Short-term pain for long-term gain? A longitudinal meta-analysis of downsizing-financial performance relationships

IntroductionDownsizing, and the mass layoff upheavals that ensue, has Activity Toys been euphemistically referred to as a short-term pain, long-term gain strategy.But is that so? Do its financial outcomes over time justify the short-run harm? And, to what extent has its adoption been driven by economic or social rationales over time?MethodsTo exami

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Characteristics of COPD patients according to GOLD classification and clinical phenotypes in the Russian Federation: the SUPPORT trial

Vladimir Arkhipov,1 Daria Arkhipova,2 Marc Miravitlles,3 Andrey Lazarev,4 Ekaterina Stukalina5 1Clinical Pharmacology and Therapy Department, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Moscow, Russian Federation; 2Clinical Pharmacology and Propaedeutic Internal Diseases Department, First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Fede

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