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The rich crystal chemistry of theAMM′(PO4)2morphotropic series: NaZnAl(PO4)2, the first Na representative with a new structure type
Authors: Yakubovich Olga , Kiriukhina Galina , Volkov Anatoliy , Dimitrova Olga 
Published: April 2019

A novel phosphate, sodium zinc aluminium bis(phosphate), NaZnAl(PO4)2, was obtained under mild-temperature hydrothermal conditions at 553 K. The crystal structure has been studied using single-crystal X-ray experimental data. The pseudo-hexagonal phase NaZnAl(PO4)2crystallizes in the monoclinic space groupP21/c. Its unique crystal structure is based on a three-dimensional (3D) framework built by Zn-, Al- and P-centred tetrahedra sharing vertices. Channels parallel to the [101] and [\overline{1}01] directions are limited by six- and eight-membered windows, and incorporate Na atoms. The new compound is discussed as a member of the morphotropic seriesAMM′PO4, whereA= Na, K, Rb or NH4,M = Cu, Ni, Co, Fe, Zn or Mg andM′ = Fe, Al or Ga. The title compound is the first Na representative within the series and is characterized by a 3D architecture of tetrahedra populated in an ordered manner by Zn2+, Al3+and P5+ions.
A meta-analysis approach for determinants of effective factors on audit quality
Authors: Salehi Mahdi , Fakhri Mahmoudi Mohamad Reza , Daemi Gah Ali 
Published: April 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a deeper understanding about the reasons behind difference in previous studies’ results in the field of audit quality determinants.Design/methodology/approachA meta-analysis method is employed in which 52 studies including 40 international studies from authentic scientific articles during the year 2000–2015 and 12 national studies out of authentic national scientific articles from 2001 to 2015 are taken to account as sample studies. Audit firm size, auditor tenure and auditor specialization are set as independent variables and audit quality is the only dependent variable in the current paper.FindingsThe results indicate that audit firm size and auditor specialization are positively associated with audit quality. In other words, contracting with larger audit firm and specialized auditor results in delivering higher quality audit services.Originality/valueThe current study is the first study to be conducted in the field of audit quality determinants. The results may be beneficial both for standard setters as well practitioners in a way that it provides evidence that contributes to basis policy and audit-standard makers about domination and determinants of audit quality.
MNC strategy, knowledge transfer context, and knowledge flow in MNEs
Authors: Gaur Ajai S. , Ma Hongjia , Ge Baoshan 
Published: April 2019

PurposeCross-border flow of knowledge is fraught with many challenges. The complexity associated with the organization of multinational corporations (MNCs), and the information asymmetry in foreign locations poses particular challenges to knowledge flow. Yet, effective transfer of knowledge is critical for the survival and performance of MNCs. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive framework to understand the difficulties in the smooth flow of knowledge in MNCs.Design/methodology/approachThe study is conceptual in nature and is based on an extensive review of the extant literature.FindingsThis review of the literature suggests that knowledge flow in MNCs is affected by country-level, firm-level and individual-level factors. The authors discuss these in the backdrop of the MNC strategy and the knowledge transfer context. The authors present their theoretical model and discuss the implications for advancing research in this domain.Originality/valueThis is one of the first papers to present a comprehensive framework to understand knowledge flows in MNCs.
Japanese managers’ experiences of neuro-linguistic programming: a qualitative investigation
Authors: Kotera Yasuhiro , Van Gordon William 
Published: April 2019

PurposeThough several work-related mental health training initiatives have been implemented in Japan, the effectiveness of such approaches remains unclear. Consequently, some Japanese corporations prefer using interventions such as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to improve employee mental health and wellbeing. This language-based development methodology has been the subject of debate in terms of the quality of the underlying empirical evidence. However, a perspective missing from this debate is an evidence-based understanding of the first-hand experiences of employees that have undertaken NLP training. The purpose of this paper is to inform this debate by conducting a rigorous qualitative examination of the experiences of Japanese senior managers who had recently received training in NLP.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews attended by 11 Japanese NLP master practitioners were analysed using thematic analysis.FindingsFour themes emerged from the data set: improving work-related mental health, NLP fosters a better understanding of the mind, NLP helps to reframe perspectives relating to work and mental health, and challenges of NLP training.Originality/valueWhile managers found NLP training skills such as reframing and neuro-logical levels useful to their managerial practice and mental health more generally, they raised concerns about NLP’s reputation as well as the utility of some of the techniques employed in NLP.
Introducing the transformative service mediator: value creation with vulnerable consumers
Authors: Johns Raechel , Davey Janet 
Published: April 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to identify the role of mediators in supporting value co-creation for vulnerable consumers in a service context. The authors propose that in transformative services, the roles of actor mediators facilitate control and empowerment for the vulnerable consumer – labelling these transformative service mediators (TSMs).

Design/methodology/approach
The authors develop a theoretical framework for the activities of mediators in value co-creation considering the interrelationships of vulnerability, structure and agency. The authors then use Prahalad and Ramaswamy’s DART (Dialogue, Access, Risk Assessment and Transparency) model as the integrating framework to describe the TSM roles in the context of the foster care service ecosystem.

Findings
The authors introduce a future research agenda regarding TSM roles in transformational service experiences and value co-creation with vulnerable consumers. Service researchers and providers are encouraged to explore effective training and motivation of TSMs.

Research limitations/implications
Understanding value co-creation for vulnerable consumers is an emerging area in service research. The TSM concept introduces a new approach to explore how value co-creation and transformative outcomes can be enhanced in service contexts where consumers experience vulnerability.

Practical implications
This paper presents an agenda for future research. The outcomes of future research based on TSM roles may help guide service providers in identifying opportunities for enhancing well-being and reducing vulnerability in service delivery.

Originality/value
This paper suggests that exploring the role of TSMs in the service process offers new insights into reducing vulnerability in service relationships.
A viewpoint from the trenches
Authors: Koku Paul Sergius 
Published: April 2019

Purpose
This paper aims to present the author’s viewpoint on the developments in the Journal of Services Marketing (JSM) during the past 25 years of his association with the Journal. The paper documents the evolution in the Journal, highlights significant changes and makes some prognostications for the future.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper relies on the first-hand account of the author, which is supplemented by limited qualitative data analysis that consists of analyzing keywords and the abstract of articles published in JSM during the past 25 years.

Findings
The first-hand account shows that JSM has undergone changes that reflect changes that have taken place in the field of marketing. The issues/topics of manuscripts submitted and published in the Journal have become interdisciplinary and so are the analytical techniques. This expanding scope of the Journal positions it well for the future in which collaborative research will be more pervasive in the academy.

Research limitations/implications
This is a first-hand account with limited data analysis and therefore could suffer from the writer’s biases even though they might be unintended.

Practical implications
This paper documents the expanding scope of the Journal that may have been the result of explicit steps taken to make the Journal more successful in the future.

Originality/value
As a first-hand account, this study is original.
Herding behavior and financing decisions in Romania
Authors: Brendea Gabriela , Pop Fanuta 
Published: April 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the financing behavior of Romanian listed firms with regard to their tendency to exhibit herding behavior, more specifically to follow the mean capital structure of the sector they belong to.

Design/methodology/approach
A panel data model was employed to examine the herding financing behavior of Romanian listed firms over the period 2007–2014. The dependent variable of the model is firms’ debt ratio (DR) and the independent variables are: the first lag of the mean DR in each sector of the analysis, firm-specific characteristics and the average characteristics of the firms from the sector they belong to.

Findings
The results of the study indicate that Romanian listed firms have a herding behavior and try to reach the mean DR of the sector they belong to, moving away from the optimal capital structure that maximizes firms’ value. In addition, the results of the model estimation suggest that Romanian firms’ capital structure depends on both firms’ characteristics (i.e. profitability, firm size and asset tangibility) and the average characteristics of the firms from the same sector they belong to (i.e. average profitability and average size).

Practical implications
Acting with the herd determines firms to move away from the optimal capital structure and to miss in this way the maximization of the firm value. Consequently, it is in managers’ best interest to avoid herding behavior and try to act rationally when they decide firms’ financing sources.

Originality/value
To the best of the knowledge, this is the first study in the literature that finds support for the herding financing behavior in an Eastern European country.
Global staffing and control in emerging multinational corporations and their subsidiaries in developed countries
Authors: Patel Parth , Boyle Brendan , Bray Mark , Sinha Paresha , Bhanugopan Ramudu 
Published: April 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the control mechanisms used by multinational corporations (MNCs) from emerging economies to manage their subsidiaries in developed countries and their implications for human resource management practices.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on data collected through in-depth case studies and interviews with senior subsidiary managers of 12 major Indian information technology (IT) MNCs operating in Australia.FindingsIndian IT MNCs rely heavily on the use of people-centric controls exerted through global staffing practices (via the transfer of parent-country nationals), which, in turn, influence their subsidiary’s discretion over their HR practices. The use of people-centric controls allows Indian IT multinationals to replicate parent-country HRM practices in their Australian subsidiaries in an ethnocentric manner and significantly leverage the people-based competitive advantages from India through short- and long-term expatriate assignments.Research limitations/implicationsThe study investigates control and HRM practices from a single country and a single industry perspective. It provides an insight into the normative means of control in foreign subsidiaries of MNCs and enhances our understanding by explaining the integrated relationship that control mechanisms (and their people-centric components) have with HRM practices including the global staffing approaches and expatriate management practices of emerging MNCs.Practical implicationsIndian MNCs are using their business model to leverage the Australian immigration and skilled visa programme to maintain cost advantages. However, the immigration legislation in developed countries needs to be capable of allowing emerging multinational corporations (EMNCs) to maintain such advantages as developed countries seek to attract foreign direct investment from emerging economies.Originality/valueThe results indicate that the control practices of EMNCs are similar to the controls exerted by MNCs from developed countries. They also show that EMNCs do not adopt a portfolio approach to global staffing, and that the people-centric components of their control have a clear impact on their subsidiaries’ HRM practices.
States Encouraging Value‐Based Payment: Lessons From CMS's State Innovation Models Initiative
Authors: KISSAM STEPHANIE M. , BEIL HEATHER , COUSART CHRISTINA , GREENWALD LESLIE M. , LLOYD JENNIFER T. 
Published: April 2019

Policy Points
Six states received $250 million under the federal State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative Round 1 to increase the proportion of care delivered under value‐based payment (VBP) models aligned across multiple payers.
Multipayer alignment around a common VBP model occurred within the context of state regulatory and purchasing policies and in states with few commercial payers, not through engaging many stakeholders to act voluntarily.
States that made targeted infrastructure investments in performance data and electronic hospital event notifications, and offered grants and technical assistance to providers, produced delivery system changes to enhance care coordination even where VBP models were not multipayer.
ContextIn 2013, six states (Arkansas, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, and Vermont) received $250 million in Round 1 State Innovation Models (SIM) awards to test how regulatory, policy, purchasing, and other levers available to state governments could transform their health care system by implementing value‐based payment (VBP) models that shift away from fee‐for‐service toward payment based on quality and cost.MethodsWe gathered and analyzed qualitative data on states’ implementation of their SIM Initiatives between 2014 and 2018, including interviews with state officials and other stakeholders; consumer and provider focus groups; and review of relevant state‐produced documents.FindingsState policymakers leveraged existing state law, new policy development, and federal SIM Initiative funds to implement new VBP models in Medicaid. States’ investments promoted electronic health information going from hospitals to primary care providers and collaboration across care team members within practices to enhance care coordination. Multipayer alignment occurred where there were few commercial insurers in a state, or where a state law or state contracting compelled commercial insurer participation. Challenges to health system change included commercial payer reluctance to coordinate on VBP models, cost and policy barriers to establishing bidirectional data exchange among all providers, preexisting quality measurement requirements across payers that impede total alignment of measures, providers’ perception of their limited ability to influence patients’ behavior that puts them at financial risk, and consumer concerns with changes in care delivery.ConclusionsThe SIM Initiative's test of the power of state governments to shape health care policy demonstrated that strong state regulatory and purchasing policy levers make a difference in multipayer alignment around VBP models. In contrast, targeted financial investments in health information technology, data analytics, technical assistance, and workforce development are more effective than policy alone in encouraging care delivery change beyond that which VBP model participation might manifest.
Feasibility, acceptability and cost‐effectiveness of a brief, lay counsellor‐delivered psychological treatment for men with alcohol dependence in primary care: an exploratory randomized controlled trial
Authors: Nadkarni Abhijit , Weiss Helen A. , Velleman Richard , McCambridge Jim , McDaid David , Park A‐La , Murthy Pratima , Weobong Benedict , Bhat Bhargav , Patel Vikram 
Published: April 2019

AbstractAimsTo examine the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary cost‐effectiveness of a lay counsellor delivered psychological treatment for men with alcohol dependence in primary care.DesignSingle‐blind individually randomized trial comparing counselling for alcohol problems (CAP) plus enhanced usual care (EUC) versus EUC only.SettingTen primary health centres in Goa, India.ParticipantsMen (n = 135) scoring ≥ 20 on the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT). Sixty‐six participants were randomized to EUC and 69 to CAP + EUC.InterventionsCAP, a lay counsellor‐delivered psychological treatment for harmful drinking, with referral to de‐addiction centre for medically assisted detoxification. EUC comprised consultation with physician, providing screening results and referral to a de‐addiction centre.MeasurementsBaseline socio‐demographic data, readiness to change and perceived usefulness of counselling. Acceptability and feasibility process indicators such as data on screening and therapy. Outcomes were measured at 3 and 12 months post‐randomization and included remission, mean daily alcohol consumed, percentage of days abstinent (PDA), percentage of days of heavy drinking (PDHD), recovery, uptake of detoxification services, impacts of alcohol dependence, resource use and costs.FindingsParticipants in the CAP + EUC arm had more numerically but not statistically significantly favourable outcomes compared with those in the EUC arm for (a) remission at 3 months [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) = 1.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.74–5.15] and 12 months (aOR = 1.90, 95% CI = 0.72–5.00), (b) proportion of non‐drinkers at 3 months (aOR = 1.26; 95% CI = 0.58–2.75) and 12 months (aOR = 1.25; 95% CI = 0.58–2.64) and (c) ethanol consumption among drinkers at 3 months (count ratio = 0.91; 95% CI = 0.58–1.45) and 12 months (count ratio = 1.06; 95% CI = 0.73–1.54). There was no statistically significant evidence of a difference in the occurrence of serious adverse events between the two arms. From a societal perspective, there was a 53% chance of CAP + EUC being cost‐effective in achieving remission at 12 months at the willingness‐to‐pay threshold of $415.ConclusionsLay counsellor‐delivered psychological treatment for men with alcohol dependence (AD) in primary care may be effective in managing AD in low‐ and middle‐income countries. A definitive trial of the intervention is warranted.
Genome‐wide association study for body weight in cattle populations from Siberia
Authors: Igoshin A. V. , Yudin N. S. , Belonogova N. M. , Larkin D. M. 
Published: April 2019

SummaryBody weight is a complex trait in cattle associated with commonly used commercial breeding measurements related to growth. Although many quantitative trait loci (QTL) for body weight have been identified in cattle so far, searching for genetic determinants in different breeds or environments is promising. Therefore, we carried out a genome‐wide association study (GWAS) in two cattle populations from the Russian Federation (Siberian region) using the GGP HD150K array containing 139 376 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers. Association tests for 107 550 SNPs left after filtering revealed five statistically significant SNPs on BTA5, considering a false discovery rate of less than 0.05. The chromosomal region containing these five SNPs contains the CCND2 gene, which was previously associated with average daily weight gain and body mass index in US beef cattle populations and in humans respectively. Our study is the first GWAS for body weight in beef cattle populations from the Russian Federation. The results provided here suggest that, despite the existence of breed‐ and species‐specific QTL, the genetic architecture of body weight could be evolutionarily conserved in mammals.
Guidelines for day‐case surgery 2019
Authors: Bailey C. R. , Ahuja M. , Bartholomew K. , Bew S. , Forbes L. , Lipp A. , Montgomery J. , Russon K. , Potparic O. , Stocker M. 
Published: April 2019

SummaryGuidelines are presented for the organisational and clinical management of anaesthesia for day‐case surgery in adults and children. The advice presented is based on previously published recommendations, clinical studies and expert opinion.
Relationships and burden: An empirical‐ethical investigation of lived experience in home nursing arrangements
Authors: Seidlein Anna‐Henrikje , Buchholz Ines , Buchholz Maresa , Salloch Sabine 
Published: April 2019

AbstractQuantitative research has called attention to the burden associated with informal caregiving in home nursing arrangements. Less emphasis has been placed, however, on care recipients’ subjective feelings of being a burden and on caregivers’ willingness to carry the burden in home care. This article uses empirical material from semi‐structured interviews conducted with older people affected by multiple chronic conditions and in need of long‐term home care, and with informal and professional caregivers, as two groups of relevant others. The high burden of home‐care arrangements is unanimously stressed by all three groups involved in the triangle of care. An empirical‐ethical investigation of what can be legitimately expected from family members and informal caregivers, informed by Frith's symbiotic empirical ethics approach, was undertaken. Key tenets from the special goods theory and nursing professionalism are used as analytical tools. The study concludes that the current situation may hinder professional development and can reinforce feelings of being a burden to relevant others.
Bortezomib reinduction chemotherapy in high‐risk ALL in first relapse: a report from the Children's Oncology Group
Authors: Horton Terzah M. , Whitlock James A. , Lu Xiaomin , O'Brien Maureen M. , Borowitz Michael J. , Devidas Meenakshi , Raetz Elizabeth A. , Brown Patrick A. , Carroll William L. , Hunger Stephen P. 
Published: April 2019

SummaryWhile survival in paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is excellent, survival following relapse is poor. Previous studies suggest proteasome inhibition with chemotherapy improves relapse ALL response rates. This phase 2 Children's Oncology Group study tested the hypothesis that adding the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib to chemotherapy increases complete response rates (CR2). Evaluable patients (n = 135, 103 B‐ALL, 22 T‐ALL, 10 T‐lymphoblastic lymphoma) were treated with reinduction chemotherapy plus bortezomib. Overall CR2 rates were 68 ± 5% for precursor B‐ALL patients (<21 years of age), 63 ± 7% for very early relapse (<18 months from diagnosis) and 72 ± 6% for early relapse (18–36 months from diagnosis). Relapsed T‐ALL patients had an encouraging CR2 rate of 68 ± 10%. End of induction minimal residual disease (MRD) significantly predicted survival. MRD negative (MRDneg; MRD <0·01%) rates increased from 29% (post‐cycle 1) to 64% following cycle 3. Very early relapse, end‐of‐induction MRDneg precursor B‐ALL patients had 70 ± 14% 3‐year event‐free (EFS) and overall survival (OS) rates, vs. 3‐year EFS/OS of 0–3% (P = 0·0001) for MRDpos (MRD ≥0·01) patients. Early relapse patients had similar outcomes (MRDneg 3‐year EFS/OS 58–65% vs. MRDpos 10–19%, EFS P = 0·0014). These data suggest that adding bortezomib to chemotherapy in certain ALL subgroups, such as T‐cell ALL, is worthy of further investigation. This study is registered at http://www.clinical.trials.gov as NCT00873093.