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Development of multi-component counseling program for enhancing resilience among Thai caregivers of older persons with dementia
Authors: Maneewat Thidajit , Lertmaharit Somrat , Tangwongchai Sookjaroen , Phansuea Phenphop 
Published: May 2021

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to develop a multi-component counseling program and examine the short-term effects of an 8-session program.Design/methodology/approachThis present study was a research and development of a multi-component counseling program for enhancing resilience. The concept of resilience was reviewed based on a synthesis of existing research, together with an exploration of qualitative data derived from an interview with ten caregivers of older persons with dementia. Six domains of resilience were identified: physical, relationships, emotional, moral, cognitive and spiritual; which were then used to develop the eight-week program. The program was examined by a panel of three experts for content validity, which yielded an index of 0.87. The program was then tried out with 60 caregivers recruited and assigned 30 caregivers in the intervention and control group. The Caregiver’s Resilience Scale (CRS) was used by trained nurses to evaluate the program and data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA.FindingsThe results indicated that the resilience scores of the participants in the intervention group were statistically significantly higher than those of the control group at one month after program participation and at the follow-up three months later (p < 0.05).Originality/valueIt could be concluded that the program yielded support for the evidence-based practice of non-pharmacological intervention. The program would be suitable as a clinical practice guideline to provide help to caregivers of older persons with dementia at the outpatient setting.
Significant governance factors in PPP infrastructure delivery performance in Ghana
Authors: Kwofie Titus Ebenezer , Ellis Florence Yaa Akyiaa , Opoku Desmond 
Published: May 2021

Purpose
Inefficiencies in public-private partnership (PPP) has been attributed to deficient and poor governance practices and structures. It has been recognized that a veritable way to achieve efficiency in PPP governance is through gaining an understanding of the theoretical, practical and contextual factors that underline governance practices in PPP project delivery. The purpose of this study is to explore the significant governance factors in PPP project performance and delivery.

Design/methodology/approach
Using a questionnaire survey on major players in PPPs in policy, research, consultancy and professionals, the study sought to delineate the significant governance factors that impact PPP project delivery performance.

Findings
A step-wise multiple regression analysis revealed effective communication and openness in sharing project information systems, competent, responsible and effective project leadership, trust-building processes, systems and practices, best practice organizational and team norms, team culture, cohesion practices, effective relationship management practices, robust policy diffusion and transfer processes, friendly business environment and government support and contractual and renegotiation flexibility as the key contractual and non-contractual governance factors that can predict about 79% level of PPP project delivery performance.

Social implications
The findings offer support to improve PPP delivery in governance.

Originality/value
These findings are, thus, useful toward evolving regulatory quality governance mechanisms, flexible supervision and quality decisions that can enhance value for money in PPP projects in PPP project delivery.
Special review: Mechanical investigation on failure modes of reticular porous metal foams under different loadings in engineering applications
Authors: Liu P.S. , Ma X.M. 
Published: May 2021

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a summarization and review of the present author's main investigations on failure modes of reticular metal foams under different loadings in engineering applications.Design/methodology/approachWith the octahedral structure model proposed by the present authors themselves, the fundamentally mechanical relations have been systematically studied for reticular metal foams with open cells in their previous works. On this basis, such model theory is continually used to investigate the failure mode of this kind of porous materials under compression, bending, torsion and shearing, which are common loading forms in engineering applications.FindingsThe pore-strut of metal foams under different compressive loadings will fail in the tensile breaking mode when it is brittle. While it is ductile, it will tend to the shearing failure mode when the shearing strength is half or nearly half of the tensile strength for the corresponding dense material and to the tensile breaking mode when the shearing strength is higher than half of the tensile strength to a certain value. The failure modes of such porous materials under bending, torsional and shearing loads are also similarly related to their material species.Originality/valueThis paper presents a distinctive method to conveniently analyze and estimate the failure mode of metal foams under different loadings in engineering applications.
Repairing political trust in Tunisia
Authors: Sghaier Malek , Skandrani Hamida , Robson Julie 
Published: May 2021

Purpose
This study aims to identify the responses required to repair political trust in Tunisia and the differences between two key stakeholder groups, namely, politicians and voters.

Design/methodology/approach
A sequential mixed method study was adopted using two data sources: semi-structured interviews conducted with citizens and politicians; and media data from TV political talk shows. Data was collected over a three-year period following several key events that affected trust.

Findings
New responses were identified to repair political trust, and these were categorized using a trust repair framework. In addition to short- and long-term responses, a new category, swift response, was identified to resolve immediate political uncertainty. The role of the trustor (i.e. voters) in actively restoring trust was identified for the first time.

Research limitations/implications
This study focussed on trust repair responses suggested by voters and politicians and not necessarily responses that were implemented by government or political parties during the period of study. The effectiveness of the suggested responses in repairing trust was not evaluated.

Practical implications
Identification of the responses required to repair trust with voters, how these differ over time, and according to different trust violations will help Tunisian politicians rebuild trust more effectively during election and non-election periods. Notably, differences highlighted between the responses suggested by voters and politicians suggest that politicians may not understand how to repair voter trust.

Originality/value
Contrary to previous studies that assume a trustor (the voter) is a passive observer, this research identified the proactive role that citizens play in the trust repair process.
Sovereign credit ratings, relative risk ratings and private capital flows: evidence from emerging and frontier markets
Authors: De Supriyo , Mohapatra Sanket , Ratha Dilip 
Published: May 2021

Purpose
Relative risk ratings measure the degree by which a country’s sovereign rating is better or worse than other countries (Basu et al., 2013). However, the literature on the impacts of sovereign ratings on capital flows has not covered the role of relative risk ratings. This paper aims to examine the effect of relative risk ratings on private capital flows to emerging and frontier market economies is filled. In the analysis, the effect of relative risk ratings to that of absolute sovereign ratings in influencing private capital flows are compared.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper examines the influence of sovereign credit ratings and relative risk ratings on private capital flows to 26 emerging and frontier market economies using quarterly data for a 20-year period between 1998 and 2017. A dynamic panel regression model is used to estimate the relationship between ratings and capital flows after controlling for other factors that can influence capital flows such as growth and interest rate differentials and global risk conditions.

Findings
The analysis finds that while absolute sovereign credit ratings were an important determinant of net capital inflows prior to the global financial crisis in 2008, the influence of relative risk ratings increased in the post-crisis period. The post-crisis effect of relative ratings appears to be driven mostly by portfolio flows. The main results are robust to an alternate measure of capital flows (gross capital flows instead of net capital flows), to the use of fixed gross domestic product weights in calculating relative risk ratings and to the potential endogeneity of absolute and relative ratings.

Originality/value
This study advances the literature on being the first attempt to understand the impact of relative risk ratings on capital flows and also comparing the impact of absolute sovereign ratings and relative risk ratings on capital flows in the pre- and post-global financial crisis periods. The findings imply that emerging and frontier markets need to pay greater attention to their relative economic performance and not just their sovereign ratings.
Tax aggressiveness and sustainable welfare: the roles of corruption and tax allocation inefficiency
Authors: Rudyanto Astrid , Utama Sidharta , Martani Dwi , Adhariani Desi 
Published: May 2021

Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the roles of corruption and tax allocation inefficiency in moderating the effect of tax aggressiveness on sustainable welfare.

Design/methodology/approach
This research uses a fixed-effect multiple regression analysis for 55,438 firm-year observations covering 22 countries from 2007 to 2017.

Findings
For less (more) tax-aggressive observations, corruption and tax allocation inefficiency strengthen the negative (positive) effect of tax aggressiveness on sustainable welfare. The results are in line with public choice and functionalism theories that suggest that private investments can increase welfare when governments are dysfunctional.

Practical implications
This paper shows that the effect of tax aggressiveness on sustainable welfare depends on tax aggressiveness, corruption and tax allocation inefficiency.

Social implications
This paper implies that governments should reduce their corruption levels and increase tax allocation efficiency because private investments are ineffective in the long run.

Originality/value
Because of increasing awareness of sustainability issue, sustainable welfare is considered more relevant than traditional welfare. Hence, empirical studies on the effect of tax aggressiveness on sustainable welfare are crucial. This paper adds the literature by combining public choice and functionalism theories to investigate the moderating roles of corruption and tax allocation inefficiency in this issue.
Urbanism as a political way of life: the case of highly educated mainlanders in Hong Kong
Authors: Ip Iam Chong 
Published: May 2021

Purpose
The disengaged form of urban experience, addressed by Louis Wirth in his classic essay, is worthy of further theorization and contextualization. The themes such as indifference, alienation, and disengagement, once the focus of early urban theorists, remain underdeveloped in contemporary China. Through the case study of gangpiao (“Hong Kong drifters”), the highly educated youth from mainland China to Hong Kong, this paper aims to offer an apt and logical illustration of how a disengaged form of urban experience is contingently made.

Design/methodology/approach
Between 2017 and 2020, the author and his assistants interviewed 50 mainland Chinese youth, aged between 25 and 35, in Hong Kong and explored how they perceive, conceive and relate themselves to the city.

Findings
Most informants, instead of devoting themselves to the local community life, embrace a way of life characterized by impersonal, superficial and transitory contacts. The author argues that their feeling of estrangement and indifference, rather than a “natural” outcome of economic progress, is an ethos primarily nurtured by China’s governing strategy and tactics of segregation. The transnational space of gangpiao is a part of the process of reproduction of the Chinese state across territories.

Originality/value
Except for a very limited number of studies, most scholars and critics barely examine the responsibilities of non-state actors for the dominant project of urbanism. The themes such as indifference, alienation and disengagement, once the focus of early urban theorists, remain underdeveloped in the new era of Chinese urban culture. In other words, more scholarly attention should be paid to the circumstances under which people disregard local differences and envision and embrace a “generic” form of city and way of urban life.
Global distribution of IRC7 alleles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations: a genomic and phenotypic survey within the wine clade
Authors: Ruiz Javier , de Celis Miguel , Martín‐Santamaría María , Benito‐Vázquez Iván , Pontes Ana , Lanza Val F. , Sampaio José Paulo , Santos Antonio , Belda Ignacio 
Published: May 2021

SummaryThe adaptation to the different biotic and abiotic factors of wine fermentation has led to the accumulation of numerous genomic hallmarks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae wine strains. IRC7, a gene encoding a cysteine‐S‐β‐lyase enzyme related volatile thiols production in wines, has two alleles: a full‐length allele (IRC7F) and a mutated one (IRC7S), harbouring a 38 bp‐deletion. Interestingly, IRC7S‐encoding a less active enzyme – appears widespread amongst wine populations. Studying the global distribution of the IRC7S allele in different yeast lineages, we confirmed its high prevalence in the Wine clade and demonstrated a minority presence in other domesticated clades (Wine‐PDM, Beer and Bread) while it is completely missing in wild clades. Here, we show that IRC7S‐homozygous (HS) strains exhibited both fitness and competitive advantages compared with IRC7F‐homozygous (HF) strains. There are some pieces of evidence of the direct contribution of the IRC7S allele to the outstanding behaviour of HS strains (i.e., improved response to oxidative stress conditions and higher tolerance to high copper levels); however, we also identified a set of sequence variants with significant co‐occurrence patterns with the IRC7S allele, which can be co‐contributing to the fitness and competitive advantages of HS strains in wine fermentations.
Stimulated saprotrophic fungi in arable soil extend their activity to the rhizosphere and root microbiomes of crop seedlings
Authors: Clocchiatti Anna , Hannula S. Emilia , Hundscheid Maria P. J. , klein Gunnewiek Paulien J. A. , de Boer Wietse 
Published: May 2021

SummarySaprotrophic fungi play an important role in ecosystem functioning and plant performance, but their abundance in intensively managed arable soils is low. Saprotrophic fungal biomass in arable soils can be enhanced with amendments of cellulose‐rich materials. Here, we examined if sawdust‐stimulated saprotrophic fungi extend their activity to the rhizosphere of crop seedlings and influence the composition and activity of other rhizosphere and root inhabitants. After growing carrot seedlings in sawdust‐amended arable soil, we determined fungal and bacterial biomass and community structure in roots, rhizosphere and soil. Utilization of root exudates was assessed by stable isotope probing (SIP) following 13CO2‐pulse‐labelling of seedlings. This was combined with analysis of lipid fatty acids (PLFA/NLFA‐SIP) and nucleic acids (DNA‐SIP). Sawdust‐stimulated Sordariomycetes colonized the seedling's rhizosphere and roots and actively consumed root exudates. This did not reduce the abundance and activity of bacteria, yet higher proportions of α‐Proteobacteria and Bacteroidia were seen. Biomass and activity of mycorrhizal fungi increased with sawdust amendments, whereas exudate consumption and root colonization by functional groups containing plant pathogens did not change. Sawdust amendment of arable soil enhanced abundance and exudate‐consuming activity of saprotrophic fungi in the rhizosphere of crop seedlings and promoted potential beneficial microbial groups in root‐associated microbiomes.
‘Tumbling into the lap of Majesty’: Minuets at the Court of George III
Authors: Burlock Hillary 
Published: May 2021

AbstractPerformance and ritual were central to the functioning of royal courts in the Georgian era. Every year George III held court balls to mark the birthdays of the monarch and consort. The royal birthday ball opened with minuets, a dance that demonstrated grace, ease, politeness, gentility and education. The pressure to perform with grace and accomplishment was immense, as any missteps were eagerly commented on in the press and in correspondence. This article examines the ballroom as an intense emotional space for demonstrating membership of the bon ton.
Embodied‐based environment for kindergarten children: Revisiting constructionist ideas
Authors: Valente José Armando , Caceffo Ricardo , Bonacin Rodrigo , dos Reis Julio Cesar , Gonçalves Diego Addan , Baranauskas Maria Cecília Calani 
Published: May 2021

AbstractConstructionism has different meanings for what the learner is constructing, a concrete object or an idea, and whether this construction is done through the use of digital technology. In the embodied‐based environment created in this study, children carry out or “construct” a series of actions, a performance, which allows them to solve the task of directing an already programmed robot to a particular target. The activity was based on an adaptation of the Little Red Riding Hood narrative. Children played the role of rangers (instead of hunters) who had to coordinate their actions in order to help a robot (an mBot characterized as a Robot‐Wolf) find Grandma’s laboratory, so she could fix its GPS. The children wore boots, which were used to interact with the Robot‐Wolf. The main question we addressed was how to create this embodied‐based environment for kindergarten children, and how to identify the actions children performed and the concepts they used in this construction. The research was based on the Socially‐Aware Design, and the study was conducted in a school setting for kindergarten students. 26 children (11F, 15 M), between 4 and 5 years old, participated in this study. The children’s activities were recorded and analysed using the Grounded Theory methodology. The results show that the children’s performative sequence of actions is distinct from the hands‐on, heads‐in processes that are part of classical constructionist environments. For the children, the process and the product of their (body) “dance” were underlying their movement (perceiving and acting), working together so as to accomplish the given task in the environment.
Practitioner notesWhat is already known about this topic

Constructionism has shown as a way for learning via materialization of tangible objects or construction of ideas.
There are very few examples of constructionist learning environments for kindergarten children to interact with digital technology.
What this paper adds

The creation of the constructionist embodied‐based environment for supporting kindergarten children interacting with digital technologies.
The constructionist embodied‐based environment created was effective in supporting kindergarten children interacting with an already programmed robot.
Children’s performative sequence of actions reveals no separation of the hands‐on, heads‐in processes as in classical constructionist environments.
The creation of a constructionist environment in which children can act and collaborate to construct a series of actions which allow them to solve a specific challenge.
Implications for practice and/or policy

Concepts like leadership and anticipation which were embodied are expressed by the children help to understand how the robot‐based activity can help children to construct knowledge related to, for example, computational thinking.
Normalisation of glucose metabolism by exendin‐4 in the chronic phase after stroke promotes functional recovery in male diabetic mice
Authors: Augestad Ingrid Lovise , Dekens Doortje , Karampatsi Dimitra , Elabi Osama , Zabala Alexander , Pintana Hiranya , Larsson Martin , Nyström Thomas , Paul Gesine , Darsalia Vladimer , Patrone Cesare 
Published: May 2021

Background and PurposeGlucagon‐like peptide‐1 (GLP‐1) receptor activation decreases stroke risk in people with Type 2 diabetes (T2D), while animal studies have shown the efficacy of this strategy to counteract stroke‐induced acute brain damage. However, whether GLP‐1 receptor activation also improves recovery in the chronic phase after stroke is unknown. We investigated whether post‐acute, chronic administration of the GLP‐1 receptor agonist, exendin‐4, improves post‐stroke recovery and examined possible underlying mechanisms in T2D and non‐T2D mice.Experimental ApproachWe induced stroke via transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) in T2D/obese mice (8 months of high‐fat diet) and age‐matched controls. Exendin‐4 was administered for 8 weeks from Day 3 post‐tMCAO. We assessed functional recovery by weekly upper‐limb grip strength tests. Insulin sensitivity and glycaemia were evaluated at 4 and 8 weeks post‐tMCAO. Neuronal survival, stroke‐induced neurogenesis, neuroinflammation, atrophy of GABAergic parvalbumin+ interneurons, post‐stroke vascular remodelling and fibrotic scar formation were investigated by immunohistochemistry.Key ResultsExendin‐4 normalised T2D‐induced impairment of forepaw grip strength recovery in correlation with normalised glycaemia and insulin sensitivity. Moreover, exendin‐4 counteracted T2D‐induced atrophy of parvalbumin+ interneurons and decreased microglia activation. Finally, exendin‐4 normalised density and pericyte coverage of micro‐vessels and restored fibrotic scar formation in T2D mice. In non‐T2D mice, the exendin‐4‐mediated recovery was minor.Conclusion and ImplicationsChronic GLP‐1 receptor activation mediates post‐stroke functional recovery in T2D mice by normalising glucose metabolism and improving neuroplasticity and vascular remodelling in the recovery phase. The results warrant clinical trial of GLP‐1 receptor agonists for rehabilitation after stroke in T2D.LINKED ARTICLESThis article is part of a themed issue on GLP1 receptor ligands (BJP 75th Anniversary). To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v179.4/issuetoc
Adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness and happiness in Chinese college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Authors: Huang Chien‐Chung , Chen Yafan , Cheung Shannon , Hu Hongwei , Wang Enjian 
Published: May 2021

AbstractThe rise of literature on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has indicated a strong relationship between ACEs and negative life outcomes, leading to important implications for services to the population. However, less is known about the effects of ACEs on happiness and the role of mindfulness in this relation. This study examined the relationships between ACEs and happiness and whether mindfulness mediated the effects of ACEs on happiness in a sample of Chinese college students. The data were collected from 1871 college students from 12 colleges across China in September 2020. The findings of this study show that ACEs had significant negative effects on students' happiness and that mindfulness helped to substantially reduce the negative effects of ACEs on happiness. Students who experienced emotional neglect and abuse in childhood were affected the most. By contrast, this group is not the primary focus of mindfulness‐based interventions in existing literature; thus, this study calls for specific mindfulness‐based interventions for this vulnerable population.