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The relation between psychopathy factors and emotional states prior and during criminal behaviour in a Dutch sample
Authors: Keulen-de Vos Marije , Herzog-Evans Martine , Benbouriche Massil 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive value of psychopathy features on crime-related emotional states in forensic male patients with offence histories who were mandated to Dutch clinical care.

Design/methodology/approach
The study had a retrospective design in which psychopathy features were assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. For each patient, information on the events leading up to the crime and a description of the crime itself were extracted from the hospital record to assess emotional states. These crime-related emotional states were assessed using the mode observation scale. The sample consisted of 175 patients with offence histories.

Findings
Multiple regression analyses indicated that affective features of psychopathy were a negative predictor for feelings of vulnerability in the events leading up to the crime but not predictive of loneliness. The interpersonal features were predictive of deceit during criminal behaviour.

Practical implications
This study leads to a better, more nuanced and substantiated understanding of which emotional states play a prominent role in criminal behaviour and how these states are affected by psychopathic traits. This knowledge can influence existing treatment programmes for patients with offence histories.

Originality/value
Several studies have examined the relationship between emotional states and criminal behaviour and between psychopathy and emotions, but less is known about the predictive relationship between psychopathy features and crime-scene-related emotional states.
A novel evaluation approach for the ability of older adults based on grey clustering model
Authors: Zhang Weiliang , Liu Sifeng , Du Junliang , Tao Liangyan , Dong Wenjie 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to advance a novel evaluation index system and evaluation approach for ability of older adults in China.

Design/methodology/approach
This study constructed a comprehensive older adult ability evaluation index system with 4 primary indicators and 17 secondary indicators. Grey clustering analysis and entropy weight method are combined into a robust evaluation model for the ability of older adults.

Findings
The result demonstrates that the proposed grey clustering model is readily available to calculate the disability level of elderly individuals. The constructed index system more comprehensively considers all aspects of the disability of the elderly.

Originality/value
This study provides a quantitative method and a more reasonable index system for the determination of the disability level of the elderly.
Virtual ideality vs. virtual authenticity: exploring the role of social signals in interactive marketing
Authors: Sun Chunhua , Ye Chenhui , Li Changdan , Liu Yezheng 
Published: September 2023

PurposeIn the online marketing context, virtual reality (VR) has been used to display products and shopping environment, which effectively enhances the consumer experience. VR technology can not only recreate scenes similar to the real world (virtual authenticity, VA) but also create fictitious and desirable scenes that do not exist in the real world (virtual ideality, VI). The differences between VA and VI in influencing consumers' responses have not been fully understood. In addition, social signals have appeared in VR apps. However, the role of social signals in a VR context has rarely been studied. To fill the gaps in the literature, this study investigates the roles of VA and VI in shaping consumers' responses, as well as whether and how their effectiveness in shaping consumers' responses is influenced by social signals.Design/methodology/approachA VR real estate service platform was selected as the experimental platform, and two experiments were conducted to test the hypotheses. The ANOVAs and regressions were used for data analysis.FindingsResults show that VA leads to a higher level of perceived diagnosticity than VI, whereas VI leads to a higher level of inspiration than VA; perceived diagnosticity and inspiration positively affect visit intention. Furthermore, the relationship between consumers' perceived diagnosticity, inspiration and visit intention is moderated by the presence of social signals.OriginalityThe study revealed the differences between VA and VI in shaping consumers' responses, as well as the effect of social signals in VR environment, which provide a new perspective for future VR research in the context of interactive marketing.
Corporate restructuring at Tata Steel Ltd
Authors: S.R. Vishwanatha , M. Durga Prasad 
Published: September 2023

Research methodology
The case was developed from secondary sources and interviews with a security analyst. The secondary sources include company annual reports, news reports, analyst reports, industry reports, company websites, stock exchange websites and databases such as Bloomberg and CMIE Prowess.

Case overview/synopsis
Increasing competition in product and capital markets has put tremendous pressure on managers to become more cost competitive. To address their firms' uncompetitive cost structures, managers may have to consider dramatic restructuring of their businesses. During 2014–2017, Tata Steel Ltd (TSL) UK considered a series of divestitures and a merger plan to nurse the company back to health. The case considers the economics of the restructuring plan. The case is designed to help students analyze a corporate downsizing program undertaken by a large Indian company in the UK and to highlight the dynamic role of the CFO and governance issues in family firms. It introduces students to issues surrounding a typical restructuring and provides students a platform to practice the estimation of value creation in a restructuring exercise. While some cases on corporate restructuring in the context of developed economies are available, there are very few cases written in an emerging market context. This case bridges that gap. TSL presents a unique opportunity to study corporate restructuring necessitated by a failed cross-border acquisition. It illustrates the potential for value loss in large, cross-border acquisitions. It shows how managerial hubris can prompt family firm owners to overbid in acquisitions and create legacy hot spots. In addition, the case can be used to discuss the causes of governance failures such as weak institutional monitoring and poor legal enforcement in emerging markets that could potentially harm minority shareholders.

Complexity academic level
The case was developed from secondary sources and interviews with a security analyst. The secondary sources include company annual reports, news reports, analyst reports, industry reports, company websites, stock exchange websites and databases such as Bloomberg and CMIE Prowess.
Evaluating Policy Impact: Working Out What Works
Authors: Leigh Andrew 
Published: September 2023

AbstractRandomised trials frequently produce surprising findings, overturning conventional wisdom. During the twentieth century, randomised trials became commonplace within medicine, saving millions of lives. Randomised trials within government can now be conducted more cheaply, using administrative data. Just as it might be considered unethical to conduct a randomised trial if a program is indisputably effective, it might be considered unethical not to conduct a rigorous evaluation if a program lacks evidence. Developed within a robust ethical framework, and alongside community consultation, better evaluation can help governments save money and address social disadvantage.
What drives Angola's economic growth? New evidence from the roles of urbanization and industrial growth
Authors: Telly Yacouba , Liu Xuezhi , Zhao Jun , Tang Fangcheng , Sun Xiangdong 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis study examines the impacts of urbanization, industrial growth, and carbon emissions on Angola's economic growth by employing annual time series data from 1991 to 2020. This intends to strengthen Angola's economic policies using the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) bounds test approach, Johansen cointegration, and vector error correction model (VECM). The results show that: (1) Economic development will be realized at the expense of environmental protection; (2) carbon emissions and industrial growth reinforce the country's economic growth in the short and long runs, while urbanization has no vital influence on economic growth; and (3) a bidirectional causality between economic growth and carbon emissions and a unidirectional causality relationship ranging from urbanization and economic growth to industry value‐added. Our findings encourage the country's leaders to consider urbanization and industrial growth while reducing carbon emissions. The country's priorities should be skills training, developing clean technologies, gradually increasing renewable energy share in the mix of energy, and encouraging industries to turn to clean energy.
Deregulation of public civilian gun carrying and violent crimes: A longitudinal analysis 1981–2019
Authors: Doucette Mitchell L. , Crifasi Cassandra K. , McCourt Alex D. , Ward Julie A. , Fix Rebecca L. , Webster Daniel W. 
Published: September 2023

AbstractResearch SummaryWe utilized the synthetic difference‐in‐difference method to estimate the impact of adopting a permitless concealed carry weapons (CCW) law on rates of assaults, robberies, and homicides committed with a firearm and by other means, as well as weapons arrests, from 1981 to 2019. We stratified permitless CCW laws by whether they previously prohibited violent misdemeanants from obtaining a CCW permit or previously required live firearm training to obtain a permit prior to law adoption. Findings robust to sensitivity analyses suggest that states that lost a training requirement to obtain a CCW permit had 21 additional gun assaults per 100,000 population (SE = 5.2) (32% increase).Policy ImplicationsIn the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, states should implement CCW permitting law provisions that may reduce the risk of firearm violence. Requiring live firearm training prior to carry a concealed weapon may attenuate negative health impacts of deregulation associated with permitless CCW laws.
Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations and the Environmental Rule of Law
Authors: Minnerop Petra 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis article argues that the protection of ‘community interests’ in international law includes intertemporal obligations of States, in cases where it is scientifically foreseeable that preserving the ‘status quo’ of a protected community interest is increasingly unlikely. The argument is developed for climate change as a ‘common concern of humankind’ and based on the premise that even if a temperature limitation of 1.5°C would be achieved towards the end of this century, future generations will nevertheless live in a world that has fundamentally changed due to current policy and law choices. The article introduces the new concept of ‘intergenerational preparedness’ to operationalise and expand the normative scope of the principle of intergenerational equity. While some argumentative structures will be examined where intergenerational preparedness can be given effect through legal interpretation, the expectation that States must adopt preparatory measures to account for their community interest obligations deserves a more explicit recognition. It is a matter of the (environmental) rule of law to protect community interests on a time continuum, and this encompasses measures to prevent the deterioration of protected interests and to prepare communities for foreseeable detrimental changes.
Mandatory Disclosures as Calculative Spaces: Public Sector Accountability on Restoring Species at Risk*
Authors: Smirnow Dasha , Deng Claire 
Published: September 2023

AbstractWhile sustainability has been a subject of growing inquiry in the accounting literature, biodiversity loss, an issue of critical societal importance, has not received the same attention. Furthermore, despite corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and the public sector all having distinct influences on biodiversity loss, the role of the public sector remains largely unexamined. Mobilizing Cuckston's (2022) framework for analyzing disclosures as calculative spaces, our study examines the framing of public sector reporting on biodiversity conservation. Specifically, through discourse analysis, we scrutinize the mandatory annual reports prepared by the Canadian federal government under the 2002 Species at Risk Act (SARA), which is aimed at preventing species extinction. The disclosures within these reports present discussions on the government's administration of SARA, thereby offering insights into the government's efforts to discharge accountability over the protection of species at risk. Our findings examine the significance of public sector reporting in enabling accountability for species conservation and discuss the ways in which mandatory disclosures contribute to this process.
The epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney injury following orthopaedic procedures: A retrospective cohort study
Authors: Thorsdottir Helga , Long Thorir E. , Palsson Runolfur , Sigurdsson Martin I. 
Published: September 2023

AbstractBackgroundAcute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious complication following major surgery. This study examined the incidence and risk factors of AKI following orthopaedic surgeries in an Icelandic cohort, as well as the association between AKI and patient‐ and surgery‐related factors.MethodsThis retrospective cohort study comprised all patients 18 years and older who underwent orthopaedic surgeries at Landspitali – The National University Hospital in the years 2006–2018 with available serum creatinine (SCr) measurements adjacent to the surgery to stage AKI. AKI was defined according to SCr portion of the KDIGO criteria. Logistic regression was used to identify patient‐ and surgical factors related to progression of AKI and Poisson‐regression was used to explore changes in incidence.ResultsA total of 222 cases of AKI following 3208 surgeries (6.9%) were identified in the study period with a rise in the incidence by about 17% per year. Higher age (odds ratio (OR), 1.02, 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.01–1.04 per year) and underlying reduction in kidney function (OR 1.93 (1.30–2.81), 3.24 (2.08–4.96) and 4.08 (2.35–6.96) for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 30–59, 15–29 and <15 mL/min/1.73 m2 compared with eGFR >60 mL/min/1.73 m2) were associated with higher risk of AKI, but female sex was associated with decreased odds (OR = 0.73; 95% CI, 0.54–0.98). After correcting for age, sex, preoperative kidney function, emergency surgery and underlying comorbidities and frailty, there was an increased risk of long‐term mortality in patients with AKI (HR 1.41, 95% CI 1.08–1.85), and patients who developed AKI also had accelerated progression of chronic kidney disease compared with patients who did not develop AKI.ConclusionsThe incidence of AKI following orthopaedic surgeries is increasing and is associated with adverse outcomes. It is important that elderly individuals and patients who have reduced kidney function receive adequate monitoring and surveillance in the perioperative period.
Effects of the Connections program on return‐to‐custody, mortality and treatment uptake among people with a history of opioid use: Retrospective cohort study in an Australian prison system
Authors: Sullivan Elizabeth , Zeki Reem , Ward Stephen , Sherwood Juanita , Remond Marc , Chang Sungwon , Kypri Kypros , Brown James 
Published: September 2023

AbstractBackground and AimsConnections is a voluntary health program that facilitates access to opioid agonist treatment (OAT) and social services for people with opioid use exiting prison. This study aimed to measure the effectiveness of Connections in reducing recidivism and improving health outcomes for people with a history of opioid use on leaving prison.DesignRetrospective cohort study with quasi‐random allocation to the program.SettingPublic adult prisons in New South Wales, Australia, 2008–2015.ParticipantsAdults released from custody with a history of opioid use. Of 5549 eligible releasees, 3973 were allocated to Connections and 1576 to treatment‐as‐usual.MeasurementsOutcomes were return‐to‐custody, all‐cause mortality, and OAT participation.FindingsRegression analyses on an intention‐to‐treat basis, and adjusting for baseline propensity scores, comparing patients allocated to Connections versus treatment‐as‐usual showed no difference in rates of return‐to‐custody within 2 years (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.01; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.92 –1.12). Patients allocated to the Connections program were more likely to access OAT (odds ratio [OR]: 1.21; 95% CI: 1.06–1.39) and had lower mortality within 28 days of release (0.25% vs. 0.66%; HR: 0.38; 95% CI: 0.14–1.03). Differences in mortality did not persist beyond 28 days. Subgroup analyses showed that allocation to Connections was associated with higher risk of return‐to‐custody within 28 days for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) and female releasees.ConclusionsThe Connections program for people with opioid use exiting prison did not reduce the likelihood of return‐to‐custody but did facilitate opioid agonist treatment participation on release from prison.
Systemic treatment of advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer: The landscape in Australia
Authors: Gurney Howard , Clay Timothy D. , Oliveira Niara , Wong Shirley , Tran Ben , Harris Carole 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThe 5‐year survival rate of metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) is estimated to be as low as 5%. Currently, systemic platinum‐based chemotherapy followed by avelumab maintenance therapy is the only first‐line treatment for mUC that has an overall survival benefit. Cisplatin‐based chemotherapy (usually in combination with gemcitabine) is the preferred treatment but carboplatin is substituted where contraindications to cisplatin exist. Treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors, antibody‐drug conjugates, and kinase inhibitors has not yet demonstrated superiority to chemotherapy as first‐line therapy and remains investigational in this setting. A recent media release indicates that chemotherapy plus nivolumab gives an OS advantage as first‐line treatment but results of this study have not yet been made public. Pembrolizumab remains an option in those having primary progression on first‐line chemotherapy or within 12 months of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The antibody‐drug conjugate, enfortumab vedotin has TGA approval for patients whose cancer has progressed following chemotherapy and immunotherapy and has just received a positive Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme recommendation. The use of molecular screens for somatic genetic mutations, gene amplifications, and protein expression is expanding as drugs that target such abnormalities show promise. However, despite these advances, a substantial proportion of patients with mUC have significant barriers to receiving any treatment, including advancing age, frailty, and comorbidities, and less toxic, effective therapies are needed.
Association between gut‐derived endotoxins and porto‐sinusoidal vascular disorder with portal hypertension
Authors: Gioia Stefania , Carnevale Roberto , Tavano Daniele , Overi Diletta , Ridola Lorenzo , Nardelli Silvia , Merli Manuela , d'Amati Giulia , Pellicelli Adriano , Cardinale Vincenzo , Giannelli Valerio , Baiocchini Andrea , Riggio Oliviero , Gaudio Eugenio , Carpino Guido 
Published: September 2023

SummaryBackgroundPorto‐sinusoidal vascular disorder (PSVD) is characterised by lesions involving portal veins and sinusoids in absence of cirrhosis with an unclear pathophysiology. However, its association with immunodeficiency, bowel disorders and abdominal bacterial infections supports the role of altered intestinal permeability and gut‐derived endotoxins. The study aimed at assessing the association between serological markers of increased intestinal permeability, pro‐aggregating/procoagulant state and liver injury in PSVD and portal hypertension.MethodsThirty‐three patients with biopsy‐proven PSVD and portal hypertension and 33 healthy subjects were submitted to a venous blood sampling for the measurement of zonulin and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) as markers of intestinal permeability, of s‐Glycoprotein VI, sP‐selectin, ADAMTS13 and von Willebrand factor (vWF), as markers of platelet aggregation and microvascular inflammation, factor VIII and F1 + 2 as markers of hypercoagulability. In 17 PSVD patients, histomorphological and immunohistochemical study on liver biopsies was performed.ResultsCompared with controls, PSVD patients had higher levels of LPS, zonulin, vWF, factor VIII and sP‐selectin, F1 + 2. ADAMTS13 was reduced. Serum LPS correlated with zonulin, sP‐selectin, FVIII and vWF. At histological analysis, PSVD specimens had increased LPS localisation, toll‐like receptor‐4(TLR4)‐positive macrophages and platelet number compared with samples from healthy liver donors. TLR4+ macrophage number correlated with portal inflammation and fibrosis. Sinusoid dilation and capillarisation were observed. PSVD biopsies showed signs of biliary damage and reduced ductular reaction without alteration in Sox9+ cell population.ConclusionsPSVD patients display an altered intestinal permeability and endotoxemia correlated to a pro‐aggregating/procoagulant state; histologically, PSVD was associated with increased TLR4+ cell involvement and platelet clumps within sinusoids. Our study suggests that LPS‐TLR4 pathway could contribute to the pathophysiological basis of PSVD with portal hypertension.
Ratio of stemness to interferon signalling as a biomarker and therapeutic target of myeloproliferative neoplasm progression to acute myeloid leukaemia
Authors: de Castro Fabíola Attié , Mehdipour Parinaz , Chakravarthy Ankur , Ettayebi Ilias , Loo Yau Helen , Medina Tiago Silva , Marhon Sajid A. , de Almeida Felipe Campos , Bianco Thiago Mantello , Arruda Andrea G. F. , Devlin Rebecca , de Figueiredo‐Pontes Lorena Lobo , Chahud Fernando , da Costa Cacemiro Maira , Minden Mark D. , Gupta Vikas , De Carvalho Daniel D. 
Published: September 2023

SummaryProgression to aggressive secondary acute myeloid leukaemia (sAML) poses a significant challenge in the management of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Since the physiopathology of MPN is closely linked to the activation of interferon (IFN) signalling and that AML initiation and aggressiveness is driven by leukaemia stem cells (LSCs), we investigated these pathways in MPN to sAML progression. We found that high IFN signalling correlated with low LSC signalling in MPN and AML samples, while MPN progression and AML transformation were characterized by decreased IFN signalling and increased LSC signature. A high LSC to IFN expression ratio in MPN patients was associated with adverse clinical prognosis and higher colony forming potential. Moreover, treatment with hypomethylating agents (HMAs) activates the IFN signalling pathway in MPN cells by inducing a viral mimicry response. This response is characterized by double‐stranded RNA (dsRNA) formation and MDA5/RIG‐I activation. The HMA‐induced IFN response leads to a reduction in LSC signature, resulting in decreased stemness. These findings reveal the frequent evasion of viral mimicry during MPN‐to‐sAML progression, establish the LSC‐to‐IFN expression ratio as a progression biomarker, and suggests that HMAs treatment can lead to haematological response in murine models by re‐activating dsRNA‐associated IFN signalling.