Recipe For Success Research Articles

Recipe for Success: Correlates of Student Performance in Human Gross Anatomy

Anatomy is the first subject incoming medical students must conquer at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM). As anatomy is so fundamental to clinical medicine, we sought to identify the characteristics and behaviors that most strongly influence success in the Human Gross Anatomy course. First‐year medical students at the Erie, Seton Hill, and Elmira campuses were surveyed about personal wellbeing, academic habits, test taking strategies, and perceived stress. Responses were compared to final course grades via principal component analysis (PCA) and Spearman’s rank correlation test. PCA indicates that 49.66% of the variance in final grades was due to six principal components (PC). PC1 (15.56% of variance) was associated with poor study techniques, such as cramming and lack of self‐assessment, and academic confidence. PC2 (10.20% of variance) was related to student anxiety and help seeking behavior. PC3 (7.21% of variance) emphasized student interaction with lecture material. PC4 (6.14% of variance) and PC5 (5.70% of variance) accounted for group studying and preparedness for lecture, respectively. PC6 (4.86% of variance) was associated with student stress. Spearman’s rank correlation test further identified key characteristics influencing final course grade. Academic confidence (r(133) = .41, p < .0001) and life satisfaction (r(133) = .30, p = .0004) were positively correlated with final course grade whereas negative correlations were found with intra‐test anxiety (r(134) = ‐0.37, p < .0001), cramming (r(135) = ‐.31, p = .0002), and fear of failure (r(135) = ‐.39, p < .0001). These findings suggest that academic counseling for new medical students should focus on establishing effective study techniques early in the semester, properly engaging and preparing for lecture sessions, and encouraging students to utilize mental health resources at LECOM.

Recipes for Success: Experiential Pathways to Meaningful Learning in the Humanities Classroom

Recipes for Success: Experiential Pathways to Meaningful Learning in the Humanities Classroom

FOLLOWING THE HERD: A STUDY ON SALIENT TRENDS IN THE CONTEMPORARY HINDI FILM INDUSTRY IN INDIA

From the first feature film ever produced in Hindi cinema to this date, the industry has witnessed a massive evolution. With changes ushering in almost every few years, it has seen its share of highs and lows in its quality and filmmaking standards. Speaking of the 21st century, while changes surely and gradually appeared in several aspects of the Hindi film industry, after 2010, many unprecedented conversions took place that shifted tectonic plates in Hindi cinema. However, there was one notion that the industry held on to, i.e. Its tendency to follow trends blindly. As soon as a method or a paradigm gains popularity, a noticeable majority quickly pick the "success formula" and start reproducing products in the exact similar fashion on and on until one day the trend loses its position amongst people, which is then taken over by yet another trend. This paper pursues a mixed methodology of exploratory study method with the assistance of library and secondary data, qualitative interviews with stake holders, cinegoers who extensively analyses the crucial trends followed by the Hindi film industry in the last decade, i.e., 2010-2020. The findings in the research paper provide deep insights into various trending formulas in Hindi cinema.

Topological superconductivity on the honeycomb lattice: Effect of normal state topology

The search for topological superconductors is one of the most pressing and challenging questions in condensed-matter and material research. Despite some early suggestions that doping a topological insulator might be a successful recipe to find topological superconductors, to date there is no general understanding of the relationship of the topology of the superconductor and the topology of its underlying normal state system. One of the major obstacles is the strong effect of the Fermi surface and its subsequent pairing tendencies within the Hubbard model framework, which usually prevents a detailed comparison between different topological superconducting systems. Here we present an analysis of doped insulators---topological and trivial---where the dominant Fermi surface effects have been equalized. Our approach allows us to study and compare superconducting instabilities of different normal state systems and present rigorous results about the influence of the normal state system's topology.

From the dish to humans: A stem cell recipe for success

Islet transplantation has proven to be an effective treatment for type 1 diabetes (T1D) yet is hampered by the shortage of available tissue. Recently, two reports from a Viacyte multicenter clinical trial demonstrate the feasibility, safety, and potential efficacy of transplanting macro-encapsulated human stem cell-derived pancreatic endoderm cells into patients with T1D, highlighting the promise of a stem cell-based therapeutic approach.

Bringing back the golden days of Bell Labs.

Established almost 100 years ago, Bell Labs made a great contribution to advancing both fundamental science and technology. Was that the result of a unique set of circumstances or is there a reproducible recipe for success?

Rapid Control of a SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant COVID-19 Community Outbreak: The Successful Experience in Pingtung County of Taiwan.

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was an outbreak in December, 2019 and rapidly spread to the world. All variants of SARS-CoV-2, including the globally and currently dominant Delta variant (Delta-SARS-CoV-2), caused severe disease and mortality. Among all variants, Delta-SARS-CoV-2 had the highest transmissibility, growth rate, and secondary attack rate than other variants except for the new variant of Omicron that still exists with many unknown effects. In Taiwan, the pandemic Delta-SARS-CoV-2 began in Pingtung from 14 June 2021 and ceased at 11 July 2021. Seventeen patients were infected by Delta-SARS-CoV-2 and 1 person died during the Pingtung outbreak. The Public Health Bureau of Pingtung County Government stopped the Delta-SARS-CoV-2 outbreak within 1 month through measures such as epidemic investigation, rapid gene sequencing, rapidly expanding isolation, expanded screening of the Delta-SARS-CoV-2 antigen for people who lived in regional villages, and indirect intervention, including rapid vaccination, short lockdown period, and travel restrictions. Indirect environmental factors, such as low levels of air pollution, tropic weather in the summer season, and rural areas might have accelerated the ability to control the Delta-SARS-CoV-2 spread. This successful experience might be recommended as a successful formula for the unvaccinated or insufficiently vaccinated regions.

Exploring the Factors Impacting Seller Performance During Online Sales Events in the E-Commerce Marketplace in India

The Indian ecommerce industry has been growing substantially because of changing mindset of the Indian customers and ease of shopping online. A large number of sellers had registered on online marketplaces so that the sellers could reach a larger pool of customers. The goal for sellers was towards increasing sales substantially with optimal efforts. Some sellers were able to accomplish this goal successfully, but a majority of the sellers struggled finding the right formula for success. Ecommerce websites conducted online shopping heavy discount sales events for limited time periods. The objective of this research was to understand the various factors that influenced and impacted the performance of sellers on Indian E-commerce websites during such events. A total of eleven interviews were conducted with Indian E-commerce sales experts. The data was thematically content analysed. Five most significant factors that helped gauge sellers’ performance were late shipment rate, poor order fulfilment rate, limited product selection, high price and low glance views.

Physical proximity as pleasure or pain? A critical review of employee–customer proximity in sales and services settings

This paper presents a critical review of published findings pertaining to the physical proximity between employees and customers in various sales and service settings. Following an overview of this stream of research, reflections are then offered on how the concepts of personal space and physical proximity may have changed in terms of their financial and well-being-related effects as a function of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the risk of infection in interpersonal interactions, and despite the affiliative aspects associated with physical proximity, recent recipes for success—as advocated by academics—may eventually have a negative impact on multiple crucial metrics in a post-pandemic world, such that employees’ physical proximity to customers may soon come with a wide array of costly consequences. The article concludes with a set of future research directions.

Inactivated Cowpea Mosaic Virus in Combination with OX40 Agonist Primes Potent Antitumor Immunity in a Bilateral Melanoma Mouse Model.

Viral immunotherapies are being recognized in cancer treatment, with several currently approved or undergoing clinical testing. While contemporary approaches have focused on oncolytic viral therapies, our efforts center on the development of plant virus-based cancer immunotherapies. In a previous work, we demonstrated the potent efficacy of the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV), a plant virus that does not replicate in animals, applied as an in situ vaccine. CPMV is an immunostimulatory drug candidate, and intratumoral administration remodels the tumor microenvironment leading to activation of local and systemic antitumor immunity. Efficacy has been demonstrated in multiple tumor mouse models and canine cancer patients. As wild-type CPMV is infectious toward various legumes and because shedding of infectious virus from patients may be an agricultural concern, we developed UV-inactivated CPMV (termed inCPMV) which is not infectious toward plants. We report that as a monotherapy, wild-type CPMV outperforms inCPMV in mouse models of dermal melanoma or disseminated colon cancer. Efficacy of inCPMV is less than that of CPMV and similar to that of RNA-free CPMV. Immunological investigation using knockout mice shows that inCPMV does not signal through TLR7 (toll-like receptor); structure-function studies indicate that the RNA is highly cross-linked and therefore unable to activate TLR7. Wild-type CPMV signals through TLR2, -4, and -7, whereas inCPMV more closely resembles RNA-free CPMV which signals through TLR2 and -4 only. The structural features of inCPMV explain the increased potency of wild-type CPMV through the triple pronged TLR activation. Strikingly, when inCPMV is used in combination with an anti-OX40 agonist antibody (administered systemically), exceptional efficacy was demonstrated in a bilateral B16F10 dermal melanoma model. Combination therapy, with in situ vaccination applied only into the primary tumor, controlled the progression of the secondary, untreated tumors, with 10 out of 14 animals surviving for at least 100 days post tumor challenge without development of recurrence or metastatic disease. This study highlights the potential of inCPMV as an in situ vaccine candidate and demonstrates the power of combined immunotherapy approaches. Strategic immunocombination therapies are the formula for success, and the combination of in situ vaccination strategies along with therapeutic antibodies targeting the cancer immunity cycle is a particularly powerful approach.

Левая дилемма Дж. Байдена и демократической партии

After two years in the White House, President Joe Biden, who was elected as a centrist, despite his success in implementing his social agenda by building a compromise with Congress divided between left-wing Democrats and right-wing Republicans, still embraces radical far-left agenda as the next campaign strategy. The Democratic Party consolidates in its progressive agenda which will dominate its ideological development. J. Biden’s formula for success – compromise and centrism, which brought him victory in 2020, over the two years of his stay in the White House proved to be precisely the working formula for interaction with Congress and implementation of social programs. After several months of record low ratings, in August 2022, the popularity of the President improved markedly, returning to the figures of September 2021. The 44% that he received in his support still meant that the majority of society did not approve of his presidency, but it was obvious that his efforts to advance his agenda were appreciated by the public. However, the most important thing about this growth is that it was provided by independent voters. It was their support that the President began to lose after only five months of his stay in the White House, their low assessment explained the depressing support numbers of Summer 2022, and only they could return J. Biden to the game on the eve of the midterm elections, turning him from a burden for his party into its hope. Still independent voters are the most difficult audience for parties and presidents, because unlike the emotionally charged core party supporters who are ready to positively evaluate the president just because he represents their party, the swing voters evaluate the results of the presidency, not the party affiliation. And the return of this electorate to Biden after several legislative victories was a positive assessment of the effectiveness of his government strategy based on compromise. Yet there are big doubts that the Democrats are ready to hear and accept this signal of the swing voters. The logical reorientation of parties towards independent voters and a necessary shift of the agenda to the center of the ideological spectrum is complicated by the instability of moods in this part of society, the complexity of monitoring and forecasting them. Given the prevalence of the logic of electoral struggle, which changes all the social functions of political parties, such a reorientation violates the current basic principle of the American parties’ ideological organization – the success of the agenda is determined by victory in the elections. With the dominance of this logic, it can be assumed that the left-wing vector of the Democratic Party’s development will increase, forcing J. Biden not only to strengthen the left rhetoric, but also to expand the left agenda of his presidency, especially if his party loses control over Congress. The whole domestic political process will be still determined by the ideological conflict between two radical agendas – far-left and far-right.

A recipe for USO success? Unravelling the micro-foundations of dynamic capability building to overcome critical junctures

• USOs face dynamic and iterative junctures each posing challenges which need to be overcome. • Micro-foundational dynamic capabilities can help explain USO survival and success. • Absorptive, adaptive and innovative capabilities can help USO sustainability. • USOs need to develop, deploy and integrate combinations of micro-foundational capabilities. University Spin-Offs (USOs) are important contributors to regional innovation, productivity and job creation; however, their failure rates remain very high. While studies have explored the factors affecting USO formation and success, scholars have highlighted the need for further research into the processes through which USOs can effectively reach sustainable returns by navigating several critical junctures. We posit that a micro-foundational perspective can contribute new knowledge on how USOs develop higher-order dynamic capabilities, which are essential to overcoming key challenges and leveraging opportunities. This paper explores how USOs develop the micro-foundational dynamic capabilities of adaptive, absorptive and innovative capabilities to successfully overcome formation's critical junctures and reach long-term sustainability. The findings identify how USOs develop, deploy and integrate various combinations of micro-foundational capabilities to navigate each critical juncture and reach thresholds of sustainability. In particular, as firm development progressed and critical junctures increased in complexity, USOs needed to deploy all three capabilities simultaneously and in an integrated manner. We identify the limitations of existing linear models of USO development and contribute to theory development through the development of a new, dynamic model that illustrates how USOs build micro-foundational dynamic capabilities cumulatively and iteratively to overcome critical junctures.

Institutional biography of the Soviet painter: experience of comparative study

This article is first to conduct a comparative analysis of the biographies of two prominent Soviet painters – A. M. Gerasimov and S. V. Gerasimov. Emphasis is placed on the vectors and stages of the institutional biography of the artists, rather than their creative and personal life. People of the same generation, same education, virtually same life length, they were inscribed into a single system of cultural institutions, sought to achieve career success as the Soviet painters. At the same time, Aleksandr Gerasimov became the personification of the Stalinist era in art, having received all the highest posts and awards in the country, while Sergei Gerasimov throughout the 1930s – 1950s, although was officially recognized as a talented master, caused suspicions among the country’s leadership due to "proclivity for formalism". Thus, being a fairly successful artist, pedagogue and administrator, he was significantly inferior to his namesake in hierarchical ranking. A long life (both masters lived for about 80 years) allows considering the variations of the fate of the “elite” Soviet painters at the turn of eras. The “Thaw” was the time of “overthrow” of one artist and the “rise” of the other. Previous tremendous career achievements of Aleksandr Gerasimov were interpreted as a reflection of unscrupulousness of the painter, and less grandiose successes of Sergei Gerasimov were perceived as a sign of his behavioral reservedness. The fates of two outstanding Soviet painters demonstrate the invariants of institutional biography of the Soviet artist. Different proportions of talent, conformism, ambitions, and strive to achieve material wealth became the key components that led to different formulas for career success and different perception of such success by the contemporaries.

Identifying the Most Successful Formula 1 Drivers in the Turbo Era

Background: Formula 1 is the world’s fastest auto racing circuit and one that is among the most-watched of all televised sports. With its international flair and glamor and the glitz it brings to viewers and spectators, it is no surprise that fans, commentators, and media covering the races enjoy ranking the most successful teams and especially the most successful drivers of all time. Yet, there are few empirical studies that have developed and/or applied rigorous methodological techniques to examine which drivers are the most successful within the recent turbo-hybrid era. Objective: This study uses novel group-based trajectory methods to rank the most successful drivers within the turbo area, 2014-2019. Methods: Group-based trajectory methods are used to identify distinct groups of drivers according to accumulated points. Results: Using total points accumulated during each respective season as our measure of success, results showed that the 45 drivers who competed during this time period could be classified into three groups, with the top-performing group of drivers being Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. A second better-performing group of six drivers followed and included Bottas, LeClerc, Räikkönen, Ricciardo, Verstappen, and Vettel. The remaining 37 drivers were classified into a third low-performing group, a great number of which scored zero points during the time period. Conclusion: The most successful Formula 1 drivers during the turbo era were able to be identified using group-based trajectory modeling, with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg identified as the best drivers based on accumulated points.

A execução e a composição melódicas como estratégias para facilitar o ditado melódico: dois experimentos

Melodic dictations are usually practiced in Ear Training classes and, associated with them, some strategies are employed by students and instructors in order to favor these types of ac-tivities. This study investigates two strategies that can be used in this context: composition and performance. The aims of this work are to investigate the influence of composition and musical performance, accomplished prior to a set of dictations, on the results of the latter; and to discuss the use of these strategies in Ear Training teaching. Two quasi-experimental studies were carried out, during the Covid-19 pandemic, involving a pre and a post-test applied on-line and formed by melodic dictations. Between them, the participants of the first experiment (N = 25) performed a compositional activity and, in the second (N = 44), they performed mu-sic. The results of these studies showed that composition and musical performance did not play a significant role on performance in melodic dictation. Explanations for this can be found in limitations of the online research instruments employed. However, we believe that the strategies investigated here can be used not as simple “formulas for success”, but as ped-agogical tools to be used in the long term for the development of perception. It is possible that future studies, carried out under better conditions, could observe the positive effects of mu-sical composition and performance.

The Recipe for Success: Repin’s Painting Barge-Haulers on the Volga and Stasov’s Conception of Russian Art

Barge-Haulers on the Volga is one of the most famous works of the Russian realist painter Ilya Repin. As I demonstrate in this article, on the one hand, it brought Repin resounding success and, on the other, it molded his creative conception. The Russian art critic Vladimir Stasov outlined the artist’s success. In March 1873, Stasov’s poetic depiction of Repin’s painting, where he expressed his admiration for Repin’s talent, focusing on specific aspects that he contended had to be included in a perfect work of Russian art, was published in the daily newspaper Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti. I attempt to show that Stasov’s praise had a devastating effect on Repin’s creative process. By examining Repin’s post Barge-Haulers successful works for this pattern, I show how the painter tried to incorporate every one of the “ingredients” that Stasov outlined and ultimately created a typified group of paintings documenting life on the periphery of the Russian Empire with those features, which marked his entire career.

Recipe for Success?: Lessons for Strategic Climate Litigation from the Sharma, Neubauer, and Shell Cases

AbstractThe urgency of the global climate problem has prompted an increasing turn to the courts to accelerate action. While still a relatively new phenomenon, “strategic” climate cases have been on the rise since 2015. Litigants in these cases aim to produce ambitious and systemic outcomes. However, with both time and resources limited, how might we best discern which cases have the greatest prospects of achieving cut through in the policy and public debate, and accelerating climate action? This Article contributes to developing literature evaluating the “recipe for success” in strategic climate claims. It provides a comparative analysis of three recent, high-profile wins in climate cases from Australia—Sharma—, Germany—Neubauer—, and the Netherlands—Shell—, examining their commonalities to give insight into the ingredients for successful strategic climate litigation. Our analysis shows how the three cases combine careful, strategic planning, with legal imagination and innovation to generate outcomes that heighten their capacity for broader impact. Evaluating the success of these types of prominent climate cases provides important guidance for future case design.

Recipe for Success

Recipe for Success

The politics of referendum rules: Evidence from New Zealand (1893–2016)

AbstractDespite widespread concerns about the manipulation of government‐initiated referendums, there has been little consideration of the long‐term effects of these institutional changes. Using a historical institutionalist framework, I examine two long‐standing processes of gradual institutional change in New Zealand: the serial referendum and the two‐stage referendum. Cabinet documents, parliamentary speeches, and previous analyses reveal that governments change referendums in unique ways depending on the political circumstances, including precedents set by earlier referendums. Once set in motion, these processes of gradual institutional change can fundamentally transform the functional qualities of the referendum over time. This article suggests that avoiding conceptions of referendums as discrete events can help clarify the challenges and potentials to democratizing popular votes.Related ArticlesLachapelle, Erick, Thomas Bergeron, Richard Nadeau, Jean‐François Daoust, Ruth Dassonneville, and Éric Bélanger. 2021. “Citizens' Willingness to Support New Taxes for COVID‐19 Measures and the Role of Trust.” Politics & Policy 49(3): 534–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12404Pierson, Chris, and Louise Humpage. 2016. “Coming Together or Drifting Apart? Income Maintenance in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.” Politics & Policy 44(2): 261–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12150Silagadze, Nanuli. 2021. “Abortion Referendums: Is There a Recipe for Success?” Politics & Policy 49(2): 352–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12398

Success Formula of Mathletes

Mathematics competitions, together with the people and organizations engaged with them, form an immense and vibrant global network of today. This network has many roles. Competitions help identify students with higher abilities in Mathematics and motivate these students to develop their talents and to seek professional realization in science, thus gave positive impact on education and on educational institutions. The study aimed to find out the success formula of Grade VI mathletes in the Division of Antique, Philippines. Specifically, this sought to answer the following questions: 1. What is the profile of mathletes in terms of demographic characteristics such as sex, parents' highest educational attainment, socio-economic status and length of training in Mathematics competition. 2. What is the profile of mathletes in terms of school related factors such as length of Mathematics teacher's teaching experience, length of teacher's coaching experience, number of Mathematics trainings attended by the teacher, and type of school? 3. What is the profile of successful mathletes in terms of internal factors such as self-motivation and interest and innate mathematical ability, and external factors such as Mathematics teacher-coach's effectiveness, availability of instructional/review materials, purposive math training, parental moral support, peer support? 4. What is the performance of mathletes in Mathematics competitions? 5. Which of the demographic, internal and external ga are predictors of success in Mathematics competitions? 6. What is the success formula of successful mathletes?