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Manipulation in Organizational Research: On Executing and Interpreting Designs from Treatments to Primes
Abstract
While other applied sciences systematically distinguish between manipulation designs, organizational research does not. Herein, we disentangle distinct applications that differ in how the manipulation is deployed, analyzed, and interpret...
Publication · November 05, 2025
Global Health & Population Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases (HPACC)
We are a global team of researchers aiming to better understand the
i) prevalences,
ii) health system performances,
iii) associated lifestyle behaviors, and
iiii) sociodemographic patterns
of cardiometabolic diseases and of dia...
Project · November 05, 2025
Patterns of Traditional Medicine use for the treatment of Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, and High Cholesterol in 71 surveys
Publication · November 05, 2025
1362-P: Eligibility for GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Obesity across 91 Countries
Abstract
Introduction and Objective: GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) may reshape obesity management & diabetes prevention. However, there is scant evidence about global populations who may benefit from them. Here we evaluate eligibility for ...
Publication · November 05, 2025
Left behind? A longitudinal analysis of need for PrEP services among middle-aged and older adults in South Africa.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Despite 1.3 million cumulative Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiations in South Africa, 150,000+ people newly acquire HIV every year. A significant proportion of these are middle-aged adults, a population not previously...
Publication · November 05, 2025
Unintentional Injuries Requiring Medical Attention in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Nationally Representative surveys in 12 Countries
Abstract
Background Despite a high burden of injuries in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), a lack of empirical evidence on mechanism, location, and distribution of unintentional injuries requiring medical attention (hereafter injur...
Publication · November 05, 2025
National evidence on glucose-lowering medication use for diabetes from 62 low- and middle-income countries
Abstract
Given rising diabetes prevalence globally, access to diabetes treatments is gaining urgency. Yet, it remains unknown which glucose-lowering medication types people with diabetes across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) use. In th...
Publication · November 05, 2025
C3MW: A novel comprehensive-monitoring-motivated multi-model watermarking scheme for tamper detection and self-recovery
Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel Comprehensive-Monitoring-Motivated Multi-model Watermarking (C3MW) Scheme for tampering region localization and self-recovery for 4K images. To generate the Comprehensive-Monitoring-Motivated Multi-model...
Publication · November 05, 2025
Tampering localization and self-recovery using block labeling and adaptive significance
Abstract: This paper proposes a scheme for localization and restoration of image tampered regions using block labelling and adaptive significance. To generate the watermark information which includes authentication data and recovery data, we propo...
Publication · November 05, 2025
A novel blockchain-watermarking mechanism utilizing interplanetary file system and fast walsh hadamard transform
Abstract: This article proposes a new digital watermarking mechanism based on the Ethereum blockchain, Smart Contract, and Interplanetary File System (IPFS), with an enhanced Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform (FWHT) algorithm for watermark embedding a...
Publication · November 05, 2025