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The relationship between perceived brand globalness/localness and purchase intention: exploring the role of consumer-brand identification with underdog positioning
Authors: Han Bangwool 
Published: December 2022

Purpose
This study aims to examine how perceptions of the globalness or localness of a brand affect the purchase intentions of consumers through the building of consumer–brand identification (CBI). This paper also explores the moderating effect of brand positioning (underdog vs top dog) on the relationship between perceived brand globalness or localness (PBG or PBL) and purchase intention.

Design/methodology/approach
The proposed hypotheses were tested in two experimental studies. Data were collected through a set of structured questionnaires and analyzed using PROCESS modelling and analysis of variance.

Findings
The results show that CBI mediates the effect of PBG/PBL on purchase intentions. Moreover, the findings of Study 2 reveal that participants show greater purchase intention for PBL than for PBG in response to underdog positioning. However, in top dog positioning, the difference in purchase intention for PBL compared to PBG is attenuated.

Originality/value
This research investigates how CBI influences purchase intentions of consumers in regards to a brand’s perceived globalness or localness, which adds to the growing body of international branding research. This paper also addresses the effects of interaction between brand localness (globalness) and underdog (top dog) brand positioning on purchase intentions. Finally, this study concludes with a discussion of practical actions that international brand managers can take to enhance the effectiveness of their marketing strategies.
Fostering green purchasing behavior: the moderated mediation role of customer disidentification
Authors: Abdo Maha S. , Ahmed Samira A. , Awad Basmah K. , Elsharnouby Mohamed H. 
Published: December 2022

PurposeThis study aims to identify the determinants of customers' green purchasing behaviors. First, the study examines the relationship between green self-identity (GSI) and green peer influence (GPI) on green purchase behavior (GPB). Second, it examines the relationships between both GSI and GPI, and purchasing behavior mediated by green consumption values (functional value (FV) and social value (SV)). Third, it investigates the moderating effect of customer disidentification (CDI) on the relationships between GSI and both green consumption values. Finally, it investigates the indirect relationships between GSI and purchasing behavior moderated by CDI.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative study is conducted using a survey of 204 Egyptian buyers of organic food products. AMOS and Hayes's PROCESS macro are used to test the hypotheses under investigation.FindingsThe customer's peer influence and GSI are found to have a positive impact on green purchasing behavior. Additionally, the mediating impact of values and the moderating impact of CDI are also confirmed.Practical implicationsThis study helps organic food companies in identifying the determinants of customers' green purchasing behavior. The results of the study will guide the efforts of green marketing professionals in promoting green products in the Egyptian market.Originality/valueSince the notion of green consumption is still in its infancy, there is a need for further exploration on the green consumption concept to better understand customers' predictors of that type of consumption; accordingly, the current research was conducted.
Second generation extruded snacks from sweet chestnut and corn blends – numerical optimization, nutritional, nutraceutical and storage stability characteristics
Authors: Altaf Rifat , Zargar Imtiyaz Ahmad , Gani Gousia , Hussain Syed Zameer , Bashir Omar , Naseer Bazila , Manzoor Sobiya , Amin Tawheed 
Published: December 2022

Purpose
This study aims to develop sweet chestnut incorporated corn-based extrudates by the optimization of process conditions.

Design/methodology/approach
The independent process variables for extrusion (blend ratio, barrel temperature, screw speed and feed moisture) were investigated to govern their impact on reliant variables, namely, bulk density, specific mechanical energy, water absorption index, water solubility index, color and hardness. Product and system responses were significantly (p < 0.05) affected by the independent variables. Experimental design with quadratic models experienced a high coefficient of determination (R2 = 0.99).

Findings
Numerical optimization for the development of extrudates resulted in optimum conditions having corn flour: sweet chestnut flour (80:20), barrel temperature (120°C), screw speed (340 rpm) and feed moisture (12%). Fat, moisture and protein contents of the developed extrudates using optimum conditions were significantly (p < 0.05) lower compared to raw materials – corn and sweet chestnut. The packaging of extrudates in aluminum laminates revealed shelf stability of three months at room temperature without deterioration of quality.

Originality/value
Nutritionally rich sweet chestnut extruded products would be an exclusive option to already existing snacks in the market and can facilitate a new sphere in extruded product sector.
The impact of degree apprenticeships: analysis, insights and policy recommendations
Authors: Nawaz Raheel , Edifor Ernest Edem , Holland Samantha Reive , Cao Qi , Liu Leo Shixiong 
Published: December 2022

Purpose
Degree apprenticeships in the UK have grown exponentially since they were introduced. While claims and speculations about their impact have been made by high-profile politicians, lobbyists and training providers, the evidence base for these claims has never been systematically scrutinised. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and present up-to-date peer-reviewed evidence on the impact of degree apprenticeships on social mobility and productivity and their influence on future policy.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors critically and systematically review over 4,000 data points from relevant sources and synthesise the results qualitatively and quantitatively with a combined method approach. Quantitative evidence has been aggregated where possible and tested for statistical significance. Qualitative evidence has been critically reviewed and comparatively analysed.

Findings
The analysis reveals that there is a shortage of depth and breadth of concrete and peer-reviewed evidence on the impact of degree apprenticeships. Nevertheless, existing data demonstrate that degree apprenticeships are meeting their intended purpose of contributing positively to the UK Government’s high-level goals for productivity and social mobility. They are an alternative route into higher education and serve as a vital talent pipeline providing opportunities for young people, existing employees and learners from diverse backgrounds.

Originality/value
This paper provides the first systematic and peer-reviewed synthesis of the impact of degree apprenticeships. It brings together existing evidence and statistically validates outcomes to inform researchers, educators, training providers, policymakers and other stakeholders in their recommendations moving forward.
Fatal non‐accidental pediatric cranial fracture risk and three‐layered cranial architecture development
Authors: Boyd Donna C. , Cheek Kimber G. , Boyd C. Clifford 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThis study examines the influence of three‐layered cranial architecture development upon blunt force trauma (BFT) cranial outcomes associated with pediatric non‐accidental injury (NAI). Macroscopic and microscopic metric and morphological comparisons of subadult crania ranging from perinatal to 17 years of age chronicle the ontogenetic development and spatial and temporal variability in the emergence of a mature cranial architecture. Cranial vault thickness increases with subadult age, accelerating in the first 2 years of life due to rapid brain growth during this period. Three‐layer differentiation of the cranial tables and diploë initiates by 3–6 months but is not consistently observed until 18 months to 2 years; diploë formation is not well developed until after age 4 and does not manifest a mature appearance until after age 8. These results allow topographic documentation of cortical and diploic development and temporal and spatial variability across the growing cranium. The lateral cranial vault is identified as expressing delayed development and reduced expression of the three‐layer architecture, a pattern that continues into adulthood. Comparison of fracture locations from known BFT pediatric cases with identified cranial fracture high‐risk impact regions shows a concordance and suggests the presence of a higher fracture risk associated with non‐accidental BFT in the lateral vault region in subadults below the age of 2. The absence or lesser development of a three‐layered architecture in subadults leaves their cranial bones, particularly in the lateral vault, thin and vulnerable to the effects of BFT.
Herbal Pharma Inc.: Conducting an Effective Group Audit*
Authors: Jones Joanne C. , Iacobelli Sandra , Scott Sandra 
Published: December 2022

ABSTRACTAs the relative weight of global economic activity continues to shift toward non‐OECD countries (OECD 2018), audit firms are more likely to encounter clients with significant business operations in foreign jurisdictions. The associated need to engage and oversee local component auditors in these jurisdictions can lead to challenges arising from different business cultures and the resulting intra‐audit miscommunications. Audit deficiencies related to these challenges have been detected by regulators (PCAOB 2011, 2010; CPAB 2012, 2015). Standard setters such as the IAASB and the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) have responded by issuing an exposure draft proposing revisions to ISA 600 (IAASB 2020) and CAS 600 (AASB 2020) to strengthen the auditor's approach and provide enhanced guidance to practitioners. In light of this evolving area of assurance, this case was developed to deepen students' understanding of both group and component audits in an international context. The case takes the perspective of the group auditor and features an audit senior in a specialized role overseeing the component audit of a client's increasingly material Chinese subsidiary. Deficiencies in the prior year component audit, along with a change in the component auditor, further underlines the importance of robust risk analysis for the upcoming engagement.
Place of last drink enforcement: Effects on alcohol‐related traffic crashes
Authors: Lenk Kathleen M. , Toomey Traci L. , MacLehose Richard F. , Scholz Natalie , Schriemer Daniel , Nelson Toben F. , Delehanty Eileen , Bosma Linda M. , Gloppen Kari 
Published: December 2022

AbstractBackgroundBinge drinking can result in various types of harms including traffic crashes. Bars and restaurants that serve alcohol to patrons who are obviously intoxicated (i.e., overservice) contribute to these crashes. One strategy to address overservice is place of last drink (POLD) where law enforcement officers responding to alcohol‐related incidents inquire about where the individuals last drank alcohol. This information may then be used to identify bars and restaurants that frequently overserve alcohol. There is limited evaluation of the effectiveness of POLD in reducing overservice, traffic crashes, and other harms.MethodsWe evaluated the effects of a POLD initiative, developed by some law enforcement agencies in Minnesota (USA), on alcohol‐related traffic crashes from 2010 to 2019. Among 89 intervention (POLD) vs. comparison communities, we fit regression models with participation in POLD as the predictor. As secondary analyses, we fit models with POLD implementation level as the predictor (implementation levels were assessed via a survey of law enforcement agencies). We controlled for relevant community and agency characteristics.ResultsIn the model with participation in POLD as a predictor, there was little difference in the rate of total alcohol‐related crashes (rate ratio [RR] = 1.07, 95% CI: 0.85–1.34). In the model with level of implementation as a predictor, the rate of total alcohol‐related crashes was comparable between communities with high implementation and those with no implementation (RR = 0.89; 95% CI: 0.71–1.10). Similar results were seen for alcohol‐related crashes with nonfatal injury and property damage outcomes.ConclusionsThis study found little evidence that the POLD initiative, as currently implemented, was associated with reductions in traffic crashes across communities in Minnesota. Further research could explore whether specific characteristics of POLD are particularly important and whether POLD could be combined with other strategies to reduce traffic crashes and other alcohol‐related harms.
Recurrent pacemaker‐mediated arrhythmia with a right bundle branch block pattern in a patient with a cardiac resynchronization therapy device
Authors: Zhang Yubin , Han Yiru , Zheng Liangrong 
Published: December 2022

AbstractUnder certain conditions, cardiovascular implantable electronic devices can be directly involved in initiating and sustaining pacemaker‐mediated arrhythmias (PMA), of which repetitive reentrant ventriculoatrial synchrony (RRVAS) is the most well‐known and common type. RRVAS, also known as pacemaker‐mediated tachycardia, was commonly secondary to atrioventricular (AV) dissociation and subsequent ventriculoatrial (VA) conduction. RRVAS in a biventricular system is rare due to its less predisposition to the appearance of AV dissociation and subsequent VA conduction, but urgent in its adverse impact on cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), which may predispose to exacerbated heart failure. We present a rare case of recurrent PMA manifested as a right bundle branch block pattern in a patient with a CRT device. Notably, most episodes of PMA were triggered by a premature atrial contraction accompanied by the appearance of VA conduction with no prolongation of AV delay. In this study, we have demonstrated the impact of the appearance of VA conduction due to the loss of capture of right ventricular lead and its potential risk for inducing RRVAS in a CRT device.
Temporary Couples? A Chinese Migrant's Dream Narrative
Authors: Chen Shuhua 
Published: December 2022

SummaryThis piece presents a narration of a dream by a rural migrant, Yang Cui, who works in the city of Shantou in China. It reveals her inner struggles to end an affair with another migrant worker, Lao Bo. This piece is written as a part of an ethnographic book project on rural–urban migration in China, in which I experiment with different genres of writing in an attempt to address migrants' bewildering existential multiplicity of interior experience, among which some are presented more analytically, some more subjectively, and some more imaginatively. Understanding the human condition in terms of the limits of knowing others and ourselves requires anthropologists to seek creative forms of ethnographic narrative to give shape and voice to existential struggles, ambivalence, and uncertainty of everyday life. This piece attempts to use Yang Cui's narration of her dream as an evocative form of describing her inner struggles being with Lao Bo as a so‐called linshi fuqi (“temporary couple”), through which her self‐knowledge unfolds, reflection takes place, and consciousness finds expression.
AMBAR: A midwifery‐led training program to improve obstetric and neonatal practices among low‐risk births in Mexico
Authors: Séris Marina , Fritz Jimena , Montoya Alejandra , Lamadrid‐Figueroa Héctor 
Published: December 2022

AbstractBackgroundBirth care in Mexican health institutions is highly medicalized and of poor quality because of the prevalence of outdated and dangerous practices. AMBAR—a training program for health care providers on the use of evidence‐based midwifery practices—was implemented during 2016–2018 and evaluated to assess the impact of training on key practices.MethodsFor this mixed‐methods study, we evaluated the effects of a training program implemented in three public hospital networks in Mexico. Qualitative data were collected and integrated into the program before evaluating the effects of the intervention on 10 birth practices, 5 beneficial and 5 potentially harmful. Quantitative data on birth practices and covariates were collected at six time points (baseline and 5 follow‐ups) in a final sample of 330 direct observations. Effect estimates were obtained by longitudinal logistic and Poisson regression models, adjusted for confounding variables.ResultsAMBAR had a significant effect on 4 of the 10 birth practices that were evaluated. Beneficial practices, such as skin‐to‐skin contact (P = 0.003) and delayed cord clamping (P = 0.039), increased significantly. Harmful when overused birth practices, such as vaginal examinations (P = 0.001), and cesarean birth (P < 0.001) decreased significantly.ConclusionsMidwifery‐based training programs for health care providers can have an impact on the quality of care of birthing people and newborns, increasing the use of evidence‐based practices and decreasing frequently overused practices.
Plasma microRNA‐192‐5p can predict the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and prognosis in esophageal cancer
Authors: Furuke Hirotaka , Konishi Hirotaka , Arita Tomohiro , Kataoka Satoshi , Shibamoto Jun , Takabatake Kazuya , Takaki Wataru , Shimizu Hiroki , Yamamoto Yusuke , Komatsu Shuhei , Shiozaki Atsushi , Fujiwara Hitoshi , Otsuji Eigo 
Published: December 2022

AbstractEsophageal cancer (EC) is the sixth leading cause of cancer‐related death worldwide. Recently, neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) before curative surgery has become a standard treatment for clinical stage II or III EC patients. Some EC patients receive a complete response (CR) by NAC; thus, curative surgery may be unnecessary for such patients. MicroRNA levels in plasma have the potential to be a predictor of response to NAC. In the present study, we focused on miR‐192‐5p, which is highly expressed in EC tissue. The purpose was to investigate the correlations between levels of plasma miR‐192‐5p and the response to NAC. Furthermore, molecular functions of miR‐192‐5p associated with chemosensitivity were examined using EC cell lines. The levels of miR‐192‐5p in plasma before surgery were evaluated in 113 EC patients. Sixty‐nine patients received NAC. miR‐192‐5p levels in the CR group were significantly higher than in the other groups (p = 0.002). The downregulation of miR‐192‐5p in the EC cell line inhibited sensitivity to cisplatin, and the overexpression of miR‐192‐5p in the EC cell line promoted sensitivity to cisplatin. miR‐192‐5p regulated sensitivity to cisplatin by targeting ERCC3 and ERCC4. Plasma miR‐192‐5p could be used as a predictor of response to chemotherapy and prognosis in EC patients.
Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations
Authors: García Pinzón Viviana 
Published: December 2022

ABSTRACTExtant research has analysed the impact of security policies, truces and informal agreements on both the dynamics and traits of organized violence in El Salvador. However, less is understood about variation in the levels of lethal violence across subnational units. This article contributes to filling this gap. Based on a case study of the municipality of Chalatenango, the analysis shows that community organization and translocal dynamics are crucial to explaining violence containment. Local communities have managed to control the levels of lethal violence and deter criminal actors amid a national context characterized by state neglect and chronic violence. Community organization is not territorially bound but extends across transnational networks. Migrants are a source of livelihoods for the local population; they also contribute to providing public goods and participate in local forms of organization. Transnational networks have forged a migration corridor that enables immigration to the United States. In addition, community organization informally contributes to the capacity of the local state to perform its functions, thereby shaping cooperative state–society relations. This analysis sheds new light on the conditions shaping the variation in levels of violence at the subnational level and local governance dynamics.
Quantitative analysis of the roles of IRM cell adhesion molecules in column formation in the fly brain
Authors: Lee Yunfei , Wang Miaoxing , Imamura Kousuke , Sato Makoto 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThe Drosophila visual center shows columnar structures, basic structural and functional units of the brain, that are shared with the mammalian cerebral cortex. Visual information received in the ommatidia in the compound eye is transmitted to the columns in the brain. However, the developmental mechanisms of column formation are largely unknown. The Irre Cell Recognition Module (IRM) proteins are a family of immunoglobulin cell adhesion molecules. The four Drosophila IRM proteins are localized to the developing columns, the structure of which is affected in IRM mutants, suggesting that IRM proteins are essential for column formation. Since IRM proteins are cell adhesion molecules, they may regulate cell adhesion between columnar neurons. To test this possibility, we specifically knocked down IRM genes in columnar neurons and examined the defects in column formation. We developed a system that automatically extracts the individual column images and quantifies the column shape. Using this system, we demonstrated that IRM genes play critical roles in regulating column shape in a core columnar neuron, Mi1. We also show that their expression in the other columnar neurons, Mi4 and T4/5, is essential, suggesting that the interactions between IRM proteins and multiple neurons shape the columns in the fly brain.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for hypokinetic dysarthria in Parkinson's disease enhances white matter integrity of the auditory–motor loop
Authors: Brabenec Lubos , Simko Patrik , Sejnoha Minsterova Alzbeta , Kostalova Milena , Rektorova Irena 
Published: December 2022

AbstractBackground and purposeIn our previous study, repeated sessions of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the auditory feedback area were shown to improve hypokinetic dysarthria (HD) in Parkinson's disease (PD) and led to changes in functional connectivity within the left‐sided articulatory networks. We analyzed data from this previous study and assessed the effects of rTMS for HD in PD on the diffusion parameters of the left anterior arcuate fasciculus (AAF), which connects the auditory feedback area with motor regions involved in articulation.MethodsPatients were assigned to 10 sessions of real or sham 1‐Hz stimulation over the right posterior superior temporal gyrus. Stimulation effects were evaluated using magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging and by a speech therapist using a validated tool (Phonetics score of the Dysarthric Profile) at baseline, immediately after 2 weeks of stimulation, and at follow‐up visits at Weeks 6 and 10 after the baseline.ResultsAltogether, data from 33 patients were analyzed. A linear mixed model revealed significant time‐by‐group interaction (p = 0.006) for the relative changes of fractional anisotropy of the AAF; the value increases were associated with the temporal evolution of the Phonetics score (R = 0.367, p = 0.028) in the real stimulation group.ConclusionsReal rTMS treatment for HD in PD as compared to sham stimulation led to increases of white matter integrity of the auditory–motor loop during the 2‐month follow‐up period. The changes were related to motor speech improvements.