes along anterior margin of clypeus subapically, medially interrupted posterior margin of pronotum, small yellow spot at medial posterior region of mesoscutum and on T2, paired basolateral transverse fascia on T3 and T5 and spot on apex of all coxae; mandible black with yellowish red patch subapically; antenna brownish black; lateral corner of pronotum yellowish red; hind tibial spur and hind tibia except at apex yellowish red; fore and mid tibial spurs reddish brown; wings fusco-hyaline, broadly infuscated at apex, veins and pterostigma brown.</p> <p> <b> <i>Pubescence</i>.</b> Pubescence moderate; pronotum, propodeum and T1 having metallic reflection with bluish white appressed flattened and squamiform setae; head moderately pubescent with whitish pubescence mainly concentrated from antennal region till clypeus; long smooth setae on posterior region of head and lateral sides of pronotum; pronotum with small golden setae in addition to normal genus specific characteristic pubescence; few smooth long setae along lateral regions of mesosoma; silver pubescence at the joining region of scutellum and metanotum; bluish white shiny pubescence on plural region minimum; T6 with numerous long brownish black setae mainly concentrated on lower lateral sides.</p> <p> <b> <i>Head</i>.</b> Head slightly wider than long (1.17×) in frontal view, wider than mesosoma (Fig. 31); minutely punctate, micropunctations uniform in all facial regions, hardly visible over short pubescence in lower frons region; eyes 1.93× as long as wide (Fig. 33), almost parallel except at upper vertex region, MID and LID almost of equal length, UID 0.63× MID and LID (Fig. 31); ocellar area slightly raised, ocelli equal sized; POD about as long as OOD (0.19: 0.17) (Fig. 32); clypeus large, not convex, more than twice as broad as long, anterior margin widely arched, transverse in the middle (Fig. 31); mandible long crossing each other, bidentate; malar space reduced, less than half of pedicel; toruli situated little above posterior clypeus margin; long antennae closely placed; F1 the largest flagellomere 1.5× as long as scape, scape longer almost twice its width, pedicel as wide as long; F2–F4 almost equal in length; gena narrower than eye in lateral view (Fig. 33); occiput carinate throughout.</p> <p> <b> <i>Mesosoma</i>.</b> Pronotum 1.7× as wide as long, lateral region of pronotum angulate; mesoscutum large, prominent, 1.2× as long as scutellum in dorsal view (Fig. 35), shallow abbreviated furrow on each side not reaching the anterior margin; scutellum with conspicuous prescutellar sulcus, medially triangularly raised; metanotum curved; metapostnotum much reduced with two curves; propodeum nearly as wide as long along middle (1.02×), no apparent sculpturing (Fig. 35), posteriorly rounded with steep slope at apex, posterior margin transverse.</p> <p> <b> <i>Legs</i>.</b> Tibiae and tarsi with long spines irregularly scattered throughout, apically with different length spines; fore tarsus with cylindrical tapering spines, tarsomere 1 with three outer spines including the apical one; all tarsal claws bifid; hind basitarsus 0.53× hind tibia, hind tibial spur long, 0.57× as long as hind basitarsus.</p> <p> <b> <i>Wings</i>.</b> Fore wing with SMC3 smaller than SMC2; length of SMC3 less than half of its distance from the wing apex; SMC2 receiving crossvein <i>1m-cu</i> beyond middle, SMC3 receiving crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> almost medially; marginal cell long, more than twice its width; pterostigma elongated, longer than vein <i>r-rs</i> (Fig. 40); crossvein <i>cu-a</i> of hind wing arc-like forming obtuse angle with vein <i>A</i>.</p> <p> <b> <i>Metasoma</i>.</b> Smooth; as broad as mesosoma, as long as head and mesosoma combined (Fig. 36); subsessile; apical segment aciculate.</p> <p> <b>Male.</b> Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species epithet is derived from yellowish red coloured hind tibia, all other segments of the legs and body are black in colour.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> India (Kerala).</p> <p> <b>Note.</b> The study of this species is based on a single female specimen, as further attempts did not yield any additional materials.</p> <p> <b>Comparison.</b> The new species resembles <i>E. vagabundum</i> in general morphology and coloration as described by Bingham (1897), Banks (1934), and Wahis (1980). However the new species can be distinguished from <i>E. vagabundum</i> as follows: propodeum with a steep slope posteriorly (in <i>E. vagabundum</i>, propodeum with a gradual slope); hind tibia yellowish red without any markings (in <i>E. vagabundum</i>, hind tibia dorsally with a yellowish white spot); hind tibial spur 0.57× as long as hind basitarsomere (in <i>E. vagabundum</i>, hind tibial spur almost as long as hind basitarsomere); and wings fusco-hyaline infuscated at apex (in <i>E. vagabundum</i>, wings hyaline infuscated at apex).</p>Published as part of <i>Anju, K., Kumar, P. Girish & Thejass, P., 2024, Review of the spider wasp genus Episyron Schiødte, 1837 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from India, with description of three new species, pp. 562-576 in Zootaxa 5405 (4)</i> on pages 571-573, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.4.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10603907">http://zenodo.org/record/10603907</a>
Supplemental Material, DS2_CPCJ_10.1177_1055665618760898 - Neonatal Macroglossia: Demographics, Cost of Care, and Associated Comorbidities
No full textSupplemental Material, DS2_CPCJ_10.1177_1055665618760898 for Neonatal Macroglossia: Demographics, Cost of Care, and Associated Comorbidities by Jonathan C. Simmonds, Anju K. Patel, Nicholas R. Mildenhall, Nicholas S. Mader, and Andrew R. Scott in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal</p
Supplemental Material, DS1_CPCJ_10.1177_1055665618760898 - Neonatal Macroglossia: Demographics, Cost of Care, and Associated Comorbidities
No full textSupplemental Material, DS1_CPCJ_10.1177_1055665618760898 for Neonatal Macroglossia: Demographics, Cost of Care, and Associated Comorbidities by Jonathan C. Simmonds, Anju K. Patel, Nicholas R. Mildenhall, Nicholas S. Mader, and Andrew R. Scott in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal</p
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
What is the patient acceptability of real time 1:1 videoconferencing in an orthopaedics setting? A systematic review
No full textBackground: Real time 1:1 videoconferencing (VC) has the potential to play an important role in the management of orthopaedic pathologies. Despite positive reporting of telemedicine studies uptake in clinical practice remains low. Acceptability to patients is an important element of system take-up in telemedicine and a focus towards qualitative methodology may explore the underlying reasons behind its acceptability. In this paper we have systematically reviewed qualitative studies that include evidence about patient responses to VC services in an orthopaedic setting. Objectives: To determine whether real time 1:1 videoconferencing is acceptable to patients in an orthopaedic setting. Data sources: MEDLINE, AMED, PsychINFO, CINAHL, SCOPUS, Cochrane Database, Evidence Search and Open Grey were searched with forwards and backwards reference screening of eligible papers. Eligibility criteria: Qualitative studies exploring the acceptability of VC in an orthopaedic setting were included. Study appraisal and synthesis methods: Studies were appraised using the CASP tool. A Directed Content Framework Analysis was conducted using Normalisation Process Theory. Results: Four studies were included for review. The themes for the four studies did not overlap and did not report clinician acceptability of VC. The Directed Content Analysis of these papers using Normalisation Process Theory highlighted factors which contribute towards its acceptability. Conclusions: All studies concluded that the use of VC was acceptable. Further qualitative research exploring both patient and clinician acceptability is required utilising a theoretical framework to allow for repeatability and generalisability. Systematic Review Registration Number: PROSPERO CRD42015024944.</p
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Supplemental material for What is the acceptability of real time 1:1 videoconferencing between clinicians and patients for a follow-up consultation for multi-directional shoulder instability?
No full textSupplemental material for What is the acceptability of real time 1:1 videoconferencing between clinicians and patients for a follow-up consultation for multi-directional shoulder instability? by Anthony W Gilbert, Anju Jaggi and Carl R May in Shoulder & Elbow</p
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