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Exploring apprentice selection by skilled trade artisans in the Ghanaian construction industry
Authors: Kotey Samuel , T. Shanmugapriya 
Published: September 2024

Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the factors influencing trade artisans’ choice of skills selection as apprentice’s trainee in the Ghanaian construction sector and to identify and address the challenges associated with traditional apprenticeship. Trade artisans with technical know-how in construction and general workplace skills from the traditional apprenticeship training (TAT) in the area of construction were selected from selected sites and training centers.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper adopted the purposive sampling technique with the aim of gathering knowledge from individuals with expertise in the research area, particularly trade craftsmen who have been trained through the TAT system and are directly involved in construction-related works. Partial least square structure equation modelling (PLS-SEM) analytical approach and principal component analysis were used to reduce the dimensionality of the data set and preserve as much information as possible.

Findings
Three major components, namely, personal and social interest, job assessment and stability and family and faith were identified as the variables that influence an artisan's choice of a skill trade. These influenced the choice of apprenticeship training by young trainees in choosing apprenticeship as a mode of training. Personal interest, living situation of artisans and parents’ educational attainment are the most influencing factors that determine artisans’ choice of selected trades. Moreover, the study also shed light on the challenges inherent in traditional apprenticeship systems, such as the lack of formal technical education, limited access to modern technology and information and poor working conditions.

Practical implications
The study underscores the imperative for stakeholders to enhance apprenticeship programmes within the construction sector. This involves providing more stable job opportunities, improving working conditions and offering access to modern technology and information. Such enhancements not only attract more young individuals to apprenticeship training but also ensure the sustainability and relevance of the workforce in meeting industry demands.

Originality/value
The study finally developed a model that could be used as a foundation for future PLS-SEM evaluation and identified the factors that influence the selection of apprenticeship training by trade artisans.
Dynamics of knowledge creation and use for disaster management in Chokwe district, Mozambique
Authors: Jonas Maria Da Graça Benedito , Artur Luis , Eriksen Siri Ellen Hallstrøm , Movik Synne 
Published: September 2024

PurposeDisaster management practices depend on societies' knowledge. As climate change rapidly reshapes knowledge, questions arise about how knowledge for disaster management is produced and (re)shaped in modern world and how effective it is to withstand the ever-growing frequency and magnitude of disasters. This paper discusses the dynamics of knowledge creation and its use for disaster management in Chokwe district, southern Mozambique.Design/methodology/approachThe study reviews historical archives to identify how disaster management knowledge has changed from pre-colonization to the present.FindingsBefore colonization, local knowledge associated with traditions of asking gods and ancestors for rain and blessings in life prevailed. With colonization, around the 1500s, Portuguese rulers attempted to eliminate these local practices through an inflow of European settlers who disseminated scientific knowledge, built dams and irrigation schemes, which changed the region’s knowledge base and regimes of flooding and drought. After independence in 1975, the new government nationalized all the private property, expelled the settlers and imposed a socialist order. All knowledge on disaster management was dictated by the new government; those against this new order were sent to re-education centers implanted nationwide. Centralization of knowledge and power was, therefore, implanted. Socialism collapsed by the 1990s, and over time, there has been an amalgam of different knowledge bases and attempts to recognize local disaster management practices.Originality/valueThe Chokwe case shows that knowledge for disaster management evolves with local socioeconomic, political and environmental changes.
The mediating role of green perceived organizational support in the relationship between green transformational leadership and green self-efficacy
Authors: Özgül Burcu , Demir İlknur 
Published: September 2024

Purpose
This study aims to reveal whether green perceived organizational support has a mediating role in the relationship between managers’ green transformational leadership and the green self-efficacy beliefs of employees.

Design/methodology/approach
The textile industry is a sector with fast and cheap production and is the second most damaging sector to the environment due to excessive consumption and rapidly changing fashion trends. Hence, textile industry employees were selected as the research object. The data were collected by survey method from 274 people working in businesses operating in the textile sector in Türkiye. The collected data were analyzed in the SmartPLS 4 analysis program.

Findings
The analysis found that managers’ green transformational leadership increases employees’ green self-efficacy beliefs. Likewise, it was determined that managers’ green transformational leadership increases employees’ green perceived organizational support. The analysis also indicated that employees’ green perceived organizational support increases employees’ green self-efficacy beliefs. Finally, as a result of the analysis, it was concluded that green perceived organizational support is a complementary partial mediator variable in the relationship between managers’ green transformational leadership and employees’ green self-efficacy beliefs.

Originality/value
The available literature has overlooked the mediating role of green perceived organizational support in the relationship between managers’ green transformational leadership and the green self-efficacy beliefs of employees. This work makes new contributions to the literature and practice by revealing the significance of managers’ green transformational leadership and green perceived organizational support in increasing employees’ green self-efficacy beliefs.
Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance
Authors: Chandra Shiva , Broom Alex , Ridge Damien , Peterie Michelle , Lafferty Lise , Broom Jennifer , Kenny Katherine , Treloar Carla , Applegate Tanya 
Published: September 2024

AbstractIn this article, we examine the current management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), in the context of rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR), through the lens of ‘treatment cultures’. Prevailing treatment cultures—including the prominence of syndromic care for STIs—foster certain possibilities and foreclose others, with important consequences for countering AMR. Drawing on qualitative interviews with STI professionals, experts and industry representatives, we unpack these stakeholders’ accounts of STI treatment cultures, drawing out the importance of socio‐historical (i.e. taboo and stigma), political–economic (i.e. perceptions of significance, profit‐making and prioritisation) and subjective (i.e. patient contexts and reflexivity) dimensions therein. In developing this critical account of how treatment cultures are formed, reproduced and indeed resisted, we reveal how such discourses and practices render the reining in of AMR and shifting antibiotic use difficult, and yet, how productive engagement remains key to any proposed solutions. As such, the article contributes to our understanding of AMR as a highly diversified field, through our exploration of the bio‐social dimensions of resistance as they relate to the case of STIs.
Defensive behaviors and c‐fos expression in the midbrain
Authors: YAVAS Ersin , FANSELOW Michael S. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractPavlovian fear conditioning serves as a valuable method for investigating species‐specific defensive reactions (SSDRs) such as freezing and flight responses. The present study examines the role of white noise under different experimental conditions. Given that white noise has been shown to elicit both conditional (associative) and unconditional (nonassociative) defensive responses, we compared the response to noise following three separate training conditions: shock‐only, white noise paired with shock, and context‐only. Results showed that baseline freezing level significantly changed across groups: Both the shock‐only group and the white noise paired with shock group froze more than the context‐only group on the test day. White noise evoked differential freezing between groups on day 2: The shock‐only group froze more than the context‐only group although both groups were never exposed to white noise during training. Further, an activity burst triggered by white noise was similar for the shock‐only and white noise paired with shock groups during testing, although shock‐only group was never exposed to white noise stimuli during training. This aligned with c‐fos data, indicating similar c‐fos activity levels across different periaqueductal gray (PAG) regions for both shock‐only and white noise paired with shock groups. However, the driving force behind c‐fos activation—whether freezing, activity burst, or a combination of both—remains uncertain, warranting further analysis to explore specific correlations between SSDRs and c‐fos activity within the PAG and related brain areas.
Information asymmetry, policy shocks, and international equity investment: Evidence from the anti‐corruption campaign in China
Authors: Bian Wenlong , Chen Yun , Han Minghui , Zhang Hao 
Published: September 2024

AbstractInformation plays a critical role in financial transactions and markets, especially in international investment where foreign investors are at an informational disadvantage relative to domestic investors. Prior studies show a positive reaction of the Chinese capital market to China's anti‐corruption campaign, which is also consistent with improved performance of Chinese listed firms following the campaign. We document a contrasting reaction of less‐informed foreign investors. Exploiting staggered anti‐corruption investigations across provinces as plausibly exogenous shocks, we find that foreign institutional investors increase their equity investments in Chinese listed firms headquartered in affected provinces following the anti‐corruption campaign; foreign individual investors, by contrast, reduce their equity investments after the campaign, which is driven by those with non‐Chinese ethnicity. Further analyses show that the increased equity investments of foreign investors stem primarily from those residing in jurisdictions sharing a similar cultural tradition with China. Our study has significant implications for foreign investors in the context of the increasingly intense relationship between China and the West.
Cost misperception and voting for public goods
Authors: Lang Corey , Wichman Casey J. , Weir Michael J. , Pearson‐Merkowitz Shanna 
Published: September 2024

AbstractPublic good provision is often determined through referendums by voters, who weigh benefits against costs. However, perceptions of benefits and costs may be incorrect, which could in turn lead to voter error and misallocation of public goods. Using real‐world referendums, we evaluate voter perceptions of the private costs of providing public goods by conducting three exit polls of New England voters and an online survey of California voters. By comparing cost perceptions to actual tax incidence, we find pervasive evidence that voters misperceive costs. Fewer than 20% of voters in our samples reported perceived costs within 25% of estimated actual costs. These findings are unsurprising given the ubiquity of opaque language explaining the financial consequences of public good referendums. In addition, our analysis suggests that actual costs have no statistical bearing on voter choice, but at least in the New England sample, voter approval is affected by perceived costs. Thus, a substantial proportion of voters are making decisions based in part on inaccurate costs, which in some cases lead to people voting against their preferences and potential misallocation of public funds. Further, researchers who match voter approval with estimated actual cost are unlikely to obtain accurate cost responsiveness or valuation estimates.
Using behavioural network mapping to investigate dyadic play in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Authors: Beltz Adriene M. , Portengen Christel M. , Berenbaum Sheri A. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractExamining mechanisms underlying sex differences in children's play styles, we studied girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) who provide a test of the relative effects of prenatal androgens versus rearing, and of behavioural similarity versus gender identity and cognitions. In this exploratory study, 40 focal children (girls and boys with and without CAH), aged 3–8 years, played for 14 min with a same‐sex peer in a task designed to elicit rough‐and‐tumble play. Time‐indexed ratings of positive affect and vigour of activity were evaluated via network mapping for sex‐related differences in both levels and play dynamics (temporal relations among behaviours). Results suggest influences of both gender identity‐aligned social cognitions and prenatal androgens: there was greater dyadic synchrony between positive affect for girls (regardless of CAH status) than boys, but girls with CAH displayed positive affect levels and directed vigorous peer play dynamics similar to boys.
Discovery of natural product derivative triptolidiol as a direct NLRP3 inhibitor by reducing K63‐specific ubiquitination
Authors: Ding Mo‐Yu , Ning Chengqing , Chen Shao‐Ru , Yin Hao‐Ran , Xu Jing , Wang Ying 
Published: September 2024

Background and PurposeNLRP3 is up‐regulated in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The development of NLRP3 inhibitors is challenged by the identification of compounds with distinct mechanisms of action avoiding side effects and toxicity. Triptolide is a natural product with multiple anti‐inflammatory activities, but a narrow therapeutic window.Experimental ApproachNatural product triptolide derivatives were screened for NLRP3 inhibitors in human THP‐1 and mouse bone marrow‐derived macrophages. The efficacy of potent NLRP3 inhibitors was evaluated in LPS‐induced acute lung injury and septic shock models.Key ResultsTriptolidiol was identified as a selective inhibitor of NLRP3 with high potency. Triptolidiol inactivated the NLRP3 inflammasome in human THP‐1 and mouse primary macrophages primed with LPS. Triptolidiol specifically inhibited pro‐caspase 1 cleavage downstream of NLRP3, but not AIM2 or NLRC4 inflammasomes. Based on the structure–activity relationship study, the C8‐β‐OH group was critical for its binding to NLRP3. Triptolidiol exhibited a submicromolar KD for NLRP3, binding to residue C280. This binding prevented the interaction of NLRP3 with NEK7, the key regulator of NLRP3 inflammasome oligomerization and assembly, but not with the inflammasome adaptor protein ASC. Triptolidiol decreased the K63‐specific ubiquitination of NLRP3, leading NLRP3 to a “closed” inactive conformation. Intraperitoneal administration of triptolidiol significantly attenuated LPS‐induced acute lung injury and lethal septic shock.Conclusion and ImplicationsTriptolidiol is a novel NLRP3 inhibitor that regulates inflammasome assembly and activation by decreasing K63‐linked ubiquitination. Triptolidiol has novel structural features that make it distinct from reported NLRP3 inhibitors and represents a viable therapeutic lead for inflammatory diseases.
Oncolytic herpes simplex virus propagates tertiary lymphoid structure formation via CXCL10/CXCR3 to boost antitumor immunity
Authors: Zhang Meng‐Jie , Lin Wen‐Ping , Wang Qing , Wang Shuo , Song An , Wang Yuan‐Yuan , Li Hao , Sun Zhi‐Jun 
Published: September 2024

AbstractInducing tertiary lymphoid structure (TLS) formation can fuel antitumor immunity. It is necessary to create mouse models containing TLS to explore strategies of TLS formation. Oncolytic herpes simplex virus‐1 (oHSV) exhibited intense effects in preclinical and clinical trials. However, the role of oHSV in TLS formation remains to be elucidated. Here, we observed the presence of TLS in 4MOSC1 and MC38 subcutaneous tumour models. Interestingly, oHSV evoked TLS formation, and increased infiltration of B cells and stem‐like TCF1+CD8+ T cells proliferation. Mechanistically, oHSV increased the expression of TLS‐related chemokines, along with upregulated CXCL10/CXCR3 to facilitate TLS formation. Notably, CXCL10 and CXCR3 were favourable prognostic factors for cancer patients, and closely related with immune cells infiltration. Inhibiting CXCL10/CXCR3 reduced TCF1+CD8+ T cells and granzyme B expression, and impaired oHSV‐mediated TLS formation. Furthermore, oHSV‐mediated TLS formation revealed superior response and survival rate when combined with αPD‐1 treatment. Collectively, these findings indicate that oHSV recruits stem‐like TCF1+CD8+ T cells through CXCL10/CXCR3 pathway to propagate TLS formation, and warrants future antitumor immunity development.
Endoscopic submucosal dissection vs. endoscopic mucosal resection in the treatment of early Barrett's neoplasia: Systematic review and meta‐analysis
Authors: Gallegos Megui Marilia Mansilla , Gomes Igor Logetto Caetité , Brunaldi Vitor Ottoboni , Bestetti Alexandre Moraes , Marques Sergio Barbosa , Miyajima Nelson Tomio , Filho Hiram Menezes Nascimento , da Silva Pedro Henrique Veras Ayres , Kum Angelo So Taa , Bernardo Wanderley Marques , de Moura Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux 
Published: September 2024

ObjectivesEndoscopic resection is the preferred approach to treat early Barrett's neoplasia, reducing the need for surgical interventions. However, the best choice between endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) or endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) remains unclear. The study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of EMR vs. ESD for early Barrett's neoplasia.MethodsAn electronic search was conducted in MEDLINE, Central Cochrane, EMBASE, and LILACS until November 2023. Studies comparing ESD vs. EMR in the treatment of patients with early Barrett's neoplasia were included. This study was performed according to the Preferred Report Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses guidelines. The ROBIN‐I tool was used to analyze the risk of bias and GRADE to measure the quality of the evidence.ResultsA total of 9352 patients from 15 observational studies were included. Patients undergoing ESD had significantly higher rates of en‐bloc (odds ratio [OR] 25.96, 95% confidence interval [CI] 13.82, 48.74; I2 = 52%; P < 0.00001) and R0 (OR 5.10, 95% CI 3.29, 7.91; I2 = 73%; P < 0.00001) with a higher risk of adverse events, including bleeding, stricture formation, and perforation. In a subgroup analysis of patients who did not receive radiofrequency ablation, ESD had a lower recurrence rate than EMR (OR 0.22, 95% CI 0.05, 0.94; I2 = 88%; P = 0.04).ConclusionEndoscopic submucosal dissection is more effective than EMR in treating early Barrett's neoplasia at the expense of higher adverse events rates.
Double‐chambered left ventricle misdiagnosed as ventricular septal defect
Authors: Zhang Wei‐Min , Abulimiti Kadeyanmu , Guan Li‐Na , Xing Yan , Huo Qiang 
Published: September 2024

AbstractA 35‐year‐old woman was initially misdiagnosed with a muscular ventricular septal defect but was later correctly diagnosed with a double‐chambered left ventricle following evaluation by echocardiography and cardiac computed tomography.
Pharyngo‐oesophageal fistula as a consequence of nasogastric tube placement
Authors: Bañuelos‐Arteagoitia Naroa , Valli Corrado , Pereyra Santiago Andres , de Rijck Mieke 
Published: September 2024

SummaryComplications associated with nasogastric tube placement are infrequent and usually not severe. This article details a case of a pharyngo‐oesophageal fistula in a 6‐year‐old Arabian racing gelding initially presenting with recurrent oesophageal obstruction and dysphagia 5 months after recovering from a medically treated colic. Initially, a suspected diverticulum was diagnosed using a combination of endoscopic examinations and barium‐contrast radiography. Its occurrence was believed to be secondary to a pharyngeal abscess occurring as a consequence of repeated or long‐term nasogastric tube placement during the previous treatment for colic. Continuing, and unresolvable, oesophageal obstruction and dysphagia resulted in the gelding being euthanised. Post‐mortem examination revealed the presence of a pharyngo‐oesophageal fistula.
The Cultivation of Transnational Cultural Capital in Childhood: Experiences of Chinese Global Multiple Migrants
Authors: Choi Susanne Y. P. , Cai Xiaomin , Pei Yu , Chen Lingxi 
Published: September 2024

ABSTRACTThis study shows how class advantage is transferred to the next generation through parental strategies that cultivate their children's transnational cultural capital from an early age. It combines the concepts of cultural capital and concerted cultivation and adopts a novel methodology, examining parental aspirations (PAs) and strategies from the perspective of the children. The data are derived from the life stories of Chinese global multiple migrants. The article shows that the cultivation of transnational cultural capital amongst elite and middle‐class families in China is linked to traditional, neoliberal and non‐materialistic PAs. It reveals how parental capital is related to their aspirations and shapes their use of six cultivation strategies. It also discusses the contradictions, dilemmas and disagreements relating to concerted cultivation; examines children's agency and places the findings within global and national contexts. The results provide insights into culturally specific class mechanisms of intergenerational reproduction of privilege in an era of globalization.