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Does gamified elements influence on user’s intention to adopt and intention to recommend internet banking?
Authors: Rahi Samar , Abd. Ghani Mazuri 
Published: October 2018

Purpose
Understanding the main determinants of internet banking is important for banks and users. Although several prior research projects have focused on the factors that impact on adoption of technology, there is a limited empirical work which simultaneously captures technology-specific factors (PE, EE, WD, GAM) and customer-specific factors (GSC, INTRC) that help customers to adopt internet banking. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to verify how these factors influence individual behavior and motivate them to adopt new technology. The authors advance the body of knowledge on this subject by proposing moderating relationship of gamification between user’s intention to adopt and intention to recommend internet banking in social network.

Design/methodology/approach
To test the model the authors developed a quantitative study involving 398 internet users from five commercial banks. Data were collected in four weeks beginning of September 2017 from three large cities of Pakistan using convenience sampling approach. The theoretical model was tested using structural equation modeling (SEM).

Findings
The results indicate that intention to adopt internet banking is positively affected by performance expectancy, effort expectancy, website design, website characteristics and general self-confidence. Findings of SEM showed that approximately 72 percent of the variance in customer’s intention to adopt internet banking was accounted by predictors. Moderating effect of gamification suggested that the positive relationship between customer’s intention to adopt and customer’s intention to recommend internet banking will be stronger when gamification is higher. Importance performance matrix analysis (IPMA) suggested that among all other variables general self-confidence is the most important construct as it has the highest importance value in IPMA.

Practical implications
This study provides insightful guideline to practitioners, web designers and marketing professional that they should focus on both technology perspective and customer-specific factors to boost the confidence of internet banking users, while for researchers this study provides a basis for further development of technology adoption models in e-commerce domain.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the body of knowledge by adding game elements in technology perspective model and augments the e-commerce literature in the internet banking adoption context. To the date, this study is the first in its nature that investigates both technology-specific factors and customer-specific factors altogether to see the users influence toward technology adoption.
Effect of ageing on lubricants’ physical and chemical properties and tribological performance
Authors: Cen Hui , Morina Ardian , Neville Anne 
Published: October 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of water contamination on ageing of lubricants.

Design/methodology/approach
The viscosity, total acid number and Fourier transform infrared spectrum of a series of lubricants after ageing with water were studied. The tribological performance (friction and wear) of the aged lubricants was also analyzed, followed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis on the selected post test samples to study the tribochemical features of the tribofilm.

Findings
The results were also compared with Part I of this study, and it was found that ageing has a different impact on lubricants and tribological performances based on the physical and chemical properties when water is present in the lubricants.

Originality/value
This paper is a continuation of Part I of this study and gives an understanding on the impact of water on the lubricants and related tribological and tribochemical performance.
The impact of effectuation on small firm buying decisions
Authors: McGowan Phillip 
Published: October 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to consider the effect of effectuation logic on the buying intentions of small firm owner-managers.

Design/methodology/approach
Literature relating to organisational buying, marketing and personal selling and entrepreneurial decision making was synthesised.

Findings
This paper presents a conceptual model based on propositions relating to how effectuation logic may explain the predilection of small firm owner-managers to select trusted suppliers from within personal and business networks, and to engage on flexible terms. It suggests that supplier relationship decisions made using effectuation logic may enable wider choice of suppliers than the formal processes of large firms.

Research limitations/implications
The findings were developed from a narrative review of literature and are yet to be empirically tested.

Originality/value
By synthesising research findings on small firm buyer behaviour, the IMP interaction approach and effectuation, it has been possible to develop a predictive model representing buyer–seller relationships in the context of small firms which suggests that owner-managers select suppliers in line with the principles of effectuation means and effectuation affordable loss.
We can help, but there’s a catch
Authors: Siliunas Andreja , Small Mario L. , Wallerstein Joseph 
Published: October 2018

Purpose
Today, low-income people seeking resources from the federal government must often work through non-profit organizations. The purpose of this paper is to examine the constraints that the poor must face today to secure resources through non-profit organizations.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a conceptual paper. The authors review cases of non-profit organizations providing federally supported resources to the poor across multiple sectors.

Findings
The authors find that to accept government contracts serving the poor, nonprofit organizations must often engage in one or several practices: reject clients normally consistent with their mission, select clients based on likely outcomes, ignore problems in clients’ lives relevant to their predicament, or undermine client progress to manage funding requirements. To secure government-supported resources from nonprofits, the poor must often acquiesce to intrusions into one or more of the following: their privacy (disclosing sensitive information), their self-protection (renouncing legal rights), their identity (avowing a particular self-understanding) or their self-mastery (relinquishing authority over daily routines).

Originality/value
The authors show that the nonprofits’ dual role as brokers, both liaisons transferring resources and representatives of the state, can complicate their relation to their clients and the predicament of the poor themselves; the authors suggest that two larger trends, toward increasing administrative accountability and demonstrating deservingness, are having both intended and unintended consequences for the ability of low-income individuals to gain access to publicly funded resources.
Dining alone? Solo consumers’ self-esteem and incidental similarity
Authors: Shin Joongwon , Hwang Yoohee , Mattila Anna S. 
Published: October 2018

PurposeThough social trends are driving consumers toward solo consumption of various services, many are reluctant to do so. There is little guidance for service providers as to how to effectively induce solo consumption. This study aims to examine the joint effect of self-esteem and an incidental similarity cue (e.g. a person’s initials) on anticipated satisfaction with with a solo consumption experience to fill this gap.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a two-factor (incidental similarity cue and self-esteem) quasi-experimental design to test the hypotheses. The respondents read a scenario depicting a solo service consumption experience and completed scales that measured perceived fit with the service context and anticipated satisfaction with the experience.FindingsResults indicate that, in the absence of an incidental similarity cue, self-esteem has a positive effect on solo consumers’ perceived fit. In the presence of such a cue, however, self-esteem has a minimal impact on perceived fit. Furthermore, perceived fit mediates the effect of self-esteem on anticipated satisfaction when the cue is absent.Originality/valueThe authors’ findings suggest that promoting incidental similarities with consumers may not be an efficient strategy to attract solo consumers. Conversely, service providers wishing to induce solo consumption may benefit from situationally increasing self-esteem among potential solo consumers. The current research advances the authors’ understanding of the effect of an incidental similarity cue and self-esteem in the context of a growing social trend of solo consumption.
Social advertisements for public health and epidemic dynamics
Authors: Casais Beatriz , Proença João F. 
Published: October 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine health-related social advertisements to identify its use and evaluate its appropriateness to situational needs, such as epidemic dynamics and the context where it is implemented. The paper also discusses the barriers that policymakers face in creating these linkages.

Design/methodology/approach
In all, 375 national HIV/AIDS prevention television advertisements from France, Germany, Portugal and Italy were viewed and analyzed over time of production, exploring the sources, the target audiences and the messages delivered. This paper compares management choices with HIV epidemics in each country and their contextual profiles.

Findings
The findings of this paper indicate that social advertising concerned with HIV/AIDS prevention is commonly framed within public policies and does not usually target the most vulnerable and affected populations. Furthermore, social ads are reactive to epidemic dynamics. The existence of trade-offs between putting forward theoretical marketing recommendations and taking account of contextual fracturing issues or increasing stigma and discrimination are also considered.

Research limitations/implications
This paper is useful for public sector management because of the importance of evaluating the investments done to improve future strategies. The discussion about restrictions and concerns for policy-makers is important to improve management decisions.

Originality/value
This paper suggests the adoption of proactive public policies and proposes strategies to overcome the restrictions or concerns faced by policy-makers.
Evaluation and quality assessment of defatted microalgae meal of Chlorella as an alternative food ingredient in cookies
Authors: Sahni Prashant , Sharma Savita , Singh Baljit 
Published: October 2018

PurposeMeal left after extraction of microalgae functional compounds is not finding its application in food. Hence, present study was aimed for the development of the cookies supplemented with meal of microalgaeChlorella sp. (Abca-17) obtained after solvent extraction of chlorophyll.Design/methodology/approachCookies were prepared by substituting refined wheat flour (RWF) with microalgae meal (MM) at incorporation levels of 3, 6, 9 and 12 per cent. The effect of replacement of RWF with MM was analyzed on the pasting properties of the flour blends and physical, chemical, sensory and textural characteristics of the cookies.FindingsMM exhibited high water and oil absorption capacity of 0.8 g/g and 1.2 g/g, respectively. Weight and thickness of the cookies increased, whereas the diameter, spread ratio and spread factor decreased with the increased proportion of meal in flour blends. The moisture and ash content (0.8-2.0 per cent) of the cookies increased, whereas fat content showed no pronounced variation. Sensory evaluation of cookies revealed no significant difference at 6 per cent level of incorporation and further supplementation resulted in dark colour and increased hardness. Texture profile analysis of cookies also revealed that the peak positive force for breaking the cookies increased (3115.6-7372.1 N) with increase in the level of incorporation of meal.Practical implicationsMM can be used in the development of the cookies at level of incorporation of 6 per cent and presents novice approach for utilization of bioprocessing waste.Originality/valueThe present study is a pioneer effort in demonstration of utilization of MM as alternate food ingredient. MM ofChlorella sp. (Abca-17) was characterized as food ingredient using physicochemical analysis and model food system using cookies.
Portuguese tourism: How to share success?
Authors: Costa Jorge , Carvalho Silva , Rodrigues Daniela 
Published: October 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to draws on the main conclusions of an International Tourism Forum Round Table discussion, attended by representatives of the main entities of the tourism sector in Portugal as well as international travel and tourism specialists. The authors identify the importance of making travel and tourism growth sustainable and discuss how success approaches can be shared more widely.

Design/methodology/approach
The main conclusions resulting from the International Tourism Forum Round Table are presented and discussed. The event was organised by the Institute for Tourism Planning and Development (IPDT), with Sponsorship support from the Solverde Group, under the theme: “Tourism in 2018: How to Share Tourism Success”.

Findings
Participants in the International Tourism Forum Round Table concluded that the tourism industry worldwide and in Portugal in particular, is facing major challenges that calls for innovative ways of managing the tourist experience. Several questions regarding tourism have been discussed, including desertification in some inland cities and villages.

Originality/value
This paper provides knowledge about the current state of Portuguese tourism, its challenges and opportunities and identifies innovative ways and likely solutions for drawing tourists to other regions of the country – beyond the major cities.
The IPPR Commission on Economic Justice: the Strategy for Labour Market Reform
Authors: Rubery Jill 
Published: October 2018

AbstractIf justice and prosperity are to go hand in hand, a new social settlement in the labour market is urgently needed. The IPPR proposals provide a good start that could begin to transform the UK labour market, particularly by re‐establishing collective regulation. However, the programme is incomplete. Welfare reform is not addressed yet Universal Credit can be expected to have negative impacts on the labour market. Most importantly the report, despite offering some useful measures for gender equality, does not seize the political moment, as concerns rise over job displacement, to argue for shorter working time that could help to transform the gender division of paid and unpaid work.
‘Breaking Barriers, Breaking Bread’: Pilot study to evaluate acceptability of a school breakfast program utilising donated food
Authors: Deavin Natika , McMahon Anne‐Therese , Walton Karen , Charlton Karen 
Published: October 2018

AimOne in seven Australian schoolchildren do not consume breakfast. School‐based breakfast programs assist at‐risk children to meet their nutritional requirements and provide cognitive and behavioural benefits, but may result in significant food costs and waste. The present study aimed to explore acceptability and perceived benefits of a novel free primary school‐based breakfast program utilising donated food.MethodsProcess evaluation included quantification of amount of food donated, number of meals provided and nutritional analysis of some of the meal items. Impact evaluation was based on thematic analysis of focus groups held with students, parents and teachers to explore their perspectives about the program. Breakfast diaries and hunger rating visual analogue scales were used to evaluate students’ breakfast habits at home over five consecutive days.ResultsThe program saved 14.4 t of food from landfill through conversion into 44 000 meals. One‐fifth of children interviewed arrived at school without having breakfast at least once per week while one‐third of students reported being hungry on arrival at school. Benefits of participation in the program included increased willingness to attend school, improved alertness and behaviour, as well as creation of an equitable, supportive environment beneficial for low income or food insecure families.ConclusionsThis novel breakfast program based on donated food was widely accepted by students, teachers and parents, providing benefits beyond the mere provision of food. It provides a model for school‐based interventions to combine breakfast programs with sustainable food production approaches.
Metabarcoding of shrimp stomach content: Harnessing a natural sampler for fish biodiversity monitoring
Authors: Siegenthaler Andjin , Wangensteen Owen S. , Soto Ana Z. , Benvenuto Chiara , Corrigan Laura , Mariani Stefano 
Published: October 2018

AbstractGiven their positioning and biological productivity, estuaries have long represented key providers of ecosystem services and consequently remain under remarkable pressure from numerous forms of anthropogenic impact. The monitoring of fish communities in space and time is one of the most widespread and established approaches to assess the ecological status of estuaries and other coastal habitats, but traditional fish surveys are invasive, costly, labour intensive and highly selective. Recently, the application of metabarcoding techniques, on either sediment or aqueous environmental DNA, has rapidly gained popularity. Here, we evaluate the application of a novel, high‐throughput DNA‐based monitoring tool to assess fish diversity, based on the analysis of the gut contents of a generalist predator/scavenger, the European brown shrimp, Crangon crangon. Sediment and shrimp samples were collected from eight European estuaries, and DNA metabarcoding (using both 12S and COI markers) was carried out to infer fish assemblage composition. We detected 32 teleost species (16 and 20, for 12S and COI, respectively). Twice as many species were recovered using metabarcoding than by traditional net surveys. By comparing and interweaving trophic, environmental DNA and traditional survey‐based techniques, we show that the DNA‐assisted gut content analysis of a ubiquitous, easily accessible, generalist species may serve as a powerful, rapid and cost‐effective tool for large‐scale, routine estuarine biodiversity monitoring.
Cysteine‐rich secretory protein 3: inflammation role in adult varicocoele
Authors: Belardin L. , Camargo M. , Intasqui P. , Antoniassi M. , Fraietta R. , Bertolla R. 
Published: October 2018

AbstractBackgroundCysteine‐rich secretory protein (CRISP‐3), a protein involved in inflammatory response, is highly increased in seminal plasma of adolescents with varicocoele and altered semen analysis, but not in adolescents with varicocoele and normal semen. It is not known, however, whether this increased seminal concentration occurs as an acute marker during the initial stages of varicocoele or whether this persists as an altered protein pathway.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study, thus, was to test the hypothesis that this inflammatory state persists through adulthood and the correction of varicocoele could correct this state, by identifying the levels of CRISP‐3 in seminal plasma.Materials and methodsThis study was carried out in two substudies: (i) to verify the effect of varicocoele and (ii) to verify the effect of varicocelectomy on seminal plasma CRISP‐3 levels. Seminal plasma CRISP‐3 levels (29 and 31 kDa isoforms) were assessed for each provided sample using standard Western blotting.ResultsThe varicocoele group presented higher seminal levels of CRISP‐3 when compared to controls, with a 67.5‐fold increase in the unglycosylated isoform (29 kDa) and a 5.2‐fold increase in the glycosylated isoform (31 kDa). In contrast, CRISP‐3 levels decreased following varicocelectomy, both in the unglycosylated (5.6‐fold decrease) and in the glycosylated (4.3‐fold decrease) isoforms.DiscussionCRISP‐3, a protein involved in inflammation, is increased in seminal plasma of men with varicocoele and this is partially reversed by varicocelectomy. Monitoring its seminal levels may be useful for assessing inflammation‐related alterations to fertility in men with varicocoele.ConclusionWe conclude that, in the presence of varicocoele, there is a marked increase in seminal CRISP‐3 levels. Surgical intervention (varicocelectomy) decreases CRISP‐3 levels and improves semen quality.
Biorthogonal Wavelet Surface Reconstruction Using Partial Integrations
Authors: Ren Xiaohua , Lyu Luan , He Xiaowei , Cao Wei , Yang Zhixin , Sheng Bin , Zhang Yanci , Wu Enhua 
Published: October 2018

AbstractWe introduce a new biorthogonal wavelet approach to creating a water‐tight surface defined by an implicit function, from a finite set of oriented points. Our approach aims at addressing problems with previous wavelet methods which are not resilient to missing or nonuniformly sampled data. To address the problems, our approach has two key elements. First, by applying a three‐dimensional partial integration, we derive a new integral formula to compute the wavelet coefficients without requiring the implicit function to be an indicator function. It can be shown that the previously used formula is a special case of our formula when the integrated function is an indicator function. Second, a simple yet general method is proposed to construct smooth wavelets with small support. With our method, a family of wavelets can be constructed with the same support size as previously used wavelets while having one more degree of continuity. Experiments show that our approach can robustly produce results comparable to those produced by the Fourier and Poisson methods, regardless of the input data being noisy, missing or nonuniform. Moreover, our approach does not need to compute global integrals or solve large linear systems.
Directing the Photography: Combining Cinematic Rules, Indirect Light Controls and Lighting‐by‐Example
Authors: Galvane Q. , Lino C. , Christie M. , Cozot R. 
Published: October 2018

AbstractThe placement of lights in a 3D scene is a technical and artistic task that requires time and trained skills. Most 3D modelling tools only provide a direct control of light sources, through the manipulation of parameters such as size, location, flux (the perceived power of light) or opening angle (the light frustum). Approaches have been relying on automated or semi‐automated techniques to relieve users from such low‐level manipulations at the expense of an important computational cost. In this paper, guided by discussions with experts in scene and object lighting, we propose an indirect control of area light sources. We first formalize the classical 3‐point lighting design principle (key‐light, fill‐lights and back/rim‐lights) in a parametric model. Given a key‐light placed in the scene, we then provide a computational approach to (i) automatically compute the position and size of fill‐lights and back/rim‐lights by analyzing the geometry of 3D character, and (ii) automatically compute the flux and size of key, fill and back/rim lights, given a sample reference image in a computationally efficient way. Results demonstrate the benefits of the approach on the quick lighting of 3D characters, and further demonstrate the feasibility of interactive control of multiple lights through image features.