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Business model (BM) diagram in integrated reports, a graphic or an infographic? A study in the Indian context
Authors: Malya Sapna 
Published: August 2023

Purpose
This paper aims to study the efficacy of the business model (BM) diagram in the companies’ integrated reports. Diagrams and graphics are an effective way of communicating the complex processes of a business. However, these diagrams should have complete and appropriate content in a gist for easy understanding.

Design/methodology/approach
A study of BM diagrams published in the integrated reports of 65 Indian listed companies was carried out. The contents of these diagrams were compared to the requirement of BM as per the international <IR> framework.

Findings
While companies presented the BM diagram, there seemed to be a lack of clarity in the definitions of input, output and outcome capitals. Measurable metrics that give a clear understanding regarding the use and generation of resources were missing. The diagram was presented with some information because it had to be, but the purpose of the BM, which is the core of <IR>, was not conveyed. Also, the diagram did not display value creation or erosion effectively.

Originality/value
To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is one of the first studies on the BM diagram in the <IR> space. It emphasises that the diagram can capture the value-creation aspect of the <IR>. Thus, the BM diagram can be used as an effective and concise communication tool for the users of this report.
Perspectives of two competing manufacturers: customer rebate vs. contract mechanism
Authors: Majumder Sani , Nielsen Izabela , Maity Susanta , Saha Subrata 
Published: August 2023

Purpose
This paper aims to analyze the potentials of dynamic, commitment and revenue-sharing contracts; that a nonrebate offering manufacturer can use to safeguard his profit while his competitor offers customer rebates in a supply chain consisting of two manufacturers and a common retailer.

Design/methodology/approach
We consider a two-period supply chain model to explore optimal decisions under eight possible scenarios based on the contract and rebate offering decisions. Because the manufacturers are selling substitutable products, therefore, a customer rebate on one of the products negatively impacts the selling quantity of other. Optimal price, rebate, and quantities are examined and compared to explore the strategic choice for both the rebate offering and non-rebate offering manufacturer. Comparative evaluation is conducted to pinpoint how the parameters such as contract parameters and its nature affect the members.

Findings
The results demonstrate that all these contracts instigate the rebate offering manufacturer to provide a higher rebate, but do not ensure a higher profit. If the revenue sharing contract is offered to the common retailer, the effectiveness of the rebate program might reduce significantly, and the rebate offering manufacturer might receives lower profits. A non-rebate offering manufacturer might use a commitment contract to ensure higher profits for all the members and make sure the common retailer continues the product.

Originality/value
The effect of customer rebate vs. supply chain contract under competition has not yet been explored comprehensively. Therefore, the study contributes to the literature regarding interplay among pricing decision, contract choice and rebate promotion in a two-period setting. The conceptual and managerial insights contribute to a better understanding of strategic decision-making for both competing manufacturers under consumer rebates.
The needs of digital scholarship services at Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
Authors: Ninh Thi Kim Thoa , Ngo Thi Huyen , Nguyen Hong Sinh 
Published: August 2023

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to investigate the needs of lecturers and learners for digital scholarship services (DSS) and to suggest recommendations for the development of DSS at Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM).Design/methodology/approachThe research employed a mixed method approach, comprising a paper questionnaire with 360 respondents to collect quantitative data and in-depth interviews with 18 participants, including lecturers (L), postgraduate students (P), and undergraduate students (U), to gather qualitative data.FindingsThe findings indicate that lecturers and students have diverse needs for various DSS services, with digital information resources and institutional repositories being the most common, followed by new and workable digital technology infrastructure, training courses in using digital tools and methods, and ongoing advice and support at different stages of the research process.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitations of this study indicate that further research is necessary to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the DSS needs in higher education institutions in Vietnam of various sizes and characteristics.Practical implicationsThis research provides a practical basis for the development and provision of appropriate support to the development of DSS at VNU-HCM.Originality/valueThe originality of this paper and its value lies in the contribution to the understanding of the needs of DSS in a context of the digital transformation and the improvement of the quality of education and research in the higher education sector in Vietnam.
Grassroots involvement on Global South policy narratives and deliberative action on climate change loss and damage
Authors: Sacramento Noe John 
Published: August 2023

PurposeThis paper investigates how power and narratives among actors relate to the process of agenda-setting and deliberation in the context of climate change loss and damage. The focus is to understand how grassroots voices manifest their concerns on intensifying economic and non-economic impacts of climate change loss and damage which affect them.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on the case of the Southeast Asia climate change loss and damage workshop in Bohol, Philippines in August 2022. It utilizes lesson drawing as a critical approach by thematic analysis in making sense of the data gathered from the perspectives of participant observers and facilitators.FindingsThere are different levels of power and dominant narratives actors in a deliberative process propel in taking a stance over a particular issue towards agenda-setting and policy framing. The power and narratives help actors to maintain and emphasize their position, exercise authority, and to some point, suppress weak voices. Narratives associated with emotions, sentiments, ideologies, and value systems of the grassroots, community leaders, and climate justice movements tend to be devalued by those in a high level of power and authority.Originality/valueTechno-authoritarian domination explicitly hampers a genuine grassroots involvement in the policy process, especially towards agenda-setting of immediate concerns about climate change loss and damage which affect the public. Critiquing actors’ power and narratives are productive in identifying and propagating the type of deliberative spaces that speak truth to power.
Mental health and expatriate psychological adjustment post-COVID: towards a new framework
Authors: Derksen Donna , Patel Parth , Mohyuddin Syed M. , Prikshat Verma , Shahid Sehrish 
Published: August 2023

PurposeThis paper aims to propose an expatriate psychological adjustment model that postulates expatriate mental health as an antecedent to psychological adjustment. It presents novel predeparture and post-arrival international human resource management (IHRM) expatriate management mental health supportive interventions.Design/methodology/approachThis paper critically reviews theoretical frameworks in the IHRM domain around expatriate psychological adjustments such as the U-Curve Adjustment Theory (Lysgaard, 1995), the Framework of International Adjustment (Black et al., 1991), the Dimensions of Expatriate Adjustment (Haslberger et al., 2013) and the Stress Outcome Model (Bader and Berg, 2014), in a quest to develop a new conceptual framework. This study presents a new conceptual framework along with propositions to take into consideration the relationship between mental health and expatriates' psychological adjustment.FindingsThe findings suggest that mental health is an antecedent paramount to psychological adjustment. The paper proposes mental health-supportive IHRM expatriate management interventions to address the potential failure of expatriates' psychological adjustment. The authors elaborate on the IHRM expatriate management policies and practices at the home and host country to ensure the mental health of company-assigned expatriates sent on international assignments.Originality/valueThe novel conceptual framework underpins mental health as the antecedent paramount to expatriate adjustment, taking into consid eration the elevated stress of situational events such as COVID-19, which had previously not received substantive formal consideration by research scholars in the IHRM domain. The conceptual framework encourages the inclusion of mental health as an antecedent in future research.
Special education's zombies and their consequences
Authors: Hornby Garry , Kauffman James M. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractZombies are defined as ideas or persistent myths that should have died out but have not. Special education's biggest zombie is that only full inclusion brings about true social justice and the most effective education for students with disabilities. Three examples of specific zombies about full inclusion are presented. First, that full inclusion has been internationally accepted policy since the Salamanca Statement in 1994. Second, that the feasibility of full inclusion has been demonstrated in some countries. Third, that there is extensive evidence that inclusion is more effective that special education. Six strategies that have been used to promote these inclusion zombies to the general public and legislators in various countries around the world are discussed. These are: reframing the problem; denying its reality; portraying special education as something of which most people disapprove; presenting full inclusion as something most people want; making the distinction between the two maximally stark; casting all challenges to the zombie as addressing the wrong question or relying on flawed research and demanding unthinking belief in full inclusion. It is concluded that special education's zombies related to full inclusion must be exposed, challenged and finally eradicated so that future education provision for children with disabilities can focus on achievable goals and evidence of effectiveness rather than placement.Key pointsSpecial education's biggest zombie is that only full inclusion will bring true social justice to schooling because special education is essentially an inappropriate way of dealing with diversity; is a relic of the last century, unfairly discriminatory and exclusionary.Three inclusion zombies are: that full inclusion was recommended by the Salamanca Framework; that full inclusion has been shown to be a feasible approach to meeting all special needs; and that there is convincing research evidence that inclusion is more effective than special education. All three zombies are false but widely disseminated.Six strategies are used to promote full inclusion zombies: reframe the nature of the problem; deny the reality of the situation; portray special education as something generally disapproved of; present inclusion as something most people want; make a stark distinction between the two; cast all challenges to the zombie as flawed.Full inclusion zombies must be exposed, challenged, and eradicated, so that continued development of theory, research and practice in the education of young people with special needs can once again be the main focus of educators in this field.
The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood
Authors: Rosengren Dan , Permanto Stefan , Burman Anders 
Published: August 2023

AbstractBased on the observation that the Anthropocene narrative signifies a departure from the Cartesian nature/culture division dominant within modernist science, this article explores notions of personhood and agency among Amerindian peoples in the Amazon, the Andes, and Mesoamerica in comparison to the corresponding notions in modernist discourses. We discuss the differences in conceptualizations in relation to diverging understandings of climate change and the Anthropocene, focusing on perspectives on agentivity both within our respective ethnographical fields and in modernist social sciences. This leads us to stress the significance of new materialists’ disregard for intentionality in relation to agency and the consequences this neglect has for understanding animist perspectives. We examine the different views in relation to their effects on morality and to perceived forms of accountability. In accordance, the modernist ‘global we’, prominent in the Anthropocene debate stressing the role of humanity as a species, is contrasted with what we call a ‘universal we’, which includes both human and other‐than‐human persons, in conformance with Amerindian animist perspectives on the world. This approach to the issue does not only mean that we challenge the obvious iniquity in blaming all of humanity for climate change but also that we point to the coloniality of reality implicit in the Anthropocene narrative.
Is there a Kuznets curve for cropland use? The evidence from international panel data
Authors: Trofimov Ivan D. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis assumes the nonlinear relationship between production and its environmental effects, suggesting that the negative effect of production on the natural environment is reversed at higher levels of development. In contrast to the majority of the studies, this paper considers the possibility of non‐linear effects of per capita output on agricultural land use (cropland), as one of the natural resource stocks, and additionally examines the influence of demographic and productivity variables on the agricultural land use. The study draws on panel data from 143 economies over the 1990–2019 period and employs a series of panel econometrics techniques (including panel unit root and cointegration tests, panel ordinary least squares, generalized method of moments, and panel quantile models). The results unequivocally indicate the inverted U‐shaped relationship between the GDP per capita and cropland use, as per EKC hypothesis. The results are robust with respect to employing different techniques, the identified turning points correspond to low and low‐middle‐income levels, and the effects of agricultural productivity and population density on land use are respectively negative and positive.
A survey of non‐USGS continuous streamflow gaging networks in the Pacific Northwest
Authors: Kaiser Kendra E. , Blasch Kyle , Hall Mcallister 
Published: August 2023

AbstractExtensive streamflow data sources exist beyond the largest streamflow data provider in the United States, the U.S. Geological Survey. We developed and distributed a survey to about 300 individuals and organizations that collect streamflow data across the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, Washington). We received 100 responses with 56% of those sufficiently complete to include in the analysis. From these responses, there are about 2000 streamflow monitoring locations in the region beyond the USGS monitoring network. The duration of record for gages is related to the size of the streamflow gaging network, with small and large networks generally operating monitoring locations for less than 5 years and more than 10 years, respectively. Quality assurance and quality control are variable across organizations, with 41% of respondents having at least two review steps and 13% that audit their data for long‐term consistency. Results of this survey begin to establish the differing capabilities of large and small stream gaging networks and highlight how supporting the overall quality streamflow data collection and management within the water resources community will improve our ability to harmonize these datasets in the future.
A rare case of IgG4‐associated disease caused by COVID‐19: Case report and literature review
Authors: Xu Ying‐Ge , Zheng Yueliang , Qiu You‐You 
Published: August 2023

AbstractAn increasing number of cases have reported that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) can lead to immune system dysregulation and induce autoimmune diseases, but the mechanism is unclear. We treated a patient who presented with an unknown fever after infection with the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) in 2023. After excluding the possibility of infection, malignancy, and other connective tissue diseases, we considered the diagnosis of IgG4‐related disease in consideration of the patient's pathology and clinical findings. In this article, we summarize our diagnostic experience and summarize the case reports of IgG4‐related diseases associated with SARS‐CoV‐2 infections since the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Stress and recurrent abdominal pain
Authors: Alfvén Gösta , Andersson Eva 
Published: August 2023

AbstractWe discuss the aetiology of recurrent abdominal pain of non‐organic origin, according to the Rome Criteria for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and a psychogenic hypothesis. Stress activates the brain–gut axis, which is important for local gut symptoms, such as abdominal pain, but it also causes pain in other areas, including the head, back and chest. Our research has indicated that the startle reflex plays a dominant role in this stress‐induced pain pattern, which is manifested in the whole body. Localised abdominal pain can be part of a general negative stress reaction that causes multiple pains in other areas of the body.
Trial‐related blood sampling and red blood cell transfusions in preterm infants
Authors: Lewis Anna Elisabet , Kappel Susanne S. , Hussain Samya , Sangild Per T. , Zachariassen Gitte , Aunsholt Lise 
Published: August 2023

AbstractAimTo determine if trial‐related blood sampling increases the risk of later red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in very preterm infants, we compared the volume of clinical‐ and trial‐related blood samples, in a specific trial and correlated to subsequent RBC transfusion.MethodsFor 193 very preterm infants, participating in the FortiColos trial (NCT03537365), trial‐related blood volume drawn was in accordance with ethical considerations established by the European Commission. Medical records were reviewed to assess the number and accumulated volume (mL/kg) of blood samples (both clinical‐ and trial‐related). Data were compared with the need of RBC transfusions during the first 28 days of life.ResultsMean (SD) gestational age and birth weight was 28 ± 1 weeks and 1168 ± 301 g. In total, 11% of total blood volume was drawn for sampling (8.1 ± 5.1 mL/kg) and trial‐related sampling accounted for 1.6 ± 0.6 mL/kg. Trial‐related blood sampling had no impact on RBC transfusion (p = 0.9).ConclusionClinical blood sampling in very preterm infants is associated with blood loss and subsequent need for RBC transfusions. In a specific trial requiring blood samples, we found no additional burden of trial‐related blood sampling. The study suggests that trial‐related sampling is safe if European criteria are followed.
ARNTL inhibits the malignant behaviors of oral cancer by regulating autophagy in an AKT/mTOR pathway‐dependent manner
Authors: Chen KuiChi , Li HanXue , Li YueHeng , Yang ZhengYan , Luo Jun , Zhou Zhi 
Published: August 2023

AbstractCurrent studies have shown that ARNTL, an important clock gene, plays an anticancer role and is downregulated in certain types of cancer. However, the biological functions and mechanisms of ARNTL in tumors remain largely unknown. This study aimed to elucidate how ARNTL‐induced autophagy impacts the biological properties of tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) cells and the mechanisms by which ARNTL expression activates autophagy. ARNTL was stably overexpressed in TSCC cells to investigate its functions in vitro and in vivo. We found that activation of autophagy induced by ARNTL decreases cell proliferation, enhances cell death, and hinders the migratory ability of TSCC cells. Moreover, ARNTL antagonizes the AKT/mTOR pathway, which potentiates autophagy induction. The manipulation of Akt activation cancels the effects of ARNTL overexpression on the biological behaviors of TSCC cells. Furthermore, after the addition of SC79, the upregulated BAX expression due to ARNTL overexpression and downregulated expressions of BCL‐2 and MMP2 were remarkably rescued. In vivo tumorigenicity assays and immunohistochemistry also confirmed that ARNTL overexpression suppresses tumor development. Our study found for the first time that ARNTL inhibits the malignant behaviors of oral cancer cells by regulating autophagy in an AKT/mTOR pathway‐dependent manner, which provides a novel theoretical basis for the potential future application of ARNTL to treat patients with oral cancer.
Online support group for patients with inflammatory eye disease: Characterisation of members and assessment of benefits
Authors: Ostrovsky Michael , Rosenblatt Amir , Hollander Nadine , Habot‐Wilner Zohar 
Published: August 2023

AbstractBackgroundSupport groups in ophthalmology may be of utmost importance for patients and caregivers. We aimed to characterise members of an online support group for patients and parents of children with inflammatory eye disease and assess the members' expectations and perceived benefits.MethodsA survey based on a voluntary, anonymous web questionnaire was distributed to the members of the ‘Lirot’ association online support group. The questionnaire included demographic, ocular and systemic information, functional and psychosocial data, support group use patterns, expectations and perceived benefits. Analysis was done for patients and parents.ResultsOut of 67 respondents, 43 (64%) were patients, and 24 (36%) were parents. Fifty‐eight (88%) were women. The mean age of respondents was 42.9 ± 1.34 years. Anterior uveitis was the most common, and most patients had good visual acuity (<0.3 logMAR). Parents reported higher anxiety levels (p = 0.044) and a more significant effect of their child's disease on their general function (p = 0.005). Most members sought several experts' opinions, psychological treatments and alternative medicine. All members used the WhatsApp group, while only approximately half used Facebook (p < 0.001). Members' expectations were fulfilled for social support, a sense of shared experience and being able to help others, but not for receiving information (p < 0.001). All members reported being willing to recommend the group to others.ConclusionsSupport group participation benefited group members. We suggest that ophthalmologists encourage their inflammatory eye disease patients to use online support groups, which may significantly improve their well‐being.