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Lean and industry 4.0 principles toward industry 5.0: a conceptual framework and empirical insights from fashion industry
Authors: Fani Virginia , Bucci Ilaria , Rossi Monica , Bandinelli Romeo 
Published: July 2024

PurposeExamining synergies between Lean, Industry 4.0, and Industry 5.0 principles, the aim is to showcase how Lean's focus on people enhances Industry 5.0 implementations, leading to the development of the Lean 5.0 paradigm. In addition, insights from artisanal industries, like the fashion one, are specifically collected.Design/methodology/approachFirst, a literature review was conducted to define a comprehensive framework to understand how Lean fits into the Human-Centric (HC) paradigm of Industry 5.0. Second, a case study was employed to give empirical insights and identify practical initiatives that brands can pursue, involving two best-in-class leather goods brands located in Italy.FindingsA conceptual framework to pave the way for new paradigm Lean 5.0 was defined and validated through a case study. To path the way for a case study in the fashion industry, the Lean HC paradigm is detailed into domains and related categories to group practices. The empirical insights demonstrate that Lean HC actions can be effectively supported by Industry 4.0 technologies in traditional sectors like the fashion industry, shifting towards Industry 5.0.Practical implicationsThe proposed framework and related practices can be used by companies to facilitate their transition towards Industry 5.0, leveraging on Lean Manufacturing.Originality/valueThe innovative contribution of the present work mainly refers to the proposed conceptual framework, encompassing Lean, HC and Industry 4.0 and introducing Lean 5.0 paradigm. The case study enriches the empirical contributions in the fashion industry.
Authentic leadership – a source of tacit knowledge sharing and career competence in service sector
Authors: Yasin Raheel , Ribeiro Neuza , Atif Muhammad , Ali Ayesha 
Published: July 2024

PurposeThis study aimed to examine the correlation between authentic leadership and career competence, exploring the mediating roles of tacit knowledge sharing and employee service innovative behavior.Design/methodology/approachData were collected using convenience sampling and a time-lagged design from the Pakistani banking sector. The time-lagged design was employed to gather data at two different points in time. SPSS statistical software was used for descriptive analysis, and hypotheses were tested using Mplus.FindingsThe results demonstrate that authentic leadership has a significant positive impact on tacit knowledge sharing. This knowledge sharing, in turn, positively impacts employee service innovative behavior, which subsequently enhances career competence. Furthermore, tacit knowledge sharing mediates the relationship between authentic leadership and employee service innovative behavior.Social implicationsThis study has social implications for organizations aiming to align their inclusive goals with societal needs. The findings can help foster a culture of knowledge sharing, thereby contributing to societal innovation.Originality/valueThis study provides valuable insights into how authentic leadership contributes to career competence, thus enriching the existing literature on this topic.
Insights into quality professionals' adoption of Quality 4.0 in the high-tech industry
Authors: Rogala Piotr , Brzozowski Tomasz , Pankowska Malgorzata Bogumila 
Published: July 2024

PurposeThis paper examines the factors influencing the adoption of Quality 4.0 technologies by quality professionals. The study evaluates perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude towards use, and intention to use new technologies.Design/methodology/approachThe research involves a literature review, identification of latent variables derived from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and a survey conducted among 200 quality professionals in the high-tech sector using computer-assisted web interviews.FindingsThe study elucidates the attitudes and intentions of high-tech industry employees towards adopting Quality 4.0 technologies. The primary conclusion drawn is that the predominant factor shaping the attitude of quality professionals towards new technologies is their confidence in their ability to effectively engage with these technologies rather than solely the perceived usefulness of such technologies to themselves or their organization.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is subject to certain limitations. Firstly, it focuses on five variables identified in the TAM model, potentially overlooking other pertinent factors that could provide a more comprehensive understanding. Secondly, the analysis of Quality 4.0 technologies is presented in a generalized manner, possibly resulting in nuanced differences if each specific technology were examined individually.Originality/valueThis article fills a gap in the literature by identifying the factors influencing quality professionals' adoption of Quality 4.0 technologies and delineating the relationships between these factors.
Climate and genome size shape the intraspecific variation in ecological adaptive strategies of a cosmopolitan grass species
Authors: Guo Wen‐Yong , Čuda Jan , Skálová Hana , Lambertini Carla , Pierce Simon , Lučanová Magdalena , Brix Hans , Meyerson Laura A. , Pyšek Petr 
Published: July 2024

Abstract

Intraspecific trait variation, essential to Darwin's mechanism of natural selection, has been widely examined for single characters. However, intraspecific variation of adaptive strategies which represent trade‐offs among multiple functional traits has received less attention, particularly for species that are globally distributed or invasive. Grime's competitor, stress tolerator and ruderal (CSR) scheme, well validated in the context of alien species invasions, provides both the theory and quantitative methodology to investigate adaptive strategies.

Here, we quantified the intraspecific CSR strategy scores of a worldwide collection of 89 Phragmites australis genotypes which were cultivated in a common garden. We assessed the relationships between intraspecific variation in CSR strategy scores, genome size and climate of origin and tested whether the invasive and native lineages differ in CSR strategies.

Substantial variation in intraspecific adaptive strategy, characterized mainly in C‐ and S‐selection, was observed. As expected, C‐, S‐ and R‐scores showed clear latitudinal clines and were strongly related to either genome size or climate of origin. Furthermore, invasive lineages were more stress adapted than native lineages.

We conclude that the adaptive strategy of this perennial wetland grass varies globally, and its genotypes are surprisingly more stress tolerant in the invaded range where it was first detected ~150 years ago.

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GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka
Authors: Huq Efadul 
Published: July 2024

AbstractEcological infrastructure and urban agriculture are enacting a green resurgence in cities. In the global South, however, ecological infrastructure is often premised on erasing already existing informal agricultural practices (green informalities) and leads to the displacement of marginalized urban dwellers. How, then, can ecological infrastructure be calibrated with the specific realities of the global South's green informalities? What other socially just modalities of infrastructure can be learned from the vantage point of informal settlements? Past urban scholarship has documented the crucial role of urban agriculture in addressing food insecurity and poverty in the global South, yet the symbolic, collective and political dimensions of agricultural practices are absent from these accounts. Drawing from critical urban scholarship and feminist political ecology, and based on engaged research with a collective of urban farmers facing eviction, I argue that green informalities bring together dwellers and plants in an intimate entanglement in the everyday gendered politics of endurability and collective power‐building at the settlement level. The article illustrates that the informal economic and political practices that constitute these green informalities are crucial for understanding grassroots practices vis‐à‐vis urban environments. Recognizing the political and affective dimensions of green informalities can move urban studies and governance towards a situated appreciation of informal urban agriculture as socially just ecological infrastructure that centers justice and dweller agency.
Analyzing the non‐linear association between natural resources, remittances, and ecological footprint: An analysis of Bangladesh's environmental decline
Authors: Ali Minhaj , Ali Kishwar 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThere is a growing global concern about the challenges of sustainable development. Furthermore, these concerns are becoming increasingly prevalent in Bangladesh on a daily basis. This may be attributed to the escalating influx of remittances, the degradation of natural resources, and the potential adverse impacts of economic growth on the ecosystem. Thus, this research looks at how remittances (REM) and natural resources (NR) affect the ecological footprint (EFP) in Bangladesh by controlling economic growth (EG), renewable energy (REN), and urbanization (URB) from 1990 to 2021. The study utilizes the linear and non‐linear autoregressive distributed lag model to test the relationships between REM and NR on EFP. Positive and negative shocks to REM and NR have varied consequences on EFP, which suggests an asymmetric relationship. The findings reveal that the impact of the positive shock on NR is positive and significant. It implies that an increase in the positive shock of NR causes a rise in EFP. However, the impact of the negative shock on NR is negative but statistically insignificant. Likewise, negative shock in REM decreases the EFP by increasing ecological quality, while positive shock in REM does not significantly impact EFP. Similarly, REN and URB improve the environmental quality in Bangladesh while EG decreases. To meet sustainable development goals, policies can be designed for proficient and ecologically friendly types of energy.
The antibiotic resistance crisis and the development of new antibiotics
Authors: Brüssow Harald 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThe Global Burden of Disease report of 2019 estimated 14 million infection‐related deaths, making it the second leading cause of death after ischaemic heart disease. Bacterial pathogens accounted for 7.7 million deaths and deaths attributable to bacterial antibiotic resistance amounted to 1.3 million, describing a clear demand for novel antibiotics. Antibiotic development had its golden age in 1930–1960. Following failures in the screening of chemical libraries for novel antibiotics at the beginning of this century, the high cost of launching new antibiotics (estimated at US$ 1.4 billion per registered drug) and difficulties in achieving a return of investment for novel antibiotics, pharmaceutical industry has mostly left the field. The current Lilliput review analyses the question whether scientific or economic hurdles prevented the registration of new antibiotics. Scientifically, substantial progress has been achieved over recent years to define the chemical properties needed to overcome the permeation barrier in Gram‐negative pathogens; in extending the chemical space of antibiotic candidates by full modular synthesis of suitable molecules; by extending bioprospecting to previously ‘unculturable’ bacteria or unusual bacteria; by attacking bacterial targets on the outer bacterial membrane; and by looking for support from structural biology, genomics, molecular genetics, phylogenetic analyses and deep machine learning approaches. However, these research activities were mostly conducted by academic researchers and biotech companies with limited financial resources. It thus seems that the development of new antibiotics, frequently described as the drying of the pipeline, is less limited by lack of scientific insight than by lack of the mobilization of the monetary resources needed to bring these discoveries to the market despite recent financial push and pull efforts of the public sector.
Advancing social insect research through the development of an automated yellowjacket nest activity monitoring station using deep learning
Authors: Martínez Andrés S. , Dreidemie Carola , Inchaurza Fernan , Cucurull Agustin , Basti Marian , Masciocchi Maité 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
We describe the development and validation of an autonomous monitoring station that identifies and records the movement of social insects into and out of the colony.
The hardware consists of an illuminated channel and a fixed camera to capture the wasps' activities. An ad hoc post‐processing software was developed to identify the direction of movement and caste of the recorded individuals.
Validation results indicate that the model can detect with high levels of accuracy the presence of workers, drones and gynes, whereas direction of movement is accurate only for workers and drones, but not for gynes. Further development of the software and hardware should enable higher levels of accuracy, especially in terms of the direction of movement of reproductive individuals.
This innovative tool holds immense potential for advancing ecological and behavioural research by providing researchers with rapid and easily accessible data.
Understanding the activity patterns of individual wasps within the colony can yield valuable insights into factors influencing their growth, foraging patterns and the behaviour of reproductive individuals. Ultimately, this information can be incorporated into effective management plans for controlling harmful social insect populations in both ecological and productive systems.
Non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease increases the risk of biochemical recurrence in high‐grade metastatic prostate cancer patients
Authors: Zhang Hongyi , Yang Wenbo , Zhang Bin , Wu Jiahui , Zhang Wei , Wang Zhenlong , Cui Jie 
Published: July 2024

AbstractIntroductionNon‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been reported to be helpful to identify high‐risk individuals of developing prostate cancer. Our aim is to investigate the relationship between NAFLD and biochemical recurrence in metastatic prostate cancer patients.MethodsWe retrospectively investigated 602 patients with metastatic prostate cancer receiving the androgen deprivation therapy. Liver fat was estimated with liver‐to‐spleen ratio by computed tomography (CT) scans. The relationship between NAFLD and biochemical recurrence was investigated with Cox models. The model for biochemical recurrence was adjusted for multiple variables.ResultsNAFLD was significantly associated with biochemical recurrence in patients with Gleason score ≥4+3 when adjusting for each of body mass index (hazards ratio [HR] = 1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.08–1.77; p = 0.01), visceral adipose tissue (HR = 1.36; 95% CI = 1.07–1.74; p = 0.01), hypertension (HR = 1.41; 95% CI = 1.10–1.80; p = 0.01), and diabetes mellitus (HR = 1.42; 95% CI = 1.11–1.82; p = 0.01), using age and prostate‐specific antigen level as potential confounder. The 2‐year biochemical recurrence rate in the Gleason score ≥4+3 patients with and without NAFLD was 84.0% (100/119) and 72.2% (130/180), respectively (p = 0.018). The median biochemical recurrence free survival of the Gleason score ≥4+3 patients with and without NAFLD were 17 and 21 months, respectively (p = 0.005).ConclusionsNAFLD is an independent risk factor for biochemical recurrence in patients with high‐grade metastatic prostate cancer. If validated in prospective studies, future research should test whether treatment of NAFLD can lead to better prognosis.
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam
Authors: Gammeltoft Tine M. 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThis article explores family caregiving in Vietnamese households affected by type 2 diabetes. Drawing on existential phenomenology and on fieldwork conducted in northern Vietnam, I develop the concept of care calibrations as a tool to understand how family members respond socially and morally to the needs for care that diabetes confronts them with. The concept of care calibrations highlights how chronic care is undertaken as an ethical endeavor within domestic environments characterized by multiple care needs. The article explores how caregivers find their bearings in complex care situations by looking toward dominant moral standards while also adjusting pragmatically to the contingencies of domestic lives, placing themselves in others’ situations. On this ethnographic basis, the article calls for more sustained anthropological attention to the social implications of human capacities for sympathetic co‐living and particularly to the intermediate realm between selves and others where capacities for moral imagination reside.
Early findings in a randomised controlled trial on crosslinking protocols using isoosmolar and hypoosmolar riboflavin for the treatment of progressive keratoconus
Authors: Gustafsson Ingemar , Olafsdottir Thorbjörg , Neumann Olof , Johansson Per , Bizios Dimitrios , Ivarsen Anders , Hjortdal Jesper Ø. 
Published: July 2024

AbstractPurposeTo present baseline characteristics and to present the perioperative corneal thickness during corneal crosslinking (CXL) treatment for progressive keratoconus and to describe how the addition of sterile water (SW) efficaciously can maintain the corneal thickness. The treatment efficacy will be evaluated when the 1‐year follow‐up is complete.MethodsA randomised clinical study using epithelium‐off CXL with continuous UVA irradiation (9 mW/cm2) and two kinds of riboflavin solutions: (i) isoosmolar dextran‐based riboflavin (n = 27) and (ii) hypoosmolar dextran‐free riboflavin (n = 27). Inclusion criteria: progressive keratoconus with an increase in maximum keratometry value (Kmax) of 1.0 dioptre (12 months) or 0.5 dioptres (6 months). Corneae thinner than 400 μm were also included. Outcome parameters: Perioperative corneal thickness and the effect of adding SW.ResultsSeventy‐four per cent of the patients in the isoosmolar group and 15% in the hypoosmolar group required the addition of SW, which effectively maintained a corneal thickness of 400 μm in all cases during CXL. The addition of SW was primarily needed during the irradiation procedure and not the preoperative soaking period.ConclusionsEspecially during the CXL irradiation phase, isoosmolar riboflavin causes a significant dehydrating effect leading to corneal thinning during CXL. The customised addition of SW is efficacious in maintaining the corneal thickness during CXL and could increase the safety of the procedure.
Is the devil in the details? A qualitative exploration of differentiated mindsets during job search
Authors: Keating Lauren A. , Heslin Peter A. 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThe literature on mindsets about the plasticity of personal attributes is largely comprised of between‐person studies examining the self‐regulatory implications of fixed and growth mindsets. Less attention has been paid to whether mindsets differ at the within‐person level, such that individuals simultaneously hold differentiated mindsets about specific abilities. In the context of a looming job loss, we conducted a qualitative investigation into whether job seekers hold different mindsets regarding their job‐related networking, vacancy searching, interviewing, and negotiating abilities. Beyond the present study providing evidence of differentiated mindsets about abilities, it illustrates how qualitative methods can enable the detection of more nuance in mindsets than is currently captured in the almost universally quantitative mindset literature. These nuances include observations of how mindsets are deduced from one's experiences, the prevalence of mixed mindsets wherein individuals hold both fixed‐ and growth‐oriented views, and that self‐labeling is not only the province of fixed mindsets. Such insights have important implications for both updating assumptions about the ontology of mindsets, as well as for facilitating job seekers' engagement in various job search initiatives.
Effect of zamicastat on blood pressure and heart rate response to cold pressor test: A double‐blind, randomized, placebo‐controlled study in healthy subjects
Authors: Fonseca Marlene , Ribeiro Cheila , Castilla‐Fernández Guillermo , Gama Helena , Magalhães Luís , Henriques Sara Carolina , Silva Nuno , Pinto Filipe , Almeida Luís , Soares‐da‐Silva Patrício 
Published: July 2024

AbstractAimsDopamine beta‐hydroxylase (DβH) inhibitors, like zamicastat, hold promise for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension. This study aimed to validate the mechanism of action of zamicastat by studying its effect on the overdrive of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS).MethodsA single‐centre, prospective, double‐blind, randomized, placebo‐controlled, crossover study evaluated the effect of 400 mg zamicastat in 22 healthy male subjects. Cold pressor test (CPT) was performed at screening and each treatment period on Days −1 and 10. Plasma and 24 h‐urine levels of dopamine (DA), epinephrine (EPI) and norepinephrine (NE), and plasma DβH activity, were measured.ResultsCompared to placebo, zamicastat showed a − 4.62 mmHg decrease in systolic blood pressure during the cold stimulus vs. rest phases on Day 10 of CPT (P = .020). Zamicastat decreased mean arterial pressure response to cold stimulus during CPT (−2.62 mmHg; P = .025). At Day 10, zamicastat significantly increased plasma DA, before CPT (12.63 ng/L; P = .040) and after CPT (19.22 ng/L; P = .001) as well as the estimated plasma EPI change from baseline after CPT (P = .040). Inhibition of plasma DβH activity ranged from 19.8% to 25.0%. At Day 10, significant reductions in 24‐h urinary excretion of EPI (P = .002) and NE (P = .001) were observed. Zamicastat Cτ geometric mean ± GSD ranged from 45.86 ± 1.46 ng/mL on Day 3 to 58.64 ± 1.52 ng/mL on Day 10, with moderate inter‐individual variability (CV: 32.6%–36.6%). Steady state was already achieved on Day 6.ConclusionsOur results demonstrated the effect of zamicastat on the overdrive sympathetic response to cold stimulus, confirming its potential as SNS modulator.