bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The role of fashion retail buyers in China and the buyer decision-making process
Authors: Zhong Yingtong , Mitra Sovan 
Published: April 2020

PurposeThe Chinese fashion market is becoming increasingly important in terms of consumption volume and value. A critical aspect of the Chinese fashion market is the role of the fashion retail buyer; however, there exists little literature on their role and their decision-making process. This paper, therefore, explores the role of Chinese fashion retail buyers, their decision-making process as well as the key factors that influence the retail buyer's decision-making process.Design/methodology/approachInformed by the inductive approach within Sheth's (1981) framework, in-depth interviews with a number of retail buyers in nine leading fashion companies in China were carried out to explore fashion retail buyers' decision-making processes.FindingsThe results show that management mentality, type of merchandise and type of decision context were the most influencing factors regarding merchandise requirements (MRs). Fashion retail buyers in China are substantially restricted by the management style of the firm, which also influences the product mix choice. To evaluate merchandise, fashion buyers take into account consumer demand, company position, geographical differences and fashion trends. In regards to supplier selection, production stability coupled with quality and cost factors become paramount. The study also demonstrates that country of origin (COO) is a less significant factor in the fashion buyer's decision-making process.Originality/valueThis is the first study that explores the fashion retail buyer's decision-making processes in the Chinese market. The results show Chinese fashion buyers' decision-making processes differ significantly from other markets. This paper offers guidelines for an efficient and effective fashion retail buying process in China. The findings offer important avenues for further research and provide insights for fashion professionals in the Chinese and other emerging markets contexts.
Human and social capital as influencers on women’s careers
Authors: Monserrat Silvia Ines , Simmers Claire A. 
Published: April 2020

PurposeIn 1979, Rosemary Pledger became the first female President of the Academy of Management (AOM). AOM, through scholarship and teaching about management and organizations, is well known for its contributions to the development of modern management theory. The purpose of this paper is to understand and analyze the human and social influencers which enabled Pledger’s career success. She climbed to the top of her profession and became a role model for other professional women, especially in the academic field; she successfully cracked the glass ceiling.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a qualitative methodology as most appropriate to examine the research question of how Pledger used human and social skills to overcome barriers to career success. In addition to her biographical data, the authors analyzed 1,593 pages of documents from the AOM Archives at the Khell Center, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.FindingsPledger succeeded because she developed strong human and social capital critical for career success and career mobility. Becoming part of the top management team in three organizations – the AOM, the Southwestern AOM and the University of Houston – Clear Lake City is evidence of her skill in using her capital to crack the glass ceiling.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of author interpretation of secondary data is recognized.Practical implicationsThis work illustrates the appropriateness of qualitative research, specifically, in placing important management figures in context, and it makes clear how human and social capital factors are critical to career success for women.Originality/valueAOM’s contribution to the development of modern management theory is widely recognized; however, there is a lack of studies related to the career successes of AOM’s female leaders. This paper chronicles the career life of Rosemary Pledger who became the first female president of the AOM and a successful Dean and examines the factors that contributed to her career success despite the presence of a glass ceiling.
The relationship between sustainable innovation and product or service innovation: a survey in companies in Rio Grande do Sul
Authors: Severo Eliana Andréa , Perin Marcia Marisa Santanna , De Guimarães Julio Cesar Ferro , Taufer Elaine 
Published: April 2020

PurposeEnvironmental problems and natural resources scarcity are changing contemporary organizations management. The current society quest sustainable companies, mostly concern with the consumption and efficient management of natural resources; those innovative and sustainable companies have the capacity to create innovations and beneficial outcomes for the environment and society. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relevance of sustainable innovation on products and services innovation, in companies in the northern region of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).Design/methodology/approachIn the research, the authors applied a descriptive and quantitative method, through exploratory factor analysis (EFA), with the use of varimax rotation and multiple linear regression. The final sample of the survey consists of 107 respondents.FindingsThe results indicate that sustainable innovation (SI) has an influence on products and services innovations in the organizations, moreover the process innovations can provide reduced energy consumption and waste emissions, indicating the awareness regarding the environmental issues.Research limitations/implicationsIt is emphasized that environmental issues must be linked to investments in environmental education projects in organizations, thus enabling a systemic and effective vision on this issue.Practical implicationsThis research presents managerial and academic contributions, as it has developed a scale to measure the importance of SI on products and services innovation.Originality/valueThe study developed a measurement model, with observable variables based on the specialized literature. The measurement model consists of the constructs of product/service innovation and SI, which were statistically validated through the tests of normality, reliability and EFA.
Embryonic and post‐embryonic responses to high‐elevation hypoxia in a low‐elevation lizard
Authors: LI Xinghan , WU Pengfei , MA Liang , HUEBNER Christopher , SUN Baojun , LI Shuran 
Published: April 2020

AbstractLow‐elevation species can migrate toward higher elevations to survive in a warming world. However, animals’ responses to hypoxia when migrating to high elevations have rarely been addressed. To identify the response of low‐elevation lizards to high‐elevation hypoxia, we collected field body temperatures (Tfb) and operative temperatures (Te) of lizards (Eremias argus) from a low‐elevation population (1036 m) and a high‐elevation population (2036 m), and then determined adult thermal physiology, embryonic development, and hatchling phenotypes after acclimating low‐elevation lizards and incubating their eggs in conditions mimicking the low‐elevation oxygen condition (18.5% O2) and high‐elevation oxygen (hypoxic) condition (16.5% O2). Our study revealed that Tfb and Te were higher for the low‐elevation population compared to the high‐elevation population. We also found adults from low elevation acclimated to hypoxia preferred lower body temperatures, but did not show changes in locomotor performance or growth. In addition, hypoxia did not affect embryonic development (hatching time and success) or hatchling phenotypes (body size and locomotor performance). These results suggest that adult lizards from low elevations can respond to hypoxia‐induced stress when migrating to high elevations by behaviorally thermoregulating to lower body temperatures in order to sustain normal functions. Similarly, low‐elevation embryos can develop normally (with unchanged hatching success and offspring phenotypes) under the high‐elevation hypoxic condition. This study highlights that low‐elevation populations of a species that inhabits a range of elevations can buffer the impact of high‐elevation hypoxic conditions to some degree and thus attain similar fitness to the source population.
The movement dynamics of autotomized lizards and their tails reveal functional costs of caudal autotomy
Authors: FERNÁNDEZ‐RODRÍGUEZ Irene , BRAÑA Florentino 
Published: April 2020

AbstractAutotomy has evolved independently several times in different animal lineages. It frequently involves immediate functional costs, so regeneration evolved in many instances to restore the functionality of that body part. Caudal autotomy is a widespread antipredator strategy in lizards, although it may affect energy storage, locomotion dynamics, or survival in future encounters with predators. Here, we assessed the effect of tail loss on the locomotor performance of wall lizards (Podarcis muralis), as well as the recovery of locomotor functionality of lizards with regenerated tails, and the movement dynamics of shed tails that were either intact or having regenerated portions. Tail loss had no effect on locomotion over unhindered spaces, possibly due to compensation between a negative effect on the stride of front limbs, and a positive effect of losing mass and friction force. We found a clear negative impact of tail loss on locomotion in spaces with interspersed obstacles, in which tailed lizards jumped larger distances when leaving the obstacles. Besides, lizards that used the tail to push off the ground were able to approach the obstacles from further, so that the tail seemed to be useful when used during jumping. Regeneration fully restores lizard's locomotor capacities, but tail antipredator value, as indicated by the intensity of post‐autotomic movements, is only partially retrieved. From these results, we propose that, together with the recovery of post‐autotomy antipredator capacities, the restoration of the organismal locomotor performance may have been an important, yet frequently neglected factor in the evolution of lizard's regeneration ability.
Update on disease pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of primary Sjögren’s syndrome
Authors: Wang Jing , Zhou Lingyan , Liu Bin 
Published: April 2020

AbstractPrimary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is a typical multisystem disease, characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of the exocrine glands leading to glandular dysfunction. Multiple systemic manifestations occur in those of serious conditions, with different courses and outcomes. Its pathogenesis is complex, and its diagnosis and management are being constantly updated and improved. We have failed to have much progress in targeted immunotherapy for pSS, and as yet this is still based on empirical treatment. Many studies have tried to define pSS more accurately, to study its pathogenesis, to find effective treatment strategies, opening up new avenues for early diagnosis and precise management of pSS.
Aspirin‐targeted PD‐L1 in lung cancer growth inhibition
Authors: Zhang Yixiang , Lv Changsheng , Dong Yan , Yang Qingkai 
Published: April 2020

BackgroundAspirin is a classic anti‐inflammatory drug and its anticancer effect has been previously explored in many types of cancer including colorectal cancer therapy. Programmed cell death‐ligand 1 (PD‐L1) is widely expressed in tumor cells and displays an inhibitory role in antitumor immunity. This study aimed to clarify the role of PD‐L1 in aspirin‐suppressed lung cancer.MethodsThe inhibitory effect of aspirin on lung cancer cell proliferation was assessed using an MTT cell viability assay. The role of aspirin in the modulation of PD‐L1 expression was analyzed by western blot or RT‐PCR assays. In lung cancer cells, the influence of aspirin on PD‐L1 promoter activity was detected using a luciferase reporter assay. The interaction of TAZ with PD‐L1 promoter in the cells, with or without aspirin administration, was tested via chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis. The function of PD‐L1 in aspirin‐mediated growth inhibition of lung cancer was examined using a cell viability assay.ResultsFollowing treatment with aspirin, lung cancer cell growth was markedly suppressed. Aspirin was able to markedly decrease the expression of PD‐L1 at the mRNA and protein levels in lung cancer cells. For the mechanism study, we found that the promoter of PD‐L1 was inactivated by aspirin via TAZ transcriptional coactivator in the cells. With regard to the functional investigation, aspirin was capable of resisting cell proliferation and PD‐L1 overexpression abolished aspirin‐depressed cell proliferation in lung cancer.ConclusionsAspirin suppressed the growth of lung cancer cells via targeting the TAZ/PD‐L1 axis.
Parasitoid associated with Liriomyza huidobrensis (Diptera: Agromyzidae) outbreaks in tomato fields in Brazil
Authors: Lopes Mayara C. , Costa Thiago L. , Ramos Rodrigo S. , Farias Elizeu S. , Arcanjo Lucas P. , Ribeiro Arthur V. , Santos Abraão A. , Picanço Marcelo C. 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
The knowledge of natural factors that affect pest populations is essential in predicting the occurrence of pest outbreaks and in developing integrated pest management programmes. Natural enemies, climatic elements and host plants are among the most important factors affecting pest dynamics.
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is the second most consumed vegetable worldwide. The pea leaf miner Liriomyza huidobrensis (Diptera: Agromyzidae) is a major pest to the tomato in Brazil.
This study aimed to determine the main natural factors that regulate L. huidobrensis populations in tomato fields in Brazil.
Liriomyza huidobrensis densities were evaluated by directly counting the number of active mines on the basal leaf of the middle section of the plant canopy, and predators and parasitoids were assessed using the leaf‐beating‐against‐a‐tray technique. Eight commercial tomato fields were assessed over two years. The phenological growth stages of the tomato plants (vegetative and reproductive) were noted during the assessments.
Liriomyza huidobrensis populations peaked between the middle and end of the planting season.
Opius sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was the main natural enemy of L. huidobrensis.
Our results suggest that phenological growth stage and Opius sp. are associated with population dynamics of L. huidobrensis in tomato fields.
Therefore, integrated pest management programmes should aim to preserve populations of the parasitoid Opius sp.
Dietary habits in Japanese patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria
Authors: Matano Yoko , Morita Takashi , Ito Michiko , Okazaki Shizuka , Koto Mototaka , Ichikawa Yuri , Takayama Ryoko , Hoashi Toshihiko , Saeki Hidehisa , Kanda Naoko 
Published: April 2020

AbstractBackgroundChronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is defined as the spontaneously appearing weals and/or angioedema for more than 6 weeks. Dietary habits can modulate the pathogenesis of CSU. However, dietary intakes of nutrients or food in CSU patients, compared with healthy controls, have not been examined in quality and quantity.MethodsWe evaluated dietary habits in adult Japanese patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria using a validated, brief‐type self‐administered diet history questionnaire and compared the results to those of age‐ and sex‐matched healthy controls. The severity of CSU was evaluated using the Urticaria Control Test.ResultsJapanese CSU patients showed higher body mass indices, higher intakes of eggs, vegetables other than green/yellow vegetables/mushrooms/algae, cholesterol, folic acid, dietary fibres, vitamin D, vitamin K, Cu, Fe, Pi, Ca, Mg, Na and salt, and lower intake of alcohol, compared to controls. The logistic regression analysis showed that CSU was associated with high body mass index and high intake of eggs. The intake of beverages was higher in uncontrolled CSU patients (Urticaria Control Test ≦11 points) than in controlled patients. The logistic regression analysis showed that uncontrolled CSU was associated with high intake of beverages. The intake of coffee, caffeine‐rich and non‐alcohol beverage, in uncontrolled CSU patients was higher than that in controlled patients.ConclusionsChronic spontaneous urticaria was associated with high body mass index and high intake of eggs. Uncontrolled CSU was associated with high intake of beverages. Further studies should elucidate the relationships of these results with the development or exacerbation of CSU.
Economic and Noneconomic Factors Influencing Geographic Differentials in Homelessness: An Exploratory State‐Level Analysis
Authors: Cebula Richard J. , Alexander Gigi M. 
Published: April 2020

AbstractIn this exploratory state‐level empirical study for the United States, the authors estimate a pooled time‐series/cross‐section framework, with control variables for population size and population growth, for the years 2015–2016. Within this context, the least squares estimates lead to the following tentative findings: (1) homelessness is positively associated with the overall cost of living, on the one hand, and the average rent level, on the other hand; (2) homelessness appears to be an increasing function of the percent of the population without a high school diploma but a decreasing function of the percent of the population with a bachelor’s degree or a higher level of formal education; (3) homelessness is a decreasing function of labor market freedoms reflecting the degree of union density and union power, on the one hand, and excessive government employment beyond that needed solely for productive and protective services, on the other hand; (4) homelessness is positively associated with personal freedom from incarceration and arrest; and (5) homelessness is negatively associated with income, as higher income reduces homelessness. Based on these findings, preliminary policy implications are also provided.
Visible Homelessness in a “Liveable City”: Municipal Responses to Homelessness in Melbourne
Authors: Petty James , Young Alison 
Published: April 2020

AbstractDespite considerable national and urban prosperity, significant numbers of Australians are homeless. How local governments engage with homelessness has significant implications for the homeless population. In recent years, municipal strategies have inclined towards the maintenance of public order at the cost of the rights of homeless individuals. In this article, we investigate the approach to homelessness proposed by the City of Melbourne in 2017, which centered on the expansion of powers to remove individuals and the confiscation of possessions, testing the council’s claims as to the impact of visible homelessness upon local businesses and upon other users of public spaces.
Cyclical Housing Markets and Homelessness
Authors: Harrison Fred 
Published: April 2020

AbstractThe fundamental explanation of homelessness has eluded governments that claim to operate with “evidence‐based policies.” The underlying cause of most homelessness is inherent in land markets, which are subject to wide swings of speculative manias followed by debilitating depressions. Rather than seeking to rectify the economic roots of homelessness by altering the tax treatment of real estate, governments focus on ameliorative strategies that are destined to fail. Cycles of boom and bust in land markets have persisted since the 19th century. They exacerbate homelessness by pricing low‐income renters out of the market during the upswing, as land prices rise, and by generating massive foreclosures and evictions during the downswing. The most important action government could take to remedy the problem of homelessness is to devise policies to dampen the swings in land prices.
Homelessness and Inequality
Authors: Cleveland Mary 
Published: April 2020

AbstractHomelessness and housing insecurity in the United States are not so much a housing problem or a poverty problem as a visible sign that growing wealth inequality has left millions of people unable to earn enough to afford adequate housing. The classical economists David Ricardo and Henry George linked wealth inequality by arbitrage to unequal income and wages. The greater the inequality of wealth, the greater the inequality of income and the lower the wages at the bottom. Neoclassical economics has largely obscured this relationship. Consequently, proposals from both conservatives and liberals to address homelessness focus narrowly on housing. Ultimately, reducing wealth inequality requires national tax reform and a return to vigorous antitrust enforcement. However, cities can reduce local inequality by making property tax assessments uniform, or, better yet, by shifting to taxing land only.
The Churning of Skid Row: A Genealogy of Development, Gentrification, and Displacement
Authors: Chananiah Pesach 
Published: April 2020

AbstractThe last two decades have seen striking changes to downtown Los Angeles's population. While phrases like “renewal” or “revitalization” pepper the discourse around new urban investment, the reality has been a shocking displacement of those living in single room occupancy (SRO) hotel units—and in tents throughout the area known as Skid Row. Beneath the competing interests of affordable housing advocates, on the one hand, and the public relations campaigns of the private and public sectors, on the other, lie the very real material and discursive forces that are taking the lead. Collective memory is often too short to see historic trends, yet to approximate a grasp of them is to gain ground in a seemingly chaotic present. Through a depth approach to journalistic sources, power analyses, and stakeholder interviews, this article investigates and interrogates the various discourses at play in gentrification media—government, financial interests, individual actors, and judicial bodies. Its purpose is to illustrate systemic causes of urban oppression and trauma in order to inform future attempts to both understand and intervene in the uprooting of communities.
Flow‐controlled fluoroscopic angiography for the assessment of vascular integrity in bioengineered kidneys
Authors: Cohen Shahar , Soffer‐Hirschberg Sarit , Partouche Shirly , Hovav Benny , Gurevich Michael , Mezhybovsky Vadym , Tennak Vladimir , Eisner Sigal , Nesher Eviatar , Mor Eytan , Atar Eli 
Published: April 2020

AbstractPerfusion decellularization has been proposed as a promising method for generating nonimmunogenic organs from allogeneic or xenogeneic donors. Several imaging modalities have been used to assess vascular integrity in bioengineered organs with no consistency in the methodology used. Here, we studied the use of fluoroscopic angiography performed under controlled flow conditions for vascular integrity assessment in bioengineered kidneys. Porcine kidneys underwent ex vivo angiography before and after perfusion decellularization. Arterial and venous patencies were defined as visualization of contrast medium (CM) in distal capillaries and renal vein, respectively. Changes in vascular permeability were visualized and quantified. No differences in patency were detected in decellularized kidneys compared with native kidneys. However, focal parenchymal opacities and significant delay in CM clearance were detected in decellularized kidneys, indicating increased permeability. Biopsy‐induced leakage was visualized in both groups, with digital subtraction angiography revealing minimal CM leakage earlier than nonsubtracted fluoroscopy. In summary, quantitative assessment of vascular permeability should be coupled with patency when studying the effect of perfusion decellularization on kidney vasculature. Flow‐controlled angiography should be considered as the method of choice for vascular assessment in bioengineered kidneys. Adopting this methodology for organs premodified ex vivo under normothermic machine perfusion settings is also suggested.