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Policy barriers to sustainable construction practice in the Nigerian construction industry: an exploratory factor analysis
Authors: Babalola Ayotunde , Harinarain Nishani 
Published: December 2021

Purpose
Sustainable construction practice is structured on regulatory and non-regulatory policies in developed and most developing countries. With the gradual uptake of sustainability concerns in the construction industry, this paper aims to identify the strategic need for clear-cut policies to improve sustainable construction practice. Previous studies have harped on the need for regulatory and industrial/organisational policies on improving sustainable construction practice within the Nigerian construction industry.

Design/methodology/approach
A questionnaire survey was used to evaluate the perspectives of construction professionals on the policy barriers for sustainable construction practice in Nigeria, and 46 policy barriers were identified. A total of 249 questionnaires were returned and useable for analysis.

Findings
Factor analysis revealed four clusters in the policy barriers to sustainable construction practice in the following order of significance: implementation strategies for sustainable construction practice, owners/client inputs for sustainable construction practice, stakeholder’s policy barriers and governmental and regulatory policy barriers.

Practical implications
Mitigating the identified barriers through effective policies will require adequate inputs from all relevant policymaking stakeholders and ensure improved sustainable construction practice among stakeholders and policymakers in the industry. This will in turn set a high standard and promote the practice of sustainable construction.

Originality/value
This study goes a step further in identifying the policy issues needed to ensure a smooth implementation of sustainable construction practice. The research findings will serve as a guide for policymakers in developing countries that through mitigation of the identified barriers, sustainable construction practice will be promoted.
Digital technologies and the balance between control and empowerment in performance management
Authors: Korsen Eirik Bådsvik Hamre , Holmemo Marte Daae-Qvale , Ingvaldsen Jonas A. 
Published: December 2021

Purpose
This paper aims to explore how manufacturing organisations’ performance measurement and management (PMM) systems are evolving when digital technologies (DTs) are deployed. It focusses on the operational level, asking whether DTs are used to promote command-and-control or empowerment-oriented performance management.

Design/methodology/approach
The findings are based on a single case study from a department of a Norwegian electrochemical plant. The department recently implemented a performance measurement system (PMS) supported by DTs to capture, analyse and visualise close-to-real-time performance data on individuals and teams. The authors analysed both the management practices associated with the new PMS and how those related to other PMM-subsystems in the organisation.

Findings
When seen in isolation, the new PMS was used to promote empowerment and operators reported a significant increase in perceived psychological empowerment. However, other parts of the organisation’s PMM system remained control-oriented, so that the overall balance between control and empowerment remained stable.

Practical implications
New PMSs might be added to support local needs and create arenas for empowerment without disturbing the overall balance in the PMM system.

Originality/value
Building on the insights from the case study, the authors propose that DTs may be deployed to promote both command-and-control and empowerment within different PMM subsystems in the same organisation. Hence, the deployment of DTs is likely to have contradictory effects, which are best understood through a “system of systems” perspective on PMMs.
The auditing profession and the key audit matter reporting requirement
Authors: Mihret Dessalegn Getie , Kansal Monika , Muttakin Mohammad Badrul , Rana Tarek 
Published: December 2021

Purpose
This study aims to examine the setting of International Standards on Auditing (ISA) 701 on disclosing key audit matters (KAMs) to explore the role of standard setting in maintaining or reconstituting the relationship of the auditing profession with preparers and users of financial reports.

Design/methodology/approach
This study draws on concepts from the sociology of the professions literature and the regulatory space metaphor. Data comprises comment letters and other documents pertaining to the setting of ISA 701.

Findings
The study shows that the KAM reporting requirement is part of the ongoing re-calibration of the regulatory arrangements governing auditing, which started in the early 2000s. This study interprets standard setting as a site for negotiating the relationships between linked ecologies in the audit regulatory space, namely, the auditing profession, preparers of financial statements and users of audited reports. This study identifies three processes involved in setting ISA 701, namely, reconstitution of the rules governing auditors’ reports as a link between the three ecologies, preserving boundaries between the auditing profession and preparers and negotiation aimed at balancing competing interests of the interrelated ecologies.

Originality/value
The study offers insights into the role of regulatory rule setting as a central medium through which the adaptive relationship of the profession with its environment is negotiated.
Class Composition, Labour's Strategy and the Politics of Work
Authors: Thompson Paul , Pitts Frederick Harry , Ingold Jo , Cruddas Jon 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThis article locates the emergence of new thinking on the left around work, age and assets within the lineage of ‘class composition’ analysis arising from the autonomist movement in mid‐twentieth century Italy. With reference to contemporary debates around electoral and political strategy within the Labour Party, the article critically appraises the potential applicability of this extra‐parliamentary ‘militant methodology’ for the present day identification of ontologically and epistemologically privileged class actors and political subjects in a first past the post parliamentary system. Noting the resemblance of such approaches to the orthodox Marxist ‘gravedigger thesis’, which reads off from economic relations the existence of agents of social transformation, the article argues that this analytical and strategic framing represents a flawed approach for Labour and the wider left. Other approaches are needed to navigate successfully the pluralist construction of consent through coalition building and compromise on which parliamentary politics rests.
Women, Land and Property, Then and Now: An Afterword
Authors: McDonagh Briony 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe papers in this special issue make an important contribution to a growing body of work, exploring not only the ways gender and property were co‐constituted in Britain and the British colonies in the long eighteenth century but also the sources scholars must work with in uncovering women's lives and experiences. In this afterword, I explore some of the possibilities and prospects for developing research in this area, highlighting new directions and themes, as well as teasing out some of the wider implications of this persuasive and fascinating collection.
Inheritance and Influence: Heiresses and the Montagu Property Network, circa 1749‐1827
Authors: Purcell Emma 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe Montagu property network was inherited by two successive heiresses in the eighteenth century: Mary, duchess of Montagu, and her daughter Elizabeth, duchess of Buccleuch. The inheritance of a large property network by these women had a profound effect on both the use of the properties and the extent to which both women were able to assert their own agency through their management. The heiress remains a surprisingly understudied figure in eighteenth‐century historiography, but by using the Montagu duchesses as a case study, the heiress will be brought to the forefront of attention, demonstrating the influence that heiresses could have over property, even within marriage.
Micro‐seismic Event Detection of Hot Dry Rock based on the Gated Recurrent Unit Model and a Support Vector Machine
Authors: SUN Feng , HU Haotian , ZHAO Fa , YANG Xinran , CHEN Zubin , WU Haidong , ZHANG Linyou 
Published: December 2021

AbstractMicro‐seismic monitoring is one of the most critical technologies that guide hydraulic fracturing in hot dry rock resource development. Micro‐seismic monitoring requires high precision detection of micro‐seismic events with a low signal‐to‐noise ratio. Because of this requirement, we propose a recurrent neural network model named gated recurrent unit and support vector machine (GRU_SVM). The proposed model ensures high accuracy while reducing the parameter number and hardware requirement in the training process. Since micro‐seismic events in hot dry rock produce large wave amplitudes and strong vibrations, it is difficult to reverse the onset of each individual event. In this study, we utilize a support vector machine (SVM) as a classifier to improve the micro‐seismic event detection accuracy. To validate the methodology, we compare the simulation results of the short‐term‐average to the long‐term‐average (STA/LTA) method with GRU_SVM method by using hot dry rock micro‐seismic event data in Qinghai Province, China. Our proposed method has an accuracy of about 95% for identifying micro‐seismic events with low signal‐to‐noise ratios. By ignoring smaller micro‐seismic events, the detection procedure can be processed more efficiently, which is able to provide a real‐time observation on the types of hydraulic fracturing in the reservoirs.
A double‐blind, randomized, placebo and positive‐controlled study in healthy volunteers to evaluate pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of multiple oral doses of cetagliptin
Authors: Lu Jinmiao , Wang Lu , Zhou Sufeng , Zhou Chen , Xie Lijun , Chen Juan , Tang Dong , Tian Xusheng , Xie Daosheng , Ding Juping , Wang Tong , Yu Qiang , Ding Jinsong , Shao Feng 
Published: December 2021

AimsThis study investigated the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics properties, safety and tolerability of cetagliptin.MethodsForty‐eight healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. Three cohorts were investigated in sequential order: 50, 100 and 200 mg cetagliptin. Positive control (sitagliptin 100 mg) was designed as open label. Blood samples were collected and analysed for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties. Safety and tolerability were assessed throughout the study.ResultsFollowing multiple oral doses, cetagliptin was rapidly absorbed and reached peak plasma concentrations after approximately 1.0–1.5 hours. Plasma cetagliptin concentrations increased at a rate greater than dose. Accumulation of cetagliptin was modest, and steady state was generally achieved at day 5. Doses ≥50 mg of cetagliptin administered once daily will result in sustained dipeptidyl peptidase‐4 (DPP‐4) inhibition (≥80%). The plasma concentration giving 50% of maximum drug effect of DPP‐4 inhibition for cetagliptin (5.29 ng/mL) was lower than that of sitagliptin (7.03 ng/mL). Active glucagon‐like‐1 peptide (GLP‐1) concentrations were significantly increased in the cetagliptin groups by 2.3‐ to 3.1‐fold at day 1 and 3.1‐ to 3.6‐fold at steady state compared with that of placebo, and active GLP‐1 concentrations were increased with increasing dose. Compared with sitagliptin, doses ≥100 mg once daily of cetagliptin produced postprandial increases in active GLP‐1 level and induced to long‐lasting glucose‐lowering efficacy. Cetagliptin was well tolerated across all doses studied.ConclusionCetagliptin demonstrates the great potential for treatment with type 2 diabetes patients based on the inhibition of DPP‐4, the increase in GLP‐1 and insulin, the decrease in glucose, and might be more effective in DPP‐4 inhibition than sitagliptin.
Race does not predict pancreas graft failure after pancreas transplantation in the modern era
Authors: Li Zhiwei , Xiang Jie , Liu Jianhua , Wang Li 
Published: December 2021

AbstractBackgroundAfrican‐American (AA) has historically been associated with inferior graft survival after pancreas transplantation. However, with the improvement of immunosuppression and surgical technique, we hypothesized that the racial disparity has been neutralized.MethodsWe analyzed data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (1989–2018). Using Kaplan–Meier estimation and Cox proportional hazards regression, we examined the influence of race on pancreatic graft survival.ResultsBefore 2009, AA recipients had a higher risk of pancreatic graft failure after adjusting for confounding factors (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.16, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.08–1.24), but the risks for Hispanic and Asian recipients were both comparable to their Caucasian counterparts. However, the risk of pancreatic graft failure in AA recipients dropped to 1% and was no longer significant since 2009 (HR: 1.01, 95%CI: 0.88–1.16). Interestingly, donor race showed similar results. Furthermore, the concordance statistic of the complete pancreas donor risk index (including donor race) was 0.582, whereas the concordance did not change when donor race was eliminated from the model.ConclusionsAA and other races have shown similar pancreatic graft survival in the modern era. Furthermore, donor racial disparity also seems neutralized; thus, donor race should not be considered as an indicator of pancreatic donor quality.
Maternal education and siblings: Agents of cognitive development in kindergarten
Authors: Muñez David , Bull Rebecca , Lee Kerry 
Published: December 2021

AbstractIn this study (n = 1000,Mage at K1entry = 53.4 months, SD = 3.4; 53% females), we investigated the contributions of the family socioeconomic status (SES; maternal education and an income‐related measure) and number and age of siblings to the development of children's math, reading, and working memory (WM) updating skills over the kindergarten years. Results from a multivariate multilevel growth curve model showed that children from more disadvantaged SES backgrounds already had a multifaceted developmental lag at kindergarten entry. Maternal education was the aspect of SES that more clearly affected the child's cognitive development; the mother's education predicted children's math, reading, and WM‐updating skills at kindergarten entry as well as the rate of development of reading skills over the kindergarten years. Independently of SES status, children with more siblings also showed poorer reading and math skills than those in one‐child families at kindergarten entry. We also found that both older and younger siblings affected, negatively, children's reading skills before they attended kindergarten—which suggests that the development of reading skills is more responsive to environmental factors during the first years than other aspects of the child development. The findings underscore the independent role of siblings upon entry to kindergarten, and the enduring role of maternal education even after children are exposed to formal schooling.
Linking “values” to EU trade policy—a good idea?
Authors: Pelkmans Jacques 
Published: December 2021

AbstractShould EU values be pursued by means of EU trade policy or separately via other policies? Article 21/3 TEU instructs the Council and the Commission to ‘ensure consistency between the different areas of its external action’, often (mis?)interpreted as a merger of all external policies with respect to values. Is this “merger” justified by the EU public interest? Linkage advocates are interested in the clout of EU trade and investment policy, but not in its objectives. Detailed recent research shows no empirical evidence of the effectiveness of value linkages. Thus, coupling values and EU trade policy may be costly and has few, if any, advantages; its main effect is continuous attention being paid to these issues (seen as a virtue by some). This article includes illustrations concerning the EU–Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), EU/China cooperation on sustainable development and the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI).
Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make “Functional Types” more functional
Authors: Anderegg Leander D. L. , Griffith Daniel M. , Cavender‐Bares Jeannine , Riley William J. , Berry Joseph A. , Dawson Todd E. , Still Christopher J. 
Published: December 2021

AbstractPlants are critical mediators of terrestrial mass and energy fluxes, and their structural and functional traits have profound impacts on local and global climate, biogeochemistry, biodiversity, and hydrology. Yet, Earth System Models (ESMs), our most powerful tools for predicting the effects of humans on the coupled biosphere–atmosphere system, simplify the incredible diversity of land plants into a handful of coarse categories of “Plant Functional Types” (PFTs) that often fail to capture ecological dynamics such as biome distributions. The inclusion of more realistic functional diversity is a recognized goal for ESMs, yet there is currently no consistent, widely accepted way to add diversity to models, that is, to determine what new PFTs to add and with what data to constrain their parameters. We review approaches to representing plant diversity in ESMs and draw on recent ecological and evolutionary findings to present an evolution‐based functional type approach for further disaggregating functional diversity. Specifically, the prevalence of niche conservatism, or the tendency of closely related taxa to retain similar ecological and functional attributes through evolutionary time, reveals that evolutionary relatedness is a powerful framework for summarizing functional similarities and differences among plant types. We advocate that Plant Functional Types based on dominant evolutionary lineages (“Lineage Functional Types”) will provide an ecologically defensible, tractable, and scalable framework for representing plant diversity in next‐generation ESMs, with the potential to improve parameterization, process representation, and model benchmarking. We highlight how the importance of evolutionary history for plant function can unify the work of disparate fields to improve predictive modeling of the Earth system.
Poleward distribution of mesopelagic fishes is constrained by seasonality in light
Authors: Langbehn Tom J. , Aksnes Dag L. , Kaartvedt Stein , Fiksen Øyvind , Ljungström Gabriella , Jørgensen Christian 
Published: December 2021

AbstractAimMesopelagic fishes have a near‐global distribution in the upper 1,000 m from tropical to sub‐Arctic oceans across temperature regimes. Yet, their abundance decreases poleward and viable populations seem excluded from high latitudes. Why?LocationNorth Atlantic between 50–85°N, with implications for high‐latitude oceans globally.Time periodPresent‐day.Major taxa studiedDiel vertically migrating (DVM) mesopelagic fishes.MethodsWe use a mechanistic, state‐dependent life‐history model to characterize DVM mesopelagic fishes. This model links light‐dependent encounters and temperature‐dependent physiology, allowing optimal DVM strategies to emerge. We run the model along a latitudinal gradient with increasing seasonality in light and track individual fitness‐related measures, that is, survival and surplus energy, through the annual cycle to make predictions about population consequences.ResultsMesopelagic fishes thrive in the oceans’ twilight zone, and many are dependent on periods of darkness for safe foraging near the surface, before migrating back to depth during daytime. When daylight lasts for 24 hr during the Arctic summer, these fish are trapped in deep waters void of prey because it is never safe to forage in the shallow waters where zooplankton prey are found. Hence, they are left with two poor options, starvation at depth or depredation while foraging. Our model predicts surplus energy, vital for reproduction and growth, to halve from 50–85°N and annual survival to drop by two‐thirds over a narrow range of 10° of latitude around the Arctic Circle. Thus, low recruitment and high predation mortality during summer make polar waters population sinks for mesopelagic fishes because of the extreme seasonality in light.Main conclusionsAt high latitudes, foraging mesopelagic fishes are exposed to sunlight in upper waters also at night. This makes them easy prey for visual predators, which limits their poleward distribution. Our findings highlight the importance to think beyond temperature to explain high‐latitude range limits.
Assessing the efficacy of coproduction to better understand the barriers to achieving sustainability in NHS chronic kidney services and create alternate pathways
Authors: Mc Laughlin Leah , Williams Gail , Roberts Gareth , Dallimore David , Fellowes David , Popham Joanne , Charles Joanna , Chess James , Williams Sarah Hirst , Mathews Jonathan , Howells Teri , Stone Judith , Isaac Linzi , Noyes Jane 
Published: December 2021

AbstractContextToo many people living with chronic kidney disease are opting for and starting on hospital‐based dialysis compared to a home‐based kidney replacement therapy. Dialysis services are becoming financially unsustainable.ObjectiveThis study aimed to assess the efficacy of coproductive research in chronic kidney disease service improvement to achieve greater sustainability.DesignA 2‐year coproductive service improvement study was conducted with multiple stakeholders with the specific intention of maximizing engagement with the national health kidney services, patients and public.Setting and ParticipantsA national health kidney service (3 health boards, 18 dialysis units), patients and families (n = 50), multidisciplinary teams including doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and so forth (n = 68), kidney charities, independent dialysis service providers and wider social services were part of this study.FindingsCoproductive research identified underutilized resources (e.g., patients on home dialysis and social services) and their potential, highlighted unmet social care needs for patients and families and informed service redesign. Education packages were reimagined to support the home dialysis agenda including opportunities for wider service input. The impacts of one size fits all approaches to dialysis on specialist workforce skills were made clearer and also professional, patient and public perceptions of key sustainability policies.Discussion and ConclusionsPatient and key stakeholders mapped out new ways to link services to create more sustainable models of kidney health and social care. Maintaining principles of knowledge coproduction could help achieve financial sustainability and move towards more prudent adult chronic kidney disease services.Patient or Public ContributionInvolved in developing research questions, study design, management and conduct, interpretation of evidence and dissemination.