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Academics and policymakers at odds: the case of the IFRS Foundation Trustees’ consultation paper on sustainability reporting
Authors: Adams Carol A. , Mueller Frank 
Published: May 2022

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the nature of academic engagement with policy and the (lack of) responsiveness by policymakers to the scientific community through the development of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation Trustees’ Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting (IFRS Foundation, 2020).

Design/methodology/approach
The 577 submissions to the IFRS Foundation consultation were reviewed, and 39 were identified as being submitted by academics. These 39 included collectively 104 academic signatories from 74 organisations or networks and 20 countries. They were analysed using NVivo. Drawing on the literature on techniques used to discredit or credit arguments, we examine the academic responses to the consultation questions, particularly those concerning: the role of the IFRS Foundation; perceptions of the “investor perspective”; the audience for reporting; the definition of materiality; and a climate first approach.

Findings
The majority (72%) of academic submissions were opposed to the IFRS Foundation Trustees’ proposals on key issues. This dissenting majority collectively have substantial research records in sustainability reporting and its outcomes. Those supportive were significantly less likely to reference research or state their credentials and, despite being supportive, nevertheless raised concerns with the proposals.

Practical implications
Senior academics undertaking research in the field have engaged, in unusually high numbers, with a policy development they believe will not work and maybe counter to achieving sustainable development. The findings underscore the importance of highlighting the discrediting strategies and tactics used in this discursive “battle”. The findings have implications for the legitimacy of policymakers on sustainability-related initiatives which are not engaging with the relevant scientific community.

Social implications
Policy initiatives that are judged as potentially harmful to sustainable development attract more intense, activist and sustained engagement supported by research evidence.

Originality/value
The paper identifies the importance of evidence-based academic engagement and highlights strategies that engaging academics need to persist over. It highlights the collective view of academics in the field on the IFRS Foundation consultation paper.
When talent goes unrecognized: racial discrimination, community recognition, and STEM postdocs’ science identities
Authors: Brockman Amanda J. , Naphan-Kingery Dara E. , Pitt Richard N. 
Published: May 2022

Purpose
While science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) postdoctoral scholars often enter their positions with strong science identities, racially marginalized scholars are often not treated as scientists, which can weaken their science identities. This study aims to examine how racial discrimination negatively affects their science identities in STEM and the importance of community recognition in mitigating these effects.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors use reflected appraisals and identity theory to theoretically guide this work. The data are based on a survey of 215 postdoctoral scholars in STEM disciplines.

Findings
The authors find that community recognition mediates the negative relationship between perceived discrimination and postdoctoral scholars’ science identities.

Research limitations/implications
The study shows the importance of recognizing the achievements and identities of underrepresented STEM scholars to counteract the chronic and cumulative identity nonverification that leaves talent unrecognized and disrupts scholars’ science identities.

Originality/value
The authors explore the negative impact of discriminatory experiences on the importance individuals place on their identities as scientists and if this can be affected by the degree to which they feel that other scientists recognize them as competent scientists among a group of scholars who have earned the highest of academic degrees, and who are also relatively understudied: postdocs.
Developing Internet of Things-related ISO 10001 Hand Hygiene Privacy Codes in healthcare
Authors: Ortiz María Belén , Karapetrovic Stanislav 
Published: May 2022

PurposeAugmentation of an ISO 10001 code system for healthcare worker (HW) satisfaction with ISO/IEC 27701 and ISO/IEC 29184 privacy-related subsystems is shown. Four specific codes regarding the privacy of HWs using electronic devices for hand hygiene (HH) monitoring and the related activities are presented.Design/methodology/approachHWs’ concerns involving automated hand hygiene monitoring technologies were identified through a literature review and classified. Privacy codes (PCs) that deal with such concerns were developed. ISO/IEC 27701 requirements for privacy information were mapped to the elements of these codes, labelled as “Healthcare Workers’ Hand Hygiene Privacy Codes (HW-HH-PCs)”. Both ISO/IEC 27701 and ISO/IEC 29184 guidelines for Privacy Notices and consent were linked with the activities for preparing the code resources.FindingsComponents of an ISO/IEC 27701 system, the guidance of ISO/IEC 29184 and the definitions provided in ISO/IEC 29100 can assist the preparation of HW-HH-PCs and the required resources. An ISO/IEC 29184 Privacy Notice can be used as input for developing an Informed Consent Form, which can be implemented to suit two of the four developed HW-HH-PCs.Practical implicationsHW-HH-PCs and the supporting resources, which healthcare organizations could implement to potentially increase quality assurance of an automated HH monitoring service, are illustrated.Originality/valueIntegrative augmentation of ISO 10001:2018, ISO/IEC 27701:2019 and ISO/IEC 29184:2020 within an underlying framework from ISO/IEC 20000–1:2018 for information technology service, together with the related examples of privacy-related customer satisfaction codes and the corresponding resources, is introduced.
Only one Mayweather: a critique of hope from the hopeful
Authors: Hopkinson Leo 
Published: May 2022

AbstractProfessional boxing offers hope of vast wealth and global mobility for aspiring athletes in Accra, hopes bolstered by the understanding that Ghanaians are particularly suited to boxing's attrition. However, when boxers become active in the global industry, they encounter power relations which locate them as cheap, subordinate labour, and stymie their championship hopes. As boxers build lives through the sport, they reflect critically on the role their hopes of ‘making it big’ play in perpetuating industry inequalities, recognizing what I call the ideological function of hope. Despite this, they remain committed to hopes of dramatic success. Their simultaneous optimism and cynicism complicates contemporary accounts of hope as a strategy of resilience in contexts of profound uncertainty. Building on ethnographic research with Accra boxers, I theorize hoping as a paradoxical experience of critique and optimism in equal measure, to account for the contradictory ways people act when orienting themselves towards better futures.
What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation
Authors: PICKARD HARRY , EFTHYVOULOU GEORGIOS , BOVE VINCENZO 
Published: May 2022

AbstractDoes radical right political violence favour or hinder public support for right‐wing stances? Numerous existing studies have demonstrated that Islamic terrorism provokes a conservative shift, increases nationalism and induces negative sentiments towards immigration. However, little is known about the consequences of far‐right terrorism, despite its incidence in Western societies. We leverage four waves of the British Election Study (BES) and use a quasi‐experimental design to analyse individual political orientations shortly before and after terrorist attacks. We find that respondents distance themselves from the ideology associated with the perpetrator and shift away from ideological positions at the right end of the political spectrum. Furthermore, respondents are less likely to report nationalistic attitudes and immigration skepticism, core tenets of extremist right‐wing political ideologies. Our findings suggest that the characteristics of the perpetrators and their driving goals are crucial factors shaping the impact of terrorism on public sentiments.
Was Sarbanes–Oxley Costly? Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation
Authors: GAYLE GEORGE‐LEVI , LI CHEN , MILLER ROBERT A. 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the effects of regulatory interventions on contracting relationships within firms by examining the impacts of the Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) Act on CEO compensation. Using panel data of the S&P 1500 firms, it quantifies welfare gains from a principal–agent model with hidden information and hidden actions. It finds that SOX: (1) reduced the conflict of interest between shareholders and their CEOs, mainly by reducing shareholder loss from CEOs deviating from their goal of expected value maximization; (2) increased the cost of agency, or the risk premium CEOs are paid to align their interests with those of shareholders; (3) increased administrative costs in the primary sector (which includes utilities and energy) but the effect in the other two broadly defined sectors, services and consumer goods, was more nuanced; and (4) had no effect on the attitude of CEOs toward risk.
Liquidity in the mortgage market: How does the COVID‐19 crisis compare with the global financial crisis?
Authors: Pence Karen 
Published: May 2022

AbstractThe liquidity strains that contributed to the meltdown of the mortgage market in the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) re‐emerged in the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID‐19) Crisis. Some of these strains were acute. For example, the dependence of mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) on short‐term funding amplified market disruption in March 2020. However, other liquidity pressures had only minor repercussions for the overall mortgage market because of reforms since the GFC, a heavy government presence, and strong house prices. The lackluster performance of the private‐label mortgage‐backed securities market provides a glimpse of how the market might have performed in the absence of the heavy government presence.
From little things, big things grow: An exploratory analysis of the national cost of peripheral intravenous catheter insertion in Australian adult emergency care
Authors: Morgan Rachel , Callander Emily , Cullen Louise , Walker Katie , Bumpstead Suzanne , Hawkins Tracey , Kuhn Lisa , Egerton‐Warburton Diana 
Published: May 2022

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the total economic impact of peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) or cannula insertion and use in adult Australian EDs, including those cannulas that remain unused for therapeutic purposes.MethodsSearches on Australian government websites were conducted to find rates of insertion, complications and cost of cannula; following this, gaps in national data sets were filled with MEDLINE and PubMed searches to estimate the total cost of cannula use in Australian EDs. Once the data were collected, totals were combined to establish an estimated cost for the listed categories.ResultsThe estimated cost of cannulation in Australia may be up to A$594 million per year, including the cost of insertion (equipment and staff), cost of complications such as Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and phlebitis, and patient‐centred costs (lost patient productivity, infiltration, occlusion and dislodgement). Approximately A$305.9 million is attributed to unused cannulas and approximately 11 790 days of clinician time is spent annually inserting cannula that remains idle.ConclusionThe figures developed in the present study represent an important educational opportunity to encourage thoughtful consideration of all interventions, no matter how small. ED cannula insertion represents a large economic and health cost to Australia's health system, many of which remain unused. There are no national data sets that record complications associated with PIVCs and we highlight the urgent need for improved data.
The 5‐year overall survival and its associated prognostic factors among patients with head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Authors: Cheng Ka Yu , Lim Jeren Jin Mun , Tsui Kwan Pok , Chow Tam Lin 
Published: May 2022

AbstractAimThe incidence of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) in Asians remains low but shows a steady rising trend. There is a lack of reporting of the long‐term outcome in this population. This study aims to evaluate the 5‐year overall survival and its associated prognostic factors among patients with head and neck cSCC.Patients and MethodsPatients with head and neck cSCC were identified in a regional hospital over 20 years. The 5‐year overall survival was estimated with the Kaplan–Meier curve and its prognostic risk factors were analysed using Cox proportional hazard regression.ResultsA total of 73 patients were identified. The median age was 84. The 5‐year overall survival rate was 40.3%. A higher grade of differentiation (hazard ratio 3.732, 95% confidence interval 1.161–11.991, P = .027) was a significant prognostic factor on both univariate and multivariate analyses.ConclusionIn this Asian cSCC survival series specific to the head and neck region, which mostly included octogenarians, the 5‐year overall‐survival was low and a poor grade of differentiation was associated with a worse survival. Further studies on the Asian population is warranted.
Bumblebees with the socially transmitted microbiome: A novel model organism for gut microbiota research
Authors: Zhang Zi‐Jing , Zheng Hao 
Published: May 2022

AbstractEusocial bumble and honey bees are important pollinators for global ecology and the agricultural economy. Although both the bumble and honey bees possess similar and host‐restricted gut microbiota, they differ in aspects of morphology, autonomy, physiology, behavior, and life cycle. The social bee gut bacteria exhibit host specificity that is likely a result of long‐term co‐evolution. The unique life cycle of bumblebees is key for the acquisition and development of their gut microbiota, and affects the strain‐level diversity of the core bacterial species. Studies on bumblebee gut bacteria show that they retain less functional capacity for carbohydrate metabolism compared with that of the honeybee. We discuss the potential roles of the bumblebee gut microbiota against pathogenic threats and the application of host‐specific probiotics for bumblebees. Given the advantages of the bumblebee microbiome, including the simple structure and host specificity, and the ease of manipulating bumblebee colonies, we propose that bumblebees may provide a valuable system for understanding the general principles of host–microbe interactions, gut–brain axis, and vertical transmission.
The effect of ergosterol on the allogrooming behavior of termites in response to the entomopathogenic fungusMetarhizium anisopliae
Authors: Chen Yong , Zhao Chongwen , Zeng Wenhui , Wu Wenjing , Zhang Shijun , Zhang Dandan , Li Zhiqiang 
Published: May 2022

AbstractTermites have physiological and behavioral immunities that make them highly resistant to pathogen infections, which complicates biocontrol efforts. However, the stimuli that trigger the pathogen‐avoidance behaviors of termites are still unclear. Our study shows that workers ofCoptotermes formosanusexposed to the conidia ofMetarhizium anisopliaeexhibited a significantly higher frequency and longer duration of allogrooming behaviors compared with untreated termites. Volatile compounds in the cuticle of control termites and termites previously exposed to a suspension ofM. anisopliaeconidia were analyzed and compared using a gas chromatography‐mass spectrometer (GC‐MS). Our results showed that the amount of ergosterol differed between the fungus‐exposed and control termites. Choice tests showed that termites significantly preferred to stay on filter paper treated with ergosterol (0.05, 0.1, or 1.0 mg/mL) compared with control filter paper. In addition, termites exposed to ergosterol followed byM. anisopliaeconidia were allogroomed at a significantly higher frequency and for a longer duration than termites exposed to alcohol (the solvent used with the ergosterol in the ergosterol trials) alone followed byM. anisopliaeconidia. These results showed that ergosterol may enhance the allogrooming behavior of termites in the presence of entomopathogenic fungi.
Exploiting China's Rise: Syria's Strategic Narrative and China's Participation in Middle Eastern Politics
Authors: Ghiselli Andrea , Alsudairi Mohammed 
Published: May 2022

AbstractChina's rise has fuelled much speculation about its potential involvement in regional crises across the world, and especially in the Middle East. In this debate, the agency of local actors is often ignored, and China is described as actively pursuing a long‐term strategy to expand its influence at the expense of the United States. Taking the Syrian civil war as a case study, this study challenges, if not wholly overturns, this mainstream analysis. Through the comparative juxtaposition of Syrian official discourse and Chinese actions, it finds that the Syrian state articulates a strategic narrative which significantly overstates its relationship with China for domestic and foreign policy reasons. This narrative, which depicts China as a supporter of an anti‐American regional coalition that also includes Iran and its allies, has been picked up by Western observers, thereby creating a distorted image of China's level of engagement in Syria and the region more broadly. Accordingly, this paper also prompts important considerations about the dynamics of China's presence with the Middle East and how scholars should study it.
A randomized phase II study of docetaxel or pemetrexed with or without the continuation of gefitinib after disease progression in elderly patients with non‐small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR mutations (JMTO LC12‐01)
Authors: Asami Kazuhiro , Ando Masahiko , Nishimura Takashi , Yokoi Takashi , Tamura Atsuhisa , Minato Koichi , Mori Masahide , Ogushi Fumitaka , Yamamoto Akiyoshi , Yoshioka Hiroshige , Kawahara Masaaki , Atagi Shinji 
Published: May 2022

AbstractBackgroundGefitinib (G) is a recommended molecular‐targeted agent for elderly patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)‐mutant non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Docetaxel (Doc) and pemetrexed (Pem) have similar efficacies, and either is often used as the sole agent during treatment. The efficacy of continuing G after progressive disease (PD) develops has been reported. It remains unclear whether the continuation of G in combination with a single cytotoxic agent beyond PD is beneficial for elderly patients. Here, we conducted a randomized phase II study to assess the efficacy and safety of cytotoxic chemotherapy with G for elderly patients with progressive EGFR‐mutant NSCLC.MethodsElderly patients with EGFR‐mutant NSCLC with PD previously treated with G were enrolled. Patients received Pem 500 mg/m or Doc 60 mg/m every 21 days and were randomly assigned to receive chemotherapy with 250 mg G (G+ Doc/Pem arm) or without G (Doc/Pem arm) until further disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.ResultsThis trial was terminated early owing to slow accrual. A group of 22 patients underwent analysis. The primary endpoint, progression‐free survival (PFS), was significantly longer in the G + Doc/Pem arm (median: 1.6 months vs. 5.6 months, hazard ratio = 0.40, 95% CI: 0.16–0.99, p = 0.0391). Adverse events ≥ grade 3 were more frequent in the G + Doc/Pem arm (45.5% vs. 90.9%, p = 0.032).ConclusionsPatients on G and Pem or Doc beyond PD showed a longer PFS than those on single‐agent chemotherapy; however, it was associated with increased toxicity.
PRKCB is relevant to prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma through methylation and immune infiltration
Authors: Wang Jinjie , Shi Muqi , Zhang Haijian , Zhou Hao , Huang Zhanghao , Zhou Youlang , Shi Jiahai 
Published: May 2022

AbstractBackgroundLung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is one of the tumor‐related diseases with high morbidity worldwide. Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation changes may involve in tumorigenesis. This study aimed to explore new biomarkers that have prognostic significance of LUAD.MethodsFirst, we downloaded the gene expression and methylation data set from Gene Expression Omnibus. R software was then used to identify abnormally methylated differentially expressed genes (MDEGs). Next, R package Cluster Profiler was used to analyze the enrichment and pathway of the MDEGs. Analysis using STRING revealed the protein–protein interaction network. The result was then visualized by Cytoscape and obtained 10 hub genes. Afterward, they were further verified by The Cancer Genome Atlas to select candidate genes. Moreover, quantitative real‐time polymerase chain reaction (qRT‐PCR) and immunohistochemistry were used to verify the expression and prognostic value of candidate genes in LUAD patients.ResultsThe results showed that the expressions of ADCY5 and PRKCB are indeed related to LUAD. The clinical relevance to PRKCB was confirmed by its clinical correlation analysis. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) and tumor immune estimation resource (TIMER) tumor immune correlations showed that PRKCB is involved in the cancer‐related Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway and is involved in immune infiltration. It was also verified by qRT‐PCR and immunohistochemistry that PRKCB was lowly expressed in LUAD patients and correlated with prognosis.ConclusionsPRKCB is relevant to prognosis of LUAD through methylation and immune infiltration.
The Role of Corporate Sustainability and Its Consistency on Firm Financial Performance: Canadian Evidence*
Authors: Abukari Kobana , Musah Alhassan , Assaidi Abdelouahid 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the impact of corporate sustainability and the consistency of corporate sustainability efforts on firm financial performance in Canada. Using data on 266 Canadian companies over the 2007–2017 period, we find a significantly positive association between corporate sustainability performance and firm financial performance. In addition, we find that companies that perform consistently well on sustainability (i.e., consistent performers) achieve better financial performance compared to inconsistent performers. Thus, far from their being net costs/expenses, our results indicate that corporate sustainability performance and consistency in sustainability performance both provide net benefits and significantly impact financial performance positively, implying that corporate sustainability not only helps address the needs of the current and future generations but also has a positive effect on the corporate bottom line. Taken together, our results suggest that not only does corporate sustainability have a positive effect on firm performance, but better financial performance may be achieved through a committed—rather than a “tokenism”—approach to corporate sustainability.