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The gendering of leadership in corporate social responsibility
Authors: Marshall Judi
Published: April 2007

Purpose

This paper seeks to review the potential gendering of leadership in the emerging field of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It explores whose voices are becoming dominant, how leaders speak, and what forms men's and women's leadership take.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is a self‐reflective inquiry, analysing observational and secondary data to explore leadership and its gender patterning. It reflects on its approach and the voice in which it is written.

Findings

Women and men are often differently placed to work within the emerging dominant logics of CSR. The gender patternings considered are skewed rather than clear‐cut. In relation to organization‐based discourses and practices, leadership is dominated by white men. Some men are tempered radicals, inside‐outsiders acting for change. Some women leaders question the foundations of business and global power relations, and point to fundamental gender inequalities. Whilst they are recognised figures, they are operating at the margins, self‐identified as activists. Other influential women provide training in the alternative practices of leadership they advocate. Systemic theories of gendering are employed to review these findings.

Originality/value

Explores some of the dynamics through which leadership can become gendered, in the challenging realm of how ecological sustainability and global social justice are addressed.
Women managers' careers in information technology in China: high flyers with emotional costs?
Authors: Aaltio Iiris , Huang Jiehua
Published: April 2007

Purpose

This study seeks to focus on Chinese women managers and gender aspects in information technology (IT) management.

Design/methodology/approach

Women managers' experience on career is explored in relation to the Chinese cultural environment and within the IT industry. Two special topics emerged from the in‐depth interview results: high future expectations and strong belief in own competence. Background methodology of the study is Q‐sort methodology and interpretive analysis.

Findings

The findings suggest that IT women managers are high achievers with a high level of ambition. A joy of career advancement and full use of their potential is seen in their perceptions of work and career. The findings also indicate that Chinese women's career development in the IT field calls for identity reconstruction in both their private and work lives. This refers to a work‐family conflict within Chinese culture which emphasizesGuanxiand close societal ties. Although not expressed specifically, it was possible to read from the subtext that women also expect certain emotional costs from career advancement.

Practical implications

Although there are still only few women in top‐level positions in China, the study confirms their potential to succeed in management, at least in a recently developed field like IT. The findings indicate that the recent sweeping technological changes provide women with a platform to penetrate. It gives them a chance to be recognised for their achievements in the field of new technology and proves their ability to advance to the upper realms in this field.

Originality/value

This study accumulates the understanding on women's careers and career strategies worldwide and especially in China.
Detailed cost modelling: a case study in warehouse logistics
Authors: Varila Mikko , Seppänen Marko , Suomala Petri
Published: April 2007

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the applicability of different drivers for assigning activity costs to products in warehouse logistics environment.

Design/methodology/approach

An action research case study in the warehouse logistics of an electronics wholesaler. Data were collected from a single activity which was analysed in depth.

Findings

The study illustrates that there may be significant variation in activity costs that cannot be traced with any single transaction‐based driver. Automatic data collection methods can be used to support cost accounting in such a situation. It was clearly demonstrated that in certain environments it is possible to significantly increase the accuracy and versatility of accounting by measuring the actual durations together with other variables.

Research limitations/implications

The results are derived from a single company and activity.

Practical implications

Gives accountants in environments where data is rich and plentiful examples of methods for analysing the data for obtaining a deeper understanding of the cost behaviour of activities and products.

Originality/value

Complements the discussion on activity cost drivers and logistics costing.
Achieving consumer focus in supply chains
Authors: Zokaei Keivan , Hines Peter
Published: April 2007

Purpose

Supply chain performance is two‐dimensional: efficiency and effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to further define and explore the demarcation between supply chain effectiveness and supply chain efficiency.

Design/methodology/approach

A case‐study research method is adopted in this paper. This contribution discusses an approach for the improvement of supply chain effectiveness, i.e. Supply Chain Kano‐QFD.

Findings

A case‐study of the fast moving consumer goods sector is provided which shows how the proposed “Supply Chain Kano‐QFD” technique can be deployed to engage the capabilities and enthusiasm of the firms along the chain to enhance the value of the final consumable.

Practical implications

“Supply Chain Kano‐QFD” is an integrative method which helps drive effectiveness by focusing on how the various supply chain members might jointly develop innovative solutions to create unique, individualized sources of consumer value.

Originality/value

A review of the existing supply chain literature shows that there is generally a strong focus on efficiency improvements while little attention is given to enhancing the effectiveness of the supply chain offer. The supply chain management literature, however, should evolve to address relevant methods for achieving consumer focus in the context of the supply chain, i.e. supply chain effectiveness.
Ethical and organisational tensions for work‐based learners
Authors: Moore Lesley J.
Published: April 2007

Purpose

This paper aims to focus on examples of the perceived tensions of the healthcare work‐based learners as they experienced paradigm shifts in both practice and education.

Design/methodology/approach

Examples are drawn from a qualitative study to examine work‐based learning (WBL) workshops in a Dutch healthcare setting, and a developmental project led by an academic to implement a WBL accredited programme across Acute and Primary Care Trusts in a region of England. The paper also supports the argument of Flood and Romm that within complex organisations there is a need to develop “triple loop” learning as opposed to “double loop” learning. A discussion of the tensions which relate to experience and research is presented.

Findings

The paper finds that WBL is not easy, especially in times of rapid change and resistance to new ways of working by some colleagues. Managers, academics, mentors and healthcare learners need opportunities to discuss and interpret experience in order to construct meaning and new knowledge of practice. Key to enabling the development of the work‐based inquirer to cope with change and ethical dilemmas is the commitment of facilitators to inspire learning, support the exploitation of workplace resources and encourage networking within and external to the organisation.

Practical implications

A benefit of the WBL approach is that it engages the learner in problem solving and enhances the skills of inquiry, networking and creativity. It is important for the learner to gain awareness of the ethical knowledge underpinning practice. Tensions can arise as paradigms shift and when boundaries are misinterpeted, and personal and organisational values and beliefs conflict.

Originality/value

While the focus is healthcare the discussion could be relevant and of interest to a wider international audience of WBL practitioners as it considers a topic that is undervalued in workplace learning journals but is a reality of shifting paradigms.
Professional practice projects: APEL or development?
Authors: Lester Stan
Published: April 2007

Purpose

This paper sets out to examine whether the process of accrediting prior experiential learning (APEL) as used in UK universities is the most appropriate approach for providing academic recognition for work‐based projects and learning.

Design/methodology/approach

Work‐based projects that had already been assessed in the context of a professional qualification were re‐examined to identify how they might be used towards a master's degree and what if any additional work the candidates would need to complete.

Findings

The study finds that in most cases it appeared that the candidates would be able in principle to gain a full master's degree based on their existing work and associated reflection and writing‐up, without the need to carry out additional investigation or projects.

Research limitations/implications

The findings are based on a small sample of individuals from a specific field (the conservation of cultural heritage), and while the findings are clear and appear to have wider applicability they can only be regarded as pointers for practical trialling and further investigation.

Practical implications

The findings suggest that the current approach to APEL used in UK universities needs to be expanded so that awards can be made substantially on the basis of already‐completed workplace projects. A trial of this approach is proposed using candidates from the cultural heritage sector.

Originality/value

The paper proposes a basis for changes to credit practice that will provide better scope for individuals to use and build on workplace activities in gaining academic awards.
The measurement of compliance with ISA700
Authors: Fakhfakh Mondher , Consuelo Pucheta‐Martínez María
Published: April 2007

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the form and content of auditors' reports published by international accounting firms in Tunisia.

Design/methodology/approach

Compliance measurement of auditor's report published by Tunisian auditors who represent international auditing firms with International Standard on Auditing 700 (ISA700).

Findings

Audit reports examined are not fully compliant with all elements of the report issued by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).

Originality/value

The paper provides empirical evidence for limitation of standardisation efforts on auditors' reports and discusses the implications for accounting firms and their clients.
Is communicating intellectual capital information via the internet viable?
Authors: Lee Alina , Neilson John , Tower Greg , Mitchell Van der Zahn J‐L.W.
Published: April 2007

Purpose

The first objective of this study is to examine the nature and extent of intellectual capital (IC) information Australian hospitals disclose to their stakeholders (patients, general public, healthcare professionals) via the internet. The second objective is to examine whether four hospital characteristics influence the disclosure of IC‐related information.

Design/methodology/approach

Analysis reported in this study is based on IC disclosures by 128 hospitals on their internet web sites. IC disclosure is measured using an 85‐item research constructed index that covers six major sub‐categories. Measurement of IC disclosure was conducted during a four month period in the last third of 2005.

Findings

It is found that whilst the incidence rate of hospitals disclosing IC information is high, the extent of IC disclosure is relatively low. The quantity of IC disclosure varied significantly between different IC sub‐categories. In addition, the paper investigates possible determinants of variations in IC disclosure by Australian hospitals. Specifically, it is found that the quantity of IC information disclosed on a hospital web site varied according to the state location, designation as a private or public hospital, whether the hospital is specialized or general in its operations, and if the hospital is based in a city or regional location. A hospital's designation as being network or non‐networked is not a significant determinant.

Originality/value

Few studies have examined the disclosure of IC information by healthcare providers such as hospitals. No studies, to the knowledge of the authors, have examined the specific disclosure of IC information by hospitals on their internet web sites.
A model for internal benchmarking: when and how?
Authors: Southard Peter B. , Parente Diane H.
Published: April 2007

Purpose

To determine the criteria for internal benchmarking candidate processes. Using those criteria, to develop a decision flowchart to employ internal or external benchmarking. To then propose a framework for implementing internal benchmarking in an organization. Finally, to use a case study to apply both the Decision Flowchart and the proposed implementation framework.

Design/methodology/approach

The method is theoretical framework design supported by a case study.

Findings

The development of a practical flowchart and framework is achieved. This is successfully used in improving a business process thorough an actual case study.

Research limitations/implications

The information is limited to situations where quality programs including benchmarking are used or anticipated. Information is drawn from a single successful case study and existing literature.

Practical implications

Provides a practical prescriptive approach for identifying and applying the quality tool of benchmarking to internal processes.

Originality/value

This provides a new method of evaluating processes for improvement based on the availability of internal knowledge. No such flowchart has been proposed to date. It should be of use to both practitioners and academics by offering a step‐by‐step approach to improving their business processes and profitability.
Resource allocation within academic units
Authors: Sunil Dharmapala P. , Saber Hussein M.
Published: April 2007

Purpose

To develop a methodology for faculty salary adjustment through market adjustment based on market demand for business PhDs and merit adjustment based on faculty members' performance levels in the areas of teaching, research and service.

Design/methodology/approach

The methodology is composed of two models: one for market adjustment and the other for merit adjustment. The market adjustment is handled through goal programming and the merit adjustment through data envelopment analysis (DEA).

Findings

The approach when applied to a sample of faculty salaries shows that the adjusted salary of each faculty member is higher than his/her current actual salary, and each faculty member in the particular discipline deserves a salary increase that reflects market demand and merit factors.

Research limitations/implications

The DEA model used in this research does not impose restrictions on the weights. Realistically, one may impose bounds on the weights and exclude unreasonable solutions from DEA analysis and also set multiple goals instead of the single goal used in the goal programming model.

Practical implications

Based on a goal programming model that addresses the market demand and a DEA model that addresses the merit‐based performances, this methodology may be implemented as a solution procedure for restructuring faculty salaries.

Originality/value

The novelty in this approach is that DEA is being used as a benchmarking technique for merit adjustment of faculty salaries. In that sense, this research work may be the first, where benchmarking has been used in “faculty salary equity adjustment.”
Best manufacturing practices and their linkage to top‐performing companies in the US furniture industry
Authors: Quesada‐Pineda Henry , Gazo Rado
Published: April 2007

Purpose

This study aims to examine the relationship between top‐performing US furniture manufacturers and industry's best manufacturing practices.

Design/methodology/approach

In the past studies, best manufacturing practices were mostly determined using qualitative methods. In this paper, a quantitative evaluating method to determine best manufacturing practices was designed by taking into consideration qualitative criterions. A sample of 122 manufacturing practices was observed in six US furniture companies, two of them considered world‐class performers and the other four considered average. A logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between best manufacturing practices and top‐performing companies.

Findings

Statistical analyses showed a positive relationship between top‐performing companies and use of best manufacturing practices by these companies. A database of best manufacturing practices was created and shared with the participant companies.

Research limitations/implications

One limitation of this study is that the causal relationship between performance and best practices was not considered. Future studies could employ statistical methods such as structural equation model to better understand this causality. Other methods could possibly be developed to audit and classify manufacturing practices.

Originality/value

It is believed that the database of best manufacturing practices will help average or below‐average performing companies to identify and adopt best manufacturing practices. It will also help top‐performing companies in the cycle of continuous improvement.
Education and research related to organic waste management at agricultural engineering schools
Authors: Soliva Montserrat , Bernat Carles , Gil Emilio , Martínez Xavier , Pujol Miquel , Sabaté Josep , Valero Jordi
Published: April 2007

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to describe the experience of the Agriculture Engineering School of Barcelona (ESAB), where undergraduate students were involved in field research experiments on organic waste use in agricultural systems.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper outlines how the formation of professionals oriented to work for OWM companies has been successfully promoted.

Findings

Agricultural systems can assimilate self‐produced organic wastes (OW) and others from different sources. Their management for crop production can generate enormous economic and environmental benefits which can contribute to sustainable development. The implementation of an integrated strategy for OW treatment (OWT) and management (OWM) must be adapted to the characteristics of the specific geographical region and must consider the interrelations among diverse subjects such as: soil science, fertilizer management, plant production, animal husbandry, farm machinery, climate and culture.

Practical implications

The education of future specialists in OWM requires a multidisciplinary education which can be effectively achieved if those topics are incorporated into the educational programs of agriculture engineering schools.

Originality/value

The paper shows how agricultural systems can assimilate self‐produced organic wastes from different sources.
The Center for Coastal Studies: sustainable development education in México
Authors: Ollervides F. , Farrell T.
Published: April 2007

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present The School for Field Studies‐Center for Coastal Studies (SFS‐CCS) as a success story in sustainable development education. This success is based on a unique academic model, which incorporates sustainable development opportunities and challenges faced by the local community into the program curriculum, and research and technical contributions the Center has made towards sustainable development.

Design/methodology/approach

The academic model includes a five year research plan, research projects, case studies and coursework, as well as community service and outreach activities – all of which are geared towards promoting ecosystem health and wise resource utilization of Magdalena Bay, in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Findings

Throughout the program, students work with clients/stakeholders in a professional setting, acting as collaborators, consultants, and participants in field research and problem solving. The community benefits through increased capacity for research and management of natural resources.

Practical implications

An analysis of the key tenants contributing towards the success of SFS‐CCS in sustainable development, and recommendations for other institutions for adopting similar approaches, are provided.

Originality/value

A description of the SFS‐CCS academic model and program curriculum is presented, followed by some highlights of successful sustainable development projects – including green sea turtle education and population monitoring, water quality improvement, and aquaculture development.
The role of interpersonal trust for entrepreneurial exchange in a transition economy
Authors: Manolova Tatiana S. , Gyoshev Bojidar S. , Manev Ivan M.
Published: April 2007

Purpose

While trust is widely recognized as central to the establishment of an effective market economy, research on transition economies has not examined sufficiently its role in promulgating economic development. This study seeks to ascertain the links between supplier trust, asset specificity, and uncertainty reduction in the context of a transition economy, and to validate a measure of trust developed in a Western developed market economy in the conditions of a transition economy.

Design/methodology/approach

A confirmatory factor analysis of trust, asset specificity and uncertainty reduction was performed with a sample of Bulgarian small business owners.

Findings

Commensurate with expectations, supplier trust is significantly and positively associated with both asset specificity and uncertainty reduction. The six‐item measure of supplier trust is a valid measure for new and small ventures in the context of a transition economy.

Originality/value

This paper demonstrates that private entrepreneurs in transition economies compensate for the lack of institutional support through embeddedness in their relational exchange network.
An ex‐post comparative analysis of SME formation in Brazil and Mexico
Authors: Miguel Carrillo Rivera Jorge
Published: April 2007

Purpose

This study seeks to compare and contrast the contexts and processes of the formation and development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Brazil and Mexico. Additionally, a research agenda is defined based on information generated by various sources regarding the initial stages of enterprise formation.

Design/methodology/approach

This research paper uses data collected from a 2002 study conducted by the Inter‐American Development Bank, along with institutional reports and academic literature, in order to perform a comparative analysis on the gestation and early development of SMEs in Brazil and Mexico.

Findings

This analysis of prior research studies indicates that emerging economies like Brazil and Mexico face enormous social and economic challenges that have in turn slowed down the efficiency and effectiveness of SME support programs. In addition, the differences found in the institutional, socio‐cultural, and economic context of Brazil and Mexico reveal that governments and entrepreneurs face the challenge of sustaining the existence of SMEs.

Research limitations/implications

Since, there was no access to raw data and no statistical procedures could be conducted, the significance of the differences between SMEs in Brazil and Mexico discussed in this paper is perceptual. Future research resulting from this paper shall develop theories that would help to create effective SME support programs, identify how particularities in every country affect SME formation, development, and survival, and explore issues faced in the growth, maturity, and mortality stages of SMEs.

Originality/value

SMEs are extremely important to the economies of both Brazil and Mexico. However, an understanding of the micro and macro issues faced by these countries is very limited. This research paper identifies and analyzes such issues in order to specifically make way for future empirical research.
Revisiting motivation preference within the Chinese context: an empirical study
Authors: Song Lianke , Wang Yonggui , Wei Jiangru
Published: April 2007

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop a motivation preferences scale and identify different groups' motivation preferences.

Design/methodology/approach

Song Lianke designed a motivation preferences scale in 2002. Authors developed this scale by factor analysis in 2006. Participants were a sample of employees from ten organizations in Jiangsu Province, Eastern China. This paper compared motivation preferences among different groups via multivariate analysis of variance.

Findings

Motivation preferences can be characterized by existence needs, relatedness needs and growth needs. Results indicated that motivation preferences were strongly related to needs with which individuals desire to be satisfied. There were significant differences in motivation preferences among groups that were categorized by gender or personality. Additionally, we found that Chinese culture influenced motivation preferences.

Research limitations/implications

Authors collected all data from Jiangsu Province, but future investigation ought to collect data from more places. This paper did not analyze why and how motivation preferences related to needs. Relationship between motivation preference and performance was not discussed. This research did not distinguish motivation preferences between managers and non‐managers. Future research should do those works.

Originality/value

This research provided an instrument for scholars and managers who want to measure motivation preferences. Results suggested that there were differences among different groups on motivation preferences.
Ever the twain shall meet
Authors: Baskin Ken
Published: April 2007

Purpose

To explore how selected principles of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory can be synthesized into a model for human and organizational behavior that is more accurate and appropriate to global markets than either traditional eastern or western models.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper presents a model of human and organizational behavior based on similarities between elements of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory.

Findings

Several of the respective principles of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory – the Chinese transformational cycle and complexity's cycle of attractors, for instance – are strikingly similar, suggesting that their commonalities are universals of human experience resting underneath their surface differences. By playing those similar principles off against each other, one can develop a model of human and organizational behavior that transcends both east and west, a model highly valuable to business people operating in global markets.

Practical implications

This model provides a new way for both eastern and western business people to think about their organizations and markets that seems highly accurate to current conditions.

Originality/value

This is the first paper to explore a possible synthesis of strikingly similar principles from Chinese philosophy and complexity theory and how such a synthesis could be applied as a model of human and organizational behavior.
System abuse: towards a greater understanding from the perspectives of children and parents
Authors: McGee Caroline , Westcott Helen L
Published: April 2007

The present article explores the concept of system abuse from the perspectives of children and parents. Four main ways in which the term has been used are highlighted and, with reference to the literature, the commonalities underlying the various uses of the term are explored. Reviewing the available evidence suggests that many families may become unnecessarily involved in the child protection system; this finding is discussed within the parameters of the current Section 17/Section 47 debate. Features of the investigation identified as particularly salient for children and parents include the initial phase of the investigation; investigative interviews and medical examinations; case conferences; social‐worker/family interaction and the lack of follow‐through services. Gaps in service provision when workers do not consider that abuse has occurred are also considered. Finally, pointers for practice during investigations are discussed in the light of this review
Challenging the abuse decision: a comparison of American and British perspectives on complaints and appeals
Authors: Bell Lorna , Tooman Patrick , Young Ian
Published: April 2007

The conclusion by child protection services that a child has been abused and the decision to make a formal record of that conclusion involves a process called‘registration’ in both the United Kingdom and the United States. This is an administrative process rather than a judicial one and is instituted by public officials not lawyers, but it can have as significant an effect on the families involved as the findings of a court Yet, despite this significance, families have found it very difficult to challenge the decision to register a case of abuse, particularly in the UK. This papers offers a critique of registration processes in the UK and in the USA and suggests ways in which these processes might be improved to protect individual rights.
The protection of children in time: child protection and the lives and deaths of children in child abuse cases in socio‐historical perspective
Authors: Ferguson Harry
Published: April 2007

For some 20 years now in the UK, assessments of the effectiveness of child protection have been carried out under the shadow of child abuse inquiries. Yet, relatively little is known about social work and matters of child life and death that preceded the first major inquiry into the death of Maria Colwell in 1973. This paper offers a socio‐historical perspective on child protection and the lives and deaths of children in child abuse cases, and excavates the foundations upon which the major developments of the past two decades have proceeded. The emergence and development of a‘modern’ ideology of child protection, which held that it is possible and desirable for social intervention to work to protect children in time, is traced to processes that unfolded from the late nineteenth century. Statistical evidence on the numbers of children who have died in cases across the twentieth century is examined and analysed in the context of social theories of modernity and perspectives on the changing ways in which child death has (literally) been handled by professionals and knowlege about the problem managed over time.
Services to prevent child placing‐out for cocaine‐affected and non‐affected families
Authors: Berry Marianne
Published: April 2007

This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the‘In‐Home Family Care’ programme of Children's Home Society of California in Alameda County, particularly regarding the emphasis and impact of services for cocaine‐affected families. The family characteristics, problems addressed and service provision in cases served over a 3‐year period were assessed in terms of their relation to placement outcome for cocaine‐affected and non‐affected families. This evaluation found that, despite serious and often chronic problems among cocaine‐affected families, their child removal rate was no higher than that for non‐affected families. Implications for risk assessment and placement decisions are discussed.
Social work research: the state of the art (or science)
Authors: Trinder Liz
Published: April 2007

This paper provides a critical review of current trends within social work research methodology. The paper identifies three influential contemporary perspectives in social work research: empirical practice, pragmatism and participatory/critical research. It identifies the different approaches taken by each perspective to what should be researched, how it should be researched, and how truth claims should be evaluated. By exploring the linkages between methodology, social work and wider social and political changes, the paper argues that research is an intensely political rather than a neutral activity.
Teleconferencing in the management of head and neck cancer
Authors: Savage S.A. , Nixon I. , MacKenzie K.
Published: April 2007

Keypoints

• Teleconferencing can be used as part of the integrated management of head and neck cancer.

• An audit of the participants’ views would suggest that the meeting is used in the management of complex head and neck issues.
Pilot study of the knowledge and attitude towards evidence based medicine of otolaryngology higher surgical trainees
Authors: Amin M. , Saunders J.A. , Fenton J.E.
Published: April 2007

Keypoints

• The objective of this survey is to provide an insight into the knowledge and attitude of the higher surgical trainees in Otolaryngology towards evidence based medicine and evaluate their understanding of medical statistics and use of evidence based medicine in patient management.

• A self administered anonymous questionnaire was distributed to twenty Specialist Registrars in Otolaryngology in Ireland during an annual National Otolaryngology Meeting. Of these, nineteen attempted the questionnaire and eighteen completed it.

• Three previously published questionnaires [Meserve et al. (2005) Med. Educ. Online.10, 1; McColl et al. (1998) BMJ.316, 361; Khan et al. (1999) J. Obst. Gynaecol.19, 231] were used in this survey.

• In general, there was a moderately welcoming attitude towards evidence based medicine. However, the survey findings indicate the need for incorporation of formal teaching of critical appraisal skills into medical education with a greater emphasis on involvement and dissemination of evidence based medicine in day to day practice.
Comparing two models of voice care delivery
Authors: Gamberini L.J. , Carding P.N. , Drinnan M.D.
Published: April 2007

Key points

• Voice care is an important aspect in the successful treatment of patients with non‐organic dysphonia.

• No previous study has examined the specific effect of voice care programmes or the comparative effectiveness of the delivery of these programmes across two healthcare professionals (speech and language therapists and ENT nurses).

• We describe a pilot study that provides preliminary data that suggests a short, easily deliverable voice care programme is (i) effective in reducing patients’ perception of their dysphonia and (ii) equally effectively administered by an ENT nurse compared with a speech and language therapist. The study provides a firm base for continued research.
‘Cap carbonates’ and Neoproterozoic glacigenic successions from the Kimberley region, north‐west Australia
Authors: CORKERON MAREE
Published: April 2007

The term ‘cap carbonate’ is commonly used to describe carbonate units associated with glacigenic deposits in Neoproterozoic successions. Attempts to use carbonate units as stratigraphic markers have been counfounded by inconsistent identification of ‘cap carbonates’ and a somewhat broad use of the term. Systematic sedimentological and geochemical analysis of carbonate rocks (mostly dolomite) associated with glacigenic deposits from the Neoproterozoic succession of the Kimberley region, north‐western Australia, shows that it is possible to characterize such units by their specific mineralogical, sedimentological, petrographic, geochemical and stratigraphic features. Hence, it is possible to differentiate true ‘cap carbonates’ from other carbonate units that are associated with glacigenic deposits. In the Kimberley successions two broad carbonate types are identified that reflect two stratigraphically distinct depositional realms. Carbonate rocks from the Egan Formation and Boonall Dolomite (the youngest carbonate units in the succession) are characterized by sedimentary components and features that are consistent with deposition on shallow platforms or shelves, analogous to Phanerozoic warm‐water carbonate platform deposits. In contrast, dolomite from the Walsh, Landrigan and Moonlight Valley Tillites preserves a suite of sedimentary and geochemical characteristics that are distinctly different from Phanerozoic‐like carbonate rocks; they are thin (ca 6 m), laterally persistent units of thinly laminated dolomicrite/dolomicrospar recording δ13C fluctuations from −1‰ to −5‰. These latter features are consistent with a ‘Marinoan‐style cap‐carbonate’ rock described from other Neoproterozoic successions. The similarity and broad distribution of these rocks in Australia, when considered within the context of genetic models suggesting a global oceanographic–atmospheric event, support their use as a lithostratigraphic marker horizon for the start of the Ediacaran Period at ca 635 Ma.
The extent of variation in male song, wing and genital characters among allopatric Drosophila montana populations
Authors: ROUTTU J. , MAZZI D. , VAN DER LINDE K. , MIROL P. , BUTLIN R. K. , HOIKKALA A.
Published: April 2007

Drosophila montana, a species of the Drosophila virilis group, has distributed around the northern hemisphere. Phylogeographic analyses of two North American and one Eurasian population of this species offer a good background for the studies on the extent of variation in phenotypic traits between populations as well as for tracing the selection pressures likely to play a role in character divergence. In the present paper, we studied variation in the male courtship song, wing and genital characters among flies from Colorado (USA), Vancouver (Canada) and Oulanka (Finland) populations. The phenotypic divergence among populations did not coincide with the extent of their genetic divergence, suggesting that the characters are not evolving neutrally. Divergence in phenotypic traits was especially high between the Colorado and Vancouver populations, which are closer to each other in terms of their mtDNA genotypes than they are to the Oulanka population. The males of the Colorado population showed high divergence especially in song traits and the males of the Vancouver population in wing characters. Among the male song traits, two characters known to be under sexual selection and a trait important in species recognition differed clearly between populations, implying a history of directional and/or diversifying rather than balancing selection. The population divergence in wing characters is likely to have been enhanced by natural selection associated with environmental factors, whereas the male genitalia traits may have been influenced by sexual selection and/or sexual conflict.
THE GENUS SISECA IN AUSTRALIA (ACARINA: TROMBICULIDAE)
Authors: Domrow R.
Published: April 2007

Five of the six known species of the Austro‐Malayan trombiculid genus Siseca are parasitic on scincid lizards, while the sixth is confined to pill‐millipedes. The one imperfectly known north Queensland species (S. southcotti Womersley and Audy) is redescribed from Leiolopisma challengeri, while S. vandiemeni sp. n. is described from L. metallicum and L. entrecasteauxi from Tasmania.
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS OF THE LARVAE AND ADULTS OF ALLODAPULA IN THE AUSTRALIAN REGION (HYMENOPTERA: CERATININI)†
Authors: MICHENER C. D. , Syed I.H.
Published: April 2007

Descriptions are given of certain of the larval stages of Allodapula unicolor (Smith), A. simillima (Smith), A. perkinsiella Michener & Syed, A. plebeia (Cockerell) and A. nitida (Smith) and of the adults of A. mindanaonis boharti Krombein, A. simillima (Smith) comb. n., A. perkinsiella sp. n., A. unicolor (Smith) comb, n., A. minor sp. n., A. clarissima (Cockerell) comb, n., A. nitida (Smith), comb. n., A. diminuta (Cockerell) comb. n., A. plebeia (Cockerell) comb. n., A. occidentalis sp. n., A. associata Michener, A. praesumptiosa Michener and A. birói (Friese) comb. n. A key to the adults is given.
IXODES (STERNALIXODES) MYRMECOBII SP.N. FROM THE NUMBAT, MYRMECOBIUS FASCIATUS FASCIATUS WATERHOUSE, IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA (IXODIDAE: ACARINA)
Authors: Roberts F. H. S.
Published: April 2007

The new species Ixodes (Sternalixodes) myrmecobii has been described and compared with related species of Sternalixodes.
DARWINOCORIS, A NEW GENUS OF PACHYGRONTHINAE FROM AUSTRALIA, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE TYPE SPECIES D. AUSTRALICUS SP. N. (HEMIPTERA: LYGAEIDAE)
Authors: Slater J. A.
Published: April 2007

The new genus Darwinocoris and the new species Darwinocoris australicus are described and compared with related Pachygronthinae.
A NEW GENUS OF LETHAEINI COMMON TO AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH AFRICA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES (HETEROPTERA: LYGAEIDAE)
Authors: Woodward T. E. , Slater J. A.
Published: April 2007

The new genus Noteolethaeus, the type species N. armstrongi from Australia and the new species N. leeui from South Africa are described.
A NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDIOTA (COLEOPTERA: MELOLONTHINAE) AFFECTING SUGAR CANE IN QUEENSLAND
Authors: Britton E. B.
Published: April 2007

Lepidiota mungomeryi sp. n. is described and compared with L. frenchi Blackburn.
THE IDENTITY OF THE COTTON LOOPER KNOWN AS ANTARCHAEA CHIONOSTICTA ATHERTON (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)
Authors: Common I. F. B.
Published: April 2007

The currently used name of the cotton looper, Antarchaea chionosticta Atherton, is shown to be a synonym of Molopa planalis Swinhoe, and the species is referred to Anomis Hübn. The species is redescribed and its synonymy given; the genitalia of both sexes are figured.
THE GENUS RADFORDIA IN AUSTRALIA (ACARINA: MYOBIIDAE)
Authors: Domrow R.
Published: April 2007

The genus Radfordia is recorded from native Australian rodents for the first time, two new species being described—R. fanningi sp. n. from Melomys lutillus, north Queensland, and R. hornerae sp. n. from R. assimilis born in captivity in the United States from parents collected in New South Wales. A key to the four species known from Australia is given.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF RALLICOLA FROM TASMANIA (MALLOPHAGA: PHILOPTERIDAE)
Authors: EMERSON K. C.
Published: April 2007

The new species Rallicola campbelli and R. mortieri from Tribonyx mortierii Du Bus (Rallidae) are described and illustrated.
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF CADDIS FLIES (TRICHOPTERA) FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA
Authors: KORBOOT K.
Published: April 2007

Adults and larvae of Oecetis situlus sp. n. (Leptoceridae), Helicopsyche cochleaetesta sp. n. (Sericostomatidae), Hydrobiosella letti sp. n. (Philopotamidae), and Macronemum torrenticola sp. n. (Hydropsychidae, Macroneminae) are described and figured.
ANATOMY AND RELATIONSHIPS OF THAUMASTOCORIDAE (HEMIPTERA: CIMICOIDEA)
Authors: KUMAR R.
Published: April 2007

The anatomy of Thaumastocoris australicus Kirkaldy is described and supports the relationship of the Thaumastocoridae to the Cimicoid families Cimicidae, Anthocoridae and Nabidae in the order named. The study further confirms Thaumastocoridae as a specialized taxon.
THE GENUS ANISOPS IN AUSTRALIA (HEMIPTERA: NOTONECTIDAE) PART I
Authors: LANSBURY I.
Published: April 2007

Seven of the twenty‐three recorded Australian species of Anisops are redescribed and information given on distribution outside Australia. Species dealt with are A. hackeri Brooks, A. paracrinita Brooks, A. elstoni Brooks, A. tahitiensis Lundblad, A. hyperion Kirkaldy, A. deanei Brooks, and A. calcaratus Hale. The new species A. paraexigera is described and the closely related A. exigera Horvath from New Guinea, redescribed.
AN APPARENTLY DIMORPHIC AUSTRALIAN CYDISTOMYIA (DIPTERA: TABANIDAE)
Authors: MACKERRAS I. M.
Published: April 2007

The type series of Cydistomyia bancroftae sp. n., from the Killarney district, south Queensland, appears to be dimorphic, with dark and paler females in the proportion 3:1. Further study is required to elucidate the phenomenon.
THE MALES OF IXODES PTERODROMAE ARTHUR AND IXODES AUSTRALIENSIS NEUMANN (ACARINA: IXODIDAE)
Authors: ROBERTS F. H. S.
Published: April 2007

Descriptions are given of the hitherto unknown males of the ticks Ixodes pterodromae Arthur and I. australiensis Neumann.
LIFE‐HISTORY AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE CROFTON WEED GALL FLY PROCECIDOCHARES UTILIS STONE (DIPTERA: TRYPETIDAE)
Authors: Haseler W. H.
Published: April 2007

The life‐history stages of Procecidocharesutilis Stone are described and figured. The female internal reproductive organs and the male and female external genitalia are figured. Resting and premating behaviour are discussed.
THE TROGIIDAE (PSOCOPTERA) OF AUSTRALIA
Authors: Smithers C. N.
Published: April 2007

A synopsis of records of the family Trogiidae (Psocoptera) for Australia is given together with new records and a key to the genera known from Australia.
A STRUCTURE ON THE TARSI OF IXODID TICKS
Authors: Utech K. B. W.
Published: April 2007

Observations are reported on a structure on the dorsal surface of tarsi II, III and IV in five species of ixodid ticks. The possibility that the structure is a sense organ is discussed.
THE NOMENCLATURAL STATUS OF VANESSA KERSHAWI (McCOY) (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE)
Authors: Van Son G.
Published: April 2007

Vanessa kershawi (McCoy) is shown as a valid species distinct from Vanessa cardui (Linn.).
THE ARTHROPODA OF AUSTRALIAN CAVES
Authors: Hamilton‐Smith E.
Published: April 2007

The Arthropoda of Australian Caves are reviewed and assigned to four ecological categories: trogloxenes, first and second level troglophiles, and troglobites. It is shown that Australia has few troglobitic species and this supports an earlier suggestion that extensive secondary extinction of cavernicoles occurred during the Pleistocene and Recent epochs as a result of climatic change. It is further suggested that flooding of Australian caves during the Pleistocene followed by dehydration through general changes in water table levels or through geomorphological change also played a part in this secondary extinction. However, the general climatic changes were probably also responsible for the development of the large number of second‐level troglophiles through extinction of their surface‐dwelling progenitors.
LABORATORY OBSERVATIONS ON THE MATING BEHAVIOUR OF THE ISLAND FRUIT FLY RIOXA PORNIA (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE)
Authors: Pritchard G.
Published: April 2007

Evidence is presented which suggests that males of Rioxa pornia (Walker) secrete a volatile sex attractant from glandular cells situated in the pleural regions of abdominal segments 3, 4, and 5. Then material, which appears to be secreted and stored by the salivary glands of the male, is mixed with air to produce a mound of foam on which the female feeds during copulation. Courtship is discussed in relation to the need to get the sexes together and to overcome female aggressiveness.
A NEW ANT OF THE DACETINE GENUS ORECTOGNATHUS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)
Authors: Lowery B. B.
Published: April 2007

Orectognathus rostratus sp. n. is described from Eastern Australian rain forest. It is placed confidently in the genus Orectognathus Smith, despite superficial resemblances to the related genera, Arnoldidris and Epopostruma.
NEW RECORDS OF LYCAENIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA) IN AUSTRALIA AND A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES
Authors: Kerr J. F. R.
Published: April 2007

Holochila consimilis toza ssp. n. is described from the Iron Range‐Claudie River district of North Queensland. Philiris ziska (Grose‐Smith) and Philiris diana papuanus Wind and Clench are recorded in Australia for the first time, and the hitherto unknown female of P. diana papuanus is described.
A NEMATODE (DELADENUS SP.: NEOTYLENCHIDAE) ASSOCIATED WITH RHYSSA SPP. (HYMENOPTERA: ICHNEUMONIDAE), PARASITES OF SIRICID WOODWASPS
Authors: Hocking Helen
Published: April 2007

In 1965 nematodes were recorded from three species of Rhyssa in shipments received from India and Europe. The nematodes from European Rhyssa spp. are now known to be Deladenus sp. The growth and reproduction of the nematodes reduces the fecundity and longevity of their hosts. Many of the larval nematodes invade the reproductive system in female hosts, and transfer of the nematodes probably occurs during probing by infested females. The pathological effects of this nematode on both sexes of the host are described. Since the siricid woodwasps, the host of Rhyssa, are also subject to infestation by nematodes, a comparison is made between characteristic symptoms in both insects.