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Impact of athletic star power on product consumption
Authors: McCormick Karla 
Published: May 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to determine if the star power of an athletic endorser influenced consumers’ consumption of the advertised product. Specifically, does the amount of star power an athlete is thought to have impact consumers’ direct consumption of the advertised product and media consumption of the athlete? Moreover, the components of star power, along with congruency measures, were examined to determine which components of star power influenced both direct and media consumption.

Design/methodology/approach
Four advertisements were created that used an athlete with high star power and an athlete with low star power. Respondents viewed two of the advertisements, but did not know which athlete had high star power or low star power. They were asked to answer a questionnaire that contained questions pertaining to the components of star power (source attractiveness, source credibility, professional trustworthiness, likeable personality and character style), congruency of the athlete and product, direct consumption of the advertised product and media consumption of the athlete.

Findings
Results indicated that overall star power increased the direct consumption of the advertised product and the media consumption of the athlete, however not each component was found to be significant. Character style was the only component that was consistently significant across all four advertisements. The congruency between the athlete and product was also found to be significant across all four advertisements.

Research limitations/implications
First, this study only looked at two athletes; others may generate different results. Second, the products used in the study were fashion related; other categories of products may also generate different relationships. Third, only two brands were used. It was also assumed that the respondents knew the athlete in the advertisement. Finally, the questions used to measure direct consumption did not distinguish between buying the brand in the store or online.

Originality/value
This study has the potential to contribute theoretically by analyzing how and which components of star power affect consumption of endorsed products, as well as which components influence consumers. Moreover, adding a congruency measure will aide in strengthening the measurement of endorser effectiveness. The justification of the present study lies in the need to determine how the dimensions of star power an athlete possesses contribute to the consumption behaviors of consumers.
The applicability of credit scoring models in emerging economies: an evidence from Jordan
Authors: Ala’raj Maher , Abbod Maysam , Radi Mohammed 
Published: May 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to propose an objective and efficient method for assessing credit risk by introducing and investigating to a greater extent the applicability of credit scoring models in the Jordanian banks and to what range they can be used to achieve their strategic and business objectives.

Design/methodology/approach
The research methodology comprises two phases. The first phase is the model development. Three modeling techniques are used to build the scoring models, namely, logistic regression (LR), artificial neural network (NN) and support vector machine (SVM), and the best performing model is selected for next stage. The second phase is two-fold: linking the credit expert knowledge in a way that can enhance the outcomes of the scoring model and a profitability test to explore if the selected model is efficient in meeting banks’ strategic and business objectives.

Findings
The findings showed that LR model outperformed both ANN and SVM across various performance indicators. The LR model also fits best with achieving the bank’s strategic and business objectives.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first that applied several modeling and classification techniques for Jordanian banks and calibrated the best model in terms of its strategic and business objectives. Furthermore, credit experts’ knowledge was engaged with the scoring model to determine its efficiency and reliability against the sole use of an automated scoring model in the hope to encourage the application of credit scoring models as an advisory tool for credit decisions.
Self-exploitation or successful entrepreneurship? The effects of personal capital on variable outcomes from self-employment
Authors: Atherton Andrew , Wu Dongxu , Wu Zhongmin 
Published: May 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand whether the personal capital of the entrepreneur positively or negatively affects outcomes from self-employment.Design/methodology/approachData from the UK’s longitudinal household surveys (BHPS, UKLHS) between 1991 and 2014 were analysed. Relationships between age, education, health and family status, income earned and hours worked were tested.FindingsEntrepreneurs with higher levels of personal capital enjoyed higher incomes. However, those with lower levels of personal capital were more likely to have negative returns from self-employment, and so experience it as “self-exploitation”.Research limitations/implicationsA basis for understanding different outcomes from self-employment was developed and tested.Practical implicationsSpecific characteristics of continuing and new entrepreneurs were identified that are positively associated with beneficial outcomes from self-employment.Originality/valuePositive and negative outcomes from self-employment are explained. The notion of personal capital is developed as an explanatory framework for variable outcomes from self-employment.
Japanese Dermatological Association Guidelines: Guidelines for the treatment of acne vulgaris 2017
Authors: Hayashi Nobukazu , Akamatsu Hirohiko , Iwatsuki Keiji , Shimada‐Omori Ryoko , Kaminaka Chikako , Kurokawa Ichiro , Kono Takeshi , Kobayashi Miwa , Tanioka Miki , Furukawa Fukumi , Furumura Minao , Yamasaki Osamu , Yamasaki Kenshi , Yamamoto Yuki , Miyachi Yoshiki , Kawashima Makoto 
Published: May 2018

AbstractThe Guidelines for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris of the Japanese Dermatological Association was first published in Japanese in 2008 and revised in 2016 and 2017. These guidelines (GL) indicate the standard acne treatments in Japan and address pharmaceutical drugs and treatments applicable or in use in Japan. In theseGL, the strength of the recommendation is based on clinical evidences as well as availability in Japanese medical institutions. In the 2016 and 2017GL, some of the clinical questions were revised, and other questions were added in accordance with approval of topical medicines containing benzoyl peroxide (BPO). Rather than monotherapies of antibiotics, the 2017GLmore strongly recommend combination therapies, especially fixed‐dose combination gels includingBPOin the aspects of pharmacological actions and compliance in the acute inflammatory phase to achieve earlier and better improvements. The 2017GLalso indicate to limit the antimicrobial treatments for the acute inflammatory phase up to approximately 3 months and recommendBPO, adapalene, and a fixed‐dose combination gel of 0.1% adapalene and 2.5%BPOfor the maintenance phase to avoid the emergence of antimicrobial‐resistantPropionibacterium acnes. The 2017GLalso discuss rosacea, which requires discrimination from acne and a different treatment plan.
Functional traits and environmental conditions predict community isotopic niches and energy pathways across spatial scales
Authors: Dézerald Olivier , Srivastava Diane S. , Céréghino Régis , Carrias Jean‐François , Corbara Bruno , Farjalla Vinicius F. , Leroy Céline , Marino Nicholas A. C. , Piccoli Gustavo C. O. , Richardson Barbara A. , Richardson Michael J. , Romero Gustavo Q. , González Angélica L. 
Published: May 2018

Abstract

Despite ongoing research in food web ecology and functional biogeography, the links between food web structure, functional traits and environmental conditions across spatial scales remain poorly understood. Trophic niches, defined as the amount of energy and elemental space occupied by species and food webs, may help bridge this divide.

Here, we ask how the functional traits of species, the environmental conditions of habitats and the spatial scale of analysis jointly determine the characteristics of trophic niches. We used isotopic niches as a proxy of trophic niches, and conducted analyses at spatial scales ranging from local food webs and metacommunities to geographically distant sites.

We sampled aquatic macroinvertebrates from 104 tank bromeliads distributed across five sites from Central to South America and compiled the macroinvertebrates’ functional traits and stable isotope values (δ15N and δ13C). We assessed how isotopic niches within each bromeliad were influenced by the functional trait composition of their associated invertebrates and environmental conditions (i.e., habitat size, canopy cover [CC] and detrital concentration [DC]). We then evaluated whether the diet of dominant predators and, consequently, energy pathways within food webs reflected functional and environmental changes among bromeliads across sites. At last, we determined the extent to which the isotopic niches of macroinvertebrates within each bromeliad contributed to the metacommunity isotopic niches within each site and compared these metacommunity‐level niches over biogeographic scales.

At the bromeliad level, isotopic niches increased with the functional richness of species in the food web and the DC in the bromeliad. The diet of top predators tracked shifts in prey biomass along gradients of CC and DC. Bromeliads that grew under heterogeneous CC displayed less trophic redundancy and therefore combined to form larger metacommunity isotopic niches. At last, the size of metacommunity niches depended on within‐site heterogeneity in CC.

Our results suggest that the trophic niches occupied by food webs can predictably scale from local food webs to metacommunities to biogeographic regions. This scaling process is determined by both the functional traits of species and heterogeneity in environmental conditions.

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A first application of a marine inductive source electromagnetic configuration with remote electric dipole receivers: Palinuro Seamount, Tyrrhenian Sea
Authors: Safipour Roxana , Hölz Sebastian , Jegen Marion , Swidinsky Andrei 
Published: May 2018

ABSTRACTWe study a new marine electromagnetic configuration that consists of a ship‐towed inductive source transmitter and a series of remote electric dipole receivers placed on the seafloor. The approach was tested at the Palinuro Seamount in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea, at a site where massive sulphide mineralization has been previously identified by shallow drilling. A 3D model of the Palinuro study area was created using bathymetry data, and forward modelling of the electric field diffusion was carried out using a finite volume method. These numerical results suggest that the remote receivers can theoretically detect a block of shallowly buried conductive material at up to ∼100 m away when the transmitter is located directly above the target. We also compared the sensitivity of the method using either a horizontal loop transmitter or a vertical loop transmitter and found that when either transmitter is located directly above the mineralized zone, the vertical loop transmitter has sensitivity to the target at a farther distance than the horizontal loop transmitter in the broadside direction by a few tens of metres. Furthermore, the vertical loop transmitter is more effective at distinguishing the seafloor conductivity structure when the vertical separation between transmitter and receiver is large due to the bathymetry. As a horizontal transmitter is logistically easier to deploy, we conducted a first test of the method with a horizontal transmitter. Apparent conductivities are calculated from the electric field transients recorded at the remote receivers. The analysis indicates higher apparent seafloor conductivities when the transmitter is located near the mineralized zone. Forward modelling suggests that the best match to the apparent conductivity data is obtained when the mineralized zone is extended southward by 40 m beyond the zone of previous drilling. Our results demonstrate that the method adds value to the exploration and characterization of seafloor massive sulphide deposits.
Professionalised intimacy: how dementia care workers navigate between domestic intimacy and institutional detachment
Authors: Haeusermann Tobias 
Published: May 2018

AbstractThis article reports an ethnographic study of the handover routines in Germany's first dementia village, with a central focus on how care is balanced between domestic intimacy and institutional detachment. The term ‘professionalised intimacy’ is used for the vivid interplay between comfort and intimacy that renders the interaction between care workers and residents far more complex than previous theories have articulated. Because of the intimacy involved in community building, however, the promise of personalised care must clash with the bureaucratic structures of an official institution, potentially depriving the care workers of their public, respected identity in the process. The study further suggests that most care workers, in fact, support this division between domestic intimacy and institutional detachment. Even if they subscribe to a dementia village's philosophy of personalised care, their medical training and enculturation has endowed them with a habitus compatible with the modern health profession, with incentives on achieving quantifiable health goals. The dementia village is thus illustrated as a pioneering health care experiment that negotiates rivalling discourses of intimacy, professionalisation, and medicalisation.
Bone Area Histomorphometry
Authors: Andronowski Janna M. , Crowder Christian 
Published: May 2018

AbstractQuantifying the amount of cortical bone loss is one variable used in histological methods of adult age estimation. Measurements of cortical area tend to be subjective and additional information regarding bone loss is not captured considering cancellous bone is disregarded. We describe whether measuring bone area (cancellous + cortical area) rather than cortical area may improve histological age estimation for the sixth rib. Mid‐shaft rib cross‐sections (n = 114) with a skewed sex distribution were analyzed. Ages range from 16 to 87 years. Variables included: total cross‐sectional area, cortical area, bone area, relative bone area, relative cortical area, and endosteal area. Males have larger mean total cross‐sectional area, bone area, and cortical area than females. Females display a larger mean endosteal area and greater mean relative measure values. Relative bone area significantly correlates with age. The relative bone area variable will provide researchers with a less subjective and more accurate measure than cortical area.
Removal Dynamics of Autoantibodies, Immunoglobulins, and Coagulation Factors by Selective Plasma Exchange on Three Consecutive Days
Authors: Miyamoto Satoko , Ohkubo Atsushi , Seshima Hiroshi , Yamamoto Hiroko , Itagaki Ayako , Maeda Takuma , Kurashima Naoki , Mori Takayasu , Iimori Soichiro , Naito Shotaro , Sohara Eisei , Rai Tatemitsu , Uchida Shinichi , Okado Tomokazu 
Published: May 2018

AbstractSelective plasma exchange has been shown to be effective in various diseases, but no studies have assessed the benefits of daily treatment. We aimed to investigate the removal dynamics of immunoglobulins, fibrinogen, and factor XIII on three consecutive days in three patients. For mean processed plasma volumes of 1.06 × plasma volume, reductions of 79.6%, 49.3%, and 8.6% were seen for immunoglobulins G, A, and M, respectively. The reductions for fibrinogen and factor XIII were 18.4% and 13.0%, respectively. Removal dynamics were similar for immunoglobulin G‐related autoantibodies and immunoglobulin G when using daily selective plasma exchange. Moreover, daily use effectively removed the immunoglobulin G while retaining the coagulation factors. When disease‐specific autoantibodies are limited to immunoglobulin G, daily selective plasma exchange may be a useful and safe method of intensive induction treatment for plasmapheresis. However, further study is required in larger cohorts to confirm these findings.
Estimating bird detection distances in sound recordings for standardizing detection ranges and distance sampling
Authors: Darras Kevin , Furnas Brett , Fitriawan Irfan , Mulyani Yeni , Tscharntke Teja 
Published: May 2018

Abstract

Autonomous sound recorders are increasingly used to survey birds, and other wildlife taxa. Species richness estimates from sound recordings are usually compared with estimates obtained from established methods like point counts, but so far the comparisons were biased: Detection ranges usually differ between the survey methods, and bird detection distance data are needed for standardizing data from sound recordings.

We devised and tested a method for estimating bird detection distances from sound recordings, using a reference recording of test sounds at different frequencies, emitted from known distances. We used our method to estimate bird detection distances in sound recordings from tropical forest sites where point counts were also used. We derived bird abundance and richness measures and compared them between point counts and sound recordings using unlimited radius and fixed radius counts, as well as distance sampling modelling.

First we show that it is possible to accurately estimate bird detection distances in sound recordings. We then demonstrate that these data can be used to standardize the detection ranges between point counts and sound recordings with a fixed‐radius approach, leading to higher abundance and richness estimates for sound recordings. Our distance‐sampling approach also revealed that sound recorders sampled significantly higher bird densities than human point counts.

We show for the first time that it is possible to standardize detection ranges in sound recordings and that distance sampling can successfully be used too. We revealed that birds were flushed by human observers and that this possibly leads to lower density estimates in point counts, although sound recorders could also have sampled more birds because of their earlier deployment times. Sound recordings are more amenable to distance‐sampling modelling than point counts as they do not exhibit an observer‐induced avoidance effect, and they can easily collect more replicates for obtaining more accurate bird density estimates. Quantifying bird detection distances was so far one important shortcoming that hindered the adoption of modern autonomous sound recording methods for ecological surveys.
Sustained conduction of vasomotor responses in rat mesenteric arteries in a two‐compartment in vitro set‐up
Authors: Palao T. , van Weert A. , de Leeuw A. , de Vos J. , Bakker E. N. T. P. , van Bavel E. 
Published: May 2018

AbstractAimConduction of vasomotor responses may contribute to long‐term regulation of resistance artery function and structure. Most previous studies have addressed conduction of vasoactivity only during very brief stimulations. We developed a novel set‐up that allows the local pharmacological stimulation of arteries in vitro for extended periods of time and studied the conduction of vasomotor responses in rat mesenteric arteries under those conditions.MethodsThe new in vitro set‐up was based on the pressure myograph. The superfusion chamber was divided halfway along the vessel into two compartments, allowing an independent superfusion of the arterial segment in each compartment. Local and remote cumulative concentration‐response curves were obtained for a range of vasoactive agents. Additional experiments were performed with the gap junction inhibitor 18β‐glycyrrhetinic acid and in absence of the endothelium.ResultsPhenylephrine‐induced constriction and acetylcholine‐induced dilation were conducted over a measured distance up to 2.84 mm, and this conduction was maintained for 5 minutes. Conduction of acetylcholine‐induced dilation was inhibited by 18β‐glycyrrhetinic acid, and conduction of phenylephrine‐induced constriction was abolished in absence of the endothelium. Constriction in response to high K+ was not conducted. Absence of remote stimulation dampened the local response to phenylephrine.ConclusionThis study demonstrates maintained conduction of vasoactive responses to physiological agonists in rat mesenteric small arteries likely via gap junctions and endothelial cells, providing a possible mechanism for the sustained functional and structural control of arterial networks.
IL‐6 Triggers the Migration and Invasion of Oestrogen Receptor‐Negative Breast Cancer Cells via Regulation of Hippo Pathways
Authors: Hou Lingmi , Xie Shaoli , Li Guanwu , Xiong Bin , Gao Yanchun , Zhao Xiaobo , Hu Jiani , Deng Shishan , Jiang Jun 
Published: May 2018

AbstractBreast cancer is one of the major challenges for women's health. However, the role and mechanisms of interleukins (ILs) on the progression of breast cancer are not well illustrated. Our present study revealed that the expressions of IL‐6 and IL‐8 were significantly increased in oestrogen receptor‐negative (ER−) breast cancer cells. Increased expression of IL‐6 was observed in 83.9% (26/31) ER− breast cancer tissues as compared with their matched adjacent normal tissues. In vitro studies indicated that IL‐6 can significantly promote the migration and invasion of ER− breast cancer cells via increasing the dephosphorylation, nuclear translocation and transcriptional activities of YAP in breast cancer cells. Knockdown of YAP can attenuate IL‐6‐induced migration and invasion of cancer cells, suggesting that YAP plays an essential role in IL‐6‐induced malignancy of breast cancer cells. Furthermore, IL‐6 treatment also decreased the phosphorylation of LATS1/2. The knockdown of LATS1/2 synergistically suppressed si‐IL‐6‐induced deactivation of YAP. Targeted inhibition of IL‐6/YAP can significantly suppress the invasion of ER− breast cancer cells. Collectively, our study revealed that IL‐6 can trigger the malignancy of breast cancer cells via activation of YAP signals. Targeted inhibition of IL‐6/YAP might be a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of ER− breast cancer.