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Influence of emotional intelligence attributes on human resource management practices implementation in the Nigerian construction industry
Authors: Babalola Ifedolapo Helen , Aigbavboa Clinton Ohis , Aliu John , Oke Ayodeji Emmanuel 
Published: December 2023

Purpose
The workforce upon which the construction industry relies, known as human resources (HRs), faces challenges such as poor management, inadequate implementation of human resource management practices (HRMPs) and psychosocial issues. This study aims to identify and assess the impact of emotional intelligence (EI) attributes on the implementation of HRMPs in the Nigerian construction industry (NCI) to enhance business performance as well as the performance and productivity of HRs.

Design/methodology/approach
A mixed-methods research design combining qualitative and quantitative approaches was used to gather expert perspectives on specific EI attributes. Data analysis involved the use of interquartile deviation, median, standard deviation, mean, Cronbach’s alpha and exploratory factor analysis (EFA).

Findings
The study identified 12 EI attributes that influenced HRMPs implementation, with 1 attribute having a very high impact (9.00–10.00) and 11 scoring high impact (7.00–8.99). Further analysis using EFA resulted in the identification of two major attribute clusters: “team relationship” and “self-management”.

Practical implications
These findings have significant implications for construction professionals, HRs and policymakers, as they address the challenges faced by construction stakeholders in terms of physical and mental well-being, which can affect their emotions while carrying out construction activities. Construction organizations should consider incorporating support systems into their policies to influence HRMPs implementation in the workplace.

Originality/value
The study provides valuable insights for developing nations such as Nigeria regarding the essential EI attributes for successful HRMPs implementation.
Importance of traditions and family business at Christmas: a quantitative analysis of practices and values in Portugal
Authors: Santos Eulália , Tavares Fernando Oliveira , Foliveira Margarida Freitas 
Published: December 2023

PurposeChristmas is the most consumed event of the year, always full of traditions, namely family ones, which are very significant. In this way, it is intended to find out the importance of traditions at Christmas time and analyze their implications for family businesses.Design/methodology/approachThe study is quantitative in nature, based on a questionnaire survey carried out with 551 Portuguese individuals, over 18 years of age, where different issues related to Christmas traditions and family are addressed.FindingsThe results demonstrate that the Christmas traditions scale is made up of four factors: family traditions on Christmas Eve, aspects related to the Christmas spirit, changes in Christmas traditions with the COVID-19 pandemic and traditions of participating in events with family at Christmas. Cod and octopus dishes are the most popular dishes on Christmas Eve. In relation to sweets/desserts, king cake, rabanadas, vermicelli, children's bread and sponge cake are the most common on Christmas Eve.Originality/valueThe study helps to understand Portuguese Christmas traditions, providing knowledge that allows defining strategies for family businesses, improving the experience and relationship with consumers at a special time of year. It is hoped that the trends in Christmas traditions in this study will contribute to unveiling the Christmas spirit, also serve as a marketing image and create curiosity and motivation on the part of other cultures to visit Portugal during this festive season, in order to experience Christmas traditions.
Conceptualising a chameleon: social enterprise as a public provider
Authors: Hunt Sophie , Haneberg Dag Håkon , de Boer Luitzen 
Published: December 2023

Purpose
This paper aims to make sense of the social enterprise in a frame of social procurement and conceptualise it as a provider of public welfare based on bibliometric material. Comprehensively, it contributes to developments in social procurement, which has received limited attention.

Design/methodology/approach
Scoping literature from Web of Science and using bibliometric methods, the paper identifies and qualitatively explores the literary intersections between social enterprise and social procurement.

Findings
Of the 183 articles, four literary clusters are revealed illustrating scholarly intersections and a detailed exploration of social enterprise as a public provider. The alignment and themes of the clusters further indicate the application of, and role played by, social enterprise in social procurement. Collectively, they reveal the dominance of social enterprise in this dyadic relationship and a minor undertaking of research in social procurement.

Social implications
This “sense-making” groundwork forms a foundational step in developing our understanding of procurements through social enterprises. Furthermore, a positioning and conceptualisation of social enterprise accredits their utility and applicability in delivering public benefits. In this way, the paper informs and supports scholarly and practice-based interest into social enterprises for the delivery of public services.

Originality/value
The paper presents the first bibliometric conceptualisation of social enterprise in relation to social procurement and offers detailed insights through the bibliometric clusters. Furthermore, the paper contributes to the underdeveloped social dimension of procurement and bridges the gap between two distinct fields of scholarship: public management and administration and social entrepreneurship.
Digital preservation practices for information resources in university libraries of Pakistan
Authors: Ahmad Rafiq , Rafiq Muhammad 
Published: December 2023

PurposeThe digital contents (d-contents) are vulnerable to various threats either natural or manmade. Digital preservation is the plethora of a wide array of strategies necessary for the long-term preservation of digital objects. This study was carried out to assess the digital preservation practices for information resources in university libraries of Pakistan.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative survey based on a structured questionnaire was carried out to conduct the study. The questionnaire containing two sets of strategies (general and technical) was distributed amongst the whole population and received 90% response rate.FindingsOverall, progressive implementation of general digital preservation practices was noted in these libraries like checking the digital collections for viruses, keeping the digital media in fire/water/theft proof locations, restricting unauthorized access, maintaining ideal humidity and temperature, and checking the digital media for functionality. Amongst the technical practices, only replication was in practice at a progressive rate, followed by metadata recording and media refreshing that was sometimes practiced in these libraries. The other technical practices were rarely or never practiced in these libraries. Significant variances in general and technical digital preservation practices were noted based on their physical locations (regional distribution).Research limitations/implicationsThe study contributes a comprehensive set of digital preservation practices divided into general and technical types to conduct similar studies in other parts of the world.Practical implicationsThe findings stress the need for national and institutional policies, funding streams and skill enhancement of library staff.Originality/valueThe study fills the literature gap and contributes a comprehensive set of digital preservation practices divided into general and technical types to conduct similar studies in other parts of the world.Peer reviewThe peer-review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-02-2023-0074
Decentering whiteness in libraries: relational work for an inclusive culture
Authors: Denke Jessica , Cunningham Nicholas 
Published: December 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to share a year-long initiative of a predominantly white liberal arts college library that fostered relationality and inclusive culture through an understanding and critique of White Supremacy Culture.Design/methodology/approachThis case study presents the development and implementation of a library-wide reading group to discuss Okun's (2021) White Supremacy Culture Characteristics through relational meetings (Chambers, 2003). Relational-cultural theory provided a guiding framework for implementation of relational meetings in the context of conversations about race.FindingsAfter participation in the reading group, participants reported their ability to identify characteristics of White Supremacy Culture in their lives and a greater preparedness to participate in work related to diversity, equity and inclusion. The authors suggest vulnerability, consideration of power and privilege and observations of White Supremacy Culture within the local context frequently occurred in the reading group conversations.Research limitations/implicationsThis work operates as an opportunity for library staff to learn about White Supremacy Culture in a way that helps to undermine white privilege and, therefore, holds similar aims to anti-racist affinity work (Michael and Conger, 2009). However, the library staff only has one person of color and, therefore, the authors cannot speak to engaging a more racially diverse staff. The authors include reflections on how their racial identities impact their engagement in this work.Originality/valueAttention to White Supremacy and white privilege is, according to Gulati-Partee and Potapchuk (2014), an overlooked part of diversity, equity and inclusion work. This case study demonstrates a path toward inclusive culture that focuses on the identification of White Supremacy Culture Characteristics (Okun, 2021) in the authors’ local context and provides rationale for utilizing relational meetings (Chambers, 2003) to emphasize individual and collective reflection.
Male pathology regardless of behaviour drives transmission in an avian host–pathogen system
Authors: Sauer Erin L. , Connelly Chloe , Perrine Weston , Love Ashely C. , DuRant Sarah E. 
Published: December 2023

Abstract

Host sex is an important source of heterogeneity in the severity of epidemics. Pinpointing the mechanisms causing this heterogeneity can be difficult because differences in behaviour among sexes (e.g. greater territorial aggression in males) can bias exposure risk, obfuscating the role of immune function, which can lead to differences in pathology, in driving differential susceptibility between sexes. Thus, sex‐biased transmission driven by differences in immune function independent of behaviour is poorly understood, especially in non‐mammalian systems.

Here we examine the previously unexplored potential for male‐biased pathology to affect transmission using an avian host–pathogen system. We employ a sex‐dependent multistate transmission model parameterized with isolated, individual‐based experimental exposures of domestic canaries and experimental transmission data of house finches.

The experiment revealed that male birds have shorter incubation periods, longer recovery periods, higher pathogen burdens and greater disease pathology than females. Our model revealed that male‐biased pathology led to epidemic size rapidly increasing with the proportion of male birds, with a nearly 10‐fold increase in total epidemic size from an all‐female to an all‐male simulation.

Our results demonstrate that female‐biased resistance, independent of male behaviour, can drive sex‐dependent transmission in wildlife, indicating that sex‐based differences in immune function, not just differences in exposure risk, can shape epidemic dynamics.
Chocs pétroliers, effets potentiels de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie sur le solde budgétaire des économies africaines
Authors: Zongo Kirsi , Ndong Ntah Marcellin 
Published: December 2023

AbstractCet article analyse les effets de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie sur les économies africaines en se focalisant sur les effets induits par la hausse du prix de pétrole sur le solde budgétaire. L'étude a mobilisé les modèles VAR structurels et a porté sur six pays dont trois exportateurs et trois importateurs nets de pétrole en utilisant des séries temporelles sur la période 1980‐2021 et une simulation portant sur la période 2022‐2023. Les résultats montrent qu'un choc pétrolier entraîne une réaction positive du solde budgétaire des pays exportateurs de pétrole et une réaction négative dans les pays importateurs mais l'effet est asymétrique. Les simulations des scénarii ont montré que la guerre en Ukraine entraînerait une amélioration du solde budgétaire du Nigéria d'environ 2 points de pourcentage et d'environ 1,25 de pourcentage pour l'Angola et l'Algérie. Cependant, l'effet contraire est observé pour les pays importateurs en aggravant leur déficit budgétaire. Aussi, préconisons−nous d'une part aux pays exportateurs de pétrole de diversifier les exportations en s'investissant notamment dans des secteurs hors pétrole, et d'autre part aux pays importateurs de consentir des efforts pour le développement d'énergies renouvelables afin de briser leur dépendance vis‐à‐vis du pétrole.
Income–environmental nexus in Africa: The integrating role of renewable energy transition and governance quality
Authors: Iorember Paul Terhemba , Yusoff Nora Yusma Mohamed 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe economies of the African countries are gradually expanding, but they mostly depend on fossil fuels for energy use. This exacerbates environmental damage, which renders the continent susceptible to the effects of climate change. Therefore, this study aims to examine the integrating role of renewable energy transition and governance quality in the income–environmental quality nexus in Africa. The study applies second‐generation econometric techniques on annual panel data of 34 African countries covering the period 1996–2018. The fixed effect ordinary least square (OLS‐FE), feasible generalized least squares (FGLS), system generalized method of moments (SYS‐GMM) and cross‐sectionally augmented ARDL (CS‐ARDL) are applied to both the baseline model and the interactive models. The results provide diverse findings. In the baseline models, the study verifies the increasing effect of income on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which continues to dampen environmental quality. Regarding the interaction effect models, the findings show that the interactive term of renewable energy transition and income per capita has a significant negative effect on CO2 emission levels which implies that renewable energy transition ensures green growth. Further, the results indicate that the interactive terms of governance quality have significant reducing effect on emission levels. In terms of policy, achieving green growth necessitates increased renewable energy deployment and policies that will enhance governance effectiveness towards enforcing environmental regulations.
On knowing nature's syntax: Preliminary cisness, victorian physiology and George Eliot
Authors: Ferguson Alexis A. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractAs a trans intervention in Victorian studies and historical extension of recent work in trans studies, this article argues that the theorisation of natural laws in mid‐nineteenth century, British physiology produces a ‘preliminary cisness’ in Victorian sexual science. By then juxtaposing George Eliot's Adam Bede with work by Herbert Spencer and George Henry Lewes and undertaking a close study of the characters Hetty Sorrel and Dinah Morris, this article suggests that Eliot offers social sympathy as a non‐cis, epistemological alternative to the ethical risks of pre‐cis sex.
Preparation of food ingredients for the PKU patients: Two‐step enzymatic hydrolysis and activated carbon adsorption for the removal of phenylalanine from whey protein hydrolysates
Authors: Zhang Shuhua , Zheng Yao , Wu Zhengyan , Zhang Yuanyuan , Liu Xiaohui , Luo Zhigang , Li Hongjuan , Li Hongbo , Yu Jinghua 
Published: December 2023

In this study, we developed a two‐step enzymatic hydrolysis method followed by activated carbon adsorption to remove phenylalanine (Phe) from whey protein. The results showed that the free rate of Phe after sequential enzymatic hydrolysis of trypsin and flavorzyme was 90.8%. After adsorption by activated carbon No. 1, the removal efficiency of Phe from the hydrolysates reached 89.79% at 2.19 mg/g protein equivalent. Therefore, low Phe protein hydrolysates (LPHs) can be used to prepare low Phe food for phenylketonuria patients who cannot metabolise Phe properly by themselves and need to maintain a low Phe diet for life.
Laparoscopic approach for port site mass diagnosed as a Schloffer tumor following surgery of ascending colon cancer
Authors: Mitsuyoshi Masahiro , Nagata Jun , Akiyama Yasuki , Yamauchi Masumi , Sannomiya Hiroto , Kohi Shiro , Tanoue Takayuki , Mori Yasuhisa , Sato Nagahiro , Tamura Toshihisa , Inoue Yuzuru , Sato Norihiro , Shibao Kazunori , Hirata Keiji 
Published: December 2023

AbstractSchloffer tumor is a foreign body granuloma that develops in the subcutaneous layer of the abdomen over several months to several years after surgery due to sutures. Here, we performed a laparoscopic resection for a benign Schloffer tumor that showed positive F‐18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) at the port site of a laparoscopic right hemicolectomy for advanced colon cancer. We report a case in which systemic chemotherapy was avoided as a result of the histological examination following the laparoscopic approach. A 66‐year‐old female, who underwent laparoscopic right hemi colectomy for stage IIIA ascending colon cancer, was revealed an enhanced mass at the right side of the abdominal subcutaneous layer. PET examination showed a high accumulation of FDG. Laparoscopic tumor resection was performed. Pathological findings reported the formation identical to the Schloffer tumor. Schloffer tumor, which is rare, should be considered as one of the differential diagnoses for tumor with FDG‐PET positivity at the port site during the postoperative surveillance period of colorectal cancer.
Autologous point‐of‐care stromal vascular fraction transplantation in dogs with advanced osteoarthritis of the knee and hip joints
Authors: Schroers M , Bruns Y , Waselau A‐C , Steigmeier‐Raith S , Meyer‐Lindenberg A 
Published: December 2023

ObjectiveThe aim of the study was to assess lameness in dogs with advanced osteoarthritis of the hip and knee joints after a single autologous point‐of‐care transplantation of the Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF) into the affected joint.Materials and methodsDuring a minilaparotomy, 10 g of falciform fat was removed from each patient for each joint to be treated. A modern and time‐saving procedure (ARC TM System, InGeneron GmbH, Houston, USA) was used for the in‐house preparation of the SVF, so that the isolated cells could be applied to the respective joint within 2 h after fat removal. In total, five knee joints of five patients and seven hip joints of four patients were treated.ResultsImprovement in lameness according to owner questionnaires was seen in 3 of 5 patients with knee joint arthritis and 2 of 4 patients with hip joint arthritis. Based on gait analysis, only one dog with gonarthrosis and one dog with coxarthrosis showed improvement up to a maximum of 3 months after surgery.ConclusionThis is the first case series on the treatment of osteoarthrosis of the knee or hip joint using point‐of‐care transplantation of the SVF. In individual cases, this method may represent a therapeutic approach for the treatment in dogs with advanced cox‐ or gonarthrosis, although only a short‐term effect can be expected, which calls into question the effort and costs involved.
Epidemiological insights into the burden of feline upper respiratory tract infections in Queensland RSPCA shelters
Authors: Kennedy U , Paterson M , Clark N 
Published: December 2023

IntroductionFeline upper respiratory tract infection (FURTI) is a severe problem in animal shelters where there is high turnover of populations and compromised immunity. This retrospective cohort study explores associations of potential animal‐based and environmental‐based factors with the risk of FURTI, where a previously modelled infection classification is used as the outcome of interest. The study type is a retrospective cohort and the measures of association include Odds Ratios and conditional predictions.ObjectivesTo gain epidemiological insights into variation in FURTI using retrospective data from one of Australia's leading animal shelters.MethodsWe stratified FURTI by admission and environmental variables. Predicted infection status, obtained using a machine‐learning classifier trained on clinical text (accuracy 0.95 [CI 0.92, 0.97]), was used as the outcome of interest. Prior assumptions were represented by a causal framework or a direct acyclic graph (DAG), which informed creation of multiple Bernoulli models with an observational and prior component.ResultsWe analysed 43,431 feline entries over 8 years. Males were 1.24 (95% CI 1.19 to 1.31) times more likely than females to be classified as positive, while already desexed animals were only 0.68 (95% CI 0.60 to 0.72) as likely to be classified as positive compared to those not desexed on entry. Cats (>4 months) were twice as likely (95% CI 1.91 to 2.09) as kittens (0–4 months) to be classified positive. Animals entering the shelter as seized by the inspectorate (n = 415) were more likely to be classified positive compared to animals from other sources. Predicted infection probability increased in winter and showed a linear pattern with how full the shelter was.ConclusionThis study estimates the association between animal and environmental variables of interest and FURTI classification status, thus better interpreting the distribution of disease as predicted by a previously uninterpretable model. This analysis gives much needed insight into the types of changes in an animal's environment that can impact final animal outcomes.