Negotiating fit into host country work settings: Understanding the interplay between the past and the present in the accounts of skilled refugees

How do marginalised cultural outsiders negotiate fit into new work settings? I draw on a discursive (re)positioning lens to examine qualitative interview accounts of a group of skilled refugees in Britain and provide insights into three temporal moves they make to portray themselves as unconstrained by a lack of host country cultural know-how, able to swiftly address gaps in knowledge and skills, and able to blend in. I theorise newcomer self-socialisation as a temporal (re)positioning dynamic that involves retrospectively defining oneself as a particular kind of person who has the potential to fit. I argue that temporal (re)positioning enables newcomers to maintain worth, secure external validation and impact on their contexts. I propose that the simultaneous foregrounding and minimising of the past is an important mechanism for skilled refugees to negotiate an ambivalent sense of fit into new work settings

Financial development and tax evasion: International evidence from OECD and non-OECD countries

This study investigates the nexus between financial development and tax evasion across 156 countries from 2000 to 2017. In contrast to previous research focusing solely on banks or financial markets’ development, we employ a more comprehensive financial development index introduced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2016. This index gauges the progress of financial institutions (FI) and financial markets (FM) in terms of depth, access, and efficiency. Our findings underscore a negative correlation between financial development and tax evasion. Enhanced depth, access, and efficiency in both FI and FM correspond to reduced levels of tax evasion. Nevertheless, disparities emerge between the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and non-OECD countries. While non-OECD countries exhibit negative associations between FI and FM development and tax evasion, in OECD countries, the role of FI assumes greater significance in curtailing tax evasion. Notably, within OECD countries, the dept

Internment, Immersive Technology and Historical Empathy: Natal’s Fort Napier Camp (1914-1919) as a Virtual Reality Experience

The article presents a new way of reconstructing and representing the history of internment. It provides a critical academic framework for the authors’ virtual reality experience (VRE) Interned. Fort Napier Camp in South Africa held 2,500 civilians, mostly German ‘enemy aliens’, during the First World War. The VRE gives users an immersive experience of the camp and was produced through rigorous cross-sector collaboration between academia and industry. Based on user feedback, we argue that the empathy-related opportunities of VR create novel gateways to understanding experiences of minorities in wartime. Expanding the concept of ‘historical empathy’, we also argue that immersive technologies remain underused by historians

Revisiting Mobile Payment Risk-Reduction Strategies: A Cross-Country Analysis

Mobile payment risk has become a critical cybersecurity factor in the cashless society. The outbreak of COVID-19 helped proliferate mobile payments that also bring significant risks to users. Using AI methods, this study analyzed six dimensions of mobile payment risks (financial, privacy, performance, psychology, time, and security) in a survey of 748 respondents from three countries (UK, Taiwan, and Mozambique). The decision tree method was employed to identify and analyze critical perceived risks. The ANOVA test provided insights on the perceived risks between countries. The ANOVA test showed that UK users were concerned about financial and time risks; those in Mozambique were concerned about performance, psychological, and security risks; and those in Taiwan were concerned about privacy risks. The results revealed that decision trees outperformed other methods (such as neural networks, logistic regression, support vector machine (SVM), random forest, and Naïve Bayes models). Performance risk (Taiwan and Mozambique) and security risk (UK) are the most significant factors. Cultural differences influence mobile payment risk perception in different countries. The risk-reduction strategies were also matched to the critical factors by the decision tree. This showed that simplification and risk-sharing strategies were the major tactics in all three countries. The clarification strategy works for Taiwan and Mozambique, which focuses on the benefits of using mobile payments. The results suggest that enterprises should improve and simplify the mobile payment process and collaborate with the third parties to reduce and share cybersecurity risk

Antifungal prophylaxis against invasive Candida and Aspergillus infection in adult heart transplant recipients: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction: Invasive fungal infections (IFI) can contribute to increased mortality and morbidity rates after heart transplant in adults. The most common causes are Aspergillus and Candida species. There is uncertainty on how effective antifungal prophylaxis is against Candida spp infections and limited guidance on the prevention of Aspergillus spp infections. This systematic review and meta-analysis will assess the literature to see if antifungal prophylaxis reduces the incidence of IFI after heart transplant in adults. Methods and analysis: This systematic review protocol follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta Analysis guidelines. A systematic search of the Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Scopus, Embase, MEDLINE, and Proquest databases will be undertaken. Reference lists of retrieved publications and conference abstracts will also be searched. Title, abstract and full-text screening will be undertaken by two reviewers. Discrepancies will be resolved by a third reviewer. Studies with paediatric patients, multi-organ transplants, or patients with a second heart transplant will be excluded, along with those who do not have clear definitions and diagnostic criteria for IFI. Risk of bias will be assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool and the Risk of Bias in Non-randomised Studies of Interventions tool. A meta-analysis will be carried out, but if studies are not deemed to be sufficiently similar, only a narrative synthesis will be undertaken. Ethics and dissemination: Ethical approval is not required for this systematic review as primary data will not be collected. The results of the review will be disseminated through publication in an academic journal and scientific conferences

‘Chile woke up’ (and I can fall asleep no more): The fantasmatic organisation of the desire for change

In this article, I adopt the psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to challenge mainstream conceptualisations of the desire for social change. Recent anti-neoliberal uprisings across the world have been interpreted as expressions of the vitalist force of bodies beyond symbolic mediation. This obfuscates the ambivalent unconscious dynamics in the identification with emancipatory events. To counter this, I develop a psychoanalytic conceptualisation of the desire for change. I show the benefits of my approach through an empirical interpretation of the fantasmatic organisation of this desire in the context of the 2019 Chile revolt. By questioning the alleged straightforwardness of the desire for change, my study contributes to a more nuanced approach to emancipatory events

Diagnosis and management of food allergy-induced constipation in young children-An EAACI position paper

The recognition of constipation as a possible non-Immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated allergic condition is challenging because functional constipation (unrelated to food allergies) is a common health problem with a reported worldwide prevalence rate of up to 32.2% in children. However, many studies in children report challenge proven cow's milk allergy and constipation as a primary symptom and have found that between 28% and 78% of children improve on a cow's milk elimination diet. Due to the paucity of data and a focus on IgE-mediated allergy, not all food allergy guidelines list constipation as a symptom of food allergy. Yet, it is included in all cow's milk allergy guidelines available in English language. The Exploring Non-IgE-Mediated Allergy (ENIGMA) Task Force (TF) of the European Academy for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) considers in this paper constipation in the context of failure of standard treatment and discuss the role of food allergens as culprit in constipation in children. This position paper used the Delphi approach in reaching consensus on both diagnosis and management, as currently published data are insufficient to support a systematic review

Investor Clientele and Intraday Patterns in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

This paper examines the existence of a well documented Heston, Korajczyk, and Sadka (2010) (hereafter HKS 2010) intraday momentum pattern in the cross section of stock returns for three previously un-examined markets outside the US - UK, China and Brazil. While the stocks in UK and Brazil exhibit the pattern, the evidence from China is lacklustre. We utilize the presence of dual listed A-shares (dominated by domestic retail investors) and their B- and H-share counterparts (dominated by foreign institutional investors) of the same terms which provide a natural experiment setting to analyse the impact of investor clientele on the proliferation of HKS pattern. Our findings indicate that pattern is much weaker in A-shares (owned mostly by domestic retail investors) as compared to their B- and H- share counterparts. As a further robustness test we examine the impact of an exogenous shock that leads to an increase in institutional ownership namely the partial index inclusion of A-shares in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Emerging Markets Index. Our findings indicate an increasing level of the manifestation of the intraday pattern upon inclusion of A-shares to the MSCI

Design aspects of frequency-domain learned MIMO Volterra equalisers

We numerically demonstrate a frequency-domain learned multiple-input multiple-output Volterra nonlinear equaliser and reveal the impact of practical implementation parameters on the per-channel performance

Digital signal processing for fibre-optical parametrically amplified transmission links

We review our recent research progress on digital signal processing tailored for fibre-optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs), by presenting an online method for correcting the accumulated amplitude and phase distortions induced by the phase modulation of the pump sources and its interaction with the dispersive fibre channel in transmission systems using cascaded FOPAs