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Campus sustainability tours: exploring an uncharted tool
Authors: Trahan Ellen R. , North Leslie A. , Gripshover Margaret M. , Huss Jeanine M. 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the development narrative and usage of environmental sustainability tours available at universities and takes an in-depth look into the Western Kentucky University (WKU) Green Tour.

Design/methodology/approach
Questionnaires and interviews were conducted with sustainability leaders involved in tours at their university to discover how they were developed and used. An assessment of the WKU Green Tour used surveys and pre- and post-tests to determine the reach of the tour to the campus population, student learning and faculty use.

Findings
There is a lack of data on sustainability tours, making it difficult to design new tours and validate their status as an essential tool. In the case of WKU, the need for data was confirmed, as current practices that were assumed to be effective proved ineffective. Multiple suggestions for improved tours are provided.

Research limitations/implications
The case study used in this paper is not representative of all university sustainability tours as they can vary widely. Given the lack of research on the subject, especially quantitative research, it is a valuable study.

Practical implications
Though sustainability tours are touted as a valuable tool for all campuses, more data are needed to validate this claim. Data suggest the tours are effective tools for increasing knowledge, but there is need for further assessment of tours and how they can be used to create a sustainably literate campus.

Originality/value
This study is the first to assess sustainability tours using mixed-methods.
Knowledge transfer from business schools to business organizations: the roles absorptive capacity, learning motivation, acquired knowledge and job autonomy
Authors: Tho Nguyen Dinh 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of absorptive capacity, learning motivation and acquired knowledge on knowledge transfer from business schools to business organizations, as it has been realized that in-service training business students can serve as a channel as well as a source in this type of knowledge transfer. The study also examines the mixed moderating role of job autonomy in the relationship between acquired knowledge and knowledge transfer.

Design/methodology/approach
A sample of 344 in-service training business students in Vietnam was surveyed to collect data. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the measures, and structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses.

Findings
The findings reveal that absorptive capacity positively affects acquired knowledge but it does not have an effect on knowledge transfer. Learning motivation, however, has positive effects on both acquired knowledge and knowledge transfer. The findings also indicate that acquired knowledge is a determinant of knowledge transfer. Finally, job autonomy plays the role of a mixed moderator in the relationship between acquired knowledge and knowledge transfer.

Practical implications
This study signals the participating parties –business schools, business organizations and in-service training business students –that absorptive capacity, learning motivation, acquired knowledge and job autonomy are critical to the transfer of knowledge from business schools to business organizations.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the literature on university-to-industry knowledge transfer by providing empirical evidence for key determinants of knowledge transfer from business schools to business organizations through a new channel of knowledge transfer – in-service training business students.
Return and co-movement of major public real estate markets during global financial crisis
Authors: Liow Kim Hiang , Angela Shao Yue 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the volatility spectral of five major public real estate markets, namely, the USA, the UK, Japan (JP), Hong Kong (HK), and Singapore (SG), during the pre- and post-global financial crisis (GFC) periods.Design/methodology/approachFirst, univariate spectral analysis is concerned with discovering price cycles for the respective real estate markets. Second, bivariate cross-spectral analysis seeks to uncover whether any two real estate price series share common cycles with regard to their relative magnitudes and lead-lag patterns of the cyclical variations. Finally, to test the contagion effects, the authors estimate the exact percentage change in co-spectral density (cyclical covariance) due to high frequencies (short run) after the GFC.FindingsThe authors find that whilst none of the public real estate markets examined are spared from the crisis, the three Asian markets were less severely affected by the GFC and were accompanied by a reversal in volatility increase three years post-global financial crisis. Additionally, the public real estate markets studied have become more cyclically linked in recent years. This is particularly true at longer frequencies. Finally, these increased cyclical co-movements measure the outcomes of contagion and indicate fairly strong contagious effects between the public real estate markets examined due to the crisis.Research limitations/implicationsThe implication of this research is that benefits to investors from international real estate diversification may not be as great during the present time compared to previous periods because national public real estate markets have become more correlated. Nevertheless, the findings do not imply the complete absence of diversification benefits. This is because although cyclical correlations increase in the short run, many of the correlation values are still between low and moderate range, indicating that some diversification benefits may still be realized.Practical implicationsGiven the significant market share and the highest levels of securitization in Asia-Pacific markets including JP, HK/China, and SG, this cyclical research including major public real estate markets has practical implications for ongoing international real estate investment strategies, particularly for the USA/UK and Asian portfolio managers.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the limited research on the cyclical return and co-movement dynamics among major public real estate markets during financial/economic crisis in international finance. Moreover, the frequency-domain analysis conducted in this paper adds to better understanding regarding the impact of GFC on the cyclical return volatility and co-movement dynamics of major developed public real estate markets in international investing.
Office rents, mixed-use developments, and agglomeration economies: a panel data analysis
Authors: Liusman Ervi , Ho Daniel Chi Wing , Lo Hiu Ching , Lo Daniel Yet Fhang 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between office rents and mixed-use development in the context of agglomeration economies.Design/methodology/approachUsing a sample of 10,209 observations in 100 Grade A office buildings in Hong Kong from January 2001 to June 2011, the authors estimated office rent regression using unbalanced panel data analysis.FindingsThe results show that rents decreased with an increase in distance from retailers and hotels. Furthermore, the results revealed that,ceteris paribus, office tenants were willing to pay higher rents in a mixed-use than in a single-use office development.Research limitations/implicationsThere is an existence of agglomeration economies due to the clustering of various industries in mixed-use developments, which allow for their close proximity to potential clients.Practical implicationsThe diversity of activities in a mixed-use development benefit its tenants and, thus, convince them to pay higher rents. Higher rents generated by a mixed-use facility will attract more investors to it. Investors should seek opportunities to capitalize on their equity in mixed-use developments.Originality/valueThis paper attempts to uncover a relationship between office rents and mixed-use developments by drawing on the concept of agglomeration economies.
Skyscrapers in Santiago: 300 meters of globalization agenda
Authors: Garza Nestor 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to assess alternative economic explanations of buildings’ height in Latin America and Chile, inductively producing a theory about skyscrapers’ height in emerging countries. In the quest for height, global exposure as advertising guides developers located in emerging economies, while ego-building for investors.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses mixed methods triangulation (MMT). Findings with small sample econometrics for 38 cities from 13 different countries are re-interpreted by linguistically analyzing 11 semi-structured interviews with local experts in Santiago.

Findings
Globalization is the main determinant of skyscrapers height in the Latin American region, its interaction with the need to portray management and technical skills of developer firms, determines a process toward over-construction.

Research limitations/implications
Because of small sample bias, the quantitative results are not fully reliable, but this is precisely why it makes sense to use MMT.

Practical implications
Santiago offers a valuable case study because, on the one hand, Chile was the first Latin American country to undertake neoliberal type reforms, as early as 1973. On the other, the tallest Latin American skyscraper is to be completed in this city by 2015. The theory developed, derived from the evidence and the perceptions, has a Global South reach and can open-up an empirical research agenda.

Originality/value
This paper innovates in real estate research by using MMT, not just to confirm quantitative findings, but as an inductive theory building tool. It also analyses Latin America, a region with scarce presence in the literature.
Developers’ heterogeneity and real estate development timing options
Authors: Dong Zhi , Sing Tien Foo 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine developers’ optimal development timing when developers are heterogeneous and have different marginal costs in a real estate development market.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a multiple-player game theoretic real option model and provides tractable results of asymmetric development strategies from a two-stochastic-variable model. Anecdotal evidence and market observations are presented.

Findings
Stronger developers (with low marginal costs) exercise real estate development options earlier than weaker developers (with high marginal costs). However, the interval time between developments by stronger and weaker developers decreases in rental volatilities. Real estate with a high positive externality are developed earlier than real estate with a low or negative externality.

Practical implications
Weaker and smaller developers are advised to undertake projects having positive externalities from vicinities. Government agencies are recommended to use tools of zoning and urban planning to prioritise developments introducing positive externalities and to facilitate the growth of weaker and smaller developers. This may subsequently help reduce incentive for land banking and oversupply in real estate space market.

Originality/value
This research is probably the first to explicitly incorporate developers’ heterogeneous strength in real estate development timing options with multiple developers in a competitive market. It sheds additional insights into the understanding of potential problems of development cascades, under the interactive effects between exogenous policy changes and endogenous response from asymmetric developers.
eStout: a digital learning environment program case study
Authors: Stoeklen Phillip , Sullivan Justin J. , Miller M. Justin , Drzakowski Meridith , King Sasha 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to discuss the evolution of a digital learning environment in higher education as a result of ongoing data collection and evaluation.

Design/methodology/approach
The manuscript is based on a digital learning environment intervention at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and is informed by evaluation data collected from student and faculty surveys annually between 2002 and 2016. Survey themes changed annually based on student/faculty concerns and interests, and program management used this feedback to make modifications to program scope and offerings.

Findings
The digital learning environment at the University of Wisconsin-Stout has been effective in providing faculty and students with the tools they need to be successful. This success is largely due to the ongoing commitment to data collection and evaluation at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and has ensured that the digital learning environment stays modern and adaptive.

Originality/value
This manuscript is the culmination of 15 years of ongoing evaluation practice and thus provides valuable best practices and lessons learned for educators/educational institutions hoping to improve or create their own digital learning environment.
Research framework for the impact of total quality management on competitive advantage
Authors: Nguyen Van Cang , Chau Ngoc Tuan 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to apply a more accurate competitive advantage construct to study the impact of total quality management on firms’ competitive advantage in the context of the weakening of the competitive advantage of firms that are renowned for the excellent quality management. It also aims to find a better explanation for the source of competitive advantage through mediating constructs.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use iterative methodology by reviewing, analyzing, synthesizing and refining the current state of the literature and propose a research framework which allows for overcoming the limitation encountered in previous empirical research.FindingsThe use of two second-order constructs including the incremental innovation performance and radical innovation performance which enable the researchers to have a better explanation about the mediating role of innovation performance.Practical implicationsThis study is seeking to contribute to the practice of total quality management area of research. Specifically, this study applies two second-order measurement scales of innovation in use, actualize the use of the new measurement scale of competitive advantage and explain clearly the role of total quality management on competitive advantage in the current context.Originality/valueThis is one of the few papers investigating the impact of total quality management on competitive advantage, developing the conceptual model that examines the mediating role of innovation performance.
Parenting advice for intercultural couples: a systemic perspective
Authors: Bhugun Dharam 
Published: July 2017

This article presents advice for intercultural parents, based on findings of a qualitative study that examined how intercultural parents negotiated their cultural differences. Semi‐structured in‐depth interviews were conducted with fourteen intercultural heterosexual couples/parents in South East Queensland. Thematic analysis was used to analyse data and understand the meanings of participants’ experiences. The findings revealed that not only aspects of cultural background, but also systemic and contextual factors impacted on the experiences of intercultural parents. Advice for intercultural parents is described from three systemic perspectives: the individual sphere, the couple/parent sphere and the child's sphere. Practical implications for therapists and counsellors working with intercultural parents are discussed.Practitioner points

Find value in cultural differences and similarities in parenting style to form a balanced view
Explore benefits and opportunities of intercultural parenting as source of strength
Use culture as a valuable source for change
Assume the role of mediator and interpreter when dealing with conflicts in cultural code
Practice cultural sensitivity and reflexivity
Conflict may be due to processes other than culture, such as emotional processes. Explore power dynamics in parenting
Effects of eupatilin on the contractility of corpus cavernosal smooth muscle through nitric oxide‐independent pathways
Authors: Choo S. H. , Lee S. W. , Chae M. R. , Kang S. J. , Sung H. H. , Han D. H. , Chun J. N. , Park J. K. , Kim C. Y. , Kim H. K. , So I. 
Published: July 2017

SummaryEupatilin (5,7‐dihydroxy‐3,4,6‐trimethoxyflavone) is one of the main compounds present in Artemisia species. Eupatilin has both antioxidative and anti‐inflammatory properties and a relaxation effect on vascular contraction regardless of endothelial function. We evaluated the relaxant effects of eupatilin on the corpus cavernosum (CC) of rabbits and the underlying mechanisms of its activity in human corpus cavernosum smooth muscle (CCSM) cells. Isolated rabbit CC strips were mounted in an organ bath system. A conventional whole‐cell patch clamp technique was used to measure activation of calcium‐sensitive K+‐channel currents in human CCSM cells. The relaxation effect of eupatilin was evaluated by cumulative addition (10−5 m ~ 3 × 10−4 m) to CC strips precontracted with 10−5 m phenylephrine. Western blotting analysis was performed to measure myosin phosphatase targeting subunit 1 (MYPT1) and protein kinase C‐potentiated inhibitory protein for heterotrimeric myosin light chain phosphatase of 17‐kDa (CPI‐17) expression and to evaluate the effect of eupatilin on the RhoA/Rho‐kinase pathway. Eupatilin effectively relaxed the phenylephrine‐induced tone in the rabbit CC strips in a concentration‐dependent manner with an estimated EC50 value of 1.2 ± 1.6 × 10−4 m (n = 8, p < 0.05). Iberiotoxin and tetraethylammonium significantly reduced the relaxation effect (n = 8, p < 0.001 and p = 0.003, respectively). Removal of the endothelium or the presence of L‐NAME or indomethacin did not affect the relaxation effect of eupatilin. In CCSM cells, the extracellular application of eupatilin 10−4 m significantly increased the outward currents, and the eupatilin‐stimulated currents were significantly attenuated by treatment with 10−7 m iberiotoxin (n = 13, p < 0.05). Eupatilin reduced the phosphorylation level of MYPT1 at Thr853 of MLCP and CPI‐17 at Thr38. Eupatilin‐induced relaxation of the CCSM cells via NO‐independent pathways. The relaxation effects of eupatilin on CCSM cells were partially due to activation of BKCa channels and inhibition of RhoA/Rho‐kinase.
Implementation rates of uro‐oncology multidisciplinary meeting decisions
Authors: Kinnear Ned , Smith Riley , Hennessey Derek B. , Bolton Damien , Sengupta Shomik 
Published: July 2017

ObjectivesTo assess implementation rates of the consensus plans made at the uro‐oncology multidisciplinary meeting (MDM) of an Australian tertiary centre, and analyse obstacles to implementation.MethodsA retrospective review was performed of all patients discussed at the uro‐oncology MDM at our institution between 1 January and 30 June 2015. Rates of referral for MDM discussion after a new histological diagnosis of malignancy, categorised by tumour type, were assessed. Patient records were interrogated to confirm MDM plan implementation, with the outcomes examined being completion of MDM plan within 3 months and factors preventing implementation.ResultsDuring the enrolment period, from 291 uro‐oncological procedures, 240 yielded malignant histology of which 160 (67%) were discussed at the MDM. Overall, 202 patients, including 32 females, were discussed at the uro‐oncology MDM. MDM consensus plans were implemented in 184 (91.1%) patients. Reasons for deviation from the MDM plan included delay in care, patient deterioration or comorbidities, patient preference, consultant decision, loss to follow‐up, and change in patient scenario due to additional new information.ConclusionThe MDM is increasingly important in the care of uro‐oncology patients, with about two‐thirds of new diagnoses currently captured. There appear to be few barriers to the implementation of consensus plans, with nearly all patients undergoing the recommended management.
Montelukast reduces inhaled chlorine triggered airway hyperresponsiveness and airway inflammation in the mouse
Authors: Hamamoto Yoichiro , Ano Satoshi , Allard Benoit , O'Sullivan Michael , McGovern Toby K , Martin James G 
Published: July 2017

Background and PurposeCysteinyl leukotrienes (CysLTs) are pro‐inflammatory lipid mediators that exacerbate disease state in several asthma phenotypes including asthma induced by allergen, virus and exercise. However, the role of CysLTs in irritant‐induced airway disease is not well characterized. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effect of montelukast, a CysLT1 receptor antagonist, on parameters of irritant‐induced asthma induced by inhalation of chlorine in the mouse.Experimental ApproachBALB/c mice were exposed to chlorine in air (100 ppm, for 5 min). Montelukast (3 mg·kg−1) or the vehicle (1% methylcellulose) was administered 24 and 1 h prior to chlorine exposure and 1 h prior to outcome measurements. Twenty‐four hours after exposure, responses to inhaled aerosolized methacholine, cell composition and an array of cytokines/chemokines in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid were measured. Neutralizing antibodies against IL‐6 and VEGF were administered prior to exposures.Key ResultsMontelukast reduced chlorine ‐induced airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) to methacholine in the peripheral lung compartment as estimated from dynamic elastance, but not in large conducting airways. Montelukast treatment attenuated chlorine‐induced macrophage influx, neutrophilia and eosinophilia in BAL fluid. Chlorine exposure increased VEGF, IL‐6, the chemokines KC and CCL3 in BAL fluid. Montelukast treatment prevented chlorine‐induced increases in VEGF and IL‐6. Anti‐IL‐6 antibody inhibited chlorine‐induced neutrophilia and reduced AHR.Conclusions and ImplicationsPre‐treatment with montelukast attenuated chlorine‐induced neutrophilia and AHR in mice. These effects are mediated, in part, via IL‐6.
Peer support for families of children with complex needs: Development and dissemination of a best practice toolkit
Authors: Schippke J. , Provvidenza C. , Kingsnorth S. 
Published: July 2017

AbstractBackgroundBenefits of peer support interventions for families of children with disabilities and complex medical needs have been described in the literature. An opportunity to create an evidence‐informed resource to synthesize best practices in peer support for program providers was identified. The objective of this paper is to describe the key activities used to develop and disseminate the Peer Support Best Practice Toolkit.MethodsThis project was led by a team of knowledge translation experts at a large pediatric rehabilitation hospital using a knowledge exchange framework. An integrated knowledge translation approach was used to engage stakeholders in the development process through focus groups and a working group. To capture best practices in peer support, a rapid evidence review and review of related resources were completed. Case studies were also included to showcase practice‐based evidence.ResultsThe toolkit is freely available online for download and is structured into four sections: (a) background and models of peer support, (b) case studies of programs, (c) resources, and (d) rapid evidence review. A communications plan was developed to disseminate the resource and generate awareness through presentations, social media, and champion engagement. Eight months postlaunch, the peer support website received more than 2,400 webpage hits. Early indicators suggest high relevance of this resource among stakeholders.ConclusionsThe toolkit format was valuable to synthesize and share best practices in peer support. Strengths of the work include the integrated approach used to develop the toolkit and the inclusion of both the published research literature and experiential evidence.