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The impact of culture on millennials' attitudes towards luxury brands: evidence from Tokyo and Shanghai
Authors: Lu Cheng , Sang Zhencong , Song Kun , Kikuchi Kazuo , Machida Ippei 
Published: January 2022

PurposeBased on the theory of social identity mechanism, this study aimed to investigate the associations with millennial consumers' need for uniqueness (NFU), susceptibility to peer influence (SPI) and attitudes towards luxury brands (ALB) under the cross-cultural context. The mediating effect of fashion innovativeness (FI) and the moderating effect of culture were examined.Design/methodology/approachThe data for this study were collected through a survey from 217 millennials in Shanghai and 268 millennials in Tokyo. Moderation analysis and mediation analysis using Hayes PROCESS macro were applied to test proposed hypotheses.FindingsResults show that NFU and SPI have a significantly positive effect on millennials' ALB, and fashion innovativeness plays a mediating role in this process. Furthermore, the positive impact of NFU on millennials' ALB for relatively individualistic cities (Shanghai) is stronger than for relatively collectivist cities (Tokyo). The positive impact of susceptibility to informative influence (SII) on millennials' ALB for Tokyo is stronger than for Shanghai.Practical implicationsThe research results suggest how different cultures can support marketers in effectively carrying out their business strategy.Originality/valueUnder the cross-cultural background, the social identity mechanism behind the attitudes of millennials towards luxury brands has been widely recognised. However, little is known about how culture could moderate the social identity mechanism behind millennials' ALB. By analysing these mechanisms, this study compares the cultures of Shanghai and Tokyo and expands the previous research achievements.
Diagnostic intervention program based on construction workers' internal factors for persistent reduction of unsafe behavior
Authors: Mohajeri Mehdi , Ardeshir Abdollah , Malekitabar Hassan 
Published: January 2022

PurposeThis study aims to show what interventions in human factors can effectively reduce construction workers' unsafe behavior.Design/methodology/approachA diagnostic intervention model targeted the construction workers' weakest internal factors. The workers' behavior and cognition data were collected via a questionnaire and a video camera system from two medium-sized construction sites. A safety supervisor accompanied each site supervisor to improve construction workers' internal factors by implementing the designed intervention measures.FindingsThe statistical analysis results confirmed a persistent positive effect on construction workers' safe behavior by improving internal factors. Among the intervention programs applied, those aimed to improve the subjective norms, safety knowledge and attitudes had the most significant effect sizes.Practical implicationsThe findings of this case study advise project managers to design a specific behavioral intervention that aims at improving construction workers' significant internal factors, including subjective norms, safety attitudes, habits and knowledge together with demographic characteristics to reduce construction workers' unsafe behavior.Originality/valueWhile the declining rate of construction accidents approaches an asymptote which is still high, this study suggests that targeting the individual internal factors through diagnostic interventions is the key to further reduce the rate by improving construction workers' behavior.
Public debt management and the interaction between fiscal and monetary policies
Authors: Nobrega Wellington Charles Lacerda , Besarria Cássio da Nóbrega , Aragón Edilean Kleber da Silva Bejarano 
Published: January 2022

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the existing relations between the management of public bonds on the dynamics of debt, term structure of interest rates and economic cycle, through a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE), which was estimated through Bayesian inference techniques using data from Brazil.Design/methodology/approachThe model developed was used to investigate the effects of the public debt average maturity management when the economy faces a monetary policy shock. For this, three management scenarios are evaluated, including Brazilian securities average term.FindingsContrary to what might be inferred from DSGE models that limited the analysis of the debt term by imposing only one-period bonds, a contractionary monetary policy shock does not necessarily cause public debt to increase significantly. Debt term structure plays a crucial role in this result since the government does not need to roll the debt over at higher costs when the debt term profile is longer, reducing the debt service costs and then the impact on the overall debt.Originality/valueDespite the relevance of this theme and its implications for the dynamics of the economy, there is still a gap to be filled in the literature when using DSGE models, since most part of the work that used this methodology limited the analysis of the debt term by imposing that government issues only one-period bonds. This paper differs from the others insofar as it promotes an investigation focused on the role played by debt maturity management on the performance of the contractionary monetary policy. This approach can generate a better understanding of debt management policy and its interaction with fiscal and monetary policies.
The territorial segmentation of coastal tourism areas
Authors: Simancas Cruz Moisés , Peñarrubia Zaragoza María Pilar , Hernández-Martín Raúl , Rodríguez Rodríguez Yurena 
Published: January 2022

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the potential benefits of identifying homogeneous territorial units of the urban-tourism space at a local scale.Design/methodology/approachThe territory is an essential variable for designing tourist activities adapted to the characteristics of each urban-tourism space. However, your consideration presents a series of problems, including the lack of alphanumeric, microscale, georeferenced statistical information. The territorial segmentation of the tourist accommodations supply is approached as a methodology, a technique and an instrument that can be used to apply marketing strategies in coastal tourism areas.FindingsOne of the most important results is that territorial segmentation is a methodology and technique that can mitigate this issue because it is well-suited to defining spatial patterns of tourist behaviour through the delimitation of territorial units that have a certain degree of homogeneity.Originality/valueThe idea of territorial segmentation is the ideal technique for understanding tourists and their behaviour in the territory by integrating all the variables that intervene in a trip, the different aspects of the destination and data regarding tourist behaviour, allowing them to be understood at the greatest level of territorial disaggregation and making it a good tool for public and private actors, capable of facilitating intelligent decisions in strategic territorial planning and in defining the marketing approach of tourism companies.
“You cannot pour from an empty cup!”: child well-being service providers’ and policymakers’ professional supervision, coping and well-being during COVID-19
Authors: Karadzhov Dimitar , Davidson Jennifer C. , Wilson Graham 
Published: January 2022

Purpose
This paper aims to present findings from 440 responses regarding the experiences of supervision, coping and well-being of 83 service providers and policymakers from eight countries working to support children’s well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design/methodology/approach
A smartphone survey hosted on a custom-built app was used. The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The data were gathered in the last quarter of 2020.

Findings
While most respondents described the supervision they received as “useful” – both personally and professionally – and reported several characteristics of effective supervision practices, concerns about not receiving optimal support were also voiced. Respondents shared a range of stress management and other self-care practices they used but also revealed their difficulties optimally managing the stresses and anxieties during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, some respondents shared they were feeling helpless, unmotivated and unproductive. Yet, overall, responses were imbued with messages about hope, perseverance and self-compassion.

Originality/value
Using a bespoke smartphone app, rich and intimate insights were generated in real time from a wide range of professionals across high- and low- and middle-income countries – indicating the need to better support their well-being and service delivery.
Selection of Khadi fabrics for optimal comfort properties using multi-criteria decision-making technique
Authors: Mitra Ashis 
Published: January 2022

PurposeKhadi fabrics are known for their unique comfort properties which are attributed to their unique structural and functional properties. For getting optimal comfort from a collection of available Khadi fabrics, further exploration is needed. Ranking the Khadi fabrics from a competitive lot for optimal comfort is a challenging job, which has not been addressed so far by any researcher. The purpose of this study is to present one such selection problem using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique, a popular branch of operations research, which can handle almost any decision problem involving a finite number of alternatives and multiple decision criteria.Design/methodology/approachTwo widely popular methods/exponents of MCDM, namely, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and multiplicative analytic hierarchy process (MAHP) have been deployed in this study for ranking a competitive lot of 15 Khadi fabrics and selecting the best alternative for optimal summer comfort based on three comfort attributes, namely, drape coefficient, thermal insulation value and air permeability.FindingsBoth the approaches yield a similar ranking pattern with Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient of 0.9857, Khadi fabric K1 achieving Rank 1 (best in terms of optimal comfort) and sample K6 acquiring Rank 15 (worst choice). Two-phase sensitivity analyses were performed subsequently to demonstrate the stability of the two approaches: sensitivity analysis by changing weightage levels of the criteria and sensitivity analysis in dynamic decision conditions by changing the elements of the initial decision matrix. During sensitivity analyses, no occurrence of rank reversal is observed for the best and worst alternatives in either of the two approaches. This corroborates the robustness of the two models.Practical implicationsKhadi fabrics are widely acclaimed for their intrinsic comfort properties for both summer and winter. Although the popularity of Khadi fabrics is increasing day by day, this domain is under-researched, and hence, needs to be explored further. The present approach demonstrates how the MCDM technique can serve as a useful tool for ranking the available Khadi fabrics in terms of optimal comfort in summer. The same approach can be extended to other domains of the textile industry, in general, as well.Originality/valueThis study is the first-ever theoretical approach/research on the selection of Khadi fabrics for optimal summer comfort using the MCDM tool. Another novelty of the present study is that the efficacy of AHP and MAHP approaches, in this study, has been validated through a two-phase sensitivity analysis. This validation part has been ignored in most of the hitherto published applications of AHP and MAHP in other domains.
A review: electrical and gas sensing properties of polyaniline/ferrite nanocomposites
Authors: Ramakrishnaiah Thejas , Gunderi Dhananjaya Prasanna , Vakwadi Sainagesh Chaturmukha , Reddy Sathish , Kumaraswamy Swaroop , Chikkahanumajja Surendranatha Naveen 
Published: January 2022

PurposeThis paper aims to study the various developments taking place in the field of gas sensors made from polyaniline (PANI) nanocomposites, which leads to the development of high-performance electrical and gas sensing materials operating at room temperature.Design/methodology/approachPANI/ferrite nanocomposites exhibit good electrical properties with lower dielectric losses. There are numerous reports on PANI and ferrite nanomaterial-based gas sensors which have good sensing response, feasible to operate at room temperature, requires less power and cost-effective.FindingsThis paper provides an overview of electrical and gas sensing properties of PANI/ferrite nanocomposites having improved selectivity, long-term stability and other sensing performance of sensors at room temperature.Originality/valueThe main purpose of this review paper is to focus on PANI/ferrite nanocomposite-based gas sensors operating at room temperature.
A framework for knowledge retention to support business continuity in the cross-border mergers of the telecommunications industry in Lesotho
Authors: Tseole Tahleho , Marutha Ngoako Solomon 
Published: January 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate a framework for knowledge retention to support business continuity in cross-border mergers of the telecommunications industry in Lesotho.

Design/methodology/approach
This study applied a qualitative case study, with data collected through interviews from a purposively selected sample of staff members who held managerial positions. Information in this study was partially extracted from the PhD thesis of Dr Tseole ET supervised by Prof Ngulube P at the University of South Africa completed in 2021.

Findings
The study discovered that a considerable amount of knowledge may have been lost because employees who either left the organisation or those who were apparently forced to resign during the process had left without any proper knowledge retention arrangements.

Research limitations/implications
The framework proposed in this study may be used in framing future studies as a theoretical framework. The study also provides new literature for review and discussion of background in future related studies.

Practical implications
The framework provided in the study may be used as a benchmark in the knowledge management industry and/or organisations for policy development or improvements and implementation of knowledge retention strategies.

Social implications
Through recommendations and framework provided by this study, organisations will be able to improve their services to their sphere of influence in the surrounding communities. So, community will be receiving an improved and good service at all the times.

Originality/value
A framework for facilitating knowledge retention in the cross-border mergers of the telecommunications industry is therefore proposed and the researchers believe it will be helpful to the organisation for improving knowledge retention going forward, particularly in the merger process.
Architectural plasticity in response to population density in Abutilon theophrasti (Malvaceae)
Authors: Wang Shu , Zhou Dao‐Wei 
Published: January 2022

AbstractAn increase in population density may result in the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of resources at scales smaller than an individual, inducing different modular responses at different positions of a plant, or architectural plasticity. To better understand how plants respond to density via architectural plasticity, we conducted a field experiment on an annual species, Abutilon theophrasti. Plants were subjected to three densities and harvested at 50 and 70 days, when each individual plant was separated into different layers vertically from bottom to top with an inter‐layer distance of 10 or 20 cm, before we measured a series of traits per layer and analyzed variations in them among layers, densities, and stages. Increased density reduced variation of traits among layers and had different effects on different layers of modular traits: it increased stem mass in the third to fifth layers (L3–L5) and increased stem diameter in the top layer, leading to an increase in stem density in lower layers and a decrease in stem density in the top layer. In addition, there was an increase in petiole length and mass, lamina size, and leaf number in upper layers, while they decreased in lower layers. Results suggested trade‐offs between upper and lower layers in stem density and leaf traits for plants in a dense population, which were important for keeping most leaves at higher positions to acquire light resources, while saving energy, in concert with the effort of extra stem elongation and the complex plasticity in branch traits.
Secondary succession on landslides in submontane forests of central Taiwan: Environmental drivers and restoration strategies
Authors: Chen Chien‐Fan , Li Ching‐Feng , Huang Chu‐Mei , Lin Huan‐Yu , Zelený David 
Published: January 2022

AbstractAimsWe aim (a) to investigate and describe the species composition of vegetation that has recolonized landslides and describe its relationship to environmental variables; and (b) to propose a set of plant species and restoration strategies applicable for speeding up the restoration process.LocationElevation between 240 and 1,350 m a.s.l. in central Taiwan, East Asia.MethodsWe delimited the boundaries of landslides using aerial photographs taken between 1975 and 2015. We sampled 52 plots from 48 selected landslides and measured 21 environmental variables to identify the significant factors related to species composition. Cluster analysis and transformation‐based redundancy analysis were used to determine the vegetation groups and corresponding environmental variables; the environmental differences between different vegetation types were evaluated by ANOVA.ResultsWe classified the vegetation into four types and related each of them to a successional age, landslide position and soil pH, as well as Mn and Mg contents. Two early‐successional types (aged 5–10 years) mainly occurred in habitats in steep slip zones, which are dominated by pioneer woody species and have a high coverage of grasses, forbs, or ferns thickets. In contrast, the mid‐successional vegetation type (aged 16–40 years), growing on flat habitats, consists of pioneer woody species in the canopy layer and seedlings or saplings of shade‐tolerant species in the understorey.ConclusionsWe confirmed that the composition and recruitment of species can be well explained by environmental differences between landslide zones and successional age. Some framework species and some shade‐tolerant woody species can be applied to landslide scars with plant dispersal limitation problems and habitats suffering from poor local species pools, respectively. To overcome the problem of vegetation succession blocked by Miscanthus and ferns thickets, we suggest that pioneer woody species and herb species can be seeded on landslide scars at once for erosion control.
Myoglobin as a conservation‐relevant predictor of short‐distance flight capacity in Neotropical forest birds
Authors: Condell Kelsey , Robinson W. Douglas , Moore Randall P. , Rourke Bryan 
Published: January 2022

AbstractSome forest‐dwelling tropical bird species are unable or unwilling to fly even a few hundred meters across habitat discontinuities, restricting connectivity of isolated populations in fragmented landscapes. Experimental evidence for flight limitation has reliably predicted occurrence across archipelagoes of habitat fragments varying in their distance from potential source populations. Mechanistic explanations for large differences in flight capacity of tropical birds, even over remarkably short distances, have not been tested. We evaluated myoglobin concentration in pectoralis muscles and hearts of eight Neotropical species for which experimental evidence revealing a wide range of flight abilities exists. We found a strong positive relationship between myoglobin concentration in the pectoralis muscles, but not hearts, and average overwater flight distance during dispersal‐challenge experiments. The approximately 2.5‐fold difference in pectoralis myoglobin concentration is directly associated with flight capacity and allows predictions of species or species groups most likely to be impeded by habitat discontinuities and therefore at conservation risk in fragmented landscapes.
Analysis of triptan use during pregnancy in Japan: A case series
Authors: Yamaguchi Yuko , Yamada Takahiro , Goto Mikako , Kawasaki Hidenori , Wada Takahito , Ikeda‐Sakai Yasuko , Saito Yoshiyuki , Hayashi Masahiro , Tanaka Shiro , Takahashi Ryosuke , Nakayama Takeo , Murashima Atsuko , Kosugi Shinji 
Published: January 2022

AbstractTo evaluate the safety of triptan use during pregnancy in a Japanese population, we descriptively analyzed the data on pregnancy and fetal outcomes from 128 pregnant women using triptans for migraine treatment at two Japanese facilities that provided counseling on drug exposure in pregnancy between 2001 and 2017. The risks of miscarriage, low birth weight, and preterm birth were similar to those reported in the demographic statistics in Japan. The incidence proportion of malformation was also within the baseline risk range. Accumulated data suggest that exposure to triptans during pregnancy does not clearly increase the risk of negative pregnancy and fetal outcomes. This finding can help reduce anxiety in pregnant women with migraines who are taking triptans.
Commodity terms of trade shocks and political transitions
Authors: Janus Thorsten , Riera‐Crichton Daniel , Tarufelli Brittany 
Published: January 2022

AbstractIn this paper, we estimate the effects of relative international commodity prices on political transitions accounting for time trends (since democracy might evolve in waves) and the fact that different autocratic regime types might respond differently. A standard deviation (2.1 percentage points) decrease in the growth rate of our 3‐year moving‐average relative price index increases the democratic transition probability by 0.5 percentage points or 13% of the mean probability. The transition probability moves nearly one for one with economic growth. Military autocracies might democratize after positive shocks. The autocratic‐transition effects are negative but insignificant.