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Employee satisfaction with the built environment of a software development company
Authors: da Silva Marcelo Benetti Corrêa , Valente Marina Giacometti , Petroli Angela , Notari Daniel Luis , Bebber Suélen , Fachinelli Ana Cristina 
Published: December 2020

PurposeThe raised competitiveness among technology companies, especially for being able to work with markets physically distant from their final consumer, makes it important to know the employee’s perception about the built environment since the physical workspaces influence productivity. This paper aims to analyze the attributes and dimensions of the built environment of a development software company that most impact the employee’s satisfaction through their perception. It allows the company to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the built environment, enhancing the employee’s satisfaction, productivity and, consequently, the company revenues.Design/methodology/approachThis research applied a survey by the drop off method and analyzed data through confirmatory factor analysis and multiple linear regression. Therefore, these methods explain how the attributes behave in each theoretical dimension and evaluate the relation between the dependent and independent dimensions.FindingsThe theoretical result of this research concerns the employee’s satisfaction with the built environment of a software development company. Overall, employee satisfaction is related to the dimensions of functionality, appearance and personal relationships, not being significant aspects of configuration. On the other hand, the employee’s overall satisfaction with the built environment is related to the functional dimension.Research limitations/implicationsThis research limitation is related to the size of the sample, which is a pre-determined and fixed population: all the company’s employees.Originality/valuePerceived quality applied to a work environment of a software development company.
Identifying future trends by podcast mining: an explorative approach for Web-based horizon scanning
Authors: Welz Juliane , Riemer Annamaria , Döbel Inga , Dakkak Nora , Von Schwartzenberg Anna Sophie 
Published: December 2020

Purpose
The aim of this paper is to gain knowledge in podcast mining as an additional source for Web-based horizon scanning (HS). The paper presents theoretical insights on the potential of podcast mining by exploring topics, which may be relevant in the future, and by reflecting the results against a background of HS approaches. The study provides a preliminary overview by presenting an exemplary list of podcast shows for further research.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses an exploratory quantitative content analysis, which was conducted on the basis of 30 topics deemed to be relevant in the future and which were identified in the field of applied science. Based on these topics, podcasts and episodes were identified which address future-oriented topics and were discussed in terms of range of content.

Findings
The findings indicate that future-oriented topics are addressed in podcasts. However, differences in dynamics and range of content of the podcasts concerned highlight the necessity of identifying a list of suitable podcasts according to the specific scanning focus and the dynamics of each future-oriented topics.

Originality/value
While a growing number of podcast studies have already noted the importance of podcasts as a key medium, for example, educational processes and media sciences, no detailed explanation of podcast mining as a tool for the purposes of HS has been published. The review therefore makes an original contribution to this field, highlighting areas where future research is needed.
Innovation in policy-making for big science: a cultural analysis of interdisciplinary research in China’s biotechnology industry
Authors: Wang Kai , Wang Ying , Ma Yun , Xu Sutian 
Published: December 2020

Purpose
Big science has become a new normative standard in transforming science policy with the interdisciplinary research (IDR) pattern serving as an organizational strategy in scientific inquiries. This paper aims to show how policy-making is organized in the real situation of the R&D sectors for this trend.

Design/methodology/approach
Cultural theory and new institutionalism are tinkered for a close examination of the ways in which IDR has been enacted and implemented in BGI Group, an exemplar of big science and leading biotechnology research facility in China, by interrogating institutional cultures in the context of big science projects, whilst investigating how IDR is evolved against the specific social process of interaction.

Findings
The findings include that the IDR has profoundly influenced how scientific knowledge is produced, the social interactions between stakeholders and the innovation of research policy within the network of China’s biotechnology industry.

Originality/value
Advances in biotechnology and related fields are redrafting China’s hi-tech industry development and governance landscape. This is the first empirical study of innovation in R&D management for big science project as presented by the IDR pattern in the BGI. It makes an important contribution to the understanding of both the nature of China’s biotechnology industry governance practices and the culture of scientific innovation within which the IDR mediates social interactions and thereby the policy-making process.
On the relevance of self-service business intelligence to university management
Authors: Arnaboldi Michela , Robbiani Andrea , Carlucci Paola 
Published: December 2020

PurposeNearly 40 years since they first appeared, there is renewed interest in dashboards, engendered by the diffusion of business intelligence (BI) desktop software, such as Power BI, QlikView and Tableau, denoted collectively as “self-service” BI. Using these commodity software tools, the work to construct dashboards apparently becomes easier and more manageable and no longer requires the intervention of specialists. This paper aims to analyse the implementation of this kind of commodity dashboard in a university, exploring its role in performance management processes and investigating whether the dashboard affects the organisation (or not).Design/methodology/approachThis paper focusses on an action research project developed by the authors, where the objective was to design and implement a dynamic performance measurement tool fitting the needs of department directors. The three authors were all involved in the project, respectively, as project manager, dashboard implementation manager and accounting manager of the studied organisation.FindingsThe results reveal a specific but complex change to the procedures and outcomes in the organisation studied, where the dashboard becomes a boundary infrastructure, thereby reviving technical and organisational problems that had been latent for years.Originality/valueIn this paper, the authors contribute to the debate on the digital age and the role of accounting with their exploration into the “revolution” of self-service BI tools. The democratisation and flexibility of these instruments put into discussion two core and somewhat controversial functions of accounting: data integration and personalised reporting.
Reliability analysis for a multi-stack solid oxide fuel cell system subject to operation condition-dependent degradation
Authors: Eichhorn Colombo Konrad W. , Schütz Peter , Kharton Vladislav V. 
Published: December 2020

PurposeA reliability analysis of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system is presented for applications with strict constant power supply requirements, such as data centers. The purpose is to demonstrate the effect when moving from a module-level to a system-level in terms of reliability, also considering effects during start-up and degradation.Design/methodology/approachIn-house experimental data on a system-level are used to capture the behavior during start-up and normal operation, including drifts of the operation point due to degradation. The system is assumed to allow replacement of stacks during operation, but a minimum number of stacks in operation is needed to avoid complete shutdown. Experimental data are used in conjunction with a physics-based performance model to construct the failure probability function. A dynamic program then solves the optimization problem in terms of time and replacement requirements to minimize the total negative deviation from a given target reliability.FindingsResults show that multi-stack SOFC systems face challenges which are only revealed on a system- and not on a module-level. The main finding is that the reliability of multi-stack SOFC systems is not sufficient to serve as sole power source for critical applications such as data center.Practical implicationsThe principal methodology may be applicable to other modular systems which include multiple critical components (of the same kind). These systems comprise other electrochemical systems such as further fuel cell types.Originality/valueThe novelty of this work is the combination of mathematical modeling to solve a real-world problem, rather than assuming idealized input which lead to more benign system conditions. Furthermore, the necessity to use a mathematical model, which captures sufficient physics of the SOFC system as well as stochasticity elements of its environment, is of critical importance. Some simplifications are, however, necessary because the use of a detailed model directly in the dynamic program would have led to a combinatorial explosion of the numerical solution space.
Can a multi-cultural industry such as tourism be inclusive?
Authors: Tarlow Peter 
Published: December 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to look at the question of inclusivity and argue that the term reflects a majority culture “including” a minority culture – whether it desires to be included or not.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper provides a discussion on tourism as a multi-cultural industry.

Findings
This paper offers a new sociological framework.

Practical implications
This paper is of value in a time when minorities are questioning their role in society and provides insights into those who believe that they may be serving society when in fact the opposite might be the case.

Originality/value
This paper creates a new sociological framework
Impairment of autophagy may be associated with follicular miniaturization in androgenetic alopecia by inducing premature catagen
Authors: Liu Weiwen , Li Kaitao , Wang Gaofeng , Yang Lunan , Qu Qian , Fan Zhexiang , Sun Yang , Huang Junfei , Miao Yong , Hu Zhiqi 
Published: December 2020

AbstractAndrogenetic alopecia is the most common form of hair loss disorder. The features of this process are shortening of the anagen phase in hair cycling and progressive miniaturization of the hair follicle. However, the mechanisms in androgenetic alopecia are still unclear, and the treatment methods are also limited. Therefore, further study on the pathogenesis and new therapies for androgenetic alopecia are urgently needed. In this study, we found that endogenous autophagy was severely impaired, accompanied by increased apoptosis in early catagen‐like miniaturized hair follicles from the balding scalps of androgenetic alopecia patients. Moreover, inhibition of autophagy using 3‐methyladenine could induce apoptosis, premature hair follicle regression and slow down the hair growth in organ‐cultured hair follicles. Taken together, these results suggest that impairment of autophagy could be a potential mechanism in androgenetic alopecia.
Pathways to reduced emergency department and urgent care center use: Lessons from the comprehensive primary care initiative
Authors: Timmins Lori , Peikes Deborah , McCall Nancy 
Published: December 2020

AbstractObjectiveTo determine the association between a large‐scale, multi‐payer primary care redesign—the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative—on outpatient emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) use and to identify the types of visits that drive the overall trends observed.Data SourcesMedicare claims data capturing characteristics and outcomes of 565 674 Medicare fee‐for‐service (FFS) beneficiaries attributed to 497 CPC practices and 1 165 284 beneficiaries attributed to 908 comparison practices.Study DesignWe used an adjusted difference‐in‐differences framework to test the association between CPC and beneficiaries’ ED and UCC use from October 2012 through December 2016. Regression models controlled for baseline practice and patient characteristics and practice‐level clustering of standard errors. Our key outcomes were all‐cause and primary care substitutable (PC substitutable) outpatient ED and UCC visits, and potentially primary care preventable (PPC preventable) ED visits, categorized by the New York University Emergency Department Algorithm. We used a propensity score‐matched comparison group of practices that were similar to CPC practices before CPC on multiple dimensions. Both groups of practices had similar growth in ED and UCC visits in the two‐year period before CPC.Principal FindingsComprehensive Primary Care practices had 2% (P = .06) lower growth in all‐cause ED visits than comparison practices. They had 3% (P = .02) lower growth in PC substitutable ED visits, driven by lower growth in weekday PC substitutable visits (4%, P = .002). There was 3% (P = .04) lower growth in PPC preventable ED visits with no weekday/nonweekday differential. As expected, our falsification test showed no difference in ED visits for injuries. UCC visits had 9% lower growth for both all‐cause (P = .08) and PC substitutable visits (P = .07).ConclusionsOur results suggest that greater access to the practice and more effective primary care both contributed to the lower growth in ED and UCC visits during the initiative.
Comparison of refractive prediction for intraoperative aberrometry and Barrett True K no history formula in cataract surgery patients with prior radial keratotomy
Authors: Dawson Valerie J. , Patnaik Jennifer L. , Ifantides Cristos , Miller D. Claire , Lynch Anne M. , Christopher Karen L. 
Published: December 2020

AbstractPurposeTo compare prediction errors of the Barrett True K No History (Barrett TKNH) formula and intraoperative aberrometry (IA) in eyes with prior radial keratotomy (RK).MethodsA retrospective, non‐randomized study of all patients with RK who underwent cataract surgery using IA at the UCHealth Sue Anschutz‐Rodgers Eye Center from 2014 to 2019 was conducted. Refraction prediction error (RPE) for IA and Barrett TKNH was compared. General linear modelling accounting for the correlation between eyes was used to determine whether absolute RPE differed significantly between Barrett TKNH and IA. Outcome by number of RK cuts was also compared between the two methods.ResultsForty‐seven eyes (31 patients) were included. The mean RPEs for Barrett TKNH and IA were 0.04 ± 0.92D and 0.01 ± 0.92D, respectively, neither was significantly different than zero (p = 0.77, p = 0.91). The median absolute RPEs were 0.50D and 0.48D, respectively (p = 0.70). The refractive outcome fell within ± 0.50D of prediction for 51.1% of eyes with Barrett TKNH and 55.3% with IA, and 80.8% were within ± 1.00D for both techniques. Mean absolute RPE increased with a higher number of RK cuts (grouped into < 8 cuts and ≥ 8 cuts) for both Barrett TKNH (0.35D and 0.74D, p = 0.008) and IA (0.30D and 0.80D, p = 0.0001).ConclusionsThere is no statistically significant difference between Barrett TKNH and IA in predicting postoperative refractive error in eyes with prior RK. Both are reasonable methods for choosing intraocular lens power. Eyes with more RK cuts have higher prediction errors.
Towards an ecology of protective coloration
Authors: Caro Tim , Koneru Manisha 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACTThe strategies underlying different forms of protective coloration are well understood but little attention has been paid to the ecological, life‐history and behavioural circumstances under which they evolve. While some comparative studies have investigated the ecological correlates of aposematism, and background matching, the latter particularly in mammals, few have examined the ecological correlates of other types of protective coloration. Here, we first outline which types of defensive coloration strategies may be exhibited by the same individual; concluding that many protective coloration mechanisms can be employed simultaneously, particularly in conjunction with background matching. Second, we review the ecological predictions that have been made for each sort of protective coloration mechanism before systematically surveying phylogenetically controlled comparative studies linking ecological and social variables to antipredator defences that involve coloration. We find that some a priori predictions based on small‐scale empirical studies and logical arguments are indeed supported by comparative data, especially in relation to how illumination affects both background matching and self‐shadow concealment through countershading; how body size is associated with countershading, motion dazzle, flash coloration and aposematism, although only in selected taxa; how immobility may promote background matching in ambush predators; and how mobility may facilitate motion dazzle. Examination of nearly 120 comparative tests reveals that many focus on ecological variables that have little to do with predictions derived from antipredator defence theory, and that broad‐scale ecological studies of defence strategies that incorporate phylogenetics are still very much in their infancy. We close by making recommendations for future evolutionary ecological research.
Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action
Authors: Bille Larsen Peter , Le Billon Philippe , Menton Mary , Aylwin José , Balsiger Jörg , Boyd David , Forst Michel , Lambrick Fran , Santos Claudelice , Storey Hannah , Wilding Susan 
Published: December 2020

AbstractClose to two thousand environmental human rights defenders have been killed in 57 countries since 2002, with about four losing their lives every week in 2019. Many of these defenders represent Indigenous Peoples and local communities protecting ecosystems from large‐scale environmentally destructive projects. As the positive contributions of Indigenous and local communities to biodiversity conservation become better recognized, so should the losses and risks that they face. Despite major efforts at documenting abuses and protecting defenders, many blind spots and gaps remain. Here, we call for the conservation community to put the protection of defenders at the heart of its strategy to slow down and reverse the current onslaught on the environment. The conservation community can respond in a number of ways including reaching out to its constituencies, working together with the human rights community, and mobilizing its networks, field offices, and presence in remote areas to denounce abuses and counter isolation. In doing so the conservation community can advance the collective agenda bringing together conservation and environment‐related human rights through the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
False Pass, Alaska: Significant changes in depth and shoreline in the historic time period
Authors: Zimmermann Mark , Prescott Megan M. 
Published: December 2020

AbstractGlobal ocean circulation is limited partly by the small passes of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, which restrict North Pacific Ocean water from flowing north into the Bering Sea and eventually to the Arctic, but the size and shape of these Aleutian passes are poorly described. While quantitatively redefining all of the Aleutian passes, we determined that the easternmost pass, with the cryptic name of False Pass, and with an unusual configuration of having both northern and southern inlets, had two or more inlets to the Bering Sea in the recent past, but that it has only a single northern inlet now (15,822 m2), roughly equivalent in size to the southern inlet, Isanotski Strait (15,969 m2). Navigational charts depict the opposite: two inlets to the Bering Sea now, but just one in older charts (1926–43). This discrepancy inspired a thorough review of the hydrographic history from which we concluded that the second northern inlet did exist and hypothesize that it was a remnant of multiple former openings, or a single large opening, potentially allowing greater northward flow of warmer, fresher Alaska Coastal Current water. While the shoreline changes that we document here are often regarded as minor, ephemeral events, we document similar, nearby, permanent shoreline shifts which changed Ikatan Island into a peninsula and which shifted the Swanson Lagoon outlet over 3 km to the east.
THE CRITICAL PROMISES OF THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE: PERSPECTIVES FROM EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Authors: MARCON FEDERICO 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACTThis essay, written from the vantage point of a historian specialized in early modern Japan, asks if and in what capacity the history of knowledge offers an advantage for our understanding of the past compared to established historiographical forms. It accounts for the intellectual relevance of this genre of history and concludes with a strong endorsement of its self‐reflexive methodology. It also contends that historical research on East Asia is of inestimable value for this historiographical approach because of its resistance to uncritically universalizing Eurocentric terminology and because of its direct engagement with transcultural translation of both archival sources and heuristic apparatus. Historians working on knowledge production in East Asia or in other parts of the “non‐Western” world must constantly question the effects of their interpretive categories on the topics and archives they study; they are thus accustomed to the epistemological self‐reflection that this new approach seems to require. The essay concludes by advocating metaphorical comparison as a formal model that best expresses historians’ heuristic practices.