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The impact of gamified loyalty programmes on customer engagement behaviours. A hotel industry application
Authors: Bravo Rafael , Catalán Sara , Pina José Miguel 
Published: August 2023

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the differential effects of gamified loyalty programmes and conventional loyalty programmes on customer engagement behaviours.

Design/methodology/approach
A 2 × 2 × 2 experiment was conducted that manipulated gamification (gamified vs non-gamified), reward levels (high vs low) and reward type (economic vs social). Data collected from a sample of 315 individuals were analysed through partial least squares and tests of means.

Findings
Gamification can improve the attractiveness of loyalty programmes by influencing perceptions of playfulness and reward satisfaction. In fact, gamification lowers the importance that customers attach to reward levels. As a result, customers perceive higher hedonic and utilitarian value, which positively influences their engagement behaviours.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is one of the first studies to attempt to empirically analyse whether incorporating gamification into loyalty programmes influences customer engagement behaviours in the hospitality context.
Quality management as a means for micro-level sustainability development in organizations
Authors: Antony Jiju , Bhat Shreeranga , Fundin Anders , Sony Michael , Sorqvist Lars , Bader Mariam 
Published: August 2023

PurposeThe use of quality management (QM) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) is a topic of growing interest in academia and industry. The IAQ (International Academy for Quality) established Quality Sustainability Award in 2020, a testament to this growing interest. This study aims to investigate how QM philosophies, methodologies and tools can be used to achieve sustainable development in organizations.Design/methodology/approachFive large manufacturing organizations – three from India and two from China – who reported their achievements about using QM in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were studied using multiple sources of data collection. A detailed within-case and cross-case analysis were conducted to unearth this linkage's practical and theoretical aspects.FindingsThe study finds that QM methodologies effectively met the five organizations' UNSDGs. These organizations successfully used OPEX (Operational Excellence) methodologies such as Lean, Kaizen and Six Sigma to meet UNSDGs 7, 11, 12 and 13. Moreover, UNSG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) is the most targeted goal across the case studies. A cross-case analysis revealed that the most frequently used quality tools were Design of Experiments (DoE), Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), C&E analysis and Inferential statistics, among other essential tools.Research limitations/implicationsThe study's sample size was limited to large-scale manufacturing organizations in the two most populous countries in the world. This may limit the study's generalizability to other countries, continents, or micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Additionally, the study's conclusions would be strengthened if tested as hypotheses in a follow-up survey.Practical implicationsThis practical paper provides case studies on how to use QM to impact SDGs. It offers both descriptive and prescriptive solutions for practitioners. The study highlights the importance of using essential QM tools in a structured and systematic manner, with effective teams, to meet the SDGs of organizations.Social implicationsThe study shows how QM can be used to impact UNSDGs, and this is very important because the UNSDGs are a set of global objectives that aim to address a wide range of social and environmental issues. This study could motivate organizations to achieve the UNSDGs using essential QM tools and make the world a better place for the present and future generations.Originality/valueThis case study is the first to investigate at a micro-level how QM can impact UNSDGs using live examples. It uses data from the IAQ to demonstrate how QM can be integrated into UNSDGs to ensure sustainable manufacturing.
Organizational resilience as paradox management: A systematic review of the literature
Authors: Tekletsion Betelhem Fikru , Gomes Jorge Filipe Da Silva , Tefera Belaynesh 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe study of organizational resilience has gained considerable attention in the past two decades owing to the dynamic nature of the business landscape. Researchers converge on the need for organizations to build resilience capacities that enable them to anticipate, cope with and recover from unexpected events and adversities. Resilience has been understood as the ability of organizations to anticipate, survive and thrive through shocks. This study aims to further our understanding of the resilience literature through a systematic review of 25 articles from selected databases of EBSCO host, Scopus and Web of Science. It aimed to glean insights from the organizational resilience literature by adopting a paradox perspective and locate a meaningful intersection of past literature. Towards this end, the studies included in the review are critically examined for indications of paradoxical tensions within discussing the processes of resilience. More than half of the records reviewed (61%) involve opposite but interrelated demands or paradox elements in their processual conceptualization of resilience suggesting a view of the resilience process as paradox management. Future research might merit from the empirical investigation of the link between paradox mindsets/capabilities and resilience process in different contexts and varied levels of analysis.
An assessment of completeness and medical coding of Medicare Advantage hospitalizations in two national data sets
Authors: Cotterill Philip G. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractObjectiveTo compare the Encounter Data System (EDS) and Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) completeness and medical coding of Medicare Advantage hospitalizations.Data SourcesFY 2016–FY 2019 data limited to hospitals paid under Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System.Study DesignSecondary data analysis.Data Collection/Extraction MethodsCompleteness of EDS and MedPAR data was estimated using the total number of unique hospitalizations in both data sources as denominator. Deriving this denominator involved matching cases in the EDS and MedPAR by MA enrollee, discharge date, and hospital. The higher the match rate, the more informative the comparison of EDS and MedPAR medical coding of the same hospitalization. EDS and MedPAR codes were assessed for similarity on six measures of Medicare Severity Diagnosis‐Related Group (MS‐DRG) assignment and identical diagnosis and procedure codes.Principal FindingsEDS hospitalizations' completeness increased steadily each year from 90% to 93%, driven by the 23 largest Medicare Advantage Organizations, which account for 83% of total cases. MedPAR completeness was relatively stable (89%) and benefited from 91% completeness among the largest hospitals, which are often teaching hospitals and account for 63% of MedPAR cases. By 2019, 97% of medical cases were assigned the same MS‐DRG, indicating the high consistency of the severity level coding, since 98% were assigned the same base MS‐DRGs, which include all severity levels for the same condition. Without chart reviews, medical cases with identical diagnosis codes increased from 87% to 92%.ConclusionsThe EDS has a completeness advantage over MedPAR for studies of non‐teaching disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals and individual hospitals generally. MedPAR is only slightly less complete for hospitalizations of teaching DSH hospitals and large hospitals in general. A highly consistent EDS and MedPAR medical coding of matched cases is an important finding since the matched cases are 88% of EDS and 90% of MedPAR cases.
Effects of democracy, social inequality and economic growth on climate justice: An analysis with structural equation modelling
Authors: Furlan Marcelo , Mariano Enzo Barberio 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe purpose of this paper was to assess the effects of social inequality, democracy, and economic growth on the climate justice performance of a nation. To achieve this goal, the research technique Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS‐SEM) was applied to a sample of 133 countries selected based on indicators available in international databases in 2019. The main results of the analysis were: (a) the effect of democracy on the performance of climate justice is positive; (b) the moderating effect of inequality on the relationship between democracy and climate justice is negative; and (c) economic growth has a U‐shaped relationship with climate justice performance, which indicates the existence of a Kuznets curve for climate justice performance. Based on these results, the main theoretical implications of this study were the discoveries that: (a) the weakening of democratic institutions may be associated with increased social inequality, which reduces the implementation of climate policies aimed at guaranteeing justice; (b) forms of cooperation and financing of climate actions at the global level may be ineffective only if the quality of democracy in vulnerable countries is observed, which can be explained by the persistence of high social inequality; (c) allowing women access to income, education and health might be ways of reducing gender inequality and improving the level of adaptation of countries vulnerable to climate challenges.
Detection and confirmation of fentanyls in high clay‐content soil by electron ionization gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry
Authors: Valdez Carlos A. , Rosales José A. , Vu Alexander K. , Leif Roald N. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractDetection of illicit drugs in the environment, particularly in soils, often suggests the present or past location of a clandestine production center for these substances. Thus, development of efficient methods for the analysis and detection of these chemicals is of paramount importance in the field of chemical forensics. In this work, a method involving the extraction and retrospective confirmation of fentanyl, acetylfentanyl, thiofentanyl, and acetylthiofentanyl using trichloroethoxycarbonylation chemistry in a high clay‐content soil is presented. The soil was spiked separately with each fentanyl at two concentrations (1 and 10 μg/g) and their extraction accomplished using ethyl acetate and aqueous NH4OH (pH ~ 11.4) with extraction recoveries ranging from ~56% to 82% for the high‐concentration (10 μg/g) samples while ranging from ~68% to 83% for the low‐concentration (1 μg/g) samples. After their extraction, residues containing each fentanyl were reacted with 2,2,2‐trichloroethoxycarbonyl chloride (Troc‐Cl) to generate two unique and predictable products from each opioid that can be used to retrospectively confirm their presence and identity using EI‐GC‐MS. The method's limit of detection (MDL/LOD) for Troc‐norfentanyl and Troc‐noracetylfentanyl were estimated to be 29.4 and 31.8 ng/mL in the organic extracts. In addition, the method's limit of quantitation for Troc‐norfentanyl and Troc‐noracetylfentanyl were determined to be 88.2 and 95.5 ng/mL, respectively. Collectively, the results presented herein strengthen the use of chloroformate chemistry as an additional chemical tool to confirm the presence of these highly toxic and lethal substances in the environment.
Survival analysis of surgical versus nonsurgical treatment in stage I to III small cell lung cancer in the last 20 years: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Authors: Liang Zhijian , Li Xiaoqi , Li Xiao 
Published: August 2023

AbstractMore and more patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) have received surgical treatment in the last 20 years. This meta‐analysis compared whether surgical treatment can bring greater survival benefits to patients with stage I–III SCLC compared with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy. Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane library database, and ClinicalTrials were searched for relevant articles. The main outcomes were overall survival (OS), reported as hazard ratios (HRs), and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). A total of 19 articles containing 30 185 patients (3940 patients receiving surgical treatment and 26 245 patients receiving nonsurgical treatment) were included in this study. Surgical resection significantly improved OS when compared to nonsurgical treatment in retrospective studies (HR: 0.55, 95% CI: 0.47–0.64, p < 0.01). In the subgroup analysis for retrospective studies, surgical resection was associated with superior OS in stage I (HR: 0.42, 95% CI: 0.24–0.71, p < 0.01), stage II (HR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.52–0.73, p < 0.01), and stage III diseases (HR: 0.66, 95% CI: 0.51–0.86, p < 0.01). Sublobar resection resulted in worse OS than a lobectomy (HR: 0.78,95% CI: 0.60–1.00, p < 0.01) for patients undergoing surgical resection. Compared with nonsurgical treatment, surgical treatment can indeed bring more significant survival benefits to patients with stage I–III SCLC, and lobectomy can bring longer survival compared with sublobectomy. More prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings.
Phase II trial of daily S‐1 combined with weekly irinotecan in previously treated patients with advanced or recurrent squamous cell lung cancer: North Japan lung cancer group 1101
Authors: Kawashima Yosuke , Ishimoto Osamu , Miyauchi Eisaku , Sakakibara Tomohiro , Harada Toshiyuki , Usui Kazuhiro , Inoue Akira , Sugawara Shunichi 
Published: August 2023

AbstractBackgroundThis phase II trial was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of S‐1 combined with weekly irinotecan as a second‐ or third‐line treatment for patients with advanced or recurrent squamous cell lung cancer.MethodsPatients with a body surface area <1.25, 1.25–1.50, and >1.50 m2 received oral S‐1 on days 1–14 at 80, 100, and 120 mg/day, respectively, and irinotecan on days 1 and 8 at 70 mg/m2 every 3 weeks. The primary endpoint was the overall response rate, and the secondary endpoints were progression‐free survival, overall survival, and the incidence and severity of adverse effects.ResultsBetween September 2011 and December 2014, 30 patients were enrolled in this study. The overall response rate was 6.7% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.8%–22.1%), and the disease control rate was 73.3%. The median progression‐free survival was 3.0 months (95% CI: 2.5–3.4 months), and the median overall survival was 10.5 months (95% CI: 5.6–13.7 months). Grade 3/4 treatment‐related adverse events were reported in ≥10% of the patients, including leukopenia (21%), neutropenia (21%), anemia (17%), anorexia (10%), and hypokalemia (10%).ConclusionsAlthough the treatment‐related adverse events were manageable, the combination of weekly irinotecan and S‐1 did not have the expected effect.
Delayed first medical contact to reperfusion time increases mortality in rural emergency medical services patients with ST‐elevation myocardial infarction
Authors: Stopyra Jason P. , Snavely Anna C. , Ashburn Nicklaus P. , Supples Michael W. , Miller Chadwick D. , Mahler Simon A. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractBackgroundST‐elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) guidelines recommend an emergency medical services (EMS) first medical contact (FMC) to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) time of ≤90 min. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the association between FMC to PCI time and mortality in rural STEMI patients.MethodsWe conducted a cohort study of patients ≥18 years old with STEMI activations from January 2016 to March 2020. Data were obtained from a rural North Carolina Regional STEMI Data Registry, which included eight rural EMS agencies and three PCI centers, the National Cardiovascular Data Registry, and the EMS electronic health record. Prehospital and in‐hospital time intervals were digitally abstracted. The outcome of index hospitalization mortality was compared between patients who did and did not meet FMC to PCI time goal using Fisher's exact tests. Negative predictive value (NPV) for index hospitalization death was calculated with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). A receiver operating characteristic curve was constructed and an optimal FMC to PCI time goal was identified by maximizing NPV to prevent index hospitalization death.ResultsAmong 365 rural EMS STEMI patients, 30.1% (110/365) were female with a mean ± SD age of 62.5 ± 12.7 years. PCI was performed within the 90‐min time goal in 60.5% (221/365) of patients. Among these patients, 3% (11/365) died during initial STEMI hospitalization, with 1.4% (3/221) mortality in the group that met the 90‐minute time goal compared to 5.6% (8/144) in patients exceeding the time goal (p = 0.03). Meeting the 90‐min time goal yielded a 98.6% (95% CI 96.1%–99.7%) NPV for index death. A 78‐min FMC to PCI time was the optimal cut point, yielding a NPV for index mortality of 99.3% (95% CI 96.1%–100%).ConclusionsDeath among rural patients with STEMI was four times more likely when they did not receive PCI within 90 min.
Improving intergroup relation through humanization: The moderating role of negative direct contact and the mediating role of intergroup affect
Authors: Borinca Islam , McAuliffe Alan , Nightingale Alastair 
Published: August 2023

AbstractResearch on the interplay between negative direct intergroup contact frequency and outgroup humanization in intergroup relations is limited. Thus, across two different intergroup settings (i.e., Switzerland and Kosovo; N = 435), we examined individuals' positive behavioural intentions towards outgroup members (i.e., immigrants in Study 1 and the Roma in Study 2) as a function of both negative direct intergroup contact and humanizing information versus positive but not humanizing information (both studies) and control/no information (Study 2). Results show that information portraying outgroup members in a humanizing light (versus positive and/or control with no information) decreased anxiety (in both studies) and increased empathy (Study 2), which then related to more positive behavioural intentions among people who reported high versus low levels of negative direct contact with outgroup members. In this article, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings concerning intergroup relations.
Reliable long‐term organ cryopreservation makes donor organ bank a feasible reality
Authors: Shah Aakash M. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractLong‐term donor organ preservation has been sought after since the beginning of transplantation. Static cold storage is the gold standard for organ transport but is limited to short‐term preservation because of the inability to maintain subfreezing temperatures without harmful ice cyrstal formation. Recent developments in cryopreservation via vitrification and nanowarming have demonstrated reliable storage and restoration of healthy donor organs without ice crystallization.
Evaluation of a retinal oximetry image quality indicator in patients with cataract
Authors: Klefter Oliver Niels , Erichsen Jesper Høiberg , Hansen Mathias Møller , Holm Lars Morten , Hardarson Sveinn Hakon , Stefánsson Einar , Kessel Line 
Published: August 2023

AbstractPurposeTo evaluate a new automated retinal oximetry image quality indicator with cataract as a clinical model.MethodsSixty‐one eyes in 61 patients were imaged by the Oxymap T1 Retinal Oximeter at baseline and 25 eyes were also examined 3 weeks after cataract surgery. Image quality (0–10 on a continuous scale) was compared with standardized AREDS cataract grading and Pentacam lens densitometry. Associations with retinal oximetry measurements and visual acuity were examined.ResultsImage quality correlated with total, nuclear and posterior subcapsular cataract grades (ANOVA, p < 0.05), tended to be associated with lens densitometry and it improved from 4.3 ± 1.4 to 5.7 ± 1.0 (p < 0.05) after cataract surgery. Very low image quality, below 3, led to vessel detection failure in retinal oximetry images. Higher image qualities were linearly associated with higher measured retinal oxygen saturations (r = 0.52 in arteries and r = 0.46 in veins; p < 0.001).ConclusionRetinal oximetry image quality deteriorated with increasing cataract density and improved after cataract surgery, supporting its use as a measure of optical clarity. The numerical quality indicator demonstrated a threshold below which images of poor optical quality should be discarded. Image quality affects the estimates of retinal oximetry parameters and should therefore be included in future analyses.
‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing‐in‐place in Ireland during COVID‐19
Authors: Guzman Viveka , Foley Ronan , Doyle Frank , Pertl Maria 
Published: August 2023

AbstractDrawing on conceptual and empirical work in geographies of ageing and environmental gerontology, this study's aim is to explore the generation and maintenance of enabling places from the perspective of older community dwellers in the context of COVID‐19. Findings are drawn from a qualitative thematic analysis of written submissions (n = 17), narrative interviews (n = 44) and go‐along interviews (n = 5) with people ageing‐in‐place in Irish communities during the pandemic. The mean age of participants was 74.9 (SD = 7; range 65–96), 53% were female, 46% lived alone, and 86% lived in areas with high urban influence. Our results indicate that the COVID‐19 public health restrictions curtailed participants' usual activities and influenced how they related to their homes, and a variety of public spaces where they had previously pursued valued activities. Transitions in their everyday geographies led to a wide array of affective and embodied experiences, and participants described diverse material and social emplaced‐resources as enabling or hindering their health and well‐being during COVID‐19. Our core findings are summarised across three themes: (1) somewhere old, relates to emplacement in familiar places and the role of familiarity with place resources; (2) somewhere new, comprises the emergence of digital spaces and possible pathways to build place insideness; and (3) somewhere green, describes the negotiation and (re)turn to natural and outdoor environments during the pandemic. Results from this study contribute to identify the pathways through which enabling places for diverse older people may be generated and/or maintained, and provide evidence to support the development of enabling environments during times of social upheaval and beyond.
The delivery of health services as resistance
Authors: Essex Ryan 
Published: August 2023

AbstractIn this article, I will argue that the delivery of healthcare could be an act of resistance, that is, day‐to‐day, routine and perhaps mundane acts, undertaken in the course of the delivery of health services, which for many could also be considered otherwise routine care. I first consider how resistance has been conceptualised. How we understand resistance will determine if we believe healthcare could be conceptualised this way. I will show how resistance has been applied to day‐to‐day struggles elsewhere and argue that it can clearly encompass open, collective dissent and more subtle, day‐to‐day action that does not necessarily make clear political demands. I go on to introduce some examples, where the delivery of health services could be conceptualised as resistance. While I advocate for a broad understanding of resistance, clearly not every act could be considered resistance; I will consider some points of tension and contention in utilising resistance to describe the delivery of health services, in particular discussing the issue of intent and opposition as they relate to resistance. Finally, while I hope that I make a convincing case, one final issue remains, namely, why turn to resistance at all, when many of the examples that I provide could be labelled using concepts that are more widely utilised. I will offer some general reflections on this point, speaking to the benefits and potential of resistance.