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Oral glucose feeding enhances adherence of quiescent lymphocytes to fibronectin via non-canonical insulin signalling
Authors: Mallu Abhiram Charan Tej , Sivagurunathan Sivapriya , Paul Debasish , Aggarwal Hobby , Nathan Abel Arul , Ravi Mahalakshmi M. , Boppana Ramanamurthy , Jagavelu Kumaravelu , Santra Manas Kumar , Dixit Madhulika 
Published: October 2021

SummaryImpaired glucose metabolism is associated with chronic inflammation, aberrant immunity and anomalous leukocyte trafficking. Conversely, infusion of functional immune cells restores glucose metabolism. Despite being exposed to periodic alterations in blood insulin levels upon fasting and feeding, studies exploring the physiological effects of these hormonal changes on quiescent circulating lymphocytes are missing. Here we find that oral glucose load in healthy men and mice enhance adherence of circulating peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) to fibronectin. This led to increased homing of post-load PBMCs to injured blood vessels. Cell culture based experiments on Jurkat-T cells and PBMCs demonstrated that insulin elicits these adhesive effects through a non-canonical signalling involving insulin growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) and phospholipase C gamma-1 (PLCγ-1) mediated activation of integrin β1. Our findings point to the relevance of post-prandial insulin spikes in regulating homing of circulating T-cells to various organs for tissue repair and immunity.Graphical AbstractInsulin mediates fibronectin adherence of lymphocytes through non-canonical signalling.Insulin mediates auto-phosphorylation of IGF-1 receptor at Tyr1135leading to activation of PLC-γ1 through Tyr783 phosphorylation, which in turn leads to the activation of integrin β1 through intracellular calcium to ultimately enhance adhesion of quiescent lymphocytes to fibronectin.
Designing a comprehensive model of organizational resilience in the banking industry of Iran
Authors: Khajehpour Mahmood , Sedaghatparast Eldar , Rabieh Masood 
Published: October 2021

PurposeThis research aims to design a comprehensive resilience model in the banking industry for identifying the dimensions and components that can enhance organizational resilience in the industry, which can contribute to the existing literate as a promising comprehensive model.Design/methodology/approachAfter reviewing the literature and studying the models of organizational resilience, semistructured interviews were conducted with managers and prominent experts in the banking industry. To analyze the interviews, the thematic analysis technique was used with three coding stages. After designing the research model in two main dimensions of micro and macro management in the banking industry, the relation between the main components and subcomponents was identified by using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and DEMATEL techniques.FindingsThe study findings indicating that proper observation and predicting the bank's problems and making suitable connections with the government are two major indicators of the resilience of the banking network, which can realize through influencing the components of risk management, financial resource management and system corruption. The results of this research can lead to the expansion of theoretical foundations of the past research and the concept of organizational resilience in the field of financial services and especially the banking industry.Originality/valueThis paper provides the components with a more significant impact, which bank managers should consider the relationship among them to enhance organizational resilience for more effectiveness of their decisions.
Some thoughts on establishing the theoretical system of socialist political economics with Chinese characteristics
Authors: Shen Kaiyan 
Published: October 2021

PurposeIt is scholars' great mission in this era to creatively develop new implications, paradigms and discourses of China's political economy and establish a theoretical system of political economy with Chinese characteristics based on the fundamental principles of Marxist theory and the practice and historical process of Chinese economic reform, through theorizing and systemizing the practices of China's socialist market economy construction. The purpose of this paper is to give some suggestions to establish a socialist theoretical system with Chinese characteristics.Design/methodology/approachThis paper makes a comprehensive analysis of the principles, objectives, study objects, methodologies as well as the framework of the theoretical system of the political economy with Chinese characteristics.FindingsAdditionally, starting from the unity of opposites between public ownership of resources and resource allocation in a market mechanism, which is the fundamental dialectical relation of China's socialist market economy, the authors will adopt the dual dialectical analysis approach to discover and understand the duality features of the socialist economic system with Chinese characteristics.Originality/valueWith adherence to the mission of China's socialist economic system, the goal of China's market economic reform, and the perspectives of Marxist political economy, the authors must explicitly define the so-called Chinese characteristics and then summarize the dynamics and innovations during the evolution of Chinese socialist political economy with high theory confidence and theory self-consciousness.
Performance implications of export assistance: the mediating role of export entrepreneurship
Authors: Faroque Anisur R. , Kuivalainen Olli , Ahmed Jashim Uddin , Rahman Mahabubur , Roy Hiran , Ali M. Yunus , Mostafiz Md Imtiaz 
Published: October 2021

PurposeAlthough both institutional export assistance and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) contribute separately and positively to export performance, the interplay between them has received little attention. This study examines the role of international EO in deriving performance benefits from governmental and nongovernmental export assistance.Design/methodology/approachIn this longitudinal study, two surveys were administered at two different times: In 2011, 705 Bangladeshi apparel exporters were surveyed, and in 2019, a subsequent survey of 198 firms in multiple industries was conducted. The aim of the surveys was to assess the relationships between governmental and nongovernmental assistance, EO and export performance.FindingsThe results of the first survey show that, while nongovernmental assistance influences performance directly and via EO, governmental assistance has only direct effects. Furthermore, the negative influence of government assistance on EO reduces the total effects and renders them nonsignificant. The results of the second survey demonstrate that government EPPs have both direct and indirect positive and significant effects on market performance, indicating a partial mediation, whereas quasi-governmental assistance has positive and significant direct effects as well as negative but nonsignificant indirect effects. Nongovernmental EPPs have both direct and indirect significant effects on international performance, indicating a partial mediation.Research limitations/implicationsThe study has important implications for researchers studying export assistance and its impact on firm performance. Instead of adopting a parochial view of government assistance, this study categorizes such assistance into three types – government, quasi-government and nongovernment. Furthermore, this study bridges the export assistance and international entrepreneurship literature by including EO.Practical implicationsEntrepreneurs must emphasize the use of government assistance in order to enhance export performance. However, to promote both entrepreneurship and performance, they must emphasize nongovernment assistance. Exporters should also capitalize on the assistance extended by various quasi-governmental agencies to bolster export performance.Originality/valueGiven the performance advantage of export assistance, this study highlights the contribution of the private sector in promoting export entrepreneurship while shedding light on the pernicious role of (quasi-)governmental assistance in export entrepreneurship.
The fraud triangle – an alternative approach
Authors: Kagias Paschalis , Cheliatsidou Anastasia , Garefalakis Alexandros , Azibi Jamel , Sariannidis Nikolaos 
Published: October 2021

Purpose
In recent years, Public Accountability and Integrity have been matters of growing attention, both in the public and private sector, as citizens demand value for money entrusted to the governments through their taxes. In addition, in many countries, after the recent recession, government budgets and corporate returns have been reduced. Many corporate scandals have occasionally become known and have had a great impact on confidence in the market. Even worse, after the pandemic of COVID-19, «bare and exacerbated massive preexisting problems in the world’s economic, social and security order, threatens to push up to 100 million people into extreme poverty in 2020, struck at a time of dwindling trust in representative governance» (UNDP, 2020). The funds of organizations in the private and public sector have been shrinking, whereas the situational pressures of fraud are increased. In this context, Dorris, President and CEO of the ACFE warns for explosion of fraud in the coming years and reminds that during the 2008 economic, companies cut-off, non-revenue generating activities, such as the internal audit and the compliance departments leaving them exposed to fraud. Therefore, organizations have to do more with less. The purpose of this paper is to present the development of the fraud theory on the management’s perspective aiming to contribute to the efficient development of anti-fraud mechanisms

Design/methodology/approach
Having identified the fraud theory developed so far, we provide a framework for the fraud risk management.

Findings
This paper incorporates cost/benefits considerations, practical considerations and empirical evidence on fraud.

Originality/value
This paper provides valuable information to enable the management, who has the primary responsibility to prevent and detect fraud, to disclaim responsibility by broadening their understanding of fraud theory.
On the methodology of calculating volume charge density in a MIFGMOS substrate using Poisson’s equation
Authors: Plascencia Jauregui Francisco Javier , Medina Vazquez Agustín Santiago , Becerra Alvarez Edwin Christian , Arce Zavala José Manuel , Flores Ruiz Sandra Fabiola 
Published: October 2021

Purpose
This study aims to present a mathematical method based on Poisson’s equation to calculate the voltage and volume charge density formed in the substrate under the floating gate area of a multiple-input floating-gate metal-oxide semiconductor metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor.

Design/methodology/approach
Based on this method, the authors calculate electric fields and electric potentials from the charges generated when voltages are applied to the control gates (CG). This technique allows us to consider cases when the floating gate has any trapped charge generated during the manufacturing process. Moreover, the authors introduce a mathematical function to describe the potential behavior through the substrate. From the resultant electric field, the authors compute the volume charge density at different depths.

Findings
The authors generate some three-dimensional graphics to show the volume charge density behavior, which allows us to predict regions in which the volume charge density tends to increase. This will be determined by the voltages on terminals, which reveal the relationship between CG and volume charge density and will allow us to analyze some superior-order phenomena.

Originality/value
The procedure presented here and based on coordinates has not been reported before, and it is an aid to generate a model of the device and to build simulation tools in an analog design environment.
A review of cluster analysis techniques and their uses in library and information science research:k-meansandk-medoidsclustering
Authors: Lund Brady , Ma Jinxuan 
Published: October 2021

PurposeThis literature review explores the definitions and characteristics of cluster analysis, a machine-learning technique that is frequently implemented to identify groupings in big datasets and its applicability to library and information science (LIS) research. This overview is intended for researchers who are interested in expanding their data analysis repertory to include cluster analysis, rather than for existing experts in this area.Design/methodology/approachA review of LIS articles included in the Library and Information Source (EBSCO) database that employ cluster analysis is performed. An overview of cluster analysis in general (how it works from a statistical standpoint, and how it can be performed by researchers), the most popular cluster analysis techniques and the uses of cluster analysis in LIS is presented.FindingsThe number of LIS studies that employ a cluster analytic approach has grown from about 5 per year in the early 2000s to an average of 35 studies per year in the mid- and late-2010s. The journal Scientometrics has the most articles published within LIS that use cluster analysis (102 studies). Scientometrics is the most common subject area to employ a cluster analytic approach (152 studies). The findings of this review indicate that cluster analysis could make LIS research more accessible by providing an innovative and insightful process of knowledge discovery.Originality/valueThis review is the first to present cluster analysis as an accessible data analysis approach, specifically from an LIS perspective.
Design criteria for pad and stencil with high pick-and-Place yield
Authors: Huang Chien-Yi , Greene Christopher , Chan Chao-Chieh , Wang Ping-Sen 
Published: October 2021

Purpose
This study aims to focus on the passive components of System in Package SiP modules and discusses the geometric pad designs for 01005-sized passive components, the front end design of the hole size and shape of the stencil and the parameters of the stencil sidewall coating, to determine the optimum parameter combination.

Design/methodology/approach
This study plans and conducts experiments, where a L8(27) inner orthogonal array is built to consider the control factors, including a L4(23) outer orthogonal array to consider the noise factor, and the experimental data are analyzed by using the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution multi-quality analysis method.

Findings
The results show that the optimum design parameter level combination is that the solder mask opening pad has no solder mask in the lower part of the component, the pad width is 1.1 times that of the component width, the pad length is 1.75 times that of the electrode tip length, the pad spacing is 5 mil, the stencil open area is 90% of the pad area, the stencil opening corner has a 3 mil chamfer angle, and the stencil sidewall is free of nano-coating.

Originality/value
The parameter design and multi-quality analysis method, as proposed in this study, can effectively develop the layout of passive components on a high-density SiP module substrate, to stabilize the process and increase the production yield.
Mediating role of need satisfaction on total reward management towards retention: a conceptual framework
Authors: Sarkar Jeeta , Jena Lalatendu Kesari , Sahoo Kalpana 
Published: October 2021

Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the impact of total rewards on retention. The finding relies on need satisfaction approach as a mechanism. This is done by investigating the role of need satisfaction of “autonomy, competence and relatedness” as possible mediators between elements of total rewards and retention.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper focussed on exploring the literature published in various popular databases .Based on the conceptual analysis, a set of possible frameworks linking the three constructs has been stated for future research.

Findings
The research has evolved with few possible frameworks to model the assertions by investigating and corroborating it with quantitative studies to be empirically tested.

Originality/value
The originality lies in applying self-determination theory framework of need satisfaction mechanism in explaining the relationships between total rewards and retention, thereby adding new insights to the employee retention literature.
An Anthropologist Adrift: A Story on Care, Grief, and Becoming in a Pandemic
Authors: Rocker Kailey 
Published: October 2021

SummaryThis autoethnographic‐style fiction piece is based on my experience of losing my mother to cancer during the pandemic. Written in a format akin to the entries of a ship’s log, it captures the significance of intersubjective connection in ongoing turbulence. Through these logs, the product of an anthropologist’s world interrupted, the narrator as ethnographer comes into being as categories likehomeandfieldare blurred during the stormy experience of the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Butyrate ameliorates skeletal muscle atrophy in diabetic nephropathy by enhancing gut barrier function and FFA2‐mediated PI3K/Akt/mTOR signals
Authors: Tang Gang , Du Yi , Guan Haochen , Jia Jieshuang , Zhu Nan , Shi Yuping , Rong Shu , Yuan Weijie 
Published: October 2021

Background and PurposeMuscle protein catabolism in patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN) results in striking loss of muscle proteins, which increases morbidity and mortality risks. Evidence shows that short‐chain fatty acids (SCFAs) play an important role in health maintenance and disease development. Recently, the connection between butyrate (a SCFA) and DN has been revealed, although the relationship between butyrate and muscle atrophy remains unclear.Experimental ApproachWe studied changes in serum butyrate levels in DN patients using metabolomic analyses. In db/db mice, protective effects of butyrate on DN‐induced muscle atrophy. were explored. Inhibition of muscle atrophy by butyrate and the underlying mechanism(s) were studied in C2C12 cells exposed to high glucose/lipopolysaccharide (HG/LPS).Key ResultsButyrate levels in DN patients were significantly decreased. In db/db mice, supplementing normal diet with butyrate improved intestinal barrier function. Concurrently, butyrate alleviated muscle atrophy, promoted PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling, and suppressed oxidative stress and autophagy in skeletal muscle of db/db mice, and in HG/LPS‐exposed C2C12 cells. Further, FFA2 receptors, key components of SCFA signalling, were decreased in skeletal muscle of db/db mice and in HG/LPS‐exposed C2C12 cells. Overexpression of FFA2 receptors activated PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling and inhibited oxidative stress and autophagy in HG/LPS‐exposed C2C12 cells. Silencing of FFA2 blocked PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling that was improved by butyrate, as well as the suppression of oxidative stress and reduction of autophagy.Conclusion and ImplicationButyrate exerts protective effects on muscle atrophy induced by DN by enhancing intestinal barrier function and activating the FFA2 receptor‐mediated PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway.
Use of antioxidants supplementation on developmental outcomes in children with Down syndrome—A systematic review and meta‐analyses
Authors: Jafri Sidra Kaleem , Iqbal Atiya , Alam Anusha , Lassi Zohra , Frei Julia 
Published: October 2021

AbstractBackgroundThe background of this study is to evaluate the published literature on the use of antioxidants in improving developmental outcomes in children with DS.MethodsThe systematic review included interventional studies (randomized controlled trials [RCTs] and quasi‐RCTs [q‐RCTs]) of children aged 0 to 18 years diagnosed with DS who received antioxidants to improve developmental outcomes. Studies were excluded if they were interventional studies with non‐random allocation or lack of control group or non‐interventional studies including observational studies, systematic and narrative review articles, editorials and commentaries. Studies were also excluded if data from participants with DS were included as part of a larger group of participants (e.g., children with intellectual disability) and the data could not be separated for subgroup analysis, or if outcomes did not assess developmental domains (e.g., reported biochemical markers only). The review included children with other conditions associated with developmental disability, only when data for children with DS were separately reported.ResultsEleven RCTs and q‐RCTs fulfilled the eligibility criteria with 683 participants with Down syndrome ranging in age from newborns to 17 years. Nine studies did not show any statistically significant clinical benefit of using antioxidants. Three studies were included in a meta‐analysis comparing changes in the effect sizes (post and pre‐intervention) in Global Developmental Quotient (GDQ) between the intervention and control groups.ConclusionThis review concludes that it is likely that the results are valid and suggest that the use of Antioxidant has no improvement in GDQ for children with DS. It is also unclear if any benefit exists for other developmental domains.
Adult onset epilepsy incidence in Finland over 34 years: A nationwide registry study
Authors: Sipilä Jussi O. T. , Kälviäinen Reetta 
Published: October 2021

AbstractBackground and purposeThe incidence of epilepsy is decreasing among the working‐aged in high‐income countries, but previous studies have reported conflicting results in Finland.MethodsA nationwide population‐based cross‐sectional analysis was made of annual epilepsy drug reimbursement rights frequency data from the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, the national authority, between 1986 and 2019. All persons at least 20 years of age living in Finland during the study period were included.ResultsBased on the analysis of 77,939 new reimbursement rights, crude incidence was 57.4/100,000 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 57.0–57.8) person‐years, and age‐standardized (to the European Standard Population 2013) incidence was 51.6/100,000 person‐years. Both crude (r = 0.62, p = 0.00009) and standardized (r = 0.65, p = 0.00003) incidence increased over time. Incidence increased in both men (from 66.4 to 71.6/100,000, r = 0.51, p = 0.002) and women (from 51.5 to 55.3/100,000, r = 0.68, p < 0.00001). The mean male to female incidence rate ratio was 1.28 (95% CI = 1.26–1.30, range = 1.15–1.41), but decreased during the study period (r = −0.47, p = 0.006). Incidence decreased in those 20–59 years old but increased in all older age groups. This development was similar between sexes.ConclusionsThe incidence of adult onset epilepsy in Finland increased in people older than 60 years and decreased in the 20–59‐year age group during the study period. These trends were similar between sexes. Therefore, etiological epilepsy trends in the elderly need to be studied further to plan public health measures to prevent epilepsy in this age group.
Political Prisoners and the Irish Conflict 100 Years On
Authors: BRYSON ANNA , McEVOY KIERAN , ALBERT ALLELY 
Published: October 2021

AbstractThis article traces the impact of Irish political prisoners on the prison landscape in Ireland, north and south, over the past 100 years. For the post‐1969 period in Northern Ireland, it explores three different styles of prison management: reactive containment, criminalisation, and managerialism. It also examines the ways in which political prisoners sought to resist, including through strategic use of law, dirty protests and hunger strikes, escapes and the use of violence. The article then discusses the early release of prisoners under the Good Friday Agreement and the role that ex‐prisoners have played in the peace process. It concludes with some reflections on the ongoing tensions between the state and dissident republican prisoners, asking what lessons (if any) can be gleaned from the past 100 years.