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Automatic tool with adaptive suspension system for high-quality inspection of underwater risers
Authors: Medeiros Vivian Suzano , Kubrusly Alan Conci , Bertoche Raphael Lydia , Freitas Miguel Andrade , Camerini Claudio , Brito Jorge Luiz F. , von der Weid Jean Pierre 
Published: April 2021

Purpose
The inspection of flexible risers is a critical activity to ensure continuous productivity and safety in oil and gas production. The purpose of this paper is to present the design and development of a novel automatic underwater tool for riser inspection that fits the most commonly used riser diameters and significantly improves inspection quality and reduces its operating costs.

Design/methodology/approach
The mechanical and electronic design of the inspection system is discussed, as well as its embedded sensors and control system. The tool is equipped with a suspension system that is able to adapt to the riser diameter and negotiate obstacles on the pipe wall. Numerical simulations were carried out to analyze the mechanical design, and a hardware-in-the-loop simulation was developed for tuning the control system. Further, experimental results are presented and discussed.

Findings
Experimental tests in laboratory tanks and shallow seawater have confirmed the effectiveness of the tool for detailed real-time inspection of underwater pipelines.

Practical implications
The use of the proposed tool will potentially reduce the time and costs for riser inspection, currently performed by divers or high-cost ROVs.

Originality/value
The authors present a reliable tool able to perform automatic inspections up to 250 m deep in less than 30 min, equipped with a high-definition visual inspection system, composed of full-HD cameras and lasers and a suspension mechanism that can negotiate sharp obstacles in the pipe wall up to 25 mm high. The tool uses a comprehensive control system that autonomously performs a full inspection, collecting sensors data and returning safely to the surface. Its robust design can be used as basis for several other nondestructive techniques, such as ultrasound and X-ray.
Sustainability topic trends in the textile and apparel industry: a text mining-based magazine article analysis
Authors: Li Jitong , Leonas Karen K. 
Published: April 2021

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to (1) identify the sustainable practices developed by the textile and apparel industry and (2) investigate the gaps and opportunities in the sustainability implementation process by quantitively analyzing the sustainability topics and the relevant topic trends.Design/methodology/approachThis study employed text mining techniques. A total of 1,168 relevant magazine articles published from 2013 to 2020 were collected and then categorized according to their tones. In total, 36 topics were identified by reviewing the sustainability issues in the industry. The frequency of each topic mentioned in the articles and the correlation coefficients between topics' frequencies and published time were calculated. The results were used to examine if the three sustainability dimensions (environment, society, economy) were equally addressed and identify opportunities in the sustainability implementation process.FindingsThere were much fewer social and economic topics than environmental topics discussed in the articles. Additionally, there were not enough practices developed to reduce microfiber pollution, improve consumers' knowledge of sustainability, offset the carbon footprint, build a transparent, sustainable supply chain and avoid animal cruelty.Originality/valueThere is a lack of research focusing on the whole supply chain and sustainability when investigating sustainable practices and topic trends. This study fills a part of the gap. The results can be used by industrialists to identify sustainable practice opportunities and better manage their sustainable supply chains. Researchers can utilize the results to compare the topics in the industry with the topics studied in academia.
Effect of hydration with oral water on nonstress test in a hospital, Turkey: a randomized controlled trial
Authors: Şener Yeter , Aksoy Hüseyin , Başer Mürüvvet 
Published: April 2021

PurposeThe aim of this study was to assess the effect of hydration with oral water on non-stress test (NST).Design/methodology/approachThe study was conducted as single-blinded and randomized controlled. Healthy and outpatient 32- to 40-week pregnant women who were aged 19 and older were included in the study. Intervention group pregnant women (n = 66) drank 500 ccs of water before the NST, and no attempt was made to the control group (n = 66). The NST parameters of the groups with fetal heart rate (FHR), variability, acceleration, deceleration, reactivity and nonreactivity were evaluated.FindingsBoth groups were found to be similar in terms of their descriptive characteristics and variables related to pregnancy (p > 0.05). The median FHR was 130.0 in the intervention group, 140.0 in the control group (p < 0.001), and the median number of the acceleration was 6.0 in the intervention group and 4.0 in the control group (p < 0.001). In terms of the median number of decelerations, the groups were similar (p > 0.05).Originality/valueIt was found that hydration with oral water had an effect on NST parameters of FHR and the number of accelerations. However, it was observed that the FHR was within the normal range in both groups. It was thought that it tended to increase the number of accelerations.
Foreign direct investment rules in selected European countries – an overview
Authors: Burgess Geoffrey P. , McIver Timothy , Tenglemann Philippe , Lariven Rosanne , Pomana Andrea , Schoberwalter Jan , Troina Edoardo 
Published: April 2021

Purpose
To provide an overview of the national foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening mechanisms in place across Europe including in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.

Design/methodology/approach
This article summarizes the key elements of the national FDI screening regimes of some of the leading European economies. This includes setting out the relevant investment thresholds, protected sectors, lengths of review periods, standstill obligations and potential sanctions in each jurisdiction.

Findings
Many of Europe’s leading economies are following the wider global trend towards stricter reviews of foreign investment ahead of the EU Screening Regulation coming into force in October 2020. However, the approach taken to FDI screening can vary significantly at a country level in terms of both process and substance and the applicable laws are evolving rapidly, not least as a response to concerns related to the impact of COVID-19.

Practical implications
Investors looking to make acquisitions in Europe will need to consider whether national FDI screening will apply to their proposed investments. Depending on the jurisdiction, FDI screening can introduce lengthy review periods and require detailed information gathering as well as uncertainty as to the final outcome. Potential investors also need to consider the risk of sanctions, including criminal sanctions, for non-compliance with the screening regimes.

Originality/value
This article offers a summary and comparison of national FDI screening regimes across Europe.
SEC amends rules on financial reporting of business acquisitions and dispositions
Authors: Parrino Richard J. 
Published: April 2021

Purpose
This article examines the comprehensive amendments recently adopted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to its accounting and other rules that govern financial statement filing requirements for significant business acquisitions and dispositions.

Design/methodology/approach
The article provides an in-depth analysis of the rule changes in the context of the SEC’s attempt to balance the right of investors to obtain adequate information about the impact of an acquired or disposed business on an SEC registrant against the filing burdens that can result from over-identification of acquisitions or dispositions as material to the registrant based on the SEC’s “significance” tests.

Findings
The rule amendments bring enhanced coherence to a reporting framework that has been characterized in part by inconsistencies, gaps, unreliable valuation principles, and ambiguities. The amendments contribute to the SEC’s ongoing disclosure effectiveness initiative by updating, clarifying, and codifying many requirements that had developed piecemeal in market practice or through guidance issued by the SEC’s staff.

Originality/value
This article provides expert guidance on a major SEC disclosure requirement from an experienced securities lawyer.
SEC adopts offering reforms for BDCs and registered closed-end funds and issues a temporary exemptive order
Authors: Rosella Michael , Hearth David , Avdeychik Vadim , Johnson Ryan 
Published: April 2021

Purpose
To analyze and identify the key findings from the April 8, 2020, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) recently approved rule amendments (“Adopted Rules”) extended to business development companies (“BDCs”) and registered closed-end funds and an Exemptive Order providing regulatory flexibility to BDCs.

Design/methodology/approach
Discusses the key takeaways and implications from the Adopted Rules and Exemptive Order.

Findings
The Adopted Rules provide BDCs and registered closed-end funds some of the more efficient registration, reporting, offering, and communication requirements currently applicable to operating companies. The Exemptive Order provides BDCs additional flexibility with respect to (1) the issuance and sale of senior securities and (2) the participation in certain joint transactions.

Practical implications
Firms and their representatives should heed the trends in both the substantial restitution FINRA is ordering and the related enforcement issues in the cases FINRA has brought.

Originality/value
Expert analysis and guidance from experienced asset management lawyers.
Dealing with surprise attacks: decomposing ERM as a dynamic capability to handle crises
Authors: Venkatesh Vishnu Chandar , Dasgupta Meeta , Prashar Anupama , Andersen Torben Juul 
Published: April 2021

PurposeTurbulent hypercompetitive market conditions make small and medium enterprises (SMEs) vulnerable to abrupt crises caused by unexpected competitor moves. In these situations, enterprise risk management (ERM) can serve as a dynamic capability (DC) to overcome the impending crisis and improve SMEs' survival rates. To explore this capacity, which has only been vaguely addressed in prior research, we conduct an exploratory, abductive study to update the extant (ERM and DC) literature with empirical evidence from expert interviews.Design/methodology/approachWe conduct an exploratory, abductive study using empirical evidence from expert interviews.FindingsOur findings reveal ERM as a second-order DC in the micro-foundational components of competitive intelligence gathering, alliance building and integrative capabilities. We find that competitive intensity and government policy moderate the effects of these foundational capabilities. Finally, our study proposes a survivability model that provides new valuable knowledge of ERM as a DC for SMEs to deal with competition-driven crises.Originality/valueThis research survivability model shows how ERM as DC can facilitate the survivability of SMEs against competitive surprises. Although restricted to crises arising out of competitive surprises, this study provides valuable knowledge to the literature on what type of DCs are useful for specific situations. The study findings not only extended Teece's (2007) DCs framework to competitive crises but also placed it within a hierarchy of capabilities. The research findings indicate that an ERM culture in SMEs promote the growth and development of sensing, seizing and reconfiguring capabilities, vital for tiding competitive crises.
Support for small businesses during a health crisis
Authors: Majid Kashef A. , Kolar David W. , Laroche Michel 
Published: April 2021

Purpose
Crises threaten the operations of small businesses and endanger their survival; however, when the crisis is not attributable to the firm, consumers may rally around the business. This study aims to examine how attitudes toward helping others can create support for small businesses, which in turn can direct consumers to help businesses with increased financial support. It is hoped that this paper will inform how consumers will help firms pivot during crises.

Design/methodology/approach
A conceptual model was proposed which linked support for helping others to increased willingness to tip/amount tipped. The model was tested using structural equation modeling from two surveys given to customers of two small businesses, a coffee shop and an independent movie theater, respectively.

Findings
During a crisis, support for helping others has a positive impact on feelings of support for small businesses. Consumers direct their support to small businesses that they are interested in seeing survive and continue operations. They either tip more or tip when they otherwise would not have tipped.

Practical implications
Firms that pivot their operations because of a crisis imposed on them can still generate revenues. Consumers who have a self-interest in the continuing operations of the firm want to support it, and by pivoting their business model, the firm gives consumers the opportunity to give the firm and its employees more than they would have in the form of tips.

Originality/value
Prior work in crisis management has focused primarily on how firms recover and respond to a crisis of their doing. Overwhelmingly, consumers have been shown to punish firms during times of crisis. However, for a crisis that is imposed on the firm, consumers may rally behind the firm and respond by supporting it more than they are required to.
Enhancing trust through digital Islamic finance and blockchain technology
Authors: Chong Felicia Hui Ling 
Published: April 2021

PurposeThis paper aims to provide a reflective discussion on the different avenues of blockchain application in Islamic finance in promoting trust and transparency for increased accountability between parties involved in the delivery of Sharīʿah-compliant products and services.Design/methodology/approachThis paper discusses on blockchain benefits in Islamic finance while providing an illustration with smart Sukuk. Having identified the advantages of the development of Islamic financial technology (i-FinTech), this study ends by debating a couple of challenges (computational codification of Sharīʿah principles and environmental impact) that have to be addressed to promote the development of a real sustainable Islamic FinTech.FindingsThis paper also identifies two challenges in using blockchain in i-Fintech. The first challenge refers to the extent to which Sharīʿah principles can be computationally encoded. Blockchain makes public all transactions that ease Sharīʿah compliance checks and determine if these transactions are Islamic in nature but this check can be done only after their operation. The second challenge is related to the algorithmic protocol used to validate smart contracts (including smart Sukuk). This situation calls into question the principles of Maqasid al-Sharīʿah according to which transactions should not harm society.Originality/valueIn the current debates related to the development of Islamic FinTech, this paper also identifies two challenges in using blockchain in i-Fintech.
The global financial crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction
Authors: Arch Linda 
Published: April 2021

Purpose
Since the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 academic research has paid considerable attention to understanding the nature of the crisis, its causes and consequences. This is not surprising given the scale and scope of the crisis. Much of this research has been undertaken within social science disciplines. At the same time, the crisis has also been the subject of fiction – novels, poetry and drama, and there is also a small body of academic scholarship on fiction relating to the crisis (and on finance in fiction more generally). The purpose of this paper is to suggest that fiction can offer a new perspective on the global financial crisis and thereby enhance our understanding of it.

Design/methodology/approach
This exploration draws upon three works of post-crisis fiction: the 2009 play by David Hare, The Power of Yes: A Dramatist Seeks to Understand the Financial Crisis (hereafter The Power of Yes); Other People’s Money, a novel by Justin Cartwright (2011); and Robert Harris’s novel The Fear Index also published in 2011. Its approach is based on close readings of the three texts in question.

Findings
Finance fiction stimulates a reconceptualization of the global financial crisis as a crisis of innovation and technological change.

Originality/value
This paper is a viewpoint article. The originality lies in the author’s interpretation of reading the global financial crisis through fiction.
Selenium in cereals: Insight into species of the element from total amount
Authors: Xie Minhao , Sun Xinyang , Li Peng , Shen Xinchun , Fang Yong 
Published: April 2021

AbstractSelenium (Se) is a trace mineral micronutrient essential for human health. The diet is the main source of Se intake. Se‐deficiency is associated with many diseases, and up to 1 billion people suffer from Se‐deficiency worldwide. Cereals are considered a good choice for Se intake due to their daily consumption as staple foods. Much attention has been paid to the contents of Se in cereals and other foods. Se‐enriched cereals are produced by biofortification. Notably, the gap between the nutritional and toxic levels of Se is fairly narrow. The chemical structures of Se compounds, rather than their total contents, contribute to the bioavailability, bioactivity, and toxicity of Se. Organic Se species show better bioavailability, higher nutritional value, and less toxicity than inorganic species. In this paper, we reviewed the total content of Se in cereals, Se speciation methods, and the biological effects of Se species on human health. Selenomethionine (SeMet) is generally the most prevalent and important Se species in cereal grains. In conclusion, Se species should be considered in addition to the total Se content when evaluating the nutritional and toxic values of foods such as cereals.
Monitoring for valproate and phenytoin toxicity in hypoalbuminaemia: A retrospective cohort study
Authors: Madan Arushi , Donovan Peter J. , Risetto Tracy , Trenerry Helen , Lander Cecilie M. 
Published: April 2021

AimsEquations to calculate albumin‐adjusted total concentrations have been validated to correlate with measured free concentrations for both phenytoin and valproate, but there is a lack of data to assess correlation with clinical outcomes. We aimed to assess the association of hypoalbuminaemia and albumin‐adjusted total concentrations with concentration‐dependent toxicity for phenytoin and valproate and review the impact on management decisions following concentration monitoring in hypoalbuminaemia.MethodsPatients undergoing concentration monitoring for phenytoin or valproate between January and December 2018 were included. Patients were identified using a centralised laboratory database with data extracted from medical records.ResultsTotal phenytoin concentrations were measured for 144 patients, with hypoalbuminaemia (≤30 g L−1) recorded in 59 (41%) patients. Albumin‐adjusted phenytoin concentration >20 mg L−1 was associated with increased neurological adverse effects (77% vs. 43%, P < .001). On logistic regression, higher albumin‐adjusted phenytoin concentration was an independent risk factor for neurotoxicity (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.01–1.12, P = .011). Total valproate concentrations were measured for 383 patients, with hypoalbuminaemia (≤30 g L−1) noted in 53 (14%) patients. For the valproate cohort, hypoalbuminaemia (42% vs. 28%, P = .039) and albumin‐adjusted valproate concentration >100 mg L−1 (49% vs. 23%, P < .001) were both associated with increased neurotoxicity. On multiple logistic‐regression, valproate daily dose (aOR = 1.01, 95% CI 1.00–1.02, P = .006) and albumin‐adjusted valproate concentration (aOR 1.01, 95% CI 1.00–1.02, P = .033) were independent risk factors for neurotoxicity after accounting for confounders.ConclusionWhile measuring free drug concentrations in hypoalbuminaemia would be ideal, the adjustment equations can help identify vulnerable patients needing further assessment of potential concentration‐dependent toxicity.
Clinical efficacy of lenvatinib for the treatment of radioiodine‐refractory thyroid carcinoma: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of clinical trials
Authors: Yan Zhipeng , Yang Ming , Lai Ching‐Lung 
Published: April 2021

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the efficacy of lenvatinib in the treatment of radioiodine‐refractory thyroid carcinoma.BackgroundThyroid carcinoma is one of the top ten carcinomas worldwide. Clinically, thyroid cancers are managed with resections and adjuvant therapy with radioiodine. However, radioiodine is not effective for radioiodine‐refractory (RR) thyroid carcinoma in some patients.Lenvatinib is a multi‐kinase inhibitor for the treatment of RR thyroid carcinoma. Several clinical trials showed its efficacy in prolonging progression‐free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).Design, patients and measurementsA systematic search was done on databases (PubMed, Embase, MEDLINE, Cochrane) on 8 June 2020. Search keywords were lenvatinib, thyroid carcinoma and randomized controlled trials. Clinical trials fulfilling the SELECT protocol were selected to evaluate the efficacy of lenvatinib in terms of prolongation of PFS, OS and objective response rate (ORR). The risk ratio and distribution of grade 3 or above adverse events were documented.ResultsOf the 3997 patients of mean age 62.5 years in fifteen selected studies, lenvatinib is associated with prolonged PFS (hazard ratio 0.24, 95% CI, 0.19‐0.31, p < .001) and OS (hazard ratio 0.65, 95% CI, 0.52‐0.81, p < .001). Compared with placebo, the risk ratio of ORR and incidence of grade 3 or above adverse events are 35.41 (95% CI, 19.42‐64.58, p < .001) and 8.25 (95% CI, 6.50‐10.46, p < .001), respectively. Subgroup analysis shows that lenvatinib is effective for all patients with RR thyroid carcinoma, regardless of age, histological subtypes, radiological subtypes and mutation status.ConclusionLenvatinib is effective in the treatment of RR thyroid carcinoma. Close monitoring of serious adverse events is recommended.