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Conceptions of time, socioeconomic development and cultural values
Authors: Yeganeh Hamid 
Published: February 2024

PurposeThis article analyzes the relationships between different conceptions of time, socioeconomic development and cultural values.Design/methodology/approachWe focus on three major aspects of time, namely, 1) duration, 2) orientation and 3) tempo. Furthermore, we draw on modernization theory to distinguish between agrarian/traditional and industrial/modern societies and their respective cultural values.FindingsAnalyses indicate that agrarian/traditional societies with cultural values such as collectivism, survival, religiosity and hierarchical structures are marked by subjective/cyclical/inaccurate, past-oriented and slow-paced conceptions of time. In contrast, industrial/modern societies with cultural values such as individualism, self-expression, secularism and egalitarianism are marked by objective/linear/accurate, future-oriented and accelerated conceptions of time.Originality/valueThis paper introduces an original conceptualization of the three dimensions of time – duration, orientation and tempo – previously overlooked in the literature. Additionally, it provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the relationships between time, culture and socioeconomic development.
Examining the influence of functional value, social value and emotional value on purchase intention for tires in Japan
Authors: Wells Jia , Tan Caroline S.L. 
Published: February 2024

Purpose
This study aims to examine the relationships between functional value (quality and price), social value (extrinsic and intrinsic), emotional value and attitude toward a brand, as well as the direct relationship between attitude toward a brand and the purchase intention of tires. This research also explores the moderating effect of social influence on the relationship between attitude toward a brand and purchase intention.

Design/methodology/approach
A conceptual model based on literature is developed and tested using an online survey, with a sample of 760 active drivers gathered through purposive sample judgment. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with AMOS 28 and Hayes Process Macro 4.

Findings
The results demonstrate that extrinsic social value has a positive direct relationship with attitude toward brands. The findings also indicate that intrinsic social value has a positive influence on attitudes toward brands. Attitude toward a brand is found to have a positive direct relationship with purchase intention.

Originality/value
This research extends the existing literature on consumption values and offers insights into the specific values that influence attitudes toward tire brands as well as purchase intention. The findings provide insights to tire businesses in values that they could focus on when developing strategies to increase positive brand attitude and purchase intention.
Design of product-service systems in SMEs: a review of current research and suggestions for future directions
Authors: Åkesson Jennie , Sundström Angelina , Johansson Glenn , Chirumalla Koteshwar , Grahn Sten , Berglund Anders 
Published: February 2024

PurposeDespite increasing focus among scholars and practitioners on the design of product-service systems (PSS), there exists no compilation of current knowledge on the role played by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in designing such systems. Thus, this paper sets out to identify and organise the existing research and suggest questions for future research.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review was performed to identify and provide in-depth details on key themes in the literature addressing the design of PSS in SMEs.FindingsThis paper identifies five themes in the literature on the design of PSS in SMEs: motives, challenges, SME characteristics, methods and digitalisation. The themes are interrelated, and SME characteristics seem to be at the core as they are related to all the other themes. Gaps in the current knowledge are identified, and questions for future research are suggested.Originality/valueThe suggestions for future research provide a starting point for expanding the research on PSS design and devising practical support for SMEs.
Neo-institutionalism in supply chain management: from supply chain susceptibility to supply chain resilience
Authors: Herold David Martin , Marzantowicz Łukasz 
Published: February 2024

Purpose
Neo-institutional theories and their constructs have so far only received limited attention in supply chain management literature. As recent supply chain disruptions and their ripple effects affect actors on a broader institutional level, supply chains are confronted with multiple new and emerging, often conflicting, institutional demands. This study aims to unpack the notion of institutional complexity behind supply chain disruptions and present a novel institutional framework to lower supply chain susceptibility and increase supply chain resilience.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors identify the patterns of complexity that shape the supply chain susceptibility, namely, distance, diversity and ambiguity, and present three institutional responses to susceptibility to increase supply chain resilience, namely, institutional entrepreneurship, institutional alignment and institutional layering.

Findings
This paper analyses the current situational relevance to better understand the various and patterned ways how logics influence both supply chain susceptibility and the supply chain resilience. The authors derive six propositions on how complexity can be reduced for supply chain susceptibility and can be increased for supply chain resilience.

Originality/value
By expanding and extending research on institutional complexity to supply chains, the authors broaden how researchers in supply chain management view supply chain susceptibility, thereby providing managers with theory to think differently about supply chains and its resilience.
Stationary‐phase analysis of time‐shift extended imaging in a constant‐velocity model
Authors: Mulder W. A. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractTo estimate the depth errors in a subsurface model obtained from the inversion of seismic data, the stationary‐phase approximation in a two‐dimensional constant‐velocity model with a dipped reflector is applied to migration with a time‐shift extension. This produces two asymptotic solutions: one is a straight line, and the other is a curve. If the velocity differs from the true one, a closed‐form expression of the depth error follows from the depth and apparent dip of the reflector as well as the position of the amplitude peak at a non‐zero time shift, where the two solutions meet and the extended migration image focuses. The results are compared to finite‐frequency results from a finite‐difference code. A two‐dimensional synthetic example with a salt diapir illustrates how depth errors can be estimated in an inhomogeneous model after inverting the seismic data for the velocity model.
Implementing Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for hysterectomy in a hospital network with audit and feedback: A stepped‐wedge cluster randomised trial
Authors: Piovano Elisa , Puppo Andrea , Camanni Marco , Castiglione Anna , Delpiano Elena Maria , Giacometti Lisa , Rolfo Monica , Rizzo Alessio , Zola Paolo , Ciccone Giovannino , Pagano Eva ,   for the ERAS‐Gyneco Piemonte Group
Published: February 2024

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of implementing the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol in patients undergoing elective hysterectomy in a network of regional hospitals, supported by an intensive audit‐and‐feedback (A&F) approach.DesignA multi‐centre, stepped‐wedge cluster randomised trial (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04063072).SettingGynaecological units in the Piemonte region, Italy.PopulationPatients undergoing elective hysterectomy, either for cancer or for benign conditions.MethodsTwenty‐three units (clusters), stratified by surgical volume, were randomised into four sequences. At baseline (first 3 months), standard care was continued in all units. Subsequently, the four sequences implemented the ERAS protocol successively every 3 months, after specific training. By the end of the study, each unit had a period in which standard care was maintained (control) and a period in which the protocol, supported by feedback, was applied (experimental).Main outcome measuresLength of hospital stay (LOS), without outliers (>98th percentile).ResultsBetween September 2019 and May 2021, 2086 patients were included in the main analysis with an intention‐to‐treat approach: 1104 (53%) in the control period and 982 (47%) in the ERAS period. Compliance with the ERAS protocol increased from 60% in the control period to 76% in the experimental period, with an adjusted absolute difference of +13.3% (95% CI 11.6% to 15.0%). LOS, moving from 3.5 to 3.2 days, did not show a significant reduction (−0.12 days; 95% CI −0.30 to 0.07 days). No difference was observed in the occurrence of complications.ConclusionsImplementation of the ERAS protocol for hysterectomy at the regional level, supported by an A&F approach, resulted in a substantial improvement in compliance, but without meaningful effects on LOS and complications. This study confirms the effectiveness of A&F in promoting important innovations in an entire hospital network and suggests the need of a higher compliance with the ERAS protocol to obtain valuable improvements in clinical outcomes.
A Tale of Two Poll Books – Wareham 1702 and Dorchester 1705
Authors: Tuffnell Kevin 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe politics of Queen Anne's reign are characterised as the rage of party; Whigs and Tories contended over religion, the constitution and the succession, and foreign policy. This struggle was taken to the electorate in five elections during Anne's reign, and these raise a question concerning electors’ motivations, the answer to which remains elusive: were they acting according to principle, or reflecting the electoral interests to which they were subject? This article analyses the two surviving poll books for Dorset elections in the age of Anne, those at Wareham in 1702 and at Dorchester in 1705. It focuses principally on the voting behaviour of those engaged in the towns’ governance structures: corporation members, councils of freemen and local parishes. However, it also considers the behaviour of other categories of voter: politicians, the clergy and non‐conformists. The analysis shows how electoral interest was mediated through the towns’ governing institutions and suggests that (at least in these two cases) negotiation between the parties had a greater role in the outcome than has sometimes been suggested. It also demonstrates the limits of the electoral influence of the boroughs’ elites: significant numbers of voters were simply not prepared to be led.
Reading against Reform: The Bristol Library Society and the Intellectual Culture of Bristol's Elections in 1812*
Authors: Smith Joshua j. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThis article pioneers a new methodological approach to the study of electoral politics by combining an analysis of the politics of reading, library association and the reading habits of electors in an English urban constituency in the early 19th century. By integrating an examination of reading practices and intellectual context into our analysis of electoral contests, political history scholars can go further in their examination of the unreformed electoral system and attempt to gauge the motivations behind voting habits and partisan identification in this period. Using electoral voting data and the records of an urban subscription library, this article explores the interrelation between the Bristol Library Society and Bristol's electoral politics, as well as conducting an analysis of which books were being borrowed and read by electors in a politically tumultuous year. Although few in number compared with the total size of Bristol's electorate, Bristol Library members were among some of the most politically and culturally influential individuals in Bristol society and were active participants in electoral contests in the city, either as candidates, campaigners, civic officials or voters. An analysis of their voting habits reveals that the library's membership reflected the Tory political hegemony that became pronounced in the city's civic politics. Moreover, an analysis of their reading habits in 1812 reveals an interest in political texts that were conservative and anti‐Gallic in tone, that were representative of the political climate in Bristol in 1812, and which contributed to the defeat of candidates for reform in its electoral contests.
Current perspectives on fenugreek bioactive compounds and their potential impact on human health: A review of recent insights into functional foods and other high value applications
Authors: Alu'datt Muhammad H. , Rababah Taha , Al‐ali Saleh , Tranchant Carole C. , Gammoh Sana , Alrosan Mohammad , Kubow Stan , Tan Thuan‐Chew , Ghatasheh Salsabeel 
Published: February 2024

AbstractDespite long‐standing uses in several food and medicine traditions, the full potential of the leguminous crop fenugreek (Trigonella foenum‐graecum L.) remains to be realized in the modern diet. Not only its seeds, which are highly prized for their culinary and medicinal properties, but also its leaves and stems abound in phytochemicals with high nutritional and health promoting attributes. Fenugreek dual food‐medicine applications and reported metabolic activities include hypoglycemic, antihyperlipidemic, antioxidative, anti‐inflammatory, antiatherogenic, antihypertensive, anticarcinogenic, immunomodulatory, and antinociceptive effects, with potential organ‐protective effects at the cardiovascular, digestive, hepatic, endocrine, and central nervous system levels. Effectiveness in alleviating certain inflammatory skin conditions and dysfunctions of the reproductive system was also suggested. As a food ingredient, fenugreek can enhance the sensory, nutritional, and nutraceutical qualities of a wide variety of foods. Its high nutritive density can assist with the design of dietary items that meet the demand for novelty, variety, and healthier foods. Its seeds provide essential protective nutrients and other bioactive compounds, notably galactomannans, flavonoids, coumarins, saponins, alkaloids, and essential oils, whose health benefits, alone or in conjunction with other bioactives, are only beginning to be tapped into in the food industries. This review summarizes the current state of evidence on fenugreek potential for functional food development, focusing on the nutrients and non‐nutrient bioactive components of interest from a dietary perspective, and their applications for enhancing the functional and nutraceutical value of foods and beverages. New developments, safety, clinical evidence, presumed mechanisms of action, and future perspectives are discussed.Highlights
Fenugreek seeds and leaves have long‐standing uses in the food‐medicine continuum.
Fenugreek phytochemicals exert broad‐spectrum biological and pharmacological activities.
They show high preventive and nutraceutical potential against common chronic diseases.
Current evidence supports multiple mechanisms of action mediated by distinct bioactives.
Opportunities for fenugreek‐based functional foods and nutraceuticals are expanding.
Sorghum and health: An overview of potential protective health effects
Authors: Stefoska‐Needham Anita 
Published: February 2024

AbstractWhole‐grain sorghum foods may elicit health‐promoting effects when consumed regularly in the diet. This review discusses key functional sorghum grain constituents, including dietary fiber, slowly digestible and resistant starches, lipids, and phytochemicals and their effects on metabolic processes that are associated with the development of chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes. Currently, the range of sorghum food products available to consumers is limited globally, hindering the potential consumer benefits. A collaborative effort to innovate new product developments is therefore needed, with a focus on processing methods that help to retain the grain's favorable nutritive, health‐enhancing, and sensory attributes. Evidence for sorghum's purported health effects, together with evidence of impacts of processing on different sorghum foods, are presented in this review to fully elucidate the potential of sorghum grain to confer health benefits to humans.
Evaluating a virtual reality dementia training experience using psychophysiological methods: A randomised controlled study
Authors: Stafford Andrew , Bender Stuart , Parsons Kiran , Sung Billy 
Published: February 2024

AbstractObjectivesVirtual reality (VR) is increasingly used for training the dementia care workforce. It is unknown whether VR is superior to traditional training techniques in improving dementia care amongst practicing nurses. This study compared the impact of a VR application on nurses' knowledge and attitudes towards people living with dementia, to video‐based, non‐immersive training.MethodsTwenty‐two registered and enrolled nurses were randomised to either interactive VR experience or video footage captured from within the app. Participants completed surveys pre‐ and post‐training to assess their knowledge of dementia, attitudes towards dementia and person‐centredness. Engagement with training was assessed objectively using facial electromyography, and subjectively with self‐reported scales.ResultsVirtual reality evoked objectively significant greater positive and negative emotional responses than video (positive emotion fEMG: VR mean .012 mV vs. video .005 mV, F[1, 20] = 8.70, p = .01; negative emotion fEMG: VR mean .018 mV vs. video .008 mV, F[1, 20] = 18.40, p < .001). Self‐ratings of engagement and emotional state were similar. There was little change in the VR group's knowledge of, and attitudes towards, dementia; the video group's dementia knowledge improved (total DKAS mean differences: VR .1 t = .07, df = 9, p = .95 vs. video −2.3 t = −2.265, df = 11, p = .045).ConclusionsVirtual reality is more engaging than traditional training in highly experienced dementia care practitioners. Despite this, VR may not be superior to traditional training techniques to improve knowledge and attitude for many learners. A focus of future research in the area should be on how to capitalise on VR's greater emotional engagement so that Australia's nursing workforce is better equipped to care for the increasing number of people living with dementia.
A randomised controlled pilot study of a Nintendo Ring Fit Adventure™ balance and strengthening exercise program in community‐dwelling older adults with a history of falls
Authors: Chan Wayne Lap Sun , Chan Cody Wing Lam , Chan Howard Ho Wing , Chan Kelvin Chi Kin , Chan Jerry Sai Kit , Chan Oscar Lok Wang 
Published: February 2024

AbstractObjectivesThis pilot study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and effects of a Nintendo Ring Fit Adventure™‐based balance and muscle strengthening exercise program in community‐dwelling older adults with a history of falls.MethodsOlder adults who have had at least one fall in the past year were randomly assigned to an experimental (n = 21) or control group (n = 21). The experimental group performed 16 exercise sessions in total, lasting 60 min each, twice a week for 8 weeks, whereas the control group received usual care. Feasibility was evaluated based on the scores of participants in the exercises. Acceptance was evaluated using a customised questionnaire examining participants' self‐perceived enjoyment, feasibility and improvements. Clinical outcomes including balance (Mini‐BESTest), lower limb muscle strength (Five‐Time Sit‐to‐Stand test), mobility (Timed‐Up and Go test), dual‐task ability (Timed‐Up and Go test—Dual Task), fear of falling (Icon‐FES) and executive function (Color Trails Test) were evaluated at baseline and 8 weeks.ResultsThirty‐one participants (74%) finished the 8‐week assessment. The experimental group significantly improved their scores in six out of eight exercises (all p < .031). The mean scores of the self‐perceived enjoyment, feasibility and improvement domains of the acceptability questionnaire were 3.46 ± .53, 3.08 ± .59, and 3.47 ± .57 respectively. A significant improvement in the anticipatory subscore of the Mini‐BESTest was found in the experimental group compared to the control group (p = .02; Partial eta squared = .14).ConclusionsThe Nintendo Ring Fit Adventure™‐based exercise program was feasible, acceptable, and potentially effective in community‐dwelling older adults with a history of falls.
A dual‐angle exploration towards understanding lapses in COVID‐19 social responsibility
Authors: Lee Sean T. H. , Mah Jerome J. X. , Leung Angela K.‐y. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractBreaking infection chains requires not just behaviours that allow individuals to stay healthy and uninfected (i.e. health protective behaviours) but also for those who are possibly infected to protect others from their harboured infection risk (i.e. socially responsible behaviours). However, socially responsible behaviours entail costs without clear, immediate benefits to the individual, such that public health‐risking lapses occur from time to time. In this important yet understudied area, the current exploratory study sought to identify possible psychological factors that may affect people's likelihood of engaging in socially responsible behaviours. Assuming that self‐perceived infection should provide an impetus to engage in socially responsible behaviours, we contend that lapses could occur in two scenarios: discounting of possible infection or prioritizing self‐interest over collective good. Through a vignette portraying COVID‐19 relevant symptoms presented to culturally diverse participants (Singapore and United States; N = 645), we found dispositional denialism (an ego defence mechanism) to exert a negative indirect effect on likelihood of engaging in socially responsible behaviours through its negative association with perceived infection status. Further, social value orientation and cultural orientation appeared to significantly moderate the positive association between perceived infection status and the likelihood of engaging in socially responsible behaviours, such that the positive association held only when individuals espouse both a prosocial value orientation and a collectivistic cultural orientation. Further analyses also point toward a possible attenuation of this positive association when individuals espouse a vertical cultural orientation. Future directions and implications for public health management are discussed.