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The changing context of walking behavior: coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in urban neighborhoods
Authors: Lotfata Aynaz , Gemci Ayse Gul , Ferah Bahar 
Published: April 2022

PurposeIt is observed that the COVID-19 Pandemic mostly restricts people's movement and walking habits. In this direction, this study aims to highlight how the walking behaviors of individuals affected in different geographies' neighborhoods before and during the Pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis paper focuses on the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and the changing walking behavior of 24 sample regions (514 participants) with the highest incidents of COVID-19 infection from American, European, Asian, Western Pacific, African and Middle Eastern cities. The paper's methodology is supported by an /online questionnaire survey conducted in these 24 disparate neighborhoods in December 2020.FindingsFindings show that “walkable access” varies over geographies during the Pandemic. Urban amenities within 15–20 min of access become more important than ever. The results unravel that either walkable or non-walkable neighborhoods showcased similarities despite that urban amenities were not within 15–20 min of access. Three prominent aspects should be emphasized to plan walkable neighborhoods: providing walkable access, forming spatial proximity and sustaining social cohesion.Social implicationsThe availability of daily amenities, such as shopping stores, health care, education services and pharmacies within a 15–20-min walking distance maintain everyday life and increase social interactions. In addition, places with walkable access encourage an active lifestyle and contribute the public health. The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic movement restrictions on the walking behavior of individuals highlights how the qualities of distance-based urban planning need to be supported with time-based practical attributes that can shape neighborhood planning frameworks.Originality/valueThis paper highlights the coexistence of “walkability” and “accessibility” measures in urban practice and research to create resilient and sustainable neighborhoods. The “walkable access” term used in the paper addresses joint measures of walkability and accessibility.
Analysis of the influence of reputation, identity and image on the country brand
Authors: Revilla-Camacho Maria-Angeles , Rodriguez-Rad Carlos , Garzon Dolores , Sánchez del Río-Vázquez María-Elena , Prado-Roman Camilo , Palacios-Florencio Beatriz 
Published: April 2022

PurposeThe main objective of this study is to identify some of the variables that affect the perception of Brazil country brand, as well as the knowledge of the relationships between them.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed model aims to find out the influence of the affective image, the cognitive image, the identity and the reputation on the country brand. Partial Least Squares (PLS) is the method used to test the proposed model.FindingsAccording to the results obtained, it seems that both identity and reputation have a positive and significant effect on the country brand. On the other hand, the cognitive image is positively related to identity and the affective image, while it is surprising that the affective image itself shows no significant influence on identity.Originality/valueThe study is of particular interest to the policy makers of territories, explaining the factors they must influence in order to successfully enhance the country brand. It also contributes to theoretical development by proposing a conceptual model that highlights the importance of the cognitive image in the country brand, due to its effect on the affective image and identity.
The interaction effect of country-of-origin positioning and cultural distance on international advertising effectiveness: a construal level perspective
Authors: Septianto Felix , Japutra Arnold , Sung Billy , Seo Yuri 
Published: April 2022

PurposeThis research draws upon construal level theory to investigate how brands can develop effective international marketing strategies using country image versus product image across international markets with different cultural distances between them.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reports two preliminary studies and three experimental studies in the context of Australian brands using a “clean and green” image. The preliminary studies explore how product versus country image and cultural similarity are related to construal levels. Then, Study 1 examines consumers from different countries as a proxy of cultural distance, whereas Studies 2 and 3 manipulate levels of cultural distance to test the effects on consumers. Moreover, Study 3 also uses a behavioral outcome as the focal dependent variable and tests the underlying mechanism.FindingsThe results demonstrate a significant interaction effect between country-of-origin positioning and cultural distance, such that an Australian brand emphasizing the country (vs product) image gains more favorable responses among consumers with high levels of cultural distance. Conversely, an Australian brand emphasizing the product (vs country) image gains more favorable responses among consumers with low levels of cultural distance. Further, this research identifies perceived brand cultural authenticity as the underlying process driving the interaction effect.Originality/valueThe findings of this research contribute to the literature on international marketing in general and the country-of-origin literature in particular by examining country-of-origin positioning and cultural distance from the construal level perspective. The research also provides managerial implications on how to promote products in the international market across different cultural distances.
Destruction, heritage and memory: post-conflict memorialisation for recovery and reconciliation
Authors: Atabay Zeynep Ece , Macedonio Alessandra , Teba Tarek , Unal Zeynep 
Published: April 2022

PurposeThe destruction of armed confrontations – ranging from chronic armed conflicts to full-scale wars – leads to enormous loss of human lives and causes wide-scale devastation. They also leave deep and lasting traumas in the minds of those whose lives are torn apart because of a conflict. Memorialisation of conflict-affected sites plays an invaluable part in post-trauma recovery and can contribute to the reconciliation of different groups involved in a conflict as these sites are representatives of communities' collective memory, identity and a source of unity and resilience. This paper aims to investigate post-trauma recovery and reconciliation processes through the phenomena of memorialisation. It aims to answer how and if the memorialisation of sites of pain can contribute to the recovery and reconciliation of affected communities and serve as examples for other people around the world.Design/methodology/approachThe documentation of such processes and the lessons learnt can offer valuable information for conducting similar exercises in other settings ravaged by a conflict. To achieve this, a review of literature on trauma, memory, memorialisation and difficult heritage was conducted, while the memorialisation processes from different cases such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1939–1945), Beirut (1975–1990) and Sarajevo's Vijecnica and Mostar Bridge (1992–1995) were analysed.FindingsIt was identified that the potential of memorialisation for post-trauma recovery and reconciliation is vast. However, if these processes can “heal” or “hurt” depend largely on who the stakeholders are; how the site and events are interpreted and presented; how pre/post-conflict relationships and dynamics are harnessed; how symbolic meanings (old and new) are [re]interpreted; the spatial-temporal nature of the site and those interacting with it; and the intended and perceived messages. Altogether, memorialisation of conflict-affected sites is a political and continuous process that should take into consideration all those directly and indirectly involved, the dynamics between them and all the symbolic meanings acquired and attributed to the site.Originality/valueThe study critically explores frameworks of memorialisation and their impact on both the built environment and communities. It contributes to the wider discussion of difficult heritage memorialisation and approaches to reflect on sites and cities emerging from crises such as conflict.
Keeping up appearance? Nigeria’s anti-corruption crusade and image dilemma in the global arena
Authors: Nwozor Agaptus , Afolabi Oladiran 
Published: April 2022

Purpose
Corruption is a long-standing challenge in Nigeria. The country’s development crises, including widespread poverty and insecurity, have direct and indirect links to corruption. The paradox of corruption in Nigeria is that political elites have politicised its elimination: while preaching anti-corruption, they are still neck-deep in corrupt practices. The purpose of this study centres on Nigeria’s anti-corruption crusade in the context of its effectiveness in attracting global support for external loot recovery. A related preoccupation of this study is to unravel the extent to which Nigeria’s anti-corruption accomplishments or otherwise have shaped international perception.

Design/methodology/approach
This study adopts a qualitative research design. It draws from primary data generated from 25 key informant interviews and complemented with secondary data from archival materials to examine Nigeria’s anti-corruption crusade, especially global perception and its overall implication in motorising the country’s quest for external loot recovery. It deploys unstructured interview guide to generate data from the key informants.

Findings
This study unveils three interrelated issues: since 1999, the promise of eliminating corruption from Nigeria’s body politic has been a recurring campaign theme without corresponding credible action against it. Although anti-corruption agencies exist in Nigeria, the country’s corruption profile is high, an indication of their ineffectiveness. The persistence of corruption has resulted in poor national image, thereby shaping negative international perception about Nigeria. The politicisation of Nigeria’s anti-corruption crusade has undermined international support and created uncertainty in the country’s quest for the recovery of its looted national funds.

Practical implications
The negative perception of the international community about the commitment of the Nigerian Government in fighting corruption has negative implications on the strategic partnership necessary for loot recovery across the globe.

Social implications
The overall social implication is loss of global support for Nigeria’s anti-corruption drive, including its quest to recover its stolen national assets and other forms of international assistance for national development.

Originality/value
The value of this study is two-fold, one, its recency and originality in terms of interrogating the interconnections between domestic efforts at anti-corruption and global perception of such efforts; and two, the contextualisation of the compromised efficiency of Nigeria’s anti-graft agenda and its overall implications in securing global support for external loot recovery.
The influence of Power’s audit society in environmental and sustainability accounting
Authors: Bebbington Jan , Larrinaga Carlos 
Published: April 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the contribution of the Mike Power’s Audit Society and associated papers from the 1990s to the (then) emerging field of environmental accounting. The paper also looks forward to how these seminal ideas are influenced by accounting in the Anthropocene, as examined in more recent sustainability accounting literature.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a reflective essay, drawing from the broad sweep of social, environmental and sustainability accounting literature.

Findings
The performativity of accounting and audit, as it pertains to the practices of environmental audit and sustainability reporting, is clearly evident, with Power’s work contributing significantly to this conceptualisation. At the same time, there is also a material dimension to this process. Indeed, distinguishing first and second-order risk (drawing from Power and others) is a critical and ongoing task for sustainability accounting.

Originality/value
We suggest that the Anthropocene offers challenges to the notion of the performativity of audit and reporting.
A review of existing and potential blue carbon contributions to climate change mitigation in the Anthropocene
Authors: Gao Guang , Beardall John , Jin Peng , Gao Lin , Xie Shuyu , Gao Kunshan 
Published: April 2022

Abstract

The atmospheric concentration of CO2 is steadily increasing and causing climate change. To achieve the Paris 1.5 or 2°C target, negative emission technologies must be deployed in addition to reducing carbon emissions. The ocean is a large carbon sink but the potential of marine primary producers to contribute to carbon neutrality remains unclear.

Here we review the alterations to carbon capture and sequestration of marine primary producers (including traditional ‘blue carbon’ plants, microalgae and macroalgae) in the Anthropocene, and, for the first time, assess and compare the potential of various marine primary producers to carbon neutrality and climate change mitigation via biogeoengineering approaches.

The contributions of marine primary producers to carbon sequestration have been decreasing in the Anthropocene due to the decrease in biomass driven by direct anthropogenic activities and climate change. The potential of blue carbon plants (mangroves, saltmarshes and seagrasses) is limited by the available areas for their revegetation. Microalgae appear to have a large potential due to their ubiquity but how to enhance their carbon sequestration efficiency is very complex and uncertain. On the other hand, macroalgae can play an essential role in mitigating climate change through extensive offshore cultivation due to higher carbon sequestration capacity and substantial available areas. This approach seems both technically and economically feasible due to the development of offshore aquaculture and a well‐established market for macroalgal products.

Synthesis and applications. This paper provides new insights and suggests promising directions for utilizing marine primary producers to achieve the Paris temperature target. We propose that macroalgae cultivation can play an essential role in attaining carbon neutrality and climate change mitigation, although its ecological impacts need to be assessed further.
Exploring the relevance of intersectionality in Australian dietetics: Issues of diversity and representation
Authors: Delbridge Robyn , Jovanovski Natalie , Skues Jason , Belski Regina 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThrough an exploration of the origins of dietetics in the West, and specifically in Australia, we problematise the lack of diversity within the profession through the lens of intersectionality. Dietetics in Australia continues to be dominated by Australian‐born women, and ideologies about dietitians perpetuate narratives of white, young, slim, women. Intersectional approaches to critiquing diversity in dietetics provides a useful framework to extend critical studies of health disparities into disparities in the dietetics professional workforce, which is advanced through structural, political and representational intersectionality guided critique. Through the analysis, a dialog is prompted in order to chart paths forward to find ‘how differences will find expression’ within the professional group. To do this, dietetics as a profession must reckon with its historical roots and step forward, out of a perceived position of objective neutrality regarding people and diversity, and into a position that can recognise that professional institutions have the power to exclude and marginalise, along with the power to include and transform.
AHLS‐pred: a novel sequence‐based predictor of acyl‐homoserine‐lactone synthases using machine learning algorithms
Authors: Hu Jie , Wang Jin , Li Jiahao , Hu Haidong , Wu Bin , Ren Hongqiang , Wang Jinfeng 
Published: April 2022

SummaryAcyl‐homoserine‐lactones (AHLs), as the major quorum sensing (QS) signalling molecules in Gram‐negative bacteria, have shown great application potential in regulating biological nutrient removal process. The identification of AHLs synthases plays an essential role in in‐depth research on QS mechanisms and applications of biological wastewater treatment processes. This work proposed the first prediction model for AHLs synthases based on machine learning algorithms, namely, AHLS‐pred. The training dataset AHLS1400 and the independent testing dataset AHLS132 for AHLSs prediction were first established. Three sequence‐based feature extraction methods are utilized to generate feature descriptors, namely, amino acid composition, dipeptide composition and G‐gap dipeptide composition respectively. Subsequently, the optimal features were obtained based on the sorted feature descriptors (in F‐score order) and the sequential forward search strategy. By comparing five different machine learning algorithms, the final prediction model is trained with support vector machine classifier on AHLS1400 in fivefold cross‐validation with the best performance (ACC = 99.43%, MCC = 0.989, AUC = 0.997). The results show that AHLS‐pred achieves an ACC of 94.70%, MCC of 0.894 and AUC of 0.995 on the independent testing dataset AHLS132. It demonstrates that AHLS‐pred is a promising and powerful prediction method for accelerating the process of AHLSs computational identification.
Does acute alcohol consumption increase risk‐taking while gambling? A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Authors: Horn Tori L. , Whelan James P. , Weil Gregory T. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractAimsTo estimate the effect of acute alcohol consumption on risk‐taking while gambling, examine blood alcohol concentration as a moderator and explore possible moderators of this effect.Design, Setting and ParticipantsA systematic review and meta‐analysis was completed. A Boolean search strategy was used to identify studies that included (a) alcohol consumption as an independent variable; (b) a gambling or risk‐taking task; (c) a control or placebo comparison; (d) human participants; and (e) English publications. Descriptive information, sample characteristics and experimental data were extracted from each study. Searched databases included: PsycINFO, Web of Science, Medline, Cochrane Library and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. Included as participants were experiments that compared the effects of alcohol and non‐alcoholic or placebo beverages on risk‐taking while gambling.MeasurementComprehensive Meta‐Analysis version 3.3.070 was used. Standardized mean differences of risk‐taking while gambling between the experimental and control conditions were calculated when studies did not report effect sizes. Random‐effects models were used for overall effect and meta‐regressions while mixed‐effects models were used for subgroup analyses.FindingsTwenty articles containing 47 alcohol versus control comparisons met inclusion criteria. The overall Hedges’g for the difference between groups consuming alcohol and groups consuming a placebo or non‐alcoholic drink control was 0.03, 95% confidence interval (CI) = −0.07, 0.12, p = 0.60, indicating no significant difference. Larger effect sizes were found for studies using non‐alcoholic control drinks (Hedges’ g = 0.30, 95% CI = 0.01, 0.58) compared to placebo beverages (Hedges’ g = −0.03, 95% CI = −0.13, 0.06), Cochran’s Q = 4.67, p = 0.03.ConclusionsFinding that acute alcohol consumption had no reliable effect on risk‐taking while gambling was consistent with existing animal research. No support was found for the relation between alcohol dose and risk‐taking. The significantly larger effect size for experiments using non‐alcoholic versus placebo beverages suggests the potential role of expectancy effects.
Liver resection for large and huge hepatocellular carcinoma: Predictors of failure, recurrence patterns, and prognoses
Authors: Xiang Cailing , Xiao Yating , Ma Zhongzhi , Peng Yuchong , Li Xun , Mao Xianhai , Li Lequn 
Published: April 2022

AbstractBackgroundCharacteristic symptoms and signs are often absent in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). As a result, many patients are not diagnosed until their tumors have grown to large (> 5cm) or huge sizes (> 10cm). Liver resection has traditionally been reserved for patients with small HCC, but more recently it is being used for patients with large and huge tumors. The aim of this study was to determine risk predictors of recurrence, patterns of recurrence, and survival rates for large and huge HCC patients who underwent curative liver resection.Materials and methodsWe retrospectively identified a subgroup of patients who underwent liver resection for HCC with diameters 5 cm or larger. Overall survival (OS) and recurrence‐free survival (RFS) rates were calculated using the Kaplan–Meier method. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were performed to investigate potential risk factors for recurrence and death.ResultsAmong 897 patients, the median follow‐up was 48 (range, 5–140) months. The 1‐, 3‐, and 5‐year RFS rates were 51.6%, 36.1%, and 30.1%, respectively, and OS rates were 80.2%, 55.4%, and 47.7%, respectively. Significant independent predictors of recurrence were preoperative satellite nodule (HR = 2.25; 95% CI, 1.17–4.31; p = .02), preoperative AFP levels above 400 ng/ml (HR = 1.23; 95% CI, 1.04–1.45; p = .01), resection margins of 1 cm or less (HR = 1.21; 95% CI, 1.00–1.46; p = .047), cirrhosis (HR = 2.64; 95% CI, 2.13–3.28; p < .001), and microvascular invasion (HR = 1.71; 95% CI, 1.45–2.20; p < .001). All of these except narrow resection margin were also independent risk factors of OS.ConclusionsHepatic resection for patients with large and huge HCC without hepatic vascular invasion, extrahepatic metastases, or severe chronic liver disease results in acceptable long‐term outcomes.
Development of the Cold Urticaria Activity Score
Authors: Ahsan Dalia Melina , Altrichter Sabine , Gutsche Annika , Bernstein Jonathan A. , Altunergil Tatjana , Brockstaedt Maxi , Maurer Marcus , Weller Karsten , Terhorst‐Molawi Dorothea 
Published: April 2022

AbstractBackgroundCold urticaria (ColdU) is a form of inducible urticaria where cold induces wheals and/or angioedema. The burden of disease is high and linked to trigger thresholds, exposure, and avoidance. There are presently no validated patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess and monitor disease activity. Our objective was to develop a disease‐specific activity score for ColdU that is easy to administer and evaluate.MethodsA Cold Urticaria Activity Score (ColdUAS) questionnaire was developed, directed by PROM developing guidelines. After the generation of a conceptional framework, the item generation phase included the literature research on ColdU signs and symptoms and on comparable tools for similar diseases and 47 ColdU patient interviews. Subsequently, an impact analysis for content validity was performed. The final selection of items underwent expert review for face validity and cognitive debriefing.ResultsThe ColdUAS, a self‐administered questionnaire for the prospective assessment of disease activity in patients with ColdU, consists of 4 items: 1. the frequency and severity of the signs (wheals and/or angioedema), 2. the frequency and severity of the symptoms (e.g., itch and burn), 3. the exposure to specific triggers, and 4. the avoidance of these triggers. The recall period for each item is the last 24 h.ConclusionsThe ColdUAS is the first disease‐specific PROM to assess ColdU disease activity. It may help to better assess patients' disease status in routine clinical practice as well as in clinical trials. Anchor‐based approaches are currently used to validate the ColdUAS.