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“Our ancestors passed this down to us for a reason”: information practices of ballet folklórico dancers in Mexican-American communities
Authors: Vamanu Iulian , Terronez Micaela 
Published: January 2022

PurposeThis paper explores informational dimensions of dancing by focusing on the cases of two folk dance groups practicing Mexican ballet folklórico in the US.Design/methodology/approachThematic analysis of (1) extensive recollections from one of the study's coauthors, an academic librarian who was an active member of a ballet folklórico group; (2) an interview with that coauthor's brother, who is the current director of this school; and (3) instructional and demonstrative videos posted on YouTube by two US-based ballet folklórico groups.FindingsBallet folklórico dancers must use a wide range of information. The most important is sociocultural information, which expert dancers display while dancing and help novices acquire as enacted, expressed, or recorded information. According to expert dancers, sociocultural information becomes increasingly embodied through repeated enactment and constant interaction with ambient information. Specifically, ambient information provides parameters that both enable and limit the performance of the dance.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the emergent Library and Information Science (LIS) literature on dancing and its informational aspects.
Value co-creation in humanitarian service triads: service provision for beneficiaries
Authors: Özdamar Burçin , Tabaklar Tunca , Göçer Aysu , Piotrowicz Wojciech D. 
Published: January 2022

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to understand how humanitarian service triad members contribute to value co-creation, and how they assess the continuity of services in humanitarian supply chains (HSCs) to ensure support for beneficiaries.Design/methodology/approachThe study applied a qualitative methodology through a single case study of a humanitarian service triad composed of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), service providers and beneficiaries. Empirical data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observations.FindingsThe findings confirm that the humanitarian service triad perspective in HSCs allows better understanding of humanitarian assistance. The findings indicate six components grouped into a humanitarian service triad framework, namely: service design, service reachability, training serviceability, collaboration, synergy, ethical considerations and after-service care.Research limitations/implicationsThis research contributes to understanding of humanitarian services provision by studying service triads in humanitarian settings. It also confirms the need for cooperation between practitioners in services provision. The findings are limited to the context of refugees in Turkey, specifically humanitarian service triad located in Izmir area.Practical implicationsThe Humanitarian Service Triad Framework for Service Provision proposed in this paper can be used as a tool for policy makers and practitioners involved in service design in HSC contexts, stressing the need for including all the framework components in practice.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first to focus on a humanitarian service triad, which includes beneficiaries as triad members in long-term humanitarian service provision.
Free trade areas as cross-cultural knowledge-sharing platforms: evidence from the Sino-Vietnam case
Authors: Yu Ganqian , Yang Jian , Chin Tachia 
Published: January 2022

Purpose
A free trade area (FTA) is the designated economic area where bilateral trades between membership nations are tax-free. An FTA provides an important knowledge-sharing platform across cultures. Most studies discuss FTA issues from the perspectives of economics and international law. However, this study aims to analyse the challenges and opportunities relating to FTAs from a novel, integrative perspective of culture and knowledge management.

Design/methodology/approach
This study used a single-case study design to investigate the Sino-Vietnam bilateral trade conditions in the FTA of the Regional Economic Comprehensive Partnership. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Yunnan province, China, with government officials and firm managers involved in Sino-Vietnam trade.

Findings
This study identifies three major challenges in the China-Vietnam case: the existence of a knowledge iceberg, the lack of deep mutual trust and the inconsistency of bilateral port policies. This study identifies three possible solutions to these challenges: creating different communication channels for knowledge sharing, building mutual trust and respect for knowledge sharing and reducing inconsistencies in the two border gate management systems.

Research limitations/implications
Considering cross-cultural knowledge sharing, this study provides new insight and feasible guidance for better cooperation of member countries of FTAs all over the world.

Originality/value
This research is novel because it considers the FTA as a knowledge-sharing platform where the intersection of diverse cultural values and judgement may result in a variety of knowledge icebergs. Thus, this study enriches the FTA research by focussing on the intersection of culture and knowledge management.
The effects of transformational leadership on employee creativity in Vietnam telecommunications enterprises
Authors: Nguyen Thi Phuong Linh , Nguyen Thu Thuy , Duong Cong Doanh , Doan Xuan Hau 
Published: January 2022

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of transformational leadership on employee creativity through psychological empowerment, creative process engagement and intrinsic motivation.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 420 employees at 21 telecommunications enterprises in Vietnam directly by questionnaire survey. Statistical methods, such as confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation model (SEM), were used to analyze the data.FindingsThis paper shows that transformational leadership indirectly affects employee creativity through the mediating variables. Transformational leadership has a positive relationship with psychological empowerment. Psychological empowerment has a proportional relationship with both creative process engagement and intrinsic motivation. Creative process engagement and intrinsic motivation have been shown to have positive effects with the employee creativity.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation of this paper is that the study only explores the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creativity through a number of the mediating variables.Practical implicationsThe telecommunications industry is an industry that requires constant innovation, so managers need to aim for a leadership style that promotes employee creativity. Therefore, transformational leadership is a style that should be considered during the appointing and recruiting.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the existing literature by focusing on understanding the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creativity in telecommunications enterprises in an Asian country with an emerging economy like Vietnam.
Optimum design of space structures using hybrid particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm
Authors: Goodarzimehr Vahid , Omidinasab Fereydoon , Taghizadieh Nasser 
Published: January 2022

Purpose
This paper aims to present a new hybrid algorithm of Particle Swarm Optimization and the Genetic Algorithm (PSOGA) to optimize the space trusses with continuous design variables. The PSOGA is an efficient hybridized algorithm to solve optimization problems.

Design/methodology/approach
These algorithms have shown outstanding performance in solving optimization problems with continuous variables. The PSO conceptually models the social behavior of birds, in which individual birds exchange information about their position, velocity and fitness. The behavior of a flock is influencing the probability of migration to other regions with high fitness. The GAs procedure is based on the mechanism of natural selection. The present study uses mutation, random selection and reproduction to reach the best genetic algorithm by the operators of natural genetics. Thus, only identical chromosomes or particles can be converged.

Findings
In this research, using the idea of hybridization PSO and GA algorithms are hybridized and a new meta-heuristic algorithm is developed to minimize the space trusses with continuous design variables. To showing the efficiency and robustness of the new algorithm, several benchmark problems are solved and compared with other researchers.

Originality/value
The results indicate that the hybrid PSO algorithm improved in both exploration and exploitation. The PSO algorithm can be used to minimize the weight of structural problems under stress and displacement constraints.
Complex landscapes stabilize farm bird communities and their expected ecosystem services
Authors: Smith Olivia M. , Kennedy Christina M. , Echeverri Alejandra , Karp Daniel S. , Latimer Christopher E. , Taylor Joseph M. , Wilson‐Rankin Erin E. , Owen Jeb P. , Snyder William E. 
Published: January 2022

Abstract

Birds play many roles within agroecosystems including as consumers of crops and pests, carriers of pathogens and beloved icons. Birds are also rapidly declining across North America, in part due to agricultural intensification. Thus, it is imperative to identify how to manage agroecosystems to best support birds for multi‐functional outcomes (e.g. crop production and conservation). Both the average amounts of services/disservices provided and their temporal stability are important for effective farm planning.

Here, we conducted point count surveys for 4 years across 106 locations on 27 diversified farms in Washington and Oregon, USA. We classified birds as ecosystem service or disservice providers using indices spanning supporting, regulating, provisioning and cultural services/disservices. We then examined service/disservice index pairwise correlations and assessed the relative importance of local, farm and landscape complexity on the average and temporal stability of avian service/disservice provider indices.

Generally, service provider indices (production benefitting birds, grower appreciation and conservation scores) were positively correlated with each other. Foodborne pathogen risk, grower disapproval and identity/iconic value indices were also positively correlated with each other. However, the crop damaging bird index generally had low correlations with other indices.

Farms that implemented more conservation‐friendly management practices generally had higher average service provider indices, but farm management did not impact disservice provider indices, except for grower disapproval. Average disservice provider indices were lower on farms in complex landscapes.

Local vertical vegetation complexity tended to increase the temporal stability of service provider indices but did not affect the disservice provider indices. Greater landscape complexity was generally associated with increased temporal stability of service and disservice provider indices. Increased landscape complexity may stabilize bird communities by increasing bird community evenness, which in turn, positively predicted temporal stability of all service/disservice provider indices.

Policy implications. Our results suggest that farmers can effectively manage their farms to harness ecosystem services from birds through farm diversification. Disservices provided by birds, however, appear to be most negatively impacted by landscape‐level complexity. Thus, greater incentives for farmers to increase semi‐natural cover at the landscape scale are likely necessary to achieve multifunctional outcomes for conservation and agriculture.
A national assessment of legacy versus new generation Medicaid data
Authors: Nguyen Jessy K. , Sanghavi Prachi 
Published: January 2022

AbstractObjectiveTo compare the performance of Medicaid legacy, Medicaid new generation, and Medicare claims on data analytic tasks.Data SourcesMedicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) claims (legacy) of 100% beneficiaries in 2011 (all states except Idaho), 2012 (all states), 2013 (28 states), and 2014 (17 states); 2016 Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System Analytic Files (TAF) claims (new generation) of 100% beneficiaries from all states; Medicare claims of 20% beneficiaries in 2011–2014, 2016.Study DesignWe focused on the chain of events that starts with an out‐of‐hospital medical emergency and ends with hospital death or survival to discharge. We developed six data quality indicators to assess ambulance variables; linkage between claims; external cause of injury code reporting; and death reporting on hospital discharge status codes. For the latter, we estimated injury severity and modeled its association with death in the Medicare population. We used the model to compare reported versus expected deaths by injury severity in the Medicaid population. Datasets were compared by state and fee‐for‐service versus managed care.Data Extraction MethodsMedicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with emergency ambulance transports.Principal FindingsMedicare claims had high performance across indicators and states; MAX claims substantially underperformed on multiple indicators in most states. For example, most states reported external cause codes for over 90% of Medicare but less than 15% of Medicaid injury cases. Medicaid fee‐for‐service did not consistently perform better than Medicaid managed care. Compared with MAX, TAF claims performed significantly better on some indicators but continued to have poor external cause code reporting. Finally, MAX and TAF managed care records reported deaths at discharge in the range of expected deaths; however, fee‐for‐service claims might have underreported high‐severity injury deaths.ConclusionsNew generation Medicaid claims performed better than legacy claims on some indicators, but much more improvement is needed to allow high‐quality policy analysis.
Vascular access in therapeutic apheresis: One size does not fit all
Authors: Golsorkhi Mohadese , Azarfar Anoush , Abdipour Amir 
Published: January 2022

AbstractBackgroundTherapeutic apheresis has been used in treating hematological and non‐hematological diseases. For a successful procedure, efficient vascular access is required. Presently, peripheral venous access (PVA), central venous catheterization (CVC), implantable ports, and arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are used. This review aims to evaluate different type of access and their pros and cons to help physicians determine the best venous access.MethodsThe electronic search included PubMed and Google Scholar up to November 2020. The Mesh terms were apheresis, peripheral catheterization, central catheterization, and arteriovenous fistula.ResultsA total of 228 studies were found through database searching. Two independent authors reviewed the articles using their titles and abstracts; 88 articles were selected and the full text was reviewed. Finally, 26 were included. The inclusion criteria were studies incorporating patients with any indication for apheresis.ConclusionPVA has been promoted in recent years in many centers across the United States to lower the rate of complications associated with vascular access and to make this procedure more accessible. Several factors are involved in selecting appropriate venous access, such as the procedure's duration and frequency, patient's vascular anatomy, and staff's experience. In short‐term procedures, temporary vascular access like PVA or CVC is preferred. Permanent vascular access such as AVF, tunneled cuffed central lines, and implantable ports are more beneficial in prolonged treatment period but each patient has to be evaluated individually by apheresis team for the most appropriate method.
Humanitarian Planning and Localised Temporalities: The Haitian Case
Authors: Verlin Jan 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThis article shows, based on the Haitian crises after 2010, that international organisations (IOs) as central actors of humanitarian governance in complex crises situations rely on sequenced time frames to manage the diversification and massification of relief actors. At the same time, crisis professionals struggle to correlate their lived temporalities with this preconstructed time model when the localised crisis shifts from an event to a permanent temporality. The article is, therefore, guided by the following question: How is time strategically used by IOs in humanitarian governance and what are the effects of conflicting localised temporalities? The article argues first that different types of temporalities were associated with different groups of aid actors after the 2010 earthquake. The prolongated humanitarian crisis resulted in the repetitive adaption of UN appeal and funding instruments. Second, I show that the UN used planning instruments based on the disaster management cycle. Based on its cyclical temporality, UN actors combined it with humanitarian project management tools to govern aid projects by formalising the negotiation between the long‐term aid programmes and the short‐term duration of projects. I finally show the synthesis of both forms of temporal aid governance to control the contradictions between localised and funding temporalities.
Dysregulated kappa‐opioid receptors in the medial prefrontal cortex contribute to working memory deficits in alcohol dependence
Authors: Wei Gengze , Sirohi Sunil , Walker Brendan M. 
Published: January 2022

AbstractImpaired working memory is one symptom contributing to compromised executive function in alcohol use disorder (AUD). Dysregulation of cortical dynorphin (DYN) and κ‐opioid receptors (KORs) has been implicated in alcohol dependence‐induced impairment in executive function. The present experiments test the hypothesis that dysregulated medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) KORs contribute to impaired working memory in alcohol dependence. Alcohol dependence was induced in male Wistar rats via 4 months of intermittent ethanol vapor exposure prior to training/testing in an mPFC‐dependent working memory task (delayed nonmatching‐to‐sample task; DNMST). mPFC KOR function in alcohol‐naïve rats was compared with that of alcohol‐dependent and nondependent rats using a DYN A‐stimulated [35S]GTPγS coupling assay. A functional role for mPFC KORs in the regulation of working memory was assessed via intra‐mPFC infusions of a KOR agonist prior to assessment in the DNMST, and the contribution of mPFC KORs to compromised working memory in dependence was assessed via mPFC infusions of the KOR antagonist norbinaltorphimine (nor‐BNI). In alcohol‐dependent rats, impaired performance in the DNMST confirmed compromised working memory. Furthermore, DYN A‐stimulated mPFC KOR function was pathologically increased in alcohol‐dependent rats compared with nondependent and alcohol‐naïve rats. Additionally, mPFC KOR involvement in working memory was functionally confirmed by intra‐mPFC KOR agonist‐induced deficits in DNMST performance. Importantly, alcohol dependence‐induced impairment in the DNMST was ameliorated by intra‐mPFC KOR antagonism. Regulation of working memory by mPFC KORs and alcohol dependence‐induced dysregulation of mPFC KOR function identify a novel therapeutic target to treat AUD‐related symptoms of working memory impairment.
Extrasystoles or short bradycardias of the newborn seldom require subsequent 24‐hour electrocardiographic monitoring
Authors: Uusitalo Asta , Tikkakoski Antti , Reinikainen Miika , Lehtinen Pieta , Ylänen Kaisa , Korhonen Päivi , Poutanen Tuija 
Published: January 2022

AbstractAimTo retrospectively assess the indications for and findings on 24‐hour electrocardiographic (Holter) monitoring in newborns, focussing on bradycardias and extrasystoles.MethodsData included 337 term‐born infants. Holter indications were categorised into bradycardias below 80 beats per minute, extrasystoles, any tachycardia and other. Heart rate below 60 beats per minute, pathological atrioventricular conduction, supraventricular or ventricular tachycardia, or either atrial premature contractions over 10% or ventricular premature contractions over 5% of total beats were defined as significant arrhythmia on Holter.ResultsThe median age was 6 days (range: 2–62 days). Bradycardia (42%) or extrasystoles (32%) were the most common Holter indications. Fifty‐three infants (16%) had significant arrhythmia on Holter. Heart disease or 12‐lead electrocardiogram expressing extrasystoles or conduction abnormalities were associated with significant arrhythmias (p = 0.046 and p < 0.001, respectively). Twenty‐seven of 109 infants (25%) with extrasystoles as a Holter indication had abnormal Holter results, but only seven (6.4%) had significant arrhythmia on Holter if the 12‐lead electrocardiogram was normal. No pathology was found behind bradycardias below 80 beats per minute in the absence of heart disease.ConclusionAmong term newborns with extrasystoles or bradycardias, Holter monitoring could be targeted to infants with heart disease or abnormal electrocardiograms.
Inference for Nonparanormal Partial Correlation via Regularized Rank-Based Nodewise Regression
Authors: Hu Haoyan , Qiu Yumou 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Partial correlation is a common tool in studying conditional dependence for Gaussian distributed data. However, partial correlation being zero may not be equivalent to conditional independence under non-Gaussian distributions. In this paper, we propose a statistical inference procedure for partial correlations under the high-dimensional nonparanormal (NPN) model where the observed data are normally distributed after certain monotone transformations. The NPN partial correlation is the partial correlation of the normal transformed data under the NPN model, which is a more general measure of conditional dependence. We estimate the NPN partial correlations by regularized nodewise regression based on the empirical ranks of the original data. A multiple testing procedure is proposed to identify the nonzero NPN partial correlations. The proposed method can be carried out by a simple coordinate descent algorithm for lasso optimization. It is easy-to-implement and computationally more efficient compared to the existing methods for estimating NPN graphical models. Theoretical results are developed to show the asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator and to justify the proposed multiple testing procedure. Numerical simulations and a case study on brain imaging data demonstrate the utility of the proposed procedure and evaluate its performance compared to the existing methods. Data used in preparation of this article were obtained from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database.