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Familiar worldwide: how PDO products reflect quality in consumers' appraisal and behaviour
Authors: Toma Pierluigi , Manta Francesco , Morrone Domenico , Campobasso Francesco 
Published: February 2022

PurposeThe present study focuses on the role of PDO certification in fostering the quality perception of certified-food consumers – highlighting the difference between quality brands and environmental labels. The case study of Mozzarella di Gioia del Colle DOP was taken into consideration to evaluate the opportunity of supporting a food product suitable for all families and promoting it worldwide through a quality certification.Design/methodology/approachThe authors made a qualitative analysis on local Apulian consumers and, for testing our hypotheses, structural equation models were applied to evaluate the effect of familiarity on the relationships between perceived risk, trust, satisfaction, loyalty, resolution to pay a higher price and intent to purchase a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) certified food product.FindingsThe authors observed managerial implications which seek to improve the collaborative network between the subjects employed in the phases of the production process, the stakeholders and the consortia, in order to plan a holistic development territorial strategy. It is useful to start a process of knowledge and evaluation of the benefits of the quality mark in the territory of origin of the PDO food product.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors provided theoretical and managerial implications which aim at improving the collaborative network between the subjects employed in the phases of the production process, stakeholders and consortia, in the outlook of territorial development strategies.Originality/valueAccording to the analysis of the theoretical background, the opportunity to recognise the origin of a certain product allows the consumer to easily appreciate its intrinsic quality, relating a combination of factors to the territorial matching. It also focuses on the analysis of a different feedback at a local level from consumers, showing a lower intention to pay by consumers living in the same area where the PDO product comes from rather than other food goods.
Real‐world blood examination screening data before initiation of biologics for psoriasis patients
Authors: Ozaki Saeko , Ichiyama Susumu , Ito Michiko , Hoashi Toshihiko , Kanda Naoko , Saeki Hidehisa 
Published: February 2022

AbstractPsoriasis is a chronic immune‐mediated inflammatory skin disease characterized by hyperproliferation of epidermal keratinocytes. Biologics have been available for the treatment of patients with refractory psoriasis since 2010 in Japan, and as of December 2021, 10 biologics were available. The Biologics Review Committee of the Japanese Dermatological Association for Psoriasis recommends blood examination tests for antinuclear antibodies (ANA), Krebs von den Lugen (KL)‐6, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), hepatitis B surface antibodies (HBsAb), hepatitis B core antibodies (HBcAb), hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies, HIV antibodies, human T‐cell leukemia virus (HTLV)‐1 antibodies, β‐D‐glucan, and the T‐cell spot (T‐SPOT) test before initiation of biologics at screening. In this study, we evaluated the use of biologics for 127 psoriasis patients and the blood examination screening data before initiation of biologics in the real‐world setting. Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, interleukin (IL)‐17 inhibitors and IL‐23 inhibitors were initiated for 54 (42.5%), 36 (28.3%), and 37 (29.1%) patients, respectively. The numbers of patients positive for ANA, HBsAg, HBsAb, HBcAb, HCV antibody, HIV antibody, HTLV‐1 antibody, and T‐SPOT were 27 (21.3%), 0 (0%), 22 (17.3%), 20 (15.7%), three (2.4%), zero (0%), one (0.8%), and 4 (3.1%), respectively. The numbers of patients whose KL‐6 and β‐D‐glucan levels were higher than the reference values were seven (5.5%) and seven (5.5%), respectively. In the real‐world setting, it is sometimes unavoidable to use biologics for those patients with abnormal data although careful monitoring is necessary.
Environmental regulation stringency and foreign direct investment
Authors: Tran Quan , Tran Thao , Vo Duc Hong 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThe effects of environmental regulation stringency on foreign direct investment are noted in the existing literature. However, current literature appears to have ignored the feedback effects from foreign investment to environmental regulation stringency. This feedback effect plays a significant role in designing policies to attract foreign investment to support economic growth and improve environmental quality concurrently. This study examines the feedback effects from foreign investment on environmental regulation stringency using the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) newly developed Environmental Policy Stringency Index for 26 OECD countries for almost three decades since 1990. The key findings from this study to the existing literature are threefold. First, we find that foreign investment affects the environment regulation stringency via lobbying. However, when the number of legislative units in the host countries is large enough, the lobbying effect diminishes, particularly for the larger‐gross domestic product (GDP) and the higher‐per‐capita‐income OECD countries. Second, our empirical results confirm the U‐shaped relationship between manufacturing activities and the environmental regulation stringency. Third, the bilateral relationship between environmental regulation stringency and foreign investment is found, indicating that ignoring foreign investment in designing environmental policies is problematic. Finally, policy implications have emerged based on the findings from this study.
Gamma frequency light flicker regulates amyloid precursor protein trafficking for reducing β‐amyloid load in Alzheimer's disease model
Authors: Shen Qi , Wu Xiaolei , Zhang Zhan , Zhang Di , Yang Sihua , Xing Da 
Published: February 2022

AbstractInducing gamma oscillations with non‐invasive light flicker has been reported to impact Alzheimer's disease‐related pathology. However, it is unclear which signaling pathways are involved in reducing amyloid load. Here, we found that gamma frequency light flicker increased anchoring of amyloid precursor protein (APP) to the plasma membrane for non‐amyloidogenic processing, and then physically interacted with KCC2, a neuron‐specific K+‐Cl− cotransporter, suggesting that it is essential to maintain surface GABAA receptor α1 levels and reduce β‐amyloid (Aβ) production. Stimulation with such light flicker limited KCC2 internalization and subsequent degradation via both tyrosine phosphorylation and ubiquitination, leading to an increase in surface‐KCC2 levels. Specifically, PKC‐dependent phosphorylation of APP on a serine residue was induced by gamma frequency light flicker, which was responsible for maintaining plasma membrane levels of full‐length APP, leading to its reduced trafficking to endosomes and inhibiting the β‐secretase cleavage pathway. The activated PKC from the gamma frequency light flicker subsequently phosphorylated serine of KCC2 and stabilized it onto the cell surface, which contributed to the upregulation of surface GABAA receptor α1 levels. Together, these data indicate that enhancement of APP trafficking to the plasma membrane via light flicker plays a critical modulatory role in reduction of Aβ load in Alzheimer's disease.
An Evaluation of Business Model Disclosures in Integrated Reports
Authors: Gutmayer Thomas , Cerbone Dannielle , Maroun Warren 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to examine companies’ business model disclosures in their integrated reports and to explore the possible determinants of more detailed business model disclosures. Content analysis is used to identify disclosure themes in the integrated reports of 40 companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Descriptive statistics are generated for each disclosure theme/item and hypotheses are tested, using non‐parametric testing. The results suggest that financial performance does not have a material effect on how companies explain their business model. This is not the case when it comes to environmental performance as firms with strong environmental performance devote more attention to explaining how financial and non‐financial elements are managed. This is consistent with an emerging body of research which suggests that higher‐quality integrated reporting can be used to lower information asymmetry and reinforce investors’ ability to understand a firm's performance. This paper complements a growing body of work which has considered the determinants of better‐quality environmental or sustainability reporting and answers the call for more research on the factors that may influence the nature and extent of disclosures found in an integrated report.
The identification of gifted underachievement: Validity evidence for the commonly used methods
Authors: Jackson Rahmi Luke , Jung Jae Yup 
Published: February 2022

BackgroundMuch confusion exists about the underachievement of gifted students due to significant variations in how the phenomenon has been identified. From a review of the literature, five methods were found to be commonly used to identify gifted underachievement.AimsThe purpose of the study was to assess the equivalence of the commonly used methods to identify gifted underachievement, and to determine which of these methods may be optimal.SampleData were collected from a school in Sydney, Australia.MethodThree measures of convergence (i.e., difference in proportions, phi association, and kappa agreement) were used to assess the equivalence of the identification methods, while latent class analysis was used to determine the optimal identification method.ResultsThe convergence evidence suggested that the commonly used identification methods may not be considered convergent, while the criterion evidence indicated that one of the five identification methods may have strong levels of criterion validity.ConclusionsA conclusion was reached that the simple difference method may be the most valid method to identify gifted underachievement.
Perceptions of economic well‐being in the Western Balkans
Authors: Koczan Zsoka 
Published: February 2022

AbstractAcross Emerging Europe, the transition years of the 1990s were characterized by major economic transformation, but also significant disruption and uneven gains. The path of transition in the Western Balkans has, however, been particularly uneven, and dissatisfaction with living standards is especially stark and persistent there. We aim to contribute to the empirical literature on subjective perceptions of economic well‐being by providing insights on which personal characteristics and circumstances are associated with perceptions of relative economic standing and income needs. We find that factors other than spending play a larger role in the Western Balkans than in Central and South‐Eastern Europe: in particular, greater (perceived) income uncertainty and more pessimistic expectations about the future weighed on perceived relative economic standing and could account for some of the observed persistent dissatisfaction.
Dewey's Account of Habit through the Lens of Affect Theory
Authors: Zembylas Michalinos 
Published: February 2022

AbstractIn this essay Michalinos Zembylas attempts to formulate a conceptual framework that enables educators and policymakers to articulate an alternative formulation of habit in education spaces. In particular, he explores how theorizing affect, habit, and social change as entangled may enable a rethinking of the concept of habit and foster new ideas about how to cultivate possibilities of social transformation in schools. For this purpose, Zembylas brings into conversation literatures on John Dewey's account of habit and affect theory; both literatures explore the productive potential of creating new habits of social change that nurture alternative types of affective relations and possibilities for social transformation. Also, the theorization of habit as collective rather than individual is both a potentially radical political move and also one that opens new possibilities for reformulating habit in pedagogy and education policy: specifically, it turns our attention to actions and practices that see change as working through “mind–body–environmental assemblages” and that understand “progress” as an ongoing process of experimentation in the present, rather than an ideal for the distant future.
Rancière's The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Poetic Virtue and the Method of Equality
Authors: McCreary Michael 
Published: February 2022

AbstractJacques Rancière's The Ignorant Schoolmaster confronts its reader with an intellectual adventure. In this article, Michael McCreary interrogates why Rancière might have chosen to share Joseph Jacotot's pedagogical ideas with us and how the method in which he casts them might be internal to their teaching. In the first section, McCreary directs his attention to the end of the book, where Rancière chronicles the ways in which Jacotot's educational vision proved difficult to share with his nineteenth‐century contemporaries — both his critics and his supposed disciples. In the second, he suggests that recent interpretations of The Ignorant Schoolmaster by philosophers of education have, in their turn, tended to miss the adventure of Rancière's text in uncannily similar ways. In the third and final section, he returns to the question of what we stand to learn from Jacotot's story by considering how Rancière's text teaches us to read it. To do so McCreary looks at the pedagogical role of literary texts within Jacotot's teaching: Jacotot situates reading these texts as an act of “translation” by which one human intelligence makes itself known to another on the basis of their fundamental equality. McCreary concludes by suggesting some potential avenues for verifying the intelligence of The Ignorant Schoolmaster in a way that does not reduce the imaginative process of verification to a standardized pedagogical model.
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait
Authors: Freeman Benjamin G. , Weeks Thomas , Schluter Dolph , Tobias Joseph A. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractWhere is evolution fastest? The biotic interactions hypothesis proposes that greater species richness creates more ecological opportunity, driving faster evolution at low latitudes, whereas the ‘empty niches’ hypothesis proposes that ecological opportunity is greater where diversity is low, spurring faster evolution at high latitudes. We tested these contrasting predictions by analysing rates of beak evolution for a global dataset of 1141 avian sister species. Rates of beak size evolution are similar across latitudes, with some evidence that beak shape evolves faster in the temperate zone, consistent with the empty niches hypothesis. The empty niches hypothesis is further supported by a meta‐analysis showing that rates of trait evolution and recent speciation are generally faster in the temperate zone, whereas rates of molecular evolution are slightly faster in the tropics. Our results suggest that drivers of evolutionary diversification are either similar across latitudes or more potent in the temperate zone, thus calling into question multiple hypotheses that invoke faster tropical evolution to explain the latitudinal diversity gradient.
Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity
Authors: Stewart Peter S. , Voskamp Alke , Santini Luca , Biber Matthias F. , Devenish Adam J. M. , Hof Christian , Willis Stephen G. , Tobias Joseph A. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractClimate change is predicted to drive geographical range shifts, leading to fluctuations in species richness (SR) worldwide. However, the effect of these changes on functional diversity (FD) remains unclear, in part because comprehensive species‐level trait data are generally lacking at global scales. Here, we use morphometric and ecological traits for 8268 bird species to estimate the impact of climate change on avian FD. We show that future bird assemblages are likely to undergo substantial shifts in trait structure, with a magnitude of change greater than predicted from SR alone, and a direction of change varying according to geographical location and trophic guild. For example, our models predict that FD of insect predators will increase at higher latitudes with concurrent losses at mid‐latitudes, whereas FD of seed dispersing birds will fluctuate across the tropics. Our findings highlight the potential for climate change to drive continental‐scale shifts in avian FD with implications for ecosystem function and resilience.
Mitigating coopetition tensions: The forgotten formation stage
Authors: Efrat Kalanit , Souchon Anne L. , Wald Andreas , Hughes Paul , Cai Jinqiu 
Published: February 2022

AbstractCoopetition entails tensions inherent to collaboration with competitors. This paper focuses on the coopetition formation stage and its effects on the development of tensions. We performed interviews with executives of coopeting firms, create case studies of organizations that initiate and execute coopetition agreements for other firms, and then study firms engaged in mutual coopetition. While this study confirms previous findings that coopetition formation can be deliberate or emergent, it also reveals that the two approaches differ in strategy development patterns, which influence the type and intensity of tensions, as well as the scope and sustainability of the coopetition. The deliberate approach mainly includes tensions due to lack of trust, knowledge exposure and cultural gaps, and the scope and timeframe of the coopetition are clearly delimited. Previous acquaintance and existing trust correspond to a lower intensity of tensions for the emergent approach, and the scope and timeframe are open for extension.
Avian seed dispersal may be insufficient for plants to track future temperature change on tropical mountains
Authors: Nowak Larissa , Schleuning Matthias , Bender Irene M. A. , Böhning‐Gaese Katrin , Dehling D. Matthias , Fritz Susanne A. , Kissling W. Daniel , Mueller Thomas , Neuschulz Eike Lena , Pigot Alex L. , Sorensen Marjorie C. , Donoso Isabel 
Published: February 2022

AbstractAimClimate change causes shifts in species ranges globally. Terrestrial plant species often lag behind temperature shifts, and it is unclear to what extent animal‐dispersed plants can track climate change. Here, we estimate the ability of bird‐dispersed plant species to track future temperature change on a tropical mountain.LocationTropical elevational gradient (500–3500 m.a.s.l.) in the Manú biosphere reserve, Peru.Time periodFrom 1960–1990 to 2061–2080.TaxaFleshy‐fruited plants and avian frugivores.MethodsUsing simulations based on the functional traits of avian frugivores and fruiting plants, we quantified the number of long‐distance dispersal (LDD) events that woody plant species would require to track projected temperature shifts on a tropical mountain by the year 2070 under different greenhouse gas emission scenarios [representative concentration pathway (RCP) 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5]. We applied this approach to 343 bird‐dispersed woody plant species.ResultsOur simulations revealed that bird‐dispersed plants differed in their climate‐tracking ability, with large‐fruited and canopy plants exhibiting a higher climate‐tracking ability. Our simulations also suggested that even under scenarios of strong and intermediate mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions (RCP 2.6 and 4.5), sufficient upslope dispersal would require several LDD events by 2070, which is unlikely for the majority of woody plant species. Furthermore, the ability of plant species to track future changes in temperature increased in simulations with a low degree of trait matching between plants and birds, suggesting that plants in generalized seed‐dispersal systems might be more resilient to climate change.Main conclusionOur study illustrates how the functional traits of plants and animals can inform predictive models of species dispersal and range shifts under climate change and suggests that the biodiversity of tropical mountain ecosystems is highly vulnerable to future warming. The increasing availability of functional trait data for plants and animals globally will allow parameterization of similar models for many other seed‐dispersal systems.
International spotlight on Botswana and local public opinion: Race factor in the murder trials of Ompatile Tswaipe, Clement Gofhamodimo and Mariette Bosch, 1978–2001
Authors: Makgala Christian John 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThis historical paper engages in a form of discourse analysis of international media reports on three murder trials in Botswana which involved a white person(s) as a victim or perpetrator. First, is the trial of Botswana Defence Force soldier, Sergeant Ompatile Tswaipe, after allegedly ordering his platoon to shoot three suspected white insurgents in the Tuli Block in 1978. Outrage and pressure from apartheid South African and British media and officialdom seems to have led to the prosecution of Tswaipe while public opinion in Botswana solidly stood behind him as a patriot. The second trial involved Clement Gofhamodimo in 1984 who had murdered and robbed a white Swiss tourist, and fled to the United States in 1978. The hierarchy at his alma mater, University of the District of Columbia, mobilized leading African‐American civil rights activists and tried to plead with President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II to entreat President Quett Masire of Botswana for clemency. Finally, is the trial of Mariette Bosch, a South African white woman who murdered her South African lady friend in 1996 to marry her husband. While Bosch was on death row in 2001, there was a spirited campaign in some Western and South African quarters for her clemency by President Festus Mogae of Botswana while blacks on death row with her were ignored. The paper observes that the international media reports put Botswana's internationally acclaimed respect for the rule of law and observance of human rights on the spotlight which was challenged by the local public opinion.
The role of seasonality and disturbance in bee–plant interactions in semi‐arid communities of the southern Chihuahuan desert
Authors: Argueta‐Guzmán Magda , Golubov Jordan , Cano‐Santana Zenón , Ayala Ricardo 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
The maintenance of interactions between plants and their floral visitors depends on factors such as resource variability, seasonality, and population dynamics. Changes in water availability along with different types and levels of anthropogenic disturbance may influence how plants and pollinators interact, especially in arid environments.
In a semi‐arid area of the southernmost Chihuahuan Desert (Mexico), we surveyed bee–plant interactions in the dry and rainy season at sites that differed in disturbance type. We used a mutualistic network approach to analyse our data.
We collected 946 bee individuals belonging to 32 bee species, almost a third of the total richness previously reported for Querétaro state. We detected a strong impact of seasonality on the structure of ecological interactions, with more complex and robust interactions among bee and plant species in the rainy season.
We did not find statistical support for a relationship among disturbance, nestedness, or niche overlap. We did find disturbance negatively affected plant robustness to secondary extinctions.
Four plants: Echinocactus platyacanthus, Opuntia stenopetala, Senna wislizeni var. painteri and Cylindropuntia imbricata comprised the core species that were primarily responsible for the resilience of the bee communities. The following bees conformed the generalist core of species: Diadasia rinconis, Lasioglossum (Dialictus) sp. 1, Apis mellifera, and Augochlorella pomoniella.
Overall, network nestedness and robustness differed significantly between seasons but not among sites with different levels of disturbance.