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Chinese construction worker reluctance toward vocational skill training
Authors: Wang Xiaoli , Wang Xincheng , Huang Yu 
Published: November 2018

PurposeThough most construction workers in China possess minimal skillset, they are reluctant to attend vocational skill training sponsored by the government or enterprises. This paper aims to examine their willingness to attend the training from workers’ individual perspectives.Design/methodology/approachThe authors interviewed 492 construction workers on topics concerning their age, education, work tenure, technological level, daily wages, apprenticeship duration, apprentice channels and training experience; this information was then logistically analyzed to reveal if it influences construction workers’ willingness to attend training courses.FindingsThe results show that in a variety of possible influencing factors, technological level, apprenticeship duration and education are the most significant ones that affect construction workers’ willingness to attend vocational training. Technological level makes the greatest contribution to workers’ willingness to attend training, yet the effect of training experience and daily wages is minimal.Practical implicationsTo achieve sustainability in construction labor management, it is important to shed light on what influences worker’s willingness to attend training programs and take some efficient steps to address these issues.Originality/valueThis paper provides a new insight into the workers’ willingness to attend vocational skill training programs in the Chinse construction industry and suggests some practical implications for professionals and policymakers. Furthermore, the findings could prove valuable to other countries or industries, especially those sharing similarities to the Chinese construction industry.
An integrated sustainable supplier selection approach using compensatory and non-compensatory decision methods
Authors: Yu Chunxia , Zhao Wenfan , Li Ming 
Published: November 2018

Purpose
Due to the increasing awareness of environmental and social issues, many practitioners and researchers have paid attention to sustainable supply chain management. As the performance of suppliers determines the success of supply chains, sustainable supplier selection becomes more and more important. Existing sustainable supplier selection models evaluated the sustainability of suppliers in three aspects (economic, environmental and social) and assumed that values on different criteria can completely compensate for each other directly. However, in reality, criteria in economic, environmental and social aspects are heterogeneous, and the decision-maker’s preferences on criteria belonging to different aspects are different. In this case, values on criteria belonging to different aspects are not allowed to completely compensate for each other directly. To solve this problem, this paper aims to propose a hybrid sustainable supplier selection approach integrating compensatory and non-compensatory decision rules.

Design/methodology/approach
In the proposed approach, the compensatory decision method Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution is used to evaluate performances of suppliers with respect to economic, environmental and social aspects. The non-compensatory decision method Elimination and Choice Translating Reality is used to evaluate performances of suppliers on sustainable criteria comprehensively. Through the proposed approach, only criteria belonging to the same aspects are allowed to compensate for each other directly. Finally, experimental results show that the proposed integrated approach is effective and efficient to help the decision-maker select optimal sustainable suppliers.

Findings
This is an original approach that integrates compensatory and non-compensatory decision rules, which can benefit from the two kinds of decision rules simultaneously. The integrated approach can be used as an aid for companies to select the best sustainable suppliers.

Originality/value
This paper presents an original integrated sustainable supplier selection approach using both compensatory and non-compensatory methods. It can benefit from the advantages of both compensatory and non-compensatory methods. The proposed approach can express preferences of the decision-maker on sustainable criteria sufficiently and maximize economic benefits while meeting environmental needs.
Benefits and challenges of BIBFRAME
Authors: Park Jung-Ran , Richards Lorraine L. , Brenza Andrew 
Published: November 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potential strengths and weaknesses of the BIBFRAME bibliographic model and outline its purpose and key features. In addition, it discusses specific aspects of the model with respect to the pre-existing models of bibliographic description.

Design/methodology/approach
A review of source and secondary materials regarding BIBFRAME was undertaken, and a comparison of the conclusions derived from this literature was made to the pre-existing models of bibliographic description.

Findings
If the BIBFRAME Initiative can overcome what will likely be some significant challenges to the development and implementation of the model, BIBFRAME appears to be poised to become the next standard of bibliographic description and exchange for the library community.

Research limitations/implications
The findings and conclusions of this paper are based upon an in-depth literature review, not on theoretical or empirical derivations or examples. As a result, further research of both theoretical and empirical natures need to be developed.

Practical implications
BIBFRAME may well become the next standard of bibliographic description and exchange for the library community, leading to significant changes in cataloging practices over the years.

Social implications
To the extent that BIBFRAME can expand discovery mechanisms, the vast array of information currently available to information seekers will open up in previously unthought of ways.

Originality/value
This paper synthesizes a literature that was developed during a more preliminary design of the bibliographic model BIBFRAME and adds to the literature by discussing newer capabilities that have been designed into BIBFRAME 2.0.
Big data for business management in the retail industry
Authors: Santoro Gabriele , Fiano Fabio , Bertoldi Bernardo , Ciampi Francesco 
Published: November 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how big data deployment transforms organizational practices, thereby generating potential benefits, in a specific industry: retail.

Design/methodology/approach
To achieve the paper’s goal, the authors have conducted several semi-structured interviews with marketing managers of four retailers in Italy, and researched secondary data to get a broader picture of big data deployment in the organizations.

Findings
Data analysis helped identify specific aspects related to big data deployment, data gathering methods, required competences and data sharing approaches.

Originality/value
Despite the growing interest in big data in various fields of research, there are still few empirical studies on big data deployment in organizations in the management field, and even fewer on specific sectors. This research provides evidence of specific areas of analysis concerning big data in the retail industry.
The relation between entrepreneurship and rural poverty alleviation in China
Authors: Naminse Eric Yaw , Zhuang Jincai , Zhu Fangyang 
Published: November 2018

Purpose
There is a recent growing interest to find a lasting intervention to rural poverty (RP) in developing countries based on farmer entrepreneurship and innovation. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to examine the relation between entrepreneurship and RP alleviation in two resource-constrained provinces of China. This paper assesses the influence of three capabilities of farm entrepreneurs – educational, economic and socio-cultural – on farmer entrepreneurship growth and how these, in turn, impact alleviation of RP.

Design/methodology/approach
Household survey data comprising 363 respondents were taken from four deprived communities in two provinces of China. The paper employed structural equation modeling (SEM), using AMOS 21.0 alongside SPSS 20.0 to test the relations between the constructs.

Findings
The results show that a statistically significant and positive relation exists between entrepreneurship and RP alleviation in China. The findings of the study further reveal that qualitative growth of entrepreneurship has a stronger positive influence on RP alleviation than on quantitative growth, and socio-cultural capabilities of respondents significantly and positively affect entrepreneurial growth of farmers, rather than education and economic capabilities.

Research limitations/implications
The use of data from four communities in two provinces tends to limit the ability to generalize the findings of the study. Furthermore, the survey did not collect information on non-farm entrepreneurs, making it impossible to compare the findings from farm entrepreneurs with non-farm entrepreneurs.

Practical implications
The findings have practical implications for policy makers in rural China toward addressing targeted RP. This paper, therefore, suggests that entrepreneurship should be pursued vigorously among farmers in rural areas of China to help solve poverty. The paper also presents a useful lesson for various stakeholders in poverty alleviation programs in other developing countries.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the academic literature on the entrepreneurship–RP alleviation nexus by combining the theory of capability and SEM in the analysis of an emerging economy such as China.
Research on the performance of a novel SPR sensor based on graded index multimode fiber
Authors: Liu Chunlan , Wei Yong , Su Yudong , Liu Hao , Zhang Yonghui , Nie Xiangfei 
Published: November 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to propose and demonstrate a novel surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-sensing approach by using the fundamental mode beam based on a graded index multimode fiber (GIF). The proposed SPR sensor has high sensitivity and controllable working dynamic range, which expects to solve the two bottlenecks of fiber SPR sensor, including low sensitivity and the difficulty in multichannel detection.

Design/methodology/approach
The low-order mode of the GIF to SPR sense, which keeps the sensitivity advantage of the single-mode fiber SPR sensor, is used. By using this new SPR sensor, the effect of light incident angle and gold film thickness on working dynamic range was studied. According to the study results, the smaller is the incident angle, the larger is the SPR working dynamic range and the longer is the resonance wavelength with a fixed gold film thickness; the larger is the gold film thickness, the longer is the resonance wavelength with a fixed grinding angle. After the parameter optimization, the sensitivity of these two parameter-adjusting methods reach 4,442 and 3031 nm/RIU.

Originality/value
When the grinding angle of the GIF increases, the dynamic range of the resonance wavelength increases and has a redshift, sensitivity increases, and the resonance valley becomes more unobvious with a fixed gold film thickness. Similarly, when gold film thickness increases, the dynamic range of the resonance wavelength increases and has a redshift, sensitivity increases, and the resonance valley becomes more unobvious with a fixed grinding angle. These adjusting performance aforementioned lay the foundation for solving of the fiber-based SPR multichannel detection and increasing of the fiber-based SPR sensor sensitivity, which has a good application value.
Residents’ perceptions and attitudes towards future tourism development
Authors: Cardoso Carla , Silva Mónica 
Published: November 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to present the results of a quantitative survey among 140 residents of the city of Porto.

Design/methodology/approach
The study is a revision of literature and illustration of results of empirical study.

Findings
The majority of Porto residents consider that tourism brings significant economic benefits and supports the wider social and cultural development of the city, and they consider the overall impact of tourism to be beneficial.

Practical implications
The paper identifies potential issues and problems and possible mitigating measures.

Originality/value
The paper provides insights based on a quantitative survey among 140 residents of the city of Porto.
Choice of processing techniques among rice processors in Nigeria
Authors: Obisesan Omobolaji Olubukunmi , Salman Kabir Kayode , Adenegan Kemisola O. , Obi-Egbedi Ghene Oghenerueme 
Published: November 2018

PurposeRice processing, an important feature in rice production involving the transformation of harvested paddy into edible rice, is dependent on the type of rice processing techniques used. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the choice of processing techniques among rice processors in Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachThe study was carried out in Nigeria using structured questionnaires among 410 rice processors selected from four states (Ebonyi, Ekiti, Ogun and Nasarawa) from three geo-political zones (Southeast, Southwest and North-central) of Nigeria. Information on socio-economic characteristics (age, sex, household size, marital status and education) and processing characteristics (experience, paddy source, processing activities, processing techniques, credit and distance) were obtained. Data were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression model at 0.05.FindingsThe mean age of processors was 47.8±9.9 years, mean household size was 6.5±4.2 persons and 88.7 percent were married. In total, 73.6 percent had formal education and mean years of experience was 16.4±9.2 years. Main processing activities were parboiling and drying (50.0 percent); milling (40.0 percent); and de-stoning (10.0 percent). In all, 65.7, 20.4 and 13.9 percent used traditional and modern techniques (TMTs), traditional techniques (TTs) and purely modern techniques (PMTs), respectively. The probability of choice of TT relative to TMT reduced by years of education (4.5 percent), paddy source (1.8 percent) and distance to processing center (4.4 percent), while probability of choice of PMT relative to TMT increased for male processors (7.3 percent), membership of association(18.0 percent) and other income sources (6.2 percent).Research limitations/implicationsLevel of education of processors and reduction in the distance taken to paddy source reduced choice of TTs.Practical implicationsOther income sources increased the choice of PMTs of rice processing in Nigeria.Social implicationsProcessors with high level of education, who also engage in other income generating activities, were able to choose modern processing techniques.Originality/valueThis research was an original research carried out among rice processors in Nigeria.
Prepregnancy maternal body mass index and venous thromboembolism: a population‐based cohort study
Authors: Butwick AJ , Bentley J , Leonard SA , Carmichael SL , El‐Sayed YY , Stephansson O , Guo N 
Published: November 2018

ObjectiveTo assess the relation between maternal body mass index (BMI) and pregnancy‐related venous thromboembolism (VTE).DesignCohort study.Setting and populationA total of 2 449 133 women with singleton pregnancies who underwent delivery hospitalisation in California between 2008 and 2012.MethodsAssociation of pre‐pregnancy BMI and the risk of an antepartum and postpartum VTE was examined using logistic regression, with normal BMI as reference.Main outcome measuresAntepartum and postpartum VTE‐related hospitalisation.ResultsThe prevalence of antepartum and postpartum VTE increased with increasing BMI (antepartum: 2.3, 3.0, 3.8, 4.2, 4.7, and 10.6 per 10 000 women for underweight, normal BMI, overweight, obesity class I, II, and III, respectively, P < 0.001; postpartum: 2.0, 3.1, 3.9, 5.6, 9.0, and 13.2 per 10 000 women, P < 0.01). The adjusted odds of antepartum and postpartum VTE increased progressively with increasing BMI, with obesity class III women having the highest risk of pregnancy‐related VTE compared with normal BMI women: adjusted odds ratio for antepartum VTE: 2.9; 95% CI 2.2–3.8 and adjusted odds ratio for postpartum VTE: 3.6; 95% CI 2.9–4.6.ConclusionsOur findings clearly demonstrate an increasing risk of pregnancy‐related VTE with increasing BMI.Tweetable abstractObesity was associated with increased odds of antepartum and postpartum venous thromboembolism.
Founder relationships and conservation management: empirical kinships reveal the effect on breeding programmes when founders are assumed to be unrelated
Authors: Hogg C. J. , Wright B. , Morris K. M. , Lee A. V. , Ivy J. A. , Grueber C. E. , Belov K. 
Published: November 2018

AbstractConservation breeding programmes have become widespread as natural habitats shrink, and have been historically managed using pedigree data and an assumption that population founders are unrelated. Molecular genotyping is able to determine founder relatedness, but is rarely used. To empirically test the impact of assuming founders to be unrelated, we utilized data from 203 founding individuals and 11 subsequent years of breeding records for the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) insurance population. We integrated molecular data (N = 119 founders) and detailed trapping information (N = 203 founders) to test how founder relationship assumptions impacted the genetic characteristics of the population over time (N = 942 unique individuals). We developed a method to combine molecular kinship (using the TrioML estimator), year of birth and trapping location, and integrated the resulting empirical kinship estimates into population management software. We tested the effect of using pedigree data only, versus our integrated approach, on population outcomes. Inbreeding coefficients evaluated using the integrated approach were significantly higher than pedigree‐only inbreeding coefficients in the first few years following population establishment. A geographic distance‐only approach showed an association between kinship and probability of successful breeding. Our results show the value in using field and/or molecular data combined with pedigree data in conservation breeding programmes to provide new information for managing crucial populations and improving their success. We caution population managers against commencing expensive conservation breeding programmes in the absence of understanding founder relatedness, especially when wild augmentation is a goal. Long‐term costs of assuming founders are unrelated include financial costs, reduced productivity and release of potentially highly inbred individuals.
Pre‐operative fasting in adults and children: clinical practice and guidelines
Authors: Fawcett W. J. , Thomas M. 
Published: November 2018

SummaryIt is widely recognised that prolonged fasting for elective surgery in both children and adults serves no purpose, adversely affects patient well‐being and can be detrimental. Although advised fasting times for solids remain unchanged, there is good evidence to support a 1‐h fast for children, with no increase in risk of pulmonary aspiration. In adults, a major focus has been the introduction of carbohydrate loading before anaesthesia, so that patients arrive for surgery not only hydrated but also in a more normal metabolic state. The latter attenuates some of the physiological responses to surgery, such as insulin resistance. As in children, there is no increase in risk of pulmonary aspiration. Further data are required to guide best practice in patients with diabetes.
Validation of data submitted by the treating surgeon in the Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality
Authors: Hansen Dylan , Hansen Emma , Retegan Claudia , Morphet Julia , Beiles Charles Barry 
Published: November 2018

BackgroundThe Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality (VASM) seeks to peer review all deaths associated with surgical care in Victoria, Australia. The effectiveness of the VASM as an educational and quality improvement tool is dependent on the accuracy of source data it receives. We aimed to examine the accuracy and quality of source data provided by the treating surgeon for peer review, and the inter‐rater concordance level between the external validator findings and the treating surgeon.MethodsOf the 629 cases that completed the VASM audit second‐line peer review process over a 4‐year period (from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2016), a total of 32 (5%) were randomly selected for the external validation process. The blinded external validator was impartial to the VASM audit, and was provided only de‐identified patient medical records. The analysis for the checked and validated data points and their concordance was determined using Gwet's agreement coefficient, which provides a stable inter‐rater reliability coefficient not affected by prevalence and marginal probability.ResultsThe inter‐rater concordance analysis suggested that there is a high level of agreement (82.9% overall) between the treating surgeon and external validator. The use of thromboembolism deterrent stockings was the only variable where agreement was poor (52.4%) with a Gwet score of 0.10 (−0.40 to 0.60).ConclusionThe inter‐rater concordance analysis results support the validity of the VASM process, which is dependent on the accuracy of data submitted by the treating surgeon.
Glove change to reduce the risk of surgical site infection or prosthetic joint infection in arthroplasty surgeries: a systematic review
Authors: Kim Katy , Zhu Mark , Munro Jacob T. , Young Simon W. 
Published: November 2018

BackgroundMicrobiological contamination of surgical gloves occurs during surgery, which may warrant glove change during orthopaedic surgeries. However, no systematic review of this topic has previously been published. Therefore, this review evaluated whether changing gloves during arthroplasty surgeries reduces the risk of surgical site infection/prosthetic joint infection (SSI/PJI) and the optimal frequency of glove change.MethodsSearch terms such as surgical gloves, surgical site infections, prosthesis‐related infections, arthroplasty were used, including Medical Subject Headings terms. Of the 89 articles screened, 12 articles were included for qualitative synthesis.ResultsNo studies measured the direct effect of glove change on PJI rate. Therefore, microbiological contamination and perforation rate of gloves were used as surrogate outcomes. Eight studies evaluated microbiological contamination of surgical gloves, with rates ranging from 3.4 to 30%. Five contamination studies recommended changing gloves after draping and before handling implants. One randomized controlled trial also recommended changing gloves at least once an hour regardless of surgical stages. Five studies recommended changing gloves to prevent perforation, with recommendations ranging from 20 to 90 min. Furthermore, one study advised change of gloves after resection of bone and before implantation.ConclusionAs microbiological contamination rates of gloves increase with duration of surgery, glove changes are recommended at least once per hour. Furthermore, gloves should be changed after draping, before handling implants and if visible perforation is seen to reduce contamination. Due to the lack of studies with SSI/PJI as primary outcomes, we cannot draw a definitive conclusion regarding the effectiveness of changing gloves in reducing the risk of SSI/PJI in arthroplasty.