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Parent, carer and professional views of specialist child and adolescent mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Archard Philip John , Giles Emma , Moore Isobel , Awhangansi Sewanu , Fitzpatrick Siobhan , Kulik Leanne , O’Reilly Michelle 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to report findings from a service evaluation undertaken within a single specialist child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) team. The team works closely with local authority children’s services to serve specific populations recognised as experiencing higher levels of mental health need, including children living in alternative care and with adoptive families. The evaluation sought to better understand the experience of this provision during the COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant increase in remote and digitally mediated care delivery.

Design/methodology/approach
Analysis of the accounts of 38 parents, carers and professionals involved with the team gathered via telephone interviews and email and postal questionnaires.

Findings
Similar views were expressed from participants involved with the team before and following the onset of the pandemic. Overall, satisfaction was high; however, changes in care appeared more challenging for those already involved with the team before the pandemic. Differences in experience between groups were also evident. Whereas foster carers’ accounts were generally appreciative of the involvement of clinicians, particularly regarding clinician–patient relationships, amongst adoptive parents and members of children’s birth families there were more mixed and negative impressions.

Originality/value
Locally based service evaluations can help inform care pathway planning in specialist CAMHS provision as part of wider quality improvement initiatives. This is especially relevant considering the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the longer-term acceptability of remote working practices is appraised.
COVID-19, clean energy stock market, interest rate, oil prices, volatility index, geopolitical risk nexus: evidence from quantile regression
Authors: Ghosh Sudeshna 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThe outbreak and the spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the global financial sector, including the alternative clean and renewable energy sector. This paper aims to assess the impact of the pandemic, COVID-19 on the stock market indices of the clean energy sector using quantile regression methods.Design/methodology/approachThis study utilized daily data sets on the four major categories of stocks: (1) Morgan Stanley Capital International Global Alternative Energy Index, (2) WilderHill Clean Energy Index, (3) Renewable Energy Industrial Index (RENIXX) and (4) the S&P 500 Global Clean Index. The study adopts a multifactor capital asset pricing model.FindingsClean and alternative energy stocks are powerful instruments for diversification. However, the impact of the volatility index induced by infectious disease is negative and significant across quantiles.Practical implicationsFor investors and policymakers, considering how the uncertainty caused by COVID-19 and the geopolitical index influences renewable energy markets is of great practical importance. For investors, it throws insights into portfolio diversification. For policy makers, it helps to devise strategies to reboot the economy along the lines of the deployment of renewables. This study sheds light on a global green-energy transition and has practical implications for renewable energy resilience in post-pandemic times.Originality/valueThis paper can be considered as a pioneer that explores the nexus between oil prices, interest rates, volatility index, and geopolitical risk upon the stock indices of clean and alternative sources of (renewable) energy in the COVID-19 pandemic situation. The results have important insights into the area of energy and policy decision-making. Additionally, the paper's novelty lies in using the explanatory variables associated with the Covid 19 pandemic.
Does companies' financial flexibility drive their leverage dynamics? New evidence
Authors: Hegde Apoorva Arunachal , Panda Ajaya Kumar , Masuna Venkateshwarlu 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThis paper aims to study the leverage adjustment behavior of firms distinguished based on financial flexibility. Financial flexibility is one of the key strengths of the companies to borrow funds for long-term capital investment. The lack of extensive studies in this domain motivates the authors to delve into the significance of financial flexibility in making corporate capital structure decisions.Design/methodology/approachThe data comprise a combination of firm-specific and macroeconomic variables for firms in eight manufacturing sectors from 2009 to 2020. The authors employ an advance estimator, dynamic panel fraction, on the partial adjustment model to investigate the diverse impact on capital structure's speed of adjustment (SoA) between the financially flexible and financially inflexible firms. Furthermore, the authors utilize the generalized method of moments and panel-corrected standard errors to establish the robustness.FindingsThe empirical analysis reveals that the SoA of financially flexible firms lies between 19.75% and 35.38% and the SoA of financially inflexible firms lies between 11.66% and 25.81%. Due to their conserved debt capabilities, financially flexible firms can rely on leverage to stay near the target whenever they move away from it. Furthermore, financially inflexible firms exhibit a low adjustment speed due to their incompetence to borrow funds to benefit from new growth opportunities. The existence of a target ratio among the studied firms is identified from the positive coefficient of lagged dependent variable, and the relevance of trade-off theory is proved by the quick adjustment speeds in most sectors.Originality/valueThe sectoral distinction in the backdrop of the financial flexibility component adds to the research novelty and managerial implications.
Carbon management accounting (CMA) practices in Australia’s high carbon-emission industries
Authors: Kazemian Soheil , Djajadikerta Hadrian Geri , Trireksani Terri , Sohag Kazi , Mohd Sanusi Zuraidah , Said Jamaliah 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
This study aims to evaluate the practices of carbon management accounting (CMA) made by companies committed to sustainability in Australia’s four highest carbon-emitting industries, including electricity, transport, stationary energy and agriculture. The evaluation covers three CMA phases (i.e. data collection, interpretation and reporting).

Design/methodology/approach
This is a cross-sectional study using descriptive research. Data was collected using a questionnaire primarily derived from Burritt et al.’s (2002, 2011) CMA framework and suggestions from other references. The questionnaire includes a set of closed- and open-ended questions. Data was collected from 39 senior managers in the selected industries with direct knowledge and experience in their companies’ CMA practices.

Findings
The respondents disclose numerous different motivations for their companies to practise CMA and various ways of practising their CMA. This reflects diverse industry practices due to the absence of a generally accepted standard and different stages of organisational learning. The findings also show that the respondents perceived CMA practices as essential to enhancing their companies’ sustainability performance and overall reputation. However, the majority of the respondents showed little appetite for carbon emission disclosure.

Practical implications
The findings thoroughly describe the current CMA practices by companies committed to sustainability in Australia’s high carbon-emitting industries. Overall, the results show that while the respondents perceived CMA practices as essential for their companies’ sustainability performance and energy-saving, the CMA applications were inconsistent, along with some concerning results, such as a lack of assurance and accountability in the data validation and audit. These indicate the importance of policymakers to consider establishing CMA guidelines or standards to improve its practice. For any company, these findings can be used as learning materials to start or enhance CMA practice at their companies. A broader professional CMA community can strengthen the collective efforts to make CMA more robust.

Social implications
The findings portray the perceptions of practitioners from Australia’s four highest carbon-emitting industries, indicating motivations to use CMA to understand their companies’ carbon footprint and reduce their companies’ environmental impacts.

Originality/value
The findings contribute to the limited literature in this area and offer several valuable insights regarding the current practice of CMA in Australia, focussing on high carbon-emission industries. It also encourages more research in this area using data from other industries or countries to develop comparative results and strengthen the literature. Future research using actual carbon emission information or a longitudinal approach could also evaluate the changes and progresses in CMA practices.
Seasonal variation in impact of non‐native species on tropical seed dispersal networks
Authors: Costa Alba , Heleno Ruben , Dufrene Yanick , Huckle Eleanor , Gabriel Ronny , Harrison Xavier , Schabo Dana G. , Farwig Nina , Kaiser‐Bunbury Christopher N. 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

Invasive non‐native species can alter animal‐mediated seed dispersal interactions and ultimately affect the stability of recipient communities. The degree of such disturbances, however, is highly variable and depends on several factors, two of which have received little attention: the relative timing of native and non‐native fruiting phenologies, and the associated variation in relative resource availability across the fruiting period. Both are likely to alter plant–seed disperser interactions threatened by biological invasions.

Here we investigated the impact of plant invasions on the seasonal dynamics of frugivory and seed dispersal networks across a large‐scale experimental setup and a plant invasion gradient on a tropical island. We recorded fruit and frugivore abundances, and plant–frugivore interactions across eight inselbergs (i.e. rocky outcrops) with different levels of plant invasion during 10 months on the island of Mahé, Seychelles. By combining four sampling methods of plant–frugivore interactions we constructed quantitative seed dispersal networks at all sites across two 5‐month seasons: the on‐peak and off‐peak fruiting season.

Our findings showed that, by fruiting mostly synchronously with natives, non‐native plants compete with natives for dispersal services, predominantly carried out by native frugivores. Variation in native seed dispersal was driven by plant invasion and seasonality. Specifically, native seed dispersal declined with the degree of invasion; dispersal frequency increased with fruit abundance more strongly during the off‐peak fruiting season; and networks became increasingly specialised during off‐peak. These results indicated that during the main fruiting peak seed dispersal services were saturated, which likely intensified the competition between native and non‐native fruits. When resources were scarce during off‐peak fruiting season, native and non‐native frugivores were more selective in their fruit choice at sites dominated by non‐native plants.

We showed that native plant and frugivore populations and native seed dispersal interactions were more vulnerable in invaded plant communities, where non‐native plants compete with natives for dispersal services potentially reducing native recruitment. As invasive non‐native plants dominate many ecosystems world‐wide, particularly on islands, our findings showed that controlling plant invasions in vulnerable native communities can be critical to maintain native ecosystem functions and biodiversity.

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The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?
Authors: Murphy Mary C. 
Published: August 2022

AbstractAmong the many consequences of Brexit for Northern Ireland has been how it has contributed to and coincided with some alteration of the electoral landscape. This includes the rise of the centre ground and, in particular, the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI). This article focusses specifically on how the Alliance Party, as the largest of Northern Ireland's middle ground parties, has navigated the Brexit period and with what effect. The analysis explores the implications of the growing size and strength of the Alliance Party for Northern Ireland politics, institutions, policies, north‐south relations and the constitutional future. It concludes that although the nationalist versus unionist binary remains valid and consequential in Northern Ireland, it is being challenged and tested by the rise of the middle ground in ways which offer both opportunities and challenges for Northern Ireland's future.
Demystifying the link between higher education and liberal values: A within‐sibship analysis of British individuals’ attitudes from 1994–2020
Authors: Simon Elizabeth 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThe link between university graduation and liberal values is well‐established and often taken as evidence that higher education participation causes attitudinal change. Identification of education’s causal influence in shaping individual preferences is notoriously difficult as it necessitates isolating education’s effect from self‐selection mechanisms. This study exploits the household structure of the Harmonized British Household Panel Study and Understanding Society data to tighten the bounds of causal inference in this area and ultimately, to provide a more robust estimate of the independent effect of university graduation on political attitudes. Results demonstrate that leveraging sibling fixed‐effects to control for family‐invariant pre‐adult experiences reduces the size of higher education’s effect on cultural attitudes by at least 70%, compared to conventional methods. Significantly, within‐sibship models show that obtaining higher education qualifications only has a small direct causal effect on British individuals’ adult attitudes, and that this effect is not always liberalizing. This has important implications for our understanding of the relationship between higher education and political values. Contrary to popular assumptions about education’s liberalizing role, this study demonstrates that the education‐political values linkage is largely spurious. It materializes predominately because those experiencing pre‐adult environments conducive to the formation of particular values disproportionately enroll at universities.
Is simply washing hands before dialysis procedures sufficient for reducing peritoneal dialysis peritonitis?—A single center study from 2015 to 2020 in Yiwu, China
Authors: Ye Yuan‐Jun , Lou Jia‐Jia , Zhang Ya‐Nan , Lou Xiao‐Ying , Chen Qin 
Published: August 2022

AbstractIntroductionThe study aimed to improve the qualified rate of hand hygiene and reduce the incidence of peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients.MethodsA hand hygiene questionnaire was distributed to patients during home visits and outpatient visits in 2015 and 2020. Hand‐washing practices were evaluated by collecting cultures from the hands of patients after hand washing, evaluating their household environment, and recording the antimicrobial resistance of pathogenic bacteria.ResultsCompared to patients in 2015, patients in 2020 had fewer errors in hand washing (p < 0.05), but the rate of qualification after hand washing was lower (p < 0.01). Furthermore, patients who used hand disinfectants after washing had a higher qualified rate. Coagulase‐negative staphylococcus (CNS) was the most common isolated bacteria. From 2015 to 2020, the annual incidence of CNS PD peritonitis did not decrease, while the proportion of methicillin‐resistant CNS decreased.ConclusionThe use of hand disinfectants after standard hand washing may help reduce the incidence of peritonitis in PD patients.
Comparison of CDHSG model and PCO2 in predicting mortality risk in patients with congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Authors: Öztaş Tülin , Dursun Ahmet 
Published: August 2022

AbstractCongenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is one of the illnesses with high mortality and morbidity rates. The study aims to compare the Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Study Group (CDHSG) model and PCO2 in determining the mortality risk of CDH in the early postnatal period in neonates. The data of 35 patients who were treated CDH were analyzed retrospectively. The sex, gestational age, birth weight, delivery method, presence of chromosomal anomaly, congenital cardiac and other anomalies, pulmonary hypertension, the 5‐min Apgar score, PCO2 values of blood gas in the first 24 h, mode of ventilation were recorded. According to the CDHSG model, the mortality risk of CDH was divided into three categories: as low, moderate, high risk. Based on the blood gases in the first 24 h after delivery, the CDH mortality risk was considered in two categories as low and high. Based on the CDHSG model, the risk of CDH mortality was low in 11.4%, moderate in 20%, and high in 68.6%. Mortality rates were 0%, 42.8%, and 83.3%, respectively. Based on the PaCO2, the risk of CDH mortality was low in 37.1% of patients and high in 62.8%. The mortality rate was 86.3% in high‐severity patients and 30.7% in low‐risk patients. No significant difference was found between the area under the curve values of the CDHSG model and PCO2. Especially in developing countries, in cases where opportunities are limited, the severity of the disease, the need for more aggressive treatment, and the need for higher‐level intensive care can be determined with the easily accessible and low‐cost blood gas PCO2 at the bedside.
A method to improve the performance of wide dye concentration measurement based on the multi‐pathlength spectrophotometry
Authors: Jianxin Zhang , Kangping Zhang , Xuejiao Huang 
Published: August 2022

AbstractAccurate measurement of dye concentration in a dyebath is a basic step for dyeing process control and dyebath reuse. The dyebath usually covers a wide concentration range. In this article, a method based on multi‐pathlength spectroscopy was proposed to improve the test performance for wide dye concentration. Partial least squares regression (PLSR) models were constructed on the combined pathlength spectra and evaluation metrics coefficient of determination () and root mean square error (RMSE) were adopted for performance comparison. Results of the single‐component experiment at different pathlengths (10, 5, 3, 2 and 1 mm) showed that for CI Acid Violet 54 and CI Acid Blue 113 the introduction of spectra at the 5 mm pathlength yielded greater performance. Further additions of lower pathlengths spectra were not as favourable as that of the 5 mm pathlength spectra for the models based on 10 mm spectra. While the upper concentration limits for three dyestuffs were raised to 0.50 g/L and 5 and 10 mm pathlengths were selected for further analysis, results demonstrated that the introduction of spectra at the 5 mm pathlength generally promoted the test performance for all three dyestuffs. Based on the results of single‐component experiment, 10 and 5 mm pathlengths were eventually decided as the detection pathlengths for three‐component solutions, and the concentration ranges of CI Acid Yellow 117, CI Acid Violet 54 and CI Acid Blue 113 were 0.03–0.48, 0.03–0.48 and 0.02–0.40 g/L, respectively. Results of three‐component experiments suggested that evaluation metrics for the three dyestuffs were raised from 0.409, 0.409 and 0.980 to 0.957, 0.992 and 0.998, respectively, by the multi‐pathlength spectroscopy technique.
Factors associated with failure of using high flow nasal cannula in children
Authors: Sunkonkit Kanokkarn , Kungsuwan Supakanya , Seetaboot Sukanlaya , Reungrongrat Sanit 
Published: August 2022

AbstractIntroductionHigh flow nasal cannula (HFNC) has significantly success in treating acute respiratory distress while HFNC failure dramatically increases mortality and morbidity.ObjectiveTo describe factors associated with failure of HFNC use in children.MethodsWe performed a retrospective observational study using demographic and laboratory findings. We compared clinical and laboratory variables in both successful and failed HFNC groups. The correlations between factors and HFNC failure were constructed by binary logistic regression analysis.ResultsBetween August 2016 and May 2018, 250 children receiving HFNC (median age 16 months; range 1–228 months, male 50.8%) were enrolled. Pneumonia was the most common cause of respiratory distress, and the median length of stay (LOS) in hospital was 11 days. HFNC failure was found 16.4% while HFNC complication was 4.8% including epistaxis, pressure sore, and gastric distension. Based on multivariable logistic regression analysis, factors associated with HFNC failure were children with congenital heart disease comorbidity (p = 0.005), HFNC use with maximum FiO2 > 0.6 (p = 0.021), lobar infiltration on chest X‐ray (p = 0.012), the reduction of heart rate, and respiratory rate <20% after 1 h of HFNC use (p = 0.001 and p = 0.001, respectively).ConclusionHFNC is feasible to use for children with respiratory distress; however, patients with congenital heart disease, using HFNC with FiO2 > 0.6, lobar infiltration on chest X‐ray should be closely monitored. Heart rate and respiratory rate are important parameters in addition to clinical assessment for evaluating HFNC failure in children.
Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges
Authors: Bagamba Fredrick , Ntakyo Proscovia R. , Otim Geoffrey , Spielman David J. , Van Campenhout Bjorn 
Published: August 2022

SummaryMotivationEfforts to increase smallholder access to improved varieties and quality seed is often central to agricultural development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in low‐income countries. Yet many governments and development partners grow impatient with slow progress in their seed sectors. Uganda stands out for its recent policy innovations, regulatory reforms, and market experiments for seed, and for the extensive analysis of its experience.PurposeThis article reviews the changing landscape of Uganda's seed system and assesses recent policy, regulatory, and institutional changes.Methods and approachWe draw on a wide range of documents, studies, and statistics.FindingsThe low uptake of improved varieties and quality seed in Uganda has encouraged innovation to overcome failures in the country's seed market. These innovations include regulatory changes to allow the production of quality declared seed (QDS) by smallholder seed producers; labelling to allow text message verification of seed; and crowd‐sourcing information on seed quality by farmers. All have promise, but it remains to be seen just how effective they will be. In the meantime, vested interests may resist moves to a more innovative seed sector, instead preferring to maintain the incumbent approach designed to use seed to secure political support from smallholders. This is at variance with the spirit of the 2018 legislation and subsequent regulatory reforms.Policy implicationsUganda has a policy framework that could make a real difference to farmer access to better varieties and seed. Market innovations can help the vision to become reality. But the seed sector needs sufficient public investment to generate new varieties and foundation seed, and capacity to manage the seed market to the benefit of producers, dealers and farmers.Having come so far, it would be counter‐productive for political economy factors to displace the efforts of private provision which is far more sustainable in the medium and long run.