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Distinguishing Clinical from Statistical Significances in Contemporary Comparative Effectiveness Research
Authors: Gikandi Ajami , Hallet Julie , Koerkamp Bas Groot , Clark Clancy J. , Lillemoe Keith D. , Narayan Raja R. , Mamon Harvey J. , Zenati Marco A. , Wasif Nabil , Safran Dana Gelb , Besselink Marc G. , Chang David C. , Traeger Lara N. , Weissman Joel S. , Fong Zhi Ven 
Published: February 2024

Objective:
To determine the prevalence of clinical significance reporting in contemporary comparative effectiveness research (CER).

Background:
In CER, a statistically significant difference between study groups may or may not be clinically significant. Misinterpreting statistically significant results could lead to inappropriate recommendations that increase healthcare costs and treatment toxicity.

Methods:
CER studies from 2022 issues of Annals of Surgery, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Surgical Research, and Journal of the American College of Surgeons were systematically reviewed by two different investigators. The primary outcome of interest was whether authors specified what they considered to be a clinically significant difference in the Methods.

Results:
Of 307 reviewed studies, 162 were clinical trials and 145 were observational studies. Authors specified what they considered to be a clinically significant difference in 26 studies (8.5%). Clinical significance was defined using clinically validated standards in 25 studies and subjectively in 1 study. Seven studies (2.3%) recommended a change in clinical decision-making, all with primary outcomes achieving statistical significance. Five (71.4%) of these studies did not have clinical significance defined in their methods. In randomized controlled trials with statistically significant results, sample size was inversely correlated with effect size (r=−0.30, P=0.038).

Conclusion:
In contemporary CER, most authors do not specify what they consider to be a clinically significant difference in study outcome. Most studies recommending a change in clinical-decision making did so based on statistical significance alone, and clinical significance was usually defined with clinically validated standards.
Nurturing teamwork and team dynamics in a hybrid work model
Authors: Buła Piotr , Thompson Anna , Żak Agnieszka Anna 
Published: February 2024

PurposeWe aimed to analyze the impact of the transition to the hybrid model of teamwork and team dynamics from the perspective of the five key challenges, i.e. communication, coordination, connection, creativity and culture.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve the stated aim, we conducted a literature review and then an exploratory qualitative study. We split the research into phases: December 2021 to January 2022 and July to August 2022. In the first phase, we conducted computer-assisted online interviews (CAWIs) with all members of the remote team and an in-depth interview with the manager. After the transition from remote to hybrid work in February 2022, we returned to the team to conduct in-depth interviews with team leaders and the manager.FindingsWe identified key findings, i.e. managerial implications of differences across the 5 Cs (communication, coordination, connection, creativity and culture) noted in the functioning of the analyzed team as the team shifted from fully remote work to the hybrid work model.Research limitations/implicationsWe concluded that if people do not spend time together and are not impregnated with the unique culture and values of a given organization, they will not feel a connection to its distinctive ethos and may choose to leave. In the longer-term, the last challenge may be the biggest single opportunity for employees post-pandemic and concurrently the single biggest challenge that organizational leadership will need to address, given that sustainable market success depends on talent.Originality/valueThe results showed that team communication, teamwork coordination, social and emotional connections among team members, nurturing of creativity, as well as of the organizational culture were of high importance to the team in the hybrid work model. Thus, we confirmed the findings of other authors. The study contributes to our understanding of the impact of the hybrid work model on teamwork and team dynamics and provides some guidance on how organizations can mitigate these, in particular through the team manager.
The impact of multiple sources of employees’ capital on judgments regarding potential for career advancement
Authors: Botelho Carlos 
Published: February 2024

PurposeThe human resource and talent management fields have been increasingly focusing on the process and criteria to identify employees’ potential for career advancement due to their impact on the competitive advantage of organizations. This paper expands the extant theoretical and empirical evidence regarding these complex decisions, namely through the combined analysis of multidimensional sources of employees' capital.Design/methodology/approachThis is a cross-sectional study. Data were collected from 384 individuals assessed by their line managers. The research model and hypotheses were tested using structured equation modeling.FindingsThe results show a positive and significant influence of four employees’ capital sources, namely: human capital (what you know), social capital (whom you know), psychological capital (who you are) and reputational capital (how others perceive us) with regard to judgments of potential for career advancement. The model explains 52% of the total variance in those judgments.Research limitations/implicationsThe data were collected using a questionnaire at a single point in time and thus, not allowing cause-effect inferences.Practical implicationsThe results provide guidance to organizational leaders to improve the decision-making process regarding judgments of potential for career advancement.Originality/valueTo our knowledge, this is the first study to examine managers’ judgments regarding the potential for career advancement using four sources of employees' capital: human, social, psychological and reputational capital. Furthermore, it considers that reputation plays a mediation role.
Changes in the labour market: the perceptions of Romanian employees regarding the use of telework in the post-pandemic period
Authors: Türkeş Mirela Cătălina , Stăncioiu Aurelia Felicia , Orzan Mihai Cristian , Jugănaru Mariana , Marinescu Roxana-Cristina , Jugănaru Ion Dănuț 
Published: February 2024

PurposeAlmost four years after the COVID-19 pandemic, the changes in the labour market and legislation, but also in people's lives, do not stop. At the same time, employees' perceptions regarding the change in the legislative and contractual framework, as well as in the working conditions and the use of telework, also change. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to identify the perceptions of employees regarding the use of telework in the post-pandemic period.Design/methodology/approachThe research was based on a survey carried out on 128 teleworkers in the post-pandemic period. The statistical hypotheses were tested using Kolmogorov–Smirnov and Kruskal–Wallis tests, multiple linear regression and pairwise comparison analysis.FindingsThe results of the study demonstrate that the modification of the legislative and contractual framework and of the working conditions, as well as of the way of using information and communication technology in the post-pandemic era, generates a positive and significant impact on the use of telework by employees. Some of the main advantages valued by teleworkers included the possibility of benefitting from a flexible work schedule and the possibility of reducing transport costs.Originality/valueThe study highlights the need to continuously develop and update labour policies and strategies in line with current and future labour market requirements, considering the implications of telework on the perceptions of employees, so that government organisations and managers who want to protect the rights and interests of teleworkers, aspects of their lives and organise an appropriate work environment manage to do so in order to achieve the expected results.
Discrimination malaise: exploring an unorthodox view
Authors: Vasconcelos Anselmo Ferreira 
Published: February 2024

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the prejudice and discrimination constructs through the lens of a transcendent knowledge concept.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper seeks to demonstrate that Spiritism or Spiritist Doctrine (SD) – regarded here as a source of transcendent knowledge – offers compelling arguments and provides suitable explanations (i.e. transcendent ontology) in relation to the issue of discrimination

Findings
Overall, this paper contributes to a better understanding of diversity and inclusive perspectives by examining the antecedents and consequences of discrimination through the insightful lens of SD tenets. In this sense, the findings suggest that the discriminators and prejudiced people may ironically pass through – as a result of the law of cause and effect – the same hard situations (i.e. ordeals or nightmares) – even though in their future lives – that they impose in their current victims to forcefully open their minds, support universal values, enhance their own feelings and spiritual intelligence.

Practical implications
Evidence presented here (although conceptually in nature) could be somewhat integrated into training sections of diversity management. At a minimum, it may encourage the shift of attitudes, revision of embedded values and reflections about the spiritual consequences to the perpetrators of discrimination against minorities.

Originality/value
Taken as a whole, the SD tenets prompt us to understand that the acts of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination engender suffering for their perpetrators, even in their future lives (i.e. reincarnations). Broadly speaking, the SD principles compel us to consider transcendent knowledge even in the context of organizational life.
Exploring tensions of Industry 4.0 adoption in lean production systems from a dialectical perspective
Authors: Margherita Emanuele Gabriel , Braccini Alessio Maria 
Published: February 2024

PurposeThis paper uses dialectical inquiry to explore tensions that arise when adopting Industry 4.0 technologies in a lean production system and their reconciliation mechanisms.Design/methodology/approachWe conducted an in-depth qualitative case study over a 3-year period on an Italian division of an international electrotechnical organisation that produces electrical switches. This organisation successfully adopted Industry 4.0 technologies in a lean production system. The study is based on primary data such as observations and semi-structured interviews, along with secondary data.FindingsWe identify four empirically validated dialectic tensions arising across different Industry 4.0 adoption stages due to managers’ and workers’ contrasting interpretations of technologies. Consequently, we define the related reconciliation mechanisms that allow the effective adoption of various Industry 4.0 technologies to support a lean production system.Originality/valueThis is the first empirical investigation of tensions in the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in a lean production system. Furthermore, the paper presents four theoretical propositions and a conceptual model describing which tensions arise during the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in a lean production system and the reconciliation mechanisms that prevent lean production system deterioration.
How do physical and social servicescapes shape the effects of positive affective displays on customer purchase outcomes?
Authors: Chen Pei-Chi 
Published: February 2024

Purpose
This study aims to use emotions-as-social information theory to investigate how physical (customer perceived store atmosphere) and social servicescapes (customer information searching) influence the effects of employees’ positive affective displays on customer outcomes via customer positive moods and positive expectation disconfirmation.

Design/methodology/approach
This research included two studies, each using a distinct research design, to empirically test the proposed model. Study 1 involved 200 observational data points on objective purchase amounts from designer watch shops. In Study 2, data were collected from 230 customers in designer jewelry stores.

Findings
The results of path analyses revealed that: employee positive affective displays are positively associated with customer purchase outcomes; employee positive affective displays had positive indirect effects on customer purchase outcomes by enhancing customer positive moods and positive expectation disconfirmation; these positive indirect effects were strengthened when customers engaged in information search behaviors; and these positive indirect effects were attenuated when customers perceive store atmosphere as favorable, indicating a substitution effect of customer perceived store atmosphere.

Originality/value
Previous research has not thoroughly examined the role of the servicescape in moderating the effects of employees’ positive affective displays on customer purchase outcomes. This present study not only clarified the affective and cognitive mechanisms that link employees’ positive affective displays on purchase outcomes but also identified servicescape as a critical boundary condition of these effects.
Was Einhard a widower?
Authors: Rembold Ingrid 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category. In the absence of developed models of male ‘widowhood’, this article considers the case study of Einhard, whose letter of bereavement appears to offer a rare glimpse into early medieval interiority. Einhard did not experience the same socio‐economic and legal consequences of female widowhood. But was he, in his own rhetorical self‐expression, a male widow?
Digital resilience framework for managing crisis: A qualitative study in the higher education and research sector
Authors: Mahmood Samreen , Chadhar Mehmood , Firmin Selena 
Published: February 2024

AbstractAustralia's Higher Education and Research Sector (HERS) must adopt digital resilience strategies to tackle cybersecurity challenges and manage major crises effectively. In this study, we have developed a digital resilience framework to mitigate these cybersecurity issues. Our findings suggest a range of keystone factors for crisis management, such as implementing cybersecurity awareness programmes, providing cyber support, redefining roles and responsibilities, implying risk management tools, partnerships with external security organizations, introducing policies, reconfiguring technologies, adopting new technologies, and evaluating current changes to combat these issues. These keystone factors will help achieve digital resilience and significantly minimize cybersecurity issues in HERS, not only during the current major crisis but also in the future. This research offers valuable theoretical and practical contributions that can be applied beyond the context of the recent crisis.
Building a reference indicator model using co‐kriging interpolation to determine the geographical origin of the flighted spongy moth complex in China
Authors: Qin Zeshi , Cao Yixia , Wang Yan , Ding Jun , Xia Wujia , Shi Juan 
Published: February 2024

AbstractUsing stable isotopes to detect and analyze the geographical origin of insects represents an important traceability technology, which requires a rich isotope database. In this study, we representatively sampled the Chinese provinces where flighted spongy moth complex (FSMC) has been reported and, for the first time, used co‐kriging interpolation to predict the distribution patterns of FSMC δ13C values in the main distribution areas. From 2020 to 2022, we set up 60 traps in 12 provinces and cities in China and collected 795 FSMCs. Then, 6 main climatic factors were obtained by multi‐collinearity screening from 21 types of meteorological data collected at the sample plots, and a correlation analysis was carried out by combining longitude, latitude, and altitude data with the δ13C values of FSMC. Next, we performed a co‐kriging interpolation using the 2 climatic factors with the highest correlation (isothermality and altitude) and the δ13C values of FSMC. A cross‐validation was performed to systematically test 11 candidate models and select the best semi‐variogram model (“Exponential”), which was then used to build a co‐kriging interpolation model. The geographical distribution patterns of the FSMC δ13C values obtained from the 2 interpolation models (i.e., interpolated with isothermality and altitude, respectively) were almost the same. Moreover, the δ13C values varied significantly at the regional scale, showing regular changes in spatial distribution. Overall, the reference indicator map of the δ13C values generated from stable isotopes can be used to greatly improve the efficiency of discrimination analyses on the geographical origin of FSMC.
A consumer evaluation of salt‐reduced tomato soup and vegetable juice made with grape pomace
Authors: Amyoony Jamal , Gorman Mackenzie , Moss Rachael , McSweeney Matthew B. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractObesity and obesity‐related illness have become an increasingly prevalent problem and there is a critical need to combat this by reducing sugar, salt, and fat consumption. Due to this concern, the food industry has been developing salt‐reduced foods, however, these products need to maintain their sensory appeal and flavors, which has proven to be a challenge. Grape pomace (GP), the solids left after pressing grapes for winemaking and consisting of grape seeds and skins, has been proposed as an environmentally friendly solution that can enhance the acceptability of salt‐reduced food products. However, GP is associated with a large number of flavor compounds. As such, the objective of this research is to investigate the acceptability of GP addition in salt‐reduced foods. Two trials were conducted using hedonic scales and temporal check‐all‐that‐apply (TCATA) to evaluate tomato soup (n = 88) and vegetable juice (n = 99). Each trial included a control and sample containing grape pomace. The addition of the GP decreased the consumers’ overall liking and the liking of the flavor, as well as increasing consumers’ perception of saltiness intensity. The samples made with GP were associated with bitterness, sourness, and wine flavor during the TCATA evaluations. The study identified that GP increased saltiness perception, however, it also adds other flavors to the food product, which decreased the acceptability of the food items.Practical ApplicationThere is a consumer demand to create salt‐reduced foods that do not have altered sensory properties. Furthermore, consumers are interested in sustainable and environmentally friendly ingredients. Grape pomace is a byproduct of the wine industry and has been proposed as an ingredient that can increase the saltiness perception of food products. Grape pomace was added to tomato soup and vegetable juice to evaluate its effect on consumer acceptability and saltiness perception. The grape pomace did increase saltiness perception, but also added bitterness, sourness, and wine flavor to the food products.
Selective brain perfusion improves the neurological outcomes after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a rat model
Authors: Chang Ru‐Wen , Hsu Man‐Chen , Lee Tzong‐Shyuan , Chen Yih‐Sharng , Wang Chih‐Hsien 
Published: February 2024

AbstractBackgroundThe major concern in patients who have suffered from cardiac arrest (CA) and undergone successful extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E‐CPR) is poor neurological outcomes. In this study, we aimed to introduce a rat model of selective brain perfusion (SBP) during E‐CPR to improve the neurological outcome after CA.MethodsThe rats underwent 7 min of untreated asphyxial CA and then were resuscitated with E‐CPR for 30 min. The right external jugular vein and right femoral artery were separately cannulated to the E‐CPR outflow and inflow. The right common carotid artery was cannulated from the proximal to the distal side for SBP. Subsequently, rats were removed from E‐CPR, wounds were closed, and 90 min of intensive care were provided. Neurological deficit scores were tested after 4 h of recovery when the rats were mechanical ventilation‐free. S100 calcium‐binding protein B (S100B) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) were detected through immunohistochemistry (IHC) of brain tissue.ResultsThe rats that received SBP while resuscitated by E‐CPR showed markedly better neurological performances after 4‐h recovery than those resuscitated by E‐CPR only. The IHC staining of GFAP and S100B in the hippocampus was low in the rats receiving SBP during E‐CPR, but only GFAP showed significant differences.ConclusionsWe successfully developed a novel and reproducible rat model of SBP while resuscitated by E‐CPR to ameliorate the neurological performances after CA. This achievement might have opportunities for studying how to improve the neurological outcome in the clinical condition.
Practical approaches for supporting informed consent in neonatal clinical trials
Authors: Wootton Susan H. , Rysavy Matthew , Davis Peter , Thio Marta , Romero‐Lopez Mar , Holzapfel Lindsay F. , Thrasher Tamara , Wade Jaleesa D. , Owen Louise S. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe survival and health of preterm and critically ill infants have markedly improved over the past 50  years, supported by well‐conducted neonatal research. However, newborn research is difficult to undertake for many reasons, and obtaining informed consent for research in this population presents several unique ethical and logistical challenges. In this article, we explore methods to facilitate the consent process, including the role of checklists to support meaningful informed consent for neonatal clinical trials.ConclusionThe authors provide practical guidance on the design and implementation of an effective consent checklist tailored for use in neonatal clinical research.