bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Employee perception of talent management practices and turnover intentions: a multiple mediator model
Authors: Boonbumroongsuk Boontip , Rungruang Parisa 
Published: October 2021

PurposeThe study aims to investigate employees' overall justice perception and job stress as multiple mediators in the relationship between perceived talent management (TM) practices and turnover intention.Design/methodology/approachCovering various industries in Bangkok, Thailand, the sample of the study consists of 552 employees, including both talented employees and normal employees as defined by their organization. Online questionnaires were distributed internally by selected organizations, and structural equations modeling was used to analyze the data.FindingsThe results indicate that both overall justice perception and job stress mediate the relationship between perceived TM practices and turnover intention.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the lack of empirical evidence in TM literature and aids in the design of better TM strategies to deliver effective organizational investments in its people.
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of the Healthy Together program for immigrant and refugee families in Canada
Authors: Huisken Anne , Bottorff Joan L. , Nesmith Catherine 
Published: October 2021

Purpose
Healthy Together (HT) is an innovative family education program focused on bringing families together to promote physical activity and healthy eating. The HT program was implemented in 10 community-based organizations across Canada offering services to immigrant and refugee families. The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility and acceptability of HT when offered to these families.

Design/methodology/approach
A cross-sectional, non-comparative design was used. Caregiver participants were invited to complete a survey at the end of 15, 30 or 24 HT sessions. Trained program facilitators and directors of community-based organizations also provided feedback on the program.

Findings
Among the 203 caregiver participants, 135 (64%) were born outside of Canada. These caregivers were more likely to attend 50% or more of the HT sessions than Canadian-born caregivers. Survey responses show that the HT program was acceptable to immigrant and refugee caregivers and held important benefits for families including positive changes in healthy eating and physical activity, strengthening social connections and learning about community services and resources. Areas for enhancing the HT program for immigrant and refugee families were identified by participant caregivers and community organizations delivering the program.

Practical implications
The HT program demonstrates the value of family-centered program models in supporting immigrant and refugee families in establishing healthy lifestyles and building social connections in ways that hold promise for long-term impact.

Originality/value
The HT program model demonstrates strong potential to fill gaps in community programming for immigrant and refugee families. Although focused on promoting healthy lifestyles, the program extends additional benefits that can positively influence resettlement trajectories. The findings contribute to the growing field of implementation studies that are focused on expanding the reach and impact of community health interventions in a real-world setting while reaching multiple target populations.
The role of performance measurement in aligning operations with strategy: sustaining cognitive processes of internal alignment
Authors: Bellisario Andrea , Pavlov Andrey , van der Steen Martijn Pieter 
Published: October 2021

PurposeThis paper aims to address an important theoretical shortcoming in the conceptualization of internal alignment by investigating the cognitive processes involved in aligning operations with strategy and the role of performance measurement (PM) in sustaining these processes.Design/methodology/approachA theory-building study investigates the process of using PM to drive the implementation of a new strategy in a large beer manufacturer in Italy. The study uses a sensemaking perspective to theorize the findings. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, field observations and company documents.FindingsThis study develops a theoretical model suggesting that establishing and maintaining internal alignment occurs through seeking, assembling, adjusting and finalizing the meaning of how strategic priorities inform local action. PM plays a central role in this process by providing interpretive support.Research limitations/implicationsThis article advances a cognition-centred view of internal alignment that complements the behavioural aspect of the phenomenon emphasized in prior literature.Practical implicationsUsing PM for aligning operations with strategy is a complex and iterative process that requires time and effort and generates temporary stability. Managers may need to complement traditional approaches to alignment with providing space for sensemaking.Originality/valueThe paper proposes a view of internal alignment as an ongoing interpretive process that is sustained by PM. This process brings about the consistency of meanings that generates strategy-consistent behaviours.
The influence of direct-to-physician promotion towards physicians’ prescription behaviour in Malaysia
Authors: Kabir Sardar Md Humayun , Maulan Suharni , Manaf Noor Hazilah Abd , Nasir Zaireena Wan 
Published: October 2021

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of direct-to-physician promotion on physicians’ prescription behaviour. There were very few studies which have investigated to what extent the pharmaceutical promotion directed towards physicians influences physicians’ prescription behaviour in the Malaysian context.

Design/methodology/approach
A research framework has been developed based on the buyer behaviour stimulus-response model. A survey method has been used to collect data from 154 medical practitioners from private health-care facilities located at Klang valley in Malaysia. IBM SPSS and SmartPLS statistical programs have been used to analyse the data and validate the model.

Findings
This study found that personal selling is the most significant promotional tool for physicians’ prescription behaviour, whereas advertising is the least significant one. Sales promotion and public relations are the second and third most significant promotional tools. Direct marketing is found to be not significant.

Practical implications
This paper will help the pharmaceutical companies develop more effective plans to gain a competitive advantage for their business by having a guideline for pharmaceutical marketers as an input to the more efficient allocation of their promotional budgets.

Originality/value
This study has introduced a comprehensive understanding of all the factors in the pharmaceutical promotion that influence physicians’ prescription behaviour in Malaysia and how these factors are interrelated, influencing physicians’ prescribing medicines for patients.
Determinants of personal social capital among Syrian refugees: comparison of inside and outside camps residence
Authors: Alduraidi Hamza , Hamaideh Shaher H. , Hamdan-Mansour Ayman 
Published: October 2021

Purpose
This study aims to assess the status and determinants of personal social capital (PSC) in Syrian refugees in Jordan, comparing the inside and outside camp residents.

Design/methodology/approach
A descriptive, cross-sectional design was used to collect data from 151 Syrian refugees residing inside and outside the camp.

Findings
The overall PSC score was relatively low (M = 27.5 ± 7.15, 95% CI: 26.3–28.6). Scores were significantly associated with age group, marital status, educational level, income level and living place (p < 0.05). Two steps multiple hierarchal regressing showed that income and place of residence are the only significant predictors of PSC (p ≤ 0.05).

Originality/value
Social support programs are required among Syrian refugees residing outside the camp, specifically among families with older and poorly educated parents, single-parent families and low-income refugees.
Gender, malice, obligation and the state: Separated mothers’ experiences of administrative burdens with Australia's child support program
Authors: Cook Kay 
Published: October 2021

AbstractThis article provides an empirical account of Herd and Moynihan's theory of administrative burdens as they apply to Australian child support recipients. Interviews with 41 separated mothers revealed how they were compelled to engage in the child support system and then required to expend significant time and effort undertaking administrative work on behalf of the state, often for little financial benefit. Unlike the examples provided by Herd and Moynihan, in this study, it was found that child support system burdens could be used by aggrieved fathers to inflict financial and psychological harms on their ex‐partners. The state accepted fathers’ imposition of costs on mothers as they shared a financial interest in maintaining women's burdens. As a result, this paper provides three conceptual advancements on the existing theory, by articulating: how administrative burdens can be created and applied by non‐government third parties, in this case individual ex‐family members; how the state can acquiesce to the imposition of harms if these align with their interests; and how the state distributes obligations and autonomy along social lines, such as, in this case, along the lines of class and gender.
Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing
Authors: Pienaar Kiran , Petersen Alan 
Published: October 2021

AbstractDiagnosis is pivotal to medicine's epistemic system: it serves to explain individual symptoms, classify them into recognizable conditions and determine their prognosis and treatment. Medical tests, or investigative procedures for detecting and monitoring disease, play a central role in diagnosis. While testing promises diagnostic certainty or a definitive risk assessment, it often produces uncertainties and new questions which call for yet further tests. In short, testing, regardless of its specific application, is imbued with meaning and emotionally fraught. In this article, we explore individuals' ambivalent experiences of testing as they search for diagnostic certainty, and the anxieties and frustrations of those for whom it remains elusive. Combining insights from sociological work on ambivalence and the biopolitics of health, and drawing on qualitative interviews with Australian healthcare recipients who have undergone testing in the context of clinical practice, we argue that these experiences are explicable in light of the contradictory impulses and tensions associated with what we term ‘bio‐subjectification’. We consider the implications of our analysis in light of the development of new tests that produce ever finer delineations between healthy and diseased populations, concluding that their use will likely multiply uncertainties and heighten rather than lessen anxieties.
Return predictability between industries and the stock market in China
Authors: Zhang Yanying , Tse Yiuman , Zhang Gaiyan 
Published: October 2021

AbstractWe examined the lead–lag relationship between industry portfolio returns and market returns in China, the largest emerging market, for the period 1993–2019. Using a bidirectional pairwise regression model, we found that the returns for banking and real estate not only predict market returns and returns for other industries but also predict industrial output growth. Since 2005, a shift in predictive ability from manufacturing to real estate has occurred, whereas banking has maintained consistent predictive power over the examined period. In the reverse direction, the stock market predicts the returns for mining and transportation. The predictive power of banking was amplified during the 2008 financial crisis; however, it decreased in 2015 due to turbulence in China's stock market. The market predictability of mining was enhanced in both periods. The in‐sample and out‐of‐sample tests suggest that certain industry predictability patterns remain to be exploited by China's stock market participants.
Geophysical investigation for detecting buried human remains after eight years of burial in Owo, Southwestern Nigeria
Authors: Bawallah Adesola Musa , Ilugbo Stephen Olubusola , Adebo Babatunde A. , Kehinde Olawuyi Ayodele 
Published: October 2021

AbstractA geophysical investigation for buried human remains after 8 years of burial involving the use of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) was carried out at Owo, Ondo State, Southwestern Nigeria. This study was aimed at identifying the burial location of a corpse buried in a coffin about 8 years ago for exhumation and reburial in another location consequent upon litigations and controversies surrounding the land of the burial. The results obtained were used to generate 2D model and different resistivity maps which were able to identify suspected zone. Excavation of the suspected zone was carried out for the exhumed and relocation of the buried human remains. Electrical Resistivity has therefore been found useful in search for detecting human remains buried in a coffin with the key indicator being lower electrical resistivity relative to the surrounding area.
Antioxidant response to severe hypoxia in Brandt's vole Lasiopodomys brandtii
Authors: SHI Luye , CHEN Bojian , WANG Xinrui , HUANG Maolin , QIAO Congcong , WANG Jingou , WANG Zhenlong 
Published: October 2021

AbstractThe antioxidant defense system is essential for animals to cope with homeostasis disruption and overcome oxidative stress caused by adverse environmental conditions such as hypoxia. However, our understanding of how this system works in subterranean rodents remains limited. In this study, Brandt's vole Lasiopodomys brandtii was exposed to normoxia (21% O2) or hypoxia (mild or severe hypoxia: 10% or 5% O2) for 6 h. Changes in key enzymes of the classic enzymatic antioxidant system at both mRNA and enzyme activity levels, and tissue antioxidant levels of the low‐molecular‐weight antioxidant system were determined in brain, liver, and kidney. Transcript levels of the upstream regulator NF‐E2‐related factor 2 (Nrf2) were also measured. We found that the mRNA expression of Nrf2 and its downstream antioxidant enzyme genes in L. brandtii were relatively conserved in response to hypoxia in most tissues and genes tested, except in the liver. Hepatic Nrf2, Cu/Zn SOD, GPx1, and GPx3 levels were significantly upregulated in response to mild hypoxia, whereas Mn SOD level decreased significantly in severe hypoxia. Unmatched with changes at the RNA level, constitutively high and relatively stable antioxidant enzyme activities were maintained throughout. For the low‐molecular‐weight antioxidant system, an abrupt increase of cerebral ascorbic acid (AA) levels in hypoxia indicated a tissue‐specific antioxidant response. Although hypoxia did not cause significant oxidative damage in most tissues tested, the significant decrease in antioxidant enzyme activities (GPX and GR) and increase in lipid peroxidation in the kidney suggest that prolonged hypoxia may pose a critical threat to this species.
Predictive value of a novel Asian lung cancer screening nomogram based on artificial intelligence and epidemiological characteristics
Authors: Liu Dahai , Sun Xiao , Liu Ao , Li Lun , Li Shaoke , Li Jinmiao , Liu Xiaojun , Yang Yu , Wu Zhe , Leng Xiaoliang , Wo Yang , Huang Zhangfeng , Su Wenhao , Du Wenxing , Yuan Tianxiang , Jiao Wenjie 
Published: October 2021

AbstractBackgroundTo develop and validate a risk prediction nomogram based on a deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNN) model and epidemiological characteristics for lung cancer screening in patients with small pulmonary nodules (SPN).MethodsThis study included three data sets. First, a CNN model was developed and tested on data set 1. Then, a hybrid prediction model was developed on data set 2 by multivariable binary logistic regression analysis. We combined the CNN model score and the selected epidemiological risk factors, and a risk prediction nomogram was presented. An independent multicenter cohort was used for model external validation. The performance of the nomogram was assessed with respect to its calibration and discrimination.ResultsThe final hybrid model included the CNN model score and the screened risk factors included age, gender, smoking status and family history of cancer. The nomogram showed good discrimination and calibration with an area under the curve (AUC) of 91.6% (95% CI: 89.4%–93.5%), compare with the CNN model, the improvement was significance. The performance of the nomogram still showed good discrimination and good calibration in the multicenter validation cohort, with an AUC of 88.3% (95% CI: 83.1%–92.3%).ConclusionsOur study showed that epidemiological characteristics should be considered in lung cancer screening, which can significantly improve the efficiency of the artificial intelligence (AI) model alone. We combined the CNN model score with Asian lung cancer epidemiological characteristics to develop a new nomogram to facilitate and accurately perform individualized lung cancer screening, especially for Asians.
Information asymmetry, regulatory inquiry, and company mergers and acquisitions: evidence from Shenzhen Stock Exchange comment letters
Authors: Chen Wanyi , Hu Ning , Zhao Xiangfang 
Published: October 2021

AbstractThis study investigates the governance effect of comment letters. Companies with severer information asymmetry are more likely to receive merger and acquisition (M&A) comment letters, which demonstrate a lower M&A success rate; however, such companies exhibit better long‐term M&A performance. Further analysis shows that the long‐term governance effects are stronger in cross‐industry and cross‐region samples and that the transmission channels are information disclosure and internal control quality of the inquired firms. This study enriches the literature on government regulation effectiveness, develops new evidence on the localisation of government regulation from developed economies, and provides policy implications for further regulation reform in transition economies.
Rural patients highly satisfied with gynaecological oncology care via telehealth
Authors: Arnold Joanna L. , Anderson Emma , Roeder Luisa 
Published: October 2021

BackgroundIntroduction of telehealth for gynaecological oncology consultations aims to improve access to specialised care for rural and remote Queensland women with gynaecological malignancies.AimsThis survey examines patient satisfaction with gynaecological oncology consultations via telehealth after introduction of the service in Far North Queensland in 2017.Materials and MethodsPatients who accessed the gynaecological oncology telehealth service at Cairns Hospital from January 2019 to June 2020 were invited to participate in the study. Demographic details and results of a satisfaction survey were investigated. The questionnaire included 16 statements measured on a five‐point Likert scale and three open‐ended questions, which were coded into related responses and predominant themes developed.ResultsFifty‐three patients completed the study. The mean satisfaction score across all questions was 90.5% (standard deviation 8.7%). The lowest overall patient score was 77.5% and the highest was 100%. Themes emerging from the open questions were emotions experienced by women, communication, relationship building and acceptability of the service.ConclusionsPatients were highly satisfied with the telehealth service. Our findings encourage further development and research into telehealth care models for surgical disciplines such as gynaecological oncology.
An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns
Authors: Dong Yun‐wei , Liao Ming‐ling , Han Guo‐dong , Somero George N. 
Published: October 2021

ABSTRACTElucidating the physiological mechanisms that underlie thermal stress and discovering how species differ in capacities for phenotypic acclimatization and evolutionary adaptation to this stress is critical for understanding current latitudinal and vertical distribution patterns of species and for predicting their future state in a warming world. Such mechanistic analyses require careful choice of study systems (species and temperature‐sensitive traits) and design of laboratory experiments that reflect the complexities of in situ conditions. Here, we critically review a wide range of studies of intertidal molluscs that provide mechanistic accounts of thermal effects across all levels of biological organization – behavioural, organismal, organ level, cellular, molecular, and genomic – and show how temperature‐sensitive traits govern distribution patterns and capacities for coping with thermal stress. Comparisons of congeners from different thermal habitats are especially effective means for identifying adaptive variation. We employ these mechanistic analyses to illustrate how species differ in the severity of threats posed by rising temperature. Counterintuitively, we show that some of the most heat‐tolerant species may be most threatened by increases in temperatures because of their small thermal safety margins and minimal abilities to acclimatize to higher temperatures. We discuss recent molecular biological and genomic studies that provide critical foundations for understanding the types of evolutionary changes in protein structure, RNA secondary structure, genome content, and gene expression capacities that underlie adaptation to temperature. Duplication of stress‐related genes, as found in heat‐tolerant molluscs, may provide enhanced capacity for coping with higher temperatures. We propose that the anatomical, behavioural, physiological, and genomic diversity found among intertidal molluscs, which commonly are of critical importance and high abundance in these ecosystems, makes this group of animals a highly appropriate study system for addressing questions about the mechanistic determinants of current and future distribution patterns of intertidal organisms.
Unemployment, religious disintegration and suicide fluctuations in Alberta
Authors: Trovato Frank 
Published: October 2021

AbstractThis study looks at the relationship between unemployment, religious disintegration and suicide in Alberta during 1997–2015. Religious disintegration is operationalized as the percentage of population with no religious affiliation. Economic theory predicts suicides increase when unemployment rates are high and decline when unemployment rates are low. Sociological theory calls for suicides to vary inversely with the degree of religious integration in society. Multivariate analysis supports both economic and sociological interpretations. In Alberta, periods of rising unemployment (recessions) produce more suicides, and increased levels of religious disintegration are positively associated with the incidence of voluntary deaths.