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Fostering digital transformation of SMEs: a four levels approach
Authors: Garzoni Antonello , De Turi Ivano , Secundo Giustina , Del Vecchio Pasquale 
Published: March 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse how digital technologies trigger changes in the business process of manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Apulia Region (South Italy). As SMEs play an essential role in the process value creation of industries and countries, the article examines the enablers of Industry 4.0 in a regional contexts characterized by delay in research and development and innovation performances where the companies' competitiveness is based on limited knowledge and technological assets.Design/methodology/approachThe case study of Smart District 4.0, an ongoing project aimed to promote the digitalization of SMEs operating in the Agri–Food, Clothing–Footwear and Mechanics–Mechatronics in the Apulia Region (South Italy) is analysed. The project has been financed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development with the final aim to sustain the digital transformation of SMEs in South Italy.FindingsThe results introduce a four levels approach of engagement of SMEs in the adoption of digital technologies, namely,digital awareness, digital enquirement, digital collaboration and digital transformation.Furthermore, for each level of engagement the study describes and discusses some relevant variables that could be used by managers and entrepreneurs to assess the level of readiness for utilization of digital technologies and how to digitalize some processes.Practical implicationsPractical implications regard the definition of a roadmap useful to assess and manage the level of digital transformation of SMEs. Limitations of the study regarding the temporal dimension of the evidences associated to the Smart District 4.0 as well as to the regional context was analysed.Originality/valueOriginality resides in the definition of a roadmap for the digital transformation of SMEs in a region where the profile of companies' digital maturity is still low.
Building trust and commitment through transparency and HR competence
Authors: Klimchak Malayka , Ward Bartlett A.K. , MacKenzie William 
Published: March 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore factors that help to determine employee trust in and affective commitment toward the organization.Design/methodology/approachData for this study were collected using surveys administered to employees of a company located in the southeastern United States. The final sample included 391 matched supervisor–subordinate dyads.FindingsWe found organizational signals of trustworthiness led to affective commitment through increased levels of employee trust. Employees and supervisors who perceived HR professionals to be competent, who felt organizational information distributions were of high quality and who felt the organization disclosed relevant information exhibited higher levels of trust in the organization. Employees showed higher affective commitment when they trusted the organization. We found that supervisor trust directly impacted subordinate affective commitment as well.Originality/valueThese findings help extend signaling theory from the attraction of employees to their retention and help researchers and practitioners alike to understand the organizational trust- and commitment-building process.
The listening guide: voice-centred-relational analysis of private subjectivities
Authors: Hutton Martina , Lystor Charlotte 
Published: March 2020

Purpose
This paper focuses on the analytical importance of voice and the value of listening and representing voices in private contexts. It highlights the under-theorised position of relationality in family research. The paper introduces the listening guide as a unique analytical approach to sharpen researchers’ understanding of private experiences and articulations.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a conceptual and technical paper. It problematises voice, authority and analytical representation in the private location of family and examines how relational dynamics interact with the subtleties of voice in research. It also provides a practical illustration of the listening guide detailing how researchers can use this analytical approach.

Findings
The paper illustrates how the listening guide works as an analytical method, structured around four stages and applied to interview transcript excerpts.

Practical implications
The listening guide bridges private and public knowledge-making, by identifying competing voices and recognises relations of power in family research. It provides qualitative market researchers with an analytical tool to hear changes and continuities in participants’ sense of self over time.

Social implications
The paper highlights how peripheral voices and silence can be analytically surfaced in private domains. A variety of studies and data can be explored with this approach, however, research questions involving vulnerable or marginal experiences are particularly suitable.

Originality/value
The paper presents the listening guide as a novel analytic method for researching family life – one, which recovers the importance of voice and serves as a means to address the lack of debate on voice and authority in qualitative market research. It also highlights the under-theorised position of relationality in tracing the multiple subjectivities of research participants. It interrupts conventional qualitative analysis methods, directing attention away from conventional coding and towards listening as an alternative route to knowledge.
A novel simulation-annealing enabled ranking and scaling statistical simulation constrained optimization algorithm for Internet-of-things (IoTs)
Authors: Kumar Adarsh , Jain Saurabh , Yadav Divakar 
Published: March 2020

PurposeSimulation-based optimization is a decision-making tool for identifying an optimal design of a system. Here, optimal design means a smart system with sensing, computing and control capabilities with improved efficiency. As compared to testing the physical prototype, computer-based simulation provides much cheaper, faster and lesser time-and resource-consuming solutions. In this work, a comparative analysis of heuristic simulation optimization methods (genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, simulated annealing, tabu search and simplex search) is performed.Design/methodology/approachIn this work, a comparative analysis of heuristic simulation optimization methods (genertic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, simulated annealing, tabu search and simplex search) is performed. Further, a novel simulation annealing-based heuristic approach is proposed for critical infrastructure.FindingsA small scale network of 50–100 nodes shows that genetic simulation optimization with multi-criteria and multi-dimensional features performs better as compared to other simulation optimization approaches. Further, a minimum of 3.4 percent and maximum of 16.2 percent improvement is observed in faster route identification for small scale Internet-of-things (IoT) networks with simulation optimization constraints integrated model as compared to the traditional method.Originality/valueIn this work, simulation optimization techniques are applied for identifying optimized Quality of service (QoS) parameters for critical infrastructure which in turn helps in improving the network performance. In order to identify optimized parameters, Tabu search and ant-inspired heuristic optimization techniques are applied over QoS parameters. These optimized values are compared with every monitoring sensor point in the network. This comparative analysis helps in identifying underperforming and outperforming monitoring points. Further, QoS of these points can be improved by identifying their local optimum values which in turn increases the performance of overall network. In continuation, a simulation model of bus transport is taken for analysis. Bus transport system is a critical infrastructure for Dehradun. In this work, feasibility of electric recharging units alongside roads under different traffic conditions is checked using simulation. The simulation study is performed over five bus routes in a small scale IoT network.
Family caregiver participation in caregiving for hospitalized elderly patients with a tracheostomy: a literature review
Authors: Tabootwong Watchara , Kiwannuka Frank 
Published: March 2020

Purpose
Elderly patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation are treated with a tracheostomy. Oftentimes, the family caregivers need to participate in the care for elderly patients with a tracheostomy during hospitalization. Therefore, this paper was conducted to acknowledge what family caregivers experience while caregiving for hospitalized elderly patients with a tracheostomy.

Design/methodology/approach
This literature review identifies family caregiver participation in caregiving for the elderly patient, the impact of caregiving, and the needs of family caregivers.

Findings
Family caregivers participate in the planning and provision of care to elderly patients. Furthermore, they also collaborate in the therapeutic process for elderly patients as well. Albeit the former sentiments, they experience physical, psychological, social and financial consequences of caregiving. It has been revealed that during the process of caring for their loved ones, family caregivers often experience poor sleep quality, strain, reduction in social interaction and insufficient income. Thus, health-care professionals should support and provide care for the needs of family caregivers. This can be achieved through providing information on prognosis, the care plan, emotional support and collaboration during the therapeutic process to provide better care for elderly patients with a tracheostomy. In addition, family caregivers’ relatives can also provide financial support and rotation of caregiving schedules to avoid burnout.

Originality/value
The paper indicates that family caregivers experience the impacts of caregiving. They should be supported by health-care professionals and their relatives.
Primary cutaneous localized/clearly‐outlined true histiocytic sarcoma: Two long‐term follow‐up cases
Authors: Sato Naoko , Arai Eiichi , Nakamura Yasuhiro , Yazawa Yasuo , Yasuda Masanori 
Published: March 2020

AbstractHistiocytic sarcoma (HS) is a rare hematopoietic tumor that mainly involves extranodal sites, including the intestinal tract, skin, soft tissues and other organs. It is well known as an aggressive neoplasm that shows a poor response to therapy. However, a subset of patients with resectable disease has shown a favorable outcome with surgical treatment. Primary cutaneous HS is exceedingly rare and, to date, its long‐term prognosis has thus not been well described. Here, we highlight two cases of primary cutaneous HS that showed long‐term survival. Case 1 was a healthy 47‐year‐old woman who found a 12‐mm tumor on her forehead. Case 2 was a 66‐year‐old woman, under follow up of a myxoid liposarcoma in her leg, who presented with a 25‐mm tumor in her hypothenar eminence. Histologically, the tumors in both cases had a smooth outline with proliferating atypical tumor cells that showed histiocytic differentiation as revealed by immunohistochemistry with antibodies to CD68 (KP‐1) and lysozyme in case 1; and CD68, lysozyme and CD163 in case 2. Tumor cells in case 1 had a monotonous appearance. After complete resection, cases 1 and 2 have survived for 10 and 4 years, respectively, without recurrence. To date, such patients are relatively long follow‐up cases of survival from HS and highlight how a clear outline of the primary cutaneous HS tumor may be associated with its resectability and be an important factor in the assessment of its curability.
The 2019 General Election in Northern Ireland: the Rise of the Centre Ground?
Authors: Hayward Katy 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThe experience of the 2019 general election in Northern Ireland took a very different course to that of the rest of the UK and, indeed, to the pattern of electoral politics typical of the region. Coming after almost three years with no functioning devolved government, combined with intense disagreement and uncertainty about Brexit, voters were ready to give a message to the two largest parties. Both Sinn Féin and the DUP suffered losses in the election, with the headline outcome being that unionism no longer holds the majority of seats for Northern Ireland in Westminster. More generally, there was a swing from both sides towards centre ground voting, which brought significant gains for the Alliance Party and the SDLP. This article summarises the reasons for this broad trend, focussing on the conditions and electoral pacts which brought it about. It also considers what it might mean for the prospects for Irish unification, noting that a referendum on unification will only be passed by attracting votes from those who tend to see themselves as neither unionist or nationalist.
Activating constructive employee behavioural responses in a crisis: Examining the effects of pre‐crisis reputation and crisis communication strategies on employee voice behaviours
Authors: Kim Young , Lim Hyunji (Dana) 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThis study explores how organizational management can promote employee voice behaviours, as positive behavioural reactions with constructive ideas, in responding to organizational crisis. Using an experimental study (N = 640) among full‐time employees in the United States, the study found that pre‐crisis internal reputation and crisis communication strategies—accommodative response and stealing thunder—positively and directly affected constructive employee voice behaviours in a crisis situation. Furthermore, the study revealed how post‐crisis internal reputation mediates the influences of pre‐crisis internal reputation and stealing thunder on positive/constructive and negative/destructive employee voice behaviours. The findings of this study contribute to the theoretical development of crisis communication in the internal context of an organization, especially with respect to employee voice behaviours. The study also highlights an important practical implication for crisis managers who can activate and promote positive employee behaviour voices, thereby influencing leadership's strategic decision‐making in an organizational crisis.
Dynamic changes of the bacterial communities in roast chicken stored under normal and modified atmosphere packaging
Authors: Huang Jichao , Guo Yuchen , Hou Qin , Huang Ming , Zhou Xinghu 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThis study systematically investigated the dynamic changes in bacterial communities in roast chicken in normal and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). The samples were stored under normal atmosphere and 40%/60% CO2/N2 MAP conditions for 28 days at 4 °C. Changes in the number and type of microorganisms in roast chicken during storage were defined via cultural and 16S rDNA sequencing techniques. More Bacteroides, Chryseobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Acinetobacter than other bacteria were initially found in roast chicken. With normal packaging, Pseudomonas rapidly multiplied and became the main spoilage organism in roast chicken after 7 days, with a relative abundance of >90% of the entire bacterial flora. With MAP, due to the high salt content, Halomonas became the main spoilage organism in roast chicken by the middle of the storage period (14 days). Between days 21 and 28 of storage, Pseudomonas gradually became the main spoilage organism in roast chicken, but its relative abundance was much lower in MAP than in normal packaging, followed by Lachnospiraceae (NK4A136 group) and Altererythrobacter. Our research shows that the microbes in roast chicken mainly originated from the processing environment and operators. The combination of MAP with a low storage temperature could effectively improve the quality and safety of roast chicken meat.Practical ApplicationsThis research showed the dynamic changes in the bacterial community of roast chicken stored under normal and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). Microorganisms in roast chicken are mainly obtained from the processing environment and operators. Combining MAP with storage at low temperatures can effectively improve the quality and safety of roast chicken.
Impact of use of byproducts (chicken skin and abdominal fat) on the oxidation of chicken sausage stored under freezing
Authors: Lima Juliana L. , Assis Bianca B. T. , Arcanjo Narciza M. O. , Galvão Mercia de S. , Olegário Lary S. , Bezerra Taliana K. A. , Madruga Marta S. 
Published: March 2020

AbstractFresh chicken sausage is a meat product with high consumption in the world. The addition of a lipid source (other than abdominal fat), such as chicken skin, is considered an alternative to harnessing slaughter byproducts in the preparation of processed meat products. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of use of skin and/or abdominal fat on chicken sausages and their effect on oxidative stability of chicken sausages during freezing storage. Three formulations with chicken meat added of abdominal fat (SF), or chicken skin (SS), or chicken fat and skin (SFS) were elaborated. Chemical composition, fatty acid profile, instrumental color and texture, oxidative stability of lipids and proteins, and sensory acceptability of chicken sausages were determined. SS formulation showed lower lipid and protein oxidation and softness during storage. Consumers showed greater preference and high purchase intent for SFS formulation, which showed average values of chemical composition and oxidation of chicken sausages stored under freezing. Therefore, the combined addition of lipid sources, skin, and abdominal fat is recommended for use in chicken sausages, considering that the addition of fat improves the sensory characteristics of chicken sausages and skin minimizes the oxidative effects of storage.Practical ApplicationThe combined addition of skin fat and abdominal fat is recommended for use in chicken sausages as it does not interfere with consumer acceptability and further ensures nutritional quality during freezing storage. In addition, it is an alternative to using a byproduct of chicken slaughter, bringing economic advantages to the industry and less environmental damage to the world.
Storage, fertilization and cost properties highlight the potential of dried microbial biomass as organic fertilizer
Authors: Spanoghe Janne , Grunert Oliver , Wambacq Eva , Sakarika Myrsini , Papini Gustavo , Alloul Abbas , Spiller Marc , Derycke Veerle , Stragier Lutgart , Verstraete Harmien , Fauconnier Koen , Verstraete Willy , Haesaert Geert , Vlaeminck Siegfried E. 
Published: March 2020

SummaryThe transition to sustainable agriculture and horticulture is a societal challenge of global importance. Fertilization with a minimum impact on the environment can facilitate this. Organic fertilizers can play an important role, given their typical release pattern and production through resource recovery. Microbial fertilizers (MFs) constitute an emerging class of organic fertilizers and consist of dried microbial biomass, for instance produced on effluents from the food and beverage industry. In this study, three groups of organisms were tested as MFs: a high‐rate consortium aerobic bacteria (CAB), the microalga Arthrospira platensis (‘Spirulina’) and a purple non‐sulfur bacterium (PNSB) Rhodobacter sp. During storage as dry products, the MFs showed light hygroscopic activity, but the mineral and organic fractions remained stable over a storage period of 91 days. For biological tests, a reference organic fertilizer (ROF) was used as positive control, and a commercial organic growing medium (GM) as substrate. The mineralization patterns without and with plants were similar for all MFs and ROF, with more than 70% of the organic nitrogen mineralized in 77 days. In a first fertilization trial with parsley, all MFs showed equal performance compared to ROF, and the plant fresh weight was even higher with CAB fertilization. CAB was subsequently used in a follow‐up trial with petunia and resulted in elevated plant height, comparable chlorophyll content and a higher amount of flowers compared to ROF. Finally, a cost estimation for packed GM with supplemented fertilizer indicated that CAB and a blend of CAB/PNSB (85%/15%) were most cost competitive, with an increase of 6% and 7% in cost compared to ROF. In conclusion, as bio‐based fertilizers, MFs have the potential to contribute to sustainable plant nutrition, performing as good as a commercially available organic fertilizer, and to a circular economy.
Increased CD200 levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome
Authors: Liu Ting‐Ting , Zeng Xiang‐Peng , Gu Ming‐Li , Deng An‐Mei 
Published: March 2020

AbstractObjectivesPrimary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is a chronic autoimmune disease with an unknown etiology. CD200 is associated with many autoimmune diseases, but little is known about its role in pSS. This study aims to correlate the expression of CD200 with pSS and evaluate its significance.MethodsPlasma CD200, CD200R, and interleukin (IL)‐17 levels were measured and analyzed by enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay. Messenger RNA levels of CD200 and CD200R in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were quantified by quantitative real‐time polymerase chain reaction (RT‐qPCR). Following pretreatment of CD200‐Fc, the protein levels of IL‐17A were measured in PBMCs from patients and healthy controls.ResultsResults showed that, compared to CD200 in healthy controls, the relative levels in PBMCs from pSS were greater than 2‐fold. In addition, CD200 levels in plasma positively correlated with IL‐17 levels, as well as between plasma CD200 and pSS activity indexes (including immunoglobulin G and European League Against Rheumatism SS Disease Activity Index). While CD200R levels were significantly decreased in pSS patients, no correlation could be found. Furthermore, the protein level of IL‐17 decreased after pretreatment of CD200‐Fc in PBMCs from pSS patients.ConclusionOur results suggested that the CD200/CD200R pathway is involved in pSS pathogenesis. It is hypothesized that regulation of IL‐17 expression affects Th17 differentiation. This newly discovered pathway could give rise to a novel targeted therapy for pSS.
NANDA‐I, NOC, and NIC Linkages for Nutritional Problems
Authors: Monteiro Mantovani Vanessa , Moorhead Sue , Abe Noriko 
Published: March 2020

PURPOSETo determine nursing outcomes and interventions for problem‐focused nursing diagnoses related to nutritional problems.METHODSJudgment of linkages among nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions using a multiple review process. Five nursing diagnoses were selected, and then outcomes and interventions were determined, based on clinical expertise and scientific literature.FINDINGSNursing outcomes and interventions were determined for the resolution or improvement of the nursing diagnoses, with selection of interventions that could influence the progression of the outcomes.CONCLUSIONSThis study provides knowledge for developing care plans for patients with nutritional problems and evaluating the response to the interventions.IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICENANDA‐I, Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) linkages facilitate nurses’ ability to select nursing outcomes and interventions for patients with nutritional problems.