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Genome evolution following an ecological shift in nectar-dwellingAcinetobacter
Authors: Sanchez Vivianna A. , Renner Tanya , Baker Lydia J. , Hendry Tory A. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe bacterial genusAcinetobacterincludes species found in environmental habitats like soil and water, as well as species adapted to be host-associated or pathogenic. High genetic diversity may allow for this habitat flexibility, but the specific genes underlying switches between habitats are poorly understood. One lineage ofAcinetobacterhas undergone a substantial habitat change by evolving from a presumed soil-dwelling ancestral state to thrive in floral nectar. Here we compared the genomes of floral-dwelling and pollinator-associatedAcinetobacter, including newly described species, with genomes from relatives found in other environments to determine the genomic changes associated with this ecological shift. Following one evolutionary origin of floral nectar adaptation, nectar-dwellingAcinetobacterspecies have undergone reduction in genome size compared to relatives and have experienced dynamic gene gains and losses as they diversified. We found changes in gene content underlying carbohydrate metabolism and nitrogen metabolism, which we predict to be beneficial in nectar environments. Gene losses follow a pattern consistent with genome streamlining, whereas gains appear to result from both evolutionary divergence and horizontal gene transfer. Most notably, nectar-dwellingAcinetobacteracquired the ability to degrade pectin from plant pathogens and the genes underlying this ability have duplicated and are under selection within the clade. We hypothesize that this ability was a key trait for adaptation to floral nectar, as it could improve access to nutrients in the nutritionally unbalanced habitat of nectar. These results identify the genomic changes and traits coinciding with a dramatic habitat switch from soil to floral nectar.
Metabolites and lipoproteins may predict the severity of early Acute Pancreatitis in a South African cohort
Authors: Mazibuko Jeanet , Elebo Nnenna , Williams Aurelia A. , Omoshoro-Jones Jones , Devar John W. , Smith Martin , Cacciatore Stefano , Fru Pascaline N. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractBackgroundAcute pancreatitis (AP) is a common clinical disease with varying severity. The Revised Atlanta Classification (RAC) categorises AP into mild, moderately severe, and severe (MAP, MSAP and SAP) respectively. Despite the availability of different scoring systems to triage patients, these are not always suitable for predicting the course and outcome of certain patients during admission. In this study, untargeted metabolomics was used to identify metabolic parameters that can potentially be used as prognostic markers for stratifying the risk profiles of patients for improved management and treatment.MethodsSerum isolated from blood samples collected from 30 AP patients (8 MAP, 14 MSAP, and 8 SAP) and 9 healthy control (HC) individuals was analysed using1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Wilcoxon and Kruskal–Walli’s rank-sum tests were used to compare differences in numerical covariates. A liposcale test was used for lipoprotein characterization and the Spearman rank test was conducted for correlation of the data. P-values < 0.05 were considered significant.ResultsElevated levels of lactate, (rho = 0.67; p-value < 0.001, FDR = 0.001), 3-hydroxybutyrate (rho = 0.46; p-value < 0.003, FDR = 0.013), acetoacetate (rho = 0.63; p-value < 0.001, FDR < 0.001) and lipid alpha-CH2 (rho = 0.45; p-value = 0.004, FDR = 0.013) were associated with AP severity as was decreased levels of ascorbate (rho = 0.46; p-value < 0.003, FDR = 0.013), methanol (rho = 0.46; p-value < 0.003, FDR = 0.013), glutamine (rho = -0.55; p-value < 0.001, FDR = 0.002), ethanol (rho = 0.64; p-value < 0.001, FDR< 0.001), protein-NH (rho= -0.75; p-value < 0.001, FDR<0.001) among others. HDL-C decreased while IDL-C and VLDL-C increased across all the AP metabolic phenotypes compared to the HC.ConclusionDysregulated metabolites and lipids can potentially add to the understanding of the pathophysiological conditions of AP and can aid in the early prognosis and stratification of patients for specialist care.
Coping techniques and strategies for pursuing anti-racism within academe: a collective autoethnographic account from minoritised academics in the UK
Authors: Garvey Anita , Talhouk Reem , Ajibade Benjamin 
Published: November 2023

PurposeDrawing upon the authors’ experiences as minoritised academic scholars within leadership roles of a Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network in the United Kingdom (UK) academe, the authors explored the research question “In what ways do racially minoritised academics use coping techniques and strategies to counter racism and inequality in the higher education environment”.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a collective autoethnography approach accompanied by storytelling, underpinned by a qualitative interpretative process, supported by inductive, data-driven theorising. The authors’ approach is supplemented by the usage of content analysis (Schrieier, 2012) to analyse the data and generate findings.FindingsThe research findings specifically highlight (1) collectivism, solidarity and belonging, (2) knowledge expansion and critical consciousness, (3) disarming approaches and emotional labour, (4) resistance through setting boundaries and (5) intersectionality and BAME men allyship, as specific approaches for taking forward anti-racism.Research limitations/implicationsAutoethnographic research has encountered challenges around verification, transparency and veracity of data, and issues have been debated due to its subjective nature (see Jones, 2010; Keeler, 2019; Méndez, 2013). Additional complications arise regarding neutrality and objectivity associated with the researchers' identities and experiences being represented in autoethnographic accounts. The authors acknowledge that the accounts provided are subjective, and have influenced the research process and product.Originality/valueResearch on the experiences of minoritised academics leading staff equality networks constitutes a research gap. This article offers an original analysis through outlining the authors’ lived experiences in leadership positions of a BAME Network and hope to other minoritised employees undertaking anti-racist work.
Organizational fashion and trend setting in the hospitality industry
Authors: Fong Veronica Hoi In , Lin Xueying (Linda) , Wong IpKin Anthony , Liu Matthew Tingchi 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
This study aims to use organizational fashion to underscore a novel phenomenon in which products, services and practices fade in and out of the tourism/hospitality setting within a specific time frame. Drawing from the fashion theoretical strands in organization research, this paper studies how fashion has been conceptualized, operationalized and then diffused among tourism/hospitality enterprises.

Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative case design was used. A total of 37 semistructured in-depth interviews with executives of innovative tourism/hospitality companies (e.g. restaurants, hotels, theme parks and travel agencies) were conducted. This paper focuses on the organizational fashion phenomenon in which organizational trendsetters with creative, “hot” products/services have emerged prominently in the marketplace.

Findings
This inquiry illustrates a social phenomenon concerning the organizational fashion setting process by integrating existing production practices among different organizational suppliers in the hospitality sector. Different cases in the study show that fashion consists of a series of hybrid, paradoxical processes. These include conceptualization (conventionalization vs novelty, and personalization vs conformity), operationalization (bundling vs unbundling, and learning vs relearning) and diffusion (framing vs co-framing, and adaptation vs alteration).

Research limitations/implications
Throughout the three continuous processes, service design and identity development for consumption, as well as value creation and knowledge transformation for production, are carried out according to the decision of what is “hot” and what is “out” at a particular time. In essence, fashion helps to explain why hospitality institutions imitate specific innovations to take advantage of popular trends in the consumer market, as well as how such trends vanish eventually.

Originality/value
This research contributes the insight that organizations use fashion as a managerial initiative to translate their organizational goals and improvise nascent products and services. The fashion processes can be triggered by microlevel individual organizations and are spread through a series of social interactions to become macrolevel phenomena in a recurring manner.
Wine experience scale: validating the behavior and motivations of Spanish wine tourists
Authors: Margaça Clara , Calderon-Monge Esther , Sánchez Garcia José Carlos 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
Understanding the role of emotion, landscape, involvement and storytelling related to wine is the basis for understanding the wine tourist experience. The purpose of this study is to analyze the validity and reliability of the wine experience scale in Spain.

Design/methodology/approach
The scale validation comprised translation, cultural adaptation and validity, in which 250 wine tourists (45.6% male and 54.4% female) from 17 Spanish wineries participated. Data was collected on different days during three consecutive months. To carry out the analyses, IBM SPSS and JASP software were used.

Findings
The statistical procedures used allowed the verification of psychometric properties as well as adjustment indices and reliability measures. The analyses carried out retained 16 items and ensured grouping into four factors: wine storytelling, wine involvement, winescape and wine tasting excitement.

Originality/value
By providing this instrument, it will be possible to create a promising path of commercial knowledge. Its application will contribute to establishing a more accurate profile of wine tourists and, simultaneously, to adapting a sustainable tourist offer.
Study on the thermal decay mechanism of basalt fiber reinforced resin based friction materials
Authors: Fang Shanglong , Xiao Wei , Chen Kewen , Song Xuding 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
Resin-based friction materials are the most widely used key materials in industry for braking and transmission. However, the friction coefficient of resin-based friction materials significantly decreases at temperatures above 300°C, which reduces their friction performance.

Design/methodology/approach
This study combines elevated-temperature mechanical experiments with friction and wear experiments to explain the thermal degradation resistance performance and temperature recovery performance of resin-based friction materials. It also investigates the influence of friction material strength and worn morphology on the friction coefficient of materials at elevated temperature.

Findings
The experimental results show that the increase in friction coefficient of friction materials below 300°C is mainly due to the increase in worn morphology characterization parameters, and the thermal degradation phenomenon above 300°C is mainly due to the decrease of shear strength of friction film. Basalt fiber can significantly improve the thermal degradation resistance of friction materials. The friction coefficient of basalt fiber-reinforced specimens after thermal degradation reaches 0.421–0.443, which is 19–25% higher than the original. The thermal decay rate is 9.03–11.0%, which is 7.9–9.87% lower than the original. Moreover, the friction coefficient has good cooling recovery performance.

Originality/value
Revealed the thermal degradation mechanism of resin-based friction materials, verified that basalt fibers can improve the thermal degradation resistance of friction materials and provided reference for the development of new friction materials.
Work connectivity behavior after-hours spills over to cyberloafing: the roles of motivation and workaholism
Authors: Wang Rong , Li Zijun , Bu Chunyu , Zhu Wenbo 
Published: November 2023

PurposeThe authors investigated how and when work connectivity behavior after-hours (WCBA) spilled over to cyberloafing, considering ego depletion as a mediator and motivations and workaholism as moderators. This paper aims to discuss the aforementioned objective.Design/methodology/approachIn Study 1, 380 employees participated in a scenario experiment with a 2 × 2 between-subjects design. Studies 2 and 3 involved 483 and 406 employees, respectively in two two-wave surveys.FindingsWCBA was indirectly linked to cyberloafing via ego depletion. However, when WCBA was driven by high autonomous and low controlled motivation, it exerted less influence on ego depletion, thus weakening the mediating effect of ego depletion. Moreover, the association between WCBA and ego depletion was not significant among employees accustomed to excessive work. The indirect effect of ego depletion also operated contingently on the level of excessive work.Originality/valueThe findings shed light on the spillover effects of WCBA, suggesting that WCBA may lead to cyberloafing by depleting resources. However, the influence of WCBA on ego depletion is concealed when employees engage in WCBA autonomously or are habituated to excessive work.
Development of smart academic library services with Internet of Things technology: a qualitative study in Hong Kong
Authors: Cheung Hoi Ching , Lo Yan Yin Marco , Chiu Dickson K.W. , Kong Elaine W.S. 
Published: November 2023

PurposeThis study examines academic librarians' perceptions and attitudes toward Internet of Things (IoT) applications in Hong Kong academic libraries and the problems and possible improvements in using IoT technologies to strengthen library services.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative research used video conferencing software for semi-structured, one-on-one interviews. Participants were given introductory material about the IoT and asked to complete an interview. The data were analyzed using inductive theme clustering for this study.FindingsThe analysis identified three themes: perception about applying IoT technology to the library, problems and improvements in using IoT. Participants were generally optimistic about the potential benefits of IoT for improving library operations and providing personalized services. However, they also expressed concerns about privacy and security, errors and extra efforts for information literacy training. They suggested improvements such as incorporating facial recognition technology, advanced RFID technology and collections identification technology to enhance user experience.Originality/valueMost studies examined users' views rather than librarians' on IoT applications, which few studies cover, especially in East Asia.
Applying knowledge-based human resource management to drive innovation: the roles of knowledge sharing and competitive intensity
Authors: Le Phong Ba 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
Given the increasingly important role of knowledge capital on key outcomes and innovation capabilities of organizations, this paper aims to investigate the influences of knowledge-based human resource management (KHRM) practices on innovation capability of firms via mediating role of knowledge sharing (KS). This study also examines whether competitive intensity moderates the effects of KS behaviors on specific aspects of innovation capability, namely, product and process innovation.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper used structural equation modeling to examine the level of how KHRM practices and KS impact on two types of innovation capability, namely, product innovation and process innovation using data collected from 265 participants in 112 manufacturing and service firms in Vietnam.

Findings
The research findings confirm the mediating roles of KS behaviors between KHRM practices and two specific types of innovation. Besides, the paper first reveals the moderating role of competitive intensity in the relationships between KS and product innovation. The results underline the necessity of building a climate of KHRM practices to stimulate employees sharing knowledge, which, in turn, positively promotes innovation capabilities in an organization.

Research limitations/implications
Future research should investigate the impact of different forms of human resource management (HRM) practices on innovation via the mediating effects of certain aspects of KS to bring better understanding on the importance of HRM practices and knowledge resources in pursuing innovation competence.

Practical implications
This paper offers leaders a deeper understanding of potential effects of competitive intensity and environmental factors to promote innovation capabilities in their firms.

Originality/value
This paper has significant contributed to theoretical and practical initiatives on theory of HRM practices and knowledge management by showing different moderating and mediating mechanism thereby firms can follow to enhance innovation capability of firms in developing and emerging markets.
Flawed charts in pension fund popular reports
Authors: Garrett Nathan 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate how pension funds use charts in popular reports. Popular reports communicate a fund’s financial health to non-technical audiences, and often contain charts, tables, and other graphical elements. Do these graphics meet audiences’ information needs and align with chart best practices?

Design/methodology/approach
This study focused on the 60 retirement funds receiving a 2021 popular report award from the Government Finance Officers Association. The author analyzed each graphic’s topic and design.

Findings
Most funds presented key topics (such as funding rate and portfolio return), but they generally lacked helpful benchmarks or peer comparisons. A total of 30% of reports had one or more broken charts, where their visual elements did not match the underlying data. A total of 70% of the reports contained at least one badly designed chart. These design flaws included non-zero (truncated) axes, hidden non-zero axes and misleading 3D perspectives.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to examine chart quality in pension fund popular reports.
What triggers tourists’ anxiety? The differential impacts of crisis information source types in social media on tourists’ cross-border travel anxiety
Authors: Cheng Zi-Chin , Ruan Wen-Qi , Zhang Shu-Ning , Deng Fang 
Published: November 2023

Purpose
This study aims to reveal the triggering mechanism and boundary conditions of tourists’ cross-border travel anxiety (CBTA) from different crisis information sources.

Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on the heuristic-systematic model (HSM), this study constructs a theoretical formation path of tourists’ CBTA. Based on competence-based and moral-based crises, hypotheses were examined through three situational experiments, targeting Chinese and Malaysian potential tourists.

Findings
Organization-released crisis information triggers higher tourists’ CBTA than government ones, with perceived uncertainty mediating it. Crisis communication message appeals (CCMAs) (rational vs emotional) negatively moderate the above relationships. Rational CCMAs work for governmental crisis communication, while emotional CCMAs work for organizational ones.

Practical implications
This study proposes a heuristic cross-border tourism crisis information dissemination strategy for destination management organizations and highlights the advantages of CCMAs in preventing secondary crises.

Originality/value
This study reexamines the cause-and-effect and the intervention mechanisms of tourists’ reactions to crisis information, which expands the cross-border tourism crisis management research and the application of the HSM in such a context.
Hemorrhagic stroke caused by xylometazoline poisoning
Authors: Banaś Barbara Potocka , Brzeźniakiewicz‐Janus Katarzyna , Majdanik Sławomir , Parafiniuk Mirosław , Łużny Sylwester , Stachowicz Agnieszka , Janus Tomasz 
Published: November 2023

AbstractAn increase in the use of over‐the‐counter medications has been observed in recent years. This also concerns xylometazoline, approved for the treatment of allergic rhinitis or upper respiratory tract infections. We present the fatal case of a 40 year‐old‐woman with a massive hemorrhagic stroke. Initial toxicology tests of biological material collected during autopsy revealed the presence of xylometazoline. No other significant toxicology findings were noted. LC‐MS/MS method has been developed to determine xylometazoline concentration, which was 18.6 ng/mL in blood and 498.9 ng/mL in urine. The macroscopically detected hemorrhagic focus was confirmed by histopathological which confirmed hemorrhagic infarcts in the brain tissue, especially in the subarachnoid area. No other pathological changes were found. Based on findings from autopsy and toxicological analyses, the direct cause of death was concluded to be hemorrhagic stroke resulting from xylometazoline intoxication. Although xylometazoline products are regarded as relatively safe and are available over the counter, the risk of adverse effects, in particular stroke leading to death, should be considered. If adverse effects are observed, it is reasonable to measure the concentration of the drug in blood and urine. With such data, it will be possible to assess the actual exposure to this xenobiotic and draw firmer conclusions.
Acute kidney injury is more common in hospitalised children with sickle cell anaemia in Africa
Authors: Joacquim Adetokunbo Olayinka , Akinsete Adeseye Micheal , Esezobor Christopher Imokhuede 
Published: November 2023

AbstractAimTo document the prevalence, severity, hospital outcome and factors associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalised children with sickle cell anaemia (SCA).MethodsIn this prospective observational study involving children aged 0.5–17 years with SCA requiring hospitalisation, we used serum creatinine level at 0 and 48 h of hospitalisation to determine the presence of AKI.ResultsThe study involved 155 children with SCA aged 0.5–17 years with a median (interquartile range) age of 7.8 (4.3–11.0) years. Acute kidney injury occurred in 27 (17.4%) children with 33.3% reaching stage 3. Hepatomegaly (81.5% vs. 55.4%; p = 0.015), splenomegaly (33.3% vs. 10.9%; p = 0.003), dipstick proteinuria (22.2% vs. 5.4%; p = 0.004), and hematuria (29.6% vs. 3.1%; p = <0.001) were more common in those with AKI. In contrast, children with AKI had lower haematocrit (16.9% vs. 22.2%; p = <0.001) and serum bicarbonate (16.7 vs. 19.1 mmoL/L; p = 0.010) compared with those without AKI. Those with AKI had longer hospital stay (median [interquartile range]: 7 [4–12] days vs. 4 [3–6] days; p = 0.008).ConclusionAKI is common among hospitalised children with AKI and is associated with longer hospital stay.