bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
“Unveiling the empowering elixir: exploring the impact of HEXACO traits on leadership and their ripple effect on employee engagement and creative performance”
Authors: Burhan QuratulAin , Khan Muhammad Asif 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to find out the role of positive personality traits such as honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience (HEXACO) in the development of empowering leadership, and also determine the impact that mastery goal orientation and work engagement play in linking the effects of an empowering leader on the creative performance of their followers.

Design/methodology/approach
The quantitative research design is used along with a deductive approach to achieve the objectives of the study. Data from 337 employees in the telecom sector was collected through self-administered questionnaires using the purposive sampling method. SEM-AMOS methods were used to conduct the analysis, and regression analysis was used to test the formulated hypotheses.

Findings
The study’s findings indicated that each component of HEXACO (honesty-humility beta values = 0.086, p < 0.05, emotionality values as β = 0.275, p < 0.001, extroverts β = 0.217, p < 0.001, consciousness β = 0.277, p < 0.001 and agreeableness β = 0.063) played a significant role in fostering empowered leadership. The results also suggested that there is a sequential mediation of mastery goal orientation and work engagement in the relationship between empowering leadership and creative performance.

Originality/value
This study is unique since it covers the antecedents and outcomes of empowering leadership. For antecedents, the study used the HEXACO personality model with all its elements to identify its role in the development of empowering leadership. Moreover, the study also used mastery goal orientation and work engagement as sequential mediators to check the impact of empowering leadership on the creative performance of employees.
The role of cultural competence in health care to improve communication between immigrant patients and health-care providers in Ottawa, Canada
Authors: Alghazali Idris Shoaeb , Ahmed Rukhsana 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
Cultural competence has been recognized as an essential process in reducing racial and ethnic health-care disparities and improving equity in health care. Recent immigrants to Canada encounter a different and unfamiliar health-care system. This study aims to focus on examining the role of cultural competence in improving communication between immigrant patients and their health-care providers.

Design/methodology/approach
Using an exploratory approach, four focus group discussions with a sample of recent immigrants were conducted to gain insights from immigrant patients’ perspectives with regard to communicating with their health-care providers. The focus group discussions were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. Campinha-Bacote’s Cultural Competence Model was used for this study as its theoretical framework.

Findings
The focus group findings revealed that the lack of cultural competence among health-care providers and language barriers are major issues that impact the health-care experiences of immigrant patients. Health-care organizations may use these findings to better inform their decision-making with regard to effective patient–provider communication.

Originality/value
This study advances the line of research that examines patient–provider communication by adding diverse immigrant patients’ perspectives. The findings can inform the design of cultural competence strategies for health-care organizations.
Lubricity performance of Jatropha oil incorporated PTFE and h-BN as additives for electric vehicles transmission lubrication
Authors: Opia Anthony Chukwunonso , Abdollah Mohd Fadzli , Amiruddin Hilmi 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
Concerns over the pollution caused by internal combustion vehicles have increased owing to population and industrialization increment. Addressing the confrontations, the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) as a combustion engine substitute became necessary in responding to environmental worries from internal combustion. The development of bio lubricant in lubricating the sliding parts of EVs is required to maintain the sustainability idea and to improve the system performance, which this research tends to explore.

Design/methodology/approach
In this research, the enhancement of base Jatropha oil was done using polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and hexagonal boron nitrate (h-BN) as additives. Different characterization was conducted on the new formulation to ascertain its anticorrosion tendency. The wear and friction behavior of the formulations on the tribo-pairs surfaces in contact were investigated using ball on flat tribometer to determine their tribological responsiveness as mineral lubricant alternative. To explore the surface topography, surface profilometer, scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive X-ray investigations were PTFE, lubrication and EV carried out.

Findings
The test’s input parameters were EVs’ usual load and sliding speed, and the addition concentrations for PTFE were 0.3 Wt.%, 0.4 Wt.%, 0.5 Wt.% and 0.6 Wt.%, whereas h-BN were 0.4 Wt.%, 0.8 Wt.% and 1.2 Wt.%, respectively. The study on corrosion demonstrated resistance when applied PTFE and h-BN additives in Jatropha oil. The analysis revealed that 0.5 Wt.% PTFE + 0.8 Wt.% h-BN concentrations significantly improved the tribological characteristics when compared to the base Jatropha oil. The application of formulations yielded percentage reduction of 8.67%, 10.98%, 7.34% and 7.35%, respectively, for 0.5% poly + 0.5% h-BN, 0.5% poly + 0.6% h-BN, 0.5% poly + 0.7% h-BN, 0.5% poly + 0.8% h-BN against base Jatropha oil under 20 N.

Originality/value
The formulation of PTFE and h-BN for electric transmission with wear and friction effects was accomplished in this paper. The mechanism of particle diffusing at the sliding contact on tribological behavior could be examined based on the created model of operation.

Peer review
The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/ILT-07-2023-0235/
Social workers dealing with situations of abuse against adults and older people: a research study in an Italian region
Authors: Corradini Francesca 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the point of view and the interventions of social workers working in local authority social services on the issue of abuse against vulnerable adults and older people. The cases are analyzed from the perspective of dangerous care, considering the interpersonal level of violence and the structural and contextual conditions.

Design/methodology/approach
This research uses a qualitative methodology; 49 semistructured interviews with social workers across seven districts in a province in Northern Italy were carried out. The interviews included both open-ended questions and the description of specific cases.

Findings
This study highlights how the shortcomings in the welfare system (lack of legislation, dedicated services and protocols between different services) and the complexity of cases (often involving family members with personal issues) negatively impact social workers’ professional practice. Social workers often operate in solitude and encounter ethical dilemmas. This isolation can lead them to adopt an approach aimed at controlling situations, which may not always take into account the preferences of the individuals directly involved.

Research limitations/implications
This study captures the perspectives of social workers within a limited geographic area. To gain a more comprehensive understanding, it would be beneficial to extend research to a national level. Another limitation is the absence of the opinion of those directly involved.

Originality/value
There is currently no research in Italy that explores the opinions of social workers on this issue, which, in general, is little studied. The findings of this research can be highly valuable for professionals and policymakers to organize services and develop intervention protocols, which are currently lacking in the areas where the study was conducted.
The power of persuasion: exploring the relationship between advertising and nuclear energy in Spain
Authors: Aramendia-Muneta Maria Elena , Rubio-Varas Mar , De la Torre Joseba 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
This study aims to examine how the nuclear energy issue was used for advertising purposes at the dawn of the atomic era in Spain.

Design/methodology/approach
Newspapers and magazines from the atomic era were reviewed to assess the impact of nuclear energy on advertising campaigns for all kinds of unrelated products. This study interprets the message and information contained in several marketing campaigns from the detonation of the first nuclear bomb in 1945 until the inauguration of the first nuclear facility in Spain in 1968.

Findings
Private companies leapt at the chance to use the new technology, with its promises of a brighter future, to promote their products, including watches, Venetian blinds, anisette, chocolates, pencils and fountain pens, spa resorts, books and encyclopaedias, laundry detergents, pressure cookers, concentrate feeds and hair restorers. This study makes a major contribution to the history of marketing literature, focusing on nuclear energy as an influential agent in industry, advertising agencies and popular culture. It shows how advertising campaigns used terms such as “nuclear”, “atomic” and “atomic bomb” and images of mushroom clouds or atom symbols to denote modernity and allure and explores how government policies – in this case, concerning nuclear energy – can influence marketers and advertisers.

Originality/value
The paper’s originality stems from its analysis of Spanish advertisements to explore marketing history through the terms and imagery associated with nuclear energy and its industry. It further contributes to the understanding of how nuclear energy is represented and conceptualised for various purposes in popular culture.
Curbing recidivism in Ghana: the nexus between career self-efficacy and psychological empowerment
Authors: Hevi Stewart Selase , Agbenorxevi Clemence Dupey , Malcalm Ebenezer , Obuobisa-Darko Theresa 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the moderated-mediation roles of career crafting as well as leader-member exchange (LMX) between career decision self-efficacy and psychological empowerment among ex-offenders in Ghana.

Design/methodology/approach
A purposive sampling technique was used in selecting of 412 ex-offenders at various religious rehabilitation units in Ghana. A multiple regression analysis was conducted to investigate the hypothesized paths.

Findings
The findings show that LMX moderates the mediated link between career crafting and psychological empowerment.

Research limitations/implications
Guided by the positivist paradigm deployed in the study, some methodological limitations such as the inability to provide an in-depth explanation of cause-and-effect relationships are worth noting for future studies to explore.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the empirical work is unique, as it is the first to extend the scope of career development through the perspective of recidivism in an emerging economy.
A Cross‐Community Comparison of Antecedents of Hurricane Ian Risk Perceptions and Evacuation Behaviours
Authors: Zhang Xiaochen Angela , Borden Jonathan 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTThis study seeks to understand how historical models of risk perception and protective action antecedents, as predicted by The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM), apply across micro‐regional differences in the context of Florida counties during the 2022 Hurricane Ian, and how these regional differences may lead to differences in reception, perception and response to information and evacuation warnings across the state. Two Florida communities (Southwest vs. Central and Eastern regions) with different typography, historical disaster experience, demographics and existing hazard adjustment programs were surveyed and compared. Results showed that, within the same hurricane event and broader geographic region (Florida), the two community locations differ in their reliance on information sources, social cues and prior hurricane experiences to inform risk perceptions and evacuation decisions. Additionally, different mediation patterns of risk perceptions were found between the antecedents and evacuation behaviours for the different community locations. The findings imply the importance to consider regional variations and to strategize messaging communicating risk and self‐protective behaviours accordingly.
Bank FinTech and corporate disclosure: Evidence from China
Authors: Yang Qingqing , Shen Yu , Wu Qiannan , Zhong Xueyi 
Published: December 2024

AbstractDrawing on the lending relationships between banks and companies, this study investigates the impact of bank FinTech on corporate voluntary information disclosure. We find that bank FinTech promotes corporate information disclosure and increases the number of conference calls holds. The results remain robust across a series of robustness checks, particularly for the instrumental variables approach and difference‐in‐differences (DID) analysis to address endogeneity concerns. We discuss the potential mechanisms through financing and monitoring. The results show that the effects of bank FinTech are particularly pronounced in companies facing financial constraints and exhibiting weak governance. Our findings suggest that companies strategically adjust their disclosures in response to evolving banking relationships under the development of FinTech.
Sleeve gastrectomy plus single anastomosis sleeve ileal bipartition versus sleeve gastrectomy alone: The role of bipartition
Authors: Qin Xiaoguang , Mao Zhongqi , Lee Wei‐Jei , Zhang Min , Wu Guoqiang , Zhou Xiaoqing 
Published: December 2024

AbstractBackgroundSleeve gastrectomy (SG) with single anastomosis sleeve ileal bipartition (SASI) is a novel procedure for increasing the anti‐metabolic efficacy of SG in severely people with obesity.ObjectivesThis study aimed to compare 1‐year results between SASI and SG, thereby assessing the role of bipartition.SettingThe study was conducted at the Medical University hospital.MethodsBetween November 2021 and December 2022, 39 patients received an SG + SASI surgery, a total of 35 patients completed 1‐year follow‐up after the surgery. They were matched with a group of 70 patients with SG that were equal in age, sex, and body mass index (BMI). Operative risk, weight loss, and remission of comorbidities were evaluated after 12 months.ResultsThe operation time of the SASI group was significantly longer than the SG group (140.3 ± 22.8 vs. 114.9 ± 21.6 min; p < .001). At 12 months after surgery, the SASI group had better weight loss (total weight loss: 37.0% vs. 29.7%; p = .001) and achieved a lower BMI than SG (23.4 ± 2.6 kg/m2 vs. 24.6 ± 2.9 kg/m2; p = .046). Reduction of A1C and remission of T2D was greater in the SASI group. The SASI group had a higher reduction in uric acid, low‐density lipoprotein, total cholesterol, and triglyceride levels after operation than the SG group. However, the SG group is superior to the SASI group in mean corpuscular volume, calcium, and iron levels.ConclusionsIn this study, adding an ileum bipartition to SG increases the weight loss, glycemic, and blood lipid control of SG only.
Ten‐year survival and pattern of recurrence in patients with locally recurrent rectal or sigmoid cancer undergoing resection
Authors: Wiig J. N. , Dagenborg Vegar Johansen , Larsen Stein Gunnar 
Published: December 2024

AbstractAimThe aim of this work is to report actual overall survival (AOS) at 5 and 10 years after multimodal treatment for locally recurrent rectal or sigmoid cancer (LRRC) and the importance of local re‐recurrence (reLRRC) and distant metastases for AOS.MethodAll patients resected for LRRC at a single centre between years 1990 and 2007 were included. Resections were based on images taken after neoadjuvant treatment. Patients were prospectively followed up for 5 years. After a minimum of 10 years, the records of referring hospitals were analysed.ResultsA total of 224 patients underwent resection. At 5 and 10 years 33% and 17%, respectively, had survived. Median survival was 38 months [interquartile range (IQR) 62 months]. Patients with complete resections had 5‐ and 10‐year survival of 56% and 28%, respectively, versus 22% and 11% for those with microscopic remaining tumour; none with macroscopic remains survived beyond 4 years. Median survival was 71 months (IQR 106 months), 33 months (IQR 35 months) and 15 months (IQR 17 months), respectively. With a median survival of 123 months (IQR 80 months), the 54 patients without recurrence had 5‐ and 10‐year survival of 69% and 59%, respectively. The independent predictor of survival was R‐stage. Of the 197 patients who had radical resection, 83 developed reLRRC and 108 distant metastases. ReLRRC appeared at a median of 18 months (IQR 21 months) and distant metastases at 12 months (IQR 21 months). Lung metastases were the most common form of distant disease.ConclusionMore than 5 years postoperatively the mortality from cancer was substantial. Most metastases appeared not to be secondary to reLRRC. Planning surgery from pretreatment images might reduce reLRRC.
Co‐benefits between biodiversity and hydrological ecosystem services allow an efficient conservation planning proposal for the Riviera Maya, Mexico
Authors: Aguilar‐Sánchez Juan Alberto , Kolb Melanie 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIncluding biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) spatial priorities in reserve design through quantitative methods known as systematic conservation planning has been proposed to identify spatial solutions that achieve both elements in a spatially efficient manner. The aim of this study is to evaluate the differences between priority sites for biodiversity and hydrological ecosystem services (HES) and to identify opportunities for co‐benefits that allow an efficient conservation planning proposal, using as a case study the Riviera Maya, Mexico. The results confirm the following: (1) biodiversity and HES priority sites have different spatial patterns, sharing only 24% of priority sites; (2) HES priority sites achieve a high percentage (95%) of biodiversity conservation targets, showing that they can potentially be used for biodiversity representation; and (3) integrating HES and biodiversity into one model is more efficient to represent conservation targets than considering both elements individually (46% vs. 66% of the study area). These results reflect the lack of irreplaceable sites for biodiversity conservation, and as <8% of the study area is currently covered by protected areas, this means that there are numerous opportunities to align cobenefits of biodiversity and HES conservation actions.
Multicenter, Real‐World Clinical Evaluation of Alemtuzumab and Anti‐Thymocyte Globulin for Severe Acute T Cell‐Mediated Kidney Transplant Rejection
Authors: van Vugt Lukas K. , Tegzess Erzsi , van der Zwan Marieke , Clahsen‐van Groningen Marian C. , de Winter Brenda C. M. , Vart Priya , Reinders Marlies E. J. , Sanders Jan Stephan F. , Berger Stefan P. , Hesselink Dennis A. 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTBackgroundAlemtuzumab can be an alternative to rabbit anti‐thymocyte globulin (rATG) to treat severe or glucocorticoid‐resistant acute T cell‐mediated kidney transplant rejection (TCMR). Yet, there are few reports in which these two treatments are evaluated let alone, compared. This study describes the real‐world clinical experience of both therapies and compares their efficacy and toxicity.MethodsKidney transplant recipients of two Dutch transplant centers who received lymphocyte‐depleting antibody therapy for severe or glucocorticoid‐resistant TCMR were retrospectively evaluated. In the first, alemtuzumab was the standard treatment for this indication, in the second, it was rATG. Patient survival, graft survival and function, and the occurrence of infections and malignancies were reported and compared.ResultsOne hundred and forty‐three patients treated with alemtuzumab and 57 patients with rATG were evaluated. Patient survival was not significantly different during follow‐up (p = 0.55), and 5‐year survival rates were 71.0% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 63.0–79.9) after alemtuzumab and 70.7% (95% CI: 58.3–85.7) after rATG. Graft survival was not significantly different during follow‐up either (p = 0.24), and 5‐year graft loss rates were 32.3% (95% CI: 24.2–40.5) after alemtuzumab and 29.2% (95% CI: 16.0–42.4) after rATG. The occurrence of infections and malignancies did not differ between groups.ConclusionMostly, severe TCMRs have good long‐term graft survival and function after either alemtuzumab or rATG therapy. No significant differences between the two therapies were found in this real‐world clinical experience. Alemtuzumab is an effective alternative to rATG for the treatment of severe TCMR.
Macro‐evolutionary dynamics dominated by dispersal promote the formation of regional biodiversity hotspot‐insights from hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in South China
Authors: Wang Ying , Yang Cai‐qing , Zheng Yu‐xuan , Hao Meng‐di , Zhu Chao‐dong , Orr Michael C. , Zhang Ai‐bing 
Published: December 2024

AbstractAimRapid loss in global insect diversity has generated substantial public worry due to their critical ecological roles. However, there is controversy about the effectiveness of the global‐scale hotspots in guiding the conservation of diversity at the regional scale. Even worse, little is known about the knowledge of insect distributional dynamics in many understudied regions, such as East and Southeast Asia. Here, to guide for setting regional‐scale conservation priorities for insect diversity, we explore hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) for their distributional dynamics and identify regional hotspots requiring protection.LocationSouth China (including Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and Macau) and northern Vietnam (17°~26.5° N, 102°~117.5° E).MethodsSpecies distribution models were generated for 194 hawkmoth species based on 3597 occurrence records to predict their distributions. We calculated the spatial patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity and identified regional hotspots. Furthermore, the potential assembly mechanisms underlying insect diversity were explored by analysing the rates of speciation, extinction and dispersal between phyloregions.Results(a) The coastal regions of South China and northern Vietnam represent a regional hotspot of hawkmoths in East and Southeast Asia, with significantly higher α‐diversity than that in inland regions. (b) Dispersal played a more important role than local speciation and extinction in the formation of regional hawkmoth hotspots.Main ConclusionsIn this study, the ‘Out‐of‐the‐tropics model’ can explain the formation of the hawkmoth regional hotspots and the enhanced version of the ‘Pure dispersal model’ can explain the formation of the hotspots in Hainan Island. Compared with the local speciation and extinction, dispersal is the main driving factor that promoted the formation of the regional biodiversity hotspot of hawkmoths in South China. The case of Hainan Island suggests that protection within hotspots needs to account for specific regional macro‐evolutionary dynamics rather than indiscriminate coverage of identified hotspots.