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The moderating role of non-controlling supervision and organizational learning culture on employee creativity
Authors: Jeong Shinhee , McLean Gary N. , McLean Laird D. , Yoo Sangok , Bartlett Kenneth 
Published: August 2017

PurposeBy adopting a multilevel approach, this paper aims to examine the relationships among employee creativity and creative personality, domain expertise (i.e. individual-level factors), non-controlling supervision style and organizational learning culture (i.e. team-level factors). It also investigates the cross-level interactions between individual differences and organizational context influencing employee creativity.Design/methodology/approachHierarchical linear modeling was performed to test the hypotheses using multisource data with 416 employees and their supervisors in 86 research and development teams.FindingsThis paper found that domain expertise and non-controlling supervision style are positively associated with employee creativity. Also, a positive moderating role of non-controlling supervision style was found in explaining the relationship between domain expertise and employee creativity. However, no significant relationship was found between creative personality and employee creativity, and there was no moderating effect of organizational learning culture. The paper discusses the theoretical implications of these findings and provides practical suggestions based on the findings.Originality/valueThis paper has begun to address the significant gap in the extant employee creativity literature and has departed from the common research practice of investigating creativity at a single level. It has expanded understanding of the antecedents of creativity with empirical evidence, as it revealed domain expertise and non-controlling supervision as influential factors. Further, domain expertise has generally positive effects on creative performance, whether non-controlling leadership is high or low. Additionally, this study brings an interesting insight in interpreting the contribution of organizational learning culture as measured by the Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire to creativity and also affirms the importance of autonomy that increases intrinsic motivation and creativity. Another theoretical contribution of this study can be found from an intriguing contradiction in the literature that understands the role of expertise in creative performance. Moreover, the finding on non-controlling supervision supports the effectiveness of a freedom approach.
Ex post to ex ante: using some lessons from the global financial crisis to prepare for future risk
Authors: Kelly Hugh F. 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop benchmarking standards for risk premiums in capitalization rates and commercial mortgage rates, to examine the impact of investor choice of property type and geographic markets on those risk premiums, and to supplement the quantitative analysis with historical and behavioral decision-making factors.

Design/methodology/approach
Using data sets extending from 1Q 1995 to 2Q 2016, a range of risk premiums is calculated and norms established at the 65th and 35th percentiles by property type and investment position. Relative levels of the risk premiums are compared to three defined categories of urban markets, to discover potential risks in yield-seeking market selection. A historical context is discussed to illustrate that prudential judgment is needed to supplement statistical measures of risk.

Findings
A stable range of risk premiums is identified for the pre-financial crisis period 1995-2003, the dislocations of risk pricing 2004-2007 leads to an extreme reaction 2009-2012. A period of “renormalization” is hypothesized thereafter. An important distinction is made between the transaction peak of 2007, and the numerically similar peak of 2015. Taxonomy of urban property markets is adduced.

Practical implications
Investment analyses and portfolio allocation decisions can benefit from a longitudinal examination of risk premiums hitherto unavailable. The proposed taxonomy of markets has been shown (elsewhere) to correlate to investment performance. City planners may wish to capture increased real estate value stemming from investor preferences among cities.

Originality/value
The risk premium benchmarking is not previously available in the scholarly literature. The historical context as a prudential element in evaluating risk is not often emphasized in the finance literature.
Collective effect of bending load and hygrothermal aging on glass fibre reinforced plastic
Authors: Wang Guanhui , Xiao Lin , Nan Tiantian , Jia Jin , Xiao Haiying , Zhang Dongxing 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
This study aimed to investigate the collective effects of bending load and hygrothermal aging on glass fibre-reinforced plastics (GFRP) due to the fact that stress and water absorption is inevitable during GFRP applications.

Design/methodology/approach
The water boiling method was used to study the moisture absorption, desorption behaviour and evaluate the performance of GFRP laminates under loading in this article. The moisture diffusion of laminates is characterized in three aging conditions (25°C, 45°C and 65°C water), along with three levels of bending load coefficients (0, 0.3 and 0.6). The moisture diffusion coefficients are determined through the curve fitting method of the experimental data of the initial process, based on the Fickian diffusion model. Moreover, the laminates’ performance is further discussed after adequate environmental aging and loading.

Findings
It was found that moisture absorption is promoted by the presence of bending load and boiling during this study. The absorption diffusion coefficient and moisture equilibrium content of the specimens increased with an increasing loading ratio and temperature. The bending strength of the laminate varied according to a contrary trend. Furthermore, the desorbed moisture content is found to be much higher after higher levels of bending load because it is harder to desorb the moisture in the interfaces and micro cracks.

Research limitations/implications
Collective effects of bending load and hygrothermal aging promote the absorption and result in accelerating property degradation of GFRP. It is significant to focus on these effects on the failure of GFRP.

Originality/value
A novel unit was designed to simulate the various loading acted on containers in this work.
Prediction of the concentration of dye and nanosilver particle on silk fabric using artificial neural network
Authors: Shams Nateri Ali , Hajipour Abbas , Balarak Saeedeh , Khayati Gholam 
Published: August 2017

PurposeThis study aimed to Simultaneous matching of color and antimicrobial properties of silk fabric treated with silver nanoparticle. The antimicrobial finishing using silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) is one of the most important finishing processes in the textile industry. Color matching is widely applied in the textile industry, but there has been a need for the prediction of AgNPs concentration for the matching of dyed silver-treated samples.Design/methodology/approachIn this research, the silk fabrics were dyed with various concentrations of C.I. Acid Red 359 dye at 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2 per cent (w/w). The dyed fabrics were then coated with AgNPs in several concentrations at 0.015, 0.030, 0.050, 0.100 and 0.250 ml/l. The prediction of dye and AgNPs concentrations were evaluated using single constant color matching and artificial neural network techniques.FindingsThe obtained results indicate that the accuracy of dye concentration prediction, as well as AgNPs concentration prediction, was improved by using a neural network method. Also, the correlation between actual and predicted dye and AgNPs concentrations in the best neural networks is more than the single constant color matching method.Originality/valueSimultaneous antibacterial and color matching of nanosilver-treated fabric is novel. This method achieved acceptable accuracy for antibacterial and color matching.
Availability, access and utilization
Authors: Abbade Eduardo Botti 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify the association between the levels of food utilization (FU), food availability, economic access (EA) and physical access (PA) to food in developing countries – the main dimensions underlying the concept of food security.

Design/methodology/approach
This study analyzed available data from 57 developing countries. The variables investigated were: food availability (FA), EA to food measured through economic development, PA to food using the Logistics Performance Index as a proxy, and FU. The paper uses factorial, correlation and cluster analyses.

Findings
The results show that the dimensions of food security are strongly and positively correlated. PA has a moderate association with FU (ρS=0.5338 [p<0.001]; ρP=0.4252; [p<0.01]). EA has a strong association with FU (ρS=0.6998 [p<0.001]; ρP=0.6404; [p<0.01]). Moreover, cluster analysis suggests that some countries present significant urgencies regarding some of the food security dimensions considered.

Research limitations/implications
Cluster analysis has some limitations regarding the interpretations of the key findings. Moreover, many factors affect food security promotion; this paper addresses just a few of them.

Practical implications
Through a better alignment of food security dimensions worldwide, policy makers, as well as private sector actors, might achieve better conditions to reduce food waste or loss, supply a wider diversity of foods, reduce adverse environmental impacts, reduce logistics costs and, finally, reduce food prices.

Originality/value
This study outlines specific fragilities regarding the main dimensions of food security in developing economies. Thus, this study highlights that some countries need to focus urgently on certain, specific dimensions in order to promote the food security for their populaces.
Decision-making framework for investing in emerging markets
Authors: Hess Dominic , Moser Roger , Narayanamurthy Gopalakrishnan 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify and understand the obstacles and drivers of financial investors while deciding upon investment opportunities in emerging markets.

Design/methodology/approach
Relevant factors for financial investors in emerging markets were identified through a literature review and a series of expert interviews. Identified factors were broadly grouped into three categories, namely, microeconomic aspects, macroeconomic aspects, and aspects of the functionality of the local banking system. Finally, an expert panel (Delphi) technique is used to validate the findings in cocoa industry in Ivory Coast.

Findings
A decision-making framework that enables the evaluation of the attractiveness of an industry in emerging market from a financial investor perspective is developed and its application is demonstrated on the cocoa industry in Ivory Coast. Probability and consensus of the projections for the individual decision elements are tabulated along with the insights into both encouraging and discouraging aspects.

Research limitations/implications
Current study is a timely contribution to the call for papers in the research literature to develop frameworks that are contextualized in emerging markets. Similar to any other qualitative study, this study lacks the generalizability of results. But, the framework developed can act as a starting point toward the generalizability of the findings in future.

Practical implications
Decision elements identified in this study can act as a checklist for financial investors and top management to choose the elements that are relevant to the investment problem being dealt by them. Also, the study can act as a handy demonstration to practitioners for applying the framework using expert panel.

Social implications
A major challenge of the investment environment in emerging market is the non-availability of quality information on the potential investment opportunities. In this study, the authors suggest a framework to overcome this information asymmetry challenge and expect it to promote financial investments in emerging economies which in turn will improve the quality of life of people in these economies.

Originality/value
First study to present an approach to help financial investors to conduct profound evaluation and gain more in-depth insights into the future investment opportunity attractiveness of a particular industry in an emerging market.
The impacts and visions of the green fertilizer technologies (GFT)
Authors: Adnan Nadia , Nordin Shahrina Md , Rahman Imran , Noor Amir 
Published: August 2017

PurposeWith the increased stress on sustainability and food security, in addition, the need towards halting environmental deprivation has focused attention on green fertilizer technology (GFT), which is the means of improving the situation causing the rising environmental concern. It also gives efficient use of farm resources which can help to protect crops. Moreover, the adoption of GFT is one aspect to answer the problem in regards to the sustainable environment. In the year 1980, an initiative took place to simplify the adoption decision in the developing countries. Regardless of the low adoption rate elsewhere, comparable exertions in the current year have originated in developing countries. Accepting those primary factors that influence the adoption of GFT is very important. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThis study re-examines these factors and draws policy implications from that review for future actions. This research study re-examines them, based on other studies examining the inadequate adoption of GFT in developing countries, by generalising their conclusions to clarify why farmers have or have not made the decision to adopt GFT. The ability to address that awareness enables the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model to predict the farmer’s intention of acceptability of the GFT. By following a socio-psychological approach, by using TPB, the researchers have found out the paddy farmers’ adoption decision towards GFT. The researchers later discuss the implications for promoting the adoption of GFT, which delivers suggestions for the upcoming research study.FindingsThe idea of this research study is to seek farmers’ understanding about environmental attitudes in connection with conservation behaviour. The overall aim of this paper is to conceptualise the framework created by amending the environmental concern amongst paddy farmers towards GFT.Originality/valueThis research study will allow more academic consideration and may direct future research on the empirical findings on the environmental concern through the proposed conceptual framework amongst paddy farmers in Malaysia.
Contribution to the evaluation of the environmental risks induced by the worn-water discharges of an Algerian tannery
Authors: Saadi Saadia , Djebabra Mebarek , Boulagouas Wafa 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the environmental risks of the worn-water discharges of an Algerian tannery.

Design/methodology/approach
It consists of a proposal for a combined methods based on the simultaneous use of the environmental structured analysis and design techniques and environmental failure mode and effect analysis (EFMEA).

Findings
In the contribution, the authors insist on the complementarity between these two methods to the identification and measurement of the environmental parameters of an Algerian tannery. The identified environmental impacts were prioritized on the environmental priority number combined with the improvement possibility (F).

Research limitations/implications
The contribution makes it possible to deduce the environmental aspects and, consequently, to emphasize the contribution of the environmental risk assessment on the environmental performance evaluation.

Practical implications
The contribution constitutes an invaluable help to the implementation of environmental performance evaluation process.

Originality/value
The employing coupled structured analysis and technical design and EFMEA methods have remarkably reduced the significance of the environmental impacts of an Algerian tannery.
Differential stimulus control of drug‐seeking: multimodal reinstatement
Authors: Batten Seth R. , Beckmann Joshua S. 
Published: August 2017

AbstractIn animal models of substance‐use disorder, individuals that repeatedly self‐administer drugs of abuse have long‐lasting neuronal adaptations that do not occur ostensibly in control animals only exposed to natural reinforcers (e.g. food). Because any treatment for substance‐use disorder will be given to individuals with drug‐taking histories, adequate dissociation of the specific neurobehavioral mechanisms underlying drug reinforcement, natural reinforcement and their associated cue effects requires an experimental model that exposes individuals to both reinforcer conditions, along with their associated stimuli. Furthermore, contingent stimuli that reinforce drug seeking through second‐order relationships may produce reinstatement of drug seeking through different neurobehavioral means than non‐contingent exposure to stimuli that signal the availability of a drug reinforcer, effectively producing different modes of stimulus‐induced reinstatement. Toward experimental isolation of the relationships mentioned, herein, we used a within‐session multiple schedule of reinforcement containing both discriminative (SD) and conditioned (CS) stimuli to study stimulus control of drug‐taking and food‐taking behavior, along with how these functionally distinct cues may differentially reinstate drug‐seeking and food‐seeking behavior within a single animal. We demonstrate specific stimulus control over drug and food taking; furthermore, we demonstrate that the same stimulus (i.e. cue light) operating as an SD or CS produced differential reinstatement of drug‐taking and food‐taking behavior. The results suggest that contingent CSs and non‐contingent SDs produce reinstatement through different neurobehavioral processes and, within‐session multiple schedules, can be used to study different modes of specific stimulus control over drug and food seeking in a single animal with both drug‐taking and food‐taking history.
Female sex, good performance status, and bevacizumab‐induced hypertension associated with survival benefit in Asian patients with recurrent glioblastoma treated with bevacizumab
Authors: Liau Chi‐Ting , Chou Wen‐Chi , Wei Kuo‐Chen , Chang Chen‐Nen , Toh Cheng‐Hong , Jung Shih‐Ming 
Published: August 2017

AbstractAimThe goals of this study were to assess the activity and safety profile of bevacizumab in Taiwan Chinese patients with recurrent glioblastoma, to determine whether their response differed from that reported in other clinical trials, and to examine potential prognostic factors for survival.MethodsWe retrospectively assessed patients who received bevacizumab for recurrent glioblastoma between 2012 and 2015. Twelve predefined variables and the outcomes of our cohort were analyzed.ResultsIn total, 76 patients with recurrent glioblastoma were analyzed. The overall response rate was 59.2%, including 19 patients (25.0%) with complete response and 26 patients (34.2%) with partial response. The median progression‐free survival and overall survival were 5.2 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.6–5.8 months) and 7.8 months (95% CI, 5.8–9.8 months), respectively. Multivariate analysis identified sex and grade 3 posttreatment hypertension (systolic ≥ 160 mmHg or diastolic ≥ 100 mmHg) as the only independent predictive factors for progression‐free survival and overall survival. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status was also found to be independently predictive of improved overall survival.ConclusionWe showed good responses using bevacizumab and the progression‐free survival and overall survival were comparable with those previously reported. The adverse events of bevacizumab in our study were generally acceptable and manageable. Female sex, good performance status, and grade 3 posttreatment hypertension were suggested to be associated with survival benefits.
A review of international clinical practice guidelines for the use of oxygen in the delivery room resuscitation of preterm infants
Authors: Wilson A , Vento M , Shah PS , Saugstad O , Finer N , Rich W , Morton RL , Rabi Y , Tarnow‐Mordi W , Suzuki K , Wright IM , Oei JL 
Published: August 2017

AbstractAimTo collate and assess international clinical practice guidelines (CPG) to determine current recommendations guiding oxygen management for respiratory stabilisation of preterm infants at delivery.MethodsA search of public databases using the terms ‘clinical practice guidelines’, ‘preterm’, ‘oxygen’ and ‘resuscitation’ was made and complemented by direct query to consensus groups, resuscitation expert committees and clinicians. Data were extracted to include the three criteria for assessment: country of origin, gestation and initial FiO2 and target SpO2 for the first 10 minutes of life.ResultsA total of 45 CPGs were identified: 36 provided gestation specific recommendations (<28 to <37 weeks) while eight distinguished only between ‘preterm’ and ‘term’. The most frequently recommended initial FiO2 were between 0.21 and 0.3 (n = 17). Most countries suggested altering FiO2 to meet SpO2 targets recommended by expert committees, However, specific five‐minute SpO2 targets differed by up to 20% (70–90%) between guidelines. Five countries did not specify SpO2 targets.ConclusionCPG recommendations for delivery room oxygen management of preterm infants vary greatly, particularly in regard to gestational ages, initial FiO2 and SpO2 targets and most acknowledge the lack of evidence behind these recommendations. Sufficiently large and well‐designed randomised studies are needed to inform on this important practice.
Survey highlights the need for specific interventions to reduce frequent conflicts between healthcare professionals providing paediatric end‐of‐life care
Authors: Archambault‐Grenier Marie‐Anne , Roy‐Gagnon Marie‐Hélène , Gauvin France , Doucet Hubert , Humbert Nago , Stojanovic Sanja , Payot Antoine , Fortin Sylvie , Janvier Annie , Duval Michel 
Published: August 2017

AbstractAimsThis study explored how paediatric healthcare professionals experienced and coped with end‐of‐life conflicts and identified how to improve coping strategies.MethodsA questionnaire was distributed to all 2300 professionals at a paediatric university hospital, covering the frequency of end‐of‐life conflicts, participants, contributing factors, resolution strategies, outcomes and the usefulness of specific institutional coping strategies.ResultsOf the 946 professionals (41%) who responded, 466 had witnessed or participated in paediatric end‐of‐life discussions: 73% said these had led to conflict, more frequently between professionals (58%) than between professionals and parents (33%). Frequent factors included professionals’ rotations, unprepared parents, emotional load, unrealistic parental expectations, differences in values and beliefs, parents’ fear of hastening death, precipitated situations and uncertain prognosis. Discussions with patients and parents and between professionals were the most frequently used coping strategies. Conflicts were frequently resolved by the time of death. Professionals mainly supported designating one principal physician and nurse for each patient, two‐step interdisciplinary meetings – between professionals then with parents – postdeath ethics meetings, bereavement follow‐up protocols and early consultations with paediatric palliative care and clinical ethics services.ConclusionEnd‐of‐life conflicts were frequent and predominantly occurred between healthcare professionals. Specific interventions could target most of the contributing factors.