The linkages between business strategies and compensation policies using miles and snow's framework

This study links a multidimensional measure of compensatíon strategy to Miles and Snow's (1978) business strategies, and examines their interactive impact on firm performance. The results reported here indicate that a more mechanistic compensation strategy makes a greater contribution to firm performance among defenders, while a more organic compensation strategy makes a greater contribution to firm performance among prospector

The importance of various work aspects and their organiza tional consequences using Hofstede's cultural dimensions

This study examines the importance employees place on various work aspects according to their nation's relative positioning along Hofstede's four cultural dimension: power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity/feminity. Based on a cross-national sample of over 5,000 employees representing 20 countries, the results uncover differential patterns of responses by cultural groupings. The data also suggest that importance and satisfaction interactively affect several organizational consequences critería: job satisfaction, company satisfaction, intent to leave the firm, and organizational cornmitment

The effectiveness of organization-wide compensation strategies in technology intensive firms

This study examines compensation strategies formulated and implemented by high technology firms and their relative effectiveness. Based on a sample of 173 firms, empirical results indicate that the following pay strategies are most appropriate for high technology organizations: A greater emphasis on the individual rather than the job as the unit of analysis, sharing of risks between employees and the firm, an external market orientation, dispersed decision making authority for pay allocation purposes, reliance on aggregate incentives and a longer time orientation

Regretting fatherhood in Spain

Objective: In this first study of its kind in Spain, we analyse the scope of and reasons underlying paternal regret. Background: Research on parental regret, a subject only recently broached by analysts, tends to focus on motherhood. Regretting fatherhood has been only scantly researched. In this study we test the effects of intensive fathering, the use of different care resources, economic and employment conditions, and satisfaction with respondents’ partnership on their regret for having children. Method: The analysis is based on an online survey of parents of children under 7 years old (QUIDAN Survey) A total of 3100 parents were interviewed, with the sample evenly distributed by sex and youngest child’s age, and proportional by parents’ highest level of schooling and place of residence. The weighted subsample used in this article included 1374 fathers. The hypotheses are tested with logistic regression. Results: The social factors associated with a greater likelihood of regret include circumstances that challenge men’s role as primary breadwinner, a negative impact of fatherhood on job career, a high dependence on grandparents for balancing working and private lives and partnership dissatisfaction. A relationship between intensive fathering and regret could not be observed. Conclusion: The findings show the extent of paternal regret to be fairly limited, similar to the proportion reported for maternal regret. Paternal regret is mainly associated with family and working circumstancesThe research was funded by the Spanish Research Agency under the project ‘Childcare practices among Spanish families with children less than seven years old: Agents, practices and satisfaction’, grant number CSO2017-84634-

Significance of respiratory diseases in the health management of sheep

Objectives of the present article are to review the financial significance of respiratory diseases and to indicate their relevance within the health management of sheep. In lambs, the principal adverse effects of the diseases are related to mortality, reduced carcass quality, veterinary expenses, decrease of average daily bodyweight gain and poor quality of lambs produced. In adult animals, financial losses are related to reduced production of affected sheep, need for early culling and death. Given the multi-faceted nature of these diseases, management practices (e.g., housing improvements, implementation of biosecurity provisions) need to be considered for their prevention; as environmental conditions also play a role in development of these diseases, they should be taken into account. Appropriate health measures (e.g., vaccinations) that improve animal immune response also will help control of the diseases

Jurassic rifting to post-rift subsidence analysis in the Central High Atlas and its relation to salt diapirism

et. al.The subsidence evolution of the Tethyan Moroccan Atlas Basin, presently inverted as the Central High Atlas, is characterized by an Early Jurassic rifting episode, synchronous with salt diapirism of the Triassic evaporite-bearing rocks. Two contrasting regions of the rift basin – with and without salt diapirism – are examined to assess the effect of salt tectonics in the evolution of subsidence patterns and stratigraphy. The Djebel Bou Dahar platform to basin system, located in the southern margin of the Atlas Basin, shows a Lower Jurassic record of normal faulting and lacks any evidence of salt diapirism. In contrast, the Tazoult ridge and adjacent Amezraï basin, located in the centre of the Atlas Basin, reveals spectacular Early Jurassic diapirism. In addition, we analyse alternative Central High Atlas post-Middle Jurassic geohistories based on new thermal and burial models (GENEX® 4.0.3 software), constrained by new vitrinite reflectance data from the Amezraï basin. The comparison of the new subsidence curves from the studied areas with published subsidence curves from the Moroccan Atlas, the Saharan Atlas (Algeria) and Tunisian Atlas show that fast subsidence peaks were diachronous along the strike, being younger towards the east from Early–Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. This analysis also evidences a close relationship between these high subsidence rate episodes and salt diapirism.This study was part of a collaborative research project funded by Statoil Research Centre, Bergen (Norway) and by the CSIC-FSE 2007-2013 JAE-Doc post-doctoral research contract (E.S.). The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science provided additional funding (MEC) through the projects Intramural Especial (CSIC 201330E030) and MITE (CGL 2014-59516). This research was supported by the Grup Consolidat de Recerca “Geologia Sediment aria” de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2014GSR251).Peer reviewedPreprin

Fundamentos científicos de la rehabilitación tras la sustitución intraarticular del ligamento cruzado anterior

Hay pocos aspectos de la rehabilitación en nuestra especialidad que sean tan complejos y controvertidos como la rehabilitación después de la sustitución intraarticular del ligamento cruzado anterior (LCA). La tendencia actual es utilizar protocolos de rehabilitación acelerada y rápido funcionalismo, todo lo cual está en relación directa con el avance en la investigación sobre el comportamiento biológico de los implantes, una mayor sofisticación en la técnica quirúrgica y los adelantos en las técnicas de rehabilitación. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar no protocolos concretos, sino los problemas que plantea la cirugía del LCA y como minimizarlos en la medida de lo posible, protegiendo al mismo tiempo la plastia.There are few aspects of rehabilitation in our speciality which are so complex and controversial like rehabilitation after intraarticular replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Nowadays there is a trend to use protocols of accelerated rehabilitation and rapid functioning, and all this is related to the advances in research on the biological behavior of the grafts, a major sophistication in surgical technique and advances in rehabilitation techniques. The objective of this paper is not to analyze concrete protocols but rather the problems that state the surgery of the ACL, and how to diminish them to maximum, protecting at the same time the graft

Spatial Memory Training Counteracts Hippocampal GIRK Channel Decrease in the Transgenic APPSw,Ind J9 Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model

This work was supported by grants BFU2017-82494-P, PID2020-115823-GB100 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and SBPLY/21/180501/000150 funded by JCCM and ERDF A way of making Europe, to LJD and JDNL; and grant PID2019-106615RB-I00 and Instituto de Salud Carlos III (CIBERNED CB06/05/0042) to CAS. AC held a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR.G-protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels are critical determinants of neuronal excitability. They have been proposed as potential targets to restore excitatory/inhibitory balance in acute amyloidosis models, where hyperexcitability is a hallmark. However, the role of GIRK signaling in transgenic mice models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is largely unknown. Here, we study whether progressive amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulation in the hippocampus during aging alters GIRK channel expression in mutant β-amyloid precursor protein (APP J9) transgenic AD mice. Additionally, we examine the impact of spatial memory training in a hippocampal-dependent task, on protein expression of GIRK subunits and Regulator of G-protein signaling 7 (RGS7) in the hippocampus of APP J9 mice. Firstly, we found a reduction in GIRK2 expression (the main neuronal GIRK channels subunit) in the hippocampus of 6-month-old APP J9 mice. Moreover, we found an aging effect on GIRK2 and GIRK3 subunits in both wild type (WT) and APP J9 mice. Finally, when 6-month-old animals were challenged to a spatial memory training, GIRK2 expression in the APP J9 mice were normalized to WT levels. Together, our results support the evidence that GIRK2 could account for the excitatory/inhibitory neurotransmission imbalance found in AD models, and training in a cognitive hippocampal dependent task may have therapeutic benefits of reversing this effect and lessen early AD deficits

Reliability of the resonance frequency analysis values in new prototype transepithelial abutments: A prospective clinical study

Resonance frequency analysis (RFA) requires abutment disconnection to monitor implant stability. To overcome this limitation, an experimental transepithelial abutment was designed to allow a SmartPeg to be screwed onto it, in order to determine the prototype abutments repeatability and reproducibility using Osstell ISQ and to assess whether implant length and diameter have an influence on the reliability of these measurements. RFA was conducted with a SmartPeg screwed directly into the implant and onto experimental abutments of different heights of 2, 3.5 and 5 mm. A total of 32 patients (116 implants) were tested. RFA measurements were taken twice for each group from mesial, distal, buccal and palatal/lingual surfaces. Mean values and SD were calculated and Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC) (p < 0.05, IC 95%). The implant stability quotient (ISQ) mean values were 72.581 measured directly to implant and 72.899 (2 mm), 72.391 (3.5 mm) and 71.458 (5 mm) measured from the prototypes. ICC between measurements made directly to implant and through 2-, 3.5-and 5-mm abutments were 0.908, 0.919 and 0.939, respectively. RFA values registered through the experimental transepithelial abutments achieved a high reliability. Neither the implant length nor the diameter had any influence on the measurements’ reliability

Carotenoids from persimmon juice processing

[EN] The aim of this study was the use and revalorization of two persimmon by-products A and B generated in the juice production process. The by-product B resulting from a pectinase enzymatic treatment of peels and pulp to optimize juice extraction was especially suitable for recovery of valuable bioactive carotenoids. The extraction solvents and solvent combinations used were: ethanol, acetone, ethanol/acetone (50:50 v/v) and ethanol/ acetone/hexane (25:25:50 v/v/v). HPLC-DAD analysis detected and identified a total of nine individual carotenoids namely violaxanthin, neoxanthin, antheraxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, ß-cryptoxanthin 5,6-epoxide, ß-cryptoxanthin, ¿-carotene, and ß-carotene. ß-cryptoxanthin and ß-carotene represented 49.2% and 13.2% of the total carotenoid content (TCC) in the acetone extract from by-product B. TCC contributed greatly to antioxidant activity of acetone extract derived from this by-product. Pectinase enzymatic treatment of persimmon peels and pulp followed by absolute acetone extraction of carotenoids could be an efficient method to obtain a rich extract in these compounds that could be used as nutraceutical ingredient.This study was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades through the funded project 'Simbiosis industrial en el aprovechamiento integral del caqui (Diospyros kaki); Ejemplo de bioeconomia' (CTM2017-88978-R). Sara Gea-Botella thanks the Agencia Estatal de Investigacion la Ayuda para la Formacion de Doctores en Empresas "Doctorados Industriales" (DI-16-08465) through the R+D+i project entitled 'Evaluacion in vitro e in vivo de un extracto procedente de subproductos de la industrializacion del caqui'. The authors wish to thank Mitra Sol Technologies S.L. the given technical assistance.Gea-Botella, S.; Agulló, L.; Martí, N.; Martínez-Madrid, M.; Lizama Abad, V.; Martín-Bermudo, F.; Berná, G.... (2021). Carotenoids from persimmon juice processing. Food Research International. 141:1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109882S1814