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Differences in consumers' perceptions based on the description order/amount of benefit–risk information on foods: a randomized comparative survey in Japan
Authors: Tanemura Nanae , Kakizaki Masako , Kusumi Takashi , Onodera Rie , Tominaga Yoshiko , Araki Michihiro , Chiba Tsuyoshi 
Published: January 2023

PurposeIn this study, the authors clarified the differences in consumers' benefit–risk perceptions based on changes (description order and amount) in the benefit–risk information after an assessment of the health impact of foods.Design/methodology/approachThe authors set the following four benefit–risk information groups relating to fatty fish consumption—Group 1: benefit/simple–risk/detail; Group 2: risk/detail–benefit/simple; Group 3: benefit/detail–risk/detail; Group 4: risk/detail–benefit/detail. The authors conducted a randomized controlled study on June, 2022, involving 7,200 Japanese consumers aged over 18 years.FindingsThere were no significant differences in the risk and benefit perceptions. Furthermore, the logistic regression analysis identified women and benefit perception as significant influencing factors of “no-risk acceptance.”Originality/valueThis study found that all four message formats were acceptable to consumers due to high-benefit/low-risk perceptions. However, despite the difference in message types used in benefit–risk communication, there was no effect on risk acceptance among consumers. Public agencies should design their communication with considerations toward women and benefit perceptions.
Employment status and financial resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Yao Rui , Zhang Jie 
Published: January 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the association between employment status and financial resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis study employed US nationally representative data. A financial resilience index was created based on households' ability to pay for basic living expenses and the resources used to meet such needs. Employment status was categorized into seven groups based on whether the respondent worked for pay in the last seven days, experience of income shock since the start of the pandemic for workers' household and reasons for not working for non-workers' household. A generalized linear model (GLM) model was used to examine the relationship between respondent employment status and household financial resilience. An ordinary least square (OLS) logistic regression with no proportional odds assumption was employed to investigate the association between the respondent's employment status and household ability to pay for basic living expenses. A logistic regression was utilized to explore the relationship between respondent employment status and resources used by the household to pay for basic living expenses.FindingsThe top three least financially resilient households include those in which the respondent's work was affected by the pandemic, the respondent did not work due to being sick with COVID or caring for someone with COVID and the respondent did not work due to fear of COVID.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research should distinguish the reasons for not working when examining the association between unemployment and household financial resilience as well as their overall financial wellbeing. Cross-sectional data cannot establish a causal relationship. Findings using US data may not be generalized to other countries.Practical implicationsWorkers with health and employment risks and financial professionals working with these clients should consider these risks when building household financial safety net. Policymakers should develop measures to allow normal business operations while effectively contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.Originality/valueThis study created a financial resilience index that considers various household situations, allows both internal and external resources to be utilized to cover basic living expenses and reflects the diverse nature of financial resilience. This study is the first to look into voluntary and involuntary labor force separation for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related reasons.
The effects of brand relationships on justice perceptions in service recovery
Authors: Filho Cid Gonçalves , Kiefer Kip , Fetscherin Marc , Blandina Alexander , Rocha Marcelo Nacif , Monteiro Plínio Rafael Reis 
Published: January 2023

Purpose
This paper aims to explore how brand relationship quality (BRQ) influences consumers’ perceived sense of justice in the context of service recovery situations.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a survey of 368 Brazilian consumers who experienced real-life automotive service recovery situations. The authors tested their model and underlying hypotheses using structural equation modeling.

Findings
Stronger BRQ led to higher levels of perceived justice (distributive, procedural and interactional), which in turn led to higher customer satisfaction of complaint handling. Ultimately, higher customer satisfaction led to lower complaining, lower retaliation and higher purchase intention. The authors' alternative model tested the effects of BRQ sub-dimensions on justice perception. Interestingly, trust produced a “love-is-blind” effect, while intimacy revealed a “love-becomes-hate” effect.

Originality/value
This study assessed BRQ and its sub-dimensions (self-connection, satisfaction, commitment, trust and intimacy) on sense of justice (distributive, procedural and interactional) within service recovery. Also, this study demonstrated the opposing effects of the brand relationship sub-dimensions trust and intimacy on perceptions of justice.
Insider trading laws to counter financial crime: a comparative study of Mauritius, UK and US laws
Authors: Beebeejaun Ambareen 
Published: January 2023

Purpose
The rise in business activities coupled with free trade liberalisation across countries has entailed an increase in securities transaction as well as insider trading (IT). In fact, IT is characterised by the influence and usage of some prior knowledge concerning sensitive information of a corporate body which results in a financial benefit to the insider trader. The practice of IT is not only unethical but also illegal and this statement is witnessed by the mushrooming of laws across the globe categorising IT as an offence. However, the type of punishment varies in different countries depending on various factors. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to assess the adequacy and efficiency of IT laws in the context of a developing country being Mauritius.

Design/methodology/approach
To achieve the research objective, the Mauritian laws on IT were compared with the corresponding laws of some developed countries like the USA and the UK. As such, a qualitative research method was adopted. In particular, the black letter approach was used to examine the relevant laws of Mauritius, UK and USA on IT. A comparative analysis was conducted concerning IT laws for each country with the view of suggesting recommendations for Mauritian stakeholders to adopt to enhance the existing legal and regulatory framework on IT.

Findings
It was found that Mauritian IT laws are largely inspired from both the US and UK corresponding legislation. However, Mauritian laws need to be strengthened by imposing some more severe penalties in terms of fines and terms of imprisonment like the USA has established. The Mauritian Financial Services Commission as the regulator also needs to play a more active role in disseminating particularities of IT laws, offences and penalties to the civil society at large.

Originality/value
At present, this study will be among the first academic writings on the efficiency of IT laws in Mauritius and also, because existing literature is quite scarce on assessing the adequacy of IT legislation in developing countries, this research aims at filling in the gap in literature. The study is carried out with the aim of combining a large amount of empirical, theoretical and factual information that can be of use to various stakeholders and not only to academics.
Foreign whistleblowing: the impact of US extraterritorial enforcement on anti-corruption laws in Europe
Authors: Karpacheva Elina , Hock Branislav 
Published: January 2023

Purpose
Foreign whistleblowers are foreign citizens who help national enforcement authorities to sanction both foreign-based corporations and home-based corporations that engage in economic crime. This paper aims to investigate the expansion of US law in the area of transnational economic crime by discussing the case of foreign whistleblowers.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper has been developed from a literature review carried out as part of a wider study into policing international bribery.

Findings
This paper shows that extraterritorial application of US whistleblowing laws is part of a broad trend associated with extraterritorial enforcement of US anti-corruption statutes such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The extraterritorial reach of the FCPA and other statutes allowed the USA to become the leader in sanctioning US corporations as well as non-US corporations for economic crime. In effect, some US enforcement practices have become the standard that has influenced law and law enforcement in other countries as well as internal compliance of corporations.

Originality/value
In spite of the profound impact foreign whistleblowing has on the effectiveness of national anti-corruption enforcement, this topic has been largely neglected by academic research. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to provide an overview of the role of foreign whistleblowers and the significant impact foreign whistleblowing has for legal reform in European countries and internal compliance of corporations in Europe and beyond.
Effects of COVID-19 on the relationship between inflation and REITs returns in South Africa
Authors: Mpofu Bekithemba , Moobela Cletus , Simbanegavi Prisca 
Published: January 2023

PurposeThis research aims to ascertain the extent to which the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic affected the relationship between inflation and real estate investment trusts (REITs) returns in South Africa.Design/methodology/approachThis research used the Johansen cointegration test and effective test in establishing if there is a long-run cointegrating equation between the variables. To ascertain if COVID-19 resulted in a different relationship regime between inflation and REITs returns, the sequential Bai–Perron method was used.FindingsBetween December 2013 and July 2022, there was no evidence of a long-run relationship between inflation and REITs returns, and a restricted vector autoregressive (VAR) model with a period lag for each variable best describing the relationship. Using the sequential Bai–Perron method, for one break, the results show February 2020 as a structural break in the relationship. A cointegrating equation is also found for the period before the structural break and another after the break. Interestingly, the relationship is negative before the break and a new positive relationship (regime) is confirmed after the noted break.Practical implicationsThis research helps REITs stakeholders to position themselves in light of any changes to macroeconomic activity within South Africa.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to test inflation relationship with REITs returns in South Africa and the effects of COVID-19 thereof. This research helps REITs stakeholders to position themselves in light of any changes to macroeconomic activity within South Africa.
Dances with wolves: The demographic consequence of asymmetric competition and intraguild predation in a native‐invasive skink system
Authors: Huang Shi‐Ping , Lin Jhan‐Wei , Chou Chun‐Chia , Liao Chen‐Pan , Hsu Jung‐Ya , Tsai Jing‐Fu , Liu Shao‐Lun , Huang Wen‐San 
Published: January 2023

Abstract

Currently, we lack enough knowledge to fully explain how the impacts of species invasion on native communities are attributed to multifaceted, individual‐based behavioural outcomes.

Here, we illustrate the long‐term population dynamics of the native long‐tailed sun skink (Eutropis longicaudata) before and after the invasion of the common sun skink (Eutropis multifasciata). We conducted diet investigation, morphological measurement, and a series of behavioural experiments both in the field and laboratory. We explained how the impacts of the invasive skink on the native skink can cascade towards the population level based on these individual‐level behavioural data.

We present evidence of competition exclusion of the native skink population resulting from the invasion of the common sun skink. The drastic decline found in the native skink population was largely accounted for by low recruitment, as shown by the decrease in its clutch numbers correspondingly.

We also found dominance of the invasive skink in both exploitation competition and intraguild predation. Considering the highly overlapping morphological and dietary niches between the two species, our findings imply that the native skink has undergone strong food competition and predation pressure on its eggs and juveniles.

Interestingly, the native skink started to display parental care behaviour 2 years after the invasion event, and its clutch survival rate has recovered since then. The shift in parental care behaviour may help the native skink cope with this new predation pressure from the invasive skink.

Overall, the two competitive skinks showed low chances of coexisting. The negative population growth of this native skink species may be primarily derived from poor reproductive performance, given a sharp decline in its clutch numbers and its inferiority in exploitation competition, despite rebounding clutch survival rates.

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PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam
Authors: Galindez Kyle 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThrough this article I contribute to debates about planetary urbanization by specifying how imperialism, defined as states restricting the self‐determination of other states or peoples, intersects with urbanization. While recent urban theory has explored how urbanization unfolds at scales beyond the city and in relation to global capital accumulation, it has not fully extended these insights to incorporate the central role of states and imperialism. First, I argue that doing so develops a more expansive account of extended urbanization by revealing how networks of military bases are themselves enmeshed in the production of urban networks via state policies, and that militarized sites safeguard the global capitalist economy that sustains urbanization. Secondly, I argue that imperialism changes concentrated urbanization by restricting self‐determination, fomenting spatial formations that prioritize militarism, and shifting urban politics to a larger scale. I show these dynamics through a historical analysis of the US military's strategic interest in the island of Guåhan/Guam at the end of the second world war, and then generalize from this case to consider variegated outcomes at the intersections of urbanization and imperialism. In the article I aim to more adequately explain the heterogenous ways urbanization unfolds across the contemporary world.
Vacuum extraction or caesarean section in the second stage of labour: A systematic review
Authors: Thierens Stephanie , van Binsbergen Annelien , Nolens Barbara , van den Akker Thomas , Bloemenkamp Kitty , Rijken Marcus J. 
Published: January 2023

AbstractBackgroundProlonged second stage of labour is an important cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Vacuum extraction (VE) and second‐stage caesarean section (SSCS) are the most commonly performed obstetric interventions, but the procedure chosen varies widely globally.ObjectivesTo compare maternal and perinatal morbidity, mortality and other adverse outcomes after VE versus SSCS.Search StrategyA systematic search was conducted in PubMed, Cochrane and EMBASE. Studies were critically appraised using the Newcastle–Ottawa scale.Selection CriteriaAll artictles including women in second stage of labour, giving birth by vacuum extraction or cesarean section and registering at least one perinatal or maternal outcome were selected.Data Collection and AnalysisThe chi‐square test, Fisher exact's test and binary logistic regression were used and various adverse outcome scores were calculated to evaluate maternal and perinatal outcomes.Main ResultsFifteen articles were included, providing the outcomes for a total of 20 051 births by SSCS and 32 823 births by VE. All five maternal deaths resulted from complications of anaesthesia during SSCS. In total, 133 perinatal deaths occurred in all studies combined: 92/20 051 (0.45%) in the SSCS group and 41/32 823 (0.12%) in the VE group. In studies with more than one perinatal death, both conducted in low‐resource settings, more perinatal deaths occurred during the decision‐to‐birth interval in the SSCS group than in the VE group (5.5% vs 1.4%, OR 4.00, 95% CI 1.17–13.70; 11% vs 8.4%, OR 1.39, 95% CI 0.85–2.26). All other adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes showed no statistically significant differences.ConclusionsVacuum extraction should be the recommended mode of birth, both in high‐income countries and in low‐ and middle‐income countries, to prevent unnecessary SSCS and to reduce perinatal and maternal deaths when safe anaesthesia and surgery is not immediately available.
Sequential culture with aroma‐producing yeast strains to improve the quality of Kyoho wine
Authors: Lai Yen‐Tso , Hou Chih‐Yao , Lin Shin‐Ping , Lo Yi‐Chen , Chen Chien‐Hao , Hsieh Chang‐Wei , Lin Hui‐Wen , Cheng Kuan‐Chen 
Published: January 2023

AbstractDespite many non‐Saccharomyces yeasts being considered spoilage microorganisms, they can increase aroma and flavor diversity in alcoholic beverages. The purpose of this study was to investigate nontraditional inoculation strategies using aroma‐producing yeast strains for Kyoho wine fermentation, followed by an instrumental analysis and sensory evaluation. The winemaking process was carried out using Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gr112, Hanseniaspora uvarum Pi235, and Pichia kluyveri Pe114. Multiple inoculation strategies were explored. In instrumental analysis results, mixed culture could promote the formation of esters (5.9‐folds) and glycerol (1.3‐folds) and reduce the content of ethanol (–0.5% [v/v]) in wine. The sensory analysis results suggested that the three yeast strains sequential inoculation treatment was associated with the aroma attributes “floral,” “red fruity,” and “tropical fruity.” Co‐cultivation contributed to an increase in complexity and aromatic intensity, with the three‐strain inoculation treatment presenting a more distinctive appearance.Practical ApplicationThe inoculation of S. cerevisiae improved the accumulation of volatile acids and esters by inhibiting the growth of non‐Saccharomyces yeast strains. Inoculation of H. uvarum and P. kluyveri would effectively solve the defect of excessive content of higher alcohols in wines produced by S. cerevisiae. The suitable inoculation strategy between non‐Saccharomyces yeasts could improve the overall quality of Kyoho wine whose starter might be widely used in fermentation industry.
Thiazolidinedione use is associated with reduced risk of dementia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A retrospective cohort study
Authors: Zhao Houyu , Zhuo Lin , Sun Yexiang , Shen Peng , Lin Hongbo , Zhan Siyan 
Published: January 2023

AbstractBackgroundType 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and dementia cause heavy health burden in mainland China, where few studies have investigated the association between glucose‐lowering agents and dementia risk. We aimed to assess the association between use of thiazolidinediones (TZDs) and dementia incidence in a mainland Chinese population with T2DM.MethodsA retrospective cohort of T2DM patients who were new users of TZDs or alpha glucosidase inhibitors (AGIs) was assembled using the Yinzhou Regional Health Care Database. A Cox model with inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) for controlling potential founding was applied to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) of the association between use of TZDs and dementia risk.ResultsA total of 49 823 new users of AGIs and 12 752 new users of TZDs were included in the final cohort. In the primary analysis, the incidence of dementia was 195.7 and 78.2 per 100 000 person‐years in users of AGIs and TZDs respectively. TZD use was associated with a reduced risk of incident dementia after adjusting for potential confounding using IPTW, with a HR of 0.51 (95% CI, 0.38–0.67). The results in various subgroup analyses and sensitivity analyses were consistent with the findings of the primary analysis.ConclusionsUse of TZDs is associated with a decreased risk of dementia incidence in a mainland Chinese population with T2DM.
Vestiges of the Kerguelen Mantle Plume in Southern Tibet: Evidence from 123–117 Ma Magmatism in the Dingri Area of the Central Tethys Himalaya
Authors: YAN Songtao , WU Qingsong , LI Hu , DAI Xuejian , ZHU Lidong , WANG Jie , XIN Chongyang 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThe widely distributed Early Cretaceous magmatism in the Tethys Himalaya (TH) of southern Tibet is related to the Kerguelen mantle plume. Associated magmatic activity products are distributed in the eastern TH, where the active age is earlier than the peak ages of the Kerguelen mantle plume. This study investigated magmatic activity of the Dingri area in the central TH which was coeval with the Kerguelen mantle plume. The intrusion in the Dingri area contains diabases and monzonites. The zircon age of diabase is 123 ± 1 Ma, and that of monzonite is 117 ± 1 Ma. Geochemistry and Sr‐Nd isotopic analyses show that the mafic–intermediate dikes were formed in an intraplate extensional environment. The diabase is derived from the enriched lithospheric mantle and monzonite is derived from partial melting of the lower crust, with both magmatic evolutions being contaminated by crustal materials. These characteristics are similar to those of the Rajmahal–Sylhet basalt, a typical Kerguelen mantle plume product. The discovery of the Dingri mafic–intermediate dikes of the central TH suggests that the TH and Rajmahal–Sylhet Traps formed a continuous mantle plume overflow magmatic belt which was a product of the continuous eruption of the Kerguelen mantle plume.
High‐temperature exposure risk, corporate performance and pricing efficiency of the stock market
Authors: Chen Guojin , Chen Wenpeng , Wang Jiaqi , Zhao Xiangqin 
Published: January 2023

AbstractUsing the daily temperature data of the national meteorological stations, we measure the high‐temperature exposure risk of Chinese A‐share listed enterprises, investigate the impact of high‐temperature exposure risk on corporate prime operating revenue and performance, and further discuss securities analysts' forecasts for this risk. We find that increased exposure to high temperature reduces corporate prime operating revenue, and the response of enterprises to high‐temperature risk will lead to a rise in management expenses and the deterioration of business performance. Further evidence suggests that securities analysts generally underestimate or ignore the impact of high‐temperature exposure risk, and our results are robust to different measures and samples.