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Research data management and research data literacy in Slovenian science
Authors: Vilar Polona , Zabukovec Vlasta 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences between scientific disciplines (SDs) in Slovenia in research data literacy (RDL) and research data management (RDM) to form recommendations regarding how to move things forward on the institutional and national level.Design/methodology/approachPurposive sample of active researchers was used from widest possible range of SD. Data were collected from April 21 to August 7, 2017, using 24-question online survey (5 demographic, 19 content questions (single/multiple choice and Likert scale type). Bivariate (ANOVA) and multivariate methods (clustering) were used.FindingsThe authors identified three perception-related and four behavior-related connections; this gave three clusters per area. First, perceptions – skeptical group, mainly social (SocS) and natural sciences (NatS): no clear RDM and ethical issues standpoints, do not agree that every university needs a data management plan (DMP). Careful group, again including mainly SocS and NatS: RDM is problematic and linked to ethical dilemmas, positive toward institutional DMPs. Convinced group, mainly from humanities (HUM), NatS, engineering (ENG) and medicine and health sciences (MedHeS): no problems regarding RDM, agrees this is an ethical question, is positive toward institutional DMP’s. Second, behaviors – sparse group, mainly from MedHeS, NatS and HUM, some agricultural scientists (AgS), and some SocS and ENG: do not tag data sets with metadata, do not use file-naming conventions/standards. Frequent group – many ENG, SocS, moderate numbers of NatS, very few AgS and only a few MedHeS and HUM: often use file-naming conventions/standards, version-control systems, have experience with public-domain data, are reluctant to use metadata with their RD. Slender group, mainly from AgS and NatS, moderate numbers of ENG, SocS and HUM, but no MedHeS: often use public-domain data, other three activities are rare.Research limitations/implicationsResearch could be expanded to a wider population, include other stakeholders and use qualitative methods.Practical implicationsResults are useful for international comparisons but also give foundations and recommendations on institutional and national RDM and RDL policies, implementations, and how to bring academic libraries into the picture. Identified differences suggest that different educational, awareness-raising and participatory approaches are needed for each group.Originality/valueThe findings offer valuable insight into RDM and RDL of Slovenian scientists, which have not yet been investigated in Slovenia.
Evaluation and comparison of environmental performance for shackle insulators – a case study
Authors: Choudhary Kailash , Soherwordi Saad Ali , Singh Yashodhara , Sangwan Kuldip Singh 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to compare environmental performance of two shackle insulator manufacturing enterprises in India by evaluating and quantifying the life cycle environmental impacts in these enterprises using ISO 14040 guidelines.

Design/methodology/approach
All relevant life cycle phases – raw material, manufacturing, transportation and disposal – are considered. Primary inventory data for the two enterprises are collected through observations of processes at the sites. Ecoinvent 3.0 database is used as secondary data source. Process flow models are developed using Umberto software. ReCiPe impact assessment methodology is adopted to calculate environmental impacts in terms of endpoint categories of ecosystem quality, human health and resource availability; and midpoint categories of climate change, fossil depletion, human toxicity, metal depletion, ozone depletion, terrestrial acidification and water depletion.

Findings
This study has found that manufacturing phase followed by raw material extraction and transportation phases are responsible for most of the environmental impacts. This study also found that raw materials used in glaze preparation (manganese and ferrite), electricity, heavy fuel oil (C-9) and cotton have high environmental impacts in the manufacturing phase.

Research limitations/implications
The limitation of this study is that most of the inventory data are collected from only two manufacturing plants.

Practical implications
The researchers/enterprises can use the knowledge body for modelling and result comparison under different conditions. The enterprises can do the micro analysis of environmental effects of processes to improve environmental as well as economic performance. The government agencies can use the data for policy development and deployment.

Originality/value
The main contribution of the research is the creation of a knowledge body in the area of ceramic product environmental impacts. The paper provides inventory for the life cycle assessment (LCA) of shackle insulators using primary source (measured values) as no secondary data source is available for the shackle insulators. The inventory and results of this study can be used as reference for the future LCA studies in ceramic industry.
The influence of social responsibility on employee productivity and sales growth
Authors: Romi Andrea , Cook Kirsten A. , Dixon-Fowler Heather R. 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether B corps’ (for-profit entities whose owners voluntarily commit to conduct business in a socially responsible manner, beyond traditional CSR, that generates profits, but not at the expense of stakeholders) commitment to social issues influences two aspects of financial performance: employee productivity and sales growth.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is an exploratory analysis of B corps. This paper examines B corps with B Lab’s B Impact Assessment reports and PrivCo financial data, for descriptive information. This paper also analyzes the financial impact of obtaining and reporting on excellence in both employee and consumer focus, as well as the differences in financial growth between B corps and non-hybrid peers.FindingsOverall, results suggest that, among B corps whose treatment of employees (consumers) is recognized as an “area of excellence,” employee productivity (sales growth) is significantly higher. Additionally, sales growth is significantly higher for B corps relative to their peer, non-hybrid, matched firms.Practical implicationsResults from this study inform states considering the adoption of the B corp legal status – this legal status does not hinder firm profitability, but instead enhances long-term firm value while allowing firms to beneficially affect their communities, consumers, employees and the environment.Social implicationsResults from this study provide important insights regarding the current paradigm shift from the traditional business focus on profit maximization to a fruitful coexistence of profits with social interests and initiatives, within a structure of dissolving national boundaries and increasingly divergent logics.Originality/valueThis paper provides an initial empirical examination of B corp performance.
A GIS analysis of the distribution of remittance enterprises in Republican Shantou
Authors: Ouyang Linhao , Zhang Zijian , Huang Xiaoling , Xie Shi 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to restore the spatial distribution of overseas remittance businesses in Shantou during the 1940s. It explores various socioeconomic factors that influenced the concentration of local remittance business investment in real estate. By reconstructing the spatial distribution of remittance business activities in Shantou, this study hopes to lay a foundation for further analysis of the business strategies of Chaoshan merchants.

Design/methodology/approach
This research draws on information from the published Swatow Guide, archival sources and cadastral maps to identify the location of remittance enterprises and the native place and overseas networks of property owners.

Finding
This study reveals that the spatial distribution of the remittance enterprises was determined by the native place origins of local property owners, and that the inflow of overseas Chinese capital contributed to real estate development in Shantou.

Research limitations/implications
Despite the limited access to Chinese official archives, this paper manages to identify several building blocks and neighbors in Shantou for spatial analysis.

Practical implications
This study is the first attempt to use the geographical information system (GIS) method in Chinese urban history research and hopes to establish a larger historical database of Shantou as a sample for comparison.

Originality/value
This investigation advances the spatial study of urban history and overseas Chinese remittances in the maritime society of South China.
Learning-structure fit part II
Authors: Sitar Aleša Saša , Pahor Marko , Škerlavaj Miha 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
This study, which consists of two parts, investigates the influence of structure on the learning of individuals in organizational settings. This second paper (Part II) builds on the conceptual paper (Part I) and explores the relationships between three structural dimensions of individual work – formalization, specialization and standardization – on employee learning behavior.

Design/methodology/approach
Multiple regression analysis was used to test the proposed relationships. Data were gathered in a large multinational corporation; 90 employees from 12 units participated in the research.

Findings
The results offer support for some of the proposed hypotheses, showing that employee learning behavior varies depending on how activities are structured. Employees perceiving their work to be less structured, with lower formalization, standardization and specialization, rely on external sources of knowledge and experience double-loop learning, whereas employees with a more structured work are inclined to an individual learning style. Structure thus determines learning.

Research limitations/implications
Because this exploratory study used a single-company research setting, the use of multiple companies from different industries and additional measures of learning behavior are proposed to increase generalizability. A quasi-experimental research design would add to causality claims.

Practical implications
Implications for broader organization design practice to stimulate learning are proposed. Managers should be aware of the distinct impacts different structures have on learning behavior.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the discussion on the relationship between structure and the learning of individuals at work.
“They're treating us like Indians!”: Political Ecologies of Property and Race in North American Pipeline Populism
Authors: Bosworth Kai 
Published: September 2018

AbstractWhile political ecologists have analysed the role of private property in creating and sustaining ecological inequalities, this approach does not often take property as a foundational element of racial capitalism. I argue that the defence of private property in contestation of North American oil pipelines demonstrates the centrality of property not only to the structural reproduction of capital, but also to its Euro‐American subject. Emphasising their affective attachments to land and resentment at dispossession, landowners and populist environmental organisations in the Great Plains frequently compared individual, white experiences of eminent domain to the historic and ongoing dispossession of Native Nations by suggesting “they're treating us like Indians”. In order to account for the reproduction of white supremacy in environmentalism, I argue that we must understand how its oppositional politics are linked to economic interests‐in‐land and affective desires‐for‐land that maintain landed private property.
Infiltration of Sulfate to Enhance Sulfate‐Reducing Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
Authors: Wei Yunxiao , Thomson Neil R. , Aravena Ramon , Marchesi Massimo , Barker James F. , Madsen Eugene L. , Kolhatkar Ravi , Buscheck Tim , Hunkeler Daniel , DeRito Christopher M. 
Published: September 2018

AbstractThe lack of sufficient electron acceptors, particularly sulfate, can limit the rate of biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs). Hence, there is a growing interest by remediation practitioners to deliver sulfate to a PHC impacted saturated zone to enhance biodegradation. When shallow contamination is present in a relatively permeable aquifer and site constraints allow, a cost‐effective approach is to apply sulfate on the ground surface. In this investigation a pilot‐scale experiment was conducted to increase our understanding of the delivery of sulfate using a surface‐based method and the resulting impact on a shallow PHC contaminated aquifer. A surficial infiltration pond positioned on the ground surface above a well‐characterized residual PHC source zone was used to control sulfate dosing. A high‐resolution network near the infiltration pond and downgradient of the source zone was employed to monitor relevant geochemical indicators and PHC concentrations. Compound‐specific isotope analysis (CSIA) was used to identify biodegradation patterns and to investigate the occurrence of microbial sulfate reduction. Selected metabolites and reverse‐transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction analyses of expressed biodegradation genes (as mRNA) were also used to characterize the response of indigenous microorganisms (especially sulfate‐reducing bacteria) to the added sulfate. Three sulfate application episodes (5000 L each) at various Na2SO4 concentrations were allowed to infiltrate under a constant hydraulic head. Although the applied sulfate solution was impacted by density‐driven advection, detailed monitoring data indicated that the sulfate‐enriched water mixed with upgradient groundwater as it migrated downward through the residual PHC zone and formed a co‐mingled downgradient plume with the dissolved PHC compounds. The enrichment of δ34S of sulfate in conjunction with a decrease in sulfate concentration showed the occurrence of sulfate reduction due to the applied sulfate. Increased dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentrations associated with a shift toward more depleted values of δ13C of DIC was indicative of an input of isotopically depleted DIC from biodegradation of PHCs. Despite fluctuations in benzene, toluene, and o‐xylene (BTX) concentrations, the CSIA data for BTX showed that these compounds were biodegraded. The biomarker data provided supporting evidence that toluene and o‐xylene were undergoing anaerobic biodegradation due to sulfate reduction. This study provides insight into factors controlling surface‐based delivery of sulfate to shallow PHC impacted groundwater systems, and the value of isotopic and molecular‐biological procedures to augment conventional monitoring tools.
Application of Diagnostic Tools to Evaluate Remediation Performance at Petroleum Hydrocarbon‐Impacted Sites
Authors: Bouchard Daniel , Hunkeler Daniel , Madsen Eugene L. , Buscheck Tim , Daniels Eric , Kolhatkar Ravi , DeRito Christopher M. , Aravena Ramon , Thomson Neil 
Published: September 2018

AbstractIn situ treatment technologies for petroleum hydrocarbon‐impacted sites (e.g., multiphase extraction, air sparging, soil vapor extraction, or in situ chemical oxidation) usually rely on a specific chemical, microbial, or physical contaminant removal process. However, target contaminant concentrations can also vary due to other co‐occurring processes (e.g. delivery of remedial fluids, natural variability), which can confound the ability to demonstrate treatment efficiency. This technical note proposes a methodology that integrates several diagnostic tools to assess treatment performance. Stable isotope methods and biomarkers were selected because they provide process‐specific and, often, also compound‐specific information on contaminant removal. The isotope tools include compound‐specific isotope analysis that can be used to discriminate between a broad range of removal processes, and isotope analysis of oxidants and degradation end products to assess overall transformation of hydrocarbons. The biomarkers cover characteristic metabolites and functional genes on a mRNA rather than DNA level to understand biological activity more carefully. This technical note integrates information from laboratory and field studies, especially controlled‐field experiments where the tools have been evaluated side‐by‐side for different treatment methods. A tiered approach is proposed to deploy the tools in a stepwise manner until sufficient information is obtained to confidently identify the mass removal processes of interest and demonstrate efficacy of the intended treatment mechanism. The order of tool application considers the type of information that can be gained, the level of certainty, and the ease of implementation. The objective of this technical note is to enable widespread use of these diagnostic tools with the motivation to improve the efficacy of in situ treatment systems.
Enrolled nurses’ experiences of caring for patients living with HIV in a South African rural hospital
Authors: Mammbona A.A. , Mavhandu‐Mudzusi A.H. 
Published: September 2018

BackgroundMost public hospitals in African countries are overpopulated with patients suffering from conditions related to HIV and AIDS. These patients increase the burden on healthcare providers, among which are enrolled nurses.AimTo explore enrolled nurses’ experiences of caring for patients living with HIV and AIDS at a public rural community hospital in the Vhembe district of Limpopo Province, South Africa.DesignThe study was underpinned by the interpretative phenomenological design.ParticipantsA total of 11 purposively selected enrolled nurses who met the inclusion criteria participated in the study. The sample size was based on data saturation.MethodData were collected through semi‐structured individual face‐to‐face interviews guided by an interview guide. Interviews were audio‐recorded; and field notes were also taken. Data were analysed thematically following a framework for interpretative phenomenological analysis.ResultsThe study revealed that enrolled nurses are working without adequate resources. They also experience minimal support despite the negative circumstances they are exposed to in the process of caring for patients admitted with HIV‐related illnesses.ConclusionsA lack of resources, limited support and inadequate skills have a negative impact on the health care that enrolled nurses provide to patients admitted in hospital with HIV‐related ailments. Researchers recommend the importance of supporting and equipping enrolled nurses to provide quality care to patients living with HIV.Implications for nursing and health policyThe findings have highlighted the challenges faced by enrolled nurses while caring for patients with HIV. The identified gaps will assist the Department of Health in developing policies to enhance the support offered to enrolled nurses and improve the care provided to patients with HIV‐related conditions that are admitted to rural hospitals.
Indirect Reciprocity and Corporate Philanthropic Giving: How Visiting Officials Influence Investment in Privately Owned Chinese Firms
Authors: Jia Ming , Xiang Yi , Zhang Zhe 
Published: September 2018

AbstractThis study examines how privately owned firms that are listed on Chinese stock exchanges and often surrounded by Buddhist or Taoist temples use money to bind themselves to officials who can mitigate their underinvestment problems. Philanthropic giving is a traditional way of achieving this task. Based on social‐exchange theory, we consider the potential for indirect reciprocity, in which visiting officials do favours for local businesses that do favours for other social actors. We analyse whether China’s Buddhist and Taoist cultures influence how philanthropic giving induces visiting officials to do favors. We also examine temple locations and the behaviours of privately owned firms listed on Chinese stock exchanges from 2001 to 2012 in an empirical study that provides strong support for our arguments. Results show that philanthropic giving initiates and amplifies indirect reciprocity between visiting officials and local businesses, thereby increasing corporate investment. The magnitudes of these effects depend on the magnitude of religious norms. Our study thus illuminates the influence of visiting officials on corporate investment.
Driving pressure and acute respiratory distress syndrome in critically ill patients
Authors: Blondonnet Raiko , Joubert Elodie , Godet Thomas , Berthelin Pauline , Pranal Thibaut , Roszyk Laurence , Chabanne Russell , Eisenmann Nathanael , Lautrette Alexandre , Belville Corinne , Cayot Sophie , Gillart Thierry , Souweine Bertrand , Bouvier Damien , Blanchon Loic , Sapin Vincent , Pereira Bruno , Constantin Jean‐Michel , Jabaudon Matthieu 
Published: September 2018

ABSTRACTBackground and objectiveElevated driving pressure (ΔP) may be associated with increased risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients admitted via the emergency department and with post‐operative pulmonary complications in surgical patients. This study investigated the association of higher ΔP with the onset of ARDS in a high‐risk, intensive care unit (ICU) population.MethodsThis is a secondary analysis of a prospective multicentre observational study. Data for this ancillary study were obtained from intubated adult patients with at least one ARDS risk factor upon ICU admission enrolled in a previous multicentre observational study. Patients were followed up for the development of ARDS within 7 days (primary outcome). Univariate and multivariate analyses tested the association between ΔP (measured at ICU admission (baseline) or 24 h later (day 1)) and the development of ARDS.ResultsA total of 221 patients were included in this study, among whom 34 (15%) developed ARDS within 7 days. These patients had higher baseline ΔP than those who did not (mean ± SD: 12.5 ± 3.1 vs 9.8 ± 3.4 cm H2O, respectively, P = 0.0001). The association between baseline ΔP and the risk of developing ARDS was robust to adjustment for baseline tidal volume, positive‐end expiratory pressure, illness severity, serum lactate and sepsis, pneumonia, severe trauma and shock as primary ARDS risk factors (odds ratio: 1.20; 95% CI: 1.03–1.41; P = 0.02). The same results were found with day 1 ΔP.ConclusionAmong at‐risk ICU patients, higher ΔP may identify those who are more likely to develop ARDS.
Non‐infectious diffuse vesiculobullous rash in a pancreas and renal transplant recipient
Authors: Rainey Anthony , Auerbach Jena , Shah Kairav 
Published: September 2018

AbstractSolid organ transplant patients are well established to be at risk of herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster virus infection and reactivation. We present a case of a 41‐year‐old woman with a history of pancreas and renal transplant who presented with what appeared to be disseminated herpes simplex virus or varicella zoster virus induced rash, but who was ultimately diagnosed and treated as linear IgA bullous dermatosis. This case alerts physicians to other non‐infectious dermatoses as a cause of vesiculobullous rash in solid organ transplant patients.