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Investigating status demotion in hierarchical loyalty programs
Authors: Ramaseshan B. , Ouschan Robyn 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to extend research on customer loyalty status and customer demotion by investigating if the effect of demotion on customer attitudinal and behavioral responses is the same for top-tier and low-tier customers in the context of airlines.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey was conducted with travelers intercepted at large airport terminals in Australia. Multivariate analyses examined group differences across status change (no change vs demoted) and status level (high status vs low status). Multi-group moderation structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis tested the moderating role of status (high status vs low status) on the effects of demotion on the relationship between customers’ attitudes and loyalty intention, and between loyalty intention and share of wallet.

Findings
This study shows that the detrimental effects of demotion on the relationship between customer satisfaction/commitment/perceived betrayal on loyalty intentions, and on the relationship between loyalty intentions and share of wallet are stronger for “high status” than “low status” customers.

Research limitations/implications
A cross-sectional design was employed to investigate customer demotion in the airline industry. Future studies could investigate different types of demotions in other industries by employing a longitudinal design.

Practical implications
The study provides new insight about the effects of status demotion and highlights that service firms could be jeopardizing the loyalty of numerous valuable customers, especially among the “high status” customer group.

Originality/value
This study reveals loyalty status moderates the effect of demotion on customer attitudinal responses and loyalty behaviors. It draws on social identity, social comparison, emotion and equity theories to explain the different effects of demotion on customers from different status level groups.
OBD-II and raspberry Pi technology to diagnose car’s machine current condition: study literature
Authors: Manalu Sonya Rapinta , Moniaga Jurike , Hadipurnawan Dionisius Andrian , Sahidi Firda 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
Low-cost microcomputers such as the Raspberry Pi are common in library makerspaces. This paper aims to create an OBD-II technology to diagnose a vehicle’s condition.

Design/methodology/approach
An OBD-II scanner plugged into the OBD-II port or usually called the data link connector (DLC), sends diagnostics to the Raspberry Pi.

Findings
Compared with other microcontrollers such as Arduino, the Raspberry Pi was chosen because it sustains the application to receive real-time diagnostics, process the diagnostics and send commands to automobiles at the same time, rather than Arduino that must wait for another process finished to run another process.

Originality/value
This paper also represents the history of mobile technology and OBD-II technology, comparison between Arduino and Raspberry Pi and Node.
Integration of talent and mobility function: strategy for HR to manage business
Authors: Mishra Sovanjeet 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
In near future, population change and shift, aged workforce and retirement of baby boomer generations are going to bring huge shortage of talent and skilled labor across globe, especially in developed and emerging nations. Hence, this paper aims to link talent management and international mobility function in a strategic way to overcome the challenge that business world will be facing in terms of scarcity of talent.

Design/methodology/approach
In this paper viewpoint is expressed considering international texts and organizational research reports.

Findings
Changing demographics and skill gap economies across nations and compliance risk or regulatory challenge might have a direct impact on talent mobility. Further, talent mobility might have a reverse effect on assignee and family. No single stakeholder alone would tackle this problem. So, the educational institutions, business, government and non-governmental institutions need to collaborate and form a framework to deal with it.

Research limitations/implications
Viewpoint can be further refined through academic conceptualization and empirical validation.

Practical implications
Managers can incorporate framework suggested for managing talent during mobility.

Originality/value
A call for integrating talent and mobility function would encourage researcher for further refinement of the idea, through theoretical and empirical validation. Talent mobility has been discussed as a win − win situation for companies and nations across the globe.
Selective inhibition of M5 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors attenuates cocaine self‐administration in rats
Authors: Gunter Barak W. , Gould Robert W. , Bubser Michael , McGowan Kevin M. , Lindsley Craig W. , Jones Carrie K. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractCocaine use disorder (CUD) remains a debilitating health problem in the United States for which there are no Food and Drug Administration‐approved treatment options. Accumulating anatomical and electrophysiological evidence indicates that the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) subtype 5 (M5) plays a critical role in the regulation of the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward circuitry, a major site of action for cocaine and other psychostimulants. In addition, M5 knockout mice exhibit reduced cocaine self‐administration behaviors with no differences in sugar pellet‐maintained responding relative to wild‐type mice. These findings suggest that selective inhibition of M5 mAChR may provide a novel pharmacological approach for targeting CUD. Recently, we reported the synthesis and characterization of ML375, a selective negative allosteric modulator (NAM) for the rat and human M5 mAChR with optimized pharmacokinetic properties for systemic dosing in rodents. In the present study, male Sprague–Dawley rats were trained to self‐administer intravenous cocaine (0.1–0.75 mg/kg/infusion) under a 10‐response fixed ratio or a progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement. Under both schedules of reinforcement, ML375 produced dose‐related reductions in cocaine self‐administration. ML375 also modestly reduced sugar pellet‐maintained responding on the 10‐response, fixed ratio schedule but had no effect under a progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement. Further, ML375 did not affect general motor output as assessed by a rotarod test. Collectively, these results provide the first demonstration that selective inhibition of M5 using the M5 NAM ML375 can attenuate both the reinforcing effects and the relative strength of cocaine and suggest that M5 NAMs may represent a promising, novel treatment approach for CUD.
Clinical significance of changes in systemic inflammatory markers and carcinoembryonic antigen levels in predicting metastatic colorectal cancer prognosis and chemotherapy response
Authors: Kim In‐Ho , Lee Ji Eun , Yang Ji Hyun , Jeong Joon Won , Ro Sangmi , Lee Myung Ah 
Published: October 2017

AbstractAimMetastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is associated with poor prognosis, and biomarkers are required for predicting survival and chemotherapy response. This study aimed to evaluate the significance of changes in systemic inflammatory markers and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels in predicting mCRC prognosis and chemotherapy response.MethodsIn this retrospective study, 503 patients who received first‐line palliative chemotherapy for mCRC between 2008 and 2014 at a tertiary hospital in Korea were evaluated. Changes in neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS) were divided into low‐to‐low, high‐to‐low, low‐to‐high and high‐to‐high groups. The CEA response was defined as CEA‐complete response (CEA normalization), CEA‐partial response (≥50% decrease in CEA levels), CEA‐progressive disease (≥50% increase in CEA levels) and CEA‐stable disease. Overall survival (OS) and progression‐free survival (PFS) were evaluated according to NLR, mGPS and CEA levels.ResultsHigh prechemotherapy NLR, mGPS and CEA levels independently predicted poor survival and chemotherapy response. Continuously high NLR or change to high NLR was also associated with poor OS and PFS; however, continuously low NLR or reduced NLR showed good prognosis. CEA response was also an independent prognostic marker for OS and PFS. High NLR and mGPS were correlated with elevated CEA levels.ConclusionInflammatory marker levels were significantly associated with CEA levels. The prechemotherapy levels of systemic inflammatory markers and CEA were associated with OS or PFS. The change patterns in NLR and CEA levels can be utilized as prognostic and predictive markers for chemotherapy response.
Firework‐related injury in the Top End: a 16‐year review
Authors: Read David J. , Bradbury Richard , Yeboah Edward 
Published: October 2017

BackgroundOn July 1st on ‘Territory Day’, the public in the Northern Territory are permitted to purchase and operate consumer fireworks without a licence. Serious permanent injuries from fireworks are well described, leading to their banning in many other jurisdictions. This study describes those seriously injured by fireworks in the Top End of the Northern Territory, with the aim of identifying opportunities for prevention and harm minimization.MethodsThis is a retrospective audit of all admitted patients with an injury from fireworks at the Royal Darwin Hospital between 2000 and 2015. The variables collected included demographic data and the circumstances around injury (operator versus bystander, alcohol involvement and day of device operation). The consequences such as injuries, operating theatre visits, length of stay and outpatient visits are described.ResultsFifty‐five patients (including 17 children) suffered 67 injuries over the study period, resulting in 68 operating theatre visits, 322 hospital days and 380 outpatient appointments. Burns, hand and eye injuries predominate. Females (P = 0.000) and children (P = 0.029) were more likely to be injured as bystanders. Injuries on a day other than Territory Day were more likely to have alcohol involvement (P = 0.01), and occur in the operator (P = 0.017).ConclusionConsumer firework usage results in a small number of life altering injuries annually. Previous prevention campaigns focusing on device user safety should be expanded to include the safety of bystanders and children and reduce firework usage outside of the Territory Day.
Corals in Healthy Populations Produce More Larvae Per Unit Cover
Authors: Hartmann Aaron C. , Marhaver Kristen L. , Vermeij Mark J. A. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractIn coral reef conservation and management, the prevailing metric of reef health is percent coral cover, a measurement commonly used with the assumption that each unit of live coral tissue has equivalent ecological value. Here we show that the reproductive output of a coral population is not proportional to the cover of coral present. Instead, when compared to declining populations nearby, high cover coral populations produced up to four times more larvae per square centimeter of tissue, resulting in up to 200 times higher larval production per square meter of reef. Importantly, corals that produced more larvae did not produce smaller larvae, as predicted by resource allocation theory. Instead, higher fecundity corresponded to higher energetic lipid reserves in higher cover coral populations. In the wake of unprecedented global coral bleaching, our findings suggest that the largest reductions in coral reproduction may occur when corals are lost from previously healthy populations.
‘There Was A Third Man…’: Tales from a Global Policy Consultation on Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals
Authors: Desai Deval , Schomerus Mareike 
Published: October 2017

ABSTRACTThis article reflects on the experience of the two authors as ‘experts’ during consultations on justice and security indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors examine how the tension between the indeterminacy of the concepts to be measured — justice and security — and the concreteness of indicators shaped the politics of the consultations. Participants used this tension strategically to destabilize notions of time, space and identity on which knowledge production rests. In doing so, they blurred the distinction between academics, advocates and policy makers. They did this to lay claim to some aspects of implementation while distancing themselves from others. The authors then juxtapose this with personal experience of researching South Sudanese citizens, who challenged and deconstructed that distinction. At the same time, experts at the consultations incorporated an image of these citizens as an ethical justification for the discussion. The authors argue that a more complex sociology of knowledge is required to understand how these global knowledge practices work from the global to the local. Such a sociology of knowledge acknowledges fluidity and grapples with how knowledge practices defer and delimit moments of decision; it requires an ethico‐political — rather than just a political — critique.
Mutual Fund Stock‐Picking Skill: New Evidence from Valuation‐ versus Liquidity‐Motivated Trading
Authors: Rohleder Martin , Schulte Dominik , Syryca Janik , Wilkens Marco 
Published: October 2017

AbstractWe propose a novel Trade Motivation Matrix that allows differentiating funds’ valuation‐motivated (VM) and liquidity‐motivated (LM) trades on single trade level. It thus enables analyses of stock‐picking skill on three levels: trade, stock, and fund. On trade level, we find significant outperformance of VM buys and significant underperformance of VM sells, indicating manager stock‐picking skills, especially during illiquid market periods. VM trades outperform LM trades, confirming negative performance effects due to flow risk, especially when market liquidity is low. On stock level, collective VM buying explains high future stock returns while collective VM selling is related to future losses, indicating wisdom of the crowd. On fund level, higher trading discretion, measured by a higher degree of VM trading, is observed for smaller, older funds holding higher cash buffers. Finally, higher trading discretion is related to higher future fund alpha, especially during illiquid times.
An assessment of carcass counting surveys with increasing time lapse following a simulated fish kill on a small upland stream
Authors: Kennedy R. J. , Allen M. , Rosell R. , Reid A. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractA simulated fish kill was conducted on a small upland stream in Northern Ireland by planting out hatchery‐produced brown trout Salmo trutta L. carcasses of various size categories. Standard, post‐fish kill, assessment walkover surveys were conducted over time intervals to determine the number of carcasses visible. The sample variance between individual surveyors was generally low, with good agreement between the observed counts for the three, discrete, size fractions of fish up to 72 hr after the simulated fish kill. Despite low discharge rates, shallow water and good accessibility to the experimental stream, only 52% of the small category fish (<8 cm LF) were recorded 4 hr after the start of the simulated fish kill. Larger carcasses (>17 cm LF) were more visible, and >90% were detected 48 hr after the start of the simulated fish kill. After 96 hr, all size fractions of carcasses had reduced significantly, and the variability between replicate surveys increased markedly.
Effect of incident nocturnal home hemodialysis versus incident continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis on employment rate, clinical, and laboratory outcomes: A 1‐year retrospective observation study
Authors: Li John Wing , Wong Joseph Ho Sing , Chak Wai Leung , Chau Ka Foon 
Published: October 2017

AbstractIntroduction: While studies demonstrated favorable outcomes of nocturnal home hemodialysis (NHHD), direct comparison on employment rate, clinical and laboratory outcomes between the NHHD and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) had not been previously performed.Methods: A 1‐year retrospective observation study was performed in 20 incidents alternate night NHHD and 81 incident CAPD patients of Chinese ethnicity, who were sex, diabetic status, and Charlson comorbidity index matched, but not age due to our center's age limit for NHHD enrollment. The primary outcome was the difference in employment rate at 1 year. Secondary outcomes included differences in clinical parameters (weight, blood pressure, number of antihypertensive medication, dosage of phosphate binders, and erythropoietin stimulating agent) and laboratory parameters (residual renal function, mineral metabolic markers, hemoglobin).Findings: NHHD subjects were 5 years younger than CAPD patients, and they had higher employment rate (80% vs. 33.3%, P < 0.01) at 1 year, with age‐adjusted odds ratio for employment was 6.10 (95% confidence interval 1.77–20.99, P = 0.04). They consumed less aluminum‐based phosphate binder (0 vs. 1800 mg, P < 0.01), but showed no significant disparities in other clinical parameters. Residual renal function in both groups declined comparably, nonetheless NHHD group had lower serum phosphate (1.37 vs. 1.71 mmol/L, P = 0.01) and calcium phosphate product (3.13 vs. 4.12 mmol2/L2, P < 0.01), with similar hemoglobin levels.Discussion: NHHD appeared to offer higher employment rate, lower dosage of aluminum‐based phosphate binder and mineral metabolic markers at 1 year compared with CAPD in Hong Kong.
Emotional Integration across Immigrant Generations in Baden‐Württemberg, Germany: the Role of Discrimination
Authors: Hochman Oshrat , Stein Anna , Lewin‐Epstein Noah , Wöhler Thomas 
Published: October 2017

AbstractImmigrants’ integration is a multi‐faceted process, involving structural, cultural, social, and emotional dimensions. This study focuses on the emotional dimension of integration, investigating immigrants’ emotional attachments to their national origin and their host country. Specifically, we ask what role perceived discrimination plays in shaping identification preferences among immigrants and immigrant descendants in Germany. The contribution of this study is twofold: First, we present results for three generations of post‐WWII labour migrants of Turkish and Italian descent. Second, we estimate the consequences of perceived individual discrimination for national and ethnic identification separately. The findings indicate that while discrimination is not related to ethnic identification, it is negatively correlated with national identification. Regarding future challenges, we believe that our findings suggest that the German society can come closer to achieving integration of migrants by reducing perceptions of rejection by the immigrant population, or better yet, fighting off discrimination against immigrant minorities.
Changing labour migration politics in Germany: an organizational perspective
Authors: Maletzky Martina 
Published: October 2017

AbstractMigration research has mainly focused on micro and macro level actors. Less research has focused on the meso‐level of organizations as actors influencing migration related processes. However, since modern societies are organizational societies and organizations are omnipresent in all spheres of daily life, their importance for migration issues should not be underestimated.Addressing this gap within migration research, the purpose of the following article is to apply a perspective of organization sociology to changes in migration politics. Referring to the German case with recent fundamental changes in migration politics, this article traces which roles organizations played in that process. It is assumed that they do institutional work (Lawrence & Suddaby, ), which means that they disrupt and change existing (migration related) institutions and politics. First, it gives insights into how existing institutions and thought patterns have been disrupted and reconstructed by (economic) organizations. Several strategies are observable. These include creating coalitions, advocacy, and social persuasion by introducing narratives which are alarming, morally compelling and convincing.
Environmental variation is a major predictor of global trait turnover in mammals
Authors: Holt Ben G. , Costa Gabriel C. , Penone Caterina , Lessard Jean‐Philippe , Brooks Thomas M. , Davidson Ana D. , Blair Hedges S. , Radeloff Volker C. , Rahbek Carsten , Rondinini Carlo , Graham Catherine H. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractAimTo evaluate how environment and evolutionary history interact to influence global patterns of mammal trait diversity (a combination of 14 morphological and life‐history traits).LocationThe global terrestrial environment.TaxonTerrestrial mammals.MethodsWe calculated patterns of spatial turnover for mammalian traits and phylogenetic lineages using the mean nearest taxon distance. We then used a variance partitioning approach to establish the relative contribution of trait conservatism, ecological adaptation and clade specific ecological preferences on global trait turnover.ResultsWe provide a global scale analysis of trait turnover across mammalian terrestrial assemblages, which demonstrates that phylogenetic turnover by itself does not predict trait turnover better than random expectations. Conversely, trait turnover is consistently more strongly associated with environmental variation than predicted by our null models. The influence of clade‐specific ecological preferences, reflected by the shared component of phylogenetic turnover and environmental variation, was considerably higher than expectations. Although global patterns of trait turnover are dependent on the trait under consideration, there is a consistent association between trait turnover and environmental predictive variables, regardless of the trait considered.Main conclusionsOur results suggest that changes in phylogenetic composition are not always coupled with changes in trait composition on a global scale and that environmental conditions are strongly associated with patterns of trait composition across species assemblages, both within and across phylogenetic clades.