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Marketing and consumption of art products: the movie industry
Authors: Ulker-Demirel Elif , Akyol Ayse , Simsek Gülhayat Gölbasi 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the importance, assigned by audiences, of factors such as people, movie features, script, price, promotion, and distribution channels (defined as a movie marketing mix) on the audience’s buying intentions, as well as the impact of their buying intentions on word of mouth (WOM). In addition, the intention is to explore the relationship between the preference and frequency of people’s cultural event attendance with their buying intention and the relationship between people with extroverted personalities and WOM.

Design/methodology/approach
The data were collected from 904 valid surveys conducted in Beyoglu, one of the important centres for the culture and art life of the Istanbul.

Findings
The results show that promotion, actor or actress, and diversity of distribution channels have a positive effect on people’s purchase intention. In addition, the frequency of attendance to cultural events can be determinative of the audience and helpful for industry professionals.

Originality/value
Although there have been a number of studies that examine the simple relationships among some of these variables (movie marketing mix, attendance, purchase intention, WOM, extraversion), there is still a gap in the literature with regard to these variables in an integrated framework. Considering these variables in the same model and analysing the effects of each dimension individually provides a better explanation of consumer purchase intention and post-purchase behaviour in the movie industry. This study extends the previous research by incorporating the concept of movie marketing and consumption by improving the scale with data collected in Istanbul, Turkey.
“I Hope I Get It”: impact of Tony Award nominations and wins on Broadway production longevity
Authors: Warne Russell Thomas 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to ascertain the relative impact of different Tony Award nominations and wins on the financial success of a Broadway theater production, as defined by the length of the production’s run.Design/methodology/approachCox hazard regression was used to identify the impact of Tony Award nominations and wins (time-varying covariates), while controlling for several time-invariant covariates: type of production (play or musical, revival or original Broadway production), production costs (operationalized via the cast size), the month and year of opening, and initial marketing success (defined as the percentage of first full week’s tickets sold).FindingsThe award with the strongest relationship with production longevity was the Tony Award for Best Musical (nomination OR=0.566,p=0.110; win OR=0.323,p=0.020). Several other awards had a relationship with production longevity, but most were not statistically significant.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitations include the low statistical power for many time-varying covariates and the cumulative impact of multiple awards was not investigated. Future researchers interested in the Broadway industry should not combine Tony Awards because of the varying impact on economic outcomes for a production.Originality/valueThis study is the first to investigate all 22 Tony Award nominations and wins and their individual impact on an economic outcome. This paper includes the study’s raw data and SPSS syntax to comply with open science practices. The author encourages readers to replicate the analysis.
Day, duration, and start time: are the arts providing what their audiences require?
Authors: Rhine Anthony S. , Murnin Patrick M. 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore whether variations in factors such as start time, duration of event, and day of presentation might lead to improved attendance at performing arts events in the USA.Design/methodology/approachThe research was conducted using a quantitative strategy. The approach consisted of a survey design that explored preference data for respondents. The data were examined to look for emergent themes in both raw data and cross-tabulations. The data collection also included survey questions for conjoint analysis, a form of regression analysis that compares consumer trade-offs for various levels of different attributes.FindingsThe researchers found that while anecdotal evidence regarding performing arts attendance largely holds up, there is room to explore the possibility that modern-day consumers require events of shorter duration, and that the utility of Saturday attendance is so overwhelming that start time preference can be manipulated within the Saturday level of that attribute with minimal effect on overall utility.Originality/valueThe study begins to fill a gap in the literature regarding attendance preference for the performing arts regarding several attributes. The study opens a discussion on how to address declining attendance figures by considering some of the factors that are likely contributing to the decline.
The value of social capital in farmland leasing relationships
Authors: Taylor Mykel R. , Featherstone Allen M. 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of social capital on the rate at which agricultural land is rented between landowners and tenants using data from the state of Kansas.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey of tenants provides data on the rental rate of farmland as well as characteristics of the lease, the land, and the landowner.

Findings
Results support the hypothesis of a negative impact on rental rates from longer-term leasing relationships. The model estimates a 10.0 percent discount relative to market rates when the leasing relationship increases from 11 to 22 years. At the sample average of $64 per acre, this is a $10 per acre discount.

Research limitations/implications
Increased levels of social capital, as measured by the length of the leasing relationship between landowner and tenant, reduce the rental rate. A 10 percent increase in the number of years a parcel of land is leased to the same tenant will decrease the annual rental rate by 1 percent.

Originality/value
Research adds to the understanding of informal relationships underlying farmland leases. A large number of farmland tracts may turnover in the coming years. This turnover may affect the rental rates for tenants who have had long-term leasing relationships over time.
Confucianism: measurement and association with workforce performance
Authors: Viengkham Doris , Baumann Chris , Winzar Hume 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThis paper reconsiders the approaches to measuring Confucian values, and tests their association with workforce performance. The purpose of this paper is to examine how such values and performances are prioritized across three East Asian societies, but more importantly, identifies how variations across societies might result from the way in which Confucianism has been transformed/appropriated differently across history.Design/methodology/approachA Best-Worst experimental design is used to measure three aspects of Confucianism (relational, pedagogical, and transformative), and three aspects of workforce performance (mindset, organization, and process) to capture the trade-offs by respondents from three East Asian societies: China (n=274), Taiwan (n=264), and South Korea (n=254). The study employs analysis of variance withpost-hoctests to examine differences between societies. A hierarchical cluster analysis using Ward’s method is utilized to identify clusters based on similarities within the data. And last, multiple regression analysis is applied to determine the explanatory power of Confucian values on workforce performance.FindingsFindings confirm the prioritization of three aspects of Confucianism (relational, pedagogical, and transformative) to differ between Mainland Chinese, Taiwan Chinese, and Korean respondents – producing five distinct clusters based on similarities across three societies. Overall, between 7 and 27 percent of the variance in workforce performance could be explained by the Confucian values included in this study.Originality/valueThis study highlights the “different shades of Confucianism” across East Asian societies, which we coin as Confucian Origin, Preservation, and Pragmatism, and demonstrates the need to take a multifaceted perspective in the measurement of Confucian culture. The study provides empirical support for the link between Confucianism and performance at the micro-level, as originally proposed by Baumann and Winzar (2017), and identifies specific antecedents of behavior for research moving forward.
Leaders’ intimidation impression management and subordinates’ affective job commitment in Nigeria
Authors: Asawo Soye Peniel , George Benibo Meeting 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The quality of the relationship between leaders and their followers appears to be one of the critical determinants of employees’ commitment at work. For instance, it has been empirically established that the impressions that managers convey of themselves to their subordinates, is a critical factor in the leader-follower relationship. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between leaders’ intimidation impression management (IM) and subordinates’ affective job commitment in the telecommunications industry in Nigeria.

Design/methodology/approach
The design adopted for this study is the cross-sectional survey design. The questionnaire was utilized to generate data from a sample of 306 employees from the six major telecommunication companies in Nigeria. The Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient was used as the inferential test statistic for assessing the relationship between leaders’ intimidation IM and subordinates’ affective job commitment.

Findings
The results showed that leaders’ threat, warning, fear-arousal, and discomfort-arousal all had significant but weak association with subordinates’ affective job commitment. The study thus found that as leaders apply intimidation IM strategies, workers’ sense of emotive attachment to their organization only improves minimally.

Research limitations/implications
Data were generated from employees, indicating that the outcome is based on their perception which may be skewed.

Practical implications
The outcome of the study will help managers in the Nigerian telecommunication industry to avoid the pitfalls that are associated with the arbitrary and excessive use of intimidation as an IM tactic. Rather, they would be guided to encourage good quality leader-member-exchange between them and their subordinates in enhancing individual and organizational performance.

Originality/value
This is the first main work to examine and identify the nature of the predictive effect of leaders’ intimidation IM on subordinates’ affective job commitment in the telecommunications industry in Nigeria.
Do financial crises erode potential output? A cross-country analysis of industrial and emerging economies
Authors: Oliveira Fernando Nascimento , Petrassi Myrian 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze empirically if financial crises have decreased potential output for a selected group of economies.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors estimate different country-specific stylized Phillips curves to verify if inflationary pressures were stronger on the recovery periods after financial crises, relative to the recovery periods after recessions.

Findings
The results, in general, do not show any clear empirical evidence that financial crises erode potential output. Moreover, there are no apparent differences in terms of the effects of financial crises over potential output between emerging and industrial economies.

Research limitations/implications
This paper sheds light on the widely debated issue of whether financial crises constitute adverse supply shocks that lead to impairment in an economy’s productive potential. In interpreting the results, the authors must first recognize that all of them are based on the reduced-form relationships. Thus, they are about correlations and not necessarily about true structural relationships.

Practical implications
The study is very important for policy makers and specially Central Banks worldwide.

Social implications
The loss of potential output is a very serious economic and social phenomenon. This paper sheds light on the debate if financial crisis lead to losses of potential output.

Originality/value
The paper is original in using more Phillips curves and because it studies also the behavior of emerging economies.
Multiplier effects under a disaggregate economic base model
Authors: Gkouzos Andreas , Christofakis Manolis 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the multiplier effects of economic activities in the local economy of Greek non-metropolitan prefectures at NUTS3 level according to the Eurostat classification.Design/methodology/approachA disaggregate economic base model using OLS regression with clustered standard errors is implemented in 49 non-metropolitan prefectures and 17 economic activities for 2000 and 2012. The specific model indicates a clear picture of multiplier effects of economic activities among the prefectures as it has a similar logic to the input-output analysis while bearing in mind the spatial effects among prefectures. The specific model has not applied for testing base multipliers in the Greek economy according to the academic literature.FindingsNon-traditional export-oriented activities play a significant role in the economic growth of the non-metropolitan prefectures. Their multiplier effects are higher than the traditional basic activities. Especially, some of these activities indicate strong shifts on specific local activities, which tend to be the significant multiplier effects on the overall local economy. Of course, the existence of agglomeration economies plays a considerable role in non-metropolitan prefectures with a significant population and non-metropolitan prefectures which are in insular space or belong to the perimetric and interior mountainous space, which are sparsely populated.Originality/valueThe specific model applies at the NUTS3 level, according to the Eurostat classification. Also, the model indicates that the multiplier effects come from non-traditional export activities, such as, information-communication, arts entertainment, health services, professional support services and real estate in the overall local economy. Finally, the spatial correlation influences the sectoral multipliers.
A Proposed Chaperone of the Bacterial Type VI Secretion System Functions To Constrain a Self-Identity Protein
Authors: Zepeda-Rivera Martha A. , Saak Christina C. , Gibbs Karine A. 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

The bacterium
Proteus mirabilis
can communicate identity through the secretion of the self-identity protein IdsD via the type VI secretion (T6S) system. IdsD secretion is essential for self-versus-nonself recognition behaviors in these populations. Here we provide an answer to the unresolved question of how the activity of a T6S substrate, such as IdsD, is regulated before secretion. We demonstrate that IdsD is found in clusters that form independently of the T6S machinery and activity. We show that the IdsC protein, which is a member of the proposed DUF4123 chaperone family, is essential for the maintenance of these clusters and of the IdsD protein itself. We provide evidence that amino acid disruptions in IdsC are sufficient to disrupt IdsD secretion but not IdsD localization into subcellular clusters, strongly supporting the notion that IdsC functions in at least two different ways: maintaining IdsD levels and secreting IdsD. We propose that IdsC, and likely other DUF4123-containing proteins, functions to regulate T6S substrates in the donor cell both by maintaining protein levels and by mediating secretion at the T6S machinery.

IMPORTANCE
Understanding the subcellular dynamics of self-identity proteins is crucial for developing models of self-versus-nonself recognition. We directly addressed how a bacterium restricts self-identity information before cell-cell exchange. We resolved two conflicting models for type VI secretion (T6S) substrate regulation by focusing on the self-identity protein IdsD. One model is that a cognate immunity protein binds the substrate, inhibiting activity before transport. Another model proposes that DUF4123 proteins act as chaperones in the donor cell, but no detailed molecular mechanism was previously known. We resolve this discrepancy and propose a model wherein a chaperone couples IdsD sequestration with its localization. Such a molecular mechanism restricts the communication of identity, and possibly other T6S substrates, in producing cells.
Changing nationwide trends in endoscopic, medical and surgical admissions for inflammatory bowel disease: 2003–2013
Authors: Ahmad Ahmir , Laverty Anthony A , Alexakis Chris , Cowling Tom , Saxena Sonia , Majeed Azeem , Pollok Richard C G 
Published: March 2018

Background and study aimsIn the last decade, there have been major advances in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) management but their impact on hospital admissions requires evaluation. We aim to investigate nationwide trends in IBD surgical/medical elective and emergency admissions, including endoscopy and cytokine inhibitor infusions, between 2003 and 2013.Patients and methodsWe used Hospital Episode Statistics and population data from the UK Office for National Statistics.ResultsAge-sex standardised admission rates increased from 76.5 to 202.9/100 000 (p<0.001) and from 69.5 to 149.5/100 000 (p<0.001) for Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) between 2003–2004 and 2012–2013, respectively. Mean length of stay (days) fell significantly for elective (from 2.6 to 0.7 and from 2.0 to 0.7 for CD and UC, respectively) and emergency admissions (from 9.2 to 6.8 and from 10.8 to 7.6 for CD and UC, respectively). Elective lower gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy rates decreased from 6.3% to 3.7% (p<0.001) and from 18.4% to 17.6% (p=0.002) for CD and UC, respectively. Elective major abdominal surgery rates decreased from 2.8% to 1.0% (p<0.001) and from 4.9 to 2.4 (p=0.010) for CD and UC, respectively, with emergency rates also decreasing significantly for CD. Between 2006-2007 and 2012-2013, elective admission rates for cytokine-inhibitor infusions increased from 11.1 to 57.2/100 000 and from 1.4 to 12.1/100 000 for CD and UC, respectively.ConclusionsRising IBD hospital admission rates in the past decade have been driven by an increase in the incidence and prevalence of IBD. Lower GI endoscopy and surgery rates have fallen, while cytokine inhibitor infusion rates have risen. There has been a concurrent shift from emergency care to shorter elective hospital stays. These trends indicate a move towards more elective medical management and may reflect improvements in disease control.
Non-alcoholic steatofibrosis (NASF) can independently predict mortality in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
Authors: Golabi Pegah , Stepanova Maria , Pham Huong T , Cable Rebecca , Rafiq Nila , Bush Haley , Gogoll Trevor , Younossi Zobair M 
Published: March 2018

BackgroundHepatic fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) independently predicts mortality. Given liver biopsy’s invasive nature, non-invasive method to assess hepatic steatosis and fibrosis provides NAFLD risk stratification algorithm in clinical practice. NAFLD fibrosis score (NFS) is simple and non-invasive predictive model recommended by American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) Guideline to identify patients with NAFLD with fibrosis risk. The aim of this study is to assess long-term outcomes of subjects with significant non-alcoholic steatofibrosis (NASF) as established by ultrasound (US) and NFS.MethodsUsed National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) with National Death Index-linked Mortality Files. NAFLD diagnosis established by the presence of moderate to severe hepatic steatosis on US without other causes of chronic liver disease (alcohol consumption <20 gr/day,hepatitis B surface-antigen negative, anti-hepatitis C virus antibody negative, transferrin saturation <50%). Significant hepatic fibrosis was estimated by high NFS (>0.676) and calculated with previously published formula. Subjects with NAFLD and high NFS have significant NASF.ResultsNHANES III included 20 050 adult participants. 2515 participants complete data and NAFLD with 5.1% (n=129) meeting criteria for significant SF. Subjects with significant SF were older, had higher body mass index, waist circumference and the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) scores and higher rates of comorbidities (diabetes, congestive heart failure (CHF), stroke; all p<0.001). After median of 207 months of follow-up, overall mortality in NAFLD cohort was 30.0% (n=754). Crude mortality higher in subjects with significant SF (67.4% vs 28.0%, p<0.001). In multivariate survival analysis, predictors of overall mortality included significant SF (adjusted HR (aHR): 1.37; 95% CI 1.07 to 1.76, p=0.01), older age (aHR:1.08; 95% CI 1.07 to 1.09 per year), male gender (aHR:1.44; 95% CI 1.24 to 1.67), black race (aHR:1.24; 95% CI 1.04 to 1.48)), history of hypertension (aHR:1.40; 95% CI 1.20 to 1.64), diabetes (aHR:1.69; 95% CI 1.43 to 2.00), CHF (aHR:1.77; 95% CI 1.38 to 2.261), stroke (aHR:1.84; 95% CI 1.38 to 2.48) and smoking (aHR:1.74; 95% CI 1.47 to 2.07) (all p<0.02). Sensitivity analysis showed that the best association of SF with mortality is higher at NFS threshold of 0.80 (aHR:1.41; 95% CI 1.09 to 1.83, p=0.01).ConclusionsSignificant NASF determined non-invasively is an independent predictor of mortality. These data should help clinicians to easily risk-stratify patients with NAFLD for close monitoring and treatment considerations in clinical trial setting.
Autocrine Adenosine Regulates Tumor Polyfunctional CD73+CD4+ Effector T Cells Devoid of Immune Checkpoints
Authors: Gourdin Nicolas , Bossennec Marion , Rodriguez Céline , Vigano Selena , Machon Christelle , Jandus Camilla , Bauché David , Faget Julien , Durand Isabelle , Chopin Nicolas , Tredan Olivier , Marie Julien C. , Dubois Bertrand , Guitton Jérôme , Romero Pedro , Caux Christophe , Ménétrier-Caux Christine 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThe production of CD73-derived adenosine (Ado) by Tregs has been proposed as a resistance mechanism to anti-PD-1 therapy in murine tumor models. We reported that human Tregs express the ectonucleotidase CD39, which generates AMP from ATP, but do not express the AMPase CD73. In contrast, CD73 defined a subset of effector CD4+ T cells (Teffs) enriched in polyfunctional Th1.17 cells characterized by expression of CXCR3, CCR6, and MDR1, and production of IL17A/IFNγ/IL22/GM-CSF. CD39+ Tregs selectively targeted CD73+ Teffs through cooperative degradation of ATP into Ado inhibiting and restricting the ability of CD73+ Teffs to secrete IL17A. CD73+ Teffs infiltrating breast and ovarian tumors were functionally blunted by Tregs expressing upregulated levels of CD39 and ATPase activity. Moreover, tumor-infiltrating CD73+ Teffs failed to express inhibitory immune checkpoints, suggesting that CD73 might be selected under pressure from immune checkpoint blockade therapy and thus may represent a nonredundant target for restoring antitumor immunity.Significance: Polyfunctional CD73+ T-cell effectors lacking other immune checkpoints are selectively targeted by CD39 overexpressing Tregs that dominate the breast tumor environment. Cancer Res; 78(13); 3604–18. ©2018 AACR.