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Learning from the professionals: film tourists’ “authentic” experiences on a film studio tour
Authors: Wohlfeil Markus 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how consumers perceive, experience and engage with the art of filmmaking and the industrial film production process that the film studios present to them during their guided film studio tours.

Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on the author’s own film tourist experiences, observations and participatory interactions with fellow visitors at a major Hollywood film studio, this paper takes an autoethnographic “I’m-the-camera”-perspective and a hermeneutic data analysis approach.

Findings
The findings reveal that visitors experience the “authentic” representation of the working studio’s industrial film production process as an opportunity and “invitation to join” a broader filmmaker community and to share their own amateur filmmaking experiences with fellow visitors and professionals – just to discover eventually that the perceived community is actually the real “simulacrum”.

Research limitations/implications
Although using an autoethnographic approach means that the breadth of collected data is limited, the gain in depth of insights allows for a deeper understanding of the actual visitor experience.

Practical implications
The findings encourage film studio executives, managers and talent agents to reconsider current practices and motivations in delivering film studio tours and to explore avenues for harnessing their strategic potential.

Originality/value
Contrary to previous studies that have conceptualised film studio tours as simulacra that deny consumers a genuine access to the backstage, the findings of this study suggest that the real simulacrum is actually the film tourists’ “experienced feeling” of having joined and being part of a filmmaker community, which raises question regarding the study of virtual communities.
Improvement attributes in healthcare: implications for integrated care
Authors: Harnett Patrick John 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
Healthcare quality improvement is a key concern for policy makers, regulators, carers and service users. Despite a contemporary consensus among policy makers that integrated care represents a means to substantially improve service outcomes, progress has been slow. Difficulties achieving sustained improvement at scale imply that methods employed are not sufficient and that healthcare improvement attributes may be different when compared to prior reference domains. The purpose of this paper is to examine and synthesise key improvement attributes relevant to a complex healthcare change process, specifically integrated care.

Design/methodology/approach
This study is based on an integrative literature review on systemic improvement in healthcare.

Findings
A central theme emerging from the literature review indicates that implementing systemic change needs to address the relationship between vision, methods and participant social dynamics.

Practical implications
Accommodating personal and professional network dynamics is required for systemic improvement, especially among high autonomy individuals. This reinforces the need to recognise the change process as taking place in a complex adaptive system where personal/professional purpose/meaning is central to the process.

Originality/value
Shared personal/professional narratives are insufficiently recognised as a powerful change force, under-represented in linear and rational empirical improvement approaches.
Conceptualizing employees’ digital skills as signals delivered to employers
Authors: Bokek-Cohen Ya’arit 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to conceptualize employees’ digital skills as signals with which employees tacitly deliver information about their competence and suitability to the firm.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on the Spence’s signaling theory.FindingsApplying Spence’s signaling theory and Walther and Parks’s warranting theory enables the conceptualization of digital skills as signals and warrants among older workers who have been employed in their position for a longer period but nevertheless wish to demonstrate ongoing productivity.Practical implicationsIt is recommended to use information about prospective or existent employees’ digital literacy as an indicator of high priority for the purpose of personnel selection, as it entails the acquisition of digital skills, which facilitate high productivity of most industries in today’s era.Social implicationsOlder workers may wish to acquire digital skills in order to improve their career chances.Originality/valueThe paper is a theoretical contribution to the scholarship of digital literacy as well as to both signaling and warranting theories.
A new approach to retailing for successful competition in the new smart scenario
Authors: Pantano Eleonora , Priporas Constantinos Vasilios , Dennis Charles 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
This study develops the idea of smart retailing, exemplified in innovative, technology-enriched retail services as part of service-oriented strategies. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to provide a new integrated framework to understand the emerging retail scenario based on the smart usage of technologies to improve retail service and develop innovation management strategies. This framework will provide a comprehensive understanding the basic forms of smart retailing as the current competitive scenario.

Design/methodology/approach
As a viewpoint, this paper employs an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon the actual challenges in retailing, to propose a new perspective, the smart retailing one, to describe the new competitive scenario and formulates an emerging research agenda.

Findings
The present paper contributes to research on innovation and technology management for retailing by examining the key dimensions of smart retailing, which aims to enhancing retail service quality and retailers’ performance.

Originality/value
The paper clearly explains how current retailing is moving to a smart perspective, and how retail management should be adapted to successfully perform in the current service-dominant logic scenario, as consequence of the increasing consumer involvement in service co-production and the rapid growth of digital technologies.
Determinants of FDI in developed and developing countries: a quantitative analysis using GMM
Authors: Saini Neha , Singhania Monica 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential determinants of FDI, in developed and developing countries.Design/methodology/approachThis paper investigates FDI determinants based on panel data analysis using static and dynamic modeling for 20 countries (11 developed and 9 developing), over the period 2004-2013. For static model estimations, Hausman (1978) test indicates the applicability of fixed effect/random effect, while generalized moments of methods (GMM) (dynamic model) is used to capture endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity.FindingsThe outcome across different countries depicts diverse results. In developed countries, FDI seeks policy-related determinants (GDP growth, trade openness, and freedom index), and in developing country FDI showed positive association for economic determinants (gross fixed capital formulation (GFCF), trade openness, and efficiency variables).Research limitations/implicationsThe destination of FDI is limited to 20 countries in the present paper. The indicator of the institutional environment, namely economic freedom index, used in this paper has received some criticism in calculations.Practical implicationsThe paper enlists recommendations for future FDI policies and may assist government in providing a tactical framework for skill development, thereby increasing manufacturing growth rate. The paper also throws light on vertical and horizontal capital inflows considering resource, strategy, and market-seeking FDI.Social implicationsFDI may bring significant benefits by creating high-quality jobs, introducing modern production and management practices. It highlights how multinational corporations and government contribute to better working conditions in host countries.Originality/valueThe paper uncovers important features like macroeconomic variables, especially country-wise efficiency scores, policy variables, GFCF, and freedom index, for determining FDI inflows in 20 countries using panel data methods and provides a roadmap for developed and developing countries. The study highlights endogeneity and unobserved heteroscedasticity by applying GMM one- and two-step procedure.
Using the business model canvas to improve investment processes
Authors: Sort Jesper C. , Nielsen Christian 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how entrepreneurs market their business opportunities towards business angels in the investment process. This is achieved by introducing the business model canvas as a mitigating framework to help entrepreneurs in communicating and structuring the information desired by business angels.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper mobilises a case study approach by following a series of investment processes and investment meetings between entrepreneurs and business angels through 27 semi-structured interviews as well as participant observation and qualitative participant feedback from 13 investment processes.

Findings
The findings illustrate how introducing a framework like the business model canvas helps alleviate the informational and communication challenges between entrepreneurs and business angels. However, some problems occurred when the entrepreneurs and the business angels did not fully agree on the value proposition of the investment opportunity.

Research limitations/implications
The findings show that entrepreneurs who market their business cases to investors obtain better feedback and a higher chance of funding using the business model canvas. Implications of this paper also relate to the preparation of the entrepreneurs and that matchmakers between entrepreneurs and investors can use the business model canvas to facilitate such processes.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to both the theory of the investment process as well as the application of the business model canvas.
Children aged 6–24 months like to watch YouTube videos but could not learn anything from them
Authors: Yadav Savita , Chakraborty Pinaki , Mittal Prabhat , Arora Udit 
Published: March 2018

AbstractAimParents sometimes show young children YouTube videos on their smartphones. We studied the interaction of 55 Indian children born between December 2014 and May 2015 who watched YouTube videos when they were 6–24 months old.MethodsThe children were recruited by the researchers using professional and personal contacts and visited by the same two observers at four ages, for at least 10 minutes. The observers recorded the children's abilities to interact with touch screens and identify people in videos and noted what videos attracted them the most.ResultsThe children were attracted to music at six months of age and were interested in watching the videos at 12 months. They could identify their parents in videos at 12 months and themselves by 24 months. They started touching the screen at 18 months and could press the buttons that appeared on the screen, but did not understand their use. The children preferred watching dance performances by multiple artists with melodical music, advertisements for products they used and videos showing toys and balloons.ConclusionChildren up to two years of age could be entertained and kept busy by showing them YouTube clips on smartphones, but did not learn anything from the videos.
Lower Postsurgical Mortality for Individuals with Dementia with Better‐Educated Hospital Workforce
Authors: White Elizabeth M. , Smith Jessica G. , Trotta Rebecca L. , McHugh Matthew D. 
Published: March 2018

ObjectivesTo investigate whether care in a hospital with more nurses holding at least a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree is associated with lower mortality for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) undergoing surgery ADRD.DesignCross‐sectional data from 2006–07 Medicare claims were linked with the Multi‐State Nursing Care and Patient Safety Survey of nurses in 4 states.SettingAdult, nonfederal, acute care hospitals in California, Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (N=531).ParticipantsMedicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older with and without ADRD undergoing general, orthopedic, or vascular surgery (N=353,333; ADRD, n=46,163; no ADRD, n=307,170).MeasurementsThirty‐day mortality and failure to rescue (death after a complication).ResultsControlling for hospital, procedure, and individual characteristics, each 10% increase in the proportion of BSN nurses was associated with 4% lower odds of death (odds ratio (OR)=0.96, 95% confidence interval (CI)=0.93–0.98) for individuals without ADRD, but 10% lower odds of death (OR=0.90, 95% CI=0.87–0.94) for those with ADRD. Each 10% increase in the proportion of nurses holding a BSN degree or higher was associated with 5% lower odds of failure to rescue (OR=0.95, 95% CI=0.92–0.98) for individuals without ADRD but 10% lower odds of failure to rescue (OR=0.90, 95% CI=0.87–0.94) for those with ADRD.ConclusionIndividuals undergoing surgery who have coexisting ADRD are more likely to die within 30 days of admission and die after a complication than those without ADRD. Having more BSN nurses in the hospital improves the odds of good outcomes for all individuals and has a much greater effect in individuals with ADRD.
Type VI Secretion System Dynamics Reveals a Novel Secretion Mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Authors: Corbitt Jacqueline , Yeo Jun Seok , Davis C. Ian , LeRoux Michele , Wiggins Paul A. 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

The type VI secretion system (T6SS) inhibits the growth of neighboring bacterial cells through a contact-mediated mechanism. Here, we describe a detailed characterization of the protein localization dynamics in the
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
T6SS. It has been proposed that the type VI secretion process is driven by a conformational-change-induced contraction of the T6SS sheath. However, although the contraction of an optically resolvable TssBC sheath and the subsequent localization of ClpV are observed in
Vibrio cholerae
, coordinated assembly and disassembly of TssB and ClpV are observed without TssB contraction in
P. aeruginosa
. These dynamics are inconsistent with the proposed contraction sheath model. Motivated by the phenomenon of dynamic instability, we propose a new model in which ATP hydrolysis, rather than conformational change, generates the force for secretion.

IMPORTANCE
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is widely conserved among Gram-negative bacteria and is a central determinant of bacterial fitness in polymicrobial communities. The secretion system targets bacteria and secretes effectors that inhibit the growth of neighboring cells, using a contact-mediated-delivery system. Despite significant homology to the previously characterized
Vibrio cholerae
T6SS, our analysis reveals that effector secretion is driven by a distinct force generation mechanism in
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
. The presence of two distinct force generation mechanisms in T6SS represents an example of the evolutionary diversification of force generation mechanisms.
Improving life expectancy: A ‘broken neck’ doesn’t have to be a terminal diagnosis for the elderly
Authors: Godat Laura N , Kobayashi Leslie M , Chang David C , Coimbra Raul 
Published: March 2018

BackgroundElderly patients with cervical spine fractures require optimal care. Treatment with a cervical collar or halo instead of surgical fixation may increase mortality. This investigation intends to describe the life expectancy after injury and evaluate the impact of surgical intervention on mortality.MethodsPatients ≥65 years, with traumatic cervical spine fractures without cord injury were identified in the 1995–2009 California Office of Statewide Health and Planning database. Those with halo placement or surgical spine fixation were identified. Primary outcome was death, studied at the initial admission, 30 days, 1 year, and the entire study period. Univariate and multivariate regressions were performed to identify predictors of death. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to describe life expectancy after injury.Results10 938 patients were identified. Mortality rate was 10% during the initial admission, 28% at 1 year and 50% during the entire study period. A halo was placed in 14% of patients and 12% underwent surgical fixation. Mortality rates during the initial admission were 11% for patients without an intervention, 7% with halo placement and 6% with surgical fixation; at 1 year, these increased to 30%, 26% and 19%, respectively. At 1 year, more than one in four patients above 75 years of age will die.At 1 year spine fixation, female gender and admission to a trauma center predicted a lower risk of death at 1 year (OR 0.59, 0.68; p<0.001 and OR 0.89; p=0.02, respectively). Having a complication, fall mechanism, and traumatic brain injury (OR 1.84, 1.33, 1.37; p<0.001, respectively) were predictors of a higher risk of death. Halo use had no impact on death at 1 year (OR 0.98; p=0.77).DiscussionMortality rates after cervical spine fracture in the elderly is high. Surgical fixation is associated with improved survival; remaining true after adjusting for age and comorbidities; suggesting that surgical fixation may improve outcomes in the elderly.Level of evidenceLevel IV.
Emission from stellar wind bubbles interacting with an extragalactic jet
Authors: Torres-Albà N. , Bosch-Ramon V. 
Published: March 2018

The inner regions of galaxies are rich in gas and stars that can interact with the jet and produce high-energy nonthermal emission, as well as significantly mass-load the jet. In this work, we focus on a population of stars with strong winds, which accumulate material around the star outside the jet, confined by pressure equilibrium with the environment, in the form of a bubble. When these bubbles reach the jet, a shock is produced in the external bubble layer, which may cause part of the material to be peeled away and carried upstream at the contact discontinuity (CD). Part of the remaining bubble may penetrate the jet, and eventually detach and accelerate up to relativistic speeds, producing nonthermal emission. We conclude that, for the studied population, these events are unlikely to mass-load the jet significantly and affect it dynamically. Our results show that the generated emission is potentially detectable for nearby sources, though not as persistent radiation, but rather in the form of long “flares” lasting for a few years, and with an event rate of about a few per century.
Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 at Diagnosis and during Subsequent Years in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes
Authors: Chisalita Simona I. , Ludvigsson J. 
Published: March 2018

Background. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in adolescents is associated with alterations in the insulin-like factor system probably caused both by a deranged metabolism and insulinopenia in the portal vein. Objective. To study how the circulating IGF-1 is affected at diagnosis and during subsequent years in adolescents with T1D. Methods. Ten girls and ten boys with type 1 diabetes (T1D), aged 13.0 ± 1.4 (mean ± SD) years at diagnosis, took part in the study. Blood samples were drawn at diagnosis and after 3, 9, 18, and 48 months. HbA1c, total IGF-1, and C-peptide were measured. Results. At diagnosis, the patients had high HbA1c, low IGF-1, and measurable C-peptide. After the start of insulin treatment, maximal improvement in glycemic control and IGF-1 occurred within 3 months and then both tended to deteriorate, that is, HbA1c to increase and IGF-1 to decrease. C-peptide decreased with time, and after 4 years, half of the patients were C-peptide negative. At diagnosis, C-peptide correlated positively to IGF-1 (r=0.50; p<0.03). C-peptide correlated negatively with insulin dose (U/kg) after 18 and 48 months from diagnosis (r=−0.48; p<0.03 and r=−0.72; p<0.001, resp.). Conclusions. In conclusion, our results show that in newly diagnosed adolescents with type 1 diabetes and deranged metabolism, the IGF-1 level is low and rapidly improves with insulin treatment but later tends to decrease concomitantly with declining endogenous insulin secretion.
Calculating the End: Inner-Danielic Chronological Developments
Authors: Segal Michael 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
The prediction of the end of the period of persecution is a pervasive topic throughout Daniel 7-12. The references to these events are spread out throughout the four apocalypses found in the second half of Daniel (7:25; 8:13-14; 9:27; 12:7,11-12), and their presence in all of these contexts emphasizes the importance of chronological aspects within the apocalyptic worldview of the authors of Daniel. The current study offers an original interpretation of the earliest of these sources (7:25), reflecting its apocalyptic context, and consequently a new assessment of the interrelationships of the various dates in the Danielic apocalypses. Furthermore, it will be suggested that a combination of interpretive, calendrical and historical insights regarding these chronological elements perhaps offers a key towards tracing the process of literary development of the apocalyptic section of Daniel as a whole.
Praising Christ the King
Authors: Jeffcoat Schedtler Justin 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Royal connotations are recognized throughout the book of Revelation, including chapter 5 where the Lamb is depicted upon the heavenly throne (5:6) receiving acts of obeisance and hymnic acclamations from the heavenly retinue (5:8-14). However, the extent to which the hymns themselves manifest royal ideology and discourse has been neglected. In what follows, the author explores various elements of the hymns in light of widespread patterns of kingship discourse in the ancient Mediterranean world, including especially the fact that the Lamb is praised alongside God and in terms otherwise used for God. The author then demonstrates that the hymnic claim that the Lamb has assumed the power to rule on account of his bloody death on the cross (5:9) constitutes an inversion of a popular motif that kings assumed power through violent military conquest.
Perpetuating Anti-Muslim Discrimination through the Interpretation of Religious Equality in the European Court of Human Rights
Authors: Dupont Pier-Luc 
Published: March 2018

AbstractFaced with widespread prejudice and discrimination, European Muslims are increasingly resorting to the European Court of Human Rights as a last-ditch strategy to transform state policies toward minority faiths. While the Court has a mandate to protect religious freedom and equality, the conservative and sometimes biased way in which it has interpreted these concepts has enabled the persistence of stark asymmetries in the legal and social statuses of different religions. Using an analysis of relevant cases, this article seeks to highlight the judicial processes that currently sustain Muslim subordination and pinpoint specific reforms that could reverse the trend.