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Fashion self-congruity: scale development and validation
Authors: Anand Sahiba , Kaur Harsandaldeep 
Published: April 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate measurement properties of a scale measuring fashion self-congruity (FSC).

Design/methodology/approach
Based on the existing literature of self-congruity, and four studies carried out as a part of this research, the FSC scale has been validated in a step-by-step process following the scale validation methodology suggested by Churchill (1979).

Findings
The final version of the scale incorporates nine items classified into three dimensions: actual fashion self-congruity, ideal fashion self-congruity, and ideal social fashion self-congruity. The scale reveals strong psychometric properties based on findings of different reliability and validity tests.

Practical implications
A valid and reliable FSC scale provides a foundation to broaden quantitative inquiry into the types of FSC that consumers seek under different situations. Knowledge of the dominant self-concept driving the consumption of fashion in various situations will enable marketers to position their brands along the desired dimension of FSC.

Originality/value
The value of this research paper lies in validating a scale to measure FSC for the first time in the self-concept/congruity literature.
The sustainability word challenge
Authors: Evans Susan , Peirson-Smith Anne 
Published: April 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine user perceptions toward consumer-facing words used by fashion brands to stimulate sustainable consumption and post consumption behavior.

Design/methodology/approach
A self-completion, survey based matching exercise was administered to 100 active fashion-shoppers in Hong Kong aged between 18 and 35 years old. A probability sampling method was used for on-street intercepts to ensure a random selection within the defined population. This was accompanied by 20 individual ethnographic interviews.

Findings
A lack of understanding and comprehension of key green language terminology used frequently in user facing communications is problematic for fashion brand marketers as the impact of their messages is often unclear, distributed and more likely to lead to user frustration rather than positive engaged consumer decision making and action. Further, there is an emerging indication that this approach is highly unlikely to enhance knowledge, engagement and action or to influence brand loyalty.

Research limitations/implications
Data were collected in Hong Kong and is culturally bounded, so while providing a good indication of the findings in situ this can also be replicated in other locations.

Practical implications
Recommended outcomes from the findings suggest that brand messages should be delivered that are intended to stimulate sustainability behaviors that are core to one key brand theme so that user outcome decision making and actions fit with the core brand values. This suggested approach will have a greater likelihood of leading to brand trust, responsible business action and greater clarity about the issue of sustainability and related action to be taken on behalf of the user.

Originality/value
The paper raises concerns about the effectiveness and outcomes of fashion brand marketing communications and findings provide insights into the confusion of understanding and the rise in frustration among targeted fashion shoppers 18-35 years, despite the use of frequently used words in brand communications to promote sustainable fashion consumption behaviors.
Mapping the official discourse of frugality in China between 1979 and 2015
Authors: Gao Zhihong 
Published: April 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to examine how the official discourse of frugality evolved in China between 1979 and 2015.

Design/methodology/approach
The study uses historical and textual analysis. It divides the Chinese official discourse on frugality between 1979 and 2015 into four periods: 1979-1992, 1993-2002, 2003-2012 and 2013-2015.

Findings
A Chinese official discourse on frugality persisted between 1979 and 2015, even though during the same period, China transformed from a socialist economy of central planning and insufficient supply to a market economy of excessive supply and weak consumer demand. The intensity of this official discourse frequently vacillated, adjusting to both economic and political conditions of the time as part of the larger political-economic contestation between competing ideas and policies.

Originality/value
There have been calls for more studies on how frugality discourses have evolved in international markets, especially in terms of how they are shaped by local historical antecedents and long-standing tensions. Through the Chinese case, this article illuminates why some traditional values persist and obtain a paradoxical co-existence with consumerist ethos in our modern society.
Will Saudi Arabia get older? Will its pension system be sustainable? Spectral answers
Authors: Rostan Pierre , Rostan Alexandra 
Published: April 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to answer the following two questions: Will Saudi Arabia get older? Will its pension system be sustainable?

Design/methodology/approach
The methodology/approach is to forecast KSA’s population with wavelet analysis combined with the Burg model which fits a pth order autoregressive model to the input signal by minimizing (least squares) the forward and backward prediction errors while constraining the autoregressive parameters to satisfy the Levinson-Durbin recursion, then relies on an infinite impulse response prediction error filter.

Findings
Spectral analysis projections of Saudi age groups are more optimistic than the Bayesian probabilistic model sponsored by the United Nations Population Division: Saudi Arabia will not get older as fast as projected by the United Nations model. The KSA’s pension system will stay sustainable based on spectral analysis, whereas it will not based on the U.N. model.

Originality/value
Spectral analysis will provide better insight and understanding of population dynamics for Saudi government policymakers, as well as economic, health and pension planners.
Mindfulness and gender differences in ethical beliefs
Authors: Dhandra Tavleen Kaur , Park Hyun Jung 
Published: April 2018

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the ethical beliefs of consumers with regards to their levels of mindfulness. Furthermore, it aims to investigate if mindfulness is related to gender differences among respondents in their ethical beliefs about consumer unethical practices.Design/methodology/approachUniversity students in India were surveyed with self-administered questionnaires comprising the consumer ethics scale and mindfulness attention awareness scale. Mediation analysis was conducted to test whether gender differences in ethical judgements are due to the different levels of mindfulness.FindingsThe results indicate that mindfulness is not only a predictor of ethical beliefs but also a mediator of the relationship between gender and ethical beliefs. Individuals with greater mindfulness reported greater acceptance towards the five dimensions of consumer ethics scale. Indian male participants were found to be more mindful and lenient in ethical judgements than female participants.Originality/valueThe present work is a novel attempt in examining the effect of mindfulness on the relationship between gender and ethical beliefs of consumers. The results of this study can have positive implications for organizations, managers, public policy makers and consumers.
Experimental brood enlargement differentially influences the magnitude of the corticosterone stress response in closely related, co‐occurring songbirds
Authors: Hardt Braelei M. , Ardia Daniel R. , Bashaw Meredith J. , Rivers James W. 
Published: April 2018

AbstractRearing environments can shape offspring phenotype across taxa, yet little is known about how brood size influences hypothalamic–pituitary axis functioning, whether its expression trades off with growth, and the degree to which these relationships vary between species.We evaluated how brood size influenced nestling physiological (glucocorticoids) and somatic traits (growth), and the extent to which their relationship differed between two closely related, sympatric songbirds when experiencing identical rearing environments. Specifically, we used a cross‐fostering approach to alter brood size and create an experimental gradient of nestmate competition, and then tested whether experimentally manipulated brood sizes resulted in nestlings with altered concentrations of corticosterone and whether corticosterone responses traded off with growth.Nestlings of both species experienced elevated concentrations of baseline and stressor‐induced corticosterone when raised in enlarged broods, relative to control and reduced broods, but neither measurement was found to trade off with growth or be linked to survival to fledging.In contrast, we found divergence in the magnitude of the corticosterone stress response between species across all brood treatments, with greater stressor‐induced corticosterone concentrations found in the Violet‐green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) relative to the closely related Tree Swallow (T. bicolor).Our study demonstrated that brood size can lead to changes in offspring corticosterone concentrations in swallows and that nestlings of sympatric species, even those that are closely related and ecologically similar, can diverge in their corticosterone stress response when experiencing identical rearing conditions.We conclude that corticosterone appears to play a key role for balancing energetic demands that arise in the face of nestmate competition inTachycinetaswallows and that elevated concentrations of corticosterone may enhance offspring survival during challenging environmental conditions, such as when brood competition is strong.Aplain language summaryis available for this article.
Mosaic patterns of B‐vitamin synthesis and utilization in a natural marine microbial community
Authors: Gómez‐Consarnau Laura , Sachdeva Rohan , Gifford Scott M. , Cutter Lynda S. , Fuhrman Jed A. , Sañudo‐Wilhelmy Sergio A. , Moran Mary Ann 
Published: April 2018

SummaryAquatic environments contain large communities of microorganisms whose synergistic interactions mediate the cycling of major and trace nutrients, including vitamins. B‐vitamins are essential coenzymes that many organisms cannot synthesize. Thus, their exchange among de novo synthesizers and auxotrophs is expected to play an important role in the microbial consortia and explain some of the temporal and spatial changes observed in diversity. In this study, we analyzed metatranscriptomes of a natural marine microbial community, diel sampled quarterly over one year to try to identify the potential major B‐vitamin synthesizers and consumers. Transcriptomic data showed that the best‐represented taxa dominated the expression of synthesis genes for some B‐vitamins but lacked transcripts for others. For instance, Rhodobacterales dominated the expression of vitamin‐B12 synthesis, but not of vitamin‐B7, whose synthesis transcripts were mainly represented by Flavobacteria. In contrast, bacterial groups that constituted less than 4% of the community (e.g., Verrucomicrobia) accounted for most of the vitamin‐B1 synthesis transcripts. Furthermore, ambient vitamin‐B1 concentrations were higher in samples collected during the day, and were positively correlated with chlorophyll‐a concentrations. Our analysis supports the hypothesis that the mosaic of metabolic interdependencies through B‐vitamin synthesis and exchange are key processes that contribute to shaping microbial communities in nature.
Funny Evidence: Female Comics are the New Policy Entrepreneurs
Authors: Pepin‐Neff Christopher L. , Caporale Kristin 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThe last decade has seen on‐going issues of gender inequity as well as arguably the golden age of female comics. From Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's renditions of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton in 2008, to Amy Schumer's critique of US college rape culture, this is an extraordinary time to consider the role of female comics in policy making. This article will examine this period by locating these comedic skills within the policy entrepreneur literature. First, it will review policy entrepreneurship elements; secondly it will propose a framework for policy entrepreneurship that builds on intersectional feminist principles. Lastly, it will apply the framework to female comic's influence on political issues. In all, we argue that female comics can serve as policy entrepreneurs in public administration by using their identity to locate themselves as relevant actors, attaching solutions to problems, biasing political outcomes, benefiting from their engagement, and introducing narratives that change the emotional habitus of an audience and influence the broader public.
Global Best Practice or Regulating Fiction? Street Vending, Zero Tolerance and Conflicts Over Public Space in New York, 1980–2000
Authors: Thomas Devlin Ryan 
Published: April 2018

AbstractIn global urban studies, different cities often serve as stand‐ins for various policy approaches. New York is closely associated with zero tolerance/quality of life policing—specifically the ways this crime‐fighting technique was used to manage and regulate public space in support of broader urban redevelopment goals. Whether celebrated or criticized, the image of New York as a city that was successful in ‘cleaning up’ public space has been exported across the globe, and has been invoked by a number of cities as they embark on their own projects to clear street vendors and other unwanted actors from public space. This article will challenge this established narrative through an examination of struggles over street vending and public space in New York during the 1980s and 1990s. It will show how the revanchist project of public space management was challenged and ultimately limited by vendors using discourses of free market populism and entrepreneurship. It demonstrates the ways in which the image of New York as a city of settled and well‐regulated public space does not tell the complete story, and how New York, like many other ordinary cities across the globe, is a city of contested spaces and uncertain regulatory effectiveness.
Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosures: Dynamic Interactions
Authors: CIANCIARUSO DAVIDE , SRIDHAR SRI S. 
Published: April 2018

ABSTRACTFirms sometimes obtain soft private information about growth prospects along with hard information about current or past performance. In this environment, we find that optimizing disclosures over multiple periods yields nonlinear stock price reactions following both voluntary and mandatory disclosures. Further, we derive several predictions about distinct short‐run and long‐run effects of disclosures and nondisclosures on security prices. Under specified conditions, when the volatility of the firm's earnings increases, the average contemporaneous and prospective post‐mandatory‐disclosure market premia (for voluntary disclosures over nondisclosures) rise, while farther‐in‐future market discounts (for such voluntary disclosures) also become larger. Our analysis moreover predicts that both the disclosure probability and the information content of nondisclosures can increase in the persistence of earnings.
Testing a new form to document ‘Goals‐of‐Care’ discussions regarding plans for end‐of‐life care for patients in an Australian emergency department
Authors: Mills Amber C , Levinson Michele , Dunlop William A , Cheong Edward , Cowan Timothy , Hanning Jennifer , O’Callaghan Erin , Walker Katherine J 
Published: April 2018

AbstractObjectiveThere is limited literature to inform the content and format of Goals‐of‐Care forms, for use by doctors when they are undertaking these important conversations.MethodsThis was a prospective, qualitative and quantitative study evaluating the utility of a new ‘Goals‐of‐Care’ form to doctors in a private, tertiary ED, used from December 2016 to February 2017 at Cabrini, Melbourne. A Goals‐of‐Care form was designed, incorporating medical aims of therapy and patient values and preferences. Doctors wishing to complete a Not‐for‐CPR form were also supplied with the trial Goals‐of‐Care form. Form use, content and patient progress were followed. Doctors completing a form were invited to interview.ResultsForms were used in 3% of attendances, 120 forms were taken for use and 108 were analysed. The median patient age was 91, 81% were Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) positive and patients had a 48% 6‐month mortality. A total of 34 doctors completed the forms, 16 were interviewed (two ED trainees, 11 senior ED doctors and three others). Theme saturation was only achieved for the senior doctors interviewed. Having a Goals‐of‐Care form was valued by 88% of doctors. The frequency of section use was: Aims‐of‐Care 91%; Quality‐of‐Life 75% (the term was polarising); Functional Impairments 35%; and Outcomes of Value 29%. Opinions regarding the ideal content and format varied. Some doctors liked free‐text space and others tick‐boxes. The median duration of the conversation and documentation was 10 min (interquartile range 6–20 min).ConclusionsHaving a Goals‐of‐Care form in emergency medicine is supported; the ideal contents of the form was not determined.
Static, Kinetic, and Isotherm Adsorption Performances of Macroporous Adsorbent Resins for Recovery and Enrichment of Bioactive Procyanidins from Cranberry Pomace
Authors: Gao Chi , Zhao Shaomin , Yagiz Yavuz , Gu Liwei 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThis study examined the ability of five Amberlite resins coupled with ultrasound‐assisted water extraction for the recovery and enrichment of bioactive procyanidins and total phenolics from cranberry pomace. Static adsorption showed that XAD‐7HP had the highest adsorption capacity for procyanidins (52.2 mg/g resin) and total phenolics (99.1 mg/g resin) whereas XAD‐761 had the lowest. Adsorption of procyanidins fitted better to pseudo‐second‐order kinetics than pseudo‐first‐order kinetics. Isotherm adsorption on XAD‐7HP suggested that Langmuir isotherm was a better model to describe the adsorption of procyanidins while Kemkin–Pyzhev equation was better for total phenolics based on higher coefficient of determinations (R2). Dynamic tests on XAD‐7HP suggested that the flow rate of 7 and 8 mL/min were the optimum conditions for adsorption and desorption of procyanidins, respectively. Measurements using HPLC revealed that adsorption increased the contents of procyanidins and total phenolics by 4.57‐ and 4.73‐folds, respectively, compared to the initial extracts. This research showed that Amberlite XAD‐7HP resin adsorption coupled with ultrasound‐assisted water extraction is an efficient method to separate and concentrate procyanidins from cranberry pomace.
Accelerated executive functions decline and gray matter structural changes in middle‐aged type 1 diabetes mellitus patients with proliferative retinopathy
Authors: van Duinkerken Eelco , Steenwijk Martijn D. , Klein Martin , Barkhof Frederik , Mograbi Daniel C. , Diamant Michaela , Snoek Frank J. , Ijzerman Richard G. 
Published: April 2018

AbstractBackgroundThe aim of the present study was to determine trajectories of cognitive and cortical changes over time in middle‐aged patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and proliferative retinopathy.MethodsTwenty‐five patients and 25 controls underwent neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging twice in a mean (±SD) of 3.56 ± 0.65 and 3.94 ± 0.91 years, respectively (P = 0.098). Cognitive assessment included the domains of general cognitive ability, memory, information processing speed, executive functions, attention, and motor and psychomotor speed. Symmetrized percentage change in local cortical thickness, surface area, and volume was determined using the FreeSurfer 6 vertex‐wise general linear model method. Analyses were performed uncorrected and corrected for baseline systolic blood pressure and depressive symptoms.ResultsIn patients versus controls, accelerated executive function decline was accompanied by, but not related to, lower left frontal and temporal surface area, left parietal and right frontal thickness, and bilateral frontal and right posterior cingulate volume (family‐wise error [FWE]‐corrected P < 0.05 for all). In patients, lower executive performance was related to loss of right precuneus surface area (PFWE = 0.005). Higher HbA1c during follow‐up was related to executive function decline (r = −0.509, P = 0.016) and loss of left hemisphere surface area (rcorrected analysis = −0.555, P = 0.007).ConclusionsAfter 3.5 years of follow‐up, middle‐aged T1DM patients with proliferative retinopathy, mild focal changes in executive functions, and cortical structure were found, which may indicate accelerated aging.
Forced fluid removal in intensive care patients with acute kidney injury: The randomised FFAKI feasibility trial
Authors: Berthelsen R. E. , Perner A. , Jensen A. K. , Rasmussen B. S. , Jensen J. U. , Wiis J. , Behzadi M. T. , Bestle M. H. 
Published: April 2018

BackgroundAccumulation of fluids is frequent in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute kidney injury and may be associated with increased mortality and decreased renal recovery. We present the results of a pilot trial assessing the feasibility of forced fluid removal in ICU patients with acute kidney injury and fluid accumulation of more than 10% ideal bodyweight.MethodsThe FFAKI‐trial was a pilot trial of forced fluid removal vs standard care in adult ICU patients with moderate to high risk acute kidney injury and 10% fluid accumulation. Fluid removal was done with furosemide and/or continuous renal replacement therapy aiming at net negative fluid balance > 1 mL/kg ideal body weight/hour until cumulative fluid balance calculated from ICU admission reached less than 1000 mL.ResultsAfter 20 months, we stopped the trial prematurely due to a low inclusion rate with 23 (2%) included patients out of the 1144 screened. Despite the reduced sample size, we observed a marked reduction in cumulative fluid balance 5 days after randomisation (mean difference −5814 mL, 95% CI −2063 to −9565, P = .003) with forced fluid removal compared to standard care. While the trial was underpowered for clinical endpoints, no point estimates suggested harm from forced fluid removal.ConclusionsForced fluid removal aiming at 1 mL/kg ideal body weight/hour may be an effective treatment of fluid accumulation in ICU patients with acute kidney injury. A definitive trial using our inclusion criteria seems less feasible based on our inclusion rate of only 2%.