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Online brand advocacy for sustainable brands: a study in an emerging market
Authors: Abdelrazek Nour Adham , El-Bassiouny Noha 
Published: October 2022

PurposeThe main aim of this study is to integrate the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to examine consumers' intention to advocate for sustainable brands, whilst incorporating the moderating role of pro-environmental self-identity. Consumer sustainability orientation is also added as an antecedent for attitudes to determine the degree to which consumers' personal convictions and attitudes toward sustainability impact their attitude toward sustainable brands. The importance of using the TPB to study online brand advocacy lies in the accumulated evidence that shows that this theory is useful in explaining most kinds of social behaviors.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative research with the use of web-surveys is employed to test the research hypotheses with a total sample size of 536 respondents. Millennials have been chosen for the current paper to be studied.FindingsResults of the study showed that attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control (PBC) were positively related to consumers' advocacy intentions. The findings of this study demonstrated that the TPB is applicable to measuring consumers' advocacy intentions. In addition, the results indicated that two dimensions of sustainability orientation, economic and social orientation, are significant predictors of attitudes. The study also found that pro-environmental self-identity does not moderate the relationship between the TPB core components and online brand advocacy.Originality/valueThis study is considered the first to employ the TPB as a theoretical foundation to test the antecedents of online brand advocacy (OBA) in relation to sustainable brands with the inclusion of consumer sustainability orientation as a predictor of attitudes with respect to the three dimensions of sustainability and the moderating effect of pro-environmental self-identity.
Agency Cost of Debt and Inside Debt: The Role of CEO Overconfidence
Authors: Galariotis Emilios , Louca Christodoulos , Petmezas Dimitris , Wang Shuhui 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThis study extends our understanding of CEO inside debt compensation under an agency problem perspective by considering the impact of a behavioural trait, namely CEO overconfidence. Using a sample of US firms in Standard & Poor's ExecuComp for the period 2006–2019, we find that overconfident CEOs exhibit greater inside debt incentives (i.e. incentives arising from defined‐benefit pensions and deferred compensation). This relationship is more pronounced among firms with higher CEO overconfidence‐induced agency cost of debt (e.g. financially unconstrained firms) managed by CEOs who are less able to align compensation with their own preferences (e.g. less powerful CEOs). The results are robust to endogeneity, self‐selection concerns and alternative explanations. We contribute to the inside compensation literature that deals with agency problems under overconfident CEOs, and optimal contracting and managerial power theories.
‘Pointing the way’: Alex Bloom and A.S. Neill on the enduring necessity and enacted possibility of radical democratic education as ‘a method of life’
Authors: Fielding Michael 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Prompted by the centenary of the founding of Summerhill, in my contribution to this JOPE Suite on Democratic Education, I briefly explore both the admiring reciprocity and the subsidiary but significant differences of praxis between A.S. Neill and Alex Bloom, two remarkable pioneers of education in and for participatory democracy as a way of life. Because A.S. Neill's work is internationally renowned and Alex Bloom's has yet to re-establish the worldwide recognition it had in his own lifetime, my emphasis is on the contribution of Alex Bloom, in large part because he is amongst the most radical pioneers of democratic education the UK state sector has ever known. To a significant degree, the aspirations and actualities of Bloom's work rebutted Neill's insistence that pioneers within the state sector of education could not innovate in ways that would significantly challenge the status quo. Indeed, Alex Bloom extended participatory democratic educational aspirations in ways which Neill did not. Most importantly, these not only entailed a commitment to community engagement, they did so in conditions of abject poverty and profound psychological trauma following the ravages of the Second World War London Blitz with its attendant evacuation and subsequent return to the ruins of their former homes.
In the first section, I take as my starting point Alex Bloom's strongly supportive review of A.S. Neill's book The Problem Family and Neill's visit to Bloom's school in the East End of London, some five years later. Foregrounding the dialectic of practice and aspiration, I touch on some of the key issues that emerged for both Neill and Bloom at that time.
Challenging Neill's later affirmation that the only significant freedom one can introduce into a state school is ‘a free attitude on the teacher's part, his or her being on the side of the child’ and his reported view that Bloom and others might be able to experiment in methods of teaching or ways of organising the timetable, ‘but not in methods of living’, the second section explores the nature and interrelationship of six key strands woven into the fabric of Alex Bloom's truly remarkable work that exemplified the grounded possibility and vibrant actuality of participatory democracy as a way of living and learning together that prefigures a more just, creative and caring form of human engagement.
Locating the foundation of Alex Bloom's praxis within the 20th-century personalist philosophical tradition and its Adlerian psychological counterpart, the brief concluding section draws in particular on the work of John Macmurray who argues, as did Bloom in his own writing and his daily praxis, that ‘The first priority in education—if by education we mean learning to be human—is learning to live in personal relation to other people. Let us call it learning to live in community’.
Listening to patients: Opportunities to improve reproductive wellness for women with chronic conditions
Authors: Verbiest Sarah , Cené Crystal , Chambers Erica , Pearsall Marina , Tully Kristin , Urrutia Rachel Peragallo 
Published: October 2022

AbstractObjectiveTo understand how Black and Native American women with chronic conditions experience reproductive health care and identify patient‐centered strategies to improve care.Study Setting and ParticipantsWe held a series of virtual focus groups between February 2021 and December 2021 with 34 women who self‐identified as Black or Native American, were of childbearing age, had one or more chronic conditions, and lived in North Carolina.Study Design and AnalysisThis qualitative, community‐engaged study reviewed notes, video recordings, and graphic illustrations from the focus group sessions. Content analysis was used to iteratively identify themes. Emerging themes were reviewed by community and patient partners.Principal FindingsThere were six thematic areas that emerged on the current state of reproductive health care for people with chronic conditions: (1) lack of trust in health care providers and institutions, (2) lack of health care provider knowledge, (3) uncoordinated care, (4) need for self‐advocacy, (5) provider bias, and (6) mental health strain from coping. Six approaches for care improvement emerged: (1) build on models of coordinated health care services from other conditions to design more comprehensive care clinics, (2) involve care coordinators or navigators, (3) improve educational materials for patients, (4) train clinicians to increase their capacity to be trustworthy and provide quality, equitable, person‐focused care, (5) design scripts to improve clinicians' ability to talk with women about infertility, miscarriage, infant loss, and (6) all interventions and research should be co‐designed to address patient priorities.ConclusionsEngaging Black and Native American patient partners with chronic conditions in research planning is feasible, necessary, and beneficial using methods that support connection, respect, and bi‐directional learning. Patient partners defined actionable strategies to improve reproductive care and wellness including comprehensive care clinics with patient navigators, trust‐enhancing interventions, and better provision of reproductive health related education.
The Big Four and corporate tax governance: From global dis‐harmony to national regulatory incrementalism
Authors: Elbra Ainsley , Mikler John , Murphy‐Gregory Hannah 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThe Big Four professional services firms – PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY – promote, sanction, and regularise the behaviour and practices of business and government. This is especially the case in the area of multinational tax avoidance. This large, and growing, sector of the Big Four's business model places them at the centre of both causing and addressing the problem. Their role is not limited to advising MNCs on complex tax structures. They also advise governments and international organisations on regulatory reform of the global tax system. This article examines their role in so doing through an analysis of Australian Senate Inquiry hearings and responses to the OECD reform programme on the digitalisation of the economy. We show that advice provided by the Big Four is not purely technical, but is intended to achieve a global corporate tax system that is either globally dis‐harmonised or a matter of national regulatory incrementalism. This is despite their claims of supporting global regulation based on multilateral agreements. Ultimately, we demonstrate that the Big Four use their significant structural power to discursively undermine the ideals of the OECD, the leading international organisation working to reform global taxation.
Delayed monsoon, irrigation and crop yields
Authors: Amale Hardeep Singh , Birthal Pratap Singh , Negi Digvijay Singh 
Published: October 2022

AbstractMost of the empirical literature assessing the impacts of climate change on agriculture has modeled crop yields as a function of the levels or deviations in the growing‐period rainfall. However, an aspect that has received little attention in the empirical literature relates to the relationship between the timing of monsoon rains and crop yields. Using a pan‐India district‐level panel dataset for 50 years, this article investigates two interrelated issues critical to understanding the impacts of weather‐induced agricultural risks and their management. It first examines the impact of the timing of monsoon onset on crop yields and then assesses the role of irrigation in mitigating its effects. The article finds that the delayed onset of monsoon is detrimental to crops, and its effects are realized beyond the rainy season. The findings also demonstrate that irrigation helps mitigate the harmful effects of delayed monsoon. Finally, to link these findings to farm‐level adjustments, the article shows that farmers explicitly adjust the timing of irrigation in response to delays in monsoon rains.
A five‐year retrospective cohort study of carpal tunnel surgery complications in an Australian population
Authors: Zhou Mengqi (Adele) , Deek Roland , Crittenden Tamara , Dean Nicola R. 
Published: October 2022

AbstractBackgroundCarpal tunnel syndrome is a common compressive neuropathy. There is a lack of comprehensive studies evaluating carpal tunnel release (CTR) complications in Australia. This study aimed to evaluate complication rates associated with open and endoscopic CTR in an Australian population, and to identify associated risk factors.MethodsRetrospective cohort study of 1287 CTR from 2015 to 2020. Methods of release were endoscopic, open and surgery concomitant with synovectomy or other. Outcomes included wound infection, dehiscence, nerve injury, complex regional pain syndrome, incomplete release, and re‐operation. Statistical analysis included Chi‐squared test, Fisher's exact test, Odds ratio and logistic regression.ResultsThere were 71 total complications (5.5%), including 35 Clavien–Dindo IIIb complications. There was no difference in complication rates for endoscopic (3.3%) versus open (8.3%) CTR (P = 0.18). The overall rate of complications was higher in CTR with concomitant surgery (8.5%) compared to CTR alone (5.2%), though this was not statistically significant (P = 0.058). There was no association between rates of complications and immune suppression (p = 0.55), rheumatoid disease (P = 0.61), or smoking status (P = 0.72). Diabetes mellitus was associated with an increased risk of Clavien‐Dindo IIIb complications (P = 0.028, OR 2.15, 95% CI 1.07–4.32). There was no association between surgical experience and complication rate (P = 0.55).ConclusionOpen and endoscopic CTR surgeries have similar rates of complications. Diabetes is associated with higher rates of Clavien‐Dindo IIIb complications. Identification of high‐risk patients allows for the application of risk‐mitigation strategies in the perioperative setting.
The application of risk models based on machine learning to predict endometriosis‐associated ovarian cancer in patients with endometriosis
Authors: Chao Xiaopei , Wang Shu , Lang Jinghe , Leng Jinhua , Fan Qingbo 
Published: October 2022

AbstractIntroductionThere is currently no satisfactory model for predicting malignant transformation of endometriosis. The aim of this study was to construct and evaluate a risk model incorporating noninvasive clinical parameters to predict endometriosis‐associated ovarian cancer (EAOC) in patients with endometriosis.Material and MethodsWe enrolled 6809 patients with endometriosis confirmed by pathology, and randomly allocated them to training (n = 4766) and testing cohorts (n = 2043). The proportion of patients with EAOC in each cohort was similar. We extracted a total of 94 demographic and clinicopathologic features from the medical records using natural language processing. We used a machine learning method – gradient‐boosting decision tree – to construct a predictive model for EAOC and to evaluate the accuracy of the model. We also constructed a multivariate logistic regression model inclusive of the EAOC‐associated risk factors using a back stepwise procedure. Then we compared the performance of the two risk‐predicting models using DeLong's test.ResultsThe occurrence of EAOC was 1.84% in this study. The logistic regression model comprised 10 selected features and demonstrated good discrimination in the testing cohort, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.891 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.821–0.960), sensitivity of 88.9%, and specificity of 76.7%. The risk model based on machine learning had an AUC of 0.942 (95% CI 0.914–0.969), sensitivity of 86.8%, and specificity of 86.7%. The machine learning‐based risk model performed better than the logistic regression model in DeLong's test (p = 0.036). Furthermore, in a prospective dataset, the machine learning‐based risk model had an AUC of 0.8758, a sensitivity of 94.4%, and a specificity of 73.8%.ConclusionsThe machine learning‐based risk model was constructed to predict EAOC and had high sensitivity and specificity. This model could be of considerable use in helping reduce medical costs and designing follow‐up schedules.
Current practice in the diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction: An international survey
Authors: Fantasia Ilaria , Zamagni Giulia , Lees Christoph , Mylrea‐Foley Bronacha , Monasta Lorenzo , Mullins Edward , Prefumo Federico , Stampalija Tamara 
Published: October 2022

AbstractIntroductionThe aim of this survey was to evaluate the current practice in respect of diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction among obstetricians in different countries.Material and methodsAn e‐questionnaire was sent via REDCap with “click thru” links in emails and newsletters to obstetric practitioners in different countries and settings with different levels of expertise. Clinical scenarios in early and late fetal growth restriction were given, followed by structured questions/response pairings.ResultsA total of 275 participants replied to the survey with 87% of responses complete. Participants were obstetrician/gynecologists (54%; 148/275) and fetal medicine specialists (43%; 117/275), and the majority practiced in a tertiary teaching hospital (56%; 153/275). Delphi consensus criteria for fetal growth restriction diagnosis were used by 81% of participants (223/275) and 82% (225/274) included a drop in fetal growth velocity in their diagnostic criteria for late fetal growth restriction. For early fetal growth restriction, TRUFFLE criteria were used for fetal monitoring and delivery timing by 81% (223/275). For late fetal growth restriction, indices of cerebral blood flow redistribution were used by 99% (250/252), most commonly cerebroplacental ratio (54%, 134/250). Delivery timing was informed by cerebral blood flow redistribution in 72% (176/244), used from ≥32 weeks of gestation. Maternal biomarkers and hemodynamics, as additional tools in the context of early‐onset fetal growth restriction (≤32 weeks of gestation), were used by 22% (51/232) and 46% (106/230), respectively.ConclusionsThe diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction are fairly homogeneous among different countries and levels of practice, particularly for early fetal growth restriction. Indices of cerebral flow distribution are widely used in the diagnosis and management of late fetal growth restriction, whereas maternal biomarkers and hemodynamics are less frequently assessed but more so in early rather than late fetal growth restriction. Further standardization is needed for the definition of cerebral blood flow redistribution.
The efficacy of online mindfulness‐based interventions in a university student sample: Videoconference‐ or podcast‐delivered intervention
Authors: Karing Constance 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThe increasing mental health issues among university students during the COVID‐19 pandemic and the challenges of delivering face‐to‐face interventions during lockdowns have increased the demand for online interventions. The report presents results from a randomized controlled trial investigating the benefits of online mindfulness interventions delivered by videoconference or podcast during the early phase of the pandemic in Germany. Fifty university students were randomized to a mindfulness intervention conducted by videoconference (n = 25) or to an unguided training provided by podcasts (n = 25). All students participated in a 7‐week mindfulness intervention. Outcome measures included mindfulness, depression, anxiety, and life satisfaction preintervention and postintervention. The study showed a larger reduction in depression in the videoconferencing group than in the podcast group across per protocol (PP) and intention‐to‐treat (ITT) analyses. There was a significant increase in mindfulness (PP and ITT samples) and life satisfaction (ITT sample) in both groups. The frequency of home practice was related to positive changes in outcomes but only for the videoconferencing group. The results suggest that mindfulness training delivered via videoconferencing can be a viable option to address depressive symptoms among students. However, both interventions were effective in increasing mindfulness and life satisfaction.
Effects of organic chemicals from diesel exhaust particles on adipocytes differentiated from human mesenchymal stem cells
Authors: Brinchmann Bendik C. , Holme Jørn A. , Frerker Nadine , Rambøl Mia H. , Karlsen Tommy , Brinchmann Jan E. , Kubátová Alena , Kukowski Klara , Skuland Tonje , Øvrevik Johan 
Published: October 2022

AbstractExposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from incomplete fossil fuel combustion (coal, oil, gas and diesel) has been linked to increased morbidity and mortality due to metabolic diseases. PM2.5 exaggerate adipose inflammation and insulin resistance in mice with diet‐induced obesity. Here, we elucidate the hypothesis that such systemic effects may be triggered by adhered particle components affecting adipose tissue directly. Studying adipocytes differentiated from primary human mesenchymal stem cells, we found that lipophilic organic chemicals (OC) from diesel exhaust particles induced inflammation‐associated genes and increased secretion of the chemokine CXLC8/interleukin‐8 as well as matrix metalloprotease 1. The oxidative stress response gene haem oxygenase‐1 and tumour necrosis factor alpha were seemingly not affected, while aryl hydrocarbon receptor‐regulated genes, cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) and CYP1B1 and plasminogen activator inhibitor‐2, were clearly up‐regulated. Finally, expression of β‐adrenergic receptor, known to regulate adipocyte homoeostasis, was down‐regulated by exposure to these lipophilic OC. Our results indicate that low concentrations of OC from combustion particles have the potential to modify expression of genes in adipocytes that may be linked to metabolic disease. Further studies on mechanisms linking PM exposure and metabolic diseases are warranted.
Mediators of negative content and voice‐related distress in a diverse sample of clinical and non‐clinical voice‐hearers
Authors: Silver Jessica Helen , Lewton Marcus , Lewis Heledd Wyn 
Published: October 2022

AbstractObjectivesNegative content in hearing voices (i.e., auditory verbal hallucinations) has been associated with adverse clinical outcomes including voice‐related distress. Voice appraisals and responding mindfully to voices are theorized to reduce voice‐related distress. This study aimed in examine mediators of the negative content voice‐related distress relationship in clinical (those who recently received input from mental health services) and non‐clinical voice‐hearers.MethodsOne hundred and twenty‐one adults (71.9% female; 35.5% mixed or non‐white ethnic background) who hear voices were recruited online and completed self‐report measures of negative content of voices, voice‐related distress, mindfulness of voices, interpretation of loss of control, thought suppression and intrusion.ResultsClinical voice‐hearers had significantly higher levels of negative content, voice‐related distress and interpretation of loss of control than non‐clinical voice‐hearers. A mindful approach to voices and interpretation of loss of control mediated the relationship between negative content and voice‐related distress across the whole sample. Thought suppression and intrusion did not mediate the relationship.ConclusionsThe results support the use of mindfulness‐based psychological intervention to reduce voice‐related distress. Further development of valid and reliable measures specifically relating to constructs of voice content, voice‐related distress and voice suppression will support further research in this area.