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Mechanistic insights into the evolution of DUF26-containing proteins in land plants
Authors: Vaattovaara Aleksia , Brandt Benjamin , Rajaraman Sitaram , Safronov Omid , Veidenberg Andres , Luklová Markéta , Kangasjärvi Jaakko , Löytynoja Ari , Hothorn Michael , Salojärvi Jarkko , Wrzaczek Michael 
Published: December 2018

AbstractLarge protein families are a prominent feature of plant genomes and their size variation is a key element for adaptation in plants. Here we infer the evolutionary history of a representative protein family, the DOMAIN OF UNKNOWN FUNCTION (DUF) 26-containing proteins. The DUF26 first appeared in secreted proteins. Domain duplications and rearrangements led to the emergence of CYSTEINE-RICH RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASES (CRKs) and PLASMODESMATA-LOCALIZED PROTEINS (PDLPs). While the DUF26 itself is specific to land plants, structural analyses of Arabidopsis PDLP5 and PDLP8 ectodomains revealed strong similarity to fungal lectins. Therefore, we propose that DUF26-containing proteins constitute a novel group of plant carbohydrate-binding proteins. Following their appearance, CRKs expanded both through tandem duplications and preferential retention of duplicates in whole genome duplication events, whereas PDLPs evolved according to the dosage balance hypothesis. Based on our findings, we suggest that the main mechanism of expansion in new gene families is small-scale duplication, whereas genome fractionation and genetic drift after whole genome multiplications drive families towards dosage balance.
Time to get into the action
Authors: Raghuvanshi Juhi , Garg Chandra Prakash 
Published: December 2018

PurposeThe aim of this study is to identify and rank the factors of innovation capability (IC) in Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). This study focuses on ascertaining the important factors that help in enhancing the IC with an emblematic focus on the MSME sector of India.Design/methodology/approachThis paper proposes a multicriteria decision-making methodology, which is based on fuzzy analytic hierarchical process to prioritize the factors that enhance the IC of MSMEs. Finally, sensitivity analysis is conducted to examine the ranking stability.FindingsKnowledge management is the most important enabler, followed by creativity and idea management and organizational culture.Practical implicationsSeveral organizations promote the strategic measures for enhancing the IC. To increase their capability to innovate, there is a need to identify, acknowledge and implement the drivers of IC into practice.Originality/valuePrioritization done in the study facilitates the entrepreneurs to determine the most important factors that need crucial attention in dealing with sensitive issues of IC. Entrepreneurs can take several steps to implement the most important factors for enhancing the IC into practices for meeting the needs of the consumers, generating profits and enhancing the competitiveness.
Expatriates’ motivations for going abroad
Authors: Linder Christian 
Published: December 2018

PurposeIt is widely accepted that expatriates have career expectations and motivations for working abroad that differ according to whether their posting is self-initiated or assigned by their employer. These factors also affect organisational embeddedness in the host country organisation. The purpose of this paper is to analyse job effort and career satisfaction in expatriates working for foreign organisations and investigates how these concepts depend on expatriates’ initial career plans and motivations for working abroad.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from two groups: managers of assigned expatriate workers and self-initiated expatriate workers. The surveys assessed workers’ motivations for going abroad, and differences between the two groups were compared by analysis of variance (ANOVA). A partial least squares (PLS) analysis was used to assess the effect of motivation on job performance.FindingsThere were positive relationships between the degree of organisational embeddedness in institutions abroad and job performance and career satisfaction. Perceptions of embeddedness depended on workers’ mindsets regarding their career ambitions.Practical implicationsThis paper shows that self-initiated and assigned expatriates (AEs) require different staffing strategies, since variation in their motivations to go abroad are likely to affect their job effort in host organisations.Originality/valueBy linking expatriate motivation to go abroad with job performance and career satisfaction, contributions are made to the discussion of the differences between self-initiated and AEs.
HR metrics and workforce analytics: it is a journey, not a destination
Authors: Durai D. Subhashini , Rudhramoorthy Krishnaveni , Sarkar Shulagna 
Published: December 2018

Purpose
The main objective in adopting the use of metrics and analytics is to use the expertise of HR professionals in human resource management regarding their understanding of the best way to recruit, select, train, design, motivate, develop, evaluate, and retain employees at an organization to help achieve its goals more effectively.

Design/methodology/approach
The first and foremost step to generate metrics and analytics strategies in an organization is identification of existing problems faced by them. Owing to the changing environment and global requirement, the labor measurement also changes. The main focus is on the problems faced by the organization and human resources in the working environment.

Findings
Through the use of human resources measures and workforce analytics, decision-makers will gain the ability to more effectively manage and improve human resources programs and processes. This in turn improves the effectiveness of the workforce and organizational performance.

Practical implications
Metrics and analytics is a better problem-solving measure in organizations, because in any situations, decisions are made after analyzing the tactical choices.

Social implications
The development of effective human resource metrics and workforce analytics is likely to be seen in the future as a very important source of competitive advantage.

Originality/value
The use of human resource metrics and workforce analytics improves organizational effectiveness and strategic decision-making of managers that positively impact the organization’s performance as a whole.
Emerging themes and theories in the sharing economy: a critical note for hospitality and tourism
Authors: Altinay Levent , Taheri Babak 
Published: December 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to review and synthesise recent studies in the sharing economy literature and identify the knowledge gap and future opportunities for hospitality and tourism researchers.Design/methodology/approachThe study commences by introducing sharing economy models and strategic frameworks for profitable service enabler performance. Following this, it identifies emerging overarching theories (e.g. complexity theory, social exchange theory, norm activation model, and value co-creation) and some emerging themes (i.e. trust and reputation, disruptive behaviour, choice and segmentation, pricing strategies, socially excluded consumers, personality and satisfaction) in current hospitality and tourism studies from top-tier journals.FindingsThe findings of the study suggest new paths for advancing theoretical and practical implications for hospitality and tourism studies.Practical implicationsThe themes, models and overarching theories reviewed in this study are relevant and insightful across the fulcrum of hospitality and tourism research. It offers several useful guides for practitioners and academics to trace relevant literature on different aspects of sharing economy and perceptibly highlight the gaps in existing studies.Originality/valueThe paper provides new directions to broaden interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches undertaken by scholars within both the field of hospitality and tourism management and beyond.
The outcome of online social interactions on Facebook pages
Authors: Khobzi Hamid , Lau Raymond Y.K. , Cheung Terence C.H. 
Published: December 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of different ways of message framing on users’ engagement behavior regarding the brand posts on Facebook and to determine whether users’ thumbs-up and reply moderate this impact.

Design/methodology/approach
A panel data analysis was conducted on a panel with 11,894 observations on 850 unique brand posts from the Facebook pages of the world’s most valuable brands over a seven days window with two observations each day. A system of equations was estimated using ordinary least squares, Hausman–Taylor IV and seemingly unrelated regressions to test study’s hypotheses.

Findings
The empirical findings confirm that more positively and negatively framed comments result in increased users’ engagement. Also, an increase in thumbs-up ratio for neutrally and negatively framed comments results in less engagement. The reply ratio might also have a positive and negative moderation effect on the influence of neutrally and positively framed comments on engagement behavior, respectively.

Practical implications
This study provides an in-depth understanding of online social interactions on Facebook pages for firms’ managers and marketers. Online social interactions might be either harmful or fruitful for firms depending on the type of interaction and engagement behavior. Findings can help managers and marketer to improve their strategies for leveraging Facebook for electronic marketing.

Originality/value
This is likely to be the first study that examines the moderating effect of users’ thumbs-up and reply on the relationship between message framing and users’ engagement behavior. By providing robust findings by addressing issues like omitted variables and endogeneity, the findings of this study are promising for developing new hypotheses and theoretical models in the context of online social interactions.
The most optimal way to deal with negative consumer review
Authors: Brunner Christian Boris , Ullrich Sebastian , De Oliveira Mauro Jose 
Published: December 2018

Purpose
After a negative consumer review (NCR) has been posted on an online shopping site such as Amazon.com, the immediate concern of a brand holder should be to focus on the steps the brand should take to rebuild the unhappy consumers’ trust. The purpose of this paper is to employ the signalling theory to analyse whether a brand response, a customer response or a response that combines both when responding to a NCR leads to better product purchase intentions at the customer end.

Design/methodology/approach
In a laboratory study comprising 351 respondents, six different response scenarios are tested, both for a well-known and an unknown brand. The experiment employs a 6 (response scenario: single brand response, single customer response, brand response and one customer response or vice versa, brand response and three customer responses or vice versa)×2 (customer-based brand equity: strong/weak) between-subject design.

Findings
The findings show that after a NCR, the subjects perceive a customer response as more trustworthy than a response from an unknown brand. However, customer-based brand equity changes the whole story. If a strong brand responds, the purchase intentions of the subjects are similar to those generated by a single customer’s response. In addition, after considering multiple responses, it can be seen that a response combining a brand and a customer response has a higher effect than from a single response. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate that perceptions are more favourable if several customer responses are sent in case of an unknown brand.

Originality/value
The originality of this paper lies in the fact that it tries to explore how the consumers perceive multiple responses from different sources after a NCR has been posted. The results highlight that a response that combines a brand and a customer response has a significantly higher effect than what is achieved from a single response. It must also be noted that customer-based brand equity plays a key role.
Online privacy behavior among youth in the Global South
Authors: Bernadas Jan Michael Alexandre Cortez , Soriano Cheryll Ruth 
Published: December 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it explores the extent to which diversity of connectivity or the connection through multiple internet access points may facilitate online privacy behavior. Second, it explains the diversity of connectivity-online privacy behavior link in terms of information literacy.

Design/methodology/approach
Situated in the context of urban poor youth in the Philippines (n = 300), this paper used a quantitative approach, specifically an interview-administered survey technique. Respondents were from three cities in Metro Manila. To test for indirect relationship, survey data were analyzed using bootstrapping technique via SPSS macro PROCESS (Hayes, 2013).

Findings
Urban poor youth with diversified connection to the internet engaged in online privacy behavior. The more the youth are connected to the internet through diverse modalities, the more this fosters cautious online privacy behavior. In addition, information literacy explained how diversity of connectivity facilitated online privacy behavior. It suggests that differences in online privacy behavior may result from the extent of basic know-how of navigating online information. In the context of the urban poor in the Global South, the youth are constantly negotiating ways to not only connect to the internet but also acquire digital skills necessary for protective online behaviors.

Originality/value
To date, this is one of the few papers to contribute to conversations about online privacy among youth in the Global South. It broadens the literature on social determinants of online privacy behavior that is crucial for designing policy interventions for those in the margins.
An employee’s best friend? How AI can boost employee engagement and performance
Authors: Smith Cameron 
Published: December 2018

Purpose
How to keep employees engaged, rewarded and retained to improve the end-user and customer experience.

Design/methodology/approach
This study provides practical advice on how a business can attract, recruit, retain and develop talented employees to improve customer service, using the author’s experience at Genesys.

Findings
This study explores various research findings including Coleman Parks to establish the challenges organizations face when trying to ensure employees are engaged with their own business.

Originality/value
This is my viewpoint on the situation; I have researched various areas of employee engagement to understand why organizations are facing challenges, and I can provide unique insight as we work with world-leading brands to use technology that will solve these problems in some way at the least.
Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies specific for major capsid VP1 protein of trichodysplasia spinulosa‐associated polyomavirus
Authors: Khatun Hajera , Yamaoka Yutaro , Matsushima Yuki , Matsunaga Satoko , Kimura Hirokazu , Ho Jonhan , Shuda Masahiro , Ryo Akihide 
Published: December 2018

ABSTRACTTrichodysplasia spinulosa‐associated polyomavirus (TSPyV), a newly identified polyomavirus, has been implicated as a causative agent of trychodysplasia spinulosa (TS), a rare proliferative skin disease in severely immunocompromised hosts. Diagnosis using mAbs is a promising tool with high specificity towards the specific antigen. However, thus far, no suitable mAbs for diagnosing TS disease have been identified. In this study, mAbs specific for VP1 of TSPyV were developed and characterized. Wheat germ cell‐free synthesized VP1 protein of TSPyV was used to immunize BALB/c mice to generate hybridomas. Screening of the resultant hybridoma clones resulted in selection of five strongly positive clones that produce mAbs that react with the TSPyV‐VP1 antigen. Epitope mapping and bioinformatic analysis showed that these mAbs recognized epitopes located within highly conserved C‐terminal region of all clinical isolates of TSPyV‐VP1. Further, all these mAbs were highly effective for immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation analysis. Three of the five mAbs exhibited no cross‐reactivity with VP1 of other related polyomaviruses. In addition, one of our mAbs (#14) provided immunohistochemical staining of skin tissue of TS disease. It can be concluded that three of the mAbs in this panel of anti‐VP1 antibodies may provide a useful set of tools for studying TSPyV infection and making the specific diagnosis.
Predictors of non‐compliant classroom behaviour of secondary school students. Identifying the influence of sex, learning problems, behaviour problems, social behaviour, peer relations and student–teacher relations
Authors: Schwab Susanne , Eckstein Boris , Reusser Kurt 
Published: December 2018

Students’ non‐compliant classroom behaviour is mentioned as one of the biggest challenges for teaching. This study examines the non‐compliant behaviour of secondary school students and its predictors. Data were obtained from a longitudinal sample of 639 secondary school students in Austria (Styria). Students filled out a paper‐pencil questionnaire at the end of the 7th grade (mean age = 13.5 years, SD = 0.61) and 8th grade. Non‐compliant classroom behaviour was assessed using a 15 item self‐rating scale. First results indicate that boys show more non‐compliant classroom behaviour than girls. Students with hyperactivity stated to show more non‐compliant classroom behaviour than students without hyperactivity. However, students with and without emotional problems as well as students with and without learning problems did not differ in their self‐rated non‐compliant classroom behaviour. Findings of multi‐level analyses showed that more positive student–teacher relation is linked with less non‐compliant classroom behaviour for both girls and boys. As non‐compliant classroom behaviour is a relatively stable characteristic of both male and female students, it is important to intervene as early as possible. In addition, schools should take classroom compositions into account and make teachers aware of the high importance of the student–teacher relation for students’ behaviour.
Analysis of agriculture‐related life‐threatening injuries presenting to emergency departments of rural generalist hospitals in Southern Queensland
Authors: Pinidiyapathirage Janani , Kitchener Scott , McNamee Sarah , Wynter Sacha , Langford Jack , Doyle Ashley , McMahon Andrew 
Published: December 2018

AbstractObjectiveAgricultural industries are among the most dangerous in Australia posing significant public health risks. This study analyses the nature and management of agriculture‐related injuries presenting to EDs in selected hospitals in Southern Queensland.MethodsData on agricultural injury presentations over a 6 month period was collected at four rural hospitals by a dedicated onsite hospital data coordinator. Additionally, in two of the participating hospitals all injury presentations over the same 6 month period were recorded. A pre‐tested survey instrument, modified for rural settings and designed and developed to export the abstracted data using an iPad application was used as the survey tool.ResultsThe incidence of agriculture‐related injuries was 11% of all injuries, most were males (73%), averaging 40 years. On presentation, 66.5% (n = 234) were categorised as imminently or potentially life threatening with 44% of those patients presenting to hospital ED >3 h after the injury. Large animals were more commonly reported as involved in the aetiology of the presenting injury, particularly using horses and handling cattle.ConclusionsAgricultural injuries are a significant group of primary care presentations to rural hospitals and training and resourcing for rural hospitals should reflect this. A better understanding of common injury types can lead to efficient allocation of available resources in rural hospitals and potentially improve ED practices. The delay in presentation must be considered in response planning both by farmers and hospital EDs.
Trends and state variations in out‐of‐hospital births in the United States, 2004‐2017
Authors: MacDorman Marian F. , Declercq Eugene 
Published: December 2018

AbstractBackgroundOut‐of‐hospital births have been increasing in the United States, although past studies have found wide variations between states. Our purpose was to examine trends in out‐of‐hospital births, the risk profile of these births, and state differences in women’s access to these births.MethodsNational birth certificate data from 2004 to 2017 were analyzed. Newly available national data on method of payment for the delivery (private insurance, Medicaid, self‐pay) were used to measure access to out‐of‐hospital birth options.ResultsAfter a gradual decline from 1990 to 2004, the number of out‐of‐hospital births increased from 35 578 in 2004 to 62 228 in 2017. In 2017, 1 of every 62 births in the United States was an out‐of‐hospital birth (1.61%). Home births increased by 77% from 2004 to 2017, whereas birth center births more than doubled. Out‐of‐hospital births were more common in the Pacific Northwest and less common in the southeastern states such as Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Women with planned home and birth center births were less likely to have a number of population characteristics associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, including teen births, smoking during pregnancy, obesity, and preterm, low birthweight, and multiple births. More than 2/3 of planned home births were self‐paid, compared with 1/3 of birth center and just 3% of hospital births, with large variations by state.ConclusionsLack of insurance or Medicaid coverage is an important limiting factor for women desiring out‐of‐hospital birth in most states. Recent increases in out‐of‐hospital births despite important limiting factors highlight the strong motivation of some women to choose out‐of‐hospital birth.
The effect of donor alcohol abuse on outcomes following heart transplantation
Authors: Newman Joshua , Liebo Max , Lowes Brian D. , Ilias Basha Haseeb , Peled Yael , Cendrowski Emily , Zolty Ronald , Douglas Dylan , Um John Y. , McGee Edwin , Heroux Alain , Raichlin Eugenia 
Published: December 2018

AbstractBackgroundCurrent guidelines recommend against the use of hearts from donors that abuse alcohol. We explored the effect of donor alcohol abuse (AA) on cardiac allograft function and outcomes in heart transplant (HTx) recipients.MethodsOverall, 370 HTx recipients were divided into two groups: (a) the alcoholic donor group (AD, n = 58) and (b) the non‐alcoholic donor group (NAD, n = 312).ResultsRecipients in the AD group had a slower heart rate (86 ± 13 vs 93 ± 13, P = 0.004) and an increased incidence of early atrial fibrillation (AF) (30% vs 11%, P = 0.003). Echocardiographic left ventricular mass was higher among alcoholic donors (171.7 ± 66.7 vs 151.6 ± 54.7, P = 0.02). This difference remained present 1 year following HTx (185 ± 43 vs 166 ± 42, P = 0.007). E/E′ was higher in the AD group (9.5 ± 3.9 vs 8.4 ± 2.9, P = 0.04) and a larger number of AD recipients had a ventilatory equivalent for VCO2 > 34 (50% vs 31%, P = 0.04) on cardiopulmonary exercise test. There was no significant difference in rejection, cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), or survival between the groups.ConclusionsOur data suggest that donor AA does not impact rejection, CAV, or intermediate‐term survival, but may cause increased incidence of post‐HTx AF and impaired cardiac allograft diastolic function.