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The influence of change-oriented leadership on work performance and job satisfaction in hospitals – the mediating roles of learning demands and job involvement
Authors: Mikkelsen Aslaug , Olsen Espen 
Published: January 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the mechanisms through which change-oriented leadership in hospitals influences job performance and employee job satisfaction. The authors examine the direct and the mediating effects of perceived learning demands and job involvement.Design/methodology/approachThis cross-sectional study is based on a survey of four public hospitals in a regional health authority in Norway.FindingsThe findings illustrate how change-oriented leadership directly and indirectly influences work performance and job satisfaction. Learning demands and job involvement play mediating roles. Higher levels of change-oriented leadership decrease learning demands and increase job involvement, work performance and job satisfaction. Learning demands have a negative influence on work performance and job satisfaction. Job involvement has a positive influence on work performance and job satisfaction. The strongest relationship in the structural modelling is between change-oriented leadership and job involvement.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is based on cross-sectional data. Future studies should therefore explore this further using a longitudinal design.Practical implicationsThe practical implication of the study is to show how leaders by change-oriented behaviour can influence work performance and job satisfaction by reducing learning demands and increasing job involvement.Social implicationsThis study illustrates different paths towards influencing job performance and job satisfaction from change-oriented leadership. It is important to use the potential of reducing learning demands and increasing job involvement, to improve job performance and job satisfaction.Originality/valueThe authors have developed and validated a new theoretical mediational model explaining variance in job performance and job satisfaction, and how this is related to change-oriented leadership, job involvement and learning demands. This knowledge can be used to increase the probability of successful change initiatives.
Brand teams and distribution of wealth in Brazilian State Championships
Authors: Gasparetto Thadeu , Barajas Angel , Fernandez-Jardon Carlos María 
Published: January 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the demand for tickets in the Brazilian State Championships focussing in the impact generated by the brand teams as well as the play-off matches in the demand for tickets and, consequently, in the match day revenues.

Design/methodology/approach
An equations system by three-stage least square estimator is employed. The data set comprises 1,114 matches from Mineiro, Carioca and Paulista Championships over the seasons 2013-2015.

Findings
All explanatory variables increase both attendance and match day revenues. However, the most important goal is the distribution of wealth found. The presence of brand teams in those championships provides a financial aid for smaller teams.

Practical implications
The proposals from the mass media to exclude the brand teams and design those championships exclusively in play-off stages should not be implemented by the policymakers. On the contrary, rearranging the design of the competition with more matches between small teams and brand teams may help to all of them.

Originality/value
The paper contributes to introduce the Brazilian State Championships in the sport economics literature as well as evidences the redistribution effect of wealth among clubs.
Does live broadcasting reduce stadium attendance? The case of Norwegian football
Authors: Kringstad Morten , Solberg Harry Arne , Jakobsen Tor Georg 
Published: January 2018

PurposeAttendance at matches in the smaller European football leagues is challenged by the increased number of live broadcast matches, particularly covering the biggest leagues. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of live broadcasting, match scheduling and other factors on stadium attendance in the top division of Norwegian football.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is based on a fixed effects regression model on attendance at match levels covering the period 2005 to 2011.FindingsThe main results show two different effects. While live broadcast domestic matches on “free TV” is positively correlated to stadium attendance, the increased number of “imported” matches from the big-five leagues is a substitute. Moreover, matches played on weekdays have a lower level of attendance than weekend matches.Practical implicationsThe increased number of imported live broadcast football matches from the biggest European leagues influences and widens the financial gap between the biggest and the smaller football leagues. One possible solution for reducing the substitution effect from these matches is a more efficient match schedule in the Norwegian top division in football.Originality/valueNorway has a small population with a high interest for football. This paper measures effects on attendance in the Norwegian top division in football matches with regards to the increased number of live broadcast matches both from the domestic league and from the big five football leagues.
Validity and reliability of a Malay version of the Lawton instrumental activities of daily living scale among the Malay speaking elderly in Malaysia
Authors: Kadar Masne , Ibrahim Suhaili , Razaob Nor Afifi , Chai Siaw Chui , Harun Dzalani 
Published: January 2018

Background/aimThe Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale is a tool often used to assess independence among elderly at home. Its suitability to be used with the elderly population in Malaysia has not been validated. This current study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of the Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale – Malay Version to Malay speaking elderly in Malaysia.MethodsThis study was divided into three phases: (1) translation and linguistic validity involving both forward and backward translations; (2) establishment of face validity and content validity; and (3) establishment of reliability involving inter‐rater, test‐retest and internal consistency analyses. Data used for these analyses were obtained by interviewing 65 elderly respondents.ResultsPercentages of Content Validity Index for 4 criteria were from 88.89 to 100.0. The Cronbach α coefficient for internal consistency was 0.838. Intra‐class Correlation Coefficient of inter‐rater reliability and test‐retest reliability was 0.957 and 0.950 respectively.ConclusionsThe result shows that the Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale – Malay Version has excellent reliability and validity for use with the Malay speaking elderly people in Malaysia. This scale could be used by professionals to assess functional ability of elderly who live independently in community.
Construction of core competencies for family therapists in Taiwan
Authors: Chao Wentao , Lou Yu‐Chiung 
Published: January 2018

AbstractTo promote service efficacy and quality, necessary competencies for family therapists have been specified by professional organizations and researchers in some countries; however, these competencies may not be a good ‘fit’ for family therapists in Taiwan. This research reviewed the core competencies proposed by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (US) and the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK (UK) and proposed the modified Taiwan Family Therapist Core Competencies (TFTCC) for family therapists in Taiwan. The draft then went through two rounds of the Delphi method to further develop it, based on the comments of local family therapy experts and practitioners. As a result, TFTCC were proposed with four domains and forty‐two specific competencies. The distinct characteristics and possible application of TFTCC are discussed, with recommendations for future research and implications.Practitioner points

Family therapists in Taiwan can evaluate their current levels of competency based on the TFTCC
Trainers can develop programmes based on the TFTCC
Supervisors can evaluate their supervisees’ development based on the TFTCC
Policymakers can develop professional licensure criteria based on the TFTCC
Family therapists, trainers and researchers in other countries can refer to the TFTCC for indigenization of professional core competencies that best suit their local contexts
The safety of quinolones and fluoroquinolones in pregnancy: a meta‐analysis
Authors: Yefet E , Schwartz N , Chazan B , Salim R , Romano S , Nachum Z 
Published: January 2018

BackgroundQuinolones were contraindicated during pregnancy because of concerns regarding fetal malformations and carcinogenesis in animals. The literature is conflicting regarding their safety in humans.ObjectivesTo conduct a meta‐analysis evaluating the risk for fetal malformations and pregnancy complications following exposure to quinolones during pregnancy.Search strategyWe searched Embase, PubMed, Medline, the Cochrane database, clinicaltrials.gov, and Dart Databases. We added articles found through the references of included articles.Selection criteriaRelevant English citations using the terms quinolone/s, fluoroquinolone/s, and pregnancy in humans. Exclusion criteria were case reports, reviews, and articles without data regarding the study outcomes.Data collection and analysisTwo authors performed the database search, assessment of eligibility, and abstraction of data from included studies. Disagreement was settled by consensus among all authors. The pooled odds ratios (with 95% CIs) were estimated. The Cochrane's Q‐test of heterogeneity and I² were used for the measurement of heterogeneity. A total of 256 papers were retrieved, 13 of which met the inclusion criteria and were then analysed.Main resultsNo association was found between quinolones and fetal malformations (pooled odds ratio, OR 1.08; 95% CI 0.96–1.21), preterm delivery (pooled OR 0.97; 95% CI 0.75–1.24), stillbirth (pooled OR 1.11; 95% CI 0.34–3.6), or miscarriage (pooled OR 1.78; 95% CI 0.93–3.38).ConclusionsQuinolones are not associated with unfavourable pregnancy outcomes; however, larger studies are needed before safety is established. Until then, it is suggested that quinolones should not be used as a first‐line therapy during the first trimester.Tweetable abstractQuinolones were associated with favourable pregnancy outcomes; caution should be taken in the first trimester.
Electoral competition in Europe's new tripolar political space: Class voting for the left, centre‐right and radical right
Authors: OESCH DANIEL , RENNWALD LINE 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe rise of the radical right fundamentally changes the face of electoral competition in Western Europe. Bipolar competition is becoming tripolar, as the two dominant party poles of the twentieth century – the left and the centre‐right – are challenged by a third pole of the radical right. Between 2000 and 2015, the radical right has secured more than 12 per cent of the vote in over ten Western European countries. This article shows how electoral competition between the three party poles plays out at the micro level of social classes. It presents a model of class voting that distinguishes between classes that are a party's preserve, classes that are contested strongholds of two parties and classes over which there is an open competition. Using seven rounds of the European Social Survey, it shows that sociocultural professionals form the party preserve of the left, and large employers and managers the preserve of the centre‐right. However, the radical right competes with the centre‐right for the votes of small business owners, and it challenges the left over its working‐class stronghold. These two contested strongholds attest to the co‐existence of old and new patterns of class voting. Old patterns are structured by an economic conflict: Production workers vote for the left and small business owners for the centre‐right based on their economic attitudes. In contrast, new patterns are linked to the rise of the radical right and structured by a cultural conflict.
Mobility affects copulation and oviposition dynamics in Pieris brassicae in seminatural cages
Authors: Larranaga Nicolas , Baguette Michel , Calvez Olivier , Legrand Delphine 
Published: January 2018

AbstractWhen, how often and for how long organisms mate can have strong consequences for individual fitness and are crucial aspects of evolutionary ecology. Such determinants are likely to be of even greater importance in monandrous species and species with short adult life stages. Previous work suggests that mobility, a key dispersal‐related trait, may affect the dynamics of copulations, but few studies have investigated the impact of individual mobility on mating latency, copulation duration and oviposition latency simultaneously. In this paper, we monitored the copulation dynamics of 40 males and 40 females, as well as the oviposition dynamics of the females of the Large White butterfly Pieris brassicae, a facultative long‐distance disperser butterfly. Individuals from a breeding were selected to create a uniform distribution of mobility and we recorded the timing, number and duration of all copulations in a semiexperimental system. We showed that mobility, measured as the time spent in flight under stressful conditions (a proxy of dispersal tendency), correlates with all aspects of copulation dynamics: mobile males and females mated earlier and for shorter periods than less mobile individuals. In turn, late mating females increased the time between copulation and oviposition. These results feed the previously described mobility syndrome of P. brassicae, involving morphological and physiological characters, with life‐history traits. We suggest that the reduction of mating latency and copulation duration has an adaptive value in dispersing individuals, as their life expectancy might be shorter than that of sedentary individuals.
Functional‐trait ecology of the plateau pika Ochotona curzoniae in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau ecosystem
Authors: SMITH Andrew T. , BADINGQIUYING  , WILSON Maxwell C. , HOGAN Brigitte W. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractUnderstanding a species' functional traits allows for a directed and productive perspective on the role a species plays in nature, and thus its relative importance to conservation planning. The functional‐trait ecology of the plateau pika Ochotona curzoniae is examined to better understand the resilience and sustainability of the high alpine grasslands of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP). The key functional traits of plateau pikas are their abundance and behavior of digging extensive burrow systems. Plateau pikas have been poisoned over a significant part of their original geographic distribution across the QTP, allowing comparison of ecological communities with and without pikas. Nearly all mammalian and avian carnivores, most of which are obligate predators on pikas, have been lost in regions where pikas have been poisoned. Most endemic birds on the QTP nest in pika burrows; when pikas are poisoned, burrows collapse, and these birds are greatly reduced in number. Due to the biopedturbation resulting from their burrows, regional plant species richness is higher in areas with pikas than without. The presence of pika burrows allows higher rates of infiltration during heavy monsoon rains compared to poisoned areas, possibly mitigating runoff and the potential for serious downslope erosion and flooding. Thus, the functional traits of plateau pikas enhance native biodiversity and other important ecosystem functions; these traits are irreplaceable. As plateau pikas are not natural colonizers, active re‐introduction programs are needed to restore pikas to areas from which they have been poisoned to restore the important functional ecological traits of pikas.
Distribution and space use of seed‐dispersing rodents in central Pyrenees: implications for genetic diversity, conservation and plant recruitment
Authors: URGOITI Jon , MUÑOZ Alberto , ESPELTA Josep Maria , BONAL Raúl 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe function and conservation of many forest ecosystems depend on the distribution and diversity of the community of rodents that consume and disperse seeds. The habitat preferences and interactions are especially relevant in alpine systems where such granivorous rodents reach the southernmost limit of their distribution and are especially sensitive to global warming. We analyzed the community of granivorous rodents in the Pyrenees, one of the southernmost mountain ranges of Europe. Rodent species were identified by DNA with particular attention to theApodemusspecies, which are prominent seed‐dispersing rodents in Europe. We confirmed for the first time the presence of the yellow‐necked mouse,Apodemus flavicollis, in central Pyrenees, a typical Eurosiberian species that reaches its southernmost distribution limit in this area. We also found the wood mouse,Apodemus sylvaticus, a related species more tolerant to Mediterranean environments. Both rodents were spatially segregated by altitude.A. sylvaticuswas rare at high altitudes, which might cause the genetic differentiation between populations of the different valleys reported here. We also found other seed consumers like dormice,Elyomis quercinus, and voles,Myodes glareolus, with marked habitat preferences. We suggest that population isolation among valleys may increase the genetic diversity of rodents, likeA. sylvaticus.We also highlight the potential threat that global warming may represent for species linked to high‐altitude refuges at the southern edge of its distribution, likeApodemus flavicollis.Finally, we discuss how this threat may have a dimension in the conservation of alpine forests dispersed by these rodent populations.
Genetic origin and dispersal of the invasive soybean aphid inferred from population genetic analysis and approximate Bayesian computation
Authors: FANG Fang , CHEN Jing , JIANG Liyun , QU Yanhua , QIAO Gexia 
Published: January 2018

AbstractBiological invasion is considered among the most important global environmental problems. Knowledge of the source and dispersal routes of invasion could facilitate the eradication and control of invasive species. Soybean aphid, Aphis glycines, is among the most destructive soybean pests. For effective management of this pest, we conducted genetic analyses and approximate Bayesian computation analysis to determine the origins and dispersal of the aphid species, as well as the source of its invasion in the USA, using 8 microsatellite loci and the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene. We were able to identify a significant isolation by distance pattern and 3 genetic lineages in the microsatellite data but not in the mtDNA dataset. The genetic structure showed that the USA population had the closest relationship with those from Korea and Japan, indicating that the 2 latter populations might be the sources of the invasion to the USA. Both population genetic analyses and approximate Bayesian computation showed that the northeastern populations in China were the possible sources of the further spread of A. glycines to Indonesia. The dispersal history of this aphid can provide useful information for pest management strategies and can further help predict areas at risk of invasion.
Oxygen supply did not affect how lizards responded to thermal stress
Authors: CAMACHO Agustín , VANDENBROOKS John M. , RILEY Angela , TELEMECO Rory S. , ANGILLETTA Michael J. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractZoologists rely on mechanistic niche models of behavioral thermoregulation to understand how animals respond to climate change. These models predict that species will need to disperse to higher altitudes to persist in a warmer world. However, thermal stress and, thus, thermoregulatory behavior may depend on atmospheric oxygen as well as environmental temperatures. Severe hypoxia causes animals to prefer lower body temperatures, which could be interpreted as evidence that oxygen supply limits heat tolerance. Such a constraint could prevent animals from successfully dispersing to high elevations during climate change. Still, an effect of oxygen supply on preferred body temperature has only been observed when oxygen concentrations fall far below levels experienced in nature. To see whether animals perceive greater thermal stress at an ecologically relevant level of hypoxia, we studied the thermoregulatory behavior of lizards (Sceloporus tristichus) exposed to oxygen concentrations of 13% and 21% (equivalent to PO2 at 4000 m and 0 m, respectively). In addition, we exposed lizards to 29% oxygen to see whether they would accept a higher body temperature at hyperoxia than at normoxia. At each oxygen level, we measured a behavioral response to heat stress known as the voluntary thermal maximum: the temperature at which a warming animal sought a cool refuge. Oxygen concentration had no discernable effect on the voluntary thermal maximum, suggesting that lizards experience thermal stress similarly at all 3 levels of oxygen (13%, 12% and 29%). Future research should focus on thermoregulatory behaviors under ecologically relevant levels of hypoxia.
Influence of body mass index on the therapeutic efficacy of gemcitabine plus cisplatin and overall survival in lung squamous cell carcinoma
Authors: Zhong Jia , Zheng Qiwen , Gao Emei , Dong Zhi , Zhao Jun , An Tongtong , Wu Meina , Zhuo Minglei , Wang Yuyan , Li Jianjie , Wang Shuhang , Yang Xue , Chen Hanxiao , Jia Bo , Wang Jingjing , Wang Ziping 
Published: January 2018

BackgroundGemcitabine plus cisplatin (GP) is commonly used to treat lung squamous cell carcinoma (SCC); however, it is not clear which subgroup of lung SCC patients could benefit most from GP treatment. We explored the predictive factors in lung SCC patient cohorts.MethodsSeventy‐eight lung SCC patients treated with a first‐line GP regimen were enrolled in this retrospective cohort study. Progression‐free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were estimated using the Kaplan–Meier method. Classification tree models were used to explore the risk factors for PFS and OS in these patients.ResultsThe median PFS and OS in SCC patients treated with a GP regimen were 6.0 and 13.6 months, respectively. Three terminal subgroups were formed for both PFS and OS. The subgroup with a body mass index (BMI) > 23.94 kg/m2 and aged ≤ 54.5 had the longest PFS (9.0 months); the subgroup with a BMI < 23.94  kg/m2 and aged ≤ 54.5 had the shortest PFS (4.05 months). Patients with an objective response (partial or complete response) to treatment had the longest OS (20.0 months), while patients with a BMI ≤ 26.92 kg/m2 and stable or progressive disease as the best response had the shortest OS (11.2 months).ConclusionsBMI and age may be predictors of PFS in lung SCC patients who receive GP treatment. BMI and best response to GP treatment predicts OS in such patients. Patients’ clinical pathological characteristics may be used to predict the therapeutic efficacy of chemotherapy and survival.