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Positioning strategies of high-tech products: cross-cultural moderating effects of ethnocentrism and cultural openness
Authors: Gammoh Bashar S. , Koh Anthony C. , Okoroafo Sam C. 
Published: October 2019

PurposeThis study aims to extend current research efforts by utilizing the institutional theory to propose cross-cultural-based asymmetrical moderating effects of ethnocentrism and cultural openness on the effectiveness of global, foreign and local consumer culture brand positioning strategies of high-tech products.Design/methodology/approachThis study used an experimental design in the USA (developed country) and India (developing country). Print advertisements across the two countries were used to explore the proposed moderating effects of ethnocentrism and cultural openness on consumer brand evaluations of a high-tech product under the three different consumer culture brand positioning strategies.FindingsOverall, this study provided empirical evidence in support of the proposed cross-cultural asymmetrical effects. The study findings indicate that consumer ethnocentrism seems to be more important in influencing a subject’s brand evaluations across the positioning strategies in a developed country like the USA, while consumer cultural openness will be more important in influencing a subject’s brand evaluations across the positioning strategies in a developing country like India.Originality/valueDespite existing research efforts on the potential benefits of positioning brands using global, foreign or local consumer cultures, there is a lack of empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of these positioning strategies across different cultures. Theoretically, this research draws on the institutional theory to investigate the asymmetrical cross-cultural moderating effects of ethnocentrism and cultural openness on the effectiveness of the three-consumer culture brand positioning strategies. Managerially, this study provides empirically based suggestions for brand managers attempting to position their brands with different segments of consumers while highlighting the importance of cultural differences between developed and developing markets.
The impact on the governance of the gender quotas legislation: the Italian case
Authors: Paoloni Mauro , Paoloni Paola , Lombardi Rosa 
Published: October 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to create a strong connection among the gender diversity literature in the stream of gender quotas in the international context and the main legislation on gender diversity – the Law 120/2011 “Golfo-Mosca” – in Italy requiring listed companies and companies under the public control to implement policies for increasing board diversity.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts a structured literature review method to propose relevant issues on this topic applying an innovative analytical framework based on the “article focus.” Additionally, an interview to a CEO of an Italian Bank has been done.FindingsIn this step, results seem to underline the prominence of literature analyzing “woman in board of directors” promoting board diversity in the light of good governance. Additionally, this analysis is functional to the proposition of interesting insights from the Golfo-Mosca Law’s analysis in Italy emphasizing primary effects of its application during past seven years.Originality/valueFindings of this paper are original, as it is the first time that a research connects results from the structured literature review on gender issues and the related Italian law to draft emerging and thrilling issues in the light of transparent and responsible corporate governance system.
Quality initiatives, quality awards and performance; contingency effect
Authors: Upadhyaya Gururaj , Bhat K. Subrahmanya 
Published: October 2019

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the contingency effect of winning a specific Indian quality award (QA) on the correlation between interacting quality initiatives (QI) and QA with performance measures (PM) during the continuous improvement (CI) journey of Indian organizations.

Design/methodology/approach
Data collected from a survey were followed by validity and reliability analyzes of the instrument. Hypotheses were tested using Spearman’s correlation test and Fisher’s Z-test.

Findings
Similarities and differences among four Indian QA in terms of PM affected by the interacting QI and QA models during different phases of CI journey were identified.

Practical implications
Preliminary identification of PM that realistically reflected the adoption of QI and QA models during different phases of the CI journey.

Originality/value
This study attempts to fill the gap of scarce holistic studies on the interacting QI and QA as they affect the PM through the CI journey of organizations.
Empiricism, epistemology and modern postmodernism: a critique
Authors: Bowden Bradley G. 
Published: October 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it seeks to trace the origins of the various strands of postmodernism within German philosophic idealism; traditions of thought which placed emphasis – like postmodernism – on a subjective understanding of evidence and a supposed capacity of human consciousness to continually move beyond the bounds imposed by social convention and being; second, this paper states that postmodernism, rooted as it is in philosophic idealism, is methodologically and conceptually constrained. Its emphasis on consciousness and will marginalize its capacity to make meaningful contributions in areas such as economics, and the wider trends in human history.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is theoretical. It seeks to locate conflicting methodologies – most particularly those relating to postmodernism, positivism and philosophical realism – within the traditions of thought that have emerged since the enlightenment.FindingsPostmodernism is rooted in philosophical idealism. As such, it places emphasis on consciousness, identity and being. The essential problem with postmodernism, this paper argues, is not this emphasis. These are legitimate areas of inquiry. Rather, the central problem with postmodernist-informed research is found in the limited range of methodological and conceptual tools in its kitbag.Originality/valueDespite the growing influence of postmodernism in its various shades within academia, few of its proponents and critics trace its philosophic origins. In doing so this paper highlights the strengths and limitations of not only postmodernism but also its polar opposite, positivism.
Development and validation of attitudes measurement scales: fundamental and practical aspects
Authors: Hair Joseph F. , L.D.S. Gabriel Marcelo , da Silva Dirceu , Braga Junior Sergio 
Published: October 2019

Purpose
This paper aims to present the fundamental aspects for the development and validation (D&V) of attitudes’ measurement scale, as well as its practical aspects that are not deeply explored in books and manuals. These aspects are the results of a long experience of the authors and arduous learning with errors and mistakes.

Design/methodology/approach
The nature of this paper is methodological and can be very useful for an initial reading on the theme that it rests. This paper presents four D&V stages: literature review or interviews with experts; theoretical or face validation; semantic validation or validation with possible respondents; and statistical validation.

Findings
This is a methodological paper, and its main finding is the usefulness for researchers.

Research limitations/implications
The main implication of this paper is to support researchers on the process of D&V of measurement scales.

Practical implications
Became a step-by-step guide to researchers on the D&V of measurement scales.

Social implications
Support researchers on their data collection and analysis.

Originality/value
This is a practical guide, with tips from seasoned scholars to help researchers on the D&V of measurement scales.
A robust method to authenticate car license plates using segmentation and ROI based approach
Authors: Aggarwal Akarsh , Rani Anuj , Kumar Manoj 
Published: October 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges faced by the automatic recognition systems over the conventional systems by implementing a novel approach for detecting and recognizing the vehicle license plates in order to increase the security of the vehicles. This will also increase the societal discipline among vehicle users.

Design/methodology/approach
From a methodological point of view, the proposed system works in three phases which includes the pre-processing of the input image from the database, applying segmentation to the processed image, and finally extracting and recognizing the image of the license plate.

Findings
The proposed paper provides an analysis that demonstrates the correctness of the algorithm to correctly capture the license plate using performance metrics such as detection rate and false positive rate. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm detects vehicle license plates and provides detection rate of 93.34 percent with false positive rate of 6.65 percent.

Research limitations/implications
The proposed license plate detection system eliminates the need of manually used systems for managing the traffic by installing the toll-booths on freeways and bridges. The design implemented in this paper attempts to capture the license plate by using three phase detection process that helps to increase the level of security and contribute in making a sustainable city.

Originality/value
This paper presents a distinctive approach to detect the license plate of the vehicles using the various image processing techniques such as dilation, grey-scale conversion, edge processing, etc. and finding the region of interest of the segmented image to capture the license plate of the vehicles.
Online risk for people with intellectual disabilities
Authors: Chadwick Darren David 
Published: October 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to summarise the current state of empirical knowledge pertaining to online risk and cybercrime relating to people with intellectual disabilities (ID).Design/methodology/approachThis narrative review summarises, synthesises and critically evaluates the current literature and state of knowledge and offers suggestions for extending current knowledge and practice.FindingsEvidence regarding risk for people with ID is limited but growing. Existing findings highlight that: risk may increase contingent upon higher levels of sociability, loneliness, anxiety and depression, poorer insight, judgement, discrimination and ability to detect deception online and reduced experience and life opportunities; people without ID perceive high online risk for people with ID, which may lead to gatekeeping restrictions and controlling digital access; restriction may potentially impede online self-determination, participation and development by people with ID; and experience of risk may enhance awareness, independence and resilience in managing future online risk amongst people with ID. Further research work is needed in this area to enhance understanding of risk experience and effective support strategies.Originality/valueThis review of current knowledge has highlighted the necessity for more research to better understand the propensity for engagement in different risky online behaviours and to better inform support practices to help people with ID to manage risk whilst maintaining digital inclusion.
Systematic review of determinants influencing knowledge implementation in occupational therapy
Authors: Pellerin Marc‐André , Lamontagne Marie‐Eve , Viau‐Guay Anabelle , Poulin Valérie 
Published: October 2019

IntroductionIn knowledge translation, implementation strategies are more effective in fostering practice change. When using these strategies, however, many determinants, such as individual or organisational factors, influence implementation. Currently, there is a lack of synthesis concerning how these determinants influence knowledge implementation (KI). The aim of this systematic review was to document how determinants influence KI outcomes with occupational therapists.MethodFollowing the PRISMA statement, we systematically reviewed the literature on KI in occupational therapy across 12 databases: MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, AMED, PsychINFO, Cochrane Library, FirstSearch, Web of Science, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, ERIC, Education Source and Sociological Abstracts. Eligible studies reported KI strategies specifically with occupational therapists. Selected studies were appraised for quality with the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we categorised reported mentions of CFIR (sub‐)constructs to identify the determinants studied most often, how they were documented and what influence they had on outcomes.ResultsTwenty‐two studies were analysed for this review. CFIR (sub‐)constructs were mentioned 81 times, and seven (sub‐)constructs received at least 5% of these mentions (4/81). These were as follows: (i) Adaptability of the practice; (ii) Learning climate; (iii) Leadership engagement; (iv) Available resources; (v) Knowledge and Beliefs about the Intervention; (vi) Individual Stage of Change; and vii) Executing the KI strategy. The Inner setting domain was the most documented and the domain with the most (sub‐)constructs with at least four mentions (3/7). Most studies used questionnaires as assessment tools, but these were mainly non‐standardised scales. The data were too heterogenous to perform a meta‐analysis.ConclusionSeven (sub‐)constructs mentioned most often would benefit from being assessed for salience by researchers intending to develop a KI strategy for occupational therapists. Future research aimed at improving our understanding of KI should also consider using standardised tools to measure the influence of determinants.
Grazing intensity and climate factors shape species abundance distribution by influencing different components of plant communities in a desert steppe
Authors: Xu Cailin , Wang Zhongwu , Li Zhiguo , Wang Ling , Han Guodong 
Published: October 2019

AbstractSpecies abundance distributions (SADs) have been the focus of many ecological studies. Understanding the causes of SAD patterns is a major stepping stone toward understanding of how ecological communities are organized. While SAD patterns have been well studied in marine environments and forests, knowledge of SADs in response to environmental or human‐induced gradients is limited, especially in desert environments. In this study, we used structural equation modeling to analyze the effects of grazing disturbance and climate on plant SADs in a desert steppe of Inner Mongolia, China, aiming to shed light on the assembly of plant communities in this region. We found both grazing disturbance and climate influenced SADs but through different pathways and with different magnitude. Grazing intensity affected SADs by reducing evenness and richness of common species, while increases in annual mean temperature and annual rainfall affected SADs by increasing richness of rare species. Climate had 30% greater effect on community structure than grazing disturbance, highlighting the role of climate in community assembly in desert environments where biological processes are highly constrained by water. We further found geometric series was associated with low annual rainfall and low richness, and log‐normal with high annual rainfall, high richness and evenness. Geometric best fit for majority of the cases (60%) regardless of grazing intensity suggesting niche differentiation on the local scale is the principal community assembly process operating in the study region. Environmental filtering and niche differentiation may be concurrently operating to structure plant communities in this region.
Inflectional Suppletion and Heteroclite Inflection from a Diachronic Perspective
Authors: Hill Eugen 
Published: October 2019

AbstractInflectional suppletion can emerge by three distinct mechanisms, regular sound change, grammaticalisation of derivational patterns, and conflation of originally independent lexemes into one. While the former two mechanisms do not raise questions going beyond historical phonology and grammaticalisation theory, the third mechanism constitutes a mystery. Why two originally independent lexemes sometimes conflate into one and what may govern their distribution in the new suppletive paradigm – both these questions are still awaiting a comprehensive investigation. The major obstacle in the way of such an investigation is the insufficient amount of high‐quality data, i.e. instances of inflectional suppletion whose starting point is either directly documented in texts or can be securely inferred from closely related languages. The paper argues that this problem can be partly overcome by taking into consideration a special kind of non‐canonical inflectional suppletion which is known as heteroclite inflection or heteroclisis. The differences between canonical inflectional suppletion and heteroclisis seem to be confined to their synchronic status within the grammar and to their potential productivity. These differences are irrelevant when the emergence of inflectional suppletion is under consideration. Taking into account the heteroclite inflection has the potential to considerably enlarge the empirical basis of any investigation into the emergence of inflectional suppletion. This is especially important for establishing factors governing the constituent distribution in suppletive paradigms and investigating the role played by pre‐existing non‐suppletive patterns of alternation. It might also be hoped that investigating heteroclisis as inflectional suppletion will help address the semantic relations between lexemes about to merge in a more systematic way.
Transitivity and Subject Positions in Old Irish
Authors: Lash Elliott 
Published: October 2019

AbstractThis article is concerned with some fine‐grained distinctions in the syntax of subjects in Old Irish. Old Irish (7th–9th century) is typically described as aVSOlanguage, but there are a number of sentences in the corpus in which the subject is not immediately after the subject. In this paper two case studies are conducted the results of which show that (a) non‐final late subjects are confined to non‐transitive and ‘atypical transitive’ clauses having the general formVXSY, and (b) the position of final late subjects in the schemaVXS# can understood in descriptive terms as ‘right‐dislocated’ and motivated largely in information structure terms (i.e. Topic‐Comment, Focus‐Alternative), although a small residue of examples are similar to theVXSY‐type of case in being ‘atypical transitives’. The descriptive term ‘atypical transitive’ is introduced here to cover morphologically transitive clauses (with accusative marked direct objects nouns, or pronouns that can replace such nouns) that behave syntactically more like non‐transitive clauses. There are four types: negative clauses with bare indefinite objects, clauses with object‐oriented floating quantifiers, clauses in which a pronominal object serves to ‘detransitivize’ the verb, and clauses containing a verb of motion whose direct object is the goal of movement.
Evaluating Bayesian stable isotope mixing models of wild animal diet and the effects of trophic discrimination factors and informative priors
Authors: Swan George J. F. , Bearhop Stuart , Redpath Steve M. , Silk Matthew J. , Goodwin Cecily E. D. , Inger Richard , McDonald Robbie A. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract

Ecologists quantify animal diets using direct and indirect methods, including analysis of faeces, pellets, prey items and gut contents. For stable isotope analyses of diet, Bayesian stable isotope mixing models (BSIMMs) are increasingly used to infer the relative importance of food sources to consumers. Although a powerful approach, it has been hard to test BSIMM performance for wild animals because precise, direct dietary data are difficult to collect.

We evaluated the performance of BSIMMs in quantifying animal diets when using δ13C and δ15N stable isotope ratios from the feathers and red blood cells of common buzzard Buteo buteo chicks. We analysed mixing model outcomes with various trophic discrimination factors (TDFs), with and without informative priors, and compared these to direct observations of prey provisioned to chicks by adults at nests, using remote cameras.

Although BSIMMs with different TDFs varied markedly in their performance, the statistical package SIDER generated TDFs for both feathers and blood that resulted in model outputs that accorded well with direct observations of prey provisioning. Using feather TDFs derived from captive peregrines Falco peregrinus resulted in estimates of diet composition that were also similar to provisioned prey, although blood TDFs from the same study performed poorly. The inclusion of informative priors, based on conventional analysis of pellet and prey remains, markedly reduced model performance.

BSIMMs can provide accurate assessments of diet in wild animals. TDF estimates from the SIDER package performed well. The inclusion of informative priors from conventional methods in Bayesian mixing models can transfer biases into model outcomes, leading to erroneous results.
Confounding effect of ethnic diversity on booking‐in body mass index and prevalence of gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders in pregnant women in western Sydney 1997–2016
Authors: Brown James , Kapurubandara Supuni , McGee Therese M. 
Published: October 2019

BackgroundMaternal obesity is a key risk factor for morbidity in pregnancy. Accurate data on trends in obesity are required in high‐risk populations such as in western Sydney to implement effective policy.AimsThis study examines multi‐site public hospital data on maternal ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and hypertension across 20 years in Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD).Materials and methodsThis is a retrospective cohort study of all women who delivered a live birth beyond 20 weeks at Westmead, Blacktown and Auburn Hospitals (WSLHD) between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2016.ResultsThere were 112 308 pregnant women included. Between 1997 and 2006, mean booking‐in BMI climbed from 24.9 (median 23.9) to peak at 26.2 (24.9). It then fell to 25.3 (24.1) in 2012 before rising to 25.6 (24.4) in 2016. Rates of hypertensive disorders changed little over the period, with a small fall in pre‐eclampsia. In contrast, there was a progressive upward trend in the prevalence of GDM, accelerating considerably after 2010. These trends were associated with a shifting ethnic profile with proportions of Australia/New Zealand‐born women falling from 56.9% to 36.8%, while those from South Asia increased from 4.5% to 26.3%.ConclusionsWestern Sydney booking‐in BMI fluctuated between 1997 and 2016, reaching its peak in 2006. Despite this, rates of GDM progressively rose, with one in six mothers in western Sydney now diagnosed with some form of the condition. Both patterns are associated with a notable shift in the ethnic profile of patients booking‐in to antenatal care in the region.