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A structural equation modeling approach to assess the Algerian Zakat payers’ acceptability and adoption of a Zakat fintech-based model proposed
Authors: Robbana Aroua , Akbar Mohamed Aslam , Mohd Mohamed Asmy Bin 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
This study aims to explore the perception of Algerian Zakat payers regarding the adoption of technology within the Algerian Zakat Fund.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey was administered to a convenience sample of 460 Algerian Zakat payers. The survey was designed by combining the Extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM 2) and Theory of Reasoned Actions (TRA) frameworks to provide an in-depth understanding of the factors that influence the model acceptance among the Algerian Zakat payers. The findings were subsequently analyzed to evaluate convergent and discriminant validity as well as composite reliability. Structural equation modeling was applied to examine the causal relationship among all proposed constructs.

Findings
The data reveal that all the hypotheses from the TAM 2 and TRA theories were supported, demonstrating the model’s significant acceptance among Algerian Zakat payers.

Originality/value
The originality of this study lies in its unique combination of both the TRA and the Extended TAM 2 within the context of Zakat. It examines the integration of the aforementioned theories to assess the acceptance of Algerian Zakat payers to the suggested Zakat Fintech-based model. This model is specifically tailored to address the challenges encountered by the Algerian Zakat Fund, offering innovative solutions to enhance management and governance mechanisms while aligning with Islamic financial principles.
Quitting leadership style? The influence of transformational and transactional leadership styles on librarians’ retention in municipal libraries
Authors: Masenya Johannes , Ngoepe Mpho 
Published: December 2024

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of transformational leadership and transactional leadership styles on the retention of public librarians in Gauteng Province in South Africa.Design/methodology/approachThis quantitative study used a survey research design to target a population of 394 librarians in municipal libraries in Gauteng Province, South Africa. A proportional stratified sampling was used to target a total of 191 respondents. A total of 120 respondents completed and returned the survey, resulting in a response rate of 62.2%. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 28.FindingsThe findings reveal that transformational and transactional leadership styles have a positive impact on librarian retention. In addition, transformational leadership style is observed to have more impact on employee retention compared to transactional leadership practice.Practical implicationsThe results could be used as the basis for avoiding significant spending on ineffective leadership programmes and unprofitable directions to retain librarians in light of the multitude of leadership models.Originality/valueTo date, there is limited research on the impact of transformational and transactional leadership styles on the retention of public librarians in the context of public libraries in South Africa.
A geometry-based decomposition method for energy prediction in early design stages of residential buildings
Authors: Taştemir İbrahim Agah , Koymen Erdem , Yasa Enes 
Published: December 2024

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to develop a geometry-based energy estimation method for surrogate and metamodels to be used in the early design phase of buildings.Design/methodology/approachOptimizing building form and design variables in the early stages of the architectural design process, particularly during the conceptual phase, can significantly enhance overall design performance and energy efficiency at minimal cost. This study introduces a novel decomposition method for evaluating building energy performance by simplifying complex building forms into basic geometric shapes.FindingsThe developed method is applied to certain cases of design variation under specified boundary conditions, and the accuracy of heating and cooling energy loads is calculated with simulated energy models of these cases. As a result of the calculation, accuracy rates between 84.30 and 99.98% were founded.Originality/valueThis paper proposes a prediction model with a geometric identification method for an innovative geometry-based surrogate modeling method. This method also provides a way for artificial intelligence-based prediction models used in surrogate models to create a dataset and can be used in the training in future works.
Detrimental influences of social comparison and problematic WeChat use on academic achievement: significant role of awareness of inattention
Authors: Pang Hua , Hu Zhuyun 
Published: December 2024

PurposeThe primary purposes of this research are to empirically examine four distinctive technological traits (social comparisons, self-disclosure, information acquisition and entertainment acquisition) as significant determinants of problematic WeChat use among university students and to illuminate their connections with students’ awareness of inattention and declined academic achievement.Design/methodology/approachThe study utilizes two established theoretical frameworks (the stressor-strain-outcome model and the transactional model of stress) to formulate a comprehensive conceptual study model. Data were collected from 770 WeChat users at mainland Chinese universities using a cross-sectional methodology. Primitive analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were employed to test the corresponding hypotheses.FindingsThe study demonstrates that all four technological traits significantly influence problematic WeChat use, which can disrupt students’ attention and contribute to declined academic achievement. Moreover, the detrimental impact of awareness of inattention on academic achievement is also demonstrated by the research.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings deepen the comprehension of the detrimental influence of problematic WeChat use from the perspective of stress, offering valuable insights for both practitioners and scholars engaged in devising strategies to mitigate psychological problems encountered by social media users.Originality/valueThe underlying mechanism of problematic WeChat use in higher education has received limited attention. This study fills that gap and clarifies the adverse effects of social media use in mainland China.
Social networks and maintenance of an endangered language: the Kejaman of Malaysia
Authors: Joan Amee , Ting Su-Hie 
Published: December 2024

PurposeThis study examined how social network influences maintenance of the indigenous language of the Kejaman, a small indigenous group living in Sarawak, Malaysia.Design/methodology/approachThe participants were 123 Kejaman speakers from three generations living in two longhouses in Belaga, Sarawak. Participants were presented with 20 situations relevant to the lives of Kejaman people to find out the people they interact with.FindingsThe grandparents, parents and children’s generations all had more exchange networks (M = 131.7) than interactive networks (M = 110.3). They consulted kin on matters related to family, money, culture, death and taboos, providing the avenue for the use of the Kejaman language. Generation 2 had more interactive networks and Generation 3 consulted non-kin on more matters, and the communication takes place in languages other than Kejaman. Chi-Square tests of independence showed no significant differences in the number of exchange and interactive networks across generations. The three generations were not significantly different in uniplexity (M = 29.5%) and multiplexity scores (M = 20.6%). The Kejamans belong to a low-density, uniplex social network community.Research limitations/implicationsThere is a limitation in using social network analysis as a reliable predictor of future language use. This is because social networks are not fixed. They can expand, shrink and change over lifetime, and the fact that the generation of children does not talk about family matters in their mother tongue does not mean that they will not do so in future.Practical implicationsAs interactive networks comprise non-Kejaman people, there will be inadequate close ethnic ties to support transmission and maintenance of Kejaman linguistic and cultural norms. Therefore, their language fluency may decline to the extent that they experience language anxiety and feel uncomfortable using it.Social implicationsThe quantity and quality of interactive networks for the Kejaman are not conducive for upward mobility. What this means in the sociopolitical context of Sarawak is that, this small indigenous group is still family-centred and does not have adequate social contacts in the wider society, indicating lack of social standing.Originality/valueThe study suggests that in future the Kejaman will rely on interactive networks to talk about life-choices, and the lessened contact with Kejaman people will affect maintenance of Kejaman linguistic and cultural norms.
Exploring the role of student-run journals in shaping academic identity
Authors: Lujano Vilchis Ivonne , Thurber Derek , Romkey Matt 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
Student-led journals have a long history, yet they have received little attention in academic publishing and higher education research. This study aims to fill this gap and enrich the analysis of student-led publications from a novel point of view: the role of journals in shaping the academic identity of graduate students through a collaborative autoethnographic study.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors explore their personal experiences as student editors of Current Issues in Education (CIE) produced at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (MLFTC) at Arizona State University (ASU). The data were collected by first writing a personal narrative about their experiences serving on CIE’s editorial board. To support their notes, they drew from their memories and informal conversations with other student editors and reviewers, as well as advisors. They also drew upon some of CIE’s internal documents, such as editorial meeting minutes.

Findings
This study aligns with Inouye and McAlpine's (2019) systematic review of academic identity development for doctoral students, highlighting editorial work’s relevance to developing academic identity, particularly related to reflective thinking, authorial identity, confidence and learning through critique. Participating in the publication landscape through academic journals allows students to develop their authorial voice and collective identity as academics.

Research limitations/implications
It is authors’ hope that this autoethnography provides a unique perspective for doctoral programs to consider how students can shape their scholarly identity outside of formal classroom learning. More pointedly, this study could be considered a useful resource for those institutions that run student-journals or plan to do so. The authors’ experiences could inform the policies that frame the day-to-day editorial practices, such as the peer review procedures.

Originality/value
This study demonstrates how student journals, as third spaces, provide opportunities for constructive interactions that contribute to the construction of academic identity and offer a platform for student engagement in scholarly publishing processes, ultimately boosting their confidence as writers and sense of belonging to academia.
Performance below social aspirations, CSR initiatives and CEO characteristics: a conceptual framework
Authors: Thosuwanchot Nongnapat , Chanphati Jitrinee 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
This conceptual paper aims to contribute to prior corporate social responsibility (CSR) studies by examining CSR issues through the lens of the behavioral theory of the firm, which emphasizes the bounded rationality and limited cognition of firms’ decision-makers. The authors suggest that social aspiration may be a more important benchmark since stakeholders tend to evaluate a firm’s corporate social performance (CSP) against other comparable firms.

Design/methodology/approach
After reviewing various theoretical perspectives that have been applied to CSR studies spanning from 1985 to 2023, the authors summarize their limitations on examining executives’ decisions toward CSR initiatives. By drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, a conceptual model was developed to explain how firm executives increase subsequent CSR initiatives when their firms’ CSP is below social aspiration.

Findings
This study suggests that firms increase their subsequent CSR initiatives when their CSP is below the performance of their peers. Furthermore, the authors propose three important characteristics of chief executive officers, including tenure, hubris and international experience, as boundary conditions that can impact the extent of firms’ subsequent CSR initiatives when CSP is below social aspiration.

Originality/value
The paper contributes to the CSR literature by emphasizing the influence of decision-makers’ bounded rationality on firms’ CSR initiatives.
Organic management shapes AM fungal community structure and function, partially mitigating the negative effects of conventional agriculture
Authors: Heuck Meike Katharina , Powell Jeff R. , Kath Jarrod , Birnbaum Christina , Frew Adam 
Published: December 2024

Abstract

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are important plant symbionts that provide plants with nutrients and water as well as support plant defences against pests and disease. Consequently, they present a promising alternative to using environmentally damaging and costly fertilisers and pesticides in agricultural systems. However, our limited understanding of how agricultural practices impact AM fungal diversity and functions is a key impediment to using them effectively in agriculture.

We assessed how organic and conventional agricultural management systems shaped AM fungal communities. We also investigated how AM fungal communities derived from these agricultural management systems affected crop biomass and development. Six soil samples from five organically and five conventionally managed agricultural sites were used to cultivate Sorghum bicolor. Plant growth, plant nutrient concentrations and AM fungal colonisation rates were analysed alongside DNA metabarcoding of community composition.

We observed that soil from conventional agricultural fields resulted in a pronounced reduction in sorghum biomass (−53.6%) and a significant delay in flowering compared to plants grown without AM fungi. Sorghum biomass was also reduced with soil from the organic system, but to a lesser extent (−30%) and without a delay in flowering. Organic systems were associated with a large proportion of AM fungal taxa (50.5% of VTs) not found in conventional systems, including Diversispora (r2 = 0.09, p < 0.001), Archaeospora (r2 = 0.07, p < 0.001) and Glomus (r2 = 0.25, p < 0.001) spp., but also shared a large proportion of taxa with conventional systems (42.3% of VTs). Conventional systems had relatively few unique taxa (7.2% of VTs).

Our results suggest that conventional agricultural practices selected against AM fungi that were, in this context, more beneficial for host plants. In contrast, organic management practices mitigate this negative effect, likely due to the presence of specific key AM fungal taxa. However, this mitigation is only partial, as less beneficial AM fungal taxa still persist, probably due to abiotic factors associated with agricultural management and the sensitivity of AM fungi to these factors. This persistence explains why the effect is not entirely eradicated.

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Impact of medical and recreational cannabis laws on inpatient visits for asthma
Authors: Jayawardhana Jayani , Fernandez Jose 
Published: December 2024

AbstractObjectiveTo examine the impact of medical and recreational cannabis laws on inpatient visits for asthma and by payer‐type.Study Setting and DesignQuasi‐experimental difference‐in‐differences regression analysis was conducted while accounting for variations in cannabis laws implementation timing by states. Inpatient visits for asthma in states with a given type of cannabis law were compared with those in states that did not implement the specific law. Four different cannabis laws were examined in the study—initial passage of medical cannabis law, opening of a medical cannabis dispensary, home cultivation of medical cannabis, and recreational cannabis legalization.Data Sources and Analytic SampleState‐level quarterly inpatient visit data for asthma patients were utilized from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Fast Stats database. The primary analysis included inpatient visits for asthma by all payer adult patients aged 19 and above in 38 states from 2005 to 2017, and the secondary analysis included inpatient visits for asthma by payer‐type (i.e., private, Medicare, Medicaid, uninsured).Principal FindingsStates with medical cannabis dispensaries and legalized recreational cannabis experienced 14.12% (2.14; 95% CI, 0.74–3.53; p < 0.01) and 20.45% (3.08; 95% CI, 1.47–4.69; p < 0.001) increases in inpatient visits for asthma compared with states without these policies, respectively. These increases in inpatient visits for asthma were primarily driven by populations covered by Medicare and private insurance, with Medicare population showing larger effects of both recreational cannabis laws and medical cannabis dispensaries.ConclusionsStates with medical cannabis dispensaries and legalized recreational cannabis experienced higher rate of inpatient visits for asthma compared with states without these policies. Clinicians and policymakers should consider strategies to curb adverse health outcomes of cannabis, that is likely to result in increased costs of healthcare.
Shared occupancy and property tax arrears
Authors: Anim‐Odame Wilfred K. , Brenni Precious A. , Damianov Damian S. , Philip Dennis 
Published: December 2024

AbstractShared occupancy arrangements are on the rise in recent years due to affordability constraints in homeownership. This article examines for the first time the property tax compliance behavior of shared dwellings, where homeowners rent out part of their own homes to tenants. Using administrative property‐level data from Ghana, where homeowners are responsible for tax payments, we reveal that shared dwellings, compared to pure owner‐occupied homes, are more likely to be in tax arrears. The noncompliance of shared dwellings is more sensitive to property tax hikes than pure owner‐occupied homes, and greatest among those in the least affluent geographic areas. These effects are moderated by reciprocity, in that compliance levels are higher in locations closer to public services and amenities. The findings provide new insights for policymakers on the tax compliance effects arising in shared occupancies.
Teknonaturalist: A Snakemake Pipeline for Assessing Fungal Diversity From Plant Genome Bycatch
Authors: Bard Nicholas W. , Davies T. Jonathan , Cronk Quentin C. B. 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTRelatively little is known of the host associations and compatibility of fungal plant pathogens and endophytes. Publicly available plant genomic DNA can be mined to detect incidental fungal DNA, but taxonomic assignment can be challenging due to short lengths and variable discriminative power among different genomic regions and taxa. Here, we introduce a computationally lightweight and accessible Snakemake pipeline for rapid detection and classification (identification and assignment to taxonomic rank) of pathogenic and endophytic fungi (and other fungi associated with plants) that targets the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, a fungal barcode standard. We include methods for maximising query sequence length, which gives higher support for ITS1 and ITS2 taxonomic classifications by extending to other fragments of the ITS region and providing taxon‐specific local cut‐off and confidence scores. We demonstrate our pipeline with a case study using public genomic sequence data for six diverse plant species, including four species within Betula, an ecologically and economically important broadleaved forest tree genus, a shrub and a grass. Our pipeline classified fungi within minutes to a few hours per host individual, with 204 different fungal genera identified at high confidence (≥ 70%). Our pipeline detected and classified pathogenic and endophytic genera known to associate with Betula, and many others with no prior record of association. Our pipeline, leveraging existing sequence data, has several potential applications, including detecting cryptic fungal pathogens and helping characterise the endophytic fungal microbiome, bioprospecting commercially useful fungal species, and determining the plant host range of fungi.
Edible insects: Maybe environmentally friendly, maybe healthy, maybe tasty—But are we ready to farm them?
Authors: Kozak Marcin , Jupowicz‐Kozak Justyna 
Published: December 2024

AbstractFor some time, environmental researchers and activists have been trying to convince the world that there is an urgent need to change the dietary habits of the modern human population. Their reasoning is based on several issues, with two main pillars supporting the whole concept. One involves mitigating global hunger, and the other addresses the impact that today's agricultural production has on the environment, particularly due to extensive and intensive agricultural practices, especially in developing countries and regions that help feed their populations. Perhaps the most promising proposal—and, as bibliometric analysis shows, more and more popular in the scientific community—is to replace animal protein with insect protein. It would allow for shifting agricultural production from animal‐based to insect‐based. In order to address this concept, the research community has been deeply involved in studying edible insects over the last decade. In doing so, researchers have examined nutritional value, sustainable production and environmental impact, consumer acceptance, and the challenges and opportunities from various perspectives. One might think that with such deep knowledge, the agricultural industry is well‐equipped to initiate this shift. In this article, we argue that this statement is far from true. It appears that the scientific literature on edible insects fails to address what is likely the most important aspect for producers: farming techniques and practices, along with related topics such as feeding, protection from diseases, pathogens, and pests, rearing conditions, breeding, and many other factors. The critical need to improve the sustainability of global agricultural production and reduce its environmental impact calls for rapid changes, so the agricultural research community should stop waiting for others to decide whether edible insects are the way to go. Instead of waiting, they should focus on addressing the most critical aspects of insect farming. The industry is, in fact, ahead of science, as insect farms are spreading across the world. However, for them to succeed, strong support from agricultural science is urgently needed.