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Exploring the sustainable logistics innovation process
Authors: Björklund Maria , Forslund Helena 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
The development of more sustainable logistics calls for innovative thinking. In order to accelerate the development in the field, there is a need for increased understanding of the process behind successful implementation of sustainable logistics innovations (SLI). The purpose of this paper is to explore the SLI process, in order to identify critical factors, challenges as well as actors involved.

Design/methodology/approach
A multiple-case study in six Swedish retailers and logistics service providers (LSPs), successful in SLI implementations, was conducted. Both within-case and cross-case analyses were applied.

Findings
The SLI process consists of five phases. The positive relationship between formalisation and SLI success is supported. Critical activities and challenges not known from literature were found in each phase. Examples are the use of logistics and customer KPIs, quickness, developing simple concepts, using a sustainability business case template and selecting where to test SLIs. Some phases are involving many internal and external actors, while others involve few internal actors. Customers are not particularly involved, and retailers involve their LSP suppliers.

Research limitations/implications
This study addresses the lack of empirical research in logistics innovation and has bridged the gap of innovation studies in other companies than in LSPs. Furthermore it has combined two developing areas, sustainable innovation and logistics innovation, into SLI. A number of critical activities and challenges, and complex patterns for actors’ involvement in the SLI process phases are explored as insights from particular cases; these results could be analytically generalised to theory.

Practical implications
The practical implications lie in guiding managers who wish to improve sustainability and innovativeness in logistics and, consequently, business success. Knowledge from successful companies about which phases to go through in which sequence, which challenges that can be expected and who to include in the SLI process could imply that more companies focus on SLI.

Social implications
Knowledge on how to include sustainability in a clear innovation process, e.g., by making strong business cases, should imply an accelerated development of sustainable logistics in society.

Originality/value
This study addresses the lack of empirically-based research in logistics innovation and expands the concept to retailers.
Decision-making models for promoting consumption of low energy-intensive broadband terminal products in the Chinese telecommunication industry
Authors: Liu Qing , Zhao Senlin , Zhu Qinghua 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to extend game analysis to explore decision-making mechanisms for promoting a specific type of products, low energy consumption for individual one while the total energy consumption is huge due to the high quantity of sales, that is, low for individual and high for total (LIHT) in terms of energy consumption.

Design/methodology/approach
Game models are developed to compare decisions of optimal prices for newly developed and environmentally friendly (NDEF) and regular products as well as associated sales quantity, profits, carbon emissions under different governmental policies, along with a case of low energy-intensive broadband terminal products in the Chinese telecommunication industry under the carbon tax and subsidy policies.

Findings
For both NDEF and regular products, optimal prices decrease under the subsidy policy while both increase under the tax policy. Manufacturers’ decision of optimal prices is highly relevant with unit carbon tax/subsidy and the consumers’ preference. Both the tax and subsidy policies can improve consumption of NDEF products while the subsidy policy can be more effective at the current initial stage.

Research limitations/implications
This paper provides decision support for manufacturers to promote sustainable consumption of LIHT products. Research ideas on models development and solutions for optimal prices can be applied to other LIHT products.

Practical implications
The results provide insights for governments on how to effectively evaluate and motivate sustainable consumption for LIHT products.

Originality/value
This paper first explores how to motivate sustainable consumption of LIHT products by developing models, examining effectiveness of potential governmental policies as well as associated carbon emissions.
Understanding the determinants of business intelligence system adoption stages
Authors: Puklavec Borut , Oliveira Tiago , Popovič Aleš 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the determinants of business intelligence system (BIS) adoption stages. It develops and empirically tests a conceptual model for assessing the determinants of BIS diffusion on the evaluation, adoption, and use stages in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on data from 181 SMEs the influence of technological, organizational, and environmental factors on BIS adoption stages were analyzed using the PLS-SEM method.

Findings
The paper provides empirical insights about how technological, organizational, and environmental factors affect individual BIS adoption stages.

Practical implications
The paper includes implications for managers and solution providers to understand the influence of various determinants to more effectively conclude the adoption process.

Originality/value
This study represents important progress in the theoretical understanding of the role of technological, organizational, and environmental factors across the different BIS adoption stages.
Setting-up material handling network in manufacturing systems using graph theory
Authors: Gupta Shashank , Gupta Piyush 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
Material handling (MH) is an important facility in any manufacturing system. It facilitates the transport of in-process material from one workstation (WS) to another. MH devices do imply incurring capital costs and, therefore, minimizing their deployment without compromising on smooth material flow will ensure savings in addition to the optimal use of productive shop floor space and, avoid space cluttering. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the minimal network that connects all the WSs, therefore ensuring economic and safe manufacturing operations.

Design/methodology/approach
Graph theoretical approach and Prim’s algorithm for minimal spanning tree is used to evaluate the minimal span of the MH devices. The algorithm is initialized by translating the graph of WSs into a distance matrix to evaluate the minimal MH network.

Findings
The minimal length of the MH devices is evaluated for a typical case study.

Research limitations/implications
The step-by step methodology explained in the manuscript acts as a good guide for practicing operational managers. The shortcoming of the methodology is that, it presumes the use of modular MH devices that will need to be reconfigured based on dynamic changes to the manufacturing system.

Practical implications
The methodology is explained in detail to enable the practicing managers to use it for designing their MH networks in any manufacturing system.

Originality/value
There is no evidence to indicate the use of minimal spanning tree algorithm for design of MH networks in a manufacturing system. This paper attempts to fill this gap.
Calendar anomaly: unique evidence from the Indian stock market
Authors: Harshita Harshita , Singh Shveta , Yadav Surendra S. 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the monthly seasonality in the Indian stock market after taking into consideration the market features of leptokurtosis, volatility clustering and the leverage effect.

Design/methodology/approach
Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Phillips-Perron and Kwaitkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin tests are deployed to check stationarity of the series. Autocorrelation function, partial autocorrelation function and Ljung-Box statistics are employed to check the applicability of volatility models. An exponential generalized auto regressive conditionally heteroskedastic model is deployed to test the seasonality, where the conditional mean equation is a switching model with dummy variables for each month of the year.

Findings
Though the financial year in India stretches from April to March, the stock market exhibits a November effect (returns in November are the highest). Cultural factors, misattribution bias and liquidity hypothesis seem to explain the phenomenon.

Research limitations/implications
The paper endeavors to provide a review of possible explanations behind month-of-the-year effect documented in literature in the past four decades. Further, the unique evidence from the Indian stock market supports the argument in the literature that monthly seasonality, by nature, may not be a consistent/robust phenomenon. Therefore, it needs to be examined from time to time.

Originality/value
As the seasonality in the stock market and resultant anomalies are dynamic phenomena, the paper reports the current seasonality/anomalies prevalent in the Indian market. This would aid investors in designing short-term investment portfolios (based on anomalies present) in order to earn abnormal returns.
Change in mental health collaborative care attitudes and practice in Australia
Authors: Murphy Barbara , Gibbs Chris , Hoppe Kate , Ratnaike Deepika , Lovelock Harry 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
The Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN) was established to support and enhance collaborative care among health professionals working in primary mental healthcare. The MHPN has two primary arms: face-to-face network meetings and online webinars. The purpose of this paper is to investigate attitudinal and practice changes amongst health professionals after participation in MHPN’s network meetings.

Design/methodology/approach
In April 2016, an online survey was e-mailed to health professionals who had attended at least one network meeting during 2015. The survey asked about practice changes across seven key areas relating to increased awareness of and interaction with professionals from other disciplines. Interdisciplinary differences were investigated using the χ2 statistic (p<0.05).

Findings
A total of 1,375 health professionals participated in the survey. For each of the seven practice changes investigated, between 74 and 92 per cent of respondents had made the change. Those who attended more network meetings were significantly more likely to have made changes. General practitioners were significantly more likely than other professionals to have made changes.

Research limitations/implications
Attendance at MHPN network meetings has a positive impact on health professionals’ attitudes and practices towards a more collaborative approach to mental healthcare.

Originality/value
MHPN is a unique, national platform successfully delivering opportunities for interdisciplinary professional development in the primary mental health sector. The model is unique, cost-effective, practitioner driven and transferable to other settings.
Are academic libraries utilized to produce engaged alumni?
Authors: Griffith Andrew S. , Kealty Ceire 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explain the relationship alumni may have with their institution’s library and its effect on student success, which, in turn, produces more engaged alumni.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper provides a base interaction model that describes this relationship.

Findings
Libraries are well positioned to not only engage current students but to establish the foundation for these students to become engaged alumni.

Originality/value
This base relationship model may help with advocating for secure funds of libraries and/or a higher priority for fundraising.
Agency in advanced liberal services: grounding sociological knowledge in homeless people's accounts
Authors: Parsell Cameron , Clarke Andrew 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThis paper aims to understand how people who are homeless respond to advanced liberal social services that endeavour to promote their autonomy and responsible actions. We prioritize the experiences and positions of people who are homeless, and what agentic action means to them. Sociological literature is selective about what accounts are deemed agentic. Agency is associated with accounts that resist or subvert dominant neoliberal framings of homelessness as failure of individuals. When people experiencing homelessness or poverty themselves foreground autonomy or responsibility, sociologists treat them as cultural dopes who have internalized neoliberal discourse. Our analysis is driven by an ethnographic study in an Australian homelessness shelter. We demonstrate how people who are homeless neither outright reject nor completely embrace advanced liberal practices to influence their actions and promote autonomy. People engaged in relational reasoning. Paternalist and advanced liberal social services were both lauded and rejected for their capacities and limitations to realize a good life. We contribute to the discussion for sociology to value people's accounts and experiences, rather than broader social process explaining their accounts. From the perspectives of people who are homeless, we show that just because something appears neoliberal does not mean it should be automatically rejected.
The Capitalisation of CAP Payments into Land Rental Prices: A Panel Sample Selection Approach
Authors: Guastella Gianni , Moro Daniele , Sckokai Paolo , Veneziani Mario 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe empirical literature suggests that farmland prices and rents capitalise agricultural subsidies and that the 2003 reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, which decoupled subsidies from production and attached them to land, may have increased the extent of the phenomenon. Employing a farm‐level dataset, the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) for Italy, we investigate this issue while accounting for selectivity, endogeneity and unobserved individual heterogeneity. To understand the impact of the reform we compare the estimates of capitalisation rate for decoupled payments with those for coupled payments. After correcting for unobserved individual heterogeneity and selectivity, our results reveal no capitalisation of coupled payments and only limited capitalisation of decoupled area payments into farmland rents in Italy.
Genetic variation and potential coinfection of Wolbachia among widespread Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama) populations
Authors: Chu Chia‐Ching , Hoffmann Mark , Braswell W. Evan , Pelz‐Stelinski Kirsten S. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractWolbachia can profoundly influence the survival, reproduction, and defenses of insect hosts. These interactions could potentially be harnessed for managing pests or insect‐transmitted diseases. Diaphorina citri Kuwayama is a phloem‐feeding pest capable of transmitting the putative causal agent of citrus greening, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas). Like many insects, D. citri is also infected with Wolbachia (wDi). Recent studies indicate that the relative abundance of wDi could be associated with the abundance of CLas, and that wDi may contribute to regulating expression of phage lytic cycle genes in CLas, suggesting the need for better understanding of wDi biology in general. This study investigated the genetic diversity of wDi among D. citri in populations spanning eleven countries and two U.S. territories. Six Wolbachia genes, wsp, coxA, fbpA, ftsZ, gatB, and hcpA, were sequenced and compared across samples. Two prevalent wDi strains were identified across the samples, and screening of clone libraries revealed possible coinfection of wDi strains in specific populations. D. citri mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (mtCOI) were more divergent between D. citri populations that were infected with different wDi strains or had different infection statuses (single infection vs. coinfection). While we could not eliminate the possibility that maternal transmission may contribute to such patterns, it is also possible that wDi may induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in their host. These findings should contribute to the understanding of wDi population ecology, which may facilitate manipulation of this endosymbiont for management of citrus greening disease worldwide.
The associations between psychotic experiences and substance use and substance use disorders: findings from the World Health Organization World Mental Health surveys
Authors: Degenhardt Louisa , Saha Sukanta , Lim Carmen C. W. , Aguilar‐Gaxiola Sergio , Al‐Hamzawi Ali , Alonso Jordi , Andrade Laura H. , Bromet Evelyn J. , Bruffaerts Ronny , Caldas‐de‐Almeida José Miguel , de Girolamo Giovanni , Florescu Silvia , Gureje Oye , Haro Josep M. , Karam Elie G. , Karam Georges , Kovess‐Masfety Viviane , Lee Sing , Lepine Jean‐Pierre , Makanjuola Victor , Medina‐Mora Maria E. , Mneimneh Zeina , Navarro‐Mateu Fernando , Piazza Marina , Posada‐Villa José , Sampson Nancy A. , Scott Kate M. , Stagnaro Juan Carlos , Ten Have Margreet , Kendler Kenneth S. , Kessler Ronald C. , McGrath John J. ,   on behalf of the WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators
Published: December 2017

AbstractBackground and aimsPrior research has found bidirectional associations between psychotic experiences (PEs) and selected substance use disorders. We aimed to extend this research by examining the bidirectional association between PEs and various types of substance use (SU) and substance use disorders (SUDs), and the influence of antecedent mental disorders on these associations.Design, setting, participants and measurementsWe used data from the World Health Organization World Mental Health surveys. A total of 30 902 adult respondents across 18 countries were assessed for (a) six types of life‐time PEs, (b) a range of types of SU and DSM‐IV SUDs and (c) mental disorders using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Discrete‐time survival analyses based on retrospective age‐at‐onset reports examined the bidirectional associations between PEs and SU/SUDs controlling for antecedent mental disorders.FindingsAfter adjusting for demographics, comorbid SU/SUDs and antecedent mental disorders, those with prior alcohol use disorders [odds ratio (OR) = 1.6, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.2–2.0], extra‐medical prescription drug use (OR = 1.5, 95% CI = 1.1–1.9), alcohol use (OR = 1.4, 95% CI = 1.1–1.7) and tobacco use (OR = 1.3, 95% CI = 1.0–1.8) had increased odds of subsequent first onset of PEs. In contrast, those with temporally prior PEs had increased odds of subsequent onset of tobacco use (OR = 1.5, 95% CI = 1.2–1.9), alcohol use (OR = 1.3, 95% CI = 1.1–1.6) or cannabis use (OR = 1.3, 95% CI = 1.0–1.5) as well as of all substance use disorders (ORs ranged between 1.4 and 1.5). There was a dose response relationship between both count and frequency of PEs and increased subsequent odds of selected SU/SUDs.ConclusionsAssociations between psychotic experiences (PEs) and substance use/substance use disorders (SU/SUDs) are often bidirectional, but not all types of SU/SUDs are associated with PEs. These findings suggest that it is important to be aware of the presence of PEs within those with SUDs or at risk of SUDs, given the plausibility that they may each impact upon the other.
The effect of forest canopy and flood disturbance on New Zealand stream food web structure and robustness
Authors: Canning A. D. , Death R. G. , Gardner E. M. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe effects of disturbance on communities have been a focus of both theoretical and empirical inquiries for many years. Food web stability is hypothesized to be affected by disturbance and the nature of the energy pathways (i.e. allochthonous or autochthonous) of a community. In this study, we investigated whether food webs at paired sites, one in forest and the other in grassland, in ten New Zealand streams along a disturbance gradient differ in their topological structure and robustness. Food web robustness (an indicator of web resistance) assesses the ease with which secondary extinctions permeate the food web following an initial random extinction (disturbance). We found that neither the nature of the energy source nor physical disturbance affected structural metrics or web robustness. As stream systems, particularly in New Zealand, are exposed to regular, unpredictable and dramatic physical disturbance from flooding, it may simply be that the floods result in generalist species dominating and increasing robustness irrespective of the energy source.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: An alternative treatment for radiation‐induced cutaneous ulcers
Authors: Fernández Canedo Inés , Padilla España Laura , Francisco Millán Cayetano José , Repiso Jiménez Juan Bosco , Pérez Delgado Manuel , de Troya Martín Magdalena 
Published: December 2017

AbstractRadiotherapy is a widely recognised treatment for non‐melanoma skin cancer. We report three cases of radiation‐induced skin ulcers in which hyperbaric oxygen therapy was administered in 90‐min sessions, 5 days a week at 2.4 absolute atmospheres in a multiplace hyperbaric chamber. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is an outpatient treatment that does not displace other classical treatments and may be used as an adjunct therapy.
Estimation of dietary threonine requirement using plasma amino acid concentrations in mature thoroughbreds
Authors: Yoshida Tatsuyuki , Ohta Yoshiyuki 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe experiment was conducted to estimate dietary threonine (Thr) requirement using plasma amino acid concentrations as a criterion in mature thoroughbreds. Four adult thoroughbreds were used, and a 4 × 4 Latin square design was used for four dietary Thr levels. Plasma Thr concentration was constant until 0.41%, and then increased rapidly with increasing dietary Thr levels. The Thr requirement was estimated to be 67% of lysine with plasma Thr concentration at four Thr levels.
Expression, distribution and function of kinin B1 receptor in the rat diabetic retina
Authors: Hachana Soumaya , Bhat Menakshi , Sénécal Jacques , Huppé‐Gourgues Frédéric , Couture Réjean , Vaucher Elvire 
Published: December 2017

Background and PurposeThe kinin B1 receptor contributes to vascular inflammation and blood‐retinal barrier breakdown in diabetic retinopathy (DR). We investigated the changes in expression, cellular localization and vascular inflammatory effect of B1 receptors in retina of streptozotocin diabetic rats.Experimental ApproachThe distribution of B1 receptors on retinal cell types was investigated by immunocytochemistry. Effects of B1 receptor agonist, R‐838, and antagonist, R‐954, on retinal leukocyte adhesion, gene expression of kinin and VEGF systems, B1 receptor immunoreactivity, microgliosis and capillary leakage were measured. Effect of B1 receptor siRNA on gene expression was also assessed.Key ResultsmRNA levels of the kinin and VEGF systems were significantly enhanced at 2 weeks in streptozotocin (STZ)‐retina compared to control‐retina and were further increased at 6 weeks. B1 receptor mRNA levels remained increased at 6 months. B1 receptor immunolabelling was detected in vascular layers of the retina, on glial and ganglion cells. Intravitreal R‐838 amplified B1 and B2 receptor gene expression, B1 receptor levels (immunodetection), leukostasis and vascular permeability at 2 weeks in STZ‐retina. Topical application (eye drops) of R‐954 reversed these increases in B1 receptors, leukostasis and vascular permeability. Intravitreal B1 receptor siRNA inhibited gene expression of kinin and VEGF systems in STZ‐retina. Microgliosis was unaffected by R‐838 or R‐954 in STZ‐retina.Conclusion and ImplicationsOur results support the detrimental role of B1 receptors on endothelial and glial cells in acute and advanced phases of DR. Topical application of the B1 receptor antagonist R‐954 seems a feasible therapeutic approach for the treatment of DR.