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Transforming the scope of the bank through fintechs: toward a modularized network governance
Authors: Łasak Piotr , Gancarczyk Marta 
Published: December 2021

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework of the transformation of the bank's scope driven by fintechs.Design/methodology/approachThe conceptual foundations for a comprehensive transformation of the bank governance through financial technologies (fintechs) are underexplored. In order to develop such foundations, the authors adopt transaction cost economics (TCE), the concepts of external enablers and a modular organizational design, as well as a systematic literature review.FindingsThe results point to three scenarios of the banks' scope, depending on the adopted technological mechanisms and related effects that change the characteristics of organizational activities, justifying new bank boundaries. The most advanced application of fintechs results in a modularized network scenario leading to the emergence of financial ecosystems.Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed micro-perspective of decisional rules in an individual organization is unique in the current literature that predominantly focuses on the banking sector at large. The identified scenarios are valuable for solid theoretical and empirical grounding and can be further exploited in decision simulations and empirical studies.Practical implicationsThe proposed theoretical framework points to the rationales and consequences of adopted technologies for the boundaries of a bank organization.Originality/valueThis paper provides three contributions to the literature on technology-driven transformations of organizations with a focus on banks. First, the authors elaborate a theoretical framework for establishing the bank's boundaries in response to the expansion of financial technologies. Second, the authors add to the knowledge accumulation in the area of organizational transformations based on the ICT adoption, in particular, to the literature on the modular organizational design. Third, the authors contribute to the decision-maker practice by proposing the alternative options of banks' scope transformed through fintechs.
Preservice kindergarten teachers’ narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Aizenberg Merav 
Published: December 2021

PurposeThe purpose of this current study is to follow the development of preservice kindergarten teachers during the practicum phase of their teacher education studies in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and following the first period of lockdown.Design/methodology/approachThe sample included 38 preservice kindergarten teachers in their third and final year of studies who worked in kindergartens as student teachers. Data were collected using reflective journals written by the participants during their studies, after returning to work following the first lockdown. The author analyzed the data using the life-story narrative method.FindingsThe analysis identified four different types of early education preservice teachers based on their ability to cope with the shift in work conditions. The discussion offers insight into participants’ ability to effectively implement the professional tools they had acquired in the program and during the practicum.Research limitations/implicationsLimitations include reliance on data from reflective journals, which may be missing details that would have been collected face-to-face. The study has important implications for the functioning of kindergarten teachers in times of crisis, which should be taken into account in the design of the teachers’ training programs.Originality/valueThe effect of the pandemic on the quality of the preservice kindergarten teachers’ training process, and its implications for functioning in other types of crises are discussed.
Is it all bad? Saudi EFL student perceptions of the role of anxiety when writing
Authors: Alfarwan Salah 
Published: December 2021

PurposeThe study aims to ascertain the degree to which Saudi tertiary level writers experience foreign language (FL), English, writing anxiety compared with other variables known to affect writing, such as motivation, types of self-efficacy or teacher assistance, how anxiety relates to those other variables, and whether the effects of anxiety on writing are always perceived as negative.Design/methodology/approachThis study used questionnaire and interview data following writing tasks in two conditions (practice and exam).FindingsThe key findings were that, regardless of level or writing condition, writing anxiety emerged as the least strongly experienced of all the relevant variables. From factor analysis, it was found to be associated with perceived general English language proficiency and writing strategic ability and not with topic knowledge, teacher or motivational variables. Contrary to the assumption in much of the literature, many participants experienced some anxiety as having a positive effect on their English writing, in certain ways and at certain times (dependent on the writing condition) and not solely a negative impact.Research limitations/implicationsImplications are drawn for theory and for the teaching of writing.Practical implicationsDrawn towards the end of the paper.Social implicationsAny research on factors that affect writing seemingly has practical value and implications in such contexts, in addition to interest for L2 writing research and theory.Originality/valueThere remains a question that applies across the whole field of anxiety research in education and applied linguistics concerning whether anxiety is, as often assumed, always bad and so constitutes something to be removed, or whether in fact some degree of anxiety is actually helpful (Alpert and Haber, 1960). This study aims to answer.
Leaf economics in a three‐dimensional environment: Testing leaf trait responses in vascular epiphytes to land use, climate and tree zone
Authors: Richards Jeannine H. , Damschen Ellen I. 
Published: December 2021

Abstract

The study of functional traits offers predictive power for community ecology. Particularly in cases where individual species are difficult to study, known properties of trait spectra, such as the leaf economics spectrum (LES), and trait–environment relationships can provide crucial generalizable information that can contribute to forecasts of distributional shifts in response to the abiotic effects of climate and land use changes.

Vascular epiphytes have been proposed as indicators of environmental change, but we know little about the ecology of most species. Key functional trait assumptions are based on terrestrial plants; testing these in epiphytes verifies their universality and will inform applying functional traits in predicting epiphyte responses to climate and land use change.

In this study, we use functional traits from 37 vascular epiphyte species from forests and shade coffee farms at two sites in northern Nicaragua. We compare correlations among traits and intraspecific trait variances with those of terrestrial plants and among epiphyte taxonomic groups. We also test trait responses to environmental differences between sites and land use types, and within zones of the tree.

We find that epiphyte leaf traits fall towards the slower end of the LES, but with about one‐third lower leaf nitrogen per change in specific leaf area (SLA) relative to terrestrial herbaceous plants. Bromeliads show less relationship between these traits than other epiphyte groups and also deviate in other trait interrelationships, suggesting unique leaf construction.

Trait–environment relationships varied most strongly along vertical gradients within trees, but some traits, including SLA and carbon isotope ratio, also responded to land use and site differences.

We present evidence that trait relationships established for terrestrial plants appear to translate to epiphytes, but identify some possible caveats. Strong trait response to vertical gradients within trees suggests that within‐canopy shifts could provide resilience to climate and land use changes for some epiphyte species.
Hydrogen isotopes (δ2H) of polyunsaturated fatty acids track bioconversion by zooplankton
Authors: Pilecky Matthias , Kämmer Samuel K. , Mathieu‐Resuge Margaux , Wassenaar Leonard I. , Taipale Sami J. , Martin‐Creuzburg Dominik , Kainz Martin J. 
Published: December 2021

Abstract

Organisms at the base of aquatic food webs synthesize essential nutrients, such as omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n‐3 PUFA), which are transferred to consumers at higher trophic levels. Many consumers, requiring n‐3 long‐chain (LC) PUFA, such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), have limited ability to biosynthesize them from the essential dietary precursor α‐linolenic acid (ALA) and thus rely on dietary provision of LC‐PUFA.

We investigated LC‐PUFA metabolism in freshwater zooplankton using stable hydrogen isotopes (δ2H) of fatty acids as tracers. We conducted feeding experiments with the freshwater keystone grazer Daphnia to quantify changes in the δ2H value of body FA in response to the FA composition of their food and the δ2H value of the ambient water.

The isotopic composition of LC‐PUFA changed in Daphnia, depending on the integration of 2H from ambient water during de novo synthesis or bioconversion from dietary precursors, allowing us to distinguish dietary from bioconverted EPA in body tissue. We tested the applicability of these laboratory findings in a field setting by analysing δ2H values of PUFA in primary producers and consumers in eutrophic ponds to track EPA sources of zooplankton.

Multilinear regression models that included conversion of ALA to EPA correlated better with zooplankton δ2HEPA than seston δ2HEPA at low dietary EPA supply.

This study provides evidence that zooplankton can compensate for low dietary EPA supply by activating LC‐PUFA biosynthesis and shows that herbivorous zooplankton play a crucial role in upgrading FA for higher trophic levels during low dietary EPA supply.

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The eightfold way of teaching psychological type
Authors: Shumate Carol 
Published: December 2021

AbstractFor Jung, the discovery of type differences represented the beginning of his individuation journey, and his experiential discovery can model the path of learning about psychological type. A course on psychological type can enable individuals to discover empirically Jung’s revelations about the psyche if it is structured like the individuation journey itself: beginning with differentiation of the preferred functions, proceeding to the inferior function at the midpoint of the journey, and concluding with an exploration of the unconscious functions. Such a pedagogical method mandates a non‐prescriptive approach that empowers students to lead their own learning, an approach expressed by the Taoist concept of wu wei. Psychological Types references wu wei as a means of balancing consciousness and the unconscious. Sometimes Jung’s typology is thought to deal only with consciousness, but in fact it represented Jung’s own eightfold way into the unconscious. To illustrate the dynamic interaction of conscious and unconscious functions, John Beebe’s eight‐function eight‐archetype model is an indispensable tool, because it illuminates the unconscious opposites inherent in each type and connects them with archetypal complexes. With the aid of Beebe’s model, students can plot a typological trajectory of development for their journey to the Self.
Typology, the eight‐function model, and archetypal complexes
Authors: Urhøj Hanne 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThis clinical presentation shows what insights a typology‐conscious analysis of clients and their families may lead to and points out what is added by applying John Beebe’s eight‐function, eight‐archetype model. To reflect on the inner balance between archetypal complexes in the eight‐function structure that holds our psyche, the author invites clients to do a typological analysis, including an analysis of their archetypal patterns, which may, itself, provoke anxiety. This article includes a presentation of ideas and experiences sparked when confronting these complexes in clinical work. Clients are introduced to six stages of coping with stress that may allow them to be more conscious of their complexes when triggered. These stages are Faint, Freeze, Flight, Fidget, Fight, and Flow. To identify whether the stress is physiological, emotional, or intellectual, the idea of the Triune Brain is introduced. The therapeutic work may lead to redemption from opposites, which is an ethical task.
Personalising the risk of conversion from laparoscopic to open hysterectomy in benign conditions: Development and external validation of risk prediction models
Authors: Madhvani Krupa , Fernandez‐Felix Borja M. , Zamora Javier , Carpenter Tyrone , Khan Khalid S. 
Published: December 2021

AbstractObjectiveTo develop and validate novel prediction models to personalise the risk of conversion from laparoscopic to open hysterectomy in benign conditions.DesignRetrospective cohort study.SettingsEnglish NHS Hospitals between 2011 and 2018.Population68 752 women undergoing laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign conditions.MethodsWe developed two multivariable logistic models using readily available clinical information, one for the pre‐operative setting and another for operative decision‐making using additional surgical information, using 2011–2016 data in five regions (24 806 women). We validated them (a) temporally in the same regions using 2017–2018 data (12 438 women); (b) geographically in the same time‐period using data from three different regions (22 024 women); and (c) temporally and geographically using 2017–2018 data in three different regions (9484 women).Main Outcome MeasuresConversion from laparoscopic to open hysterectomy.ResultsConversions occurred in 6.8% (1687/24 806) of hysterectomies in the development group, and in 5.5% (681/12 438) in the temporal, 5.9% (1297/22 204) in the geographical and 5.2% (488/9484) in the temporal and geographical validation groups. In the development cohort, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve values for the pre‐operative and operative models were 0.65 and 0.67, respectively. In the validation cohorts the corresponding values were 0.65 and 0.66 (temporal), 0.66 and 0.68 (geographical) and 0.65 and 0.68 (temporal and geographical), respectively. Factors predictive of conversion included age, Asian ethnicity, obesity, fibroids, adenomyosis, endometriosis and adhesions. Adhesions were the most predictive (odds ratio 2.54, 95% confidence interval 2.22–2.90).ConclusionThe models for predicting conversions showed acceptable performance and transferability.Tweetable AbstractNovel tool to personalise the risk of conversion from laparoscopic to open hysterectomy in benign conditions.
Focus on prevention: The public is more supportive of “overdose prevention sites” than they are of “safe injection facilities”
Authors: Socia Kelly M. , Stone Rebecca , Palacios Wilson R. , Cluverius John 
Published: December 2021

AbstractResearch Summary: Using a national survey experiment, we examined Americans’ national and local‐level support for facilities that provide a safer space for individuals to consume illicit drugs under the supervision of medical professionals. We determined whether support levels differed based on (1) the label used to refer to such facilities (“safe injection facilities” vs. “overdose prevention sites”), (2) whether beneficial information is provided about these facilities regarding either a crime control framework or a public health framework, or not. We also considered how national support differed from local‐level support, and how national or local‐level perceptions of the opioid epidemic influenced support.Policy Implications: We found that the label used to refer to these facilities was the most important factor influencing support levels. The public was also much more supportive of these facilities at the national level than at the local level, which suggests that support for these facilities is impacted by “Not In My Backyard” (NIMBY) concerns. Perceptions of an opioid epidemic either nationally or locally also influenced support levels. The major policy takeaways are that (1) proponents of these facilities should refer to them using labels that highlight overdose prevention (“overdose prevention site”), rather than safe drug use (“safe injection facility”) and (2) discussions about local facilities should be placed in the context of both the national and local opioid epidemic to help mitigate NIMBY concerns.
Negative reviews online: an exploratory analysis of patient complaints about dental services in Western Australia
Authors: Kroon M , Park JS 
Published: December 2021

ABSTRACTObjectiveRates of online reviews are continually increasing. Coinciding with this, is the beneficial abundance of subjective information that is now available to patients. Such information can be persuasive in selecting a healthcare provider. This analysis of one‐and‐two‐star Google reviews received by dental practices within the Perth metropolitan region aims to identify common themes within dental practice complaints.MethodsThis mixed‐methods study was conducted by gathering reviews from the ‘Google review’ feature, which have been published by users between 2013 and 2020. These data were then coded into recognised themes, and crucial quotes were selected and de‐identified creating a narrative about the themes present which formed the qualitative component of this research.ResultsA total of 413 negative reviews were included in this study. From these, 1071 specific complaints were identified. Major themes identified included treatment issues, staffing, communication and professionalism, finance, and premise. Spread across these five themes were an additional thirty‐eight subthemes. Overall, treatment was a primary concern for patients, making up 37.1% of the results. Within the subthemes ‘treatment dissatisfaction (unspecified)’ was also high, at 23.1%.ConclusionThis study identified the most common complaints received by dental clinics on Google review within the Perth metropolitan area. Further investigation is required to provide supplementary data regarding factors that may influence complaint rates and types, such as the socio‐economic status of areas and geographical factors such as distance from the Perth metropolitan.
Further evidence of muscle involvement in neurodevelopmental disorder with epilepsy, spasticity, and brain atrophy
Authors: Majethia Purvi , Do Rosario Michelle C. , Kaur Parneet , Karanvir  , Shankar Raagul , Sharma Suvasini , Siddiqui Shahyan , Shukla Anju 
Published: December 2021

AbstractTRAPPC4‐related neurodevelopmental disorder with epilepsy, spasticity, and brain atrophy (MIM# 618741) is a recently described TRAPPopathy with clinical findings of developmental delay, seizures, postnatal microcephaly, spasticity, facial dysmorphism, and cerebral and cerebellar atrophy. Muscle involvement, a frequent finding in TRAPPopathies, was observed in one individual with TRAPPC4‐related disorder previously. Only a single variant, an in‐frame deletion in one family has been reported outside a recurrent disease‐causing variant. We report three individuals from two Indian families harboring novel bi‐allelic missense variants c.191T>C and c.278C>T (NM_016146.6) in TRAPPC4 with classic clinical presentation in one and milder and later onset in the other family. We provide further evidence for muscle involvement and review the detailed phenotypic findings in individuals reported with this disorder till date.
Home management by remote self‐monitoring in intermediate‐ and high‐risk pregnancies: A retrospective study of 400 consecutive women
Authors: Zizzo Anne Rahbek , Hvidman Lone , Salvig Jannie Dalby , Holst Lone , Kyng Morten , Petersen Olav Bjørn 
Published: December 2021

AbstractIntroductionHome management in general is considered to improve patient well‐being, patient involvement and cost‐effectiveness, for obstetric patients as well. But concerns regarding inclusion of intermediate‐ and high‐risk pregnant women are an issue and a limitation for clinical implementation. This retrospective study evaluated the outcome and safety of extended remote self‐monitoring of maternal and fetal health in intermediate‐ and high‐risk pregnancies.Material and methodsThe study reports on 400 singleton pregnancies complicated by preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), fetal growth restriction, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, high‐risk of preeclampsia, or a history of previous fetal or neonatal loss. Remote self‐monitoring was performed by pregnant women and included C‐reactive protein, non‐stress test by cardiotocography, temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and a questionnaire concerning maternal and fetal wellbeing. Data were transferred to the hospital using a mobile device platform and evaluated by healthcare professionals. In case of non‐reassuring registrations, the pregnant women were invited for assessment at the hospital. Primary outcome was perinatal death. Secondary outcomes were other maternal and perinatal complications.ResultsNo severe maternal complications were observed. Nine fetal or neonatal deaths occurred, all secondary to malformations, severe fetal growth restriction, extreme prematurity or lung hypoplasia in cases of PPROM before 24 weeks. Even in the latter group, fetal and neonatal survival was 78% (18/23) and rose to 97% (60/62) when PPROM occurred after a gestational age 23+6 weeks. None of the fetal or neonatal deaths were attributable to the home‐management setting.ConclusionsHome‐monitoring including remote self‐monitoring of fetal and maternal well‐being in intermediate‐ and high‐risk pregnancies seems to be a safe alternative to inpatient or frequent outpatient care, which sets the stage for a new way of thinking of hospital care. The implementation process included staff training workshops and development of patient enrollment practice with clarification of expectations and responsibilities, which can be crucial to the results.
Management of optic disc pit maculopathy: the European VitreoRetinal society optic pit study
Authors: Iros Mariano , Parolini Barbara , Ozdek Sengul , Gini Giampaolo , Nawrocka Zofia Anna , Ellabban Abdallah A , Faramawi Mohammed F. , Adelman Ron , Sallam Ahmed B. ,   EVRS Study Group
Published: December 2021

AbstractPurposeTo evaluate a variety of techniques, and their anatomical and functional results, for the treatment of optic disc pit maculopathy (ODP‐M). A secondary aim was to report on results of secondary procedures in cases of initial failure or recurrence.MethodsMulticentre retrospective study of 95 eyes with ODP‐M, treated by 25 surgeons from 12 countries. Primary outcomes were anatomical resolution of subretinal fluid (SRF), intraretinal fluid (IRF) and visual acuity (VA) at 12 months.ResultsHigher rates of SRF and IRF resorption were achieved in eyes treated with pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) compared to external laser with or without tamponade: 64/72 (88.9%) versus 8/14 (57.1%) for SRF (p = 0.003), and 50/59 (84.7%) versus 3/10 (30%) for IRF (p = 0.002). The addition of juxtapapillary laser or internal limiting membrane (ILM) peel during PPV did not improve SRF or IRF resolution. Pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with tamponade and PPV with tamponade plus endolaser were associated with significant visual gain. In the former group, VA improved from a mean of logMAR 0.91 (20/162), to a mean of logMAR 0.52 (20/66) at 12 months; in the latter group, VA improved from a mean of logMAR 0.82 (20/132) to a mean of logMAR 0.47 (20/59) at 12 months. Retreatments were performed in 14 eyes (15.7%), only enhancing anatomical outcomes.ConclusionVitrectomy with tamponade had better final outcomes than external laser treatment with or without gas tamponade. Laser endophotocoagulation and ILM peel provided no additional benefit. A secondary treatment resulted in anatomical but not functional improvement.