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Supplemental Material, sj-doc-1-gsj-10.1177_2192568220976562 - Clinical Importance, Incidence and Risk Factors for the Development of Postoperative Ileus Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-doc-1-gsj-10.1177_2192568220976562 for Clinical Importance, Incidence and Risk Factors for the Development of Postoperative Ileus Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery by Tetsuro Ohba, Kensuke Koyama, Hiroki Oba, Kotaro Oda, Nobuki Tanaka and Hirotaka Haro in Global Spine Journal</p
Gestão do trabalho e participação: Chega de oba-oba?
No full textThis article aims at investigating the work management in the advertising agencies in the city of
Belo Horizonte. The scope for the analysis was the work developed by Meir (2005) in the book “End
of the fun”. The repercussion aroused by the considerations in the book was the reason to choose
this author, because she proposes a return to the old fashion way of managing the work. The
authors discusses that the forms of managing work are not suitable for the advertisement agencies
and the professional that work for them. She believes that the office cannot be an extension of the
home and the leisure. The qualitative research developed for this investigation presents data
related to the ways of working of these organizations and corroborates with the author’s
statements. It was observed that the employees of the agencies fall into two categories of workers:
a rigid group, that works under strict and well definite rules, and the other group that performs the
tasks in accordance with the demands of the client’s advertising campaign. The results point out to
other issues such as “the lack of creativity toward the administrative procedures” and the clear
division of the work relations in only one organization.Esse artigo tem por finalidade investigar a gestão do trabalho nas agências de publicidade do município de Belo Horizonte. O escopo para a análise da pesquisa foi o trabalho desenvolvido por Meir (2005), no livro “Chega de oba-oba”. A escolha pela autora foi proveniente da repercussão causada por suas considerações, visto que ela propõe um retorno às estruturas antigas nas formas de gerir o trabalho. A autora argumenta que as novas formas de gerir o trabalho não são adequadas para as agências e nem para os profissionais que nelas trabalham. Isto porque acredita que o local de trabalho não pode ser uma extensão do lar e do lazer. A pesquisa de cunho qualitativo, desenvolvida para essa investigação, apresenta dados sobre as formas de se trabalhar e corrobora com as teses da autora. Observou-se que os empregados das agências se enquadram em dois grupos de trabalhadores: um rígido, que trabalha sob regras muito definidas, e um outro que desempenha suas funções em acordo com as exigências demandadas pelas campanhas publicitárias dos clientes da organização. Os resultados apontam para outras questões tais como a “falta de criatividade dos procedimentos administrativos” e da nítida divisão das relações de trabalho nas empresas
Role of chemotherapy for advanced/recurrent gastric cancer: an individual-patient-data meta-analysis
No full textRole of chemotherapy for advanced/recurrent gastric cancer: an individual-patient-data meta-analysis.
GASTRIC (Global Advanced/Adjuvant Stomach Tumor Research International Collaboration) Group1, Oba K, Paoletti X, Bang YJ, Bleiberg H, Burzykowski T, Fuse N, Michiels S, Morita S, Ohashi Y, Pignon JP, Rougier P, Sakamoto J, Sargent D, Sasako M, Shitara K, Tsuburaya A, Van Cutsem E, Buyse M.
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Buyse M, Michiels S, Oba K, Paoletti X, Rougier P, Yamamoto S, Nakamura K, Bang YJ, Bleiberg H, Burzykowski T, Buyse M, Delbaldo C, Michiels S, Morita S, Oba K, Ohashi Y, Paoletti X, Pignon JP, Rougier P, Sakamoto J, Sargent D, Sasako M, Van Cutsem E, Ajani J, Boku N, Barone C, Borner M, Bouche O, Bugat R, Coombes C, Cullinan S, Dank M, Douglass H, Fuse N, Glimelius B, Hawkins R, Kanzler S, Koizumi W, Kim TW, Lordick F, Moehler M, Nio Y, Ohtsu A, Pozzo C, Reichardt P, Roth A, Schumacher C, Shitara K, Thuss-Patience P, Tsuburaya A, Van Cutsem E, Vanhoefer U, Wils J, Yamamura Y.
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Abstract
We conducted an individual-patient-data meta-analysis of the efficacy of chemotherapy on overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in advanced/recurrent gastric cancer (AGC). Our primary research question was whether the experimental arms of the trials included in the meta-analysis showed a benefit as compared with their corresponding control arms. MEDLINE (up to 2010), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, National Institutes of Health (NIH) trial registry and proceedings of major oncologic and gastrointestinal cancer meetings were searched. Randomised controlled trials for AGC closed to patient accrual before the end of 2006 were eligible. As of December 2010, individual patient data were available from 22 trials (4245 patients, representing 47% of the targeted data) of 55 eligible trials. The overall comparison of experimental arms with the corresponding control arms showed statistically significant differences in terms of both OS and PFS. Hazard ratio was 0.88 (95% confidence interval 0.82-0.94, P<0.0001) for OS and 0.81 (0.76-0.88, P<0.0001) for PFS. The results of the sub-analysis of adding a given chemotherapeutic agent to any chemotherapy confirm the results of the overall analysis, with a hazard reduction of 11% for OS (P<0.01) and 26% for PFS (P<0.0001). This meta-analysis of individual patient data shows that the additions of experimental chemotherapeutic agents to pre-existing control or standard regimens have produced a modest improvement in OS and PFS. Median survival remained below 1 year for all investigated chemotherapy regimens and none emerged as a clear standard
Influence of Constant Torque Stretching at Different Stretching Intensities on Flexibility and Mechanical Properties of Plantar Flexors
No full textOba, K, Samukawa, M, Nakamura, K, Mikami, K, Suzumori, Y, Ishida, Y, Keeler, N, Saitoh, H, Yamanaka, M, and Tohyama, H. Influence of constant torque stretching at different stretching intensities on flexibility and mechanical properties of plantar flexors. J Strength Cond Res 35(3): 709-714, 2021-The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of constant torque stretching (CTS) at different stretching intensities on the maximal range of motion (ROM) and muscle-tendon unit (MTU) stiffness of plantar flexors. Fourteen healthy men performed 4 trials of differing stretch intensities: no stretching (control), 50, 75, and 100%. Stretch intensity was defined as maximum passive resistive torque predetermined at a familiarization trial. Each stretch trial consisted of 5 sets of 60-second CTS at the designated stretch intensity. Both maximal ROM and passive resistive torque were assessed during passive dorsiflexion, and MTU stiffness was calculated using the torque-angle curves measured before and after CTS. There were no significant differences in maximal ROM or MTU stiffness at the baseline condition. After the intervention, significantly greater maximal ROM and significantly lower MTU stiffness were observed in the 100% CTS condition than the control condition, whereas there were no significant differences between the submaximal intensity condition (i.e., 50 or 75% intensity) and the control condition. Therefore, our findings suggest that maximal intensity stretching is the most effective approach for improving both flexibility and MTU stiffness with CTS
Erratum: The Operative management in Bariatric Acute abdomen (OBA) Survey: Long-term complications of bariatric surgery and the emergency surgeon's point of view (World J Emerg Surg (2020) 15 (2) DOI: 10.1186/s13017-019-0281-y)
No full textThe original article [1] contained an error in authorship whereby author, Fausto Catena was mistakenly listed as part of the institutional authorship of the OBA trial supporters instead of in the correct position of final author. As such, the original article has since been corrected to reflect the correct authorship. Furthermore, this error was mistakenly introduced by the production team handling this article and, as such was not the fault of the authors
Subversions of Gender and Power in Oba Minako's "Yamamba no Bisho"
No full textBeginning as early as Genji Monogatari and continuing to the present, women writers have had a significant impact on Japanese canon. Their perspectives present a critical view of the social structure and its effects on the lives of women, both in fiction and in factual biographical accounts. This essay posits that many female authors from modern Japan defied gender stereotypes and wrote about the difficulties that women faced. To illustrate this point further, Oba Minako (1930-2007) is introduced as an exemplary author who succeeded in her career despite many potential obstacles. Oba's writing combines imagery of women's power in the literary tradition as well as motifs from Japanese mythology to express a deep-seated anxiety with regard to the individuation process. Her short story "Yamamba no Bisho" examines this theme from the perspective of a psychic witch haunted by her supernatural abilities. Through an analysis of this story, the author will theorize that these abilities embody women's dual desire to both conform to the existing power structure and to reject it.9KJ00010002479departmental bulletin pape
Do Cookie Banners Respect My Browsing Privacy? Measuring the Effectiveness of Cookie Rejection for Limiting Behavioral Advertising
No full textOnline behavioral advertising (OBA) is a method within digital advertising that exploits web users’ interests to tailor ads. Its use has raised privacy concerns among researchers, regulators, and the media, emphasizing the need for a reliable mechanism to measure its prevalence. However, there is a lack of systematic research on how user consent choices affect OBA presence, and no open-source frameworks exist for large-scale automated OBA measurement. To address this, we design and implement OpenOBA, a new framework for automated OBA discovery on the web. OpenOBA is a general, modular, and scalable framework to support essentially any OBA measurement. With it, we conduct a study to measure the impact of three user consent choices for cookies on OBA, uncovering a complex online privacy landscape. We first confirm the presence of OBA by comparing the increased likelihood of encountering ads from a specific topic, i.e., Style & Fashion, when browsing with an artificially induced behavior versus when browsing without any particular behavior. Then, we find that the Accept All choice significantly raises the number of OBA ads. For the Reject All option, on the other hand, we observe that it reduces the number of unique third-party tracking cookie hosts (tracker domains) by around 70%, yet it still shows ads related to the user’s interests. Notably, we also find that OBA ads are only served through Google-related domains across the three banner interaction configurations used, despite the involvement of up to 191 different tracker domains in the Accept All configuration. This underscores the dominant role of major players in the OBA ad market. Finally, to foster reproducibility and further research, we open-sourced our framework and released all data and analysis scripts
The Worldview and the Author´s (Self)Reflection in Czech Contemporary Historiography
No full textCílem studie je představit možnosti, jak na základě publikovaných autorských textů zkoumat světový názor historiků a historiček, zejména v oboru soudobých dějin, kde lze předpokládat vliv jejich hodnotového horizontu na interpretaci relativně nedávné minulosti. Autor nejprve vymezuje pojetí světového názoru vzhledem ke stanovenému záměru a zdůvodňuje analytické užití tohoto pojmu v historiografickém textu, v daném kontextu se také zamýšlí nad vztahem paměti, dějin a historiografie. Konstatuje, že poměrně málo českých historiků a historiček dosud reflektuje vztah (individuální či kolektivní) paměti a práce dějepisce, zvláště s ohledem na jeho pozici v současné společnosti, která bývá často redukována na roli objektivního „objevitele historické pravdy“. Taková (sebe)reflexe předpokládá přiznání vlivu individuálního světového názoru historika (komplexu názorů a postojů formovaných výchovou, vzděláním, vzpomínkami, generační příslušností a podobně) na jeho vědeckou činnost. Autor studie nabízí dvě možné a vzájemně se doplňující cesty k poznání historikova světového názoru: jednak prostřednictvím vlastních svědectví a prohlášení z jeho osobněji laděných textů a egodokumentů (eseje, rozhovory, vzpomínky, příspěvky na sociálních sítích), jednak analýzou jeho vědeckých textů (časopiseckých studií, knižních monografií, recenzí). Oba přístupy autor dokumentuje na konkrétních příkladech z produkce historiků a historiček českých soudobých dějin. V závěru studie pak nastiňuje cíle a smysl zkoumání historikova světového názoru.The aim of this study is to present the opportunities for research into the worldview of historians, especially historians focused on contemporary history, where it can be assumed that their set of values may influence their interpretation of the rela-tively recent past. The author first defines the notion of worldview and justifies the analytical use of this concept in historiographical texts. He also considers the relationship between memory, history and historiography in the given context. The author states that not many Czech historians have so far reflected on the relationship between (individual and collective) memory and the work of the historian, especially with regard to his or her position in contemporary society, which is often reduced to the role of an objective “discoverer of historical truth”. Such (self)reflection presupposes the acknowledgement of the influence of the historian’s individual worldview (a complex of opinions and attitudes shaped by upbringing, education, memories, generational affiliation and so on) on his or her scholarly activity. The author of the study offers two possible and complementary ways to learn about the historian’s worldview: first, through his or her own testimonies and statements from more personal texts and ego-documents (essays, interviews, memoirs or social me-dia posts), and second, through the analysis of his or her scholarly texts (journal studies, monographs and book reviews). The author demonstrates both approaches with concrete examples of works by historians of Czech contemporary history and concludes by outlining the aims and purpose of examining the historian’s worldview. © 2022, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Author identity
No full textPráce popisuje dva nové mezinárodní standardy pro identifikaci autorů uvedené v roce 2010: ISNI - International Name Standard Identifier (návrh standardu ISO) a ORCID (návrh standardu pro identifikaci vědeckých autorů vycházející z Research ID od společnosti Thomson Reuters). Oba standardy jsou teprve ve svých počátcích
Architecture on paper: three unbuilt projects by Leonardo Tossiaki Oba
No full textA geração do arquiteto Leonardo Oba marcou a história da arquitetura do país com expressivos resultados em concursos públicos de projeto que chamaram a atenção da crítica especializada nacional. Muito já se questionou sobre os motivos da ascensão da arquitetura produzida na capital paranaense e pouco se discutiu, efetivamente, sobre os projetos apresentados e os arquitetos responsáveis. A análise do conjunto de projetos não construídos contribui para o entendimento total da obra do arquiteto e das características do grupo paranaense. Assim, a presente pesquisa pretende resgatar o valor arquitetônico de obras que foram premiadas nos concursos que disputaram, mas não foram construídas. Por meio de uma pesquisa exploratória do recorte proposto, busca-se complementar as pesquisas e publicações existentes, que em sua maioria dão reconhecimento apenas às obras edificadas. Recorre-se à análise de três estudos de caso: o Edifício-Sede da TerraFoto, 1979; o Paço Municipal e Centro Cívico de Votorantim, 1987; e o Centro de Formação Profissional, Promoção Social e Desenvolvimento Rural, 1996. O estudo recupera tanto o que os próprios autores afirmam quanto o que a crítica avalia. Por fim, busca-se a lógica expressa pelos próprios projetos, por meio de seu redesenho, e o diálogo com a obra construída do arquiteto, já estudada por outros pesquisadores. Aproxima-se dos projetos a fim de considerá-los como documento, para esclarecer características históricas locais. Por serem frutos de concursos, foram divulgados pela imprensa nacional. E, além dos periódicos, disponíveis na biblioteca da FAUUSP, a pesquisa conta com o acervo pessoal de projetos do arquiteto, o acervo digital de concursos do IABsp, e entrevista com o autor.The generation of the architect Leonardo Oba left its mark on Brazils architectural history with many and significant results in public design competitions that drew the attention of the national specialized critics. A lot has already been said about the reasons behind the rise of architecture produced in the capital of Paraná, but not many discussions is actually held about the presented projects and the responsible architects. The analysis of the collection of unbuilt projects contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the architects work and the characteristics of the group of Paraná. This research aims to reclaim the architectural value of works that were award-winning in competitions but were not built. Through an exploratory study of the proposed scope, we seek to complement the existing researches and publications, which mainly focus on recognizing only the constructed works. The research relies on the analysis of three case studies: TerraFoto Headquarters, 1979; Votorantim Municipal Palace and Civic Center, 1987; and Professional Training Center, Social Promotion, and Rural Development, 1996. The study retrieves both on what the authors themselves state and what the critics evaluate. Finally, the research aims to discern the logic expressed by the projects themselves through their redesign and dialogue with the architects built work, already studied by other researchers. We approach the projects in order to consider them as documents to clarify local historical characteristics. As products of competitions, they were covered by the national press. In addition to periodicals, available at the FAUUSP library, the research relies on the architects personal project collection, the digital archive of competitions from IABsp, and interview with the author
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