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Mediating role of pro-environmental behavior in environmentally specific transformational leadership and subjective well-being
Authors: Soni Monika 
Published: June 2022

PurposeBased on self-determination theory, the paper investigates the link between environmentally specific transformational leadership (ETFL) and subjective well-being (SWB) of employees working in an energy intensive industry. The paper also aims to examine pro-environmental behavior (PEB) as a mediator mechanism between ETFL and SWB relationship.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical research design was used for the analysis. In total, 293 respondents working in different energy intensive Indian companies filled the questionnaire for the study. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling SMART-PLS 3 software which is a graphical user interface for variance-based structural equation modeling using the partial least squares path modeling method. Two stages of analysis were conducted: the measurement model and the structural model.FindingsThe results indicate that (1) ETFL has a significant positive impact on PEB. (2) PEB is positively correlated to SWB. (3) ETFL has a significant impact on SWB. (4) The underlying mechanism process of ETFL and SWB relationship is explained by mediation of PEB.Practical implicationsOverall, the study insinuates that PEB act as underlying mechanism in environmental leadership and SWB of employees. The study further suggests that the management should promote green leaders for enhancing the overall SWB of the managements' employees especially in energy intensive sector. Doing so helps the managers to enhance managers' environmental conscious behavior for inducing SWB of employees.Originality/valueThe study contributes to novel findings in existing literature particularly to determine ETFL and PEB as predictors of SWB especially in energy intensive sector. The study also leads the ways for organizations by promoting green conscious leaders, which stimulates PEB among employees that ultimately contributes to SWB of employees. Furthermore, the research methodology can be used in other studies for variation of contextual variables such as size of the industry, developed or underdeveloped country and manufacturing or service industry.
Attitudes and intentions towards the adoption of mobile learning during COVID-19: building an exciting career through vocational education
Authors: Abdelwahed Nadia A. Abdelmegeed , Soomro Bahadur Ali 
Published: June 2022

PurposeMobile learning has emerged as one of the main methods for training and academic activities in the present era. It is, also, highly relevant in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic whereupon digitization of mobile learning has made it possible for many students to continue with their education. This study investigated attitudes and intentions towards the adoption of mobile learning in vocational education.Design/methodology/approachThis is a quantitative study based on cross-sectional empirical data. In targeting vocational students throughout Pakistan, the study used a survey questionnaire with a convenience sampling method. From the responses to the questionnaire, 320 samples were used to obtain the study outcomes.FindingsThe structural equation modeling’s (SEM) findings reveal that learning autonomy (LA), mobile device self-efficacy (MDSE), task-technology fit (TTF), perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PUS) and perceived enjoyment (PE) have a positive and significant effect on mobile usage attitudes (MUA) and intentions to adopt mobile learning (ITAML). Moreover, this study’s findings confirm, also, MUA’s predictive power on ITAML.Practical implicationsFurther, this study’s findings encourage individuals to use mobile devices to properly promote knowledge in society. In addition, this study’s findings support vocational institutions’ operators’ and policymakers’ development of online education and training strategies to resist the complications arising from the transmission of COVID-19. Moreover, this study’s findings open new doors when conducting similar research studies on students’ perceptions and learning behaviors.Originality/valueThe empirical investigation of attitudes and intentions to adopt mobile learning in the context of COVID-19 helps potential adopters to test the likely behaviors.
Exploring the effects of different achievement goals on contributor participation in crowdsourcing
Authors: Lee Philip Tin Yun , Lui Richard Wing Cheung , Chau Michael , Tsin Bosco Hing Yan 
Published: June 2022

PurposeThis study examines how contributors with different achievement goals participate under the influence of two common motivators/demotivators on crowdsourcing platforms, namely system design features and task nature.Design/methodology/approachA free simulation experiment was conducted among undergraduate students with the use of a crowdsourcing platform for two weeks.FindingsThe results indicate that contributors with a strong performance-approach goal get better scores and participate in more crowdsourcing tasks. Contributors with a strong mastery-avoidance goal participate in fewer heterogeneous tasks.Research limitations/implicationsContributors with different achievement goals participate in crowdsourcing tasks to different extents under the influence of the two motivators/demotivators. The inclusion of the approach-avoidance dimension in the performance-mastery dichotomy enables demonstrating the influence of motivators/demotivators more specifically. This article highlights differentiation between the quality and the quantity of heterogeneous crowdsourcing tasks.Practical implicationsManagement is advised to approach performance-approach people if a leaderboard and a point system are incorporated into their crowdsourcing platforms. Also, management should avoid offering heterogeneous tasks to mastery-avoidance contributors. System developers should take users' motivational goals into consideration when designing the motivators in their systems.Originality/valueThe study sheds light on habitual achievement goals, which are relatively stable in comparison to contributors' motives and states. The relationships between achievement goals and motivators/demotivators are more persistent across time. This study informs system designers' decisions to include appropriate motivators for sustained contributor participation.
Evaluation of the relationship between COVID‐19 anxiety and treatment compliance in hemodialysis patients: A prospective, descriptive study
Authors: Terkes Nurten , Okten Ciğdem 
Published: June 2022

AbstractIntroductionIt is aimed in this study to evaluate the relationship between COVID‐19 anxiety and treatment compliance in hemodialysis patients.MethodsThis study was conducted descriptively with 128 hemodialysis patients treated in the hemodialysis unit of a district state hospital between September and December 2021.ResultsIt was observed that there was a significant relationship between the dialysis duration as well as the variable of forgetting to take their medicines while traveling and the coronavirus anxiety scores according to the multiple regression analysis regarding the variables affecting the coronavirus anxiety levels of the participants, and that these two variables were 25% determinant in the mean score of the coronavirus anxiety (R2 = 0.25, p = 0.00).ConclusionIt was found, as a conclusion, that the majority of the patients were compliant to the treatment and such variables as gender, education, profession, and dialysis duration were related to the coronavirus anxiety.
Rocuronium 0.3 or 0.9 mg/kg comparing onset time, duration of action, and intubating conditions in patients 80 years and older: A randomized study
Authors: Vested Matias , Pape Pernille , Kristensen Camilla M. , Dinesen Felicia , Vang Malene , Christensen Rasmus E. , Lindahl Cecilie B. , Albrechtsen Charlotte , Rasmussen Lars S. 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundLimited data exist about the optimal dose of rocuronium for intubation in elderly patients. We hypothesized that rocuronium 0.9 mg/kg would lead to a shorter onset time than 0.3 mg/kg in patients above 80 years.MethodsThirty‐four patients were randomized to either rocuronium 0.3 or 0.9 mg/kg. The primary outcome was onset time defined as time to train‐of‐four (TOF) count of 0. Other outcomes included duration of action (time to TOF ratio >0.9), proportion of excellent intubating conditions using the Fuchs‐Buder scale and tracheal intubating conditions using the Intubating Difficulty Scale (IDS).ResultsRocuronium 0.9 mg/kg resulted in shorter onset time compared to rocuronium 0.3 mg/kg; 108 s (SD 40) vs. 228 s (SD 140) (difference: 119 s [95% CI: 41–196], p = .005), respectively. However, in 66% of the patients receiving rocuronium 0.3 mg/kg a TOF count of 0 was not obtained. Duration of action was longer after rocuronium 0.9 mg/kg: 118 min (SD 43) vs. 46 min (SD 13) (difference: 72 min [95% CI: 49–95] p < .0001), and a greater proportion of excellent intubating conditions (Fuchs‐Buder) was obtained; 11/16 (69%) vs 4/18 (22%) (p = .006). No difference was found regarding IDS score.ConclusionRocuronium 0.9 mg/kg resulted in a shorter onset time compared to rocuronium 0.3 mg/kg in patients above 80 years of age. In 66% of the patients receiving rocuronium 0.3 mg/kg a TOF count of 0 was not obtained.
Use of prokinetic agents in hospitalised adult patients: Protocol for a scoping review
Authors: Crone Vera , Møller Morten Hylander , Perner Anders , Alhazzani Waleed , Krag Mette 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundGastrointestinal motility is an important contributor to the effective uptake of water and nutrition. However, it is often impaired in acutely ill hospitalised patients. Amongst other indications, prokinetic agents are used to improve GI motility, but the body of evidence is not well described. Accordingly, we aim to systematically describe and explore the body of evidence on the use of prokinetic agents in hospitalised adults.MethodsIn accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews statement, we plan to conduct a scoping review of studies assessing the use of prokinetic agents, for any indication, in hospitalised adults. We plan to assess study design, population, agents, indications and outcomes across included studies. When applicable, we plan to assess the certainty of evidence using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.ResultsWe plan to provide descriptive analyses of the included studies accompanied by tabulated results and characterise knowledge gaps.ConclusionThe outlined scoping review will provide a summary of the body of evidence on the use, indications, effects and side effects of prokinetic agents in hospitalised adults.
Epidural analgesia and postoperative complications in colorectal cancer surgery. An observational registry‐based study
Authors: Hasselager Rune P. , Hallas Jesper , Gögenur Ismail 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundIn colorectal cancer, surgical resection is fundamental for curative treatment. Epidural analgesia mitigates the perioperative physiologic stress response caused by surgery, and reduction in perioperative stress may reduce postoperative complications. Nevertheless, epidural analgesia also causes hypotension and lower limb motor weakness that can impair postoperative recovery. Here, we aimed to assess the association between epidural analgesia and postoperative complications after colorectal cancer surgery.MethodsWe identified patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery 2008–2018 in Denmark in the Danish Colorectal Cancer Group Database and obtained anaesthesia data from the Danish Anaesthesia Database. The Danish National Prescription Registry was used to obtain data on prescriptions filled preoperatively reflecting current comorbidities. Databases were linked using the Danish Central Person Registry number and the operation day. Patients were classified according to preoperative insertion of an epidural catheter for analgesia. Confounders were adjusted by propensity score matching. Logistic regression was used to compute effect estimates of epidural analgesia on postoperative complications.ResultsWe identified 19 932 individuals undergoing colorectal cancer surgery with available anaesthesia data. Propensity score matching yielded 5691 individuals in each group with balanced preoperative covariates. In the epidural analgesia group 1400 (24.6%) experienced complications compared with 1453 (25.5%) without epidural analgesia. We found no statistically significant association between epidural use and postoperative complications (OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.87–1.04).ConclusionIn total, in this observational study based on Danish registries, we found no association between epidural analgesia and postoperative complications after colorectal cancer surgery.
Termination of seizures in the paediatric age group, best benzodiazepine and route of administration: A network meta‐analysis
Authors: Hasan Syed Umar , Pervez Alina , Bhatty Shaheen , Shamim Shifa , Naeem Aaima , Naseeb Muhammad Wahdan 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThis network meta‐analysis aims to compare various benzodiazepines and their route of administration using the data published exclusively in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Two thousand two hundred sixty‐three children presenting with an episode of seizure to ER or to a paramedic where they were administered a benzodiazepine as the first‐line treatment were included. All the outcomes were measured for their mean with 95% CI and rank probability. The primary outcome was the number of successful seizure cessation. Secondary outcomes were the time interval between drug administration and seizure cessation, the time interval between patient arrival and seizure cessation and the number of episodes of seizure recurrence after drug administration. For the number of successful cessations, intramuscular midazolam showed the highest mean and best rank probability with a value of .881 (.065) and 57.9%, respectively. For the time of cessation, both intravenous lorazepam (IVL) and intravenous diazepam showed a mean of 3.30 (1.30) with IVL having the highest rank probability of 32%. For total time for cessation, intranasal midazolam showed the best mean and rank probability with a value of 4.3 (1.1) and 55%, respectively. Buccal midazolam showed the lowest mean with a value of .106 (.084) for rate of recurrence. Although there was no significant difference between the treatments, but based on the rank probability, IVL shows more promising results for patients who already have an established intravenous line, and for patients presenting in the ER without an intravenous line, the first line of treatment should be INM as it shows the highest rank probability in total time with second‐highest successful cessation rate.
Practices of organizing migrants' integration into the European labour market
Authors: Omanović Vedran , Tarim Emre , Holck Lotte 
Published: June 2022

AbstractOrganizational practices of migrants' labour market integration have by and large been overlooked in favour of research on societal‐level/macrolevel factors, policies, rules and regulations and their impacts on migrants' positions and perspectives on the labour market in the host country. Organizations are conceptualized as key sites that can open doors for meaningful employment and career progression or close them by way of producing inequalities. This change of focus, which we advocate, has a potential to not only increase our understanding of how migrants' labour market integration is organized and practiced at the organizational level, but also shed light on migrants' own mobilizations and agency in these processes. Research on organizational practices of workplace integration of migrants is also relevant as economic and political migration is still high on the agenda in many European countries, particularly since the so‐called ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015, when hundreds of thousands of refugees made their way to Europe. Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine in 2022 reminds us of the heightened importance of this issue. In this article, we start by outlining what has motivated this Special Section. Next, we briefly review the relevant literature that directly or indirectly focuses on practices of organizing migrants' labour market integration in European host countries. We then introduce the two contributions to this Special Section, presenting and discussing their main lines of reasoning and how each of them answer our call for papers. We conclude by elaborating what is, from our point of view, still missing and suggest possible avenues for future research.
Corporate blockholders and financial leverage
Authors: Bui Thuy 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThis research investigates the relation between corporate blockholders and firm financial leverage. Corporate blockholders—nonfinancial firms who hold more than five percent equity in another company—might affect firm policies through their business relations, monitoring, or expropriations. I find that corporate block ownership is negatively related to the target firm's leverage. Moreover, the negative association between corporate blocks and leverage becomes stronger when these investors have greater board representation and when the firm has higher agency costs. Overall, my findings suggest that corporate blockholders play an important monitoring role and can substitute for other monitoring mechanisms, including leverage
The bus sightseeing problem
Authors: Hu Qian , Zhang Zhenzhen , Baldacci Roberto , Tarantilis Christos D. , Zachariadis Emmanouil 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThe basic characteristic of vehicle routing problems with profits (VRPP) is that locations to be visited are not predetermined. On the contrary, they are selected in pursuit of maximizing the profit collected from them. Significant research focus has been directed toward profitable routing variants due to the practical importance of their applications and their interesting structure, which jointly optimizes node selection and routing decisions. Profitable routing applications arise in the tourism industry aiming to maximize the profit score of attractions visited within a limited time period. In this paper, a new VRPP is introduced, referred to as the bus sightseeing problem (BSP). The BSP calls for determining bus tours for transporting different groups of tourists with different preferences on touristic attractions. Two interconnected decision levels have to be jointly tackled: assignment of tourists to buses and routing of buses to the various attractions. A mixed‐integer programming formulation for the BSP is provided and solved by a Benders decomposition algorithm. For large‐scale instances, an iterated local search based metaheuristic algorithm is developed with some tailored neighborhood operators. The proposed methods are tested on a large family of test instances, and the obtained computational results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solution approaches.
European Single Market: Evolution and Modern Challenges
Authors: Loktionova Yulia , Smirnov Artem , Giyasova Zeynab , Kondratenko Larisa , Aksenov Ilia 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThis paper draws on the methods of analysis and synthesis to study the regulatory framework governing the modern operating mechanism of the EU single market. Statistical analysis made it possible to reflect the market dynamics with reference to the pre‐ and post‐COVID crisis periods. Consolidation was applied to merge data on the trade of goods and services – the key elements of the EU Member States' trade indicators. Finally, the method of comparative analysis was employed to compare the single market environment of the EU with markets of other countries. The functioning of the single market depends on shared responsibility between the EU's centralized management and the many policies of its Member States. There are barriers within the single market system that limit the free movement of goods, services, people and capital and lead to an imbalance. These are sanitary and phytosanitary standards, tariff measures, and technical and quantitative barriers.
Safety of the inferolateral orbital access for filling the temporal region with the fanning technique
Authors: Faria Gladstone Eustaquio de Lima , Bastos Alyne Queiroga , Vilela Clarissa L. , Zattar Luciana , Boggio Ricardo Frota 
Published: June 2022

AbstractIntroductionThe anatomical complexity of the temporal region makes it so treatments with fill‐ins are challenging due to high vascular risk. Techniques which provide safer procedures must be encouraged.GoalSuggest access to the temple through the inferolateral orbital region as a means for safer temporal fill‐ins.MethodsThe fanning technique was plotted out not only via the conventional access (pretragal) but via the proposed one as well. The superficial temporal artery (STA) was mapped with ultrasound. The angles for each of the five retroinjection vectors were calculated in relation to STA and their mean was extracted. The longitudinality of the vector in regard to the vessel was considered the least safe factor.ResultsThe mean injection angle towards the artery was a 35‐degree angle for the conventional access technique and a 73‐degree angle for the inferior‐lateral orbital access technique (p < 0.05). The more a degree is tangential to the vessel, the higher the chances for inadvertent puncture due to small technical issues. The safety of the procedure through the inferolateral orbital access is corroborated with blind ultrasound imaging done in real‐time by radiologists.ConclusionThe suggested access is shown to be comparably safer from a vascular perspective than the conventional pretragal access.