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Logistics resources, capabilities and operational performance
Authors: Lyu Gaoyan , Chen Lihua , Huo Baofeng 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how different logistics resources and resource patterns, such as logistics infrastructure, logistics location, logistics knowledge and logistics information, affect logistics capabilities and operational performance.

Design/methodology/approach
Based on data collected from 273 companies in China, this study examines impacts of individual logistics resource dimensions on resource integration capability, customer service capability and operational performance through contingency approach. Furthermore, three logistics resource patterns are identified and linked with resource integration capability and operational performance through configuration approach.

Findings
Contingency results show that different logistics resources have different impacts on resource integration capability and operational performance. Configuration results reveal that companies’ capabilities and operational performance vary for different logistics resource patterns: the high-uniform pattern has a better resource integration capability and operational performance than other patterns, while all logistics resource patterns have similar customer service capability levels.

Research limitations/implications
Future studies should examine other resource capabilities and performance indicators of companies and extend this study to other countries and regions.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the logistics resource literature through empirically investigating relationships among logistics resources, resource integration capability and operational performance using contingency approach, and through identifying different logistics resource patterns based on configuration approach. The findings extend the logistics resource literature, particularly on research of logistics parks in China.
Understanding service quality: insights from the literature
Authors: Prakash Gyan 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the service quality (SQ) literature in order to understand issues involved in its conceptualization and operationalization.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses systematic literature review method. The unit of analysis is peer-reviewed journal articles published during 1984 to 2017.FindingsFindings suggest manufacturing, banking, information technology, higher education, healthcare are the top sectors contributing to the SQ literature. More than 60 models of the SQ have been identified. Service-driven capabilities may be structured along adaptation with strategic drivers and imperatives, learning and alignment, and problem structuring. In doing so the SQ literature is evolving across overlapping phases of conceptualization, expansion, re-conceptualization and integration.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper contributes to the body of knowledge by presenting a unified synthesis of more than 814 articles published in the last three decades.Practical implicationsInsights from the paper will help practitioners in understanding customers’ expectations and accordingly configuring effective service delivery systems, setting standards and communicating value to end-customers. This in turn helps them in developing service-based competencies and achievement of competitive advantage.Social implicationsInsights from the paper may help in conceptualizing and delivering SQ-driven public services.Originality/valueThe paper synthesizes and presents various facets of the SQ as a unified body of knowledge.
The post-re/productive: researching the menopause
Authors: Beck Vanessa , Brewis Jo , Davies Andrea 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of these experiences on the authors’ work and on the authors.

Design/methodology/approach
Following the publication of the report, the authors undertook collective, autoethnographic memory work that forms the empirical body of the argument. This is presented in 13 vignettes.

Findings
The authors found themselves continually traversing.

Research limitations/implications
The paper analyses the challenges of researching what is a universal experience for women yet also a taboo subject. It discusses the relevant implications for and possible effects on researchers who investigate such topics in organisation and work studies and elsewhere.

Originality/value
Menopause experiences as they connect to work are under-researched per se. The paper extends knowledge of how this research area is not only shaped by researchers but has an impact on those researchers.
Risk shifting elimination and risk sharing exposure in equity-based financing – a theoretical exposition
Authors: Hamzah Siti Raihana , Ishak Norizarina , Rasedee Ahmad Fadly Nurullah 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine incentives for risk shifting in debt- and equity-based contracts based on the critiques of the similarities between sukuk and bonds.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses a theoretical and mathematical model to investigate whether incentives for risk taking exist in: debt contracts; and equity contracts.

Findings
Based on this theoretical model, it argues that risk shifting behaviour exists in debt contracts only because debt naturally gives rise to risk shifting behaviour when the transaction takes place. In contrast, equity contracts, by their very nature, involve sharing transactional risk and returns and are thus thought to make risk shifting behaviour undesirable. Nonetheless, previous researchers have found that equity-based financing also might carry risk shifting incentives. Even so, this paper argues that the amount of capital provided and the underlying assets must be considered, especially in the event of default. Through mathematical modelling, this element of equity financing can make risk shifting unattractive, thus making equity financing more distinct than debt financing.

Research limitations/implications
Global awareness of the dangers of debt should be increased as a means of reducing the amount of debt outstanding globally. Although some regulators suggest that sukuk replaces debt, they must also be aware that imitative sukuk poses the same threat to efforts to avoid debt. In short, efforts to ensure future financial stability cannot address only debts or bonds but must also address those types of sukuk that mirrors bonds in their operation. In the wake of the global financial crisis, amid the frantic search for ways of protecting against future financial shocks, this analysis aims to help create future stability by encouraging market players to avoid debt-based activities and promoting equity-based instruments.

Practical implications
This paper’s findings are relevant for countries that feature more than one type of financial market (e.g. Islamic and conventional) because risk shifting behaviour can degrade economic and financial stability.

Originality/value
This paper differs from the previous literature in two important ways, viewing risk shifting behaviour not only in relation to debt or bonds but also when set against debt-based sukuk, which has been subjected to similar criticism. Indeed, to the extent that debts and bonds encourage risk shifting behaviour and threaten the entire financial system, so, too, can imitation sukuk or debt-based sukuk. Second, this paper is unique in exploring the ability of equity features to curb equityholders’ incentive to engage in risk shifting behaviour. Such an examination is necessary for the wake of the global financial crisis, for researchers and economists now agree that risk shifting must be controlled.
Chronicles of one woman’s journey towards well-being: response-ability
Authors: Mullen Jo 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to share the experiences and reflections of one woman’s journey towards well-being.

Design/methodology/approach
A narrative approach has been taken to structure reflections based on a lived experience.

Findings
Reflections are offered based on a personal journey towards well-being.

Originality/value
This paper adds to the accounts of the lived experience of the journey towards well-being, and as such, contributes to the understanding of the process of rebuilding a life.
Sojourning and emigration: emigrant communities in Chaoshan area (1949-1958)
Authors: Wang Hui 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how the Chaozhou-speaking communities in northeast Guangdong Province dealt with new barriers of border control during the 1950s, and how they circumvented these institutional obstacles to leave China for Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. The emigration process was reshaped by new social and political forces in Maoist China. How did the Chaoshan people apply for the travel permit to leave China? How did they enter the hosting countries? How did the emigration experience influence the identity formation of Chaoshan Chinese in the 1950s?

Design/methodology/approach
This paper draws on archival sources, memoirs and interviews to demonstrate the ways in which Chaoshan people pursued new strategies of emigration during the 1950s.

Findings
In Maoist China, the application for an entry-exit permit was a rather complicated bureaucratic process for ordinary people. One needs to consider the class status, geographical origins and overseas connections of the applicants as well as the changing official policies toward overseas Chinese.

Research limitations/implications
This paper emphasizes on the impacts of emigration experience on the identity formation of Chaoshan people and the incremental transformation of these emigrant communities in Guangdong Province.

Practical implications
This scholarly finding throws light on the transformation of Chaoshan from a fluid, mobile maritime environment to an increasingly state-centric agrarian society during the 1950s.

Originality/value
This paper is an original scholarly study of the history of Chaoshan communities in South China and their emigration to Southeast Asia.
Comparing contemporary medical treatment practices aimed at intersex/DSD bodies in Israel and Germany
Authors: Danon Limor Meoded 
Published: September 2018

AbstractRecently, new laws and medical guidelines in many countries have prohibited early genital surgeries and irreversible medical treatment for intersexed babies. Following the passing of the German law that allows parents to register intersexed babies with no sex/gender, and after the establishment of new medical guidelines for intersexed patients in Israel, this study aims to examine the current medical policies regarding intersexed bodies at DSD centres and hospitals in Israel and Germany. How, if at all, have they changed the previous medical guidelines? This is a narrative study that includes 62 in‐depth interviews with medical professionals, parents and intersexed people from Germany and Israel. Three main controversial themes are examined, including the situated diagnostic medical gaze, the surgical practices for normalising intersexed bodies and the concealment of intersexed bodies. I find that in Israeli hospitals, early irreversible surgeries for ‘ambiguous genitals’ and the removal of internal sex organs are taking place frequently, whereas in Germany, the three DSD centres examined offer psychological counselling for parents instead of early surgeries for their babies. While in Israel concealment practices are embodied in the medical policy, the DSD centres in Germany encourage openness and peer group support.
Injury‐Related Healthcare Use and Risk of Filicide Victimization: A Population‐Based Case–Control Study
Authors: Bäckström Björn , Hedlund Jonatan , Masterman Thomas , Sturup Joakim 
Published: September 2018

AbstractResearch on child‐related risk factors for filicide is scant. We investigated whether prior healthcare use for injury (including poisoning) influences filicide risk. Victims (0–14 years; n = 71) were identified in a national autopsy database for the years 1994–2012 and compared to matched, general population controls (n = 355). Healthcare use data were retrieved from a national patient registry. Risks were estimated using odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). For females, prior inpatient care for injury conferred a statistically significant sevenfold risk (OR = 6.67 [95% CI: 1.49–29.79]), and any prior injury‐related healthcare use conferred a statistically significant fourfold risk (OR = 3.57 [95% CI: 1.13–11.25]), of filicide victimization. No statistically significant risks were found for males. Healthcare personnel should be aware that children treated for injuries, especially females, may be at an elevated risk of filicide victimization. Nevertheless, the filicide base rate remains low, and parents may be stigmatized by unfounded alerts; thus, prudent reflection should precede reports to the authorities.
The Lanthanide Tetrad Effect in Argillic Alteration: An Example from the Jizvan District, Northern Iran
Authors: ABEDINI Ali , REZAEI AZIZI Mansour , CALAGARI Ali Asghar 
Published: September 2018

AbstractIntrusion of quartz‐monzodioritic igneous bodies of Oligocene age into Eocene lithic crystal tuffs and trachy‐basalts resulted in the occurrence of a widespread argillic alteration zone in the Jizvan district (northern Iran). Mineralogically, the argillic alteration zone includes minerals such as kaolinite, quartz, smectite, pyrophyllite, muscovite‐illite, alunite, rutile, calcite, feldspar, chlorite, hematite and goethite. Therefore, the non‐CHARAC behaviour for trace elements in the argillic samples is reflected in the non‐chondritic Y/Ho and Zr/Hf ratios and the irregular REE patterns, which appear related to the tetrad effect phenomenon. The chondrite‐normalized REE distribution patterns indicate both concave (W‐shaped) and convex (M‐shaped) tetrad effects in the argillic samples. Based on the field evidence and the results from geochemical studies, it can be concluded that the samples from the argillic alteration zone having high fourth tetrad effect values (>0.30) were developed in the fault and breccia zones. The results indicate that factors such as preferential scavenging by Mn‐oxides, crystallization of clay minerals, fluid‐rock interaction, overprint of hypogene mineral assemblage by supergene ones, and the structural control, have all played an important role in the occurrence of tetrad effects in samples of the argillic zone in the Jizvan district.
Provenance Study of Fe–Ti Oxide Minerals in the Quaternary Sediments in Yichang Area and Its Implication of Formation Time of the Yangtze Three Gorges, China
Authors: XIANG Fang , DU Wen , HUANG Henxu , KANG Dongya , ZHU Hongbo , FENG Qin 
Published: September 2018

AbstractThe Three Gorges are considered to be critical to understand the formation of Yangtze River. Recent research results suggest that the Yangtze Three Gorges was created during the Quaternary but the exact time is debatable. Fe–Ti oxide minerals are seldom used to study sediment provenance, expecially using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). In this study, the provenance of Quaternary sediments in Yichang area, which is located to the east of the Yangtze Three Gorges, was investigated by using SEM and EDS to research Fe–Ti oxides. The Panzhihua vanadium titanomagnetite and Emeishan basalt outcrop are located to the west of the Three Gorges. Further, the materials from them are observed in the Quaternary sediments of Yichang area. Fe–Ti oxide minerals from the Huangling granite are observed in the Yunchi and Shanxiyao Formations, which were formed before 0.75 Ma B.P., whereas Fe–Ti oxide minerals from the Huangling granite, Panzhihua vanadium titanomagnetite, and Emeishan basalt are observed in the riverbed and fifth‐terrace sediments of the Yangtze River, which were formed after 0.73 Ma B.P.. Thus, we can infer that the Three Gorges formed after the deposition of the Shanxi Formation and before the fifth‐terrace; i.e., 0.75–0.73 Ma B.P..
Volume of ropivacaine 0.2% and common peroneal nerve block duration: a randomised, double‐blind cohort trial in healthy volunteers
Authors: Christiansen C. B. , Madsen M. H. , Rothe C. , Andreasen A. M. , Lundstrøm L. H. , Lange K. H. W. 
Published: September 2018

SummaryThe volume‐duration relationship using low concentrations of ropivacaine for peripheral nerve blocks is unknown, even though low concentrations of ropivacaine are increasingly used clinically. We investigated the effect of ropivacaine 0.2% on common peroneal nerve block duration. With ethical committee approval, 60 consenting, healthy volunteers were randomly allocated to receive one of five volumes of ropivacaine 0.2% (2.5, 5.0, 10, 15 or 20 ml) administered by ultrasound‐guided, catheter‐based injection (at 10 ml.min−1) near the common peroneal nerve. Our primary outcome was duration of sensory block, defined by insensitivity to a cold stimulus. Our secondary outcome was duration of motor block. Outcomes were assessed every hour from onset of block to complete remission. Intergroup differences were tested using one‐way ANOVA followed by regression analyses using the 20 ml intervention group as reference. Block durations varied significantly (p < 0.0001) between groups. Mean (SD) sensory block durations were 9.2 (3.3), 12.5 (3.0), 15.5 (4.4), 17.3 (3.5) and 17.3 (4.6) h. Mean (SD) motor block durations were 3.3 (2.1), 7.2 (2.5), 9.2 (2.2), 12.7 (2.5) and 12.5 (2.5) h. Regression analysis showed that the effect of volume on block duration was progressively smaller with increasing volume, reaching a threshold volume above which there was no effect on nerve block duration (10 ml for sensory block and 15 ml for motor block). We conclude that there is a ceiling effect of increasing volume of ropivacaine 0.2% on both sensory and motor block duration of the common peroneal nerve.
Ultrastructure of spermatozoa of members of Calappidae, Aethridae and Menippidae and discussion of their phylogenetic placement
Authors: Camargo Tavani Rocha , Wolf Milena Regina , Mantelatto Fernando L. , Tudge Christopher , Zara Fernando José 
Published: September 2018

AbstractThe families Aethridae and Calappidae were originally considered as part of the same family; however, their morphology and molecular biology separate them into two families. In this context, we describe the ultrastructure of spermatozoa of species of the Calappidae, Aethridae and Menippidae to elucidate the relationships among taxa. The vasa deferentia were submitted to routine protocols for transmission electron microscopy. Our results indicate that the morphology of the spermatozoa of Hepatus pudibundussupports its exclusion from the Superfamily Calappoidea due to the presence of the apical striated layer. The spermatozoa of Menippe nodifrons is very similar to H. pudibundus and corroborates the recent phylogenetic analysis using sequence data of nuclear genes. Moreover, our results evidence two morphological patterns of spermatozoa within Calappidae. Calappa ocellata and C. cinerea show spermatozoa with a wide acrosome vesicle, a thick operculum shaped as a shallow “W” and a large thickened ring. Calappa gallusand C. hepatica show spermatozoa with a longer acrosome vesicle, a pointed operculum and a slender thickened ring. Our ultrastructure results conform with previous molecular proposal and show that spermatozoa ultrastructure can be an effective tool to adjust phylogenetic relationship when used in association with molecular data.
Monocytes accumulate in the airways of children with fatal asthma
Authors: Eguíluz‐Gracia Ibon , Malmstrom Kristiina , Dheyauldeen Sinan Ahmed , Lohi Jouko , Sajantila Antti , Aaløkken Ragnhild , Sundaram Arvind Y. M. , Gilfillan Gregor D. , Makela Mika , Baekkevold Espen S. , Jahnsen Frode L. 
Published: September 2018

AbstractBackgroundActivated T helper type 2 (Th2) cells are believed to play a pivotal role in allergic airway inflammation, but which cells attract and activate Th2 cells locally have not been fully determined. Recently, it was shown in an experimental human model of allergic rhinitis (AR) that activated monocytes rapidly accumulate in the nasal mucosa after local allergen challenge, where they promote recruitment of Th2 cells and eosinophils.ObjectiveTo investigate whether monocytes are recruited to the lungs in paediatric asthma.MethodsTissue samples obtained from children and adolescents with fatal asthma attack (n = 12), age‐matched non‐atopic controls (n = 9) and allergen‐challenged AR patients (n = 8) were subjected to in situ immunostaining.ResultsMonocytes, identified as CD68+S100A8/A9+ cells, were significantly increased in the lower airway mucosa and in the alveoli of fatal asthma patients compared with control individuals. Interestingly, cellular aggregates containing CD68+S100A8/A9+ monocytes obstructing the lumen of bronchioles were found in asthmatics (8 out of 12) but not in controls. Analysing tissue specimens from challenged AR patients, we confirmed that co‐staining with CD68 and S100A8/A9 was a valid method to identify recently recruited monocytes. We also showed that the vast majority of accumulating monocytes both in the lungs and in the nasal mucosa expressed matrix metalloproteinase 10, suggesting that this protein may be involved in their migration within the tissue.Conclusions and clinical relevanceMonocytes accumulated in the lungs of children and adolescents with fatal asthma attack. This finding strongly suggests that monocytes are directly involved in the immunopathology of asthma and that these pro‐inflammatory cells are potential targets for therapy.
Routine splenic flexure mobilization may increase compliance with pathological quality metrics in patients undergoing low anterior resection
Authors: Mouw T. J. , King C. , Ashcraft J. H. , Valentino J. D. , DiPasco P. J. , Al‐Kasspooles M. 
Published: September 2018

AbstractAimMandatory splenic flexure mobilization (SFM) has been debated for rectal cancers. Proponents argue that additional mobilization facilitates a tension‐free anastomosis; however, this must be weighed against heightened morbidity. Little is known about the impact of specific techniques on pathology quality metrics. We aim to determine the impact of SFM on pathology quality metrics for patients undergoing rectal resections for colorectal adenocarcinoma.MethodPatients were selected by querying the University of Kansas electronic medical records and the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database based on Current Procedural Terminology codes. Patients were categorized as SFM or non‐SFM. Primary outcomes were node yield less than 12 and margin length.ResultsThere were 146 patients who met the inclusion criteria for chart review and 7369 included from the national database. Splenic flexure mobilization was associated with wider margins (3.52 vs 2.51 cm in low anterior resection, P < 0.01) and a decreased rate of inadequate nodal staging in patients undergoing low anterior resection (3.7% vs 19.3% P < 0.01).ConclusionsSFM may affect surgical quality metrics in patients undergoing resection for distal colon and rectal adenocarcinoma. Further study is warranted to determine whether these differences in quality and pathology translate into differences in oncological outcomes.