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Chemical control and herbicide resistance of hairy fleabane [Conyza bonariensis (L.) Cronquist] in Jordan
Authors: Qasem Jamal R. 
Published: January 2022

AbstractTwo field experiments were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of 12 herbicides in controlling hairy fleabane [Conyza bonariensis (L.) Cronquist] in a date palm orchard located in the central Jordan valley during the spring of 2017. Results showed that C. bonariensis resists paraquat (2.5, 5 and 7.5kgha-1), oxadiazon (5kgha-1) and oxyflourfen (3.3kgha-1) herbicides applied at normal or higher than the recommended rates. None of the three herbicides was significantly effective against the weed and treated plants continued growing normally similar to those of untreated control. Higher rates (10-fold of the recommended rates) of the same herbicides failed to control the weed. The effect of other tested herbicides on the weed was varied with bromoxynil plus MCPA (buctril®M), 2,4-D-iso-octyl ester, glyphosate, glyphosate trimesium and triclopyr were most effective and completely controlled the weed at recommended rates of application. Testing paraquat, oxadiazon and oxyflourfen using the normal recommended and 10-fold higher rates on two populations of C. bonariensis grown from seeds of the date palm and al-Twal (another site in the Jordan Valley) weed populations and grown in pots under glasshouse conditions showed that Date palm population was resistant to the three herbicides at both application rates while al-Twal site population was highly susceptible and completely controlled at normal and high rates of the three herbicides. It is concluded that certain populations of C. bonariensis developed resistance to paraquat, oxadiazon and oxyflourfen but control of this weed was possible using other herbicides of different mechanism of action. Herbicide rotation or other nonchemical weed control methods have been suggested to prevent or reduce the buildup and spread of resistant populations of this weed species. These results represent the first report on herbicide resistance of C. bonariensis in Jordan.
PolarMorphism enables discovery of shared genetic variants across multiple traits from GWAS summary statistics
Authors: von Berg Joanna , ten Dam Michelle , van der Laan Sander W. , de Ridder Jeroen 
Published: January 2022

AbstractPleiotropic SNPs are associated with multiple traits. Such SNPs can help pinpoint biological processes with an effect on multiple traits or point to a shared etiology between traits. We present PolarMorphism, a new method for the identification of pleiotropic SNPs from GWAS summary statistics. PolarMorphism can be readily applied to more than two traits or whole trait domains. PolarMorphism makes use of the fact that trait-specific SNP effect sizes can be seen as Cartesian coordinates and can thus be converted to polar coordinates r (distance from the origin) and theta (angle with the Cartesian x-axis). r describes the overall effect of a SNP, while theta describes the extent to which a SNP is shared. r and theta are used to determine the significance of SNP sharedness, resulting in a p-value per SNP that can be used for further analysis. We apply PolarMorphism to a large collection of publicly available GWAS summary statistics enabling the construction of a pleiotropy network that shows the extent to which traits share SNPs. This network shows how PolarMorphism can be used to gain insight into relationships between traits and trait domains. Furthermore, pathway analysis of the newly discovered pleiotropic SNPs demonstrates that analysis of more than two traits simultaneously yields more biologically relevant results than the combined results of pairwise analysis of the same traits. Finally, we show that PolarMorphism is more efficient and more powerful than previously published methods.
How large entrepreneurial-oriented companies breed innovation: the roles of interdepartmental collaboration and organizational culture
Authors: Ma Xifang , Rui Zhengyun , Zhong Genyuan 
Published: January 2022

Purpose
This study aims to provide a better understanding into how large-scale companies overcome their rigidity and bureaucracy, and transform entrepreneurial orientation (EO) into organizational responsiveness (e.g. interdepartmental collaboration [IDC]). It also clarifies the double-edged role of organizational culture in shaping IDC, specifically within the Chinese economy that is deeply influenced by Confucianism.

Design/methodology/approach
Datas were randomly collected from companies that reside in the Yangtze River Delta region. With a sample of 115 large-scale EO Chinese firms, consisting of 402 department managers and 115 executives. The study aggregates the scores to create an overall measurement for EO, collectivism, power distance and IDC in the analysis. Further, confirmatory factor analyses were used to measure the structural model fitness, and multiple regression analysis was used to assess the hypotheses.

Findings
The results show that in competitive environments, IDC, as a strategic response to EO and a risk aversion of inertia and bureaucracy, fully mediates the positive relationship between EO and organizational creativity. Furthermore, the positive association is more pronounced under high cultural collectivism or low power distance in large-scale firms.

Research limitations/implications
This paper contributes to the understanding of EO approach at the organizational level. The results posit that when large companies adopt EO, they are proactive rather than passive and would exhibit IDC as an important strategic responsiveness. Moreover, different organizational cultural orientations (i.e. high collectivism and low power distance) help to build IDC before cultivating innovation.

Practical implications
The results in this study suggest that large companies should focus on developing IDC to overcome knowledge fragmentation, bureaucracy and inertia. Also, large firms should develop Human Resource Management practices, such as creating job rotation and workflow, as well as cultural trust and common beliefs. In contrast, they should be on guard against status differences and workplace hierarchy’s cultural context.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that considers the roles of IDC and organizational culture and examines how large-scale entrepreneurial-oriented companies breed innovation.
Boundary resource interactions in solution networks
Authors: Wei Ruiqi , Vize Roisin , Geiger Susi 
Published: January 2022

Purpose
This study aims to explore the interactions between two different and potentially complementary boundary resources in coordinating solution networks in a digital platform context: boundary spanners (those individuals who span interorganizational boundaries) and boundary interfaces (the devices that help coordinate interfirm relationships, e.g. electronic data interchanges, algorithms or chatbots).

Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a multiple case study of three firms using digital platforms to coordinate solution networks in the information communication technology and lighting facility industries. Data were collected from 30 semi-structured interviews, which are complemented by secondary data.

Findings
As task complexity increases, smarter digital interfaces are adopted. When the intelligence level of interfaces is low or moderate, they are only used as tools by boundary spanners or to support boundary spanners’ functions. When the intelligence level of interfaces is high or very high, boundary spanners design the interfaces and let them perform tasks autonomously. They are also sometimes employed to complement interfaces’ technological limitations and customers’ limited user ability.

Research limitations/implications
The industry contexts of the cases may influence the results. Qualitative case data has limited generalizability.

Practical implications
This study offers a practical tool for solution providers to effectively deploy boundary employees and digital technologies to offer diverse customized solutions simultaneously.

Originality
This study contributes to the solution business literature by putting forward a framework of boundary resource interactions in coordinating solution networks in a digital platform context. It contributes to the boundary spanning literature by revealing the shifting functions of boundary spanners and boundary interfaces.
Critical, contextualized, content-rich: revisiting the call for humanizing pedagogies in literacy methods instruction
Authors: Riley Kathleen , Crawford-Garrett Katherine 
Published: January 2022

PurposeIn this study, the authors draw upon 10 years of collaborative teaching and research as two, White, women literacy teacher educators to theorize the role of humanizing pedagogies within literacy teacher education and share explicit examples of how these pedagogies might be operationalized in actual classroom settings.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on 10 years of qualitative, teacher inquiry research on authors’ shared practice as literacy teacher educators and has included focus groups with students, the collection of student work and extensive field notes on class sessions.FindingsContextualized within decades-old calls for humanizing teacher education practices, this study puts forward a framework for teaching literacy methods that centers critical, locally contextualized, content-rich approaches and provides detailed examples of how this study implemented this framework in two contrastive teacher education settings comprising different institutional barriers, regional student populations and program mandates.Originality/valueThe proposed framework of critical, locally contextualized and content-rich literacy methods offers one possibility for reconciling the divergent debates that perpetually shape literacy teaching and learning. As teachers are prepared to enter classrooms, the authors model concrete approaches and strategies for teaching reading within and against a sociopolitical landscape imbued with White supremacist ideals and racial bias.
The reshoring decision under uncertainty in the post-COVID-19 era
Authors: Chen Homin , Hsu Chia-Wen , Shih Yu-Yuan , Caskey D'Arcy 
Published: January 2022

Purpose
Using insights from the supply chain resilience perspective and the international business literature, this study aims to investigate the determinants of firms’ decisions to reshore manufacturing under the high levels of uncertainty brought about by the ongoing US–China trade war and COVID-19 pandemic.

Design/methodology/approach
The proposed conceptual framework is tested using survey data collected from 702 Taiwanese firms with manufacturing in China. The firms were drawn from a database compiled by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Findings
The results show that two supply chain factors (tariffs and supply chain completeness) and two non-location-bound factors (labor cost and material cost) are critical determinants of the decision to reshore under uncertainty.

Originality/value
This research elucidates and empirically validates several factors that influence the reshoring decision in uncertain environments. The findings provide valuable theoretical, practical and strategic insights into how firms should manage their value chains in the post-COVID-19 era.
A systematic literature review on circular economy practices: challenges, opportunities and future trends
Authors: Khan Syed Abdul Rehman , Shah Adeel Syed Ali , Yu Zhang , Tanveer Muhammad 
Published: January 2022

Purpose
The circular economy (CE) is an evolving subject transitioning from conceptualization to empirical testing. Over the past decade, researchers have done an exhaustive study to understand the concept of CE and its realized values both financially and environmentally on organizations that have traditional business models based on linear consumption. For understanding the transitional phenomena completely, the paper aims to review the current and emerging research trends in CE to ascertain future direction.

Design/methodology/approach
The research was conducted on 91 articles published in the study area during the past decade (2016–2021) in renowned peer-reviewed journals. The criteria set to review literature are based on the following assortment: CE drivers, CE barriers, definitions by different authors, yearly distribution of the publication, research publisher and journals, google citation and methodology used in the selected research articles.

Findings
The study suggests that researchers from the selected years are keen to understand the transition and its critical factors by bringing forward frameworks and incorporating CE with digital technologies. The digital technology implied are Industrial Technology (IR) 4.0, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Data Analytics to increase organizational and environmental performance. CE researchers need to use empirical testing in different sectors to understand and bring forward more improvised business models and practices according to the dynamics of the industry.

Originality/value
The literature review suggests gaps exist to integrate the micro, meso and macro levels to get CE implementation's system-wide benefits. The study has also identified that many CE frameworks available in the literature for implementation must be empirically tested to yield performance results.
Female Personifications and Masculine Forms: Gender, Armour and Allegory in the Habsburg–Valois Conflicts of Sixteenth‐Century Europe
Authors: Bendall Sarah A. 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThis article examines the visual and material culture of sixteenth‐century elite ceremonial armours and the paradoxes inherent in using images of women to decorate them between 1525 and 1550. It argues that foreign invading forces and their allies exploited or inverted traditional gender binaries associated with the classical and humanist iconography of the Italian Renaissance, particularly its female allegorical forms, to visually signify power relationships between combatants during the Italian Wars. Rather than simply embodying masculinity, elaborate ceremonial armours with images of women are revealing of both ideals of masculinity and femininity during times of war. These portrayals were part of wider conversations about gender and power, about the strength and weaknesses of women, and, ultimately, women's inferior status to men, which were utilised in allegorical forms to make claims to authority on these elite forms of male dress.
Rapid identification of Takifugu genus using visual loop‐mediated isothermal amplification
Authors: Xie Ruibin , Li Hui , Yu Wenjie , Wang Nan , Zhang Juan , Gao Jie , Chen Ailiang 
Published: January 2022

AbstractSome Takifugu species are commonly found in the coastal areas of China, Japan, Thailand, and Korea and cause pufferfish poisoning, which is toxic and even lethal to humans. From 2010 to 2015, there were 430 cases of pufferfish poisoning worldwide, resulting in 52 deaths. Identification of Takifugu species is imperative to reduce financial losses and ensure food safety. Here, visual loop‐mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) was applied to identify Takifugu species. Conserved regions within the mitochondrial DNA among different Takifugu species were selected to design LAMP primers. In 55 min of amplification, sufficient DNA was obtained to observe the results with the naked eye, without the need for complicated instruments. The method was highly specific, with no cross‐detection of 17 other fish species, namely, 7 Tetraodontiformes species and 10 commercially important fish. The method showed a detection limit of 0.1 ng Takifugu DNA and was successfully validated to detect Takifugu in cooked fish and the vomitus of poisoned patients. This rapid and visual LAMP method is a useful tool to prevent false labeling, protect consumer rights, and reduce the risk of pufferfish poisoning.Practical ApplicationThe loop‐mediated isothermal amplification method established in this study can identify cooked or digested fish products containing 1% or more of Takifugu. Therefore, it can be used for the visual detection of Takifugu products and the medical diagnosis of Takifugu poisoning.
Heritability of tea drinking and its relationship with cigarette smoking in the Chinese male adult twins
Authors: Dongmeng Wang , Yu'e Xi , Wenjing Gao , Ke Zheng , Jun Lv , Canqing Yu , Shengfeng Wang , Tao Huang , Dianjianyi Sun , Chunxiao Liao , Yuanjie Pang , Zengchang Pang , Min Yu , Hua Wang , Xianping Wu , Zhong Dong , Fan Wu , Guohong Jiang , Xiaojie Wang , Yu Liu , Jian Deng , Lin Lu , Weihua Cao , Liming Li 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThe aims of this study are to estimate the contributions of genetic factors to the variation of tea drinking and cigarette smoking, to examine the roles of genetic factors in their correlation and further to investigate underlying causation between them. We included 11 625 male twin pairs from the Chinese National Twin Registry (CNTR). Bivariate genetic modelling was fitted to explore the genetic influences on tea drinking, cigarette smoking and their correlation. Inference about Causation through Examination of FAmiliaL CONfounding (ICE FALCON) was further used to explore the causal relationship between them. We found that genetic factors explained 17% and 23% of the variation in tea drinking and cigarette smoking, respectively. A low phenotypic association between them was reported (rph = 0.21, 95% confidence interval [CI]: [0.19, 0.24]), which was partly attributed to common genetic factors (rA = 0.45, 95% CI [0.19, 1.00]). In the ICE FALCON analysis with current smoking as the exposure, tea drinking was associated with his own (βself = 0.39, 95% CI [0.23, 0.55]) and his co‐twin's smoking status (βco‐twin = 0.25, 95% CI [0.10, 0.41]). Their association attenuated with borderline significance conditioning on his own smoking status (p = 0.045), indicating a suggestive causal effect of smoking status on tea drinking. On the contrary, when we used tea drinking as the predictor, we found familial confounding between them only. In conclusion, both tea drinking and cigarette smoking were influenced by genetic factors, and their correlation was partly explained by common genetic factors. In addition, our finding suggests that familial confounders account for the relationship between tea drinking and cigarette smoking. And current smoking might have a causal effect on weekly tea drinking, but not vice versa.
Sulphated dehydroepiandrosterone serum levels are reduced in women with alcohol use disorder and correlate negatively with craving: A sex‐separated cross‐sectional and longitudinal study
Authors: Weinland Christian , Mühle Christiane , von Zimmermann Claudia , Kornhuber Johannes , Lenz Bernd 
Published: January 2022

AbstractPrevious studies have established a role of sex hormones in alcohol use disorder (AUD).Only few clinical investigations with low numbers of patients with AUD have focused on the sulphated form of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA‐S), despite its function as a neuromodulating sex steroid on receptors in the central nervous system (γ‐aminobutyric acid type A, N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate, sigma‐1 receptors). DHEA‐S serum levels were compared between 200 inpatients with AUD (44% women) admitted for withdrawal treatment and 240 healthy controls (45% women) and analysed longitudinally in patients from early abstinence (baseline) to a median of 5 days later. We also correlated DHEA‐S levels with craving, liver enzyme activities, and prospective alcohol‐related readmissions during a 24‐month follow‐up. DHEA‐S concentrations were lower in female patients than in female healthy controls during baseline (70%) and decreased from baseline to follow‐up in the female and male patients groups (down to: women, 92%; men, 76%). Baseline DHEA‐S concentrations correlated with the total and obsessive subscales of the Obsessive–Compulsive Drinking Scale and with maximum visual analogue scale craving scores in female patients (Rho ≤ −0.240) and gamma‐glutamyl transferase activity in female (Rho = −0.292) and male (Rho = −0.391) patients. DHEA‐S did not significantly predict outcome. We found interactions with smoking behaviour and age. This is the first study based on large cohorts of inpatients with AUD undergoing a qualified detoxification treatment to provide sex‐separated evidence for associations of DHEA‐S serum concentrations with AUD and related phenotypes. The results stimulate further investigations whether DHEA‐S directly influences alcohol craving building a basis to develop sex‐sensitive prevention and treatment strategies.
Risk factors for severe neonatal thrombocytopenia in cases of maternal immune thrombocytopenia
Authors: Point Florian , Terriou Louis , Rakza Thameur , Drumez Elodie , Alluin Gauthier , Garabedian Charles , Houfflin‐Debarge Véronique 
Published: January 2022

AbstractAimMaternal immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) may induce neonatal thrombocytopenia (nTP), which carries a risk of neonatal haemorrhagic complications. Some risk factors for nTP have reached consensus such as maternal splenectomy and previous severe nTP, while others such as maternal platelet count have not.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study in a university hospital, including 145 neonates of mothers with ITP. We assessed the risk of severe nTP and bleeding complications.ResultsSevere nTP in the first 24 h after birth was more common in case of maternal splenectomy (OR = 4.4) and a previous severe nTP (OR = 46.9). Severe nTP at nadir (lowest platelet count during the initial postnatal days) was more frequent in cases of a previous neonate with severe nTP (OR = 42), maternal treatment during pregnancy (OR = 2.4) and a low maternal platelet count during pregnancy or at delivery. These risk factors were not significantly associated with an increased risk of neonatal haemorrhagic complications.ConclusionIn our population, we confirm the risk of severe nTP in case of maternal splenectomy or previous nTP. By monitoring the platelet count to its nadir, we identified three additional risk factors: maternal treatment during pregnancy and low maternal platelet count during pregnancy or low maternal platelet count at delivery.