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The impact of the physical environment on the quality of distance education
Authors: Al-Tkhayneh Khawlah M. , Altakhaineh Abdel Rahman Mitib , Nser Khaled Khamis 
Published: April 2023

Purpose
This study aims to discuss the impact of the physical environment on the quality of distance education from the viewpoint of a number of teaching staff in Jordanian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design/methodology/approach
A total of 308 lecturers were selected using a snowball sampling method from different social media websites. The researcher used a descriptive analysis method by conducting social surveys.

Findings
The results reveal that there is a negative impact of the physical environment on the quality of distance education from the perspective of the teaching staff in Jordanian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results also show that there are statistically significant differences between males and females in terms of the quality of distance education in favor of males. In addition, there are no statistically significant differences in the quality of distance education based on the place from which the lecture is given and the faculty type.

Practical implications
The study recommends improving teaching staff’s performance in the teaching process, boosting their comfort level and reducing stress and anxiety which may be caused by the surrounding physical environment during distance education.

Originality/value
The topic of the study is of great significance to quality assurance in education, i.e. online learning and teaching.
Effective creativity: how to manage it to achieve extraordinary business value
Authors: Marshall Anthony , Dencik Jacob , Anderson Cindy 
Published: April 2023

Purpose
To better understand the role of creativity and its impact on business, IBM Institute for Business Value (IBM IBV) surveyed 400 United States-based CEOs across 11 industries in 2022.

Design/methodology/approach
Average organization size of these businesses was a little over $26 billion in annual revenue. The survey covered a range of questions on the role and impact of creativity in their organization. Then survey data was analyzed to reveal the key drivers and success factors of creativity.

Findings
When the CEOs were asked to describe an organizational structure most conducive to perpetuating creativity, as many as one quarter of them identified a hierarchical structure – a structure typically considered antithetical to free-flowing creativity, and one highly susceptible to micro-management and bureaucracy.

Practical implications
CEOs identify fear of failure as the most significant barrier to creativity.

Originality/value
Tapping into ingenuity and creativity has been critical to navigating recent market disruption – and going forward, effective creativity is becoming even more central to business success. Study identifies best practices of leading organizations that believe that. creativity is not a skill solely for a few selected innovators and makers, it’s a quality required across the workforce.
Case analysis: Johnson & Johnson and the COVID-19 vaccine
Authors: Jia Huining , Jin Justin Y. , Lindsay Benjamin 
Published: April 2023

Research methodology
This paper uses financial report information to analyze the accounting results of the COVID-19 vaccine development for Johnson & Johnson (J&J). This paper also uses stock price information to analyze the market reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine development and the state of clinical trials for J&J.

Case overview/synopsis
This instructional case investigates the interaction between J&J and the COVID-19 vaccine. This paper uses information from financial reports to analyze the accounting results of the COVID-19 vaccine development for J&J. This paper also uses stock price information to analyze the market’s reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine development and the state of clinical trials for J&J.

Complexity academic level
This case has been used in both undergraduate and graduate levels to highlight the application of accounting theories to practice and improve the understanding of financial statements, especially when Covid-19 has affected the global economy. Under this new context, students could explore new ideas from accounting aspect.

Learning objectives
The case aims to investigate the interaction between J&J as a pharmaceutical company and COVID-19. It provides a context in which to discuss the consequences of COVID-19 vaccines from several financial perspectives, such as stock prices, accounting policies, earnings and cash flows:
LO1: Understand the responses of stakeholders to J&J’s COVID-19 vaccines.
LO2: Understand the accounting policies that J&J and its competitors follow regarding COVID-19 vaccines related to revenues, R&D expenditures and government funds.
LO3: Apply Ball and Brown’s theory to the impact of COVID-19 vaccine development on earnings quality of J&J and its competitors.
LO4: Assess the importance of COVID-19 vaccines in management decision-making through dividend policy and management compensation structure.
Frequency-domain preliminary assessment of coupled site and SSI effects according to the Algerian seismic provisions
Authors: Beneldjouzi Mohamed , Hadid Mohamed , Laouami Nasser 
Published: April 2023

Purpose
Several studies were made on paired site and soil–structure interaction (SSI) effects, but most of them were site specific. This paper aims to investigate the impact of SSI effects in conjunction with local soil condition effects on the seismic response of typical multistory low- to mid-rise–reinforced concrete (RC) buildings resting on Algerian regulatory design sites through a global explicit transfer function (TF).

Design/methodology/approach
A preliminary quantification of SSI effects associated with site effects is carried out through a frequency-domain solution based on the concept of rock-to-soil surface displacement TF performed for each design site category. It results from the combination of the TFs of structure, foundation and soil and reflects how seismic waves are amplified due to changes in the geological contrast between the rock and overlying soil deposits. As well, response modification factors, denoting displacement ratios of the building responses within the flexible and site-structure conditions with respect to the fixed-base one, are carried out.

Findings
In the context of Algerian seismic regulation, the study provides a clear vision of how and when site or SSI effects are expected to be influential, as opposed to the fixed-base hypothesis still retained by the current regulation. This helps engineers to be aware of the extent of the expected seismic damage.

Research limitations/implications
The research applies to low- to mid-rise RC buildings within the Algerian seismic regulation, but it may also be expanded to other examples that fall under other seismic regulations.

Practical implications
The response modification ratio is a quantitative approach to assessing response fluctuations. It draws attention to how the roof level drift varies depending on the condition. These results can be used as numerical parameters in structural seismic design when the structure is comparable because they provide useful information about how the two phenomena interact with the structure.

Originality/value
The study goes beyond particular situations dealing with site specific and offers effective indicators and quantitative evaluation of combined site and SSI effects according to the current national seismic provisions, where no indication about site or SSI effects exists.
Estimating abundance of fish associated with structured habitats by combining acoustics and optics
Authors: Scoulding B. , Gastauer S. , Taylor J. C. , Boswell K. M. , Fairclough D. V. , Jackson G. , Sullivan P. , Shertzer K. , Campanella F. , Bacheler N. , Campbell M. , Domokos R. , Schobernd Z. , Switzer T. S. , Jarvis N. , Crisafulli B. M. , Untiedt C. , Fernandes P. G. 
Published: April 2023

Abstract

The diversity and abundance of fish inhabiting complex reef habitats poses some challenges to surveys based on optical techniques, especially for schooling fish which are difficult to enumerate with such methods. Acoustic surveys are often used effectively to estimate the abundance and distribution of schooling fish but suffer from boundary effects and limited species discrimination.

To reconcile these drawbacks, we present an integrated acoustic–optical survey method, to estimate the abundance of fishes in a subtropical reef habitat in Shark Bay, Western Australia, exploiting the unique benefits of each method.

Acoustic backscatter attributed to multi‐species groups was partitioned to species with the help of concurrent unbaited remote underwater video. This allowed estimation of the abundance of the important fishery sparid, Chrysophrys auratus, as well as 17 other members of the diverse fish community.

The study addresses some of the challenges of assessing abundance of fish species that may be aggregated, but sparsely distributed, associated with a structured habitat, and mixed within a diverse assemblage of other aggregating or solitary fishes in an area where direct capture fisheries survey gears cannot be used.

Synthesis and applications. The acoustic–optical survey method provides data that are vital for the assessment of fish species in ecosystems which are difficult, or impossible for certain species, to survey with existing methods. These assessments are, in turn, essential for either ecosystem‐based fishery management or multiple single‐species quota management, which allow for the sustainable management of the associated fisheries.
Towards the Vernacular, Away from Politics? Political History after the ‘New Political History’
Authors: Goldsmith Rebecca 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThis article considers how modern British political history has changed since the ‘new political history’ of the 1990s. It focusses on the ‘vernacular’ histories which have emerged in the last decade or so. The vernacular ‘turn’ is frequently framed by its proponents in opposition to the new political history, with its focus on the rhetoric of politicians and subsequent tendency to reproduce the perspectives of political elites. This article, however, identifies continuities between these approaches, noting their shared interest in advancing a more complex understanding of the relationship between politics and people in the past. It argues that the real challenge posed by the vernacular lies in the necessary reckoning with the ‘apartness’ of politics from the perspective of ordinary people. Yet here too, this piece suggests, the vernacular turn can be seen as the latest stage in a continual rethinking of the relationship between political, social and cultural history.
Correlation of ACR and TcPO2 in diabetic kidney disease patients: A pilot study
Authors: Sun Jin , Huang Yang , Li Lanhua , Hu Hao , Liu Yuanyuan , Zhang Xuelian , Zhang Hao , Pan Binbin 
Published: April 2023

AbstractObjectiveTranscutaneous oxygen pressure (TcPO2) is used to assess microcirculation clinically; however, it is not widely available especially in rural hospital. The study was designed to explore potential alternatively biomarkers to assess microcirculation in diabetic kidney disease (DKD).MethodsA total of 404 patients from Xuzhou first hospital were recruited according to the case records system. Patients were grouped via the ratio of albuminuria and creatinine (ACR; <30 mg/g, 30−300 mg/g, >300 mg/g). Biomarkers in different ACR groups were compared by analysis of variance. Correlation analysis was determined by Pearson or Spearman analysis and binary logistic regression. The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve was performed to elucidate the prediction effect of ACR on TcPO2.ResultsA total of 404 diabetic patients were recruited with 248 patients diagnosed as DKD and 156 non‐DKDs. Age and cystatin C were significantly higher in the ACR3 group compared with those in the ACR1 group, whereas glomerular filtration rate, low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol, and TcPO2 were markedly decreased in the ACR3 group (p < .05). Frequency of low TcPO2 (<40 mm Hg) was markedly increased as increment of ACR stages with 30.2% in the ACR3 group (p < .01). There was a negative correlation between TcPO2 and age, ACR, chronic kidney disease (CKD), fast blood glucose, diabetes mellitus (DM) duration, and diabetic neuropathy. Further, binary logistic regression showed ACR was an independent influence factor for low TcPO2. After adjusting for age, gender, hypertension, DM duration, body mass index, glycated hemoglobin, diabetic neuropathy, and CKD, ACR was still an independent influence factor for TcPO2 (odds ratio = 2.464, p < .01). The area under the ROC curve was 0.768 (95% confidence interval: 0.700–0.836, p < .001) for ACR. The analysis of ROC curves revealed a best cutoff for ACR was 75.25 mg/g and yielded a sensitivity of 71.7% and a specificity of 71.7%.ConclusionsACR could be used as an alternative biomarker for assessing microcirculation in DKD patients.
Platform design biases in ad‐funded two‐sided markets
Authors: Choi Jay Pil , Jeon Doh‐Shin 
Published: April 2023

AbstractWe investigate how platform market power affects platforms' design choices in ad‐funded two‐sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider design choices affecting both sides in opposite ways and compare private incentives with social incentives. Platforms' design biases depend crucially on whether they can charge any price on the consumer side. We apply the framework to technology adoption, privacy, and ad load choices. Our results provide a rationale for a tougher competition policy to curb market power of ad‐funded platforms with free services.
Black Families, Damned Territories: Anti‐Blackness and Black Motherhood in (White) Portuguese Parliamentary Debates (1995–2001)
Authors: de Araújo Danielle Pereira 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThe perceptions and representations of whiteness around motherhood, family, and black sexuality reproduce the logic of what Hortense Spillers calls “captive flesh”, controlling understandings about femininity, motherhood, and gender. This debate is guided by the politics of the racial neoliberal agenda that works to control the urban territories largely inhabited by black people in the name of preventing “situations of risk” and “juvenile delinquency”. This article seeks to unveil the ideological bases of public policies primarily aimed at “urban development” and “internal security” that connect black maternity to “unstructured families” and “criminal black youth”. This paper examines how notions such as “single mothers”, “isolated women”, “deficient parental capabilities” in Portuguese parliamentary debates by the Parliamentary Commission for Parity and Equal Opportunities and Family (CPPIOF), mainly in the 1990s, foreground colonial representations about the black woman as a threat to white supremacy.
What are the determinants affecting cooperatives’ profitability? Evidence from Spain
Authors: Sala‐Ríos Mercè 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThis study focuses on the analysis of the determinants of Spanish cooperatives’ profitability. We inspect several variables, whose influence on firms’ profitability has been verified by prior literature, and we assess whether these results are confirmed in cooperatives. The data span 13 years (2008–20). We approach the analysis including: (i) firm‐specific factors, (ii) industry‐specific factors, and (iii) location factors. There is a main research question: Are there significant differences in cooperatives’ profitability depending on firm‐specific, industry‐specific and/or location factors? The results emphasize that firm‐specific effects are the most important for cooperatives’ profitability. Summarizing our findings, cooperatives’ profitability is positively affected by size, liquidity, indebtedness, regional specialization in cooperatives, location economies, and lagging profitability, and negatively affected by age and presence in international markets.
Intensity‐dependent effects of cattle and sheep grazing in sand grasslands — Does livestock type really matter?
Authors: Kovacsics‐Vári Gergely , Sonkoly Judit , Tóth Katalin , McIntosh‐Buday Andrea , Díaz Cando Patricia , Törő‐Szijgyártó Viktória , Balogh Nóra , Guallichico Suntaxi Luis Roberto , Espinoza Ami Francis David , Demeter László , Tóthmérész Béla , Török Péter 
Published: April 2023

AbstractAimsBy analysing cattle‐ and sheep‐grazed sand grasslands, we tested the following hypotheses: (i) livestock type has a stronger effect on the vegetation characteristics than grazing intensity; (ii) sheep grazing results in lower biomass and species and functional diversity than cattle grazing, regardless of intensity; and (iii) increased grazing intensity causes a shift of the trait composition in grasslands.LocationSand grasslands in the Nyírség region, East Hungary.MethodsWe selected 26 sand grassland sites grazed by cattle or sheep and classified them into four intensity levels. Vegetation composition was surveyed in 2 m × 2 m plots. We harvested the above‐ground biomass from 20 cm × 20 cm plots; then dried and sorted it to live biomass, litter, moss, and lichen. We compared Rao dissimilarity index, species richness, Shannon diversity, evenness, and the community‐weighted means of nine vegetative and generative traits along a grazing intensity gradient. We calculated functional richness, evenness, and divergence for comparison.ResultsWe found that some diversity metrics and community‐weighted means of most studied traits were significantly affected by grazing intensity. Several characteristics were also affected by the interaction of grazing intensity and livestock type, but none of the studied characteristics was affected by livestock type in itself. Increasing Rao dissimilarity index peaking at the fourth grazing intensity level was detected, but for other multitrait indices, no such changes were proven, except for functional divergence, which was the lowest at the first intensity level. Graminoid, forb, and litter biomass were significantly affected by intensity, but none of the biomass fractions was affected by livestock type.ConclusionsWe suggest that for the management of sand grasslands, grazing intensity should be carefully adjusted, considering not only livestock units per hectare. For practical recommendations, well‐defined, long‐term experiments studying different livestock and habitat types along an intensity gradient would be essential.
When consumers lose power: An examination of the stakeholder dynamics in the pharmaceutical industry
Authors: Tang Zhi , Leo Ezekiel , Hull Clyde , Fu Xudong , Stromeyer William 
Published: April 2023

AbstractPrimary stakeholder pressure has long been considered the main reason that firms engage in responsible behaviors. However, prior studies are generally silent on how industry characteristics reshape the relationships among stakeholders. By integrating information asymmetry in credence goods industries with the stakeholder power framework, we posit that the extent to which consumers can evaluate the qualities of goods alters the dynamics between a firm and its two primary stakeholders, regulators and consumers. Longitudinal data collected on 72 pharmaceutical companies indicate that consumers of pharmaceutical products can only influence firms indirectly through the regulator. Further, contrary to the conventional wisdom that innovative firms are more capable of resisting stakeholder pressure, we find that R&D investment increases the dependency of pharmaceutical firms on the regulator. Lastly, we do not find that lobbying reduces dependency on the regulator except for high R&D firms. These findings provide important theoretical, ethical, and policy implications.
Allergic contact dermatitis from propylene glycol: A case series from Australia
Authors: Patel Kajal , Palmer Amanda , Nixon Rosemary 
Published: April 2023

AbstractBackgroundPropylene glycol (PG) is used in a variety of cosmetics, food and pharmaceuticals. PG is a known sensitizer but also irritating when patch tested (PT).ObjectivesThe aims were to investigate the frequency of contact sensitization to PG and to identify cases of allergic contact dermatitis (ACD).MethodsA retrospective study was performed on patients PT at the Skin Health Institute (SHI), Victoria, Australia to PG 5% pet. and PG 10% aq. between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2020.ResultsIn all, 6761 patients were PT to PG and 21 (0.31%) reacted. Of those 21 individuals, 9 (42.9%) had a relevant reaction. 75% of relevant positive reactions were in patients PT to PG 10% aq. The most common source of PG exposure was topical medicaments (77.8% of relevant reactions) and moisturizers, with the largest group being topical corticosteroids.ConclusionContact sensitization to PG in the patch test population remains uncommon, although it is possible that testing with concentrations of 5%–10% PG did not identify all reactions. Topical corticosteroids were the most important cause. Patients with suspected contact dermatitis to topical corticosteroids should be PT to PG.
Suppression of the gut microbiota–bile acid–FGF19 axis in patients with atrial fibrillation
Authors: Zuo Kun , Fang Chen , Gao Yuanfeng , Fu Yuan , Wang Hongjiang , Li Jing , Zhong Jiuchang , Yang Xinchun , Xu Li 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThis study aimed to investigate the role of the gut microbiota (GM)–bile acid (BA)–fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 19 axis in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Gut bacterial metabolisms of BAs were determined in an AF metagenomic dataset. The composition of faecal BAs pools was characterized by targeted metabolomics in an independent AF cross‐sectional cohort. Circulating levels of FGF19 were measured by ELISA. In vitro cell experiments were conducted to validate the regulatory role of FGF19 in atrial cardiomyocytes stimulated with palmitic acid. First, metagenomic profiling revealed that gut microbial biotransformation from primary to secondary BAs was dysregulated in AF patients. Second, the proportion of secondary BAs decreased in the faeces of patients with AF. Also, eight BAs were identified as AF‐associated BAs, including seven AF‐enriched BAs (ursodeoxycholic acid, chenodeoxycholic acid, etc.), and AF‐decreased dehydrolithocholic acid. Third, reduced levels of circulating FGF19 were observed in patients with AF. Subsequently, FGF19 was found to protect against palmitic acid‐induced lipid accumulation and dysregulated signalling in atrial cardiomyocytes, including attenuated phosphorylation of YAP and Ca2+/calmodulin‐dependent protein kinases II and secretion of interleukin‐1β, mediated via peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor α. Our data found decreased levels of secondary BAs and circulating FGF19, resulting in the impaired protective function of FGF19 against lipid accumulation in atrial cardiomyocytes.
Climate change and corporate cash holdings: Global evidence
Authors: Javadi Siamak , Masum Abdullah‐Al , Aram Mohsen , Rao Ramesh P. 
Published: April 2023

AbstractUsing data from 41 countries, we provide novel empirical evidence that firms’ cash holdings are positively associated with their climate change exposure. This evidence is robust to different model specifications and survives a battery of tests to ease concerns related to spurious correlation and omitted variable bias. Using the release of the Stern Review as an exogenous shock to climate change awareness, we show that this association becomes significantly stronger after the release of the Review and particularly so for firms with higher exposure to regulatory and transition risk dimensions of climate change as well as financially constrained firms. Overall, results fit consistently within the precautionary motive framework and suggest that firms hold more cash to safeguard against the adverse impact of climate change.