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Economic uncertainty and direct property performance: a systematic review using the SPAR-4-SLR protocol
Authors: Ahiadu Albert Agbeko , Abidoye Rotimi Boluwatife 
Published: November 2023

PurposeThis study systematically reviewed existing literature on the impact of economic uncertainty on property performance to highlight focus areas and spur future research amid unprecedented global uncertainty levels. Conceptually, uncertainty levels and environmental dynamism are related to investors' risk judgement and decision-making.Design/methodology/approachPeer-reviewed journal articles published from 2007 to 2022 were assembled and arranged through the Scientific Procedures and Rationales for Systematic Literature Reviews (SPAR-4-SLR) protocol. The initial search produced 2,028 results from the Web of Science and Scopus databases, which were rigorously purified for a final dataset of 70 articles. These records were subsequently assessed through content analysis, bibliographic modelling, topic modelling and thematic analysis. Recurring themes were visualised using the VOSviewer software.FindingsThe existing literature suggests that economic uncertainty negatively impacts investment volumes, returns and performance. Research has also increased since 2018, with a strong emphasis on the housing sector and developed property markets. Commercial property and emerging markets account for only 10 and 8% of previous research, respectively.Practical implicationsThese findings highlight the negative impact of economic uncertainties on property performance and investment volumes, which necessitate careful risk assessment. Given the high susceptibility of emerging and commercial property markets to uncertainty, these markets warrant further research amid ongoing uncertainty concerns across the globe.Originality/valueGiven current unprecedented levels of global uncertainty, the effects of economic uncertainty have received renewed interest. This study synthesised the current understanding of how different property markets respond to increased uncertainty and outlined future research directions to enhance understanding. Themes and relationships were also integrated into a conceptual map summarising the reported effects of economic uncertainty on housing, commercial property, investment and behaviour in the property market.
Defender, Disturber or Driver? The ideal-typical professional identities of HR practitioners
Authors: Ferm Lisa , Wallo Andreas , Reineholm Cathrine , Lundqvist Daniel 
Published: November 2023

PurposeThis study aims to contribute knowledge about different professional identities represented among HR practitioners from Weber's “ideal types” framework.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on semi-structured interviews with 34 Swedish HR practitioners working in large public and private organisations.FindingsThe findings reveal that HR practitioners' identity is perceived as indistinct, unclear and shattered, which leaves lots of room for interpreting HR identity. Based on a thematic content analysis, three different ideal-type identities are presented, each representing the characteristic traits of an HR identity type. These are the Defender who always supports the managers, the Disturber who questions the managers in favour of the employees and the Driver who focuses on the economic expansion of the organisation.Research limitations/implicationsOne of the potential constraints of this study is the authors’ reliance on interview data. This finding implies that future research can employ mixed methods or observational techniques to bridge the gap between narrated responsibilities and real-time actions. The data source, predominantly from larger organisations, presents another limitation. This raises a significant research implication: there is a need to study identity formation among HR practitioners in smaller organisations. The theoretical framework this study contributes can aid in comprehending HR practitioners' identities and their corresponding actions. Continued research might explore the significance of these ideal-type identities.Practical implicationsThe model presented provides a new way of understanding HR practitioners' complex and shattered professional identity and the various stakeholders that direct different expectations towards them. This knowledge can be used both in HR education and in HR work as a basis for discussing the social work environment of HR practitioners and negotiating their work and identity.Originality/valueThe study contributes knowledge of the professional identities of HR managers, an under-researched area, especially when it comes to empirical research about the HR practitioners' own experiences of their everyday work and view of the HR profession.
Global corporate reputation: a projective qualitative approach from a customer perspective
Authors: Youness Chebli , Valette-Florence Pierre , Assaf Cynthia 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this research is to extend the results of previous studies regarding corporate reputation scales and identify new and specific items relevant for studying global corporate reputation from a customer’s point of view.

Design/methodology/approach
This research was based on the qualitative projective “Album on Line” (AOL) technique. The authors used a sample of 12 French consumers distributed equally between affective and cognitive scenarios. An individual-difference multidimensional scaling approach (INDSCAL) was applied to display the overall semantic space among generated items.

Findings
The exploratory AOL approach generated 62 items related to both cognitive and affective orientations characterizing online and offline corporate reputation. The results uncovered six semantic clusters for each scenario. All in all, seven new items could be added in the process of building a new global corporate reputation measurement scale by adding: avant-garde, singularity, exclusivity, savings, return policy, freeness and speed.

Research limitations/implications
This research makes it possible to propose a new global corporate reputation measurement scale with sound psychometric properties. This scale will be adapted for click and mortars and pure players. This paper unlocks future perspectives by suggesting a causal model that integrates online corporate reputation and its main antecedents and consequences.

Practical implications
From a managerial perspective, this research offers insights to managers with the main orientations surrounding the components of global corporate reputation. Moreover, the AOL mappings delineate which quadrants the managers would like to be fitted into or avoid, and hence define more precisely which key elements should be stressed or discarded.

Originality/value
This research outlines AOL, an original qualitative projective technique that can be used to understand customers’ thoughts, which are stocked and collected as images. Moreover, this research intends to analyze the gathered data using both INDSCAL and fuzzy k-means cluster analysis to reduce conventional biases related to subjectivity.
Using teacher narratives to map policy effects in the Victorian Government International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) context
Authors: Zonca Benjamin , Ambrosy Josh 
Published: November 2023

PurposeGovernment primary schools in Australia increasingly take up the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) to supplement government-mandated curriculum and governance expectations. The purpose of this paper is to explore how teachers navigate and contest dual policy-practice expectations in the Victorian Government IB-PYP context.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a narrative inquiry approach. The narratives of two teachers were generated through a narrative interview and then re-storied with participants through a set of conceptual lenses drawn out of the policy assemblage and affect studies theoretical spaces.FindingsThe stories participants told show that competing mandatory local policy expressions are experienced and contested both to stabilize a technocratic rationality and produce alternative critical-political educational futures.Originality/valueThere a few accounts of teachers' policy experience in government school settings implementing the IB-PYP. In addressing this gap, this paper directly responds to prior claims of the IB's failure to promote an emancipatory pedagogy, showing instead that when teachers who bring a more critical understanding of educational purpose to their work take up the IB-PYP policy to support the enactment of that purpose.
Treatment patterns of systemic drug use in Japanese patients with plaque psoriasis: A retrospective chart review
Authors: Tada Yayoi , Komine Mayumi , Okubo Yukari , Habiro Katsuyoshi , Tsuritani Katsuki , Morita Akimichi 
Published: November 2023

AbstractPlaque psoriasis (PsO) is a chronic immune‐mediated inflammatory disease with skin lesions accompanied by an inflammation‐related comorbidity risk. The development of various oral drugs and biologics for PsO has provided increasing systemic treatment options for patients with PsO, and the guidance regarding the use of biologics and PsO treatment schemes are widespread in Japan. However, no comprehensive guidelines regarding systemic drug use are available, and the current treatment patterns of systemic drugs for PsO in Japan remain unclear. We conducted a retrospective chart review to clarify the current treatment patterns of systemic drugs for PsO. We enrolled 114 patients who started systemic drugs for PsO between January 2017 and December 2020 at four institutes, with a mean follow‐up of 37.2 months. The mean disease duration was 7.8 (standard deviation 9.5) years at the systemic drug initiation. Of all the patients, 78.1% started with oral drugs (phosphodiesterase [PDE] 4 inhibitors 56.1%. calcineurin inhibitors 14.0%. vitamin A derivatives 7.9%), whereas 21.9% started with biologics (interleukin [IL]‐17 inhibitors 9.6%. tumor necrosis factor inhibitors 7.0%. IL‐23 inhibitors 3.5%. IL‐12/23 inhibitors 1.8%). Oral drugs had shorter drug persistence than biologics: the 12‐month persistence of the oral drugs vitamin A derivative, calcineurin inhibitor, and PDE4 inhibitor, was 35.5%, 25.8%, and 60.1%, respectively, compared with that of the biologics IL‐23 and IL‐17 inhibitors, which was 85.6% and 84.7%, respectively. During the study period, the incidence of treatment changes was 59.1/100 patient‐years. Lack of efficacy was the most common reason for treatment changes from monotherapy (34.1%). This retrospective medical chart review allowed us to understand the real‐world, long‐term treatment patterns of systemic drugs for PsO and the relationships between the reasons for treatment changes and subsequent treatment selection, indicating that there is still room for improvement in the appropriate use of systemic drugs for PsO in Japan.
Companies' ethical certification and their attractiveness to institutional investors: An intermediate signaling perspective
Authors: Ismail Ahmad K. , Jamali Dima , Khalil Samer , Safieddine Assem , Samara Georges 
Published: November 2023

AbstractOur research investigates how the inclusion of a company on an independent ethics index affects its attractiveness to institutional investors. Using a sample of 864 U.S. firms over the 2010–2018 period, we find that institutional investors significantly increase their holdings in companies in the quarter that they are included on the ethics index and maintain larger holdings in the four quarters following the inclusion on the Ethisphere list relative to pre‐inclusion period, with dedicated institutional investors being more swayed to invest than transient investors. This paper adds to the emerging literature on intermediate signaling by showing that a firm's inclusion on an ethics index reduces information asymmetry with institutional investors. Our evidence suggests that public companies should effectively, rather than ceremonially, adopt sound governance structures and invest in socially responsible activities, as these actions can increase their likelihood of being included on ethics indices. By doing so, these firms send credible signals about their ethical compass, granting them access to valuable institutional investments.
Lipoprotein lipids and apolipoproteins in primary immune thrombocytopenia: Results from a clinical characteristics and causal relationship verification, potential drug target identification by Mendelian randomization analyses
Authors: Ou Yang , Zhan Yanxia , Shao Xia , Xu Pengcheng , Ji Lili , Zhuang Xibing , Chen Hao , Cheng Yunfeng 
Published: November 2023

SummaryPrimary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an acquired autoimmune disease. Cellular and systemic lipid metabolism plays a significant role in the regulation of immune cell activities. However, the role of lipoprotein lipids and apolipoproteins in ITP remains elusive. The automatic biochemistry analyser was used to measure the levels of serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL‐C), high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL‐C), apolipoprotein A‐I (apoA‐I), apoB, apoE and lipoprotein a [LP(a)]. Genetic variants strongly associated with circulating lipoprotein lipids and apolipoproteins (LDL‐C, apoB, TG, HDL‐C and apoA‐I) were extracted to perform Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses. Finally, drug‐target MR and passive ITP mice model was used to investigate the potential druggable targets of ITP. Levels of HDL‐C, apoA‐I, decreased and LP(a) increased in ITP patients compared with healthy controls. Low HDL‐C was causally associated with ITP susceptibility. Through drug‐target MR and animal modelling, ABCA1 was identified as a potential target to design drugs for ITP. Our study found that lipid metabolism is related to ITP. The causative association between HDL‐C and the risk of ITP was also established. The study provided new evidence of the aetiology of ITP. ABCA1 might be a potential drug target for ITP.
Health‐related quality of life after a diagnosis of bladder cancer: a longitudinal survey over the first year
Authors: Rogers Zoe , Glaser Adam , Catto James W.F. , Bottomley Sarah , Jubber Ibrahim , Kotwal Sanjeev , Brittain Paul , Gill Jonathan , Rogers Mark A. , Dooldeniya Mohantha D. , Koenig Philip , Cresswell Jo , Chahal Rohit , Bryan Nicolas , Smith Nick J. , Pritchard Kelly , Abbasi Zahir , Mason Samantha J. , Absolom Kate , Downing Amy 
Published: November 2023

ObjectivesTo describe the health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients in a prospective 12‐month observational cohort study of new bladder cancer diagnoses and compare with national cancer and general population surveys.Patients and MethodsA prospective UK study in patients with new bladder cancer diagnoses at 13 NHS Trusts. The HRQoL data were collected at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Questionnaires used included: the EuroQoL five Dimensions (EQ‐5D), European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer quality of life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ)‐30‐item core, EORTC QLQ‐24‐item non‐muscle‐invasive bladder cancer, and EORTC QLQ‐30‐item muscle‐invasive bladder cancer. Results were compared with the Cancer Quality of Life Survey and Health Survey for England.ResultsA total of 349 patients were recruited, 296 (85%) completed the first (baseline) and 233 (67%) the final survey. The patients underwent transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT) ± intravesical therapy (238 patients, 80%), radical cystectomy/radiotherapy (51, 17%) or palliation (seven, 2%). At baseline, patients needing radical treatment reported worse HRQoL including lower social function (74.2 vs 83.8, P = 0.002), increased fatigue (31.5 vs 26.1, P = 0.03) and more future worries (39.2 vs 29.4, P = 0.005) than patients who underwent TURBT. Post‐treatment surveys showed no change/improvements for patients who underwent TURBT but deterioration for the radically treated cohort. At final survey, reports were similar to baseline, regardless of treatment. Radically treated patients continued to report poorer HRQoL including issues with body image (23.4 vs 12.5, P = 0.007) and male sexual function (75.8 vs 40.4, P < 0.001) compared to those who underwent TURBT. Radically treated patients reported lower EQ‐5D utility scores and more problems with usual activities than the general population.DiscussionPatients undergoing TURBT can be reassured regarding HRQoL following treatment. However, those requiring radical treatment report greater changes in HRQoL with the need for appropriate clinical and supportive care to minimise the impact of treatments.
Distribution, social organization, and management of Semnopithecus johnii: An umbrella species of fragmented landscape of the Western Ghats
Authors: Kumara Honnavalli N. , Sasi R. , Mahato Santanu , Kumar Shanthala , Nag Chetan , Suganthasakthivel R. , Ramesh Kumar P. , Umapathy G. , Singh Mridula , Singh Mewa 
Published: November 2023

AbstractDue to the threats posed by changes in land‐use patterns to many species, it is necessary to have a proper description of the distribution of a range‐limited species. We aimed to assess the spatial distribution and social organization of Nilgiri langurs, and to model the potential distribution of mixed‐species groups of Nilgiri and Hanuman langurs (Semnopithecus priam or S. hypoleucos). We used our database of systematic surveys from 1994 to 2021 as well as the available literature. Nilgiri langurs are found in five regions in the Western Ghats: Nilgiri‐Brahmagiri, Siruvani, Anamalai‐ Parambikulam, Cardamom Hills, and Periyar‐Agastyamalai, each with many fragmented sub‐populations. They live in mixed‐sex groups ranging from 2 to 27 individuals with a mean group size of 9.10 ± 5.54SD and a few all‐male bands. The groups with one or two males, several adult females, and immature individuals is a typical trait of the Asian colobine social organization. The potential distribution of mixed‐species groups of Nilgiri and Hanuman langurs indicates that they are found on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats between 500 and 800 m a.s.l, which is a transition zone of evergreen to dry forest landscapes. A detailed description of one of the populations is presented as a case study of fragmentation where the results revealed strategies to manage populations in such landscapes. Since most habitats, especially the rainforest regions, in the Western Ghats, are highly fragmented impacting many species, the results of this study may serve as a model for wildlife management in the Western Ghats.
Reliability of radioguided occult lesion localization in reoperation of loco‐regional persistent/recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer: Retrospective cohort study
Authors: Cadena‐Piñeros Enrique , Correa‐Marin Jessica , Llamas‐Olier Augusto , de los Reyes Amelia , Vallejo María Teresa 
Published: November 2023

AbstractObjectivesWe aimed to determine the radioguided occult lesion localization (ROLL) reliability in the reoperation of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) and persistent or recurrent non‐palpable loco‐regional disease who underwent surgery at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología between 2012 and 2021.DesignObservational retrospective cohort study.ParticipantsWe included data from patients with DTC that underwent resection with ROLL.Main Outcome MeasuresReliability analysed as percentage of patients with complete resection of tumour lesion using ROLL, disease‐free survival, second loco‐regional relapse, adequate resectability and complications.ResultsTwo hundred and four cases were obtained. Pathological examination revealed papillary thyroid carcinoma in 202 patients, and follicular thyroid carcinoma in 2. Reliability was 96.57% in patients who underwent ROLL. When wide resection was performed—at surgeon's discretion—the reliability increased to 97.5%.ConclusionsThe high reliability obtained suggests that ROLL was effective to localize non‐palpable relapsing lesions. To our knowledge, this is the largest sample size published on this topic to date.
Ethnic disparities in cardiovascular and renal responses to canagliflozin between Asian and White patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A post hoc analysis of the CANVAS Program
Authors: Chen Xi , Hou Xingyun , Gao Junling , Yu Xiaxia , Zeng Weixian , Lv Ronggui , Yang Xixiao , Liu Yong 
Published: November 2023

AbstractAimTo assess the potential heterogeneity in cardiovascular (CV), renal and safety outcomes of canagliflozin between Whites and Asians, as well as these outcomes in each subgroup.Materials and MethodsThe CANVAS Program enrolled 10 142 patients with type 2 diabetes, comprising 78.34% Whites and 12.66% Asians. CV, renal and safety outcomes were comprehensively analysed using Cox regression models, while intermediate markers were assessed using time‐varying mixed‐effects models. Racial heterogeneity was evaluated by adding a treatment‐race interacion term.ResultsCanagliflozin showed no significant racial disparities in the majority of the CV, renal and safety outcomes. The heterogeneity (p = .04) was observed on all‐cause mortality, with reduced risk in Whites (hazard ratio 0.84; 95% confidence interval 0.71‐0.99) and a statistically non‐significant increased risk in Asians (hazard ratio 1.64; 95% confidence interval 0.94‐2.90). There was a significant racial difference in acute kidney injury (p = .04) and a marginally significant racial heterogeneity for the composite of hospitalization for heart failure and CV death (p = .06) and serious renal‐related adverse events (p = .07).ConclusionCanagliflozin reduced CV and renal risks similarly in Whites and Asians; however, there was a significant racial discrepancy in all‐cause mortality. This distinction may be attributed to the fact that Asian patients exhibited diminished CV protection effects and more renal adverse events with canagliflozin, potentially resulting from the smaller reductions in weight and uric acid. These findings highlight the importance of investigating the impact of race on treatment response to sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors and provide more precise treatment strategies.