bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Examining the Validity of a Multidimensional Performance-Based Assessment at Kindergarten Entry
Authors: Miller-Bains Katherine L. , Russo Jaclyn M. , Williford Amanda P. , DeCoster Jamie , Cottone Elizabeth A.
Published: May 2017

The present study explored the utility of a widely used performance-based assessment of children’s readiness skills as a kindergarten entry assessment. In a sample of 520 kindergarten students across 52 classrooms, we compared students’ school readiness skills as assessed by teachers using Teaching Strategies GOLD (TS GOLD) to direct assessments administered by independent data collectors. We found evidence of the concurrent validity of TS GOLD. However, the measure demonstrated weaknesses in its ability to differentiate readiness skills. Specifically, the highly correlated latent constructs and intraclass correlations associated with TS GOLD indicated that teachers were less likely to differentiate readiness skills among children within the same classroom relative to direct assessments. The findings are discussed in terms of assessing children’s school readiness at scale. As the number of programs, districts, and states that require school readiness assessments increases, so does the need to better understand the information that can be inferred from particular methods of assessment.
Appreciative Inquiry: An Experiential Exercise and Course Feedback Tool
Authors: Scandura Terri A.
Published: May 2017

The action research method of appreciative inquiry (AI) was employed to develop a teaching tool. This exercise involves students’ reflections on a course, noting when they learned the most. The AI process of appreciating, envisioning, dialoging, and innovating is used to help students reflect on how they learn. Instructors of all types of courses at both the undergraduate and master’s degree levels gain understanding of student learning and ideas on how to improve courses. The exercise and sample responses from students are provided to demonstrate how the exercise works. Three variations are presented: mapping the exercise onto Kolb’s learning styles, running the exercise at the midpoint of a course, and a case study of an AI implementation in an organization.
Organic Delights: Examining the Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility
Authors: Bear Stephen E.
Published: May 2017

Organic Delights is an experiential exercise designed to help undergraduate business students learn about corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this exercise, students assume the role of a senior manager of a fictional restaurant and caterer. The challenge for the managers is to evaluate and choose among six proposals to promote the company’s CSR. Students are first requested to evaluate the proposals on their own and then, later, to evaluate the proposals by working with a group of students who represent the company management team. The exercise enables students better understand the concept of CSR and reflect on the meaning and obligations of socially responsible business leadership. The exercise and recommendations for the debriefing are provided.
Evaluating the effect of compact urban form on air quality in Korea
Authors: Kang Jung Eun , Yoon D.K. , Bae Hyun-Joo
Published: May 2017

Air quality is affected by the interplay between emission sources and urban planning factors such as land use, built environment, development pattern, and transportation. Few empirical studies have been conducted to determine the influence of urban form characteristics on air quality in Korea. Thus, the purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between urban form and air pollution, focusing on ozone pollution in Korea. The characteristics of urban form include density, concentration, clustering, and land use mix. In this study, those characteristics were measured by population density, the Theil index, Moran’s I index, G-statistic values, and an entropy index using statistical methods and a geographic information system. We employed a spatial regression model to consider the spatial effects of ozone concentrations. We found that the degree of urban land use mix, clustering, and concentration of development are significantly associated with better air quality by using a spatial lag model, which was found to be the best fit for the data used in this study. However, an increase in population density was found to be associated with exacerbated ozone concentrations. Communities with higher daily temperatures, a large number of cars, and polluting facilities exhibited poor air quality, while those with a larger percentage of residential land use tended to have lower ozone pollution. These findings suggest that, to properly address concerns over air quality, mixed-land use and compact urban form need to be more seriously considered in sustainable urban planning.
Development of a flow-based planning support system based on open data for the City of Atlanta
Authors: Zhang Ge , Zhang Wenwen , Guhathakurta Subhrajit , Botchwey Nisha
Published: May 2017

Open data have come of age with many cities, states, and other jurisdictions joining the open data movement by offering relevant information about their communities for free and easy access to the public. Despite the growing volume of open data, their use has been limited in planning scholarship and practice. The bottleneck is often the format in which the data are available and the organization of such data, which may be difficult to incorporate in existing analytical tools. The overall goal of this research is to develop an open data-based community planning support system that can collect related open data, analyze the data for specific objectives, and visualize the results to improve usability. To accomplish this goal, this study undertakes three research tasks. First, it describes the current state of open data analysis efforts in the community planning field. Second, it examines the challenges analysts experience when using open data in planning analysis. Third, it develops a new flow-based planning support system for examining neighborhood quality of life and health for the City of Atlanta as a prototype, which addresses many of these open data challenges.
Trimming a Hazard Logic Tree with a New Model-Order-Reduction Technique
Authors: Porter Keith , Field Edward , Milner Kevin
Published: May 2017

The size of the logic tree within the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast Version 3, Time-Dependent (UCERF3-TD) model can challenge risk analyses of large portfolios. An insurer or catastrophe risk modeler concerned with losses to a California portfolio might have to evaluate a portfolio 57,600 times to estimate risk in light of the hazard possibility space. Which branches of the logic tree matter most, and which can one ignore? We employed two model-order-reduction techniques to simplify the model. We sought a subset of parameters that must vary, and the specific fixed values for the remaining parameters, to produce approximately the same loss distribution as the original model. The techniques are (1) a tornado-diagram approach we employed previously for UCERF2, and (2) an apparently novel probabilistic sensitivity approach that seems better suited to functions of nominal random variables. The new approach produces a reduced-order model with only 60 of the original 57,600 leaves. One can use the results to reduce computational effort in loss analyses by orders of magnitude.
Sickness Absence and Disability Pension After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A 5-Year Nationwide Cohort Study
Authors: Kvillemo Pia , Mittendorfer-Rutz Ellenor , Bränström Richard , Nilsson Kerstin , Alexanderson Kristina
Published: May 2017

Purpose

To explore future diagnosis-specific sickness absence and disability pension among women with breast cancer compared with women without breast cancer. Also, to examine associations with disease-related and sociodemographic factors among those with breast cancer.

Methods

Longitudinal register data on 3,547 women living in Sweden (age 20 to 65 years) who were first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, and a matched comparison cohort (n = 14,188), were analyzed for the annual prevalence of diagnosis-specific sickness absence and disability pension over 5 years. Logistic regressions were used to explore associations of disease-related and sociodemographic factors with future sickness absence and disability pension among women with breast cancer.

Results

Immediately after being diagnosed with breast cancer, the proportion of women with sickness absence was high but decreased continuously from the 1st through 5th year after diagnosis (71%, 40%, 30%, 22%, and 19%, respectively). In comparison, the range for women without breast cancer was 17% to 11%, respectively. The higher prevalence of sickness absence after breast cancer was mainly a result of breast cancer diagnosis, not a mental diagnosis, or other somatic diagnoses. Advanced cancer at diagnosis, > 90 days sickness absence before diagnosis, low education, and being born outside Sweden were associated with higher odds ratios for sickness absence and disability pension (odds ratio range, 1.40 to 6.45).

Conclusion

The level of sickness absence increased substantially in women with breast cancer during the first year after diagnosis and approached the level of breast cancer–free women in the following years; however, even in the first year, most women were not on sickness absence for a substantial time, and even in high-risk groups, many were not on sickness absence or disability pension in the following years. Information about relatively low future sickness absence and disability pension levels can be used by patients when planning their work, by health care professionals, and by social insurance officers. Employers and Occupational Health Services need this information to adequately handle workplace adjustments.
Hypofractionated Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy Is Safe and Effective: First Results From a Prospective Phase II Trial
Authors: Khan Atif J. , Poppe Matthew M. , Goyal Sharad , Kokeny Kristine E. , Kearney Thomas , Kirstein Laurie , Toppmeyer Deborah , Moore Dirk F. , Chen Chunxia , Gaffney David K. , Haffty Bruce G.
Published: May 2017

Purpose

Conventionally fractionated postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) takes approximately 5 to 6 weeks. Data supporting hypofractionated PMRT is limited. We prospectively evaluated a short course of hypofractionated PMRT, in which therapy was completed in 15 treatment days.

Patients and Methods

We delivered PMRT at a dose of 36.63 Gy in 11 fractions of 3.33 Gy over 11 days to the chest wall and the draining regional lymph nodes, followed by an optional mastectomy scar boost of four fractions of 3.33 Gy. Our primary end point was freedom from any grade 3 or higher toxicities. We incorporated early stopping criteria on the basis of predefined toxicity thresholds.

Results

We enrolled 69 women with stage II to IIIa breast cancer, of whom 67 were eligible for analysis. After a median follow-up of 32 months, there were no grade 3 toxicities. There were 29 reported grade 2 toxicities, with grade 2 skin toxicities being the most frequent (16 of 67; 24%). There were two patients with isolated ipsilateral chest wall tumor recurrences (2 of 67; crude rate, 3%). Three-year estimated local recurrence-free survival was 89.2% (95% CI, 0.748 to 0.956). The 3-year estimated distant recurrence-free survival was 90.3% (95% CI, 0.797 to 0.956). Forty-one patients had chest wall reconstructions; three had expanders removed for infection before radiation therapy. The total rate of implant loss or failure was 24% (9 of 38), and the unplanned surgical correction rate was 8% (3 of 38), for a total complication rate of 32%.

Conclusion

To our knowledge, our phase II prospective study offers one of the shortest courses of PMRT reported, delivered in 11 fractions to the chest wall and nodes and 15 fractions inclusive of a boost. We demonstrated low toxicity and high local control with this schedule. On the basis of our data, we have designed a cooperative group phase III prospective, randomized trial of conventional versus hypofractionated PMRT that will activate soon.
Impact of Expert Pathologic Review of Lymphoma Diagnosis: Study of Patients From the French Lymphopath Network
Authors: Laurent Camille , Baron Marine , Amara Nadia , Haioun Corinne , Dandoit Mylène , Maynadié Marc , Parrens Marie , Vergier Beatrice , Copie-Bergman Christiane , Fabiani Bettina , Traverse-Glehen Alexandra , Brousse Nicole , Copin Marie-Christine , Tas Patrick , Petrella Tony , Rousselet Marie-Christine , Brière Josette , Charlotte Fréderic , Chassagne-Clement Catherine , Rousset Thérèse , Xerri Luc , Moreau Anne , Martin Antoine , Damotte Diane , Dartigues Peggy , Soubeyran Isabelle , Peoch Michel , Dechelotte Pierre , Michiels Jean-François , de Mascarel Antoine , Berger Françoise , Bossard Céline , Arbion Flavie , Quintin-Roué Isabelle , Picquenot Jean-Michel , Patey Martine , Fabre Blandine , Sevestre Henri , Le Naoures Cécile , Chenard-Neu Marie-Pierre , Bastien Claire , Thiebault Sylvie , Martin Laurent , Delage Manuela , Filleron Thomas , Salles Gilles , Molina Thierry Jo , Delsol Georges , Brousset Pierre , Gaulard Philippe
Published: May 2017

Purpose

To prospectively assess the clinical impact of expert review of lymphoma diagnosis in France.

Materials and Methods

From January 2010 to December 2013, 42,145 samples from patients with newly diagnosed or suspected lymphomas were reviewed, according to the 2008 WHO classification, in real time by experts through the Lymphopath Network. Changes in diagnosis between referral and expert review were classified as major or minor according to their potential impact on patient care.

Results

The 42,145 reviewed samples comprised 36,920 newly diagnosed mature lymphomas, 321 precursor lymphoid neoplasms, 314 myeloid disorders, and 200 nonhematopoietic neoplasms, with 4,390 benign lesions. There were 4,352 cutaneous and 32,568 noncutaneous lymphomas. The most common mature noncutaneous lymphomas were diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (32.4%), follicular lymphomas (15.3%), classic Hodgkin lymphomas (13%), peripheral T-cell lymphomas (6.3%) of which angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphomas (2.3%) were the most frequent, and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas (5.8%). A diagnostic change between referral and expert review occurred in 19.7% of patients, with an estimated impact on patient care for 17.4% of patients. This rate was significantly higher for patients sent with a provisional diagnosis seeking expert second opinion (37.8%) than for patients sent with a formal diagnosis (3.7%). The most frequent discrepancies were misclassifications in lymphoma subtype (41.3%), with 12.3% being misclassifications among small B-cell lymphoma entities. Fewer than 2% of changes were between benign and malignant lymphoid conditions. Minor changes (2.3%) mostly consisted of follicular lymphoma misgrading and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma subtype misclassification.

Conclusion

To our knowledge, this study provides the largest ever description of the distribution of lymphoma entities in a western country and highlights how expert review significantly contributes to a precise lymphoma diagnosis and optimal clinical management in a proportion of patients.
Axiologies: Past and Present Concepts of Literary Value
Authors: Hume Robert D.
Published: May 2017

Verdicts concerning a work’s worth, “good,” “bad,” or “great,” vary wildly at any point and change radically over time. Much depends on what didactic or aesthetic rules are imposed and what modes of reading hold sway. Many critics see the purpose of literature as didactic; others subscribe to the principle of art for art’s sake. We need to know whether we are debating a text or disputing the evaluative criteria applicable to it. We need to ask how certain we are of what the author meant to accomplish. Henry Fielding and David Hume remind us that a range of judgments is unavoidable: people differ, and so do aesthetic and moral preferences. So if subjectivity is inescapable, we should accept chaotic diversity in a spirit of courteous toleration.
Eating and Existence on an Island in Southern Uganda
Authors: Lee Johnson Jennifer
Published: May 2017

This article examines contemporary ontological conflicts between people who make their living on an island with fish that are considered by fisheries managers to be “commercially extinct” and people who make their living managing “commercially important” fisheries for this region as a whole. It is an experiment in worlding, the work of wading between content and contexts to configure webs of relevant relations through which the politics of eating and existence play out along Uganda's southern littoral. By attending ethnographically to observable actions and concrete practices, I suggest that fishworkers and fisheries managers enact multiple, relatively distinct versions of food, fish, bodies of water, and fisheries. Attending to this multiplicity is crucial for rendering plausible already existing alternatives to an overdetermined future of death, depravity, and collapse that features within scholarly, popular, and policy-oriented accounts of Lake Victoria's fisheries.
How War Shaped Egypt's National Bread Loaf
Authors: Schewe Eric
Published: May 2017

This article examines the consolidation of a regime of government-subsidized wheat bread in Egypt during the Second World War, in tandem with the development of the Egyptian state of emergency and a military courts system. It investigates how landowner resistance and fertilizer shortages brought Egypt to the brink of famine in 1941, and how Anglo-Egyptian diplomacy negotiated a regime of mandatory government grain requisition. It draws on Egyptian news media, bureaucratic reports, and military court cases to show resistance to and the social effects of this policy, including the acceleration of income inequality in rural areas and a huge increase in wheat consumption in cities. The article argues the long-term success of this regime depended on both the improvement of surveillance and coercive technocracy mediated through the military courts and the naturalization of public attitudes toward consuming “mixed” bread and toward the black market and military courts themselves.
The Humanities to Come
Authors: Pillay Suren
Published: May 2017

This article offers a few vignettes on the humanities in contemporary Africa. It suggests that the different fates of the humanities and social sciences have corresponded to changes in political conjunctures, particularly in relation to nationalism in the wake of independence and conceptions of development and neoliberalism after the Cold War. It further takes up the debates in South Africa, the last African country to confront the dilemmas of decolonization in the sphere of knowledge production, most acutely expressed through the Rhodes Must Fall movement and other student movements that emerged in 2015.
The Humanities in the Arab World Today
Authors: Khalidi Rashid
Published: May 2017

Khalidi introduces the essays of two contributors to the roundtable on the global humanities, Ahmad Dallal and Khaled Fahmy, who focus on the state of humanities in the Arab world.
Location of the Humanities
Authors: Sarukkai Sundar
Published: May 2017

There has been much written about the crisis in humanities education. Most of this published debate arises from scholars in Western universities and, at some level, can be seen as a reflection of a crisis about the nature of education and the role of universities in contemporary times in these societies. The crisis in humanities in places like India has been a part of their educational concerns for quite some time, but in this essay, Sarukkai argues that the quality of the crisis and the challenge to humanities education in India are different. For a globally sensitive humanities program, these different kinds of responses to humanities have to be taken into account.
Narratives and Legacy
Authors: Haq Syed Nomanul
Published: May 2017

Haq's article is an analytical examination of the official policies of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC), the supreme executive federal body that oversees all education beyond high school. Alleging that Pakistan's educational system is facing a crisis, the author identifies three salient features of these policies: one, that the HEC considers all education to be reducible ultimately to a pragmatic process of systematic vocational training that promises employment; two, that the study of the humanities is expressly discouraged as a matter of policy target; and three, that there exists a heavy preoccupation on the part of the HEC with what is called “scientism” in contradistinction to science. As a result of all this, Haq claims, knowledge of languages has all but disappeared from the educational horizons of Pakistan, and the capacity for analytical and critical thought and creative work is rapidly dwindling. Access to primary sources of their complex legacy having been blocked, Pakistanis cannot challenge received narratives that happen to originate from external sources, and they are forced to conceive of themselves as they are conceived in these narratives.
The Humanities in China and Taiwan Today
Authors: Liu Lydia H.
Published: May 2017

Are the humanities in trouble in China and Taiwan, such as we witness elsewhere in the world? In her brief commentary, Lydia H. Liu reflects on the contributions by Wang Hui and Fan-sen Wang, who offer illuminating analyses of the state of the humanities in contemporary China and Taiwan. In the past, upward mobility in East Asian societies often depended on one's hard work and superior command of the Confucian classics. Today, the legacy of meritocracy may still be alive and continue to be endorsed by the various governments, but the processes of globalization have introduced new factors, such as the hegemony of performance indexes and the journal impact factor, that are pushing the humanities (and sciences) in dangerous directions.
Humanities in China
Authors: Hui Wang
Published: May 2017

Wang Hui's article, which is part of the author's larger project on the multiple origins of the Chinese humanities, examines the impact of the modern Western education system on disciplinary divisions in China. The article looks specifically at the development of humanities in China after the 1970s, and in particular since the 1990s.
The Crisis of the Academic Humanities in the Arab World
Authors: Dallal Ahmad
Published: May 2017

Available evidence suggests that the crisis of the humanities is more critical in the Arab world than it is in the West. This article provides a provisional sketch of the state of arts and humanities scholarship within university settings in the Arab world. The article also examines the effects and limitations of the use of standardized quantitative metrics to assess humanities scholarship and education in Arab universities. A majority of Arab university students prefer to pursue “ideologically safe” professional education, partly because humanities fields are not likely to lead to good careers. More important, the fields of humanistic studies, as constituted in a minority of modern Arab universities, are largely divorced from their cultural contexts and have no room for the study of culturally relevant subjects. Furthermore, in most national Arab universities, culture may receive lip service, but a naturalized study of the humanities remains a neglected part of the landscape of higher education.
CDC42 is required for epicardial and pro-epicardial development by mediating FGF receptor trafficking to the plasma membrane
Authors: Li Jingjing , Miao Lianjie , Zhao Chen , Shaikh Qureshi Wasay Mohiuddin , Shieh David , Guo Hua , Lu Yangyang , Hu Saiyang , Huang Alice , Zhang Lu , Cai Chen-leng , Wan Leo Q. , Xin Hongbo , Vincent Peter , Singer Harold A. , Zheng Yi , Cleaver Ondine , Fan Zhen-Chuan , Wu Mingfu
Published: May 2017

The epicardium contributes to multiple cardiac lineages and is essential for cardiac development and regeneration. However, the mechanism of epicardium formation is unclear. This study aimed to establish the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the dissociation of pro-epicardial cells (PECs) from the pro-epicardium (PE) and their subsequent translocation to the heart to form the epicardium. We used lineage tracing, conditional deletion, mosaic analysis and ligand stimulation in mice to determine that both villous protrusions and floating cysts contribute to PEC translocation to myocardium in a CDC42-dependent manner. We resolved a controversy by demonstrating that physical contact of the PE with the myocardium constitutes a third mechanism for PEC translocation to myocardium, and observed a fourth mechanism in which PECs migrate along the surface of the inflow tract to reach the ventricles. Epicardial-specific Cdc42 deletion disrupted epicardium formation, and Cdc42 null PECs proliferated less, lost polarity and failed to form villous protrusions and floating cysts. FGF signaling promotes epicardium formation in vivo, and biochemical studies demonstrated that CDC42 is involved in the trafficking of FGF receptors to the cell membrane to regulate epicardium formation.
Self-injury – placement in mental disorders classifications, risk factors and primary mechanisms. Review of the literature
Authors: Lenkiewicz Kamila , Racicka Ewa , Bryńska Anita
Published: May 2017

Samouszkodzenia są zjawiskiem częstym wśród adolescentów i młodych dorosłych, przy czym w populacjach klinicznych częstość ich występowania jest szacowana na poziomie 40-80%, zwłaszcza w odniesieniu do pacjentów w okresie dojrzewania. Objawy pojawiają się najczęściej między 12 a 14 r.ż. a ich średni czas trwania wynosi ok. 2 lat. W zależności od przyjętych norm społeczno-kulturowych mogą być traktowane jako zachowanie prawidłowe. Rozpowszechnienie w kulturze zachodu zjawiska body art obejmującego profesjonalne tatuowanie, kolczykowanie, skaryfikacje, wypalanie wzorów na skórze oraz inne modyfikowanie ciała typowe dla kultur plemiennych, wymusiło jednak konieczność ponownego określenia granic dla zachowań normatywnych. Wprowadzenie w piątej wersji klasyfikacji DSM odrębnej jednostki nozologicznej, tzw. Samookaleczeń bez tendencji samobójczych dowodzi słuszności toczonej od wielu lat dyskusji, dotyczącej klasyfikowania samouszkodzeń oraz rozumienia mechanizmów ich powstawania. Celem pracy jest przedstawienie aktualnego stanu wiedzy dotyczącego samouszkodzeń, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem zagadnień poświęconych ich miejscu w najnowszych klasyfikacjach zaburzeń psychicznych oraz mechanizmom odpowiedzialnym za ich powstawanie i podtrzymywanie.
Editorial
Authors: Dudek Dominika , Sobański Jerzy , Klasa Katarzyna
Published: May 2017

brak streszczenia
Density Dependence of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: Competition, Opportunity Cost, or Minimum Efficient Scale?
Authors: Aksaray Gorkem , Thompson Peter
Published: May 2017

This paper reports on a new examination of the well-established negative effect of localized density on survival in established industries. We attempt to discriminate between three competing, but not necessarily mutually exclusive, explanations: resource competition, variations in the opportunity costs of entrepreneurship, and geographic variations in minimum efficient scale (MES). We construct a model of firm growth and survival in which each of these potential causes of density dependence has a transparent parametric effect, and we derive six predictions that collectively allow for discriminating empirical tests. Empirical results using confidential geocoded data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth consistently favor the opportunity cost mechanism.

This paper was accepted by Toby Stuart, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Unusual News Flow and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
Authors: Bali Turan G. , Bodnaruk Andriy , Scherbina Anna , Tang Yi
Published: May 2017

We document that stocks that experience sudden increases in idiosyncratic volatility underperform otherwise similar stocks in the future, and we propose that this phenomenon can be explained by the Miller conjecture [Miller E (1977) Risk, uncertainty, and divergence of opinion. J. Finance 32(4):1151–1168]. We show that volatility shocks can be traced to unusual firm-level news flow, which temporarily increases the level of investor disagreement about the firm value. At the same time, volatility shocks pose a barrier to short selling, preventing pessimistic investors from expressing their views. In the presence of divergent opinions and short-selling constraints, prices initially reflect optimistic views but adjust downward in the future as investors’ opinions converge.

The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2726 .

This paper was accepted by Wei Xiong, finance.
Near Misses in the Breakthrough Discovery Process
Authors: Chai Sen
Published: May 2017

Why do researchers on the verge of breakthrough sometimes miss the discovery? While extensive literatures have modeled the course of successful discovery and pinpointed factors associated with groundbreaking discoveries, I focus on understanding why near misses occur by interviewing scientists who were very close to discovering the ribonucleic acid (RNA) interference breakthrough in biology but ultimately missed out. I identify three mechanisms rooted in paradigmatic rigidity that led to the seminal discovery being missed several times: not noticing or recognizing anomalies, actively resisting solutions, and failing to make the link between communities. These findings shed light on the process of breakthrough by clarifying that a better understanding of the mechanism behind near misses is crucial to mitigating them, saving time, and, consequently, boosting productivity and impact. They also have implications for boosting creative breakthrough performance in academic institutions and science-based firms, as well as for designing organizational research environments and guiding innovation strategy.
Customer Satisfaction as Mediator Between Website Service Quality and Repurchase Intention: An Emerging Economy Case
Authors: Tandon Urvashi , Kiran Ravi , Sah Ash N.
Published: May 2017

The purpose of this research is to develop a research model to understand the important dimensions of website service quality and its influence on repurchase intention. The study also analyzes the mediating effect of customer satisfaction on repurchase intention. The results of empirical analysis confirmed that website quality can be conceptualized as a composite of navigation, ease of understanding, information usefulness, website design, ease of use, security and privacy, ease of ordering, and customization. Second, website quality positively affects repurchase intention and customer satisfaction. Third, website service quality can affect repurchase intention by enhancing mediators like customer satisfaction, as it has full mediating effect on repurchase intention. This study has developed the instrument dimensions of website service quality in online shopping context. The study has also refined the scale of repurchase intention by including “cash-on-delivery” (COD) mode of payment as a new dimension to inculcate confidence for online shopping in emerging economies.

The online appendix is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/serv.2016.0159 .
The Impact of a Discharge Holding Area on the Throughput of a Pediatric Unit
Authors: Saltzman Robert , Roeder Theresa , Lambton Judith , Param Lila , Frost Brian , Fernandes Roxanne
Published: May 2017

Hospital patients often move from one bed to another for both medical and nonmedical reasons. In a highly utilized quaternary inpatient pediatric unit we have studied, bed and nursing resources are stressed not only by frequent movement of patients but also by the unit’s patient discharge policy. We present a discrete-event simulation model for examining how the unit’s efficiency may be improved by a better discharge policy. In particular, we use the base version of the model to investigate the impact of sending various percentages of discharge-ready patients to a discharge holding area where they can safely wait for a few hours until being picked up by their parent or guardian. Doing so frees up inpatient beds, allowing the unit to serve many more pediatric patients per year. In a revised version of the model we quantify the benefits of helping some patients achieve discharge-ready status a few hours earlier than under current operations. In both cases, our cost analysis shows that the unit could realize hundreds of thousands of dollars more per year in net revenue. This argument can be used to help persuade decision makers, who have otherwise been skeptical of the idea of a discharge holding area.
This page will cry here for centuries… Słowacki, Yeats and the (Im)Materiality of the Text
Authors: Antoniuk Mateusz
Published: May 2017

This essay concerns the famous Polish Romantic poem written by Juliusz Słowacki. The close reading of the text leads me toward the genetics analysis of it’s first draft (which appears to be at once “lost” and “regained”) as well as evokes the meditation about the Słowacki’s philosophy of textual representation (which appears to be deeply ambiguous). My article is inspired by George Bornstein conception of textual materiality and by genetic criticism methodology. I also demonstrate the parallel between poem of Słowacki and lyric When You Are Old, written by W.B. Yeats.
Review of The Book in Africa
Authors: Bower Rachel
Published: May 2017

Book review
Complete issue
Authors: O'Sullivan Daniel E.
Published: May 2017

Complete issue
On Editing Troilus and Criseyde Now
Authors: Guthrie Steve
Published: May 2017

This essay advertises an interactive online edition of Troilus and Criseyde designed to offer student readers in particular access to the poem and to Chaucer’s Middle English without modernized spelling or translation. The essay describes the textual method of the edition and its approach to online publication and language instruction.
The Genesis of Academic Editing: Applying the Process to Critical Editions, Journals, and Volumes
Authors: Tracy Larissa
Published: May 2017

This essay functions as a response, reflection, and extension of the three preceding articles. The editorial theories elaborated therein, whether “positivist” or “rationalist” (Farrell), authoritative (Koster) or hypertextual (Guthrie) all relate to the practice of academic editing. Each editorial decision, whether in a critical edition, an edited collection, a monograph, or an academic peer-reviewed journal, relies to some extant on putting those theories into practice.
Scientology
Authors: Dericquebourg Régis
Published: May 2017

Although there has been relatively little scholarly research on Scientology apart from the remarkable works of Roy Wallis, Harriet Whitehead, James R. Lewis, and Hugh B. Urban, that is changing as indicated by the large number of submissions in response to the call for papers for the first international conference on Scientology held in Antwerpen-Wilrijke, Belgium, in 2014. The articles in this special issue of Nova Religio explore what appear to be peripheral aspects of Scientology in order to get at its core. This method of moving from the periphery to the center of this religious tradition and its institutions reflects the difficulty scholars still encounter in obtaining fundamental data relating to the Church of Scientology.
Did L. Ron Hubbard Believe in Brainwashing?
Authors: Introvigne Massimo
Published: May 2017

In 1955 the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International claimed it had obtained a secret Soviet brainwashing manual, and then published it. Based on that text, and other information he claimed to have received on Communist mind-control techniques, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard mentioned brainwashing in several lectures. In this article, I discuss the contested authorship of this manual and conclude that it probably was written by Hubbard, although other hypotheses cannot be entirely dismissed. I also distinguish between the Communist brainwashing Hubbard described within a Cold War context, and anticultists’ claims that brainwashing is practiced by “cults,” including Scientology.
El debido proceso y la cadena de custodia frente a las pruebas judiciales presentadas por el auditor forense
Authors: Plazas Estepas Rodrigo , Hernández Aros Ludivia , Flórez Guzmán Mario
Published: May 2017

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo relatar el proceso que se debe seguir en la
cadena de custodia tal como lo expresa la Ley 906 de 2004 (Congreso de la República
de Colombia, 2004), específicamente en un encargo de auditoría forense,
lo anterior en razón a que todo proceso de auditoría debe ajustarse a las normas
internacionales de auditoría (NIAS), contenidas en el Decreto 2420 de diciembre
de 2015 (Presidencia de la República de Colombia, 2015), las cuales garantizan 

eficiencia y eficacia en dicho encargo. De igual forma, dentro de la ejecución de la
auditoría forense se debe tener en cuenta la recolección de prueba pericial amplia
y suficiente, su grado de legalidad, su autenticidad y el grado actual de aceptación
científica, así como la importancia que tiene el debido proceso en la cadena de
custodia, lo que permitirá elevar el nivel de confianza de estas en un proceso judicial.
La responsabilidad médica frente a la reforma del Código de Procedimiento Civil y del Código Contencioso Administrativo
Authors: Herrera Jiménez Juan
Published: May 2017

La reforma presentada al Código de Procedimiento Civil y al Código Contencioso
Administrativo por parte del legislador en cuanto al tema de la valoración de la
prueba y la oralidad, en lo que concierne específicamente a la responsabilidad médica,
permite hablar de un nuevo cambio al adecuar esta a la Constitución de 1991,
prevaleciendo el derecho sustancial y la aplicación a los principios de la eficacia,
el debido proceso, la celeridad y la igualdad. Este último punto se estudia en el
presente artículo con el objetivo de determinar si se da el equilibrio procesal entre
las partes, sin que se presenten vacíos que en un momento específico favorecezcan
de manera errónea a alguna de ellas. Por ello, al introducirse el proceso oral y por
audiencias, así como el aporte de pruebas en el tema de responsabilidad médica, se
tiene en cuenta que la norma señala que la carga dinámica de la prueba se encuentra
en la figura a quien le atañe probar una verdad o afirmación y que, llegado el caso,
se decretarán pruebas de oficio de acuerdo con la manera como lo determina ley,
para lograr la igualdad entre las partes.
El posconflicto en Colombia: una mirada desde la experiencia docente con desmovilizados
Authors: Téllez Navarro Román , Valderrama Romero Ivan
Published: May 2017

En 2005, se inició en Colombia una política estatal encaminada a que los miembros de los grupos al margen de la ley se reintegraran a la vida civil. Bajo la vigencia de dicha norma, miles de hombres pertenecientes a grupos paramilitares y también miembros de grupos guerrilleros se desmovilizaron.
Dentro del proceso de resocialización, el Estado se comprometió, entre otros aspectos, a capacitar a los desmovilizados en áreas como el emprendimiento, la psicología y los Derechos Humanos. Desde la citada perspectiva, hemos querido analizar los avances frente a la temática referenciada desde una metodología de investigación cualitativa y de conformidad con el método analítico.
CORRECTION: Adipose derived stem cell transplantation is better than bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in treating hindlimb ischemia in mice
Authors: Vu Ngoc Bich , Phi Lan Thi , Dao Thuy Thi-Thanh , Le Ha Thi-Ngan , Ta Van Thanh , Pham Phuc Van
Published: May 2017

The Figure 5 of the article “Adipose derived stem cell transplantation is better than bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in treating hindlimb ischemia in mice” that published in 29 Sept 2016, at Vol 3, Issue 9, from page  844-856 (DOI: 10.7603/s40730-016-0046-0) as below

that lacked the legend for the violet line should be corrected as:

 The violet line demonstrated “BM-MSC”.
Respiratory Scores as a Tool to Reduce Bronchodilator Use in Children Hospitalized With Acute Viral Bronchiolitis
Authors: Mussman Grant M. , Sahay Rashmi D. , Destino Lauren , Lossius Michele , Shadman Kristin A. , Walley Susan C.
Published: May 2017

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:

Adoption of clinical respiratory scoring as a quality improvement (QI) tool in bronchiolitis has been temporally associated with decreased bronchodilator usage. We sought to determine whether documented use of a clinical respiratory score at the patient level was associated with a decrease in either the physician prescription of any dose of bronchodilator or the number of doses, if prescribed, in a multisite QI collaborative.

METHODS:

We performed a secondary analysis of data from a QI collaborative involving 22 hospitals. The project enrolled patients aged 1 month to 2 years with a primary diagnosis of acute viral bronchiolitis and excluded those with prematurity, other significant comorbid diseases, and those needing intensive care. We assessed for an association between documentation of any respiratory score use during an episode of care, as well as the method in which scores were used, and physician prescribing of any bronchodilator and number of doses. Covariates considered were phase of the collaborative, hospital length of stay, steroid use, and presence of household smokers.

RESULTS:

A total of 1876 subjects were included. There was no association between documentation of a respiratory score and the likelihood of physician prescribing of any bronchodilator. Score use was associated with fewer doses of bronchodilators if one was prescribed (P = .05), but this association disappeared with multivariable analysis (P = .73).

CONCLUSIONS:

We found no clear association between clinical respiratory score use and physician prescribing of bronchodilators in a multicenter QI collaborative.
Neonatal Genomics: Part 1—Basics and Definitions
Authors: Wojcik Monica H. , Parad Richard B.
Published: May 2017

As genomic medicine is increasingly incorporated into clinical practice across all disciplines, an understanding of basic genetic concepts is important for the neonatologist. There are many different ways in which variations in the human genetic sequence, which comprises the genome, can lead to disease. Gene sequencing through the use of Sanger sequencing or next-generation sequencing technology can detect disease-causing variants and can be performed across the entire human genome in whole genome sequencing or across only the coding regions of the human genome in whole exome sequencing.
Neonatal Genomics: Part 2—Applications
Authors: Wojcik Monica H. , Parad Richard B.
Published: May 2017

The next-generation sequencing techniques described in Part 1 of this review can be used to sequence single genes, panels of genes, whole exomes, or whole genomes. These tests can be used for both diagnostic and screening purposes in the newborn nursery and NICU. As the cost and turnaround time for genetic testing decrease, the use of sequencing data will become more prevalent and can influence the diagnostic evaluation and care of the newborn. The use of genomic data for newborn screening is more controversial but also has potential usefulness in expanding the capabilities of current, predominantly analyte-based newborn screening algorithms. The incorporation of genomic information into the care of well newborns and ill NICU patients raises important ethical concerns that will need to be addressed as whole exome and whole genome sequencing become more routinely performed.
The Eye of the Beholder: A Discussion of Value and Quality From the Perspective of Families of Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
Authors: Anderson Betsy , Beckett Julie , Wells Nora , Comeau Meg
Published: May 2017

There is broad agreement that increasing the cost-effectiveness and quality of health care services, thereby achieving greater value, is imperative given this country’s current spiraling costs and poor health outcomes. However, how individuals or stakeholder groups define value may differ significantly. Discussion of value in the context of health care, in particular value-based purchasing and value-based insurance design, must acknowledge that there is no universal consensus definition as to what constitutes value. To date, the consumer perspective has been underrepresented in discussions of value-based strategies such as pay for performance, capitated and bundled payments, and high-deductible health plans, which have been driven primarily by payers and providers. This article will discuss 3 elements of value from the perspective of families of children and youth with special health care needs: the role of families in the delivery of care, consumer perspectives on what constitutes quality for children and youth with special health care needs, and health care and health care financing literacy, decision-making, and costs. The undervalued contributions made by family members in the delivery and oversight of pediatric care and the importance of partnering with them to achieve the goals of the Triple Aim are stressed. The article closes with a discussion of recommendations for a future policy and research agenda related to advancing the integration of the consumer perspective into value-based purchasing and value-based insurance design.
Partners for Kids Care Coordination: Lessons From the Field
Authors: Weier Rory Cusack , Gardner William , Conkol Kimberly , Pajer Kathleen , Kelleher Kelly J.
Published: May 2017

OBJECTIVE:

The goal of this trial was to present a case study of care coordination for children and youth with special health care needs from an exclusively pediatric accountable care organization, and compare precare and postcare data on their use of inpatient and emergency department services.

METHODS:

This pre–post comparison of the health care utilization included a subset of 733 children enrolled in Partners for Kids care coordination funded through a delegation arrangement with several Medicaid managed care plans. We compared inpatient admissions, hospital bed days, 30-day hospital readmissions, and emergency department visits during the 6 months before their enrollment in the coordination program versus the 6 months after enrollment.

RESULTS:

Approximately 16 000 referrals to the Partners for Kids care coordination program were made for an estimated 12 000 children. A total of 3072 unique individual children were enrolled; the most common condition classification was mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorders (25% of enrolled children). Due to rapid turnover/churn in Medicaid managed care eligibility, the subset of children with continuous enrollment was limited to 733 children. Among this subset, the counts of inpatient admissions, bed days, and 30-day readmissions between the pre-enrollment and post-enrollment period decreased (P < .05).

CONCLUSIONS:

These results suggest that it is possible for an accountable care organization to reduce inpatient and emergency department utilization. Going forward, the most important tasks of the care coordination team are to overcome obstacles to referral and participation and to develop methods to achieve better measures of patient-reported outcomes.