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CEO turnover and audit pricing: the role of media tone
Authors: Chao Chia-Ling 
Published: June 2022

PurposePrior research documents that chief executive officer (CEO) characteristics and succession planning affect audit fees. However, whether new CEOs’ media coverage influences audit fees remains unexplored. This study aims to fill this gap by examining whether auditors price media coverage of the new CEO.Design/methodology/approachThe sample comprises 89 US listed firms with CEO turnover over the period 2012–2016, resulting in a total of 445 firm-year observations. Panel data models are used in the analyses.FindingsThe results show that audit fees are higher for firms that hire a new CEO covered with more negative media tone. This study further documents that CEO media tone is determined independently of audit pricing, but that the extent of audit fees is positively related to a new CEO covered with more negative media tone, consistent with a sequential media-tone-then-audit-pricing process.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of this study should motivate future auditing research to consider the media as an important source of external information. The findings are also relevant to stakeholders who are interested in understanding the relationship between auditors and their clients’ CEOs.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the audit fee literature by providing new evidence that auditors view their clients’ CEO with a negative media tone as requiring greater audit effort and leading to higher risks, due to greater public and regulators’ attention conveyed in news coverage. Moreover, the finding of this study that audit fees are higher for firms that hire a new CEO covered with more negative media tone is novel, and extends Joe’s (2003) empirical finding that negative press coverage increases auditors’ perception of risk.
Analysing workplace spirituality as a mediator in the
link between job satisfaction and organisational citizenship
behaviour
Authors: Dubey Pushkar , Pathak Abhishek Kumar , Sahu Kailash Kumar 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
Without competent and talented employees, no organisation can grow and
sustain for a long time. It becomes essential for every organisation to
retain and satisfy the employees to achieve their predetermined
organisational goals. The present study examines the mediating effect of
workplace spirituality dimensions (i.e. meaningful work, compassion,
transcendence, mindfulness and sense of community) in the link between job
satisfaction and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) among managerial
employees of selected manufacturing firms of Chhattisgarh state.

Design/methodology/approach
Correlational research design was incorporated. Employees working at
managerial positions at different private manufacturing firms of
Chhattisgarh state were chosen as a sample for the present study. Regression
analysis and confirmatory factor analysis tools were used to analyse the
primary data collected from 400 respondents.

Findings
The results revealed that all the dimensions of workplace spirituality, i.e.
meaningful work, compassion, transcendence, mindfulness and sense of
community, were found statistically significant and partially mediated
between job satisfaction and OCB among managerial employees of Chhattisgarh.
The authors discussed the results thoroughly and provided avenues for the
future research.

Research
limitations/implications
The findings of the present research study will assist all private
organisations in rethinking their employee retention and satisfaction
strategies, since the presence of workplace spirituality in the organisation
has a significant and beneficial impact on its environment. The current
research will assist organisations in creating circumstances for OCB for
employee via the introduction of workplace spirituality.

Originality/value
Creating spirituality in the current situation, where Covid-19 has suddenly
affected all organisations around the world, would be extremely beneficial
in terms of employee retention and satisfaction, which would eventually aid
in the development of an environment conducive to citizenship behaviour at
the workplace. However, the role of workplace spirituality as a mediator in
the link between job satisfaction and OCB is innovative and has received
little attention in the research community.
Introducing integrated hybrid communication: the nexus linking marketing communication and corporate communication
Authors: Syed Alwi Sharifah Faridah , Balmer John M.T. , Stoian Maria-Cristina , Kitchen Philip J. 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
This study aims to investigate how marketing communication (MC) and nascent corporate communication (CC) strategies are juxtaposed in the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) setting.

Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative research method based on a multiple case study approach is elaborated in a South-East Asian emerging economy.

Findings
The key findings show that MC and nascent CC strategies coexist in SMEs, and are frequently closely interwoven, enabling the introduction of an integrated hybrid communication (IHC) theoretical perspective in this context. Four requisites inform IHC management: communicate the identity/roots; establish and communicate the relationship with multiple stakeholders; communicate the product/service to customers; and communicate other activities of the firm (e.g. corporate social responsibility and brand identity). SME managers were predisposed to use at least three communication channels among the following: advertising, sales promotion, public relations, direct marketing and/or personal selling. Furthermore, managers generally preferred internet-enabled communication.

Research limitations/implications
This study provides fresh insights into how SMEs could integrate their communication strategies to increase their survival chances and business growth. However, the need to develop SMEs is required in every economy. Thus, the present findings could be seen as relevant to various audiences (academic, practitioners and/or policy-makers) such as for managers from Western and/or European settings who are interested in operating in the Malaysian economy.

Practical implications
By using the four requisites that inform IHC, owners/managers of SMEs can adopt a more holistic approach, by strategically planning communication activities using both communication typologies (i.e. product and firm level). Thus, SMEs will be able to enhance clarity and consistency in their communication strategy and achieve brand equity across relevant stakeholders in the long run.

Originality/value
This study introduces the IHC theoretical perspective and reveals the communication tools used by SMEs to communicate product and brand-related messages to multiple stakeholders. These messages tend to stem from and are shaped by the identity/roots of the firm embedded in managerial personality/values.
The heterogeneity of institutional investor activists and their counterintuitive tactical interactions
Authors: Cavich Jason 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
Following the traditions of stakeholder salience theory, this paper aims to contend that some institutional investor activists and tactics have more power, legitimacy and urgency than others.

Design/methodology/approach
The author undertakes an empirical test of a saliency table looking at the effects of institutional investor heterogeneity on portfolio firm responses using ordinal logistic regression.

Findings
This study found heterogeneity for institutional investor type to drive firm responses but not tactic type raising the importance of the attributes of each type of investor activist. The author found a rank ordering of public pension plans, hedge funds and then private multiemployer funds in saliency to portfolio firms. In addition, the use of proxy-based tactics did not help or hurt each investor type. Both findings challenge prior empirical work.

Originality/value
The rank ordering based upon the heterogeneity of institutional investor activists and their tactical interactions are tested providing empirical evidence of the most influential activist investors and tactics in one study, which is rare in the literature.
Managing food waste in the United States: a proposed public-private governance and sustainability model
Authors: Hemphill Thomas A. 
Published: June 2022

PurposeUsing the policy recommendations identified in the study as an analytical departure point, the study proposes a “public-private governance and sustainability model” that builds upon the policy options and develops implementation strategies for the key stakeholder institutions implementing the proposed solutions in the US food waste management ecosystem.Design/methodology/approachWithin an exploratory research perspective, an affinity diagram is employed to help identify important policy recommendations identified with key policy reports. Moreover, the study employs a “meta regulation” approach that employs four essential characteristics of any regulatory instrument or approach: target, regulator, command and consequences.FindingsThe study has identified the recommended solutions identified as most effective, and developed recommended implementation strategies that could accomplish the goal of potentially reducing food waste in the US at the consumer level. The study recommends passage of federal legislation that specifies what form of administrative rule-making and enforcement process should be instituted, as well as who are the important stakeholders to be considered and authority provided in this rule-making and enforcement process.Originality/valueThis study offers a comprehensive “proposed public-private governance and sustainability model” addressing food waste management safety and quality date labeling implementation challenges by the enforcing federal, state and local governments, as well as collaborating with industry associations and consumer interest groups.
Sympatric finches increase trophic and spatiotemporal partitioning to enable coexistence through periods of low resource availability
Authors: Collett Sydney J. , Crewe Tara L. , Radford Ian J. , Garnett Stephen T. , Campbell Hamish A. 
Published: June 2022

Abstract

Ecological niche theory dictates that sympatric species cannot occupy the same ecological niche at the same time. Sympatric granivorous finch species in tropical savannas appear to contradict this theory by moving in mixed‐species flocks and feeding together upon the same resources.

Here, we explored this contradiction by tracking individuals from three finch species (Gouldian—Chloebia gouldiae, long‐tailed—Poephila acuticauda and masked finch—P. personata) often seen feeding together, while simultaneously determining the dietary composition during periods of high and low resource abundance.

Dietary composition was characterised using stable isotope ratios of δ13C and δ15N within the blood, and foraging areas were determined from continuous detection using passive VHF radio telemetry. Individuals were sampled early in the dry season when grass seeds were abundant, in the middle of the dry season and at the end when seeds were very scarce.

The results showed plasticity in ecological niche overlap among the three finch species depending on grass seed availability within the landscape. In the early dry season, the species foraged together on the abundant grass seed. As the dry season progressed and grass seed availability declined, masked and long‐tailed finches exhibited greater spatial partitioning, masked and Gouldian finches increased dietary partitioning, and long‐tailed and Gouldian finches increased both dietary and spatial partitioning.

Our study showed that sympatric granivorous finches utilise trophic and spatiotemporal partitioning to enable coexistence through periods of low resource availability in tropical savannas. Gouldian finches increased activity and ranging behaviour, while long‐tailed and masked finches diversified their diet.

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Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru
Authors: Berquist Stephen , Wernke Steven 
Published: June 2022

AbstractDating to the pre‐Hispanic era, carved stone sculptures of terraced landforms –maquetas –found in the south‐central Andes evoke topographic models. The purpose of thesemaquetashas eluded archaeologists as the lithic landscapes do not correspond precisely to the terrain and could not have served as maps. By centring irrigation as a fundamental concern among communities of the semi‐arid western cordillera of the south‐central Andes, we draw from science and technology studies (STS) to analyse themaquetasas sociotechnical representations that enacted flowing water as a capricious but ultimately ‘teachable’ entity. We argue that themaquetashelped to ground hydraulic knowledge through proprioception, aiding construction of intricate canal systems.
Predicting the efficacy of first‐line immunotherapy by combining cancer cachexia and tumor burden in advanced non‐small cell lung cancer
Authors: Miyawaki Taichi , Naito Tateaki , Doshita Kosei , Kodama Hiroaki , Mori Mikiko , Nishioka Naoya , Iida Yuko , Miyawaki Eriko , Mamesaya Nobuaki , Kobayashi Haruki , Omori Shota , Ko Ryo , Wakuda Kazushige , Ono Akira , Kenmotsu Hirotsugu , Murakami Haruyasu , Mori Keita , Harada Hideyuki , Endo Masahiro , Takahashi Kazuhisa , Takahashi Toshiaki 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundCancer cachexia and tumor burden predict efficacies of programmed cell death‐1 (PD‐1)/programmed death‐ligand 1 (PD‐L1) inhibitors and chemotherapy or pembrolizumab in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). There are no predictive models that simultaneously assess cancer cachexia and tumor burden.MethodsIn the present retrospective study, we reviewed the medical records of patients with advanced NSCLC who received cancer immunotherapy as first‐line systemic therapy. Clinical immune predictive scores were defined according to multivariate analysis of progression‐free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).ResultsA total of 157 patients were included in the present study (75 treated with PD‐1/PD‐L1 inhibitors + chemotherapy; 82, pembrolizumab monotherapy). Multivariate analysis for PFS revealed that PD‐L1 tumor proportion scores <50%, a total target lesion diameter ≥76 mm, and cancer cachexia were independently associated with poor PFS. Multivariate analysis for OS revealed that ≥4 metastases and cancer cachexia were significantly associated with poor OS. In the immune predictive model, the median PFS was 21.7 months in the low‐risk group (N = 41); 7.6 in the medium‐risk group (N = 64); and 3.0 in the high‐risk group (N = 47). The median OS were not reached, 22.4 and 9.1 months respectively. Our immune predictive model was significantly associated with PFS (p < 0.001) and OS (p < 0.001).ConclusionWe proposed the immune predictive model, including tumor burden and cancer cachexia, which may predict the efficacy and survival outcome of first‐line immunotherapy in advanced NSCLC.
Organic pest management of hill crops through locally available plant extracts in themid‐Himalayas
Authors: Stanley Johnson , Subbanna ARNS , Mahanta Dibakar , Paschapur Amit Umesh , Mishra Krishna Kant , Varghese Eldho 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThe present investigation was aimed to assess the best organic pest management practices in soybean and Indian rape cultivation systems in the mid‐Himalayas. Based on the preliminary laboratory assays, promising treatments were selected for field assays for 3 years. It was observed thatPartheniumleaf extract 5% provided significantly higher pest reduction in field condition with 76.8% at 7 DAT (days after treatment) against sucking bug,Chauliops chopraiinfesting soybean. In case of mustard aphids (Lipaphis erysimi) infesting Indian rape, Nimbicidine 5 ml L−1was found superior with 61.5% pest reduction, followed by 5% seed extract ofMelia azedarachat 7 DAT in field condition. Contrary to pest reduction, the pooled yield data analysis showed that among organic treatments, spraying of Nimbicidine @ 5 ml L−1recorded significantly superior yield over control with yield advantage of 29%, followed byM. azedarachseed extract 5% and 10%, both recording 21% yield advantage in case of soybean. Nimbicidine was also superior for Indian rape crop with yield advantage of 51%, followed byBeauveria bassiana@ 3 g L−1with 44% and 5% seed extract ofM. azedarachwith 33% yield advantage compared to control. Hence,Partheniumleaf extract 5% and Nimbicidine are recommended for effective control ofC. chopraiandL.erysimiinfesting soybean and Indian rape, respectively. But to achieve higher yield, Nimbicidine is the best among organic management of those pests for both crops. These results suggest good organic pest management options in organic farming system.
“Do not resuscitate” order and end‐of‐life treatment in a cohort of deceased in a Norwegian University Hospital
Authors: van der Werff Hans F. L. , Michelet Torstein H. , Fredheim Olav M. , Steine Siri 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundA “Do not resuscitate” (DNR) order implies that cardiopulmonary resuscitation will not be started. Absent or delayed DNR orders in advanced chronic disease may indicate suboptimal communication about disease stage, prognosis, and treatment goals. The study objective was to determine clinical practice and patient involvement regarding DNR and the prevalence of life‐prolonging treatment in the last week of life.MethodsA cross‐sectional observational study was made of a cohort of 315 deceased from a large general hospital in Norway. Data on DNR and other treatment limitations, life‐prolonging treatment in the last week of life, and cause of death were obtained from medical records.ResultsA DNR order was documented for 287 (91%) patients. Almost half the DNR orders, 142 (49%), were made during the last 7 days of life. The main causes of death were cancer (31%), infectious diseases (31%), and cardiovascular diseases (19%). The most frequent life‐prolonging treatments during the last week of life were intravenous fluids in 221 patients (70%) and antibiotics in 198 (63%). During the last week of life, 103 (36%) patients received ICU treatment. Death by cancer (odds ratio 2.5, 95% confidence interval 1.24–5.65) and DNR decision made by a palliative care physician (odds ratio 3.4, 95% CI 1.21–3.88) were predictors of not receiving life‐prolonging treatment.ConclusionThe findings of a high prevalence of life‐prolonging treatment in the last week of life and DNR orders being made close to the time of death indicate that decisions about limiting life‐prolonging treatment are often postponed until the patient's death is imminent.
Being private, Big 4 auditors, and debt raising
Authors: Sharpe Wen Hua , Carey Peter , Zhang Hong Feng 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThis study investigates the role of auditor choice (Big 4/Non‐Big 4) in debt financing for private and public firms. We find private firms have less access to debt than public firms, and Big 4 auditors support debt raising in both private and public firms. Consistent with private firms facing greater information asymmetry, Big 4 auditors are more important for debt raising in private firms than in public firms. The benefit of appointing Big 4 auditors for private firms' debt raising is greater in the opaque information environment of the global financial crisis. It is also greater when firms are smaller, younger, or have poorer financial reporting quality. We also find evidence consistent with Big 4 auditors mitigating agency conflicts and enhancing debt raising when ownership concentration is higher in private firms.
Phenological asynchrony between sexes of Restionaceae can explain culm δ13C differences
Authors: van Blerk Justin J. , West Adam G. , Skelton Robert P. , Midgley Jeremy J. 
Published: June 2022

AbstractDecade‐old observations of sex‐specific differences in culm δ13C for the diverse and ecologically important Restionaceae of the Cape Florisitic Region (CFR) have yet to be explained mechanistically. In the dioecious, wind‐pollinated Cannomois congesta (Mast.), we found that sexual differences in culm δ13C were not explained by intrinsic differences in water use efficiency (WUE), but rather by differences in growth phenology. When growing together, instantaneous WUE (A/g) was equal between sexes. However, we noted strong phenological asynchrony between the sexes where males began to grow new culms nearly 2 months earlier than females. This initial period of growth in males corresponded to hotter, drier conditions and temporarily higher instantaneous WUE, thus driving less negative δ13C signals in male culms. We suspect that phenological differences might explain previously reported sexual differences in culm δ13C in the Restionaceae family. Despite earlier culm emergence in males, reduced growth in males prior to flowering, presumably due to costs associated with reproduction, resulted in both sexes flowering at the same height. We discuss the potential selective advantage of earlier growth in males as it relates to inflorescence heights and pollination efficiency.
Training on the Silverman and Andersen score improved how special care unit nurses assessed neonatal respiratory distress in a low‐resource setting
Authors: Cavallin Francesco , Balestri Eleonora , Calia Margherita , Biasci Filippo , Tolera Jiksa , Pietravalle Andrea , Manenti Fabio , Trevisanuto Daniele 
Published: June 2022

AbstractAimIdentifying the severity of neonatal respiratory distress (RD) is essential, so that resources can be appropriately allocated. We assessed the ability of nurses to grade neonatal RD in a low‐resource setting before and after they were trained to use a dedicated scoring tool.MethodsThe study was conducted in the Special Care Unit of St Luke Wolisso Hospital, Ethiopia. Ten nurses reviewed nine local video recordings and graded neonatal RD without a standardised method, which was current practice, and then after they were trained to use the Silverman and Andersen score. The data were analysed using the McNemar test and Cohen's kappa.ResultsTraining increased the identification of mild RD from 63% to 93% (p = 0.008) and moderate RD from 40% to 73% (p = 0.03). Severe RD was 93% before and 90% after training (p = 0.99). Overall, the agreement improved from kappa 0.59 to 0.84, mainly by reducing the overestimation of milder degrees of RD.ConclusionBeing trained on how to use the Silverman and Andersen score improved the ability of nurses to identify mild and moderate neonatal RD. This improvement has the potential to optimise the use of equipment, staff and time.
Exogenous gamma‐aminobutyric acid addition enhances porcine sperm acrosome reaction
Authors: Kurata Shouhei , Umezu Kohei , Takamori Hironori , Hiradate Yuuki , Hara Kenshiro , Tanemura Kentaro 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThe widely used porcine artificial insemination procedure involves the use of liquid‐stored semen because it is difficult to control the quality of frozen–thawed porcine sperm. Therefore, there is a high demand for porcine semen. The control and enhancement of sperm function are required for the efficient reproduction of pigs. We previously reported that gamma‐aminobutyric acid (GABA) enhanced sperm capacitation and acrosome reaction in mice. In this study, we demonstrated the presence of GABAA receptors in porcine sperm acrosome. Furthermore, we investigated the GABA effects on porcine sperm function. We did not detect any marked effect of GABA on sperm motility and tyrosine phosphorylation of sperm proteins. However, GABA promoted acrosome reaction, which was suppressed by a selective GABAA receptor antagonist. GABA binds to GABAA receptors, resulting in chloride ion influx. We found that treatment with 1 μM GABA increased the intracellular concentration of chloride ion in the sperm. In addition, the GABA concentration effective in the acrosome reaction was correlated with the porcine sperm concentration. These results indicate that GABA and its receptors can act as modulators of acrosome reaction. This study is the first to report the effects of GABA on porcine sperm function.