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Use of Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in China and Asia
Authors: Law Siukan , Xu Chuanshan , Leung Albert Wingnang 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss the use of Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China and Asia.Design/methodology/approachThis paper provides a brief overview of the COVID-19. Based on the syndrome differentiation (辨證論治), the concept of clearing heat and detoxifying lung in traditional Chinese medicine is used to prevent and treat COVID-19 through restoring the vital qi (正氣) in human body and regulating the lung as well as spleen to strengthen the immune system. Traditional Chinese medicine has been used as a complementary therapy for the possible intervention of COVID-19 including traditional Chinese herbal decoctions, Chinese traditional patent medicines, acupuncture and moxibustion as well as the traditional health exercises in China and parts of Asia.FindingsTraditional Chinese medicine plays a significant role in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 pandemic. The infection cases of China are around 80,000 and a steady decline compared with the USA which has 5,000,000 infection cases and continuous increases. It is shown that more than 90% of patients recovered after the treatment of traditional Chinese herbal decoctions and Chinese traditional patent medicines without any side-effect compared to the use of Remdesivir (GS-5734). Acupuncture (針灸) and moxibustion (艾灸) stimulate the immune and nervous systems for preventing infectious diseases. Taichi (太極) and Baduanjin (八段錦) as the auxiliary aerobic exercise under the theory of Chinese medicine can enhance the immune system and improve the lung function. Thus, an integration of traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine is the best strategy for the prevention, treatment and control of COVID-19 pandemic in the future.Originality/valueThis paper describes traditional Chinese medicine as an effective way for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
Food consumption values and the influence of physical activity
Authors: Thomé Karim Marini , Cappellesso Giselle , Pinho Guilherme Mata 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThis article aims to explore the influence of values concerning food consumption and the effect of physical activity habit moderation on these.Design/methodology/approachThe consumption value theory was used as a base, and a survey with 292 participants was analysed by means of factor analysis and structural equation modelling.FindingsThe findings are presented at three levels. The first is the clustering of food consumption habits in different dimensions: healthy, unhealthy and hybrid. The second is the relationship between values and food consumption. In detail: (1) emotional value is the only significant measurement for the consumption of the three food dimensions; (2) social value is a significant measurement for healthy food consumption; (3) conditional value is significant for the consumption of hybrid and unhealthy foods; (4) epistemic value has significance in the consumption of hybrid foods; (5) functional value is denied for all dimensions. The third concerns the relationship between value perceptions and food consumption moderated by physical activity in: (1) social value of healthy foods; (2) functional value of hybrid foods; and (3) emotional and epistemic values of unhealthy foods.Originality/valueThis paper adds to the literature on consumption values and raises new insights into value and habits regarding food consumption, such as physical activity involved in the consumption context.
The role of career competencies and proactive personality in early-career employee career adaptability
Authors: AlKhemeiri Ahmed Khamis , Khalid Khalizani , Musa Norwahida 
Published: October 2020

Purpose
Employees with high career competencies are more successful in career development. However, it is unclear whether proactivity matters for early-career employees. Thus, this study aims to investigate the influence of career competencies and proactive personality on career adaptability and the moderating role of proactive personality in this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach
This study adopts a quantitative methodology, collecting data through online questionnaires from respondents (n = 400) who had less than five years of work experience in the UAE. A measurement model and hypotheses testing were conducted using AMOS software. Multigroup structural equation modelling was used to test the moderation model.

Findings
The results show a direct relationship between career competencies and career adaptability. However, a proactive personality is insignificantly related to career adaptability. Further, early-career employees with low proactive personality benefit from high career competencies.

Originality/value
This study offers contributions to the emerging understanding of career construction by emphasising the important role of career competencies for early-career employees who manifest a low proactive personality.
Principals’ knowledge of school law in Kuwait: implications for professional development
Authors: Alazmi Ayeshah Ahmed 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine a principal's knowledge of school law in Kuwait. It further aims to examine the relationship between a principal's knowledge of school law and other variables.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed a quantitative research paradigm. Data for this study, collected via survey, were collected from a sample of 369 public school principals.FindingsUsing descriptive and inferential statistical methods, the findings indicated that school principals have only limited knowledge about the legal rights of teachers and students. Furthermore, the results revealed a significant difference in knowledge of school law relative to a principal's gender, school level, years of experience, knowledge source and the number of completed school law training courses.Practical implicationsThe implications for professional development programs which prepare all school leaders to serve the needs of students’ and teachers’ rights are included.Originality/valueStudies showed that there is a lack of research regarding a principal's legal knowledge in the Arab countries. As such, this study examined a school principal's knowledge of school law in Kuwait and discussed the associated implications for principal professional development programs.
Barriers in omnichannel retailing returns: a conceptual framework
Authors: de Borba Jorge Luiz Gayotto , Magalhães Mauricio Rodrigues de , Filgueiras Raquel Stefan , Bouzon Marina 
Published: October 2020

PurposePerforming retailing in a complete omnichannel manner is not a simple task, and it considerably increases the complexity of supply chain management operations. This paper aimed at identifying the barriers hindering efficient management of a return channel in this type of retail.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review procedure was used, including descriptive and content analysis of results. The review was performed using four academic databases. Applicable barriers were categorized thematically, a conceptual framework was proposed and future research avenues were drawn.FindingsThe contribution of this paper comprises a theoretical description of reverse logistics applied to omnichannel retail, the identification of the return barriers in omnichannel and a conceptual framework for a holistic view of the problem. In all, 43 barriers were identified including high investments, product restocking, additional transportation costs and poor communication.Research limitations/implicationsThe link between reverse logistics and omnichannel area is recent and publications are still scarce, so the newness of this study limits the opportunity for further deepening or more robust validation of the results.Practical implicationsThe results offered may be used by managers in the areas of retail and supply chain management in general in order to reduce the natural complexity in omnichannel environment.Originality/valueRegarding previous literature on omnichannel retail, only a few works consider the after-sales stage. This work intended to pave the way in this poorly explored intersection (reverse logistics and omnichannel) by presenting a conceptual framework to classify various barriers in omnichannel retail return.
Improving the effectiveness of social media-based crowdsourcing innovations: roles of assurance mechanism and innovator's behaviour
Authors: Yang Yefei , Dong Ciwei , Yao Xin , Lee Peter K.C. , Cheng T.C.E. 
Published: October 2020

PurposeWith the development of social media and Internet technology, many firms have started to use various crowdsourcing innovation platforms to operate their open innovation business modes. The purpose of this study is to explore how such platforms' assurance mechanisms enhance the effectiveness of crowdsourcing innovations and how to apply assurance mechanisms to handle different innovation tasks, thereby motivating more seekers to use crowdsourcing innovations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use a Python-based technology to collect the research data comprising 2,302 solvers and 8,390 trade records from zbj.com and apply statistical methods to test the postulated hypotheses.FindingsThe effectiveness of assurance mechanism is confirmed by its positive relationship with solver's behaviour, thereby improving seeker's retention behaviour. However, task complexity, task novelty and task professionalization have different moderating effects on the relationships among assurance mechanism, solver's (innovator's) behaviour and seeker's behaviour.Research limitations/implicationsThis study enriches the literature on crowdsourcing innovations and extends the application of uncertainty reduction theory to innovation research. It also makes the theoretical contribution that the assurance mechanism adopted by the platform has different impacts on user's behaviour depending on the task characteristics.Practical implicationsThe findings provide guidance to the platform operator on how to design the assurance mechanism to match the innovation task and innovator's behaviour to reduce seeker's uncertainty, thereby facilitating the seeker's decision-making.Originality/valueA particular value of this study lies in exploring the impact of the platform assurance mechanism of social media-based crowdsourcing innovations on innovator's behaviour, which may further improve seeker's behaviour, based on uncertainty reduction theory.
Impact of higher education imparted by Indian universities on the pro-sustainability orientation of students
Authors: Dasgupta Hirak , Pawar Sanjay Krishnapratap 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to test a model on pro-sustainability orientation (PSO) among the students and comparison of the levels of PSO among the first-year and the second-year MBA/PGDM students studying in Indian higher education institutions.Design/methodology/approachThe study comprised of quantitative analysis of PSO through a questionnaire that was distributed among MBA/PGDM students of four prominent higher education institutions in the state of Maharashtra. A total of 425 students responded to the survey. The items of this instrument included actions such as reuse, recycling, energy, conservation and so on. Likert scale was used to measure the dimensions and structural equation modelling was applied to test the PSO model.FindingsThe study revealed significant difference in the PSO among male and female students with respect to equity dimension and significant differences among the first- and second-year MBA students with respect to pro-environmental deliberations. A significant difference was found among the four institutions with respect to the pro-environmental deliberations, altruistic behaviour and affinity towards diversity. The study showed positive influence of PSO over SB. The study revealed that the students enrolled in MBA/PGDM showed positive attitude towards SD and the environment.Practical implicationsThere has been a dearth of studies conducted on PSO of students enrolled in Indian higher education. This study is an attempt to show the impact of the Indian higher education on the pro-sustainable lifestyles among the students of MBA/PGDM that can provide valuable insights for the millennials of the emerging economies.Originality/valueThis study is an attempt to depict the role played by the Indian higher education institutions in the development of PSO among the students of MBA/PGDM. In order to promote sustainable development within one’s society, one needs to educate future leaders about the importance of sustainability.
In-field training in the police: Learning in an ethical grey area?
Authors: Hoel Linda , Christensen Erik 
Published: October 2020

Purpose
Although workplace learning is an important part of professional learning, little is known about the unethical aspects of workplace learning. This study aims to describe students’ learning experiences from in-field training in the police. This paper aims to examine how workplace learning can challenge proper ethical professional development and thus become a question of ethical concern.

Design/methodology/approach
The study is based on open-ended questions in a questionnaire among Norwegian police students (N = 277) who had ended their one year’s in-field training and had returned to campus for the third and final year of police education. The data are analysed by means of a qualitative content analysis.

Findings
The paper presents two findings. First, the students learn best from assignments that push them beyond their comfort zone. Second, students struggle with their own expectations of themselves as police officers. The findings suggest that workplace learning leaves students aspiring to demonstrate their capability to be a police officer, rather than focusing on learning to be a police officer.

Practical implications
The study can provide organisations such as educations, public services and businesses with better understanding on how to enrich learning in their on-the-job training manuals and programmes to evolve ethical professional behaviour. Ethical considerations can help leadership to improve efficiency and performance at the workplace.

Originality/value
How the potentially unethical aspects of workplace learning can influence the profession’s ethical attitude is an understudied topic in studies on learning to become a professional.
Primary sources, simulations and peanut butter and jelly
Authors: Chapman Melissa A. , Gomez Miguel 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThis paper seeks to provide instructional methods for using simulations to teach primary and secondary sources within a social studies classroom. Classroom simulations provide students with authentic opportunities to engage in meaningful learning experiences that are both hands-on in nature and promote the use of critical thinking.Design/methodology/approachThis paper opted to describe an approach to teach students about primary and secondary sources through a classroom simulation. Step-by-step instruction was provided via an included table, so that readers can recreate the lesson in their own classrooms.FindingsThis paper offers insights about how simulations can be used to provide students an authentic experience with primary and secondary sources. These experiences include opportunities to critically think about the benefits and limitations that both primary and secondary sources offer students while engaging in historical inquiry.Practical implicationsThis paper is designed for teachers to utilize and replicate in their own social studies classrooms.Originality/valueThis paper recognizes the important role that primary and secondary sources have in the social studies classroom. Through an original approach, using simulations, the authors present a unique perspective on how to teach about primary and secondary sources in a manner that supports historical inquiry.
Abortion and Black Women's Health Networks in South Carolina, 1940–70
Authors: Ware Madeleine , Delay Cara , Sundstrom Beth 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThis article investigates criminal abortions in South Carolina from 1940 to 1970. This research reveals an increased regulation of Black women's bodies and heightened reporting on Black women's criminal offenses, especially abortion, from the 1940s through the 1960s. It also, however, demonstrates the intergenerational persistence of Black women's communally driven health practices, including abortion. It reveals Black women's understandings of the essential links between the past and the present: not only the persistent legacies of reproductive repression at the hands of medical and state authorities, but also women's connections with their enslaved ancestors, whose healthcare practices survived and even flourished through the mid‐twentieth century in some areas.
The long‐term effect of prenatal progesterone treatment on child development, behaviour and health: a systematic review
Authors: Simons NE , Leeuw M , van’t Hooft J , Limpens J , Roseboom TJ , Oudijk MA , Pajkrt E , Finken MJJ , Painter RC 
Published: October 2020

BackgroundProgesterone is widely used in prenatal care. However, long‐term effects of prenatal progesterone treatment on child development are unclear.ObjectivesTo evaluate long‐term outcomes in children after prenatal progesterone treatment.Search strategyMEDLINE, Embase and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from inception to 24 May 2020.Selection criteriaRandomised controlled trials (RCTs) reporting outcomes in children born to women who received progesterone treatment (compared with placebo or another intervention) during any trimester in pregnancy.Data collection and analysisTwo authors independently selected and extracted data. We used the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool for randomised trials and Quality In Prognosis Studies.Main resultsOf 388 papers, we included seven articles based on five RCTs, comprising 4222 measurements of children aged 6 months to 8 years. All studies compared progesterone to placebo in second and/or third trimester for the prevention of preterm birth. Meta‐analysis (two studies,n = 890 children) showed no difference in neurodevelopment as assessed by the Bayley‐III Cognitive Composite score at 2 years between children exposed to progesterone versus placebo (Standardised Mean Difference −0.04, 95% Confidence Interval −0.26 to 0.19),I2 = 22%. Heterogeneity prohibited additional meta‐analyses. Other long‐term outcomes showed no differences.ConclusionsOur systematic review comprising a multitude of developmental measurements with a broad age range did not find evidence of benefit or harm in offspring prenatally exposed to progesterone treatment for the prevention of preterm birth. We identified an urgent need for follow‐up studies of prenatal progesterone administration in early pregnancy and effects in offspring beyond early childhood.Tweetable abstractProgesterone to prevent preterm birth: no effect on child development. Outcomes after first trimester progesterone are unclear.
Dynamics of epigenetic modifications in ICSI embryos from in vitro‐produced spermatozoa
Authors: Oblette Antoine , Rives‐Feraille Aurélie , Dumont Ludovic , Delessard Marion , Saulnier Justine , Rives Nathalie , Rondanino Christine 
Published: October 2020

AbstractBackgroundIn prepubertal boys with cancer, fertility preservation relies on testicular tissue freezing before treatment. In vitro maturation of frozen/thawed tissues could be one of the procedures envisaged to restore the fertility of cured patients. It is necessary to ascertain in the mouse model that in vitro‐generated spermatozoa are able to ensure embryo development, without altering the epigenetic processes occurring during the pre‐implantation period.ObjectivesThe aims of the present study were to investigate the fertilizing ability of in vitro‐produced spermatozoa and explore several epigenetic marks at different stages of embryo development.Materials and methodsFresh or controlled slow‐frozen (CSF)/thawed testicular tissues from 6 to 7 days post‐partum (dpp) mice were cultured for 30 days. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) experiments were performed using in vitro‐produced spermatozoa. Testicular spermatozoa from 36 to 37 dpp mice were used as in vivo controls. DNA methylation/hydroxymethylation and histone post‐translational modifications (H3K4me3, H3K27me3 and H3K9ac) were analysed by immunofluorescence from the zygote to the blastocyst stages.ResultsThe spermatozoa generated in cultures of fresh or CSF testicular tissues were able to initiate embryonic development. The freezing of prepubertal testicular tissues limits the production of spermatozoa in vitro and the fertilization rate after ICSI. Similar levels of H3K4me3, H3K27me3 and H3K9ac were found in ICSI embryos derived from in vitro‐ and in vivo‐produced spermatozoa. DNA methylation levels were increased in 4‐cell embryos and morula obtained by ICSI with in vitro‐produced spermatozoa.Discussion and conclusionOur study shows for the first time that the use of in vitro‐produced spermatozoa alters DNA methylation/demethylation dynamics but has little impact on H3K4me3, H3K27me3 and H3K9ac levels in mouse early embryos. Further work will have to be performed to determine whether the use of these gametes is not deleterious for embryo development before considering a human application.
Paradigms and parallels: A commentary on the transformation of the self East and West
Authors: Tasman Allan 
Published: October 2020

AbstractWays of gaining enhanced self understanding have developed in every culture. A modern way of referring to this understanding is insight, defined as the individual's understanding of associations between past and present, typical relationship patterns and their vicissitudes, emotional experiences, and psychological symptoms. This paper explores the similarities and differences among the approaches developed in Europe, the United States, and Asia. An example of evolving changes in psychoanalytic theory and practice in the United States, embodied in the body of work called “self psychology” is described as an illustration of how “western” approaches may be incorporating wisdom from “eastern” practice.
Multiperson interaction recognition in images: A body keypoint based feature image analysis
Authors: Verma Amit , Meenpal Toshanlal , Acharya Bibhudendra 
Published: October 2020

AbstractMost interaction recognition approaches have been limited to single‐person action classification in videos. However, for still images where motion information is not available, the task becomes more complex. Aiming to this point, we propose an approach for multiperson human interaction recognition in images with keypoint‐based feature image analysis. Proposed method is a three‐stage framework. In the first stage, we propose feature‐based neural network (FCNN) for action recognition trained with feature images. Feature images are body features, that is, effective distances between a set of body part pairs and angular relation between body part triplets, rearranged in 2D gray‐scale image to learn effective representation of complex actions. In the later stage, we propose a voting‐based method for direction encoding to anticipate probable motion in steady images. Finally, our multiperson interaction recognition algorithm identifies which human pairs are interacting with each other using an interaction parameter. We evaluate our approach on two real‐world data sets, that is, UT‐interaction and SBU kinect interaction. The empirical experiments show that results are better than the state‐of‐the‐art methods with recognition accuracy of 95.83% on UT‐I set 1, 92.5% on UT‐I set 2, and 94.28% on SBU clean data set.