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A Multilevel Model Examining the Relationships Between Workplace Spirituality, Ethical Climate and Outcomes: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective
Authors: Otaye-Ebede Lilian , Shaffakat Samah , Foster Scott 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThe role and influence of workplace spirituality on individual and organisational outcomes continue to draw attention among management scholars. Despite this increased attention, extant literature has yielded limited insights particularly into the impact and influence processes of workplace spirituality on performance outcomes at both the individual and unit levels of analysis. Addressing this gap in research, we proposed and tested a multilevel model, underpinned by social cognitive theory, that examines the processes linking perceptions of workplace spirituality and performance outcomes at the individual and organisational level of analysis. Data were obtained from 51 branches of a retail organisation in the United Kingdom. Results from structural equation modelling analysis revealed three salient findings. First, workplace spirituality was positively related to ethical climate, prosocial motivation, and moral judgment. Second, ethical climate partially mediated the relationship between workplace spirituality and prosocial motivation and moral judgment, respectively. Third, aggregated ethical climate significantly relates to branch-level helping behaviour and service performance.
Factor structure and psychometric properties of a Polish adaptation of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale
Authors: Piotrowski Konrad , Bojanowska Agnieszka 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThe Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS) is one of the most popular questionnaires for measuring perfectionism. Although this scale is in common use, its psychometric parameters still remain in dispute. The aim of this article is to present the Polish adaptation of the FMPS in a non-clinical sample. 696 university students aged 18 to 42 (M = 26.74, SD = 7.56) took part in the study. Confirmatory Factor Analyses suggested that the most appropriate factor structure of the adapted version of the FMPS contains 5 correlated factors: CM (concerns over mistakes), DAA (doubts about actions), PE (parental expectations), PC (parental criticism), and PS (personal standards). The ORG (organization) subscale was removed after evaluation. The evaluation of the specific relationships of each dimension of the adapted version of the FMPS with shame, guilt, worry, rumination, and indecisiveness revealed that when controlling for the variances of the remaining dimensions, significant relationships occurred almost only in the case of the CM, DAA and PS scales, suggesting that they constitute the three core facets of perfectionism as measured by the FMPS.
Health Measurement and Health Inequality Over the Life Course: A Comparison of Self-rated Health, SF-12, and Grip Strength
Authors: Leopold Liliya 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThe cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis predicts education differences in health to increase with age. All previous tests of this hypothesis were based on self-reported health measures. Recent research has suggested that self-reported health measures may not adequately capture differences in key analytical constructs, including education, age, cohort, and gender. In this study, I tested the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis using a self-reported subjective measure (self-rated health), a self-reported semi-objective measure (PCS based on SF-12), and an objective measure (grip strength) of general physical health. Hierarchical linear models applied to five waves of panel data (SOEP, 2006–2014, N = 3,635 individuals aged 25 to 83, comprising N = 9,869 person-years) showed large differences between health measures. Among men, education differences in both self-reported measures of health widened substantially with age, consistent with the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis. For grip strength, education differences were small and changed little with age, inconsistent with the hypothesis. Among women, education differences in both self-reported measures of health remained stable over the life course, but they widened substantially when measured by grip strength. I conclude that evidence on the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis is sensitive to the choice of a health measure.
The Effect of Training Pregnant Women and Their Husband’s on the Anxiety in Pregnant Women with Previous Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial
Authors: Asgharian Bita , sehhatie Fahimeh , Mirghafourvand Mojgan 
Published: March 2019

AbstractPregnant women with previous adverse pregnancy outcomes have a higher level of anxiety, which creates several problems for the mother and the fetus/infant. Decreasing the anxiety in these pregnant women is therefore of great importance. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of training on the anxiety in women with previous adverse pregnancy outcomes. This randomized, controlled, clinical trial was conducted on 132 pregnant women with previous adverse pregnancy outcomes. The women were randomly assigned to training (n≤=≤66) and control (n≤=≤66) group. In the training group, women and their husbands received training sessions once a week, an instructional booklet and counseling on phone in the intervals between the sessions. The control group received routine treatment. Spielberger anxiety questionnaires were completed by the pregnant women before and 1 month after the intervention. Compared to the control group, significant reductions were observed in the state anxiety (adjusted mean difference -≤19.6, 95% CI -≤21.9 to -≤17.3, P≤ > 0.001) and trait anxiety (adjusted mean difference: - 20.1, 95% CI - 22.2 to - 17.9, P > 0.001) in the training group. Training pregnant women and their husbands with previous adverse pregnancy outcomes helps. This training should be added to the prenatal health care system.
Comments on Brugger and others (2018) ‘A quantitative comparison of microfossil extraction methods from ice cores’
Authors: FESTI DANIELA , KOFLER WERNER , OEGGL KLAUS 
Published: March 2019

ABSTRACTIn our comments, we re-evaluate Brugger and others (2018) Lycopodium/Eucalyptus double marker approach, based on the fact that previous evidence already demonstrated that the batch of Eucalyptus tablets used by Brugger and others (2018) is not suitable for quantitative comparisons as they are characterized by inconsistent pollen concentration. We present clear evidence that the Eucalyptus tablets do feature inaccurate pollen concentrations, and are therefore improper for all quantitative comparisons of microfossil extraction methods. Consequently, the results of the quantitative and qualitative assessment of different pollen extraction methods from ice samples compiled by Brugger and others (2018) are highly questionable due to the use of faulty marker tablets.
Animal foods and postmenopausal breast cancer risk: a prospective cohort study
Authors: Marcondes Larissa Hansen , Franco Oscar H. , Ruiter Rikje , Ikram Mohammad Arfan , Mulder Marlies , Stricker Bruno H. , Kiefte-de Jong Jessica C. 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThe role of diet on breast cancer risk is not well elucidated but animal food sources may play a role through, for example, the pathway of the insulin-like growth factor 1 system or cholesterol metabolism. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between animal foods and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer. This study was embedded in the Rotterdam Study, a population-based prospective cohort study of subjects aged 55 years and over (61 % female). Dietary intake of different animal foods was assessed at baseline using a validated FFQ and adjusted for energy intake using the residual method. We performed Cox proportional hazards modelling to analyse the association between the intake of the different food sources and breast cancer risk after adjustment for socio-demographic, lifestyle and metabolic factors. During a median follow-up of 17 years, we identified 199 cases of breast cancer (6·2 %) among 3209 women. After adjustment for multiple confounders, no consistent association was found between the intake of red meat intake, poultry, fish or dairy products and breast cancer risk. However, we found that egg intake was significantly associated with a higher risk of breast cancer (hazard ratioQ4 v. Q1: 1·83; 95 % CI 1·20, 2·79; Ptrend=0·01). In conclusion, this study found that dietary egg intake but no other animal foods was associated with a higher risk of postmenopausal breast cancer. Further research on the potential mechanisms underlying this association is warranted.
Distribution of joints in the hinge-line culmination of foreland-verging overturned anticlines: an example from the Montagna dei Fiori structure in the Central Apennines of Italy
Authors: Francioni Mirko , Pace Paolo , Vitulli Milena , Sciarra Nicola , Calamita Fernando 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThe distribution of joints, veins and shear fractures in the Montagna dei Fiori overturned anticline is here reported. Two joint sets, longitudinal and transverse to the NNW–SSE anticline axial trend, and a conjugate system of shear fractures, are recognized. The transverse and longitudinal joint sets have a pre-folding development likely related to the foreland/foredeep flexure. The transverse joints were reopened during layer-parallel shortening along with the development of the shear fractures. Then, during syn-folding outer-arc extension and hinge-line culmination fold-axial parallel extension, both the longitudinal and transverse joints were enhanced and reactivated, respectively.
The humanitarian theatre: drought response during Ethiopia's low-intensity conflict of 2016
Authors: Desportes Isabelle , Mandefro Hone , Hilhorst Dorothea 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThis article aims to rekindle the debate on the politics of aid in the increasingly common – yet still under-studied – authoritarian and low-intensity conflict settings, detailing the case of Ethiopia in 2016, when a 50-year drought coincided with a wave of protests and a state of emergency. During four months of qualitative fieldwork in 2017, state, civil society, Ethiopian and international actors were approached – from humanitarian headquarters to communities in the Amhara, Oromiya and Somali regions. Research participants relayed stark discrepancies between the humanitarian theatre's ‘frontstage’, where disaster responders showcase an exemplary response, and its ‘backstage’, where they remove their frontstage masks and reflect on the information, the decision-making monopoly of the state and the intrusion of conflict dynamics into the humanitarian response. In humanitarian research and in policy, a collective conversation is necessary on where to draw the line between respect for governments’ sovereignty and the intrusion of humanitarian principles.
An Approximated, Control Affine Model for a Strawberry Field Scouting Robot Considering Wheel–Terrain Interaction
Authors: Menendez-Aponte Pablo , Kong Xiangling , Xu Yunjun 
Published: March 2019

SummaryRecently, autonomous field robots have been investigated as a labor-reducing means to scout through commercial strawberry fields for disease detection or fruit harvesting. To achieve accurate over-bed and cross-bed motions, it is preferred to design the motion controller based on a precise dynamic model. Here, a dynamic model is developed for a custom-designed strawberry field robot considering terramechanic wheel–terrain interaction. Different from existing models, a torus geometry is considered for the wheels. In order to obtain a control affine model, the longitudinal force is curve-fitted using a polynomial function of the slip/skid ratio, while the lateral force is curve-fitted using an exponential function of both the slip/skid ratio and slip angle. An extended Kalman filter (EKF) is then developed to estimate the unknown parameters in the approximated model such that the state variables propagated by such a model can match experimental data. The approximated model and the EKF-based parameter estimation method are then validated in a commercial strawberry farm.
Using roaming behaviours of dogs to estimate contact rates: the predicted effect on rabies spread
Authors: Hudson Emily G. , Brookes Victoria J. , Ward Michael P. , Dürr Salome 
Published: March 2019

AbstractDomestic dogs display complex roaming behaviours, which need to be captured to more realistically model the spread of rabies. We have previously shown that roaming behaviours of domestic dogs can be categorised as stay-at-home, roamer and explorer in the Northern Peninsular Area (NPA), Queensland, Australia. These roaming behaviours are likely to cause heterogeneous contact rates that influence the speed or pattern of rabies spread in a dog population. The aim of this study was to define contact spatial kernels using the overlap of individual dog utilisation distributions to describe the daily probability of contact between pairs of dogs exhibiting these three a priori roaming behaviours. We further aimed to determine if the kernels lead to different predicted rabies outbreaks (outbreak duration and number of rabid dogs) by incorporating the spatial kernels into a previously developed rabies spread model for the NPA. Spatial kernels created with both dogs in a pair being explorers or one dog explorer and one dog roamer (who roamed away from their residence) produced short but large outbreaks compared with spatial kernels with at least one stay-at-home dog. Outputs from this model incorporating heterogeneous contacts demonstrate how roaming behaviours influence disease spread in domestic dog populations.
Improving the success of InsurTech opportunities
Authors: Bruce D. , Avis C. , Byrne M. , Gosrani V. , Lim Z. , Manning J. , Popovic D. , Purcell R. , Qin W. 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThe Working Party has produced this report in order to prompt readers to engage at an early stage in InsurTech projects, through considering (i) the full range of risks associated with InsurTech developments, (ii) the lifecycle of an InsurTech venture and how any risk considerations may vary over this lifecycle and (iii) the extent to which InsurTech ventures align with risk strategy and risk appetite.The report contains practical guidance for actuaries, risk professionals, insurance companies and their Boards on these considerations, and can be used to facilitate appropriate questioning, to help ensure that InsurTech-related business decisions are fully cognisant of the risk management issues and to help ensure the success of projects.The Working Party developed this guidance having carried out an industry survey on a number of risk management topics relating to InsurTech, as well as having carried out interviews with a number of relevant senior stakeholders across the insurance industry, in order to better understand current sentiment and how risk management plays a part when considering opportunities in InsurTech. The Working Party views on the findings from these activities are summarised in the report.
Crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera) from the latest Eocene of the Isle of Wight, southern England, UK
Authors: GOROCHOV Andrej V. 
Published: March 2019

ABSTRACTAll taxa of Orthoptera known from the latest Eocene deposits of the Isle of Wight are redescribed or discussed, based on the study of their type material. The following new taxa are described:Ontogryllusgen. nov.,O. rossisp. nov. (type species),Achetomorphagen. nov.,A. irregularissp. nov. (type species), andProeneopterotrypusgen. nov. The latter genus is here proposed forPteroplistes danicusRust, described from the Palaeocene/Eocene of Denmark, as this find is important for understanding the systematic position of the genusEneopterotrypusZeuner. Remarks about the taxonomy of the taxa studied, age of these deposits, and ecology are given.
Associations Between Informal Caregivers’ Burden and	Educational Level
Authors: Oedekoven Monika , Amin-Kotb Katja , Gellert Paul , Balke Klaus , Kuhlmey Adelheid , Schnitzer Susanne 
Published: March 2019

Abstract. We investigated the association between the education of informal caregivers’ (IC) and their physical and mental burden. We hypothesized that better-educated IC would have more resources available to manage the care situation and as a result show lower perceived burden. We conducted a population survey of 6,087 German residents aged 18+ years, 966 of whom reported to be IC. Results show that IC felt more often mentally than physically burdened. In the multivariate analyses, higher-educated IC did not have lower odds of feeling physically burdened than lower-educated IC, though they did have increased odds of feeling mentally burdened. The higher perceived mental burden of higher-educated IC may be related to fear of loss of self-fulfilment and autonomy. Support services should consider the mental burden of higher-educated IC and tailor their interventions accordingly.
Remarkable Control of Western Boundary Currents by Eddy Killing, a Mechanical Air‐Sea Coupling Process
Authors: Renault L. , Marchesiello P. , Masson S. , McWilliams J. C. 
Published: March 2019

AbstractWestern boundary currents (WBCs) are critical to Earth's climate. In the last decade, mesoscale air‐sea interactions emerged as an important factor of WBC dynamics. Recently, coupled models including the feedback of surface oceanic currents to the atmosphere confirmed the existence of a physical process called eddy killing, which may correct long‐lasting biases in the representation of WBCs by providing an unambiguous energy sink mechanism. Using ocean‐atmosphere coupled simulations of the Gulf Stream and the Agulhas Current, we show that eddy killing reduces the eddy‐mean flow interaction (both forward and inverse cascades) and leads to more realistic solutions. Model and data fluxes are in good agreement when the same coarse grid is used for their computation, although in this case they are underestimated. We conclude that the uncoupled approach is no longer suitable for continued ocean model improvement and discuss new formulations that should better account for air‐sea interactions.
Focal Mechanisms for Subcrustal Earthquakes Beneath the Gibraltar Arc
Authors: Santos‐Bueno Nerea , Fernández‐García Carlos , Stich Daniel , Mancilla Flor de Lis , Martín Rosa , Molina‐Aguilera Antonio , Morales Jose 
Published: March 2019

AbstractIntermediate deep earthquakes are usually associated with active subduction, and show mostly dip‐slip faulting mechanisms aligned with the downgoing oceanic lithosphere. Forty‐two new focal mechanisms from 50‐ to 100‐km depth beneath the Gibraltar Arc and Alboran Sea show different characteristics. The most abundant solutions are strike‐slip mechanisms, in agreement with relative plate motion between Nubia and Eurasia. Additional reverse faulting mechanisms indicate compression in direction of absolute plate motion, reproducing the basal drag of the mantle on the hanging lithosphere. In turn, no signature of ongoing subduction was found. Migrated sections of P wave receiver functions suggest that a significant part of intermediate deep seismicity is produced within the stalled remnants of Jurassic age, oceanic lithosphere that once formed the connection between the Alpine Tethys and the central Atlantic and later has been buried beneath the Gibraltar Arc.
Extremely Late Onset of the 2018 South China Sea Summer Monsoon Following a La Niña Event: Effects of Triple SST Anomaly Mode in the North Atlantic and a Weaker Mongolian Cyclone
Authors: Liu Boqi , Zhu Congwen 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThe onset of South China Sea (SCS) summer monsoon (SCSSM) in June 2018 was extremely late following a La Niña event, indicating a breakdown in the traditional positive relationship between ENSO and SCSSM onset. Although the weaker western Pacific subtropical high in early May facilitated the SCSSM establishment, the persistent weaker Mongolian cyclone featured by an anomalous barotropic anticyclone over Northeast Asia during mid–late May dramatically postponed the SCSSM onset in 2018. This not only reduced upper‐tropospheric divergence over the SCS, which suppressed monsoon convection by attenuating the South Asian High, but cooled the mid–upper troposphere to decrease the in‐situ vertical easterly shear. The convection over the Maritime Continent was therefore trapped in the tropics, which further delayed the SCSSM onset via an enhanced local Hadley cell. It suggests a potential effect of triple SSTA mode in North Atlantic on the SCSSM onset by changing the mid‐latitudinal circulation.
Detecting Regional Modes of Variability in Observation‐Based Surface Ocean pCO2
Authors: Landschützer Peter , Ilyina Tatiana , Lovenduski Nicole S. 
Published: March 2019

AbstractWe use a neural network‐based estimate of the sea surface partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) derived from measurements assembled within the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas to investigate the dominant modes of pCO2 variability from 1982 through 2015. Our analysis shows that detrended and deseasonalized sea surface pCO2 varies substantially by region and the respective frequencies match those from the major modes of climate variability (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, multivariate ENSO index, Southern Annular Mode), suggesting a climate modulated air‐sea exchange of CO2. We find that most of the regional pCO2 variability is driven by changes in the ocean circulation and/or changes in biology, whereas the North Atlantic variability is tightly linked to temperature variations in the surface ocean and the resulting changes in solubility. Despite the 34‐year time series, our analysis reveals that we can currently only detect one to two periods of slow frequency oscillations, challenging our ability to robustly link pCO2 variations to climate variability.
The Two Diurnal Modes of Tropical Upward Motion
Authors: Ruppert James H. , Klocke Daniel 
Published: March 2019

AbstractThis study describes a new mechanism governing the diurnal variation of vertical motion in tropical oceanic heavy rainfall zones, such as the intertropical convergence zone. In such regions, the diurnal heating of widespread anvil clouds due to shortwave radiative absorption enhances upward motion in these upper layers in the afternoon. This radiatively driven ascent promotes an afternoon maximum of anvil clouds, indicating a diurnal cloud‐radiative feedback. The opposite occurs at nighttime: While rainfall exhibits a dominant peak at night‐early morning, the boundary layer rooted upward motion and latent heating tied to this peak are forced to be more bottom heavy by the nighttime anomalous radiative cooling at upper levels. This mechanism therefore favors the stratiform top‐heavy heating mode during daytime and suppresses it nocturnally. These diurnal circulation signatures arise from microphysical‐radiative feedbacks that manifest on the scales of organized deep convection, which may ultimately impact the daily mean radiation budget.