Public Production Research Articles

Long COVID Research, 2020–2024: A PubMed-Based Bibliometric Analysis

Long COVID is a SARS-CoV-2 infection-associated chronic condition with great potential to impact health and socioeconomic outcomes. The research efforts to face the challenges related to long COVID have resulted in a substantial amount of publications, which warrants the need for bibliometric profiling. This is a large-scale PubMed-based bibliometric analysis of more than 390,000 COVID-19 publications. The overall aim was to update the profile of long COVID publications in comparison with the rest of the COVID-19 scientific literature through December 2024. The estimated proportion of long COVID publications was relatively low (2.3% of all COVID-19 publications), although the cumulative frequency (n = 8928) continues to pose a challenge for proper information management. Currently, “treatment” and “mechanism” appear to be the most predominant research topics in the long COVID literature. Interestingly, this evaluation revealed a distinctive profile of the long COVID literature, with a clear preponderance of “case report” and “mechanism” research topics when compared with other COVID-19 publications. This evaluation also identified and ranked the most prolific scientific journals in the production of long COVID-related publications. This study may improve the visibility of long COVID research and contribute to the management of the growing scientific knowledge on long COVID.

Quorum Sensing Coordinates Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism to Optimize Public Goods Production in Pseudomonas fluorescens 2P24.

The coordination of public and private goods production is essential for bacterial adaptation to environmental changes. Quorum sensing (QS) regulates this balance by mediating the trade-off between the communal benefits of "public goods," such as siderophores and antibiotics, and the individual metabolic needs fulfilled by "private goods," such as intracellular metabolites utilized for growth and survival. Pseudomonas fluorescens 2P24 harbors a LasI/LasR-type QS system, MupI/MupR, which regulates mupirocin production through signaling molecules. This study explores how QS coordinates carbon and nitrogen metabolism to optimize the production of key secondary metabolites, including 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (2,4-DAPG), mupirocin, and siderophores, which serve as public goods. Loss of QS disrupts this balance by enhancing the Krebs cycle, denitrification, pyruvate anaplerosis, and ammonium assimilation, lead to halted 2,4-DAPG and mupirocin synthesis and increased siderophore production. In the absence of QS, elevated siderophore production compensates for iron acquisition, ensuring rapid cellular growth. Under nutrient-limited or high cell density conditions, MupR regulates carbon and nitrogen fluxes to sustain public goods production. These findings highlight QS as a key environmental sensor that fine-tunes resource allocation, bacterial fitness, and adaptation to ecological and nutritional conditions, suggesting the potential for QS-targeted approaches to enhance antibiotic production and agricultural sustainability.

The impact of policy-oriented agricultural insurance on China’s grain production resilience

IntroductionAs an effective tool and public welfare product of the state to support and benefit agriculture, policy-oriented agricultural insurance has unique advantages in dispersing agricultural risks and guaranteeing stable grain production and supply.MethodsBased on provincial panel data from 2002 to 2021, this paper analyzes the impact of policy-oriented agricultural insurance on grain production resilience. It constructs a comprehensive indicator system to assess grain production resilience and examines the impact of the insurance premium subsidy policy and the insurance development level on grain production resilience.ResultsThe study finds that policy-oriented agricultural insurance significantly improves grain production resilience and passes the robustness test. The heterogeneity analysis shows that the policy-oriented agricultural insurance development level in major grain producing areas has a significantly positive impact on grain production resilience, and the impact is higher than that in non major grain producing areas. Additionally, the impact of policy-oriented agricultural insurance on grain production resilience in high risk areas is more pronounced than that in low risk areas. At the same time, the mechanism analysis shows that policy-oriented agricultural insurance can have a positive impact on grain production resilience by improving agricultural technology progress, land transfer, and grain cultivation specialization.DiscussionThis paper reveals that policy-oriented agricultural insurance has a positive impact on grain production resilience and provides relevant policy suggestions for the government. This has a considerable impact on promoting sustainable grain production.

Exploring Workplace Dynamics: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis of Work Stress, Gender Diversity, and Job Satisfaction in Higher Education Institutions

Purpose - This study aims to measure the correlation between work stress, gender diversity, and job satisfaction among employees in higher educational institutions using bibliometric analysis. It is becoming increasingly important worldwide to understand the causes of work-related stress and encourage gender diversity in higher educational institutions to improve job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach - This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of scholarly literature on work stress, gender diversity, and job satisfaction. From 1982 until 2023, the Scopus database was employed, selecting 252 papers for examination. R-studio is used to conduct preliminary data analysis, perform citation and co-citation analysis, and perform bibliographic coupling in conjunction with co-authoring. Findings - Synthesis facilitates our comprehension of the employees' functioning in higher educational institutions and the organization inside the paper. The collective investigation of variables such as work stress, gender diversity, and job happiness exhibited a consistent upward trend, with an average of 27.65 citations per article. According to our statistical data, the countries with the highest production of research publications are the United States, China, Iran, and Korea. Originality/value - This study adds to the current understanding of the factors that cause work-related stress, strategies that encourage gender diversity, and improved job satisfaction among employees at higher education institutions.

Emerging and re-emerging diseases in Venezuela as a consequence of climate change. A Systematic Review

Climate change has affected the biology of vectors and intermediate hosts, increasing the risk of disease transmission, altering the habitat and behavior of poisonous animals, with the consequent modification of their epidemiological patterns; In addition to exacerbating noncommunicable diseases. The objective of this review was to analyze the scientific evidence published, between January 2014 and July 2023, in the different databases on the impact of climate change on the appearance of emerging or re-emerging diseases in Venezuela. The initial search retrieved 925 records, of which only 11 titles met the inclusion criteria. The year 2021 is the one that presents the largest production of publications representing three investigations. Being able to identify a group of re-emerging diseases which are closely related to climate change. Being Dengue, Chagas, Leishmaniasis and Malaria, the most cited.

BREAD, POWER, AND NEOLIBERAL MUNICIPALISM: THE HALK EKMEK A.Ş. AS A CASE OF BREAD AND CIRCUSES POLITICS

This article explains the historical process and political importance of Halk Ekmek A.Ş., a public bread production company, since its establishment. In this context, Halk Ekmek A.Ş. was considered an example of a Socialist Municipality in the past, but today, it is used as a political tool in neoliberal municipalism. Although municipal enterprises such as Halk Ekmek, which are taken as an example in this study, are generally presented as social enterprises, they have also become enterprises of profitability and political gain, especially as a result of neoliberal municipal practices. Bread is both a fundamental part of culture and nutrition for the Turkish people and a unique part of the control system in which the government is also involved. For this reason, public bread enterprises, such as Halk Ekmek A.Ş., are seen as valuable by those in power to control society and create a political argument. As a result of this examination, it will be investigated that this order established through public means is essentially a part of a "bread and circus" politics that appeases the public and strengthens the political power of the governments. As a result of the findings obtained, it will be seen how Municipality Participation can create a system that serves political purposes and kills competition. This study contributes to the public administration literature, where there are very few studies on this subject, by critically analysing how the socialist municipality period implemented in the historical process has essentially transformed into neoliberal municipal practices. As a result, the sustainability of this system will be questioned.

Об общественной пользе «частных пороков», или Взгляд из XVIII века через призму динамической модели общественного воспроизводства

The article presents the results of a study assessing the impact of economic freedom on economic growth and public welfare, which is based on a formalized theoretical representation of degrees of freedom in the form of a parabolic curve with an optimum and deviations from it. This notion of economic freedom echoes the vision of socially useful ‘private vices’ described in Bernard Mandeville’s “The Fable of the Bees”. The evaluation tool is a theoretical-analytical economic-mathematical model of economic reproduction, reflecting the dynamic process of production and distribution of a public product. Imitation of the development of the socio-economic system with different degrees of economic freedom and in conditions of institutional transformations leading to a change in the degree of freedom confirmed the expediency of striving for the optimum of freedom. At the same time, contradictions were revealed that arise in the simulated system due to the ambiguity of the interests of economic agents involved in the reproduction process. It also shows the contradictory nature of the institutional reforms themselves, which have far different consequences for different social strata with overall positive changes in the economy.

INTOXICAÇÃO MEDICAMENTOSA PELO USO DE GARRAFADAS: O PAPEL DO FARMACÊUTICO NA SAÚDE DA MULHER

The indiscriminate use of medications, especially through "garrafadas," represents a serious public health issue with significant implications for women's health. Self-medication, administration errors, and suicide attempts are some of the main causes of medication poisoning, as indicated by data from the National System of Toxic-Pharmacological Information (Sinitox). Lack of information regarding dosage and administration, coupled with the influence of advertising and easy access to medications, contribute to the increase in such cases. The role of the pharmacist emerges as crucial in the prevention and management of these poisonings, providing public education, product regulation, and guidance on responsible medication use. Coordinated strategies are necessary to address this issue, prioritizing awareness, regulation, and strengthening the pharmacist's role in promoting women's health and preventing poisonings.

Testing an Extended Knowledge-Capital Model of Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Public Knowledge Inputs

The knowledge-capital model explains outward foreign direct investment (FDI) of a country from its relative abundance of its knowledge assets. Early versions of the knowledge-capital theory model these assets as if they were only the results of knowledge investments by private firms. We extend the theory by a formal model of the public-private interaction in knowledge development. This sheds light on the role of the origin country of multinationals. The paper extracts four testable predictions from the model. We use the inter-country variation in national knowledge-creation systems and FDI performance to test the model using a new dataset; it holds knowledge-creation indicators for about 200 countries over the period 2000-2020. Based on a range of non-parametric tests, we can corroborate that the basic tenet of the knowledge-capital model is correct. Moreover, the results show the important role of public knowledge production for outward FDI.

The Impact of Strategic Alliances on Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence from China

We investigate the impact of strategic alliances on corporate green innovation by collecting and collating announcements of Chinese A-share listed enterprises related to their participation in strategic alliances from 2007 to 2022, and yields three main findings: Strategic alliances significantly improve corporate green innovation, and it contributes more to symbolic green innovation than to substantive green innovation, using the proportion of other enterprises in the same industry and same province that participated in strategic alliances in the previous year as an instrumental variable, we find that this positive impact is likely to be causal. Mechanism analysis indicates that public attention and productivity play an important moderating role in this process. The research results also show that the impact of strategic alliances on corporate green innovation is heterogeneous in terms of industry competitiveness, enterprise categories and strategic alliances types. Our research sheds mechanisms of strategic alliances on corporate green innovation, and provides a theoretical reference for enterprises to improve their green innovation level and enhance their core competitiveness.

A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MARKETING RESEARCH IN MALAYSIA

This study aims to investigate the landscape of digital marketing research in Malaysia through two key research questions. Firstly, it examines the current publication trends within the field of digital marketing, uncovering evolving research interests from the time span of 1997 to 2024. Secondly, the article analyses the current scientific production and citation patterns of publications on digital marketing in Malaysia. Utilizing bibliometric methods, this study identifies 167 documents from the Scopus database. It presents an analysis of annual scientific production, average citations per year, top 10 source titles, sources' production over time, most relevant authors, most relevant affiliations, and the most frequent words found in the dataset. By providing insights into the state of digital marketing research in Malaysia, this study aims to inform businesses, researchers, and policymakers, offering a foundation for strategic decision-making, guiding research directions, and enhancing understanding of the dynamic landscape of digital marketing in the Malaysian context.

Enhancing Detailed Planning from Functional Mix Perspective with Spatial Analysis and Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression: A Case Study in Shanghai Central Region

Detailed spatial planning serves as statutory guidance for regulating specific spatial functions, including public services, living conditions, and production spaces. It emphasizes meeting the comprehensive needs of the local population, making it crucial to understand the relationship between population distribution and the mix of various city functions, particularly in the era of urban regeneration. Therefore, this study utilized point-of-interest (POI) data representing land functions and population data to investigate these relationships via spatial analysis and Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR). Applied to the central urban area of Shanghai, the study reveals that the level of mixed land use and various functionalities affect population distribution at different adaptive scales. We also found a higher degree of functional mix does not always meet population needs. Although generally there is a positive correlation between functional mix and population distribution, they are not always closely bonded. The proposed method provides an efficient workflow for identifying the applicable scale of various functions to increase functional mix and attract the population, which can provide real-time evidence supporting detailed planning. Test results also reveal the less-considered space along the boundaries of administrative districts. We also found developing tools for detailed planning is an urgent need to facilitate cross-boundary cooperation and development, especially in the context of urban regeneration where they always are overlooked at the detailed planning level. By using open-sourced POI and population data, our proposed workflow can be easily applied to other cities or regions, enhancing their practical value for similar research contexts.

Latin American art in diaspora

The article examines a network of artists from Latin America in Europe connected by their experience of exile and the set of transnational relations they created through their practices. It focuses on the Netherlands, and Amsterdam in particular, as a critical node and geo-artistic site in a broader diaspora of Latin American artists in Europe as of the 1960s. The essay centers on the work of Raul Marroquin (Colombia), Ulises Carrión (Mexico), Claudio Goulart and Flavio Pons (Brazil) and their production of publications and mail art that formed a significant artistic network in the postwar period. It examines how their work was key in establishing mediums of communication, connection and support among Latin American artists in Europe, as well as a larger international network of artists. In the widespread use of the term marginal and alternative to describe their unconventional art practices, this paper also considers a more capacious understanding of this vocabulary as it relates to these artists’ peripheral position(s) and non-normative identities.

Directions for the Development of the Innovation Process on the Market of Banking Products and Services

The innovation process is multidimensional, its development directions being established according to the possibilities of valorizing those innovation opportunities that increase the ability to have a higher banking performance. In the conditions of growing competition, characteristic of the market of banking products, an off ensive innovation strategy for the innovative process is required. The concretization of the strategic directions of off ensive development of the innovative banking process in the Republic of Moldova by types of innovations is the subject of research in this article. The research methods used were observation and survey among banking professionals. The paper analyzes the degree of implementation in banks of innovations: product, process, organizational and marketing, which have been identifi ed in international banking practice in recent years. The results obtained from the research allowed establishing the development directions of the innovative banking process in the future period: the development of new lending products for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); diversifi cation of deposit products; the expansion and more intensive development of digital payments for broad-based public products and services – transport; medicine; implementation of blockchain, cloud-technologies, smart-contacts; robotization etc.

Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism

Despite being a crucial field for the public production and circulation of memories, tourism remains underexamined in memory research. This is reflected in the small number of publications dedicated to tourism and their thematic narrowing to difficult heritage sites. This article makes the case for an expansion of research in three areas: sites, modes and scales of remembering. First, the article argues for an examination of less researched heritage sites alongside considering non-site-based forms of memory production. Second, we contend that memory-making in tourism can contribute to a ‘positive turn’ in memory studies by foregrounding memories of joy and entertainment. Finally, we argue for a multiscalar perspective that draws attention to personal memories and memory’s interscalar movements in tourism. Taken together, these shifts allow us to gain a fuller and more differentiated perspective on memory-making in tourism, informed by current debates in memory studies and insights from heritage and tourism studies.

Inovasi Produk Olahan Tahu dan Pengemasannya serta Pengembangan Pemasaran dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Pendapatan Perajin Tahu di Desa Karanganyar Kecamatan Wates Kabupaten Kediri

MSMEs in the food sector are among the main supporters of Indonesia's economic activities. As a food production center in the form of tofu products, Kediri Regency is well known to the public, with white, yellow, silk, and other tofu products. Most of the tofu production carried out to date is only in the form of tofu products in their original form. This is because tofu craftsmen have not utilized other processed tofu products to increase their income. This community service activity aims to introduce innovations in processed tofu products, packaging, marketing, and processing of liquid tofu waste into new products which are expected to increase the income of tofu makers in Karanganyar village, Wates District, Kediri Regency. This community service activity was carried out using the media of presenting several materials and carrying out two-way interactive discussions. Evaluation of this activity was carried out with pre- and post-tests from the participants by answering 10 questions related to the three materials. The results obtained after being analyzed using the SPSS program showed differences between the pre-and post-tests of the participants, whereas the post-test results showed that the participants had understood the material provided during this activity. Thus, it can be concluded that this activity can be proven to be understood by the participants regarding innovation in processed tofu products and processing of tofu liquid waste.

Eating in Chicagolandia! Sensitive experiences and food sociabilities of Mexican migrants in public and commercial places

ABSTRACT This paper examines the eating practices and habits that have been resituated, transmitted, and negotiated in the specific migratory context of Chicago’s Mexican neighborhoods. I focus primarily on commercial urban spaces offering Mexican food. For while the importance of the domestic sphere in migrant food socialization has been widely analyzed, the complementary role of commercial food sites in the “ethnicized” urban public space has received less attention. This article seeks to demonstrate the key socializing role of such places (businesses, restaurants and certain social venues in the city), as part of what those surveyed refer to as “life in Spanish.” On this basis, we test the hypothesis of public production of corporalities, identities, and sensitive experiences of food transmission in the commercial migrant space, without suggesting that “domestic” food patterns are “superior,” more “authentic,” or “legitimate” than culinary practices in commercial locations. To this end, different circles of commensality and sociability, both generational and professional, surrounding the commercial consumption of culturally significant foods are taken into account. Methodologically, this ethnographic research has relied on participant observation in urban anthropology, also inspired by the theoretical principles of dialogic and dynamic anthropology, as well as considering subjectivities, affects, and sensitivities.

Official Turnover and Embodied Carbon Emissions: Evidence From Industrial Linkages in China's Prefecture‐Level Cities

ABSTRACTCarbon emission is the most critical environmental pollution issue today. However, regional trade and industrial linkages have changed the traditional carbon emission pattern. As a public product with strong negative externalities, carbon emissions inevitably lead to severe consequences if the market is allowed to adjust itself. Therefore, public policies made by government officials have an important role in environmental governance and emission reduction. This paper uses China's Multi‐regional Input‐Output (MRIO) table and official turnover data of 269 prefecture‐level cities in China for the empirical test. The results show that official turnover has a significant positive impact on embodied carbon emissions between regions. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the inter‐provincial turnover of officials and the turnover between regional central cities results in more significant embodied carbon emissions. Further research finds that the longer the officials stay in their previous positions or as new local government leaders, the greater the embodied carbon emissions caused by their turnover. In addition, the turnover of officials affects interregional embodied carbon emissions by promoting regional entrepreneurship, venture capital and structure transformation of industries. The findings of this paper provide essential enlightenment for optimizing Chinese local government governance and promoting the transformation of the economic development mode.

The Transitional Dynamics of Debt: Productivity Shocks, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

We propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with both public and private production. The government sector produces an output that enters both the utility function and the production function, financed by both taxes and borrowing, such that public expenditure and public finance are independently determined. We impose a homogeneous stylized labour productivity supply shock to country specific simulations, coinciding with hypothetical year 2020, and consider their respective heterogeneous fiscal responses. The simulations depict the transitional dynamics in both developed and less developed economies to the simultaneous labour and policy shocks. Using advanced software applications, explicitly suited to model continuous time mathematics, we simulate closed form solutions to continuous time general equilibria that are defined by a three-dimensional modified golden rule across consumption, capital and debt. The model represents a baseline for analysis of the short to medium term impacts of shocks, both exogenous or policy induced, within a richly defined dynamic general equilibrium. Our methodology extends the ability to analyze transitional dynamics in multidimensional models where hitherto analysis has been confined to the long run equilibria.

Financial component of the hydrogen economy development strategy of Ukraine

The relevance of the study is determined by the need to detail the financial justification of the development of the hydrogen economy in Ukraine, taking into account the need to ensure energy independence and diversification of energy resources. With a sufficient number of publications on the innovativeness of hydrogen technologies, global trends in their use and the importance of decarbonization of public production, the issue of financial support for the development of the hydrogen economy remains insufficiently covered. The purpose of the article is to highlight and characterize the financial component of the strategy for building the hydrogen economy of Ukraine. To achieve the goal, general and special methods of scientific research were used: abstraction, decomposition, comparison, analysis, extrapolation. According to the results of the study, a derived relationship between the number of scientific studies on the development of hydrogen technologies and the state of the energy market was revealed, which made it possible to put forward a hypothesis about the intensity of research on the prospects for the development of the hydrogen economy in the context of the adequacy of its financing. The existing hydrogen technologies can be applied only in connection with the development of renewable energy, they require increased innovations in production, infrastructure, and consumption of hydrogen, therefore, they require increased financing. The financial component of the Hydrogen Strategy of Ukraine (until 2050), developed by the Ministry of Energy, is highlighted at each stage of its implementation. The foreign experience of strategies for the development of the hydrogen economy is presented and the insufficiency of financial resources to ensure the achievement of the target indicators of the Ukrainian strategy, especially in the conditions of war, is stated. The relationship between the Hydrogen Strategy of Ukraine and the Recovery Plan of Ukraine until 2032 is characterized. The general need for financing the development of the hydrogen economy at the second stage of the implementation of the Hydrogen Strategy was determined in connection with the content of the pilot projects. Accordingly, there is a need to detail the focus and sources of funding for the hydrogen economy development strategy in Ukraine, potential sources of cash receipts, changes in institutional and regulatory support for the hydrogen strategy.