bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A closer look at ε-caprolactone polymerization catalyzed by alkyl aluminum complexes: the effect of induction period on overall catalytic activity
Authors: Tseng Hsi-Ching , Chiang Michael Y. , Lu Wei-Yi , Chen Yen-Jen , Lian Cheng-Jie , Chen Yu-Hsieh , Tsai Hsin-Yi , Lai Yi-Chun , Chen Hsuan-Ying
Published: June 2015

Previous studies on the ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone using structurally related aluminum complexes as pre-catalysts showed inconsistent trends in the total conversion time.
Efficient charge separation based on type-II g-C3N4/TiO2-B nanowire/tube heterostructure photocatalysts
Authors: Chen Hongmei , Xie Yinghao , Sun Xiaoqin , Lv Meilin , Wu Fangfang , Zhang Lei , Li Li , Xu Xiaoxiang
Published: June 2015

Prolonged lifetime of charges in g-C3N4/TiO2-B heterostructures compared with pristine g-C3N4.
A review of developments in pilot-plant testing and modelling of calcium looping process for CO2 capture from power generation systems
Authors: Hanak Dawid P. , Anthony Edward J. , Manovic Vasilije
Published: June 2015

A nearly complete decarbonisation of the power sector is essential to meet the European Union target for greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
Progress and perspectives in exploiting photosynthetic biomolecules for solar energy harnessing
Authors: Ravi Sai Kishore , Tan Swee Ching
Published: June 2015

Photosynthetic proteins are emerging as a new class of photovoltaic materials as their nature-designed architecture and internal circuitry are so sophisticated that they carry out the initial light-driven steps of photosynthesis with ≈100% quantum efficiency.
A major allergen in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): complete sequences of parvalbumin by MALDI tandem mass spectrometry
Authors: Aiello Donatella , Materazzi Stefano , Risoluti Roberta , Thangavel Hariprasad , Di Donna Leonardo , Mazzotti Fabio , Casadonte Francesca , Siciliano Carlo , Sindona Giovanni , Napoli Anna
Published: June 2015

Fish parvalbumin (PRVB) is an abundant and stable protein in fish meat.
Fabrication of SnO2–SnO nanocomposites with p–n heterojunctions for the low-temperature sensing of NO2 gas
Authors: Li Lei , Zhang Chunmei , Chen Wei
Published: June 2015

A SnO2–SnO hybrid nanostructure with p–n heterojunctions exhibits enhanced sensing performance for NO2 gas detection with high sensitivity and selectivity.
From drug to adhesive: a new application of poly(dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-one)s via the Biginelli polycondensation
Authors: Zhao Yuan , Yu Ying , Zhang Yuanyi , Wang Xing , Yang Bin , Zhang Yaling , Zhang Qingdong , Fu Changkui , Wei Yen , Tao Lei
Published: June 2015

Poly(dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-one)s can be synthesizedviathe Biginelli polycondensation in a short time. Thein situBiginelli polycondensation could glue two metal sheets together.
A rather facile strategy for the fabrication of PEGylated AIE nanoprobes
Authors: Wan Qing , Wang Ke , Du Huilin , Huang Hongye , Liu Meiying , Deng Fengjie , Dai Yanfeng , Zhang Xiaoyong , Wei Yen
Published: June 2015

A rather facile strategy was developed for the preparation of PEG-TPE FNPs taking advantage of the different reaction activities of anhydride and chloride toward PEG and DATPE.
SAR studies of differently functionalized 4′-phenylchalcone based compounds as inhibitors of cathepsins B, H and L
Authors: Ravish Indu , Raghav Neera
Published: June 2015

4′-Phenylchalcones and their cyclised derivatives as novel inhibitors of cathepsin B, H and L, potential anticancer agents.
Roles of supports (γ-Al2O3, SiO2, ZrO2) and performance of metals (Ni, Co, Mo) in steam reforming of isobutanol
Authors: Dhanala Vimala , Maity Sunil K. , Shee Debaprasad
Published: June 2015

Catalytic activity depends strongly on metal-support interaction. Nickel showed highest catalytic activity followed by cobalt and molybdenum. Shape of coke formed on spent catalyst depends on nature of metal.
Bio-augmentative volatile fatty acid production from waste activated sludge hydrolyzed at pH 12
Authors: Yang Xue , Wen Lei , Liu Xiang , Chen Si , Wang Yayi , Wan Chunli
Published: June 2015

Although many pretreatment methods are employed to enhance the hydrolysis of waste activated sludge (WAS), the bioconversion of soluble complex substrates needs improvement to produce higher volatile fatty acids (VFAs).
Molecular iodine catalysed domino cyclization in aqueous medium: a simple and efficient synthetic route to 1,4-dihydropyridazines
Authors: Siddiqui I. R. , Rahila Rahila , Rai Pragati , Sagir Hozeyfa , Waseem Malik A.
Published: June 2015

An efficient protocol has been developed for the synthesis of dihydropyridazines using molecular iodine as green catalyst.
Efficient ultraviolet photodetectors based on TiO2nanotube arrays with tailored structures
Authors: Wang Lianbo , Yang Weiyou , Chong Haining , Wang Lin , Gao Fengmei , Tian Linhai , Yang Zuobao
Published: June 2015

We report the front-illuminated ultraviolet photodetectors based on TiO2nanotube arrays with efficient photodetecting activities.
Iron/acetic acid mediated synthesis of 6,7-dihydrodibenzo[b,j][1,7]phenanthroline derivatives via intramolecular reductive cyclization
Authors: Rajawinslin R. R. , Ichake Sachin S. , Kavala Veerababurao , Gawande Sachin D. , Huang Yi-Hsiang , Kuo Chun-Wei , Yao Ching-Fa
Published: June 2015

An efficient iron/acetic acid mediated intramolecular reductive cyclization protocol was developed for the synthesis of novel 6,7-dihydrodibenzo[b,j][1,7]phenanthroline derivatives.
Synthesis and multifunctional applications of quantum nanobeads for label-free and selective metal chemosensing
Authors: Abdelhamid Hani Nasser , Wu Hui-Fen
Published: June 2015

Due to the importance of quantum dots (QDs), fervent research continues for new preparations, surface modification and investigation of further applications.
Synthesis and properties of novel helical 3-vinylpyridine polymers containing proline moieties for asymmetric aldol reaction
Authors: Wang Heng , Li Na , Yan Zijia , Zhang Jie , Wan Xinhua
Published: June 2015

Novel helical vinyl polymers bearing l/d-proline amide moieties were prepared to catalyze asymmetric aldol reactions, which afforded faster reaction rate but slightly poorer enantio-selectivity than the low molar mass counterparts.
Methodologies for evaluation of metal–organic frameworks in separation applications
Authors: Krishna Rajamani
Published: June 2015

The separation performance of fixed-bed adsorbers is governed by a number of factors that include (a) adsorption selectivity, (b) uptake capacity, and (c) intra-crystalline diffusion limitations.
A new sensitizer containing dihexyloxy-substituted triphenylamine as donor and a binary conjugated spacer for dye-sensitized solar cells
Authors: Damaceanu Mariana-Dana , Mihaila Mihai , Constantin Catalin-Paul , Chisca Stefan , Serban Bogdan-Catalin , Diaconu Cristian , Buiu Octavian , Pavelescu Emil Mihai , Kusko Mihaela
Published: June 2015

A new D–π–A dye based on dihexyloxy-substituted triphenylamine moiety has been synthesized and its preliminary performances in DSSCs are reported.
A catalyst-free, efficient green MCR protocol for access to functionalized γ-carbolines in water
Authors: Dagar Anuradha , Biswas Soumen , Samanta Sampak
Published: June 2015

A catalyst-free green procedure for access to substituted γ-carbolines has been achieved in water with excellent yields via a MCR reaction of 3-formyl indole derivatives, aldehydes with NH4OAc at room temperature under aerobic conditions.
Correction: structure, absolute configuration, and conformational study of resorcylic acid derivatives and related congeners from the fungus Penicillium brocae
Authors: Zhang Peng , Meng Ling-Hong , Mándi Attila , Li Xiao-Ming , Kurtán Tibor , Wang Bin-Gui
Published: June 2015

Correction for ‘Structure, absolute configuration, and conformational study of resorcylic acid derivatives and related congeners from the fungus Penicillium brocae’ by Peng Zhang et al., RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 39870–39877.
The universal trend of the non-exponential Rouse mode relaxation in polymer systems: a theoretical interpretation based on a generalized Langevin equation
Authors: Colmenero J.
Published: June 2015

A theoretical interpretation of the universal trend of the non-exponential Rouse mode relaxation in polymer systems.
Dynamics and rheology of nonpolar bijels
Authors: Bai Lian , Fruehwirth John W. , Cheng Xiang , Macosko Christopher W.
Published: June 2015

Confocal images of PS (green)/PB (black) blends. Right: hydrophobic silica (red) jam interface to form nonpolar bigel.
Lignosulphonate-cellulose derived porous activated carbon for supercapacitor electrode
Authors: Zhao Zhenhuan , Hao Shimeng , Hao Pin , Sang Yuanhua , Manivannan Ayyakkannu , Wu Nianqiang , Liu Hong
Published: June 2015

A meso-microporous carbon was prepared by the combination of a template method and chemical activation with earth abundant cellulose and lignosulphonate as the sources..
Microstructural design of hybrid CoO@NiO and graphene nano-architectures for flexible high performance supercapacitors
Authors: Gao Zan , Song Ningning , Li Xiaodong
Published: June 2015

A core/shell CoO@NiO//ACT/graphene asymmetric cell was assembled with unique nanostructures for high performance flexible supercapacitors.
Topotactical conversion of carbon coated Fe-based electrodes on graphene aerogels for lithium ion storage
Authors: Jin Feiying , Wang Yong
Published: June 2015

Graphene aerogel supported Fe2O3, Fe–Fe3O4@C, and FeS2@C composites are prepared by a stepwise topotactical conversion process and exhibit good lithium ion storage properties.
Correction: A ditopic calix[4]pyrrole amide derivative: highlighting the importance of fundamental studies and the use of NaPh4B as additive in the design and applications of mercury(ii) ion selective electrodes
Authors: Danil de Namor Angela F. , Gamouz Abdelaziz El , Alharthi Salman , Hakawati Nawal Al , Varcoe John R.
Published: June 2015

Correction for ‘A ditopic calix[4]pyrrole amide derivative: highlighting the importance of fundamental studies and the use of NaPh4B as additive in the design and applications of mercury(ii) ion selective electrodes’ by Angela F. Danil de Namor et al., J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/c5ta02215k.
An iridium oxide nanoparticle and polythionine thin film based platform for sensitive Leishmania DNA detection
Authors: Mayorga-Martinez Carmen C. , Chamorro-García Alejandro , Serrano Lorena , Rivas Lourdes , Quesada-Gonzalez Daniel , Altet Laura , Francino Olga , Sánchez Armand , Merkoçi Arben
Published: June 2015

A novel impedimetric label-free genosensor for highly sensitive DNA detection using a sensing platform based on thionine and iridium oxide nanoparticles.
New application of fluorescent organotin compounds derived from Schiff bases: synthesis, X-ray structures, photophysical properties, cytotoxicity and fluorescent bioimaging
Authors: Jiménez-Pérez Víctor M. , García-López María C. , Muñoz-Flores Blanca M. , Chan-Navarro Rodrigo , Berrones-Reyes Jessica C. , Dias H. V. Rasika , Moggio Ivana , Arias Eduardo , Serrano-Mireles Jesús A. , Chavez-Reyes Arturo
Published: June 2015

A novel application of fluorescent organotin compounds derived from Schiff bases was developed for imaging cells.
Development of polymerizable 2-(1-naphthyl)-5-phenyloxazole scintillators for ionizing radiation detection
Authors: Seliman Ayman F. , Bliznyuk Valery N. , Husson Scott M. , DeVol Timothy A.
Published: June 2015

Fluor monomers synthesized, characterized, and then polymerized into high β radiation detection efficiency extractive scintillator.
Bilingual and Monolingual Students' Perceptions of the CSD Major: A Qualitative Study
Authors: Keshishian Flora , Wiseheart Rebecca
Published: June 2015

There is a growing demand for bilingual services in speech-language pathology and audiology. To meet this growing demand, and given their critical role in the recruitment of more bilingual professionals, higher education institutions need to know more about bilingual students' impression of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) as a major. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate bilingual and monolingual undergraduate students' perceptions of the CSD major. One hundred and twenty-two students from a large university located in a highly multicultural metropolitan area responded to four open-ended questions aimed at discovering students' major areas of interest (and disinterest) as well as their motivations for pursuing a degree in CSD. Consistent with similar reports conducted outside the United States, students from this culturally diverse environment indicated choosing the major for altruistic reasons. A large percentage of participants were motivated by a desire to work with children, but not in a school setting. Although 42% of the participants were bilingual, few indicated an interest in taking an additional course in bilingual studies. Implications of these findings as well as practical suggestions for the recruitment of bilingual students are discussed.
“Flipped” Classroom: Benefits Versus Challenges for Communicative Sciences and Disorders Faculty and Students
Authors: Tattersall Patricia J.
Published: June 2015

“Flipped” classrooms are rooted in the need to prepare students for the rigors of today's workplace. The model facilitates active, engaged learners, who take responsibility for developing knowledge and skills necessary to be professionally competitive. Implementation defies the traditional culture of education, posing challenges for both instructors and students. This pilot study introduced students in two communication sciences and disorders classes—one undergraduate and one graduate—to the flipped model. Although undergraduate students were significantly more open to online instruction than the graduate students, both groups valued the in-class activities similarly. Students' views of online learning significantly and positively correlated with their openness to enroll in a flipped or blended course. Subjective comments made by both groups of students indicated that they found the format challenging, yet the time dedicated to hands-on activities rather than lecture supported the learning and application of the material as well as provided practice with collaboration. Further research is needed to determine if the flipped classroom significantly improves global skills, content knowledge, and an openness to inquiry in students enrolled in communication sciences and disorders programs.
Towards sparse characterisation of on‐body ultra‐wideband wireless channels
Authors: Yang Xiaodong , Ren Aifeng , Zhang Zhiya , Ur Rehman Masood , Abbasi Qammer Hussain , Alomainy Akram
Published: June 2015

With the aim of reducing cost and power consumption of the receiving terminal, compressive sensing (CS) framework is applied to on‐body ultra‐wideband (UWB) channel estimation. It is demonstrated in this Letter that the sparse on‐body UWB channel impulse response recovered by the CS framework fits the original sparse channel well; thus, on‐body channel estimation can be achieved using low‐speed sampling devices.
Modelling and performance analysis of dynamic contention window scheme for periodic broadcast in vehicular ad hoc networks
Authors: Yang Qiong , Xing Song , Xia Weiwei , Shen Lianfeng
Published: June 2015

This study proposes an analytical model and an effective scheme for the periodic broadcast on the control channel in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). An improved Markov model for analysing the performance of the periodic broadcast in VANETs is established. Compared with the traditional two‐dimensional Markov chain models, the improvement of our proposed model is achieved by the considerations of the unsaturated traffic conditions with the deterministic message generation at each node, modelled by a discrete‐time D/M/1 queue and the control mechanism of freezing the backoff‐time counter. In adapting to the change of the vehicle densities, the authors propose to use the dynamic contention window (DCW), instead of the fixed contention window (CW), for the broadcast in the IEEE 802.11p medium access control in VANETs. For a certain vehicle density, a best CW size is chosen to achieve a more effective broadcast. Simulation results show that the proposed DCW‐based broadcast performs better than the traditional fixed‐CW‐size broadcast in terms of the packet collision probability. The results also validate our proposed Markov model and its performance improvement than the scheme without the consideration of freezing the backoff‐time counter.
Advanced allied health assistants: an emerging workforce
Authors: Pearce Claire , Pagett Leanne
Published: June 2015

Objective Nationally and internationally there is work underway to continue to advance the scope of practice of allied health assistants (AHA). The advanced role requires additional training and competency development, as well as significant clinical experience. To build on the evidence relating to advanced scope AHAs, ACT Health undertook a project to explore the potential for the development of the local AHA workforce. This paper provides an overview of the project. Methods The potential for advanced AHAs in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) was assessed using literature reviews, consultation with other services working with advanced AHAs and interviews with local allied health managers and assistants. Results A role for advanced AHAs within the ACT workforce was recommended, along with the need to further develop the AHA governance structure and AHA training packages and to undertake more research into the AHA workforce. Conclusion AHAs make a positive contribution to the delivery of effective, responsive, consumer-focused healthcare. The advanced AHA role provides further opportunities to enhance the flexibility of allied health services while also providing a career structure for this growing workforce.
Early presentation of symptomatic individuals is critical in controlling sexually transmissible infections
Authors: Fairley Christopher K. , Chow Eric P. F. , Hocking Jane S.
Published: June 2015

Two papers in this issue by Williams et al. and Scott et al. describe the sexual risks and health-seeking behaviour of young Indigenous Australians. Their sexual risks and health-seeking behaviours are similar to the general Australian population, yet their risk of past sexually transmissible infections (STIs) is higher. These findings are consistent with previous findings and suggest that access to health care, and not sexual risk, remain critical to STI control in remote Indigenous communities.
How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?
Authors: González Fernández Beatriz , Schmitt Norbert
Published: June 2015

Many scholars believe that collocations are difficult to learn and use by L2 learners. However, some research suggests that learners often know more collocations than commonly thought. This study tested 108 Spanish learners of English to measure their productive knowledge of 50 collocations, which varied according to corpus frequency,t-score, andMIscore. The participants produced a mean score of 56.6% correct, suggesting that our learners knew a substantial number of collocations. Knowledge of the collocations correlated moderately with corpus frequency (.45), but also with everyday engagement with English outside the classroom, in activities like reading, watching movies/TV, and social networking (composite correlation = .56). Everyday engagement also had a stronger relationship with collocation knowledge than years of English study (.45).
A process-focused learning model for L2 vocabulary acquisition
Authors: Ma Qing
Published: June 2015

This study aims to identify essential stages involved in vocabulary learning by constructing, implementing and validating a process-focused learning model using structural equation modelling (SEM). In this model, successful vocabulary learning goes through four sequential stages: perceiving the word form; accessing the word meaning; mapping the word form with meaning; using the word. A vocabulary learning strategy questionnaire was developed based on the model and administered to more than 300 Chinese university students; the model was satisfactorily tested using the SEM technique. The empirical findings provide further insights into our understanding of the complex nature of vocabulary acquisition which forms a systematic learning loop. A number of learning and teaching implications were drawn accordingly to enhance L2 vocabulary acquisition and vocabulary learning strategy training programmes.
Adult as a source of expert opinion in child’s argumentation during family mealtime conversations
Authors: Bova Antonio
Published: June 2015

The present study addresses the issue of how the differences in age and roles with their parents can affect the children’s choice of the argumentative strategies they adopt in their discussions. The findings show that when children refer to a third person as a source of expert opinion, the expert always proves to be an adult, and not another child. Looking at this argumentative choice typically made by children, it is reasonable to assume that for them the reference to an opinion of an adult is a stronger argument than the reference to an opinion of another child. However, the actual effectiveness of the argument from adult-expert opinion depends on the extent to which the premises (endoxa) the argument is based on are shared by parents and children.
Extending the argument engagement model
Authors: Richards Adam S. , Cionea Ioana A.
Published: June 2015

This investigation considers the factors that predict the intent to engage in interpersonal arguments. By adapting the argument engagement model (Hample, Paglieri, and Na 2012), a subjective expected utility model was tested to determine the effects of (1) evaluative assessments, in addition to probabilistic assessments, and (2) probabilistic assessment-trait interactions on argument engagement. Participants (N = 273) read three argument vignettes and answered questions about their intent to argue in each situation. Results were mixed regarding the significance of expected values and situation-trait interactions in predicting intentions to argue. Participants overwhelmingly reported an optimism bias, whereby they tended to perceive positive outcomes of argument as likely and negative outcomes of argument as unlikely. Possible reasons for these findings and their implications are discussed.
Ideological positioning in news translation
Authors: Pan Li
Published: June 2015

This article investigates the Chinese translations of several English news reports on China’s human rights issue carried inReference News, a Chinese authoritative state-run newspaper devoted to translating foreign reports for the Chinese reader, and aims to establish how evaluative resources are resorted to by the translators to facilitate ideologically different positioning in presenting events and identifying participants in the translated news. The translations are compared with their English source texts using Appraisal Theory (Martin and White 2005) as the micro analytical framework and Fairclough’s (1995a,1995b) three-dimension model of Critical Discourse Analysis as the explanatory framework.
An ontological framework for modeling the contents of definitions
Authors: Seppälä Selja
Published: June 2015

This paper addresses the troublesome question of feature selection and content prediction in definition writing. I present the basis of definition-authoring tools that can be used across a range of contexts, independently of the domain and language of the definitions. In addition to being domain- and language-independent, these tools should be easily tailorable to specific domains. Thus, my work seeks to contribute to developing generic definition-writing aids that can be tailored to a range of different contexts and domains. The objectives of this article are: (1) to show that it is possible to create implementable generic definition models; (2) to show how to constrain these models to produce definitions relevant to particular contexts; and (3) to propose an ontological analysis framework with a fixed and well-motivated descriptive vocabulary that can be used in further content analysis studies in terminology and to enhance integration of textual definitions in ontologies.
Adjectives as terms
Authors: Pitkänen-Heikkilä Kaarina
Published: June 2015

This paper discusses terminology in the field of plant morphology, where nearly half of the terms are adjectives. What are adjectives as terms like? How are they differentiated from adjectives in the general language? How should adjectives be treated in terminological description and terminography? For example, the relationship between an adjective and the object it characterizes differs from the relationship between a noun and the object to which it refers. For a systematic definition, adjectives have often been changed to nouns in terminological dictionaries: property names derived from adjectives or modifiers of noun phrases. This article argues that such a method is not applicable in plant morphology because, on the one hand, that kind of nouns does not occur in the texts that describe plants and, on the other hand, because of the semantic changes it may cause. The article also proposes some new tools for the description and definition of adjectival terms.
The degree of disparateness of event details modulates future simulation construction, plausibility, and recall
Authors: van Mulukom Valerie , Schacter Daniel L. , Corballis Michael C. , Addis Donna Rose
Published: June 2015

Several episodic simulation studies have suggested that the plausibility of future events may be influenced by the disparateness of the details comprising the event. However, no study had directly investigated this idea. In the current study, we designed a novel episodic combination paradigm that varied the disparateness of details through a social sphere manipulation. Participants recalled memory details from three different social spheres. Details were recombined either within spheres or across spheres to create detail sets for which participants imagined future events in a second session. Across-sphere events were rated as significantly less plausible than within-sphere events and were remembered less often. The presented paradigm, which increases control over the disparateness of details in future event simulations, may be useful for future studies concerned with the similarity of the simulations to previous events and its plausibility.
Nanobodies and recombinant binders in cell biology
Authors: Helma Jonas , Cardoso M. Cristina , Muyldermans Serge , Leonhardt Heinrich
Published: June 2015

Antibodies are key reagents to investigate cellular processes. The development of recombinant antibodies and binders derived from natural protein scaffolds has expanded traditional applications, such as immunofluorescence, binding arrays, and immunoprecipitation. In addition, their small size and high stability in ectopic environments have enabled their use in all areas of cell research, including structural biology, advanced microscopy, and intracellular expression. Understanding these novel reagents as genetic modules that can be integrated into cellular pathways opens up a broad experimental spectrum to monitor and manipulate cellular processes.
Spatiotemporal dynamics of traction forces show three contraction centers in migratory neurons
Authors: Jiang Jian , Zhang Zheng-hong , Yuan Xiao-bin , Poo Mu-ming
Published: June 2015

Traction force against the substrate is required for neuronal migration, but how it is generated and regulated remains controversial. Using traction force microscopy, we showed in cultured granule cells the coexistence of three distinct contraction centers (CCs) that are located at the distal and proximal regions of the leading process as well as at the trailing process, regions exhibiting high-level myosin-II activities. The CC activities depended on myosin-II, actin filaments, and microtubules, as well as substrate adhesion, and exhibited apparently independent fluctuation. The difference of strain energies associated with CC activities between leading versus trailing processes tightly correlated with the displacement of the soma at any given time. Application of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and Slit2, factors known to guide neuronal migration, at the leading process altered CC activities by regulating the small GTPases Cdc42 and RhoA, respectively, leading to forward and rearward soma translocation. These results delineate the multiple origins and spatiotemporal dynamics of the traction force underlying neuronal migration.
Seneca
Authors: Malaspina Ermanno , Wildberger Jula , Revello Veronica
Published: June 2015

The Stoic Seneca (b. c. 4 bce–d. 65 ce), mentor to Emperor Nero and one of the wealthiest men of his time, has been studied as the brilliant and enigmatic father of Silver Latin prose and, together with his nephew Lucan, as an outstanding representative of the rhetorical, gory baroque of 1st-century ce Latin poetry. The latter subject is covered in the parallel bibliography on Seneca’s tragedies; the present article is dedicated to Seneca as a philosopher. This very fact, that we now regard his philosophy as a research subject by itself, reflects a fundamental change in his reception. For a long time, the majority of scholars saw in Seneca a wielder of edifying words rather than a serious thinker, a moralizer and eclectic, who would not hesitate to mix disparate ingredients from competing schools into a hotchpotch of sparkling, sententious diatribe. At the beginning of the 20th century, those interested in philosophy mined his works for traces of his Greek models, the “real” philosophers whom they deemed worthy of study, in particular the Stoic Posidonius (b. c. 135–d. 51 bce). In the 1960s and 1970s, attention to Seneca himself increased significantly in anglophone scholarship. While Italian scholars have always insisted on an holistic approach, refusing to detach stylistic considerations from an analysis of conceptual content and never separating his political thought from his life as an active politician, scholars in Germany and France followed the lead of Paul Rabbow’s famous research on Seelenheilung (“psychotherapy”) and Seelenführung (“psychagogy”) and read Seneca as a spiritual guide. All these approaches continue to play an important role in international Seneca scholarship, but two recent tendencies deserve special attention. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s readings of Seneca as a representative of “the care of the self” in ancient philosophy, study of Senecan therapy and psychagogy has resulted in increasingly sophisticated explorations of what one might call his philosophy of authorship. What is more, considerable improvements in our understanding of Stoicism, Seneca’s professed school, have revealed his well-informed commitment to his predecessors. Against the more clearly defined backdrop of Hellenistic and Imperial Stoicism, it has also become easier to recognize and illustrate facets of Seneca’s originality, a work that is still ongoing or rather, one may dare say, has only just begun.
Metaphysics in Science
Authors: Healey Richard
Published: June 2015

Science has transformed, if not solved, some metaphysical problems while posing new ones. Metaphysical ideas such as those of the ancient atomists have sometimes proved helpful in developing new scientific theories. But the widespread agreement on the empirically grounded progress achieved in science has often been contrasted with what seem to be abstruse and interminable disputes over metaphysical theses. Karl Popper sought to demarcate scientific from metaphysical and other claims by appealing to their empirical falsifiability, while Rudolf Carnap and other logical positivists dismissed metaphysical claims as cognitively meaningless since they are neither empirically verifiable nor true by virtue of meaning. This article considers some contemporary views on how science relates to metaphysics only after examining the impact of science on more specific metaphysical issues—composition, identity and individuality, time and change, determinism, causation, laws, probability, and the primacy of fundamental physics.
Models and Theories
Authors: Morrison Margaret
Published: June 2015

This chapter discusses the relation between models and theories as characterized by the syntactic and semantic views, as well as how that relation is understood in the more scientifically oriented or practice-based accounts of models. It also addresses epistemic issues concerning the model-world relationship and the importance of representation and explanation in assessing how abstract models deliver concrete information. The chapter claims that similarity and isomorphism, construed as general criteria, are often insufficient to characterize the way models relate to their target systems. Although no general theory of modeling can address these issues in a systematic way it is still possible to provide an in-depth philosophical analyses of how the abstraction and idealization present in models can nevertheless tell us important things about the physical world.
Sacramental and Liturgical Theology, 1900–2000
Authors: Belcher Kimberly Hope
Published: June 2015

Over the twentieth century, sacramental theology developed from a largely juridical study focused on the requirements for valid celebration to a broader emphasis on the liturgical worship as a means of developing and sustaining Christian identity. From a definition of the sacraments that firmly distinguished them from other ritual acts, Catholic reflection gradually came to see these as more closely connected to other liturgies and private devotions. At the same time, new developments in history, theological anthropology, and ritual studies led to the belief that active participation of laypersons is essential to effective liturgy, and thus sacraments. The rites themselves, both sacramental and non-sacramental, were seen as the encounter of human agency with God’s mysterious grace and a legitimate source for theological reflection. By the end of this period, the efficacy of the sacraments was linked to the full expression of Christian identity, including culture and ethics.
Social Influence and Gender
Authors: Carli Linda L.
Published: June 2015

This chapter reviews current research on gender and social influence. Overall, men exert greater influence than women do. Women’s disadvantage derives from gender stereotypes that characterize men as more competent and agentic than women and that require women to be more selfless and communal than men. Both agentic and communal behaviors predict influence. As a result, women are subjected to a double bind. They may lack influence because of doubt about their competence, or they may lack influence because their competent behavior elicits concern that they are insufficiently communal. In contrast, men have greater behavioral flexibility than women do as influence agents. Men tend to be more resistant to women’s influence than women are, particularly when female influence agents behave in a highly competent manner. Resistance to female influence can be reduced in contexts that are stereotypically feminine and when women display a blend of agentic and communal qualities.
Social Influence and Health
Authors: Martin Leslie R. , DiMatteo M. Robin
Published: June 2015

Early in the lives of children, parental influences are strong, and interventions targeting parents are essential to behavior change. In adolescence, peers emerge as critical additions to the influence of family members; their influence can support the growth and maintenance of positive health behaviors, or it can encourage unhealthy choices. Social groups continue to feature prominently in various ways throughout adulthood. A crucial role is played by supportive social networks in the improvement and maintenance of a wide variety of health behaviors, and the availability of normative information affects health choices. Health care providers hold a good deal of power in the practitioner–patient relationship and influence their patients toward health outcomes in a variety of ways. Finally, system-level influences such as public health programs, health-related media messages, and educational interventions can help motivate individuals toward ideal health behaviors.
Obedience
Authors: Burger Jerry
Published: June 2015

Most obedience research is concerned with the kind of destructive obedience demonstrated in Milgram’s famous studies. A large number of participants in those investigations followed an experimenter’s instructions to administer what they believe to be excruciating if not dangerous electric shocks to another individual. Ethical concerns about Milgram’s procedures have forced researchers to develop new methods to study obedience, such as virtual reality procedures and partial replications. A small number of studies suggest that personality may affect obedience, but there is little evidence to date that culture or gender plays an important role. Milgram’s interpretation of his findings has been largely rejected, but explanations based on the relationship between the experimenter and the participant and on situational variables that affect social influence processes are promising. The extent to which Milgram’s findings help us understand the obedience that contributed to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany remains a topic of debate.
Brown v. Plata
Authors: Reiter Keramet , Pifer Natalie
Published: June 2015

In 2011 the US Supreme Court declared healthcare in California’s prison system constitutionally inadequate under the Eighth Amendment and upheld an order to reduce the prison population by almost one- third. This article examines the initiation and trajectory of the Brown v. Plata litigation, California’s effort to “realign” state prisoners into county facilities, and recent legal challenges to conditions in jails. Plata must be understood not just as a symbolic critique of mass incarceration, but as an example of (a) the persistent power of administrative discretion and political resistance to reform and (b) the challenges of devolving punitive power to increasingly local decision-makers. Rather than reducing California’s reliance on mass incarceration, Plata may have simply initiated fragmentation of mass incarceration into local jails, which are both less visible and more resistant to federal judicial control than state prison systems.
Children in Biblical Narrative and Childist Interpretation
Authors: Elkins Kathleen Gallagher , Parker Julie Faith
Published: June 2015

This chapter maintains that child characters have been long overlooked in biblical scholarship and calls attention to their critical roles in shaping the texts of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. After a summarizing overview of recent scholarship, the chapter briefly discusses Hebrew and Greek terms that indicate children and youth. It proposes a new methodology, called childist interpretation, which offers tools for discovering the role and importance of young characters in biblical narratives. This six-step process then serves as a vehicle for analyzing the stories of Naaman’s slave girl (2 Kings 5:1–14) and Herodias’s daughter (Mark 16:7–29). By questioning traditional hegemonic interpretive assumptions from a fresh perspective, childist interpretation heralds an innovative and significant development in biblical narrative analysis.
A simple optical system delivering a tunable micrometer pink beam that can compensate for heat-induced deformations
Authors: Reininger Ruben , Liu Zunping , Doumy Gilles , Young Linda
Published: June 2015

The radiation from an undulator reflected from one or more optical elements (usually termed `pink-beam') is used in photon-hungry experiments. The optical elements serve as a high-energy cutoff and for focusing purposes. One of the issues with this configuration is maintaining the focal spot dimension as the energy of the undulator is varied, since this changes the heat load absorbed by the first optical element. Finite-element analyses of the power absorbed by a side water-cooled mirror exposed to the radiation emitted by an undulator at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and at the APS after the proposed upgrade (APSU) reveals that the mirror deformation is very close to a convex cylinder creating a virtual source closer to the mirror than the undulator source. Here a simple optical system is described based on a Kirkpatrick–Baez pair which keeps the focus size to less than 2 µm (in the APSU case) with a working distance of 350 mm despite the heat-load-induced change in source distance. Detailed ray tracings at several photon energies for both the APS and APSU show that slightly decreasing the angle of incidence on the mirrors corrects the change in the `virtual' position of the source. The system delivers more than 70% of the first undulator harmonic with very low higher-orders contamination for energies between 5 and 10 keV.
Ten questions that make a difference for HR leadership
Authors: Longenecker Clinton , Fink Laurence S
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– Presents the distilled wisdom of two human-resource (HR) award facilitators.

Design/methodology/approach

– Takes in the form of ten questions that make a difference for HR leadership.

Findings

– Asks: Are you trusted by the members of your organization? Do you possess a real and comprehensive understanding of how your business makes money? Do you keep yourself up to speed on the legal and compliance issues that are most important to your organization? Do you think strategically and execute operationally? Are you measuring and monitoring the most meaningful metrics that measure mission-driven performance? Are you working hard to create business partnerships with your stakeholders that increase the likelihood of success? Are you taking steps to help all managers in your organization to operate like great HR leaders? Are you using your talents and influence to build teams and solve organizational problems? Do you seek out and apply innovative HR practices that can truly affect your organization’s bottom-line performance? Do you ensure that people have the information they need to perform in an optimal fashion?

Practical implications

– Urges HR specialists to review, reflect on and assess their response to each of the questions.

Social implications

– Suggests that each question identifies key behaviors and activities that can become a target for improvement.

Originality/value

– Provides valuable insight rarely available to HR specialists.
Engaged employees shimmer for Oasis HR
Authors: Barr Katie
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– Describes a three-prong approach to employee engagement which helped Oasis HR to win first prize in the inaugural Employee Engagement awards.

Design/methodology/approach

– Examines the reasons for the approach, the form it takes and the results it is helping to obtain.

Findings

– Considers the quarterly vision updates and an incentive prize scheme, the gold-card program and peer-to-peer recognition through living the values.

Practical implications

– Shows that, since the program was introduced, staff turnover has fallen, sales have risen and motivation and employee satisfaction have improved.

Social implications

– Highlights how employee satisfaction has been generated in a sales environment.

Originality/value

– Provides the inside story of an award-winning employee-engagement scheme.
Do corporate sustainability practices enhance organizational economic performance?
Authors: Maletic Matjaž , Maletic Damjan , Dahlgaard Jens , Dahlgaard-Park Su Mi , Gomišcek Boštjan
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this study is to clarify the relation between sustainability practices and financial and market performance, and also, the role of non-financial performance outputs in this relation. Corporate sustainability is a growing area of importance for organizational development. Managing sustainability practices successfully is an imperative in achieving competitive advantage.

Design/methodology/approach

– Using empirical data based on a large-scale survey among organizations in five countries (i.e. Germany, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain), this paper utilized mediation analysis to estimate and test the mediated effects in a multiple mediator model. As such, the sizes of indirect effects of sustainability practices on financial and market performance through potential mediators were estimated.

Findings

– The results showed that innovation performance exerts a mediation effect in the relation between sustainability practices and financial and market performance. The main conclusion is that a greater engagement in sustainability practices leads to an increased innovation performance, which in turn leads to financial and market performance.

Originality/value

– This paper is one of the first attempts to empirically validate sustainability exploitation and sustainability exploration practices. Besides, the analysis of the direct and indirect effects of sustainability exploration and sustainability exploitation practices on financial and market performance has not been yet addressed to a great extent.
Learning from criticisms of quality management
Authors: Barouch Gilles , Kleinhans Stéphane
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– This paper aims at summing up the main criticisms concerning quality management (QM) in order to address them through objective arguments or extant research. Since its diffusion in the Occident in the 70s, QM gained as much approvals as criticisms. Therefore, with 40 years distance, it seems useful to sum up the main criticisms addressed to QM, to present a synthesis of the answers provided by researchers to these criticisms and to propose extant research when it appears that some criticisms have not received yet the adequate response.

Design/methodology/approach

– This paper is based on a literature review.

Findings

– This paper comes up with a list of the main criticisms addressed to QM. Then, main causes of criticisms are identified: ignorance of QM, confusion concerning QM definitions and theory and misuse of QM by senior managers. At last, QM organizational solutions are proposed which answer most expressed criticisms. Extant research tracks are considered for those relevant criticisms which have not been sufficiently addressed until now.

Research limitations/implications

– Further research will look into depicting a survey conducted among QM professionals concerning QM criticisms in their organization and confronting them to these academic results.

Originality/value

– This paper actualizes and completes Giroux and Landry’s (1998) article which dealt extensively with QM criticisms. Professionals will find in this paper answers to most criticisms against QM and a better understanding of the present limits of this discipline. Researchers will be provided with a state of the art concerning this sensitive topic, allowing them to go deeper in the fields that require special attention.