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The interrelationships between bank risk and market discipline in Southeast Asia
Authors: Nguyen Dat T. , Le Tu 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine whether a bidirectional relationship between bank risk and market discipline may exist in Southeast Asia.

Design/methodology/approach
A simultaneous equations model with a three-stage least squares estimator is used to examine the interrelationships between bank risk and market discipline using a sample of 79 listed banks in five countries in Southeast Asia (ASEAN-5) from 2006 to 2019.

Findings
The findings show a two-way relationship between bank risk and market discipline. In particular, market discipline has a negative impact on bank risk, while there is a positive relationship between bank risk and market discipline. A bidirectional relationship between them still holds when using an alternative measure of bank risk in subsamples, controlling for the global financial crisis and governance indicators.

Practical implications
The findings indicate that market discipline can reduce bank risk. Meanwhile, a positive impact of bank risk on market discipline reemphasizes that market discipline is a powerful tool to ensure banks do not have excessive risk-taking. Nonetheless, the findings suggest that further implementation of market discipline as the third pillar of the Basel framework is necessary for the banking systems in ASEAN-5.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first attempt to investigate the interrelationship between bank risk and market discipline in Southeast Asia.
Preparation and performance of CNTs-Pt formaldehyde sensor and CNTs-Au glucose sensor
Authors: Zhao Bin , Zhou Yawei , Qu Junfeng , Yin Fei , Yin Shaoqing , Chang Yongwei , Zhang Wu 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
Since carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were discovered by Iijima in 1991, they have gained more and more attention by people because of their unique physical and chemical properties. The CNTs have one-dimensional nanostructure, high surface adsorption capacity, good conductivity and electronic ballistic transmission characteristics and therefore have excellent mechanical, electrical, physical and chemical properties. CNTs are ideal basic materials to make nanometer gas sensors. Nanometallic materials function as to enhance electrode activity and promote the electron transfer, so if composite nanometallic materials M (such as Au, Pt, Cu and Pd) and CNTs are used, all kinds of their characters of components would have coeffect. Electrochemical sensors by use of such composite as electrode would have a higher detection sensitivity.

Design/methodology/approach
CNTs were synthesized via chemical vapor deposition technique and were purified afterward. CNTs-M(Pt,Au) suspension was prepared by chemical deposition using spinning disc processor (SDP) and was coated on gold electrode. The modified electrodes were constructed, based on immobilization of glucose oxidase on an Au electrode by electrostatic effect. CNTs-Pt/ glassy carbon electrodes (GCE) electrodes were made by electrochemically deposition of platinum particles on GCE modified by CNTs. The microstructures of the harvested CNTs, CNTs-M (M = Au, Pt) were analyzed under scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The application of the sensor in medical detection has been evaluated.

Findings
The results shown that CNTs-Au biosensors exhibit good reproducibility, stability and fast response to glucose detection, it can be used in the clinic detection of glucose concentration in human serum. Using CNTs-Pt/GCE for formaldehyde detection exhibited high sensitivity and good reproducibility.

Originality/value
This study modified CNTs by using self-assembled techniques through SDP with nano Pt and Au by electrodeposition for the first time. CNTs-Pt/GCE electrode was prepared by depositing platinum particles electrochemically on GCE modified by CNTs. CNTs-Au-modified electrode was prepared by immobilization of glucose oxidase on an Au electrode first by electrostatic effect. Electrochemical behaviors of glucose at CNTs-Au and formaldehyde at CNTs-Pt/GCE were investigated by cyclic voltammetry.
Corporate social responsibility disclosures and profitability of Islamic banks: an empirical study
Authors: Mahmuda Naila Al , Muktadir-Al-Mukit Dewan 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
This study aims to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and financial performance (FP) of Islamic banking sector from a developing country perspective. It also explores the present status of CSR activities performing by the listed Islamic banks (IBs) of Bangladesh.

Design/methodology/approach
The secondary data from seven IBs’ annual reports for the years 2009–2018 are taken to obtain substantial measures of CSR activities. A corporate social responsibility disclosure index is constructed based on disclosure status on nine dimensions and 75 items as per the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions standards. To find the association between CSR disclosures and profitability, panel regression analysis has been performed.

Findings
The result indicates that CSR disclosures have a significant and negative relation with FP (return on assets) of IBs. It also suggests the expansion of CSR practices and the communicative CSR reporting of IBs, as an ethical identity, toward the stakeholders and society.

Research limitations/implications
First, the samples used in this study are limited to IBs as ethical identities in Bangladesh. Second, the length of a time frame as the practice of CSR activities and its reporting is still ineffective following the enforcement of the central bank directive in 2008. Another limitation is that the study used a subjective measure, content analysis, of CSR activities that was self-reported disclosures, which may creep some biasness.

Practical implications
The practical involvement of this research includes the assistance for policy development regarding better understanding of expansion of CSR practices and trustworthiness of CSR reporting by the Islamic banking segments in developing country context. Future researchers can get a glimpse of what reputational impact CSR initiatives really have on consumers and investors, considering CSR activities as an indicator of greater transparency and honesty in operations and financial reporting.

Originality/value
This study makes an important contribution to the academic literature on CSR communication from developing country context where CSR activities are supported under Islamic banking system. In addition, its examination of the legitimacy of CSR disclosures elaborates the social obligations of corporate entities to their stakeholders and society.
Different types of semi‐natural habitat are required to sustain diverse wild bee communities across agricultural landscapes
Authors: Maurer Corina , Sutter Louis , Martínez‐Núñez Carlos , Pellissier Loïc , Albrecht Matthias 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

Semi‐natural habitats provide important resources for wild bees in agricultural landscapes. Landscapes under management are dynamic and floral resources fluctuate in space and time. Thus, promoting different semi‐natural habitat types within landscapes could be key to support diverse bee meta‐communities throughout the season.

Here, we integrate analyses of α‐diversity (species richness) and β‐diversity and species‐habitat networks to examine the relative contribution of all major semi‐natural habitats to wild bee meta‐communities in agricultural landscapes. We sampled extensively and conventionally managed meadows, flower strips, hedgerows and forest edges in spring, early and late summer in 25 landscapes in Switzerland.

Habitat types varied in their importance for wild bees throughout the season: While extensively managed meadows supported more rare species, habitat specialists and bee species overall than the other habitat types, flower strips were most important later in the season. Each of the five investigated habitat types harboured relatively unique sets of species with different habitats generally acting as distinct modules in the overall bee‐habitat network.

Not only flower richness in a habitat per se, but also flower‐habitat network properties (habitat strength and functional complementarity) were good predictors of wild bee richness. In addition to local floral richness, landscape composition and configuration interactively influenced β‐diversity patterns across habitats.

Synthesis and applications. Our study highlights the value of pollinator‐habitat network analysis to inform pollinator conservation management at the landscape scale, especially when combined with information on floral resources and flower‐habitat networks. Maintaining different types of semi‐natural habitats offers diverse and complementary resources throughout the season, which are crucial to sustain diverse wild bee meta‐communities in agricultural landscapes. Particularly meadow extensification schemes can play a key role in safeguarding rare and specialist species in these landscapes. While locally a high flower richness promoted bee abundance and richness in general, our results indicate that increasing connectivity between habitat patches in landscapes dominated by arable crops appears to improve species exchange between local bee communities of different habitats, thereby possibly increasing their resilience to disturbances.
Input subsidies and crop diversity on family farms in Burkina Faso
Authors: Ahmad Sibbir , Smale Melinda , Theriault Veronique , Maiga Eugenie 
Published: August 2022

AbstractSince their independence, many countries in sub‐Saharan Africa have used input subsidies to increase agricultural productivity and improve food security. We analyse the effects of both a fertiliser and a seed subsidy on farming households' land allocation among crops and crop diversity in Burkina Faso. Although previous studies investigated either the impact of a fertiliser or a seed subsidy on targeted crops, few examined the effects of both subsidies combined. Applying a correlated random‐effects model with a control function approach to nationally representative, 2‐year panel data collected from farming households, we find that those with access to the fertiliser subsidy allocate more land to the crops it targets (rice, maize and cotton) than non‐targeted crops. Focusing on a minor crop with key agronomic and nutritional attributes, we conclude that land allocation to cowpea as the primary crop and intercrop declined with the fertiliser subsidy. The fertiliser subsidy also negatively affects crop diversity. However, we find that the cowpea seed subsidy offsets the bias of fertiliser subsidy toward fertiliser‐targeted crops and enhances diversity.
Timing of initiation of renal replacement therapy for patients with acute kidney injury: A meta‐analysis of RCTs
Authors: Li Yunjie , Zhang Yong , Li Rui , Zhang Ming , Gao Xiang 
Published: August 2022

AbstractPurposeTo assess the effects of delayed versus early renal replacement therapy (RRT) initiation for patients with AKI.MethodsRelated RCTs of RRT initiated at different times published on PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library were searched.ResultsFifteen RCTs studies with 5395 patients were included. The results showed that the 28‐day mortality (RR 1.01; 95% CI 0.94 ~ 1.08; p = 0.80), 60‐day mortality (RR 1.00; 95% CI 0.91 ~ 1.11; p = 0.93), 90‐day mortality (RR 1.01; 95% CI 0.94 ~ 1.08; p = 0.80), dialysis dependence among survivors (RR 0.67; 95% CI 0.40 ~ 1.13; p = 0.13), length of ICU stay (RR −1.32; 95% CI −3.26 ~ 0.62; p = 0.18) and length of hospital stay among survivors(RR −0.98; 95% CI −2.89 ~ 0.92; p = 0.31) were not significantly different between the two groups. In addition, early initiation of RRT increases the incidence of hypotension (RR 1.42, 95% CI 1.23 ~ 1.63; p < 0.00001) and infectious (RR 1.36; 95% CI 1.03 ~ 1.80; p = 0.03) events.ConclusionEarly initiation of RRT cannot improve the prognosis and benefit patients.
Mammary schistosomiasis: A rare case
Authors: Chen Samantha , Falkner Nathalie Marie , Hardie Mireille Julia , Wylie Elizabeth 
Published: August 2022

SummarySchistosomiasis is prevalent in some developing countries; however, it does not commonly affect the breast. Mammary schistosomiasis may present as suspicious microcalcification or a mass on mammography. Image‐guided biopsy is necessary to exclude malignancy and identify calcified Schistosoma ova on histology. We report a case of a patient born in the Philippines who was diagnosed with mammary schistosomiasis from incidental microcalcifications seen on mammography.
Management of non‐renal manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus: A systematic literature review for the APLAR consensus statements
Authors: Kasitanon Nuntana , Hamijoyo Laniyati , Li Meng Tao , Oku Kenji , Navarra Sandra , Tanaka Yoshiya , Mok Chi Chiu 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThe prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is higher in Asians than Caucasians, with higher frequency of renal and other major organ manifestations that carry a poorer prognosis. The outcome of SLE is still unsatisfactory in many parts of the Asia Pacific region due to limited access to healthcare systems, poor treatment adherence and adverse reactions to therapies. The Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) SLE special interest group has recently published a set of consensus recommendation statements for the management of SLE in the Asia Pacific region. The current article is a supplement of systematic literature search (SLR) to the prevalence and treatment of non‐renal manifestations of SLE in Asian patients.
Earnings during adulthood in patients with childhood‐onset inflammatory bowel disease: a nationwide population‐based cohort study
Authors: Malmborg Petter , Everhov Åsa H. , Söderling Jonas , Ludvigsson Jonas F. , Bruze Gustaf , Olén Ola 
Published: August 2022

SummaryBackgroundIBD with onset during childhood seems to represent a severe disease phenotype with increased morbidity. We have previously demonstrated that children with IBD have significantly lower final grades in compulsory school compared to healthy peers.AimTo evaluate the association of childhood‐onset IBD with a later professional career and subsequent earningsMethodsWe identified 5404 individuals diagnosed with childhood‐onset (<18 years) IBD between 1990 and 2014 (2818 with ulcerative colitis and 2328 with Crohn's disease) in the Swedish National Patient Register. Patients were matched with 10 general population reference individuals by sex, birth year, and place of residence (n = 51,295). Data on earnings during 1992–2017 were obtained through the longitudinal integration database for health insurance and labour market studies. Earnings were converted into Euros (inflation‐adjusted to 2019). The differences in earnings between patients and general population reference individuals were calculated through quantile regression.ResultsPatients with childhood‐onset IBD had significantly lower annual taxable earnings from ages 20 to 30 (adjusted median annual income difference (AMAID) at age 30: −5.4% [95% CI −9.1% to −1.8%]). In particular, annual taxable earnings through early adult age were lower in patients who, during childhood, had had surgery or long‐term inpatient treatment for IBD (AMAID at age 30: −16.3% [95% CI ‐24.7% to −7.9%]).ConclusionsOverall, the negative influence of disease on earnings in early adult age was modest for patients with childhood‐onset IBD. The markedly larger negative income gap from ages 20 to 30 in patients with more severe IBD during childhood should be recognised.
Colorectal cancer in elderly‐onset inflammatory bowel disease: a 1969–2017 Scandinavian register‐based cohort study
Authors: Everhov Åsa H. , Erichsen Rune , Järås Jacob , Pedersen Lars , Halfvarson Jonas , Askling Johan , Ekbom Anders , Ludvigsson Jonas F. , Sørensen Henrik Toft , Olén Ola 
Published: August 2022

SummaryBackgroundPrevious research indicates that the increased relative risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is limited to young‐onset IBD.AimTo estimate risks of incident CRC and death from CRC in elderly‐onset IBDMethodsPatients diagnosed with IBD at age ≥ 60 years between 1969 and 2017 were identified using Danish and Swedish National Patient Registers and histopathology data. We linked data to Cancer and Causes of Death Registers and used Cox regression to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) for CRC diagnosis and death compared to matched (by sex, age, and region) IBD‐free individuals.ResultsAmong 7869 patients with Crohn's disease followed for 54,220 person‐years, and 21,224 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) followed for 142,635 person‐years, 2.10% and 1.90% were diagnosed with CRC, compared to 2.26% and 2.34% of reference individuals (median follow‐up 6 and 7 years). The incidence of CRC was elevated during the first year after IBD diagnosis: 4.36 (95% CI = 3.33–5.71) in Crohn's disease and 2.48 (95% CI = 2.03–3.02) in UC, but decreased after the first year of follow‐up: 0.69 (95% CI = 0.56–0.86) and 0.78 (95% CI = 0.69–0.88). Once diagnosed with CRC, the risk of CRC death was similar for IBD patients and the general population.ConclusionThe excess risk of CRC in elderly‐onset IBD was probably due to bias and not observed beyond the first year. From 2010, the HR for CRC diagnosis more than 1 year after initial IBD diagnosis was lower than in the largely unscreened reference population, supporting the benefit of endoscopic screening and surveillance in patients with IBD.
Listed peers' giving and corporate philanthropy: The motivations to imitate
Authors: Yang Xia , Gu Xin , Yang Xue 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThe impact of industrial peers' donations on firms' charitable practices has been tested and verified in existing literatures. This paper further studies the motivations and scenarios of non‐listed companies to imitate their listed counterparts in the same industry to formulate charitable policies. Deeply rooted in institutional isomorphism theory, uncertainty and professional networks are employed as philanthropic motives for unlisted companies to mimic their listed peers. Managerial decision mechanisms and network status perceptions enhance imitation by reinforcing decision uncertainty and network effect. Institutional environment heterogeneity can amplify or reduce the imitative stimulus of managers' decision mechanisms and status perceptions. Our empirical tests are based on a unique dataset of 14,873 unlisted firms and their corresponding listed counterparts in China from 2006–2016, and use Tobit regression methods. The results show a significantly positive association between listed peers' giving and non‐listed firms' donation. The peer effects are intensified when non‐listed firms' decentralized decision‐making and higher managers' status identification are present. Furthermore, when the institutional environment changes from weak to strong, the impetus of decentralized decision‐making and status identification will be weakened. These findings contribute to the corporate philanthropy literature and facilitate the development of effective corporate charity policies and government promotion of philanthropic responsibility.
United we stand: Double targeting of CD79B and CD20 in diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma
Authors: Tarantelli Chiara , Bertoni Francesco 
Published: August 2022

SummaryPolatuzumab vedotin is antibody‐drug conjugate (ADC) targeting CD79B approved for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma when given in combination with bendamustine and rituximab. The report by Kawasaki et al. provide hints on what might be happening in lymphoma cells exposed to polatuzumab vedotin and to rituximab and on potential mechanism of resistance to the ADC.Commentary on: Kawasaki et al. The molecular rationale for the combination of polatuzumab vedotin plus rituximab in diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma. Br J Haematol 2022;199:245‐255.
The stock market and NO2 emissions effects of COVID‐19 around the world
Authors: Klose Jens , Tillmann Peter 
Published: August 2022

AbstractIn this paper, we study the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in estimated panel vector autoregression models for 92 countries. The large cross‐section of countries allows us to shed light on the heterogeneity of the responses of stock markets and nitrogen dioxide emissions as high‐frequency measures of economic activity. We quantify the effect of the number of infections and four dimensions of policy measures: (1) containment and closure, (2) movement restrictions, (3) economic support, and (4) adjustments of health systems. Our main findings show that a surprise increase in the number of infections triggers a drop in our two measures of economic activity. Propping up economic support measures, in contrast, raises stock returns and emissions and, thus, contributes to the economic recovery. We also document vast differences in the responses across subsets of countries and between the first and the second wave of infections.
Identifying genes associated with genetic control of color polymorphism in the pearl oysterPinctada margaritiferavar.cumingii(Linnaeus 1758) using a comparative whole genome pool‐sequencing approach
Authors: Stenger Pierre‐Louis , Ky Chin‐Long , Vidal‐Dupiol Jeremie , Planes Serge , Reisser Céline 
Published: August 2022

AbstractFor hundreds of years, the color diversity of Mollusca shells has been a topic of interest for humanity. However, the genetic control underlying color expression is still poorly understood in mollusks. The pearl oysterPinctada margaritiferais increasingly becoming a biological model to study this process due to its ability to produce a large range of colors. Previous breeding experiments demonstrated that color phenotypes were partly under genetic control, and while a few genes were found in comparative transcriptomics and epigenetic experiments, genetic variants associated with the phenotypes have not yet been investigated. Here, we used a pooled‐sequencing approach on 172 individuals to investigate color‐associated variants on three color phenotypes of economic interest for pearl farming, in three wild and one hatchery populations. While our results uncovered SNPs targeting pigment‐related genes already identified in previous studies, such as PBGD, tyrosinases, GST, or FECH, we also identified new color‐related genes occurring in the same pathways, like CYP4F8, CYP3A4, and CYP2R1. Moreover, we identified new genes involved in novel pathways unknown to be involved in shell coloration forP. margaritifera, like the carotenoid pathway, BCO1. These findings are essential to possibly implement future breeding programs focused on individual selection for specific color production in pearl oysters and improve the footprint of perliculture on the Polynesian lagoon by producing less but with a better quality.
‘We are a people’: Sovereignty and disposability in the context of Puerto Rico's post‐Hurricane Maria experience
Authors: Robinson Stacy‐ann , Vega Troncoso Andrea , Roberts J. Timmons , Peck Matilda 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThe 2017 North Atlantic hurricane season brought many of the injustices faced by non‐sovereign Caribbean States to the fore. These injustices, which positioned Caribbean people as expendable to colonial powers, highlighted the impact of historically enduring colonial structures of non‐sovereignty on post‐hurricane response and recovery efforts across the region. In this paper, we argue that Puerto Rico's status as a Commonwealth of the United States (U.S.) influenced the nature and outcome of the U.S. Federal Government's response to Hurricane Maria in 2017. Its response was marked by unnecessary delays, silence, and the withholding of information, and the prioritisation of bureaucracy, evidencing the disposability of Black and brown lives and bodies, and signalling the need to collectively leverage the power of an environmental justice agenda. For this to be achieved, we further argue, a people's right to sovereignty and indispensability must be centred.