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Homebuyers’ preferences concerning installed photovoltaic systems
Authors: Glumac Brano , Wissink Thomas P. 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThis paper aims to report on homebuyers’ preferences and willingness to pay for installed home photovoltaic systems. Their influence on the market position of a dwelling is relatively unknown. Considering that expected lifespan of photovoltaic systems is at least 25 years, it is likely that many dwellings with a photovoltaic system will enter the housing market.Design/methodology/approachFew houses with installed photovoltaic systems have been sold in the market to date. Lack of real market data imposes a method based on the stated preference data. Therefore, the general preferences toward photovoltaic systems are determined by a discrete choice model based on responses of 227 homebuyers in the Eindhoven region, The Netherlands. Further, the model estimates were used to assess the indirect willingness to pay for home photovoltaic systems. This initial willingness to pay is further reassessed with the direct willingness to pay collected in an open-ended questionnaire format.FindingsResults of the model show that the homebuyers’ preferences for home photovoltaic systems are large and significant. In addition to general preferences, this article reports on the taste heterogeneity carried out by separating observations based on the respondents’ characteristics. For example, photovoltaic systems are more appealing to homebuyers in more urban or central neighbourhoods. Further, the results of the direct survey lead to the conclusion that people are probably willing to pay close to the replacement value of the system and only 22 per cent of all respondents did not want to pay anything for the installed photovoltaic system.Research limitations/implicationsThese findings are exploratory and they raise a number of questions for further investigations, such as those regarding the real estate value of the installed photovoltaic systems. The reported findings must be regarded as local, thus further research is necessary to understand the impact on European housing markets.Practical implicationsPreferences and willingness to pay for home photovoltaic systems can provide a variety of economic, social and political recommendations to different interested parties such as homeowners, buyers, realtors, retailers, energy companies and governments. For instance, a homeowner would like to know what would be the effect of a photovoltaic system on the housing market.Originality/valueAs per the knowledge of authors, this is the first paper to estimate the impact of an installed photovoltaic system on housing choice, measured by stated choice data in the local housing market. It expands the existing body of knowledge for increasingly important issues of valuing and measuring preferences for photovoltaic systems installed on dwellings.
More of an SRO – FINRA unveils its priorities for 2018
Authors: Nathan Daniel , Popken Betsy 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
To explain FINRA’s priorities for 2018, as reflected in its Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter.

Design/methodology/approach
Evaluates the overall tone of FINRA’s letter as self-reflective, describes most of FINRA’s priorities for 2018 as unchanged from previous years, and highlights new areas of focus for FINRA.

Findings
FINRA plans a number of organizational improvements over the next year which could facilitate positive dialogue between firms and FINRA examiners, helping to reduce the burden on broker-dealers and possibly avoid low-level enforcement action. FINRA expressed a desire to better leverage its model as a self-regulatory organization to achieve its mission. Most of FINRA’s priorities for 2018 are old standbys, including fraud, high-risk firms and brokers, cybersecurity and AML programs, product suitability vetting, and best execution surveillance. FINRA’s new areas of focus for 2018 include business continuity plans, technology governance, cryptoassets, options violations, new report cards, and new rules.

Practical implications
Despite FINRA leadership’s commitment to self-analysis and enhanced communication, FINRA continues to be highly committed to examining and addressing through enforcement action potential failures to comply with its rules. Firms facing FINRA or SEC examinations should brush up on FINRA’s old standby priorities and fine-tune their practices to ensure compliance with industry trends.

Originality/value
Practical guidance from experienced securities and financial services lawyers that summarizes FINRA’s stated approach for 2018.
SEC publishes alert describing most common advertising rule violations
Authors: Clark Timothy M. , Biskupska-Haas Alicja 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to summarize a new alert issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”), highlighting the most common compliance issues relating to Rule 206(4)-1 (the “Advertising Rule”) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”).

Design/methodology/approach
This study describes the compliance issues highlighted in the risk alert. OCIE identified these compliance issues as part of its “Touting Initiative,” an examination initiative launched in 2016 to examine the adequacy of disclosures that advisers provided to their clients when touting awards, promoting ranking lists and/or identifying professional designations (collectively, “accolades”) in their marketing materials. The OCIE based its findings on deficiency letters resulting from over 1,000 adviser examinations.

Findings
The risk alert provides guidance to advisers who are reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of their compliance programs in light of the Advertising Rule.

Originality/value
This study provides practical guidance from experienced investment-fund lawyers. Although most experienced people in the industry will not be shocked by anything in the alert, the alert is a helpful reminder about the SEC’s continuing focus on these issues.
Initial coin offerings: key US legal considerations for ICO investors and sponsors
Authors: Nolan Anthony R.G. , Dartley Edward T. , Baker Mary Burke , ReVeal John , Rinearson Judith E. 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
To describe several key legal and regulatory considerations for initial coin offering (ICO) issuers and investors seeking to navigate some of the regulatory waters in the rapidly developing space of Bitcoin, Ether, and other cryptocurrencies.

Design/methodology/approach
Explains securities law, commodities law, tax and anti-money laundering considerations. Introduces the SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens) and provides a future outlook.

Findings
The dramatic rise in value of Bitcoin, Ether, and other cryptocurrencies in 2017 generated great interest in initial coin offerings as a new form of financing on the part of both investors and companies seeking to raise funds. At the same time, ICOs raise a myriad of complex legal issues in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment in the United States and around the world. Recent regulatory actions make it more likely that most ICOs will be considered to be securities offerings.

Originality/value
Practical guidance from experienced finance, investment management, consumer financial service, tax, and payment systems lawyers.
In for a penny, in for a pound? Exploring mutual endorsement effects between celebrity CEOs and corporate brands
Authors: Scheidt Stefan , Gelhard Carsten , Strotzer Juliane , Henseler Jörg 
Published: March 2018

PurposeWhile the branding of individuals has attracted increasing attention from practitioners in recent decades, understanding of personal branding still remains limited, especially with regard to the branding of celebrity CEOs. To contribute to this debate, this paper aims to explore the co-branding of celebrity CEOs and corporate brands, integrating endorsement theory and the concept of meaning transfer at a level of brand attributes.Design/methodology/approachA between-subjects true experimental design was chosen for each of the two empirical studies with a total of 268 participants, using mock newspaper articles about a succession scenario at the CEO level of different companies. The study is designed to analyse the meaning transfer from celebrity CEO to corporate brand and vice versa using 16 personality attributes.FindingsThis study gives empirical support for meaning transfer effects at the brand attribute level in both the celebrity-CEO-to-corporate-brand and corporate-brand-to-celebrity-CEO direction, which confirms the applicability of the concept of brand endorsement to celebrity CEOs and the mutuality in co-branding models. Furthermore, a more detailed and expansive perspective on the definition of endorsement is provided as well as managerial guidance for building celebrity CEOs and corporate brands in consideration of meaning transfer effects.Originality/valueThis study is one of only few analysing the phenomenon of meaning transfer between brands that focus on non-evaluative associations (i.e. personality attributes). It is unique in its scope, insofar as the partnering relationship between celebrity CEOs and corporate brands have not been analysed empirically from this perspective yet. It bridges the gap between application in practice and the academic foundations, and it contributes to a broader understanding and definition of celebrity endorsement.
Ascribing responsibility for online security and data breaches
Authors: Carre Jessica Rose , Curtis Shelby R. , Jones Daniel Nelson 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to understand consumer reactions to security breaches and the best approach for companies to minimize the reputational damage that is done.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors assessed trust in a company following a data breach as well as perceptions of individual and corporate responsibility for data security and also measured individual personality.

Findings
The authors found that individuals held companies more responsible for protecting private data and held companies even more responsible following a data breach. Further, perception of responsibility for a data breach significantly affected individuals’ response to a company’s attempt to rebuild trust. Finally, participant personality impacted perceptions of responsibility and trust in a company after a data breach.

Research limitations/implications
Companies are held more responsible for protecting private data than are individuals. Thus, violation of this expectation insofar as a data breach may result in a psychological contract breach which explains reductions in trust in a company which has experienced a data breach. Further, the effect of company’s responses to a data breach depends on individuals’ perception of responsibility and personality. Thus, the best course of action following a data breach may vary across customers.

Practical implications
Companies should consider differences in customer perceptions when responding to a data breach.

Social implications
Individuals differ in how responsible they feel a company is for data security. Further, those differences impact reactions to data breach responses from companies.

Originality/value
This paper explored personality as it impacts perceptions of corporate responsibility in data security. Further, the authors explore the role of perception of responsibility to determine the role of psychological contract breach in reduced trust after data breach.
Individual dispersal delays in a cooperative breeder: Ecological constraints, the benefits of philopatry and the social queue for dominance
Authors: Nelson‐Flower Martha J. , Wiley Elizabeth M. , Flower Tom P. , Ridley Amanda R. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractDelayed dispersal is a key step in the evolution of familial animal societies and cooperative breeding. However, no consensus has been reached on the ecological and social circumstances driving delayed dispersal.Here, we test predictions from the ecological constraints and benefits of philopatry hypotheses as well as the recently proposed dual benefits hypothesis to better understand the evolution of group‐living and cooperative breeding. Furthermore, we consider how individual social circumstances within groups affect dispersal decisions.We examine 11 years of life‐history information on a wild population of cooperatively breeding southern pied babblersTurdoides bicolor. We investigate the effects of ecological conditions, natal‐group membership and individual social context on male and female dispersal delays, disperser survival and acquisition of dominance.Female dispersal decisions are generally unconstrained by ecological or social circumstances. In contrast, males disperse in response to relaxed ecological constraints, decreases in nepotistic tolerance or when low social rank in the queue for dominance decreases their likelihood of gaining a dominant breeding position. Early dispersal by end‐of‐queue males often leads to a head‐of‐queue subordinate position in a non‐natal group, thereby increasing access to dominant breeding positions. However, males and females remaining in natal groups gain benefits of philopatry via increased survival and, for head‐of‐queue males, very high likelihood of acquisition of a breeding position.Overall, predictions from the dual benefits hypothesis best describe these results, while some predictions from each of the ecological constraints and benefits of philopatry hypotheses were supported. The benefits of living and working together (collective action benefits) in large stable groups are of central importance in shaping dispersal delays in southern pied babbler societies. In addition, position in the subordinate social queue for dominance is the key in determining access to reproduction, particularly for males. This research highlights the importance of considering the costs and benefits of individual social circumstances in dispersal decisions and illustrates how the dual benefits hypothesis offers new perspectives in understanding delayed dispersal.
Reflexiones sobre la propagación de nuevas tipologías de daño
Authors: Alferillo Pascual Eduardo 
Published: March 2018

La proliferación de nuevas tipologías de daños genera como interrogante dilucidar si ello se condice con el principio de reparación plena que se concreta en una justa indemnización o, si por el contrario, existe un abuso. Para procurar una respuesta es ineludible observar la influencia de los cambios de paradigmas producidos, como es la constitucionalización del derecho privado en general y, de la responsabilidad civil, en particular que coloca al hombre como eje del Derecho desplazando la preeminencia patrimonialista. A la par, examinar la evolución de las distintas ramas de la ciencia que estudian al ser humano para adquirir una mirada interdisciplinaria que permitirá dar una mayor precisión en la conceptualización de los distintos tipos de daños. A partir de ello se comprende que las clásicas calificaciones y clasificaciones de los daños no satisfacen los requerimientos actuales, razón por la cual se impone una nueva sistematización, justificando la misma con el análisis de la desvinculación del daño moral del psíquico y la comparación del menoscabo al proyecto de vida con la perdida de chance. Para concretar la reparación justa, no se debe indemnizar dos veces el mismo perjuicio bajo distintas denominaciones, ni se debe desestimar un tipo de menoscabo reclamado sin justificación científica válida.
Effect of Molybdenum on the Wear Properties of (Ti,Mo)C-TiB2-Mo2B Particles Reinforced Fe-Based Laser Cladding Composite Coatings
Authors: Zhang M. , Luo S. X. , Liu S. S. , Wang X. H. 
Published: March 2018

(Ti,Mo)C, TiB2, and Mo2B particles reinforced Fe-based composite coatings were fabricated by laser cladding process. The effects of Molybdenum (Mo) on the microstructure and wear properties of the coatings were investigated. The results show that block-like or cuboidal TiB2, Mo2B and flower-like (Ti, Mo)C ceramics reinforcements were formed in the coatings. The size of reinforcements reduced with the increasing of FeMo70. However, cracks were found in the coating, while the addition of FeMo70 exceeded 9 wt %. The laser cladding coating presented a good wear resistance with a 9 wt % addition of FeMo70. With the increasing of FeMo70, the coatings enhanced the capability of resisting microcutting, microplowing, and surface plastic deformation.
An Approach to Uncertainty Identification in the Valuation of
Transactive Energy Systems
Authors: Veeramany Arun , Woodward James T. , Hammerstrom Donald J. 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Valuation of transactive energy (TE) systems should be supported by a structured and systematic approach to uncertainty identification, assessment, and treatment in the interest of risk-informed decision making. The proposed approach, a variation of fault tree analysis, is anticipated to support valuation analysts in analyzing conventional and transactive system scenarios. This approach allows for expanding the entire tree up to the level of minute details or collapsing them to a level sufficient enough to get an overview of the problem. Quantification scheme for the described approach lends itself for valuation. The method complements value exchange analysis, simulation, and field demonstration studies. The practicality of the proposed approach is demonstrated through uncertainty assessment of the smart grid interoperability panel peak heat day scenario.
Near-Complete Genome Sequence of a Novel Single-Stranded RNA Virus Discovered in Indoor Air
Authors: Rosario Karyna , Fierer Noah , Breitbart Mya 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

Viral metagenomic analysis of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) filters recovered the near-complete genome sequence of a novel virus, named HVAC-associated
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irus 1 (HVAC-RV1). The HVAC-RV1 genome is most similar to those of picorna-like viruses identified in arthropods but encodes a small domain observed only in negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses.
Induction of Telomere Dysfunction Prolongs Disease Control of Therapy-Resistant Melanoma
Authors: Zhang Gao , Wu Lawrence W. , Mender Ilgen , Barzily-Rokni Michal , Hammond Marc R. , Ope Omotayo , Cheng Chaoran , Vasilopoulos Themistoklis , Randell Sergio , Sadek Norah , Beroard Aurelie , Xiao Min , Tian Tian , Tan Jiufeng , Saeed Umar , Sugarman Eric , Krepler Clemens , Brafford Patricia , Sproesser Katrin , Murugan Sengottuvelan , Somasundaram Rajasekharan , Garman Bradley , Wubbenhorst Bradley , Woo Jonathan , Yin Xiangfan , Liu Qin , Frederick Dennie T. , Miao Benchun , Xu Wei , Karakousis Giorgos C. , Xu Xiaowei , Schuchter Lynn M. , Mitchell Tara C. , Kwong Lawrence N. , Amaravadi Ravi K. , Lu Yiling , Boland Genevieve M. , Wei Zhi , Nathanson Katherine , Herbig Utz , Mills Gordon B. , Flaherty Keith T. , Herlyn Meenhard , Shay Jerry W. 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Purpose: Telomerase promoter mutations are highly prevalent in human tumors including melanoma. A subset of patients with metastatic melanoma often fail multiple therapies, and there is an unmet and urgent need to prolong disease control for those patients.
Experimental Design: Numerous preclinical therapy-resistant models of human and mouse melanoma were used to test the efficacy of a telomerase-directed nucleoside, 6-thio-2′-deoxyguanosine (6-thio-dG). Integrated transcriptomics and proteomics approaches were used to identify genes and proteins that were significantly downregulated by 6-thio-dG.
Results: We demonstrated the superior efficacy of 6-thio-dG both in vitro and in vivo that results in telomere dysfunction, leading to apoptosis and cell death in various preclinical models of therapy-resistant melanoma cells. 6-thio-dG concomitantly induces telomere dysfunction and inhibits the expression level of AXL.
Conclusions: In summary, this study shows that indirectly targeting aberrant telomerase in melanoma cells with 6-thio-dG is a viable therapeutic approach in prolonging disease control and overcoming therapy resistance. Clin Cancer Res; 24(19); 4771–84. ©2018 AACR.
See related commentary by Teh and Aplin, p. 4629
First Trial Geophysical Surveys at Kintampo Open-Air Sites: Results, Recommendations, Research Prospects
Authors: Magnavita Carlos , Lüth Friedrich , Appiah-Adu Siaw 
Published: March 2018

AbstractWithin the scope of a short-term pilot study, the authors conducted trial geophysical surveys at two sites of the late Holocene food-producing Kintampo Complex (ca. 2100-1400BC) in northern Ghana. Overall goal of research was an evaluation of the potential of employing geophysical prospecting to map the subsurface extent of Kintampo open-air settlements. From an archaeological viewpoint, the results of the surveys were satisfactory but not outstanding in view of post-depositional disturbances at the locations. Based on that knowledge, we argue for the need of developing a systematic archaeological reconnaissance and research program for locating new and virtually undisturbed open-air Kintampo sites. We maintain that such a preliminary measure will be crucial both for investigating hitherto neglected research issues such as Kintampo settlement pattern and landscape exploitation as well as allowing geophysical technologies to fully evolve as central explorative tools in regard to settlement-related spatial questions.
Evaluation and Postprocessing of Ensemble Fire Weather Predictions over the Northeast United States
Authors: Erickson Michael J. , Colle Brian A. , Charney Joseph J. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThe Short-Range Ensemble Forecast (SREF) system is verified and bias corrected for fire weather days (FWDs) defined as having an elevated probability of wildfire occurrence using a statistical Fire Weather Index (FWI) over a subdomain of the northeastern United States (NEUS) between 2007 and 2014. The SREF is compared to the Rapid Update Cycle and Rapid Refresh analyses for temperature, relative humidity, specific humidity, and the FWI. An additive bias correction is employed using the most recent previous 14 days [sequential bias correction (SBC)] and the most recent previous 14 FWDs [conditional bias correction (CBC)]. Synoptic weather regimes on FWDs are established using cluster analysis (CA) on North American Regional Reanalysis sea level pressure, 850-hPa temperature, 500-hPa temperature, and 500-hPa geopotential height. SREF severely underpredicts FWI (by two indices at FWI = 3) on FWDs, which is partially corrected using SBC and largely corrected with CBC. FWI underprediction is associated with a cool (ensemble mean error of −1.8 K) and wet near-surface model bias (ensemble mean error of 0.46 g kg−1) that decreases to near zero above 800 hPa. Although CBC improves reliability and Brier skill scores on FWDs, ensemble FWI values exhibit underdispersion. CA reveals three synoptic weather regimes on FWDs, with the largest cool and wet biases associated with a departing surface low pressure system. These results suggest the potential benefit of an operational analog bias correction on FWDs. Furthermore, CA may help elucidate model error during certain synoptic weather regimes.