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Sustainable supply chain management performance in post COVID-19 era in an emerging economy: a big data perspective
Authors: Nisar Qasim Ali , Haider Shahbaz , Ameer Irfan , Hussain Muhammad Sajjad , Gill Sonaina Safi , Usama Awan 
Published: June 2022

PurposeBig data analytics capabilities are the driving force and deemed as an operational excellence approach to improving the green supply chain performance in the post COVID-19 situation. Motivated by the COVID-19 epidemic and the problems it poses to the supply chain's long-term viability, this study used dynamic capabilities theory as a foundation to assess the imperative role of big data analytics capabilities (management, talent and technological) toward green supply chain performance.Design/methodology/approachThis study was quantitative and cross-sectional. Data were collected from 374 executives through a survey questionnaire method by applying an appropriate random sampling technique. The authors employed PLS-SEM to analyze the data.FindingsThe findings revealed that big data analytics capabilities play a significant role in boosting up sustainable supply chain performance. It was found that big data analytics capabilities significantly contributed to supply chain risk management and innovative green product development that ultimately enhanced innovation and learning performance. Moreover, innovation and green learning performance has a significant and positive relationship with sustainable supply chain performance. In the post COVID-19 situation, organizations can enhance their sustainable supply chain performance by giving extra attention to big data analytics capabilities and supply chain risk and innovativeness.Originality/valueThe paper specifically emphasizes on the factors that result in the sustainability in supply chain integrated with the big data analytics. Additionally, it offers the boundary condition for gaining the sustainable supply chain management.
The retailer’s trade-in activity under the manufacturer’s upgrading strategy
Authors: Yang Feng , Wu Xiang , Shan Feifei 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
This paper aims to study the impact of manufacturer’s upgrading strategy of durable products on the retailer’s decision on trade-in program and her decision on the secondary market.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper develops a channel that consists of a manufacturer and a retailer, where the manufacturer releases an upgraded product, and the retailer introduces a trade-in program for consumers, simultaneously, decides whether to enter the secondary market. These approaches are modeled through Stackelberg game.

Findings
This paper reveals that the optimal conditions for manufacturer to release upgraded products and retailer to resell used products in the secondary market, and it reveals that under what conditions it is profitable for retailer to enter the secondary market under product upgrade levels.

Practical implications
If the manufacturer’s upgrade level is low, it is profitable for the retailer to enter the secondary market. However, if the manufacturer’s upgrade level is high, it is unprofitable for the retailer to enter the secondary market.

Originality/value
In this paper, the active secondary market, upgrading of new products, consumer market segmentation and especially, the upgrade degree of new products as a function of consumer demand are considered simultaneously.
Impact of industry competitive intensity on brand performance: mediating role of market orientation and organizational learning
Authors: Talari Mohammad , Khoshroo Mina 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of industry competitive intensity (ICI) on brand performance with the mediating role of market orientation and organizational learning using theoretical and experimental materials in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) firms.

Design/methodology/approach
To test the research hypotheses, a model was designed and tested on 124 chief executive officers from 30 FMCG firms active in both food and chemical industries using structural equation modeling and partial least squares methodology.

Findings
The research findings showed that ICI has significant effect on market orientation and organizational learning. It also has significant effect on the firm’s brand performance through developing the market orientation capability as a mediating variable, but the development of organizational learning capability (as a mediating variable) is not effective in the relationship between ICI and brand performance.

Originality/value
Since the early 1990s, addressing intraorganizational capabilities and resources has been a major topic of strategic and marketing research. In this regard, many theoretical and experimental contents have been presented so far. However, little research has simultaneously addressed the industrial environment and the development of competitive capabilities. A manager’s understanding of the competition rate of an industry has the potential to influence the development of organizational capabilities through strategic responsiveness to his/her perception of the environment. This study attempts to show that managers and firms that consider their industrial environment to be volatile must develop their learning capabilities and market orientation, leading to superior brand performance.
Physical manufacturing: from the multidisciplinary perspective
Authors: Liu F.C. , Wang P.Y. , Li M. , Li L. , Yue Z.F. 
Published: June 2022

PurposeIn order to promote the development of modern manufacturing towards high-precision, high-quality intelligence and precision, this paper puts forward the concept of physical manufacturing and conducts a more in-depth theoretical discussion on its basic connotation and characteristics, based on which the application of physical manufacturing in cutting and autoclave curing molding of composite material is briefly introduced.Design/methodology/approachAs a brand-new manufacturing concept, physical manufacturing determines the optimal process parameters according to multidisciplinary simulations, which emphasizes the physical characteristics about long life and high reliability of the processed products, and makes intelligent adjustment of process parameters according to the changes in the environment and equipment status during manufacturing.FindingsThe concept of physical manufacturing has pioneering significance for the basic research and development of advanced manufacturing technology, which helps to further improve production efficiency, reduce production costs and improve product quality.Originality/valueThe concept of physical manufacturing was first proposed, which emphasizes the analysis, reasoning, perception, and deduction during the manufacturing process, to achieve high-quality processing of products.
Competitive consequences determined by phenotypic but not genetic distance: A study with asexual water flea genotypes
Authors: Tian Xiaofei , Ohtsuki Hajime , Urabe Jotaro 
Published: June 2022

AbstractHow evolutionary relatedness influences the strength of competitive interactions among genetically isolated populations has been a long‐standing interest in ecology. Darwin's ‘Competition‐Relatedness Hypothesis (CRH)’ states that, since closely related species should compete more strongly, they are less likely to coexist, while Herbert's ‘Bimodal Competition Hypothesis (BCH)’ predicts that competitive exclusion is less likely to occur when the competing species are genetically close or distant.To test these hypotheses, we experimentally examined the difference in the competitive ability and life tables of fecundity and survivorship among four different genotypes of asexualDaphniacf.pulexthat diverged from a single ancestral genotype.The experiments showed that the competitive consequences differed depending on the pairing of the competing genotypes, and that the degree of the competitive exclusion was lower when the competing genotypes were genetically closer to each other. These results partially supported the BCH but not the CRH at all. More importantly, the degree of competitive exclusion was better predicted by the phenotypic rather than genetic distances between the competing genotypes.The life table experiments revealed that competitively inferior genotypes had higher early reproduction rates, but survival rates decreased with age and thus body size, probably a result of selection by predation pressures found in nature.These results indicate that competitive superiority is highly dependent on selection pressures that given organisms have been evolutionally subjected to, and, that genetic similarity is not necessarily an appropriate measure for predicting the completive exclusion on an ecological time‐scale. To predict competitive relationships among the organisms, it is essential to comprehend their phenotypic differences rather than simply knowing their genetic or phylogenetic relationships.Read the freePlain Language Summaryfor this article on the Journal blog.
Water Storage Decisions and Consumptive Use May Constrain Ecosystem Management under Severe Sustained Drought
Authors: Bruckerhoff Lindsey A. , Wheeler Kevin , Dibble Kimberly L. , Mihalevich Bryce A. , Neilson Bethany T. , Wang Jian , Yackulic Charles B. , Schmidt John C. 
Published: June 2022

AbstractDrought has impacted the Colorado River basin for the past 20 years and is predicted to continue. In response, decisions about how much water should be stored in large reservoirs and how much water can be consumptively used will be necessary. These decisions have the potential to limit riverine ecosystem management options through the effect water‐supply decisions have on reservoir elevations. We used projected hydrology and river temperatures to compare the outcome of combinations of water storage scenarios and consumptive use limits on metrics associated with ecosystem management of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Ecosystem management metrics included the ability to implement designer flows, temperature suitability for fishes, and fragmentation. We compared current water management operations to prioritizing storage in either Lake Mead or Lake Powell combined with three levels of consumptive use. Projected reservoir levels limited environmental flow delivery and increased fragmentation regardless of where water was stored if consumptive use was not limited. Warmer river temperatures associated with low reservoir levels are likely, creating suitable conditions for non‐native species of concern, such as smallmouth bass. Water storage decisions provided variability and management flexibility, but water storage was less important when less water was available, highlighting the importance of keeping water in the system to provide flexibility for achieving ecosystem goals.
Impact of dysphagia and its severity on long‐term survival and swallowing function outcomes in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies other than inclusion body myositis
Authors: Ohmura Shin‐ichiro , Tamechika Shin‐ya , Miyamoto Toshiaki , Kunieda Kenjiro , Naniwa Taio 
Published: June 2022

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the impact of dysphagia on long‐term survival and swallowing function outcomes in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy other than inclusion body myositis.MethodsWe retrospectively evaluated consecutive patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy other than inclusion body myositis to investigate the impact of dysphagia and its severity assessed using the Food Intake LEVEL Scale on survival and swallowing function outcomes. Time‐to‐event analyses were used, including Kaplan‐Meier curves with log‐rank (trend) test, cumulative incidence with Gray’s test, and Cox proportional hazards models.ResultsOf the 254 patients, 26 were dysphagic, including eight severe (Food Intake LEVEL Scale [FILS] score 2, 3) and six most severe (FILS score 1) cases; 210 were non‐dysphagic, and 18 were indeterminate cases. During the 5 years after myositis diagnosis, 15 (57.7%) dysphagic and 31 (14.8%) non‐dysphagic patients died, and dysphagic patients had significantly shorter survival. However, multivariate analysis showed that shorter survival was significantly associated with baseline age‐adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index (hazard ratio [HR] 1.57, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.36‐1.82]), but not with dysphagia (HR 1.46, 95% CI 0.69‐3.10). Dysphagia severity was significantly associated with delayed recovery of dysphagia. In 20 non‐severe or severe dysphagic cases, 19 restored swallowing function within 1 year. The most severe cases had a significantly higher cumulative probability of death before recovery from dysphagia than severe cases.ConclusionThe poor survival of dysphagic myositis patients was largely confounded by advanced age and comorbid malignancies. However, patients with the most severe dysphagia had a significantly worse swallowing function and survival prognosis than those with milder dysphagia.
Improving the predictability and interpretability of co‐occurrence modelling through feature‐based joint species distribution ensembles
Authors: Powell‐Romero Francisca , Fountain‐Jones Nicholas M. , Norberg Anna , Clark Nicholas J. 
Published: June 2022

Abstract

Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are vital tools for predicting species occurrences and are used in many practical tasks including conservation and biodiversity management. However, the expanding minefield of SDM methodologies makes it difficult to select the most reliable method for large co‐occurrence datasets, particularly when time constraints make designing a bespoke model challenging. To facilitate model selection for practical out‐of‐sample prediction, we consider three major challenges: (a) the difficulty of incorporating multiple functional forms for species associations; (b) the limited knowledge on how characteristics of co‐occurrence data impact model performance; and (c) whether individual model predictions could be combined to obtain optimised community predictions without the need for bespoke models.

To address these gaps, we propose an ensemble method that uses descriptive features of binary co‐occurrence datasets to predict model weightings for a set of candidate SDMs. We demonstrate how this method may be applied through a simple case study that uses five independent Joint Species Distribution Models (JSDMs) and Stacked Species Distribution Models (SSDMs) to predict out‐of‐sample observations for a diversity of co‐occurrence datasets. Moreover, we introduce a novel SSDM that offers the potential to include multiple functional forms for each species while delivering robust community predictions.

Our case study highlights two major findings. First, the ability for the feature‐based ensemble to offer more robust species co‐occurrence predictions compared to other candidate SDMs while providing insights into the data features that impact model performance. Second, the competitiveness of the novel SSDM method for forecasting species co‐occurrences, even when using a simple univariate generalised linear model (GLM) as the base model prior to stacking.

We conclude that feature‐based ensembles can provide ecologists with a useful tool for generating species distribution predictions in a way that is reliable and informative. Moreover, the flexibility of the ensemble and the novel SSDM method both offer exciting prospects for incorporating a diversity of functional forms while prioritising out‐of‐sample prediction.
Modeling reciprocal relations between emotion dysregulation and alcohol use using dynamic structural equation modeling: A micro‐longitudinal study
Authors: Weiss Nicole H. , Brick Leslie A. , Forkus Shannon R. , Goldstein Silvi C. , Thomas Emmanuel D. , Schick Melissa R. , Barnett Nancy P. , Contractor Ateka A. , Sullivan Tami P. 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundResearch examining emotion dysregulation and alcohol use has increased exponentially over the past decade. However, these studies have been limited by their use of cross‐sectional designs and narrow definitions of emotion dysregulation. To address these significant gaps in the extant literature, this study utilized state‐of‐the‐art methodology (i.e., experience sampling) and statistics (i.e., dynamic structural equation modeling) to examine potential reciprocal associations between negative and positive emotion dysregulation and alcohol use at the momentary level.MethodsParticipants were 145 community women (mean age = 40.56, 40.3% white) experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) and using substances. Surveys assessing negative and positive emotion dysregulation and alcohol use (i.e., number of standard drinks) were administered three times a day for 30 days using phone‐based interactive voice recording.ResultsSignificant contemporaneous effects indicated that negative and positive emotion dysregulation both co‐occurred with alcohol use. However, levels of negative and positive emotion dysregulation did not predict later alcohol use, nor did alcohol use predict later levels of negative or positive emotion dysregulation. There was significant variability among participants in cross‐lagged effects.ConclusionsFindings showed that negative and positive emotion dysregulation co‐occurred with alcohol use and that there was significant interindividual variability in the cross‐lagged associations between negative and positive emotion dysregulation and alcohol use. Research using idiographic approaches may identify women experiencing IPV for whom negative and positive emotion dysregulation drive alcohol use and alcohol use drives negative and positive emotion dysregulation.
Paeonol ameliorates diabetic erectile dysfunction by inhibiting HMGB1/RAGE/NF‐kB pathway
Authors: Sun Taotao , Xu Wenchao , Wang Jiaxin , Song Jingyu , Wang Tao , Wang Shaogang , Liu Kang , Liu Jihong 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundThe management of diabetes mellitus‐induced erectile dysfunction (DMED) is progressively becoming tricky due to the surge in the number of patients and the poor efficiency of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors in DMED. Paeonol (Pae), as a traditional Chinese medicine, has been more and more widely used in the treatment of diabetic complications. However, whether Pae could be a potential therapeutic drug of DMED needs to be further evaluated.ObjectivesTo investigate the pharmacological effect and possible mechanism of Pae in the treatment of DMED.MethodsIntraperitoneal streptozotocin injection and an apomorphine test were used to construct the model of DMED. Seventeen DMED rats were divided into two groups: DMED group (n = 8) and DMED+Pae group (Pae; 100 mg/kg/d; oral administration; n = 9). In addition, there were still 10 normal age‐matched male rats as control group. Four weeks later, the cavernous nerve electric stimulation was carried out to measure the erectile response. Moreover, the corpus cavernosum smooth muscle cells (CCSMCs) were primarily isolated and exposed to high glucose (HG) stimulation, Pae treatment and glycyrrhizin (GL; the selective inhibitor of HMGB1). After an incubation for 1 week, the CCSMCs were harvested for detection.ResultsThe impairment of erectile function was observed in DMED rats compared with control samples, accompanied by the upregulation of HMGB1/RAGE/NF‐κB Pathway. The lower nitric oxide and cGMP level and the higher level of inflammation, fibrosis, and apoptosis were also observed in DMED rats. It showed contrast that Pae treatment could improve the erectile function, as well as histologic alteration and related molecular changes. In addition, Pae could downregulate the HMGB1/RAGE/NF‐κB pathway to regulate the apoptosis and inflammation levels of CCSMCs in high‐glucose conditions, which is similar to the results of GL treatment.ConclusionPae alleviated ED in DMED rats, likely by inhibiting HMGB1/RAGE/NF‐κB Pathway, inflammatory, apoptosis, and fibrotic activity, and moderating endothelial dysfunction. Our study provide evidence for a potential new therapy for DMED.
Diphallia: literature review and proposed surgical classification system
Authors: Kendrick Dylan John , Kimble Roy Mark 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundDiphallia occurs once in 5–6 million births, with no two patients presenting with the same anatomical variation. Here we discuss a review of diphallia case reports, as well as present a new surgical classification system based on the soft tissue composition of the two phalluses, the anatomy of the urethra present within the most normal phallus and the bladder configuration.MethodsEighty‐seven diphallia case reports were collected and analysed, excluding those presented in animals and articles that were non‐English, with the results compiled to provide an in‐depth reference of the specific anatomy found in diphallia patients and the associated abnormalities.ResultsOur proposed classification system was then applied to each patient and the most common configuration base on our classification system presented, along with commonly seen associated anomalies.ConclusionThe reviewed cases represent a subset of the most unique diphallia patients; thus, several cases may be left unreported. Future reports can then be categorized, aiding as a reference, and potentially building on the classification, should the patient not fit into a specific group, leading to an expansion of the classification system.
Mapping promoting factors and mechanisms of resilience for performance improvement: The role of strategic human resource management systems and psychological empowerment
Authors: Zhai Xiaoxuan , Zhu Cherrie Jiuhua , Zhang Mingqiong Mike 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBased on broaden‐and‐build theory of positive emotions, this study posits that strategic human resource management (SHRM) systems enrich positive emotions associated with psychological empowerment and resilience and in turn, broaden employees' momentary thought‐action repertoires. People with such positive psychological emotions build enduring personal resources to buffer the negative impacts of adversity and produce better performance outcomes. An integrative model is developed and examined through a two‐stage structural equation modelling method of meta‐analysis based on data involving 60,637 individuals in 87 independent datasets from 79 primary studies published up to September 2020. Empirical evidence suggests that psychological empowerment and resilience both independently and collectively mediate the relationship between SHRM systems and performance outcomes. This study makes an innovative attempt to incorporate theories of positive psychology into SHRM research, throwing fresh light on the promoting factors (i.e., SHRM) and psychological mechanisms (i.e., psychological empowerment) antecedent to employee resilience leading to desired performance outcomes. This study has practical implications for managers in relation to the importance of cultivating a psychologically empowered and resilient workforce, especially in difficult times such as those during the recent COVID‐19 pandemic.