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Corporate sustainability and performance: a bibliometric review for two decades
Authors: Jadhav Dhawal Sharad , Sarangi Subrat 
Published: April 2024

PurposeOver the past years, business strategies have been designed to improve ‘firms' financial and non-financial performances and achieve sustainable development, leading to corporate sustainability. This article is a bibliometric analysis of two decades of the relationship between corporate sustainability and firm performance, identifying the research focus and the gaps for future research.Design/methodology/approachThe bibliometric review of corporate sustainability and performance research is between January 2004 and June 2023. As per the Web of Science database, the theme's research commenced around 2004, growing gradually till 2023. Five hundred thirty-nine published articles by peer-reviewed ABDC-indexed A and A* journals in English have been reviewed. The bibliometrix package in R software is used with VOSviewer for the bibliometric analysis.FindingsThe study's findings indicate a lack of research on the theme from developed and underdeveloped nations. Further, the analysis reveals five clusters of research: (1) business sustainability, (2) corporate sustainability reporting, (3) corporate sustainability, strategy, and innovation, (4) stakeholder and corporate sustainability, and e) corporate sustainability assessment.Originality/valueThe future research areas proposed are on two major themes, namely, corporate sustainability and organizational competitive advantage, including sub-themes such as “Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and financial performance” and “greenhouse-gas emissions” and “market orientations,” respectively. There is a need for more research in developing markets, a comprehensive definition of corporate sustainability, and further exploration of the theme linking strategy and innovation.
The role of corporate social advocacy forms in shaping young adults’ responses
Authors: Kim Joon Kyoung , Moon Won-Ki , Lee Jegoo 
Published: April 2024

PurposeThis study aims to examine the role of different forms of corporate social advocacy (CSA) in shaping individuals’ attitudinal and behavioral intentions towards companies taking their public stand on controversial socio-political issues. With an online experiment as the research method, this study tests whether depicting nonpolitical or political behaviors in CSA messages increases individuals’ positive behavioral intentions.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a single factor between subject online experiment. A total of 135 US young adults were recruited through a Qualtrics online panel. Three social media mockups were created to manipulate three levels of actions in CSA messages (no action, nonpolitical action and political action). Participants viewed one of those social media posts depicting presented actions to counter anti-LGBTQ + legislation in the USA and answered questions about values-driven motives behind CSA, brand preference and positive word-of-mouth (WOM) intention.FindingsParticipants displayed higher levels of brand preference when they viewed CSA messages depicting the company’s political action intended to repel anti-LGBTQ + legislation. Participants showed more positive WOM intentions towards the company when they perceived its political actions as more values-driven.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study offer practical insights to companies when designing CSA messages and strategies. The results of this study indicate that the presence of political actions in CSA communication increases individuals’ positive behaviors towards companies. The results also suggest that depicting altruistic motives behind CSA leads individuals to talk about companies more in positive ways.Originality/valueThis study is one of the early studies investigating the impact of various forms of CSA on individuals’ attitudinal and behavioral intentions to companies practicing CSA. This study provides practical implications on how to effectively appeal individuals’ favorable attitudes and behaviors towards CSA. In particular, this research presents the importance of action aspects in individuals’ attitudes toward corporations’ CSA messages.
Smart tourism destinations: an overview of current research trends and a future research agenda
Authors: Gursoy Dogan , Luongo Simone , Della Corte Valentina , Sepe Fabiana 
Published: April 2024

Purpose
This study aims to provide an overview of the evolution of knowledge on smart destinations and identify the key issues addressed in the smart destination research domain, the main themes and sub-themes and research gaps in smart destination research as well as the future research agenda to address those gaps.

Design/methodology/approach
A bibliometric analysis of 409 studies published on smart destinations literature was conducted using the Bibliometrix R-package to provide a comprehensive review of studies published on smart destinations and identify the main research themes, gaps in the literature and future research opportunities.

Findings
Based on the research findings, a conceptual model of smart destination research has been proposed. This conceptual model can serve as a foundation for further knowledge generation in this research area. The findings also shed light on future research directions, highlighting research opportunities for the exploitation of cutting-edge innovations and digitalization across various dimensions of smart destinations.

Originality/value
Although past research has paid attention to the theme of smart destinations, this work advances scientific knowledge by providing a foundation for a new smart destination management paradigm focusing on accessibility, sustainability, digitization, experience co-creation and creativity as milestones.
Developing an integrated blood supply chain network in disaster conditions considering multi-purpose capabilities
Authors: Jami Mohsen , Izadbakhsh Hamidreza , Arshadi Khamseh Alireza 
Published: April 2024

Purpose
This study aims to minimize the cost and time of blood delivery in the whole blood supply chain network (BSCN) in disaster conditions. In other words, integrating all strategic, tactical and operational decisions of three levels of blood collection, processing and distribution leads to satisfying the demand at the right time.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper proposes an integrated BSCN in disaster conditions to consider four categories of facilities, including temporary blood collection centers, field hospitals, main blood processing centers and medical centers, to optimize demand response time appropriately. The proposed model applies the location of all permanent and emergency facilities in three levels: blood collection, processing and distribution. Other essential decisions, including multipurpose facilities, emergency transportation, inventory and allocation, were also used in the model. The LP metric method is applied to solve the proposed bi-objective mathematical model for the BSCN.

Findings
The findings show that this model clarifies its efficiency in the total cost and blood delivery time reduction, which results in a low carbon transmission of the blood supply chain.

Originality/value
The researchers proposed an integrated BSCN in disaster conditions to minimize the cost and time of blood delivery. They considered multipurpose capabilities for facilities (e.g. field hospitals are responsible for the three purposes of blood collection, processing and distribution), and so locating permanent and emergency facilities at three levels of blood collection, processing and distribution, support facilities, emergency transportation and traffic on the route with pollution were used to present a new model.
Tourism demand modelling and forecasting: a Horizon 2050 paper
Authors: Song Haiyan , Zhang Hanyuan 
Published: April 2024

Purpose
The aim of this paper is to provide a narrative review of previous research on tourism demand modelling and forecasting and potential future developments.

Design/methodology/approach
A narrative approach is taken in this review of the current body of knowledge.

Findings
Significant methodological advancements in tourism demand modelling and forecasting over the past two decades are identified.

Originality/value
The distinct characteristics of the various methods applied in the field are summarised and a research agenda for future investigations is proposed.
Linguistic features in narrative and opinion genres and their relations to writing quality in fourth grade writing
Authors: Wang Jiali , Kim Young‐Suk Grace , Cho Minkyung 
Published: April 2024

BackgroundWe examined linguistic features in fourth graders' narrative and opinion writing and their relations to writing quality. We analysed narrative and opinion essays in terms of lexical sophistication and diversity as well as syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, and morphological complexity.MethodsData were from English‐speaking students in Grade 4 (N = 129; 50% female) in the United States, majority of whom were from low socioeconomic status background. Paired t tests were used to analyse differences of linguistic features between the two genres. Hierarchical regression models were run to examine how language features are related to writing quality.ResultsWords in the narrative task were more diverse and included more diverse verbal inflectional morphemes than those in the opinion task; syntactic complexity was significantly greater in the opinion genre, manifested by longer T‐units and the more frequent use of adverbial and relative clauses. Approximately 80% of T‐units were grammatical and 20% were ungrammatical. Syntactic accuracy and verbal morphological complexity of words were positively related to writing quality in the narrative task. Additionally, syntactic complexity measured by clauses per T‐unit, verbal and nominal morphological complexity of words were uniquely related to writing quality in the opinion genre.ConclusionsThe findings highlight the limited extent to which Grade 4 students use complex syntax in their writing. The study also supports the critical role of linguistic features in writing quality and shows both similarities and differences in language use in two important writing genres, narrative and opinion, in elementary grades.
‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900
Authors: Maxwell Fiona 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational speech to allocate artistic and political participation equally across genders. Women expanded their expressive range and political aspirations, while men gained new understandings of manliness and women's rights. With the onset of muscular masculinity in the 1890s, oratory students reworked their performance culture into an act of campus resistance and a blueprint for social reform.
A method for sampling the living wood microbiome
Authors: Arnold Wyatt , Gewirtzman Jonathan , Raymond Peter A. , Bradford Mark A. , Butler Claire , Peccia Jordan 
Published: April 2024

Abstract

Efforts to characterize microbial life across diverse environments have progressed tremendously, yet the microbiome of Earth's largest biomass reservoir—the wood of living trees—has been largely unexplored. Current understanding of the tree microbiome is largely confined to roots and leaves, with little attention given to the endophytic microbiome of wood, even though emergent studies have indicated this zone as a niche for unique taxa, of consequence for ecosystem health and global biogeochemical cycles. The lack of investigation derives partly from the physical recalcitrance of wood, which presents challenges during sampling, homogenization, and the extraction of nucleic acids.

In response to these issues, we present an optimized method for processing wood for use in microbial analyses, from sampling through to downstream analyses.

Using methane‐cycling taxa as model endophytes, we assess losses in recovery during our method, and determine a limit‐of‐detection of approximately 500 cells per 100 mg of (dry) wood. For all six species evaluated—which represented several diverse taxa of hardwoods and softwoods—PCR inhibition proved minimal, and we expect this method to be applicable for a majority of tree species.

The methods presented herein can facilitate future investigation into the wood microbiome and global microbial ecology of methane cycling.
Interpretation bias for ambiguous scenarios among individuals with high and low levels of empathy
Authors: Fang Yuanyuan , Xu Ting , Li Haijiang 
Published: April 2024

AbstractEmpathy is the ability to understand and resonate with the emotions of others, typically requiring individuals to infer others' emotional status through the information around them. However, this information is often ambiguous and it is unknown whether individuals with high empathy have a bias in interpreting contextual information. Therefore, this study investigated how individuals with low and high empathy interpret other‐relevant scenarios in Study 1 (N = 98) and self‐relevant scenarios in Study 2 (N = 95), by using the scenarios task and the Sentence Word Association Paradigm (SWAP) separately. Study 1 observed that, for interpretations of other‐relevant scenarios, the high‐empathy group showed greater likelihood ratings for negative interpretations than those with low‐empathy in both social and non‐social scenarios. Study 2 found that, for interpretations of self‐relevant scenarios, the high‐empathy group differed from the low‐empathy group only on non‐social scenarios but not on social scenarios. Specifically, individuals with high empathy were more likely to report a relationship between a negative word and an ambiguous scenario compared to those with low empathy in self‐relevant non‐social scenarios. The study first revealed a bias for highly empathetic individuals to regard the ambiguous scenarios as negative in other‐relevant and self‐relevant scenarios, except for self‐relevant social scenarios.
Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bacillus subtilis significantly change the growth performance, serum immunity and cecal microbiota of Cherry Valley ducks during the fattening period
Authors: Zhang Menghui , Yu Anan , Wu Hongzhi , Xiong Xiaolan , Li Jianhui , Chen Li 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis study explored the effects of a Bacillus subtilis and Lactobacillus acidophilus mixture containing the co‐fermented products of the two probiotics on growth performance, serum immunity and cecal microbiota of Cherry Valley ducks. This study included 480 one‐day‐old Cherry Valley ducks divided into four feeding groups: basal diet (control group) and basal diet supplemented with 300, 500, or 700 mg/kg of the probiotic powder; the ducks were raised for 42 days. Compared with the control group, body weight on day 42 and the average daily gain on days 15–42 significantly increased (p < 0.05), and the feed conversion rate significantly decreased (p < 0.05) in the experimental groups. Furthermore, the serum immunoglobulin (Ig) A, IgG, IgM, and interleukin (IL)‐4 levels increased significantly (p < 0.05), and IL‐1β, IL‐2, and tumor necrosis factor‐α decreased significantly (p < 0.05) in the experimental groups. Finally, Sellimonas, Prevotellaceae NK3B31 group, Lachnospiraceae NK4A136 group and Butyricoccus played an important role in the cecal microbiota of the experimental group. Thus, the probiotic powder has impacts on the growth performance, serum immunity and cecal microbiota of Cherry Valley Ducks.
Eculizumab administration for myasthenia gravis also stabilizes thrombogenicity of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
Authors: Takahashi Sunao , Sanjo Nobuo , Koike Ryuji , Yokota Takanori 
Published: April 2024

AbstractBackgroundThe co‐occurrence of myasthenia gravis and primary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is rare. Notably, both the diseases share common complement‐mediated mechanisms.Case PresentationA 36‐year‐old woman, who was previously diagnosed with myasthenia gravis and APS, developed multiple embolisms, involving the brain, kidney and spleen, with severe anemia and platelet reduction. She was diagnosed as catastrophic APS, and intensive immunotherapies, including plasma exchange, high‐dose corticosteroid and rituximab, were introduced. After these therapies, symptoms of both APS and myasthenia gravis worsened, consistent with elevation of immunoglobulin G anti‐beta‐2‐glycoprotein‐I antibody and anti‐acetylcholine receptor antibody. We started eculizumab, which resulted in stabilizing the disease activity of both diseases without notable adverse events.ConclusionsEculizumab can be effective for controlling multiple complement‐mediated pathophysiology.
Real‐time Neural Rendering of Dynamic Light Fields
Authors: Coomans Arno , Dominci Edoardo A. , Döring Christian , Mueller Joerg H. , Hladky Jozef , Steinberger Markus 
Published: April 2024

AbstractSynthesising high‐quality views of dynamic scenes via path tracing is prohibitively expensive. Although caching offline‐quality global illumination in neural networks alleviates this issue, existing neural view synthesis methods are limited to mainly static scenes, have low inference performance or do not integrate well with existing rendering paradigms. We propose a novel neural method that is able to capture a dynamic light field, renders at real‐time frame rates at 1920×1080 resolution and integrates seamlessly with Monte Carlo ray tracing frameworks. We demonstrate how a combination of spatial, temporal and a novel surface‐space encoding are each effective at capturing different kinds of spatio‐temporal signals. Together with a compact fully‐fused neural network and architectural improvements, we achieve a twenty‐fold increase in network inference speed compared to related methods at equal or better quality. Our approach is suitable for providing offline‐quality real‐time rendering in a variety of scenarios, such as free‐viewpoint video, interactive multi‐view rendering, or streaming rendering. Finally, our work can be integrated into other rendering paradigms, e.g., providing a dynamic background for interactive scenarios where the foreground is rendered with traditional methods.
Single‐Image SVBRDF Estimation with Learned Gradient Descent
Authors: Luo X. , Scandolo L. , Bousseau A. , Eisemann E. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractRecovering spatially‐varying materials from a single photograph of a surface is inherently ill‐posed, making the direct application of a gradient descent on the reflectance parameters prone to poor minima. Recent methods leverage deep learning either by directly regressing reflectance parameters using feed‐forward neural networks or by learning a latent space of SVBRDFs using encoder‐decoder or generative adversarial networks followed by a gradient‐based optimization in latent space. The former is fast but does not account for the likelihood of the prediction, i.e., how well the resulting reflectance explains the input image. The latter provides a strong prior on the space of spatially‐varying materials, but this prior can hinder the reconstruction of images that are too different from the training data. Our method combines the strengths of both approaches. We optimize reflectance parameters to best reconstruct the input image using a recurrent neural network, which iteratively predicts how to update the reflectance parameters given the gradient of the reconstruction likelihood. By combining a learned prior with a likelihood measure, our approach provides a maximum a posteriori estimate of the SVBRDF. Our evaluation shows that this learned gradient‐descent method achieves state‐of‐the‐art performance for SVBRDF estimation on synthetic and real images.
Pan‐striatal reduction in the expression of the astrocytic dopamine transporter precedes the development of dorsolateral striatum dopamine‐dependent incentive heroin seeking habits
Authors: Hynes Tristan , Fouyssac Maxime , Puaud Mickaël , Joshi Dhaval , Chernoff Chloe , Stiebahl Sonja , Michaud Lola , Belin David 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe emergence of compulsive drug‐seeking habits, a hallmark feature of substance use disorder, has been shown to be predicated on the engagement of dorsolateral striatal control over behaviour. This process involves the dopamine‐dependent functional coupling of the anterior dorsolateral striatum (aDLS) with the nucleus accumbens core, but the mechanisms by which this coupling occurs have not been fully elucidated. The striatum is tiled by a syncytium of astrocytes that express the dopamine transporter (DAT), the level of which is altered in individuals with heroin use disorder. Astrocytes are therefore uniquely placed functionally to bridge dopamine‐dependent mechanisms across the striatum. Here we tested the hypothesis that exposure to heroin influences the expression of DAT in striatal astrocytes across the striatum before the development of DLS‐dependent incentive heroin seeking habits. Using Western‐blot, qPCR, and RNAscope™, we measured DAT protein and mRNA levels in whole tissue, culture and in situ astrocytes from striatal territories of rats with a well‐established cue‐controlled heroin seeking habit and rats trained to respond for heroin or food under continuous reinforcement. Incentive heroin seeking habits were associated with a reduction in DAT protein levels in the anterior aDLS that was preceded by a heroin‐induced reduction in DAT mRNA and protein in astrocytes across the striatum. Striatal astrocytes were also shown to be susceptible to direct dopamine‐ and opioid‐induced downregulation of DAT expression. These results suggest that astrocytes may critically regulate the striatal dopaminergic adaptations that lead to the development of incentive heroin seeking habits.
Not an immune cell, but they may act like one—cells with immune properties outside the immune system
Authors: Typiak Marlena , Żurawa‐Janicka Dorota 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe cells presented in this work are not classified as cells that make up the immune system. They, however, present functions and molecules, which are characteristic of immune cells. These characteristic functions are, for example, sensing threat, performing phagocytosis, presentation of foreign antigens, cytokine release or enhancing immune memory. The enlisted immune response mechanisms are carried out by the possession of molecules such as Toll‐like receptors, receptors for the Fc fragment of IgG, major histocompatibility complex class II molecules, costimulatory CD80/CD86 proteins and molecules needed for NLRP3 (NOD‐like family pyrin domain containing 3) inflammasome activation. Thanks to these properties, the described nonimmune cells play an important role in the local immune response and support of the entire body in the fight against pathogens. They constitute the first line of defense of tissues and organs against pathogens and molecules recognized as harmful. The cells described in this article are particularly important in immunologically privileged places (e.g. the Bowman's capsule in the kidney), where “typical” immune cells normally do not have access. In this paper, we present immune‐like functions and molecule suites of resident kidney cells (podocytes and mesangial cells), cochlear resident cells, fibrocytes and fibroblasts, as well as some stem cells (mesenchymal stem cells and umbilical cord Wharton's jelly–derived cells).