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Towards green experiential loyalty
Authors: Wu Hung-Che , Cheng Ching-Chan , Chen Yi-Chang , Hong Wien 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to test the relationships among the experiential quality dimensions, the green relationship quality dimensions, environmental friendliness, green support, green desire and green experiential loyalty in a green bed & breakfast (B&B) context.

Design/methodology/approach
The data used in this study are based on a sample of 517 customers staying at one green B&B in Yilan County of Taiwan. The predicted relationship is tested using structural equation modeling.

Findings
The empirical findings reveal the following: five dimensions (peer-to-peer quality, physical environment quality, outcome quality, venue quality and administration quality) constitute a multidimensional model to conceptualize and measure perceived experiential quality that can achieve green experiential satisfaction in addition to environmental friendliness; environmental friendliness has a direct influence on green trust and green experiential satisfaction, which has a positive significant influence on green support and green desire; and green trust, green experiential satisfaction and green support contribute to green experiential loyalty.

Practical implications
To increase the perceptions of experiential quality dimensions, green relationship quality dimensions, environmental friendliness, green support, green desire and green experiential loyalty, the findings of this study will help green B&B management develop and implement market-orientated service strategies.

Originality/value
This paper provides data that result in a better understanding of the relationships among experiential quality dimensions, green relationship quality dimensions, environmental friendliness, green support, green desire and green experiential loyalty in a green B&B setting.
Dilemmas and paradoxes: how managers make the toughest decisions
Authors: Karhu Päivi , Ritala Paavo 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
Managerial decisions ultimately determine the success or failure of a business strategy, and difficulties often arise when managers must decide how best to allocate scarce resources between activities. Adopting a cognitive framing perspective, this study aims to explore managers’ accounts of decision-making problems and how they solve them.

Design/methodology/approach
Interviews with 18 managers from the Austrian beverage industry were analysed to identify the kinds of decision-making problems they encounter and to understand how they solved those problems.

Findings
The participating managers perceived challenging decision-making problems as either a dilemma or a paradox. Dilemmas were resolved by committing entirely to one alternative or by focussing on one alternative at a time. In the case of paradoxes, managers looked for creative solutions, blending experimentation, humour and past experiences to create outside-the-box solutions that would simultaneously engage all alternatives.

Originality/value
This study provides empirical evidence of how managers frame challenging problems as dilemmas or paradoxes, and what types of coping mechanisms they use to identify and execute feasible solutions. While the current literature tends to emphasize the benefits of framing problems as paradoxes, the present findings also confirm the usefulness of dilemma-based solutions. A better understanding of these processes can help managers to make more thoughtful and better decisions.
Speaking of research: oral history and marketing history
Authors: Crawford Robert , Bailey Matthew 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the value of oral history for marketing historians and provide case studies from projects in the Australian context to demonstrate its utility. These case studies are framed within a theme of market research and its historical development in two industries: advertising and retail property.

Design/methodology/approach
This study examines oral histories from two marketing history projects. The first, a study of the advertising industry, examines the globalisation of the advertising agency in Australia over the period spanning the 1950s to the 1980s, through 120 interviews. The second, a history of the retail property industry in Australia, included 25 interviews with executives from Australia’s largest retail property firms whose careers spanned from the mid-1960s through to the present day.

Findings
The research demonstrates that oral histories provide a valuable entry port through which histories of marketing, shifts in approaches to market research and changing attitudes within industries can be examined. Interviews provided insights into firm culture and practices; demonstrated the variability of individual approaches within firms and across industries; created a record of the ways that market research has been conducted over time; and revealed the ways that some experienced operators continued to rely on traditional practices despite technological advances in research methods.

Originality/value
Despite their ubiquity, both the advertising and retail property industries in Australia have received limited scholarly attention. Recent scholarship is redressing this gap, but more needs to be understood about the inner workings of firms in an historical context. Oral histories provide an avenue for developing such understandings. The paper also contributes to broader debates about the role of oral history in business and marketing history.
The optimal thermal causal path analysis on the relationship between international crude oil price and stock market
Authors: Yao Can Zhong , Kuang Peng Cheng , Lin Ji Nan 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to reveal the lead–lag structure between international crude oil price and stock markets.

Design/methodology/approach
The methods used for this study are as follows: empirical mode decomposition; shift-window-based Pearson coefficient and thermal causal path method.

Findings
The fluctuation characteristic of Chinese stock market before 2010 is very similar to international crude oil prices. After 2010, their fluctuation patterns are significantly different from each other. The two stock markets significantly led international crude oil prices, revealing varying lead–lag orders among stock markets. During 2000 and 2004, the stock markets significantly led international crude oil prices but they are less distinct from the lead–lag orders. After 2004, the effects changed so that the leading effect of Shanghai composite index remains no longer significant, and after 2012, S&P index just significantly lagged behind the international crude oil prices.

Originality/value
China and the US stock markets develop different pattens to handle the crude oil prices fluctuation after finance crisis in 1998.
Constructing narrative and phenomenological meaning within one study
Authors: Patterson Carmel 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to argue for the articulation of the affordances of two qualitative methodologies when used within one study to address the multi-dimensional nature of the research phenomena.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper considers one example of combining narrative inquiry and phenomenological inquiry to construct new understandings of teacher learning from an Australian study.

Findings
The author draws on the individual meaning-making and shared social phenomena of professional learning explored for five secondary school teachers. Findings are accessed in two ways: narrative inquiry enables the construction of unique professional learning narratives and phenomenological inquiry proposes commonalities in the teachers’ experiences.

Research limitations/implications
Selected examples from the study are used to explore what may be learnt from combining two interpretative methodologies within one study with limited references to the overall research findings.

Practical implications
These qualitative methodological designs and their implementation within one study have positive influences on the multifaceted nature of the construction of meaning-making in teacher professional learning. Furthermore, using two qualitative methodologies together provide insights on the study phenomena, in this instance, highlighting the personal aspect of expert teachers’ professional learning needs and the disruptive dissonance of ongoing problematics as central for the teachers throughout their professional learning.

Originality/value
This study offers one possibility for combining methodologies to access the meaning-making in teacher learning and one avenue for creating hermeneutic understanding in using the methods within this approach.
Effects of vegetation management intensity on biodiversity and ecosystem services in vineyards: A meta‐analysis
Authors: Winter Silvia , Bauer Thomas , Strauss Peter , Kratschmer Sophie , Paredes Daniel , Popescu Daniela , Landa Blanca , Guzmán Gema , Gómez José A. , Guernion Muriel , Zaller Johann G. , Batáry Péter 
Published: February 2018

Abstract

At the global scale, vineyards are usually managed intensively to optimize wine production without considering possible negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) such as high soil erosion rates, degradation of soil fertility or contamination of groundwater. Winegrowers regulate competition for water and nutrients between the vines and inter‐row vegetation by tilling, mulching and/or herbicide application. Strategies for more sustainable viticulture recommend maintaining vegetation cover in inter‐rows, however, there is a lack of knowledge as to what extent this less intensive inter‐row management affects biodiversity and associated ES.

We performed a hierarchical meta‐analysis to quantify the effects of extensive vineyard inter‐row vegetation management in comparison to more intensive management (like soil tillage or herbicide use) on biodiversity and ES from 74 studies covering four continents and 13 wine‐producing countries.

Overall, extensive vegetation management increased above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity and ecosystem service provision by 20% in comparison to intensive management. Organic management together with management without herbicides showed a stronger positive effect on ES and biodiversity provision than inter‐row soil tillage.

Soil loss parameters showed the largest positive response to inter‐row vegetation cover. The second highest positive response was observed for biodiversity variables, followed by carbon sequestration, pest control and soil fertility. We found no trade‐off between grape yield and quality vs. biodiversity or other ES.

Synthesis and applications. Our meta‐analysis concludes that vegetation cover in inter‐rows contributes to biodiversity conservation and provides multiple ecosystem services. However, in drier climates grape yield might decrease without irrigation and careful vegetation management. Agri‐environmental policies should therefore focus on granting subsidies for the establishment of locally adapted diverse vegetation cover in vineyard inter‐rows. Future studies should focus on analysing the combined effects of local vineyard management and landscape composition and advance research in wine‐growing regions in Asia and in the southern hemisphere.
Natural Products for Prevention and Treatment of Chemical‐Induced Liver Injuries
Authors: Meng Xiao , Li Ya , Li Sha , Gan Ren‐You , Li Hua‐Bin 
Published: February 2018

AbstractChemicals (such as alcohol, drugs, and pollutants) may cause liver injuries, which could consequently develop into fatty liver, hepatitis, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver failure, or even cancers. Liver injuries have been a serious public health problem worldwide. Numerous natural products and their bioactive components have shown protective action for liver injuries, such as blueberry, cactus fruits, Pueraria lobate, betaine, and silymarin. The underlying mechanisms mainly include antioxidation, anti‐inflammation, anti‐apoptosis, anti‐necrosis, repairing damaged DNA, regulating the metabolism of lipids, and modulating primary bile acid biosynthesis. This review summarizes the natural products and bioactive compounds with protective effects on liver injuries caused by chemicals, and special attention is paid to the mechanisms of action. This updated information can be helpful to prevent and treat liver‐related diseases, especially chemical‐induced liver injuries.
Lethality Prediction for Escherichia Coli O157:H7 and Uropathogenic E. coli in Ground Chicken Treated with High Pressure Processing and Trans‐Cinnamaldehyde
Authors: Sheen Shiowshuh , Huang Chi‐Yun , Ramos Rommel , Chien Shih‐Yung , Scullen O. Joseph , Sommers Christopher 
Published: February 2018

AbstractPathogenic Escherichia coli, intestinal (O157:H7) as well as extraintestinal types (for example, Uropathogenic E. coli [UPEC]) are commonly found in many foods including raw chicken meat. The resistance of E. coli O157:H7 to UPEC in chicken meat under the stresses of high hydrostatic Pressure (HHP, also known as HPP–high pressure processing) and trans‐cinnamaldehyde (an essential oil) was investigated and compared. UPEC was found slightly less resistant than O157:H7 in our test parameter ranges. With the addition of trans‐cinnamaldehyde as an antimicrobial to meat, HPP lethality enhanced both O157:H7 and UPEC inactivation. To facilitate the predictive model development, a central composite design (CCD) was used to assess the 3‐parameter effects, that is, pressure (300 to 400 MPa), trans‐cinnamaldehyde dose (0.2 to 0.5%, w/w), and pressure‐holding time (15 to 25 min), on the inactivation of E. coli O157:H7 and UPEC in ground chicken. Linear models were developed to estimate the lethality of E. coli O157:H7 (R2 = 0.86) and UPEC (R2 = 0.85), as well as dimensionless nonlinear models. All models were validated with data obtained from separated CCD combinations. Because linear models of O157:H7 and UPEC had similar R2 and the significant lethality difference of CCD points was only 9 in 20; all data were combined to generate models to include both O157:H7 and UPEC. The results provide useful information/tool to predict how pathogenic E. coli may survive HPP in the presence of trans‐cinnamaldehyde and to achieve a great than 5 log CFU/g reduction in chicken meat. The models may be used for process optimization, product development and to assist the microbial risk assessment.Practical ApplicationThe study provided an effective means to reduce the high hydrostatic pressure level with incorporation of antimicrobial compound to achieve a 5‐log reduction of pathogenic E. coli without damaging the raw meat quality. The developed models may be used to predict the high pressure processing lethality (and process optimization), product development (ingredient selection), and to assist the microbial risk assessment.
Does workload and institutional pressure on accounting educators affect academia at Australian universities?
Authors: Steenkamp Natasja , Roberts Roslyn 
Published: February 2018

AbstractThis paper examines accounting academics’ perceptions as to whether institutional pressure has increased in the previous 5–10 years subsequent to changes in the higher education environment, encouraging universities to adopt private sector managerialism. Results from 87 respondents indicated that workload pressures have increased and they experienced pressure to perform acts related to a student‐as‐customer model, which have negatively affected their well‐being and work quality. The majority are not actively seeking to leave academia, but believe it is not a good time for others to aspire to such a career. This paper contributes to the debate about the sustainability of accounting academia at Australian universities.
Genome‐wide association study for reproductive traits in a Large White pig population
Authors: Wang Y. , Ding X. , Tan Z. , Xing K. , Yang T. , Wang Y. , Sun D. , Wang C. 
Published: February 2018

SummaryUsing the PorcineSNP80 BeadChip, we performed a genome‐wide association study for seven reproductive traits, including total number born, number born alive, litter birth weight, average birth weight, gestation length, age at first service and age at first farrowing, in a population of 1207 Large White pigs. In total, we detected 12 genome‐wide significant and 41 suggestive significant SNPs associated with six reproductive traits. The proportion of phenotypic variance explained by all significant SNPs for each trait ranged from 4.46% (number born alive) to 11.49% (gestation length). Among them, 29 significant SNPs were located within known QTL regions for swine reproductive traits, such as corpus luteum number, stillborn number and litter size, of which one QTL region associated with litter size contained the ALGA0098819 SNP for total number born. Subsequently, we found that 376 functional genes contained or were near these significant SNPs. Of these, 14 genes—BHLHA15, OCM2, IL1B2, GCK, SMAD2, HABP2, PAQR5, GRB10, PRELID2, DMKN, GPI, GPIHBP1, ADCY2 and ACVR2B—were considered important candidates for swine reproductive traits based on their critical roles in embryonic development, energy metabolism and growth development. Our findings contribute to the understanding of the genetic mechanisms for reproductive traits and could have a positive effect on pig breeding programs.
The analgesic efficacy of forced coughing during cervical punch biopsy: A prospective randomised controlled study
Authors: Goldstein Akavia Tal , Segev Yakir , Balan Edith , Siegler Efraim 
Published: February 2018

IntroductionCervical punch biopsies are a common ambulatory procedure, performed routinely by gynaecologists. The aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of forced coughing as a pain‐reducing technique during cervical punch biopsy compared to a control group.Materials and MethodsThe study was a prospective randomised‐control trial. The study group comprised 90 women who underwent cervical punch biopsies during investigation of abnormal Pap test results. The women were randomly assigned to ‘cough’ and control groups. Pain was measured on a 10 cm visual analogue scale (VAS) during different stages of the procedure.ResultsVAS pain score during biopsies was significantly lower in the ‘cough’ group. The median pain level in the ‘cough’ group was 1.5, compared to 4.0 in the control group. Eighty percent of the women in the ‘cough’ group reported a pain level of 2.0 or less compared to 40% of the women in the ‘control’ group (P = 0.0002). In the second biopsy, 69% of the women reported VAS ≤ 2.0 in the cough group compared to 28% of the patients in the control group. Forced coughing was shown both to reduce anxiety regarding the prospect of future cervical procedures and to decrease patients' desires for future pain management. This was true for 32% of the women in the ‘control’ group compared to 12% of the women in the ‘cough’ group (P = 0.05).ConclusionForced coughing provides significant pain relief during cervical punch biopsy and reduces the patients' fears and desires for pain medications in future procedures.
Iodine‐containing supplement use by pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Western Australia
Authors: Hine Tammy , Zhao Yun , Begley Andrea , Skeaff Sheila , Sherriff Jill 
Published: February 2018

BackgroundIodine requirements increase during pregnancy and although national recommendations for daily iodine supplementation (150 µg) exist, there is no research related to the uptake of these recommendations by pregnant women in Western Australia.AimsTo investigate the use of iodine‐containing supplements and associations with their use in a sample of Western Australian pregnant women.Materials and MethodsA cross‐sectional study was conducted on pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in a public tertiary hospital for women and neonates in Perth during 2012 and 2013 (n = 425). Women completed a self‐administered questionnaire. Frequencies and percentages were obtained for categorical variables and χ2 tests conducted to assess associations between iodine‐containing supplement use and sociodemographic and pregnancy‐related factors.ResultsA total of 24% of pregnant women reported using iodine‐containing supplements prior to pregnancy compared to 66% during the previous two months. Age and maternal income were associated with use prior to pregnancy only (P = 0.004 and P = 0.031) and first pregnancy was associated with use during pregnancy only (P = 0.006). Ethnicity and reporting use in the first two trimesters were associated with the use of iodine supplements both in the year prior to pregnancy (P = 0.002 and P = 0.020, respectively) and during pregnancy (P < 0.001 and P = 0.001, respectively).ConclusionsTwo‐thirds of women reported use of iodine‐containing supplements during pregnancy, within the range reported for other Australian states. One‐quarter reported use prior to pregnancy. Public health strategies are required to promote awareness of the importance of iodine and supplementation both before and during the entire pregnancy.
Optimisation of the dosage of tranexamic acid in trauma patients with population pharmacokinetic analysis
Authors: Grassin‐Delyle S. , Theusinger O. M. , Albrecht R. , Mueller S. , Spahn D. R. , Urien S. , Stein P. 
Published: February 2018

SummaryTranexamic acid is used both pre‐hospital and in‐hospital as an antifibrinolytic drug to treat or prevent hyperfibrinolysis in trauma patients; dosing, however, remains empirical. We aimed to measure plasma levels of tranexamic acid in patients receiving pre‐hospital anti‐hyperfibrinolytic therapy and to build a population pharmacokinetic model to propose an optimised dosing regimen. Seventy‐three trauma patients were enrolled and each received tranexamic acid 1 g intravenously pre‐hospital. A blood sample was drawn after arrival in the emergency department, and we measured the plasma tranexamic acid concentration using liquid chromatography‐mass spectrometry, and modelled the data using non‐linear mixed effect modelling. Tranexamic acid was administered at a median (IQR [range]) time of 43 (30–55 [5–135]) min after trauma. Plasma tranexamic acid levels were determined on arrival at hospital, 57 (43–70 [20–148]) min after pre‐hospital administration of the drug. The measured concentration was 28.7 (21.5–38.5 [8.7–89.0]) μg.ml−1. Our subjects had sustained severe trauma; injury severity score 20 (16–29 [5–75]), including penetrating injury in 2.8% and isolated traumatic brain injury in 19.7%. The pharmacokinetics were ascribed a two‐compartment open model with body‐weight as the main covariate. As tranexamic acid concentrations may fall below therapeutic levels during initial hospital treatment, we propose additional dosing schemes to maintain a specific target blood concentration for as long as required. This is the first study to investigate plasma level and pharmacokinetics of tranexamic acid after pre‐hospital administration in trauma patients. Our proposed dosing regimen could be used in subsequent clinical trials to better study efficacy and tolerance profiles with controlled blood concentrations.