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Data literacy for teaching and learning in higher education institutions
Authors: Enakrire Rexwhite Tega 
Published: December 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate data literacy (DL) for teaching and learning in higher education institution, as data has become a crucial component in the accomplishment of task and decision-making in diverse sector, specifically higher education institutions (HEIs), where students’ records, results and research activities are managed in data form.

Design/methodology/approach
This study adopted the interpretive content/document analysis harvested from database of Web of Science in this study. The use of content/document analysis became essential to establish appropriate empirical evidence that relates to this study. This was to support the argument of detailed systematic examination, which the author establishes in the study. The interpretive content/document analysis was based on systematic literature review on specific objectives.

Findings
Findings indicates that DL is crucial in HEIs. Different types of data collection methods, such as rating scale, reporting, questionnaire, interview, observation, checklist, project, registration, assignment and performance test, were noticed in specific institutional cases. Subsequent conceptual and pedagogical foundations in processing data were obtain through continuous reskilling to acquire adequate knowledge and skills of DL. Social media and institutional repository are now used to digitise data. Different types of skills and abilities were used to search, analyse, adopt and share data in HEIs. This study recommends strategies of the use of different databases for data digitisation and creation of awareness on DL education in HEIs in Africa, specifically Nigeria.

Originality/value
This study is insightful with the understanding of DL in HEIs. The significance in this era of digital literacy become essential, as the need to have the knowledge and application of the use of data is important because of how it serves scholar in decision-making and planning in organisational productivity. The rationale towards this study on DL was on the basis that the world is a global village and without data, no organisation or HEIs could function adequately. Several types of data collected, such as rating scale, reporting, questionnaire, interview, observation, checklist, project, registration, assignment and performance test, have transformed institutional cases, for better and quality management operations. The subsequent conceptual and pedagogical foundations in processing data resulted in continuous reskilling, to sharpen learn and unlearn enterprise.
Blockchain ETFs: dynamic correlations and hedging capabilities
Authors: Pavlova Ivelina 
Published: December 2020

PurposeIn this paper, the authors examine the interconnectedness of four blockchain exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with other financial markets, such as stocks and cryptocurrencies.Design/methodology/approachA multivariate dynamic conditional correlation model is used to model the relationship of blockchain ETFs with equity and cryptocurrency markets. Risk-minimizing hedge ratios are calculated following the methods used in studies by Kroner and Sultan (1993) and Sadorsky (2012).FindingsThe empirical results show a high degree of correlation of blockchain ETF returns with returns of the NASDAQ Composite Index, while the level of comovement with Bitcoin is relatively low.Research limitations/implicationsThe results imply that blockchain ETFs may be suitable for hedging purposes in a portfolio holding Bitcoin. Furthermore, investing in blockchain ETFs appears similar to investing in NASDAQ.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, no studies have investigated the dynamic relationship of blockchain ETFs and other financial assets.
What does labor displacement mean for management consulting firms?
Authors: Ribes Edouard 
Published: December 2020

PurposeThis study aims to empirically investigate the effects of labor displacement on US management consulting (MC) firms.Design/methodology/approachThis paper leverages standard linear regressions to identify and discuss correlations between progresses made in terms of labor displacement and the evolution of MC firms performance indicators.FindingsIn the context of US MC practices, the study shows that for every percent of work displaced, production costs are reduced by $3.7/h on average. It also highlights that as prices also go down by $3.3/h on average per percent of work displaced, off/near-shoring increases MC practices profitability. Displacing labor is yet a transformation that occurs mainly in very large firms (i.e. more than 1,000+ employees) and its full potential takes more than 4–5 years to realize.Originality/valueThis study provides new empirical benchmarks of the effect of labor displacement on MC firms. This study shows how long off/near-shoring takes to reach its full maturity.
Predicting employees’ engagement in environmental behaviours with supply chain firms
Authors: Amin Izzat , Zailani Suhaiza , Rahman Muhammad Khalilur 
Published: December 2020

PurposeThe aim of this study is to investigate the employee perceptions of organizational support for environmental behaviours and its impact on innovative environmental behaviours and frequency of involvement in upstream oil and gas supply chain management. The study also examines a new area where environmental work culture has been introduced as a facilitator on the relationship between employees’ perceptions and engagement in supply chain management.Design/methodology/approachSelf-administered questionnaires were used for collecting data from supply chain managers in production arrangement contractor and service provider company in Kuala Lumpur. Partial least squares was used for data analysis.FindingsThe findings reveal that supervisory support for environmental initiatives and environmental training is positively related to employees’ perception of organizational support for environmental behaviours, while rewards provided by the organization for environmental behaviours are not associated with it. The employees’ perceptions of organizational support for environmental behaviours have a significant impact on employees’ engagement in environmental behaviours in both forms of employees’ frequency of involvement and employees’ innovative environmental behaviours. The findings also show that environmental work culture moderates positively the impacts of organization’s support practices (supervisory support for environmental initiatives and rewards provided by the organization for environmental) on employees’ perception of organizational support for environmental behaviours.Originality/valueThe study critically examines the possible impact of enablers of engagement in environmental behaviours and how employees’ perceptions of organizational support reflect their engagement towards environmental behaviours of the organizational practices. The findings are useful for supply chain management practitioners in terms of exerting environmental behaviours and facilitating employees’ environmental behaviours in the upstream oil and gas supply chain management sector.
Federal intervention of police under section 14141 – a state-of-the-art literature review
Authors: Ostrowe Jason W. 
Published: December 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this state-of-the-art review is to explore the empirical literature on federal intervention of police under 42 USC Section 14141.Design/methodology/approachA five-stage scoping review of the empirical literature related to 14141 was conducted through searches of scholarly databases and gray literature.FindingsThis scoping review revealed 21 empirical studies of 14141 published between 2002 and 2020 in criminal justice, criminology, legal and gray literature. Researchers employed various methodologies and designs to study 14141 reflecting the complexity of evaluating a multistage and multi-outcome federal intervention of police. The success of 14141 to reform police agencies is mixed. The empirical evidence suggests that application of this law is fraught with trade-offs and uncertainties including de-policing, increased crime and organizational difficulties in sustaining reform. Overall, more research would assist in understanding the efficacy of this federal mechanism of police accountability and reform.Originality/valueThis review is the first synthesis of the empirical literature on 14141. In consideration of the current national police crisis, findings help illuminate both what is known about federal intervention and areas for future research.
Making sense of cost-consciousness in social work
Authors: Bukh Per Nikolaj , Christensen Karina Skovvang , Svanholt Anne Kirstine 
Published: December 2020

PurposeThis paper aims to explore how the introduction of new accounting information influences the understandings of cost-consciousness. Furthermore, the paper explores how managers use accounting information to shape organizational members’ understanding of changes, and how focusing on cost-consciousness influence professional culture within social services.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a case study, drawing on sensemaking as a theoretical lens. Top management, middle management and staff specialists at a medium-sized Danish municipality are interviewed.FindingsThe paper demonstrates how accounting metaphors can be effective in linking cost information and cost-consciousness to operational decisions in daily work practices. Further, the study elucidates how professionalism may be strengthened based on the use of accounting information.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is context specific, and the role of accounting in professional work varies on the basis of the specific techniques involved.Practical implicationsThe paper shows how managers influence how professionals interpret and use accounting information. It shows how cost-consciousness can be integrated with social work practices to improve service quality.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the literature on how accounting information influences social work. To date, only a few papers have focused on how cost-consciousness can be understood in practice and how it influences professional culture. Further, the study expands the limited accounting metaphor research.
Perceptions of safety among visitors to China: feeling safe in an unfamiliar environment
Authors: Zou Yongguang , Mawby Rob I. 
Published: December 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to address four questions: Firstly, how do tourists perceive safety from crime, specifically from robbery or violence, alongside other safety concerns? Secondly, are those who are concerned about crime also concerned about other threats to their well-being? Thirdly, how are their perceptions of safety affected by their perceptions of the local community? Finally, how are their perceptions affected by their personal and touristic characteristics?

Design/methodology/approach

Findings
Firstly, tourists did not generally see crime, specifically robbery or violence, as a problem; secondly, there was only a weak relationship between concern about crime and concern about other threats to their well-being; thirdly, in contrast, their perceptions of safety were strongly affected by their perceptions of the local community; and finally, their perceptions were affected by their personal and touristic characteristics, but not necessarily in the ways suggested by earlier research.

Research limitations/implications
The research sample was small and the questionnaire short. Only English-speaking visitors were included.

Practical implications
The tourism sector needs to appreciate role of local people in engendering feelings of safety.

Social implications
The attitude of the local community and their relationship with tourists is fundamental to helping visitors feel safe.

Originality/value
This is the first criminological paper to compare fear of crime with the other safety issues confronting tourists and to relate these concerns to relationships with host community.
An empirical investigation of factors influencing the environmental reporting quality: evidence from France
Authors: Moalla Marwa , Salhi Bassem , Jarboui Anis 
Published: December 2020

Purpose
This study empirically tests a comprehensive set of relevant factors to explain environmental reporting quality. This study aims to understand whether environmental assurance has a direct effect on “environmental reporting quality”. In addition, this study also aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance and the quality of environmental reporting as measured by voluntary and timely reporting.

Design/methodology/approach
A number of econometric techniques are used including panel data specifications using a sample of French listed companies in SBF120 for the period 2012–2017.

Findings
The results demonstrate that the presence of an environmental audit committee and the size of the environmental external assurance firm has a significant effect on the level of voluntary reporting of environmental information. The results also reveal that the presence of the environmental audit committee, as well as the corporate social responsibility (CSR) committee, the size of the environmental external assurance and corporate governance index, affect the timely environmental reporting.

Research limitations/implications
This study helps all market participants to more comprehensively evaluate the quality of environmental reporting in the French context and highlights whether various factors could affect the quality of the environmental information disclosed using a multi-theoretical framework.

Originality/value
This paper fills the gap in the literature by highlighting an unexplored field of literature about the quality of environmental reporting by linking on the division of the quality of environmental information reporting into sub-dimensions (voluntary reporting and timely reporting) in the French context. To the knowledge, no empirical study has been done on the timely reporting of environmental information in the French context or other contexts. The originality of the work consists of the fact that it is one of the first works that deal with the relationship between environmental external assurance, corporate governance and the quality of environmental reporting.
Generation control of isolated small hydro power plant by using DECSA optimized FPI controller
Authors: Nayak Jyoti Ranjan , Shaw Binod , Dewangan Neeraj Kumar 
Published: December 2020

Purpose
In this work, generation control of an isolated small hydro plant (SHP) is demonstrated by applying optimal controllers in speed governor and hydraulic turbine system. A comparative analysis of application of fuzzy PI (FPI) and PID controller is conferred for generation control (both power and terminal voltage) of an SHP. The controllers are designed optimally by using crow search algorithm (CSA) and novel hybrid differential evolution crow search algorithm (DECSA). The purpose of this paper is to settle the voltage and real power to improve the quality of the power.

Design/methodology/approach
In this work, the controllers (PID and FPI) are implemented in speed governor and excitation system of SHP to regulate power and terminal voltage. Differential evolution and CSA are hybridized to enhance the performance of controller to refurbish the power and terminal voltage of SHP.

Findings
The proposed DECSA algorithm is applied to solve ten benchmark functions, and the effectiveness of DECSA algorithm over CSA and DE is demonstrated in terms of best value, mean and standard deviation. CSA and DECSA algorithms optimized controllers (PID and FPI) are used to design SHP with the capability to contribute power and voltage of better quality. The comparative analysis to substantiate the competence of DECSA algorithm and FPI controller is demonstrated in terms of statistical measures of power and voltage of SHP. Robustness analysis is performed by varying all system parameters to prove the effectiveness of the proposed controller.

Originality/value
The proposed algorithm and FPI controller are applied individually to improve the quality of the power of SHP. DE, CSA and DECSA algorithms are implemented to solve benchmark equations. The solutions of all benchmark equations contributed by DECSA algorithm is converged rapidly and having minimum statistical measures as compared to DE and CSA algorithms. The DECSA algorithm and FPI controller are proposed with superior competence to enhance the generator performances by conceding undershoot, overshoot and settling time of power and terminal voltage. DECSA-based FPI controller contributes a noticeable improvement of the performances over other approaches.
Ownership type and earnings gap decomposition: Evidence from the Ghanaian labor market
Authors: Botchway Ebo , Asiedu Kofi Fred 
Published: December 2020

AbstractWe present evidence of sector earnings gap decomposition in the Ghanaian labor market for the period 2009–2015. With a sample of 200 workers from state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) and 250 from privatized enterprises (PEs), we use the Mincerian wage equation, with the Oaxaca–Blinder and Juhn–Murphy–Pierce decompositions on earnings, and observe that the two ownership categories differ regarding personal characteristics and institutional factors, with employees in PEs receiving a wage premium (64%) over their SOE counterparts. In addition, employee observed characteristics explain only 36% of the earnings differential. The PE‐SOE differential is small at the top quartiles compared with previous studies. However, individuals at the bottom of the wage distribution in the public sector earn far lower than their counterparts in the private sector, signaling that low‐level SOE workers have not gained much despite the single spine salary structure policy initiated by the Government in 2008 to bridge the wage gap. This study contributes to wage analysis and decomposition by focusing on individual and institutional factors—personal characteristics, sector, and government policy—that are traditionally not combined in extant literature.
The Craft of Anne Ryan's Collages
Authors: Richmond Susan 
Published: December 2020

AbstractBetween 1948 and 1954, Anne Ryan produced over 400 small‐scale collages out of worn fabrics and handmade paper. Although this work earned her a fruitful affiliation with the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, its ‘feminine’ delicacy distinguished it from the bold styles generally associated with the artist's abstract expressionist peers. Revisiting the presupposition of a ‘feminine’ touch, this essay assesses the collages in light of Ryan's expertise as a sewer. Drawing from feminist theories on the significance of everyday embodied knowledge, it is argued that the artist defined the limits of her practice through careful material and tactile choices, demonstrating what is proposed to be a craft expertise engrained over a lifetime of handling threads and fabrics. Such claims, in turn, have broader bearing on how we continue to write about the relationship between modernist art and the structures, skills, and habits of the domestic everyday.
Neoproterozoic Crustal Reworking and Growth in the Zhangbaling Uplift, Tan–Lu Fault Zone: Evidence from the Feidong Complex and Zhangbaling Group
Authors: NIU Manlan , CAI Qianru , WU Qi , YUAN Xiaoyu , SUN Yi , LI Xiucai , LI Chen , ZHU Guang , LI Zhensheng , ZHANG Shuai 
Published: December 2020

AbstractIntensive mid‐Neoproterozoic magmatism is the salient feature of the Yangtze Block, preserving abundant information about crustal reworking and growth. Zircon U–Pb–Lu–Hf isotope analysis was performed on material from the Feidong Complex (FDC) and Zhangbaling Group (ZBLG) of the Zhangbaling Uplift, in order to determine the age and magmatic source of the Neoproterozoic igneous rocks as well as the detrital provenance for the sedimentary rocks, to further provide important data for understanding the mid‐Neoproterozoic crustal evolution of the Northeast Yangtze Block. The amphibolite and gneissic granites in the Feidong Complex (FDC) gave similar protolith ages of 782–776 Ma. The synmagmatic zircons exhibited variable negative ∊Hf(t) values of –26.9 to –8.3. Early (ca. 2.4 Ga) to late Paleoproterozoic (ca. 2.0–1.9 Ga) inherited zircons were found in the gneissic monzogranite, with negative ∊Hf(t) values of –11.2 to –7.2, indicating strong reworking of the ancient crustal materials of the Northeast Yangtze Block. Whereas the amphibolites represent minor crustal growth through emplacement of continental rifting‐related mafic magmas. The quartz–keratophyres in the Xileng Formation of the ZBLG in contrast systematically yield young protolith crystallization ages of 754–727 Ma with high ∊Hf(t) values of –2.0 to +5.6, indicating their derivation from the reworking of juvenile crustal materials. The detrital zircons from the metasiltstone in the Beijiangjun Formation yield variable 206Pb/238U ages (871–644 Ma) with a peak age at 741 ± 11 Ma and ∊Hf(t) values of –4.3 to +5.3, which is consistent with those of the Xileng Formation, but distinct from the FDC, indicating that the provenance of the metasiltstone is primarily the underlying Xileng Formation. The mid‐Neoproterozoic igneous and sedimentary rocks of the Zhangbaling Uplift were products from continental rifting zones along the northern margin of the Yangtze Block, situated in different positions from the Susong Complex and the Haizhou Group. The transition from ancient to juvenile crustal sources for felsic magmatic rocks is attributed to gradually increased crustal extension during continental rifting.
Multistate Ornstein–Uhlenbeck approach for practical estimation of movement and resource selection around central places
Authors: Eisaguirre Joseph M. , Booms Travis L. , Barger Christopher P. , Goddard Scott D. , Breed Greg A. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract

Home range dynamics and movement are central to a species' ecology and strongly mediate both intra‐ and interspecific interactions. Numerous methods have been introduced to describe animal home ranges, but most lack predictive ability and cannot capture the effects of dynamic environmental patterns, such as the impacts of air and water flow on movement.

Here, we develop a practical, multi‐stage approach for statistical inference into the behavioural mechanisms underlying how habitat and dynamic energy landscapes—in this case how airflow increases or decreases the energetic efficiency of flight—shape animal home ranges based around central places. We validated the new approach using simulations, then applied it to a sample of 12 adult golden eagles Aquila chrysaetos tracked with satellite telemetry.

The application to golden eagles revealed the effects of habitat variables that align with predicted behavioural ecology. Further, we found that males and females partition their home ranges dynamically based on uplift. Specifically, changes in wind and sun angle drove differential space use between sexes, especially later in the breeding season when energetic demands of growing nestlings require both parents to forage more widely.

This method is easily implemented using widely available programming languages and is based on a hierarchical multistate Ornstein–Uhlenbeck space use process that incorporates habitat and energy landscapes. The underlying mathematical properties of the model allow straightforward computation of predicted utilization distributions, permitting estimation of home range size and visualization of space use patterns under varying conditions.