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Reliability of F-Scan® in-shoe plantar pressure measurements in people with diabetes at risk of developing foot ulcers

BackgroundThe provision of therapeutic footwear, to prevent the development of diabetic foot ulcers by re-distributing high peak plantar pressure is frequently prescribed for patients with diabetes. Areas of interest (ROI) are identified by placing boxes on the visualised pressure movie. The aims were to evaluate the inter-reliability of the placements of seven ROI boxes and to explore how the box placement affected peak pressure in the seven ROIs. MethodsPlantar pressure movies from 20 of a total of 40 movies were selected for the analysis. Boxes were placed at ROIs, the heel, the lateral midfoot, the metatarsal phalangeal heads (5, 3–4, 2 and 1) and the hallux. The box placements were registered for the left vertical position (L) and the top horizontal position (T) for each of the ROIs, based on registrations by two certified prosthetists and orthotists. FindingsThe inter correlation coefficient of the placement of the boxes ranged from 1.00 to 0.12 (heel_L and metatarsal phalangeal head 2_L respectively). Of the 14 positions of the boxes; four were excellent, four were good, two were moderate and four were poor. No significant differences in the mean peak pressure corresponding to the box placements were found between the CPOs. InterpretationThe inter-reliability of eight of the 14 registered placements, made by prosthetists and orthotists, of the boxes in Scan® was good to excellent. A variation of 1.00–0.12 was present. Despite the variation, no significant differences in the corresponding mean peak pressure between prosthetists and orthotists was found.

Pressuredrop Response Characteristics for Multi-Injection Well Interfered Vertical Well in Heterogeneous Fractured Anticline Reservoirs

AbstractFractured anticline reservoirs are mostly developed by a line production well located at the top position and a line injecting well located at the bottom position. The production well is often interference with by multiple injecting wells, but there is little related research about multiple injecting well interferences. To solve this problem, an extended bottom-hole pressuredrop (BHPD) response model for production well interfered with by multiple injection wells was presented to capture the injection interference and gravity effect. The proposed model's correctness is validated by the software numerical simulation, and low regimes were identified by the BHPD and its derivative curve. Research results show that: (i) the BHPD derivative curve has a one-half slope line, V-shape, and one slope line in reservoir linear flow regime, inter-porosity flow regime, and interference flow regime, respectively; (ii) the drop rate of pressure increases with the increase of formation transmissibility and storability. The bigger the fracture storability, the more obvious the V-shape feature in the derivative curve of BHPD. As the inter-porosity flow coefficient increases, the V-shape feature emerges later; (iii) the beginning time of the interference flow becomes later when the interference distance increases. When the injection rate trends to the production rate, the BHPD curve shows a slight drop and its derivative curve has an intermittent rupture; (iv) the influence of the gravity effect is not ignored. Due to the gravity effect, the BHPD interfered by constant injection well like the BHPD's behavior interfered by the closed boundary. This work provides technical support for capturing the source and degree of interference from well group in the heterogeneous fractured anticline reservoir.

Women as leaders: the glass ceiling effect on women’s leadership success in public bureaucracies

Purpose Much research has been conducted regarding leadership success challenges. However, few are practically oriented on whether the success of women's leadership aligns to organisational, personal and societal contexts as glass cliffs. Thus, this study aims to examine these factors and introduce how they inhibit women from leadership success. Design/methodology/approach This research examined the glass ceiling effects Ethiopian women leaders face. This research focused on adjusted clusters and a survey of 446 female employees from zones, woreda and kebeles. The data was processed through SPSS 25.0 to regress the values. Findings Breaking the glass ceiling, the glass cliffs effects on women’s income levels, the lack of an arena for self-improvement, the nature of organisation policies and challenges in teamwork were found to contribute to women’s under-representation in top leadership positions. Research limitations/implications The results focused only on the 94 public organisations in Ethiopia that were selected by adjusted cluster sampling. Practical implications Realizations of substantial change and refocusing on bringing a significant number of women to the boardrooms in the public bureaucracy, besides glass cliffs. Social implications Enhancing the importance of accepting women leaders. Originality/value To add value to the stock of literature in gender equality, this research brings a strategic focus on factors that inhibit women from top leadership positions.

Extractive Text Summarization Using Deep Learning for Tigrigna Language

With the ever-increasing amounts of textual material such as web pages, news articles, blogs, microblogs, and similar, the Internet became the massive body of unstructured information. In this paper to deal with the issues for the availability of more and more information with less time, the extractive text summarization using the deep learning model was used. In this paper, the proposed approach uses three basic stages of feature extraction, feature enhancement, and summary generation of the given news article to extract the core information, to produce well understandable summary and save reader’s time. In the feature extraction, We explore various features to improve the extracted sentences to the summary by the score and rank of the extracted features matrix by calculating the top thematic words, paragraph segmentation, sentences length & position, proper nouns, and TF-ISF, and the sum of the feature vector given to RBM to enhance the extracted feature vector and finally generate the final summarization by taking top high scores and 50% 0f the sum second higher scores from the enhanced feature extracted scores. For experimenting purpose, we have used 10 news articles from the total gathered news articles gathered from BBC-Tigrigna, Fana-Tigrigna and VOA-Tigrigna news website. The evaluation of the extracted summary was evaluated using Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE) to compare the system extracted summary with the reference / manual summary prepared by human experts. According the experimentation, the average score of ROUG-1 shows 49% for recall, 39% precession, 42% for F-score and for the ROUGE-2 shows that 32% recall, 26% precession and 28% for F-score, for ROUGE-l also shows that 39% of recall, 33% of Precession, and 35% of F-scores. The result shows the proposed approach have higher result in Rouge-1 and the F-score or harmonic mean of precision and recall is 42% and it solves the problems of information overloading in the ever-increasing available news articles by generating the extractive summarizations.

Research trends in the field of the gut-brain interaction: Functional dyspepsia in the spotlight - An integrated bibliometric and science mapping approach.

This study aims to perform a bibliometric analysis of functional dyspepsia (FD), which includes visualizing bibliographic information, in order to identify prevailing study themes, topics of interest, contributing journals, countries, institutions, and authors as well as co-citation patterns. The Web of Science™ Core Collection Database was used to retrieve all peer-reviewed scientific publications related to FD research. The validated search terms were entered into the "title" and "author keywords" fields, and the results were sorted by publication year from 2006 to 2022. There were no restrictions on language. On 12 February 2023, a manual export of the complete metadata for each original publication and review article was performed. CiteSpace was used to reveal co-authorship, publication, and co-citation patterns to find prominent authors, organizations, countries, and journals in FD research as well as to identify author keywords with strong citation bursts, which could indicate an emerging research area. VOSviewer was used to build the co-occurrence indicator (co-word) to identify the main author keywords on which previous studies focused and to induce clustered scientific landscape for two consecutive periods to identify intriguing areas for future research. A search of the database retrieved 2,957 documents. There was a wave-like pattern in the number of publications until 2017, after which there was a spike in publication volume. The USA, China, and Japan provided the majority of contributions. In terms of institution, Mayo Clin, Univ Newcastle, and Katholieke Univ Leuven were found to be the prolific institutions. Additionally, the results indicate that eastern Asian researchers contributed significantly to the global knowledge of literature that led other countries; however, Canada, the USA, Australia, England, and Germany were found to have the highest degree of betweenness centrality. Nicholas J. Talley, Jan Tack, Gerald Holtmann, Michael Camilleri, Ken Haruma, and Paul Moayyedi occupied the top positions based on productivity and centrality indicators. Six thematic clusters emerged (Helicobacter pylori infection; pathophysiological mechanisms of FD; extraintestinal co-morbidities and overlap syndromes associated with FD; herbal medicine in FD; diabetic gastroparesis; and dietary factors in FD). "Acupuncture," "duodenal eosinophilia," "gut microbiota," and others were among the author keywords with rising prevalence. In FD research, eastern Asian countries have established themselves as major contributors with the highest publishing productivity; however, research has primarily been driven by North America, Europe, and Australia, where cooperation is generally more active and highly influential scientific results are produced. Our analysis suggests that increased investments, training of human resources, improved infrastructures, and expanded collaborations are essential to improving the quality of FD research in Asia. The emerging author keyword analysis suggests that eosinophil-mast cell axis, gut microbiota, mental disorders, and acupuncture are the key areas that attract researchers' attention as future research boulevards. There is a highly skewed distribution of research output across Asia, with most focus on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) coming from Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean centers. However, CAM remains an underexplored area of research in the context of FD, and it deserves greater research efforts in order to obtain quality scientific evidence. Furthermore, we propose that the research framework of CAM should not be limited to dysmotility; rather, it could be interpreted within a more holistic context that includes the brain-gut-microbiota axis, as well as novel concepts such as duodenitis, increased mucosal permeability, and infiltration and activation of eosinophils and mast cells, among others. Overall, we provided bibliometrics-based overviews of relevant literature to researchers from different backgrounds and healthcare professionals to provide an in-depth overview of major trends in FD research.

A “lifeline out of the COVID‐19 crisis”? An ecofeminist critique of the European Green Deal

A “lifeline out of the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 crisis”? An ecofeminist critique of the European Green Deal

The kaleidoscope of the glass ceiling: experiences of Pakistani female doctors - a qualitative narrative inquiry.

To explore the extent and factors leading to the glass ceiling for Pakistani female doctors in leadership positions. The qualitative narrative study was conducted the Department of Medical Education, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan from March to July 2021, and comprised female doctors with 10-15 years of professional experience who were either currently at top leadership position or had retired from such a position in public and private medical clinical setups and medical colleges. Data was collected using in-depth interviews conducted through Zoom due to the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic. The transcribed data was processed using ATLAS.ti.9 software for thematic analysis with an inductive approach. Of the 9 subjects aged 47-72 years having professional experience of 11-39 years, 4(44.4%) were clinicians, 3(33.3%) had basic medical science background and 2(22.2%) were health profession educationists. In terms of qualifications, 4(44.4%) were PhDs, 4(44.4%) were Fellows of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan, and 1(11.1%) had an M. Phil. Besides, 4(44.4%) subjects were from the public sector, and 5(55.5%) from the private sector, 1(11.1%) had retired from service. The extent of experiencing the glass ceiling was common to all but 1(11.1%) participant. Factors identified included 'institutional challenges', 'family support issues', 'personal challenges' and 'societal unacceptance'. Detailed analysis revealed that women in leadership positions faced 'malintent of seniors', 'discrimination', 'stereotyping', 'lack of mentors' and 'ethnic background conditioning' at the institutional level. On the personal front, they faced 'lack of support of in-laws', 'insecurity of husbands', 'need of personal attributes' and 'beauty as a barrier'. The glass ceiling was found to be a challenge faced by Pakistani female doctors in leadership positions in both clinical settings and academia.

Women in science: Rising numbers but an eternal glass ceiling

This paper provides an account of my perception as a woman doing science, and examines the general situation and evolution of women's participation in science in Portugal. I will start with a slightly broader perspective, emphasizing a few global trends in women's participation in science and alluding to one persistent obstacle: gender discrimination. These trends also define the Portuguese context. Despite significant progress in opening the door to women's participation in science, it remains challenging for women to pursue a viable career path in research and ascend the hierarchy. Beyond the glass ceiling, top positions are still reserved for a predominantly male old guard. Yet pioneering women have shown that changes can happen and have opened the door for us to collectively continue this important work—something that I am proud to be part of.

Integrating Women into the Leadership of Christian Missions Agency

Christian Missions Agency is an organised body of Christians that are making efforts to propagate Christianity among those who have not come into contact with the faith. Christian mission activities need a diversity of thinking and experience in a leadership team. Missions’ agencies also need leadership that meets a new set of societal needs and circumstances. One easy and obvious step toward diversity in such a body is incorporating women into all levels of the organisational leadership matrix, particularly in the top leadership positions. This paper is not to be construed as a campaign against male leadership; instead, it seeks to increase the equal representation of women and men as part of the mission work teams and within the leadership of a Christian missions organisation. There is a need to create a space for all voices to be heard since all are created equal in the sight of God. An effective mission organisation needs to view women and men as equal contributors to the kingdom’s growth and to general social progress. It also aims to encourage women to take on different roles and ensure their skills do not go unnoticed in broader society. Leadership in missions should not in any way be gender-biased. Organisations that do not intentionally create a space for women with leadership gifts to be able to use their gifts for the good of all, will ultimately lose those women’s valuable contributions. Some of the reasons commonly cited to explain why women, either married or single, cannot be considered on the same footing as their male counterparts are unwarranted. These are inter alia gender barriers that hinder them, identity challenges, and a perception that a woman is primarily responsible for only family care and thus gains cultural acceptability. The paper concludes with suggested ways of integrating women into leadership of Christian missions as a critically important addition to them.

Role of Women in Top Management Position and the Impact on Knowledge Management in IT Sector

Women have been perceived as emotionally, physically, and especially intellectually weaker than men for decades. Gender bias and cultural attitudes have a bigger role in this than facts. Now that businesses understand the value of soft skills and the essential role they play in the workplace, putting women in positions of leadership is the sensible and ethical thing to do in knowledge management. In this paper especially focus the top level women employees in the IT sector with 130 sample respondents. Researcher tries to measure the perception of women employees regarding knowledge management practices and organization performance in IT companies. ANOVA is used as a technique for data analysis. The major finding of the study revealed that the women employees have good perception towards knowledge management in the industry and also towards its different dimensions like knowledge acquisition, knowledge creation and community practices.

Worldwide productivity and research trend of publications concerning electroactive materials and spinal cord injury: A bibliometric study.

Purpose: We investigated the current state and trends in the area during the previous 10years using bibliometric approaches to evaluate the global scientific output of research on electroactive materials and spinal cord injury. Methods: Studies on spinal cord injury in electroactive materials that were published between 2012 and 2022 were located using the Web of science (WOS) datebase. The software programs bibliometrix R-package and CiteSpace were used to do quantitative analyses of annual publications, nation, author, institution, journal source, co-cited references, and keywords. The studies were categorized by the research's main points using a qualitative analysis, and publications having more than 10 citations each year. Results: In the final analysis, 1,330 relevant papers or reviews were included. There is an increased tendency in both the average annual citation rate and the number of publications in the discipline. The United States and the University of Toronto are the countries and institutions that have contributed the most to this discipline, respectively. The majority of authors are from the China and United States. Zhang Y is the author with the most published articles and holds the top position in the cited author h-index species. The journal with the highest number of published articles is "Disability and rehabilitation"; the journal is divided into four main areas including physics, materials, chemistry, molecular, and biology. The keyword analysis revealed a shift in research hotspots from schwann cell, fracture, and urinary disorders to carbon-based materials, functional recovery, and surgery. Analysis of qualitative data revealed that the role and mechanism of injectable conductive hydrogels in spinal cord healing after damage is a hot topic of current study, with the mechanism primarily focusing on the inhibition of oxidative stress (Nrf2) and apoptosis (Casepase 3). Conclusion: Our bibliometric analysis indicates that research on electroactive materials for spinal cord injury remains an active field of study. Moreover, contemporary research is concentrated on carbon-based materials, functional rehabilitation, and surgery.

Post-stroke cognitive impairment: A bibliometric and knowledge-map analysis.

Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) has a negative effect on activities of daily living. Although a number of studies have been published on PSCI, no quantitative studies have yet been conducted. CiteSpace and VOSviewer were used to quantitatively analyze PSCI to illustrate the research hotspots and trends in PSCI. All relevant publications were extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) of the Web of Science (WoS). A total of 6536 articles were included in this study. From 349 in 2010 to 942 in 2020, the number of publications increased dramatically. The USA maintained the top position worldwide and provided a vital influence. Harvard University was considered the leader in research collaboration among all institutions. Stroke was the most popular journal in this sector and Vincent Mok published the most articles in this area. We analyzed the keywords and identified five research hotspot clusters. By summarizing the literature on PSCI, we considered the publication information regarding different countries, institutions, authors and journals. The mechanism of PSCI is an active hotspot. Cerebral vascular disease, especially white matter lesions, also received more attention.

Making sense of glass ceiling: A bibliometric analysis of conceptual framework, intellectual structure and research publications

In life and employment, women face discrimination. The glass ceiling prohibits women from obtaining top management and leadership positions in male-dominated sectors. This study has conducted bibliometric analyses to analyze and highlight the glass ceiling literature. Authors searched international conferences and journals for relevant papers. This study evaluates 1,199 publications from the Scopus database’s core collection between 1988 and 2021 to visualize the Glass ceiling. This research analyses co-occurrence, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling to discover the field’s most important subjects, authors, and works. The extent of the glass ceiling, current publication patterns, significant regions, key articles, and critical publications were also studied. This research reveals that the glass ceiling is evolving. This research delivers vital insights and conclusions on the glass ceiling’s future. Also, rich and developing nations have significant knowledge differences.

Export Performance of Indonesian Frozen Shrimp to Japan

This study aims to determine the competitiveness of Indonesian frozen shrimp export as a food product in Japanese market. The competitiveness of frozen shrimp products from Indonesia is also compared with the export country competitors, namely Thailand, Vietnam and China. As one of the largest shrimp exporting countries in Japan, Indonesia has great opportunity to occupy the top position as a frozen shrimp exporting country in Japan compared to the other competing countries. Competitiveness analysis is measured using the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Acceleration Rate (AR) and Trade Specialization Index (TSI) approach. The data used were data from 2004 to 2021. The results show that Indonesia in exporting frozen shrimp to Japan has high competitiveness, but in controlling market share in Japan it is still relatively weak and Indonesia is also in a position of maturity stage of TSI and tends to become an frozen shrimp exporting country.

Seasonal Performance Of Speed, Agility And Power Of Two Districts Women Soccer Players

This study evaluates the seasonal performance of motor fitness between two districts’ women soccer players as in that particular time soccer players generally stay in the top position of their performance. A group of 25 women soccer players were selected from each district as subject, those who have minimum five years of training in soccer by renowned coaches. Those 50 subjects were chosen respectively from Dakshin Dinajpur district (age 17.32±0.94 years; height 154.08±7.46 cm and weight 40.44±3.34 kg.) and Uttar Dinajpur district (age 17.44±1.00 years; height 151.12±9.51 cm and weight 40.24±4.33 kg.) West Bengal, India. A comparative study was conducted on women soccer players to assess their motor fitness (speed, agility and power). Motor fitness was assessed by the test of speed – 50m. linear sprint, test of power – standing broad jump and test of agility – 4X10 yds. Shuttle runs. Results reveal that Uttar Dinajpur district maintained better fitness in agility, power and speed than Dakshin Dinajpur district women soccer players. The findings also indicate a significance difference (0.05 level) between two district women soccer players in motor fitness components.&#x0D;

HEAD TEACHERS’ PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP STYLE AND TEACHERS’ JOB SATISFACTION IN PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN BARINGO SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

This study investigated the effects of head teachers’ participative leadership style on teachers’ job satisfaction in public primary schools in Baringo Sub-county, Kenya. To this far, lots of research conducted in this area have not been exhausted on the participative leadership style, rather most of the studies have focused on leadership in general. The study employed a descriptive cross-sectional survey design, in which both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis were applied. The study respondents included 1250 teachers randomly selected from 127 public primary schools, 127 head teachers, and 127 School chairpersons (B.O.M representative) in Baringo Sub-county, Kenya. An interview schedule was used to analyse qualitative data using thematic analysis. The study used Pearson’s correlational analysis and established that there was a positive relationship between participative leadership style and teachers’ job satisfaction. Regression analysis established that job establishment and position had a control effect on job satisfaction. The study concluded that top positions in schools enjoyed more benefits in their positions and there is a need to streamline leadership aspects in most primary schools. The positive influence contributes to teachers’ job satisfaction in public primary schools in Baringo Sub-county, Kenya. This shows that Public Primary Schools in Baringo Sub-county, Kenya should consider applying head teachers’ participative leadership style in school. The study recommends that the head teacher needs to play the role of a coach and mentor at the same time to his/her subordinate.&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Article visualizations:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="/-counters-/soc/0087/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Diversity Officer Development Programs: A New Approach to Cultivating High Performing Chief Diversity Officers

Problem Increasing numbers of organizations are creating new Chief Diversity Officer positions, and because these roles are relatively new to the corporate landscape, industry lacks established methods for developing employees to excel in these roles. Solution Diversity Officer Development Programs (DODPs) are proposed as a method for organizations to ensure they are developing a robust pipeline of diversity specialists who can move into CDO roles as well as other top leadership positions. Stakeholders Organizations and HRD scholars who are committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice in the workplace.

Analysis of Women Traders’ Approaches to Resilience During the Outbreaks of Covid 19

Gender disparities still exist in the business world, yet things are slowly starting to change. Other than that, women have historically faced greater obstacles than men when it comes to achieving success in the business world. Women are becoming leaders in industries and achieving top positions in companies. This paper describes the result of need analysis of women's capacity development strategy among the actors of the community-based creative economy in tourism business. This qualitative approach used observation, interviews with focused group discussion activities, and document analysis as a method to collect data. It was carried out involving 25 women creative economy actors as informants. Business pattern dynamization emerged as one of the strategies to cope with socio-economic issues due to the pandemic, which was done by developing businesses in an agricultural field, fulfilling household needs, online ready-made garments, and opening a business at the beach. The community serves as a social capital that helps creative economy actors in this study overcome hindrances, such as high-interest loans, price war, and unhealthy competition. Hence, these women embody the qualities of resilience, determination, and grit. They prove that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.

A comprehensive bibliometric study of the balanced scorecard

This research provides a deeper knowledge in the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) insight by using the bibliometric technique. The existing gap between the traditional literatura reviews and previous bibliometric studies, is covered as it is the first comprehensive analysis carried out in applying quantity, quality, and structural indicators. Web of Science Core Collection was used as the source of information, considering it the most accurate and suitable data base for these studies. This research covers the wider period-of-time possible, from 1992 to 2020, with a final sample of 771 articles in 466 reviews. Quantity indicators show the high interest that the BSC still has in the scholar’s community, pointing out Kaplan and Norton as the most productive authors,and confirming that ‘management’, ‘business’ and ‘accountability’ are its most common field of activity, although others as ‘systems’ and sustainability’ are coming to prominence; ‘Balanced Scorecard’ appears as the most remarkable keyword. Quality indicators found 32,706 citations, with Kaplan and Norton occupying again top positions as well as ‘Harvard Business Review’ as the most impacting review both in cited articles and in average. Co-citation analysis reveals the existence of a triple corecluster for articles, based on the theory, literature reviews, and case-studies.

Open-up or stay closed: the effect of TMT gender diversity on open innovation

PurposeDespite the importance of top management team (TMT) gender diversity in a firm's strategic decisions and the high degree of innovation activities that several firms have experienced in recent years, little or no research has examined how TMT gender diversity affects a firm's open innovation decision. The authors examine how TMT gender diversity impacts firms' open innovation activities. The authors further examine how this impact is affected by women executives' personal attributes and institutional conditions.Design/methodology/approachThe sample comprised of 62,745 firm-year observations (9,831 firms) from 25 countries from 1990 to 2010. The authors employed the system generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation technique to estimate the results.FindingsEmploying novel panel data on co-owned patents across 25 economies, the authors find that proportion of women in TMTs has a positive impact on open innovation activities. Moreover, the authors find that women managers' power and institutional gender parity strengthen the association between gender diversity and open innovation.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study indicate that firms committed to optimizing their open innovation policies and practices should include women in TMTs and create such conditions that are supportive for women executives to effectively express their innate inclinations. Importantly, our study supports the business case for gender diversity in top leadership positions by providing a compelling evidence for the positive impact of TMT gender diversity on open innovation.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the gender diversity literature by showing how women leaders' values and character become embedded in their companies' strategy and present empirical evidence that having women in TMTs increase the likelihood of conducting open innovation. Further, the authors show how women executives' power and institutional level gender parity provide boundary conditions that moderate the relationship between TMT gender diversity and open innovation.