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Factors affecting the relationship between environmental concern and behaviors
Authors: Thieme Jeff , Royne Marla B. , Jha Subhash , Levy Marian , Barnes McEntee Wendy 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to understand the mediating factors affecting the relationship between environmental concerns and sustainable behaviors.Design/methodology/approach– The authors survey 467 respondents and use a structural equation modeling approach to assess environmental involvement and willingness to pay more for green products as mediating variables between a multi-dimensional measure of environmental concern and sustainable behaviors.Findings– The findings suggest that environmental involvement and willingness to pay more for green products mediate the relationship between environmental concern and sustainable behaviors. But of the three dimensions of environmental concern, only concern for energy is statistically significant in the model.Research limitations/implications– The results empirically validate the multi-dimensionality of the environmental concern construct and its relationship with consumers’ sustainable behaviors. Both involvement and willingness to pay more for an environmentally friendly product play an important role in linking environmental concern to actionable behaviors.Practical implications– To reach green consumers who are willing to pay more for environmentally friendly products and ultimately engage in sustainable behaviors, marketers should target those consumers who are most concerned with energy and more involved with the environment.Originality/value– This paper is the first to study the gap between environmental concern and sustainable behaviors by utilizing involvement and willingness to pay more for an environmentally friendly product as mediators. Results provide critical insight into this often elusive gap. The authors also fill an important gap in the literature by including psychological factors driving consumers’ willingness to pay more for green products.
Reputation orientation
Authors: Goldring Deborah 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to develop a new construct called reputation orientation, which is defined as a conscious, company-wide, strategic focus on building and maintaining a positive corporate reputation among key stakeholders.Design/methodology/approach– A conceptual framework is developed that links reputation orientation to construed image and business performance. An empirical test of the key stakeholder relationship between sellers and buyers is conducted using an online survey of US-based marketing managers from a variety of for-profit industries.Findings– The research findings demonstrate that reputation orientation is a valid construct and show a positive relationship between reputation orientation and business performance which is partially mediated by construed image.Research limitations/implications– This research was exploratory in nature, so the data must be interpreted carefully and subject to additional contexts.Practical implications– Reputation orientation has implications for managers who want to proactively pursue reputational excellence for competitive advantage.Social implications– Reputation orientation has implications for stakeholder satisfaction, socially responsible behavior, ethical decision making, and sustainability.Originality/value– This research empirically tests a model that integrates corporate marketing constructs with marketing managers’ decision-making behaviors and perceptions.
The impact of corporate social responsibility on employee performance and cost
Authors: Sun Li , Yu T. Robert 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– The purpose of our paper is to empirically examine the conjectures, which prior literature suggests, that employees work more productively in socially responsible companies and employees are willing to work for less when they work for these companies.Design/methodology/approach– This study uses ordinary least squares regression to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee performance and between CSR and employee cost. Further, 2SLS is used to address the endogeneity issue.Findings– The results indicate a positive relation between CSR and employee performance, suggesting that employees in socially responsible companies generate better operating performance than their peers in less socially responsible companies. Findings also reveal that socially responsible companies incur higher labor cost.Research limitations/implications– First, the CSR ratings constructed by KLD Inc. are an approximate measure of CSR performance. Better CSR measures may yield stronger results. Additionally, the sample firms in our study are relatively large firms. Caution needs be exercised when readers generalize these conclusions. Finally, this sample only consists of public firms. Whether these conclusions hold in private firms remains unknown. The above issues can be investigated in future studies.Practical implications– The findings of our study should interest managers who contemplate engaging in socially responsible activities, investors and financial analysts who assess firm performance and policymakers who design and implement guidelines on CSR programs.Originality/value– This is the first paper that directly tests the association between CSR and employee performance and cost. Thus, this study contributes to the CSR literature by offering evidence to show a positive effect of CSR on employee performance. It also contributes to the management accounting literature.
The valuation effect of LIFO’s repeal on high pricing power firms
Authors: Houmes Robert , Chira Inga 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The aim of the study is to provides a timely examination of the valuation effect of current initiatives to repeal LIFO by analyzing the valuation impact of the potential repeal of LIFO conditional on the pricing power of the firm.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using the methodology from prior research for all LIFO companies, we use price levels regressions to empirically test the potential tax effect of LIFO’s repeal on the value of the firm. To evaluate the robustness of these results, we also use event study methodology to estimate abnormal returns around the House Bill H. R. 3970.

Findings
– Results show a favorable (unfavorable) valuation effect for high (low) pricing power firms that are able (unable) to recover tax payments by reducing costs and/or charging higher prices. These findings are robust to alternative measures of valuation (price and returns), as well as long and short event windows and suggest that certain firms may be able to offset post-LIFO repeal increased tax payments by increasing sales-output prices and or decreasing cost-input prices.

Originality/value
– The primary contribution of this paper is to provide relevant and new empirical evidence regarding the potential valuation effects of the currently proposed political and regulatory initiatives to abolish LIFO.
Prospect theory, industry characteristics and earnings management
Authors: Wasiuzzaman Shaista , Sahafzadeh Iman , Rezaie Nejad Niloufar - 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to detect earnings management activity in different industries in Malaysia by using the earnings distribution model. Further, the prospect theory and the possible influence of various industry variables are tested to understand the role of the industry in the motivation to manage earnings among firms in Malaysia.

Design/methodology/approach
– A sample of 538 firms from 15 different industries over the years 2005-2011 is used for this purpose. The earnings distribution model is used to detect earnings management activity across industries, and various regression techniques are used to test the influence of the prospect theory and various industry variables on earnings management activity.

Findings
– The findings indicate the presence of earnings management practices in Malaysian industries, but the prevalence of earnings management activity and the motivation to do so are found to differ across industries. The prospect theory is found to be a possible motivation for earnings management overall but not when industries are considered separately. Industry competitiveness, capital intensity and profitability are found to influence both motivations to manage earnings while industry leverage is found significant only in the case of motivation to manage earnings to avoid reporting losses. Finally, earnings volatility and size are insignificant in influencing the propensity to manage earnings.

Originality/value
– To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study which documents the role of various industry characteristics in influencing earnings management activity. It highlights the importance of considering industry level variables in a study on earnings management and, hence, adds to the growing literature on earnings management.
Pathways to suicide attempts among male offenders: the role of agency
Authors: Byng Richard , Howerton Amanda , Owens Christabel V. , Campbell John 
Published: July 2015

AbstractSuicide is common among offenders, who are at increased risk of homelessness, unemployment and mental illness and are prone to impulsivity. Release from prison is a particularly vulnerable time. This qualitative study investigated the views of 35 offenders in South‐West England prior to and after release from prison, enquiring into their previous suicide attempts and how they saw their future. Semi‐structured interviews were analysed thematically, comparing individuals who had made one, more than one, and no suicide attempts. Multiple attempters were often in despair and enmeshed in substance misuse, with little control over their lives. Most of those with one‐off or no previous attempts portrayed themselves as having more mastery. One‐off attempters described using particularly violent means. The role of different types of agency in pathways to and from suicide is discussed. Iterational agency, the selective reactivation of past patterns of behaviour, appeared to dominate in individuals who were choosing between further suicide attempts and substance use. Projective agency, having a more future orientation, appeared more prominent in some single attempters and in those individuals with plans to escape crime and social exclusion.
The Double Helix: Applying an Ethic of Care to the Duty to Warn Genetic Relatives of Genetic Information
Authors: Weaver Meaghann 
Published: July 2015

AbstractGenetic testing reveals information about a patient's health status and predictions about the patient's future wellness, while also potentially disclosing health information relevant to other family members. With the increasing availability and affordability of genetic testing and the integration of genetics into mainstream medicine, the importance of clarifying the scope of confidentiality and the rules regarding disclosure of genetic findings to genetic relatives is prime. The United Nations International Declaration on Human Genetic Data urges an appreciation for principles of equality, justice, solidarity and responsibility in the context of genetic testing, including a commitment to honoring the privacy and security of the person tested. Considering this global mandate and recent professional statements in the context of a legal amendment to patient privacy policies in Australia, a fresh scrutiny of the legal history of a physician's duty to warn is warranted. This article inquiries whether there may be anything ethically or socially amiss with a potential future recommendation for health professionals or patients to universally disclose particular cancer predisposition genetic diagnosis to genetic family members. While much of the discussion remains applicable to all genetic diagnosis, the article focuses on the practice of disclosure within the context of BRCA1/2 diagnosis. An ‘ethic of care’ interpretation of legal tradition and current practice will serve to reconcile law and medical policy on the issue of physician disclosure of genetic results to family members without patient consent.
When Opportunity Knocks Twice: Dual Living Kidney Donation, Autonomy and the Public Interest
Authors: Bailey Phillippa , Huxtable Richard 
Published: July 2015

AbstractLiving kidney transplantation offers the best treatment in terms of life‐expectancy and quality of life for those with end‐stage renal disease. The long‐term risks of living donor nephrectomy, although real, are very small, with evidence of good medium‐term outcomes. Who should be entitled to donate, and in which circumstances, is nevertheless a live question. We explore the ethical dimensions of a request by an individual to donate both of their kidneys during life: ‘dual living kidney donation’. Our ethical analysis is tethered to a hypothetical case study in which a father asks to donate a kidney to each of his twin boys. We explore the autonomy of the protagonists, alongside different dimensions of the public interest, such as the need to protect not only the recipients, but also the donor and even the wider community.Whilst acknowledging objections to ‘dual‐donation’, not least by reference to the harms that the donor might be expected to endure, we suggest there is a prima facie case for permitting this, provided that both donor and recipients are willing and that due attention is paid to such considerations as the autonomy and welfare of all parties, as well as to the wider ramifications of acting on such a request. We argue for broader interpretations of the concepts of autonomy and welfare, recognizing the importance of relationships and the relevance of more than merely physical well‐being. Equipped with such a holistic assessment, we suggest there is a prima facie case for allowing ‘dual living kidney donation’.
The combination of hypomethylating agents and histone deacetylase inhibitors produce marked synergy in preclinical models of T‐cell lymphoma
Authors: Marchi Enrica , Zullo Kelly M. , Amengual Jennifer E. , Kalac Matko , Bongero Danielle , McIntosh Christine M. , Fogli Laura K. , Rossi Maura , Zinzani Pier L. , Pileri Stefano A. , Piccaluga Pier P. , Fuligni Fabio , Scotto Luigi , O'Connor Owen A. 
Published: July 2015

SummaryT‐cell lymphomas (TCL) are aggressive lymphomas usually treated with CHOP (cyclophsophamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisolone)‐like regimens upfront. Recent data suggest that TCL are driven by epigenetic defects, potentially rendering them sensitive to epigenetic therapies. We explored the therapeutic merits of a combined epigenetic platform using histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) and DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMT) in in vitro and in vivo models of TCL. The 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) values revealed romidepsin was the most potent HDACI, with an IC50 in the low nanomolar range. The combination with a hypomethylating agent produced synergy across all cell lines, which was confirmed in cytotoxicity and apoptosis assays. An in vivo xenograft study demonstrated inhibition of tumour growth in the combination cohort compared to the single agent. Gene expression array and global methylation profiling revealed differentially expressed genes and modulated pathways for each of the single treatment conditions and the combination. Most of the effects induced by the single agent treatment were maintained in the combination group. In total, 944 unique genes were modulated by the combination treatment, supporting the hypothesis of molecular synergism. These data suggest combinations of hypomethylating agents and HDACIs are synergistic in models of TCL, which is supported at the molecular level.
Platelet refractoriness – practical approaches and ongoing dilemmas in patient management
Authors: Stanworth Simon J. , Navarrete Cristina , Estcourt Lise , Marsh Judith 
Published: July 2015

SummaryPlatelet refractoriness can represent a significant clinical problem that complicates the provision of platelet transfusions, is associated with adverse clinical outcomes and increases health care costs. Although it is most frequently due to non‐immune platelet consumption, immunological factors are also often involved. Human leucocyte antigen (HLA) alloimmunization is the most important immune cause. Despite the fact that systematic reviews of the clinical studies evaluating different techniques for selecting HLA compatible platelets have not been powered to demonstrate improved clinical outcomes, platelet refractoriness is currently managed by the provision of HLA‐matched or cross matched platelets. This review will address a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of platelet refractoriness while highlighting on‐going dilemmas and knowledge gaps.
Sequencing robot‐assisted extended pelvic lymph node dissection prior to radical prostatectomy: a step‐by‐step guide to exposure and efficiency
Authors: Williams Stephen B. , Bozkurt Yasar , Achim Mary , Achim Grace , Davis John W. 
Published: July 2015

ObjectiveTo describe a novel, step‐by‐step approach to robot‐assisted extended pelvic lymph node dissection (ePLND) at the time of robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) for intermediate–high risk prostate cancer.Patient and MethodsThe sequence of ePLND is at the beginning of the operation to take advantage of greater visibility of the deeper hypogastric planes. The urachus is left intact for an exposure/retraction point. The anatomy is described in terms of lymph nodes (LNs) that are easily retrieved vs those that require additional manipulation of the anatomy, and a determined surgeon. A representative cohort of 167 RARPs was queried for representative metrics that distinguish the ePLND: 146 primary cases and 21 with neoadjuvant systemic therapy.ResultsThe median (interquartile range, IQR) LN yield was 22 (16–28) for primary surgeries and 21 (16–23) for neoadjuvant cases. The percentage of cases with positive LNs (pN1) was 16.4% for primary and 29% for neoadjuvant. The hypogastric LNs were involved in 75% of pN1 primary cases and uniquely positive in 33%. Each side of ePLND took the attending surgeon a median (IQR) of 16 (13–20) min and trainees 25 (24–38) min.ConclusionsRobot‐assisted ePLND before RARP provides an anatomical approach to surgical extirpation mimicking the open approach. We think this sequence offers efficiency and efficacy advantages in high‐risk and select intermediate‐risk patients with prostate cancer undergoing RARP.
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 3 in a multiple sclerosis patient
Authors: Masuda Saeko , Mori Masahiro , Hamada Shinsuke , Masuda Hiroki , Uzawa Akiyuki , Kuwabara Satoshi 
Published: July 2015

AbstractAutoimmune polyendocrine syndromes (APS), a group of autoimmune‐mediated multiple endocrine gland failure, type 3 is composed of autoimmune thyroid disease with endocrinopathy, including type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), other than adrenal insufficiency. Only a few cases of multiple sclerosis (MS) with APS type 3 have been reported. We present the case of a 37‐year‐old Japanese man diagnosed with MS and Graves’ disease at 22 years‐of‐age. Interferon‐β‐1b therapy, which he had previously discontinued for 10 years, was restarted for MS at 35 years‐of‐age. After the therapy, he complained of thirst and rapid bodyweight loss (15 kg/6 months), and developed type 1 DM. At onset of DM and before the restart of interferon‐β‐1b therapy, antiglutamic acid decarboxylase antibody findings had been positive. He was diagnosed as having APS type 3, associated Graves’ disease and type 1 DM in addition to MS. Our case suggested that MS can be concomitant with APS type 3, and that interferon‐β‐1b therapy for a MS patient with a specific genetic background could induce onset of type 1 DM.
Psychometric properties of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire‐Revised among community‐dwelling current drinkers in the Ningxia autonomous region of China
Authors: Cheng Hui G. , Phillips Michael R. , Zhang Yuhong , Wang Zhizhong 
Published: July 2015

AbstractIntroduction and AimsThe 20‐item Drinking Motives Questionnaire‐Revised (DMQ‐R)—which assesses social, enhancement, coping and conformity‐related motives for drinking—has not previously been used in China. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the DMQ‐R in China.Design and MethodsDMQ‐R was administered to 612 current drinkers identified from a representative sample of 2425 non‐institutionalised adults living in Ningxia Province, China; 44 of these current drinkers were re‐administered the questionnaire an average of 2.5 days later. Confirmatory factor analysis compared the adequacy of fit of alternative conceptual models. Due to the collectivist culture in China, we considered the possibility that item 12 (‘to fit in the group I like’) is an indicator of a ‘social’ motive (in Western studies, it is an indicator of a ‘conformity’ motive).ResultsSocial motives for drinking were more frequently endorsed than other motives. The intraclass correlation coefficients for the test–retest reliability of the four subscales varied from 0.63 to 0.80. The originally conceptualised four‐factor model showed good fit to the data [root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.043, comparative fit index = 0.949 and Tucker‐Lewis index = 0.941]. Fit indices improved (RSMEA = 0.034, comparative fit index = 0.968 and Tucker‐Lewis index = 0.963) when item 12 was included in the ‘social’ dimension rather than the ‘conformity’ dimension. The 12‐item short form of DMQ‐R showed similar psychometric properties, but the fit indices were suboptimal.Discussion and ConclusionsDMQ‐R is a valid and reliable tool to assess drinking motives among current drinkers in China. Future studies in China using the DMQ‐R should consider item 12 a social motive. [Cheng HG, Phillips MR, Zhang Y, Wang Z. Psychometric properties of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire‐Revised among community‐dwelling current drinkers in the Ningxia autonomous region of China. Drug Alcohol Rev 2016;35:433–441]