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Advancing beyond technicism when managing big data in companies’ decision-making
Authors: Caputo Francesco , Keller Barbara , Möhring Michael , Carrubbo Luca , Schmidt Rainer 
Published: March 2023

Purpose
In recognising the key role of business intelligence and big data analytics in influencing companies’ decision-making processes, this paper aims to codify the main phases through which companies can approach, develop and manage big data analytics.

Design/methodology/approach
By adopting a research strategy based on case studies, this paper depicts the main phases and challenges that companies “live” through in approaching big data analytics as a way to support their decision-making processes. The analysis of case studies has been chosen as the main research method because it offers the possibility for different data sources to describe a phenomenon and subsequently to develop and test theories.

Findings
This paper provides a possible depiction of the main phases and challenges through which the approach(es) to big data analytics can emerge and evolve over time with reference to companies’ decision-making processes.

Research limitations/implications
This paper recalls the attention of researchers in defining clear patterns through which technology-based approaches should be developed. In its depiction of the main phases of the development of big data analytics in companies’ decision-making processes, this paper highlights the possible domains in which to define and renovate approaches to value. The proposed conceptual model derives from the adoption of an inductive approach. Despite its validity, it is discussed and questioned through multiple case studies. In addition, its generalisability requires further discussion and analysis in the light of alternative interpretative perspectives.

Practical implications
The reflections herein offer practitioners interested in company management the possibility to develop performance measurement tools that can evaluate how each phase can contribute to companies’ value creation processes.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the role of digital technologies in influencing managerial and social models. This paper provides a conceptual model that is able to support both researchers and practitioners in understanding through which phases big data analytics can be approached and managed to enhance value processes.
Upstream Addicks–Barker reservoir damages during Hurricane Harvey: A case study of urban hydrology and policy failure in Houston, TX
Authors: Furrh Jacob True , Bedient Philip 
Published: March 2023

AbstractAddicks and Barker reservoirs were built in the 1940s to protect downtown Houston from flooding and have generally worked very well until 2017 when Hurricane Harvey devastated much of Houston and surroundings with up to 40 inches (102 cm) of rainfall causing flooding of 154,000 homes in over 22 watersheds in Houston/Harris County alone. However, the story of how Addicks and Barker flooded upstream residential areas from a hydrologic standpoint is a harsh lesson in flood infrastructure policy and funding. This failure to protect both downstream properties in Buffalo Bayou and upstream areas behind the dams ended up with tens of thousands of flooded homes and properties, with many having flood waters for over 10 days. This paper explores the main causes for the flooding and addresses the hydrologic issues upstream in both reservoirs. The main causes of flooding were not just related to a massive rainfall event, but also explosive urban expansion of land use upstream of reservoirs, altered and updated reservoir design issues, and lack of governmental action in the years leading up to the disaster. Potential long‐term solutions to the flooding and design problems are addressed in this article as well.
Effectiveness of ambulatory non‐invasive fetal electrocardiography: impact of maternal and fetal characteristics
Authors: Liu Becky , Thilaganathan Basky , Bhide Amar 
Published: March 2023

AbstractIntroductionNon‐invasive fetal electrocardiography (NIFECG) has potential benefits over the computerized cardiotocography (cCTG) that may permit its development in remote fetal heart‐rate monitoring. Our study aims to compare signal quality and heart‐rate detection from a novel self‐applicable NIFECG monitor against the cCTG, and evaluate the impact of maternal and fetal characteristics on both devices.Material and methodsThis prospective observational study took place in a university hospital in London. Women with a singleton pregnancy from 28 + 0 weeks’ gestation presenting for cCTG were eligible. Concurrent monitoring with both NIFECG and cCTG were performed for up to 60 minutes. Post‐processing of NIFECG produced signal loss, computed in both 0.25 (E240)‐ and 3.75 (E16)‐second epochs, and fetal heart‐rate and maternal heart‐rate values. cCTG signal loss was calculated in 3.75‐second epochs. Accuracy and precision analysis of 0.25‐second epochal fetal heart‐rate and maternal heart‐rate were compared between the two devices. Multiple regression analyses were performed to assess the impact of maternal and fetal characteristics on signal loss. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04941534.Results285 women underwent concurrent monitoring. For fetal heart‐rate, mean bias, precision and 95% limits of agreement were 0.1 beats per minute (bpm), 4.5 bpm and −8.7 bpm to 8.8 bpm, respectively. For maternal heart‐rate, these results were −0.4 bpm, 3.3 bpm and −7.0 to 6.2 bpm, respectively. Median NIFECG E240 and E16 signal loss was 32.0% (interquartile range [IQR] 6.5%–68.5%) and 17.3% (IQR 1.8%–49.0%), respectively. E16 cCTG signal loss was 1.0% (IQR 0.0%–3.0%). For NIFECG, gestational age was negatively associated with signal loss (beta = −2.91, 95% CI −3.69 to −2.12, P < 0.001). Increased body mass index, fetal movements and lower gestational age were all associated with cCTG signal loss (beta = 0.30, 95% CI 0.17–0.43, P < 0.001; beta = 0.03, 95% CI 0.01–0.05, P = 0.014; and beta = −0.28, 95% CI −0.51 to −0.05, P = 0.017, respectively).ConclusionsAlthough NIFECG is complicated by higher signal loss, it does not appear to be influenced by increased body mass index or fetal movement. NIFECG signal loss varies according to method of computation, and standards of signal acceptability need to be defined according to the ability of the device to produce clinically reliable physiological indices. The high accuracy of heart‐rate indices is promising for NIFECG usage in the remote setting.
An alternative option of the retroperitoneal laparoscopic approach for limited hepatectomy for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma at the transected edge after previous hepatectomy
Authors: Hamada Takeomi , Yano Koichi , Kitamura Eiji , Hiyoshi Masahide , Imamura Naoya , Kai Kengo , Tahira Kosei , Kawano Fumiya , Ohta Yusuke , Nanashima Atsushi 
Published: March 2023

AbstractLaparoscopic hepatectomy is safely performed with minimal invasiveness on patients with recurrent liver tumors after previous hepatectomy. However, it is still difficult to dissect and expose the operative field at the transected edge or plane after open right hepatectomy, even for limited resection by a laparoscopic approach, due to severe adhesion to the surrounding peritoneum or organs. We herein applied the retroperitoneal laparoscopic approach to limited resection of the dorsal surface at the transected edge of Couinaud's segment 6 after previous repeated hepatectomies in a patient with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) by avoiding severe intra‐abdominal adhesion. We safely resected recurrent HCC via the retroperitoneal space. This approach is a useful and alternative option for laparoscopy which minimizes the dissecting time and avoids organ injury on the right side of the transected area of the liver after hepatectomy in patients with liver malignancies.
Non‐biologic systemic treatments for atopic dermatitis: Current state of the art and future directions
Authors: Paolino Alexandra , Alexander Helen , Broderick Conor , Flohr Carsten 
Published: March 2023

AbstractAtopic dermatitis (AD) is a prevalent chronic inflammatory skin condition with an unpredictable clinical course, associated with a significant impact on quality of life. The pathophysiology of AD involves a complex interplay between impaired skin barrier function, immune dysregulation, genetic susceptibility and environmental factors. Advances in understanding of the immunological mechanisms that underpin AD have heralded the recognition of multiple novel therapeutic targets to bolster the systemic treatment armamentarium for patients with severe AD. This review examines current and future directions of non‐biologic systemic treatments for AD, with a focus on their mechanism of action, efficacy and safety, and the key considerations to help inform treatment decisions. We summarize new developments in small molecule systemic therapies which have the potential to further advance our management of AD in this new era of precision medicine.
Accounting for the slowdown in UK innovation and productivity
Authors: Goodridge Peter , Haskel Jonathan 
Published: March 2023

AbstractThis paper conducts a comprehensive sources‐of‐growth analysis for the UK market sector, 2000–19, using the latest ONS data, including new estimates of intangible investment, double deflated value‐added, and updated price indices, all constructed bottom‐up from data for 40 industries. The decomposition incorporates contributions from intangible assets, both capitalized and uncapitalized, in national accounts. Our main findings are that first, slowdowns in labour productivity are largest in more intangible‐, knowledge‐, technology‐ and digital‐intensive industries, using numerous definitions. Second, the labour productivity slowdown can be accounted for largely by a slowdown in ‘innovation’, where innovation is shorthand for contributions of intangible capital deepening and TFP growth. We show that: (a) the level of labour productivity in 2019 was 27 log points (31 percentage points) less than had it continued to grow at its 2000–7 rate; (b) reallocation of labour did not contribute to the slowdown; (c) capitalization of the full range of intangibles accounts for 5% of the slowdown; (d) 35% is accounted for by a slowdown in capital deepening (25% tangible, 10% intangible), and 78% by a slowdown in TFP growth; and (e) less than one‐tenth of the TFP slowdown can be accounted for by exceptionally fast growth pre‐crisis.
Trends and in‐hospital cardiac complications in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplant: A National Inpatient Sample analysis (2002–2019)
Authors: Ammad Ud Din Mohammad , Chowdhury Medhat , Shahzad Moazzam , Zahid Salman , Liaqat Hania , Osama Muhammad , Elmariah Hany 
Published: March 2023

AbstractBackgroundCardiovascular comorbidities increase the risk of transplant‐associated complications. However, the impact of atrial fibrillation (AF) as an independent risk factor remains limited.MethodsThe National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database was queried using the International Classification of Diseases codes to identify patients admitted for allogeneic stem cell transplant (ASCT). The patients were then subclassified into with and without AF. Subsequently, a multivariate logistic regression model was constructed to account for patient demographics, comorbidities, and hospital characteristics to evaluate the impact of AF on the primary outcome of interest: all‐cause mortality, and secondary outcomes of interest that included common hospitalization complications.ResultsThe data for 77 157 cases of ASCT were collected between 2002 and 2019. Among these 5086 (6.6%) cases had concurrent AF. Multivariate logistic regression revealed patients undergoing ASCT with AF had almost a three times higher risk of all‐cause mortality (odds ratio = 2.99 [95% confidence interval: 2.73–3.28]; p < .01). AF patients also had a higher risk for cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock, acute kidney injury, and need for hemodialysis (all p < .01).ConclusionAF causes a higher risk of death and cardiovascular complications among patients undergoing ASCT. This signifies the importance of pretransplant consultation and optimization for cardiovascular comorbidities to improve hospitalization outcomes.
How judges can use their discretion to combat anti‐black racism in the United States family policing system
Authors: Burton Angela Olivia , McMillan Joyce 
Published: March 2023

AbstractChild protection court judges have broad authority and practically unchecked discretion to shape the everyday experiences and long‐term outcomes for children and families that come before them. For Black families, this broad power to dictate intimate details of family life ‐ including the power to legally terminate a child's parental and familial connections ‐ is exercised within the historical and social context of chattel slavery and anti‐Black racism. Judges wield their power to regulate the everyday lives and intergenerational outcomes of Black families charged with child maltreatment within a legal and practice framework characterized by indeterminacy and subjectivity that implicates the parent–child relationship and the constitutionally recognized rights of family privacy, autonomy, and integrity. Drawing on the authors’ experiences and perspectives as Black women with personal lived expertise and professional practice with the so‐called child protection or child welfare system, and referencing the limited literature that examines parents’ experiences in child protection courts, this Article explores how judges’ exercise of discretion perpetuates anti‐Black racism in the family policing system and suggests ways child protection judges can consciously exercise their discretion to mitigate harm and maximize due process, accountability, and justice for Black children and families. The authors urge child protection judges to heed the expertise and wisdom of Black parents about their family's needs and desires, to hold child protection agencies and workers accountable to their legal obligations and duties, and to tightly constrain their own tendencies to silence, punish, and regulate Black parents.
Toxic temperatures: Bee behaviours exhibit divergent pesticide toxicity relationships with warming
Authors: Kenna Daniel , Graystock Peter , Gill Richard J. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractClimate change and agricultural intensification are exposing insect pollinators to temperature extremes and increasing pesticide usage. Yet, we lack good quantification of how temperature modulates the sublethal effects of pesticides on behaviours vital for fitness and pollination performance. Consequently, we are uncertain if warming decreases or increases the severity of different pesticide impacts, and whether separate behaviours vary in the direction of response. Quantifying these interactive effects is vital in forecasting pesticide risk across climate regions and informing pesticide application strategies and pollinator conservation. This multi‐stressor study investigated the responses of six functional behaviours of bumblebees when exposed to either a neonicotinoid (imidacloprid) or a sulfoximine (sulfoxaflor) across a standardised low, mid, and high temperature. We found the neonicotinoid had a significant effect on five of the six behaviours, with a greater effect at the lower temperature(s) when measuring responsiveness, the likelihood of movement, walking rate, and food consumption rate. In contrast, the neonicotinoid had a greater impact on flight distance at the higher temperature. Our findings show that different organismal functions can exhibit divergent thermal responses, with some pesticide‐affected behaviours showing greater impact as temperatures dropped, and others as temperatures rose. We must therefore account for environmental context when determining pesticide risk. Moreover, we found evidence of synergistic effects, with just a 3°C increase causing a sudden drop in flight performance, despite seeing no effect of pesticide at the two lower temperatures. Our findings highlight the importance of multi‐stressor studies to quantify threats to insects, which will help to improve dynamic evaluations of population tipping points and spatiotemporal risks to biodiversity across different climate regions.
THE BOY APPEARING (AS) THE SISTER: GENDER AND SILENCE IN GEORG TRAKL*
Authors: Gruner Juliette Christine 
Published: March 2023

ABSTRACTThe present text is concerned with figures of unusual gender in two poetic texts by Georg Trakl, namely ‘Traum und Umnachtung’ and ‘Ruh und Schweigen’, each of which features the same violation of German grammar at a crucial point. The first text starts and ends with a scene of a boy recognising his sister's image in the mirror, which will be read as a specular identification that transgresses the norms of gender assignment. This transgression will be further illuminated by Lee Edelman's No Future, a text that analyses the need of the heterosexual family to reproduce itself unchanged, and Jacques Lacan's concept of the mirror stage which discusses specular identification as a prerequisite for the possibility of speech. In reading ‘Ruh und Schweigen’, the issue of silence, which is both thematised and performed by the poem, will come to the forefront. The bi‐gender figure appearing in the last lines will be understood as being dependent on this silence to appear, contrasting the way the protagonist of ‘Traum und Umnachtung’ is silenced by his family. Both these figures will therefore be read as transgressing against related, though not identical, norms of gender in ways that can only be expressed in a poetical language.
Preventive effect of Helicobacter pylori eradication on the coronary heart diseases depending on age and sex with a median follow‐up of 51 months
Authors: Kim Sang Bin , Kim Nayoung , Park Jaehyung , Hwang In‐Chang , Lim Seon Hee , Song Du Hyun , Choi Yonghoon , Yoon Hyuk , Shin Cheol Min , Park Young Soo , Lee Dong Ho , Ahn Soyeon 
Published: March 2023

AbstractBackgroundThe association between Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection and coronary heart disease (CHD) is controversial. This study aimed to investigate the effect of H. pylori eradication on CHD, especially in terms of age and sex.Materials and MethodsFrom May 2003 to March 2022, 4765 subjects with H. pylori infection and without CHD (median follow‐up: 51 months) were prospectively enrolled. The participants were categorized into two groups: H. pylori eradication and H. pylori non‐eradication. After propensity‐score matching (PSM), the effect of H. pylori eradication on CHD was analyzed using Cox proportional hazards.ResultsThere were no significant differences in age, sex, alcohol consumption, smoking habits, history of diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, and aspirin intake between the eradication and non‐eradication groups (3783 vs. 982) before and after PSM. Multivariate analysis after PSM showed that H. pylori eradication (HR: 0.489, CI: 0.314–0.761, p = .002), age (HR: 1.027, CI: 1.007–1.047, p = .007), hypertension (HR: 2.133, CI: 1.337–3.404, p = 001), dyslipidemia (HR: 1.758, CI: 1.086–2.848, p = .022), and aspirin intake (HR: 2.508, CI: 1.566–4.017, p < .001) were associated with CHD development. H. pylori eradication prevented CHD in males ≤65 years (HR: 0.133, CI: 0.039–0.455, p = .001), but not in those aged >65 years (p = .078) (p for interaction = .022). In contrast, females aged >65 years (HR: 0.260, CI: 0.110–0.615, p = .002) were protected by H. pylori eradication and not those ≤65 years (p = .485) (p for interaction = .003). This preventive effect increased more after PSM, particularly in males ≤65 years and females >65 years.ConclusionsH. pylori eradication prevented CHD and this effect was different depending on age and sex.
Hepatitis C virus eradication by direct‐acting antivirals causes a simultaneous increase in the prevalence of fatty liver and hyper low‐density lipoprotein cholesterolemia without an increase in body weight
Authors: Tokuchi Yoshimasa , Suda Goki , Kawagishi Naoki , Ohara Masatsugu , Kohya Risako , Sasaki Takashi , Yoda Tomoka , Maehara Osamu , Ohnishi Shunsuke , Kubo Akinori , Yoshida Sonoe , Fu Qingjie , Yang Zijian , Hosoda Shunichi , Kitagataya Takashi , Suzuki Kazuharu , Nakai Masato , Sho Takuya , Natsuizaka Mitsuteru , Ogawa Koji , Sakamoto Naoya 
Published: March 2023

AbstractAimHepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been reported to cause liver steatosis. Thus, eradicating HCV with direct‐acting antivirals (DAAs) is expected to reduce liver steatosis. We aimed to clarify long‐term changes in the prevalence of fatty liver and hyper‐low‐density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterolemia and their associations in patients who achieve successful HCV eradication using DAAs.MethodsThis retrospective study included patients with HCV who achieved sustained virologic response after interferon‐free DAA and analyzed the changes in the prevalence of fatty liver diagnosed with controlled attenuation parameter (CAP), hyper‐LDL cholesterolemia, and their relationships at baseline (n = 100) and 24 weeks (SVR24, n = 100), 96 weeks (SVR96, n = 100), and 144 weeks (SVR144, n = 90) after DAA.ResultsIn 100 participants, the prevalence of fatty liver (19% vs. 32%, p = 0.0349) and hyper‐LDL cholesterolemia (6% vs. 15%, p = 0.0379) significantly increased without changes in body weight at SVR96. Median total cholesterol, low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL‐C), and small‐dense‐LDL (sdLDL) levels and CAP values were significantly greater at SVR24, SVR96, and SVR144 than at baseline. Baseline CAP values and changes in CAP values were significantly negatively correlated at every observation point: r = −0.5305, p < 0.0001 at SVR24; r = −0.3617, p = 0.0005 at SVR96; and r = −0.4735, p < 0.0001 at SVR144. A similar relationship was observed in cholesterol levels. Unlike at baseline, CAP values were significantly positively correlated with LDL‐C and sdLDL‐C levels at all observation points after DAAs.ConclusionsDirect‐acting antivirals may cause an increased prevalence of fatty liver accompanying hyper‐LDL cholesterolemia without increased body weight. As post‐SVR liver steatosis could cause HCC, careful follow‐up may be required.