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Shaping sustainable development of tomorrow: generation Z competencies, green consumption values and the role of knowledge acquisition sources
Authors: Cyfert Szymon , Górka Joanna , Piórkowska Katarzyna , Dyduch Wojciech , Glabiszewski Waldemar , Batko Roman 
Published: December 2024

PurposeBased on studies combining sustainable development competencies and green consumption values, this paper aims to explore the relationship between Generation Z's sustainable development competencies and green consumption values and to determine how sources of sustainable knowledge acquisition moderate this relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe data collected from 1,570 students were analyzed using structural equation modeling.FindingsOur research confirms that sustainable development competencies positively and significantly impact Generation Z’s attitudes toward green consumption values. Furthermore, sources of sustainability knowledge acquisition moderate the relationship between sustainability literacy and Generation Z attitudes toward green consumption values. The findings suggest that the acquisition of sustainability knowledge from multiple sources is critical in shaping Generation Z attitudes toward green consumption values.Practical implicationsThe key to increasing attitudes toward green consumption values among Generation Z is to provide access to sources of sustainable development knowledge acquisition. Adequate information support generated by sources of sustainable development knowledge acquisition can help shape attitudes toward green consumption values that translate into appropriate purchasing decisions.Social implicationsThe survey indicates the significance of diversifying sources of sustainable development knowledge. Although the study received results suggest that Generation Z’s sustainable development competencies influence attitudes toward green consumption values, they allow us to note that much greater effects are generated when a variety of sources of sustainable development knowledge acquisition are used. Thus, it is desirable not only to communicate about sustainable development but also to tailor the sources of sustainable development knowledge acquisition to the audience’s expectations are desirable.Originality/valueThis study analyzes the relationships between sustainable development competencies and green consumption attitudes, thus filling the gap in sustainable development competencies research and broadening its scope. The results indicate the need to change attitudes through the development of competencies that should enable active and responsible participation in sustainability. At the same time, the research shows some links between green consumption and purchasing behavior, suggesting the influence of green consumption values and orientations on sustainable and environmentally friendly consumption.
Sexual harassment and employee performance in the construction industry: the mediating role of psychological distress and employee engagement
Authors: Kissi Ernest , Mireku Evans Kwesi , Labaran Musah , Simons Barbara 
Published: December 2024

PurposeThe construction industry presents a particularly notable and demanding setting where sexual harassment demands special consideration. With its largely male-dominated workforce, intense work settings and entrenched workplace norms, the construction sector provides a unique backdrop in which the complexities of sexual harassment manifest. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between sexual harassment and employee performance in the construction industry, with a particular focus on examining the mediating roles of psychological distress and employee engagement.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional survey design was utilized to collect data from 188 construction industry professionals. Participants completed validated questionnaires assessing their experiences with sexual harassment, levels of psychological distress, employee engagement and self-reported performance indicators. Partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was conducted to examine the direct and mediated effects of sexual harassment on employee performance through psychological distress and employee engagement.FindingsThe findings reveal a lack of statistical significance in the negative relationship between sexual harassment and employee performance within the construction sector. Furthermore, there was a significant negative relationship between sexual harassment and employee engagement. Employee engagement emerged as a full mediator, buffering the negative effects of harassment on performance and suggesting that engaged employees may be better equipped to cope with and mitigate the impact of harassment.Research limitations/implicationsThe study’s findings contribute to understanding workplace dynamics amidst sexual harassment in construction. Work engagement fully mediates the relationship, highlighting the need to prioritize initiatives aimed at enhancing employee engagement, such as promoting a supportive and fostering open communication channels between management and employees, can mitigate the occurrence and negative impacts of sexual harassment on employee performance. Continuous monitoring of engagement levels is crucial for sustaining positive work environments.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the existing literature by providing quantitative evidence of the relationship between sexual harassment and employee performance in the construction industry. By examining the mediating roles of psychological distress and employee engagement, the research offers a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying this relationship. The findings underscore the importance of addressing sexual harassment and promoting employee well-being to foster a safe and productive work environment in the construction industry.
Digital twin for sustainable development in building automation
Authors: Zhang Jingqi , Jiang Shaohua 
Published: December 2024

PurposeThis study investigates the impact and role of digital twin technology in building automation (DTBA) from a sustainability viewpoint. It aims to enhance the understanding of how DTBA can boost efficiency, optimize quality and support sustainable practices in contemporary construction. By exploring the integration of DTBA with sustainable practices, the study seeks to demonstrate how DT can revolutionize building management and operations, leading to significant improvements in resource efficiency, environmental impact and overall operational excellence.Design/methodology/approachThis research employs a bibliographic analysis and systematic review of 176 publications from the past five years (January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2023), focusing on the application and development of DTBA. The study methodically analyzes current trends, identifies research gaps and suggests future directions by synthesizing data from various studies, offering a comprehensive overview of the current state of DTBA research. The approach combines quantitative and qualitative analyses to provide robust insights into the advancements and challenges in the field.FindingsThe review identifies key development areas in DTBA, such as energy and environmental management, resource utilization within a circular economy and technology integration and interoperability. It highlights the necessity for further research to maximize DTBA’s potential in sustainable building automation. The findings suggest that while significant progress has been made, there is a critical need for innovations in data interoperability, predictive analytics and the integration of renewable energy sources to fully realize the benefits of DTBA in enhancing building sustainability.Originality/valueThis paper provides a thorough review of DTBA from a sustainability perspective, offering valuable insights into its current applications and future development potential. It serves as a crucial resource for researchers and practitioners looking to advance sustainable practices in the construction sector using DT technology. By bridging the gap between theoretical research and practical applications, the paper underscores the transformative potential of DTBA in driving sustainable development and provides a roadmap for future research and innovation in the field.
The impact of Islamic banks’ non-Shariah-compliant income on customers’ trust and commitment: case of Islamic banks in Pakistan
Authors: Usman Muhammad , Allah Pitchay Anwar , Azhar Zubir , Shaharudin Muhammad Shabir , Ganesan Yuvaraj 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
Islamic banking is a financial institution that is concerned with the regulation of the Shariah guidelines. Several full-fledged and Windows-based Islamic banks in Pakistan have reported non-Shariah-compliant income (NSCI) due to various operational investment activities. Hence, this issue has attracted this study to examine the impact of NSCI, especially from the perspective of Islamic bank (IB) customers’ trust and commitment.

Design/methodology/approach
This study used trust-commitment theory as the underlying theory to examine customers’ trust and commitment. A total of 341 questionnaires have been distributed, and the data is analysed using the structural equation modelling (SEM) method.

Findings
The results show the commitment of IB customers has a significant relationship with the benevolence, trust and shared values of the top management of IBs. Meanwhile, the other two constructs, the ability and integrity of the top management, are found to be insignificant.

Research limitations/implications
The gender diversity among banks’ customers in Pakistan is the main limitation in this study. There were difficulties in selecting a more representative sample due to gender domination issues in the country. Thus the data revealed that 62.8% were male respondents, which confirms the prior research on the gender disparity.

Originality/value
This study provides interesting insights into the context of Pakistan’s Islamic banking sector as it examines top management’s ability, integrity, benevolence and shared values to affect trust and commitment, and the role of trust as a mediator.
Micro-celebrity marketing-induced travels: a psychological ownership perspective
Authors: Chan Suk Ha Grace , Tang Binglin Martin , Lin Zhiwei (CJ) , Gao Kang Ying Connie 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
Despite the growing interest in micro-celebrities in destination marketing, their role in transferring cognitive, emotional and behavioral outcomes to destination psychological ownership (DPO) is underexplored. This study aims to address this void by investigating how the perceived characteristics of micro-celebrities influence travel intentions through interactive engagement, perceived information quality and DPO. It highlights three pathways for fostering DPO.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey-based design was developed with 302 samples collected and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling and artificial neural network to examine the hypothesized model.

Findings
Findings reveal that the expertise and attractiveness of micro-celebrities enhance their perceived personal trustworthiness. This perception encourages social media users to view travel information from micro-celebrities as higher quality and to engage more with them, leading to DPO. Consequently, when social media users experience this psychological ownership, they show a stronger intention to travel to the destination, influenced partly by micro-celebrity marketing.

Originality/value
This study provides a psychological–developmental perspective on micro-celebrity marketing-induced travels. It underscores the importance of fostering micro-celebrity-induced DPO to establish a sustained, mutually beneficial relationship between tourists and destinations.
Disclosure spillover from going‐private activity
Authors: Hinson Lisa A. , Piao Zhenhao (Jeffery) 
Published: December 2024

AbstractPublic firms that go private are no longer subject to SEC financial reporting requirements. This study examines peer firms' disclosure responses following the lost information spillover from going‐private events. We first support the lost information transfer, finding evidence that analyst forecasts of peers' earnings are less accurate and more disperse and that peer liquidity is lower immediately following going‐private transactions. In response, industry peers increase disclosure quality in mandatory filings. Peers that enhance disclosure regain some of the lost informational benefits. The disclosure response is most evident in firms that rely more on intra‐industry information spillover, firms with lower competitive concerns, and firms with the greatest deteriorations in their information environments after going‐private activity. Our study examines an underexplored aspect of going‐private transactions—the loss of public disclosure—and finds that the lost information imposes a negative externality that prompts peers to increase self‐disclosure to regain informational benefits.
Spatial immune heterogeneity in a mouse tumor model after immunotherapy
Authors: Smahel Michal , Johari Shweta Dilip , Smahelova Jana , Pfeiferova Lucie , Nunvar Jaroslav 
Published: December 2024

AbstractCancer immunotherapy is increasingly used in clinical practice, but its success rate is reduced by tumor escape from the immune system. This may be due to the genetic instability of tumor cells, which allows them to adapt to the immune response and leads to intratumoral immune heterogeneity. The study investigated spatial immune heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment and its possible drivers in a mouse model of tumors induced by human papillomaviruses (HPV) following immunotherapy. Gene expression was determined by RNA sequencing and mutations by whole exome sequencing. A comparison of different tumor areas revealed heterogeneity in immune cell infiltration, gene expression, and mutation composition. While the mean numbers of mutations with every impact on gene expression or protein function were comparable in treated and control tumors, mutations with high or moderate impact were increased after immunotherapy. The genes mutated in treated tumors were significantly enriched in genes associated with ECM metabolism, degradation, and interactions, HPV infection and carcinogenesis, and immune processes such as antigen processing and presentation, Toll‐like receptor signaling, and cytokine production. Gene expression analysis of DNA damage and repair factors revealed that immunotherapy upregulated Apobec1 and Apobec3 genes and downregulated genes related to homologous recombination and translesion synthesis. In conclusion, this study describes the intratumoral immune heterogeneity, that could lead to tumor immune escape, and suggests the potential mechanisms involved.
Beyond Words: ESC‐Net Revolutionizes VQA by Elevating Visual Features and Defying Language Priors
Authors: Chowdhury Souvik , Soni Badal 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTLanguage prior is a pressing problem in the VQA domain where a model provides an answer favoring the most frequent related answer. There are some methods that are adopted to mitigate language prior issue, for example, ensemble approach, the balanced data approach, the modified evaluation strategy, and the modified training framework. In this article, we propose a VQA model, “Ensemble of Spatial and Channel Attention Network (ESC‐Net),” to overcome the language bias problem by improving the visual features. In this work, we have used regional and global image features along with an ensemble of combined channel and spatial attention mechanisms to improve visual features. The model is a simpler and effective solution than existing methods to solve language bias. Extensive experiment show a remarkable performance improvement of 18% on the VQACP v2 dataset with a comparison to current state‐of‐the‐art (SOTA) models.
Eco‐Evolutionary Interactions With Multiple Evolving Species Reveal Both Antagonistic and Additive Effects
Authors: Vanvelk Héléne , Govaert Lynn , van den Berg Edwin M. , De Meester Luc 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTMost eco‐evolutionary research focuses on ecological effects of single‐species evolution. We, therefore, know little of eco‐evolutionary dynamics when multiple species evolve simultaneously. We quantified evolution‐mediated ecological effects in communities equivalent in genetic diversity and starting biomass, but different in selection background (heatwave exposure) of one or all four zooplankton species (three Daphnia and one Scapholeberis species). We observed transient eco‐evolutionary effects that differed depending on which species in the community had evolved. Evolution did not always lead to higher abundances of the evolved species. Indirect effects on species abundances caused by evolution of another species could be as strong as direct effects mediated by its own evolution. The cumulative effect of evolution in multiple species was antagonistic for community composition and grazing pressure but additive for community‐wide biomass. Our results imply that focusing on single species' evolutionary effects on ecology may lead to unreliable predictions when multiple species evolve simultaneously.
Coordination Between Bioelements Induce More Stable Macroelements Than Microelements in Wetland Plants
Authors: Zuo Zhenjun , Reich Peter B. , Qiao Xiujuan , Zhao Haocun , Zhang Liangjian , Yang Lei , Lv Tian , Tang Zhiyao , Yu Dan , Wang Zhong 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTElements are the basic substances that make up living organisms, and the element composition in plants quantitatively reflect the adaptation of plants to environment. However, the drivers that constitute the species‐specific plant elementome, as well as the bivariate bioelemental correlations in determining the stability of different bioelements are yet unclear. Based on 1058 leaf observations of 84 plant species from 232 wetlands across large environmental gradients, we found that bioelements with higher concentration were more stable and evolutionary constrained. We proposed a stability of well‐coordinated elements hypothesis, suggesting that bioelements that coordinate well in driving certain physiological functions constrain each other, thus maintaining relatively stable ratios in plants. In contrast, those functionally independent bioelements fluctuate greatly with environmental nutrient availability. Cold and saline stresses decreased plant stoichiometric network connectivity, complexity, and stability. Our research filled the gap in study of wetland plant elementome, and provided new evidences of plant–environment interactions in regions sensitive to climate change.
Levodopa–entacapone–carbidopa intestinal gel: Data from the Swedish national registry for Parkinson's disease
Authors: Öthman Mezin , Bergquist Filip , Odin Per , Scharfenort Monica , Johansson Anders , Markaki Ioanna , Svenningsson Per , Dizdar Nil , Nyholm Dag 
Published: December 2024

AbstractBackgroundLevodopa–entacapone–carbidopa intestinal gel (LECIG) was introduced on the Swedish market in 2019. The therapy is aimed at patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with fluctuations and dyskinesias. Long‐term efficacy and safety data are lacking.ObjectiveTo investigate the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of LECIG in regular clinical practice for Parkinson's disease in Sweden.MethodsReal‐world data were collected from the Swedish registry for Parkinson's disease (ParkReg) for all patients reported to receive LECIG during the period from 2019 until 31 August 2022.ResultsA total of 150 patients were identified. Sixty‐one (41%) of 150 patients were females. At the start of treatment, the median age was 73 years (range: 43–86). The median duration since motor symptoms onset was 17 years (IQR: 9). Fifty (33%) of 150 patients switched from another device‐assisted therapy, mostly LCIG (39 patients).Reported complications were mainly related to PEG‐J tube and stoma (30%). Twenty (13.3%) of 150 patients discontinued LECIG and 11 (7.3%) patients died while on LECIG.The Parkinson KinetiGraph scores for bradykinesia, dyskinesia, fluctuations, tremor, and immobility for 53 patients during LECIG showed good therapy control. The median (IQR) p‐Hcy during LECIG was 12 (4.6) μmol/L (n = 44). The median (IQR) PDQ‐8 summary index during LECIG was 31 (17) (n = 52). The median (IQR) EQ5D during LECIG was 0.62 (0.32) (n = 41).ConclusionsData from ParkReg covering 150 patients over 3 years show LECIG to be an effective and safe device‐aided therapy for advanced PD. However, the long‐term efficacy and tolerability of LECIG need to be further investigated.
Improving fracture toughness and densification behavior of single‐phase TaC–HfC ceramic with carbon additives
Authors: Rezaei Firouz , Ghassemi Kakroudi Mahdi , Shahedifar Vahideh , Balak Zohre 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis investigation was undertaken to determine the role of carbon additives on the densification behavior and fracture toughness of TaC–HfC ceramic. The composition of TaC‐19 vol% HfC‐5 vol% VC with 10 vol% nano graphite/10 vol% nano carbon black was sintered by hot‐pressing (HP) method. Also, the sintering temperature varied from 1700°C to 2000°C. Vanadium carbide was used as a sintering aid to minimize the porosity for the given hot‐pressing temperatures while keeping the consolidation temperature low. The analysis of XRD patterns revealed that the sintering process led to the formation of a ternary solid solution in the samples accompanied by the entire consumption of HfC and VC phases. Also, the presence of carbon additives increased the relative density from 96% to 100% by enhancing the sintering temperature from 1700°C to 2000°C. It was significantly higher than the carbon‐free sample, which had a maximum value of 96.7% at 2000°C. The results also indicated that the maximum fracture toughness of 7.1 MPa.m1/2 was obtained for nano carbon black contained samples at the sintering temperature of 1900°C and above. The toughening mechanisms in samples were discussed, too.
Infants' Expectations for Helping in Imitators
Authors: Pepe Bill , Powell Lindsey J. 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTHuman infants seem to make positive social inferences about individuals who imitate others. In three preregistered experiments we test if these inferences include an expectation that imitators will be helpful, and also ask if the inferences infants make are about imitators' dispositions or primarily about their relationships. In each experiment 8‐ to 9‐month‐old infants saw one individual imitate, and another individual not imitate, the same target social partner. When the imitator and non‐imitator had the opportunity to help the target individual they had previously interacted with, infants looked longer when the non‐imitator helped than when the imitator helped. However, when the potential recipient of help was a new social partner, infants' looking did not differ when the imitator or non‐imitator helped. Overall, these results support the hypothesis that infants perceive imitation as prosocial or affiliative and thus expect imitators to be helpful. However, these expectations are limited to inferences about a specific prosocial relationship between the imitator and their target.