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The influence of “Facebook friends” on the intention to join brand pages
Authors: Palazon Mariola , Sicilia María , Lopez Manuela 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to examine the role of Facebook friends on the intention to join brand pages in this social network site (SNS). SNSs have grown in both popularity and use. They allow individuals to articulate their social networks by developing a list of other members on the site with whom they share a connection. These platforms also allow companies to create profiles to promote their brands. However, many firms have jumped into SNSs by creating a “brand page” without fully understanding how to spread it successfully.

Design/methodology/approach
– Two experiments were developed. In the first one, the authors manipulated how the individual comes to know about brand pages. Participants discovered a brand page through a friend with whom they have either a strong tie or a weak tie. In the second experiment (2 × 2), the authors manipulated tie strength (strong vs weak) and the type of recommendation (active vs passive).

Findings
– Results of the first study show that as the individual has more experience in Facebook (measured in this paper through satisfaction, past behavior of following brands and Facebook intensity), the effect of tie strength on the intention to join a brand page dilutes. The second study confirms Study 1 and shows that strong ties exert more influence than weak ties when the brand page is actively recommended by Facebook friends.

Practical implications
– This paper shows that the influence of strong ties is particularly important for individuals with low levels of experience in Facebook. As experience in SNSs is expected to continue growing, managers should not forget the role of weak ties as a source of information for their networked friends. Strong ties only remain more influential than weak ties when the information about the brand page is received through an invitation.

Originality/value
– This paper explores the interpersonal influences in Facebook, asserting that the influence of tie strength depends on the level of experience in the SNS, and on the way, information about the brand page is received.
Cultural differences in servitization: Nordic manufacturers in China
Authors: Bao Sen , Toivonen Marja 
Published: September 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this study is to examine the challenge of cultural differences in servitizing manufacturing. The focus is on services that the representatives of small, developed and open economies (exemplified by Nordic countries) provide in a large, developing and centralized economy (exemplified by China). Along with internationalization, cultural differences in business practices have become a topical issue. They may be particularly challenging when the business area is new and the cultures of business parties include opposing characteristics.Design/methodology/approach– A multiple case study approach is applied, including five case companies from Finland and Sweden. They are all manufacturing companies in metals and mechanical engineering industries, offering product services, process optimization and consultancy services. Empirical data have been collected from both Nordic service providers and their customers in China.Findings– The data reveal that services including tangible elements (e.g. spare parts) are successful in China. However, there is also a growing demand for total solutions. Customers’ buying behavior is not only influenced by the Chinese business culture, e.g. “guanxi”, but it also varies according to the ownership of companies (state-owned, private, foreign) and to the geography. A prerequisite for success is a shared understanding of central business concepts – in this case, the interpretations of “tangibility” and “added-value” turned out to be particularly important.Originality/value– This study indicates that generalizations based on the experience of developed countries may be misleading in developing countries, as they may “jump over” some steps on their way toward advanced services. In China, services as offerings are newcomers, but service culture in a “tacit” form is embedded due to the Confucian influence. The recent view of service-dominant logic that highlights the mutual benefit as the core of service business may actually be quite near to the original Chinese thinking.
Audit research in the wake of SOX
Authors: Knechel W Robert 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to summarize the effect that the passage of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) by the US Congress had on audit research. More specifically, the paper compares the nature of research about auditing conducted before the Act’s passage to the nature of research about audit regulation that dominates the literature since its passage.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper builds on an extensive review of the research literature before and after the passage of SOX to suggest and examine potential future research paths that might develop in auditing. The streams of research are linked and organized around four themes: auditing as a competitive process, auditing as a service process, auditing as a production process and auditing as a quality control process.

Findings
– In general, auditing research prior to SOX tended to focus on issues encountered in the practice of auditing with tangential implications for audit regulation. The passage of SOX had the effect of focusing audit research on the nature, costs and benefits of regulation, particularly the components of the law that had the most effect on auditing such as the prohibition against many non-audit services, the establishment of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as a standard setter that also inspects audit firms, and the introduction of the requirement that a client’s internal control over financial reporting be examined and opined upon as part of an integrated audit. Although this research has increased our understanding of auditing and regulation, the heavy focus on SOX has pushed research about auditing itself to a lesser role. The profession’s, academy’s and regulatory understanding of auditing may benefit from a more balanced approach to auditing as something separate from the regulation of auditing.

Originality/value
– The intent of this paper is to challenge the way researchers think about research questions in auditing. Hopefully, this approach will encourage auditing researchers to look at the audit and audit regulation through a new lens, testing propositions and aspects of auditing that have been overlooked by the dominate focus on audit regulation over the past decade.
CEO characteristics and audit report timeliness: do CEO tenure and financial expertise matter?
Authors: Baatwah Saeed Rabea , Salleh Zalailah , Ahmad Norsiah 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to hypothesise that demographic characteristics of managers play a significant role in performing their duties amongst which is financial reporting. This study aims to examine whether CEO characteristics, namely, tenure and financial expertise, are associated with audit report timeliness.

Design/methodology/approach
– Data from companies listed on the Oman capital market between 2007 and 2011 and three proxies for audit report timeliness are used.

Findings
– CEO tenure and CEOs with financial expertise are reported to be associated with timely audit reports. Supplementary tests also confirmed this result. In addition, it is suggested and documented that there is an interaction effect between CEO tenure and financial expertise concerning the timeliness of audit reports. The use of a two-stage least square analysis also supported the main results.

Research limitations/implications
– Hypotheses were tested using data from Oman with a relatively small sample size. Therefore, only a few characteristics of the CEO were considered and a more sophisticated approach of testing managers’ effect on company policies was unable to be used. In addition, the generalisability of the study findings should be made carefully.

Originality/value
– This paper differs from prior studies, in that it extends the audit report timeliness literature by examining whether the CEO tenure and CEOs with financial expertise are associated with audit report timeliness. Findings demonstrate that CEO characteristics are important factors for a timely audit report.
For what it’s worth – the open peer review landscape
Authors: Tattersall Andy 
Published: September 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is twofold, first, to discuss the current and future issues around post-publication open peer review. Second, to highlight some of the main protagonists and platforms that encourages open peer review, pre-and post-publication.Design/methodology/approach– The first part of the paper aims to discuss the facilitators and barriers that will enable and prevent academics engaging with the new and established platforms of scholarly communication and review. These issues are covered with the intention of proposing further dialogue within the academic community that ultimately address researchers’ concerns, whilst continuing to nurture a progressive approach to scholarly communication and review. The paper will continue to look at the prominent open post-publication platforms and tools and discuss whether in the future it will become a standard model.Findings– The paper identifies several problems, not exclusive to open peer review that could inhibit academics from being open with their reviews and comments of other’s research. Whilst identifies opportunities to be had by embracing a new era of academic openness.Practical implications– The paper summarises key platforms and arguments for open peer review and will be of interest to researchers in different disciplines as well as the wider academic community wanting to know more about scholarly communications and measurement.Originality/value– This paper looks at many of the new platforms that have been previously ignored and discusses issues relating to open peer review that have only been touched on in brief by other published research.
Riparian tree cover enhances the resistance and stability of woodland bird communities during an extreme climatic event
Authors: Nimmo Dale G. , Haslem Angie , Radford James Q. , Hall Mark , Bennett Andrew F. 
Published: September 2015

Summary

Ecosystems world‐wide increasingly are subject to multiple interacting disturbances. Biodiversity in anthropogenic landscapes can be enhanced by manipulating landscape patterns, but could such landscape management also assist biota to cope with the effects of extreme climatic events, such as drought?

We surveyed woodland bird communities in 24 ‘whole’ landscapes (each 100 km2) in an agricultural region of south‐eastern Australia near the beginning (2002–2003), middle (2006–2007) and after (2011–2012) an extreme drought (the ‘Millennium Drought’). We quantified the resistance, resilience and stability of the avifauna to the decade of drought and related these measures to properties of the study landscapes: the extent of wooded habitat, configuration of habitat, land‐use composition, landscape productivity and geographic context.

Landscape productivity, represented by the extent of riparian tree cover in the landscape, was the strongest driver of the resistance, resilience and stability of avifaunal richness to severe drought. Woodland bird communities in landscapes with larger areas of riparian tree cover retained a larger proportion of their species richness during the Millennium Drought and consequently had greater stability over the drought's duration.

Synthesis and applications. Landscape properties can influence the resistance, resilience and stability of faunal communities to an extreme climatic event. By protecting, restoring and enhancing native vegetation in productive areas of landscapes along stream systems, drainage lines and floodplains, land managers can effectively build climatic refugia and thereby enhance the resistance of biota to climatic extremes. However, a net decline over the entire study period suggests this will not, by itself, arrest decline during periods of extreme drought.
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and child behavioural outcomes at 7 years of age: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort
Authors: Grzeskowiak LE , Morrison JL , Henriksen TB , Bech BH , Obel C , Olsen J , Pedersen LH 
Published: September 2015

ObjectiveTo investigate the impact of prenatal antidepressant exposure on behavioural problems in children at 7 years of age.DesignNationwide population‐based study.SettingDanish National Birth Cohort.PopulationA cohort of 49 178 pregnant women recruited between 1996 and 2002.MethodsData obtained from computer‐assisted telephone interviews twice during pregnancy were used to identify children born to: (i) depressed women who took antidepressants during pregnancy (n = 210); (ii) depressed women who did not take any antidepressants during pregnancy (n = 231); and (iii) healthy women who were not depressed (n = 48 737). Childhood behavioural problems at 7 years of age were examined using the validated Danish parent‐report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).Main outcome measuresSDQ scores.ResultsNo associations were observed between prenatal antidepressant exposure and abnormal SDQ scores for overall problem behaviour (adjusted relative risk, aRR 1.00; 95% confidence interval, 95% CI 0.49–2.05), hyperactivity/inattention (aRR 0.99; 95% CI 0.56–1.75), or peer problems (aRR 1.04; 95% CI 0.57–1.91). Although prenatal antidepressant exposure appeared to be associated with abnormal SDQ scores on the subscales of emotional symptoms (aRR 1.68; 95% CI 1.18–2.38) and conduct problems (aRR 1.58; 95% CI 1.03–2.42), these associations were significantly attenuated following adjustment for antenatal mood status (aRR 1.20; 95% CI 0.85–1.70 and aRR 1.19; 95% CI 0.77 1.83, respectively). Untreated prenatal depression was associated with an increased risk of all behavioural outcomes evaluated, compared with unexposed children, with significant attenuation following adjustment for antenatal mood status.ConclusionsThe results of this study suggest that independent of maternal illness, prenatal antidepressant exposure is not associated with an increased risk of behavioural problems in children at 7 years of age.Tweetable abstractPrenatal antidepressant exposure is not associated with an increased risk of child behavioural problems.
Antidepressant use in late gestation and risk of postpartum haemorrhage: a retrospective cohort study
Authors: Grzeskowiak LE , McBain R , Dekker GA , Clifton VL 
Published: September 2015

ObjectiveTo investigate the association between antidepressant use in late gestation and postpartum haemorrhage (PPH).DesignRetrospective cohort study.SettingTertiary teaching hospital in Adelaide, Australia.PopulationA total of 30 198 women delivering between 2002 and 2008.MethodsRelative risks adjusted for maternal sociodemographics and comorbidities (aRRs) were calculated for PPH, comparing women with late‐gestation exposure to antidepressants (n = 558), women with a psychiatric illness but no antidepressant use (n = 1292), and women with neither antenatal exposures (n = 28 348). Additional sensitivity analyses were undertaken, examining associations with severe PPH and postpartum anaemia.Main outcome measuresThe primary outcome was PPH, defined as a recorded blood loss of ≥500 mL for vaginal deliveries and ≥1000 mL for caesarean sections. Secondary outcomes included severe PPH (≥1000 mL blood loss, irrespective of method of delivery), and the presence of postpartum anaemia (identified from hospital medical records).ResultsCompared with unexposed controls, women exposed to antidepressants had an increased risk of PPH (aRR 1.53; 95% confidence interval, 95% CI 1.25–1.86), whereas no increased risk was observed for women with a psychiatric illness but no antidepressant use (aRR 1.04; 95% CI 0.89–1.23). In sensitivity analyses, late gestation antidepressant exposure was associated with an increased risk of severe PPH (aRR 1.84; 95% CI 1.39–2.44), as well as postpartum anaemia (aRR 1.80; 95% CI 1.46–2.22).ConclusionsExposure to antidepressants in late gestation was associated with a significantly increased risk of PPH. Although potential confounding by unmeasured factors cannot be ruled out, these findings suggest a direct effect of antidepressant exposure on PPH.Tweetable abstractLate gestation antidepressant exposure is associated with a significantly increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage.
Maternal and perinatal outcomes associated with a trial of labour after previous caesarean section in sub‐Saharan countries
Authors: Kaboré C , Chaillet N , Kouanda S , Bujold E , Traoré M , Dumont A 
Published: September 2015

ObjectiveTo assess the risks of uterine rupture, maternal and perinatal outcomes associated with a trial of labour (TOL) after one previous caesarean were compared with having an elective repeated caesarean section (ERCS) without labour in low‐resource settings.DesignA prospective 4‐year observational study.SettingSenegal and Mali.SampleA cohort of 9712 women with one previous caesarean delivery.MethodsMaternal and perinatal outcomes were compared between 8083 women who underwent a TOL and 1629 women who had an ERCS. Perinatal and maternal outcomes were then stratified according to the presence or absence of risk factors associated with vaginal birth after caesarean section. These outcomes were adjusted on maternal, perinatal and institutional characteristics.Main outcome measuresThe risks of uterine rupture, maternal complication and perinatal mortality associated with TOL after one previous caesarean as compared with ERCS,ResultsThe risks of hospital‐based maternal complication [adjusted odds ratio (OR) 1.52; 95% CI 1.09–2.13; P = 0.013] and perinatal mortality (adjusted OR 4.53; 95% CI 2.30–9.92; P < 0.001) were significantly higher in women with a TOL compared with women who had an ERCS. However, when restricted to low‐risk women, these differences were not significant (adjusted OR 0.90, 95% CI 0.55–1.46, P = 0.68, and adjusted OR 1.13; 95% CI 0.75–1.86; P = 0.53, for each outcome, respectively). Uterine rupture occurred in 25 (0.64%) of 3885 low‐risk women compared with 70 (1.66%) of 4198 women with unfavourable risk factors.ConclusionLow‐risk women have no increased risk of maternal complications or perinatal mortality compared with women with one or more unfavourable factors.Tweetable abstractLow‐risk women have a lower risk of maternal complications or perinatal mortality compared with high‐risk women.
Listeria monocytogenes: A Target for Bacteriophage Biocontrol
Authors: Strydom Amy , Witthuhn Corli R. 
Published: September 2015

AbstractListeria monocytogenes is a growing concern in the food industry as it is the causative agent of human listeriosis. There are many research articles concerning the growth, survival, and diversity of L. monocytogenes strains isolated from food‐related sources, elucidating the difficulty in controlling these bacteria in a food‐processing facility. Bacteriophage biocontrol of L. monocytogenes strains was introduced in 2006, through the first commercial bacteriophage product targeting L. monocytogenes ListShieldTM. This review focuses on the use of bacteriophage biocontrol to target L. monocytogenes in the food industry, specifically direct application of the bacteriophages to food products. In addition, we discuss characteristics of these bacteria that will have a significant influence on the effective treatment of bacteriophages such as genetic diversity between strains prevalent in one facility. There are many positive results of phage treatments targeting L. monocytogenes in food; however, success of in vitro studies might not be reproducible in practice. Future studies should focus on creating experimental design that will imitate the conditions found in the food industry, such as a stressed state of the targeted bacteria. In situ evaluation of bacteriophage treatment of L. monocytogenes will also be necessary because the presence of these bacteria in a processing facility can vary greatly regarding genetic diversity. The potential use of phages in the food‐processing facility as a biosanitizer for L. monocytogenes, as well as the use of lysins to target these bacteria should also be explored. Despite the exciting research avenues that have to be explored, current research shows that biocontrol of L. monocytogenes is feasible and has potential to positively impact the food industry.
The Emulsifying and Emulsion‐Stabilizing Properties of Pectin: A Review
Authors: Ngouémazong Eugénie D. , Christiaens Stefanie , Shpigelman Avi , Van Loey Ann , Hendrickx Marc 
Published: September 2015

AbstractPectin, a plant cell wall polysaccharide, is a natural multifunctional ingredientwhich imparts textural and rheological properties to a wide range of food systems. Up to the last decade, most pectin blank applications stemmed from its gel‐forming ability. Nowadays, pectin is gradually gaining acceptance as an effective emulsifier in numerous food applications. Accordingly, the emulsifying and emulsion‐stabilizing properties of this hydrocolloid are increasingly being assessed. These pectin functionalities are controlled by both the properties of the carbohydrate moieties and of the often attached protein groups. Generally, the protein moiety, feruloyl, and acetyl groups, play a major role in pectin emulsifying activities, while the emulsion‐stabilizing properties of the polymer are controlled by the homogalacturonan (HG) domain and the neutral sugar side chains of the rhamnogalacturonan‐I (RGI) structural element. However, the neutral sugar side chains might obstruct the accessibility of pectin hydrophobic species to the oil/water interface, thereby hampering emulsification. In addition, the contribution of HG to emulsion stabilization might be dependent on the polymer HG:RGI ratio. Hence, the influence of pectin structural features on the polymer emulsifying potentials is yet to be fully unraveled, as identified in this review. Furthermore, the emulsifying and emulsion‐stabilizing properties of pectin are influenced by the composition of emulsions.
Preparation of Chitosan‐Alginate Nanoparticles forTrans‐cinnamaldehyde Entrapment
Authors: Loquercio Andre , Castell‐Perez Elena , Gomes Carmen , Moreira Rosana G. 
Published: September 2015

AbstractTrans‐cinnamaldehyde incorporated chitosan‐alginate nanoparticles were synthesized using the ionic gelation and polyelectrolyte complexation technique. Alginate, chitosan, calcium chloride, andtrans‐cinnamaldehyde at predetermined concentrations were complexed electrostatically to optimize particle size and loading efficiency. A final methodology using optimized processing parameters (for example, stirring time, homogenization time, equilibration time, and droplet size) was developed. The best working alginate to chitosan mass ratio was determined to be 1.5:1 at a pH dispersion of 4.7. Particle size (166.26 nm) and encapsulation efficiency (73.24%) were further optimized at this mass ratio using an alginate:calcium chloride mass ratio of 4.8:1, alginate:trans‐cinnamaldehyde mass ratio of 37.5:1, a 18 gauge syringe needle, stirring times of 90 min, 15 min of homogenization at 21000 rpm, and equilibration time of 24 h. Optimized nanoparticles showed increased stability (6 wk) and translucency in solution. The final radical scavenging effect of loaded particles in apple juice was 62% andtrans‐cinnamaldehyde was just as available to react in free form as it was in inclusion complexes. The final nanoparticle system with modified and optimized processing parameters reduced the size by 43.6% and increased entrapment efficiency by 17.2%. Nanoparticles resembled a spherical shell and core type arrangement (that is, spherical, distinct, and regular) and were in the size range of 10 to 100 nm.