Report Of Group Research Articles

Research on ESG Report from the Perspective of Sustainable Development

China's economy has entered a stage of high-quality development, and sustainable, green and low-carbon are becoming important keywords for economic development. The "dual carbon" goal proposed by China in 2020 has further promoted the society's attention to green and low-carbon development. At the same time, more people and enterprises are gradually realizing the importance of assuming social responsibility for the sustainable development of enterprises. ESG includes environmental, social and governance aspects, and advocates that enterprises should not only pay attention to the growth of their own financial performance in the process of business development, but also pay attention to the coordinated development of non-financial performance, and promote sustainable development of enterprises through active ESG practices to help enterprises transform green. Moreover, as an important driving force for economic and social development, ESG practice can promote the high-quality development of China's economy. In recent years, ESG has gradually become a hot social issue, and how to achieve sustainable development has attracted extensive discussion and research, so the research of ESG report has become more and more important.This paper takes Fuyao Group's ESG report as the research object to explore its ESG reporting practice and its impact on the sustainable development of enterprises. Through the study of this paper, it is found that the practice of ESG reporting carried out by Fuyao Group first achieves energy conservation and emission reduction in environmental aspects, responds to the national strategy, and reduces energy costs; Secondly, in terms of society, improve employee efficiency by protecting the rights and interests of employees, participate in philanthropy to enhance corporate visibility, cooperate with all parties in the supply chain, and obtain government recognition; Thirdly, in terms of governance, we continue to promote the improvement of governance mechanisms and improve the efficiency of enterprise management; Finally, ESG practices affect corporate performance from two aspects: promoting R&D innovation and helping enterprises alleviate information asymmetry. ESG practices have a positive impact on corporate sustainable development, non-financial performance is most directly reflected in product added value, overseas revenue proportion increase, accumulated reputation and promote corporate green and sustainable development, financial performance has also been better long-term promotion, at the same time, the release of ESG practice report has achieved good market response, promoting the growth of corporate value. In conclusion, this paper argues that ESG practices can help improve corporate performance and promote sustainable development, and enterprises should attach importance to the coordinated development of environmental protection, social responsibility and corporate governance in the process of operation, and participate in ESG practices to promote the sustainable development of society.

Advancing Understandings of Blood Donation Motivation and Behavior

In this review, we provide critical analysis of social science research into blood donation motivation and behavior. We first share an understanding of the existing literature and recommendations for future research collectively developed by members of the Working Group on Blood Donors and the Supply: Diversifying while Maintaining the Donor Pool, Donor Selection, and Optimizing Blood Availability and Safety, as part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's 2022 State of the Science in Transfusion Medicine symposium. Then, rather than aim for a comprehensive treatment, we review 4 newer manuscripts that exemplify aspects of the group's recommendations and report results from countries where the blood supply is based on voluntary, nonremunerated donations. From the substantial existing literature, we selected: (1) a study that employed motivational interviewing techniques, thematic analysis, and surveys to link donation motivations and barriers reported by diverse young donors in the United States to actual donation behavior over a year of subsequent eligibility; (2) a survey regarding donation motivations and barriers and monetary amounts associated with willingness to participate in whole blood, plasma, or platelet collection; (3) a survey-based assessment of various emotional states reported by donors at 2 time points during donation and the relationship between emotional experience and subsequent vasovagal reactions; and (4) an interpretive discourse analysis of blood collection agency messaging to donors and the public in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We close by noting several challenges posed by the structure of the United States blood system and the current funding environment to conducting rigorous research and translating findings into practice.

Pengaruh Penerapan SIA, SPI dan Peran Audit Internal Terhadap Kualitas Laporan Keuangan Pada Indojaya Group

This study aims to determine the effect of the application of accounting information systems, internal control systems, roles and internal auditors on the quality of Indojaya Group's financial reports. This research is a quantitative research with data analysis using multiple linear regression. The population in this study were employees of the Indojaya group who work as accountants totaling 37 employees and the sampling in this study used the census method, where all members of the population were sampled. Collecting data using a questionnaire method given to respondents to be filled out. The results of this study indicate that the application of accounting information systems, internal control systems and the role of internal audit have a significant positive effect on the quality of financial reports

Research Ethics and Human Subjects: A Reflexive Openness Approach

The foremost ethical obligation and therefore the first duty of scholars is the ethical treatment of people affected by our research, particularly its subjects. Our working group's report discusses the implications of the primacy of the ethical treatment of participants – our term for human – for empirical research in political science. Although research ethics encompasses a broader range of issues (including honesty, integrity, competence, and the respectful treatment of students and colleagues, among others), we focus on the primacy of participants both because the costs of violating this obligation are likely much higher than, for example, plagiarism, and because this principle may conflict with evolving norms of in the social sciences. We acknowledge that transparency frequently has benefits, but nonetheless focus on the tensions between it and the primary obligation to subjects and other ethical obligations in a wide range of research contexts, including settings of violence and repression. To support our ethical positions, we advance a broad and distinct approach of that incorporates sustained reflection on the ethics of research practices, what ethnographers term reflexivity. This approach has three important elements. First, it promotes ongoing reflexivity by the author vis-a-vis her research participants. Second, it encourages all scholars to provide a reasoned ethical justification of their research practices, especially when seeking to publish their analysis. Finally, the ethical expectations guiding reflexive openness are universal, and thus the approach is inclusive of researchers regardless of subfield, methodology, topic, and empirical context.

Reaching a milestone in pharmaceutical patenting in Brazil.

Reaching a milestone in pharmaceutical patenting in Brazil.

Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center: The First 25 Years

Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center: The First 25 Years

Obsahová analýza aplikovaná na sociální a environmentální vykazování

Content analysis is an accredited research technique that despite its increasing use in numerous disciplines and substantial expansion in academia lacks a unified methodology and rigorous methodological standards. This paper presents the technique of content analysis and the way it can be applied to social and environmental reporting, with a special focus on environmental corporate reporting. Major methodological problems that have been raised by the use of content analysis, and unique coding rules and decisions developed by authors are presented. Through the application of content analysis on CEZ Group's corporate report, possible outcomes that can be obtained while using this technique are shown.

The approach to assessing integrated care: taking stock and looking ahead. Experiences from the EU Expert Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment

In autumn 2014, the EU expert group on health systems performance assessment (HSPA) was formed with the main goals to: provide participating members with a forum for exchange of experience on the use of HSPA at national level, and to support national policy makers by identifying and methodologies for developing HSPA. Currently, all EU Member States and Norway take part in the group. It is co-chaired by Belgium and the European Commission and supported by experts from the WHO European Office, the OECD and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. In 2016, the expert group started working on the topic of integrated care, with the aim of identifying and methodologies to assess the performance of integrated care. A report is expected in the beginning of 2017, composed of the following main parts: Review of national and regional experiences in implementation and evaluation of integrated care. This part will highlight success factors and transferable elements from good practices; and will analyse the factors that strengthen the readiness of care authorities for successful integration of care. Suggestions and recommendations for a framework (dimensions and indicators) for performance assessment of integrated care. The aim of the session would be to share experience and to promote policy dialogue on assessment of integrated care. It fits under Theme 5, subtheme Measurements, indicators and evaluation tools of the ICIC 2017 programme. The session would present the findings of the expert group's report, coupled with examples of approaches applied in assessing the integration of care and the outcomes of integrated care. The session would use these elements as input to invite discussion about possible frameworks for performance assessment of integrated care. The speakers (possibly 3 or 4) would be members of the expert group who are experienced in the area of HSPA and integrated care, as well as representatives of health systems (national or regional) where assessment of integrated care is currently applied.

Consensus Statement of the International Summit on Intellectual Disability and Dementia Related to Nomenclature.

A working group of the 2016 International Summit on Intellectual Disability and Dementia was charged to examine the terminology used to define and report on dementia in publications related to intellectual disability (ID). A review of related publications showed mixed uses of terms associated with dementia or causative diseases. As with dementia research in the non-ID population, language related to dementia in the ID field often lacks precision and could lead to a misunderstanding of the condition(s) under discussion, an increasingly crucial issue given the increased global attention dementia is receiving in that field. Most articles related to ID and dementia reporting clinical or medical research generally provide a structured definition of dementia or related terms; social care articles tend toward term use without definition. Toward terminology standardization within studies/reports on dementia and ID, the Summit recommended that a consistent approach is taken that ensures (a) growing familiarity with dementia-related diagnostic, condition-specific, and social care terms (as identified in the working group's report); (b) creating a guidance document on accurately defining and presenting information about individuals or groups referenced; and

Editorial Comment

This is a well presented and researched manuscript describing a multi-institutional retrospective review of 31 men with bulbar urethral strictures that occurred after artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) erosion who underwent delayed urethroplasty (after the erosion episode) with or without subsequent AUS replacement during 2009-2016. These patients represent a rather uncommon but extremely clinically challenging group even for experienced reconstructive urologists and AUS implant surgeons. Theirs is a very complex situation involving prior prostate surgery and/or radiation therapy, potential hormonal therapy, prior bladder neck and/or penile surgeries, multiple urethral surgeries, as well as other medical comorbidities such as metabolic syndrome, etc. The findings reported by the authors are certainly limited by the short clinical follow-up of the small number of patients who underwent a variety of pre- and post-AUS surgical procedures and/or other treatments. Taking these limitations into consideration, this collaborative group's report advances our understanding of this complex heterogeneous population of men and adds value to the existing reconstructive urology/implant literature and cancer survivorship literature. The authors' conclusion that urethroplasty appears to be very effective for these typically short densely spongiofibrotic urethral strictures is a welcome addition to the literature supporting this concept. Urologists familiar with effectively treating physiologically similar urethral strictures (such as perineal straddle injuries) with urethroplasty may find this conclusion fairly evident. In this small series, despite urethroplasty for AUS erosion related stricture being successful, the subsequent AUS replacement was found to have a high erosion rate in the short-term, perhaps greater than other series involving high risk patients. It is not possible in this small series to determine to what degree any prior prostate surgery and/or radiation play a main role; to what degree the urethroplasty and/or prior bladder neck/urethral/penile surgery play a part; to what degree their urethral vascularity is compromised or not; to what degree metabolic and hormonal factors are involved; etc. We recognize that all of this is multifactorial. Longer term follow-up with larger patient numbers will be helpful in terms of determining which patient characteristics and populations are at even higher risk for erosion than those men we already consider “high risk” going forward. This manuscript provides tangible value for surgeons when we are counseling our patients in the midst of them dealing withwhat is typically a devastating AUS erosion that may be followed by a consequent urethral stricture requiring additional surgical management in the hope of being able to potentially replace the AUS at a later date. This informed and shared decision making process requires a significant collaborative effort between us as urologic surgeons and our patients in an effort to provide them with best possible durable outcomes even in these most challenging clinical situations.

A proposed analytic framework for determining the impact of an antimicrobial resistance intervention.

Antimicrobial use (AMU) is increasingly threatened by antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The FDA is implementing risk mitigation measures promoting prudent AMU in food animals. Their evaluation is crucial: the AMU/AMR relationship is complex; a suitable framework to analyze interventions is unavailable. Systems science analysis, depicting variables and their associations, would help integrate mathematics/epidemiology to evaluate the relationship. This would identify informative data and models to evaluate interventions. This National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis AMR Working Group's report proposes a system framework to address the methodological gap linking livestock AMU and AMR in foodborne bacteria. It could evaluate how AMU (and interventions) impact AMR. We will evaluate pharmacokinetic/dynamic modeling techniques for projecting AMR selection pressure on enteric bacteria. We study two methods to model phenotypic AMR changes in bacteria in the food supply and evolutionary genotypic analyses determining molecular changes in phenotypic AMR. Systems science analysis integrates the methods, showing how resistance in the food supply is explained by AMU and concurrent factors influencing the whole system. This process is updated with data and techniques to improve prediction and inform improvements for AMU/AMR surveillance. Our proposed framework reflects both the AMR system's complexity, and desire for simple, reliable conclusions.

US and Canada Joint Effort for Dietary Reference Intake Updates

Representatives from the US and Canadian Government will present updates from the Joint US and Canada Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) Working Group on activities conducted to work toward updating the sodium and potassium DRIs. The Governments of the United States and Canada have jointly undertaken the development of the Dietary Reference Intakes since the mid‐1990s. Federal DRI committees from each country work collaboratively to identify DRI needs, prioritize nutrient reviews and advance work to resolve any methodological issues that could impede new reviews. The commission of a systematic review for nutrients under review is now an integral part of the DRI process. Recently the DRI Working Group sponsored an evidence review by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) on sodium and potassium to inform the update of the sodium and potassium DRIs by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). The AHRQ review will be completed in 2017. Additionally, the DRI steering committees jointly decided that prior to undertaking a nutrient review, the scientific framework for setting DRIs needed to be adapted to include a framework for including data on chronic disease risk reduction. Thus, a scientific expert panel was convened to review and critically evaluate evidentiary, dose response, and process issues related to the use of chronic disease endpoints and develop options for their incorporation into future DRI reviews. The Joint US/Canadian‐sponsored Working Group's report ‘Options for Basing DRIs on Chronic Disease Endpoints’ will inform the NAM committee that will develop guiding principles for inclusion of chronic disease endpoints to be used by committees setting future DRIs. In summary, the US and Canadian Governments are working collaboratively to adapt the methods for updating the DRIs utilizing rigorous systematic evidence reviews and a chronic disease endpoint framework.Support or Funding InformationUnited States Department of Health and Human Services, United States Department of Agriculture, and Health Canada.

광합성 실험에서 나타난 초등 예비교사들의 반성적 사고와 실험 수행 능력 분석

본 연구는 초등학교 과학교과서에 수록된 광합성 실험을 초등 예비교사들이 직접 수행하고 그 실험결과와 자신의 반성을 담은 탐구과정상의 어려움과 해결책을 탐구보고서에 작성하도록 하였다. 10개조의 탐구보고서와 발표자료를 바탕으로 초등 예비교사들의 반성적 사고와 실험 수행 능력을 분석하였다. 반성적 사고에 대해서는 10편의 탐구보고서에서 '지식', '과정', '지향', '태도' 4가지 유형과 관련된 총 108개의 진술 문장을 추출하였다. 분석 결과 광합성 실험을 통해 획득한 '지식'에 대한 반성적인 사고에 대한 내용이 가장 많았다. 지식유형에서도 실험을 통해 새롭게 알게 된 것이나 기존의 개념이해가 변화한 내용에 대한 반성이 가장 높은 빈도를 보였다. 실험 수행 능력은 10개조 중 반성적 사고 4가지 유형을 합산하여 가장 높은 빈도를 보인 한 개 조와 가장 낮은 빈도를 보인 한 개 조의 탐구보고서를 '실험준비 및 안전사고 예방', '실험 수행', '실험결과 정리 및 일반화', '실험결과 보완 및 피드백' 4단계에 따라 분석하여 56개의 문장을 추출하였다. 분석 결과 '실험결과 보완 및 피드백' 단계에서 두 조 간에 가장 큰 차이를 보였다. 최하위 조의 경우 '실험결과 정리 및 일반화' 단계의 '컴퓨터를 이용한 정보 처리', '대체 시약 및 재료 탐색', '대체 실험법 고안' 능력과 관련된 내용은 탐구보고서에서 찾을 수가 없었다. In order to find out Elementary pre-service teachers' reflective thinking and experiment performance ability related with Photosynthesis Experiment in the Korea Elementary School Science Textbook, the research is conducted targeting Elementary pre-service teachers. They are asked to carry out the experiment and write their own report about the difficulties and solutions of exploration process. This study aims to analyze Elementary pre-service teachers' reflection and experiment performance ability on Photosynthesis experiment based on 10 groups' reports and presentation materials. Reflective thinking extracts 108 statements which is associated with the four types of the sentence 'Knowledge, Procedure, Orientation, Attitude' in 10 reports. There are many sentences about reflective thinking acquired through analysis of the photosynthesis experiment. reflective thinking about the newly discovered type or changed concepts through experimentation in Knowledge is at the highest frequency. 56 sentences in relation to the ability to perform experiments are extracted by adding 4 different types of reflective thinking in 10 groups shown the highest frequency group and the lowest frequency group's report through analyzing 4 steps 'Experimental preparation and safety accident prevention', 'Experiments performance', 'Experimental results and generalization', and 'Experimental results and feedback.' Results of the analysis showed that there are the biggest difference between the two groups in 'experiment results supplement and feedback step.' In the lowest group's report, there's no contents related with 'Computer-assisted information processing' in the 'Experimental results summary and generalization stage', 'Alternative reagents and materials research', and 'Devising alternative experiment methods'.

Using results from a UK-wide survey to justify choice of comparator for the treatment of severe chronic hand eczema

Treatment of severe chronic hand eczema (CHE) resistant to topical treatment with potent corticosteroids is challenging; in 2013 the Health Technology Assessment Programme released a commissioned call to investigate the most effective treatment for this disease with Alitretinoin specified as the active intervention to evaluate. Existing evidence on systemic treatment options with special focus on Alitretinoin has been summarised in an Evidence Review Group's Report on Alitretinoin for the treatment of severe CHE. The report highlighted that although Alitretinoin has demonstrated efficacy, data are lacking in terms of comparison to other treatment approaches. The brief required applicants to justify the choice of control intervention; we designed a survey to obtain information on currently used treatment pathways in the UK. A total of 194 UK Dermatologists responded and the results indicated that treatment approaches for severe CHE differ widely among UK dermatologists. PUVA(40.2%) and Alitretinoin(30.9%) were identified as the most frequent first line treatment options for hyperkeratotic CHE, whereas oral steroids(37.6%) were identified as the most commonly used for vesicular CHE, followed by PUVA(26.3%) and Alitretinoin(15.5%). In terms of potential side effects of long term or repeated use, Ciclosporine A(58.2%) and oral steroids(41.2%) were reported to cause most concerns among the surveyed dermatologists. The ALPHA team used the survey results to justify the use of PUVA as the control intervention for first line treatment and to evaluate second line treatments as a secondary objective. The ALPHA trial was approved for funding and is due to open to recruitment in October 2015.

Appendix: Final Update of the IAU Division A Commission 4 Working Group on Standardizing Access to Ephemerides and File Format Specification

AbstractThe IAU Commission 4 Working Group on Standardizing Access to Ephemerides recommends the use of the Spacecraft and Planet Kernel (SPK) format to provide a uniform format for the position ephemerides of planets and other natural solar system bodies, and the use of the Planetary Constants Kernel (PCK) for the orientation of these bodies. These formats are used by the SPICE system, developed by the Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The working group's final report is currently undergoing final preparations for publication. A long version of this report will be available at the IAU Commission 4: Ephemerides (or its successor) web site. This long version will contain a full description of that portion of the SPK and PCK formats required to duplicate these file types for this application.

By the Numbers: Cancer Drugs in Development by Phase and Disease

Abstract A trade group reported in the fall of 2014 that 771 medicines and vaccines are in development for cancer. The numbers of drugs at each stage of development for eight cancers are shown graphically based on data from the group's report.

Editorial: advances in neuroscience: the BRAIN initiative and implications for neuroendocrinology.

Editorial: advances in neuroscience: the BRAIN initiative and implications for neuroendocrinology.

An Evaluation on the Use of Social Media in Turkey

Despite the fact that the entrance of the internet into our lives has not created as much change as those proposed by such movies as Matrix, Star Wars and Terminator, it is playing a greater role each day. Even in the digital world in which everything identified as new is fast outdated and consumed, academic, daily and technical knowledge and information as to the internet and hardware still draws our attention. However, this fast changing and evolving phenomenon is easily accepted and consumed without questioning by individuals. In this article, the 20-year-long considerably short but historic development of the internet which started being used in the 1990s in the world and in Turkey as well and the role of the internet in life will be discussed according to the reports issued by the Turkish Statistical Institute and other agencies. The article also aims to demonstrate how the internet which has become an important part of life shapes daily life by using the primary data from the Intel's recent research on the use of the internet by the youth, the Boston Consulting Group's Report on Turkey, Internet Economics and the Turkish Statistical Institution's studies on the internet use in Turkey. The basic assumption of the study is to put forth the place of Internet as an important part of individuals’ lives and driving force for change in society, particularly young people, and the reflection of this rapid development causing a rapid end to new media consumption.

A Validation Framework for the Long Term Preservation of High Energy Physics Data

The study group on data preservation in high energy physics, DPHEP, is moving to a new collaboration structure, which will focus on the implementation of preservation projects, such as those described in the group's large scale report published in 2012. One such project is the development of a validation framework, which checks the compatibility of evolving computing environments and technologies with the experiments software for as long as possible, with the aim of substantially extending the lifetime of the analysis software, and hence of the usability of the data. The framework is designed to automatically test and validate the software and data of an experiment against changes and upgrades to the computing environment, as well as changes to the experiment software itself. Technically, this is realised using a framework capable of hosting a number of virtual machine images, built with different configurations of operating systems and the relevant software, including any necessary external dependencies.

An empirical study on critical failure factors for enterprise resource planning implementation in Indian retail sector

PurposeMany retailers in India have decided to adopt one or another enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to improve their businesses, but implementing an ERP system can be a demanding venture. ERP implementation has always been an intricate process and is one of the challenges of the retail sector. There have been many obstacles seen in implementing ERP successfully. According to Standish Group's report, around 75 per cent of the ERP projects are classified as failures. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the process of identifying, analyzing and prioritizing the failure factors of ERP implementation using cause‐effect and Pareto analysis.Design/methodology/approachEmpirical data were collected via a survey questionnaire/interview technique. The questionnaires were distributed to practitioners like project sponsors, project managers, implementation consultants and team members who had been involved/implementing/using ERP in retail sector.FindingsResults suggest that 9 critical failure items namely Inadequate resources, Poor User involvement, Users' resistance to change, High Attrition rate of project team members, Lack of top management commitment, Poor project management, Inadequate project team composition, Ineffective organizational change management and Unrealistic project scheduling have a high impact on ERP implementation and therefore deserve serious attention in the process of ERP implementation.Originality/valueThis paper identifies and prioritizes the critical failure factors of ERP implementation in Indian retail sector. The awareness about these critical failure items may help the decision makers in formulating a better strategy for ERP implementation in Indian retail.