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Assessing the credibility of information sources in times of uncertainty: online debate about Finland's NATO membership
Authors: Savolainen Reijo 
Published: November 2022

PurposeThis article aims to elaborate the context-sensitive nature of credibility assessment by examining how such judgments are made in online discussion in times of uncertainty caused by Finland's intent to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in spring 2022.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical findings draw on the qualitative content analysis of 3,324 posts submitted to a Finnish online discussion in February–March 2022. It was examined how the participants of online discussion assess the credibility of information sources referred to in debates on the NATO membership. It is assumed that the believability of the author of information is indicative of his or her expert power, for example based on the credentials of a scholar, while the credibility of information content, for example the provision of factual evidence is indicative of the source's informational power.FindingsPolitical decision-makers, particularly the President of Finland were assessed as most credible information sources, due to their access to confidential knowledge and long-time experience in politics. The credibility assessments differed more strongly while judging the believability of researchers. On the one hand, their expertise was praised; on the other hand, doubts were presented about their partiality. Fellow participants of online discussion were assessed most negatively because information sources of these types are associated with low expert and informational power.Research limitations/implicationsAs the study concentrated on credibility assessments made in a Finnish online discussion group, the findings cannot be extended to concern the credibility judgments occurring information in other contexts.Originality/valueThe study is among the first to characterize the role of expert and informational power in credibility assessment in times of uncertainty.
Understanding platform strategies for consumer stickiness on OTT platforms
Authors: Kour Gurpreet , Chhabria Bhavika 
Published: November 2022

PurposeExtant literature in Video on Demand (VoD) has taken the consumer perspective; however, the stakeholder perspective is largely neglected. This paper aims to fill this gap by understanding the strategies to enhance the experience and engage customers from the supplier’s point of view. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyse strategies adopted by over-the-top (OTT) platforms that ensure consumer loyalty in the VoD space.Design/methodology/approachUsing a qualitative approach and inductive qualitative design, the authors interviewed 16 industry experts associated with OTT platforms in India and people handling various marketing-related positions. Data collected included topics related to industry landscape, the value created for a customer, consumer experience, engagement and platform stickiness. Thematic analysis was used to find meaningful semantic elements.FindingsThis study has found that consumer experience, content differentiation, consumer sense-making and engagement and platform extension as value enhancers as the key strategies been adopted in the Indian context, thereby leading to a platform’s stickiness.Research limitations/implicationsThis research offers insights to policymakers of content, digital platforms, media practitioners and managers that are drawing consumers influenced by platform strategies.Practical implicationsThis research provides insights to content policy makers, digital platform leaders, media practitioners, and managers who are influencing consumers through platform strategies.Social implicationsThe research could help entrepreneurs and marketers understand the perspectives of stakeholders in the VoD industry in India.Originality/valueThe study encourages researchers to explore the concept of stickiness, which may or may not be equivalent to loyalty. It is important to focus on quality, frequency, and regular reminders to help customers return to the same platform in the short term.
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species
Authors: Zong Xin , Wang Tiejun , Skidmore Andrew K. , Heurich Marco 
Published: November 2022

Abstract

Visibility (viewshed) plays a significant and diverse role in animals' behaviour and fitness. Understanding how visibility influences animal behaviour requires the measurement of habitat visibility at spatial scales commensurate to individual animal choices. However, measuring habitat visibility at a fine spatial scale over a landscape is a challenge, particularly in highly heterogeneous landscapes (e.g. forests). As a result, our ability to model the influence of fine‐scale visibility on animal behaviour has been impeded or limited.

In this study, we demonstrate the application of the concept of three‐dimensional (3D) cumulative viewshed in the study of animal spatial behaviour at a landscape level. Specifically, we employed a newly described approach that combines terrestrial and airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) to measure fine‐scale habitat visibility (3D cumulative viewshed) on a continuous scale in forested landscapes. We applied the LiDAR‐derived visibility to investigate how visibility in forests affects the summer habitat selection and the movement of 20 GPS‐collared female red deer Cervus elaphus in a temperate forest in Germany. We used integrated step selection analysis to determine whether red deer show any preference for fine‐scale habitat visibility and whether visibility is related to the rate of movement of red deer.

We found that red deer selected intermediate habitat visibility. Their preferred level of visibility during the day was substantially lower than that of night and twilight, whereas the preference was not significantly different between night and twilight. In addition, red deer moved faster in high‐visibility areas, possibly mainly to avoid predation and anthropogenic risk. Furthermore, red deer moved most rapidly between locations in the twilight.

For the first time, the preference for intermediate habitat visibility and the adaption of movement rate to fine‐scale visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species at a landscape scale was revealed. The LiDAR technique used in this study offers fine‐scale habitat visibility at the landscape level in forest ecosystems, which would be of broader interest in the fields of animal ecology and behaviour.
Weed communities are more diverse, but not more abundant, in dense and complex bocage landscapes
Authors: Boinot Sébastien , Mony Cendrine , Fried Guillaume , Ernoult Aude , Aviron Stéphanie , Ricono Claire , Couthouis Eloïse , Alignier Audrey 
Published: November 2022

Abstract

Bocage landscapes are characterized by a network of hedgerows that delimits arable fields. Such landscapes provide many ecosystem services, including biodiversity conservation, but their effects on weed communities remain largely unknown. Bocage landscapes could affect weed communities through two main processes: plant spillover from hedgerows and increased environmental heterogeneity in arable fields. These bocage effects are also likely to vary between farming systems (conventional vs. organic) due to differences in management practices.

We sampled weed communities more than 20 m from field margins in 74 arable fields (37 per farming system). Fields were located along two independent landscape gradients of total length of hedgerows (with or without a shrub layer) and organic farming cover, in Brittany (France). We analysed the effect of ‘bocage’ (i.e. the density and complexity of hedgerow networks) and farming systems at field and landscape scales on species and functional diversity of weed communities. Further, we used fidelity to non‐crop habitats and Ellenberg indicator values to assess the ‘plant spillover’ and ‘environmental heterogeneity’ hypotheses, respectively.

Weed communities were more diverse and more abundant in organic farming systems. In addition, weed communities were more diverse, but not more abundant, in denser and more complex bocage landscapes. ‘Bocage’ increased species diversity of weeds, but also community‐weighted variance of specific leaf area, plant height and seed mass. Positive effects of ‘bocage’ on weed diversity were driven by increased environmental heterogeneity rather than spillover of transient species from hedgerows. ‘Bocage’ effects were independent of farming systems at field and landscape scales.

Synthesis and applications. Maintaining diverse weed communities is key to agroecological weed management and biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. Farmers are often concerned that hedgerows harbour competitive plants spreading into field edges, thereby increasing weed pressure. However, our study shows that dense and complex bocage landscapes promote weed diversity in field cores, most likely by increasing environmental heterogeneity. Thus, bocage landscapes could actually enhance ecosystem services provided by weed communities and reduce weed‐crop competition.
Indigenous institutions and local government in the Torres Strait
Authors: Stanford Bartholomew Matthew 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe relationships between local governments and Indigenous institutions in Australia are unstudied, despite both being oriented to the local level. Related research focuses on the performance of Indigenous local governments, Indigenous forms of governance and its relation to local government, relations between local governments and Indigenous communities, and the intercultural dynamics of Indigenous and Western governance frameworks in local governments. This article presents the findings of a study that examines relations between local governments and Indigenous institutions in the Torres Strait, a relationship that is framed by s. 9(3) of the Local Government Act 2009 (Qld) (LGA) that allows local governments to ‘take account of Aboriginal tradition and Island custom’. A framework adapted from health‐related studies, consisting of three alternative policy approaches—mainstreaming, indigenisation, and hybridisation—is used in this study to characterise relationships between local governments and Indigenous institutions. Kinship and country, two important Indigenous institutions, are marginalised in Queensland's mainstream system of local government, which in turn creates obstacles for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from participating and engaging in local government processes.Points for practitioners
Government that does not recognise the institutions which are fundamental to how Indigenous people govern will marginalise them from power.
Indigenous institutions are legitimate actors whose voice must be considered within mainstreaming discussions.
Representation within indigenous institutions influences local government relations.
Modifying children's court care plans to acknowledge poverty and disadvantage
Authors: Ainsworth Frank 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThis think piece suggests that Children's Court Care Plans should include a new section that documents poverty and social disadvantage, especially of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, when they are under investigation for child abuse and neglect. New South Wales in Australia is used as the exemplar state, but this suggestion may find an echo elsewhere.Points for practitioners
As a general proposition social and economic circumstances should be considered in addition to parental dysfunction in child protection proceedings in Children's court.
Care Plans prepared for hearings in the NSW Children's Court, often developed in response to serious harm report investigations, currently do not contain information about parents' poverty and social disadvantage and hence decontextualise family living circumstances.
Consistent with international evidence, Care Plans should require information about parents' socioeconomic situation, including social disadvantage of residential neighbourhood, status and cost of household tenancy, and household income.
Taking account of social and economic circumstances has the potential to generate savings in out‐of‐home care that can be re‐allocated to support services to reduce poverty and social disadvantage and thereby reduce the need for removal of children from parental care.
The Context Sensitivity of International Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Role of Process and Product Innovation Capabilities
Authors: Mostafiz Md Imtiaz , Hughes Mathew , Gali Nazha , Sambasivan Murali 
Published: November 2022

AbstractDrawing on a contingency perspective of the resource‐based view of the firm, we test the thesis that a relationship between international entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) and the international performance of export‐manufacturing firms is context‐sensitive and contingent on innovation capabilities. Using time‐lagged survey data from 369 Bangladeshi export‐manufacturing firms in a least developed country (LDC) as an extreme empirical context, we predict that process and product innovation capabilities are essential to the relationship between IEO and international performance among export‐manufacturing firms. We find that the effect of IEO on international performance is not positive; however, the relationship becomes positive when moderated by process and product innovation capabilities. International entrepreneurial firms in an LDC succeed when they can better align IEO‐driven efforts with these capabilities. Our study advances knowledge on the context sensitivity of IEO and embellishes a resource‐based theory of IEO.
Discursive Quads: New Kinds of Lexical Co‐occurrence Data With Linguistic Concept Modelling
Authors: Mehl Seth 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThis paper introduces linguistic concept modelling, a new computational approach to humanities‐driven analysis of meaning in large text collections, and presents illustrative examples of the approach applied to over one billion words of printed Early Modern English contained in Early English Books Online (Text Creation Partnership edition). Linguistic concept modelling methods and innovations are described in detail, and justified as a unique, new, powerful means for studying meaning in texts in relation to individual lexical items, sets of lexical items and entire text collections. Linguistic concept modelling is compared to established approaches of distributional semantics and topic modelling, to show how linguistic concept modelling overcomes the limitations of those approaches to support humanities research. Examples demonstrate how our approach can be used to explore and analyse semantic, pragmatic and discursive meaning in texts, highlighting the novel observations that our approach affords, and its benefits for humanities scholars.
Ignorance: Aesthetic unlearning
Authors: Bojesen Emile 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThis article proceeds from a consideration of what John Baldacchino calls ‘viable ignorance’, attempting to take leave from the critical and pedagogical obligations of certain elements of Barbara Johnson's ‘positive ignorance’. It considers Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-François Lyotard and the composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen's reflections on modes of experience, and the cultivation of complementary dispositions, where the knowing, egocentric subject is transformed into, or undermined as, what Nietzsche calls ‘a medium of overpowering forces’. The disposition itself is outlined through close readings of key elements of Nietzsche's notebooks, Lyotard's final chapter of Libidinal Economy (1993), and Stockhausen's lecture, ‘Intuitive Music’ (1971) and developed through supplemental practice-as-research activity in sound. The intention of this paper is to explore the space of aesthetic ignorance as committedly as possible, without reverting constantly to positive ignorance.
Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on maternal and neonatal outcomes in twin pregnancies
Authors: Schubert Julia , Timmesfeld Nina , Noever Kathrin , Behnam Susann , Vinturache Angela , Arabin Birgit 
Published: November 2022

AbstractIntroductionTo date, there have only been provisional recommendations about the appropriate gestational weight gain in twin pregnancies. This study aimed to contribute evidence to this gap of knowledge.Material and methodsUsing a cohort of 10 603 twin pregnancies delivered between 2000 and 2015 in the state of Hessen, Germany, the individual and combined impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on maternal and neonatal outcomes was analyzed using uni‐ and multivariable logistic regression models. The analysis used newly defined population‐based quartiles of gestational weight gain in women carrying twin pregnancies (Q1: <419.4 g/week [low weight gain], Q2–Q3: 419.4–692.3 g/week [optimal weight gain], Q4: >692.3 g/week [high weight gain]) and the World Health Organization body mass index classification.ResultsPre‐pregnancy body mass index ≥25 kg/m2 was associated with significantly increased rates of cesarean deliveries (aOR1.2, 95% CI: 1.01–1.41) and pregnancy‐induced hypertensive disorders (aOR 1.53, 95% CI: 1.11–2.1) but not with any adverse neonatal outcome.Perinatal mortality (aOR 2.23, 95% CI: 1.38–3.6), preterm birth (aOR 1.88, 95% CI: 1.58–2.25), APGAR′5 < 7 (aOR 1.61, 95% CI: 1.19–2.17) and admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit (aOR 1.6, CI: 1.38–1.85) were increased among women with low gestational weight gain. Rates of cesarean deliveries were high in both women with low (aOR 1.25, 95% CI: 1.05–1.48) and high gestational weight gain (aOR 1.17, 95% CI: 1.01–1.35). A high gestational weight gain was also associated with higher rates of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (aOR 2.32, 95% CI: 1.79–3.02) and postpartum hemorrhage (aOR 1.72, 95%CI: 1.12–2.63). The risk of preterm birth, low Apgar scores and NICU admissions showed a converse linear relation with pre‐pregnancy body mass index in women with low gestational weight gain.ConclusionsIn twin pregnancies, nonoptimal weekly maternal weight gain seems to be strongly associated with maternal and neonatal adverse outcomes. Since gestational weight gain is a modifiable risk factor, health care providers have the opportunity to counsel pregnant women with twins and target their care accordingly. Additional research to confirm the validity and generalizability of our findings in different populations is warranted.
A social‐psychological examination of academic precarity as an organizational practice and subjective experience
Authors: Albayrak‐Aydemir Nihan , Gleibs Ilka Helene 
Published: November 2022

AbstractResearch and teaching conditions have, particularly for those who are junior or from disadvantaged backgrounds, deteriorated considerably over the years in the higher education sector. Unequal opportunities in access and advancement in careers have led to increasing levels of precarity in the higher education sector. Although the concept of precarity has been grasped in many other disciplines, the social‐psychological understanding of this concept remains unexplored. In this paper, we aim to develop a social‐psychological understanding of precarity to examine how identity dynamics and intergroup relations, as well as associated organizational controls, reinforce inequality regimes and power structures that create precarious conditions in academia. In doing so, we use social identity theory and system justification theory under an inequality regime framework. We argue that even though change towards equality and equity in academia should be possible, it is difficult to achieve this because of entrenched identity interests by power holders and the perceived legitimacy of the existing system. Therefore, academic precarity should be recognized both as a subjective experience and as an organizational practice to make inequalities more visible and decrease the perceptions of legitimacy—and to eventually achieve a fundamental positive transformation in academia.
Limited seed dispersal shapes fine‐scale spatial genetic structure in a Neotropical dioecious large‐seeded palm
Authors: Escobar Sebastián , Vigouroux Yves , Karubian Jordan , Zekraoui Leila , Balslev Henrik , Montúfar Rommel 
Published: November 2022

AbstractSeed and pollen dispersal contribute to gene flow and shape the genetic patterns of plants over fine spatial scales. We inferred fine‐scale spatial genetic structure (FSGS) and estimated realized dispersal distances in Phytelephas aequatorialis, a Neotropical dioecious large‐seeded palm. We aimed to explore how seed and pollen dispersal shape this genetic pattern in a focal population. For this purpose, we genotyped 138 seedlings and 99 adults with 20 newly developed microsatellite markers. We tested if rodent‐mediated seed dispersal has a stronger influence than insect‐mediated pollen dispersal in shaping FSGS. We also tested if pollen dispersal was influenced by the density of male palms around mother palms in order to further explore this ecological process in large‐seeded plants. Rodent‐mediated dispersal of these large seeds occurred mostly over short distances (mean 34.76 ± 34.06 m) while pollen dispersal distances were two times higher (mean 67.91 ± 38.29 m). The spatial extent of FSGS up to 35 m and the fact that seed dispersal did not increase the distance at which male alleles disperse suggest that spatially limited seed dispersal is the main factor shaping FSGS and contributes only marginally to gene flow within the population. Pollen dispersal distances depended on the density of male palms, decreasing when individuals show a clumped distribution and increasing when they are scattered. Our results show that limited seed dispersal mediated by rodents shapes FSGS in P. aequatorialis, while more extensive pollen dispersal accounts for a larger contribution to gene flow and may maintain high genetic diversity.Abstract in Spanish is available with online material.
Notch pathway regulates osimertinib drug‐tolerant persistence in EGFR‐mutated non–small‐cell lung cancer
Authors: Takahashi Hirofumi , Sakakibara‐Konishi Jun , Furuta Megumi , Shoji Tetsuaki , Tsuji Kosuke , Morinaga Daisuke , Kikuchi Eiki , Kikuchi Junko , Noguchi Takuro , Hatanaka Kanako C. , Hatanaka Yutaka , Shinagawa Naofumi , Konno Satoshi 
Published: November 2022

AbstractOsimertinib is a third‐generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)‐tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that has shown marked antitumor activity in patients with EGFR‐mutated non–small‐cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, these effects are transient and most patients develop resistance. Reversible drug‐tolerant persister (DTP) cells are defined as a small subpopulation of cells with markedly reduced sensitivity and non‐genetic acquired resistance to EGFR‐TKIs. Notch is a transmembrane receptor that plays an important role in tumorigenesis. We previously reported that there is significant crosstalk between the Notch and EGFR pathways in NSCLC. Moreover, the Notch pathway is associated with resistance to previous‐generation EGFR‐TKIs. However, the role of Notch in osimertinib resistance is not fully understood. In this study, we evaluated whether Notch is involved in osimertinib resistance. We show that NOTCH1 and Notch target genes are upregulated in osimertinib DTP cells, and that the addition of a γ‐secretase inhibitor (GSI), a Notch inhibitor, impairs drug‐tolerant persistence in vitro and in vivo. Compared with osimertinib, combined GSI and osimertinib suppress phospho‐ERK partly by enhancing DUSP1 expression. Furthermore, Notch1 and HES1 were upregulated after EGFR‐TKI treatment in half of human EGFR‐mutated NSCLC tumor tissues. These results suggest that the combination of GSI and osimertinib may be a potential therapy for EGFR‐mutated NSCLC.