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Who let the dogs out? How underdog biographies told by family firms affect consumers’ brand attitude
Authors: Lude Maximilian , Prügl Reinhard , Rauschendorfer Natalie 
Published: June 2023

PurposeBrand stories are often created around the company’s humble beginnings as an underdog. The authors explore the effects of who is telling the underdog story and thus draw attention to the nature of the brand source by differentiating between family and non-family firms. The authors expect that who is telling the underdog story impacts consumers’ attitude toward the brand in terms of brand authenticity and trustworthiness perceptions.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted an online experiment with a 2 × 2 between-subject design and an overall sample size of 314 respondents.FindingsMost importantly, the authors find that the family-firm nature of the brand storyteller significantly impacts the underdog effect. The positive effects of underdog biographies on brand attitude in terms of authenticity and trustworthiness loom significantly larger for family firms compared with non-family firms.Practical implicationsThe authors find that the underdog effect is significantly stronger for family firms that tell the underdog story. Managers of family firms with underdog roots should take advantage of this finding by integrating underdog stories into their marketing concepts. The findings of this study show that the communication of a company’s roots can serve as a valuable tool to build and maintain a positive brand image and help to increase purchase intentions, which is particularly true for firms capitalizing on their family nature when telling the underdog story.Originality/valueThe authors combine research on brand stories using the underdog effect with research on the consumer’s perception of family firms, further exploring the role of the brand storyteller in underdog narratives, resulting in important theoretical as well as practical implications.
Investor’s values and investment decision towards ESG stocks
Authors: Raut Rajdeep Kumar , Shastri Niranjan , Mishra Akshay Kumar , Tiwari Aviral Kumar 
Published: June 2023

Purpose
This study aims to investigate factors that influence the attitudes and intentions of investors towards environmental, social and governance (ESG) stocks in the presence of perceived risk as a moderator.

Design/methodology/approach
Data was collected through an online survey method from 341 investors with more than three years of investing experience. Smart PLS was used to analyse the data using two-stage structural equation modelling. First, a measurement model was performed for construct reliability and validity, followed by path analysis (structural model) for hypothesis testing and overall model predictability.

Findings
The findings show that both environmental concern (altruistic value) and economic concern (egoistic value) are crucial for the attitude and intention of investors to invest in ESG-backed stocks; however, environmental concern was found to be a more significant predictor of their behaviour, showing evidence of pro-environmental values in the decision-making of utility-seeking individuals. No significant impact of perceived risk was evident as a moderator of the relationship between attitude and intention towards ESG stocks.

Practical implications
The study's findings have implications for fund managers, policymakers, and the government. Values as antecedents were found to be influential in shaping investors’ attitudes and intentions towards the environmental cause. Fund managers could include more ESG-compliant companies in their portfolios, and the government can play an important role in encouraging investors by providing financial incentives. Corporates should also take strategic steps to adopt green production processes to secure long-term, sustainable capital funding.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there has been no research done in the field of ESG investing that takes into account the values (both altruistic and egoistic) of investors as potential antecedents of their attitudes and intentions.
Predicting geometric errors and failures in additive manufacturing
Authors: Ntousia Margarita , Fudos Ioannis , Moschopoulos Spyridon , Stamati Vasiliki 
Published: June 2023

Purpose
Objects fabricated using additive manufacturing (AM) technologies often suffer from dimensional accuracy issues and other part-specific problems. This study aims to present a framework for estimating the printability of a computer-aided design (CAD) model that expresses the probability that the model is fabricated correctly via an AM technology for a specific application.

Design/methodology/approach
This study predicts the dimensional deviations of the manufactured object per vertex and per part using a machine learning approach. The input to the error prediction artificial neural network (ANN) is per vertex information extracted from the mesh of the model to be manufactured. The output of the ANN is the estimated average per vertex error for the fabricated object. This error is then used along with other global and per part information in a framework for estimating the printability of the model, that is, the probability of being fabricated correctly on a certain AM technology, for a specific application domain.

Findings
A thorough experimental evaluation was conducted on binder jetting technology for both the error prediction approach and the printability estimation framework.

Originality/value
This study presents a method for predicting dimensional errors with high accuracy and a completely novel approach for estimating the probability of a CAD model to be fabricated without significant failures or errors that make it inappropriate for a specific application.
A conceptual framework of total quality management on innovation performance in the banking sector
Authors: Ahinful Abraham Ato , Opoku Mensah Abigail , Koomson Samuel , Nyarko Felix Kwame , Nkrumah Edmund 
Published: June 2023

PurposeThe “United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal” 9 seeks to “… foster innovation” in all sectors of an economy. Thus, this conceptual piece addresses the indirect effect of innovative behaviour (INB) between total quality management (TQM) and innovation performance (INP). It further explores the context-contingent effect of four external factors [government regulation (GOV), market dynamism (MKD), competitive intensity (CMP) and technological turbulence (TUR)] on the TQM–INB linkage.Design/methodology/approachBy incorporating both theoretical and empirical works in the fields of strategic management, innovation and business performance, this conceptual piece constructs a conceptual model, using a systematic literature review, alongside suppositions that can be tested in further studies.FindingsThis conceptual piece puts forward that TQM will be favourably connected to INP, and this favourable association will be mediated by INB. Moreover, GOV, MKD, CMP and TUR will have a favourable context-contingent effect on the favourable direct connection between TQM and INB.Research limitations/implicationsThis conceptual piece affords suggestions for both practitioners and researchers alike in the areas of innovative and strategic decision-making in banking establishments for reinforcing INP by introducing TQM, INB, GOV, MKD, CMP and TUR as innovative-strategic tools. It also delivers suggestions for forthcoming academics to examine this conceptual piece, empirically, in diverse banking sites worldwide.Practical implicationsPractical lessons for managers, employees, customers and consultants within the banking sector for the superior advantage of all key stakeholders are deliberated.Originality/valueThis study provides a new model to demonstrate how TQM leads to INP by passing through INB of employees, and how TQM fosters INB under diverse degrees of GOV, MKD, CMP and TUR. It shows how internal factors (7 TQM dimensions) and external factors (GOV, MKD, CMP and TUR) interact to foster employee INB. It also underscores the theoretical authority of three theories utilised, both individually and in combination, by using them to explain new relationships.
Trash or treasure: Rhizome conservation during drought
Authors: Lubbe Frederick Curtis , Bitomský Martin , Bartoš Michael , Marešová Iveta , Martínková Jana , Klimešová Jitka 
Published: June 2023

Abstract

The role of storage carbohydrates in plant carbon economy is currently disputed as possibly passive accumulation when other resources are limiting growth, or part of a conservative growth strategy as insurance for regrowth and stress response. One indication may be the fate of carbohydrates in senescing rhizomes, as either translocated to be retained in the live and growing end of the rhizome or kept within the senescing rhizome end and lost into the soil for it to decompose.

To examine carbohydrate storage in senescing rhizomes, eight rhizomatous species were grown in a split‐pot design with one compartment containing the forward‐growing and younger end of the rhizome and another containing the older end. Both compartments were either watered (control) or the older one was left un‐watered (drought treatment) to trigger rhizome senescence and potential carbohydrate translocation. Plant growth, root traits, and non‐structural carbohydrate types and concentrations were assessed in four sequential harvests.

Drought treatment plants had higher rhizome dry matter content. Younger rhizome parts produced higher new rhizome and above‐ground biomass than older rhizome parts. Carbohydrate concentrations in rhizomes remained consistent for both treatments, younger and older rhizome parts, and all harvests, probably because of the translocation of water from the watered to the dry compartment to prevent senescence and rhizome loss.

Contrary to expectations, the experimental treatment did not trigger rhizome senescence: plants responded by conserving the rhizome and resources within, rather than by losing their older parts. The invariant composition and concentration of carbohydrates within the rhizome suggest that rhizomes are essential plant organs and the storage carbohydrates they contain are necessary for regrowth after stress.

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The evolution and functional divergence of 10 Apolipoprotein D‐like genes in Nilaparvata lugens
Authors: Lu Jia‐Bao , Ren Peng‐Peng , Li Qiao , He Fang , Xu Zhong‐Tian , Wang Sai‐Nan , Chen Jian‐Ping , Li Jun‐Min , Zhang Chuan‐Xi 
Published: June 2023

AbstractApolipoprotein D (ApoD), a member of the lipocalin superfamily of proteins, is involved in lipid transport and stress resistance. Whereas only a single copy of the ApoD gene is found in humans and some other vertebrates, there are typically several ApoD‐like genes in insects. To date, there have been relatively few studies that have examined the evolution and functional differentiation of ApoD‐like genes in insects, particularly hemi‐metabolous insects. In this study, we identified 10 ApoD‐like genes (NlApoD1−10) with distinct spatiotemporal expression patterns in Nilaparvata lugens (BPH), which is an important pest of rice. NlApoD1−10 were found to be distributed on 3 chromosomes in a tandem array of NlApoD1/2, NlApoD3−5, and NlApoD7/8, and show sequence and gene structural divergence in the coding regions, indicating that multiple gene duplication events occurred during evolution. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that NlApoD1−10 can be clustered into 5 clades, with NlApoD3−5 and NlApoD7/8 potentially evolving exclusively in the Delphacidae family. Functional screening using an RNA interference approach revealed that only NlApoD2 was essential for BPH development and survival, whereas NlApoD4/5 are highly expressed in testes, and might play roles in reproduction. Moreover, stress response analysis revealed that NlApoD3−5/9, NlApoD3−5, and NlApoD9 were up‐regulated after treatment with lipopolysaccharide, H2O2, and ultraviolet‐C, respectively, indicating their potential roles in stress resistance.
The role of collective impact in improving nutrition. A scoping review
Authors: Pyke Kate , Palermo Claire , Kleve Sue 
Published: June 2023

AbstractBackgroundCollective impact is gaining traction to improve population health outcomes. This study aimed to determine where and how collective impact is being used in nutrition and describe current understandings of its impacts or results on health or nutrition outcomes.MethodsA systematic scoping review was undertaken with four databases (‘CINAHL Plus’, ‘Sociological Abstracts’, ‘PsychInfo’, and ‘OVID Medline’) using the search term ‘Collective Impact’ from 2011 up to November 2022. All studies were screened independently by two authors. Data were extracted and synthesised narratively.ResultsA total of 712 different documents were identified, with four studies included in the synthesis. Collective impact approaches focussed on breastfeeding, reducing sugar‐sweetened beverage consumption, increasing access to healthy food, and obesity. Across the four included studies, promising results in improving health and nutrition were reported.ConclusionEvaluating and reporting on the outcomes of collective impact initiatives in nutrition using robust methods is needed.
Assembly of female and male hihi genomes (stitchbird; Notiomystis cincta) enables characterization of the W chromosome and resources for conservation genomics
Authors: Bailey Sarah , Guhlin Joseph , Senanayake Dinindu S. , Scherer Phoebe , Brekke Patricia , Ewen John G. , Santure Anna W. , Whibley Annabel 
Published: June 2023

AbstractA high‐quality reference genome can be a valuable resource for threatened species by providing a foundation to assess their evolutionary potential to adapt to future pressures such as environmental change. We assembled the genome of a female hihi (Notiomysits cincta), a threatened passerine bird endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. The assembled genome is 1.06 Gb, and is of high quality and highly contiguous, with a contig N50 of 7.0 Mb, estimated QV of 44 and a BUSCO completeness of 96.8%. A male assembly of comparable quality was generated in parallel. A population linkage map was used to scaffold the autosomal contigs into chromosomes. Female and male sequence coverage and comparative genomics analyses were used to identify Z‐, and W‐linked contigs. In total, 94.6% of the assembly length was assigned to putative nuclear chromosome scaffolds. Native DNA methylation was highly correlated between sexes, with the W chromosome contigs more highly methylated than autosomal chromosomes and Z contigs. 43 differentially methylated regions were identified, and these may represent interesting candidates for the establishment or maintenance of sex differences. By generating a high‐quality reference assembly of the heterogametic sex, we have created a resource that enables characterization of genome‐wide diversity and facilitates the investigation of female‐specific evolutionary processes. The reference genomes will form the basis for fine‐scale assessment of the impacts of low genetic diversity and inbreeding on the adaptive potential of the species and will therefore enable tailored and informed conservation management of this threatened taonga (treasured) species.
Hyaluronan synthesis inhibition normalizes ethanol‐enhanced hepatic stellate cell activation
Authors: Kotulkar Manasi , Robarts Dakota R. , Lin‐Rahardja Kristi , McQuillan Tara , Surgnier Jordan , Tague Sarah E. , Czerwinski Maciej , Dennis Katie L. , Pritchard Michele T. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractBackgroundChronic ethanol overconsumption promotes alcohol‐associated liver disease (ALD), characterized by hepatocyte injury, inflammation, hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation, and fibrosis. Hyaluronan (HA) concentration is greater in livers and blood from advanced ALD patients than patients with advanced non‐ALD. In the liver, HSCs are the major HA producers. The relationship between ethanol, HA, and HSC activation is incompletely understood. Thus, here, we tested the hypothesis that ethanol enhances HSC activation in a HA‐dependent manner.MethodsLiver tissue microarrays (TMAs) containing steatotic livers from donors with or without a history of alcohol consumption were used to measure HA and collagen content. Mice were fed a moderate (2%, v/v) ethanol‐containing diet or pair‐fed control diet for 2 days, after which they were given a single carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) injection. To inhibit HA synthesis, we provided 4‐methylumbelliferone (4MU) daily. We used LX2 cells, a human HSC cell line, to determine the impact ethanol had on LPS responses, with or without concurrent 4MU exposure.ResultsCCl4 induced liver injury, but it did not differ between ethanol or control diet fed mice with or without 4MU treatment. Ethanol feeding enhanced CCl4‐induced hepatic HA content, which was paralleled by HA synthase (Has)2 transcript abundance; 4MU treatment normalized both. Consistently, HSC activation, assessed by measuring αSMA mRNA and protein, was induced by CCl4 exposure, enhanced by ethanol feeding, and normalized by 4MU. Hepatic transcripts, but not protein, for Ccl2 were enhanced by ethanol feeding and normalized by 4MU exposure. Finally, ethanol‐exposed LX2 cells made more LPS‐stimulated CCL2 mRNA and protein than cells not exposed to ethanol; 4MU prevented this.ConclusionThese data show that ethanol augments HSC activation through HA synthesis and enhances hepatic profibrogenic features. Therefore, targeting HSC HA production could potentially attenuate liver disease in ALD patients.
Mechanosensory cells in annelid oligochaete Lumbricus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758): A new insight on worm evolution
Authors: Alesci Alessio , Messina Emmanuele , Zuwala Krystyna , Fumia Angelo , Miller Anthea , D'Angelo Roberta , Kuciel Michal , Albano Marco , Savoca Serena , Capillo Gioele 
Published: June 2023

AbstractCiliated and non‐ciliated mechanosensory cells in invertebrates have intricate cytoskeletal structures that, combined with microtubules, act as a mechanical link between external stimulus and signal processing. As a result, they can perceive forces like touch, cuticle deformation, gravity and sound. Through the expression of antibodies against serotonin (5‐HT), calbindin, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and α‐smooth muscle actin (αSMA), this research aims to investigate mechanosensory cells in the integument of Lumbricus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) in an evolutionary perspective. In the epidermis, we discovered isolated mechanosensory cells that were immunopositive to every antibody examined. Our findings improve the knowledge and the evolution of annelid sensory biology adding new insights on the sensory signal transduction and help to better understand the morpho‐structural adaptations of invertebrate skin on an evolutionary scale and to give more taxonomic data for species distinction.
From logic to action on flourishing for all
Authors: Shrivastava Paul , Grant John H. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThere is general agreement among sustainability professionals that sustainability needs to be implemented for all and not selectively for just a few. We argue that it is time to urgently act on sustainability and climate change. We suggest plausible actions by businesses, governments, consumers investors, and others. Not acting now risks the closing of a window of opportunity and potential social and economic instabilities.
Small but powerful—local value chains and sustainability‐oriented approaches in the agri‐food sector
Authors: Royer Susanne , Simon Maike 
Published: June 2023

AbstractRegional and local value creation is seen as one solution for reducing the environmental impact of the agri‐food system. The point of reference for this research is the powerless position of small actors in agri‐food chains. This paper gives insights into the motivation of small‐scale producers in developed countries to exit national and export markets and to opt for a sustainability orientation. Specifically, we explore how the powerlessness of small actors in global value chains may fuel the formation of regional and local value chains. Through a regional case study, we map the dairy value system and identify three different value chain structures in the Northern German dairy industry. Then, we illustrate how some small (organic) raw milk producers have changed their position in the value chain and bargaining strength by following different upgrading strategies. Their increase in bargaining power comes with efficiency losses and increased risk. Implications for small‐scale producers and society are discussed and brought together in a framework that demonstrates the drivers and challenges for sustainability‐oriented small‐scale agricultural producers to achieve a stable and competitive position within the market.
Characterization and clinical implications of different malignant transformation patterns in diffuse low‐grade gliomas
Authors: Jiang Haihui , Zhu Qinghui , Wang Xijie , Li Mingxiao , Shen Shaoping , Yang Chuanwei , Zhao Xuzhe , Li Ming , Ma Guofo , Zhao Xiaofang , Chen Xiaodong , Yang Jun , Lin Song 
Published: June 2023

AbstractMalignant transformation (MT) of low‐grade gliomas (LGGs) to a higher‐grade variant seems inevitable, yet it remains unclear which LGG patients will progress to grade 3 or even directly to grade 4 after receiving a long course of treatment. To elucidate this, we conducted a retrospective cohort study based on 229 adults with recurrent LGG. Our study aimed to disclose the characteristics of different MT patterns and to build predictive models for patients with LGG. Patients were allocated into group 2–2 (n = 81, 35.4%), group 2–3 (n = 91, 39.7%), and group 2–4 (n = 57, 24.9%), based on their MT patterns. Patients who underwent MT showed lower Karnofsky performance scale (KPS) scores, larger tumor sizes, smaller extents of resection (EOR), higher Ki‐67 indices, lower rates of 1p/19q codeletion, but higher rates of subventricular involvement, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, astrocytoma, and post‐progression enhancement (PPE) compared with those in group 2–2 (p < 0.01). On multivariate logistic regression, 1p/19q codeletion, Ki‐67 index, radiotherapy, EOR, and KPS score were independently associated with MT (p < 0.05). Survival analyses demonstrated that patients in group 2–2 had the longest survival, followed by group 2–3 and then group 2–4 (p < 0.0001). Based on these independent parameters, we constructed a nomogram model that exhibited superior potential (sensitivity: 0.864, specificity: 0.814, and accuracy: 0.843) compared with PPE in early prediction of MT. Combining the factors of 1p/19q codeletion, Ki‐67 index, radiotherapy, EOR, and KPS score that were presented at initial diagnosis could precisely forecast the subsequent MT patterns of patients with LGG.