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Appraising social work curriculum in India: learners’ perspective
Authors: Simon Richi 
Published: August 2021

Purpose
This paper aims to understand the social work curriculum as perceived by the learners of the master’s degree programme. The study compares the perception as held by students’ originating from the same and different faculties regarding the curricular aspects of social work education in India.

Design/methodology/approach
The study uses a qualitative approach. It is a case study-based paper whereby the participants were selected using multi-phase sampling, universities were selected using purposive sampling and 106 students were selected using quota sampling. Semi-structured online interviews were taken using an interview guide and transcribed. Inter-coder reliability was tested using Cohen’s kappa. The paper used grounded theory to analyse data.

Findings
The study suggests a significant difference in the perception of curriculum between those originating from the same discipline and other faculty. It was found that the learners perceive the curriculum to be obsolete in addressing contemporary concerns and needs serious reframing.

Research limitations/implications
As the study uses the case study method, it has been limited to four universities of Madhya Pradesh state of India to analyse the cases effectively. Further, only the domain of social work has been explored in the study. Thus, the results may lack generalizability. Further studies can also be conducted to test the propositions suggested. Even similar studies can be carried out with other disciplines. Also, the study being cross-sectional leaves scope for future comparative and longitudinal studies.

Practical implications
The paper presents some interesting perceptions of the student community, which can be used for redesigning and revising the social work curriculum. Such appraisals if done by every educational institute can bring significant reforms in the present education system of India and make it at par with the global standards and responsive to the contemporary needs of the society. Further, with such training, social workers can be true change agents.

Social implications
The study can play a significant role in the redesigning of social work education in India. Thus, directly or indirectly benefit the entire society.

Originality/value
The paper addresses the concern to include the current student community in curriculum design to ensure quality curriculum.
An exploratory study of participants’ fit perceptions of customized garments
Authors: Guo Siming , Istook Cynthia L. 
Published: August 2021

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to explore participants’ fit perceptions of customized garments and investigate the factors that affected the customized fit.

Design/methodology/approach
Because different patternmaking methods generate varied fit results, eight customized dresses were developed for four fit models aged 18–25 using two different made-to-measure (MTM) systems (Gerber AccuMark and Telestia Creator). The authors designed a questionnaire to assess the fit of the final garments on each of the four models. A total of 12 participants (four fit models and eight experts) attended a live evaluation meeting and completed the questionnaire. The quantitative and qualitative data of the participants’ fit perceptions were collected and analyzed.

Findings
The authors compared the fit outputs of the two MTM systems and determined the fit issues from the participants’ perceptions. The results showed that the participants evaluated the customized fit mainly according to the ease, seam placement and wrinkle occurrence. The majority of fit models and experts preferred Dress B created using Telestia Creator to Dress A developed using Gerber AccuMark. The participants’ fit perceptions also revealed that many factors, such as the MTM systems, participants’ fit preferences, models’ body characteristics, fabric and ease, impacted the fit results. In addition, the experts perceived more fit issues than the models.

Originality/value
The fit output comparison of the two MTM systems could be valuable for pattern makers to use the systems. The research results would also be useful for apparel companies to conduct a fit evaluation and improve their customization processes.
Finding psychopaths in white-collar jobs: a review of the evidence and why it matters
Authors: Boddy Clive Roland , Taplin Ross , Sheehy Benedict , Murphy Brendon 
Published: August 2021

PurposeInfluential research has posited that empirical investigation provides no evidence for the existence of white-collar/successful psychopaths. The purpose of this current paper is to review evidence for their existence and report on new, primary research that examines ethical outcomes associated with their presence.Design/methodology/approachLeading psychopathy researchers called for research using samples of white-collar workers to explore workplace psychopathy. Therefore, the authors undertook a two-stage research process to examine this. Firstly, a structured literature review sought evidence for “corporate psychopaths”, “white-collar psychopaths” and “successful psychopaths” in existing literature. Secondly, original research was undertaken among 261 Australian workers to examine this further.FindingsFindings indicate that white-collar psychopaths exist. Where they have been found not to exist, investigation reveals that the samples used were inadequate for the purpose of attempting to find them.Practical implicationsAlthough there is an inconsistent nomenclature, white-collar, industrial, successful, organisational, workplace or corporate psychopaths do exist and are found in white-collar workplaces.Social implicationsTheir existence is important because findings indicate that they have a significant, ethically malign and long-lasting impact on employee well-being and organisational ethical outcomes.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is perhaps the first paper to specifically examine the literature for evidence of whether white-collar psychopaths exist. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is also the first paper to determine that corporate psychopaths are linked with aggressive humour, gender discrimination, fake corporate social responsibility and reduced communications integration.
Consumers’ prosocial engagement in CSR: why should they care and what does it mean to them?
Authors: Song Baobao 
Published: August 2021

Purpose
Public relations practitioners worldwide are attempting to enhance the overall organization–stakeholder relationships by applying strategic communication techniques and skills to corporate social responsibility (CSR) management and communications. In this light, drawing on the prosocial motivation literature, this paper aims to investigate consumers’ implicit and explicit motivations for prosocial behavior, and how these two motivations interact to affect consumers’ willingness to contribute to CSR activities. Second, through the lens of sensemaking theory, this study evaluates the influence of successful prosocial behavior engagement on consumers’ perceptions of both self and companies’ prosocial identities, CSR authenticity and company evaluations.

Design/methodology/approach
This study adopts a dictator game experiment with 2 × 2 factorial design to gauge consumers’ prosocial behavioral response toward companies’ CSR communication with implicit and explicit motivations and to examine its effect on company evaluation.

Findings
In all, the results of this study suggest that implicit motivation, i.e. self-affirmation intervention, in CSR communication will cause consumers to donate more money to CSR programs; whereas explicit motivation does not exert an effect on consumers’ prosocial behavior. In addition, such donation will trigger consumers’ prosocial sensemaking process and lead to strong identification with the company, positive attitudes and behavioral intentions toward the company.

Originality/value
This study aims to build a consumer- and social cause-oriented CSR communication model, which maximizes the impact of CSR investments on consumer relationship building, business bottom line and social causes.
Learning across teams in project-oriented organisations: the role of programme management
Authors: de Groot Bert , Leendertse Wim , Arts Jos 
Published: August 2021

Purpose
Learning across teams and organisational levels enables organisations to deal with challenges that arise from changing contexts. Project-oriented organisations increasingly use programme management to cope with such challenges and improve performance. This paper aims to find out how different programme configurations affect learning across project teams and between project teams and their parent organisation in project-oriented organisations.

Design/methodology/approach
A case study of a project-oriented organisation involved in five infrastructure programmes was performed.

Findings
The studied programmes linked learning processes at group and organisational levels by creating relationships across project teams and their parent organisation and acting as a knowledge centre. Team learning benefits from the learning culture and stable environment that programmes create for project teams. This study indicates that a programme’s features and focus strongly determines whether a programme predominantly enhances learning across project teams or learning between project teams and their parent organisation.

Originality/value
Although programme management is increasingly used by project-oriented organisations, there are few studies relating to learning in programmes. This study provides new insights into learning across teams through programmes.
Tourists’ interpretations toward tourism destinations: viewpoint to apply locus of control theory
Authors: Saleh Mahmoud Ibraheam 
Published: August 2021

Purpose
Studying tourist behavior provides the privilege of diverging in the competition between destinations to attract tourists. Previous studies have explored the effects of tourist behavior on brand satisfaction, attachment and loyalty. However, there is a lack of studies that investigated the intuition behind shaping tourist behavior. To address this issue, this study aims to contribute to providing a viewpoint to apply locus of control (LOC) theory in the tourism context. LOC studies how individuals believe in controlling their feelings and judgment toward events.
Microhabitat temperature variation combines with physiological variation to enhance thermal resilience of the intertidal musselMytilisepta virgata
Authors: Li Xiao‐xu , Tan Yue , Sun Yong‐xu , Wang Jie , Dong Yun‐wei 
Published: August 2021

AbstractPredicting the effects of rising temperature entails measuring both habitat thermal characteristics and the physiological variation of the species as it relates to this microhabitat variation; these two types of measurements can generate what is termed a ‘physiological landscape’ for the species. Mapping the micro‐scale physiological landscape across space and time, rather than relying on large‐scale averages of temperature and means of thermal limits in a species, can allow more accurate estimates of an organism's sensitivity to temperature change and support development of more refined models of the impacts of anthropogenic climate change that have higher predictive power.We thus continually monitored the body (operative) temperature of the intertidal musselMytilisepta virgatain both sun‐exposed and shaded microhabitats and determined the seasonal variations of cardiac performance of field‐acclimatized and laboratory‐acclimated mussels from different microhabitats for calculating the thermal sensitivity, as indicated by the difference between the maximum ambient temperature and an individual's upper thermal limit (thermal safety margin, TSM), in each microhabitat and each month.The mussels experienced divergent thermal stress, in average temperature, acute and chronic thermal stress and thermal predictivity among different microhabitats, and presented high spatial–temporal variations of cardiac function as results of seasonal acclimatization and inter‐individual variations. Results of TSMs indicated that the thermal sensitivities of the mussels to high temperature were season‐ and microhabitat specific, and the mussels in the shaded microhabitats were predicted to survive the hottest summer temperatures; however, some individuals in the sun‐exposed microhabitats experienced temperatures above their sublethal temperature.With the large, high‐resolution dataset of thermal environmental characteristics and the cardiac performances with high variations, we were able to integrate the effects of synchronized changes in microenvironmental temperatures and cardiac thermal responses and thereby characterize the physiological landscape of thermal sensitivity. The complex physiological landscape that exists in the intertidal zone must be taken into account when predicting the effects of changes in environmental temperature, such as those occurring with global climate change.A freePlain Language Summarycan be found within the Supporting Information of this article.
Divergent responses of symbiotic and asymbiotic N2 fixation to seawater additions
Authors: Sun Xibin , Li Dejun , Chen Hao , Ma Zilong , Xiao Kongcao , Yan Junhua , Wang Zhenchuan , Duan Pengpeng 
Published: August 2021

Abstract

Sea level rise‐associated seawater intrusion exerts substantial impacts on the structure and function of coastal ecosystems. As nitrogen (N) availability is closely related to the structure and function of ecosystems, it is crucial to understand how seawater intrusion impacts biological N2 fixation, a major pathway of new N input to natural ecosystems.

Here, a seawater addition experiment with two N2‐fixing plant species (Acacia auriculiformis and Casuarina equisetifolia) and 10 non‐N2‐fixing plant species was conducted to simulate sea level rise‐associated seawater intrusion. The experiment included control (0 mm seawater/year), low seawater addition (LSW, 200 mm seawater/year) and high seawater addition (HSW, 400 mm seawater/year).

Symbiotic N2 fixation (SNF) rate of A. auriculiformis was significantly higher under LSW (but not for HSW) than the control. For C. equisetifolia, SNF rates under LSW and HSW significantly increased by 8.0 and 19.5 times, respectively, compared with the control. In contrast, asymbiotic N2 fixation rates under LSW and HSW significantly decreased by 18.5% and 30.4%, respectively, across all the plant species.

Our findings suggest that the responses of biological N2 fixation to seawater intrusion are divergent either among different N2‐fixing plant species or between symbiotic and asymbiotic forms, which should be considered in terrestrial ecosystem models in order to improve the prediction of N dynamics under climate changes.

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.
Curcumin‐coated gold nanoparticles attenuate doxorubicin‐induced cardiotoxicity via regulating apoptosis in a mouse model
Authors: Sharifiaghdam Zeynab , Dalouchi Fereshteh , Sharifiaghdam Maryam , Shaabani Elnaz , Ramezani Fatemeh , Nikbakht Farnaz , Azizi Yaser 
Published: August 2021

AbstractDoxorubicin (DOX) is one of the most widely used chemotherapy agents; however, its nonselective effect causes cardiotoxicity. Curcumin (Cur), a well known dietary polyphenol, could exert a significant cardioprotective effect, but the biological application of this substance is limited by its chemical insolubility. To overcome this limitation, in this study, we synthesised gold nanoparticles based on Cur (Cur‐AuNPs). Ultraviolet‐visible (UV‐Vis) absorbance spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were performed for the characterisation of synthesised NPs, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy were applied to detect Cur on the surface of AuNPs. Its cytotoxicity effect on H9c2 cells was evaluated using 3‐(4,5‐dimethylthiazol‐2‐yl)‐2,5‐diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. The biological efficacy of Cur‐AuNPs was assessed after acute cardiotoxicity induction in BALB/c mice with DOX injection. The serum biomarkers, myocardial histological changes, and cardiomyocyte apoptosis were then measured. The results revealed that the heart protection by Cur‐AuNPs is more effective than Cur alone. Heart protective effect of Cur‐AuNPs was evident both in the short‐term (24 hours) and long‐term (14 days) study. The results of Cur‐AuNPs400 after 24 hours of toxicity induction displayed the reduction of the cardiac injury serum biomarkers (LDH, CK‐MB, cTnI, ADT, and ALT) and apoptotic proteins (Bax and Caspase‐3), as well as increase of Bcl‐2 anti‐apoptotic proteins without any sign of interfibrillar haemorrhage and intercellular spaces in the heart tissue microscopic images. Our long‐term study signifies that Cur‐AuNPs400 in DOX‐intoxicated mice could successfully inhibit body and heart weight loss in comparison to DOX group.
Elevated police turnover following the summer of George Floyd protests: A synthetic control study
Authors: Mourtgos Scott M. , Adams Ian T. , Nix Justin 
Published: August 2021

AbstractResearch summarySeveral of the largest U.S. police departments reported a sharp increase in officer resignations following massive public protests directed at policing in the summer of 2020. Yet, to date, no study has rigorously assessed the impact of the George Floyd protests on police resignations. We fill this void using 60 months of employment data from a large police department in the western United States. Bayesian structural time‐series modeling shows that voluntary resignations increased by 279% relative to the synthetic control, and the model predicts that resignations will continue at an elevated level. However, retirements and involuntary separations were not significantly affected during the study period.Policy implicationsA retention crisis may diminish police departments’ operational capacity to carry out their expected responsibilities. Criminal justice stakeholders must be prepared to confront workforce decline and increased voluntary turnover. Proactive efforts to improve organizational justice for sworn personnel can moderate officer perceptions of public hostility.
Altered sperm tsRNAs in aged male contribute to anxiety‐like behavior in offspring
Authors: Guo Yi , Bai Dandan , Liu Wenqiang , Liu Yingdong , Zhang Yalin , Kou Xiaochen , Chen Jiayu , Wang Hong , Teng Xiaoming , Zuo Ji , Gao Shaorong 
Published: August 2021

AbstractParental age at first pregnancy is increasing worldwide. The offspring of aged father has been associated with higher risk of several neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism, but the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here we report that advanced paternal age in mice alters the profile of transfer RNA‐derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Injection of sperm tsRNAs from aged male mice into zygotes induced anxiety‐like behaviors in F1 males. RNA sequencing of the cerebral cortex and hippocampus of those F1 male mice altered the gene expression of dopaminergic synapse and neurotrophin. tsRNAs from aged male mice injection also altered the neuropsychiatry‐related gene expression in two‐cell and blastocyst stage embryos. More importantly, the sperm tsRNA profile changes significantly during aging in human. The up‐regulated sperm tsRNA target genes were involved in neurogenesis and nervous system development. These results suggest that aging‐related changes of sperm tsRNA may contribute to the intergenerational transmission of behavioral traits.
Comparative morphometric study of the mimic facial muscles of brachycephalic and dolichocephalic dogs
Authors: Schatz Katharina Zoë , Engelke Elisabeth , Pfarrer Christiane 
Published: August 2021

AbstractExcessive breeding of dogs has led to a disadvantageous morphology in some breeds, for example extreme brachycephaly, which is responsible for many health issues. We hypothesize that alterations of the mimic muscular system are present in brachycephalic dogs and could contribute to behavioural problems due to a restricted mimic display. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to compare the mimic muscular systems of brachycephalic with dolichocephalic dogs. Mimic muscles were measured and set in ratio to measurements of the head and calculated indices. When bringing the length of the muscles m(x) in proportion to the length of the head, highly significant differences (p < .0001) and significant difference (p < .05) were found in all but two of the examined muscles. Calculations of the m(x) divided by the cranial index and the square index showed significant differences for all muscles. For example, the musculus (m.) levator nasolabialis was morphologically different from the one of dolichocephalic dogs. Muscle fibres of the m. levator nasolabialis were localized in the fold over the nasal bridge of brachycephalic dogs. The raphe of the m. orbicularis oris was not always apparent in brachycephalic dogs. The proportions of the muscle lengths and the length of the eye slots to the size of the skull have shifted considerably in brachycephalic dogs. We conclude that many alterations contribute to the strong shift in the proportions of the head of brachycephalic dogs versus that of dolichocephalic dogs. Our findings suggest that brachycephalic dogs have reduced mimic skills that can lead to ambiguous communication.
Histomorphological, ultrastructural and morphometrical age‐related changes of fundic region of New Zealand rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Authors: Nabil Taghreed Mohamed , Moawad Usama Kamal 
Published: August 2021

AbstractThis study investigated the histomorphological, ultrastructural and morphometrical postnatal developmental changes in the rabbit fundic region, especially during changing of the feeding intake. Seventy‐two New Zealand rabbits (V‐Line breed) at the ages of 1, 7, 15, 23, 30 and 60 days were obtained for light and electron microscopy and morphometric studies of the fundic region. The newborn rabbit's fundic wall was thin and organized into mucosa, submucosa, musclosa and serosa, with a significant increase in thickness with ageing. The fundic glands were few at the first week of life, then increased in length and diameter compared to the preceding age with prominent zonation at 23 days. The gastric pits appeared wide and deep at the first week of life then became typically narrow and shallow at the third week. The mucous cells were the main cell types lining the fundic glands in the first week of life. These cells showed remoulding with a marked increase in Periodic Acid–Schiff reactivity with age. Parietal cells were differentiated earlier (on the first day of life) than the chief cells and distributed at the neck and basal zones. Chief cells differentiated at 15 days old at the base of the glands, followed by an increase in the number and activity. Few active enteroendocrine cells were first seen at 15 days old and then widely distributed throughout the glands. Conclusion: Pronounced histomorphological changes in the fundic mucosal layer, especially the surface and glandular epithelium, correlate with the postnatal rabbit‐feeding intake changes.