Supplemental material, supplement_material for Measurement Invariance and Sex and Age Differences of the Big Five Inventory–2: Evidence From the Russian Version by Sergei Shchebetenko, Aleksey Y. Kalugin, Arina M. Mishkevich, Christopher J. Soto and Oliver P. John in Assessment

The Big Five Inventory–2 (BFI-2) is a recently published 60-item questionnaire that measures personality traits within the five-factor model framework. An important aspect of the BFI-2 is that it measures the traits at both the domain and facet levels and also controls acquiescence bias via the balanced number of true- and false-keyed items across the domains and facets. The current research evaluates factorial measurement invariance of a Russian version of the BFI-2 across sex and...

Introduction:Previous studies have evaluated procalcitonin clearance (PCTc) as a marker of sepsis severity but at different time points and cutoffs. We aimed to assess the predictive performance of PCTc at different time points of sepsis management in patients with cancer.Methods:This retrospective cohort study included patients with cancer admitted to an intensive care unit between 2013 and 2016. We calculated PCTc at 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours after admission. Its predictive performance for hospital and...

Introduction:Previous studies have evaluated procalcitonin clearance (PCTc) as a marker of sepsis severity but at different time points and cutoffs. We aimed to assess the predictive performance of PCTc at different time points of sepsis management in patients with cancer.Methods:This retrospective cohort study included patients with cancer admitted to an intensive care unit between 2013 and 2016. We calculated PCTc at 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours after admission. Its predictive performance for hospital and...

Gift giving is an effective means to strengthen interpersonal relationships; it also may initiate and enhance customer–brand relationships. Through a field study conducted with an international monobrand retailer of beauty products, a combination of propensity score matching with difference-in-differences estimations, and two experimental scenario studies, this research demonstrates that gift buyers spend 63% more in the year following a gift purchase than a matched sample of customers who purchase for their personal use. Specifically, gift...

Supplemental Material, web_appendix_UPDATED for Product Launches with New Attributes: A Hybrid Conjoint–Consumer Panel Technique for Estimating Demand by Paul B. Ellickson, Mitchell J. Lovett and Bhoomija Ranjan in Journal of Marketing Research

Supplemental material, Supplemental_Agreement_Document for A Systematic Review of Instructional Comparisons in Single-Case Research by Jennifer R. Ledford, Kate T. Chazin, Kari L. Gagnon, Anne K. Lord, Virginia R. Turner and Kathleen N. Zimmerman in Remedial and Special Education

Supplemental material, 853307_Appendix_1_online_supp for 2017 Guidelines for the management of heart failure by pharmacists by Lesley C. Beique, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Eileen O’Meara, Michael McDonald and Sheri L. Koshman in Canadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada

In Canada, the incidence and prevalence of heart failure (HF) is rising. Approximately 600,000 patients are living with HF and 50,000 more are diagnosed each year. The burden of HF is significant. Mortality rate is high (20% in 1 year, 50% in 5 years), and morbidity, such as hospitalizations, is frequent. The cost to the health care system is significant at $2.8 billion per year.1

Supplemental material, Supplementary_Tables for Combining Fluoxetine and rTMS in Poststroke Motor Recovery: A Placebo-Controlled Double-Blind Randomized Phase 2 Clinical Trial by Camila Bonin Pinto, Leon Morales-Quezada, Polyana Vulcano de Toledo Piza, Dian Zeng, Faddi Ghassan Saleh Vélez, Isadora Santos Ferreira, Pedro Henrique Lucena, Dante Duarte, Fernanda Lopes, Mirret M. El-Hagrassy, Luiz Vicente Rizzo, Erica C. Camargo, David J. Lin, Nicole Mazwi, Qing Mei Wang, Randie Black-Schaffer and Felipe Fregni in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Supplemental Material, JCR-17-0164.R1 for UN Peacekeeping and Protection from Sexual Violence by Karin Johansson and Lisa Hultman in Journal of Conflict Resolution

Recent years have seen an increased emphasis on both protection of civilians and the problem of sexual violence. We explore the impact of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping on the occurrence of wartime sexual violence. Acknowledging the difficulty in reducing sexual violence, we propose two conditions under which peacekeepers are more likely to be successful: when the mission has a protection mandate and when the conflict actors exercise a high level of control over their forces....

Supplemental Material, NV_Escalation_Data_-_Stata_12 for A Turn to Violence: The Escalation of Nonviolent Movements by Kirssa Cline Ryckman in Journal of Conflict Resolution

Gift giving is an effective means to strengthen interpersonal relationships; it also may initiate and enhance customer–brand relationships. Through a field study conducted with an international monobrand retailer of beauty products, a combination of propensity score matching with difference-in-differences estimations, and two experimental scenario studies, this research demonstrates that gift buyers spend 63% more in the year following a gift purchase than a matched sample of customers who purchase for their personal use. Specifically, gift...

Nonselective β blockers (NSBBs) combined with esophageal variceal ligation (EVL) are recommended for secondary prophylaxis of esophageal variceal bleeding (EVB) in cirrhotic patients according to the current practice guidelines and consensus. However, until now, there is a paucity of recommendations regarding the use of NSBBs in cirrhotic patients who achieved variceal eradication. In this review paper, we firstly introduced a case who achieved variceal eradication after additional use of NSBBs for secondary prophylaxis of EVB...

Supplemental_material for Agreement in Histological Assessment of Mitotic Activity Between Microscopy and Digital Whole Slide Images Informs Conversion for Clinical Diagnosis by Bih-Rong Wei, Charles H. Halsey, Shelley B. Hoover, Munish Puri, Howard H. Yang, Brandon D. Gallas, Maxwell P. Lee, Weijie Chen, Amy C. Durham, Jennifer E. Dwyer, Melissa D. Sánchez, Ryan P. Traslavina, Chad Frank, Charles Bradley, Lawrence D. McGill, D. Glen Esplin, Paula A. Schaffer, Sarah D. Cramer, L. Tiffany Lyle, Jessica...

Heme oxygenases (HOs) have a major role in phytochrome chromophore biosynthesis, and chromophores in turn have anti-oxidant properties. Plant heme oxygenases are divided into the HO1 sub-family comprising HO1, HO3, and HO4, and the HO2 sub-family, which consists of 1 member, HO2. This study identified and characterized 4 heme oxygenase members from Sorghum bicolor. Multiple sequence alignments showed that the heme oxygenase signature motif (QAFICHFYNI/V) is conserved across all SbHO proteins and that they share...

Heme oxygenases (HOs) have a major role in phytochrome chromophore biosynthesis, and chromophores in turn have anti-oxidant properties. Plant heme oxygenases are divided into the HO1 sub-family comprising HO1, HO3, and HO4, and the HO2 sub-family, which consists of 1 member, HO2. This study identified and characterized 4 heme oxygenase members from Sorghum bicolor. Multiple sequence alignments showed that the heme oxygenase signature motif (QAFICHFYNI/V) is conserved across all SbHO proteins and that they share...

Supplemental material, Supplemental Material2 for Rehabilitation with a stabilizing exercise program in triangular fibrocartilage complex lesions with distal radioulnar joint instability: A pilot intervention study by EDJ Bonhof-Jansen, GJ Kroon, SM Brink and JH van Uchelen in Hand Therapy

Supplemental material, Online_Appendix_Final for Extending Classification Algorithms to Case-Control Studies by Bryan Stanfill, Sarah Reehl, Lisa Bramer, Ernesto S Nakayasu, Stephen S Rich, Thomas O Metz, Marian Rewers and Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson in Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology

Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material for Extending Classification Algorithms to Case-Control Studies by Bryan Stanfill, Sarah Reehl, Lisa Bramer, Ernesto S Nakayasu, Stephen S Rich, Thomas O Metz, Marian Rewers and Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson in Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology

Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material for Extending Classification Algorithms to Case-Control Studies by Bryan Stanfill, Sarah Reehl, Lisa Bramer, Ernesto S Nakayasu, Stephen S Rich, Thomas O Metz, Marian Rewers and Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson in Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology

Supplemental Material, FAO852940-ICMJE for Gastrocnemius Recession for the Treatment of Tibialis Anterior Tendinopathy by Leland Gossett, P. Cameron Gossett, Justin Roberts and John Anderson in Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics

Objectives: As the homeless population ages, it is imperative to improve access to advance care planning (ACP) and document preferences in case medical decision-making capacity is lost. Methods: We implemented an ACP Project to discuss and document advance care plans with all patients aged 45 and older who received primary care at our adult Homeless Program clinics. Results: Over 14 months, ACP was discussed with 48% (n = 138) of the population and health care...

Appendix_B for The collective memory of dominant parties in parliamentary discourse by Reut Itzkovitch Malka, Shaul R. Shenhav, Gideon Rahat and Reuven Y. Hazan in Party Politics