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Whole-genome sequencing of strains of Vibrio spp. from China reveals different genetic contexts of blaCTX-M-14 among diverse lineages
Authors: Zheng Zhiwei , Ye Lianwei , Li Ruichao , Chen Sheng 
Published: December 2020

Abstract

Objectives
To investigate the prevalence and genetic contexts of the blaCTX-M-14 gene harboured by foodborne isolates of Vibrio spp. in China.

Methods
A total of 1856 Vibrio spp. isolates collected from raw meat and shrimp samples in Guangdong Province of China were screened for blaCTX-M-14 by PCR. The blaCTX-M-14-positive isolates were characterized by MIC, PFGE, MLST, conjugation, S1-PFGE and Southern blotting and WGS using Illumina and Nanopore platforms.

Results
A total of 35 (1.9%) Vibrio isolates were positive for blaCTX-M-14, including 33 Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains and two Vibrio alginolyticus strains. MLST showed that most of the blaCTX-M-14-bearing isolates could be assigned into two major STs, with ST163 being more prevalent (n = 23), followed by ST180 (n = 6). Whole-genome analysis of these 35 isolates revealed that the blaCTX-M-14 gene was associated with ISEcp1 in the upstream region, of which 32 blaCTX-M-14 genes were located in the same loci of chromosome I, 1 blaCTX-M-14 gene was located in a novel chromosomal integrative conjugative element (ICE) belonging to the SXT/R391 family and 2 blaCTX-M-14 genes were located in the same type of plasmid, which belonged to the IncP-1 group. Conjugation experiments showed that only the plasmid-borne blaCTX-M-14 gene could be transferred to the recipient strain Escherichia coli J53.

Conclusions
The emergence of the novel ICE and IncP-1 plasmids has contributed to the variable genetic contexts of blaCTX-M-14 among strains of Vibrio spp. and facilitated the horizontal transfer of such genes between Vibrio spp. and other zoonotic pathogens, resulting in a rapid increase in the prevalence of blaCTX-M-14-bearing bacterial pathogens worldwide.
Perfectly Tired: Perfectionism and Sleep in Adolescents With Chronic Pain
Authors: Clementi Michelle A , Gray Laura S , Bento Samantha P , Jervis Kelsey , Fletcher Angela A , Borner Kelsey , Randall Edin T 
Published: December 2020

Abstract

Objective
Conceptual links between perfectionism and chronic pain have been proposed yet minimal empirical data exists. Poor sleep is associated with high levels of perfectionism and is common among youth with chronic pain. This study explores associations between perfectionism and sleep quality in adolescents with chronic pain while considering levels of functional disability.

Methods
Adolescents (ages 12–18) with chronic pain (N = 423) completed baseline measures of self-oriented perfectionism (SOP), socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP), sleep quality, and functional disability as part of routine clinical care at an outpatient chronic pain clinic and a pain rehabilitation day treatment program. Multivariate multiple regression assessed associations between perfectionism (SOP and SPP) and sleep (falling asleep/reinitiating sleep, returning to wakefulness, and going to bed). Two moderation models explored how relations between perfectionism (SOP and SPP) and sleep quality (total score) varied depending on level of functional disability. All analyses controlled for clinic setting.

Results
Results indicated SPP was associated with more difficulties across all sleep subdomains in adolescents with chronic pain, while SOP was unrelated to sleep quality. Associations between perfectionism and sleep quality were dependent on functional disability; perfectionism was most strongly associated with worse sleep quality for adolescents with less functional disability.

Conclusions
This study highlights the relationship between perfectionism and sleep quality in adolescents with chronic pain and suggests that perfectionistic youth with less disability are at the greatest risk for sleep problems. Longitudinal research is needed to understand how perfectionism, sleep, and disability interact over time in youth with chronic pain.
Moral Entanglement: Taking Responsibility and Vicarious Responsibility
Authors: Goetze Trystan S. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract:
Vicarious responsibility is sometimes analysed by considering the different kinds of agents involved—who is vicariously responsible for the actions of whom? In this paper, I discuss vicarious responsibility from a different angle: in what sense is the vicarious agent responsible? I do this by considering the ways in which one may take responsibility for events caused by another agent or process. I discuss three senses of taking responsibility—accepting fault, assuming obligations, and fulfilling obligations—and the forms of vicarious responsibility that correspond to these. I end by explaining how to judge which sense applies in a given case, based on the degree of (what I call) moral entanglement between the agent and what they should take responsibility for.
A Hole in the Box and a Pain in the Mouth
Authors: Casser Laurenz C , Schiller Henry Ian 
Published: December 2020

AbstractThe following argument is widely assumed to be invalid: there is a pain in my finger; my finger is in my mouth; therefore, there is a pain in my mouth. The apparent invalidity of this argument has recently been used to motivate the conclusion that pains are not spatial entities. We argue that this is a mistake. We do so by drawing attention to the metaphysics of pains and holes and provide a framework for their location which both vindicates the argument's validity and explains why it appears invalid. To this end, we show that previously proposed explanations for the apparent invalidity of the argument fail. Moreover, we show that our account accommodates and explains seemingly opposing linguistic data. We conclude that the ‘pain-in-mouth argument’ does not undermine the view that pains are spatial entities.
Geographic isolation and human-assisted dispersal in land snails: a Mediterranean story ofHelix borealisand its relatives (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae)
Authors: Korábek Ondřej , Kosová Tereza , Dolejš Petr , Petrusek Adam , Neubert Eike , Juřičková Lucie 
Published: December 2020

AbstractThe Mediterranean basin is a major centre for land-snail diversity, with many localized endemics, but there are also species widely spread by humans. Both endemics and introductions can be found in the snail genus Helix, which comprises many large-bodied species used for human consumption in the past and present. The Mediterranean clade of Helix is currently distributed throughout this region, but the phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships among its forms from different parts of the basin remain enigmatic. The reasons include insufficient sampling, taxa with unclear taxonomy and a significant impact of human-assisted transport obscuring the natural distribution of phylogenetic lineages. We provide evidence that European and Anatolian populations of H. cincta and its relatives are not native to those regions, but originate from the northern Levant. These results have implications for taxonomy of the genus, but also for the understanding of its evolutionary history. We posit that the Mediterranean clade consists of four geographically separated groups, which diversified in Northern Africa, the Apennine Peninsula and Corsica, the Aegean and Greece, and the northern Levant. This geographic pattern has been subsequently blurred by multiple instances of human-assisted dispersal. However, revealing the founding populations with certainty requires thorough sampling in currently inaccessible countries.
Institution-monopoly rent and competition amongst China's local governments: a Marxist analytical framework
Authors: Meng Jie , Wu Fenghua 
Published: December 2020

PurposeAs a crucial institutional form established since the Chinese economic reform, the system of competitive local governments has been shaping the characteristics of China's socialist market economy to a considerable degree.Design/methodology/approachThis study not only adopts the view of existing studies that attribute the economic motive of local governments to rent and consider land public finance as a means through which local governments carry out strategic investment but also attempts to further develop the view within a Marxist analytical framework.FindingsAs a result, the local governments have helped to maintain an incredibly high investment rate over a considerable period of time, facilitating the continuous, rapid growth of the Chinese economy.Originality/valueThis study concludes that China's local governments function as the productive allocator and user of rent in the strategic investment based on land public finance and thereby embed themselves in the relative surplus-value production initially arising from competition amongst enterprises, forming the dual structure of relative surplus-value production unique to China's economy.
Employee happiness and corporate social responsibility: the role of organizational culture
Authors: Espasandín-Bustelo Francisco , Ganaza-Vargas Juan , Diaz-Carrion Rosalia 
Published: December 2020

PurposeThis research explores how does the organizational culture influence internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions and the effect of these actions on the level of happiness of employees.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopts an employee perspective since the perception of employees is the unit of analysis. By relying on a sample of 921 workers of firms from different sectors and sizes headquartered in Spain, the empirical analysis is performed using partial least squares.FindingsThe findings evidence that clan and adhocracy cultures highly foster internal CSR practices and that internal CSR activities enhance employees' happiness. The mediating role of internal CSR in the relationship between organizational culture and employee happiness is also found. These results suggest that managers could play a proactive role in fostering internal CSR by designing the organizational culture according to features of clan and adhocracy cultures such as flexibility, innovation, creativity, autonomy, communication, training and support of supervisors.Research limitations/implicationsThe research focuses on a single country, which makes it difficult to generalize the results and guides future research into cross-cultural analysis. Including countries that present differences in their cultural and institutional context would allow to explore the influence of the national context on the business culture, on internal CSR and on employee happiness. This work is also limited in time, as the data used are of a cross-cultural nature.Practical implicationsA greater effort in internal CSR by companies translates into a higher level of happiness for their workers. Specifically, occupational health and safety practices have the greatest influence on employee happiness. Hence, organizations must develop cultures that contribute to promote internal CSR—adhocracy and clan—since this would enhance employees' happiness if the values and beliefs that characterize these cultural configurations are translated into internal CSR practices such as occupational health and safety, work–life balance and equal opportunities.Social implicationsThe improvement of employee happiness creates social value and can be enhanced through an organizational culture that promotes CSR. The research findings might be useful when defining institutional policies to promote job quality, as encouraged by the social policy agenda of the United Nations embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals.Originality/valuePromoting internal CSR through organizational culture will have positive effects for companies internally by enhancing employees' happiness. Therefore, the article contributes to overcome the lack of evidence about the antecedents of internal CSR and its relationship with employees' happiness, an emerging variable in the management literature.
Pricing to market: property valuation methods – a practical review
Authors: Gabrielli Laura , French Nick 
Published: December 2020

PurposeValuation is the process of determining Market Value. Property valuation, as with the valuation of all assets, is an estimation of price in the market. It is value in exchange. The valuer role is to determine the appropriate approach, the method and use the right model to achieve this aim as best as possible. It is a combination of analysing the market and determining the critical variables for the valuation method/model. The method is separate from the valuation process which should be followed (according to the International Valuation Standards Council Valuation Standards) regardless the valuation method chosen. There are valuation approaches, valuation methods and, as a subset of the methods, techniques or models.Design/methodology/approachThis practice briefing is an overview of the Valuation Methods and Models available to the valuer and comments on the appropriateness of valuation each in assessing Market Value for specific property types.FindingsThis briefing is a review of the valuation methods and models and models that can be applied to determine market value.Practical implicationsThe role of the valuer in practice is to identify the method of valuation and then apply the correct mathematical model for the valuation task in hand.Originality/valueThis provides guidance on how valuations can be presented to the client in accordance with the International Valuation Standards.
Benchmarking maintenance performance in select agro-based industry
Authors: Gandhare Balasaheb Shahaji , Akarte Milind M. 
Published: December 2020

PurposeThis paper demonstrates a multi-criteria analytic hierarchy process (AHP) framework for evaluating and benchmarking maintenance performance in the select agro-based industry.Design/methodology/approachInitially, 20 maintenance practices (criteria) have been identified after a detailed literature review and discussion with the agro-based industry (sugar, textile and dairy industry) executives. These are then grouped into six maintenance management areas referred to as group criteria. The multi-criteria methodology consists of three steps: criteria identification, hierarchical modeling and data collection and maintenance performance evaluation, and benchmarking. The multi-criteria methodology proposed in this work facilitates two ways of carrying out benchmarking: (1) within the agro-based industry and (2) between the agro-based industry. The methodology has been explained by taking a case example of 45 agro-based industries (18 dairy, 13 sugar and 14 textile) from the western region of India. The sensitivity analysis of the model has been performed to ascertain the robustness of the results.FindingsThere is a difference in the maintenance performance across the agro-based industries due to different maintenance practices perceived differently.Research limitations/implicationsThe outcome of the model is mainly given by the judgments of the agro-based industry executives. It is also sensitive to any change in the relative importance to the evaluation criteria or the perception about the maintenance performance.Practical implicationsThe study contributes in identifying the weakness, if any, by comparing the agro-based industry under investigation with the benchmark factory at three levels, namely, overall performance (factory level), group criteria (maintenance management area level) and criteria (maintenance practice level) allowing further improvement.Originality/valueThe methodology assists in better decision-making and in improving maintenance performance.
Linking strategic entrepreneurship to business growth in Iranian IoT-based companies
Authors: Ziyae Babak , Vagharmousavi Majid 
Published: December 2020

PurposeStrategic entrepreneurship (SE) is effective in the formation of business strategies that involve simultaneous opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviors. SE revitalizes firms to achieve competitive advantage in the current turbulent markets. The purpose of this paper is to understand in more detail how SE influences business growth (BG) through the lens of dynamic capabilities (DC) theory.Design/methodology/approachUsing a quantitative research method and structural equation modeling technique, the measurement and structural models were developed to test the research hypotheses. For this purpose, a survey was conducted among 159 internet of thing (IoT)-based companies in Iran.FindingsThe findings show that DC theory provides the theoretical underpinning to describe the effect of SE and its dimensions on entrepreneurial opportunity recognition (EOR). Results also reveal that EOR mediates the relationship between SE and BG. Furthermore, this research empirically verifies that organizational entrepreneurship and value creation moderate the relationship between EOR and BG.Originality/valueIoT identifies a pathway for continuous change that helps to improve firms’ competitiveness and innovation. This paper provides a new insight into how Iranian IoT-based companies can enhance their SE to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities and gain competitive advantage. Mainly, this study singles out and discusses the variegated features that characterize the implementation of SE by Iranian IoT-based companies having different characteristics.
Impact of foreign direct investment on the agricultural sector in Nigeria (1981–2017)
Authors: Edeh Chukwudi Emmanuel , Eze Chidera Godson , Ugwuanyi Sonia Onyinye 
Published: December 2020

AbstractThe study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the agriculture sector in Nigeria using quarterly time series data for the period 1981–2017 obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin. Preliminary tests on the time series data were done using the pairwise correlation test, Augmented Dickey–Fuller and Phillips–Perron unit root tests. The results of the Bounds test and Johansen test indicate the presence of cointegration in the model. The A utoregressive Distributed Lagged (ARDL) model, Fully Modified Least Squares (FMOLS) and Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) were used to estimate the parameter estimates of the regression model. Results indicate that foreign direct investment has a positive and significant impact on agricultural sector output. Specifically, the ARDL result shows the impact of foreign direct investment to be more in the short run (0.0024 < 0.05) than in the long run (0.0000 < 0.05). Also, deregulation of the economy has a significant impact on agricultural output over the period under study. The study recommends an increase in tax holidays (from the present 3 years to at least 6 years) to prospective foreign direct investors. There is a need to provide for a short‐ and medium‐term framework that will address increased and emergency funding of the agricultural sector by the government in Nigeria.
Electrocardiographic predictors of successful resynchronization of left bundle branch block by His bundle pacing
Authors: Arnold Ahran D. , Shun‐Shin Matthew J. , Keene Daniel , Howard James P. , Chow Ji‐Jian , Lim Elaine , Lampridou Smaragda , Miyazawa Alejandra A. , Muthumala Amal , Tanner Mark , Qureshi Norman A. , Lefroy David C. , Koa‐Wing Michael , Linton Nick W. F. , Boon Lim Phang , Peters Nicholas S. , Kanagaratnam Prapa , Auricchio Angelo , Francis Darrel P. , Whinnett Zachary I. 
Published: December 2020

AbstractBackgroundHis bundle pacing (HBP) is an alternative to biventricular pacing (BVP) for delivering cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with heart failure and left bundle branch block (LBBB). It is not known whether ventricular activation times and patterns achieved by HBP are equivalent to intact conduction systems and not all patients with LBBB are resynchronized by HBP.ObjectiveTo compare activation times and patterns of His‐CRT with BVP‐CRT, LBBB and intact conduction systems.MethodsIn patients with LBBB, noninvasive epicardial mapping (ECG imaging) was performed during BVP and temporary HBP. Intrinsic activation was mapped in all subjects. Left ventricular activation times (LVAT) were measured and epicardial propagation mapping (EPM) was performed, to visualize epicardial wavefronts. Normal activation pattern and a normal LVAT range were determined from normal subjects.ResultsForty‐five patients were included, 24 with LBBB and LV impairment, and 21 with normal 12‐lead ECG and LV function. In 87.5% of patients with LBBB, His‐CRT successfully shortened LVAT by ≥10 ms. In 33.3%, His‐CRT resulted in complete ventricular resynchronization, with activation times and patterns indistinguishable from normal subjects. EPM identified propagation discontinuity artifacts in 83% of patients with LBBB. This was the best predictor of whether successful resynchronization was achieved by HBP (logarithmic odds ratio, 2.19; 95% confidence interval, 0.07–4.31; p = .04).ConclusionNoninvasive electrocardiographic mapping appears to identify patients whose LBBB can be resynchronized by HBP. In contrast to BVP, His‐CRT may deliver the maximum potential ventricular resynchronization, returning activation times, and patterns to those seen in normal hearts.
Isotopic enrichment in Rhizoprionodon porosus (Poey, 1861) and Carcharhinus porosus (Ranzani, 1840) embryos
Authors: Garzón‐Peña Lina Vanesa , Barrera‐García Angelica , Delgado‐Huertas Antonio , Polo‐Silva Carlos Julio 
Published: December 2020

AbstractIsotopic values of two Caribbean sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon porosus litters (Poey, 1861) with two and three embryos and one litter of 11 smalltail shark Carcharhinus porosus embryos showed enriched 15N and 13C compared to their mothers. In R. porosus, embryonic isotope values were 3.06 ± 0.07‰ and 0.69 ± 0.15‰ greater than their mothers' for δ15N and δ13C, respectively, whereas in C. porosus, δ15N and δ13C were 1.79 ± 0.09‰ and 1.31 ± 0.17‰ greater in embryos than their mothers.
Multiple marginalisation and unintended pregnancy among racial/ethnic and sexual minority college women
Authors: Reynolds Colleen A. , Beccia Ariel , Charlton Brittany M. 
Published: December 2020

AbstractBackgroundBoth sexual minority and racial/ethnic minority women are at increased risk of unintended pregnancy compared to their heterosexual and non‐Hispanic white peers, respectively. A recent study suggests the presence of negative interaction between sexual orientation and race/ethnicity, although it was not explicitly assessed.ObjectivesTo characterise the burden of unintended pregnancy across groups defined by intersecting sexual orientation and race/ethnicity and to explore for potential intersectional interaction between social identities.MethodsWe analysed cross‐sectional survey data from the National College Health Assessment collected between Fall 2015 and Spring 2018. The relative risk (RR) of unintended pregnancy among college‐attending women aged 18‐25 was estimated using multivariable log‐binomial regression (n = 177 592). We estimated multiplicative‐ and additive‐scale (relative risk due to interaction, RERI) interaction between race/ethnicity and sexual orientation on the risk of unintended pregnancy; 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using 500 bootstrap replicates.ResultsUnintended pregnancy was rare across all intersecting identity groups (≤1.5%). Compared to heterosexual non‐Hispanic white women, all groups of sexual minorities and/or racial/ethnic minorities had a higher risk of unintended pregnancy. This was consistent within strata of sexual orientation and race/ethnicity. We did not find strong evidence of additive‐scale interaction between sexual orientation and race/ethnicity (RERI −0.19, 95% CI −0.67, 0.28), but we did find negative multiplicative‐scale interaction (interaction RR 0.76, 95% CI 0.59, 0.96).ConclusionsThese findings illustrate that interactions, which are typically used to quantify intersectional effects, are scale‐dependent. This has implications regarding how risk estimates for multiply marginalised groups are interpreted. More broadly, our findings suggest the need to move beyond multiple jeopardy approaches to quantitative intersectional research and consider the upstream factors that may uniquely shape the health status of groups at the nexus of particular social identities.