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Nanopore-based genome assembly and the evolutionary genomics of basmati rice
Authors: Choi Jae Young , Lye Zoe N. , Groen Simon C. , Dai Xiaoguang , Rughani Priyesh , Zaaijer Sophie , Harrington Eoghan D. , Juul Sissel , Purugganan Michael D. 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACTBACKGROUNDThecircum-basmati group of cultivated Asian rice (Oryza sativa) contains many iconic varieties and is widespread in the Indian subcontinent. Despite its economic and cultural importance, a high-quality reference genome is currently lacking, and the group’s evolutionary history is not fully resolved. To address these gaps, we used long-read nanopore sequencing and assembled the genomes of twocircum-basmati rice varieties, Basmati 334 and Dom Sufid.RESULTSWe generated two high-quality, chromosome-level reference genomes that represented the 12 chromosomes ofOryza. The assemblies showed a contig N50 of 6.32Mb and 10.53Mb for Basmati 334 and Dom Sufid, respectively. Using our highly contiguous assemblies we characterized structural variations segregating acrosscircum-basmati genomes. We discovered repeat expansions not observed in japonica—the rice group most closely related tocircum-basmati—as well as presence/absence variants of over 20Mb, one of which was acircum-basmati-specific deletion of a gene regulating awn length. We further detected strong evidence of admixture between thecircum-basmati andcircum-aus groups. This gene flow had its greatest effect on chromosome 10, causing both structural variation and single nucleotide polymorphism to deviate from genome-wide history. Lastly, population genomic analysis of 78circum-basmati varieties showed three major geographically structured genetic groups: (1) Bhutan/Nepal group, (2) India/Bangladesh/Myanmar group, and (3) Iran/Pakistan group.CONCLUSIONAvailability of high-quality reference genomes from nanopore sequencing allowed functional and evolutionary genomic analyses, providing genome-wide evidence for gene flow betweencircum-aus andcircum-basmati, the nature ofcircum-basmati structural variation, and the presence/absence of genes in this important and iconic rice variety group.
Genotype-by-environment-by-environment interactions in theSaccharomyces cerevisiaetranscriptomic response to alcohols and anaerobiosis
Authors: Sardi Maria , Krause Molly , Heilberger Justin , Gasch Audrey P. 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACTNext generation biofuels including longer-chain alcohols such as butanol are attractive as renewable, high-energy fuels. A barrier to microbial production of butanols is the increased toxicity compared to ethanol; however, the cellular targets and microbial defense mechanisms remain poorly understood, especially under anaerobic conditions used frequently in industry. Here we took a comparative approach to understand the response ofSaccharomyces cerevisiaeto 1-butanol, isobutanol, or ethanol, across three genetic backgrounds of varying tolerance in aerobic and anaerobic conditions. We find that strains have different growth properties and alcohol tolerances with and without oxygen availability, as well as unique and common responses to each of the three alcohols. Our results provide evidence for strain-by-alcohol-by-oxygen interactions that moderate how cells respond to alcohol stress.ARTICLE SUMMARYEfforts to promote sustainable bioenergy focus on microbial production of biofuels including butanols, which can be blended into gasoline engines and condensed for higher energy fuels. The stress of these end products can limit microbial production; yet it remains unclear how higher-energy butanols impact cell physiology compared to the well studied ethanol. This study compares the transcriptomic response to 1-butaonol, isobutanol, and ethanol in three strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae from diverse natural populations, with and without oxygen. Results show that oxygen availability and strain background significantly impact the response to each alcohol and point to shared responses to alcohol stress.
Do financial development and law enforceability effect the relationship between net working capital and firm value? Empirical evidence from Asia
Authors: Altaf Nufazil 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between net working capital and firm value for a sample of 2,483 firms across 16 Asian countries. In addition, this study also examines the impact of degree of financial development and law enforceability on net working capital-firm value relationship.

Design/methodology/approach
The study is based on secondary financial data of 2,483 Asian firms obtained from Bloomberg database, pertaining to a period of five years. This study employs the fixed effects approach to arrive at results.

Findings
Results of the study confirm a strong negative relationship between net working capital and firm value. In addition, the author also found that the negative relationship between net working capital and firm value to be strong for countries that have a high degree of financial development and law enforceability.

Originality/value
Unlike prior studies, this study examines the relationship between net working capital and firm value. In addition, this study also tests the impact of degree of financial development and law enforceability on this relationship. To the best knowledge, no such study has been conducted in the Asian context.
SMED for quick changeover in manufacturing industry – a case study
Authors: Singh Jagdeep , Singh Harwinder , Singh Inderdeep 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to uncover the significance of SMED in manufacturing environments.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper gives setup instructions and guidelines to prepare the standardized setup procedure without ignoring actual constraints in production environment. It uses a case study in a small-scale manufacturing unit of northern India to generate an integrated setup reduction approach, utilizing Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)-based industrial engineering tools to achieve faster setups. It describes the feasibility of quick changeovers in small enterprises based on an “SMED” approach. Finally, the paper carries out empirical analysis of the financial/non-financial benefits incurred from setup reductions.

Findings
Setup activities are a vital part of the production lead time of any product and so affect overall product cost. Industrial engineering techniques have been used to analyze the existing procedure of setups. A SMED approach can help eliminate unwanted activities, externalize the internal activities, if possible, and reduce them by simplification or standardization.

Originality/value
The paper demonstrates the practical application of SMED showing how it can bring real breakthroughs in reducing setup time in small-scale manufacturing.
Using a Luhmannian perspective for earthquake resilience
Authors: Yoldaş Berat , Rittersberger Tılıç Helga Ida 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to interpret Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory to discuss disaster resilience, and use its “functional method” for creating “local organizational inventories” to support the trend of integration in Turkey’s disaster management system. For this, the authors used a case study from Düzce province in 2013, investigating the organizational aftermath of two major earthquakes in 1999.

Design/methodology/approach
A purposive sample of local associations in city center of Düzce province was used. The local associations were selected according to the criteria if they organized any disaster-related activities after the 1999 earthquakes, despite being specialized in domains other than emergencies. Representatives of these organizations were interviewed about the content of their disaster-related activities and their organizational cooperation.

Findings
There was a lack of overlap between centralized emergency plans and local history of self-organized disaster activities. Both centralized and local organizations primarily engaged in activities that aim to reproduce their own systemic boundaries, rather than synchronizing central and local efforts in disaster planning.

Practical implications
The method used in this research helps discovering the local diversity of resources for improving resilience.

Originality/value
Arguing that disasters should be discussed under a theory of modern society, Robert A. Stallings refers to Luhmann’s theoretical work (Stallings, 1998, p. 134). Complexity plays a central role in emergencies in modern society. Therefore, the Luhmannian perspective needs to be incorporated into disaster studies to account for increasing social complexity and systemic differentiation. The problems resulting from functional differentiation and the relationship between different problem–solutions have their effects on emergency planning.
Reducing construction material cost by optimizing buy-in decision that accounts the flexibility of non-critical activities
Authors: Meng Junna , Yan Jinghong , Xue Bin , Fu Jing , He Ning 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The goal of making buy-in decisions is to purchase materials at the right time with the required quantity and a minimum material cost (MC). To help achieve this goal, the purpose of this paper is to find a way of optimizing the buy-in decision with the consideration of flexible starting date of non-critical activities which makes daily demand adjustable.

Design/methodology/approach
First, a specific algorithm is developed to calculate a series of demand combinations modeling daily material demand for all the possible start dates. Second, future material prices are predicted by applying artificial neural network. Third, the demand combinations and predicted prices are used to generate an optimal buy-in decision.

Findings
By comparing MC in situation when non-critical activities always start at the earliest date to that in situations when the starting date is flexible, it is found that making material buy-in decision with the consideration of the flexibility usually helps reduce MC.

Originality/value
In this paper, a material buy-in decision-making method that accounts non-critical activities’ flexible starting date is proposed. A ternary cycle algorithm is developed to calculate demand combinations. The results that making material buy-in decision considering non-critical activities’ flexible starting date can reduce MC in most times indicates that contractors may consider non-critical activities’ flexibility a part of the buy-in decision-making process, so as to achieve an MC decrease and profit increase.
Field trips for sustainable transport education
Authors: Putz Lisa-Maria , Treiblmaier Horst , Pfoser Sarah 
Published: August 2018

PurposeField trips can change students’ attitudes and improve their learning performance, but they have rarely been investigated in logistics education research. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings from field trips that were designed to increase students’ knowledge of sustainable transport as well as to change their attitudes and behavioral intentions.Design/methodology/approachA total of 104 logistics students participated in this longitudinal panel study. Non-parametric statistical tests were used to test for significant effects.FindingsField trips build students’ knowledge, improve their attitudes and increase their behavioral intentions to use sustainable transport modes in the short and in the long term. Gains in knowledge exceed the results expected from traditional learning theories. Gender and school type are important moderating variables. Gender did not play an important role for knowledge gains, but for attitude and behavioral intentions.Research limitations/implicationsMore research is needed to generalize the findings to other populations and longitudinal panel studies are necessary to investigate a long-term effect of field trips.Practical implicationsField trips are an effective means for successful knowledge transfer and are suitable to trigger attitudinal and behavioral changes. The involvement of practitioners and the hands-on experience ensure that students combine theoretical with practical knowledge.Originality/valueThis is the first longitudinal panel study that investigates the effects of logistics field trips, which were developed collaboratively by industry, educational and research institutions.
Promoting logistics performance in Vietnam-based manufacturing firms
Authors: Luu Tuan 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how service-oriented high-performance work systems (HPWSs) contribute to logistics performance and the mediation mechanisms underlying this relationship.Design/methodology/approachEmployees and their managers from logistics departments and/or business departments of manufacturing firms in the Vietnamese business setting were recruited as participants in the data collection. Structural equation modeling was employed for the data analysis.FindingsService-oriented HPWSs demonstrated the positive effects on logistics performance via serving culture. Serving culture was found to have the positive link with logistics performance via the mediating roles of collective role breadth self-efficacy and collective customer knowledge.Originality/valueThe current research extends the logistics management research by identifying service-oriented HPWSs as an antecedent of logistics performance as well as the mediation mechanisms underlying this effect.
Expenditure inequality and polarization in Indonesia, 2002-2012
Authors: Indra Indra , Nazara Suahasil , Hartono Djoni , Sumarto Sudarno 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between expenditure inequality and expenditure polarization in Indonesia during the post-reformation era in 2002–2012. It also explores the various dimensions of regional groups; and finds out in which dimension did the expenditure inequality and polarization occur in Indonesia during the period.

Design/methodology/approach
Gini index was employed to measure expenditure inequality and a number of developed polarization measurement was applied to investigate the linkage between inequality and polarization at national levels. It also applied a polarization index based on inequality decomposition to investigate how the polarization occurs in the regional dimension. It covered several groups of regional dimensions; those are rural and urban areas; eastern and western regions, as well as natural resource-rich provinces and non-natural resource-rich provinces.

Findings
This study found that expenditure inequality and polarization in Indonesia have moved in line, showing an increasing trend during the observation period. In the regional context, the greatest rise was in the region with low initial levels of expenditure inequality and polarization. The trends in each of the regional dimension showed a convergent pattern. It also showed that a significant portion of total polarization was attributed to expenditure differences between urban and rural areas rather than the other groups of regions.

Research limitations/implications
The similar upward movement of expenditure inequality and polarization indicates that not only the differences between groups of expenditure are getting larger, but also the identification of the within groups expenditure are getting stronger. Since the high degree of inequality and polarization are closely related to conflict among groups of communities, this finding is a strong message to the policymaker that the development process in Indonesia during 2002–2012 tended to encourage the creation of social instability.

Practical implications
This study provides an evaluation for further development of social economy in Indonesia.

Originality/value
This paper attempts to give an overview of the relationship between expenditure inequality and polarization in Indonesia during 2002–2012. It also tries to reveal in which regional dimension, expenditure inequality and polarization occurred in Indonesia during the mentioned period. The issues have not been examined in previous empirical studies in Indonesia.
Spatio-temporal differentials in street begging: the case of Ibadan municipality, Nigeria
Authors: Taiwo Amos Oluwole 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the relationship that exists between land use activities and street begging in Ibadan municipality, Nigeria, following the observed influence of urban land use activities on begging incidence.Design/methodology/approachPrimary data were obtained through the method of direct enumeration of beggars and cursory observation of the physical and environmental compositions of the identified beggars’ locations in the study area.FindingsThe results showed that begging is a function of urban land use activities and it also conforms to the concentric, sector and multiple nuclei models of urban land use.Research limitations/implicationsStudies are still less noticeable on the spatial implications of begging in Nigerian urban centres. In view of this, it is very much suggested that more studies be carried out on issues relating to begging, particularly, on the spatial implications of begging in other municipalities for effective comparative analysis.Originality/valueThe study fills a gap in the literature as there is limited research on street begging in relation to spatial dimension.
The relationship between favorable conditions for innovation in technology parks, the innovation produced, and companies’ performance
Authors: Bonacina Roldan Lucas , Hansen Peter Bent , Garcia-Perez-de-Lema Domingo 
Published: August 2018

PurposeInnovation is today considered a competitive differential for improving the performance of companies, and technology parks are seen as environments with favorable conditions for such innovation. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for analyzing favorable conditions for innovation in technology parks, the innovations produced and organizational performance.Design/methodology/approachTo this end, the authors conducted bibliographic research and in-depth interviews with managers of companies based at the Tecnopuc Science and Technology Park, and managers of the park itself, to establish practical support for previous theoretical findings.FindingsAs a result, a framework was developed to link the favorable conditions for innovation, and organizational performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe analysis model proposed here synthesizes the contributions made by several scholars on the theme, allowing for a more detailed and integrated interpretation of the phenomenon, namely, the ways through which the effective development of innovation takes place in companies residing in technology parks and the contribution of innovation to the specific performance of companies.Practical implicationsThe use of the proposed framework can help direct park managers’ action towards those relationships or activities that prove to be ineffective in achieving desired goals.Originality/valueThe use of the proposed model in empirical surveys will allow for better understanding of the phenomenon involving the features of technology parks and their effects on innovation and the performance of companies installed there, considering that such parks allow them to access resources with lower transaction costs.
A logic-based framework for collection/item metadata relationships
Authors: Wickett Karen 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for the articulation of relationships between collection-level and item-level metadata as logical inference rules. The framework is intended to allow the systematic generation of relevant propagation rules and to enable the assessment of those rules for particular contexts and the translation of rules into algorithmic processes.

Design/methodology/approach
The framework was developed using first order predicate logic. Relationships between collection-level and item-level description are expressed as propagation rules – inference rules where the properties of one entity entail conclusions about another entity in virtue of a particular relationship those individuals bear to each other. Propagation rules for reasoning between the collection and item level are grouped together in the framework according to their logical form as determined by the nature of the propagation action and the attributes involved in the rule.

Findings
The primary findings are the analysis of relationships between collection-level and item-level metadata, and the framework of categories of propagation rules. In order to fully develop the framework, the paper includes an analysis of colloquial metadata records and the collection membership relation that provides a general method for the translation of metadata records into formal knowledge representation languages.

Originality/value
The method for formalizing metadata records described in the paper represents significant progress in the application of knowledge representation techniques to problems of metadata creation and management, providing a flexible technique for encoding colloquial metadata as a set of statements in first-order logic. The framework of rules for collection/item metadata relationships has a range of potential applications for the enhancement or metadata systems and vocabularies.
Survival of construction SMEs in macroeconomic crises
Authors: Ulubeyli Serdar , Kazaz Aynur , Sahin Selim 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThis paper aims to present the effect of innovation on implementing competitive strategies (CSs) and to find their relationships on the survival of construction-related small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in macroeconomic crises.Design/methodology/approachData were compiled from construction SMEs in Turkey. The research used structural equation modeling to investigate the relationships between innovation, CSs and firm survival (FS).FindingsInnovative construction SMEs may implement differentiation and focus strategies and survive without CSs, whereas innovation may be obtained through cost leadership strategy. Also, differentiation and focus strategies may play a role to survive. However, the cost leadership strategy may be implemented after survival. Finally, differentiation strategy may be triggered by innovation and focus strategies.Research limitations/implicationsThe model may be applied on other construction organizations. Future studies may also examine the difference in findings concerning other industries and regions. Moreover, different factors may be added to the model. However, a larger group of samples could cause different results.Practical implicationsThis study may be a roadmap for practitioners to plan their firms’ strategies, considering innovation, CSs and FS. In this context, they may pay attention to innovative production processes to survive.Social implicationsSurvived SMEs may sustain their works through the prevention of crisis-based unemployment. Hence, this benefit may bring a wealthier society.Originality/valueThis research is first to propose a model connecting innovation and CSs for SMEs’ survival in macroeconomic crises. This is convenient for rivalry of SMEs planning to be long-lasting enterprises.