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Green thinking: impact of smart technologies on supply chain management
Authors: Verma Amitabh 
Published: May 2024

Purpose
The purpose of this research is to determine how supply chain management (SCM) might be less affected by COVID-19 by using innovative technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), eco-friendly corporate practices and other digital advancements. It strongly emphasizes the use of technology to improve supply networks’ and Omani firms’ performance.

Design/methodology/approach
Using a mixed-methods research strategy, this study integrates both qualitative and quantitative approaches. It involves a survey and interviews with supply chain and IT managers from various industries in Oman to gather data and evaluate the impact of technology on SCM.

Findings
This study finds that IoT capabilities, smart technologies (STs) and green practices significantly mitigate COVID-19 impacts on SCM. The performance of the supply chain and the business are both improved by these technologies’ positive effects on integrating various supply chain elements, such as suppliers, internal processes and customer relations.

Research limitations/implications
The main constraint of this study is its concentration on businesses in Oman, potentially restricting the applicability of its findings to broader contexts. Future studies could investigate similar frameworks across various geographic and industry settings.

Practical implications
The findings suggest that incorporating STs into SCM is crucial for enhancing operational efficiency and resilience against disruptions such as COVID-19. This offers valuable insights for managers and policymakers in adopting technology-driven strategies for SCM.

Social implications
This study highlights the significant role of technology in sustaining supply chains during pandemics, thereby supporting economic stability and societal well-being. It underscores the importance of technological advancements in maintaining supply chain continuity in challenging times.

Originality/value
By empirically examining the effect of emerging technologies on enhancing SCM in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically in the Oman market, this research makes a unique contribution to the body of knowledge.
Enhancing organizational performance through knowledge-oriented leadership: the neglected role of employee creative work behavior and digital citizenship behavior in IT industry
Authors: Gu Aihua , Nawaz Amjad , Abbas Sher , Lv Bochao 
Published: May 2024

PurposeDrawing upon Drucker’s theory of productivity, this study proposes to examine the relationship between knowledge-oriented leadership (KOL) and knowledge worker performance (KWP) within the Chinese information technology (IT) industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, this study examines the direct connection between KWP and organizational performance (OP), as well as mediated via employee creative work behavior (ECWB), and digital citizenship behavior (DCB).Design/methodology/approachThe data for the research was collected from a sample size of 322 individuals working in the IT industry context in China, with varying levels of seniority (lower, middle and upper). The relationship was examined by employing Smart PLS 4 in a current study.FindingsThe study findings revealed a significant and conspicuous effect of KOL on KWP. The outcomes divulged the fact that KOL has a positive impact on the ECWB, and DCB improves the performance of knowledge workers, resulting in an overall augmentation in the organizational performance of the IT industry.Originality/valuePresently, there exist a scarcity of substantial empirical studies to thoroughly examine the influence of KOL, ECWB, DCB, KWP and OP in the domain of Chinese IT industry research, particularly in the setting of the pandemic. The study makes a substantial contribution to the extant literature on the topic via empirically examining the association among KOL, KWP and organizational performance, as well as evaluating the mediation mechanism of both employee creative work behavior and digital citizenship behavior.
Environmental sustainability driven by ICT capital, financial efficiency, and tourism toward achieving green growth
Authors: Tan Song , Do Phuong Huyen , Mughal Nafeesa , Muda Iskandar , Al‐Abyadh Mohammed Hasan Ali 
Published: May 2024

AbstractDespite the significant increase in Information and communication technology (ICT) diffusion, tourism development, and financial development in China, their plausible combined effect on green growth (GG) has not been investigated, leaving a gap in the current literature. This study contributes to the literature by examining the impact of ICT diffusion, tourism activity, and financial development on GG in China over the period 1996–2020. The Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and Quantile ARDL (QARDL) techniques applied to provide empirical evidence, which infers that ICT diffusion urges GG in China in the long‐and‐short‐run. Financial development, which is measured through financial market efficiency and financial institution efficiency, tends to improve GG in China in the long run. The estimated results report a positive nexus between tourism activity and GG at the highest quantiles in the long run. In the end, important policy suggestions are provided for accelerating sustainable GG in China.
Food authentication, current issues, analytical techniques, and future challenges: A comprehensive review
Authors: Haider Ali , Iqbal Shahzad Zafar , Bhatti Ijaz Ahmad , Alim Muhammad Bilal , Waseem Muhammad , Iqbal Munawar , Mousavi Khaneghah Amin 
Published: May 2024

AbstractFood authentication and contamination are significant concerns, especially for consumers with unique nutritional, cultural, lifestyle, and religious needs. Food authenticity involves identifying food contamination for many purposes, such as adherence to religious beliefs, safeguarding health, and consuming sanitary and organic food products. This review article examines the issues related to food authentication and food fraud in recent periods. Furthermore, the development and innovations in analytical techniques employed to authenticate various food products are comprehensively focused. Food products derived from animals are susceptible to deceptive practices, which can undermine customer confidence and pose potential health hazards due to the transmission of diseases from animals to humans. Therefore, it is necessary to employ suitable and robust analytical techniques for complex and high‐risk animal‐derived goods, in which molecular biomarker‐based (genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) techniques are covered. Various analytical methods have been employed to ascertain the geographical provenance of food items that exhibit rapid response times, low cost, nondestructiveness, and condensability.
Accuracy and completeness of registry‐reported unicompartmental knee arthroplasty revision
Authors: Chen William , Tay Mei Lin , Bolam Scott , Monk A. Paul , Young Simon W 
Published: May 2024

AbstractIntroductionThe key outcome of joint registries is revision events, which inform clinical practice and identify poor‐performing implants. Registries record revision events and reasons, but accuracy may be limited by a lack of standardized definitions of revision. Our study aims to assess the accuracy and completeness of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) revision and indications reported to the New Zealand Joint Registry (NZJR) with independent clinical review.MethodsCase record review of 2272 patients undergoing primary UKA at four large tertiary hospitals between 2000 and 2017 was performed, identifying 158 patients who underwent revision. Detailed review of clinical findings, radiographs and operative data was performed to identify revision cases and the reasons for revision using a standardized protocol. These were compared to NZJR data using chi‐squared and Fisher exact tests.ResultsThe NZJR recorded 150 (95%) of all UKA revisions. Osteoarthritis progression was the most common reason on the systematic clinical review (35%), however, this was underreported to the registry (8%, P < 0.001). A larger proportion of revisions reported to the registry were for ‘pain’ (30% of cases vs. 5% on clinical review, P < 0.001). A reason for revision was not reported to the registry for 10% of cases.ConclusionThe NZJR had good capture of UKA revisions, but had significant differences in registry‐reported revision reasons compared to our independent systematic clinical review. These included over‐reporting of ‘pain’, under‐reporting of osteoarthritis progression, and failing to identify a revision reason. Efforts to improve registry capture of revision reasons for UKA could be addressed through more standardized definitions of revision and tailored revision options for UKA on registry forms.
Human ancient DNA analysis in Latin America: Current state and challenges
Authors: de la Fuente Castro Constanza , Figueiro Gonzalo 
Published: May 2024

AbstractAncient DNA analysis has greatly contributed to understanding the population history of several species. In the last 20 years, the field has undergone an important transformation: particularly in our species, thousands of ancient genomes have been analyzed worldwide, providing evidence of population movements and interactions through time. However, several researchers have raised concerns about the way the field is developing and how collaborations are being established. In this work, we describe and evaluate the situation in Latin America, considering both what we have learned about population history through paleogenetics and how it has developed in the region.
Hidden curriculum: Voices of Chinese rural migrant children
Authors: Li Luyao , Curdt‐Christiansen Xiao Lan 
Published: May 2024

AbstractUnited Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10 emphasises the need to ‘reduce inequality within and among countries.’ In line with this goal, this study focuses on the educational experiences of five rural migrant children from an urban village in China. Using the concept of hidden curriculum (HC), the study explores whether these children have encountered social exclusion in their schools. Through interviews and observations, the study shows that the HC is not easily discernible but subtly influences students, teachers, and parents, resulting in a certain degree of social exclusion within various educational facets. Reducing inequalities through education presents significant challenges, requiring sustained efforts.
Improved Perception of Aggression Under (un)Related Threat of Shock
Authors: Silva Fábio , Garrido Marta I. , Soares Sandra C. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractAnxiety shifts visual attention and perceptual mechanisms, preparing oneself to detect potentially threatening information more rapidly. Despite being demonstrated for threat‐related social stimuli, such as fearful expressions, it remains unexplored if these effects encompass other social cues of danger, such as aggressive gestures/actions. To this end, we recruited a total of 65 participants and asked them to identify, as quickly and accurately as possible, potentially aggressive actions depicted by an agent. By introducing and manipulating the occurrence of electric shocks, we induced safe and threatening conditions. In addition, the association between electric shocks and aggression was also manipulated. Our result showed that participants have improved sensitivity, with no changes to criterion, when detecting aggressive gestures during threat compared to safe conditions. Furthermore, drift diffusion model analysis showed that under threat participants exhibited faster evidence accumulation toward the correct perceptual decision. Lastly, the relationship between threat source and aggression appeared to not impact any of the effects described above. Overall, our results indicate that the benefits gained from states of anxiety, such as increased sensitivity toward threat and greater evidence accumulation, are transposable to social stimuli capable of signaling danger other than facial expressions.
On the anomaly tilts of factor funds
Authors: Broman Markus S. , Moneta Fabio 
Published: May 2024

AbstractBy analyzing portfolio holdings, we find that a significant subset of hedged mutual funds (HMFs) and smart‐beta exchange‐traded funds (ETFs) tilt their portfolios toward well‐known anomaly characteristics and that such tilts are highly persistent. Short positions of HMFs are important for amplifying their factor tilts. Moreover, HMFs with large factor tilts outperform corresponding ETFs, or HMFs with contrary tilts, both before and after accounting for implementation costs and fees. We link this outperformance to the use of short positions and higher factor‐related returns. Finally, we show that only HMFs achieve similar performance (net of costs) as the academic factors.
Offensive Heritage in an Era of Globalization and Mass Migration
Authors: Demetriou Dan , Wingo Ajume 
Published: May 2024

ABSTRACTEssays on the ethics of monuments tend to focus on their morality in relation to domestic populations. In this article we turn our attention to how the principles we favor for the ‘ingroup’ apply to various ‘outgroups’, including foreigners and foreign governments, guest workers, visiting scholars, forcibly annexed or colonized peoples, and migrant communities. It argues that nations have a prima facie moral right to erect and maintain monuments offensive to foreigners and foreign governments or (in the case of institutions) rivals. Furthermore, we hold that whereas prospective immigrants have little standing to advocate for the removal of monuments they find offensive in their receiving countries, those who have been forcibly annexed have a much greater claim to inoffensive memorialization, contingent on their willingness to be countrymen with the descendants of their former oppressors and principles of reasonably charitable interpretation. Lastly, the article advocates for the protection of heritage landscapes from foreign influence and highlights the responsibilities of migrant populations to avoid memorializing their old grievances in ways that undermine the interests of their adopted nations.
Incidence of primary hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs during 2012–2020 in Athens, Greece
Authors: Roussos Sotirios , Bagos Christos , Angelopoulos Theodoros , Chaikalis Savvas , Cholongitas Evangelos , Savvanis Spyridon , Papadopoulos Nikolaos , Kapatais Andreas , Chounta Athina , Ioannidou Panagiota , Deutsch Melani , Manolakopoulos Spilios , Sevastianos Vasileios , Papageorgiou Maria‐Vasiliki , Vlachogiannakos Ioannis , Mela Maria , Elefsiniotis Ioannis , Vrakas Spyridon , Karagiannakis Dimitrios , Pliarchopoulou Fani , Psichogiou Mina , Paraskevis Dimitrios , Vickerman Peter , Malliori Meni , Kalamitsis Georgios , Papatheodoridis Georgios , Hatzakis Angelos , Sypsa Vana 
Published: May 2024

AbstractOne of the World Health Organization's targets for the 2030 viral hepatitis elimination strategy is to reduce new hepatitis C (HCV) infections. In Athens, Greece, people who inject drugs (PWID) have a high HCV prevalence, with increasing trends since the 2000s. This analysis aims to assess primary HCV incidence among PWID during 2012–2020. Two community‐based interventions were implemented in 2012–2013 and 2018–2020 with repeated sero‐behavioural surveys in each period. Participants enrolled in multiple surveys were identified through linkage. To assess trends in HCV transmission, three indicators were estimated: (i) anti‐HCV prevalence among ‘new’ injectors (those injecting ≤2 years), (ii) indirect HCV incidence among ‘new’ injectors, assuming infection occurred at the midpoint between initiating injection and the first positive test, and (iii) HCV incidence from repeat participants. There were 431 and 125 ‘new’ injectors, respectively, in 2012–2013 and 2018–2020. Αnti‐HCV prevalence [95% CI] declined from 53.6% [48.8%, 58.3%] in 2012–2013 to 40.0% [31.3, 49.1%] in 2018–2020 (25.4% reduction, p = .007). The indirect estimate [95% CI] of HCV incidence among ‘new’ injectors decreased from 56.1 [49.3, 63.8] to 39.0/100 person‐years (PYs) [29.6, 51.5] (30.5% reduction, p = .020). HCV incidence [95% CI] based on seroconversions in repeat participants (16/63 in 2012–2013 and 9/55 in 2018–2020) declined from 64.6 [39.6105.4] to 13.8/100 PYs [7.2, 26.5], respectively (78.6% reduction, p < .001). Primary HCV incidence remains high among PWID in Athens. Consistent implementation of combined interventions, including high‐coverage harm reduction programs and initiatives tailored to increase access to HCV treatment, is essential to sustain the declining trends documented during 2012–2020.
The assessment of pathways towards suicide in adolescent patients: A PDM‐2‐oriented approach
Authors: Williams Riccardo , Fiorentino Flavia , Lingiardi Vittorio , Moselli Marta , Sharp Carla , Tanzilli Annalisa 
Published: May 2024

AbstractObjectivesIncreasing evidence has supported the mutual relationship between suicidal motivations and personality pathology, especially in adolescence. Distinctive aspects of personality functioning can explain the tendency to resort to suicidal ideation and behaviours, which, in turn, may play a specific role in exacerbating severe impairments in self‐regulation mechanisms that underlie personality pathology.DesignThis study illustrates, through two clinical cases, the clinical utility of using the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual – Second Edition (PDM‐2) to better understand distinct pathways of suicidal processes.MethodsTwo adolescents, named Luis and Gael, who attempted suicide multiple times were assessed using the Psychodiagnostic Chart Adolescent (PDC‐A) of the PDM‐2 to evaluate their mental functioning, emerging personality styles or syndromes, and symptom patterns. They were interviewed using the Motivational Interview for Suicidality in Adolescence (MIS‐A) to identify the motivations underpinning their suicidal behaviour.ResultsThe results showed that Luis presented a narcissistic personality characterized by the need to deny his vulnerabilities through suicidal fantasies as a form of escape, while Gael presented a borderline personality characterized by the use of suicide attempts to express her inner and unspeakable pain.ConclusionThe study seems to support the reciprocal interconnections between personality functioning and suicidal motivations that should be better identified to plan tailored and more effective interventions.
Comprehensive analysis of clinical images contributions for melanoma classification using convolutional neural networks
Authors: Rios‐Duarte Jorge A. , Diaz‐Valencia Andres C. , Combariza Germán , Feles Miguel , Peña‐Silva Ricardo A. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractBackgroundTimely diagnosis plays a critical role in determining melanoma prognosis, prompting the development of deep learning models to aid clinicians. Questions persist regarding the efficacy of clinical images alone or in conjunction with dermoscopy images for model training. This study aims to compare the classification performance for melanoma of three types of CNN models: those trained on clinical images, dermoscopy images, and a combination of paired clinical and dermoscopy images from the same lesion.Materials and MethodsWe divided 914 image pairs into training, validation, and test sets. Models were built using pre‐trained Inception‐ResNetV2 convolutional layers for feature extraction, followed by binary classification. Training comprised 20 models per CNN type using sets of random hyperparameters. Best models were chosen based on validation AUC‐ROC.ResultsSignificant AUC‐ROC differences were found between clinical versus dermoscopy models (0.661 vs. 0.869, p < 0.001) and clinical versus clinical + dermoscopy models (0.661 vs. 0.822, p = 0.001). Significant sensitivity differences were found between clinical and dermoscopy models (0.513 vs. 0.799, p = 0.01), dermoscopy versus clinical + dermoscopy models (0.799 vs. 1.000, p = 0.02), and clinical versus clinical + dermoscopy models (0.513 vs. 1.000, p < 0.001). Significant specificity differences were found between dermoscopy versus clinical + dermoscopy models (0.800 vs. 0.288, p < 0.001) and clinical versus clinical + dermoscopy models (0.650 vs. 0.288, p < 0.001).ConclusionCNN models trained on dermoscopy images outperformed those relying solely on clinical images under our study conditions. The potential advantages of incorporating paired clinical and dermoscopy images for CNN‐based melanoma classification appear less clear based on our findings.
MiRNA‐224‐5p regulates the defective permeability barrier in sensitive skin by targeting claudin‐5
Authors: Yang Li , Wu Wen‐Juan , Lyu Le‐Chun , Tu Ying , Gu Hua , Chen Xiang‐Feng , Chai Yan‐Jie , Man Mao‐Qiang , He Li 
Published: May 2024

AbstractBackgroundSensitive skin is hypersensitive to various external stimuli and a defective epidermal permeability barrier is an important clinical feature of sensitive skin. Claudin‐5 (CLDN5) expression levels decrease in sensitive skin. This study aimed to explore the impact of CLDN5 deficiency on the permeability barrier in sensitive skin and the regulatory role of miRNAs in CLDN5 expression.Materials and methodsA total of 26 patients were retrospectively enrolled, and the CLDN5 expression and permeability barrier dysfunction in vitro were assessed. Then miRNA‐224‐5p expression was also assessed in sensitive skin.ResultsImmunofluorescence and electron microscopy revealed reduced CLDN5 expression, increased miR‐224‐5p expression, and disrupted intercellular junctions in sensitive skin. CLDN5 knockdown was associated with lower transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER) and Lucifer yellow penetration in keratinocytes and organotypic skin models. The RNA‐seq and qRT‐PCR results indicated elevated miR‐224‐5p expression in sensitive skin; MiR‐224‐5p directly interacted with the 3`UTR of CLDN5, resulting in CLDN5 deficiency in the luciferase reporter assay. Finally, miR‐224‐5p reduced TEER in keratinocyte cultures.ConclusionThese results suggest that the miR‐224‐5p‐induced reduction in CLDN5 expression leads to impaired permeability barrier function, and that miR‐224‐5p could be a potential therapeutic target for sensitive skin.