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Applying the ESD approach in textile and apparel education
Authors: Abner Melissa , Baytar Fatma , Kreiner David 
Published: February 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to provide more information about the effectiveness of the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) approach in textiles and apparel by applying it to a semester-long sustainability course.

Design/methodology/approach
A University-level course was re-designed using the ESD concepts. The course was taught from a consumer viewpoint using the product lifecycle as a focus, so the information was applicable to students’ lives and multiple consumer products. Quantitative results of a pre- and post-test taken by students measured changes in knowledge, attitudes and behavior related to sustainability. Qualitative data from open-ended questions collected student feedback on instructional strategies.

Findings
A significant change in knowledge and attitudes were observed on the post-test. Students perceived assignments that required critical thinking, research and related to their lives as the most beneficial.

Practical implications
The ESD approach changed student knowledge and attitudes to be more sustainable. Assignments that included real world examples had the most impact on pro-environmental attitudes and support the use of a student-centered pedagogy.

Originality/value
This study is based on a semester-long sustainability course designed with ESD, while many existing studies are based on a single intervention or lesson. The results of this study add to the body of ESD literature in the textile and apparel area and are applicable to other disciplines.
The superstitious scholar
Authors: Andrews Robin A.F. , Tyson Philip 
Published: February 2019

Purpose
The development and application of critical thinking skills are an important component of success at University. Such skills permit students to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of evidence, argument and theory. However research suggests that many students believe in paranormal phenomena (e.g. telekinesis). Such beliefs defy the basic principles of science and do not stand up to critical scrutiny. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
This study aimed to investigate paranormal beliefs within a student population: differences among gender, academic discipline and academic performance were explored.

Findings
Findings indicated that females expressed higher levels of paranormal belief than males, “hard” science students (e.g. Biology) and “soft” science students (e.g. Sociology) expressed lower levels of belief than arts students, and a significant negative correlation indicated that high achievers were less likely to endorse paranormal beliefs.

Originality/value
In light of these results the authors suggest that paranormal phenomena may be a useful tool for teaching critical thinking skills at university.
Brand engagement without brand ownership: a case of non-brand owner community members
Authors: Kumar Jitender , Nayak Jogendra Kumar 
Published: February 2019

PurposeConsidering brand ownership as a cause of concern, this paper aims to propose a conceptual model portraying brand engagement as a function of members’ brand psychological ownership (BPO) and value-congruity and to investigate the effect of brand engagement on brand attachment and brand purchase intentions.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 275 brand community members who do not own the brand. Six different brand communities were shortlisted and offline events were targeted. For testing the hypothesised relationships, the authors used structural equation modelling.FindingsThe results indicate that BPO and value-congruity positively influence the brand engagement of the members, which further influences the brand attachment and brand purchase intentions. It is also observed that brand attachment mediates the effect of brand engagement on brand purchase intentions.Research limitations/implicationsThe primary limitation of this paper is the research context, which needs to be further replicated. The specific customer-segment approach of the study adds a new direction to the scope of brand engagement in the brand management domain.Practical implicationsThe study shows that brand managers need to expand their focus from existing brand customers to non-customers as brand engagement subjects because the non-brand owners can also experience brand attachment and develop intentions to purchase the brand, if engaged.Originality/valueThe study endorses the role of psychological ownership theory in brand engagement research; explores the feasibility of brand engagement among “non-owner community members”; highlights the role of their engagement in enhancing attachment towards the brands and purchase intentions; and sheds light on the blurred boundaries between brand engagement and brand attachment.
Counterfeiting: conceptual issues and implications for branding
Authors: Evans Bradley P. , Starr Richard G. , Brodie Roderick J. 
Published: February 2019

Purpose
This paper aims to apply a broader perspective of branding to foster new insights and develop strategies to address product counterfeiting.

Design/methodology/approach
A review of the counterfeiting and branding literature leads to the development of a new conceptual framework that incorporates proactive, collaborative processes, in addition to the traditional product branding approach.

Findings
The integrative framework provides a basis to develop innovative, proactive strategies that complement traditional branding approaches to address product counterfeiting. The complexity of an integrative framework (or network) offers more opportunities for the firm to co-create robust meaning with multiple stakeholders. Identity elements are readily copied, whereas meanings are not. These strategies help to control counterfeiting by developing deep and inimitable relationships between managers and other stakeholders in a marketing network.

Research limitations/implications
A research agenda is proposed to structure future studies on counterfeiting.

Practical implications
The framework outlines how to leverage collaboration between managers and brand stakeholders to complement conventional approaches to control counterfeiting based on traditional product branding.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the growing body of counterfeiting and brand protection literature by adapting and applying contemporary integrative branding concepts, leading to novel strategies to address the issue.
Application of quality function deployment for the prioritization of National Board of Accreditation quality parameters
Authors: Singh Ajit Kumar , Rawani A.M. 
Published: February 2019

Purpose
Owing to high competition in education sector, quality in education has become utmost important criteria to deliver better education service. For this purpose, it is required to monitor the quality of education. This paper aims to prioritize National Board of Accreditation (NBA) quality parameters in engineering education as per student’s needs using quality function deployment (QFD).

Design/methodology/approach
This study is conducted among students of an institute of National importance in three stages. Stage 1 involves conducting interview with 23 students to find the student’s requirement from an institute. Further Stage 2 involves importance rating collection through questionnaire survey method. In this stage, 228 students have given a rating of each student’s requirement. Finally, Stage 3 involves establishing correlation between student’s requirement and NBA quality parameters that has been done by 20 academic experts and finally making a QFD matrix for ranking of each NBA quality parameter.

Findings
The result of the study first indicates that among all students’ requirements, job-oriented requirement is the most important need, and ergonomics-based requirement is the least important need of students. Further, to fulfill their needs, an institute has to focus on each NBA quality parameter. But among all NBA quality parameters, student’s performance is highly desirable quality parameter.

Practical implications
This study will help top management of engineering institutions in making better policies and strategies for preparing their quality framework. These strategies will indirectly fulfill the customer needs that help in attracting more number of students toward those institutes.

Originality/value
In India, NBA is one of the leading bodies that monitor the quality of education. On the other hand, the institution has to satisfy the need of customer of education sector; therefore, prioritization of NBA quality parameter as per student’s need is one of the important needs that will help engineering institution to focus on a certain parameter to get a good quality certificate and also attract a number of meritorious students.
Daddy Diary for the daughter of the future: a sound-based archive
Authors: Prescott-Steed David 
Published: February 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore a range of questions and problems pertaining to a sound-based project that the author began half-way through 2011. Called Daddy Diary, this archive-in-progress takes the form of a series of free-association audio monologues, produced by a first-time father, that are addressed to his adult-daughter of the future and that reflect upon their evolving familial relationship.Design/methodology/approachAs is often the case with creative projects that are embedded in a plurality of ideological, material and temporal conditions, Daddy Diary requires an eclectic and para-humanities approach to its theorisation. By drawing from ethical, sociological, historical and pedagogical assemblages, this paper shows how Daddy Diary activates a non-hegemonic truth space wherein familial knowledge (tacit knowledge captured in the raw material of the voice recordings) participates in the sustainable and counter-institutional negotiation of self-concept.FindingsSound recording technologies have made accessible new ways of documenting human life-narratives, thus augmenting how notions of the self can be written, reviewed and shared with a creative learning community. Just as photography has been used in creative practice reinforce parental worth, playing into the experience of holding and letting go, so too does an audio diary provide the apparatus through which a parent may reflexively navigate death anxiety and the possibility of loss. Thus, this paper contains insight that may prove useful for other first-time fathers. It’s insight may also be of benefit to practice-led researchers wishing to understand how to translate non-institutional activity into a creative learning experience.Originality/valueJust as the foregrounding of sound poses a challenge to the so-called dominance of visual cultural communication, so too can “listening” engage an alternative sensory perspective from which we “see” ourselves.
Efficacy of combined radiotherapy and anti‐programmed death 1 therapy in acral and mucosal melanoma
Authors: Kato Junji , Hida Tokimasa , Someya Masanori , Sato Sayuri , Sawada Masahide , Horimoto Kohei , Fujioka Mao , Minowa Tomoyuki , Matsui Yoshiyuki , Tsuchiya Takaaki , Kitagawa Mio , Nakata Kensei , Sakata Koh‐ichi , Torigoe Toshihiko , Uhara Hisashi 
Published: February 2019

AbstractSome studies showed that clinical response to immune check point inhibitors is lower in acral and mucosal melanoma than in cutaneous melanoma. Although the synergistic effect of radiotherapy (RT) and ipilimumab has been reported in patients with brain metastasis, the efficacy of combined RT and anti‐programmed death 1 (PD‐1) therapy for acral and mucosal melanoma is unclear. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of combined RT and anti‐PD‐1 therapy for acral and mucosal melanoma. We retrospectively analyzed patients with acral or mucosal melanoma who were treated with anti‐PD‐1 and RT at Sapporo Medical University Hospital. In 10 patients (acral, 3; mucosal, 7), the response rate (RR) and the disease control rate (DCR) were 40% and 60%, respectively. As regards mucosal melanoma, four of the seven patients had achieved complete response + partial response, and three had progressive disease (RR = 57.1%). Meanwhile, two of the three patients with acral melanoma had stable disease and one had progressive disease (RR and DCR were 0% and 66.6%, respectively). Except for the patients treated with palliative RT for bone metastasis in the present study, the RR was 50% (4/8 patients), and the DCR was 75% (6/8 patients). Vitiligo developed after RT in five (50%) patients at a median duration of 2 months after RT. The clinical response and the high occurrence of vitiligo suggest that the combination of RT and anti‐PD‐1 therapy could be effective in some patients with mucosal melanoma.
Failed predator attacks have detrimental effects on antipredatory capabilities through developmental plasticity in Pelobates cultripes toads
Authors: Zamora‐Camacho Francisco Javier , Aragón Pedro 
Published: February 2019

Abstract

How predation events experienced by preys can shape phenotypic traits through the ontogenetic development of the interacting species should be a key issue in Evolutionary and Conservation Biology.

Locomotor performance plays a fundamental role on the fitness of many animals, mainly because it enhances ability to fleeing from predators. Predators represent indeed a capital selective force on prey, mainly because they end prey life. However, predators may also damage prey by other means, such as injuries caused by failed attacks. This damage can severely affect locomotion, among several other aspects of prey fitness. In the case of anuran tadpoles, failed predator attacks often result in injured tails, which reduces swimming performance. However, little is known about lasting effects of those failed attacks on fleeing capabilities after metamorphosis.

In this work, we clipped 55% tail length of pre‐tail‐resorption stage anaesthetized larval Pelobates cultripes toads, and compared metamorph hindlimb length and jump distance with metamorphs resulting from anaesthetized and non‐anaesthetized non‐clipped controls. Previous findings showed that this treatment produced metamorphs with reduced body condition.

Results herein suggest that partial tail loss in tadpoles diminishes jumping performance of resultant metamorphs. This effect is likely a consequence of tail‐clipped tadpoles developing shorter hindlimbs as metamorphs, which is parallel to their reduced body condition.

Therefore, predator attacks in the tail may be less potentially mortal than those in the head and body, but have costs in terms of an efficient antipredatory response that persist in post‐metamorphic stage. This effect might compromise metamorph ability to survive subsequent predator attacks.
Increased algicidal activity of Aeromonas veronii in response to Microcystis aeruginosa: interspecies crosstalk and secondary metabolites synergism
Authors: Weiss Gad , Kovalerchick Dimitry , Lieman‐Hurwitz Judy , Murik Omer , De Philippis Roberto , Carmeli Shmuel , Sukenik Assaf , Kaplan Aaron 
Published: February 2019

SummaryToxic Microcystis spp. blooms constitute a serious threat to water quality worldwide. Aeromonas veronii was isolated from Microcystis sp. colonies collected in Lake Kinneret. Spent Aeromonas media inhibits the growth of Microcystis aeruginosa MGK isolated from Lake Kinneret. The inhibition was much stronger when Aeromonas growth medium contained spent media from MGK suggesting that Aeromonas recognized its presence and produced secondary metabolites that inhibit Microcystis growth. Fractionations of the crude extract and analyses of the active fractions identified several secondary metabolites including lumichrome in Aeromonas media. Application of lumichrome at concentrations as low as 4 nM severely inhibited Microcystis growth. Inactivation of aviH in the lumichrome biosynthetic pathway altered the lumichrome level in Aeromonas and the extent of MGK growth inhibition. Conversely, the initial lag in Aeromonas growth was significantly longer when provided with Microcystis spent media but Aeromonas was able to resume normal growth. The longer was pre‐exposure to Microcystis spent media the shorter was the lag phase in Aeromonas growth indicating the presence of, and acclimation to, secondary MGK metabolite(s) the nature of which was not revealed. Our study may help to control toxic Microcystis blooms taking advantage of chemical languages used in the interspecies communication.
Success and Failure in Professional Projects: The Nature, Contours and Limits of Consulting Professionalism
Authors: Collins David , Butler Nick 
Published: February 2019

AbstractThis paper offers an analysis of the professional project that was pursued by the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) on behalf of its members. The paper builds on Sturdy's (2011) call to develop empirically grounded accounts of the ways and means of consulting. In addition, it responds to the analysis of the Association of Project Management (APM) developed by Hodgson, Paton and Muzio (2015), which invited further comparative study of professional projects. Drawing on archive data, this paper develops a comparative analysis that considers four key themes: (1) the professionalization strategies developed by the IMC and the APM; (2) jurisdictional issues and shifts in the fields of consulting and project management; (3) the structure of credentials developed for practitioners in both arenas; and (4) the attitudes and actions of key stakeholders shaping policy in the APM and the IMC. The paper examines the contrasting fortunes of the APM and the IMC, yet observes similarities in working practices across these apparently distinct settings. Reflecting on this comparison, the authors consider the nature, contours and limits of consulting professionalism and conclude with the suggestion that, within the analysis of professional projects, conventional conceptualizations of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ should be considered as ‘impostors’.
Assessment of Knowledge and Behavior Change of a High School Positive Deviance Food Safety Curriculum
Authors: Feng Yaohua , Bruhn Christine M. , Elder Gary , Boyden Dawn 
Published: February 2019

AbstractHigh school students are a critical audience for food safety. Students may enter the foodservice industry or become primary meal preparers for their families. The positive deviance food safety curriculum was developed based on the messages from the Fight BAC! Campaign. The curriculum is designed for high school students to overcome barriers to safe food handling practices. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the positive deviance approach to change food safety knowledge and behaviors among high school students. Students (n = 218) from two high schools participated in this study. The positive deviance method uses group discussions lead by the teacher who reinforces and praises behaviors, which reflect recommended food handling practices. Measurements included pre‐ and postsurveys, preobservations and postobservation cooking classes, take‐home tasks, and in‐class activities. Results indicated that the curriculum significantly increased students’ food safety knowledge. Specifically, the percentage of students believing that color was a good indicator of meat doneness dropped from 52% to 17% after exposure to the curriculum. When observed, the students’ compliance with recommended behaviors increased. Prior to instruction, most ground beef burgers students cooked did not reach 160°F, while after the intervention, almost all of the burgers reached 160°F or higher. The curriculum will benefit from a revision that emphasizes areas such as how to use, calibrate, and to clean food thermometers.
Gridlock, Innovation and Resilience in Global Health Governance
Authors: Held David , Kickbusch Ilona , McNally Kyle , Piselli Dario , Told Michaela 
Published: February 2019

AbstractGlobal health governance is in many ways proving more innovative and resilient than other sectors in global governance. In order to understand the mechanisms that have made these developments possible, this article draws on the concept of gridlock, as well as on the additional theoretical strands of metagovernance and adaptive governance, to conceptualize how global health governance has been able to adapt despite increasingly difficult conditions in the multilateral order. The remarkable degree of innovation that characterizes global health governance is the result of two interrelated conditions. First, developments that are normally associated with gridlock in multilateral cooperation, such as institutional fragmentation and growing multipolarity, have transformed, rather than gridlocked, global health governance. Second, global health actors have often been able to harness the opportunities offered by three important pathways of change, namely: (1) a significant degree of organizational learning and active feedback loops between epistemic and practice communities; (2) a highly polycentric system of governance; and (3) the increased role of political leadership as a catalyst for governance innovation. These trends are discussed in the context of three case studies of significant political, social and health relevance, namely HIV/AIDS, the 2014 Ebola outbreak and antimicrobial resistance.
Post‐extubation continuous positive airway pressure improves oxygenation after pediatric laparoscopic surgery: A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Abdel‐Ghaffar Hala S. , Youseff Hamdy A. , Abdelal Fatma A. , Osman Mohamed A. , Sayed Jehan A. , Riad Mohamed Amir Fathy , Abdel‐Rady Marwa M. 
Published: February 2019

BackgroundEffects of intraoperative recruitment maneuvers (RMs) on oxygenation and pulmonary compliance are lost during recovery if high inspired oxygen and airway suctioning are used. We investigated the effect of post‐extubation noninvasive CPAP mask application on the alveolar arterial oxygen difference [(A–a) DO2] after pediatric laparoscopic surgery.MethodsSixty patients (1‐6 years) were randomly allocated to three groups of 20 patients, to receive zero end‐expiratory pressure (ZEEP group), RM with decremental PEEP titration only (RM group), or followed with post‐extubation CPAP for 5 minutes (RM‐CPAP group). Primary outcome was [(A–a) DO2] at 1 hour postoperatively. Secondary outcomes were respiratory mechanics, arterial blood gas analysis, hemodynamics, and adverse events.ResultsAt 1 hour postoperatively, mean [(A–a) DO2] (mm Hg) was lower in the RM‐CPAP group (41.5 ± 13.2, [95% CI 37.6‐45.8]) compared to (80.2 ± 13.7 [72.6‐87.5],P < 0.0001] and (59.2 ± 14.6, [54.8‐62.6],P < 0.001) in the ZEEP and RM groups. The mean PaO2(mm Hg) at 1 hour postoperatively was higher in the RM‐CPAP group (156.2 ± 18.3 [95% CI 147.6‐164.7]) compared with the ZEEP (95.9 ± 15.9 [88.5‐103.3],P < 0.0001) and RM groups (129.1 ± 15.9 [121.6‐136.5],P < 0.0001). At 12 hours postoperatively, mean [(A–a) DO2] and PaO2were (9.6 ± 2.1 [8.4‐10.8]) and (91.9 ± 9.4 [87.5‐96.3]) in the RM‐CPAP group compared to (25.8 ± 5.5 [23.6‐27.6]) and (69.9 ± 5.5 [67.4‐72.5],P < 0.0001) in the ZEEP group and (34.3 ± 13.2, [28.4‐40.2],P < 0.0001) and (74.03 ± 9.8 [69.5‐78.6],P < 0.0001) in the RM group. No significant differences of perioperative adverse effects were found between groups.ConclusionsAn RM done after pneumoperitoneum inflation followed by decremental PEEP titration improved oxygenation at 1 hour postoperatively. The addition of an early post‐extubation noninvasive CPAP mask ventilation improved oxygenation at 12 hours postoperatively.