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Despite the amount of theorization on the forms and effects of participation, relatively little research directly examines what the concept of workplace participation entails in the minds of employees, and whether employees across cultures think positively when the concept of participation is activated in their mental…

BACKGROUND: A team of volunteers, known as City Hosts, were recruited to support UK City of Culture 2021 awarded to Coventry. City Hosts held various roles facilitating cultural event delivery and promoting a positive experience for visitors. This study aimed to (i) understand how and to what extent the volunteering pr…

Ultrafast power Doppler imaging (uPDI) using high-frame-rate plane-wave transmission is a new microvascular imaging modality that offers high Doppler sensitivity. However, due to the unfocused transmission of plane waves, the echo signal is subject to interference from noise and clutter, resulting in a low signal-to-no…

PURPOSE: To assess British doctors' work-life balance, home-life satisfaction and associated barriers. STUDY DESIGN: We designed an online survey using Google Forms and distributed this via a closed social media group with 7031 members, exclusively run for British doctors. No identifiable data were collected and all r…

Pd(111) thin films, ∼245 nm thick, are deposited on AlO(0001) substrates at ≈0.5, whereis the Pd melting point, by ultrahigh vacuum dc magnetron sputtering of Pd target in pure Ar discharges. Auger electron spectra and low-energy electron diffraction patterns acquiredfrom the as-deposited samples r…

In order to calculate the prospects for new transition-metal rich and rare-earth free permanent magnets, we have investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of Fe[Formula: see text]P and related Mn- or/and Si-substituted compounds using full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FPLAPW) method under genera…

A systematic and formal study of the global and elemental properties of the propagating-order scattering matrix of conically mounted and crossed gratings is presented. The most general formulation of the scattering matrix is established. Expressions of the global properties (reciprocity and unitarity) of the scattering…

INTRODUCTION: Salvage radiotherapy (SRT) is one of the treatment options after progression following surgical management, with effectiveness varying according to patient risk and clinical-pathological characteristics. OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of SRT alone versus SRT combined with androgen deprivation th…

Invited for the cover of this issue is Kamil Parkan and co-workers at University of Chemistry and Technology and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague. The cover graphic depicts a schematic representation of the assembly of aryl-C-glycosides based on a protecting-group-free Hiyama reaction. Read the f…

GaSb-based single-transverse-mode narrow ridge waveguide (RW) lasers with high power and simultaneous good beam quality have broad application prospects in the mid-infrared wavelength region. Yet its design and formation have not been investigated systematically, while the beam characteristics that affect their suitabi…

BACKGROUND: Biomedical scientists need to access figures to validate research facts and to formulate or to test novel research hypotheses. However, figures are difficult to comprehend without associated text (e.g., figure legend and other reference text). We are developing automated systems to extract the relevant expl…

BACKGROUND: Clinical trials are one of the most important sources of evidence for guiding evidence-based practice and the design of new trials. However, most of this information is available only in free text - e.g., in journal publications - which is labour intensive to process for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, a…

OBJECTIVE: To improve the quality of outpatient clinic communication between Otolaryngology and primary care doctors. DESIGN: Three example outpatient letters with identical content were created using different structure styles - full prose, headline subheadings with full prose and full subheadings throughout. Electro…

Pseudocyst of the auricle is characterized by asymptomatic swelling caused by an intracartilaginous fluid accumulation. If left untreated, permanent deformity of the pinna may occur. Many modalities of treatment have been reported. This article summarizes a 2 year retrospective study (2005-2007) performed in the Childr…

This article is a narrative review about how appropriate authorship can be achieved, a brief mention about various scientific misconducts, the reason and consequences of such misconducts and finally, the policies to be adopted by the aspiring authors to avert these problems. The literature search was performed in the G…

Achieving high-quality electrical contact at metal/organic semiconductor interfaces is crucial for unlocking the full potential of single-crystal organic thin-film transistors (SC OTFTs). However, the delicate nature of organic single-crystalline films (OSCFs) and the harsh metal deposition process often introduce…

Rare earth free magnetocaloric materials have emerged as a potential candidate for application in magnetic refrigeration presented in this work. A systematic investigation of Hafnium (Hf) substitution effects on the structural, thermal, magnetic, and magnetocaloric properties of rare earth free Fe-Zr-B-Cu alloys, synth…

Wear-free sliding between two contacted solid surfaces is the ultimate goal in the effort to extend the lifetime of mechanical devices, especially when it comes to inventing new types of micro-electromechanical systems where wear is often a major obstacle. Here we report experimental observations of wear-free sliding f…

Actinomycosis is an infrequent chronic progressive granulomatous and suppurative disease caused by Actinomyces israelii, a natural inhabitant of the gastrointestinal tract. We report a rare case of a 68-year-old man with primary endobronchial actinomycosis who presented in the emergency respiratory ward with massive he…

The imperative to re-analyze existing public sequencing data is central to modern biology, driven by new hypotheses and advanced analytical methods. However, this effort is critically hampered by the profound heterogeneity of repository data, particularly the non-standardized, free-text descriptions of biological exper…