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Fruit performance of kiwifruit in the loess area of Northwest China
Authors: Guo Kaibin , Guo Zhen , Guo Yun , Qiao Guang 
Published: May 2019

AbstractAttempts had been made to provide evident insight into the performance of fruit quality and the status of soil property, and explicate the soil property factors that dominantly affect the fruit quality of kiwifruit. Currently, 8-year-old kiwifruit cultivar ‘Hayward’, which was grown in Zhouzhi County (108°37′ E, 33°42′N), Shanxi Province of China, was used as materials. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient illustrated that the soil organic matter (SOM) content was positively related to soil properties except the soil PH. Moreover, based on the canonical correlation analysis (CCA), canonical variables alkaline hydrolyzable-N (AN), available ferrum (AFe), available boron (AB), PH in soil property index and the fresh weight of single fruit (FW), fruit shape index (FI), total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), total soluble sugar (SS) in fruit quality parameter were selected. And the ‘best’ regression equation (model) indicated that the effects of soil property somewhat varied among ‘Hayward’ fruit qualities in the loess area of Northwest China. Specifically, FW and SS could be mainly affected by soil AN, and FI affected by soil AB and PH. Fruit SS mostly depended upon soil AFe, whereas TSS was affected by soil AN, AFe and PH. The effect of soil PH on fruit quality is probably achieved, however, affecting the absorption of soil nutrients.
Energy efficiency actions at a Brazilian university and their contribution to sustainable development Goal 7
Authors: Rebelatto Bianca Gasparetto , Lange Salvia Amanda , Reginatto Giovana , Daneli Rangel Casanova , Brandli Luciana Londero 
Published: May 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyse recent actions of energy efficiency implemented by University of Passo Fundo, a higher education institution located in the south of Brazil, and their contributions to Goal 7.

Design/methodology/approach
The analysis is based on collected energy data and information of energy efficiency actions applied at the university.

Findings
The paper shows the progress related to the energy practices and discusses opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses of applying energy efficiency at universities and its contributions towards sustainable development goal (SDG) 7.

Practical implications
The findings of this study can inform readers about University of Passo Fundo’s initiatives towards energy efficiency focussed in lightening, photovoltaic solar power generation and free energy market. Readers are able to improve their knowledge with the discussion of internal and external factors related to the initiatives.

Originality/value
The originality of this paper is connected to the idea of sharing the experiences from University of Passo Fundo, connecting energy efficiency practices at universities to SDG 7 and also exploring opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses of applying these practices in the context of a higher education institution.
Rivalry, excludability and positive transport externalities – case study of a private university in Poland
Authors: Paradowska Monika 
Published: May 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of rivalry and excludability in transport systems on the positive external effects important for the functioning of a large private university in Wroclaw (Poland). In the context of campus sustainability, policy implications supporting sustainable transport are discussed.

Design/methodology/approach
Four research questions were formulated, which were tested by way of questionnaire research among students of the Bachelor and Engineer Programmes in Logistics and taking part in the course Transport Economics at the WSB University in Wroclaw (Poland).

Findings
Car use seems to be the most important for the positive transport externalities enabling the functioning of the university. Levels of rivalry and excludability did not have a significant impact on the levels of external transport benefits or the transport behaviour of students. To sustain/enhance the levels of positive external effects of transport and stimulate sustainable commuting, the university should support the development of alternative modes of transport, by improving transport infrastructure on the campus, and develop cooperation with the Wroclaw municipality to develop synergies between their transport policy goals.

Research limitations/implications
The research should be interpreted with care, as it is a case study of one large private university in Poland. Further research should be conducted among different private and public universities that are characterised by different levels of accessibility (location, development of infrastructure). The case study is based on students' transport behaviour, not considering transport behaviour of academic and non-academic workers, which could function as a role mode.

Practical implications
Policy aiming at banning cars is likely to be unsuccessful and/or could lead to a decrease in positive externalities in a short term. For this reason, more attention should be given to marketing and promotion of more sustainable means of transport, including e.g. better information on the possibilities of reaching the campus by train or urban public transport, facilitations for non-motorised students and improvements in cycling and walking infrastructure. To support campus sustainability in the field of transport, stronger cooperation with local administration is needed to undertake joint, consistent actions aimed at sharing and supporting the idea of sustainable commuting among students.

Originality/value
While many activities for supporting campus sustainability focus on reducing negative environmental externalities, positive externalities are not so often considered. In this context, the levels of rivalry and excludability can become an indicator of the contribution of transport systems to social and economic sustainability.
Course withdrawal: a comparison of business and engineering students in a private university
Authors: Mozahem Najib 
Published: May 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the course withdrawal behavior of business and engineering students in a private university. While previous research has studied such behavior, the literature remains sparse and dated.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a negative binomial model in order to model the total number of course withdrawals for 760 students. The data set includes all courses taken by the students, with a total of 25,160 course outcomes.

Findings
Among the findings of the study are that males withdraw from courses more than females, engineering courses have the highest withdrawal rates, and male engineering students withdraw more than any other group.

Originality/value
While dropping out of college has received cross-national interest, the same cannot be said of course withdrawal. Most research to date has been conducted in a community college setting or has used a subset of the courses taken by students at universities in the USA. Thus, this is one of the first studies to investigate course withdrawal in another country.
A note on liquidity policies and financial networks
Authors: Lopomo Beteto Wegner Danilo 
Published: May 2019

Purpose
This paper aims to provides an example of how government and central bank policies that promote market liquidity (e.g., quantitative easing programs) can change the structure of the banking system.

Design/methodology/approach
The nexus between liquidity policies and financial networks is addressed through an example that captures stylized features of the interbank market. In the example discussed, two scenarios are considered: one with and another without central bank/government liquidity provision, leading to two different network structures that are then used to study the likelihood of contagion.

Findings
The example provided shows that government and central bank policies that promote market liquidity can lead to financial networks that are better capitalized (net worth of the banking system is higher) but, at the same time, more fragile (higher likelihood of bank failures).

Originality/value
To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first attempt to model the formation of a financial network with an explicit mechanism accounting for government and central bank policies that affect market liquidity, which, in turn, could be interpreted as a quantitative easing program.
Dealing with brain drain: the contributions of Sri Lanka’s peak business interest associations
Authors: You Kevin 
Published: May 2019

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the way in which Sri Lankan business associations contribute to addressing such issues and the motivation behind their contributions.Design/methodology/approachData, in this study, came from publicly available sources (online news articles, newspaper articles, reports, etc.) and a series of unstructured elite interviews with leaders of Sri Lanka’s most prominent peak business associations.FindingsSri Lankan associations contribute to addressing problems associated with human capital flight because doing so, ultimately, benefits their members and secretariat organisations. Peak bodies make their contributions by easing the push factors that catalyse the outflow of skilled migrants from the island nation and helping to replenish skills in the country by engaging in initiatives aimed at training and developing workers, young people and entrepreneurs.Research limitations/implicationsThe behaviours of Sri Lanka’s business interest associations and the logics that drive their actions are similar to those of their counterparts in other countries (as per academic literature in the area), where association membership is not state-mandated. Rational actions of business associations have the potential to produce socially beneficial positive externalities (as in the present case issues around the brain drain).Social implicationsFindings from this research can assist government bodies, non-government organisations and other civil society organisations develop a better collaborative relationship with the private sector in developing nations to tackle problems associated with human capital flight.Originality/valueWhile there has been a lively debate, among philosophers and scholars of public policy, on how governments should help address issues associated with this phenomenon, very little attention has been given to the real and potential contributions of non-governmental, non-charity-based civil society groups such as unions and business chambers. This paper seeks to address this gap.
Control practices in a traditional industry in Sri Lanka: an institutional logics perspective
Authors: Wimalasinghe Rochelle , Gooneratne Tharusha N. 
Published: May 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the co-existence of multiple logics, resulting complexities and their implications on control practices within a traditional industry (southern cinnamon) in Sri Lanka.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is premised upon the qualitative methodology and case study approach, while the theoretical backing is provided by the institutional logics perspective.FindingsThe findings reveal that controls are exercised in the southern cinnamon industry to manage competing facets stemming from the co-existence of multiple logics, such as family logic, commercial logic and state logic. Amid the recurring complexity caused by competing logics, the industry remains in a state of control through mediators, such as the exporter trade union (the Spice Council), which although predominantly guided by commercial logic, acts in easing-off tensions between competing logics, while serving the interest of multiple actors. Controls in southern cinnamon nevertheless take a peculiar form, giving way to the continuation of traditional rudimentary practices, which essentially represent the interests of ground level actors.Originality/valueMoving beyond corporate settings, which are the typical focus of mainstream studies, this paper adds to the existing body of knowledge on control practices in traditional industries, where informal and localized controls prevail. Theoretically, it expands the use of the institutional logics perspective, recognizing multiple logics, tensions and complexities in management control research. In doing so, the authors probe into informal control mechanisms in traditional industries to understand the controls and complexities in practice. Practically, the paper portrays beliefs, issues and incidents in the field (of the southern cinnamon industry in Sri Lanka), which explains why the field operates as it does, thereby offering insights to actors in the field, ranging from practitioners to policymakers.
A method for optimizing stencil cleaning time in solder paste printing process
Authors: Yu JiangYou , Cao Le , Fu Hao , Guo Jun 
Published: May 2019

PurposeStencil cleaning is an important operation in solder paste printing process. Frequent cleaning may interrupt printing process and increase idle time, as well as loss for performing cleaning. This paper aims to propose a method to optimize the stencil cleaning time and reduce unnecessary cleaning operations and losses.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses a discrete-time, discrete-state homogeneous Markov chain to model the stencil printing performance degradation process, and the quality loss during the stencil printing process is estimated based on this degradation model. A stencil cleaning decision model based on renewal reward theorem is established, and the optimal cleaning time is obtained through a balance between quality loss and the loss on idle time.FindingsA stencil cleaning decision model for solder paste printing is established, and numerical simulation results show that there exists an optimal stencil cleaning time which minimizes the long-term loss.Originality/valueStencil cleaning control is very important for solder paste printing. However, there are very few studies focusing on stencil cleaning control. This research contributes to developing a model to optimize the stencil cleaning time in solder paste printing process.
Exploring Eleanor Roosevelt’s labor advocacy using primary and secondary sources
Authors: Bickford John H. , O’Farrell Brigid 
Published: May 2019

Purpose
Education initiatives have increased expectations of students’ non-fiction reading and text-based writing within history, social studies and other curricula. Teachers must locate age-appropriate curricular materials and implement discipline-specific pedagogy to guide students’ history literacy, historical thinking and historical argumentation. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
Students are guided on an inquiry into an underemphasized element of a historically significant figure’s life. Eleanor Roosevelt’s labor and poverty advocacies generate comparably less attention by historians and trade book authors than her work with civil rights, human rights and international diplomacy.

Findings
Students are positioned to scrutinize primary and secondary sources using differentiated optics relevant to each source type. History literacy and historical thinking strategies ground students’ analyses. After extracting meaningful content from diverse sources, students are prompted to engage in text-based writing to articulate their newly developed understandings. Diverse elements of revision bolster students’ historical argumentation.

Practical implications
Close reading, critical thinking and text-based writing are joined throughout the guided inquiry.

Originality/value
The previously unused texts and original tasks are intended for middle school classrooms. These sources and strategies integrate different elements of history literacy, historical thinking and historical argumentation throughout the inquiry.
Walking the creek: reconnecting place through light projection
Authors: Edensor Tim , Andrews Julie 
Published: May 2019

AbstractIn this paper, we explore how a light projection sought to convey a range of qualities: conviviality, a sense of place, playfulness, defamiliarisation, and the affective and sensory capacities that were experienced through walking in the distinctive, liminal realm of Bendigo Creek in Victoria, Australia. The projection aspired to solicit a sensory and affective empathy that chimed with the experiences of an earlier event in which dozens of pedestrians were filmed walking in the creek. The projection contributed to a local campaign to reappraise the much‐maligned creek as a local public amenity. We discuss the productive potential of solitary and collective walking and, subsequently, the attributes of the projection in its static and mobile manifestation. In so doing, we suggest that publicly engaged, inclusive, creative practice can offer potent place‐making possibilities.
Behavioral response of Riptortus pedestris (Hemiptera: Alydidae) 2nd instar nymphs to their gut symbiont, Burkholderia sp., in laboratory conditions
Authors: Kim Soowan , Lee Doo‐Hyung 
Published: May 2019

AbstractMany arthropods including insects have symbiotic relationships with diverse microorganisms that can confer fitness benefits to their hosts. Riptortus pedestris is a serious pest on leguminous crops in East Asia including South Korea and Japan. Recently, has been reported that R. pedestris form symbiosis with Gram‐negative bacteria in the genus Burkholderia where they acquire symbionts from soil environments without vertical transmission from each generation. In order to address how R. pedestris acquire their symbiont from environment, we hypothesized that R. pedestris would detect and exhibit preference toward the Burkholderia symbionts. In this study, we conducted a series of dual‐choice experiments and Y‐tube olfactometer experiments to monitor and evaluate behavioral responses by 2nd instar R. pedestris toward the Burkholderia treatment and untreated control under various experimental settings in the laboratory. In dual‐choice experiments, there was no significant preference by R. pedestris to the Burkholderia treatment compared with untreated control. Also, no significant difference was detected in the first choice frequency, visiting frequency, and residence time of the insects between the two treatments. Likewise, there was no detectable preference by R. pedestris to microbial odors from the symbionts in Y‐tube experiments. Therefore, our results indicate that there was no evidence supporting that 2nd instar R. pedestris exhibit preference to the Burkholderia symbiont in the laboratory conditions of this study. Further studies are required to evaluate behavioral responses of later immature stages (i.e., 3rd and 4th instar) to the symbionts and provide choice settings at larger semi‐field arenas.
Influence of single‐nucleotide polymorphisms in the IFNG towards susceptibility to tuberculosis in a Pakistani population
Authors: Naz AsmaGul , Ali Muhammad , Aslam Muhammad Assad , Khan Abrar Ul Haq , Manzoor Hamid , Iqbal Rehana , Shehzad Muhammad Ahmed , Ahmad Shahbaz , Shaheen Zubair , Rasul Sumaira 
Published: May 2019

AbstractTuberculosis (TB) is a global issue as one‐third of the population worldwide is considered to be infected. TB has become a critical public health problem as a result of increasing drug resistance, which poses a challenge to current control strategies. Similar to environmental factors, genetic makeup of the host equally contributes to disease onset. We performed genotypic analysis to examine the relationship between IFNG and TB onset and drug resistance in a Pakistani population comprising 689 subjects. Notable differences were observed in the IFNG polymorphism (+874T/A) between the case and control groups. The frequency of the wild‐type genotype (TT) in the controls (43.2%) was significantly higher than in the cases (25.3%) (odds ratio [OR] = 0.77, p < 0.0001), while the mutant genotype frequency (AA) (38.57%) in the cases was significantly higher than in the controls (22.6%) (OR = 1.46, p < 0.0001). The heterozygous genotype frequency (TA) did not significantly differ between the control and case groups. Compared with the controls, the variant allele (A) was approximately twice as frequent in the cases. Females and older people have a higher chance of disease development. Finally, the IFNG (+874T/A) polymorphism was not associated with drug sensitivity or resistance. However, a genotypic polymorphism of IFNG (+874T/A) was significantly associated with susceptibility to TB, and the T allele conferred protection against TB. Additional studies involving larger cohorts are needed to further explore this relationship between genetics and disease vulnerability.
Development and evaluation of an organisational culture change intervention in residential aged care facilities
Authors: Venturato Lorraine , Horner Barbara , Etherton‐Beer Christopher 
Published: May 2019

AbstractObjectiveTo develop and evaluate an organisational culture change intervention for residential aged care settings.MethodsThis study was undertaken in five residential aged care facilities (RACFs). All staff working within participating RACFs were invited to take part. Participatory action research was used to develop a structured approach, supporting small workgroups of staff in each facility to undertake change cycles, focusing on improved leadership, teamwork and communication. Qualitative data were gathered from reflection and evaluation sessions with facility work team focus groups, interviews with managers and other staff who were not engaged in the work team, field journals and reflective discussion with research team members.ResultsStaff and management both positively evaluated the intervention and process, and there were perceived cultural shifts in communication, teamwork and staff empowerment.ConclusionAn organisational culture change intervention that engages work teams through brief change cycles appears to be feasible for use in RACF.
Psychological distress among prostate cancer survivors in South Korea: A nationwide population‐based, longitudinal study
Authors: Heo Jaesung , Noh O Kyu , Chun Mison , Oh Young‐Taek , Kim Logyoung 
Published: May 2019

AbstractAimThis time‐dependent study aimed to analyze the prevalence of psychological distress in prostate cancer survivors by using claims data in South Korea.MethodsIn a nationwide cohort, 32 005 patients were identified who were diagnosed with prostate cancer between January 2010 and December 2014. We referred the diagnostic codes of mental disorders as psychological distress. We categorized the prevalence of psychological distress based on age and specific times before and after the cancer diagnosis.ResultsThe median age at diagnosis of prostate cancer was 70 years. Among 32 005 patients, 3074 (9.6%) were diagnosed at least once with a mental disorder between 1 year before the cancer diagnosis and the last follow‐up. Among the first diagnoses of each patient, the common mental disorders were anxiety (39.1%) and depression (33.0%). In the total cohort, there were 54 666 claims for mental disorders and over 48.0% (26 256) were for depression. The frequency of psychological distress peaked just before cancer diagnosis. Anxiety was frequent before diagnosis of prostate cancer, whereas depression was frequent after diagnosis. Although stress reaction/adjustment disorders were relatively high in the younger group, depression was relatively high in the elderly group.ConclusionPsychological distress in prostate cancer survivors showed different patterns of prevalence between before and after cancer diagnosis, as well as between age groups. Timely diagnosis and intervention for mental health could promote quality of life for prostate cancer survivors.