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Motives and barriers of organic food demand among Polish consumers
Authors: Wojciechowska-Solis Julia , Soroka Andrzej 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the intentions and behaviors of consumers of the Poland which recently puts emphasis on the promotion of organic food, healthy diet of its population and shows concern for the protection of natural environment. The conducted studies aim to identify types of products and determine motives that Polish adults take into consideration when buying organic food. The studies have been also conducted to indicate the most common barriers that appear when purchasing this type of products. The above-mentioned aims are carried out in the context of a level of education among consumers of organic food.

Design/methodology/approach
A diagnostic survey method with authors’ questionnaire was used in the studies to examine 3436 respondents from all over the Poland. The studies were conducted in 2015. After the use of construction and validation procedures, a five-point Likert scale was applied to measure the attitudes. An indicator of scale reliability was calculated where Cronbach’s α was 0.85. The education was a criterion that divided respondents into study groups.

Findings
The population was divided taking into account the place of residence: villages, towns up to 30 thousand inhabitants and towns over 30 thousand inhabitants. In the next stage of sample selection, respondents were proportionally divided according to their sex. Women constituted 51.3 percent, while men 48.7 percent. All respondents were of legal age. These methodological procedures allowed calculating a size of sample, where the level of confidence was set at 0.95, the estimated size fraction at 0.50 and the maximum error at 0.05.

Originality/value
There is a need for increased education on the importance of organic food and its influence on human health, especially among the young generation of Polish consumers. The conducted education should be aimed at encouraging producers and in particular sellers to promote sale of organic food in their stores, and thus to label it appropriately for easier identification by consumers. The barriers and motives presented in this paper which occur when buying organic food are identical to those that occur in developed and developing countries.
Could new information influence attitudes to foods supplemented with edible insects?
Authors: Barsics Fanny , Caparros Megido Rudy , Brostaux Yves , Barsics Catherine , Blecker Christophe , Haubruge Eric , Francis Frédéric 
Published: July 2017

PurposeBroader acceptance of entomophagy (i.e. human consumption of insects) will depend on factors that impact consumers’ perceptions of edible insects. The purpose of this paper is to examine how a broad-based information session would affect consumers’ perceptions and attitudes about an edible insect product.Design/methodology/approachDuring a taste testing session, preceded or followed by an information session about entomophagy, participants rated the organoleptic characteristics of two bread samples on nine-point hedonic scales. The two bread samples were identical, though one was faux-labelled as containing an insect product.FindingsGeneralised linear model (GLM) analysis showed effects of gender, information session exposure, entomophagy familiarity, and entomophagy experience on participants’ ratings of the samples. Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney ranked sum tests showed that appearance, flavour, and overall liking were significantly better rated for the bread sample labelled as insect free by participants who attended the presentation a priori. Potential ways to improve information content and delivery in favour of encouraging dietary shifts are discussed.Practical implicationsThis study shows that information about insect-based products could change consumers’ perceptions of such products. The results provide clues regarding how the food industry can adapt communication for target audiences.Originality/valueActual edible insect products were not used in this study. Paradoxically, it is the first to show the impact of an information session on the acceptability of edible insect products, by revealing participants’ perceptual expectations.
Workplace resources and employee resilience: the role of regulatory profiles
Authors: Kuntz Joana , Connell Philippa , Näswall Katharina 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the independent and joint effects of regulatory focus (promotion and prevention) on the relationship between workplace resources (support and feedback) and employee resilience. It proposed that, at high levels of resource availability, a high promotion-high prevention profile would elicit the highest levels of employee resilience.

Design/methodology/approach
An online survey was completed by 162 white collar employees from four organisations. In addition to the main effects, two- and three-way interactions were examined to test hypotheses.

Findings
Promotion focus was positively associated with employee resilience, and though the relationship between prevention focus and resilience was non-significant, both regulatory foci buffered against the negative effects of low resources. Employees with high promotion-high prevention focus displayed the highest levels of resilience, especially at high levels of feedback. Conversely, the resilience of low promotion-low prevention individuals was susceptible to feedback availability.

Practical implications
Employee resilience development and demonstration are contingent not only on resources, but also on psychological processes, particularly regulatory focus. Organisations will develop resilience to the extent that they provide workplace resources, and, importantly, stimulate both promotion and prevention perspectives on resource management.

Originality/value
This study extends the research on regulatory focus theory by testing the joint effects of promotion and prevention foci on workplace resources, and the relationship between regulatory foci and employee resilience.
Using game theory to stimulate provision of local public facilities
Authors: Gauteplass Asle A. , Hopland Arnt O. 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study how the central government can use well-known game-theoretical concepts in order to stimulate provision of local public facilities.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors use the classical adverse selection framework to discuss how the central government can use investment transfers as efficiently as possible to stimulate increased provision of local public facilities.

Findings
The benefits of local public facilities, such as kindergartens, schools, and primary healthcare institutions are greater than what each local government takes into account. Consequently, the central government, which maximizes social welfare in total, wants more local public facilities than the individual local government find optimal to supply. The central government thus would want to stimulate additional provision of local public facilities using contracts where local governments receive a transfer as compensation for increasing their supply. Since local governments differ regarding their efficiency in supplying facilities, the required amount of facilities and the corresponding transfer size should be allowed to vary across local governments.

Originality/value
Almost all countries are organized with multiple tiers of government, and local governments are important providers of many important welfare services. After labor, facilities are probably the second most important input in production of local public services. This paper offers insights into how the central government can efficiently stimulate the production of local public facilities.
Critical strategic issues for the integration of facilities management into the development process
Authors: Tucker Matthew Paul , Masuri Mohd Rayme Anang , Cotgrave Alison 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the critical strategic issues for the integration of facilities management (FM) into the development process (DP). It explains the factors that limit the integration and recognises the best practices applied in the property development industry in the UK.Design/methodology/approachThe study employs a qualitative research approach through semi-structured interviews from the FM and property development industry in the UK.FindingsThe study discovered that the recognition of FM in the property development industry is encouraging. However, FM has been given a low priority in the property development industry, resulting in facilities managers being inadequately integrated into the DP.Originality/valueThe paper suggests that it is imperative to understand these strategic issues to promote best practice in the industry that improve the position of FM in the property development industry.
Prediction of performance outcomes for procurement of public-sector construction consultants for property management
Authors: Lam Terence 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
Public-sector construction clients in the UK and Australia have a clear objective to maximise potential and value for construction and infrastructure projects. Outcome-based performance predictive models, which link influencing factors to individual performance outcomes, were developed for the public-sector property management clients. The paper aims to discuss this issue.

Design/methodology/approach
Combined qualitative-quantitative methods were used to examine the causal relationships between performance outcomes and input economic and job performance factors. Hypotheses on individual relationships generated by a literature review were refined using the findings from a qualitative multiple-case study of three universities, and then tested by a quantitative hierarchical regression analysis using data from 60 consultancies collected from a questionnaire survey sent to the estate management offices of the universities, which form a unique public sector. Each performance project outcome was regressed against influencing factors. Performance predictive models were established in the form of regression equations.

Findings
Five performance outcomes are identified: time, cost, quality, innovations and working relationship with the client. These can be significantly predicted by regression models, based on performance influencing factors of project staff, competence of firm, execution approach, size of firm, consultant framework and competition level.

Research limitations/implications
The performance predictive models developed should be regarded as “conceptual”. Public-sector clients may have different organisation objectives and hence different requirements for performance outcomes, which may further vary according to specific project situations. The models should be adapted to suit individual needs. Adjustments can be made by using the combined qualitative-quantitative methods adopted in this research, thus creating customised models for property management and construction-related clients.

Practical implications
The client’s professional team should focus on the significant performance influencing factors and take advantage of the performance predictive models to select quality consultants. Construction consultants should address the factors in the tender proposals in order to add value to the project and benefit the client.

Originality/value
The existing input-based assessment approach applied at the tender stage cannot guarantee the strategic project objectives to be achieved. The performance predictive models are adaptable for property management and construction disciplines within the wider public sector, thus contributing to achievement of the government construction policy.
A potential pitfall in studies of biological shape: Does size matter?
Authors: Outomuro David , Johansson Frank 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThe number of published studies using geometric morphometrics (GM) for analysing biological shape has increased steadily since the beginning of the 1990s, covering multiple research areas such as ecology, evolution, development, taxonomy and palaeontology. Unfortunately, we have observed that many published studies usingGMdo not evaluate the potential allometric effects of size on shape, which normally require consideration or assessment. This might lead to misinterpretations and flawed conclusions in certain cases, especially when size effects explain a large part of the shape variation.We assessed, for the first time and in a systematic manner, how often published studies that have appliedGMconsider the potential effects of allometry on shape.We reviewed the 300 most recent published papers that usedGMfor studying biological shape. We also estimated how much of the shape variation was explained by allometric effects in the reviewed papers.More than one‐third (38%) of the reviewed studies did not consider the allometric component of shape variation. In studies where the allometric component was taken into account, it was significant in 88% of the cases, explaining up to 87.3% of total shape variation. We believe that one reason that may cause the observed results is a misunderstanding of the process that superimposes landmark configurations, i.e. the Generalized Procrustes Analysis, which removes isometric effects of size on shape, but not allometric effects.Allometry can be a crucial component of shape variation. We urge authors to address, and report, size effects in studies of biological shape. However, we do not propose to always remove size effects, but rather to evaluate the research question with and without the allometric component of shape variation. This approach can certainly provide a thorough understanding of how much size contributes to the observed shaped variation.
Investigation of morin‐induced insulin secretion in cultured pancreatic cells
Authors: Lin Mang Hung , Hsu Chia‐Chen , Lin Jenshinn , Cheng Juei Tang , Wu Ming Chang 
Published: July 2017

SummaryMorin is a flavonoid contained in guava that is known to reduce hyperglycemia in diabetes. Insulin secretion has been demonstrated to increase following the administration of morin. The present study is designed to investigate the potential mechanism(s) of morin‐induced insulin secretion in the MIN6 cell line. First, we identified that morin induced a dose‐dependent increase in insulin secretion and intracellular calcium content in MIN6 cells. Morin potentiated glucose‐stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS). Additionally, we used siRNA for the ablation of imidazoline receptor protein (NISCH) expression in MIN6 cells. Interestingly, the effects of increased insulin secretion by morin and canavanine were markedly reduced in Si‐NISCH cells. Moreover, we used KU14R to block imidazoline I3 receptor (I‐3R) that is known to enhance insulin release from the pancreatic β‐cells. Without influence on the basal insulin secretion, KU14R dose‐dependently inhibited the increased insulin secretion induced by morin or efaroxan in MIN6 cells. Additionally, effects of increased insulin secretion by morin or efaroxan were reduced by diazoxide at the dose sufficient to open KATP channels and attenuated by nifedipine at the dose used to inhibit L‐type calcium channels. Otherwise, phospholipase C (PLC) is introduced to couple with imidazoline receptor (I‐R). The PLC inhibitor dose‐dependently inhibited the effects of morin in MIN6 cells. Similar blockade was also observed in protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor‐treated cells. Taken together, we found that morin increases insulin secretion via the activation of I‐R in pancreatic cells. Therefore, morin would be useful to develop in the research and treatment of diabetic disorders.
Belonging across the lifetime: Time and self in Mass Observation accounts
Authors: May Vanessa 
Published: July 2017

AbstractOur sense of belonging rarely stands still, yet the research literature has hitherto paid little attention to the temporal nature of belonging. Based on an analysis of 62 Mass Observation Project (MOP) accounts written by people living in the UK aged from their 20s to their 90s, this paper argues that as people age, how they locate belonging in time shifts. This has to do with changing concerns related to belonging, but also to metaphysical issues of temporality and mortality, namely how people experience their own finite lifetime. The paper thus offers an illustrative example of how time can be empirically researched in sociology, with a particular focus on the important role that the future plays in how people construct their ‘functional present’ (Mead ). The central argument put forward is that time itself can be an important source of belonging, but one that is unequally accessible to people of different ages because of contemporary cultural scripts that present life as a linear progression into the future and construct the future as a more meaningful temporal horizon than the past.
Analysis of individual cells identifies cell‐to‐cell variability following induction of cellular senescence
Authors: Wiley Christopher D. , Flynn James M. , Morrissey Christapher , Lebofsky Ronald , Shuga Joe , Dong Xiao , Unger Marc A. , Vijg Jan , Melov Simon , Campisi Judith 
Published: July 2017

SummarySenescent cells play important roles in both physiological and pathological processes, including cancer and aging. In all cases, however, senescent cells comprise only a small fraction of tissues. Senescent phenotypes have been studied largely in relatively homogeneous populations of cultured cells. In vivo, senescent cells are generally identified by a small number of markers, but whether and how these markers vary among individual cells is unknown. We therefore utilized a combination of single‐cell isolation and a nanofluidic PCR platform to determine the contributions of individual cells to the overall gene expression profile of senescent human fibroblast populations. Individual senescent cells were surprisingly heterogeneous in their gene expression signatures. This cell‐to‐cell variability resulted in a loss of correlation among the expression of several senescence‐associated genes. Many genes encoding senescence‐associated secretory phenotype (SASP) factors, a major contributor to the effects of senescent cells in vivo, showed marked variability with a subset of highly induced genes accounting for the increases observed at the population level. Inflammatory genes in clustered genomic loci showed a greater correlation with senescence compared to nonclustered loci, suggesting that these genes are coregulated by genomic location. Together, these data offer new insights into how genes are regulated in senescent cells and suggest that single markers are inadequate to identify senescent cells in vivo.
Laughter yoga activities for older people living in residential aged care homes: A feasibility study
Authors: Ellis Julie M , Ben‐Moshe Ros , Teshuva Karen 
Published: July 2017

ObjectiveTo evaluate the effects of a laughter yoga activities (LY) program for older people living in residential aged care homes (RACHs).MethodsA 6‐week LY program was implemented at three RACHs with twenty‐eight residents. A pre–post design was used to measure positive and negative affect, happiness, blood pressure and pulse.ResultsPost‐session mean scores for positive mood, and happiness were significantly higher than pre‐session scores in weeks 1, 3 and 6, and the post‐session mean negative mood scores were significantly lower than pre‐session scores in weeks 3 and 6. Post‐session readings for mean systolic blood pressure were significantly lower than pre‐session readings in weeks 1 and 6.ConclusionThis study demonstrates the potential for using LY to improve mood and lower blood pressure of older people living in RACHs.
Telomere length and somatic mutations in correlation with response to immunosuppressive treatment in aplastic anaemia
Authors: Park Hee S. , Park Si N. , Im Kyongok , Kim Sung‐Min , Kim Jung‐Ah , Hwang Sang M. , Lee Dong S. 
Published: July 2017

SummaryWe investigated the frequencies of cytogenetic aberrations and somatic mutations of prognostic relevance in 393 patients with aplastic anaemia (AA). Clonality was determined by G‐banding/fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) (n = 245), and targeted capture sequencing was performed for 88 haematopoiesis‐related genes (n = 70). The telomere length (TL) of bone marrow nucleated cells was measured at the single cell level by FISH (n = 135). Eighteen (4·6%) patients showed disease progression, and monosomy 7 (50·0%) was the most predominant cytogenetic evolution at disease transformation. One third of patients (32·9%) presented at least 1 mutation; the most frequently mutated genes were NOTCH1, NF1, SCRIB, BCOR and DNMT3A. The patient group with clonal changes (30·7%) showed an adverse response to immunosuppressive treatment (IST), compared to the non‐clonal group, but this finding did not show statistical significance. The TL of AA patients was significantly shorter than normal control and patients with clonal changes showed significantly shorter TLs. Patients with TL>5·9 showed a higher response rate to IST (P = 0·048). In conclusion, the patients with clonal changes or TL attrition showed a poor response to IST. Shorter TL can be used not only as a biomarker, but also as a predictive marker for treatment response to IST.
Elevation of serum lactate dehydrogenase in AL amyloidosis reflects tissue damage and is an adverse prognostic marker in patients not eligible for stem cell transplantation
Authors: Muchtar Eli , Dispenzieri Angela , Lacy Martha Q. , Buadi Francis K. , Kapoor Prashant , Hayman Suzanne R. , Gonsalves Wilson , Warsame Rahma , Kourelis Taxiarchis V. , Chakraborty Rajshekhar , Russell Stephen , Lust John A. , Lin Yi , Go Ronald S. , Zeldenrust Steven , Dingli David , Leung Nelson , Rajkumar S. Vincent , Kyle Robert A. , Kumar Shaji K. , Gertz Morie A. 
Published: July 2017

SummaryThe significance of serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in light chain (AL) amyloidosis has not been previously explored. We studied 1019 newly diagnosed patients and correlated the elevation of LDH above the upper limit of normal (ULN) with disease characteristics and outcome. Four hundred and nine patients had an LDH above ULN, representing 40% of the study population. Patients with an elevated LDH were older, were less likely to be male and had more extensive organ involvement compared to patients with a normal LDH. Patients with high LDH had greater cardiac and renal dysfunction. Elevated LDH was an independent prognostic marker for overall survival and for death within 6 months of diagnosis, but this was restricted to patients not eligible for stem cell transplant. Serum LDH may act as a marker for organ damage and should be explored as a potential marker for tissue healing and organ recovery.
The Toll of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination on Adolescents' Adjustment
Authors: Benner Aprile 
Published: July 2017

AbstractExperiences of racial/ethnic discrimination are all too common in the lives of adolescents of color. In this article, I identify who is at risk for discriminatory treatment and describe the far‐reaching effects of discrimination on adolescents' adjustment, including their mental and physical health, academic performance and engagement, and risky behaviors. After establishing the impact of racial/ethnic discrimination during adolescence, I then address how personal relationships and individual assets can protect youth from some of the detrimental effects of discrimination. Finally, I discuss the limits of research on this topic and explore promising areas of inquiry, including the contexts in which discrimination occurs and the potential for interventions to reduce discrimination.