bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Perceived learning opportunities, behavioral intentions and employee retention in technology organizations
Authors: Steil Andrea Valéria , de Cuffa Denise , Iwaya Gabriel Horn , Pacheco Roberto Carlos dos Santos 
Published: February 2020

Purpose
This study aims to identify the relation between perceived learning opportunities, behavioral intentions to voluntarily stay or leave technology organizations and employee retention within these organizations.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a survey of 440 employees of a technology organization.

Findings
Learning opportunities perceived by managers and technicians presented significant positive correlations with the intention to stay and significant negative correlations with the intention to leave the organization. No relation was identified between perceived learning opportunities and manager retention. Among technicians, the correlation between perceived learning opportunities and retention was near zero.

Practical implications
If the organization wants to guarantee the intention of professionals to stay in the organization, the “perceived learning opportunities” indicator should have a similar level of importance as other objective indicators, such as performance and achievement.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to identify relations between perceived learning opportunities and behavioral intention to stay and leave of professionals that work in technology organizations.
Developing innovation pedagogy approach
Authors: Konst (e. Penttilä) Taru , Kairisto-Mertanen Liisa 
Published: February 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of a pedagogical strategy called innovation pedagogy and examine how it has been and will be developed. The paper is an overview of the latest development of the innovation pedagogy approach. It provides a discussion of the changes in innovation pedagogy and, more generally, in higher education, including the changes in educational aims and involving a sustainable future as the priority in all education.

Design/methodology/approach
The research methodology is based on action research, participatory observation and on the experiences of the authors of the development process, which has taken place in one Finnish university of applied sciences during the past decade.

Findings
The implementation of innovation pedagogy requires time, participation of the whole educational community and management commitment. The study describes the results of the development work and states that the educational goals require consideration of values, processes and structures.

Research limitations/implications
Because of the case study setting and a specific cultural context, there are limitations to the generalizability of the findings.

Originality/value
Focusing on the development of the concept of innovation pedagogy helps to understand how education development takes place gradually and how it can simultaneously aim to respond to the demands of a sustainable future. This study extends approaches on research in education and innovation pedagogy.
Significant learning experiences and implied students
Authors: Starr-Glass David 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThis paper reflects on and seeks to reconcile and to consolidate two bodies of literature. The first deals with course design in higher education, particularly with efforts to create significant learning experiences. The second body of literature, which is considerably less well-known, considers the implied student – the intended or preconceived student for whom these learning experiences are created. Significant learning experiences are created by instructors for students, not for themselves. Thus, a critical condition for success in course design is to examine and interrogate the implied student that instructors had in mind and to reconcile those preconceived notions with the actual students who populate the learning space.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a critical reflection on the literature and the author’s experience in designing college level business and economics courses and in attempting to create significant learning experiences in those courses. The study reflects on practice, reviews the relevant literature, and is speculative in nature. It is not empirically based and may well have limited generalizability. However, it is hoped that this paper will promote further exploration of the implied student construct and will lead to further research into the misalignment of expectations and outcomes between implied students and actual students.FindingsThe paper contends that there is inevitably a gap – for both the instructor and the learner – between the expectations and outcomes that are anticipated for implied students and realized by actual students. It suggests that recognition of this gap is a critical element in designing significant learning experiences for actual learners. The paper further suggests that success in creating these experiences is improved through reconsidering the implied student stereotype, engaging with actual students and instructor-led communication of the implicit goals and outcomes of the course.Originality/valueStudents are best served if they engage in learning spaces thoughtfully centered on significant learning experiences. However, learning environments are often constructed around envisaged students who are defined by the learning expectations, pedagogic philosophies and ideological biases of the instructor. This paper provides value by encouraging instructors to explore their preconceptions of the implied student and creating and facilitating learning environments that recognize, appreciate and respond to the actual students who will populate them. Further, the paper highlights “the implied student,” which has gained considerable traction in Nordic countries but only limited attention in the USA and UK.
Education futures: balancing the familiar and the unknown
Authors: Prince Katherine 
Published: February 2020

Purpose
This paper reflects on the author’s experience of an education foundation’s developing a robust and nationally recognized futures studies practice over a period of 14 years. In so doing, this paper aims to inform other futures studies practitioners about the kinds of considerations that can be encountered, and which must be managed, in starting, developing and maintaining a futures studies practice.

Design/methodology/approach
Organized around KnowledgeWorks’ triennial forecasts on the future of learning, the paper takes a narrative approach to describe the organization’s and the author’s future studies journeys, examining ways in which organizational learning and dynamics, as well as audience reception, affected the relative success of the study.

Findings
The paper begins by describing KnowledgeWorks’ excitement when publishing its first forecast on the future of education as a client of the institute for the future put KnowledgeWorks on the national map. It goes on to examine the organization’s capacity development in learning how to engage education audiences in exploring the future of learning, situating the study in the field of futures studies and developing internal capacity and thought leadership in the field. The paper concludes by reflecting on key aspects of KnowledgeWorks’ organizational learning; the organization’s leadership, moment and culture; and the author’s professional development journey.

Originality/value
The paper will help other future studies practitioners, along with organizations interested in considering investing in futures studies, anticipate considerations that could help them strengthen their practice or set up their organizational investment for success.
Characteristics of auditors’ non-audit services and accruals quality in Malaysia
Authors: Effiezal Aswadi Abdul Wahab , Nik Abdul Majid Wan Zurina , Harymawan Iman , Agustia Dian 
Published: February 2020

Purpose
The purchase of non-audit services from incumbent auditors has generated considerable attention. This study aims to examine the relationship between characteristics of non-audit services, namely, the recurrence and types of services, and accruals quality in Malaysia.

Design/methodology/approach
This study analyzed hand-collected audit and non-audit fees of 1,117 observations from Malaysian firms from 2009 to 2011. This study used descriptive analysis, univariate tests and multivariate regression to investigate the potential effect of non-audit services on accruals quality.

Findings
Non-audit services are associated with lower accruals quality. Recurring and non-recurring non-audit service fees are detrimental to the quality of accruals, as are all types of recurring non-audit services. Only non-recurring audit-related services decrease accruals quality. The results demonstrate that provisions of non-audit services create economic bonding, and thus a threat to auditor independence. Results remain robust with the inclusion of corporate governance and institutional variables.

Research limitations/implications
The sample period might represent a limitation as it only covers three years of data. This limitation is mainly because of the nature of data collection of the non-audit services fees.

Practical implications
The findings could suggest a refinement on the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) by-laws focusing on auditor independence, and it could assist other regulative bodies such as the Securities Commission, the stock exchange (Bursa Malaysia) in ensuring better governance on the provision of non-audit services.

Originality/value
This study is the first that provides evidence on the relationship between non-audit services, types, and recurring and non-recurring non-audit services and accruals quality in Malaysia.
Facades of morality: the role of moral disengagement in green buying behaviour
Authors: Sharma Nitika , Lal Madan 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThis study aims to presents the article regarding the influential role of moral inefficacy and moral disengagement to address green intention and behaviour gap among consumers, and how they attain self-exoneration because of the moral dilemma if any exist.Design/methodology/approachThe present study is based on semi-structured interviews, using constructivist grounded theory, which offers a platform to investigate, explore and discover psychosocial mechanism that operates among the consumers regarding the dimension of morality and green practices. In-depth exhaustive dialogues with Indian green consumers are set up to stimulate dialogue on the study.FindingsFindings of the study shed light on the moral dilemma arising from internal and external inefficacy of consumers and disengagement of morality to save consumers from self-condemnation. Also, the study proffers the potential conceptual framework of moral inefficacy, moral disengagement and green buying behaviour of consumers. Eventually, the study mapped the morality matrix to explore the consequents of moral inefficacy and moral disengagement.Research limitations/implicationsThe idiographic nature of qualitative research, particularly grounded theory may be considered as a research limitation as it follows limited generalizability. Moreover, the present research work is exploratory in nature and depends on the candour of researchers’ reactivity and understanding.Practical implicationsThe study subjectively concludes the green behaviour of consumers and discusses the rationality behind green intentions and behaviour gap. Marketers can strategize consumer morality as an approach to enhance green buying behaviour of consumers by removing moral inefficacies and disengagements.Social implicationsIt is crucial for marketers and society to understand the reasons behind non-green consumerism and accordingly cope up with the situation.Originality/valueThe study has been designed in a way to discuss the philosophy of morality and psychology of consumers on green consumption. To elicit the crux and conceptualization of morality and green purchasing framework using constructivist grounded theory is the exclusivity of this study. This paper explores green consumption pattern using moral orientation and processes in detail.
Teaching Rationality—Sustained Shared Thinking as a Means for Learning to Navigate the Space of Reasons
Authors: Hildebrandt Frauke , Musholt Kristina 
Published: February 2020

AbstractHuman thought can be characterised as being situated in the ‘space of reasons’. That is to say that human thought is guided by the norms of theoretical and practical rationality which, in turn, enable autonomous thinking. But how do children learn to navigate the space of reasons? Building on the work of Tugendhat and Bakhurst, among others, we argue, first, that this process involves the acquisition of propositional thought and that it is an essentially social one in which both children and adults take an active role. Second, and more specifically, by drawing on Brandom's theory of meaning, we provide a philosophical analysis of empirical findings with respect to the efficacy of ‘Sustained Shared Thinking’ (SST) in early educational settings. We argue that the efficacy of SST is based on its emphasising, modelling and practising those elements of communication that are essential for gaining proficiency in ‘playing the game of giving and asking for reasons’, namely drawing inferences between propositions and concepts and providing justifications for one's assertions. This is achieved by making explicit the inferential relationships between concepts and propositions and by the use of modal and doxastic markers that function as an invitation to a joint search for reasons.
Characterization of proteases activities in Ficus carica cultivars
Authors: Nishimura Kosaku , Higashiya Keisuke , Ueshima Naoki , Abe Tatsuya , Yasukawa Kiyoshi 
Published: February 2020

AbstractIn this study, we characterized protease activities of 23 Ficus carica cultivars. Extracts of fruit, branch, and leaf of Masui Dauphine, one of the most representative F. carica cultivars in Japan, exhibited gelatin‐hydrolyzing activity, both in the absence and presence of a cysteine protease‐specific inhibitor, E‐64, suggesting that not only ficin (classified as cysteine protease) but also collagenase (classified as serine protease) were involved in the digestion of gelatin. In the hydrolysis of (7‐methoxycoumarin‐4‐yl)acetyl‐l‐Lys‐l‐Pro‐l‐Leu‐Gly‐l‐Leu‐[N3‐(2,4‐dinitrophenyl)‐l‐2,3‐diaminopropionyl]‐l‐Ala‐l‐Arg‐NH2, all branch extracts of 23 F. carica cultivars exhibited the activity both in the absence and presence of cysteine protease‐specific inhibitor E‐64, indicating that they contain ficin and collagenase. During digestion of acid‐solubilized type I collagen by the branch extract of Masui Dauphine at 40–55 °C, collagen was completely digested in the absence of E‐64, while it was partially digested in the presence of the inhibitor, indicating that the manner of digestion differed between ficin and collagenase contained in the extract. These results suggest that F. carica is attractive for industrial use to digest collagen.Practical ApplicationThe industrial use of F. carica might be enhanced by efficiently utilizing these proteases and/or selecting the appropriate F. carica cultivar. Collagen is one of the targets to which our results might be applied. It is widely accepted today that collagen and its digestion products could be useful as functional food. F. carica is a potential candidate for use in not only complete but also partial digestion of collagen.
The Environment Significance of Aerinite — First Discovered in the UBC Cliffs
Authors: WANG Guanyu , WANG Hejing 
Published: February 2020

AbstractTo analyze the composition and structure of the pale blue outcrop from the UBC Cliffs and research the environmental significance of aerinite recorded in the sediments, mineral composition, bulk chemical composition and structural analyses were carried out by means of X‐ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) and X‐ray fluorescence spectra (XRF). Quartz, feldspar, mica, chlorite and aerinite as well as a small amount of amphibole, calcite, clinopyroxene, rutile, perovskite and apatite are recorded in the sediments. It is reported for the first time that the aerinite occurs in a high latitude area and in sediments paragenetic with mica and chlorite. The large span in grain size shows a typical characteristic of fluvioglacial sediments. Geochemistry characteristics (CIA, CIW, PIA, WIP and ICV) verify that there is virtually no chemical weathering. Mineralogy and geochemistry features of the UBC Cliffs sediments indicate that aerinite is accommodate to the high latitude and cold, dry climate. As the sediments show high similarity to those of their provenance, they have great significance in the identification of the forming condition and origin of the aerinite.
Environment and Age of the Upper Devonian–Carboniferous Zhulumute and Hongguleleng Formations, Junggar Basin, NW China: Ichnological and Palynological Aspects
Authors: STACHACZ Michał , KONDAS Marcelina , FILIPIAK Paweł , MA Xueping 
Published: February 2020

AbstractTwo Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous sections, namely the Bulongguoer and Haer (Gennaren area) in the Junggar Basin, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, in northwestern China were examined with regard to ichnology and palynology. The deposits of the Hongguleleng Formation and Namu Member of the Heishantou Formation, respectively, are mostly unbioturbated or poorly bioturbated, with poorly diversified trace fossils, which indicate unfavourable conditions for the burrowing benthic community during the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous. The main factor governing the growth of the bioturbating population was the rapid sedimentation of fine‐grained, volcanic material documented as tempestites, which buried the benthic fauna. In the Bulongguoer section, the presence of miospores Teichertospora torquata and Grandispora gracilis enabled identification of the broad Teichertospora torquata‐Grandispora gracilis Miospore Zone from the transitional Frasnian/Famennian interval. More accurate identification of palynostratigraphical levels (DE and CZ Miospore zones) is only tentative. On the basis of palynofacies analysis, samples from the lower Bulongguoer section indicate deposition in more proximal conditions, whereas samples from the top of the section indicate deposition in a more distal environment. In the Haer section, only a general biostratigraphic indication for the Tournaisian was possible, owing to poor preservation of organic matter.
Comparison of the incidence of viruses within germplasm, orchards and wild cherry trees in the Czech Republic
Authors: Přibylová Jaroslava , Lenz Ondřej , Fránová Jana , Koloniuk Igor , Špak Josef 
Published: February 2020

AbstractA survey targeting 19 viruses infecting sweet and sour cherry trees worldwide was conducted in germplasm, orchards and wild trees in the Czech Republic during 2014–2015. A total of 184 trees were screened (77 trees from a germplasm collection and 107 trees at 21 different localities in the South Bohemian region) using reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction and sequencing. The following 10 viruses were detected: apple chlorotic leaf spot virus (ACLSV), apple mosaic virus (ApMV), cherry green ring mottle virus (CGRMV), cherry leaf roll virus (CLRV), cherry necrotic rusty mottle virus (CNRMV), cherry virus A (CVA), little cherry virus 1 (LChV‐1), little cherry virus 2 (LChV‐2), prune dwarf virus (PDV) and prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV). ApMV and LChV‐2 were detected in the Czech Republic for the first time. CGRMV and CNRMV were found only in imported trees within the germplasm collection. CVA, CLRV and PNRSV were the most frequently identified viruses in the germplasm collection, and PNRSV and PDV were the most abundant in orchards and wild trees. Of the 108 symptomatic trees, 68 were infected with one or more of the 19 viruses tested. On the other hand, 45 of the 76 samples from trees with no obvious symptoms were infected at the time of collection. Moreover, we did not find any significant association between symptom manifestation and detected virus presence. Next‐generation sequencing of six selected samples yielded major genome portions (71.7–99.9%) of ACLSV, CGRMV, CLRV, CNRMV, CVA, LChV‐1, LChV‐2, PDV and PNRSV, which were deposited in GenBank. In addition, we obtained the first complete coding sequences of a European PNRSV isolate (CZ‐Cig).
Equity and Political Economy in Thomas Hobbes
Authors: Ward Lee 
Published: February 2020

AbstractThomas Hobbes is often viewed as a seminal figure in the development of the homo economicus philosophical anthropology central to the acquisitive, bourgeois morality of liberal modernity. The present study challenges this interpretation of Hobbes as an antecedent to free market ideology by arguing that his political economy presupposed a complex relation between contract, law, and social networks of credit informed by prudence and robust norms of equity. The normative claims of equity permeate Hobbes's holistic account of political economy and inform his vision of liberal statecraft that gave priority to prudential judgment against economic determinism, especially as Hobbes understood trade, taxation, allocation of resources, and the provision of social welfare. I will conclude by reflecting upon how Hobbes's political economy both reveals the internal diversity within the liberal intellectual tradition and can help us to better understand and critique contemporary liberal states and democratic theory.
The effects of proton pump inhibitors on the microbiome in young children
Authors: Levy Elvira I. , Hoang Delphine M. , Vandenplas Yvan 
Published: February 2020

AbstractAimThe use of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) treatments are increasing among paediatric patients worldwide. We aimed to review the effects of PPIs on the microbiome and its associated effect on the gastrointestinal, respiratory and metabolic systems. The role of probiotics is discussed.MethodsWe searched for relevant articles published in English language in PubMed and Google Scholar. Articles were extracted using subject heading and key words of interest to the topic.ResultsThere is evidence that PPIs modify the microbiome of the mouth, gut and lungs. The specific adverse effects associated with PPIs were necrotising enterocolitis, late onset sepsis in premature infants, Clostridium difficile infection, asthma, obesity and small intestine bacterial overgrowth in young children. Studies on the use of probiotics to counteract adverse effects of PPIs were limited.ConclusionPPIs create dysbiosis of the microbiome in the mouth, gut and lungs in the paediatric population. Probiotics could restore dysbiosis but it has very poorly been studied if probiotics can counteract or prevent PPI induced adverse effects.