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Training and development process: implication for academic staff performance and sustainable University Education
Authors: Oladejo Olufemi Michael , Mutereko Sybert , Ganiyu Idris Olayiwola 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
This study examines the effectiveness of training and development process for academic staff performance and sustainable university education.

Design/methodology/approach
A quantitative research approach was adopted for data collection and analysis for this study. The study draws sample from 202 randomly selected academic staff from three universities in South-West Nigeria. The data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 27).

Findings
The findings showed a significant relationship between T&D process and academic staff performance. Also, the importance of conducting training need assessment before training programs are implemented was revealed.

Originality/value
This study provides evidence-based information which can help decisions on training and development program, enhance academic staff performance, and ensure university sustainability.
Examines the value of cloud computing adoption as a proxy for IT flexibility and effectiveness
Authors: A. Mjlae Salameh 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate the value of cloud computing adoption (CCA) as a proxy for information technology (IT) flexibility (ITF) and IT effectiveness (ITE) among Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Jordan.

Design/methodology/approach
A research framework with five hypotheses has been developed based on the results of previous studies. Partial least squares-structural equation modeling has been used for data analysis.

Findings
The results revealed that elements of ITF in two domains, IT technical resource (connectivity, modularityand compatibility) and IT human resource (IT personnel skills) specific to CCA, were significantly correlated with ITE.

Research limitations/implications
The findings have crucial implications: they contribute to the research community, administrators and cloud computing providers (CSPs) concerning the framework-improved procedure for CCA. The proposed model can enhance the awareness of service providers about why some SMEs accept cloud computing services, whereas actually the same ones having the same type of business do not. In addition, the above providers should enhance their interaction with the SMEs that contributed to the cloud computing knowledge to make a well-organized setting for the CCA, specifically, SMEs need that adopt an on-premise private cloud architecture. Moreover, necessary to determine the challenges in deploying solutions from the perspective of CSPs. The sample has been limited to Jordan respondents.

Practical implications
The research studies about the usage of cloud computing have shown its effects on SMEs today. Also, the different impacts of cloud computing on other sectors are at the center of attention. SMEs could get significant advantages by carefully considering and managing CCA from the ITF and ITE perspective.

Originality/value
To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study to develop a framework for CCA based on the standpoint of ITF in two domains, IT technical resources (connectivity, modularity and compatibility) and IT human resources (IT personnel skills) and effectiveness.
Exploring teacher learning through a hybrid cross-cultural lesson study in China and the United States
Authors: Huang Rongjin , Weaver Joanna C. , Matney Gabriel , Huang Xingfeng , Wilson Joshua , Painter Christine 
Published: November 2023

PurposeThis study aimed to explore teachers' learning processes through a hybrid cross-cultural lesson study (LS) because little is known about the learning process through this novel and promising LS approach.Design/methodology/approachThis cross-cultural LS lasted over six months focusing on developing a research lesson (RL) related to linear functions/equations by addressing a commonly concerned student learning difficulty. The data collected were lesson plans, videos of RLs, cross-culture sharing meetings and post-lesson study teacher interviews. A cultural-history activity theory (CHAT) perspective (Engeström, 2001) was used as a theoretical and analytical framework, and contradictions were viewed as driving forces of teachers' learning. The data were analyzed to identify contradictions and consequent teachers' learning by resolving these contradictions.FindingsThe results revealed four contradictions occurring during the hybrid cross-cultural LS that are related to the preferred teaching approach, culturally relevant tasks, making sense of the specific topic and enactment of the RL. By addressing these contradictions, the participating teachers perceived their learning in cultural beliefs, pedagogical practice and organization of the lesson.Research limitations/implicationsThis study details teachers' collaborative learning processes through hybrid cross-cultural LS and provides implications for effectively conducting cross-cultural LS. However, how the potential learning opportunity revealed from this case could be actualized at a larger scale in different cultures and the actual impact on local practices by adapting effective practices from another culture are important questions to be investigated further.Originality/valueThis study expands teacher learning through cross-cultural LS by focusing on contradictions cross-culturally as driving forces.
Organizations’ perspectives on whistleblowing: evidence from interviews with unregulated companies
Authors: Friedrich Christian , Quick Reiner 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
Whistleblowers are individuals who detect and report misconduct in an organization. They help to mitigate organizational misbehavior and resulting damages effectively and relatively quickly. Whistleblower protection has not been systematically required in the European Union (EU), leaving many large organizations unregulated. This study aims to get in-depth insights into how unregulated organizations design, handle and view whistleblowing with the advent of a novel EU Whistleblowing Directive.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted 17 semistructured interviews with a diverse group of organizations headquartered in Germany and inductively analyzed them following Grounded Theory. Linking the Grounded Theory to the legal endogeneity model, they developed seven perspectives that help to explain how organizations view whistleblowing.

Findings
In trying to make sense of the role of whistleblowing in the organization’s governance, organizations and their managers assume different perspectives. These perspectives guide their approach to whistleblower protection in the context of evolving regulation with little regulatory guidance. Perspectives vary in the degree of supporting whistleblowing regulation, from viewing whistleblowing as a natural, everyday governance tool to denying it and fearing denunciation. Most organizations exhibit several perspectives.

Originality/value
Little is known about day-to-day whistleblowing practices from the perspective of organizations. The authors fill this research gap by providing initial evidence on how organizations approach whistleblowing and the EU Whistleblowing Directive. Identifying organizations’ perspectives may help us understand how ineffective or noncompliant whistleblowing systems emerge and how organizations can improve.
Mercy does not hold the army: a study on the dark side effect of benevolent leadership
Authors: Chen Hao , Wei Wu , Wang Liang , Bao Jiaying 
Published: November 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the mechanism of benevolent leadership on employee cheating behavior through two paths – employee uncertainty and perceived acceptability of norm violation – and also reveal the possible dark side of benevolent leadership. Meanwhile, the moderating effects of leader behavioral integrity in the cognition dual path process are also discussed.Design/methodology/approachThis study invites 383 employees and their superiors in seven Chinese enterprises as the research objects and conducts a paired survey at three time points, and then Mplus 7.4 software is used to analyze the empirical data.FindingsThe results are shown as follows. Benevolent leadership plays a positive role on uncertainty and perceived acceptability of norm violation. Uncertainty and perceived acceptability of norm violation mediate the relationship between benevolent leadership and cheating behavior, respectively. Leader behavioral integrity moderates the positive role of benevolent leadership on uncertainty and perceived acceptability of norm violation. Leader behavioral integrity moderates the indirect effect of benevolent leadership on employees' cheating behavior through uncertainty and perceived acceptability of norm violation.Originality/valueThis study reveals the mechanism behind the negative role of benevolent leadership through the cognition reaction of employees to benevolent leadership and broadens the research scope of benevolent leadership. Meanwhile, it provides some practical inspiration for leaders to effectively use the benevolent leadership style and restrain employees' cheating behavior.
Real Estate Insights Navigating the future of property professionals: an AI-enabled paradigm
Authors: Dyason David , Squires Graham 
Published: November 2023

PurposeThe technological disruption from artificial intelligence (AI) within the economy requires intelligent property professionals for tomorrow. This paper proposes that the direction of interaction between AI and tomorrow's property professional, the property graduate, should be AI-empowered rather than AI-directed.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reflects on the growing influence of AI in property combined with literature on technological adoption in the workplace. It proposes a way forward in navigating future decision-making.FindingsAn AI-empowered paradigm promotes the importance of industry-specific knowledge to determine factual information in decision-making. In contrast, an AI-directed paradigm leads to over-dominance of the user on pre-specified knowledge available through AI tools that could lead to AI-directed output that carries significant risk for the property industry.Practical implicationsNavigating the future requires a paradigm that moves from a computational focus driven predominantly by technological tools to one where tomorrow's professionals have a cognitive focus that leads to AI-enabled property graduates that can apply the correct tools in the right circumstances.Originality/valueThis paper reflects on the increasing role that technology and AI have within the property profession and brings to light the importance of learning through experience and the transparent use of AI tools in property.
Investigating consumer's buying behaviour of green products through the lenses of extended theory of planned behaviour
Authors: Mishra Suyash , Kaur Ravinder 
Published: November 2023

PurposeThe study aims to predict the drivers of green purchase in extended theory of planned behaviour (TPB) by investigating direct and indirect role of consumers' attitude toward green purchase along with moderating effects of green trust and willingness to pay on purchase behaviour in an emerging market.Design/methodology/approachA total of 417 useable responses were recorded from three different states of north India to resolve the issues related to demographic diversity in country by using a structured questionnaire. Structural equation modelling, mediation and moderation analyses were used to investigate the hypothesised relationships.FindingsThe research unveiled that environmental concern, subjective norm have significant direct and indirect influence on green purchase intention via attitude. Furthermore, this study also elucidates that green trust significantly moderates attitude–behaviour, and intention–behaviour relationships, whereas willingness to pay does not significantly moderate these relationships in proposed model.Practical implicationsThis study provides interesting insights regarding consumers of emerging market toward green purchase. These insights are useful for marketers to design more focused strategies for enhancing the consumers' preferences for green products and promotion of pro-environmental behaviour in emerging markets.Originality/valueThe novel insights of this study are the mediating role of attitude in an emerging market in extended TPB model and exploration of the moderating role of green trust and willingness to pay premium to reduce the attitude–behaviour and intention–behaviour gaps for enhancing the consumers' preferences for green purchase.
Study on photoluminescence of integrated nano-calcium carbonate (CaCO3) enhanced with dysprosium (Dy) doped calcium borophosphate (CBP) phosphor
Authors: Kandiah Khishn Kumar , Balakrishnan Vengadaesvaran , Syafiq Amirul , Rahim Nasrudin Abd , Pandey Adarsh Kumar , Tan Yee Seng , Dhoble Sanjay J , Kasi Ramesh , Subramaniam Ramesh 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
There is a strong inducement to develop new inorganic materials to substitute the current industrial pigments, which are known for their poor ultraviolet absorbent and low photoluminescence (PL) properties. The purpose of this paper is to invent a better rare-earth-based pigment material as a spectral modifier with good luminescence properties to enhance the spectral response for photovoltaic panel application.

Design/methodology/approach
Different phosphor samples made of nano-calcium carbonate (CaCO3) with varied wt.% of the dopant Dysprosium doped calcium borophosphate (CBP/Dy) as (W0 – 0%, W1 – 3,85%, W2 – 7.41%, W3 –10.71% and W4 –13.79%) were prepared via the solid-state diffusion method at 600 °C for 6 h using a muffle furnace. The structural, morphological and luminescence properties of the CaCO3:CBP/Dy powder samples were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and PL test.

Findings
The XRD, SEM and FTIR results verified the crystalline formation, morphological behaviour and vibration bonds of synthesized CBP/Dy-doped CaCO3 powder samples. XRD pattern revealed that the synthesized powder samples exhibit crystalline structured materials, and SEM results showed irregular shape and porous-like structured morphologies. FTIR spectrum shows prominent bands at 712, 874 and 1,404 cm−1, corresponding to asymmetric stretching vibrations of CO32− groups and out-of-plane bending. PL characterization of CBP/Dy-doped CaCO3 (sample W) shows emission at 427 nm (λmax) under the excitation of 358 nm. The intensity of PL emission spectra drops due to the concentration quenching effect, while the maximum PL intensity is observed in the W3 phosphor powder system.

Research limitations/implications
This phosphor powder is expected to find out the potential application such as a spectral modifier which is applied to match the energy of photons with solar cell bandgap to improve spectral absorption and lead to better efficiency.

Originality/value
The introduction of a nano-CaCO3:CBP/Dy hybrid powder system with good luminescence properties to be used as spectral modifiers for solar cell application has been synthesized in the lab, which is a novel attempt.
Identification and immune analysis of antimicrobial peptides from the cigarette beetle (Lasioderma serricorne)
Authors: Zhang Yue , Yan Yi , Smagghe Guy , Yang Hong , Dai Ren‐huai , Yang Wen‐jia 
Published: November 2023

AbstractAntimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in insects are endogenous peptides that are effector components of the innate defense system of the insect. AMPs may serve as antimicrobial agents because of their small molecular weight and broad‐spectrum antimicrobial activity. In this study, we performed transcriptome analysis of cigarette beetle (Lasioderma serricorne) larvae, parasitized by the ectoparasitic wasp, Anisopteromalus calandrae. Several AMP genes were significantly upregulated following A. calandrae parasitism, postulating the hypothesis that the parasitization enhanced the host's resistance against pathogenic microorganisms through the regulation of host AMP genes. Specifically, 3 AMP genes (LsDef1, LsDef2, and LsCole) were significantly upregulated and we studied their immune function in L. serricorne. Immune challenge and functional analysis showed that LsCole was responsible for the immune response against Gram‐negative and Gram‐positive bacteria, while LsDef1 and LsDef2 were involved in insect defense against Gram‐positive bacteria. Purified recombinant LsCole exhibited antimicrobial activities against the Gram‐negative bacterium Escherichia coli and the Gram‐positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. LsDef2 showed an antibacterial effect against S. aureus. LsCole and LsDef2 exhibited antibiofilm activity against S. aureus. The 2 AMPs disrupted cell membranes and caused leakage of S. aureus cell contents. The results indicated that the 3 AMPs in L. serricorne are involved in the innate immunity of this pest insect. These AMPs may have potential as antimicrobial agents for bacterial infection chemotherapy. Hence, data are discussed in relation to new control strategies with greater biosafety against pest insects with use of microbial biocontrol agents in combination with RNA interference against the insect's defensive AMP genes.
Predictive performance of the sequential organ failure assessment score for in‐hospital mortality in patients with end‐stage kidney disease in intensive care units: A multicenter registry in Japan
Authors: Shimada Hiroki , Matsuoka Yoshinori , Miyakoshi Chisato , Ito Jiro , Seo Ryutaro , Ariyoshi Koichi , Yamamoto Yosuke , Mima Hiroyuki 
Published: November 2023

AbstractIntroductionThere is limited evidence regarding whether the performance of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score differs between patients with and without end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD) in intensive care units (ICUs).MethodsWe used a multicenter registry (Japanese Intensive care Patient Database) to enroll adult ICU patients between April 2018 and March 2021. We recalibrated the SOFA score using a logistic regression model and evaluated its predictive ability in both ESKD and non‐ESKD groups. The primary outcome was in‐hospital mortality.Results128 134 patients were enrolled. The AUROC of the SOFA score was lower in the ESKD group than in the non‐ESKD group [0.789 (95% CI, 0.774–0.804) vs. 0.846 (95% CI, 0.841–0.850)]. The calibration plot revealed good performance in both groups. However, it overestimated in‐hospital mortality in ESKD groups.ConclusionThe SOFA score demonstrated good predictive ability in patients with and without ESKD, but it overestimated the in‐hospital mortality in ESKD patients.
Use of hydration properties of proteins to understand their functionality and tailor texture of extruded plant‐based meat analogues
Authors: Flory Jenna , Alavi Sajid 
Published: November 2023

AbstractDifferent protein sources create distinct textures in plant‐based meat due to differences in their hydration properties when exposed to different time, temperature, and shear regimes, which in turn depend upon their solubility, protein structure, and specific amino acids. This research aimed to identify these differences and manipulate them to reach a desired texture utilizing simple and reproducible analytical methods to characterize protein properties as either cold or heat swelling. Protein functionality was determined through least gelation concentration (LGC), water absorption index (WAI), and rapid visco analysis (RVA). Cold swelling or CS proteins (pea protein isolate, soy protein isolate, Arcon S soy protein concentrate) were characterized by an LGC < 14% and/ or WAI > 4.0 g/g, while LGC > 16% and/ or WAI < 4.0 g/g indicates proteins with heat swelling or HS properties (Arcon F soy protein concentrate, wheat gluten, and fava protein concentrate). An RVA peak time of around or less than 3 min (<75°C peak temperature) indicated CS properties while greater than 3.5 min (>80°C peak temperature) was considered HS. Protein mixes or treatments comprising mainly of different combinations and ratios of CS proteins were hypothesized to create a softer textured vegetable protein product or texturized vegetable protein (TVP) and those based on HS proteins a firmer TVP. Bulk density was higher for HS treatments (274–287 g/L) than for CS treatments (160–223 g/L). CS treatments exhibited a microstructure that was porous, while HS showed a dense, laminar microstructure. Texture profile analysis showed that CS treatments seemed to show a lower hardness (1154–1595 g) than the HS treatments (1893–2231 g).Practical ApplicationControlling texture can be a valuable tool when producing a plant‐based meat product. Different applications have various texture requirements. For example, a plant‐based fish stick would require a softer texture than a hamburger or chicken nugget. By increasing the knowledge of how protein functionality affects meat analogue texture, the time needed to produce new products with novel textures can be reduced. Money could also be saved by being able to quickly replace ingredients with a more affordable or accessible protein with similar swelling abilities to preserve product quality.
The effect of mixed culture fermentation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus on fermentation parameters and flavor profile
Authors: Nemenyi John , Pitts Eric R. , Martin‐Ryals Ana , Boz Ziynet , Zhang Boce , Jia Zhen , Budner Drew , MacIntosh Andrew J. , Thompson‐Witrick Katherine A. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractBelgian Saisons and Lambics are two well‐known examples in the brewing industry of mixed fermentations, combination of two or more yeast and/or bacteria strains. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact different pitch rates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (traditional brewing yeast) and S. cerevisiae var. diastaticus (a variant associated with Belgian styles) had on the fermentation kinetics and concentration of the volatile compounds in the finished beers. A series of brews were performed utilizing ratios of S. cerevisiae and diastaticus. The fermentations were heavily monitored, and a model was used to fit fermentation variables. It was found that mixed fermentations produced behaviors that were predictable and proportional to the mixture ratios. As expected, the pure cultural fermentations of diastaticus had a slower fermentation midpoint (M) at 45.45 h versus 28.28 h for S. cerevisiae with the mixed ones falling in between the two. Flavor and aroma play a key role in the acceptability of beer. The mixed fermentations showed a combination of the two different yeast strains aromatic profiles. When combined, there was a strong linearity between alcohols (R2 = 0.94), esters (R2 = 0.89), and the overall total (R2 = 0.91) volatile compounds.Practical ApplicationModeling is a widely utilized tool in several different fields. The purpose of this research is to apply modeling techniques to describe the fermentation speed and flavor profile of a mixed fermentation between S. cerevisiae and diastaticus. The equations from this data can be used by brewers for product development purposes to make beers with certain flavor profiles within a desired timeframe.