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The “betrayal effect” on post-acquisition integration
Authors: Razi Nazila , Garrick John 
Published: May 2019

Purpose
This paper aims to draw on Latour’s (1991) conceptual “performative” framework to investigate the role of management control systems (MCSs) in the establishment of post-acquisition integration. The study adopts a qualitative case study approach, where data are collected and analysed from an Australian company which had recently completed a number of acquisitions. Findings demonstrate the performative powers and effects of MCSs, which contribute to shaping customer and sales integration activities, including the forms some resistance may take. In this case, a bitter betrayal was perceived to have occurred in an early stage of the merger, and this paper argues that the use of a performative theoretical framework has enabled subsequent post-acquisition integration strategies to be rendered more visible and thus actionable.

Design/methodology/approach
The study adopts a qualitative approach where data are collected and analysed from an Australian case study company which had recently completed a number of acquisitions. Research methods used include semi-structured interviews, a review of archival documents and observations to capture daily integration activities and practices of actors operating in the company.

Findings
Findings demonstrate the performative powers and effects of MCSs, which structure customer and sales integration activities and make post-acquisition integration relations strategy visible and actionable.

Research limitations/implications
Findings are only on one case study, and there is a need to undertake further detailed case studies across a range of industries and timeframes, plus, where possible, revisit such studies post hoc to assess the stability of success of the integration.

Practical implications
Integration strategy and strategic change may be constituted by non-human actants such as MCSs. Practitioners who are engaged in acquisitions and making integration decisions need to recognise that MCSs do not merely play a subordinate role to integration strategies, but rather is an important moderating variable that play an active role in their formulation, configuration and enactment.

Originality/value
A performative approach is taken to provide a broader analytical framework for analysing the construction and sustaining of post‐acquisition integration relations, where there is no distinction between technical and social dimensions of action but, rather, the two are merged. This makes it possible to overcome the limitations inherent in existing theoretical frameworks. Using this approach, integration relations involve construction of a network of entities that are enrolled to support, create and sustain the integration.
Mechanical property and reliability of bimodal nano-silver paste with Ag-coated SiC particles
Authors: Zhang Qiaoran , Zehri Abdelhafid , Liu Jiawen , Ke Wei , Huang Shirong , Latorre Martí Gutierrez , Wang Nan , Lu Xiuzhen , Zhou Cheng , Xia Weijuan , Wu Yanpei , Ye Lilei , Liu Johan 
Published: May 2019

Purpose
This study aims to develop a bimodal nano-silver paste with improved mechanical property and reliability. Silicon carbide (SiC) particles coated with Ag were introduced in nano-silver paste to improve bonding strength between SiC and Ag particles and enhance high-temperature stability of bimodal nano-silver paste. The effect of sintering parameters such as sintering temperature, sintering time and the proportion of SiC particles on mechanical property and reliability of sintered bimodal nano-silver structure were investigated.

Design/methodology/approach
Sandwich structures consist of dummy chips and copper substrates with nickel and silver coating bonded by nano-silver paste were designed for shear testing. Shear strength testing was conducted to study the influence of SiC particles proportions on the mechanical property of sintered nano-silver joints. The reliability of the bimodal nano-silver paste was evaluated experimentally by means of shear test for samples subjected to thermal aging test at 150°C and humidity and temperature testing at 85°C and 85 per cent RH, respectively.

Findings
Shear strength was enhanced obviously with the increase of sintering temperature and sintering time. The maximum shear strength was achieved for nano-silver paste sintered at 260°C for 10 min. There was a negative correlation between the proportion of SiC particles and shear strength. After thermal aging testing and humidity and temperature testing for 240 h, the shear strength decreased a little. High-temperature stability and high-hydrothermal stability were improved by the addition of SiC particles.

Originality/value
Submicron-scale SiC particles coated with Ag were used as alternative materials to replace part of nano-silver particles to prepare bimodal nano-silver paste due to its high thermal conductivity and excellent mechanical property.
Binding legacies: ancestor, archetype and Other
Authors: Brewster Fanny 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThis article discusses the multicultural interconnection between Jungian analysts’ training and Africanist training candidates. The importance of ancestral lineage and archetypal influences in the clinical setting are explored for better understanding of issues related to the transference and therapeutic interventions. A discussion of racial relations and racism is addressed as a frequently missing element in the psychoanalytical training of future Jungian analysts.
African American cultural history and reflections on Jung in the African Diaspora
Authors: Vaughan Alan G. 
Published: May 2019

AbstractRacism is defined as a psychopathology and the ground in which the covenant of whiteness is rooted and mirrored in the system of apartheid structured by American Constitutional Jurisprudence between 1857 and 1954. This historical period overshadowed Carl Jung's visit to America between 1909 and 1937. The spirit of the times and practices of racism coloured Jung's views, attitudes, and theories about African Americans, just as colonialism coloured his attitudes toward Africa and Africans. Consequently Jung failed to see the African Diaspora and the extraordinary intellectual and artistic period of the Harlem Renaissance (1919‐1929). Its introduction here foregrounds the exceptionalism of African Americans and the cultural continuity of African ancestry. This exceptionalism was not seen by Jung and there have been no attempts to redress its omission from analytical psychology and other sub‐disciplines of Western psychology. Jung's theories of personality and psychoanalysis and his negative projections about primitivism among Africans and African American ‘Negroes’ would have been mediated by knowledge of a legislated American apartheid and the Harlem Renaissance which occurred within the barriers of apartheid. In this paper I posit that culture, kinship libido, and the African principle of Ubuntu are healing modalities that play a critical role in instinct and the relational ground of human psychology and biology, from which culture as an environmental expression constellates around common goals of the human species. Cultural equivalencies and expressions within the wisdom traditions and mythologies of the Africa Diaspora are considered. Specifically, the Bantu principle of Ubuntu or ‘humanity’ is identified as the relational ground in African cultures, while the Kemetic‐Egyptian deity Maat, as an archetypal anima figure and the religio‐mythology offer a transcendent position from which to critique the inequities and constitutional jurisprudence that structured American apartheid. Maat is the personification of truth, justice, balance and weighing of the heart in orderly judicial processes. In her we find the alignment of the spirit and matter in the law and judgement. The paper concludes with reflections on pathways toward healing the psychopathology of racism and recommendations to enhance clinical training and practice.
‘Just black sometimes’, part 2: reflections on an adolescent's journey
Authors: Tyminski Robert 
Published: May 2019

AbstractIn this second article about work at a refugee centre for unaccompanied minors in Berlin, the author discusses his encounter with Syrian and Afghani adolescents who were enrolled in the program. Issues around adaptation to a new culture are explored with attention to the dynamics of conformity and marginalization. The questions of what happens to adolescent refugees separated from their families, and how their identity formation is shaped by this burden is explored in relation to the author's meeting with a Syrian adolescent living in Berlin. To illustrate the long reach of a missing father who has been left behind, characters from Virgil's Aeneid are discussed to amplify heroic and spiritual aspects within father‐son relationships. The interplay between needing help and allowing for resilience is explored as an important aspect of refugees’ transitions, while also considering variables such as dependence and independence, foreign and familiar, being with or without family, and adjusting to the present and/whilst relating to the past; tensions between these alternatives can create various psychosocial challenges for adolescent refugees.
Changes in hospital service demand, cost, and patient illness severity following health reform
Authors: Pickens Gary , Karaca Zeynal , Gibson Teresa B. , Cutler Eli , Dworsky Michael , Moore Brian , Wong Herbert S. 
Published: May 2019

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the effects of the health insurance exchange and Medicaid coverage expansions on hospital inpatient and emergency department (ED) utilization rates, cost, and patient illness severity, and also to test the association between changes in outcomes and the size of the uninsured population eligible for coverage in states.Data SourcesHealthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient and Emergency Department Databases, 2011‐2015, Nielsen Demographic Data, and the American Community Survey.Study DesignRetrospective study using fixed‐effects regression to estimate the effects in expansion and nonexpansion states by age/sex demographic groups.FindingsIn Medicaid expansion states, rates of uninsured inpatient discharges and ED visits fell sharply in many demographic groups. For example, uninsured inpatient discharge rates across groups, except young females, decreased by ≥39 percent per capita on average in expansion states. In nonexpansion states, uninsured utilization rates remained unchanged or increased slightly (0‐9.2 percent). Changes in all‐payer and private insurance rates were more muted. Changes in inpatient costs per discharge were negative, and all‐payer inpatient costs per discharge declined <6 percent in most age/sex groups. The size of the uninsured population eligible for coverage was strongly associated with changes in outcomes. For example, among males aged 35‐54 years in expansion states, there was a 0.793 percent decrease in the uninsured discharge rate per unit increase in the coverage expansion ratio (the ratio of the size of the population eligible for coverage to the size of the previously covered population within an age/sex/payer/geographic group).ConclusionsSignificant shifts in cost per discharge and patient severity were consistent with selective take‐up of insurance. The “treatment intensity” of expansions may be useful for anticipating future effects.
Probiotics in Goat Milk Products: Delivery Capacity and Ability to Improve Sensory Attributes
Authors: Ranadheera C. S. , Evans C. A. , Baines S. K. , Balthazar Celso F. , Cruz Adriano G. , Esmerino Erick A. , Freitas Mônica Q. , Pimentel Tatiana C. , Wittwer A. E. , Naumovski N. , Graça Juliana S. , Sant'Ana Anderson S. , Ajlouni S. , Vasiljevic T. 
Published: May 2019

AbstractDairy foods, particularly those of bovine origin, are the predominant vehicles for delivery of probiotic bacteria. Caprine (goat) milk also possesses potential for successful delivery of probiotics, and despite its less appealing flavor in some products, the use of goat milk as a probiotic carrier has rapidly increased over the last decade. This review reports on the diversity, applicability, and potential of using probiotics to enhance the sensory properties of goat milk and goat milk‐based products. A brief conceptual introduction to probiotic microorganisms is followed by an account of the unique physicochemical, nutritive, and beneficial aspects of goat milk, emphasizing its advantages as a probiotic carrier. The sensory properties of probiotic‐enriched goat milk products are also discussed. The maintenance of probiotic viability and desirable physicochemical characteristics in goat milk products over shelf life is possible. However, the unpleasant sensory features of some goat milk products remain a major disadvantage that hinder its wider utilization. Nevertheless, certain measures such as fortification with selected probiotic strains, inclusion of fruit pulps and popular flavor compounds, and production of commonly consumed tailor‐made goat milk‐based products have potential to overcome this limitation. In particular, certain probiotic bacteria release volatile compounds as a result of their metabolism, which are known to play a major role in the aroma profile and sensory aspects of the final products.
Mechanisms of Neuroprotective Effects of Peptides Derived from Natural Materials and Their Production and Assessment
Authors: Lee Seung Yun , Hur Sun Jin 
Published: May 2019

AbstractIn this review, we provide an overview of the main mechanisms by which peptides derived from natural materials exhibit neuroprotective effects. We also review methods for the production of these peptides and various methods for determining their neuroprotective effects in vitro and in vivo. Neuroprotective peptides are closely associated with protection against apoptosis, with proteins related to the cell death/survival signaling pathway, with acetylcholine activity and with inhibition of oxidative stress and inflammation. Neuroprotective peptides derived from natural materials typically have a molecular weight below 1 kDa; they are most often derived using the extraction enzymes papain and alcalase. The neuroprotective peptides identified in the literature are mainly composed of hydrophobic amino acids with low molecular weight, with Asp and Glu at the N‐terminal position. These observations may guide the development of novel peptides with potential neuroprotective effects.
Relief of irritable bowel syndrome by fecal microbiota transplantation is associated with changes in diversity and composition of the gut microbiota
Authors: Huang Hong Li , Chen Hui Ting , Luo Qing Ling , Xu Hao Ming , He Jie , Li Yong Qiang , Zhou You Lian , Yao Fei , Nie Yu Qiang , Zhou Yong Jian 
Published: May 2019

ObjectiveTo evaluate the efficacy and safety of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for refractory irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).MethodsMicrobiota suspensions from feces of the donors were injected into the intestines of 30 Chinese patients with refractory IBS. Microbiota composition analysis and genomic DNA extraction of fecal samples obtained from these patients at baseline and 1 month after FMT were performed. Clinical efficacy and safety of FMT were assessed using questionnaires covering four aspects of IBS therapeutic efficacy and assessment of adverse effects during a 6‐month follow‐up.ResultsFMT improved IBS gastrointestinal symptoms and alleviated depression and anxiety, as shown by the improved IBS‐QOL, IBS‐SSS, GSRS, HAMA and HAMD scores at 1 month and 3 months after FMT. A total adverse event rate of FMT was 6.7% (2/30). Gut microbiota analysis revealed that FMT responders had a significantly higher Shannon diversity index before FMT than non‐responders. In addition, analysis of differences in bacterial composition before and after FMT in responders showed specific abundance of the phyla Verrucomincrobia and Euryarchaeota at 1 month after FMT. At the genus level, Methanobrevibacter and Akkermansia were the most abundant fecal microbiota 1 month after FMT compared with those before FMT.ConclusionsFMT may be an effective and safe therapeutic strategy for treating IBS that achieves a sustained clinical response 3‐6 months after the first procedure. Changes in the diversity and dominant flora may contribute to its therapeutic effect.
Phylogeny‐guided characterization of glycosyltransferases for epothilone glycosylation
Authors: Zhang Peng , Zhang Zheng , Li Zhi‐feng , Chen Qi , Li Yao‐yao , Gong Ya , Yue Xin‐jing , Sheng Duo‐hong , Zhang You‐ming , Wu Changsheng , Li Yue‐zhong 
Published: May 2019

SummaryGlycosylation of natural products can influence their pharmacological properties, and efficient glycosyltransferases (GTs) are critical for this purpose. The polyketide epothilones are potent anti‐tumour compounds, and YjiC is the only reported GT for the glycosylation of epothilone. In this study, we phylogenetically analysed 8261 GTs deposited in CAZy database and revealed that YjiC locates in a subbranch of the Macrolide I group, forming the YjiC‐subbranch with 160 GT sequences. We demonstrated that the YjiC‐subbranch GTs are normally efficient in epothilone glycosylation, but some showed low glycosylation activities. Sequence alignment of YjiC‐subbranch showed that the 66th and 77th amino acid residues, which were close to the catalytic cavity in molecular docking model, were conserved in five high‐active GTs (Q66 and P77) but changed in two low‐efficient GTs. Site‐directed residues swapping at the two positions in the two low‐active GTs (BssGT and BamGT) and the high‐active GT BsGT‐1 demonstrated that the two amino acid residues played an important role in the catalytic efficiency of epothilone glycosylation. This study highlights that the potent GTs for appointed compounds are phylogenetically grouped with conserved residues for the catalytic efficiency.
Inference of individual ploidy level using codominant markers
Authors: Huang Kang , Dunn Derek W. , Li Zhonghu , Zhang Pei , Dai Yu , Li Baoguo 
Published: May 2019

AbstractA significant portion of plant species are polyploids, with ploidy levels sometimes varying among individuals and/or populations. Current techniques to determine the individual ploidy, e.g., flow cytometry, chromosome counting or genotyping‐by‐sequencing, are often cumbersome. Based on the genotypic probabilities for polysomic inheritance under double‐reduction, we developed a model to estimate allele frequency and infer the ploidy status of individuals from the allelic phenotypes of codominant genetic markers. The allele frequencies are estimated by an expectation‐maximization algorithm in the presence of null alleles, false alleles, negative amplifications and self‐fertilization, and the posterior probabilities are used to assign individuals into different levels of ploidy. The accuracy of this method under different conditions is evaluated. Our methods are freely available in a new software package,ploidyinfer, for use by other researchers which can be downloaded fromhttp://github.com/huangkang1987/ploidyinfer.
Adverse Childhood Experiences and E‐Cigarette Use During Young Adulthood
Authors: Shin Sunny H. , Conley David , Ksinan Jiskrova Gabriela , Wills Thomas A. 
Published: May 2019

Background and ObjectivesE‐cigarette use among young people is highly prevalent. Individuals exposed to adverse childhood experiences such as childhood maltreatment (CM) may be at particular risk, as CM has been linked to nicotine dependence. Studies testing the association between CM and e‐cigarette use are lacking, including research that examines pathways linking CM to e‐cigarette use.MethodsUsing a community sample of young adults (N = 208; ages 18‐21), we examined the relationship between CM and e‐cigarette use and explored the potential role of impulsivity in linking CM to e‐cigarette use via a series of structural equation models controlling for demographic characteristics.ResultsCM was significantly associated with lifetime e‐cigarette use. Furthermore, CM was associated with negative urgency (NU), whereas NU and sensation seeking were significantly related to lifetime e‐cigarette use. NU fully mediated the relationship between CM and lifetime e‐cigarette use.Conclusions and Scientific SignificanceOur results suggest that young adults with a history of CM might be vulnerable to e‐cigarette use and that NU played a significant role in linking CM to lifetime e‐cigarette use. Addressing NU in young adults with a history of CM might be a useful avenue for preventing e‐cigarette use in this population. (Am J Addict 2019;28:303–310)
Compression garment service model: Facilitating access to compression garments through workforce and service redesign
Authors: Hall Fiona , Gordon Susan , Hulcombe Julie , Stephens Catherine 
Published: May 2019

AbstractProblemPatients in Queensland have had difficulty in accessing lymphoedema services, particularly in rural and remote locations.DesignThe aim was to trial and evaluate a compression garment service model, to provide care for patients with lymphoedema closer to their homes. The service model trialled compression garment, selection, fitting and monitoring services for stabilised malignancy‐related lymphoedema undertaken by generalist therapists.SettingTen Hospital and Health Services in the Queensland public sector.Key measures for improvementsThe patients would have access to safe, quality services closer to their homes.Strategies for changeThe generalists were supported by telehealth coaching and supervision by lymphoedema therapists, an education program, resources and governance processes.Effects of changeCompression garment selection, fitting and monitoring by generalists (physiotherapists and occupational therapists without Level 1 Lymphoedema training), as defined in the service model, was safe, effective and evaluated positively by patients and health professionals. There was increased access to compression garment services provided by generalist therapists in rural and remote locations.Lessons learnedThe service model implemented has the capacity to address workforce and service provision issues. It provides resources, education and training for clinicians to improve access to the provision of compression garment services.