bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Financial inclusion matters for economic growth in India
Authors: Sethi Dinabandhu , Sethy Susanta Kumar 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial inclusion (FI) and economic growth in India.

Design/methodology/approach
To measure FI, a multidimensional time-varying index is proposed following the Human Development Index method. The long-run relationship between FI and economic growth is examined by using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration and nonlinear ARDL approach. Further, the direction of causality is investigated by employing the Toda–Yamamoto Granger causality test.

Findings
The linear cointegration test confirms a long-run relationship between FI and economic growth for India. The improvement in both demand-side and supply-side financial services has a positive impact on economic growth. These results suggest that India can attain long-run economic growth by improving the coverage of FI. However, there is no evidence of nonlinear cointegration, indicating that there is no asymmetric effect of FI on economic growth. Further, the causality test shows that FI granger causes economic growth but not vice versa.

Research limitations/implications
The major limitation of the study is the availability of time series data for all important variables. The index for both demand- and supply-side indicators can be extended with several other important variables in later date once the data are available for those variables.

Practical implications
As the study confirms that FI is one of the main drivers of economic growth, it is suggested that the policy maker emphasizing on financial sector reforms can enjoy economic growth in the long run, especially in developing countries. Therefore, the government and policy makers need to address the issues involved in access to financial services to spur economic growth.

Originality/value
The study examines the long-run relationship between FI and economic growth employing ARDL bound testing approach and nonlinear ARDL approach, separately for demand-side and supply-side indicators. Further, the study uses the Toda–Yamamoto granger causality to find the direction of causal flow between FI and economic growth.
The role of the consistency between objective and perceived environmental uncertainty in supply chain risk management
Authors: Yu Kangkang , Cadeaux Jack , Luo Nanfeng , Qian Cheng , Chen Zhenghao 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand how the consistency between objective and perceived environmental uncertainty might affect supply chain flexibilities that cope with supply chain risk.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a case study of comparative four companies in order to obtain an in-depth knowledge of the environmental conditions under which the companies implement different types of supply chain risk management (SCRM) strategies: logistics flexibility and relationship flexibility.FindingsThe case analysis not only distinguished the different effects of objective and perceived environmental uncertainty on supply chain flexibility, but also established the propositions about the effects of the consistency between objective and perceived environmental uncertainty on logistics flexibility and relationship flexibility in SCRM.Originality/valueIn principle, supply chain flexibility aims to cope with complex and turbulent environments. Yet, empirical findings about the effects of environmental uncertainty on supply chain flexibility are inconclusive. This study addressed this question by differentiating between objective and perceived environmental uncertainty as well as between logistics and relationship supply chain flexibilities.
Refugee special economic zones
Authors: Moberg Lotta , Reil Sebastian 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to show how special economic zones (SEZs) can be applied to refugee camps. Zones are powerful tools for investors to act like institutional entrepreneurs, who promote institutional reform by pursuing exemptions from government constraints and taxes or by advocating for reform. Refugee SEZs (R-SEZs) would similarly allow for institutional entrepreneurs to promote broader immigration reform.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors apply a political economy framework to R-SEZs that explores the factors that make them feasible. A mathematical model is applied to explicitly define the conditions under which the zones could succeed in benefiting refugees, investors and the host economy alike.

Findings
Under certain conditions, appropriate tax rates can be applied to R-SEZs that make them feasible. Feasibility is determined by being beneficial for the host country while also attracting investors. The zones are feasible if they attract enough foreign investors as opposed to domestic investors. Other factors contributing to zone success are higher wages outside the zone, lower wages inside it, higher cost to the government of non-employed refugees, lower relocation cost for businesses and a higher tax rate outside the zone.

Practical implications
This policy would aim to provide job opportunities to refugees, profit opportunities to investors and lower net costs for the host government. R-SEZs should be considered by policy makers in countries hosting refugee camps. Just like the old model of SEZs, they can benefit workers while also enhancing the government’s budget.

Social implications
R-SEZs have the potential to alleviate the refugee crisis the world is facing, which is arguably one of the largest social challenges of our time.

Originality/value
This paper is the first to outline the political economy conditions for SEZs applied to refugee camps.
Involuntary delisting in the Japanese stock market
Authors: Park Jinwoo , Shiroshita Kengo , Sun Naili , Park Yun W. 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the wealth effect of involuntary delisting and investigate insider opportunism and the role of corporate governance, liquidity and legal environment in involuntary delisting in Japan’s stock market.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors use a sample of 136 involuntarily delisted firms in Japan’s stock markets between 2002 and 2012. The authors examine ownership changes of inside shareholders prior to delisting and estimate regression models for the wealth effect of involuntary delisting.

Findings
Involuntary delisting is highly disruptive in Japan, and limited liquidity of delisted stocks appears to be an important cause. However, the ownership reduction of inside shareholders before delisting is limited, totaling 2–3 percent. For delisted firms with an insider bank, the decrease in share price leading up to a delisting announcement is much less, while the decrease in share price upon a delisting announcement is far greater.

Originality/value
The study investigates involuntary delisting in regard to the opportunistic behavior of inside shareholders and the role of institutional environment in Japan’s stock market. Insiders, especially insider banks, maintain ownership in a distressful context leading to the forcible delisting of a distressed firm. The authors find some evidence that suggests that the market believes the insider bank will try to prevent the ailing firm’s insolvency. The findings are consistent with the implicit relational contracts that characterize Japanese firms.
San Francisco Through Bogotá’s Eyes: Leveraging Urban Policy Change through the Circulation of Media Objects
Authors: Montero Sergio 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis article connects two emerging debates in urban studies—the need to pay more attention to the role of nonhuman actors in urban planning and the ways in which media objects affect urban politics and planning—by examining how a video on Bogotá’s car‐free Ciclovía program facilitated the adoption and implementation of a similar program in San Francisco. The analysis shows that media objects have the capacity to act as fulcrums in processes of leveraging urban policy change owing to their potential to alter urban governance structures. The article analyzes the digital storytelling and ‘eye‐opening’ practices through which the video enabled policy changes to be implemented in San Francisco, while also tracing the local and transnational actors, networks and agendas that were involved in the production and circulation of the video through digital archival research and multi‐sited fieldwork. In doing so, it shows the active role that media objects play in shaping urban policymaking processes and provides an example of a relational methodology for studying the digital materialities through which urban policy ideas increasingly circulate.
Playing with the Rules of the Game: Social Innovation for Urban Transformation
Authors: Thompson Matthew 
Published: August 2018

AbstractInnovation is perhaps the buzzword in local economic development policy. Associated narrowly with neoliberal ideas, conventional notions of innovation—like its capitalocentric counterparts, enterprise and entrepreneurialism—may promise higher productivity, global competitiveness and technological progress but do not fundamentally change the ‘rules of the game’. In contrast, an emerging field reimaginessocialinnovation as disruptive change in social relations and institutional configurations. This article explores the conceptual and political differences within this pre‐paradigmatic field, and argues for a more transformative understanding of social innovation. Building on the work of David Graeber, I mobilize the novel constructs of ‘play’ and ‘games’ to advance our understanding of the contradictory process of institutionalizing social innovation for urban transformation. This is illustrated through a case study of Liverpool, where diverse approaches to innovation are employed in attempts to resolve longstanding socio‐economic problems. Dominant market‐ and state‐led economic development policies—likened to a ‘regeneration game’—are contrasted with more experimental, creative, democratic and potentially more effective forms of social innovation, seeking urban change through playing with the rules of the game. I conclude by considering how the play–game dialectic illuminates and reframes the way transformative social innovation might be cultivated by urban policy, the contradictions this entails, and possible ways forward.
The Forever Frontier of Urbanism: Historicizing Persian Gulf Cities
Authors: Boodrookas Alex , Keshavarzian Arang 
Published: August 2018

AbstractIn recent years, Persian Gulf cities have become symbols of the most spectacular forms of the ‘globalization of urbanization’. Current scholarship has sought to situate these cities in transnational processes and linkages with conceptualizations of ‘the global city’ and the mechanisms of ‘worlding’. This article builds on but moves beyond this line of analysis by turning to the histories of this region and its built environment to explore the longue‐durée influence of capital and empire operating across multiple scales. From this perspective, the glittering high‐rises and manmade islands are contemporary manifestations of a century of urban forms and logics of social control emanating from company towns, the struggles of state building, and the circulation and fixing of capital. To grasp how the Persian Gulf region has been remade as a frontier for accumulation, the analysis in this article blurs the boundaries between metropole and periphery, reconceptualizing the region not as an eclectic sideshow, but as a central site for global shifts in urbanism, capitalism and architecture in the twentieth century.
Correlation of volatile compound concentrations with bacterial counts in whole pasteurised milk under various storage conditions
Authors: Ziyaina Mohamed , Rasco Barbara , Coffey Todd , Mattinson D Scott , Sablani Shyam 
Published: August 2018

This study investigated the relationship between bacterial counts and volatile organic compound (VOC) formation in 3.9% fat milk. The milk was stored at 7, 10, 13, 15 and 19 (±1 °C). Volatile compounds were measured using solid‐phase microextraction with gas chromatography. Enzyme activity was also monitored throughout the shelf life. Results show that volatile organic compound concentrations increased with higher bacterial counts (5.0–7.0 log10 cfu/mL). Bacterial counts correlated closely with acetaldehyde, butanone, ethanol, hexanal, acetone and fatty acid concentrations. Results indicate that protease and lipase activities increased and correlated closely with VOCs. Formation of VOCs was detectable when protease and lipase activities reached 1.2–1.3 U/mL and 0.32–0.350 meq/mL, respectively. These findings provide a basis for the monitoring of milk quality using chemical sensors that are sensitive to VOCs, particularly under conditions of thermal abuse.
Fetal microchimerism by mode of delivery: a prospective cohort study
Authors: Shree R , Harrington WE , Kanaan SB , Forsyth A , Cousin E , Lopez A , Nelson JL , Gammill HS 
Published: August 2018

ObjectiveTo compare fetal microchimerism (FMc) in pregnancies with uncomplicated vaginal delivery (VD) versus caesarean delivery (CD).DesignProspective cohort study.SettingUniversity of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA.PopulationWomen delivering singleton pregnancies without pertinent antenatal complications with uncomplicated deliveries (n = 36).MethodsWe collected maternal predelivery, postdelivery and umbilical cord blood for each mother–baby pair. Following maternal and fetal genotyping, FMc was measured with quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays targeting fetus‐specific polymorphisms. Quantification of FMc is expressed as genome equivalents (gEq) of fetal DNA/100 000 total gEq tested. FMc detection was evaluated by logistic regression while controlling for total number of cell equivalents tested and clinically relevant covariates. FMc concentrations were compared using negative binomial regression while controlling for the same covariates and predelivery FMc positivity.Main outcome measureDetection and concentration of FMc by mode of delivery.ResultsTwenty‐four mother–baby pairs had a VD and 12 had a CD. Postdelivery FMc detection was higher following CD than after VD (58.3% versus 16.7%, P = 0.02). After controlling for covariates, the likelihood of postdelivery FMc detection was almost nine‐fold higher after CD than VD (odds ratio 8.8, 95% CI 1.6–47.6; P = 0.01). With respect to postdelivery FMc concentration, the detection rate ratio for CD versus VD in the adjusted negative binomial regression model was 14.7 (95% CI 3.2–66.8; P = 0.001).ConclusionPostdelivery peripheral FMc detection and concentration are significantly higher after CD than after VD. As FMc is associated with long‐term maternal health, our findings suggest that the mode of delivery may impact this risk.Tweetable abstractGreater fetal microchimerism found in maternal blood following caesarean delivery compared with vaginal delivery.
Are all aspects of lean production bad for workers? An analysis of how problem‐solving demands affect employee well‐being
Authors: Huo Meng‐Long , Boxall Peter 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis study is concerned with the debate around employee well‐being in the environment of lean production. It applies the job demands–resources model to examine the effects of problem‐solving demands and job resources (training, participation in decision‐making, and line manager support) on employee engagement and exhaustion in a Chinese manufacturer. It examines previously untested interactions and shows that these job resources created a “buffering effect” in the relationship between problem‐solving demands and exhaustion. It also shows a “coping effect” because the relationship between resources and engagement was strengthened as problem‐solving demands increased. Rather than being uniformly positive or negative, the results suggest that the overall impact of lean production on worker well‐being is likely to depend on the ways in which managers create scope for worker involvement in decision‐making, target resources to the specific job demands, and adjust resource levels to the degree of these demands.
Using a Functional Carrot Powder Ingredient to Produce Sausages with High Levels of Nutraceuticals
Authors: Alvarado‐Ramírez Melissa , Santana‐Gálvez Jesús , Santacruz Arlette , Carranza‐Montealvo Luis Diego , Ortega‐Hernández Erika , Tirado‐Escobosa Joaquín , Cisneros‐Zevallos Luis , Jacobo‐Velázquez Daniel A. 
Published: August 2018

AbstractIn this study, a functional carrot powder (FCP) ingredient was obtained by applying wounding stress to carrot (shredding and storing for 48 hr at 15 °C) prior to dehydration (60 °C) and milling. Likewise, FCP was incorporated into sausage formulations, which were further characterized. The application of wounding stress in carrots resulted in a FCP with higher fiber (30.1%) and chlorogenic acid (798.4%) content as compared with control carrot powder (CCP). Likewise, FCP showed higher water (19%) and oil (3.9%) absorption capacity as compared with CCP. Sausage formulation with 4% (w/w) of FCP was characterized, further evaluated during storage (42 days, 4 °C), and compared with a formulation added with 4% (w/w) CCP. FCP and CCP formulations increased fiber of sausages by 72.7%, and fortified them with carotenoids, providing 30% to 40% of vitamin A daily requirements per portion (62.5 g). FCP did not affect purge loss, and sausages contained 270% and 377% more total phenolics and chlorogenic acid content as compared with CCP sausages. FCP formulation presented adequate sensory acceptability and its carotenoid and phenolic content remained stable during storage. Results indicated that FCP could be used as an ingredient in sausage formulation to increase the content of nutraceuticals without affecting its shelf‐life.Practical ApplicationWounding stress (by shredding) was applied to carrots prior to dehydration and milling to obtain a carrot powder with higher fiber and phenolic compounds as compared with control carrot powder (CCP). FCP showed higher water and oil absorption capacity than CCP. FCP addition to sausage formulations at 4% didn't affect purge loss, and resulted in sausages with higher phenolic compounds and dietary fiber. Furthermore, FCP formulations presented adequate sensory acceptability and its carotenoid and phenolic content remained stable during storage. FCP could be used as an ingredient in sausage formulation to increase the content of nutraceuticals without affecting its shelf‐life.
The achievement of boar spermin vitrocapacitation is related to an increase of disrupted disulphide bonds and intracellular reactive oxygen species levels
Authors: Betarelli R. P. , Rocco M. , Yeste M. , Fernández‐Novell J. M. , Placci A.  , Azevedo Pereira B. , Castillo‐Martín M. , Estrada E. , Peña A. , Zangeronimo M. G. , Rodríguez‐Gil J. E. 
Published: August 2018

SummaryThe aim of this work was to determine the relationship of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the disulphide bonds established between sperm proteins with the achievement of capacitation in boar spermatozoa. With this purpose, spermatozoa were incubated in a specifically designedin vitrocapacitation medium (CM) in the presence or absence of reduced glutathione (GSH). Incubation of boar spermatozoa in CM for 4 h significantly (p < 0.05) increased free cysteine residues, which is a marker of disrupted disulphide bonds, and also intracellular ROS levels. The addition of GSH to the medium prevented most capacitation‐like changes in sperm motility, membrane lipid disorder, mitochondrial membrane potential, intracellular calcium levels and localization of tyrosine‐phosphorylated proteins (pTyr), but not in tyrosine phosphorylation of P32. These effects were accompanied by the inhibition of the ability of sperm cells to trigger the acrosome exocytosis in response to progesterone. When GSH was added together with progesterone after 4 h of incubation, acrosome exocytosis was not altered, but the subsequent decrease in intracellular calcium observed in controls cells was inhibited. Furthermore, co‐incubation of oocytes with spermatozoa previously incubated in CM in the presence of GSH for 4 h significantly (p < 0.05) increased the number of spermatozoa attached to the oocyte surface but decreased normal fertilization rates. Our results suggest that boar sperm capacitation is related to an increase in disrupted disulphide bonds and intracellular ROS levels and that both events are related to the regulation of hyperactivated motility, intracellular calcium dynamics, sperm binding ability to the oocyte and achievement of proper nuclear decondensation upon oocyte penetration.
Designing an ultra‐short antibacterial peptide with potent activity against Mupirocin‐resistant MRSA
Authors: Arfan Giovinna , Ong Chu Yang Fann , Ng Siew Mei Samantha , Lau Qiu Ying , Ng Fui Mee , Ong Esther Hong Qian , Hill Jeffrey , Chia Cheng San Brian 
Published: August 2018

AbstractStaphylococcus aureus is the pathogen responsible for the majority of human skin infections. In particular, the methicillin‐resistant variety, MRSA, has become a global clinical concern. The extensive use of mupirocin, the first‐line topical antibacterial drug of choice, has led to the emergence of mupirocin‐resistant MRSA globally, resulting in the urgent need for a replacement. Antimicrobial peptides are deemed plausible candidates. Herein, we describe a structure–activity relationship approach in the design of an ultra‐short peptide with potent anti‐MRSA activity with a rapid, bactericidal mode of action. Coupled to a low cytotoxic activity, we believe our lead compound can be developed into a topical antibacterial agent to replace mupirocin as the first‐line drug for treating MRSA skin infections.
New resistance mutations to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors at codon 184 of HIV‐1 reverse transcriptase (M184L and M184T)
Authors: Pouga Lydia , Santoro Maria Mercedes , Charpentier Charlotte , Di Carlo Domenico , Romeo Isabella , Artese Anna , Alcaro Stefano , Antinori Andrea , Wirden Marc , Perno Carlo Federico , Ambrosio Francesca Alessandra , Calvez Vincent , Descamps Diane , Marcelin Anne‐Geneviève , Ceccherini‐Silberstein Francesca , Lambert‐Niclot Sidonie 
Published: August 2018

AbstractMutations at HIV‐1 reverse transcriptase (RT) codon 184 such as M184V confer resistance to two nucleos(t)ide RT inhibitors (NRTI), lamivudine (3TC) and emtricitabine (FTC). The prevalence of mutations at HIV‐1 RT codon 184 was evaluated using three independent RT sequence databases from treatment‐experienced (TE) and treatment‐naïve (TN) individuals. Data were collected retrospectively from three centers: one in Italy and two in France between 1997 and 2016. In order to highlight the role of these mutations in conferring drug resistance, structural and thermodynamic analyses were conducted by means of computational approaches. Among 32,440 RT sequences isolated from TE and 12,365 isolated from TN patients, the prevalence of HIV‐1 RT codon 184 substitutions in each group was 31.21% and 0.72%, respectively. The mutations M184L and M184T have been observed only in TE patients. In all cases but four, M184L and M184T mutations were present during NRTI treatment. Molecular recognition studies on M184L and M184T structures showed both FTC and 3TC thermodynamic profiles unfavorable in comparison with the wild‐type sequence, corroborated by molecular dynamic simulations (MDS). In this study, we highlighted two new resistance mutations in vivo for NRTI resistance. The low frequency of this pathway can be related to high impairment of replicative capacity mediated by these mutations.