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The state of the art in the incorporation of sustainable development goals in Nepalese Universities
Authors: Adhikari Dev Raj , Shah Bijaya Bikram 
Published: July 2021

PurposeThis paper aims to assess the state of the art of quality of education, research and governance to incorporate sustainable development goal 4 (SDG 4) in Nepalese higher education institutions (HEIs). In particular, it raises questions to initiate a discourse on HEIs to achieve SDG 4.Design/methodology/approachThe idea of undertaking this research is heavily borrowed from scientific literature and policy documents. It is an exploratory study that assesses the current status of quality of education, research and governance and suggests policy measures to inculcate SDGs culture in Nepalese HEIs. This study follows a qualitative approach. The analysis is based on the opinions of 113 HEIs stakeholders and high-ranked university officials. Discussions among stakeholders have been organized using online facilities such as Zoom and Team.FindingsNepalese universities had not incorporated SDGs in their policy, planning, budget and curriculum. The research finds that even after the government’s commitment to SDGs, HEIs are not honestly involved in academic discourse on these goals. From the conversation with university officials, it appears that Universities have understood it as a government policy for development, rather than incorporating it as their sectoral responsibility to ensure the quality of education for future generations.Practical implicationsThis paper prescribes policies to inculcate SDGs culture practically throughout the university structure and operations and opens the floor to discourse on the sectoral role to reach SDG 4. Second, this research suggests activities and policies integrated toward the common good agenda.Originality/valueThe paper is the first of its type in the context of a least developed country, Nepal, to raise the issue of HEIs for SDGs. This paper also represents the situation of HEIs for SDGs of similar countries.
Unearthing the response pattern of COVID-19 research in social sciences
Authors: Singh Vibhav , Verma Surabhi 
Published: July 2021

PurposeThe sudden onset of COVID-19 has brought about a watershed moment in the current research across all disciplines. As it has impacted almost all aspects of human existence, academicians are aggressively trying to understand the phenomenon from multidisciplinary perspectives. In this regard, the present study attempts to provide an in-depth understanding of academia's response pattern in the field of social sciences using a grounded theory literature review and bibliometric analysis.Design/methodology/approachThe present study analyzed 395 research articles on the pandemic phenomenon, yielding five main themes and 11 sub-themes.FindingsThe emergent research themes are global impact on public health, the influence of COVID-19 on workplace functioning, global governance in COVID-19, research ethics in scholarly works and the influence of COVID-19 on demography.Originality/valueDrawing from these themes, the authors provide propositions, policy implications and future research directions.
Immersive reading in virtual and augmented reality environment
Authors: Rau Pei-Luen Patrick , Zheng Jian , Guo Zhi 
Published: July 2021

Purpose
This study aims to investigate “immersive reading,” which occurs when individuals read text while in a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) environment.

Design/methodology/approach
In Experiment 1, 64 participants read text passages and answered multiple-choice questions in VR and AR head-mounted displays (HMDs) compared with doing the same task on liquid crystal display (LCD). In Experiment 2, 31 participants performed the same reading tasks but with two VR HMDs of different display quality.

Findings
Compared with reading on LCD as the baseline, participants reading in VR and AR HMDs got 82% (VR) and 88% (AR) of the information accurately. Participants tended to respond more accurately and faster, though not statistically significant, with the VR HMD of higher pixel density in the speed-reading task.

Originality/value
The authors observed the speed and accuracy of reading in VR and AR environments, compared with the reading speed and accuracy on an LCD monitor. The authors also compared the reading performance on two VR HMDs that differed in display quality but were otherwise similar in every way.
Assessing the application of Islamic and conventional hedgings in Indonesia
Authors: Ismal Rifki 
Published: July 2021

Purpose
Banks in Indonesia offer two currency-hedging mechanisms to business players to hedge their portfolio against exchange rate risk, namely, Islamic hedging and conventional hedging. Taking into account that Islamic finance stakeholders in Indonesia want to accelerate Islamic hedging transactions, assessing the feasibility of Islamic hedging to serve the business players is very important. Thus, this paper aims to compare the conventional and Islamic currency-hedging mechanisms, particularly to identify which one to be preferred by the business players, identify terms and conditions if Islamic hedging is more preferable, give information regarding the estimated profit and payment of the premium in adopting currency-hedging (both conventional and Islamic hedgings) and prove the workability of Islamic currency-hedging as a new hedging mechanism for the business players.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses qualitative research methodology by comparing Islamic and conventional hedging and a quantitative research method by using a forward contract formula. Technically, the paper conducts a static simulation of the forward transactions by using both conventional and Islamic hedgings to hedge the foreign exchange (forex) credit received by business players from banks. The forward contract simulation uses US dollar (USD) against Indonesian rupiah (IDR) from December 2003 to February 2019 and the forward premium uses both Islamic and conventional money market rates called PUAB (conventional interbank money market) rate and PUAS (Islamic interbank money market) rate.

Findings
The paper finds that Islamic hedging is more preferable to conventional one due to some considerations which are the number of profitable months, the minimum payment of premium and the highest payment of profit. However, even though the Islamic hedging mechanism has the advantage of having a higher Islamic money market rate than the conventional one, the economic condition (particularly the movement of IDR exchange rate) has to be considered as well particularly during the volatile exchange rate movement.

Research limitations/implications
The paper has not occupied macroeconomic variables such as inflation, GDP, international trade, as they might influence the movement of IDR exchange rate. In addition, it uses static simulation rather than a dynamic one.

Originality/value
This is the first paper assessing both Islamic and conventional hedging mechanisms in the case of Indonesia
Co-operative behavior of handicraft, low- and high-tech micro-firms: where do they differ?
Authors: Shafi Mohsin , Yang Yongzhong , Zoya Zoya , Junrong Liu , Rahman Imran Ur , Fatima Hina 
Published: July 2021

Purpose
Though certain characteristics of micro-firms affect the likelihood of their participation in external relationships, how cooperation in craft enterprises differs from low and high-tech enterprises has not been investigated yet. Therefore, this study aims to fill the above gap in the literature.

Design/methodology/approach
This study adopts a descriptive approach by extensively reviewing relevant literature to explore the unique characteristics and nature of micro-firm's co-operative behavior. The theoretical approach of this research is grounded in resource-based view and dynamic capabilities theories.

Findings
This study finds that handicraft micro-firms possess special and unique characteristics that differentiate them from low- and high-tech firms. Further, handicraft micro-firms' co-operative behavior also differs from other firms in terms of cooperation motives, breadth, depth and factors that inhibit or promote cooperation. Additionally, in small handicraft firms, the co-operation is more informal, personal and through social networks, whereas in the corporate sector, it is more formal, direct and through supply chains. This study also argues that contrary to handicraft and low-tech firms, high-tech firms are more likely to cooperate with external partners and invest heavily in R&D for new product development (often radical in nature).

Originality/value
This study enriches our understanding of handicraft micro-firms' special and unique characteristics that differentiate them from low- and high-tech micro-firms. This research also provides in-depth knowledge to understand the handicraft micro-firms’ co-operative behavior and how it differs from low- and high-tech firms.
A dynamic performance evaluation model suggestion for performance-based logistics
Authors: Agdas Mustafa , Gencer Cevriye 
Published: July 2021

PurposeThis study proposes a dynamic performance evaluation model to support the material availability of the public institution under performance- based logistics (PBL) and to select the most appropriate service provider.Design/methodology/approachThe model consists of four stages. In the first stage, a criteria set to evaluate alternatives is created. In the second stage, the DEA-MTFP index method is applied for performance evaluation of the alternatives by using crisp data. In the third stage, IFS theory is utilized for aggregating decision-maker judgments on alternatives, and in the last stage, the results of both methods are turned into single value, and it is selected as the most suitable alternative.FindingsIt is verified that the proposed approach can be implemented to the real-life dynamic multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem that have crisp and fuzzy data under the PBL strategy.Practical implicationsThis paper offers an integrated approach for performance analysis of service providers in a dynamic MCDM problem in which crisp and fuzzy data are used together. To illustrate applicability and validity of the proposed model, it is applied to a real-life problem.Originality/valueThis paper utilizes the DEA-MTFP index method and IFS theory in an integrated way.
COVID-19 and the airline industry: crisis management and resilience
Authors: Suk Minho , Kim Wonjoon 
Published: July 2021

Purpose
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a time of crisis and uncertainty for the air transportation industry. The gloomy prospects for the industry have stretched business resilience to a critical point. The crisis has caused damage and shock that the aviation industry has never endured before. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of both internally and externally generated airline response strategies by examining business practices for crisis management.

Design/methodology/approach
This study screened research papers and economic reports from authoritative organizations including the International Air Transport Association, International Civil Aviation Organization, World Health Organization and United Nations World Tourism Organization from December 2019 (the month in which the COVID-19 outbreak occurred) to March 2021 (the most recent month at present). The authors also integrated publicly recognized news articles to cover a wide range of business practices in the airline industry. The authors conducted thematic analysis by filtering news articles and economic reports that mentioned the keywords “COVID-19,” “pandemic,” “CoV-2,” “coronavirus” and “corona.” The authors coded the airlines’ response actions along the two-axis matrix (time and magnitude) and generated insights in a timely manner.

Findings
Major airlines have modified decision-making in relation to the exponential spread of the virus, which is in direct proportion to the deterioration level in the airline industry. When the impact was low in the early stage, major airlines maintained their status quo. Before long, the magnitude of the destruction became high, which made airlines implement capacity adjustments and request government relief measures. As industrial deterioration deepens, airlines keep calling for state aid packages and have changed their focus to the cargo transportation of high-demand commodities and pharmaceutical supplies. Lastly, industrial adversity and uncertainty have made them defer aggressive takeover opportunities.

Originality/value
Several researchers have investigated the impacts of the COVID-19 on the airline industry. However, there remains a dearth of scholarship on the hampered business activities and crisis management of the airline industry. In the absence of sufficient response strategies against the COVID-19 panic, this paper is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the major airlines’ response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this paper yields an opportunity for on-site management to review how major global airlines have responded to the crisis and find managerial insights to restore their business sustainability.
Breathing spaces of fearlessness and generosity in the Anglophone/Western university
Authors: Lobo Michele 
Published: July 2021

AbstractHow can dreams for just futures take flight in universities with colonial legacies that celebrate diversity but silence academics of colour who seek to be more than “institutional ornaments” and “quiet achievers?” Emerging research on decolonising the university focuses on the struggle that hypervisible Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, and minority ethnic/ethno‐religious academics of colour engage in to negotiate the subtleties of institutional racism. In Australia, academics of colour who struggle to gain entry feel less vulnerable when they retreat to a place of quiet achievement and focus on advancing their careers. But such “quiet” places, which open up through White recognition and White responsibility, fail to unsettle brutal practices and a bitter politics of survival. This article therefore argues for geographies of fearlessness and generosity from sites of vulnerability in the Anglophone/Western university. It is inspired by feminist, Indigenous, and Black politics; personal experiences in Australian universities; and ethnographic research with ethnic/ethno‐religious minority migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and Indigenous peoples in Paris and Detroit, among other locations. The findings are significant in showing how the multiply situated “we” in the university learn how to “stay with the trouble” and see the shimmer of decolonial horizons of possibility.
Hidden diversity of Ctenophora revealed by new mitochondrial COI primers and sequences
Authors: Christianson Lynne M. , Johnson Shannon B. , Schultz Darrin T. , Haddock Steven H. D. 
Published: July 2021

AbstractThe mitochondrial gene cytochrome‐c‐oxidase subunit 1 (COI) is useful in many taxa for phylogenetics, population genetics, metabarcoding, and rapid species identifications. However, the phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies) has historically been difficult to study due to divergent mitochondrial sequences and the corresponding inability to amplify COI with degenerate and standard COI “barcoding” primers. As a result, there are very few COI sequences available for ctenophores, despite over 200 described species in the phylum. Here, we designed new primers and amplified the COI fragment from members of all major groups of ctenophores, including many undescribed species. Phylogenetic analyses of the resulting COI sequences revealed high diversity within many groups that was not evident from more conserved 18S rDNA sequences, in particular among the Lobata (Ctenophora; Tentaculata; Lobata). The COI phylogenetic results also revealed unexpected community structure within the genus Bolinopsis, suggested new species within the genus Bathocyroe, and supported the ecological and morphological differences of some species such as Lampocteis cruentiventer and similar undescribed lobates (Lampocteis sp. “V” stratified by depth, and “A” differentiated by colour). The newly designed primers reported herein provide important tools to enable researchers to illuminate the diversity of ctenophores worldwide via quick molecular identifications, improve the ability to analyse environmental DNA by improving reference libraries and amplifications, and enable a new breadth of population genetic studies.
Hydrous Juvenile Lower Crust at the Western Yangtze Craton Margin as the Main Source of the Beiya Porphyry‐skarn Au Deposit
Authors: WANG Zixuan , ZHENG Yuanchuan , XU Bo , HOU Zengqian , ZHANG Aiping , SHEN Yang , MA Rui , WU Changda , XU Peiyan 
Published: July 2021

AbstractThe Beiya porphyry‐skarn Au deposit is one of the largest gold deposits in China, temporally and spatially associated with Eocene intrusions in a post‐collisional setting in western Yunnan, China. In this study, we report new whole‐rock geochemistry, Sr‐Nd isotope, zircon U‐Pb geochronology and in situ zircon Hf‐O isotopes of quartz‐monzonite and biotite‐monzonite porphyries from the Beiya deposit. The porphyry‐skarn mineralization at the Beiya deposit is mainly associated with the quartz monzonite porphyry (35.8 ± 0.6 Ma), while the biotite‐monzonite porphyry (34.3 ± 0.5 Ma) represents a post‐mineralization intrusion crosscutting the main orebodies and the quartz‐monzonite porphyry. Both intrusions have high‐K and adakitic composition and are characterized by high Sr/Y ratios, high SiO2 and Al2O3 concentrations (SiO2 = 69.80–73.86 wt%; Al2O3 = 14.11–15.19 wt%), and low MgO, Cr, and Ni concentrations (MgO = 0.2–1.0 wt%; Cr = 1.76–11.13 ppm; Ni = 2.52–11.72 ppm). Their Sr‐Nd isotope compositions (87Sr/86Sr = 0.7066–0.7077; εNd(t) = –5.3 to –1.5) are consistent with the lower crustal‐derived amphibolite xenoliths (87Sr/86Sr = 0.7060–0.7100; εNd(t) = –10.0 to 0.0), indicating that they might be derived from a thickened juvenile lower crust beneath the Yangtze Craton. The biotite‐monzonite porphyry has lower zircon δ18O values of +5.3‰ to +6.8‰ and higher εHf(t) values of –2.3 to +5.5 than those of the quartz‐monzonite porphyry with δ18O values of +7.1‰ to +8.2‰ and εHf(t) values of –3.8 to +1.5, implying that they were derived from different parts of the lower crust. High Ba/La and Pb/Ce ratios suggest that the quartz‐monzonite porphyry is derived from a volatiles‐rich reservoir. Relatively higher La/Yb, Sm/Yb and Dy/Yb ratios of the biotite‐monzonite porphyry indicate residual garnet in the source, indicating a deeper source than that of the quartz‐monzonite porphyry. The hydrous components should be represented by the amphibole‐rich lithologies, which has relatively shallower depth than that of the garnet‐bearing mafic thickened lower crust. Our data suggest that the mineralized quartz‐monzonite porphyry at the Beiya deposit is derived from partial melting of amphibole‐rich lithologies in the upper part of the thickened juvenile lower crust beneath the Yangtze Craton, while the post‐mineralization biotite‐monzonite porphyry is derived from the basal, and volatiles‐poor, part of the juvenile lower crust.
Modelling the distribution of bat activity areas for conservation in a Mediterranean mountain range
Authors: Tena Elena , Tellería José Luis 
Published: July 2021

AbstractThere is a lack of studies designed to detect the most important areas for bat conservation. In this context, areas of high bat activity have been rarely considered in the delimitation of protected areas for bats, which are generally focused on the protection of roosting sites. This has been due to the difficulties of sampling the distribution of these nocturnal animals when moving at night. This methodological constraint has been overcome by the development of bioacoustic sampling, which allows mapping the occurrence of active bats over large areas. In this study, we use bat detectors to sample the distribution of bat activity in central Spain. This region is under the environmental effects of a mountain range (Guadarrama Mountains) and the urban encroachment of the city of Madrid. The occurrences provided by the detectors were used to produce species distribution models of which the resulting layers were arranged to detect the most suitable areas for bat richness and rarity indices. We performed a gap analysis to explore whether the areas most commonly used by active bats are covered by the current network of protected areas. The results showed that the best areas of high bat activity are located at the piedmont of the mountains and that most of these areas overlap with the existing network of protected areas. The best areas for bats excluded the most urbanized areas and within a similar urban gradient, protected areas tended to be located within the best sites for conservation. These results suggest that bats currently benefit from a network of protected areas initially aimed to protect birds and habitats (Natura 2000). In addition, monitoring areas of high bat activity could complement roosting site protection in the conservation of bat assemblages.
Open‐label trial of a single‐day induction onto buprenorphine extended‐release injection for users of heroin and fentanyl
Authors: Mariani John J. , Mahony Amy L. , Podell Samuel C. , Brooks Daniel J. , Brezing Christina , Luo Sean X. , Naqvi Nasir H. , Levin Frances R. 
Published: July 2021

AbstractBackground and ObjectivesFentanyl and other highly potent synthetic opioids are the leading cause of opioid overdose deaths in the United States.MethodsThis study was an open‐label, uncontrolled 12‐week outpatient clinical trial to test the feasibility of a single‐day induction onto extended‐release buprenorphine (BXR) injection treatment for five adults (N = 5) with opioid use disorder using heroin‐containing fentanyl. Participants were planned to receive three monthly BXR injections (300, 300, and 100 mg).ResultsAfter receiving 24 mg sublingual buprenorphine (SL‐BUP), all five participants received the BXR 300 mg injection on the first day of induction. All five participants were retained for the full 3‐month study period postinduction and received all three scheduled BXR injections.Discussion and ConclusionThis study provides preliminary evidence supporting the feasibility of inducting users of heroin‐containing fentanyl onto BXR 300 mg in a single day.Scientific SignificanceThe ability to administer a long‐acting injection of BXR that assures therapeutic serum levels for a month on the first day of treatment contact is a promising development for the treatment of OUD.