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Funding Information: This work has been done in the frame of the projects 16NRM08 BiRD and 18SIB03 BxDiff, that have received funding from the EMPIR programme co‐financed by the Participating States and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The work has also been supported by the Academy of Finland Flagship Programme, Photonics Research and Innovation (PREIN), decision number: 320167. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Color Research and Application published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. ; Modern studies of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) and its applications using data and machine-driven science require formatting of BRDF data according to Findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data principles. As a solution a FAIR universal BRDF file-format based on Java Script Object Notation (JSON) is proposed. JSON principles as well as file structure are explained and examples are given. Automatic validation of universal BRDF file format is realized with the help of JSON schema. Furthermore, the source code and accompanying documentation are presented in dedicated supporting material files. It is expected that after its wide adoption, the proposed BRDF file format will enhance collaboration between different research groups and benefit machine-driven science. The uptake is facilitated by introducing a BiRDview—a modern open-source web-based application for BRDF visualization. ; Peer reviewed

Background and objectives: The evaluation of public health law requires reliable accounts of underlying statutes and regulations. States often enact public health-related statutes with nonuniform provisions, and variation in the structure of state legal codes can foster inaccuracy in evaluating the impact of specific categories of law. The optimal format for empirical analysis is a machine-readable 50-state coded data set. This study provides a comprehensive assessment of these resources and related materials with a focus on statutory data sets. Research design: An exhaustive literature search was followed by a "pearling" or "snowball" approach to assure the most complete inventory of this very diverse and diffuse information. We also interviewed three leading investigators to identify barriers to wider use and availability of coded legal data sets. Results: We identified relatively few accessible coded statutory data sets, and others that are not available for use outside the group or individual that compiled them. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Public Health Law Research Program has made funding available for the development and dissemination of additional data sets, as well as extensive guidance regarding their use in the evaluation of public health law. Investigators reported serious obstacles to these activities in the past. Conclusions: Compilation of coded statutory data sets requires a focused investment of resources that has only recently become available. Funders should require grantees to make their work accessible to other investigators so as to assure development of public health law research and evaluation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editors -- Contributors -- Section I: Introduction -- 1. What makes research primary care research? -- 2. Ontology and epistemology, methodology and method, and research paradigms -- 3. How to choose your topic and define your research question -- Section II: Innovative approaches to primary care research -- 4. Interdisciplinary research approaches in primary care -- 5. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods -- 6. Authentic engagement, co-creation and action research -- 7. Development and use of primary care research networks -- 8. Using big data in primary care research -- 9. Conducting primary care research using social media -- 10. Quality improvement research in primary care -- 11. Programme evaluation in primary care -- Section III: Preliminary steps to doing primary care research -- 12. How to prepare your research proposal -- 13. How to ensure your research follows ethical principles -- 14. How to search and critically appraise the literature -- Section IV: Methods and techniques for doing primary care research -- 15. Taking stock of existing research: Approach to conducting a systematic review -- 16. Statistics in primary care research -- 17. How to conduct a survey in primary care -- 18. Validation studies: Validating new tools and adapting old ones to new contexts -- 19. Clinical and other diagnostic tests: Understanding their predictive value -- 20. How to conduct observational studies -- 21. Randomised trials in primary care -- 22. Grounded theory -- 23. Doing interpretive phenomenological primary care research -- 24. Why ethnography is an important part of primary care research and how it is done -- 25. Case study -- 26. Interactional analysis of primary care consultations -- Section V: How to disseminate your research

Images of the female body : women's identities and the media / Alison Shaw -- The model of a man : masculinity and body image in men's lifestyle magazines / Angus Bancroft -- Bodybuilding and sexual attractiveness / Lee Monaghan ... [et al.] -- Ei gwrol ryfelwyr : reflections on body, gender, class and nation in Welsh rugby / Sally Holland and Jonathan Scourfield -- "You need the leotard" : revisiting the first PE lesson / Sara Delamont -- Workplace bullying / Duncan Lewis -- Power, control and the gendered body / Emma Wincup -- "Sleeping on the sofa" : preparation for ordained ministry and "curriculum of the body" / Trevor Welland -- Wrinklies just wanna have fun! / John Richardson -- Bodies on display : experiences from the fetish club field / Victoria Butler -- Inter-corporeality and reflexivity : researching naturism / Odette Parry -- "Meat" in the machine : the centrality of the body in internet interactions / Kate Robson

Understanding the relationship between organizational performance, gender, and management is crucial to scholars and practitioners alike. In this article, we focus on whether women manage differently than their male counterparts and whether these varied behaviors translate to organizational outcomes. With respect to management activities, we examine internal management as well as external networking patterns with peers and political principals. Through our investigation, we also address a number of theoretical issues related to previous research on management and performance, particularly the work on modeling public management. This analysis offers avenues for expansion, explanation, and evaluation of its theoretical and empirical implications. We find evidence that female managers spend less time on internal management and networking relationships than their male counterparts. We also see that networking with citizens and clientele groups has a positive effect on organization outcomes for men, whereas networking with peers is more beneficial for women. Adapted from the source document.

Mind is very restless, forceful and strong, O Krishna, it is more difficult to control the mind than to control the wind. ~ Arjuna to Sri Krishna- Bhagavad Gita Management is a process of aligning people and getting them committed to work for a common goal to the maximum social benefit - in search of excellence. The critical question in all managers' minds is how to be effective in their job. The answer to this fundamental question is found in the Bhagavad Gita, which repeatedly proclaims that "you must try to manage yourself." The reason is that unless a manager reaches a level of excellence and effectiveness, he or she will be merely a face in the crowd. The classical Indian epics written thousands of years ago, enlightens us on all managerial techniques leading us towards a harmonious and blissful state of affairs in place of the conflict, tensions, poor productivity, absence of motivation and so on, common in most of Indian enterprises today and probably in enterprises in many other countries. The modern (Western) management concepts of vision, leadership, motivation, excellence in work, achieving goals, giving work meaning, decision making and planning, are all discussed in the Bhagavad Gita. While Western management thought too often deals with problems at material, external and peripheral levels, the Indian thought tackles the issues from the grass roots level of human thinking. Once the basic thinking of man is improved, it will automatically enhance the quality of his actions and their results.Management is, therefore, all about man and about his development, not merely his body, mind or intellect but his heart. It is when heart responds to heart that a static organization becomes transformed into dynamic one

L'objet de cet article est d'explorer le modèle de " gouvernement ouvert " à partir de la mise à disposition de l'information publique et des expériences d'ouverture des données publiques (Open Data) menées par l'administration, les collectivités locales et les établissements publics en Europe et en France. Le principe de l'Open Data dans le secteur public a été adopté peu à peu dans la plupart des pays occidentaux. Cependant, les modalités de sa mise en place et l'étendue des données concernées varient suivant les cultures juridiques et politiques. Lors de cette phase en effet, on observe que des particularismes locaux émergent, fondés sur des conceptions différentes de l'Open Data, issues des politiques d'accès à l'information, de la notion de patrimoine " public " ou des dispositions nationales du droit d'auteur. Après avoir fait le point sur la dynamique générale du mouvement, nous comparerons différentes conceptions entre pays, et particulièrement entre la France et les pays anglo-saxons. Puis d'autres particularités seront observées au niveau national, que ce soit au niveau de l'État central ou au niveau local (collectivités territoriales, etc). Ces différences se situent tant au niveau de la définition de données publiques que des régimes de mise à disposition et de réutilisation.