bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Is ambidexterity crucial for cluster resilience? Conceptional consideration and empirical evidence
Authors: Rothgang Michael , Lageman Bernhard 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
This study, a conceptual paper, aims an answer the question, how significant cluster ambidexterity is for the resilience of individual clusters.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors draw up an abductive synopsis of empirical information and relevant theoretical sources. A case study is used to illustrate some of the findings.

Findings
The results of the analysis show that the ambidexterity of a cluster can contribute to its resilience when adverse external developments arise. Ambidexterity proves to be simultaneously a common strategy of key cluster actors and a mechanism for coping with critical situations and developments that can be activated by the cluster actors and may – eventually – lead to cluster resilience. While ambidexterity does not guarantee cluster survival, it can contribute significantly to their economic resilience under adverse conditions.

Research limitations/implications
The concept is developed on a limited empirical basis and would need to be tested and deepened by comparing a wide range of case studies from different clusters.

Practical implications
A better understanding of the importance of ambidexterity for the development of industrial clusters contributes to a better fine-tuning of cluster support policies.

Originality/value
Ambidexterity as a concept originating from business administration has so far only been rudimentarily tapped for empirical and theoretical cluster research. The paper identifies and develops a path how this could be accomplished to a greater extent in the future.
Addressing the challenge of engaging in paid work while undertaking unpaid caring: insights for improving employment inclusion of young carers
Authors: Hutchings Kate , Radford Katrina , Spencer Nancy , Harris Neil , McMillan Sara , Slattery Maddy , Wheeler Amanda , Roche Elisha 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThis paper aims to explore challenges and opportunities associated with young carers' employment in Australia.Design/methodology/approachUsing a multi-stakeholder approach, this study captures the reflections of stakeholders (n = 8) and young carers (n = 10) about opportunities for, and experiences of, paid employment for young carers.FindingsDespite many organisations internationally increasingly pushing diversity agendas and suggesting a commitment to equal opportunity experiences, this study found that young carers' work opportunities are often disrupted by their caring role. For young carers to be successful in their careers, organisations need to provide further workplace flexibility, and other support is required to attract and retain young carers into organisations and harness their transferrable skills for meaningful careers.Practical implicationsThe paper highlights important implications for human resource management practitioners given the need to maximise the participation of young carers as workers, with benefits for young carers themselves, employers and society.Originality/valueThe research adds to the human resource management and work–family conflict literature in examining young carers through drawing on Conservation of Resources theory to highlight resources invested in caring leads to loss of educational and work experience resources. This leads to loss cycles and spirals, which can potentially continue across a lifetime, further contributing to disadvantage and lack of workplace and societal inclusion for this group of young people.
Structural performance evaluation of hybrid polymer composites for critical infrastructure pick-and-place robot grippers using silica nanoparticles
Authors: Mani Megavannan , Murgaiyan Thiyagu , Krishnan Pradeep Kumar 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThis study focuses on the structural performance assessment of hybrid polymer composites for pick-and-place robot grippers used in critical infrastructure. This research involved the creation of composite materials with different nanoparticle concentrations, followed by extensive testing to assess the mechanical properties of the materials, such as strength, stiffness and durability.Design/methodology/approachThe composites comprised bidirectional interply inclined carbon fibers (C), S-glass fibers (SG), E-glass (EG), an epoxy matrix and silica nanoparticles (SNiPs). During construction, the composite materials must be carefully layered using quasi-static sequence techniques (45°C1/45°SG2/45°EG2/45°C1/45°EG2/45°SG2/45°C1) to obtain the epoxy matrix reinforcement and bonding using 0, 2, 4 and 6 wt. % of silica nanoparticles.FindingsAccording to various test findings, the 4 wt. % of SNiPs added to polymer plates exhibits the maximum strength outcomes. The average results of the tensile and flexural tests for the polymer composite plates with 4 wt. % addition SNiPs were 127.103 MPa and 223.145 MPa, respectively. The average results of the tensile and flexural tests for the plates with 0 wt.% SNiPs were 115.457 MPa and 207.316 MPa, respectively.Originality/valueThe authors hereby attest that the research paper they have submitted is the result of their own independent and unique labor. All of the sources from which the thoughts and passages were derived have been properly credited. The work has not been submitted for publication anywhere and is devoid of any instances of plagiarism.Highlights The study enhances the engineering materials for innovative applications.The study explores the mechanical behavior of carbon/S-glass/E-glass fiber composites.Silica nanoparticles were enhancing mechanical characteristics of the composite structure.
An exploration of staff views of a trauma-informed pathway in a sentenced and remand prison
Authors: Crole-Rees Clare , Tomlin Jack , Kalebic Natasha , Collings Morwenna , Roberts Neil P. , Forrester Andrew 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
People in prisons have a high prevalence of poly-traumatisation throughout their life span. The behavioural and emotional sequalae of trauma are likely to be managed across the whole organisation. However, there is still a lack of clarity about the key components of a trauma-informed approach within the custodial context. This study aimed to gather in-depth knowledge of staff views on the components of an optimal trauma pathway in a prison and the organisational factors that influence its implementation.

Design/methodology/Approach
The authors’ research design is qualitative, involving in-depth, semi-structured interviews with eight members of staff from different professional backgrounds at a single prison in the UK that houses sentenced and remand prisoners. Data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.

Findings
Three super-ordinate themes were identified within the data. Firstly, components of a trauma-informed pathway included sub-themes of asking about what has happened and knowing how to respond; providing specialist approaches; enabling residents to cope; screening and detection; and a compassionate relational approach. Secondly, organisational factors were associated with sub-themes of culture and leadership, resources and systems and processes. Thirdly, staff factors were associated with sub-themes of skills development and training, staff well-being and support and staff attitudes.

Practical implications
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD in prisons are under-detected, and there are complex psychosocial factors within prisons that mediate the effectiveness of psychological therapies.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study represents the first exploration of staff perspectives on the components of a trauma-informed pathway within custodial settings. Future directions should involve the piloting and evaluation of the components of the trauma-informed pathway, with a focus on longer-term outcomes and exploration of the organisational factors that impact on effectiveness.
Bad apples or rotten orchards? Public attitudes of interactions with police and the role of political ideology
Authors: Hansen Michael A. , Navarro John C. 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the ideological gaps across a range of policing interactions with the public.Design/methodology/approachIn a survey distributed via Mechanical Turk (MTurk) (n = 979), the authors explore the role that respondents' political ideology plays in the agreement of 13 aspects of policing services, their demeanor and decorum.FindingsAttitudes toward policing interactions are slightly positive. Conservatives steadfastly hold positive attitudes about police. Liberals vacillate from negative to positive attitudes across the 13 policing interaction statements.Social implicationsAlthough small, there is an ideological consensus that police adequately protect citizens and are knowledgeable about the law.Originality/valueEven at record lows of public confidence in the police, some subsections of the sample, such as conservatives, firmly hold positive attitudes about police. The unwavering support for police by conservatives continues across the multi-item measure of policing interactions, whereas liberals illustrated less uniformity in their attitudes.
From award shows to average Joes: Sadowsky Guitars Ltd. evolves and expands to meet worldwide demand
Authors: Purnell Dexter L. , Jackson Douglas , Legocki Kimberly V. 
Published: October 2023

Research methodology
Research for the case study was conducted using a combination of semi-structured interviews and secondary data sources.

Case overview/synopsis
This case traces the international expansion of Sadowsky Guitars’ bass guitar product line. Roger Sadowsky is one of the most respected instrument makers in the world and gained early acclaim for his outstanding repair and restoration work on guitars and basses. Some of his early clients included Prince, Will Lee (The Tonight Show), Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, Jason Newsted of Metallica, Eddie Van Halen and Marcus Miller. Roger’s reputation and the demand for his instruments led to some customers having to wait for more than a year to obtain the chance to purchase a Sadowsky instrument, while others were unable to do so due to financial constraints. In 2003, Roger made the decision to form Sadowsky Japan to begin the contract manufacturing of more affordable Sadowsky instruments in Tokyo, Japan. As the company grew in size, Roger realized he was becoming more focused on running a business than building instruments. Furthermore, his Japanese partners were only interested in serving the Japanese market. This required him to handle the sales and distribution in the remaining parts of the world. In December of 2019, he announced a new, exclusive licensing agreement and distribution partnership between Sadowsky Guitars and Warwick GmbH & Co Music Equipment KG. The new agreement allowed Roger to continue running the Sadowsky NYC Custom Shop while Warwick would take over building and distributing the Metro instruments and a less-expensive, Chinese-built version of the MetroExpress instruments.

Complexity academic level
This case is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate-level courses related to marketing and consumer behavior. The case walks students through a real-life scenario when the founder of a well-known musical brand sought to expand internationally as a way to meet growing market demand. Students are asked to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the five key international market entry strategies: exporting, licensing, contract manufacturing, joint ventures and investment (equity/acquisition).
The case works well in the classroom, even if people are unfamiliar with the musical instrument retail industry. Participants are most likely aware of some of the artists and musicians mentioned in the case. Some may also be or know musicians. The instructor should be able to quickly engage participants in a lively discussion about Roger Sadowsky’s vision for his instruments and the opportunities and challenges of expanding product offerings and increasing market share.

Supplementary material
Teaching notes are available for educators only.
Using explainable machine learning methods to evaluate vulnerability and restoration potential of ecosystem state transitions
Authors: Delaney John T. , Larson Danelle M. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractEcosystem state transitions can be ecologically devastating or be a restoration success. State transitions are common within aquatic systems worldwide, especially considering human‐mediated changes to land use and water use. We created a transferable conceptual framework to enable multiscale assessments of state resilience and early warnings of state transitions that can inform strategic restorations and avoid ecosystem collapse. The conceptual framework integrated machine learning predictions with ecosystem state concepts (e.g., state classification, gradients of vulnerability, and recovery potential leading to state transitions) and was devised to investigate possible environmental drivers. As an application of the framework, we generated prediction probabilities of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) presence at nearly 10,000 sites in the Upper Mississippi River (United States). Then, we used an interpretability method to explain model predictions to gain insights into possible environmental drivers and thresholds or linear responses of SAV presence and absence. Model accuracy was 89% without spatial bias. Average water depth, suspended solids, substrate, and distance to nearest SAV were the best predictors and likely environmental drivers of SAV habitat suitability. These environmental drivers exhibited nonlinear, threshold‐type responses for SAV. All the results are also presented in an online dashboard to explore results at many spatial scales. The habitat suitability model outputs and prediction explanations from many spatial scales (4 m to 400 km of river reach) can inform research and restoration planning.
Health‐related quality of life in Chinese children and adolescents with cancer
Authors: Cheng Lei , Wu Min , Yu Ling 
Published: October 2023

AbstractAimCancer diagnosis and related treatment can have multiple impacts on children's health‐related quality of life (HRQoL). This study aimed to determine profiles of HRQoL in Chinese children and adolescents with cancer based on patient‐reported outcomes.MethodsThis cross‐sectional study recruited 310 pediatric patients with cancer (in treatment and survivorship) aged 8–17 years old and their family caregivers from four hospitals in China. The participants were asked to complete the PROMIS Pediatric‐25 Profile 2.0, along with a demographic and clinical characteristics questionnaire, fatigue screening item, and an item assessing the family caregiver's coping style. Latent profile analysis was used to identify profiles.ResultsTwo profiles were identified: Profile 1, “low symptom and high function” (n = 147, 47.4%); and Profile 2, “high symptom and low function” (n = 163, 52.5%). Children reporting ≥3 on the five‐point Symptom Distress Scale fatigue screening item were more likely to be in Profile 2 (OR = 1.961; 95% CI: 1.098–3.501). Participants were less likely to be in Profile 2 if they were in survivorship (OR = 0.494; 95% CI: 0.271–0.903), or their caregiver's coping style was identified as facing positively (OR = 0.439; 95% CI: 0.274–0.703).ConclusionThe identified profiles demonstrate the heterogeneity in HRQoL among pediatric patients with cancer, and the importance of supporting caregivers' coping as a means of supporting the child. Knowledge of these profiles can assist clinicians in better identifying and targeting interventions for children with cancer.
From garbage wars to green city: Defining Ukraine's European identity
Authors: Channell‐Justice Emily 
Published: October 2023

AbstractA 2016 fire at a landfill near the western city of L'viv instigated a political crisis around the issue of waste management in Ukraine. The ensuing debates among the L'viv city government, the national government, and local stakeholders show how waste management becomes a mechanism through which to interrogate questions of state‐citizen relations and what it means to be part of Europe. This article argues that processes of Europeanization rely on the arbitrary application of standards and result in a hierarchy in which countries such as Ukraine are considered not‐yet‐fully European. However, this does not prevent pro‐European Ukrainians, who ground their vision of Ukraine's European future in the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests, from advocating for Ukraine to adopt European standards. This article homes in on the shifting relationship between citizens and state representatives and the development of ecological consciousness as key points by which interlocutors measured Ukraine's path toward Europe, showing how the crisis around waste management in L'viv allows for the contestation of Europeanness itself. While not all Ukrainians have adopted these ideas about European Ukraine, in the context of Russia's devastating invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainians have become increasingly united around the idea of a European future.
Interdependent security games in a unidirectional network
Authors: Rosenthal Edward C. , Trudeau Christian 
Published: October 2023

AbstractWe consider directed tree networks with a single source, where there exists a positive probability of a disruptive event at any node. Such networks model security considerations in pipelines as well as in unidirectional digital networks. If a disruptive event occurs at a certain node, that node and its downstream nodes incur economic losses. Users thus have an incentive to invest in upstream locations as well as their own sites to reduce the probability of a disruptive event. The initial model we develop to reduce the expected investment plus disruption costs is a multiplicative model for which closed‐form solutions cannot be obtained in general. We overcome this problem with an additive model that we show closely approximates the initial formulation. This model reduces the security problem to a public goods setting where we minimize the total expected cost at each node. The users then need to share these costs in an equitable fashion, which gives rise to a set of cooperative games. For the case where disutilities to all users are identical, the Shapley value can be computed efficiently, along the lines of an Airport Game. We also treat the case where risk reduction and disutility vary across the network. Finally, we prove that the cooperative game is concave in this general case, which guarantees that the core of the game is nonempty and that the Shapley value is an element of the core.
Introduction to special issue: States, citizens and social protection in Africa
Authors: Seekings Jeremy , Porisky Alesha , Plagerson Sophie , Ulriksen Marianne S. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractWhile social protection provision in Africa has primarily focused on the reduction of food insecurity and income poverty, it has the potential to transform the relationship between citizens and states. The articles in this special issue provide insights into the theoretical, normative, and empirical assessment of the transformative consequences of social protection programmes across parts of East, West and Southern Africa. The articles reveal that the expansion of social protection has varied effects on how governments, local officials, and citizens view their respective rights and responsibilities. Some case studies suggest the expansion of social protection has strengthened understandings of rights‐based social citizenship and the claims that citizens can make of the state. Others, however, suggest that conservative attitudes and paternalistic practices remain deeply entrenched. The result is that the transformative hopes, widespread within international organisations and donor agencies, are likely to be uneven and slow to materialise in many parts of the continent.
De novo
transcriptome assembly of
Curvularia
sp. VKM F-3040, a promising steroid-modifying ascomycete
Authors: Kollerov Vyacheslav V. , Tarlachkov Sergey V. , Donova Marina V. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract

This research presents
de novo
transcriptome shotgun assembly for
Curvularia
sp. VKM F-3040, which is a putative fungal strain able to modify androstane steroids with production of 7-hydroxy and 17-hydroxylated derivatives—key intermediates in the synthesis of pharmaceutical ingredients. The data are of importance for creating novel microbial biocatalysts.
Comparison of two novel one-tube nested real-time qPCR assays to detect human-infecting
Cyclospora
spp.
Authors: Richins Travis , Houghton Katelyn , Barratt Joel , H. Sapp Sarah G. , Peterson Anna , Qvarnstrom Yvonne 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT

Human-infecting
Cyclospora
spp. currently include three coccidian parasites that cause the gastrointestinal disease cyclosporiasis in humans. They are often spread through contaminated produce, including leafy greens and berries. The increased availability of sensitive molecular tests for the diagnosis of cyclosporiasis is an important advancement, allowing public health agencies to better understand the scope and source of cyclosporiasis outbreaks. To improve the diagnosis of infected patients, rapidly detect outbreaks, and keep the food supply safe, it is important to continue to develop sensitive, reliable, and inexpensive tests to detect human-infecting
Cyclospora
spp. In this report, we describe the development and evaluation of two novel one-tube nested qPCR assays for the detection of human-infecting
Cyclospora
spp. in clinical stool samples, one targeting
cytb
and the other targeting
coxI
. Of these, the assay targeting the
cytb
mitochondrial locus possessed strong performance characteristics compared to a routinely used 18S assay, including a markedly improved (approximately 10-fold lower) relative detection limit of 0.613 oocysts per gram of feces. This is compared to
coxI
that has a relative detection limit equal to that of the 18S assay. Given the strong performance characteristics of the
cytb
assay, we propose that it may be useful to diagnostic laboratories wishing to screen clinical fecal specimens suspected of containing human-infecting
Cyclospora
spp.

IMPORTANCE

Human-infecting
Cyclospora
spp. cause gastrointestinal distress among healthy individuals contributing to morbidity and putting stress on the economics of countries and companies in the form of produce recalls. Accessible and easy-to-use diagnostic tools available to a wide variety of laboratories would aid in the early detection of possible outbreaks of cyclosporiasis. This, in turn, will assist in the timely traceback investigation to the suspected source of an outbreak by informing the smallest possible recall and protecting consumers from contaminated produce. This manuscript describes two novel detection methods with improved performance for the causative agents of cyclosporiasis when compared to the currently used 18S assay.