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How and when AR technology affects product attitude
Authors: Xu Lan , Zhang Lei , Cui Nan , Yang Zhilin 
Published: November 2019

Purpose
Augmented reality (AR) has emerged as a novel communication tool, which adds virtual computer-generated information to a viewer’s real life. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of AR technology on consumers’ experience.

Design/methodology/approach
Four experiments were performed to test the effect of AR-based product display on the consumer’s attitude and the underlying mechanism of the effect.

Findings
The results have demonstrated that self-referencing reality simulation mediates the effect of AR technology on consumers’ product attitude, and the effect is attenuated when the consumers hold quality beliefs rather than taste beliefs or when the product is a luxury brand.

Practical implications
The current research suggests that managers should develop and adopt AR technology when presenting their products in front of consumers, which can improve consumers’ product attitude. Additionally, emphasizing the taste of target products rather than quality will strengthen the positive effect of AR technology on product attitude. Furthermore, managers of luxury brands should present their products in a traditional way, which induce an exclusive perception rather than using AR technology.

Originality/value
This paper investigates the underlying mechanism of how AR technology improves consumers’ product attitude and shopping experience, to fill the gap in consumers’ unique experience with AR technology. Furthermore, the moderated effect of consumer beliefs and product difference has also been examined in this study, which attributes to the research of product differentiation.
Demand management: the role of cross-functional integration in a context of political turbulence
Authors: Freitas Marlos Rocha de , Pimenta Márcio Lopes , Hilletofth Per , Jugend Daniel , Oprime Pedro Carlos 
Published: November 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate how cross-functional integration supports the execution of the demand-side processes and its effects on both the demand and supply-side processes.Design/methodology/approachA case study was conducted including a Brazilian multinational manufacturer in the automobile industry and some of its suppliers and dealers. 17 interviews were conducted. A theoretical framework is proposed containing five basic elements, they are: characteristics of the demand/supply processes; involved functions; integration factors; context influencers and impacts of integration on demand and supply processes.FindingsThe findings present three demand-side processes (Product Launch, Marketing and Sales and Demand Planning) that demonstrated a greater need for cross-functional integration in the studied case, mainly through informal integration factors.Research limitations/implicationsThe empirical results of this study have methodological limitations due to the use of the case study method. Future research should analyze the effects of other context influencers (e.g. natural catastrophes, civil wars and low level of unemployment) on cross-functional integration.Practical implicationsThe results highlight that joint planning, willingness to work together, team spirit, adequate communication and cross-functional meetings helped the studied organizations to achieve competitive advantages and improve their performance.Originality/valueThis study provides a theoretical framework that helped to improve the understanding of the interrelationships between demand management constructs and cross-functional integration factors. There are indications that a political–economic crisis has stimulated the existence of a willingness to work together and group spirit among employees who remain in the organization after mass dismissals. This climate of cooperation helped to increase the agility and resilience of the studied supply chain, which is currently affected by a changing market.
Generalized software release and testing stop time policy
Authors: Shrivastava Avinash Kumar , Sachdeva Nitin 
Published: November 2019

PurposeAlmost everything around us is the output of software-driven machines or working with software. Software firms are working hard to meet the user’s requirements. But developing a fault-free software is not possible. Also due to market competition, firms do not want to delay their software release. But early release software comes with the problem of user reporting more failures during operations due to more number of faults lying in it. To overcome the above situation, software firms these days are releasing software with an adequate amount of testing instead of delaying the release to develop reliable software and releasing software patches post release to make the software more reliable. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe authors have developed a generalized framework by assuming that testing continues beyond software release to determine the time to release and stop testing of software. As the testing team is always not skilled, hence, the rate of detection correction of faults during testing may change over time. Also, they may commit an error during software development, hence increasing the number of faults. Therefore, the authors have to consider these two factors as well in our proposed model. Further, the authors have done sensitivity analysis based on the cost-modeling parameters to check and analyze their impact on the software testing and release policy.FindingsFrom the proposed model, the authors found that it is better to release early and continue testing in the post-release phase. By using this model, firms can get the benefits of early release, and at the same time, users get the benefit of post-release software reliability assurance.Originality/valueThe authors are proposing a generalized model for software scheduling.
Experimental study on the effect of pressure and flow rate on cavitation in a poppet throttle valve
Authors: Zhang Jian , Luo Tingting 
Published: November 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the variation of cavitation scale with pressure and flow in poppet throttle valve, to obtain the cavitation scale under pressure and flow conditions and to provide experimental support for the research of suppressing throttle valve cavitation and cavitation theory.

Design/methodology/approach
A hydraulic cavitation platform was set up, a valve was manufactured with highly transparent PMMA material and a high-speed camera was used to observe the change in cavitation scale.

Findings
Through experiments, it is found that the pressure difference between inlet and outlet of throttle valve affects the cavitation scale, and the more the pressure difference is, the easier the cavitation will be formed. Under the condition of small pressure difference, the cavitation is not obvious and reducing the pressure difference can effectively suppress the cavitation; the flow rate also affects the cavitation scale, the smaller the flow rate, the more difficult the cavitation will be formed and the lower the flow rate, the more the cavitation will be suppressed.

Research limitations/implications
Because of the magnification factor of the high-speed camera lens, the morphology of smaller bubbles cannot be observed in this study, and the experimental conditions need to be improved in the follow-up study.

Originality/value
This study can provide experimental support for the study of throttle valve cavitation suppression methods and cavitation theory.
Dynamics of income diversification and bank performance in India
Authors: Vidyarthi Harishankar 
Published: November 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamics between income diversification and performance (cost, profit, revenue, technical, pure technical and scale efficiency) for 38 listed Indian banks within panel data framework during the period 2004-2005 to 2015-16.Design/methodology/approachThis study computes bank’s cost, profit, revenue, technical, pure technical and scale efficiency within intermediation approach with data envelopment analysis (DEA) as a performance indicator, followed by exploring the association between income diversification and bank performance using truncated Tobit regression within panel data framework.FindingsTobit regression results revealed inverted U-shaped relationship between the income diversification and estimated efficiency parameters for the overall panel. Size and bank intermediation ratio seems to be a major factor in exploiting the potential benefits of income diversification. The author reconfirmed the inverted U-shaped relationship with these efficiency parameters for exclusive subsamples consisting of government-owned and private sector banks.Research limitations/implicationsInverted U-shaped relationship between the income diversification and estimated efficiency parameters suggest that banks should go for limited diversification to improve performance. Thus, regulators and banks should pursue limited diversification strategy for improving banking efficiency.Originality/valueThis study computes bank performance (cost, profit, revenue, technical, pure technical and scale efficiency) based on DEA followed by exploring the association between performance and income diversification for 38 Bombay stock exchange listed banks.
Service recovery satisfaction in offline and online experiences
Authors: Odoom Raphael , Agbemabiese George Cudjoe , Hinson Robert E. 
Published: November 2019

Purpose
Given that the peculiar nature of the internet has introduced new dimensions of service delivery as well as new dimensions of service failures and recovery, the purpose of this paper is to investigate and compare the relationships between recovery strategies and recovery satisfaction within offline and online settings.

Design/methodology/approach
Data for the empirical tests of our hypotheses were collected via offline and online (specifically Facebook and Twitter) samples of customers who have experienced some form of service failure and recovery measures from service providers within the past year.

Findings
The results indicate that recovery strategies largely influence recovery satisfaction among aggrieved customers. However, these are conditional and not invariant across the two settings. In the authors’ offline setting, in particular, apology did not show a statistically significant impact on recovery satisfaction, even though, along with compensation and explanation, this relationship was significant among the online sample.

Originality/value
The study offers practical implications for service managers within emerging economies on the various conditions where they can maximise their service recovery efforts (both offline and online) to generate optimum recovery satisfaction.
Incorporating visitors’ preferences into the policy framework of a Rainforest Discovery Centre
Authors: Francis Fiona Jane , Hassan Azman , Mohd Afandi Syamsul Herman , Radam Alias 
Published: November 2019

PurposeThis study aims to incorporate visitors’ preferences for sustainable development into the policy framework of Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC), Sabah, Malaysia.Design/methodology/approachA stated preference technique known as choice experiment (CE) method is used in this study. Four management attributes, namely, information provision (IP), protection level (PL), guided tour (GT) and entrance fee (FEE), were identified as the most relevant aspects of the RDC in Sabah. Two econometrics models which are conditional logit and random parameter logit were estimated to achieve the purpose of the study.FindingsThis study finds that visitors support the proposed development of RDC. The alteration of protection level (i.e. improvement of “PL” attribute) is the most concerning matter among visitors. Since the random parameter logit model revealed that PL is specified as random, the individual heterogeneity exists for PL.Practical implicationsThe current issues in ecotourism were studied and integrated into the methodology. A unique and comprehensive policy structure was developed, and enables to respond with any contemporary issues linked to protected areas (PA) without neglecting the natural and cultural endowments.Originality/valueThis study presents an in-depth understanding of visitors’ preferences in the ecotourism industry and used CE as a mechanism tool to explore visitors’ preferences. This study incorporates the conceptualisation of visitors’ preferences and sustainable tourism development into the PA framework structure.
Fungal ecological strategies reflected in gene transcription ‐ a case study of two litter decomposers
Authors: Barbi Florian , Kohler Annegret , Barry Kerrie , Baskaran Preetisri , Daum Chris , Fauchery Laure , Ihrmark Katarina , Kuo Alan , LaButti Kurt , Lipzen Anna , Morin Emmanuelle , Grigoriev Igor V. , Henrissat Bernard , Lindahl Björn D. , Martin Francis 
Published: November 2019

SummaryMicrobial communities interplay with their environment through their functional traits that can be a response or an effect on the environment. Here, we explore how a functional trait—the decomposition of organic matter, can be addressed based on genetic markers and how the expression of these markers reflect ecological strategies of two fungal litter decomposer Gymnopus androsaceus and Chalara longipes. We sequenced the genomes of these two fungi, as well as their transcriptomes at different steps of Pinus sylvestris needles decomposition in microcosms. Our results highlighted that if the gene content of the two species could indicate similar potential decomposition abilities, the expression levels of specific gene families belonging to the glycoside hydrolase category reflected contrasting ecological strategies. Actually, C. longipes, the weaker decomposer in this experiment, turned out to have a high content of genes involved in cell wall polysaccharides decomposition but low expression levels, reflecting a versatile ecology compare to the more competitive G. androsaceus with high expression levels of keystone functional genes. Thus, we established that sequential expression of genes coding for different components of the decomposer machinery indicated adaptation to chemical changes in the substrate as decomposition progressed.
Reeling in Newcomers: Urban Competition around Migrant Reception in Brussels
Authors: Swyngedouw Eva 
Published: November 2019

AbstractThe management of ethnic diversity and its various forms of institutional articulation and implementation are increasingly taking place at the urban level. At the same time, urban scholars consider cities to be battlegrounds where competing groups contest the meaning and articulation of citizenship. In this article, I build on these insights to argue that competition over newcomer reception between different, linguistically divided political coalitions in the city of Brussels are mainly battles over establishing their own definition of citizenship and asserting their political influence. Building on an eighteen‐month ethnographic study in three reception offices (two Dutch‐speaking and one francophone) in Brussels, I analyse the different strategies these offices mobilize to recruit and retain newcomers. I argue that recruitment is a deliberate tool used to influence the political‐cultural demographics of the city and destabilize the linguistic power balance in Brussels. In this way, recruitment becomes a means to attract newcomers to the reception offices in the hope that they will develop a deep connection and loyalty to, and eventually identify politically with, the agency's respective political community. Theoretically, this article develops a perspective that regards the city as a field that becomes constituted in and through the contest between different urban institutions to ‘reel in’ newcomers. In this space, these institutions take up positions for and against each other and assemble strategies to influence the urban populations.
Alcohol consumption and alcohol policy in Estonia 2000–2017 in the context of Baltic and Nordic countries
Authors: Pärna Kersti 
Published: November 2019

AbstractIntroduction and AimsAlcohol consumption has become a global health threat and there is need for an evidence‐based global alcohol policy. This study aimed to describe alcohol consumption in parallel with alcohol policy in 2000–2017 in Estonia in the context of Baltic and Nordic countries.Design and MethodsA review of routine statistics concerning alcohol consumption and the pertinent legislation in Estonia was performed. The measures used to assess the effects of alcohol policy were adult (15 and older) pure alcohol per capita consumption (APC) in litres, alcohol outlet densities and opening hours, taxes and the price of alcoholic beverages.ResultsAdult domestic APC in Estonia increased from 9.3 to 14.8 in 2000–2007 and thereafter decreased to 10.2 in 2016 (10.3 in 2017). Adult APC in Estonia was lower than that in Latvia and Lithuania but higher than that in Nordic countries. Since 2010, beer has been the most prevalent alcoholic beverage in Estonia. The density and opening hours of alcohol retail shops were much higher in Estonia and other Baltic countries than in Nordic countries. The alcohol retail price increased twice from 2006 to 2017 in Estonia, resulting in a double price difference with Latvia.Discussion and ConclusionsEvidence‐based comprehensive alcohol policy should continue in Estonia. Based on the example of Nordic countries, more attention should be paid to the physical availability of alcohol in Estonia. In terms of economic availability, it is important to focus on the cross‐border alcohol trade to achieve improvements in public health.
Comparison of endoscopic visibility and miss rate for early gastric cancers after Helicobacter pylori eradication with white‐light imaging versus linked color imaging
Authors: Kitagawa Yoshiyasu , Suzuki Takuto , Nankinzan Rino , Ishigaki Asuka , Furukawa Kiyoto , Sugita Osamu , Hara Taro , Yamaguchi Taketo 
Published: November 2019

Background and AimWe aimed to investigate whether linked color imaging (LCI) improves endoscopic visibility of early gastric cancers (EGC) after Helicobacter pylori eradication, which are often difficult to detect, and reduces the miss rate when compared with white‐light imaging (WLI).MethodsThe visibility study used two images, one each with WLI and LCI, from 84 consecutive EGC after H. pylori eradication. Endoscopic visibility was evaluated using a visibility score and color difference (CD) value. To analyze miss rates, we studied a library of recorded videos using both WLI and LCI for 70 other consecutive patients after H. pylori eradication, among whom 19 had EGC. Endoscopic screening was done using the same protocol to map the entire stomach. Six endoscopists reviewed the videos in a randomized order. Miss rates of EGC were compared among the modalities.ResultsMean [(±standard deviation) visibility scores with LCI were significantly higher than those with WLI (3.19 ± 0.84 vs 2.52 ± 0.98, P < 0.001), as were mean CD values (26.3 ± 9.1 vs 13.6 ± 6.3, P < 0.001). Miss rates of the six endoscopists were significantly lower with LCI than with WLI (30.7% vs 64.9%, P < 0.001). Both expert and trainee endoscopists had significantly better results with LCI than with WLI.ConclusionsLinked color imaging significantly improved the visibility of EGC after H. pylori eradication compared with WLI using both subjective and objective criteria. Furthermore, LCI significantly reduced miss rates of these lesions compared with WLI.
The perception of the educational environment in multinational students from a dental medicine faculty in Romania
Authors: Stratulat Sorin I. , Candel Octav S. , Tăbîrţă Alisa , Checheriţă Laura E. , Costan Victor V. 
Published: November 2019

AbstractIntroductionDental education comes with important challenges for the faculties as well as for the students. Its evolving nature leads to the constant adoption of new practices and techniques. Thus, the learning environment is in continuous development. This study aimed to describe a sample of senior undergraduate student's perceptions of their learning environment.MethodsStudents (both Romanian and international) enrolled in the 6th year at the Faculty of Dental Medicine from a Romanian University completed the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM). The scale measures students' perceptions of the education environment using five domains: Learning, Teaching, Academic self‐perception, Atmosphere and Social self‐perception. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, non‐parametric and univariate statistics for group comparison.ResultsParticipants (N = 259, Romanian = 111, International = 148) had a good perception of their learning environment, with a total DREEM score of 117.82 out of 200. Still, they had a lower score in the areas of Academic and Social self‐perception. The international students had more negative perceptions of the learning environment compared to the Romanian ones. The French‐speaking students had the lowest scores on most of the areas.ConclusionsAlthough the perception of medical dentistry education is generally good, international students are not as satisfied with the learning environment. The students' experiences could be improved by providing them with more social support. Also, it is important to address the needs of international students in order to create a more satisfying environment for them.
Tumor load in patients with multiple myeloma: β₂‐microglobulin levels versus low‐dose whole‐body CT
Authors: Pfahler Vanessa , D'Anastasi Melvin , Dürr Hans‐Roland , Schinner Regina , Ricke Jens , Baur‐Melnyk Andrea 
Published: November 2019

AbstractObjectiveBeta‐2‐microglobulin is a serum marker of tumor burden in multiple myeloma (MM). Our aim was to correlate serum β₂‐microglobulin levels in patients with MM to tumor burden determined by low‐dose whole‐body CT (LDWBCT).Materials and MethodsA total of 52 patients with newly diagnosed, untreated MM who underwent LDWBCT were included. LDWBCT scans were assessed by two musculoskeletal radiologists in consensus for focal lesions. The Durie and Salmon PLUS staging system was used for staging patients in stages I‐III. β₂‐microglobulin was also subdivided into stages I‐III on the basis of the multiple myeloma International Staging System (ISS).ResultsUsing the Durie and Salmon PLUS staging system criteria for image evaluation, we were able to identify stage I MM in 17 patients, stage II MM in nine patients, and stage III MM in 26 patients. Eight of nine patients with stage II MM and 16 of 26 patients with stage III MM had normal β₂‐microglobulin levels. Thus, 24 of 35 patients (68.6%) had 5 or more focal lesions and false‐negative β₂‐microglobulin levels.ConclusionSerum β₂‐microglobulin levels alone may not indicate the full extent of tumor burden in a significant subset of myeloma patients.