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B. Braun Medical Supplies, Inc., Philippines Braun Surgical Division
No full textThis paper tackles the business of Surgical Sutures Division of B. Braun Medical Supplies, Inc., Philippines. B. Braun Medical Supplies started in Germany as a pharmaceutical firm that developed to become one of the largest manufacturers of quality medical supplies. Officially, B. Braun Philippines began operations in the country on February 1, 1996 with only two business units. Presently, B. Braun has seven business units and one of these is the Braun Surgicals Division that markets sutures. Sutures are threads used in closing wounds that comes from sheep intestine.
B. Braun tapped Zuellig Pharma, Philippines as its sole distributor of B. Braun products in the Philippines since there is a law that does not allow foreign medical firms without a manufacturing factory located in the country to distribute its products. Zuellig handles the warehousing, distribution, and collection for B. Braun.
Primarily this study aims to improve B. Braun\u27s profitability and performance in the suture industry to exceed its present stature, being only a close second to J&J Ethicon Division, its major competitor. Basically, it\u27s just B. Braun and J&J competing in the sutures industry since the other two competitors only have about 6% market share.
The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of B. Braun Surgicals in the suture industry were analyzed in order to provide ample strategy proposals and achieve its division objectives in increasing their market share and reaching the aimed Net Profit. Further analysis using the Five Forces Model, Financial analysis, Value Chain, and economic factors as determinants to the proposed strategies were used to yield factual results
Cranioclaste de Braun - Med. 054 B
No full textL'autrichien Carl Braun a fait placer une vis de pression avec volant, semblable à celle des céphalotribes de Luer et de Bailly.LOTERIE NATIONALEMAISON DE LA SCIENC
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No full textTitelkartusche mit dt. Titel oben Mitte, Erläuterungen unten rechts ("Moscovia, vrbs, regionis eiusde[m] nominis, ... ")Lateinischer Text ">Moscovia.< Moscovia, urbs Russiae caput & metropolis, ipsaque provincia ... unum idem- ... studiosus lector inueniet" und Seitennummer ("47") auf der RückseiteUrsprungswerk: "Civitates orbis terrarum" von Georg Braun und Franz Hogenberg, zweiter Teil (lateinische Ausgabe. - Köln, 1575)Datierung gemäss Köhman, 41:1-3 (1575 B&H 2) 4
Moscovia
No full textTitelkartusche mit dt. Titel oben Mitte, Erläuterungen unten rechts ("Moscovia, vrbs, regionis eiusde[m] nominis, ... ")Lateinischer Text ">Moscovia.< Moscovia, urbs Russiae caput & metropolis, ipsaque provincia ... unum idem- ... studiosus lector inueniet" und Seitennummer ("47") auf der RückseiteUrsprungswerk: "Civitates orbis terrarum" von Georg Braun und Franz Hogenberg, zweiter Teil (lateinische Ausgabe. - Köln, 1575)Datierung gemäss Köhman, 41:1-3 (1575 B&H 2) 4
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Mikrischyrum musicum Braun 2021, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Mikrischyrum musicum</i> sp. nov. <p>(Figs. 1–3)</p> <p> Braun 2002, pp. 72, 110 (song): <i>Drepanoxiphus</i> sp., Pelzbeinschrecke [furry-legged katydid]; Braun 2008, p. 220: <i>Brachyauchenus</i> sp.</p> <p> <b>Etymology:</b> Referring to the elaborate musical calling song of the male.</p> <p> <b>Specimens:</b> All from Estación Científica San Francisco (Ecuador, Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, 1850 m, 3.971 S, 79.079 W) and collected by the author: male holotype, 6 i 2000 (cbt019s04, sound recordings) and female paratype, 13 i 2000 (cbt019s05), both deposited in the Museo de La Plata (Argentina), as well as 4 more female paratypes: 25 ix 1997 (cbt019s01), 30 vii 1998 (cbt019s02), 8 ix 1999 (cbt019s03), 25 i 2000 (cbt019s06), currently in collection of the author (Germany).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis:</b> Small brown Platyphyllini with tegmina barely covering abdomen and hairy legs (Figs. 1, 2A). All genicular lobes armed. Male with pronotum posteriorly widened and disc with three white callose spots: one in the middle of anterior margin and two close together at rear margin (Figs. 1A, 2D), base of left tegmen opaque, right tegmen with transparent mirror. Female without white spots and considerably larger than male (Fig. 1C).</p> <p> <b>Additional descriptive notes:</b> Fastigium short, scapi of antennae with prominent spine. Prosternum with fairly long spines. Male with a small whitish spot on tips of fore and middle femora and several indistinct spots on hind femora. Middle femora with 3 ventral spines in apical portion, hind femora with 4 small spines (5 in a female specimen with only one hind femur). Spines of inner genicular lobe of forefemur slightly larger than outer ones, contrariwise on hind femur. Male subgenital plate elongate, terminally emarginate, with long styli (Fig. 2B), male cerci with small sclerotized internal spinule (Fig. 2C). Ovipositor robust and slightly upcurved (Figs. 1C, 2E), female subgenital plate triangular with delicate terminal notch.</p> <p> <b>Measurements</b> (male/female): pronotum 5.5/ 5–5.5 mm, tegmina 12/ 18 mm, hind femora 8/ 10 mm, male subgenital plate with styli 3.5 mm, ovipositor almost 10 mm.</p> <p> <b>Comparison with the two other species:</b> The male holotype of <i>M. festae</i> is slightly larger and has a narrower pronotum, which is posteriorly hardly widened, with a slightly bilobed rear margen. It has only two white spots, widely separated on the corners of the rear margin (photos in Cigliano <i>et al.</i> 2021). The hind femora have 6 spinules (Griffini 1896). The male of <i>M. minutum</i> is considerably smaller than the new species and has conspicuously long spines on the inner genicular lobes of the fore femora and the outer ones of the hind femora (about as long as dorsal width of the femora, Fig. 5 in Nickle 2006). The hind femora have 5–7 spinules (op. cit.). The male subgential plate has a very narrow terminal emargination (width and depth less than the width of the styli (op. cit. Fig. 26). Males of that species have a prominent trapezoidal whitish median spot on the frontal margin, and a very large one coating the entire metazona. In the holotype the frontal spot and the coated metazona are connected by a narrower whitish band, which is more weakly developed in the paratype (op. cit. Figs. 5, 24).</p> <p> <b>Calling song:</b> The males produce at night extraordinarily long pulse trains of around 2 seconds (20°C, holotype in cage, Fig. 3A) to over 3.5 seconds (13°C, field recording, Fig. 3E). Independent of temperature they consist of around 15 pulse groups, each comprising 2–4 sustained pulses. The carrier frequency spectrum shows a very narrow peak just above 20 kHz and beyond human hearing range (Fig. 3C). The long pulses, almost pure sine waves, involve a slight frequency modulation (Fig. 3D). Probably sound is produced during closing strokes of the tegmina, with the low-amplitude signals preceding the pulses corresponding to the opening strokes (Fig. 3B).</p> <p> Note to Braun 2002: The recording used for Fig. 6.3.3 “ <i>Drepanoxiphus</i> ?“ seems to have a technical issue: the redigitized copy shows a faint periodic background signal and the peak appears a little bit below 20 kHz, as in that figure. In the other recordings as well as the field recording it is above 20 kHz.</p>Published as part of <i>Braun, Holger, 2021, Mikrischyrum musicum, a new katydid species from montane rainforest in southern Ecuador with complex pure-tone calling song (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae: Platyphyllini), pp. 267-272 in Zootaxa 5067 (2)</i> on pages 268-270, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5067.2.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5677987">http://zenodo.org/record/5677987</a>
J.J. McNamara from Louis Braun, August 10, 1921-September 3, 1921
No full textLetters to J.J. McNamara from Louis Braun dated August 10, 1921 to September 3, 1921
Research Productivity of Tibor Braun: An Analytical Chemist - cum - Scientometrician
Full text linkPublication productivity of the scientist (Tibor Braun) has been documented
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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