bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Drivers of managers’ affect (emotions) and corporate website usage: a comparative analysis between a developed and developing country
Authors: Thakur Ramendra , AlSaleh Dhoha 
Published: October 2020

Purpose
Existing literature reveals a general lack of research on business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce showcasing how managers’ affect plays a role in enhancing their attitude toward the businesses they work with. The purpose of this study is to fill that void by ascertaining whether managers’ corporate website knowledge, corporate website expertise and affect toward a corporate site influence their attitude toward the corporate website. It also investigates whether managers’ attitude guides corporate website usage intention in the context of two culturally diverse countries.

Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected from managers from the USA and Kuwait using an online survey method. Structural equation modeling using EQS 6.2 software was used for analysis.

Findings
The results indicate that corporate Web knowledge influences Web expertise and affect in the US sample; in the Kuwaiti sample, Web knowledge influences Web expertise but does not influence affect. The findings in both studies reveal that managers’ knowledge about the Web has a positive effect on their attitude toward a business website. For Kuwaiti managers, Web expertise has a positive influence on affect. However, Web expertise does not influence managers’ affect in the US sample. The results further suggest that affect influences a manager’s attitude toward corporate websites in the US and Kuwaiti samples.

Originality/value
Self-efficacy and affect infusion theories serve as the foundation for this study. This research adds to these two theories in three ways. First, it examines the combined influence of affect and attitude on B2B managers’ intent to use a corporate website. Second, it proposes a single model that examines the combined relationships among managers’ knowledge and managers’ Web expertise that elicit managerial affect toward corporate websites. Third, the proposed model was tested using samples from two diverse countries (developed, the USA, and developing, Kuwait).
Desistance from absconding: “You’ve got to have hope”
Authors: Emirali Aliye , O'Rourke Rachel , Friendship Caroline 
Published: October 2020

Purpose
This paper explores absconding from a new perspective. Literature has tended to focus on the risk factors linked with absconding. This paper aims to consider desistance factors for absconding for prisoners at higher risk of absconding in open prisons.

Design/methodology/approach
Stage 1 used logistic regression to identify factors associated with increased risk of absconding. Stage 2 identified new receptions with increased risk and used thematic analysis to analyse interviews with prisoners that did not abscond after three months.

Findings
Stage 1 found that the total number of previous offences predicted absconding. Stage 2 found three themes linked to desistance in absconding: “support”, “ownership” and “sense of self”.

Practical implications
This study highlights the importance of ensuring prisoners in open prisons are offered the appropriate emotional and practical support. It also identifies the importance of hope amongst prisoners in open conditions. Future research should further explore this idea in more depth.

Originality/value
Previous literature has looked at absconding from a risk factor perspective. This research identifies the desistance factors associated with absconding for individuals who have been identified as high risk of absconding. Improvements in factors associated with desistance from absconding may support a reduction in absconding from open prisons.
Effects of fairness on relationship quality and re-contract intention in food service franchise system: comparison between global and domestic franchise
Authors: Lee Jee Eun , Lee Sang Suk 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the effects of fairness on relationship quality and re-contract intention in the foodservice franchise industry and this paper intends to delineate the implications of enhancing the mutual relationship between the franchisor and the franchisee in the future domestic foodservice franchise system.Design/methodology/approachTo prevent the lack of reliability and to pursue the internal consistency of the measurement model, this study adopted SPSS (Ver.20.0) and derived Cronbach’s alpha. Additionally, this study conducted a confirmatory factor analysis by using AMOS (Ver.20.0) program to assess the unidimensionality of measurements. Finally, structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized research framework.FindingsThe results showed that distributive fairness and informational fairness increase the relationship quality, which franchisees perceive under the franchise system. Among the relationship quality factor, only the trust has a considerable impact on the (performance) re-contract intention. The effect of fairness on relationship quality does not show a statistically considerable difference between the two groups (global franchise vs domestic franchise). However, in terms of a global franchise, distributive fairness has a significant impact on relationship quality, whereas domestic franchise, distributive fairness directly affects performance (re-contract intention).Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides readers with an effect of fairness in the franchise system. Results obtained in this study are useful for understanding the fairness and relationship quality in the franchise system.Practical implicationsRecently, as the foodservice franchise market is experiencing significant growth, government and franchise-related agencies are making considerable effort to improve the relationship between the franchisor and the franchisee and to offer a better system and policy concerning the protection of consumers. Government and franchise agencies should develop an adequate policy to improve the relationship between the franchisor and the franchisee by breaking away from the imprudent support.Originality/valueThis study investigates whether fairness in the franchise system has a significant effect on the relationship quality and the performance (re-contract intention) and provides implication about the mutual growth between franchisor and franchisee to the potential food service franchise in Korea.
The relationship between paired associate learning and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children
Authors: Liu Catrina , Chung Kevin Kien Hoa , Wang Li‐Chih , Liu Duo 
Published: October 2020

BackgroundResearch has shown that paired associate learning (PAL) plays an important role in children's word reading across different languages. However, little is known about the construct of PAL and its relationship with word reading in Chinese children.MethodsA total of 204 second‐year kindergarten children from Mainland China were assessed on measures of PAL, including the four mapping conditions of PAL: visual–verbal, verbal–verbal, visual–visual and verbal–visual PAL. Tasks of working memory (WM), inhibitory control, visual‐motor integration (VMI), phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge and Chinese word reading were also administered to these children.ResultsOur results showed that WM, VMI and phonological awareness were unique predictors of PAL, whereas inhibitory control and orthographic knowledge were not. Furthermore, PAL showed an independent contribution to Chinese word reading after controlling for phonological awareness and orthographic knowledge. The mediation analysis showed that PAL was a significant mediator of the association between different cognitive‐linguistic skills and Chinese word reading.ConclusionPaired associate learning contributes to Chinese word reading over and above phonological awareness and orthographic knowledge. Findings underscore the potential importance of PAL, as distinct from other cognitive‐linguistic skills, for understanding variability in early reading development.
The Presentation of the Speaker of the Commons in Tudor Parliaments: Pageantry, Persuasion and Management*†
Authors: McGovern Jonathan 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThis article analyses the presentation of the Commons’ Speaker in the Tudor age. It traces the medieval origins of this ceremony, arguing that it served not only as an opportunity for flamboyant rhetoric, but also as a politically significant event designed to impress upon the Commons its inferiority in the parliamentary hierarchy. The article also suggests that Elizabethan Speakers used their orations as a means of presenting counsel to the queen herself.
‘But Private Notes for My Own Memory’? Parliamentary Diaries, Parliamentary History and the Politics of Information in Early Stuart England*
Authors: Baker Philip 
Published: October 2020

AbstractEarly modern parliamentary diaries are a standard source for historians, and have long been used as a supplement to the official journals in reconstructions of debates and business at Westminster. This article adopts a contrasting approach and examines what diaries – viewed as sources in their own right – reveal about parliament and its members, methods of contemporary note‐taking, and the circulation and readership of political information. It begins with a review of the evidence for why, how, and to what ends members kept parliamentary diaries, before exploring the extent of their dissemination in early Stuart England. While recent literature has emphasized the circulation of materials relating to Jacobean and especially Caroline parliaments during the early 17th century, the article recovers the existence of a simultaneous interest in the parliamentary proceedings of the Elizabethan era. At a time when the future of parliament seemed uncertain, it argues that the evident market for, and readership of, Elizabethan material reflects contemporaries’ increasing recognition of parliament's significance within the English state and their changing attitudes towards parliamentary history. Moreover, while Elizabethan parliamentary diaries and journals seemingly reinforced memories of a past ‘golden age’ of parliamentary rule, the article contends that contemporaries’ production, dissemination, and reading of that material was a conscious form of political action in response to the constitutional crisis of their day.
‘The Best‐Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’? Proposals, Planning, Defeat, and Legacy, of Devolution in the 1970s*
Authors: Evans Adam 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThe question of whether devolved assemblies should be established for Scotland and Wales dominated considerable parliamentary time in the 1970s and became a key pillar of the Labour government's legislative agenda after the two 1974 general elections. The main building blocks of the government's devolution proposals for Scotland and Wales were in place from 1975 with the publication of the white paper, Our Changing Democracy, which outlined proposals for a primary lawmaking assembly for Scotland and a Scottish executive, operating under a ‘conferred powers model of devolution’. For Wales, the assembly was to be a body corporate (with no split between executive and assembly) exercising only executive functions and able only to pass secondary legislation. With some important modifications (including crucially the requirement for a referendum, which was then further amended to require a Yes tally equating to 40% of the electorates in both nations), these proposals were eventually incorporated into law as the Scotland and Wales Acts 1978.While the political debates surrounding devolution in this period are well known, less attention has been paid to the practical plans undertaken by the civil service for devolution to become a reality. Considerable time was spent drawing up, from an early stage, detailed preparations for devolution, particularly in Scotland. In Wales, planning was more tentative, yet, none the less, was taken seriously by the Welsh Office. These plans never materialised in the way envisaged, with neither Welsh nor Scottish devolution able to pass the referendum thresholds put in place. However, as this article also demonstrates, both the Scotland and Wales Acts had a constitutional legacy when devolution became reality under New Labour in the late 1990s.
Growth conditions and survival kinetics during storage of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG for the design of a sustainable probiotic whey‐based beverage containing Costa Rican guava fruit pulp
Authors: Montero‐Zamora Jéssica , Cortés‐Muñoz Marianela , Esquivel Patricia , Mora‐Villalobos José‐Aníbal , Velázquez Carmela 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThe finding of economical and practical applications for milk whey is still a challenge for dairy industries. This paper presents information about the development of a probiotic–prebiotic beverage based on Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) and Costa Rican guava (CRG) fruit pulp with industrial potential. First, a supplemented whey media was developed for LGG growth, and the whey‐supplemented media was used for fermentation in bioreactors. LGG reached a maximum growth rate of 0.32 hr−1 after 48 hr of fermentation. The whey‐grown probiotics were then mixed with CRG pulp to produce the probiotic–prebiotic beverage. The survival kinetics of LGG in the formulated drink was not affected by the addition of CRG pulp (P > 0.05), and the shelf‐life of the inoculated beverage surpassed 40 days with a minimum population of 106 colony forming units (CFU)/mL. Properties as pH, fructose, glucose, sucrose, and proanthocyanidins (PACs) content exhibited a significant difference after storage time (P < 0.05). Finally, three different formulas of the beverage with different whey content were compared through sensory evaluation. The prototype with 50% whey content was one of the most valuable beverage formulas according to the organoleptic parameters, which remarks about the possibility of developing a probiotic whey‐based beverage containing CRG pulp. Furthermore, this is the first report about CRG beverages as a probiotic vector.Practical ApplicationThis research focuses on the evaluation of the properties of a probiotic beverage, with a promissory industrial application using whey, as a dairy industry byproduct, combined with the pulp of the highly nutritious and subutilized Costa Rican guava (CRG) fruit.
Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio predicts glucocorticoid resistance in polymyalgia rheumatica
Authors: Owen Claire E. , McMaster Christopher , Liew David F. L. , Leung Jessica L. , Scott Andrew M. , Buchanan Russell R. C. 
Published: October 2020

AbstractAimNeutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) correlate with disease activity in several rheumatic diseases; however, their utility in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) remains unclear. This study evaluated their relationship with disease activity and glucocorticoid resistance in PMR.MethodData for disease activity (PMR‐AS) and full blood examination was obtained from a prospective observational cohort comprising newly diagnosed, steroid‐naïve PMR patients treated with low‐dose glucocorticoid therapy. Glucocorticoid resistance was defined as non‐response to prednisolone 15 mg/d or initial response followed by flare (PMR‐AS ≥ 9.35 or ∆ ≥6.6) upon weaning to 5 mg/d. Univariable Bayesian linear regression analysis of the relationship between PMR‐AS (baseline and mean) and NLR and PLR was performed. Predictors of glucocorticoid resistance were identified using a multivariable outcome model, with variables derived from Bayesian model selection.ResultsOf the 32 included patients, 16 (50%) fulfilled the primary outcome measure of glucocorticoid resistance. These participants were older, typically female, and had higher baseline C‐reactive protein than their glucocorticoid‐responsive counterparts. A statistically significant relationship was identified between PMR‐AS and both NLR (odds ratio [OR] 28.1; 95% CI 1.6‐54.7) and PLR (OR 40.6; 95% CI 10.1‐71.4) at baseline, with PLR also found to correlate with disease activity during follow‐up (OR 15.6; 95% CI 2.7‐28.2). Baseline NLR proved a statistically significant predictor of glucocorticoid‐resistant PMR (OR 14.01; 95% CI 1.49‐278.06).ConclusionBaseline NLR can predict glucocorticoid resistance in newly diagnosed PMR patients. Both NLR and PLR may be reliable biomarkers of disease activity in PMR.
Prognostic value of morphological characteristics assessed by CT scan in patients with non‐small cell lung cancer treated with nivolumab
Authors: Minemura Hiroyuki , Moriya Hiroshi , Imai Hisao , Sugiyama Tomohide , Yamada Yutaka , Higuchi Mitsunori , Kaira Kyoichi , Ozaki Yuki , Kanazawa Kenya , Yokouchi Hiroshi , Kasai Takashi , Kaburagi Takayuki , Suzuki Hiroyuki , Minato Koichi , Shibata Yoko 
Published: October 2020

BackgroundNivolumab is known to demonstrate superior overall survival compared with docetaxel in pretreated non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Programmed death‐ligand 1 (PD‐L1) expression is reported to predict the outcome of treatment by nivolumab in lung cancer patients. However, the significance of the morphological characteristics of chest computed tomography (CT) as predictors of nivolumab efficacy for advanced NSCLC patients remains unknown.MethodsWe performed a multicenter retrospective trial from April 2013 to March 2017, to assess the significance of CT morphological characteristics as predictors of nivolumab efficacy for advanced NSCLC patients. A total of 78 NSCLC patients pretreated with nivolumab were enrolled. A chest radiologist used chest CT to assess the following morphological characteristics of each patient's main tumor and intrathoracic status prior to nivolumab treatment; interstitial septal thickening, peritumoral ground‐glass opacity, spiculated margin, air bronchogram, cavity or necrosis, adjacent organ invasion, bulky lymph node, and accumulation of small lymph nodes. Logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to analyze outcomes.ResultsA total of 60 (77%) patients were male and 72 (92%) had a performance status (PS) of 0 or 1. The objective response rates of male patients and heavy smokers were significantly higher than those of female patients and light or never smokers, respectively. Multivariate analysis identified light or never smoking, poor PS, histological type of squamous cell carcinoma, and interstitial septal thickening as independent negative predictors of progression free survival (PFS).ConclusionsInterstitial septal thickening was a significant and independent predictor of PFS in NSCLC patients treated with nivolumab.Key pointsSignificant findings of the studyInterstitial septal thickening is an independent predictor of progression free survival in non‐small lung cancer patients treated with nivolumab.What this study addsThe current study reveals the significance of morphological characteristics obtained via chest computed tomography as a predictor of nivolumab efficacy for advanced non‐small cell lung cancer patients.
Embrace the leadership challenge: The role of Gay men’s internalized sexual stigma on the evaluation of others’ leadership and one’s own
Authors: Salvati Marco , Pellegrini Valerio , Giacomantonio Mauro , De Cristofaro Valeria 
Published: October 2020

Grounded in the framework of the gay glass ceiling, the current research investigated the effect of gay men’s internalized sexual stigma (ISS) on both the perceived effectiveness of other gay men’s leadership and on their self‐perceived leadership effectiveness and their intention to apply to a leadership position. In three studies (N = 402), we manipulated either the leader’s sexual orientation (SO) (study 1), or his adherence to traditional gender roles (TGR) (study 2), or participants’ fictitious masculinity score (study 3). Our hypotheses were as follows: the leader’s SO and TGR would moderate the association of gay participants’ ISS with their positive attitudes towards the leader and with his leadership effectiveness; and gay participants’ masculinity threat would moderate the association of their ISS with their intention to apply to a leadership position, and with their self‐perceived effectiveness as potential leaders. Moderated regression analyses showed that: participants reported a more positive attitude towards a gay man (vs. heterosexual) as leader only when they had low – and not high – ISS; participants with high (vs. low) ISS perceived the masculine gay leader as more effective than the feminine gay leader; under masculinity threat, participants with high (vs. low) ISS showed less intention to apply to a leadership position. These studies provide both confirmation and novel insights into the key role of internalized sexual stigma and traditional gender roles. Indeed, these factors can strengthen and perpetuate the gay glass ceiling effect.
Immunohistochemical assessment of the peri‐implant soft tissue around different abutment materials: A human study
Authors: Serichetaphongse Pravej , Chengprapakorn Wareeratn , Thongmeearkom Sirikarn , Pimkhaokham Atiphan 
Published: October 2020

AbstractBackgroundSoft tissue reaction to dental implant abutments influences the sustainability of restoration. Several abutment materials, such as titanium and gold alloy, have been introduced for strength and esthetic solutions. Zirconia and titanium‐base abutments have also become popular in recent years due to high esthetic demands.PurposeTo investigate the immune cell infiltration into the soft tissue in response to different abutment materials.Materials and MethodsTwenty dental implants were placed in the posterior regions of 17 patients. Titanium, zirconia, gold alloy, and titanium‐base were randomly selected for each patient on the day of surgery. After 8 weeks of healing, the abutments were removed along with 1 mm of peri‐implant soft tissue. Immunohistochemical assessment was performed using labeled streptavidin‐biotin to identify T cells, B cells, macrophages, plasma cells, and microvascular infiltration.ResultsGold alloy demonstrated an overall higher inflammatory cell infiltration and highest number of CD3+, CD20+, and CD 68+ cells (P value <.05). The number of plasma cell and new microvascular infiltrations among abutment materials was not significantly different.ConclusionTitanium, titanium‐base, and zirconia abutments showed comparable infiltration profiles; gold alloy abutments showed the highest B‐cell, T cell, and macrophage infiltration. None of the abutment materials caused clinical inflammation; hence, they can be effectively used.