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Evaluation of tactile sensation for fabric handle – evidence from event related potentials
Authors: Zhang Xiaoxia , Zhang Jin , Du Peiyan , Wang Guohe 
Published: March 2024

PurposeIn this paper, the brain potential changes caused by touching fabrics for handle evaluation were recorded by event related potential (ERP) method, compared with subjective evaluation scores and physical index of KES, explore the cognitive mechanism of the transformation of tactile sensation into neural impulses triggered by subtle mechanical stimuli such as material, texture, density and morphology in fabrics. By combining subjective evaluation of fabric tactile sensation, objective physical properties of fabrics and objective neurobiological signals, explore the neurophysiological mechanism of tactile cognition and the signal characteristics and time process of tactile information processing.Design/methodology/approachThe ERP technology was first proposed by a British psychologist named Grey Walter. It is an imaging technique of noninvasive brain cognition, whose potential changes are related to the human physical and mental activities. ERP is different from electroencephalography (EEG) and evoked potentials (EP) on the fact that it cannot only record stimulated physical information which is transmitted to brain, but also response to the psychological activities which related to attention, identification, comparison, memory, judgment and cognition as well as to human’s neural physiological changes which are caused by cognitive process of the feeling by stimulation.FindingsAccording to potential changes in the cerebral cortex evoked by touching four types of silk fabrics, human brain received the physical stimulation in the early stage (50 ms) of fabrics handle evaluation, and the P50 component amplitude showed negative correlation with fabric smoothness sensations. Around 200 ms after tactile stimulus onset, the amplitude of P200 component show positive correlation with the softness sensation of silk fabrics. The relationship between the amplitude of P300 and the sense of smoothness and softness need further evidence to proof.Originality/valueIn this paper, the brain potential changes caused by touching fabrics for handle evaluation were recorded by event related potential (ERP) method, compared with subjective evaluation scores and physical index of KES, the results shown that the maximum amplitude of P50 component evoked by fabric touching is related to the fabrics’ smoothness and roughness emotion, which means in the early stage processing of tactile sensation, the rougher fabrics could arouse more attention. In addition, the amplitude of P200 component shows positive correlation with the softness sensation of silk fabrics.
Knowledge work characteristics and innovative behaviour: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)
Authors: Fréour Léa , Battistelli Adalgisa , Pohl Sabine , Cangialosi Nicola 
Published: March 2024

Purpose
Innovative work behaviour (IWB) has long been advocated as a crucial resource for organisations. Evidence that work characteristics stimulate the adoption of IWB is widespread. Yet, the relationship between knowledge characteristics and IWB has often been overlooked. This study aims to address this gap by examining this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach
Building on an integrative vision of innovation, this study analyses the effects of combinations in work characteristics on IWB through a configurational approach. Job autonomy, complexity, problem solving, specialisation and demand for constant learning were examined as determinants of IWB using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis.

Findings
Based on a sample of 214 Belgium employees, the results highlight seven configurations of work characteristics to elicit high levels of IWB. For six of them, problem solving appears as a needed condition.

Practical implications
Presented findings offer insights for organisations aiming at evolving in a competitive context to generate optimal conditions for promoting employee innovation.

Originality/value
While most studies have tested the influence of work characteristics independently, this research investigates the joint influence of work characteristics and identifies how combinations of multiple variables lead to IWB.
Business strategies and climate change adaptation: insights from a comparative study between a developed and a developing country
Authors: Hossain Md. Khalid , As-Saber Sharif Nafe 
Published: March 2024

PurposeThe paper aims to investigate key aspects of climate change adaptation strategies of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) across two different climate-vulnerable country contexts, developed, i.e. Australia and developing, i.e. Bangladesh, while identifying the key factors affecting the formulation and implementation of such strategies.Design/methodology/approachThe research uses a qualitative research method using interviews and document analysis while considering distinctive factors manifest in Australia and Bangladesh and focussing on the agricultural seed business sector.FindingsThe research reveals that no specific pattern of adaptation strategies exists across MNCs. They either follow a proactive “deliberate” strategy or a reactive “emergent” strategy. MNCs also follow a distinct strategy, “subliminal”, i.e. unintended or inadvertent strategy, by following the “business as usual” approach.Practical implicationsIn recent years, many MNCs have started embracing strategies to reduce their negative environmental footprint but barely adopted any formal strategies to adapt to climate change impacts on their business operations. This study provides insights into the existing climate change adaptation strategies of MNCs, which could be beneficial for companies in better planning and implementing their existing as well as future climate change adaptation strategies.Originality/valueBased on a developed-developing country comparison and together with a novel focus on the agricultural seed business sector, the paper has used a variety of business strategies in providing insights and understanding of the status of MNC climate change adaptation strategies. The research has identified and coined the term, “subliminal” or unintended strategy as a new addition to the MNC adaptation strategy literature.
The impact of innovation orientation on strategic R&D amidst macroeconomic shocks – an event study approach
Authors: Modi Pratik , Pandey Vivek , Bhattacharya Abhi 
Published: March 2024

PurposeThis research investigates the impact of strategic research and development (R&D) (one led by a firm’s innovation orientation) on stock market performance during the economic disruption caused by the 2016 demonetization of high-value currency notes in India. It shows how firms’ strategic focus on innovation and integrated R&D initiatives can help mitigate shareholders’ losses and protect market value during negative macroeconomic shocks.Design/methodology/approachWe analyzed financial and administrative data from firms listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 500 index and used the Fama French market model with appropriate instruments accounting for possible endogeneity to identify the impact. To ensure the reliability of our findings, we conducted robustness checks with alternate event windows, estimation methods, and variable measurements.FindingsStrategic R&D plays a crucial role in building resilience against macroeconomic shocks. It effectively mitigated shareholders’ losses in the immediate aftermath of the shock, with an elasticity of abnormal returns of 7.65% on day zero, 13.1% during the first five days and 10.5% after the first fortnight. We also find that firms that are business-to-business (B2B), as well as those that are older and less leveraged, are better able to combat such a shock.Research limitations/implicationsThe study looked at one shock, namely demonetization. Future research is needed to demonstrate the generalizability of results during other macroeconomic shocks, like the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on relatively near-term impacts, leaving the long-term value-creation effects of strategic R&D unexplored.Practical implicationsInnovation orientation acts as a structural enabler, allowing firms to make strategic R&D investments that mitigate losses during macroeconomic shocks. It explains that managers should avoid myopically managing R&D investments and align them with the firm’s innovation focus to enhance value creation.Social implicationsWhile the currency demonetization was widely considered to be detrimental for firms as an unannounced negative monetary shock, our research shows that firms with high levels of strategic R&D were successfully able to counteract such a shock.Originality/valueThis is the first study to examine the short-term loss mitigation impact of firms’ focus on innovation and strategic R&D. It emphasizes the role of innovation-focused strategies during economic crises.
The impact of external factors on board decision making in non-profit sport organizations
Authors: Lachance Erik L. , Parent Milena M. 
Published: March 2024

PurposePressures from non-profit sport organizations’ (NPSOs) external environment influence governance structures and processes. Thus, this study explores the impact of external factors on NPSO board decision making.Design/methodology/approachUsing a sample of six NPSO boards (two national, four provincial/territorial), data were collected via 36 observations, 18 interviews, and over 900 documents. A thematic analysis was conducted via NVivo 12.FindingsResults identified two external factors impacting NPSO board decision making: the sport system structure and general environment conditions. External factors impacted NPSO board decision making in terms of duration, flow, interaction, and scrutiny.Originality/valueResults demonstrate the need for NPSO boards to engage in boundary-spanning activities whereby external information sources from stakeholders are incorporated to make informed decisions. Practically, NPSO boards should harness virtual meetings to continue their operations while incorporating risk management analyses to assess threats and opportunities.
Structural design of magnetostrictive sensing glove and its application for gesture recognition
Authors: Hu Boyang , Weng Ling , Liu Kaile , Liu Yang , Li Zhuolin , Chen Yuxin 
Published: March 2024

Purpose
Gesture recognition plays an important role in many fields such as human–computer interaction, medical rehabilitation, virtual and augmented reality. Gesture recognition using wearable devices is a common and effective recognition method. This study aims to combine the inverse magnetostrictive effect and tunneling magnetoresistance effect and proposes a novel wearable sensing glove applied in the field of gesture recognition.

Design/methodology/approach
A magnetostrictive sensing glove with function of gesture recognition is proposed based on Fe-Ni alloy, tunneling magnetoresistive elements, Agilus30 base and square permanent magnets. The sensing glove consists of five sensing units to measure the bending angle of each finger joint. The optimal structure of the sensing units is determined through experimentation and simulation. The output voltage model of the sensing units is established, and the output characteristics of the sensing units are tested by the experimental platform. Fifteen gestures are selected for recognition, and the corresponding output voltages are collected to construct the data set and the data is processed using Back Propagation Neural Network.

Findings
The sensing units can detect the change in the bending angle of finger joints from 0 to 105 degrees and a maximum error of 4.69% between the experimental and theoretical values. The average recognition accuracy of Back Propagation Neural Network is 97.53% for 15 gestures.

Research limitations/implications
The sensing glove can only recognize static gestures at present, and further research is still needed to recognize dynamic gestures.

Practical implications
A new approach to gesture recognition using wearable devices.

Social implications
This study has a broad application prospect in the field of human–computer interaction.

Originality/value
The sensing glove can collect voltage signals under different gestures to realize the recognition of different gestures with good repeatability, which has a broad application prospect in the field of human–computer interaction.
“I got knocked down”: factors impacting a novice teacher’s decision making
Authors: Fitzpatrick Colleen , Friedman Adam 
Published: March 2024

PurposeThis study explores how one novice teacher navigated his first-year teaching sixth-grade social studies.Design/methodology/approachOne-sixth grade novice teacher was observed during his unit on the Islamic Empire. The teacher was interviewed before the unit began to understand his approach to combating Islamophobia and interviewed again after the unit so he could reflect on the unit and discuss if he believed he had accomplished his original goal. Classroom artifacts (handouts, slide decks, etc.) were collected.FindingsThe findings highlight the various forces that impacted the decisions the teacher made in the classroom. Lack of support from administration and various colleagues left the teacher feeling overwhelmed and unable to accomplish his goals. While the teacher started the unit with a clear purpose for teaching against Islamophobia, he ultimately taught a unit where students memorized discrete pieces of information.Originality/valueThis study adds to previous research on the need for providing administrative support for novice teachers to be able to teach in ambitious ways by highlighting the numerous shortcomings.
More than one shade of pink as a marker of early amelanotic/hypomelanotic melanoma
Authors: Pizzichetta M. A. , Corsetti P. , Stanganelli I. , Ghigliotti G. , Cavicchini S. , De Giorgi V. , Bono R. , Astorino S. , Ribero S. , Argenziano G. , Alaibac  , Polesel J. ,   the Italian Melanoma Intergroup (IMI) and the Società Italiana di Dermatologia Chirurgica, Oncologica, Correttiva ed Estetica (SIDCO)
Published: March 2024

AbstractAmelanotic/hypomelanotic melanoma (AHM) may be difficult to diagnose because of a lack of pigmentation. To evaluate whether dermoscopy can be useful for the diagnosis of early AHM, 133 digital dermoscopic images of lesions histopathologically diagnosed as amelanotic/hypomelanotic superficial spreading melanoma with ≤1 mm thickness (AHSSMs) (n = 27), amelanotic/hypomelanotic non‐melanocytic lesions (AHNMLs) (e.g., seborrhoeic keratosis and basal cell carcinoma) (n = 79), and amelanotic/hypomelanotic benign melanocytic lesions (AHBMLs) (e.g., compound and dermal nevi) (n = 27), were dermoscopically assessed by three blinded dermatologists. Using multivariate analysis, we found a significantly increased risk of diagnosing AHSSM versus AHNML and AHBML when the lesion was characterized by the presence of more than one shade of pink (odds ratio [OR] 37.11), irregular dots/globules (OR 23.73), asymmetric pigmentation (OR 8.85), and structureless pattern (OR 7.33). In conclusion, dermoscopy may improve early AHM detection, discriminating AHSSM from amelanotic/hypomelanotic non melanoma lesions.
Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville
Authors: Victor Sam 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThis essay proposes a moral epistemological explanation for many US evangelicals’ growing unease about proselytizing. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at a church in Nashville, Tennessee, it highlights how a particular kind of epistemological certainty became a driving value of evangelical biblicism when early nineteenth‐century evangelicals attempted to apply the precepts of inductive science to textual interpretation. Members of the church I studied routinely express regret about this historical entanglement, which they blame for their denomination's dogmatic and ultimately unsuccessful fixation on persuading other people to believe the exact same things as they do. Against ‘proselytizing’ driven by ‘the desire to be right’, my interlocutors are trying to develop a practical social ethics whose explicitly biblical inspiration, they hope, will motivate others to want to become Christians. I show that as an analytic, religious suasion makes concepts like ‘proselytizing’ and ‘evangelism’ ethnographic again by sending them back to the field where our interlocutors themselves define and critique them. Doing this allows us to better grasp nuances in evangelicals’ own evolving ideologies and practices for making their religion intelligible to themselves and others.
Climate‐related credit risk: Rethinking the credit risk framework
Authors: Redondo Helena , Aracil Elisa 
Published: March 2024

AbstractClimate change and the challenges associated with the transition to a zero‐carbon economy pose significant financial risks. Climate‐related risks (CRR) indirectly impact banks through their loan portfolios. To examine the integration of CRR into banks' credit risk assessment and monitoring, this article reviews academic and institutional literature using quantitative bibliometric techniques and content analysis of 145 academic documents from policymakers and financial supervisors. A framework emerges that incorporates CRR into credit risk management. We find four thematic areas in the literature: CRR drivers, CRR tools, CRR data and CRR pricing. Overall, uncertainty, non‐linearity, geographic and industrial dependency and non‐reversibility of CRR difficult climate‐related credit risk assessment. Moreover, CRR data present comparability, availability and reliability issues, which Artificial Intelligence can improve. Finally, evidence reveals that current financial prices do not fully reflect CRR. Our findings provide important implications to policymakers for assessing ex‐ante the financial impacts of climate transition regulations, the potential for prudential regulatory action, and the need for supra‐national policies that facilitate access to reliable and comparable climate data.
External validation of the CholeS conversion from laparoscopic to open cholecystectomy (CLOC) risk score in Aotearoa New Zealand: a validation study
Authors:   STRATA Collaborative and CholeS Collaborative
Published: March 2024

AbstractBackgroundConversion of laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open is uncommon, but is associated with longer hospital stay and recovery. Prognosticating conversion may aid service planning and provision. We therefore aimed to assess the external validity of the largest risk score for operative conversion.MethodsCHOLENZ was a multicentre, prospective, national cohort study of cholecystectomy for benign biliary disease conducted by STRATA, a trainee‐led collaborative network. Data were collected from patients undergoing cholecystectomy in New Zealand hospitals between 1 August and 30 October 2021 with 30‐day follow‐up. The Conversion from Laparoscopic to Open Cholecystectomy (CLOC) score from the CholeS study was assessed for external validity by interrogating its accuracy and calibration in the CHOLENZ dataset.ResultsOf 1162 cholecystectomies started laparoscopically, 20 (1.7%) were converted to open in the CHOLENZ dataset. The CLOC score predicted 2.9% (IQR 1.3%–8.1%) would be converted. Area under the curve was 0.65 (95% 0.51–0.79) and calibration was acceptable with a Hosmer‐Lemeshow p value of 0.45; with evidence of tendency to overestimate with interrogation of calibration across a continuous risk profile (intercept 1.27, slope 0.4). Sensitivity analysis with imputed data improved accuracy. Recalibration with the addition of body mass index, and preoperative bilirubin also improved accuracy to 0.86 (95% CI 0.78–0.95).ConclusionsThe CLOC score in its original form is not generalisable to the Aotearoa New Zealand setting and is therefore not suitable for clinical use in our local setting.
The incidence and prevalence of diabetic macular edema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy, their progression to visual impairment and patterns in their intravitreal treatment in the Finnish population
Authors: Heloterä Hanna , Arffman Martti , Sund Reijo , Keskimäki Ilmo , Kaarniranta Kai 
Published: March 2024

AbstractPurposeThe worldwide prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) continues to increase. As DM is linked to various ophthalmological comorbidities, it is crucial to understand the incidence and the treatment patterns of these complications to minimise the treatment burden for the patient and the healthcare system. This study aims to evaluate the incidence and prevalence of diabetic macular oedema (DME) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and to analyse intravitreal (IVT) treatment patterns and responses in the Finnish population with diabetes.MethodsA nationwide data register containing details of over 20‐year‐old individuals with diabetes was used in the analyses.ResultsThe incidence and prevalence of DME and PDR among the Finnish population with diabetes either declined or remained stable during 2007–2017 (Incidence rate: DME −40.8%, PDR −65.3%; prevalence rate: DME +4.7%, PDR −11.2%). During the same period, number of persons suffering from diabetes increased by +58.3%. The total number of IVT injections increased by 261.7%; the number of patients receiving IVT treatments increased by 133.6% from 2011 to 2017, reflecting changes in patient numbers in the ophthalmology departments. Furthermore, irrespective of the rising number of patients with diabetes, the numbers with visual impairment declined by 75.8% among DME and by 75.7% among PDR patients in 2007–2017.ConclusionsRegardless of the considerable increase in the workload of ophthalmology departments, the healthcare system has been able to reduce both the age and sex standardised incidence of DME and PDR among the diabetic population suffering from a visual impairment associated with this disease.
Children born to parents with mild intellectual disability: Register‐based follow‐up of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses and out‐of‐home placements
Authors: Lindblad I. , Landgren V. , Gillberg C. , Fernell E. 
Published: March 2024

AbstractAimStudy the outcomes in terms of registered neurodevelopmental diagnoses and out‐of‐home placements in children whose parents had been diagnosed with mild intellectual disability (ID) in childhood.MethodsThe study groups consist of (1) a population‐based sample of 78 individuals, born in 1979–1985, meeting criteria for mild ID during childhood, and (2) their 88 children. From national registers, data on outcomes were retrieved in 2020 regarding psychosocial and psychiatric outcomes for the adults, and neurodevelopmental diagnoses and out‐of‐home placements for the children.ResultsOf the 78 adults with mild ID, 31 were parents of 88 children, aged 0–21 . The age‐adjusted prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders among the children was 67%. Of the 27 children aged between 13 and 21 years at follow‐up, 16 had at least one registered neurodevelopmental diagnosis; 11 had ADHD and 7 had ID. Nine of these 27 children had experienced out of home placement.ConclusionChildren of parents with mild ID are at high risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular ADHD and ID, and out‐of‐home placements. Our findings indicate that individuals with mild ID who become parents routinely should be offered individually tailored parent support and their children offered assessment regard neurodevelopmental disorders.