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Does syndicate structure create value for initial public offerings? An empirical investigation for the Indian market
Authors: Sahoo Seshadev , Sahoo Abhimanyu 
Published: February 2022

Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the impact of the underwriters’ syndicate size (SS) and its structure on underpricing (UP), oversubscription rate, liquidity and volatility. The authors use a database of 185 initial public offers (IPOs) issued in India during the period 2012–2019.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors have used ordinary least squares regression and stepwise regression on cross-sectional data to construct the regression model for the dependent variables under consideration, namely, UP, subscription rate (SUB), listing day volatility and listing day liquidity.

Findings
The authors find that larger syndicates reduce UP. The authors also find strong evidence of a larger subscription rate for IPOs managed by larger syndicates, suggesting that larger syndicates generate more information in the market. Looking into the composition of investment banks in the syndicate, the authors find that syndicates comprising more lead managers and comanagers attract a higher subscription from potential investors. More book running lead managers and nonmanaging syndicate members help increase liquidity and reduce the volatility of IPO stocks on listing day. Additionally, the authors find that larger firms with reputed lead managers establish larger syndicates while venture-affiliated IPO firms prefer a smaller syndicate.

Practical implications
The findings would interest issuing firms, investors, intermediaries and policymakers engaged in formulating syndicates for better management of IPOs.

Originality/value
The study extends the present literature on IPO syndicates, particularly in the Indian context as an emerging economy. The study extended the present understanding of SS and composition, creating value for the issuers.
Improbable landing – the Sioux city miracle
Authors: O’Brien Jamie , Licht John-Gabriel 
Published: February 2022

Research methodology
The technical reports released by the National Transportation Safety Board, along with secondary data in the form of available public data, such as news reports, interviews and memos, were used to round out the synopsis of the case study.

Case overview/synopsis
This case explores the events that led up to the crash of United Airlines Flight 717 (for anonymity), in Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989, and the subsequent investigation. The case uses secondary sources to highlight the positive team interactions between the pilots that led to the crash landing not being as catastrophic as it might have been with 185 survivors in an extreme crisis scenario. The teaching note focuses on the importance of cognitive bias, psychological safety and teamwork in a crisis situation, and practical recommendations for managers at all levels.

Complexity academic level
Organizational Behavior at the undergraduate and graduate level. Leadership and Change at the graduate and graduate level.
Mapping mental health inequalities: The intersecting effects of gender, race, class, and ethnicity on ADHD diagnosis
Authors: Bergey Meredith , Chiri Giuseppina , Freeman Nikki L. B. , Mackie Thomas I. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractWhile the effects of social stratification by gender, race, class, and ethnicity on health inequalities are well‐documented, our understanding of the intersecting consequences of these social dimensions on diagnosis remains limited. This is particularly the case in studies of mental health, where “paradoxical” patterns of stratification have been identified. Using a Bayesian multi‐level random‐effects Poisson model and a nationally representative random sample of 138,009 households from the National Survey of Children's Health, this study updates and extends the literature on mental health inequalities through an intersectional investigation of one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric conditions of childhood/adolescence: attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Findings indicate that gender, race, class, and ethnicity combine in mutually constitutive ways to explain between‐group variation in ADHD diagnosis. Observed effects underscore the importance and feasibility of an intersectional, multi‐level modelling approach and data mapping technique to advance our understanding of social subgroups more/less likely to be diagnosed with mental health conditions.
The existential turn in philosophy of education: In defence of liberal autonomy
Authors: Miller Alistair 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
In recent years, there has been a marked shift in concern among some philosophers of education from political transformation to personal transformation. In the past, critics of liberalism, both egalitarian and communitarian, promoted political, social, economic and educational reform—but always subscribed to the freedom of the individual, the sovereign subject, to seek fulfilment. Now, influenced by an existential turn in the work of Heidegger, Sartre and Levinas, which originates in Hegel's dialectic of freedom, and postmodernist notions of transgressive self-creation, proponents of personally transformative education call for a decentring of the egoistic self so that we might recreate ourselves as ethical beings whose unconditional obligations are to ‘the other’ in a shared world. However, this vision of idealised existential subjects stripped of contingent worldly attachments and selfish egocentric impulses, enjoying idealised ethical relations and what I term ‘existential freedom’, is radically undetermined. It could only be achieved if individual wills were merged into a collective will or consciousness, and personal autonomy was eliminated. Meanwhile, crucial educational and political questions concerning how the practical affairs of autonomous individuals—real people—should be managed in a liberal democracy, and how young people should be educated for responsible citizenship, are neglected (at least among those influenced by the existentialist turn), as the formative and socialising functions of education are undermined. I conclude that the existential turn towards personally transformative education leads us nowhere.
China's COVID‐19 pandemic response: A first anniversary assessment
Authors: Bernot Ausma , Siqueira Cassiano Marcella 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThe literature on crisis management reports that crises can be critical for organizations, including state and extra‐state actors; they either break down or reinvent themselves. Successful organizations, those that do not break down, use situations of crisis to restructure themselves and improve their performance. Applicable to all crises, this reasoning is also valid for the COVID‐19 pandemic and for government organizations in China. Drawing on documentary analysis, this article examines China's pandemic response from the social–political, technological and psychological perspectives using a holistic crisis management framework. It demonstrates that the Chinese state bureaucracy has assembled, expanded and strengthened its surveillance strategies to strive for comprehensive crisis response.
ZMAT3 hypomethylation contributes to early senescence of preadipocytes from healthy first‐degree relatives of type 2 diabetics
Authors: Spinelli Rosa , Florese Pasqualina , Parrillo Luca , Zatterale Federica , Longo Michele , D’Esposito Vittoria , Desiderio Antonella , Nerstedt Annika , Gustafson Birgit , Formisano Pietro , Miele Claudia , Raciti Gregory Alexander , Napoli Raffaele , Smith Ulf , Beguinot Francesco 
Published: February 2022

AbstractSenescence of adipose precursor cells (APC) impairs adipogenesis, contributes to the age‐related subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) dysfunction, and increases risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). First‐degree relatives of T2D individuals (FDR) feature restricted adipogenesis, reflecting the detrimental effects of APC senescence earlier in life and rendering FDR more vulnerable to T2D. Epigenetics may contribute to these abnormalities but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In previous methylome comparison in APC from FDR and individuals with no diabetes familiarity (CTRL), ZMAT3 emerged as one of the top‐ranked senescence‐related genes featuring hypomethylation in FDR and associated with T2D risk. Here, we investigated whether and how DNA methylation changes at ZMAT3 promote early APC senescence. APC from FDR individuals revealed increases in multiple senescence markers compared to CTRL. Senescence in these cells was accompanied by ZMAT3 hypomethylation, which caused ZMAT3 upregulation. Demethylation at this gene in CTRL APC led to increased ZMAT3 expression and premature senescence, which were reverted by ZMAT3 siRNA. Furthermore, ZMAT3 overexpression in APC determined senescence and activation of the p53/p21 pathway, as observed in FDR APC. Adipogenesis was also inhibited in ZMAT3‐overexpressing APC. In FDR APC, rescue of ZMAT3 methylation through senolytic exposure simultaneously downregulated ZMAT3 expression and improved adipogenesis. Interestingly, in human SAT, aging and T2D were associated with significantly increased expression of both ZMAT3 and the P53 senescence marker. Thus, DNA hypomethylation causes ZMAT3 upregulation in FDR APC accompanied by acquisition of the senescence phenotype and impaired adipogenesis, which may contribute to FDR predisposition for T2D.
CBD‐mediated regulation of heroin withdrawal‐induced behavioural and molecular changes in mice
Authors: Navarrete Francisco , Gasparyan Ani , Manzanares Jorge 
Published: February 2022

AbstractCannabidiol (CBD) may represent a promising therapeutic tool for treating opioid use disorder (OUD). This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of CBD on the behavioural and gene expression alterations induced by spontaneous heroin withdrawal. Thirty hours after cessation of 8‐day heroin treatment (5, 10, 20 and 40 mg·kg−1/12 h; s.c.), spontaneous heroin withdrawal was evaluated in CD1 male mice. The effects of CBD (5, 10 and 20 mg·kg−1; i.p.) on withdrawal‐related behaviour were evaluated by measuring anxiety‐like behaviour, motor activity and somatic signs. Furthermore, gene expression changes of mu‐opioid receptor (Oprm1), proopiomelanocortin (Pomc), cannabinoid CB1 (Cnr1) and CB2 (Cnr2) receptors in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and Pomc in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) were also evaluated by real‐time PCR. Anxiety‐like behaviour, motor activity and withdrawal‐related somatic signs were significantly increased in heroin‐treated mice compared to the control group. Interestingly, CBD treatment significantly reduced these behavioural impairments and normalized gene expression of Cnr1 and Pomc in the NAcc and TH in the VTA of mice exposed to spontaneous heroin withdrawal. Also, CBD induced an up‐regulation of Cnr2, whereas it did not change the increased gene expression of Oprm1 in the NAcc of abstinent animals. The results suggest that CBD alleviates spontaneous heroin withdrawal and normalizes the associated gene expression changes. Future studies are needed to determine the relevance of CBD as a potential therapeutic tool for the treatment of heroin withdrawal.
Vision‐related quality of life and visual ability in patients with autosomal dominant optic atrophy
Authors: Eckmann‐Hansen Christina , Bek Toke , Sander Birgit , Larsen Michael 
Published: February 2022

AbstractPurposeThe purpose of the study was to evaluate vision‐related quality of life and visual ability in patients with OPA1 autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA).MethodsThis cross‐sectional, observational study included 145 participants with a mutation in the OPA1 gene associated with ADOA, 63 mutation‐free first‐degree relatives and 92 healthy subjects unrelated to the families. Participants underwent a clinical eye examination, and adult participants completed the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI‐VFQ‐39), while children completed the Cardiff Visual Ability Questionnaire for Children (CVAQC).ResultsIn adults with ADOA, both mean visual acuity (VA) and mean contrast sensitivity (CS) were significantly inferior to both first‐degree relatives and unrelated controls (p < 0.001). In children with ADOA, mean VA was significantly lower compared with first‐degree relatives (p = 0.0052), whereas CS was not (0.127). Adults with ADOA scored lower than both comparator groups on composite score (p < 0.001), general health subscale (p = 0.0075) and all vision‐related subscales (p < 0.001) except the ocular pain subscale (p = 0.2). In children with ADOA, the median CVAQC logit score was significantly lower compared with first‐degree relatives (p = 0.037). The science lessons subscale was significantly lower for children with ADOA compared with first‐degree relatives (p = 0.046), as well as the language lessons subscale (p = 0.038). For adults, composite score and subscale scores were significantly associated with both VA, CS and fixation status.ConclusionOPA1 mutation is associated with lower quality of life and visual ability in patients with ADOA compared with both first‐degree relatives and unrelated controls. VA, CS and fixation status affect quality of life in patients with ADOA.
Accelerated scale‐up of Kangaroo Mother Care: Evidence and experience from an implementation‐research initiative in south India
Authors: Jayanna Krishnamurthy , Rao Suman , Kar Arin , Gowda Prabhu Dev , Thomas Tinku , Swaroop Narayana , Washington Maryann , Shashidhar A Rao , Rai Prathibha , Chitrapu Suresh , Mohan Harnalli Lakkappa , Martines Jose , Mony Prem 
Published: February 2022

AbstractAimThough Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) has demonstrated benefits for low birth weight newborns, coverage continues to be low in India. As part of a World Health Organization (WHO) multi‐country study, we explored intervention models to accelerate KMC coverage in a high priority district of Karnataka, India.MethodsWe used implementation‐research methods, formative assessments and quality improvement approaches to design and scale‐up interventions. Evaluation was done using prospective cohort study design; data were collected from facility records, and client interviews during KMC initiation, at discharge and at home after discharge.ResultsKMC was initiated at health facilities for 87.6% of LBW babies under 2000 g. At discharge, 85.0% received KMC; 67.9% continued to receive KMC at home on the 7th day post‐discharge. The interventions included training, mentoring and constant advocacy at many levels: public health facilities, private sector and the community. Innovations like a KMC case sheet, counselling, peer support group triggered KMC in the facilities; a KMC‐link card, a microplanning and communication tool for CHWs helped to sustain practice at homes.ConclusionThe study provides a novel approach to designing and scaling up interventions and suggests lessons that are applicable to KMC as well as to broader reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health programmes.
Emission taxes for genuine altruistic firms
Authors: Diakoulakis Giorgos N. , Kampas Athanasios 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThis article develops a theoretical model that explores firms' abatement choices. The main results are: First, in a market comprised of a not sufficiently large number of heterogeneous firms always there exists a subset of firms that are willing to undertake abatement activities, if their marginal altruistic cost of emissions is positive. Second, a low emission tax induces abatement when a firm is egoistic or if its altruistic cost of emissions has a concave structure. In contrast, if the firms’ altruistic cost of emissions has a convex structure, then intermediate emission taxes are required. Third, the effect of firms’ altruistic cost of emissions on the emission tax that induce the socially optimum abatement is also conditional on the genuine altruistic preferences and finally, the social planner has an incentive to impose a Pigouvian emission tax when firms are profit maximizers. Otherwise, a lower tax suffices.
Relationship between foal daily gain, suckling behavior, and the distance between foals and their mares in the first 40 days of life of Hokkaido native horses kept outdoors year‐round
Authors: Huricha  , Kawai Masahito , Ninomiya Shigeru 
Published: February 2022

AbstractIn this study, we investigated suckling behavior and the distance between a foal and its mare as indicators of foal growth in Hokkaido native horses (HKD) during the first 40 days of life. Direct observations were made of 22 mare and foal pairs from two consecutive days 1 and 2, 5 and 6, 10 and 11, 20 and 21, 30 and 31, and 40 and 41 after birth by focal animal sampling for 3 h per day. Suckling behavior was continuously recorded, along with the terminator. The distance between the foal and its mare was determined using the instantaneous sampling method (1 min), and the percentage was calculated within 4 m while the foal was recumbent (DPW4FR). In the first week after birth, the duration and frequency of suckling terminated by the foal were negatively correlated with foal daily gains (duration, −0.49, p = 0.028; frequency, −0.53, p = 0.017). The DPW4FR and daily gain during 10–40 days after birth showed significant negative correlation (−0.47, p = 0.031). It is suggested that in HKD reproduction systems, suckling behavior termination by the foal and the distance between the foal and mare may be indicators of early foal growth.
Maternal effect on first‐year growth of Hokkaido native foals kept outdoors all year round
Authors: Huricha  , Kawai Masahito , Inose Yoshihisa , Yamada Fumihiro , Ninomiya Shigeru 
Published: February 2022

AbstractIn this study, we investigated maternal effects on the growth of Hokkaido native horses kept outdoors throughout the year. We used the data on body weight (BW), height at withers (HW), heart girth (HG), and cannon circumference (CC) of 517 foals during the first year of life to (1) examine the growth patterns by comparing six linear mixed models and (2) analyze the maternal effect on BW, HW, HG, and CC for each month by estimating variance components. The segmented polynomial third‐order regression equation was selected as the best model for all the traits. The estimated proportion of variance components for the effects of the dam were 0.25–0.38 for BW, 0.19–0.28 for HW, 0.19–0.34 for HG, and 0.10–0.21 for CC. A higher effect of the dam compared with that of the sire was observed on BW and HG at all months of age and HW at 0–2 months of age. Therefore, the dam contributed to foal growth not only through half of its heredity but also through the maternal effect derived mainly from its milk. These results provide valuable information for the breeding of Hokkaido native foals.
Neighboring edges: Interacting edge effects from linear disturbances in treed fens
Authors: Echiverri Laureen F. I. , Macdonald S. Ellen , Nielsen Scott E. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractQuestionsEdge influence on forest biodiversity is an important environmental effect associated with habitat fragmentation, but extrapolating the influence of edges across the broader landscape has been difficult, especially for situations where multiple edges exist in close proximity. We asked whether there were differences in edge effects between two types (3 m vs 8 m width) of low‐severity linear disturbance (seismic lines) and whether there were interactions of edge effects when seismic lines occur in dense networks; that is, do multiple narrow seismic lines have a stronger or weaker edge influence than a single narrow seismic line.LocationTreed peatlands in northeastern Alberta, Canada.MethodsSeismic lines are created during oil and gas exploration and are responsible for dissection of boreal forests in western Canada. We sampled vascular plants along transects perpendicular to seismic lines in moderate‐rich and poor treed fens. We used the “Randomization Test of Edge Influence” (RTEI) to calculate the magnitude and distance of edge effects and then compared these between narrower (3 m) versus wider (8 m) lines and between single narrow lines versus multiple narrow lines (parallel and ~50 m apart).ResultsIn moderate‐rich fens, we found a positive edge influence on understorey diversity from both wide and narrow seismic lines. We also found a weakening edge interaction on diversity, that is, single narrow seismic lines had a stronger edge influence on diversity than did multiple narrow seismic lines. In treed poor fens, multiple narrow seismic lines had a negative edge effect on tree density, understorey abundance, richness, and composition. In addition, we found strengthening edge interactions in treed poor fens on tree density, graminoid cover, and understorey composition.ConclusionsEven narrow linear disturbances, such as seismic lines, can have significant edge effects and these are exacerbated when lines occur in dense networks.
Values, personality traits, and packaging‐free shopping: A mixed‐method approach
Authors: Gordon‐Wilson Sianne , Modi Pratik , Eastman Jacqueline K. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThis research examines packaging‐free shopping, which contributes to reducing the negative impact of plastic packaging on the environment, and its’ relationship with green consumption values, value consciousness, and psychological traits. A mixed‐methods approach is adopted with quantitative followed by qualitative research. Study 1 recruits 240 respondents from social media and the lead author's university website to examine different factors that increase consumers’ likelihood of packaging‐free shopping. Study 2 recruits packaging‐free shoppers from Facebook Pages, explores these findings and provides further insights. Study 1 finds that consumers are driven more by green consumer values than by value consciousness, and consumers who are more conscientious are more likely to do packaging‐free shopping. Study 2 supports this by finding that green consumer values drive packaging‐free shopping, but this in only one part of their green efforts. The research contributes by illustrating the importance of conscientiousness specifically in the domain of packaging‐free shopping and that these packaging‐free shoppers are not driven in terms of value for money but by addressing their green consumer values. We recommend that packaging‐free retailers and policy makers utilize promotional efforts to communicate how packaging‐free shopping provides a balance with consumers’ green values for these shoppers, how it fits in with their other green efforts, and how these shopping efforts are making a difference in helping the environment.
Tax competition and political agency problems
Authors: Kasamatsu Satoshi , Kishishita Daiki 
Published: February 2022

AbstractWe study how politicians' reputation concerns affect taxation in the presence of intergovernmental competition. To this end, we construct a two‐country asymmetric tax competition model in which the residents in one of the two countries face a domestic political agency problem: the residents do not know whether the incumbent politician is benevolent or leviathan. To separate themselves from leviathan politicians and attract voters’ support, benevolent politicians argue for excessively low taxation, which can be regarded as anti‐taxation populism. This anti‐taxation populism exhibits the following two properties. First, the populist country's low production technology relative to the other country facilitates the emergence of anti‐taxation populism. Second, anti‐taxation populism can improve welfare in terms of either the populist country or the whole world, depending on the asymmetry of the production technology.