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Relationship of green human resource management with environmental performance: mediating effect of green organizational culture
Authors: Aggarwal Priyanka , Agarwala Tanuja 
Published: June 2022

PurposeEnvironment concerns and climate changes have led organizations to reorient their processes with a focus toward sustainability. Organizations recognize that incorporating greening in HR practices has the potential to address environmental concerns. The present study aims to focus on investigating the relationship between green human resource management (GHRM) practices and environmental performance (EP). It is premised that the adoption of green human resource practices facilitates the development of a green organizational culture (GOC) that helps the organization to gain strategic business advantage with respect to the competitors. The literature suggests that the adoption of green human resource practices among organizations is at a nascent stage. The present study focusses on understanding the mediating role of three dimensions of GOC, that is, degree, diffusion and depth in the relationship between green human resource practices and EP that has not been addressed in the empirical literature.Design/methodology/approachThe present study developed a model consisting of GHRM practices as an independent variable, the three dimensions of culture (degree, diffusion and depth) as mediators, and EP as the dependent variable. The study followed a quantitative exploratory research approach. The sample consisted of 278 employees from private and public sector organizations located in India. The hypothesized model was analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM).FindingsThe study found the green human resource practices to be significantly related with EP of the organization. Results of parallel mediation confirmed that the “degree” dimension of GOC played a significant mediating role in the relationship between green human resource practices and EP of the organization. The other two dimensions of GOC, diffusion and depth, did not have a significant mediating role in this relationship. The findings of the study have been explained in the context of social identity theory, resource based view and ability–motivation–opportunity theory.Practical implicationsThe study provides practical insights for researchers and managers who seek to adopt sustainability objectives in the organization. The findings have the potential to encourage human resource managers to adopt green human resource management practices toward promoting a culture of greening in the organization. The importance of developing and measuring EP targets for industry leadership is also emphasized.Originality/valueThe originality of the study lies in classifying and understanding GOC in terms of three dimensions, that is, degree, diffusion and depth, following the model proposed by Harris and Crane (2002). The three dimensions help in assessing the current level of GOC. This assessment promotes the judicious application of resources by the organization and adopts green practices to foster the organizational EP.
Exploring relationships between service quality dimensions and customers satisfaction: empirical study in context to Indian logistics service providers
Authors: Gupta Anchal , Singh Rajesh Kumar , Mathiyazhagan K. , Suri Pradeep Kumar , Dwivedi Yogesh K. 
Published: June 2022

PurposeThis study aims to identify service quality dimensions for logistics service providers (LSPs) and to examine their relationships with customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.Design/methodology/approachService quality dimensions are identified from vast literature review. Customers who take services from LSPs were surveyed to collect data on basis of developed survey instrument. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is applied to test the proposed research hypotheses.FindingsThe study shows that all the five service quality constructs, i.e. “Operational Quality”, “Resource Quality”, “Information Quality”, “Personnel Contact Quality” and “Customization and Innovation Quality” have direct relationship with customer satisfaction. They also have indirect relationship with customer loyalty, implying the full mediation of customer satisfaction.Practical implicationsThe results of the study suggest that the logistics service quality (LSQ) can be measured multi-dimensionally. It provides clear implications to LSPs for improvement of service quality. The present research work is expected to be useful for both, logistics service providers and the customer organizations, which take services from LSPs. LSPs can develop strategies to improve their service quality on basis of findings from this study.Originality/valueThe present research will help in extending the existing literature on service quality in context to LSPs.
Attitude towards pharmaceutical promotional tools and its influence on physicians’ prescribing behaviour in Sudan
Authors: Eldrwish May Alowi , Aigbogun Osaro , Kani Yusuf , Sambasivan Murali 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
Due to the proliferation of generic medicines, pharmaceutical marketing has become increasingly competitive, and marketing executives are now focusing their attention on understanding the prescribing behaviour of physicians to enable them to devise marketing strategies that would put them at a superior business position relative to their competitors. Previous studies carried out either lack a sound theoretical foundation, or report contrasting results, making generalizations sketchy. Thus, a better understanding of attitude-prescribing axiom is needed. Underpinned by the theory of reasoned action (TRA), this study aims to empirically examine the factors that predict the prescribing behaviour of physicians.

Design/methodology/approach
A conceptual model was developed and tested on a sample of 355 respondents drawn from 76 private and 50 public hospitals in Sudan. The data set from the questionnaire survey included both general practitioners (N = 200) and specialists (N = 155). Primary data gathered were analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM).

Findings
The findings reveal that the prescribing behaviour of physicians is positively influenced by the physician’s attitude towards direct marketing, personal selling, educational travel and public relations, but negatively influenced by gifts. Besides, the moderating effect of subjective norms showed no significant influence on the relationship between attitude and prescribing behaviour. However, gender seems to moderate the attitude towards health sector-related charity on prescribing behaviour and the attitude towards scientific conferences on prescribing behaviour.

Research limitations/implications
The findings gathered from this study offers a significant contribution to the ongoing debate on the essential factors that influence the prescribing behaviour of physicians in the hospital setting.

Originality/value
By examining the essential factors that predict physicians’ prescribing behaviour, pharmaceutical companies can improve their understanding of physicians’ attitudes towards the pharmaceutical promotional tools. This is an aspect that is ill reflected in the literature.
Mediating effect of firm’s customer centricity and market orientation on the relationship between the knowledge management and business performance
Authors: Dash Ajitabh 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of a firm’s customer centricity and market orientation on the relationship between the knowledge management and business performance.

Design/methodology/approach
The hypotheses proposed for this study were tested on the data collected from 274 sample firms using partial least square-based structural equation modeling.

Findings
According to the findings of this study, a firm’s customer-centricity fully mediates the relationship between explicit and tacit knowledge management and a firm’s business performance, whereas a firm’s market orientation partially mediates the relationship between tacit and implicit knowledge management systems and a firm’s business performance.

Originality/value
This study can be considered as a pioneer work that investigates how explicit and tacit knowledge can be transformed into business performance with the mediating effect of a firm’s customer centricity and market orientation on this relationship.
Chromosome‐scale genomes reveal genomic consequences of inbreeding in the South China tiger: A comparative study with the Amur tiger
Authors: Zhang Le , Lan Tianming , Lin Chuyu , Fu Wenyuan , Yuan Yaohua , Lin Kaixiong , Li Haimeng , Sahu Sunil Kumar , Liu Zhaoyang , Chen Daqing , Liu Qunxiu , Wang Aishan , Wang Xiaohong , Ma Yue , Li Shizhou , Zhu Yixin , Wang Xingzhuo , Ren Xiaotong , Lu Haorong , Huang Yunting , Yu Jieyao , Liu Boyang , Wang Qing , Zhang Shaofang , Xu Xun , Yang Huanming , Liu Dan , Liu Huan , Xu Yanchun 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThe South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis, SCT) is the most critically endangered subspecies of tiger due to functional extinction in the wild. Inbreeding depression is observed among the captive population descended from six wild ancestors, resulting in high juvenile mortality and low reproduction. We assembled and characterized the first SCT genome and an improved Amur tiger (P. t. altaica, AT) genome named AmyTig1.0 and PanTig2.0. The two genomes are the most continuous and comprehensive among any tiger genomes yet reported at the chromosomal level. By using the two genomes and resequencing data of 15 SCT and 13 AT individuals, we investigated the genomic signature of inbreeding depression of the SCT. The results indicated that the effective population size of SCT experienced three phases of decline, ~5.0–1.0 thousand years ago, 100 years ago, and since captive breeding in 1963. We found 43 long runs of homozygosity fragments that were shared by all individuals in the SCT population and covered a total length of 20.63% in the SCT genome. We also detected a large proportion of identical‐by‐descent segments across the genome in the SCT population, especially on ChrB4. Deleterious nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphic sites and loss‐of‐function mutations were found across genomes with extensive potential influences, despite a proportion of these loads having been purged by inbreeding depression. Our research provides an invaluable resource for the formulation of genetic management policies for the South China tiger such as developing genome‐based breeding and genetic rescue strategy.
Alcohol consumption at age 18–25 and number of children at a 33‐year follow‐up: Individual and within‐pair analyses of Finnish twins
Authors: Rose Richard J. , Latvala Antti , Silventoinen Karri , Kaprio Jaakko 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundDo drinking patterns in late adolescence/early adulthood predict lifetime childlessness and number of children? Research on this question has been only tangentially relevant and the results inconsistent. The designs used to date have been compromised by genetic and environmental confounds that are poorly controlled; covariate effects of smoking and education that are often ignored; males being understudied; population‐based sampling rare, and long‐term prospective studies with genetically informative designs yet to be reported.MethodIn a 33‐year follow‐up, we linked the drinking patterns of >3500 Finnish twin pairs, assessed at ages 18–25, to registry data on their eventual number of children. Analyses distinguished associations of early drinking patterns with lifetime childlessness from those predictive of family size. Within‐twin pair analyses used fixed‐effects regression models to account for shared familial confounds and genetic liabilities. Childlessness was analyzed with Cox proportional hazards models and family size with Poisson regression. Analyses within‐pairs and of twins as individuals were run before and after adjustment for smoking and education, and for oral contraceptive (OC) use in individual‐level analyses of female twins.ResultsBaseline abstinence and heavier drinking both significantly predicted lifetime childlessness in individual‐level analyses. Few abstinent women used OCs, but they were nonetheless more often eventually childless; adjusting for smoking and education did not affect this finding. Excluding childless twins, Poisson models of family size showed heavier drinking at 18–25 to be predictive of fewer children in both men and women. Those associations were replicated in within‐pair analyses of dizygotic twins, each level of heavier drinking being associated with smaller families. Among monozygotic twins, associations of drinking with completed family size yielded effects of similar magnitude, reaching significance at the highest levels of consumption, ruling out familial confounds.ConclusionsCompared to moderate levels of drinking, both abstinence and heavier drinking in late adolescence/early adulthood predicted a greater likelihood of lifetime childlessness and eventual number of children. Familial confounds do not fully explain these associations.
Efficacy of insecticide aerial spraying programs to reduce tree mortality during a spruce budworm outbreak (1967–1992) in the province of Quebec
Authors: Fuentealba Alvaro , Dupont Alain , Quezada‐García Roberto , Bauce Éric 
Published: June 2022

AbstractSpruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) is the most important pest of conifer forests in eastern North America. The main approach for protecting forests against this defoliator is aerial spraying of insecticides. Despite the crucial role of aerial insecticide applications in the global forest protection strategy, little is known about its real effects on tree mortality or the stand characteristics that may affect its long‐term efficacy.We evaluated the efficacy of the protection program that was implemented during the 1967–1992 outbreak in Quebec (Canada) in tree mortality reduction. We established 422 plots in eastern Quebec based upon the following parameters: insecticide application; stand composition; drainage quality; and stand age.Unprotected plots exhibited 18 to 44% greater tree mortality than protected plots. Insecticide efficacy was affected by drainage condition. Protected plots that established on sites with poor quality drainage exhibited 67.53% lower balsam fir (Abies balsamea) mortality than did unprotected plots. Stand age did not affect tree mortality. Insecticide application had no substantial effect on spruce mortality. Our study also found that the return on protection investment in terms of mortality reduction may decline after 7 years of aerial spraying, and that it is not necessary to achieve the target protection goal (50% foliage protection) every year to reduce host tree mortality.Our results may be useful for decision‐makers to decide where and when to apply insecticides during a spruce budworm outbreak and may help to determine the appropriateness of treating the forest on an annual basis depending upon the protection goals.
Lipiodol flushing under ultrasound guidance at time of hystero‐salpingo contrast sonography (HyCoSy): A retrospective observational study
Authors: Hu Hillary , Kirby Adrienne , Dowthwaite Sarah , Mizia Karen , Zen Monica 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundUp to 30% of female infertility can be attributed to tubal abnormalities. Assessment of fallopian tube patency forms a component of the basic assessment of infertility. Tubal patency can be checked through hysterosalpingogram (HSG) under radiologic guidance with oil‐ or water‐based contrast medium (OBCM or WBCM), or hystero‐salpingo contrast sonography (HyCoSy) under ultrasound guidance with WBCM. Tubal flushing with OBCM has been shown to improve fertility rates.ObjectivesTo study the feasibility and tolerability of performing Lipiodol (ethiodised oil) flush concurrently with HyCoSy. To examine the in vivo sonographic visibility of Lipiodol vs normal saline.Materials and MethodsRetrospective observational study of patients with subfertility referred for Lipiodol flushing under ultrasound guidance between August 2017–September 2020 at six private ultrasound practices in Sydney, Australia.ResultsThere were 412 patients who were referred for Lipiodol flushing. Of these, 86 patients did not have concurrent Lipiodol flush at HyCoSy performed due to strict exclusion criteria. Of the 326 patients who proceeded with Lipiodol flushing at HyCoSy, all cases were successful, with no cases of extravasation. There were no major complications. In vivo sonographic visualisation of Lipiodol was similar to that of the commonly used agitated 0.9% saline (n = 20; mean visibility score 4.3 ± 0.9 vs 4.0 ± 1.2).ConclusionOur study has shown that Lipiodol flushing at time of HyCoSy as a single procedure is feasible and tolerable to patients. Flushing with Lipioidol during HyCoSy is likely as sonographically visible as 0.9% saline.
Starting with us: Imagining relational, co‐designed policy approaches to improve healthcare access for rural people with disability
Authors: Quilliam Claire , O'Shea Amie , Holgate Nadine , Alston Laura 
Published: June 2022

AbstractContextAccess to healthcare for rural Australians is a wicked problem, particularly for rural people with disability. Contemporary healthcare access frameworks in Australia tend to overlook geography, use a ‘one‐size‐fits‐all approach’, and disregard the valuable relationships between key rural healthcare stakeholders, including rural people with disability, rural health services and health professionals. The United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires the Australian Government to engage people with disability in the design of policies that will shape their day‐to‐day lives, including their access to healthcare. However, the nature and extent to which rural people with disability, rural health professionals and other key rural stakeholders are involved in the design of Australian policies impacting the health of rural people with disability are unknown.AimThis paper examines approaches taken to engage rural people with disability and health professionals in the design of Australian disability policy impacting healthcare access, and reimagines future processes which can improve healthcare access for rural people with disability.ApproachCo‐design and ethics of care lenses are applied to policy design approaches in this paper. We approach this work as rural disability and health academics, rural health professionals, and as rural people with disability, neurodivergence and family members of people with disability.ConclusionWe argue future co‐designed policy approaches could focus on driving change towards equity in healthcare access for rural people with disability by harnessing the relational nature of rural healthcare.
Does the distance between residency and implanting center affect the outcome of patients supported by left ventricular assist devices? A multicenter Italian study on radial mechanically assisted circulatory support (MIRAMACS) analysis
Authors: Lechiancole Andrea , Loforte Antonio , Scandroglio Mara , Comisso Marina , Iacovoni Attilio , Maiani Massimo , Gliozzi Gregorio , De Bonis Michele , Musumeci Francesco , Terzi Amedeo , Pacini Davide , Livi Ugolino 
Published: June 2022

AbstractBackgroundPatients with LVAD require continuous monitoring and care, and since Implanting Centers (ICs) are more experienced in managing LVAD patients than other healthcare facilities, the distance between patient residency and IC could negatively affect the outcomes.MethodsData of patients discharged after receiving an LVAD implantation between 2010 and 2021 collected from the MIRAMACS database were retrospectively analyzed. The population was divided into two groups: A (n = 175) and B (n = 141), according to the distance between patient residency and IC ≤ or >90 miles.The primary endpoint was freedom from Adverse Events (AEs), a composite outcome composed of death, cerebrovascular accident, hospital admission because of GI bleeding, infection, pump thrombosis, and right ventricular failure. Secondary endpoints were incidences of mortality and complications. All patients were followed‐up regularly, according to participating center protocols.ResultsBaseline clinical characteristics and indications for LVAD did not differ between the two groups. The mean duration of support was 25.5 ± 21 months for Group A and 25.7 ± 20 months for Group B (p = 0.79). At 3 years, freedom from AEs was similar between Group A and Group B (p = 0.36), and there were no differences in rates of mortality and LVAD‐related complications.ConclusionsDistance from the IC does not represent a barrier to successful outcomes as long as regular and continuous follow‐up is provided.
Assessment of adjuvant chemotherapy benefits after complete mesocolic excision in patients with colon cancer: Reanalysis of data from the ESCME trial
Authors: Wang Chao , Gan Lin , Shen Zhanlong , Jiang Kewei , Gao Zhidong , Ye Yingjiang 
Published: June 2022

AbstractAimThe benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) in colon cancer after complete mesocolic excision (CME) have not been evaluated sufficiently. We reanalysed the ESCME trial data to investigate the survival benefits and establish AC stratified indications.MethodsThe data of Stage II and III colon cancer patients who received CME in the ESCME trial were reanalysed. Patients were divided into AC and non‐AC (NAC) groups. The primary outcomes measured were differences in 5‐year cancer‐specific survival and disease‐free survival (DFS) between the groups.ResultsOf the 206 patients enrolled in the study, 125 patients (AC, 49; NAC, 76) had Stage II cancer and 111 (AC, 86; NAC, 25) had Stage III cancer. There were no significant differences in the adjusted 5‐year cancer‐specific survival and DFS between the AC and NAC groups. Poor differentiation (hazard ratio [HR] 2.947; 95% CI 1.218–7.131) and RAS mutation (HR 3.140; 95% CI 1.363–7.234) affected the 5‐year DFS significantly in multivariate Cox regression analysis for Stage II and III cancer, respectively. In subgroup analysis, AC significantly improved 5‐year DFS (HR 0.369; 95% CI 0.140–0.978) for Stage III cancer with lymphovascular/perineural invasion compared to NAC.ConclusionThe current indication and benefits of AC for colon cancer patients after CME should be re‐evaluated. AC is more appropriate for Stage III cancer with lymphovascular/perineural invasion.