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The effects of crank power and cadence on muscle fascicle shortening velocities, muscle activations and joint-powers during cycling
Authors: Riveros-Matthey Cristian , Carroll Timothy J. , Lichtwark Glen A. , Connick Mark J. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractWhilst people typically chose to locomote in most economical fashion, during cycling on a bicycle they will, unusually, chose cadences that are higher than metabolically optimal. Empirical measurements of the intrinsic contractile properties of the vastus lateralis (VL) muscle during submaximal cycling suggest that the cadences that people prefer (i.e., self-selected cadences: SSC) allow for optimal muscle fascicle shortening velocity for the production of knee extensor muscle power. It remains unclear, however, whether this is consistent across different power outputs where SSC is known to might be affected. We examined the effect of cadence and external power requirements on muscle neuromechanics and joint powers during cycling. VL fascicle shortening velocities, muscle activations and joint-specific powers were measured during cycling between 60 and 120rpm (and the SSC), while participants produced 10%, 30%, and 50% of peak maximal power. VL shortening velocity increased as cadence increased but was similar across the different power outputs. Although no differences were found in the distribution of joint powers across cadence conditions, the absolute knee joint power increased with increasing crank power output. Muscle fascicle shortening velocities increase in VL at the SSC as pedal power demands increase from submaximal to maximal cycling. It therefore seems highly unlikely that preferred cadence is primarily driven by the desire to maintain “optimal” muscle fascicle shortening velocities. A secondary analysis of muscle activation patterns revealed that minimizing muscle activation is likely more important when choosing a cadence for given pedal power demand.
Modeling the Indian households' intention to adopt the solar net metering system
Authors: Kumar Vikas , Kaushik Arun Kumar , Singh Gubir 
Published: July 2022

PurposeThe present study aims to develop and offer a model to evaluate the customers' attitude and intention to adopt solar net metering systems (commonly called solar NMS) in a developing economy. Therefore, the research examines different factors affecting the Indian households' attitudes and intention to adopt solar NMS.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected from 247 solar NMS users from India. The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was applied using SmartPLS 3.3.2 software to analyze the impact of various factors on their adoption intention. The conceptual model comprises environmental concern, perceived ease of use (PEOU), subjective norms, perceived usefulness (PU), attitude and behavioral intention to adopt solar NMS.FindingsSubjective norms and environmental concerns significantly influence the PU and PEOU of solar NMS. Also, PU and PEOU significantly influence their attitude and intentions toward adopting solar NMS. Thus, the perceived social pressure and environmental concern affect their perception of solar NMS's usefulness and ease of use, leading to favorable attitudes and adoption intentions. Additionally, the solar NMS benefits the customers, society and the environment by enhancing environmental quality, compatibility with the modern lifestyle, and reducing dependency on the power grid and electricity bills. These benefits shape the customers' overall perception and increase the adoption of solar technologies.Originality/valueThe present research helps bridge the gaps in the existing literature by identifying (1) factors affecting customers' intention toward solar technologies in developing nations and (2) describing the significant prediction of environmental concern and subjective norms to increase solar technologies adoption.
Time to call time on emerging markets: a critique and a new agenda
Authors: Akbar Yusaf 
Published: July 2022

PurposeFirst developed in the 1980s, one of the most essential ideas in international business research has the been the concept of emerging markets. Since the start of the twenty-first century, empirical research has shown that there is no clear correlation between long-term real growth in gross domestic product and real equity returns in firms active in emerging markets. The purpose of this paper is to develop an explanation for both the pervasiveness and endurance of the emerging market discourse despite empirical evidence that substantially questions its very robustness.Design/methodology/approachThe author offers a “weak form” critique of the emerging market discourse that identifies weaknesses and gaps in the emerging market concept and offers suggestions on how to modify it without fundamentally rejecting its conceptual and ideological core. This paper also offers a “strong form” critique of emerging markets as a discourse arguing that the discourse itself is actually propagated to maintain and reinforce global economic inequality and should, therefore, be fundamentally transformed.FindingsBased on the strong form critique of emerging markets discourse, this paper shows how a three-phase process allows emerging market discourse to engender strategic and public policy practice. Scholars and educators play a pivotal role through their writing and discursive interactions with students and executives in their classroom. The centrality of scholars and educators is supported by the broader media ecosystem as well as being reinforced by interactions between executives and policymakers.Practical implicationsThis paper makes the case that international business scholars and educators should play a leading role in fundamentally transforming the emerging market discourse and to launch a renewed critical, inter-subjective discussion of dependency and global inequality through three mechanisms: peer-review research; course syllabi and programs; and public intellectualism.Originality/valueThrough critical discourse analysis, this paper addresses for the first time how emerging markets as a concept has prospered in academic and managerial circles despite credible empirical evidence of its lack of robustness.
Mining the determinants of review helpfulness: a novel approach using intelligent feature engineering and explainable AI
Authors: Kim Jiho , Lee Hanjun , Lee Hongchul 
Published: July 2022

PurposeThis paper aims to find determinants that can predict the helpfulness of online customer reviews (OCRs) with a novel approach.Design/methodology/approachThe approach consists of feature engineering using various text mining techniques including BERT and machine learning models that can classify OCRs according to their potential helpfulness. Moreover, explainable artificial intelligence methodologies are used to identify the determinants for helpfulness.FindingsThe important result is that the boosting-based ensemble model showed the highest prediction performance. In addition, it was confirmed that the sentiment features of OCRs and the reputation of reviewers are important determinants that augment the review helpfulness.Research limitations/implicationsEach online community has different purposes, fields and characteristics. Thus, the results of this study cannot be generalized. However, it is expected that this novel approach can be integrated with any platform where online reviews are used.Originality/valueThis paper incorporates feature engineering methodologies for online reviews, including the latest methodology. It also includes novel techniques to contribute to ongoing research on mining the determinants of review helpfulness.
Ethical reputation and retail bank selection: a sequential exploratory mixed-methods study in an emerging economy
Authors: Butt Irfan , Ul-Haq Shoaib , Shareef Mahmud A. , Chowdhury Abdul Hannan , Ahmed Jashim Uddin 
Published: July 2022

PurposeIn this study, the authors examine how a retail bank's positive, neutral, and negative prior ethical reputations influence customers' perceptions and attitudes, leading to their bank selection decisions and also analyze whether there is a trade-off between a bank's negative prior ethical reputation and its functional benefits to customers.Design/methodology/approachThe authors followed a sequential exploratory mixed-methods research design with two studies. The authors’ first study was qualitative, in which the authors conducted interviews and focus groups with banking customers in Pakistan. The results of this study were used to generate hypotheses that were tested in the second study using random choice experiments.FindingsThe results indicate that positive and neutral prior ethical reputations do not significantly impact customers' choices; however, a negative reputation does affect selection. The results also show that customers punished negative reputations, even when the associated functional benefits were higher than the alternatives.Originality/valueThis is one of the first mixed-methods studies in an emerging economy context to consider the impact of ethical reputation on consumer orientation and bank selection decisions.
Testing middle range theories in realist evaluation: a case of a participatory organisational intervention
Authors: Roodbari Hamid , Nielsen Karina , Axtell Carolyn , Peters Susan E. , Sorensen Glorian 
Published: July 2022

PurposeRealist evaluation seeks to answer the question of “what works for whom in which circumstances?” through developing and testing middle range theories (MRTs). MRTs are programme theories that outline how certain mechanisms of an intervention work in a specific context to bring about certain outcomes. In this paper, the authors tested an initial MRT about the mechanism of participation. The authors used evidence from a participatory organisational intervention in five worksites of a large multi-national organisation in the US food service industry.Design/methodology/approachQualitative data from 89 process tracking documents and 24 post-intervention, semi-structured interviews with intervention stakeholders were analysed using template analysis.FindingsThe operationalised mechanism was partial worksite managers’ engagement with the research team. Six contextual factors (e.g. high workload) impaired participation, and one contextual factor (i.e. existing participatory practices) facilitated participation. Worksite managers’ participation resulted in limited improvement in their awareness of how working conditions can impact on their employees’ safety, health, and well-being. Based on these findings, the authors modified the initial MRT into an empirical MRT.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the understanding of “what works for whom in which circumstances” regarding participation in organisational interventions.
A closer look at diversity and performance in family firms
Authors: Mubarka Khadija , Kammerlander Nadine H. 
Published: July 2022

PurposeOwnership structure plays a significant role in determining board demographic diversity. However, it is still unclear how different ownership configurations impact the structures of firm's boards and how board diversity influences firm performance. This study aims to investigate the relationship between family ownership and board diversity. Therefore, in this study, the authors argue that family firms have a lower level of board demographic diversity (in terms of age, gender and nationality) than non-family firms and that board diversity moderates the relationship between ownership and firm performance.Design/methodology/approachTo test the authors’ hypotheses, we draw data from a sample of 341 German family and non-family firms for a period of five years.FindingsThe results show that family firms are less diverse in terms of age, gender and nationality diversity than non-family firms.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the general understanding of family firms and in particular the role ownership plays in shaping board demographic diversity.
Artificial intelligence-enabled personalization in interactive marketing: a customer journey perspective
Authors: Gao Youjiang , Liu Hongfei 
Published: July 2022

PurposeArtificial intelligence (AI) technology has revolutionized customers' interactive marketing experience. Although there have been a substantial number of studies exploring the application of AI in interactive marketing, personalization as an important concept remains underexplored in AI marketing research and practices. This study aims to introduce the concept of AI-enabled personalization (AIP), understand the applications of AIP throughout the customer journey and draw up a future research agenda for AIP.Design/methodology/approachDrawing upon Lemon and Verhoef's customer journey, the authors explore relevant literature and industry observations on AIP applications in interactive marketing. The authors identify the dilemmas of AIP practices in different stages of customer journeys and make important managerial recommendations in response to such dilemmas.FindingsAIP manifests itself as personalized profiling, navigation, nudges and retention in the five stages of the customer journey. In response to the dilemmas throughout the customer journey, the authors developed a series of managerial recommendations. The paper is concluded by highlighting the future research directions of AIP, from the perspectives of conceptualization, contextualization, application, implication and consumer interactions.Research limitations/implicationsNew conceptual ideas are presented in respect of how to harness AIP in the interactive marketing field. This study highlights the tensions in personalization research in the digital age and sets future research agenda.Practical implicationsThis paper reveals the dilemmas in the practices of personalization marketing and proposes managerial implications to address such dilemmas from both the managerial and technological perspectives.Originality/valueThis is one of the first research papers dedicated to the application of AI in interactive marketing through the lenses of personalization. This paper pushes the boundaries of AI research in the marketing field. Drawing upon AIP research and managerial issues, the authors specify the AI–customer interactions along the touch points in the customer journey in order to inform and inspire future AIP research and practices.
The buffering effect of micro-daily events on the relationship between the dark triad traits and counterproductive work behavior
Authors: Junça-Silva Ana , Silva Daniel 
Published: July 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to analyze the moderating role of micro-events on the relationship between the three Dark Triad dimensions and counterproductive work-brehaviors. The social exchange theory and the person–situation interactionist model supported this study’s model that analyzed whether micro-events at work would moderate the relationship between the three dimensions of the dark triad personality (Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism) and specific types of counterproductive work behaviors (CWB; toward the organization, and the individual).

Design/methodology/approach
To achieve this goal, this study used a sample of 241 currently employed participants.

Findings
The results showed that individuals who scored higher on their dark triad traits engaged more frequently in CWB; however, when they experienced more daily uplifts than daily hassles, their CWBs significantly decreased.

Research limitations/implications
The cross-sectional design should be regarded as a limitation, and the authors assessed all the variables through self-reported measures.

Originality/value
Such results proved to be fundamental for a better understanding of employees’ behavior, as well as the impact of micro-events in the organizational settings.
Impact of workplace safety on well-being: the mediating role of thriving at work
Authors: Okros Norberth , Virga Delia 
Published: July 2022

PurposeBased on the socially embedded model of thriving at work and using the conservation of resources and job demands-resources theories, this study aims to examine the mediating role of thriving at work, as a personal resource, in the relationship between workplace safety, as job resource, and well-being.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used structural equation modeling to test the mediation model on a sample of 350 correctional officers.FindingsThe results provided support to the authors' model. The authors found that workplace safety is positively linked to job satisfaction and negatively to health complaints, and these relationships are partially mediated by thriving at work. Consistent with the conservation of resources theory, thriving at the workplace is a mechanism that translates the positive effect of workplace safety on well-being.Originality/valueThe contribution of this research resides that a safe work environment leads to improved health and job satisfaction via thriving at work because thriving correctional officers feel energetic and able to acquire and apply knowledge and skills at workplace.
Changing profile of Helicobacter pylori primary antibiotic resistance in Singapore over two decades
Authors: Pei Yiying , Ang Daphne , Kwek Andrew Boon Eu , Ang Tiing Leong 
Published: July 2022

ObjectivesAntibiotic resistance is a key reason for Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) treatment failure and updated local data are important to guide the choice of empiric first‐line therapy. Clarithromycin‐based triple therapy (TT) is currently the first‐line treatment in Singapore. Our primary aim was to determine the change in pattern of primary antibiotic resistance of H. pylori in Singapore as well as TT success rate.MethodsA registry of H. pylori isolates was tested for primary antibiotic resistance and were analyzed from year 2001 to 2020. Treatment outcome data based on 13C‐urea breath test (13C‐UBT) results of empiric first‐line 2‐week TT from 2019 to 2020 were also analyzed retrospectively.ResultsA total of 387 H. pylori isolates were included. Rates of resistance to clarithromycin as well as tetracycline showed a downtrend in the last 5 years (clarithromycin: 2001–2002: 8.57%; 2007–2008: 14.14%; 2013–2014: 18.09%; 2019–2020: 13.71%; tetracycline: 2001–2002: 5.71%; 2007–2008: 7.07%; 2013–2014: 7.45%; 2019–2020: 0%). The resistance rate for amoxicillin remained low (2001–2002: 2.86%; 2007–2008: 5.05%; 2013–2014: 4.26%; 2019–2020: 7.26%). There was a steady increase in the rate of levofloxacin resistance (2001–2002: 5.71%; 2007–2008: 11.11%; 2013–2014: 15.96%; 2019–2020: 16.94%). From 2019 to 2020, the rate of successful TT was 91.67% (891/972).ConclusionThe latest rate of clarithromycin resistance in 2019 to 2020 remained below the threshold of 15% and eradication rates remain high; thus, TT remains appropriate as an empiric first‐line treatment in Singapore.
Challenges, solutions and future directions for public health innovations targeting dementia prevention for rural and remote populations
Authors: Dodds Laura , Siette Joyce 
Published: July 2022

AbstractCurrently, individuals living in rural and remote areas experience 1.4 times the total burden of chronic disease, including an 80% greater risk of late‐life cognitive impairment and dementia, 2.5 times the number of preventable hospitalisations and a reduced life expectancy of up to 12 years compared to their metropolitan counterparts. Traditionally, health service planning and public health interventions have been largely built on the needs and characteristics of metropolitan populations. This disproportional focus can contribute to significant physical and cognitive health status disparities for rural and remote communities. This article focuses on existing challenges and strategies surrounding the cognitive health of rural and remote populations and provides short and long‐term opportunities involving Australian public health policy and clinical practice to innovate dementia prevention for rural and remote communities.
Prevalence of allergic sensitization with vernal keratoconjunctivitis: A systematic review with meta‐analyses
Authors: Rasmussen Marie Louise Roed , D'Souza Maria , Topal Divan Gabriel , Gradman Josefine , Larsen Dorte Ancher , Lehrmann Bettina Behrmann , Kjær Henrik Fomsgaard , Kessel Line , Subhi Yousif 
Published: July 2022

AbstractTo determine the prevalence of allergic sensitization in patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) and to provide an overview of published studies on this topic. We systematically searched 11 literature databases on 24 May 2021, for studies with cross‐sectional data on the prevalence of positive allergy tests in patients with VKC. Our main outcome of interest was the prevalence of allergic sensitization and the allergens involved. Prevalence meta‐analyses were made to provide summary estimates. We identified 33 eligible studies for qualitative review with 2122 patients with VKC. Studies were predominantly based on patients seen in ophthalmology clinics. Overall, studies reported that the most prevalent positive allergen tests were the inhaled allergens house dust mites and pollen. Twenty‐nine studies were eligible for the quantitative analysis. Here, we calculated the prevalence of allergen‐positive patients to 57.7% (95% confidence interval: 52.5%–62.8%). Subgroup analyses of pooled estimates on sensitization based on specific testing methods found prevalence estimates of 51.4% for conjunctival provocation test, 68.7% for total tear IgE, 58.9% for specific tear IgE, and 58.2% for skin prick test. The prevalence of allergic sensitization in patients with VKC is 57.7%, and mostly towards inhaled allergens. The most frequent positive allergens are house dust mites and pollen. Identifying possible clinically relevant allergens provide information that may aid in managing VKC, such as environmental allergy‐avoidance or allergy‐specific treatment.
Sugar‐sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages and natural juices and risk of inflammatory bowel disease: a cohort study of 121,490 participants
Authors: Fu Tian , Chen Hui , Chen Xuejie , Sun Yuhao , Xie Ying , Deng Minzi , Hesketh Therese , Wang Xiaoyan , Chen Jie 
Published: July 2022

SummaryBackgroundInflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have been related to high‐sugar dietary patterns, but the associations of different types of beverages with IBD risk are largely unknown.AimsTo examine any associations between intake of sugar‐sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages and natural juices and IBD riskMethodsThis cohort study included 121,490 participants in the UK Biobank who were free of IBD at recruitment. Intake of beverages was obtained from repeated 24‐h diet recalls in 2009–2012. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations of beverage intake with IBD risk.ResultsDuring a mean (standard deviation) follow‐up of 10.2 (1.5) years, we documented 510 incident IBD cases, (143 Crohn's disease (CD) and 367 ulcerative colitis (UC)). Compared to non‐consumers, participants consuming >1 unit per day of sugar‐sweetened beverages were at significantly higher risk of IBD (HR 1.51, 95% CI 1.11–2.05), but the trend was non‐significant (p‐trend = 0.170). This association was significant for CD (HR 2.05, 95% CI 1.22–3.46), but not for UC (HR 1.31, 95% CI 0.89–1.92). We did not observe significant associations for the consumption of artificially sweetened beverages or natural juices.ConclusionsOur findings suggest an association between consumption of sugar‐sweetened beverages, rather than artificially sweetened beverages or natural juices, and IBD risk.