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Personality disordered offenders’ experiences of completing social skills treatment
Authors: Mullan Catherine , Johnson Darren , Tomlinson Jennifer 
Published: September 2018

PurposeAlthough support exists for the effectiveness of treatment for personality disordered offenders there is limited knowledge about the processes underlying the therapeutic change. The purpose of this paper is to explore the treatment experiences of six male psychopathic offenders who attended a social skills treatment component implemented within a high-secure personality disorder treatment service.Design/methodology/approachInterview transcripts were analysed by the lead researcher (first author) using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) who compared and contrasted findings to develop superordinate themes across the group. External auditing analysis was conducted by the second author.FindingsSeveral themes were identified that may indicate the unique ways this client group experienced treatment. These related to the importance of “group cohesion” with treatment progression and shared learning experiences, the significance of “therapeutic alliance” with treatment providers and perceived effectiveness of treatment, and the conflict participants experienced when acquiring and applying skills from their engagement in treatment. Participants identified aspects of the treatment component that facilitated the effectiveness of treatment and were effective in meeting their needs and some that would benefit from improvement.Practical implicationsPositive group dynamics are important. Operational staff inclusion within the facilitation team is beneficial. Attentiveness to participants’ specific responsivity needs is required. Supporting skill application post-treatment is important.Originality/valueThese findings add to the evidence base in relation to factors that support personality disordered offenders’ engagement within treatment. Areas that validate treatment delivery are highlighted, as are suggestions for change to maximise treatment gain for psychopathic and personality disordered offenders.
Pricing lease agreements incorporating tenant’s downscaling option
Authors: Vimpari Jussi 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the problem that arises when a tenant’s space needs will likely change in the future, but the property owner would prefer to continue renting the initial space to the same tenant. The study builds upon ideas on structuring option values into initial rent and proposes a method for evaluating the value of adaptability for both the tenants and the owners.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology is based on real option pricing, and it includes key variables of building adaptability, lease agreement terms and property market information. The methodology explains the importance of understanding the concept of volatility related to space needs and how it affects the tenant’s decision to either remain or vacate the rented premises. Real option pricing theory highlights the problem of using linearly growing expectations for physical assets and the obvious problems that arise with that assumption.FindingsThis paper suggests that the principles of option pricing could be used in valuing building adaptability to find the optimal initial rent from both the owner’s and the tenant’s perspective. It is pointed that the volatility of the tenant’s future space requirements should drive the effective rent paid by the tenant. The paper argues as to why the owner is better off if the tenant can downscale (with building adaptability) their current space rather than vacate the whole space. Additionally, this paper presents the reasons for why the tenant should pay more for a space that has such a downscaling option. Eventually, both the owner and the tenant are better off because, from the tenant’s perspective, unnecessary relocating costs can be avoided, and from the owner’s perspective, unnecessary re-renting costs can be avoided.Practical implicationsThe paper demonstrates how the downscaling option creates value for both the owner and the tenant. The owner benefits from higher average occupancy rates, and during lease break points, only part of the premises has to be re-rented rather than the entire premises. When these higher occupancy rates are transferred into cash flows with relevant market parameters, it is evident how the rates create extra value for the property owner and for the tenant, subject to lease terms.Originality/valueThe owner benefits from the higher rent, even though there might be more lease break points where parts of the building must be rented out. If these kinds of option values can be communicated transparently, it should be possible for the owner and the tenant to agree on such terms.
Building theory on the negotiation capability of the firm: evidence from Ryanair
Authors: Caputo Andrea , Borbely Adrian , Dabic Marina 
Published: September 2018

PurposeIn an attempt to build upon existing theory, this paper aims to investigate the potentially reciprocal relationship between negotiation and strategy, and strive to contribute toward a better understanding of the ways in which organizations negotiate.Design/methodology/approachBuilt upon the integration of two different bodies of literature, negotiation and strategy, and on the analysis of the case of Ryanair, this paper argues for an integrated approach to negotiation and organizational capabilities.FindingsThe case study allows for a clearer understanding of how negotiation capability can play a significant role in supporting the creation and sustainment of competitive advantage, even under unfavorable industry settings.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to theoretical development by offering new and insightful explanations of firms’ behavior, moving beyond the classic interpretation of industry dynamics, such as bargaining power. This study has implications for both practice and research, as it offers a better and more holistic understanding of the strategy-making process and the foundations of its success.
Moderating effect of subordinates’ overall justice in the relationship between supervisors’ overall justice and supervisors’ affective organizational commitment
Authors: Kim Si Hyun , Laffranchini Giacomo , Jeung Wonho 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between supervisor’s overall justice and affective organizational commitment. The authors further study how this relationship is moderated by subordinates’ overall justice.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted hierarchical regression analyses on a sample of supervisor–subordinate matched data.FindingsSupervisors’ overall justice was positively related to supervisors’ affective organizational commitment, and subordinates’ overall justice moderated these relationships.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation of the study was its cross-sectional nature.Practical implicationsResults emphasized the importance of the interaction between supervisors’ and subordinates’ perceived overall justice, which suggests that employers should focus on treating all individuals fairly in the workplace.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the organizational justice literature by providing empirical evidence using a supervisor–subordinate matched sample, suggesting that overall justice is important to understanding individuals’ affective organizational commitment. Using fairness heuristic theory, the study explores the interaction effect of subordinates’ overall justice on the relationship between supervisors’ overall justice and affective organizational commitment.
Correlation between Machiavellian leadership and emotional exhaustion of employees
Authors: Stradovnik Katja , Stare Janez 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of Machiavellian leadership and organisational cynicism on the emotional exhaustion of employees.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data were collected from 463 employees of Slovenian municipalities. Surveys were used to collect Machiavellianism, organisational cynicism and emotional exhaustion data. Hypotheses were verified by means of three methods: the contingency table,χ2test and Pearson coefficient.FindingsMachiavellian leadership has an impact both on the presence of emotional exhaustion and organisational cynicism. According to the results, both Machiavellianism and organisational cynicism have a direct linear impact on the increase of emotional exhaustion.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of the research were formulated on the basis of a survey conducted according to a self-assessment online survey.Originality/valueEven though the concept of Machiavellianism was developed 500 years ago, the existing literature suggests that it continues to be relevant in modern times, most frequently in terms of examining the way leaders establish their power and adopt (un)ethical leadership practices and the implications their behaviour has on their direct working environment. Only select authors have examined Machiavellianism in correlation with organisational cynicism and emotional exhaustion, with an emphasis on the public sector. Due to a lack of research conducted on the subject, the main research challenge was to establish actual correlations between the three factors above.
The nexus between financial development and poverty reduction in Egypt
Authors: Kheir Vivian Bushra 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of financial development on poverty reduction in Egypt. The paper also investigates whether financial development affects poverty via gross domestic product (GDP) growth.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses the autoregressive distributed lag approach to estimate two specifications. The first is dependent on poverty by the ratio domestic credit to the private sector (percentage of GDP) and the second is dependent on the poverty by the ratio liquid liabilities to GDP or M3/GDP. The data are annual and cover the period from 1980 to 2015.FindingsIn long run, the study finds that relationship between economic growth and poverty is bidirectional. Financial development and poverty (household final consumption expenditure per capita) are complementary as bidirectional (in Granger sense). In short run, the study finds the bidirectional causality between financial development (real domestic credit to private sector per capita) and poverty reduction.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that governments should remove policies that impede the ability of banks to offer loan products or undermine the commercial incentive structure for banks or borrowers. It is crucial to enhance the role of specialized state-owned banks in financial intermediation.Social implicationsSeveral attempts have been made to investigate the relationship between financial development and other macroeconomic variables, but few studies have examined the impact of financial development on poverty reduction. Furthermore, the majority of the previous studies are based on Asia and Latin America – affording Egypt very little or no coverage at all.
Does the composition of boards of directors impact on CSR scores?
Authors: Wellalage Nirosha , Locke Stuart , Acharya Sanjeev 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the relationship between board composition and firm corporate social responsibility (CSR) scores of the top 30 listed companies in Australia, France, UK and USA.Design/methodology/approachUsing a sample of 120 publicly listed companies covering a 10-year period from 2006 to 2015, the authors examine this relationship in a dynamic modelling framework, which controls for potential sources of endogeneity.FindingsThe authors find that board composition appears to have no effect on large firms’ CSR scores. This finding remains robust when they used out-of-sample analysis and is consistent with the perspectives of agency theory stakeholder theory and institutional theory.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature in several ways. First, it fills an important gap in literature on CSR and corporate governance, as less is known about how board composition affects social activities. Second, this study controls endogeneity and sample selection bias which are main econometric problems in CG and CSR studies.
Streptococcus pyogenes CAMP factor promotes calcium ion uptake in RAW264.7 cells
Authors: Kurosawa Mie , Oda Masataka , Domon Hisanori , Isono Toshihito , Nakamura Yuki , Saitoh Issei , Hayasaki Haruaki , Yamaguchi Masaya , Kawabata Shigetada , Terao Yutaka 
Published: September 2018

ABSTRACTStreptococcus pyogenes is a bacterium that causes systemic diseases such as pharyngitis and toxic shock syndrome. S. pyogenes produces molecules that inhibit the function of the human immune system, thus allowing growth and spread of the pathogen in tissues. It is known that S. pyogenes CAMP factor induces vacuolation in macrophages; however, the mechanism remains unclear. In the current study, the mechanism by which CAMP factor induces vacuolation in macrophages was investigated. CAMP factor was found to induce calcium ion uptake in murine macrophage RAW264.7 cells. In addition, EDTA inhibited calcium ion uptake and vacuolation in the cells. The L‐type voltage‐dependent calcium ion channel blockers nifedipine and verapamil reduced vacuolation. Furthermore, the phosphoinositide 3‐kinase inhibitors LY294002 and wortmannin also inhibited the vacuolation induced by CAMP factor. Fluorescent microscopy revealed that clathrin localized to the vacuoles. These results suggest that the vacuolation is related to calcium ion uptake by RAW264.7 cells via L‐type voltage‐dependent calcium ion channels. Therefore, it was concluded that the vacuoles induced by S. pyogenes CAMP factor in macrophages are clathrin‐dependent endosomes induced by activation of the phosphoinositide 3‐kinase signaling pathway through calcium ion uptake.
Emergence of soil bacterial ecotypes along a climate gradient
Authors: Chase Alexander B. , Gomez‐Lunar Zulema , Lopez Alberto E. , Li Junhui , Allison Steven D. , Martiny Adam C. , Martiny Jennifer B. H. 
Published: September 2018

SummaryThe high diversity of soil bacteria is attributed to the spatial complexity of soil systems, where habitat heterogeneity promotes niche partitioning among bacterial taxa. This premise remains challenging to test, however, as it requires quantifying the traits of closely related soil bacteria and relating these traits to bacterial abundances and geographic distributions. Here, we sought to investigate whether the widespread soil taxon Curtobacterium consists of multiple coexisting ecotypes with differential geographic distributions. We isolated Curtobacterium strains from six sites along a climate gradient and assayed four functional traits that may contribute to niche partitioning in leaf litter, the top layer of soil. Our results revealed that cultured isolates separated into fine‐scale genetic clusters that reflected distinct suites of phenotypic traits, denoting the existence of multiple ecotypes. We then quantified the distribution of Curtobacterium by analysing metagenomic data collected across the gradient over 18 months. Six abundant ecotypes were observed with differential abundances along the gradient, suggesting fine‐scale niche partitioning. However, we could not clearly explain observed geographic distributions of ecotypes by relating their traits to environmental variables. Thus, while we can resolve soil bacterial ecotypes, the traits delineating their distinct niches in the environment remain unclear.
The architecture of cigarette circulation: marketing work on Indonesia's retail infrastructure
Authors: Welker Marina 
Published: September 2018

AbstractThe cigarette industry mobilizes independent retail as the scaffolding for ubiquitous cigarette advertising and sales in Indonesia, forming an expansive semiotic and material architecture of cigarette circulation in a country with limited tobacco regulations. As impending regulations threaten to curb cigarette advertising, and independent retailers face stiff competition from mushrooming chain convenience stores, Philip Morris International's Indonesian subsidiary has developed a retail community programme to recruit and ‘modernize’ select retailers. The programme has intensified the quotidian labour of marketers who use knowledge, persons, and things to inhabit and renovate independent retail. I show how fashioning cigarette markets entails fashioning retail infrastructure, and is embedded in intimate relations of power, care, and violence.
‘One beer, one block’: concrete aspiration and the stuff of transformation in a Mozambican suburb
Authors: Archambault Julie Soleil 
Published: September 2018

AbstractAs the world's most used material, after water, cement is particularly good to think with. And as I show below, it may also be good to ‘become with’, especially across the Global South, where demand is soaring. In Africa, the continent with the fastest‐growing cement consumption at the moment, demand is expected to rise by 50 per cent over the next couple of years. The cement industry even refers to sub‐Saharan Africa as ‘the last cement frontier’, and speaks of cement as the continent's ‘new oil’. Fueling this consumption, alongside the spectacular projects of futuristic satellite cities, shopping malls, tower blocks, and ring roads, are the millions of small domestic construction projects increasingly visible on the landscape, especially the peri‐urban landscape. Although Mozambicans have long engaged with concrete as a politically and affectively charged material, this engagement now increasingly starts at the level of the bag of cement, as young people acquire cement to make their own concrete blocks, and eventually to build their own houses. Inspired by this ethnographic observation, this article is analytically driven by a wider interest in transformation. Based on research in a Mozambican suburb under expansion, it examines, through an analysis of changing domestic building practices, how the hope of achieving something – in a word, aspiration – congeals and materializes. Drawing on the literature on affect and materiality, I show how cement and concrete – as materials that young Mozambicans dream about, invest in, and play with – participate in shaping aspiration. In the end, I argue that the transformative outcome is very much the contingent result of an encounter, at a specific historical moment, between particular subjectivities and the materiality of cement and concrete.
Analysis of Arsenic Species in Processed Rice Bran Products Using HPLC‐ICP‐MS
Authors: Kim So Young , Seo Dongwon , Yoo Miyoung , Lee Kwang‐Geun 
Published: September 2018

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to compare the content of arsenic species (As(V), monomethylarsonic acid [MMA], As(III), and dimethylarsinic acid [DMA]) in products, such as bran powder and tablets, using high‐performance liquid chromatography‐inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, and to determine the risk of human exposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs). The products presented As(III) > As(V) > DMA > MMA, at 241.03 to 579.35, 43.41 to 271.91, 15.16 to 30.43, and limit of quantification to 14.31 μg/kg, respectively. The contents of arsenic species tended to differ among the products (P < 0.05). When the maximum level (0.2 mg/kg) of iAs in white rice was applied to products, it exceeded 1.4 to 3.3 times as 284.43 to 767.10 μg/kg. Also, if more than 109.42 g/day of rice bran powder product containing 767.10 μg/kg as iAs was ingested, the provisional tolerable weekly intake (9.0 μg/kg body weight/wk) was exceeded.Practical ApplicationThis study could provide analysis necessary of As for defining an accurate risk assessment of products and tablets containing rice bran powder. In addition with this study, the regulations for As contents in rice bran power products would be set.
Low pre‐treatment nutritional index is significantly related to poor outcomes in small cell lung cancer
Authors: Go Se‐Il , Jeon Hankyu , Park Sung Woo , Kang Myoung Hee , Kim Hoon‐Gu , Lee Gyeong‐Won 
Published: September 2018

BackgroundThe importance of nutritional status and chronic inflammation has been emphasized in cancer. We investigated the impact of Onodera's prognostic nutritional index (OPNI) on clinical outcomes in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients.MethodsData from 220 SCLC patients treated with first‐line platinum‐based chemotherapy from 2006 to 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. The OPNI was calculated as 10 × serum albumin level (g/dL) + 0.005 × absolute lymphocyte count (/mm3). Patients with an OPNI of > 45, 40–45, or < 40 were categorized in high, intermediate, or low OPNI groups, respectively.ResultsThe proportion of non‐responders to first‐line therapy increased as the OPNI decreased (high, intermediate, low OPNI groups: 6.7%, 18.0%, and 30.8%, respectively; P < 0.001). Early discontinuation of first‐line therapy because of treatment toxicity occurred more frequently in the lower OPNI groups (high, intermediate, low OPNI groups: 5.8%, 21.3%, and 25.6%, respectively; P < 0.001). The one‐year progression‐free and overall survival rates in the high, intermediate, and low OPNI groups were 29%, 19%, and 3%, and 61%, 46%, and 23%, respectively. In multivariate analyses, the low OPNI group was independently associated with poor progression‐free (hazard ratio 1.592; 95% confidence interval 1.009–2.511; P = 0.046) and overall (hazard ratio 1.911; 95% confidence interval 1.208–3.024; P = 0.006) survival compared to the high OPNI group.ConclusionSCLC patients with an OPNI < 40 showed a low tolerance to chemotherapy and a poor prognosis. Further evaluation is needed to validate these findings.
Pulmonary metastasectomy: analysis of survival and prognostic factors in 243 patients
Authors: Cheung Francis , Alam Naveed , Wright Gavin 
Published: September 2018

BackgroundPulmonary metastases are a sign of advanced malignant disease. Interdisciplinary management of metastatic cancer mandates the consideration of all treatment options, and in selected patients pulmonary metastasectomy can be performed with curative intent. This study aims to analyze the prognostic factors associated with survival and optimize the selection of surgical candidates. The sarcoma subset analysis aims to examine the role of multiple repeat resections for pulmonary metastatic recurrence.MethodsA total of 243 patients were analyzed in this retrospective cohort study. Overall survival was estimated using Kaplan–Meier analysis. Univariate analyses with log‐rank tests and multivariate analysis with Cox proportional hazards model were undertaken to determine the independent prognostic factors for survival.ResultsMultivariate analyses identified germ cell cancer (P = 0.01) and a disease‐free interval of >36 months (P = 0.006) as significant independent prognostic factors for improved survival, whilst synchronous metastases (P = 0.04), multiple metastases (P = 0.005) and incomplete resection (P < 0.001) were identified as significantly poor prognostic factors. Subset analyses identified that ≥2 repeat resections within the sarcoma cohort was associated with an increased median survival of 63.5 months (P = 0.04).ConclusionIn selected patients, pulmonary metastasectomy can be performed with curative intent and have associated long‐term survival benefits. Patients presenting with recurrent sarcoma pulmonary metastases should be considered for repeat metastasectomy.