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Brexit, the wine sector and organisational resilience: an exploratory study of Spanish Wineries
Authors: Duarte Alonso Abel , Kok Seng , O'Brien Seamus 
Published: July 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of winery owners/managers concerning the impacts of Brexit on the Spanish wine sector and propose a theoretical framework based on the extant organisational resilience literature to facilitate an understanding of this concept. The framework facilitates understanding of this concept through the perspective of winery operators.

Design/methodology/approach
Attendance at a large Spanish wine fair in 2017 allowed for brief face-to-face interviews with owners and export managers of 156 predominantly micro and small Spanish wineries. The data were analysed through qualitative content analysis.

Findings
Despite the general sense of uncertainty and negative perceptions regarding the outcomes of Brexit, the interviews revealed various forms of resilient responses, including ongoing efforts seeking to broaden the scope for exports into new, niche markets alongside more traditional ones. These findings have important implications for businesses engaged in international business, particularly in the wine industry, where the potential challenges resulting from a major political decision can exacerbate existing issues of competition.

Originality/value
From a practical perspective, this study examines an emerging issue with potential consequences for international business. From a theoretical point of view, the proposed framework provides a baseline to illuminate the understanding of the links and stages following turbulence within organisations. Notably, the activation of responses emphasises the importance of developing a resilient organisational culture, as well as developing internal and enabling factors and bundles of resources that help create firm capabilities.
Single-chip solution for electronics unit of a smart pressure sensor
Authors: Nadezhdin Igor S. , Goryunov Aleksey G. 
Published: July 2020

PurposeDifferential pressure is an important technological parameter, one urgent task of which is control and measurement. To date, the lion’s share of research in this area has focused on the development and improvement of differential pressure sensors. The purpose of this paper is to develop a smart differential pressure sensor with improved operational and metrological characteristics.Design/methodology/approachThe operating principle of the developed pressure sensor is based on the capacitive measurement principle. The measuring unit of the developed pressure sensor is based on a differential capacitive sensitive element. Programmable system-on-chip (PSoC) technology has been used to develop the electronics unit.FindingsThe use of a differential capacitive sensitive element allows the unit to compensate for the influence of interference (for example, temperature) on the measurement result. With the use of PSoC technology, it is also possible to increase the noise immunity of the developed smart differential pressure sensor and provide an unparalleled combination of flexibility and integration of analog and digital functionality.Originality/valueThe use of PSoC technology in the developed smart differential pressure sensor has many indisputable advantages, as the size of the entire circuit can be minimized. As a result, the circuit has improved noise immunity. Accordingly, the procedure for debugging and changing the software of the electronics unit is simplified. These features make development and manufacturing cost effective.
Factors affecting carcass detection at wind farms using dogs and human searchers
Authors: Domínguez del Valle Jon , Cervantes Peralta Francisco , Jaquero Arjona María I. 
Published: July 2020

Abstract

The use of detection dogs to effectively monitor bird and bat fatalities at wind farms is becoming increasingly popular. All studies to date agree that dogs outperform human searchers at finding bird and bat carcasses around wind turbines; however, it remains unclear how characteristics of the carcass and environmental conditions during the search may influence detection.

We investigate the effect of carcass size, vegetation characteristics and weather conditions on the probability of detecting a carcass, for both dogs and humans, using data from the monitoring program of a wind farm in Spain.

A generalized linear mixed model reveals a high performance of dogs (~80% detection rate), with no clear influence of any of the variables analysed. Humans, on the contrary, were markedly affected by the size of the carcass and to some extent, by the vegetation structure. Humans performed poorly at detecting small carcasses (~20% detection rate), more so in closed vegetation.

Synthesis and applications. Our results provide evidence that dogs perform with high success rates at detecting bird and bat carcasses of different sizes under a wide range of environmental conditions. Humans, by contrast, were very poor at detecting all but the largest carcasses in open areas. We find the use of detection dogs at wind farms to be a robust and cost‐effective alternative to using human searchers, most notably, when the focus is on the monitoring of fatalities of small, rare or inconspicuous species in closed vegetation.
Good things take time—Diversity effects on tree growth shift from negative to positive during stand development in boreal forests
Authors: Jucker Tommaso , Koricheva Julia , Finér Leena , Bouriaud Olivier , Iacopetti Giovanni , Coomes David A. 
Published: July 2020

Abstract

Long‐term grassland biodiversity experiments have shown that diversity effects on productivity tend to strengthen through time, as complementarity among coexisting species increases. But it remains less clear whether this pattern also holds for other ecosystems such as forests, and if so why.

Here we explore whether diversity effects on tree growth change predictably during stand development in Finland's boreal forests. Using tree ring records from mature forests, we tested whether diameter growth trajectories of dominant tree species growing in mixture differed from those in monoculture. We then compared these results with data from the world's longest running tree diversity experiment, where the same combinations of species sampled in mature forests were planted in 1999.

We found that diversity effects on tree growth strengthened progressively through time, only becoming significantly positive around 20 years after seedling establishment. This shift coincided with the period in which canopy closure occurs in these forests, at which time trees begin to interact and compete above‐ground. These temporal trends were remarkably consistent across different tree species sampled in mature forests, and broadly matched growth responses observed in the much younger experimental plots.

Synthesis. Our results mirror those from grassland ecosystems and suggest that canopy closure is a key phase for promoting niche complementarity in diverse tree communities. They also provide a series of testable hypotheses for the growing number of tree diversity experiments that have been established in recent years.
Assisted Self‐help Housing in Mexico: Advocacy, (Micro)Finance and the Making of Markets
Authors: Grubbauer Monika 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThis article examines forms of housing finance that offer poor households opportunities for sourcing resources for construction work through non‐mortgage microloans. In Mexico, these housing microfinance schemes have recently been incorporated into national housing policies. On a global level, the past 10 to 15 years have seen the emergence of institutional investment in microfinance. I reflect on these processes in this article by bringing critical accounts of financial inclusion in development studies and the debate on financialization within urban studies and beyond into dialogue. I combine micro‐ and macro‐scale perspectives to examine how households become financial clients and how finance gains influence by expanding capitalist markets into the informal housing sector. This discussion is based on policy review and document analyses and an empirically grounded account of an assisted self‐help housing case study. In the article I draw on three focal concepts—risk, debt and marketization—to highlight the ambivalences of the expanded access to finance for poor households engaged in self‐organized building practices. These ambivalences emerge from the multiplicity of operational logics and motivations in the field of housing provision for the poor, and the profoundly conflicting rationalities of financial‐ and social‐sector actors.
Assessing the Vulnerability to Price Spikes in Agricultural Commodity Markets
Authors: Triantafyllou Athanasios , Dotsis George , Sarris Alexandros 
Published: July 2020

AbstractWe examine empirically the predictability of conditions associated with a higher probability of a price spike in agricultural commodity markets. We find that the forward spread is the most significant indicator of probable price jumps in maize, wheat and soybeans futures markets, a result which is in line with the ‘Theory of Storage’. We additionally show that some option‐implied variables add significant predictive power when added to the more standard information variable set. Overall, the estimated probabilities of large price increases from our probit models exhibit significant correlations with historical sudden market upheavals in agricultural markets.
Quality of Laypersons' Assessment of Forensically Relevant Stimuli,
Authors: Sneyd Danielle , Schreiber Compo Nadja , Rivard Jillian , Pena Michelle , Stoiloff Stephanie , Hernandez Gabriel 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe current study examined the potential for cognitive bias in lay examiners' comparisons of footwear impressions within the technical review process while addressing limitations of previous research. Prior research has found inconsistent results regarding the extent to which cognitive bias may influence forensic comparisons, often asking non‐experts to review forensic stimuli above their competency level. Furthermore, past research has largely ignored the potential for cognitive bias during the technical review process. In collaboration with the Miami‐Dade Police Department's Forensic Services Bureau, we examined the effects of previous examiners' level of experience and prior knowledge of the previous examiner's decision on the technical review stage of footwear impression stimuli. Before lay examiners were presented with pairs of known match and nonmatch footwear impressions, they were either told that an expert or a novice had previously examined them and determined them to be either a match, nonmatch, or inconclusive (plus a no‐information condition). Participants then evaluated each pair of footwear impressions to make their own determinations of match, nonmatch, or inconclusive. Results support the technical review process for all decision types, as known nonmatch stimuli were generally more difficult for lay examiners to assess than known match stimuli. Knowledge of a prior examiner's decision and status was observed only when the prior decision was inconclusive, suggesting the need for inclusion of inconclusive decisions in future research examining cognitive bias in forensic examination.
The effects of prey depletion on dietary niches of sympatric apex predators in Southeast Asia
Authors: STEINMETZ Robert , SEUATURIEN Naret , INTANAJITJUY Pairoj , INRUEANG Pichet , PREMPREE Kittipat 
Published: July 2020

AbstractResource depletion exerts opposing pressures on co‐occurring consumers to expand diets while limiting overlap with competitors. Using foraging theory as a framework, we tested the effects of prey availability on diet specialization and overlap among competing Asian predators: dhole, leopard, and tiger. We used scat analysis from a prey‐poor site, combined with a quantitative synthesis of 40 other diet studies, to determine biomass of different prey types consumed by each predator. We then assessed diet composition in relation to prey density, and compared diet breadth and overlap between prey‐poor and prey‐rich sites. In prey rich areas, all three predators specialized on energetically profitable medium and large ungulates (>30 kg), resulting in narrow, overlapping niches. Each predator shifted toward less profitable small‐bodied prey (≤30 kg) as preferred ungulates declined, whereas consumption of preferred ungulates was unrelated to small prey abundance, as predicted by foraging theory. Diet breadths doubled under prey depletion (except leopard), but overlap declined as diets diverged via species‐specific traits that facilitated capture of different types of alternative prey. Asia's apex predators adapt similarly to depletion of mutually preferred ungulates by switching to more numerous but less profitable small prey. Yet they can also partition a depleted prey base through intrinsic niche differences, thereby avoiding competitive exclusion. Our findings illuminate the stabilizing properties of adaptive foraging and niche differences in ecological communities, and provide insights into the behavior and resilience of Asia's endangered apex predators in response to prey depletion in the heavily poached forests of this region.
Coping with extremes: convergences of habitat use, territoriality, and diet in summer but divergences in winter between two sympatric snow finches on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
Authors: LI Dongming , DAVIS Jason E. , SUN Yanfeng , WANG Gang , NABI Ghulam , WINGFIELD John C. , LEI Fumin 
Published: July 2020

AbstractOn the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau, extreme environmental conditions have imposed intense selective pressure on the evolution of phenotypic traits of wild animals. To date, limited information is available on behavioral and ecological traits concerning niche differentiation among sympatric animals on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau, especially during winter when the environments are most severe. Here, we studied the seasonal variations in habitat occurrence, territorial behavior, and diet in two sympatric snow finches (the white‐rumped snow finch,Onychostruthus taczanowskii, WRSF; and the rufous‐necked snow finch,Pyrgilauda ruficollis, RNSF) to determine convergence and divergence of ecological traits in such severe climatic conditions. Our results showed that: (i) WRSF occupied rural areas as a dominant species throughout the annual cycle while RNSF occupied the rural areas in summer and then shifted to human‐occupied areas in winter and spring; (ii) WRSFs exhibited robust aggressive behavior and territoriality during winter relative to RNSFs; (iii) the diets of both species varied with the season but did not vary between species except that WRSF ate significantly more seeds but RNSF consumed more starchy material derived from human food waste during winter. Therefore, the separations in the spatial niche and territoriality between WRSF and RNSF, especially in winter, may contribute to alleviating the pressure of interspecific competition, and promoting the coexistence of the two sympatric snow finches in the extreme environments on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau.
Swift's Queer Persistence
Authors: Brunström Conrad 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThis afterpiece considers the extent to which Jonathan Swift is as politically representative as he is eccentric, and assesses the persistent need on the part of biographers to assert his ‘queerness’ in ways that result in the explaining away of his political positions in terms of psychopathology. It is proposed that Swift's orthodoxies contribute as much as his heterodoxies to his unsettling fascination. In terms of his refusal to entertain any benign notion of ‘progress’, Swift is temperamentally cognate with the ‘no‐futurism’ of Lee Edelman, a posture characterised by a defiant rejection of hegemonic pieties relating to children and childhood.
Lung cancer surgery in HIV‐infected patients: An analysis of postoperative complications and long‐term survival
Authors: Wang Lin , Chen Yongfang , Wang Yifei , Liu Jianjian , Wen Zilu , Chen Hui , Zhu Yijun , Wang Jun , Wan Laiyi , Li Feng , Song Yanzheng 
Published: July 2020

BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to investigate the risk factors of postoperative complications and reliable prognostic factors of long‐term survival in HIV‐infected patients with non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).MethodsHIV‐infected patients with NSCLC who underwent surgical treatment were retrospectively studied; a single‐institutional analysis was conducted from November 2011 to August 2018. Pre‐ and postoperative clinical data, including age, gender, smoking history, highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), CD4+ T cell count, HIV viral load, cancer histology, clinical and pathological stage (p‐stage), surgical result, Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS), the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI), survival time and postoperative complications were collected.ResultsA total of 33 HIV‐infected patients with NSCLC were enrolled of which 18 (54.7%) had preoperative comorbidities and postoperative complications were observed in 22 (66.7%) patients. Thirty‐day mortality was not observed in these patients. Median survival time after surgery was 65 months: the MST of p‐stage I patients was 65 months; p‐stage II MST was unestimable; p‐stage III MST was 21 months. Univariate analyses showed that postoperative complications were associated with HIV viral load (P = 0.002), CCI (P = 0.027), HAART (P = 0.028) and CD4+ T cell count (P = 0.045). However, multiple logistic regression analysis showed no correlation between HAART and postoperative complications. The p‐stage was an independent prognostic factor for survival time.ConclusionsIn our single‐arm retrospective analysis, the risk factors for postoperative complications in HIV‐infected patients with NSCLC were HIV viral load, CCI and CD4+ T cell counts. The p‐stage was a predictive factor for long‐term survival.
Chemogenetic Inactivation of Orbitofrontal Cortex Decreases Cue‐induced Reinstatement of Ethanol and Sucrose Seeking in Male and Female Wistar Rats
Authors: Hernandez John S. , Binette Annalise N. , Rahman Taryn , Tarantino Jeffrey D. , Moorman David E. 
Published: July 2020

BackgroundThe orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) encodes internal representations of outcomes and subjective value to facilitate flexible reward seeking. OFC activation is associated with drug seeking in both human subjects and animal models. OFC plays a role in alcohol use, but studies in animal models have produced conflicting results with some showing decreased seeking after OFC inactivation but others showing increased seeking or no changes. In part, this may be due to the different measures of alcohol seeking used (e.g., homecage drinking vs. operant seeking).MethodsWe characterized the impact of transient inactivation of OFC (primarily lateral and, to a lesser extent, ventral subregions) using inhibitory hM4Di designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs (DREADDs). OFC neurons were transiently inhibited during 10% and 20% alcohol (ethanol, EtOH) and sucrose homecage consumption, fixed ratio (FR1) operant self‐administration, and cue‐induced reinstatement of either 10% EtOH or sucrose in male and female rats.ResultsOFC inactivation did not affect sucrose or EtOH consumption in the homecage, nor did it influence seeking or consumption under FR1 operant conditions. In contrast, OFC inactivation suppressed cued‐induced reinstatement for both EtOH and sucrose in both male and female rats.ConclusionsOur results are aligned with previous work indicating a selective suppressive effect of OFC inactivation on reinstatement for alcohol and other drugs of abuse. They extend these findings to demonstrate no effect on homecage consumption or FR1 seeking as well as showing an impact of sucrose reinstatement. These data indicate that OFC plays a uniquely important role when reward seeking is driven by associations between external stimuli and internal representations of reward value, both for natural and drug rewards. They further implicate the OFC as a key structure driving relapse‐associated seeking and potentially contributing to alcohol use disorder and other diseases of compulsive reward seeking.
Safety of Gabapentin Prescribed for Any Indication in a Large Clinical Cohort of 571,718 US Veterans with and without Alcohol Use Disorder
Authors: Rentsch Christopher T. , Morford Kenneth L. , Fiellin David A. , Bryant Kendall J. , Justice Amy C. , Tate Janet P. 
Published: July 2020

BackgroundGabapentin is prescribed for seizures and pain and has efficacy for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD) starting at doses of 900 milligrams per day (mg/d). Recent evidence suggests safety concerns associated with gabapentin including adverse neurologic effects. Individuals with hepatitis C (HCV), HIV, or AUD may be at increased risk due to comorbidities and potential medication interactions.MethodsWe identified patients prescribed gabapentin for ≥ 60 days for any indication between 2002 and 2015. We propensity‐score matched each gabapentin‐exposed patient with up to 5 gabapentin‐unexposed patients. We followed patients for 2 years or until diagnosed with (i) falls or fractures, or (ii) altered mental status using validated ICD‐9 diagnostic codes. We used Poisson regression to estimate incidence rates and relative risk (RR) of these adverse events in association with gabapentin exposure overall and stratified by age, race/ethnicity, sex, HCV, HIV, AUD, and dose.ResultsIncidence of falls or fractures was 1.81 per 100 person‐years (PY) among 140,310 gabapentin‐exposed and 1.34/100 PY among 431,408 gabapentin‐unexposed patients (RR 1.35, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.28 to 1.44). Incidence of altered mental status was 1.08/100 PY among exposed and 0.97/100 PY among unexposed patients, RR of 1.12 (95% CI 1.04 to 1.20). Excess risk of falls or fractures associated with gabapentin exposure was observed in all subgroups except patients with HCV, HIV, or AUD; however, these groups had elevated incidence regardless of exposure. There was a clear dose–response relationship for falls or fractures with highest risk observed among those prescribed ≥ 2,400 mg/d (RR 1.90, 95% CI 1.50 to 2.40). Patients were at increased risk for altered mental status at doses 600 to 2,399 mg/d; however, low number of events in the highest dose category limited power to detect a statistically significant association ≥ 2,400 mg/d.ConclusionsGabapentin is associated with falls or fractures and altered mental status. Clinicians should be monitoring gabapentin safety, especially at doses ≥ 600 mg/d, in patients with and without AUD.
The value relevance of fair value and historical cost measurements during the financial crisis
Authors: Liao Lin , Kang Helen , Morris Richard D. 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe roles played by fair value (FV) and historical cost (HC) measurements during the financial crisis (2008–2009) remain controversial. We investigate the relative and incremental value relevance of assets and liabilities measured at FV and HC for financial institutions from 25 European countries before and during the financial crisis. We find that FV is more relatively value relevant than HC during the crisis but not before. HC and FV are, however, incrementally value relevant to each other both before and during the financial crisis. Our results are influenced by cross‐country differences.
Does an item change trigger earnings management? Evidence from asset disposal income in China
Authors: Yang Qi , Wu Dejun 
Published: July 2020

AbstractWe explore a unique regulatory change in 2017 in China that requires firms to move the non‐current assets disposal income in the income statement from below the line of operating income to above it. We find that firms that have incentives to avoid losses conduct upward earnings management using the non‐current assets disposal income after the regulatory change. We also find that this earnings management behaviour is more pronounced for firms in the growth and decline stages, and for firms with weak market competition power. In addition, such behaviour damages firm’s operating performance and innovation in the next year.