bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The effect of proximity and spatial dependence on the house price index for Dar es Salaam
Authors: Nyanda Frank
Published: February 2023

Purpose

This study aims to examine the effect of proximity and spatial dependence on the house price index for the nascent market Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Despite the ongoing housing market transactions, there is no single house price index that takes into account proximity and spatial dependence. The proximity considerations in question are proximal to arterial roads, public hospitals, an airport and food markets. Previous studies on sub-Saharan Africa have focused on the ordinary least squares (OLS)-based hedonic model for the index and ignored spatial and proximity considerations.

Design/methodology/approach

Using the OLS and spatial econometric approach, the paper tests for the significance of the two effects – proximity and spatial dependence in the hedonic price model with year dummy variables from 2010 to 2019. The paper then compares the three indices in the following configurations: without the two effects, with proximity factors only, and with both effects, i.e. proximity and spatial dependence.

Findings

The inclusion of proximity factors and spatial dependence – spatial autocorrelation – seems to improve the hedonic price model but does not significantly improve the house price index. However, further research should be called for on account of the nascent nature of the market.

Originality/value

The paper brings new knowledge by demonstrating that it may not be necessary to take into account proximity factors and spatial dependence for the Dar es Salaam house price index.
The effect of corporate social responsibility on environmental performance: the mediating role of green innovation and green human resource management
Authors: Zhou Shenbei , Tiruneh Wudie Atinaf , Legese Moges Assefa
Published: February 2023

Purpose

This research looks at the link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental performance, considering the immediate mutual interaction and the potential mediation of specific variables like green innovation and green human resource management (GHRM).

Design/methodology/approach

Partial least squares path modeling was used to investigate a sample of 460 respondents in multinational textile manufacturing companies in Ethiopia.

Findings

The findings of this study reveal a direct and positive relationship between CSR and environmental performance. In addition, the researchers observed an indirect effect on the relationship by using GHRM and green innovation as mediators.

Research limitations/implications

The study applied a cross-sectional methodology, and experts are not sure that CSR, GHRM, and green innovation in Textile manufacturing companies provide the same results over time. Consequently, future researchers can utilize the same method of investigation to see if outcomes change or stay the same over time. Second the study was conducted in Ethiopia. As a resut, it is possible that our study results will not be generalizable to other emerging nations. We propose expanding research to include more nations with developing markets.

Practical implications

Executives of textile manufacturing companies can adopt the present study framework of performance in developing economies to reduce waste, pollution and air emissions, and conserve water, energy and nonrenewable resources that enhance environmental performance.

Originality/value

The discovery of the present research makes significant contributions to the literature on the impact of CSR on environmental performance as a pioneering study by incorporating CSR, GHRM, green innovation and environmental performance under one research model in an emerging economy context.
An investigation of purchase behavior on spillover-effect health insurance: using an extended TAM
Authors: Lee Chen-Ying
Published: February 2023

Purpose

Wearable technology and mobile commerce have significant applications for both enterprises and customers, but few studies explore purchase behavior regarding wearable technology combined mobile device with the spillover-effect health insurance. The purpose of this study is to investigate customers’ purchase behavior on the spillover-effect insurance products, provide health insurers input for their marketing strategies and enhance policy sales volumes.

Design/methodology/approach

This study assessed consumers’ purchase behavior regarding spillover-effect health insurance in Taiwan, using the purposive sampling method to collect questionnaire survey of 233 respondents. The data are using analysis of variance, multiple regression and hierarchical regression to analyze and test the hypotheses.

Findings

The results indicated that all extended technology acceptance model (TAM) variables significantly and positively affected consumer’s attitude toward using spillover-effect health insurance. In addition, consumers’ subjective norms and usage attitudes positively affect their intention to purchase spillover-effect insurance products. However, hierarchical regression analysis result that trust has no moderating effect between usage attitudes and purchase intentions.

Originality/value

This study examines the understanding of customers’ attitude toward using and intention to purchase spillover-effect in health insurance, by integrating the extended TAM theory. The results have practical implications for customers’ intention to purchase spillover-effect health insurance, and provides innovative services to reduce losses in the health insurance, improves customer health management and contributes to fulfilling the need for marketing evidence in an emerging market of insurance.
How do cultural factors affect loyalty behaviour in retailing? The central role of social proximity
Authors: Charinsarn Alisara Rungnontarat , Diallo Mbaye Fall , Lambey-Checchin Christine
Published: February 2023

Purpose

Retail store loyalty is essential to the survival and success of a retailer. The intangible benefits provided by the social exchange in-store influence the way consumers consider their relationships with the retailer. However, its relationships with social proximity and cultural factors are not clear. Therefore, this article investigates the effects of specific cultural dimensions on loyalty behaviour, as well as the mediating role of social proximity on the relationship investigated.

Design/methodology/approach

This research is based on an empirical investigation undertaken in Thailand with a sample of 636 respondents. Two retail chains were investigated (Big C and Tesco). Structural equation modelling was used to test the research model and a series of research hypotheses.

Findings

The results reveal that uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation have positive direct effects on loyalty, while collectivism does not. Furthermore, social proximity significantly mediates the effects of collectivism and long-term orientation on customer loyalty. These findings show that Thailand is a specific emerging market in which retail chains should adapt their loyalty programme accordingly.

Practical implications

The cultural differences could be used for segmentation strategy for retailers to engage customers in a relationship with the hypermarket. Social proximity is an efficient lever to build loyalty in Thailand. In addition, retailers could utilise certainty and steadiness message as a way to build shopper loyalty.

Originality/value

This research underlines the social, human dimension that consumers seek, which is opposed to the online purchase. Specifically, this study highlights the mediating role of social proximity between the relationship of cultural variables and loyalty in the retail context. Additionally, this research displays the direct and positive effects of culture on retail loyalty. That is, this paper enhances how culture and shopper-retail staff interaction can be managed to achieve store loyalty.
Waste governance and campus sustainability: formal and informal waste systems at football tailgates in Michigan
Authors: Chikowore Noleen R. , Kerr John M.
Published: February 2023

Purpose

Football tailgating is a focus of campus sustainability in the United States because it produces large amounts of waste. In states where recyclables can be redeemed for cash, this waste also is a resource for earning income. University officials face the challenge of encouraging proper waste disposal, cleaning up efficiently and coexisting productively with income-earning recyclers. This paper aims to understand how bridging formal and informal actors can yield improved campus waste management outcomes.

Design/methodology/approach

Using the institutional analysis and development framework this study combines observational data throughout one football season with semi-structured interviews with informal recyclers, tailgaters and campus officials. Data are analyzed using thematic analysis.

Findings

The case displays interaction between formal and informal waste management actors and between formal and informal rules of interaction. Campus officials have largely succeeded in encouraging proper waste management by tailgaters, who in turn loosely coordinate with income-earning recyclers under unwritten rules. Officials tolerate recyclers, but waste management could be improved with better communication and coordination and more trust between them. Many recyclers conduct their work with a sense of environmental stewardship that could support waste management efforts.

Originality/value

Uncoordinated coexistence between formal and informal waste management systems is common in the global South. With few studies in the global North, this is the first the authors know of in a campus sustainability context.
Linking unlearning with the intention to recommend through destination image
Authors: Cubillas-Para Clara , Cegarra-Navarro Juan Gabriel , Tomaseti-Solano Eva
Published: February 2023

Purpose

The intangible nature of tourism means that variables such as destination image (DIM) or intention to recommend (IR) are crucial for tourists, as they are reliable sources of information. However, since these are dynamic variables, they have been affected by Covid-19 and need to be updated. Based on the above, the purpose of this study is to examine how the unlearning (UL) process helps tourists to become aware of the new situation, relinquish old habits and relearn, thus, influencing DIM and the IR destinations. Furthermore, the relationship between DIM and IR is analysed.

Design/methodology/approach

To analyse the proposed model, an empirical analysis was carried out through an online survey obtaining a valid sample of 457 Spanish domestic travellers. The data were analysed using partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM).

Findings

Results show a positive effect between the UL outcomes and IR a destination, as well as a mediator effect of DIM on this relationship.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study analyses for the first time UL in the tourism sector as an individual process carried out by tourists and shows how it influences their decision-making process.
Implications of COVID-19 policies on the sustainable corporate practices of European firms
Authors: Liakh Olena , Mucelli Attilio
Published: February 2023

Purpose

This study aims to analyze how mixes of COVID-19 policy responses are shaping the context in which companies will compete in the following years, defining how the crisis might impact firms’ ability to keep their commitments to sustainable practices.

Design/methodology/approach

European country-performance data for the years 2019 and 2020 were grouped into indicators of macro sustainability, then cross-analyzed against the policies adopted during the period (also grouped based on their impacts on sustainability pillars), using correlations, factor analysis and clustering.

Findings

The influence of traditional sustainability determinants was reframed according to the novel context shaped by the policy responses to the pandemic crisis. The social and digitalization aspects gained the most relevance and appeared interconnected, with digitalization of employment attaining overall more traction. Moreover, changes in the leadership within sustainability domains were observed for each identified country-cluster, due to newly implemented emergency policies. In fact, environmental innovation, digitalization and social support policies appeared to be the main variables to be impacted by the intensity of the policy efforts.

Practical implications

Businesses monitoring the developments of sustainability policies closely, will observe novel trends in technological applications.

Social implications

Policymakers and researchers may gauge the efficacy of policies against the COVID-19 crisis in the domain of sustainable development and resilience.

Originality/value

This paper provides a cross-analysis of quantitative macroeconomic and quantified policy responses to the 2020 pandemic crisis, linking each indicator to the pillars of sustainability that were relevant for companies between the crucial pandemic outbreak years 2019 and 2020.
Designing a post-disaster humanitarian supply chain using machine learning and multi-criteria decision-making techniques
Authors: Shakibaei Hossein , Farhadi-Ramin Mohammad Reza , Alipour-Vaezi Mohammad , Aghsami Amir , Rabbani Masoud
Published: February 2023

Purpose

Every day, small and big incidents happen all over the world, and given the human, financial and spiritual damage they cause, proper planning should be sought to deal with them so they can be appropriately managed in times of crisis. This study aims to examine humanitarian supply chain models.

Design/methodology/approach

A new model is developed to pursue the necessary relations in an optimal way that will minimize human, financial and moral losses. In this developed model, in order to optimize the problem and minimize the amount of human and financial losses, the following subjects have been applied: magnitude of the areas in which an accident may occur as obtained by multiple attribute decision-making methods, the distances between relief centers, the number of available rescuers, the number of rescuers required and the risk level of each patient which is determined using previous data and machine learning (ML) algorithms.

Findings

For this purpose, a case study in the east of Tehran has been conducted. According to the results obtained from the algorithms, problem modeling and case study, the accuracy of the proposed model is evaluated very well.

Originality/value

Obtaining each injured person's priority using ML techniques and each area's importance or risk level, besides developing a bi-objective mathematical model and using multiple attribute decision-making methods, make this study unique among very few studies that concern ML in the humanitarian supply chain. Moreover, the findings validate the results and the model's functionality very well.
Improving some functional utility properties of garment using cross-linked acrylic fabrics
Authors: Seddik Khaled Mohamed , El-Gabry Lamiaa Khamal , Ali Marwa Atif
Published: February 2023

Purpose

This study aims to use hexanediol, pentaerythritol and keratin as crosslinking agents on the acrylic fabric used as garments.

Design/methodology/approach

Plain 1/1 acrylic fabric was produced with 14 and 11 weft yarn/cm using yarn count 28/2 Ne, then it was modified with different agents, and the effect of crosslinking on some of the inherent properties was determined. The color strength as well as washing fastness was evaluated. The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy determined the changes that acted in the structure of the treated acrylic fabrics. Several physical and functional utility characteristics were studied such as stiffness, crease recovery, tensile strength and elongation, pilling, air permeability, absorbency and static electricity.

Findings

Polyacrylonitrile is one of the man-made materials used in the textile field; despite novel characteristics, it has some negative properties, especially in absorbency and pilling, which are improved after treatment.

Originality/value

The results presented that the different conditions that were used with cross-linkers enhanced the acrylic fabrics properties. Where analysis of variance test at P-value 0.05 and radar chart area offered that the treated acrylic fabric with 5% (w/v) keratin accomplished the highest preferable properties for end use.
A review of the advanced treatment techniques for enriching the recycled concrete aggregates for recycled-based concrete: economic, environmental and technical analysis
Authors: Nikmehr Bahareh , Kafle Bidur , Al-Ameri Riyadh
Published: February 2023

Purpose

This study aimed to review various existing methods for improving the quality of recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs) as a possible substitution for natural aggregates (NAs) in concrete. It is vital as the old paste attached to the RCA weakens its structure. It is due to the porous structure of the RCA with cracks, weakening the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) between the RCA and binding material, negatively impacting the concrete's properties. To this end, various methods for reinforcement of the RCA, cleaning the RCA's old paste and enhancing the quality of the RCA-based concrete without RCA modification are studied in terms of environmental effects, cost and technical matters. Furthermore, this research sought to identify gaps in knowledge and future research directions.

Design/methodology/approach

The review of the relevant journal papers revealed that various methods exist for improving the properties of RCAs and RCA-based concrete. A decision matrix was developed and implemented for ranking these techniques based on environmental, economic and technical criteria.

Findings

The identified methods for reinforcement of the RCA include accelerated carbonation, bio deposition, soaking in polymer emulsions, soaking in waterproofing admixture, soaking in sodium silicate, soaking in nanoparticles and coating with geopolymer slurry. Moreover, cleaning the RCA's old paste is possible using acid, water, heating, thermal and mechanical treatment, thermo-mechanical and electro-dynamic treatment. Added to these treatment techniques, using RCA in saturated surface dry (SSD) mixing approaches and adding fibres or pozzolana enhance the quality of the RCA-based concrete without RCA modification. The study ranked these techniques based on environmental, economic and technical criteria. Ultimately, adding fibres, pozzolana and coating RCA with geopolymer slurry were introduced as the best techniques based on the nominated criteria.

Practical implications

The study supported the need for better knowledge regarding the existing treatment techniques for RCA improvement. The outcomes of this research offer an understanding of each RCA enrichment technique's importance in environmental, economic and technical criteria.

Originality/value

The practicality of the RCA treatment techniques is based on economic, environmental and technical specifications for rating the existing treatment techniques.
The integration of lean and human resource management practices as an enabler for lean deployment –a systematic literature review
Authors: Kaur Paposa Kamalpreet , Thakur Prachi , Antony Jiju , McDermott Olivia , Garza-Reyes Jose Arturo
Published: February 2023

Purpose

The current research aims to map and investigate how human resource management and lean practices can be integrated. This investigation will help identify the HRM aspects critical in the success of lean initiatives while exploring the research gaps in the existing literature. The review also aims to delineate the benefits and challenges of integrating lean with HRM systems to discuss further research and practice areas.

Design/methodology/approach

This study utilizes a systematic literature review method to identify and synthesize the existing literature. As part of the process, a protocol that provided a plan for the review was followed, including the research questions and the data to be extracted.

Findings

The study results indicate that aspects of HRM practice and policies such as training and development, teamwork, motivation, communication, leadership, are key enablers of lean initiative deployment and success. The benefits of the integration of human resources with lean can help in lean training and development, communication of lean initiatives and successes, allocating and hiring continuous improvement personnel, and supporting leadership in lean deployment. Challenges to integrating lean and HRM practices included lack of integration and collaboration between disciplines. Further exploration areas in successful lean deployment would be practical longitudinal case studies on lean deployments with human resource (HR) partnerships and involvement.

Practical implications

This review paper has crucial implications for practice relating to, integration of lean with HRM structures and tailoring HRM initiatives to ensure the success of lean deployment and reduce risks of failure.

Originality/value

The systematic literature review study conducted in this paper is the first of its kind to integrate and map the HRM concepts that can be integrated with Lean to deploy the initiative successfully. This mapping is critical for ensuring the success of lean methodologies within an organization and paves the way for future research. In addition, managers and organizations can find support and guidance from this study to focus on vital areas of partnership between their lean and HR programs.
Destination image: a consumer-based, big data-enabled approach
Authors: Zhong Lina , Morrison Alastair M. , Zheng Chengjun , Li Xiaonan
Published: February 2023

Purpose

This study aims to use a bottom-up, inductive approach to derive destination image attributes from large quantities of online consumer narratives and establish a destination classification system based on relationships among attributes and places.

Design/methodology/approach

Content and social network analyses were used to explore the consumer image structure for destinations based on online narratives. Cluster analysis was then used to group destinations by attributes, and ANOVA provided comparisons.

Findings

Twenty-two attributes were identified and combined into three groups (core, expected, latent). Destinations were classified into three clusters (comprehensive urban, scenic and lifestyle) based on their network centralities. Using data on Chinese tourism, the most mentioned (core) attributes were determined to be landscape, traffic within the destination, food and beverages and resource-based attractions. Social life was meaningful in consumer narratives but often overlooked by researchers.

Practical implications

Destinations should determine into which category they belong and then appeal to the real needs of tourists. Destination management organizations should provide the essential attributes while paying greater attention to highlighting the destinations’ social life atmosphere.

Originality/value

This research produced empirical work on Chinese tourism by combining a bottom-up, inductive research design with big data. It divided the 49 destinations into three categories and established a new system based on rich data to classify travel destinations.
Interannual dynamics of putative parasites (Syndiniales Group II) in a coastal ecosystem
Authors: Christaki Urania , Skouroliakou Dimitra‐Ioli , Jardillier Ludwig
Published: February 2023

Temporal dynamics of Syndiniales Group II were investigated combining 18S rDNA amplicon sequencing and direct microscopy counts (fluorescence in situ hybridization‐tyramide signal amplification [FISH‐TSA]) during 5 years. The study was undertaken in meso‐eutrophic coastal ecosystem, dominated by diatoms, the haptophyte Phaeocystis globosa and exhibiting relatively low dinoflagellate abundance (max. 18.6 × 103 cells L−1). Consistent temporal patterns of Syndiniales Group II were observed over consecutive years highlighting the existence of local populations. According to sequencing data, Syndiniales Group II showed increasing abundance and richness in summer and autumn. Dinospores counted by microscopy, were present at low abundances and were punctuated by transient peaks. In summer dinospore highest abundance (559 × 103 L−1) and prevalence (38.5%) coincided with the peak abundance of the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum (13 × 103 L−1) while in autumn Syndiniales Group II likely had more diversified hosts. Although, several peaks of dinospore and read abundances coincided, there was no consistent relation between them. Ecological assembly processes at a seasonal scale revealed that stochastic processes were the main drivers (80%) of the Group II community assembly, though deterministic processes were noticeable (20%) in June and July. This latter observation may reflect the specific Syndiniales—dinoflagellate interactions in summer.
Immediate versus delayed urinary catheter removal following non‐hysterectomy benign gynaecological laparoscopy: a randomised trial
Authors: McCormack Lalla , Song Sophia , Budden Aaron , Ma Christine , Nguyen Kimberly , Li Fiona G. , Lim Claire Y. , Maheux‐Lacroix Sarah , Arnold Amy , Deans Rebecca , Won Ha Ryun , Knapman Blake , Nesbitt‐Hawes Erin , Abbott Jason A.
Published: February 2023

Objective

To compare rates of urinary retention and postoperative urinary tract infection between women with immediate versus women with delayed removal of indwelling catheter following benign non‐hysterectomy gynaecological laparoscopic surgery.

Design

This randomised clinical trial was conducted between February 2012 and December 2019, with follow‐up to 6 weeks.

Setting

Two university‐affiliated teaching hospitals in Sydney, Australia.

Population

Study participants were 693 women aged 18 years or over, undergoing non‐hysterectomy laparoscopy for benign gynaecological conditions, excluding pelvic floor or concomitant bowel surgery.

Methods

Three hundred and fifty‐five participants were randomised to immediate removal of urinary catheter and 338 participants were randomised to delayed removal of urinary catheter.

Main outcome measures

The co‐primary outcomes were urinary retention and urinary tract infection. Secondary outcomes included hospital readmission, analgesia requirements, duration of hospitalisation and validated bladder function questionnaires.

Results

Urinary retention was higher after immediate compared with delayed removal of the urinary catheter (8.2% vs 4.2%, RR 1.8, 95% CI 1.0–3.0, p = 0.04). Although urinary tract infection was 7.2% following delayed removal of the urinary catheter and 4.7% following immediate removal of the urinary catheter, the difference was not statistically significant (RR 0.7, 95% CI 0.3–1.2, p = 0.2).

Conclusions

There is an increased risk of urinary retention with the immediate compared with the delayed removal of the urinary catheter following benign non‐hysterectomy gynaecological laparoscopic surgery. The difference in urinary tract infection was not significant. There is 1/12 risk of re‐catheterisation after immediate urinary catheter removal. It is important to ensure that patients report normal voiding and emptying prior to discharge, to reduce the need for readmission for the management of urinary retention.
Risk factors for late preterm and term stillbirth: A secondary analysis of an individual participant data meta‐analysis
Authors: Thompson Raille A. , Thompson John M. D. , Wilson Jessica , Cronin Robin S. , Mitchell Edwin A. , Raynes‐Greenow Camille H. , Li Minglan , Stacey Tomasina , Heazell Alexander E. P. , O‘Brien Louise M. , McCowan Lesley M. E. , Anderson Ngaire H.
Published: February 2023

Objective

Identify independent and novel risk factors for late‐preterm (28–36 weeks) and term (≥37 weeks) stillbirth and explore development of a risk‐prediction model.

Design

Secondary analysis of an Individual Participant Data (IPD) meta‐analysis investigating modifiable stillbirth risk factors.

Setting

An IPD database from five case–control studies in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and an international online study.

Population

Women with late‐stillbirth (cases, n = 851), and ongoing singleton pregnancies from 28 weeks’ gestation (controls, n = 2257).

Methods

Established and novel risk factors for late‐preterm and term stillbirth underwent univariable and multivariable logistic regression modelling with multiple sensitivity analyses. Variables included maternal age, body mass index (BMI), parity, mental health, cigarette smoking, second‐hand smoking, antenatal‐care utilisation, and detailed fetal movement and sleep variables.

Main outcome measures

Independent risk factors with adjusted odds ratios (aOR) for late‐preterm and term stillbirth.

Results

After model building, 575 late‐stillbirth cases and 1541 controls from three contributing case–control studies were included. Risk factor estimates from separate multivariable models of late‐preterm and term stillbirth were compared. As these were similar, the final model combined all late‐stillbirths. The single multivariable model confirmed established demographic risk factors, but additionally showed that fetal movement changes had both increased (decreased frequency) and reduced (hiccoughs, increasing strength, frequency or vigorous fetal movements) aOR of stillbirth. Poor antenatal‐care utilisation increased risk while more‐than‐adequate care was protective. The area‐under‐the‐curve was 0.84 (95% CI 0.82–0.86).

Conclusions

Similarities in risk factors for late‐preterm and term stillbirth suggest the same approach for risk‐assessment can be applied. Detailed fetal movement assessment and inclusion of antenatal‐care utilisation could be valuable in late‐stillbirth risk assessment.
Review article: Use of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure in the rating of emergency teams' non‐technical skills: A mapping review
Authors: Cooper Simon , Connell Clifford , Cant Robyn
Published: February 2023

The present study aims to explore the utility of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM) in relation to the enhancement of emergency team non‐technical skills based on research conducted over the last decade. In this mapping review, a citation mining process identified 22 primary studies for inclusion, published between 2012 and 2022. It provides outcome data on emergency teams' non‐technical skills following team training and/or real‐life patient emergencies. Emergency team studies related to resuscitation teams (adult, paediatric, newborn and obstetric cases) and medical emergency team (MET) management of patient deterioration. Team performance ratings varied, ranging from approximately 90% for experienced clinical teams down to 38% for students. Statistically significant improvements in performance were notable following training and/or repeated practice. Validity evidence, across 11 studies that provided change data described positive learning outcomes and moderate intervention effects. However, according to Kirkpatrick's model of educational evaluation the studies were limited to professional development phases of learning and immediate post‐training assessments rather than care quality improvement. The review highlights a lack of studies evidencing quality improvement or clinical impact such as change of patient care practice or health service performance. There is a need to conduct well‐designed studies that explore both technical and non‐technical skills of resuscitation teams and METs. Currently, non‐technical skills training and repeated performance evaluations using the TEAM contribute immensely to the proficiency of emergency teams.
What's in a name? talent: A review and research agenda
Authors: Vardi Sara , Collings David G.
Published: February 2023

There has a significant increase in the volume of research on the management of talent over recent decades; however, the question of what talent is remains under debate. How talent is understood and defined has significant implications for its management within organizations, yet these aspects are often overlooked in the extant literature. Through a review of 192 articles in the sub‐disciplines of talent management (sub‐stream of strategic human resource management), stars (human capital), and high potential (organizational behavior/‐psychology), we offer guidance for research on talent. Our findings suggest that the current research adopts an overly binary conceptualization of talent, as illustrated in five relevant dimensions: inclusive–exclusive, innate–acquired, transferable–context dependent, subject–object, and input–outcomes. We call for a more nuanced approach to the topic and build insights from paradox theory, encouraging a transition from “either/or” perspectives to “both/and” perspectives. Matching theory is identified as a useful lens to guide future research, and we offer suggestions for a more nuanced approach in practice by encouraging organizations and their stakeholders to embrace the paradoxes of talent.
Synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis syndrome with invisible organizing pneumonia: A case report
Authors: Kang Tianlun , Xi Yajing , Li Yingzi , Wei Shufeng , Hou Xiujuan , Li Chen
Published: February 2023

We report the case of a 59‐year‐old female patient, presenting with pustular rash on both hands and pain in the lumbosacral part and left lower limb. A magnetic resonance imaging examination of the left leg was undertaken and the result showed that a malignant lesion with bone destruction of the left femoral shaft could not be excluded. Subsequently, bone tumor was excluded by pathological examination. Lung computed tomography scan showed patchy consolidation and cord shadow in the middle left lung. Subsequently, lung cancer was excluded by pathological examination, and the histopathological changes of lung were consistent with those of organized pneumonia. Blood tests revealed elevated C‐reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Antinuclear antibody, rheumatoid factor, and human leukocyte antigen‐B27 were unremarkable. Whole body bone scintigraphy via technetium 99m‐methyl diphosphonate showed increased radionuclide uptake in the left middle femur. Based on her clinical manifestations, imaging results and bone scintigraphy, the patient was diagnosed as having synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome. Loxoprofen and Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F led to impressive clinical and radiologic improvement.
Beware the recurrent ‘benign’ multinodular goitre
Authors: Papachristos Alexander J. , Bin Mohamed Ebrahim Mohamed Eftal , Fuchs Talia L. , Gill Anthony J. , Delbridge Leigh , Serpell Jonathan , Sidhu Stan B.
Published: February 2023

Background

The diagnosis of follicular carcinoma is often difficult to make on pathological analysis, as the histological distinction from follicular adenoma rests solely on the presence of capsular or vascular invasion. Even on retrospective review of the histopathology after the disease biology has declared itself as malignant, the pathological diagnosis of malignancy may not be possible to make.

Methods

We report three cases in which patients were initially diagnosed with benign follicular lesions, but re‐presented with locally recurrent disease and a subsequent malignant disease course.

Results

We describe a rare entity of follicular thyroid carcinoma that demonstrates a locally recurrent and eventually metastatic disease phenotype, despite persistently benign pathological findings.

Conclusion

We highlight that if local recurrence occurs in discrete anatomical tissue planes, or in the thyroid bed following open total thyroidectomy for ‘benign multinodular goitre’, the possibility of this rare presentation of follicular thyroid carcinoma should be considered.
Comparison of the Liverpool Causality Assessment Tool vs. the Naranjo Scale for predicting the likelihood of an adverse drug reaction: A retrospective cohort study
Authors: Um Sung Ho , Abuzgaia Awatif , Rieder Michael
Published: February 2023

Aims

The aim of this study is to compare the Liverpool Causality Assessment Tool vs. Naranjo Scale for screening suspected adverse drug reaction (ADR) cases.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed patient charts with a history of suspected ADR, scored using both tools, and determined how each correlates with laboratory and other investigations. A total of 924 charts from the Clinical Pharmacology Clinic at the London Health Sciences Centre were reviewed, and 529 charts contained objective findings to support or against the diagnosis of ADR. The participant age ranged from 1 month to 93 years. We determined that the sensitivity (SN) and specificity (SP) of Liverpool and Naranjo tools for predicting ADRs with scores ranging from Possible to Definite were considered positive and Unlikely/Doubtful as negative for ADR. These results were confirmed by laboratory or clinical (re‐challenge) testing in 529 cases.

Results

Liverpool causality tool had SN of 97.2 ± 2.4% and SP of 2.3 ± 1.57%. The positive (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV) were 34.1 and 61.5%, respectively. The Naranjo Scale had SN of 81.2 ± 5.69% and SP of 13.2 ± 3.56%. PPV and NPV were 32.7 and 57.5%, respectively.

Conclusion

The Liverpool Causality Assessment Tool is a more sensitive tool than the Naranjo Scale in the assessment of possible ADRs, but both tools have poor SP. The Liverpool Tool can be a useful screening tool in settings where other tests may not be readily available. However, the low PPV and NPV of both tools suggest that to pursue further testing is needed to confirm or deny an ADR.
Self‐justification in decision‐making: Chinese child welfare workers' inconsistency of perceptions and experiences matters in reporting child abuse
Authors: Ling Chen , Yijie Fan , Yean Wang , Jun Huang
Published: February 2023

Mandatory reporting is the central measure for child protection. However, the common alternative strategy of avoidance that is practised by child welfare workers is little discussed. This study examines the influences of child welfare workers' inconsistent perceptions and experiences on reporting. Using China Social Work Longitudinal Study 2019, a total of 2 180 child welfare workers in the child and youth service field were selected. Multinomial logistic regression was used to examine the perceptions and experiences associated with reporting. Child welfare workers with a moderate perception of sexual abuse (OR = 1.442*), more experiences of emotional abuse cases (OR = 1.258*) and fewer experiences of sexual abuse cases (OR = 0.703*) had greater odds of reporting than not reporting, and those with a low or moderate perception of emotional abuse (OR = 3.027*; OR = 1.691*, respectively), a moderate perception of physical abuse (OR = 1.537*) and more experiences of neglect cases (OR = 1.345*) were more likely to avoid than to not report. Social work licensure plays a moderating role. The results indicate the importance of alternative strategies, perceptions and experiences in the assessment‐decision continuum of reporting. The inconsistent perceptions and experiences of child welfare workers contribute to self‐justification in decision‐making. Implications for practices and directions for future research are discussed.
Current opinions on DGF management practices: A survey of the United States and Canada
Authors: Jadlowiec Caroline C. , Hippen Benjamin , Gill John , Heilman Raymond , Stewart Darren , Reddy Kunam S. , Mohan Sumit , Wiseman Alex , Cooper Matthew
Published: February 2023

Introduction

Significant center‐to‐center variation in attitudes and management of delayed graft function (DGF) remains common.

Methods

A survey to describe current DGF practices was developed by workgroup members sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and was distributed to both the NKF DGF workgroup members, kidney transplant program directors and the transplant community within the United States and Canada. Seventy‐one percent of NKF workgroup members completed the survey along with 70 unique the United States and three Canadian kidney transplant programs. All Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) regions were represented.

Results

DGF was reported to occur at rate of 20%–40% for most centers with 3.9% indicating their incidence to be >60%. Most centers reported longer hospital lengths of stay and more frequent outpatient visits. Despite the commonality of DGF, only half of centers reported having an established protocol to manage DGF. Kidney allograft biopsies were the only consistent DGF management strategy observed, although use of machine perfusion was also heavily favored. Other DGF management strategies voiced by a minority included having established outpatient practices to care for DGF patients and administering outpatient community‐based hemodialysis.

Conclusion

Although approximately a third of survey responders indicated that risk of DGF played a role in their willingness to accept organs, most did not feel that increased cost or clinical impact on outcomes was a deterrent. Future strategies, including broader sharing of best practices, redefining terminology specific to DGF, the establishment of DGF dialysis guidelines and improving access to machine perfusion across OPOs may help reduce discard and improve utilization of kidneys at risk for DGF.
Performance of community‐based tank irrigation system and its determinants: Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India
Authors: Sathiyamoorthy Sarujan , Kajisa Kei , Sakurai Takeshi
Published: February 2023

Irrigation tanks are classic examples of common pool resources that have been traditionally managed by local communities. However, the tank performance under community management in Tamil Nadu has declined over the last few decades and threatened the local livelihoods. This study investigates the effect of community management on irrigation tank performance using village‐level two‐period data collected across 100 tank‐intensive villages in Tamil Nadu. To address the problems encountered in the subjective measures, this study adopts an objective assessment method using the satellite imageries of Landsat‐7 to derive tank performance measures. Satellite‐derived data are then incorporated with the field survey data and used in the analysis. The results show that community participation in tank management has a significant positive impact on tank performance, suggesting that strengthening traditional institutions in irrigation tank management can be a viable strategy for reviving tank irrigation systems.
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of selective interspecific information use
Authors: Hämäläinen Reetta , Kajanus Mira H. , Forsman Jukka T. , Kivelä Sami M. , Seppänen Janne‐Tuomas , Loukola Olli J.
Published: February 2023

Recent work has shown that animals frequently use social information from individuals of their own species as well as from other species; however, the ecological and evolutionary consequences of this social information use remain poorly understood. Additionally, information users may be selective in their social information use, deciding from whom and how to use information, but this has been overlooked in an interspecific context. In particular, the intentional decision to reject a behaviour observed via social information has received less attention, although recent work has indicated its presence in various taxa. Based on existing literature, we explore in which circumstances selective interspecific information use may lead to different ecological and coevolutionary outcomes between two species, such as explaining observed co‐occurrences of putative competitors. The initial ecological differences and the balance between the costs of competition and the benefits of social information use potentially determine whether selection may lead to trait divergence, convergence or coevolutionary arms race between two species. We propose that selective social information use, including adoption and rejection of behaviours, may have far‐reaching fitness consequences, potentially leading to community‐level eco‐evolutionary outcomes. We argue that these consequences of selective interspecific information use may be much more widespread than has thus far been considered.
Investigating the effects of weather on headache occurrence using a smartphone application and artificial intelligence: A retrospective observational cross‐sectional study
Authors: Katsuki Masahito , Tatsumoto Muneto , Kimoto Kazuhito , Iiyama Takashige , Tajima Masato , Munakata Tsuyoshi , Miyamoto Taihei , Shimazu Tomokazu
Published: February 2023

Objective

To investigate the relationship between weather and headache occurrence using big data from an electronic headache diary smartphone application with recent statistical and deep learning (DL)‐based methods.

Background

The relationship between weather and headache occurrence remains unknown.

Methods

From a database of 1 million users, data from 4375 users with 336,951 hourly headache events and weather data from December 2020 to November 2021 were analyzed. We developed statistical and DL‐based models to predict the number of hourly headache occurrences mainly from weather factors. Temporal validation was performed using data from December 2019 to November 2020. Apart from the user dataset used in this model development, the physician‐diagnosed headache prevalence was gathered.

Results

Of the 40,617 respondents, 15,127/40,617 (37.2%) users experienced physician‐diagnosed migraine, and 2458/40,617 (6.1%) users had physician‐diagnosed non‐migraine headaches. The mean (standard deviation) age of the 4375 filtered users was 34 (11.2) years, and 89.2% were female (3902/4375). Lower barometric pressure (p < 0.001, gain = 3.9), higher humidity (p < 0.001, gain = 7.1), more rainfall (p < 0.001, gain = 3.1), a significant decrease in barometric pressure 6 h before (p < 0.001, gain = 11.7), higher barometric pressure at 6:00 a.m. on the day (p < 0.001, gain = 4.6), lower barometric pressure on the next day (p < 0.001, gain = 6.7), and raw time‐series barometric type I (remaining low around headache attack, p < 0.001, gain = 10.1) and type II (decreasing around headache attack, p < 0.001, gain = 10.1) changes over 6 days, were significantly associated with headache occurrences in both the statistical and DL‐based models. For temporal validation, the root mean squared error (RMSE) was 13.4, and the determination coefficient (R2) was 52.9% for the statistical model. The RMSE was 10.2, and the R2 was 53.7% for the DL‐based model.

Conclusions

Using big data, we found that low barometric pressure, barometric pressure changes, higher humidity, and rainfall were associated with an increased number of headache occurrences.
Effects of ocean acidification on the early life history processes of the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea
Authors: Rickborn Alissa J. , Glidden Caroline K. , Menge Bruce A.
Published: February 2023

Ocean acidification (OA) is predicted to result in reduced survival, growth, reproduction, and overall biodiversity of marine invertebrates, and yet we lack information about the response to OA of some major groups of marine organisms. In particular, we know relatively little about how OA will impact temperate sponges, which will experience more extreme low pH conditions than tropical species. In this study, we quantified OA‐induced changes in early life history patterns (larval mortality and condition, settlement rate, recruit survival, and size) in the non‐calcifying breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea collected from a temperate intertidal site in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Sponge larvae were exposed to OA conditions for 15 days, and early life history patterns were observed. Compared with baseline (“present”) conditions, larval mortality and settlement rates increased in the acidified treatment (“future”). This effect was restricted to larval stages; treatment had no effect on the growth and survival of recruits. This study is significant in that it shows that H. panicea may be particularly vulnerable to changes in ocean pH during the larval stage, which could ultimately reduce total sponge abundance by diminishing the number of larvae that survive to settlement.