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Brand love and positive word of mouth: the moderating effects of experience and price
Authors: Karjaluoto Heikki , Munnukka Juha , Kiuru Katrine 
Published: September 2016

Purpose
This study aims to test and extend Carroll and Ahuvia’s (2006) model on the antecedents and outcomes of brand love by examining the moderating effects of experience and price on the relationship between brand love and offline word of mouth (WOM) and between brand love and electronic WOM (eWOM).

Design/methodology/approach
An online survey was conducted on Facebook, which generated 342 valid responses. The data were analyzed using partial least squares-structural equation modeling.

Findings
The results mainly support the model by confirming that the self-expressiveness of the brand and trust are positively associated with brand love. No association between hedonic product type and brand love was found. The study’s findings also suggest positive associations between brand love and both types of WOM. Experience and price were found to strengthen the relationship between brand love and offline WOM but not the relationship between brand love and eWOM.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the literature by introducing and testing an extended model of brand love. It tests two moderating effects on the relationship between brand love and WOM.
New perspective on the black box of internal auditing and organisational change
Authors: Kidron Aviv , Ofek Yuval , Cohen Herztel 
Published: September 2016

PurposeThe shift from the traditional audit towards performance audit implies that internal auditors in the public sector function as change agents who underpin the fundamental change process. This paper aims to propose a model that identifies the determinants of organisational change in the public sector that result from internal auditing and the way internal auditors facilitate it.Design/methodology/approachThe conceptual discussion of this paper is based on a review of relevant literature, both practical and academic.FindingsThis paper develops an innovative model that describes the factors leading to auditees’ change readiness after undergoing internal audit processes. The independent variable is audit information quality and the dependent variable, organisational change. Auditees’ perceptions is the mediator variable, and accessibility to audit information is the moderator variable.Practical implicationsThe proposed model suggests the advantages that can be gained by audit-related services, which in turn will add value to the organisation. The relationships between the variables inform practitioners on how to support effective audits as a means of increasing performance and influencing organisational change.Originality/valueAs the paper offers an innovative model, it may open up new research areas in internal auditing that can be studied by using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Corporate governance guidelines compliance and firm financial performance
Authors: Outa Erick Rading , Waweru Nelson M. 
Published: September 2016

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the impact of compliance with corporate governance (CG) guidelines during the period 2002-2014 on firm financial performance and firm value of Kenyan-listed companies.

Design/methodology/approach
Using panel data of 520-firm year’s observations between 2005 and 2014, the authors test the hypothesis that compliance with CG guidelines issued in 2002 by Capital Markets Authority (CMA) improved firm financial performance and firm value.

Findings
Compliance with CG Index which is an aggregate of all the CG guidelines is positively and significantly related to firm performance and firm value. Board evaluation is also positively and significantly related to firm performance. The findings suggest that CG guidelines are associated with firm financial performance and firm value.

Originality/value
The authors provide evidence on the relationship between CG practices and firm financial performance and firm value in Kenya. Second, the authors provide evidence on board evaluation which has not been tested before in a “comply or explain” environment. Finally, they evaluate how CMA 2002 CG guidelines steered firm financial performance and firm value over its life cycle from 2002 to 2014. These results are important to CMA and other CG regulators and boards in their efforts to improve CG practices in the region.
Online Chinese discussions about the 2014 World Cup
Authors: Yang Yiyi , Wang Yuan , Billings Andrew C. 
Published: September 2016

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore online discussions about the 2014 World Cup on the Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo. Because China did not qualify for the World Cup, the study focusses on the role of online discussions surrounding a worldwide international event from an outsider perspective. Doing so will uncover not only the depth of dialogue surrounding issues of nation and sport, but – perhaps more importantly – also aid in uncovering the utility of online platforms in creating online communities even among presumed outsiders.Design/methodology/approachA content analysis of the discussions on Sina Weibo is used to identify differences between fanship comments and non-fanship comments in terms of the focus of the content and the degree of valence.FindingsOverall, fans were more likely than non-fans to use positive valence in their comments to enhance the value of the World Cup. Moreover, fans were also more likely to discuss topics closely related to the event itself, such as teams, athletes, and factual information/news about the World Cup, establishing identification with in-group participants. Moreover, the findings also imply important insight regarding electronic commerce opportunities.Originality/valueThis paper is among the first to investigate the online discussions about World Cup in China. Theoretically, this paper provides a comprehensive framework to examine the online discussions of mega-sporting events in China based on theories of social identity theory and nationalism. Practically, it provides baseline data for the sports industry and public relation practitioners to promote a sports event when the direct nationalistic interests are absent. Moreover, it also aids in uncovering the substantial changes in sports-related communication, experiences, and mediated participation.
Managing an ambidextrous organization: balancing innovation and efficiency
Authors: Sinha Sabyasachi 
Published: September 2016

Purpose
This paper aims to discuss the concept of organizational ambidexterity and how to manage the process of becoming and being an ambidextrous organization.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents the insights drawn from a set of in-depth case studies on managing organizational ambidexterity.

Findings
Organizational ambidexterity is facilitated by an ambidextrous top-management team, and some of the mechanisms used to balance organizational ambidexterity are ambidextrous posturing of the top management, having innovation and efficiency champions across the hierarchy, adopting a portfolio- approach, and linking efficiency-activities and innovation-activities.

Practical implications
Practicing managers of both large organizations and start-up firms can use the normative guideline suggested in this paper if they are attempting to balance efficiency and innovation activities.

Originality/value
This papers provides granular insights on how to manage organizational ambidexterity based on experiences of organizations which have been successful in their attempt to be ambidextrous.
Cross-border M&A originating from developing countries (The case of the Indian pharmaceutical industry)
Authors: Amir-Aslani Arsia , Chanel Mark Anthony 
Published: September 2016

Purpose
The paper aims to highlight the growing use of M&A as a strategic tool by companies originating from the emerging markets.

Findings
Cross-border mergers play an increasingly important role in the strategies of firms originating from developing countries in expanding their capabilities and expertise within the drug discovery value chain by providing world class service and international business knowledge.

Originality/value
M&A literature is very extensive. However, there is need for more research focusing on M&A activity originating from emerging countries.
Cross-Border M&A is followed by cross-border investor relations
Authors: Amir-Aslani Arsia , Lê Philippe , Chanel Mark Anthony 
Published: September 2016

Purpose
This paper aims to highlight the growing role of strategic communication in cross-border M&A in helping companies meet market expectations and investor confidence.

Design/methodology/approach
Viewpoint.

Findings
When all of the elements about a corporation that can possibly be compiled and projected and understood by the financial community, then that company can expect to compete successfully in the capital markets.

Originality/value
Communicating the value of R&D programs and their short/term goals has not been extensively covered for the biotechnology sector.
Examining disease prevalence for species of conservation concern using non‐invasive spatial capture–recapture techniques
Authors: Muneza Arthur B. , Linden Daniel W. , Montgomery Robert A. , Dickman Amy J. , Roloff Gary J. , Macdonald David W. , Fennessy Julian T. 
Published: September 2016

Summary

Non‐invasive techniques have long been used to estimate wildlife population abundance and density. However, recent technological breakthroughs have facilitated non‐invasive estimation of the proportion of animal populations with certain diseases. Giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis are increasingly becoming recognized as a species of conservation concern with decreasing population trajectories across their range in Africa.

Diseases may be an important component impacting giraffe population declines, and the emerging ‘giraffe skin disease’ (GSD), characterized by the appearance of wrinkled skin and alopecic lesions on the limbs, neck and chest of infected giraffe, may hinder movement causing increased susceptibility to predation.

We examined the prevalence of GSD in Tanzania's Ruaha National Park over a 4‐month period in 2015, using photographic capture–recapture surveys via road‐based transects. We divided the study area into five circuitous survey units, each approximately 100 km in length ( = 99·22 km, SD = 3·72), and surveyed for giraffes for 4 months. From these surveys, we developed a data base of spatially explicit giraffe photographs.

We processed these photographs for individual identification and fitted spatial capture–recapture models to predict the spatial configuration of giraffe abundance and GSD prevalence within the study area.

Our results indicated that >86% of the giraffe population showed signs of GSD and that the disease was more prevalent in the northern and north‐eastern portion of Ruaha National Park.

Synthesis and applications. Our research shows that data from non‐invasive surveys can be used in spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models to estimate the proportion of a population affected by a visible disease. Researchers and conservationists can use SCR models to better examine the variation in parameters associated with these populations such as sex, age class, movement, and encounter rate, which may be linked to the prevalence of the disease, while incorporating broad spatial and temporal dimensions of the population in such areas. We discuss the implications of this research for conservation of threatened species with an emphasis on disease ecology and vulnerability to predations, and more broadly, for wildlife conservation.
The sociology of late secularization: social divisions and religiosity
Authors: Bruce Steve 
Published: September 2016

AbstractAt the start of the twentieth century the religious differed from the religiously indifferent largely in being religious. Now they differ in a number of other social and demographic characteristics that reduce interaction between the two populations further than simple numbers would require. That some of the main carriers of religion are immigrants or adherents of recently imported faiths reinforces the sense that religion is what other people do. In the context of the stock of religious knowledge being depleted and religion‐taken‐too‐seriously being unpopular, the narrow demographic base of the religious makes conversion unlikely and thus makes the reversal of secularization unlikely.
Fatal Clostridium perfringens Septicemia After Colonoscopic Polypectomy, Without Bowel Perforation
Authors: Gioia Sara , Lancia Massimo , Mencacci Antonella , Bacci Mauro , Suadoni Fabio 
Published: September 2016

AbstractSince its introduction, colonoscopy has played an important role as a diagnostic, therapeutic, and screening tool. In general, colonoscopy is regarded as a safe procedure, but complications may occur. The most dreaded of these complications is colonic perforation. Bacteremia postprocedure may occur, and although it is not uncommon, it rarely results in clinically significant complications. Patients with IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) are a high‐risk population for bacteremia, which may leads to bowel wall overstepping by the bacteria. With regard to that, we report a fatal case of gas gangrene complicating colonoscopy polypectomy without bowel perforation in a healthy adult. To the best of our knowledge, only two other cases of retroperitoneal gas gangrene associated with colonoscopy polypectomy without bowel perforation have been described in international literature, but none of which was completed by a molecular biology analysis.
Complete mitochondrial genomes of eleven extinct or possibly extinct bird species
Authors: Anmarkrud Jarl A. , Lifjeld Jan T. 
Published: September 2016

AbstractNatural history museum collections represent a vast source of ancient and historical DNA samples from extinct taxa that can be utilized by high‐throughput sequencing tools to reveal novel genetic and phylogenetic information about them. Here, we report on the successful sequencing of complete mitochondrial genome sequences (mitogenomes) from eleven extinct bird species, using de novo assembly of short sequences derived from toepad samples of degraded DNA from museum specimens. For two species (the Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius and the South Island Piopio Turnagra capensis), whole mitogenomes were already available from recent studies, whereas for five others (the Great Auk Pinguinis impennis, the Imperial Woodpecker Campehilus imperialis, the Huia Heteralocha acutirostris, the Kauai Oo Moho braccathus and the South Island Kokako Callaeas cinereus), there were partial mitochondrial sequences available for comparison. For all seven species, we found sequence similarities of >98%. For the remaining four species (the Kamao Myadestes myadestinus, the Paradise Parrot Psephotellus pulcherrimus, the Ou Psittirostra psittacea and the Lesser Akialoa Akialoa obscura), there was no sequence information available for comparison, so we conducted blast searches and phylogenetic analyses to determine their phylogenetic positions and identify their closest extant relatives. These mitogenomes will be valuable for future analyses of avian phylogenetics and illustrate the importance of museum collections as repositories for genomics resources.
An invasive tree facilitates the persistence of native rodents on an over‐grazed floodplain in tropical Australia
Authors: Ward‐Fear Georgia , Brown Gregory P. , Pearson David J. , Shine Richard 
Published: September 2016

AbstractIn an ecosystem under simultaneous threat from multiple alien species, one invader may buffer the impact of another. Our surveys on a remote floodplain in the Kimberley region of north western Australia show that invasive chinee apple trees (Ziziphus mauritiana) provide critical refuge habitat for native rodents (pale field rats, Rattus tunneyi). Feral horses (Equus caballus) have trampled most of the remaining floodplain, but are excluded from the area around each chinee apple tree by thorny foliage. Although chinee apple trees constituted <10% of trees along our transects, they represented >50% of trees that harboured rat burrows. The mean number of burrows under each chinee apple tree was twice as high as under most other tree species, and we trapped more than seven times as many rats under chinee apple trees as under other types of trees. The extensive burrow systems under chinee apple trees contained female as well as male rats, whereas we only captured males around the smaller burrow systems under other tree species. Our data suggest that this invasive tree plays a critical role in the persistence of pale field rat populations in this degraded ecosystem, and that managers should maintain these trees (despite their alien origins) at least until feral horses have been removed.
Hierarchical Group Testing for Multiple Infections
Authors: Hou Peijie , Tebbs Joshua M. , Bilder Christopher R. , McMahan Christopher S. 
Published: September 2016

Summary
Group testing, where individuals are tested initially in pools, is widely used to screen a large number of individuals for rare diseases. Triggered by the recent development of assays that detect multiple infections at once, screening programs now involve testing individuals in pools for multiple infections simultaneously. Tebbs, McMahan, and Bilder (2013, Biometrics) recently evaluated the performance of a two-stage hierarchical algorithm used to screen for chlamydia and gonorrhea as part of the Infertility Prevention Project in the United States. In this article, we generalize this work to accommodate a larger number of stages. To derive the operating characteristics of higher-stage hierarchical algorithms with more than one infection, we view the pool decoding process as a time-inhomogeneous, finite-state Markov chain. Taking this conceptualization enables us to derive closed-form expressions for the expected number of tests and classification accuracy rates in terms of transition probability matrices. When applied to chlamydia and gonorrhea testing data from four states (Region X of the United States Department of Health and Human Services), higher-stage hierarchical algorithms provide, on average, an estimated 11% reduction in the number of tests when compared to two-stage algorithms. For applications with rarer infections, we show theoretically that this percentage reduction can be much larger.
Stress‐Constrained Thickness Optimization for Shell Object Fabrication
Authors: Zhao Haiming , Xu Weiwei , Zhou Kun , Yang Yin , Jin Xiaogang , Wu Hongzhi 
Published: September 2016

AbstractWe present an approach to fabricate shell objects with thickness parameters, which are computed to maintain the user‐specified structural stability. Given a boundary surface and user‐specified external forces, we optimize the thickness parameters according to stress constraints to extrude the surface. Our approach mainly consists of two technical components: First, we develop a patch‐based shell simulation technique to efficiently support the static simulation of extruded shell objects using finite element methods. Second, we analytically compute the derivative of stress required in the sensitivity analysis technique to turn the optimization into a sequential linear programming problem. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach can optimize the thickness parameters for arbitrary surfaces in a few minutes and well predict the physical properties, such as the deformation and stress of the fabricated object.
Agreement between adherences to four physical activity recommendations in patients with COPD: does the incremental shuttle walk test predict adherence?
Authors: Mitchell Katy E. , Johnson Vicki , Houchen‐Wolloff Linzy , Sewell Louise , Morgan Mike D. , Steiner Michael C. , Singh Sally J. 
Published: September 2016

AbstractIntroduction and objectivesThere are various recommendations for physical activity (PA). However agreement between all of these measures has not been established. Furthermore, given the challenges of measuring PA there is interest in evaluating whether a measure of exercise performance can be used as a surrogate measure to identify who is likely to achieve the recommendations.MethodsA total of 184 people with COPD were recruited, 128 of which had complete data for these analyses. Participants wore the SenseWear Armband for 7 consecutive days and all performed an incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT). We extracted moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in bouts of ≥10 min using a 3 metabolic equivalent (MET) threshold and an individually prescribed MET threshold (based on performance on the ISWT). Average daily step count and the physical activity level were also calculated.ResultsThere was poor agreement between the four PA recommendations, with agreement on all four achieved in only 30 participants. People were least likely to be active using MVPA in ≥10 min bouts using 3 MET threshold (21.1% active), and most likely to be active using MVPA in ≥10 min bouts using an individually prescribed threshold (64.9% active). It was not possible to identify a threshold on the ISWT that would reliably predict those that achieved any of the four recommendations.ConclusionAgreement between various physical activity recommendations is poor. This should be considered when measuring and describing physical activity adherence. The ISWT cannot be used to reliably predict adherence to physical activity guidelines.
Exogenous lipoid pneumonia induced by nasal decongestant
Authors: Osman Giorgia A. , Ricci Alberto , Terzo Fabrizio , Falasca Carlo , Giovagnoli Maria R. , Bruno Pierdonato , Vecchione Andrea , Raffa Salvatore , Valente Sabatino , Torrisi Maria R. , De Dominicis Chiara , Giovagnoli Simonetta , Mariotta Salvatore 
Published: September 2016

AbstractIntroductionLipoid pneumonia is a clinical condition that may be initially asymptomatic or confused with an infectious or malignant lung disease.ObjectivesWe report four cases of this pathological condition.MethodsThe first case concerned an 85‐year old woman with bilateral confluent pulmonary opacities, ground‐glass type. Diagnosis was based on the cytology of the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid followed by its ultrastructural examination. The second case was a 47‐year‐old man with an isolated pulmonary nodule, which was surgically removed; the diagnosis of lipoid pneumonia was formulated on the basis of the histological and electron microscopy examination. The third case concerned a 73‐year‐old woman, with bilateral hypodense areas at the bases of the lungs where FDG PET/CT scan showed an increased uptake. Diagnosis was formulated by BAL cytology and electron microscopy examination. The fourth case was a 69‐year‐old man, who performed a virtual colonoscopy for diverticulosis putting in evidence a round mass (3 cm in diameter) with two small peripheral nodules, located in the pulmonary left lower lobe. The histopathological examination of transthoracic biopsy confirmed a lipoid pneumonia.Results and conclusionIn all four cases, it was put in evidence a prolonged use of a nasal decongestant containing mineral oils. In literature, the most cases described are characterized by a subclinical evolution and were presented as ground glass opacities which evolve, in the later phases, in an interstitial involvement or in a peripheral mass, simulating a lung tumour.