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Emotional costs of service labor: do consumers care?
Authors: Moran Nora , Ronen Sigalit 
Published: September 2021

PurposeConsumers can provide monetary tips to service employees as a reward for their efforts. However, consumers’ ability to recognize the demands of these jobs could affect tipping behavior. This study aims to examine the difficulty consumers have recognized the emotional toll of service work, and how this affects tipping behavior.Design/methodology/approachThree experiments were conducted with US participants to determine how the focus on emotional burdens of service work affects willingness to tip lower level service employees.FindingsResults reveal that when consumers hear about the emotional costs of service labor, they report less willingness to tip low-level workers, compared to when they learn about other job costs or contributions. Results further show that reducing power distance between customers and workers can increase willingness to tip when emotional costs are emphasized.Research limitations/implicationsThis research contributes to the services literature by showing how feelings of power affect whether consumers appreciate certain job costs, and, in turn, their tipping behavior.Practical implicationsThis research clarifies how consumers perceive job demands, which has direct consequences for tipping behavior and suggests more strategies to improve tips.Social implicationsFindings can help advocates looking to advance the status and compensation for lower-level service workers.Originality/valueThis research is first to explore why the emotional costs of service labor are not recognized in certain cases, and provides insight on how to improve customer treatment of lower-level service labor.
Addressing health literacy in the digital domain: insights from a literature review
Authors: Palumbo Rocco , Nicola Capolupo , Adinolfi Paola 
Published: September 2021

PurposePromoting health literacy, i.e. the ability to access, collect, understand and use health-related information, is high on the health policy agenda across the world. The digitization of health-care calls for a reframing of health literacy in the cyber-physical environment. The article systematizes current scientific knowledge about digital health literacy and investigates the role of health-care organizations in delivering health literate health-care services in a digital environment.Design/methodology/approachA literature review was accomplished. A targeted query to collect relevant scientific contributions was run on PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science. A narrative approach was undertaken to summarize the study findings and to envision avenues for further development in the field of digital health literacy.FindingsDigital health literacy has peculiar attributes as compared with health literacy. Patients may suffer from a lack of human touch when they access health services in the digital environment. This may impair their ability to collect health information and to appropriately use it to co-create value and to co-produce health promotion and risk prevention services. Health-care organizations should strive for increasing the patients’ ability to navigate the digital health-care environment and boosting the latter’s value co-creation capability.Practical implicationsTailored solutions should be designed to promote digital health literacy at the individual and organizational level. On the one hand, attention should be paid to the patients’ special digital information needs and to avoid flaws in their ability to contribute to health services’ co-production. On the other hand, health-care organizations should be involved in the design of user-friendly e-health solutions, which aim at engaging patients in value co-creation.Originality/valueThis contribution is a first attempt to systematize extant scientific knowledge in the field of digital health literacy specifically focused on the strategies and initiatives that health-care organizations may take to address the limited digital health literacy pandemic.
Interacting elevational and latitudinal gradients determine bat diversity and distribution across the Neotropics
Authors: Bogoni Juliano A. , Carvalho‐Rocha Vítor , Ferraz Katia M. P. M. B. , Peres Carlos A. 
Published: September 2021

AbstractNew World bats are heavily affected by the biophysical setting shaped by elevation and latitude. This study seeks to understand the patterns of bat species diversity across elevational, latitudinal and vegetation height gradients throughout the Neotropics.Systematically gathered putative and empirical data on bat species distribution across the entire Neotropics were examined using descriptive statistics, spatial interpolation of bat taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity, generalized linear models, generalized linear mixed models and phylogenetic generalized least squares.We uncoupled the effects of elevation, latitude and vegetation height to predict Neotropical bat diversity, showing that dietary level, home range and habitat breadth were the most important ecological traits determining coarse‐scale bat distributions. Latitude was largely responsible for sorting the regional species pool, whereas elevation appears to apply an additional local filter to this regional pool wherever tropical mountains are present, thereby shaping the structure of montane assemblages.Bats provide multiple ecosystem services and our results can help pinpoint priority areas for bat research and conservation across all Neotropics, elucidate the thresholds of species distributions, and highlight bat diversity hotspots at multiple scales.
Stratified View of Institutional Fit
Authors: Fernandez‐Giordano Marisel , Gutierrez Leopoldo , Llorens‐Montes Francisco Javier , Choi Thomas Y. 
Published: September 2021

AbstractInstitutional theory suggests that organizations pursue legitimacy by institutional fit. However, there is a debate about the relationship between institutional fit and performance. Thus, the goal of the present study is to delve more deeply into this issue. Specifically, we evaluate how three dimensions of fit (technology, structure and culture) are related to organizational performance. The analysis is based on survey data and secondary archival data from a sample of 200 firms. Results show that the association of institutional fit and organizational performance varies along different dimensions of fit, which supports the stratified view of institutional fit. According to the results, there is a positive correlation between institutional fit and performance on the technological dimension, no correlation between institutional fit and performance on the structural dimension and a negative correlation between institutional fit and performance on the cultural dimension. One thing is clear: we should consider a stratified view of institutional fit when considering its implications for performance. A possible explanation for the disparity among different dimensions of fit is that it may arise from the levels of organizational resistance associated with the type of change of each dimension.
Proposed cutoff for fetal scalp blood lactate in intrapartum fetal surveillance based on neonatal outcomes: a large prospective observational study
Authors: Iorizzo L , Carlsson Y , Johansson C , Berggren R , Herbst A , Wang M , Leiding M , Isberg P‐E , Kristensen K , Wiberg‐Itzel E , McGee T , Wiberg N 
Published: September 2021

ObjectiveDetermination of lactate in fetal scalp blood (FBS) during labour has been recognised since the 1970s. The internationally accepted cutoff of >4.8 mmol/l indicating fetal acidosis is exclusive for the point‐of‐care device (POC) LactatePro™, which is no longer in production. The aim of this study was to establish a new cutoff for scalp lactate based on neonatal outcomes with the use of the StatstripLactate®/StatstripXpress® Lactate system, the only POC designed for hospital use.DesignObservational study.SettingJanuary 2016 to March 2020 labouring women with indication for FBS were prospectively included from seven Swedish and one Australian delivery unit.PopulationInclusion criteria: singleton pregnancy, vertex presentation, ≥35+0 weeks of gestation.MethodBased on the optimal correlation between FBS lactate and cord pH/lactate, only cases with ≤25 minutes from FBS to delivery were included in the final calculations.Main outcome measuresMetabolic acidosis in cord blood defined as pH <7.05 plus BDecf >10 mmol/l and/or lactate >10 mmol/l.ResultsA total of 3334 women were enrolled of whom 799 were delivered within 25 minutes. The areas under the receiver operating characteristics curves (AUC) and corresponding optimal cutoff values were as follows; metabolic acidosis AUC 0.87 (95% CI 0.77–0.97), cutoff 5.7 mmol/l; pH <7.0 AUC 0.83 (95% CI 0.68–0.97), cutoff 4.6 mmol/l; pH <7.05 plus BDecf ≥12 mmol/l AUC 0.97 (95% CI 0.92–1), cutoff 5.8 mmol/l; Apgar score <7 at 5 minutes AUC 0.74 (95% CI 0.63–0.86), cutoff 5.2 mmol/l; and pH <7.10 plus composite neonatal outcome AUC 0.76 (95% CI 0.67–0.85), cutoff 4.8 mmol/l.ConclusionA scalp lactate level <5.2 mmol/l using the StatstripLactate®/StatstripXpress® system will safely rule out fetal metabolic acidosis.Tweetable abstractScalp blood lactate <5.2 mmol/l using the StatstripLactate®/StatstripXpress system has an excellent ability to rule out fetal acidosis.
Nexus between economic growth, financial development, and energy consumption in Sub‐Saharan African countries: A dynamic approach
Authors: Tinta Abdoulganiour Almame , Ouedraogo Salifou , Thiombiano Noel 
Published: September 2021

AbstractThis study investigates the nexus between economic growth, financial development, and renewable energy consumption in Sub‐Saharan African countries. Using a dynamic approach and seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) from 48 countries over the period 2000–2019, the findings show that financial development, government expenditures, capital, international trade, education, and the quality of governance have positive impacts on economic growth while inflation has a negative effect. In the long run, energy consumption and foreign direct investments increase economic growth only in high income and upper middle‐income countries (HI‐UMIC). In contrast, in lower middle‐income countries (LMIC) and low income countries (LIC), the cost of transforming renewable energies is a burden for growth. This reverse effect on growth in LMIC and LIC is amplified by natural resource dependence and foreign direct investments (FDI) volatility. Furthermore, renewable energy consumption is driven by financial development, growth, urbanization, foreign direct investment, education, and the quality of governance via scale effect. From the results, new insights for policymakers such as fiscal policies, trade‐led growth policies, and monetary policies, are provided to support the renewable energy sector, enhance financial development and economic growth.
Oxygen sensing, anaesthesia and critical care: a narrative review
Authors: Slingo M. E. , Pandit J. J. 
Published: September 2021

SummaryIn 2019, the scientists who discovered how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability were awarded the Nobel Prize. This elegant sensing pathway is conserved throughout evolution, and it underpins the physiology and pathology that we, as clinicians in anaesthesia and critical care, encounter on a daily basis. The purpose of this review is to bring hypoxia‐inducible factor, and the oxygen‐sensing pathway as a whole, to the wider clinical community. We describe how this unifying mechanism was discovered, and how it orchestrates diverse changes such as erythropoiesis, ventilatory acclimatisation, pulmonary vascular remodelling and altered metabolism. We explore the lessons learnt from genetic disorders of oxygen sensing, and the wider implications in evolution of all animal species, including our own. Finally, we explain how this pathway is relevant to our clinical practice, and how it is being manipulated in new treatments for conditions such as cancer, anaemia and pulmonary hypertension.
Neonatal burns: a 10‐year review of community‐ and hospital‐acquired neonatal burns in Western Australia
Authors: van Oudtshoorn Sarah , Wood Fiona , McWilliams Tania 
Published: September 2021

AbstractBackgroundThere are very few studies in the literature focusing on neonatal burns, and to our knowledge this is the largest study on this topic.MethodsA retrospective review was conducted over a 10‐year period from 2010 to 2020 to investigate the incidence, mechanisms involved and outcomes for burn injuries in neonates in Western Australia. This study included children aged 4 weeks or younger who sustained a burns injury requiring admission to hospital or during their hospital admission. Premature infants who sustained burns during a hospital admission in the neonatal intensive care unit and were under 4 weeks corrected age were also included. Short‐term outcomes of burn injuries included infection and need for surgery, and the long‐term outcomes included scarring and requirement for laser therapy.ResultsOver the 10‐year period, 30 burn injuries were sustained by 27 neonates. Thirteen (43.3%) of these burns occurred at home or in the community, and 17 (56.7%) occurred in hospital. Scalds (n = 4) and sunburn (n = 4) were the most common mechanism in the community, while chemical (n = 12) burns including extravasation injuries were the most common sustained in hospital. No neonates required theatre for skin grafting or laser therapy for scarring. There were no infected burns in the cohort. Time to healing ranged from 2 to 62 days with a mean of 12.1 days.ConclusionOutcomes for burns sustained in the neonatal period in Western Australia are generally positive, and have not been associated with infection and have low rates of scarring.
Individualised, targeted step count intervention following gastrointestinal cancer surgery: The Fit‐4‐Home randomised clinical trial
Authors: Steffens Daniel , Solomon Michael J. , Beckenkamp Paula R. , Koh Cherry E. , Yeo David , Sandroussi Charbel ,   Fit‐4‐Home Collaborators, Hancock Mark J. 
Published: September 2021

AbstractBackgroundTo determine the effectiveness of an individualised, daily targeted step count intervention and usual care compared with usual care alone on improving surgical and patient reported outcomes.MethodsThe Fit‐4‐Home trial was a pragmatic, randomised controlled trial conducted from April 2019 to February 2021. Patients undergoing elective surgery for liver, stomach or pancreatic cancer in two Australian hospitals were recruited. Participants were randomly allocated to receive an individualised, targeted step count intervention and usual care (intervention) or usual care alone (control). A wearable activity tracker was provided to the intervention group to monitor their daily step count target. Primary outcome was the length of stay in the gastrointestinal ward. Secondary outcomes included postoperative complication rates, discharge destination, quality of life, physical activity, pain, fatigue, distress and hospital re‐admission within 30 days. Outcome measures were compared between groups using non‐parametric statistics.ResultsOf the 96 patients recruited, 47 were randomised to the intervention group and 49 were randomised to the control group. The median (interquartile) length of stay in the ward was 7 days (5.0–13.0) in the intervention group and 7 days (5.0– 12.0) in the control group (p = 0.330). Fatigue scores were worse in the intervention group when compared to control (p = 0.018). No other differences between groups were observed.ConclusionsAn individualised, daily targeted step count intervention and usual care did not confer additional benefits in reducing the length of stay in the ward compared to usual care alone for patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery.Trial RegistrationRegistered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12619000194167).
Endurance training may improve exercise capacity, lung function and quality of life in Fontan patients
Authors: Hedlund Eva , Lundell Bo 
Published: September 2021

AbstractChildren born with univentricular hearts undergo staged surgical procedures to a Fontan circulation. Long‐term experience with Fontan palliation has shown dramatically improved survival but also of a life‐long burden of an abnormal circulation with significant morbidity. Many Fontan patients have reduced exercise capacity, oxygen uptake, lung function and quality of life. Endurance training may improve submaximal, but not maximal, exercise capacity, lung function and quality of life. Physical activity and endurance training is also positively correlated with sleep quality. Reviewing the literature and from our single‐centre experience, we believe there is enough evidence to support structured individualised endurance training in most young Fontan patients.
Multiple drivers of invasive lionfish culling efficiency in marine protected areas
Authors: Davis Alexandra C. D. , Akins Lad , Pollock Clayton , Lundgren Ian , Johnston Michelle A. , Castillo Bernard , Reale‐Munroe Kynoch , McDonough Vanessa , Moneysmith Shelby , Green Stephanie J. 
Published: September 2021

AbstractDesigning effective local management for invasive species poses a major challenge for conservation, yet factors affecting intervention success and efficiency are rarely evaluated and incorporated into practice. We coordinated regional efforts by divers to cull invasive lionfish (Pterois spp.) on 33 U.S. Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean protected coral reefs from 2013 to 2019 and estimated removal efficiency and efficacy as a function of environmental and habitat conditions, invasion status, and personnel expertise. Highly experienced individuals culling during crepuscular periods (<2 hr from sunrise/sunset) are three times more efficient (in terms of minutes) than novice divers during midday, suggesting: (a) retention of experienced individuals is key for efficient programs, and (b) planning culls with personnel and time of day in mind increases the number of sites covered with the same effort. Lionfish behavior and habitat characteristics had little effect on removal efficiency and efficacy, but divers had higher capture success at reefs with higher lionfish densities. We suggest reefs with persistently <20 fish ha−1 as low priority, given that impacts to native fauna are unlikely and culling effectiveness declines to <50% below this level. Incorporating efficiency factors in spatial management planning along with density estimates derived from remotely sensed data can ensure limited resources for control are extended across a greater range of invaded habitats.
Developmental programming by maternal obesity: Lessons from animal models
Authors: Schoonejans Josca Mariëtte , Ozanne Susan Elizabeth 
Published: September 2021

AbstractThe obesity epidemic has led to more women entering pregnancy overweight or obese. In addition to adverse short‐term outcomes, maternal obesity and/or gestational diabetes predispose offspring to developing obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in adulthood through developmental programming. Human epidemiological studies, although vital in identifying associations, are often unable to address causality and mechanistic studies can be limited by the lack of accessibility of key metabolic tissues. Furthermore, multi‐generational studies take many years to complete. Integration of findings from human studies with those from animal models has therefore been critical in moving forward this field that has been termed the ‘Developmental Origins of Health and Disease’. This review summarises the evidence from animal models and highlights how animal models provide valuable insight into the maternal factors responsible for developmental programming, potential critical developmental windows, sexual dimorphism, molecular mechanisms and age‐related offspring outcomes throughout life. Moreover, we describe how animal models are vital to explore clinically relevant interventions to prevent adverse offspring outcomes in obese or glucose intolerant pregnancy, such as antioxidant supplementation, exercise and maternal metformin treatment.
Speckle tracking imaging combined with myocardial comprehensive index to evaluate left ventricular function changes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Authors: Feng Jia , Zhai Zijing , Wang Zhen , Huang Lei , Dong Shanshan , Liu Kuichan , Shi Wenrong , Lu Guilin , Qin Wenjuan 
Published: September 2021

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate early changes in left ventricular systolic function in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using three‐dimensional speckle tracking imaging (3D‐STI).MethodsA total of 30 SLE patients and 30 healthy people (control group) were selected, the patients were further divided into subgroups according to their Safety of Estrogens in Lupus Erythematosus National Assessment version of the SLE Disease Activity Index (SELENA‐SLEDAI) score: ≤ 12: mild‐to‐moderate group; > 12: severe group. All participants were examined using 3D‐STI, the 3D‐STI parameters were obtained. Receiver operating curves (ROC) were prepared for above parameters and analyzed to identify correlations among 3D‐STI parameters and high sensitivity‐TropT (hs‐TropT).ResultsCompared with the control group, the absolute values of left ventricular end‐diastolic volume (LVEDV), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), global longitudinal strain (GLS), global circumferential strain (GCS), left ventricular twist angle (LVtw), torsion (Tor) and myocardial comprehensive index (MCI) decreased, left ventricular end diastolic mass (LV EDmass), left ventricular end systolic mass (LV ESmass) and peak strain dispersion (PSD) increased in the mild‐to‐moderate and the severe groups (P2 < 0.05, P3 < 0.05). There was statistically significant difference in terms of 3D‐STI parameters between the mild‐to‐moderate group and the severe group (P1 < 0.05). The highest area under the ROC for MCI was 0.909, the highest sensitivity for MCI was 90.00%, and the highest specificity for Tor was 86.67%. Correlation analysis showed that there was a good correlation between the MCI and hs‐TropT (r = − 0.677).Conclusion3D‐STI technology may help detect early changes in left ventricular systolic function in patients with SLE.
Right ventricular free wall strain in acutely decompensated heart failure patients with ischemic and non‐ischemic cardiomyopathy
Authors: Miric Dino , Barac Ana , Capkun Vesna , Bakovic Darija 
Published: September 2021

AbstractAimsRight ventricular (RV) dysfunction is a predictor of adverse outcomes among patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF); however, differences in RV parameters in HFrEF patients with ischemic (ICM) and non‐ischemic cardiomyopathies (NICM) are not well understood. We investigated echocardiographic characteristics, including RV strain, in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) and compared patients with ICM and NICM etiology.MethodsConsecutive patients who presented with ADHF and NYHA class III‐IV were prospectively enrolled if they had LVEF < 40% and history of ICM or NICM. All patients underwent clinical exam, laboratory evaluation and 2‐D echocardiographic assessment of the left ventricular (LV) and RV function, LV and RV global longitudinal strain (LVGLS, RVGLS), and RV free wall strain (RVfwLS).ResultsOf 84 patients, 44 had ICM and 40 NICM. The groups had similar blood pressure, NT‐proBNP, and echocardiographic parameters of LV function including LVGLS. Absolute RVGLS values were lower than RVfwLS values in both groups. Patients with NICM had significantly lower RVfwLS, but not RVGLS, compared to patients with ICM (−13% to −17%,p = 0.006). Similar differences in RVfwLS were seen in patients in NYHA class III (NICM vs ICM: −13% and −17%, respectively, 95% CI: −8.5 to −.5) and NYHA class IV (NICM vs ICM: −13.8% and −17%, respectively, 95% CI: −6.4 to −.59).ConclusionAmong patients hospitalized with ADHF, patients with nonischemic etiology compared with the patients with ICM, have more severe RV dysfunction measured by RVfwLS, despite similar extent of LV impairment and the same functional limitation class.