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Opportunities and Challenges for CSR Mainstreaming in Business Schools
Authors: Jamali Dima , Abdallah Hanin , Matar Farah
Published: July 2017

Extant literature has highlighted that business schools have been accused of promoting an educational ethos that emphasizes shareholder value and the pursuit of short-term profits and thereby preparing overly competitive future generations interested in profit maximization. This paper highlights the importance of integrating CSR into the mainstream of business schools' curricula, arguing for the responsible role that business schools should play but also emphasizing the strategic case for such integration. The paper analyzes the main challenges and opportunities that both hinder and facilitate mainstreaming of CSR at the heart of the business school curriculum and the role that the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) can potentially play in this regard. The paper illustrates these drivers and constraints in the context of one specific business school in Lebanon that has successfully experimented with CSR mainstreaming, leading to a nuanced reflection on the possibilities of a real paradigmatic change in the context of higher management education at this critical juncture and what it is going to take to catalyze a real transformation beyond “bells and whistles” and mere rhetoric.
Leadership Education within Transitional Justice Instruments
Authors: Campbell Andrew H.
Published: July 2017

Transitional justice is an evolving field of study and is still in its infancy stage of theoretical development (Bell, 2009; Skarr & Wiebelhaus-Brahm, 2013). This chapter introduces leadership not only as a critical and overlooked dimension of executing transitional justice instruments but also as a strategic enabler within the transitional justice and peacebuilding discipline. In fact, literature analysis noted there lacks a theoretical understanding and application of leadership concepts, principles, and studies within the transitional justice formula (Teital, 2008). Ferch (2012) and Tutu (2000) suggest political leaders influence the rise of conflict and maintenance of peace between nations and sub-groups. The discussion addresses the theoretical leadership constructs and conceptual relationships that impact organizational leaders executing transitional justice formulas and peacebuilding activities. Furthermore, presenting a leadership framework that identifies individual and organizational competencies as well as an educational framework provides a baseline for organizational development as agencies seek to improve delivery of services in civic engagement and peacebuilding activities.
Social Media Driven Management Education
Authors: Hall Jr. Owen P.
Published: July 2017

Business schools are under growing pressure to engage in significant programmatic reforms in light of the business community's call for web-savvy, problem-solving graduates. Even AACSB has gotten into the reformation act by recommending the adoption of a comprehensive collaboration learning strategy. To meet these and related challenges, many schools of business are turning to social media to provide learning opportunities at a time and place that is convenient to the student. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the growing possibilities for using social media to enhance learning outcomes and to outline strategies for implementing this revolutionary process throughout the management education community of practice.
Can Codes of Ethical Conduct Work?
Authors: Virkar Shefali
Published: July 2017

Most recently, the world has witnessed a spectacular increase in the size and number of Transnational Corporations (TNCs); an explosion that has resulted in the overseas practices of such companies coming under intense scrutiny, and in the realisation that governments often lack the resources necessary to ensure TNC compliance to international standards in key areas such as labour rights, environmental pollution, and social justice. Against the backdrop of significant failure in national- and international-level attempts to administer Transnational Corporations, this research chapter will examine the effectiveness of codes of ethical corporate conduct devised to enhance the regulation of corporate behaviour. The research presented herein focuses on the conceptualisation of such regulatory mechanisms, and their relationship to the larger corpus of corporate social, commercial, and ethical strategic interactions; evaluating their effectiveness as instruments of privatised governance through the particular examination of corporate stakeholder behaviour and recent examples of global best practice.
Challenges and Prospects of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Teaching Technical Education Towards Globalisation
Authors: Olabiyi Oladiran Stephen
Published: July 2017

The relevance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the field of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) cannot be overemphasised in the knowledge-based and globalised society. The world of works is in as continuous a state of change as ICT itself, thus posing more challenges to the workers in the 21st century and the institutions responsible for their preparation. Therefore, this chapter discusses the challenges and prospects of ICT in teaching TVE towards globalisation. The chapter points out clearly the meaning, philosophy, and objectives of TVET, concept and types of ICT, the need for effective utilisation of ICTs and its role in TVET, the challenges and solutions to the effective utilisation of ICTs in TVET, and the prospect of using ICT in teaching TVET. The chapter concludes by suggesting solutions for proper planning, management, and effective utilisation of ICTs resources in TVET.
Organizational Justice
Authors: Tran Ben
Published: July 2017

Wide range of human behaviors in the context of organizations can be explained by how the workplace perceives distributive, procedural, interactional, and relational fairness. That is why numerous researchers investigated the role of justice perceptions on job satisfaction, withdrawal behaviors, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, and productivity. However, there is a gap in the research arena regarding the role guanxi plays in organizational justice, especially in organizational injustice. Guanxi in organizational injustice, is a concept derived from the concept of network and the concept of nepotism. Network and nepotism (are more taboo and) are common topics of research in the arena organizational studies, whereas in the arena of education and higher education institutions, are still lacking. Guanxi is a form of social capital that aims to amass symbolic capital, and the more powerful one's symbolic capital, the more influential one's standing becomes.
Quality Control and Standards of Organisational Justice in Nigerian Higher Education
Authors: Muraina Monsuru Babatunde
Published: July 2017

Organisational justice improves overall organisational effectiveness, prudency, efficacy and efficiency. Previous studies examined the relationship between organisational justice and job satisfaction in manufacturing companies. This study therefore x-rayed the quality control and standards of organisational justice in Nigerian higher education: the roles and interplay of various agencies. To do this, efforts were made to examine the concept, types and models of organisational justice. A brief history of higher education in Nigeria was discussed as well as the principles of organisational justice within the context of education, empirical studies on the link among organisational justice, job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention were reviewed and the roles of various agencies in ensuring quality and standards of organisational justice in Nigerian higher education. It was therefore recommended that there should be regular and periodic workshops, conferences, seminars and symposium for the heads of the various institutions of higher learning with a view to gearing them on the relevance of organisational justice in the effective management and administration of higher educational institutions.
Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in Reinforcing Consumers Bonding
Authors: Setiyaningrum Ari , Aryanto Vincent Didiek Wiet
Published: July 2017

Corporate ethics (CE) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have been considered as the main determinants of companies' success as well as sustainability for company's viability. Both of them potentially affects on consumer buying behavior. This study aims at exploring the basic issue on CE and CSR. In addition, this study examines whether good corporate ethics and CSR engagement of companies always lead to positive consumer response in the context of controversial tobacco's company. Data collected by distributing questionnaires to the 318 respondents. By means of structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the proposed model, it indicated that the more well-defined of corporate ethics lead to the better evaluation of CSR activities, the more well-defined of corporate ethics and the better evaluation of CSR activities lead to the good corporate reputation. In addition, the good corporate reputation leads to the higher corporate trust, and the higher corporate trust lead to the stronger consumers bonding.
The Law and Economics of Integrity as Social Capital
Authors: Swan George Steven
Published: July 2017

Individual responsibility is a critical feature of any successful market economy. Moreover, moral commitment is a crucial element of managerial authority in a capitalistic environment. For ethics, trust and integrity constitute social capital whereby an economy can thrive. For example, deserved earned trust lowers an interest rate. An atmosphere of integrity can minimize parties' confidence-malinvestment. In addition, integrity as social capital engenders a virtuous-circle feedback-mechanism respecting the character of a citizenry overall. This examination of the law and economics backdrop to these realities is informed by an array of insights from several Nobel laureates in economics and of a Father of Management Science, Peter F. Drucker.
Case Study as a Teaching Method in Marketing
Authors: Awdziej Marcin
Published: July 2017

The traditional published case studies have been successfully used in marketing education for decades. However, recent changes in marketing practice, prompted by disruptive changes in the marketplace, highlight their shortcomings as an educational instrument. To remain relevant and deliver the desired learning outcomes, new or modified approaches to case-study teaching might be necessary. This chapter is structured as follows: first, the changes in business environment and their impact on marketing education is discussed. Second, the advantages and shortcomings of the traditional published case study as an educational instrument in marketing are presented. Third, new approaches to case study are critically evaluated. These are live case, participative case writing, and web-based cases.
Population-Based Feature Selection for Biomedical Data Classification
Authors: Mousavirad Seyed Jalaleddin , Ebrahimpour-Komleh Hossein
Published: July 2017

Classification of biomedical data plays a significant role in prediction and diagnosis of disease. The existence of redundant and irrelevant features is one of the major problems in biomedical data classification. Excluding these features can improve the performance of classification algorithm. Feature selection is the problem of selecting a subset of features without reducing the accuracy of the original set of features. These algorithms are divided into three categories: wrapper, filter, and embedded methods. Wrapper methods use the learning algorithm for selection of features while filter methods use statistical characteristics of data. In the embedded methods, feature selection process combines with the learning process. Population-based metaheuristics can be applied for wrapper feature selection. In these algorithms, a population of candidate solutions is created. Then, they try to improve the objective function using some operators. This chapter presents the application of population-based feature selection to deal with issues of high dimensionality in the biomedical data classification. The result shows that population-based feature selection has presented acceptable performance in biomedical data classification.
Re-Engineering a Medical Devices Management Software System
Authors: Malataras P.G. , Bliznakov Z.B. , Pallikarakis N.E.
Published: July 2017

The primary aim of a hospital Clinical Engineering Department (CED) is to ensure a safe and cost-effective operation of the medical devices. In order to achieve this goal, it needs to implement and establish a comprehensive biomedical technology management program, which is a complex and multidimensional task. This work presents a medical devices management software system to assist the CED in healthcare, and it appears, as a result, of an effort to re-engineer and rebuild such an old, successful management system. The findings of this re-engineering attempt are presented. The goal was the incorporation of the new trends in clinical engineering and medical devices management and the exploitation of the new capabilities provided by the modern software tools and platforms. The system is expected to respond to the changing healthcare environment demands, the increased efforts required, and the respective broader role that CEDs have to play.
Ventricular Assist Device and Its Necessity for Elderly Population
Authors: Arefin Md. Shamsul , Awad Nasser K. , Rathore Chandra Prakash , Shukla Anupam , Morsi Yosry S.
Published: July 2017

Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) is considered to be the part and parcel to those people who have cardiac complications or heart failure especially the aged patients. Although VADs have contributed remarkably for the past few years, yet these devices possess some limitations, mainly the driveline infections. Due to these conditions, researchers are aiming to improve its functionality as well as other necessary/additional features and hence there is a need to develop the ‘next generation' wireless VAD system which could be very effective to reduce the risk of this infection. In this chapter, the necessity of the VAD and different kinds of VADs are presented and discussed. These features incorporate hemodynamic states after receiving the VADs, selection of biomaterials for the VAD system, VAD pumps and its classifications. Finally, a brief discussion is also provided based on the recent advancement of the VAD system and the scope for the future research.
Applications of Gold Nanoparticles in Cancer
Authors: Balakrishnan Solaimuthu , Bhat Firdous Ahmad , Jagadeesan Arunakaran
Published: July 2017

This chapter deals with the applications of gold nanoparticle in cancer and various strategies to target cancer cells by using gold nanoparticles. They are in great demand for biomedical applications such as DNA/Protein detection, bimolecular regulators, cell imaging and cancer cell diagnostics. The ability to tune the surface of the particle provides access to cell –specific targeting and controlled drug release. Depending on their size, shape, degree of aggregation, and local environment, gold nanoparticles can appear red, blue, or other colors. The novel drug delivery systems offer the opportunity to improve poor solubility, limited stability, bio distribution, and pharmacokinetics of drug as well as offering the potential ability to target specific tissues and cell types. The multifunctional gold nanoparticles are attractive organic –inorganic hybrid material composed of an inorganic metallic gold core surrounded by an organic or bimolecular monolayer they provide desirable attributes for the creation of drug delivery in cancer.
Optimized Clustering Techniques with Special Focus to Biomedical Datasets
Authors: Venkatesan Anusuya S.
Published: July 2017

The clinical data including clinical test results, MRI images and drug responses of patients are documented and analyzed with machine learning and data mining tools. The scale and complexity of these datasets is a big challenge to machine learning and data mining community as the data is of mixed type. The extraction of meaningful or desired information from these datasets provides knowledge in decision making process which in turn helps for the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases. Biomedical datasets are a collection of data with diverse types as it involves images, clinical studies, statistical reports etc. The recent researches have focused on different clustering and classification methods to manage and analyze the biomedical datasets. The objective of this chapter is to cluster or classify the patterns of interest from Brain MRI images, Liver disorder and Breast cancer datasets using efficient clustering methodologies. Among the different algorithms in data mining for clustering, classification, visualization and interpretation, K Means, Fuzzy C Means and Neural Networks(NN) are frequently used for clustering and classification of biomedical datasets. The performance of these methods are greatly influenced by the initialization of K value and its convergence speed. This chapter discusses about FCM and K Means clustering methods and its optimization with meta heuristics such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization (QPSO). The experimental section of this paper exhibits analysis in terms of Intra cluster distances, elapsed time and Davis Bouldin Index (DBI).
Trends and New Advances on Wearable and Mobile Technologies for Parkinson's Disease Monitoring and Assessment of Motor Symptoms
Authors: Cancela Jorge , Pastorino Matteo , Waldmeyer Maria Teresa Arredondo
Published: July 2017

The aim of this work is to analyze the trends and new advances carried out in the last decades in the field of Parkinson's disease monitoring and management and more specifically regarding wearable and mobile technologies. The challenges of such technologies is to monitor, to assess and to manage the full range of PD symptoms through monitoring and testing routines while not hampering the patient's daily activities, identifying the correlation between the different dimensions affecting the severity of symptoms and the evolution of the disease and enabling the clinician to manage more efficiently the patient by providing timely indications on the effectiveness of the therapy and suggestions on therapy changes.
Therapeutic Applications of Nanobiomaterials
Authors: Garg Anuj
Published: July 2017

The most exciting advancement in the fields of biomaterial science is its ability to engineer new materials at the nanoscale level for various biological applications particularly drug and gene delivery for therapeutic applications. The main focus of this chapter is to review the therapeutic applications of different nanobiomaterials. Thus, it is proposed to discuss type of nanobiomaterials, general biological barriers for therapeutics, surface functionalization of nanobiomaterials and their therapeutics application in the present chapter. The therapeutic applications are explained on the basis of type of nanobiomaterials. The biocompatibility and toxicological response towards nanobiomaterials is an important issue that requires investigation for clinical development and their commercialization. The commercial prospects and future challenges in development of nanobiomaterials particularly for drug delivery are also discussed in the present chapter.
Biomedical Librarianship in the Post-Genomic Era
Authors: Nagarkar Shubhada Prashant
Published: July 2017

Post genomic era is known for the explosive growth in biomedical information. Bibliographic and sequence databases are increasing continuously and have voluminous data sets. Biomedical librarians are facing challenges in retrieval of relevant information from these electronic databases and related sources of information. This chapter discusses the changing role of biomedical librarians in post genomic era. The chapter covers features of the biomedical librarianship including library collection development, users' information needs and strategies adopted to provide services. Moreover, it focuses on the competencies required by librarians to face the challenges of management of information and services needed by biomedical researchers in the post genomic era.
Vaccine Nanocarriers
Authors: Ray Shilpa , Suar Mrutyunjay
Published: July 2017

Vaccination has undergone a complete revolution over the past ten decades. With the progress in biotechnology, the present scientific world has witnessed the emergence of a novel vaccine delivery system, called nanovaccines, for eliciting effective humoral, cellular, and mucosal immunity as compared to the conventional vaccination strategies. This novel approach bears innovative methodologies for effective vaccination by arousing beneficial host responses. The different forms of nanovaccine delivery are either microspheres or nanobeads. This chapter discusses in detail the variant forms of nanoparticulate vaccine adjuvants and delivery systems, their interaction with the immune system, and their clinical trial results. Many nanovaccines licensed for human use have proved to be effective carriers for antigens. These immunopotentiators like virosome-based carriers, Immunostimulating Complexes (ISCOMs), polymeric particles, etc. can be formulated as new vaccination methods for curing diseases like HIV, malaria, hepatitis, cancer, etc., thereby cementing the future of the next generation vaccines.
Short Term Behaviour of Fixed-Loop Cortical Suspension System Used for Surgical Treatment of Hallux valgus
Authors: Ene Razvan , Nica Mihai , Panti Zsombor , Pleniceanu Marian , Ene Patricia , Cîrstoiu Monica , Cirstoiu Catalin
Published: July 2017

Hallux valgus represents an acquired foot deformity characterized by lateral deviation of the hallux and medial deviation of the first metatarsal. Pain during gait is the main complain and is caused by reduction of plantar pressure under the first ray leading to insufficiency of the first ray and overload of the lesser rays. Treatment can be nonoperative or surgical with more than one hundred surgical techniques described so far. The scope of this study was to assess the short term reliability and stability of fixed loop suspension systems used for surgical treatment of this pathology using radiological evaluation of hallux valgus angle and the intermetatarsal angle. Our results show good stability of the reduction and good reliability of the suspension system, with a six months follow-up. Only one specific complication (failure of the wiring material) is highlighted by our conclusions and the need for biomechanical testing in controlled laboratory studies.
Metallosis - Literature Review and Particular Cases Presentation
Authors: Marinescu Rodica , Socoliuc Claudiu , Botezatu Iozefina , Laptoiu Dan , Voinescu Dan
Published: July 2017

Metallosis is an adverse event developed in relation with an orthopedic implant. It was brought into attention by metal on metal total hip arthroplasty. Lately, cases were diagnosed in total knee, total elbow, and spinal surgery. Metallic debris - released because of wear or corrosion - start an inflammatory response in a chronic condition. Beside local effects, systemic effects are also described; among them toxic effects, neurological and psychiatric, alteration in thyroid and heart function, skin rushes and discoloration. Diagnosis is helped by x-ray examination but is based on fluid aspiration with ions level determination and histological examination. Osteolysis phenomena induced by metallosis may compromise bone ingrowth and promote implant loosening; as result bone stock may be compromised. The cases we present have a particular development pattern; each of them was initiated as a result of atypical behavior of the implants. Two of them necessitated bone grafting in order to replace the reduced bone stock and all three required revision surgery. The cases emphasize the diagnosis methodology and the possible complications encountered during orthopedic implant surgery.
Prdm1 Regulates Thymic Epithelial Function To Prevent Autoimmunity
Authors: Roberts Natalie A. , Adams Brian D. , McCarthy Nicholas I. , Tooze Reuben M. , Parnell Sonia M. , Anderson Graham , Kaech Susan M. , Horsley Valerie
Published: July 2017

Autoimmunity is largely prevented by medullary thymic epithelial cells (TECs) through their expression and presentation of tissue-specific Ags to developing thymocytes, resulting in deletion of self-reactive T cells and supporting regulatory T cell development. The transcription factor Prdm1 has been implicated in autoimmune diseases in humans through genome-wide association studies and in mice using cell type–specific deletion of Prdm1 in T and dendritic cells. In this article, we demonstrate that Prdm1 functions in TECs to prevent autoimmunity in mice. Prdm1 is expressed by a subset of mouse TECs, and conditional deletion of Prdm1 in either Keratin 14– or Foxn1-expressing cells in mice resulted in multisymptom autoimmune pathology. Notably, the development of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells occurs normally in the absence of Blimp1. Importantly, nude mice developed anti-nuclear Abs when transplanted with Prdm1 null TECs, but not wild-type TECs, indicating that Prdm1 functions in TECs to regulate autoantibody production. We show that Prdm1 acts independently of Aire, a crucial transcription factor implicated in medullary TEC function. Collectively, our data highlight a previously unrecognized role for Prdm1 in regulating thymic epithelial function.
The Innate Cytokines IL-25, IL-33, and TSLP Cooperate in the Induction of Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell Expansion and Mucous Metaplasia in Rhinovirus-Infected Immature Mice
Authors: Han Mingyuan , Rajput Charu , Hong Jun Y. , Lei Jing , Hinde Joanna L. , Wu Qian , Bentley J. Kelley , Hershenson Marc B.
Published: July 2017

Early-life respiratory viral infection is a risk factor for asthma development. Rhinovirus (RV) infection of 6-d-old mice, but not mature mice, causes mucous metaplasia and airway hyperresponsiveness that are associated with the expansion of lung type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) and are dependent on IL-13 and the innate cytokine IL-25. However, contributions of the other innate cytokines, IL-33 and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), to the observed asthma-like phenotype have not been examined. We reasoned that IL-33 and TSLP expression are also induced by RV infection in immature mice and are required for maximum ILC2 expansion and mucous metaplasia. We inoculated 6-d-old BALB/c (wild-type) and TSLP receptor–knockout mice with sham HeLa cell lysate or RV. Selected mice were treated with neutralizing Abs to IL-33 or recombinant IL-33, IL-25, or TSLP. ILC2s were isolated from RV-infected immature mice and treated with innate cytokines ex vivo. RV infection of 6-d-old mice increased IL-33 and TSLP protein abundance. TSLP expression was localized to the airway epithelium, whereas IL-33 was expressed in epithelial and subepithelial cells. RV-induced mucous metaplasia, ILC2 expansion, airway hyperresponsiveness, and epithelial cell IL-25 expression were attenuated by anti–IL-33 treatment and in TSLP receptor–knockout mice. Administration of intranasal IL-33 and TSLP was sufficient for mucous metaplasia. Finally, TSLP was required for maximal ILC2 gene expression in response to IL-25 and IL-33. The generation of mucous metaplasia in immature RV-infected mice involves a complex interplay among the innate cytokines IL-25, IL-33, and TSLP.
Immersion and distancing across the therapeutic process: relationship to symptoms and emotional arousal
Authors: Barbosa Eunice , Amendoeira Maria , Ferreira Tiago , Teixeira Ana Sofia , Pinto-Gouveia José , Salgado Joào
Published: July 2017

This study aims to clarify the roles of immersion and distancing (that is, reflection on an experience from an egocentric point of view or as an observer, respectively) on therapeutic change analyzing i) the evolution of these two perspectives across the resolution of a clinical problem, and ii) the relationship between immersion/distancing with symptoms and emotional arousal. We extracted all the passages of speech pertaining to the most relevant clinical problem of a good outcome case of depression undergoing cognitive-behavioral therapy. We assessed the distancing/immersion of these extracts using the Measure of Immersed and Distanced Speech, and emotional arousal with the Client Emotional Arousal Scale-III. The symptoms were assessed from the Beck Depression Inventory-II and Outcome Questionnaire-10.2. Immersion was associated with symptoms and negative emotions, while distancing was associated with clinical well being and positive emotions. Immersion was still dominant when depressive symptoms were below the clinical threshold. Clinical change was associated with a decrease in immersion and an increase in distancing. The dominance of immersion does not necessarily indicate a bad outcome.
Psychological treatments are as effective as pharmacotherapies in the treatment of adult depression: a summary from Randomized Clinical Trials and neuroscience evidence
Authors: Cuijpers Pim , Gentili Claudio
Published: July 2017

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Effectiveness is the gold standard of clinical research
Authors: Gazzillo Francesco , Schimmenti Adriano , Formica Ivan , Simonelli Alessandra , Salvatore Sergio
Published: July 2017

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The clinical consequence of positive mental health in psychotherapy
Authors: Fulcheri Mario , Carrozzino Danilo
Published: July 2017

The current commentary is aimed at critically analyzing the document Psychotherapies for Anxiety and Depression: benefits and costs by focusing on specific theoretical concepts and empirical evidences arising from research studies fulfilled in the area of study of Clinical and Health Psychology. Specifically, the following were the main topics on which we are focused on: i) the clinical consequence potentially resulting from considering the psychological well-being and the euthymia condition as the main targets of a psychotherapeutic treatment; ii) a critical reappraisal of the clinical inadequacy of the evidence based model in psychotherapy; iii) clinimetrics as a clinically based measurement method for evaluating the psychological well-being of a patient after a psychotherapeutic intervention.
Rehabilitation and Improvement of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Detriments in Individuals With Chronic Ankle Instability: A Meta-Analysis
Authors: Powden Cameron J. , Hoch Johanna M. , Hoch Matthew C.
Published: July 2017

Objective: 

To conduct a systematic review with meta-analysis assessing the effectiveness of conservative rehabilitation programs for improving health-related quality of life (HRQL) in individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI).

Data Sources: 

PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, and SPORTDiscus were searched from inception to January 2016.

Study Selection: 

Studies were included if the researchers examined the effects of a conservative rehabilitation protocol in individuals with CAI, used validated patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to quantify participant-perceived HRQL, and provided adequate data to calculate the effect sizes (ESs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Studies were excluded if the authors evaluated surgical interventions, prophylactic taping, or bracing applications or examined only the immediate effects of 1 treatment session.

Data Extraction: 

Two investigators independently assessed methodologic quality using the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) Scale. Studies were considered low quality if fewer than 60% of the criteria were met. Level of evidence was assessed using the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy. Preintervention and postintervention sample sizes, means, and standard deviations of PROs were extracted.

Data Synthesis: 

A total of 15 studies provided 24 participant groups that were included in the analysis. Seven high-quality studies with a median PEDro score of 50% (range = 10%−80%) and a median level of evidence of 2 (range = 1−2) were identified. The magnitudes of preintervention to postintervention PRO differences were examined using bias-corrected Hedges g ESs. Random-effects meta-analysis was performed to synthesize PRO changes across all participant groups. Positive ES values indicated better PRO scores at postintervention than at preintervention. The α level was set at .05. Meta-analysis revealed a strong ES with a nonoverlapping 95% CI (ES = 1.20, CI = 0.80, 1.60; P < .001), indicating HRQL improved after conservative rehabilitation.

Conclusions: 

Based on the quality of the evidence and the results of the meta-analysis, grade A evidence showed that conservative rehabilitation produces large improvements in HRQL for people with CAI.
Research on the application of eastern Canadian coals to large stokers
Authors: Mitchell E R , Friedrich F D , Lee G K
Published: July 2017

Practical research has been undertaken by the Fuels and Mining Practice Division, Mines Branch, to determine the features necessary to provide efficient, convenient operation with eastern Canadian coal on stokers burning more than 500 lb of coal per hour. The
results are summarized in a three-part report. In Part I the coa.1 properties responsible for combustion difficulties are briefly described, and designers are provided-with a coal specification recommended for stoker design, as well as the combustion data for the specified coal. In Part II are
enumerated recommendations for the selection and design of new stokers, and for the modification and operation of existing stokers, to successfully burn eastern Canadian coal. Part III gives a description of the application of the aforementioned recommendations to three common stokers as well as to
a distinctive combustion system invented by the authors and particularly suited to eastern Canadian coals.
A gated oscillator circuit for the measurement of short time intervals
Authors: Keys J D , Alexander G E
Published: July 2017

A transistor gate circuit has been developed to control the output from an oscillator which is used to measure time intervals of the order of a few milliseconds in radioactive tracer applications. The cycle is started by an Initiating pulse and concluded by a
pulse originating in a gated detector which in this case is a Geiger tube. The effect of background activity is allowed for in the detecting circuit and there is sufficient flexibility to permit use over a wide range of time intervals in the presence of moderate background.
The use of a pulse-height analyser as a curve plotter
Authors: Keys J D
Published: July 2017

A method of employing a hundred-channel analyser to produce, graphically, a family of error function complement curves is described. By matching these curves with experimental results obtained in diffusion studies the diffusion coefficient may be rapidly
ascertained.
Low-silica hematite concentrates
Authors: Maltby P D R , Pickett D E
Published: July 2017

Using three samples of specular hematite concentrates from the Labrador-Quebec area, high-grade hematite concentrates with silica contents of less than 0,5 per cent have been produced by fine grinding followed by high intensity wet magnetic separation and by
flotation of the silica. The product has many potential uses in pigment manufacture and in direct reduction, amply justifying the moderate cost of the process.
Effects and control of nickel and iron impurities in cyanide zinc plating baths
Authors: Dingley W
Published: July 2017

Spots of dark corrosion product appeared on steel cartridge cases of 105 mm and 3 inch, 70 calibre types alter they had been cyanide zinc plated, chromated and stored in an unheated building for from one to eight months. In searching for the cause of and remedy
for these spots, the plating bath was analyzed and shown to contain small amounts of nickel, copper and chromium, and much larger amounts of ferrous iron. These same metals were found in the zinc on the cases. Experimental steel coupons plated in this bath gave spots of dark corrosion product after
immersion in distilled water exposed to the atmosphere. In similar experiments with a plating bath made from pure chemicals the plated coupons did not give dark spots. Accordingly it was concluded that the dark spots on the cases were due to the presence of nickel and the other metals found in the
plant bath and in the zinc coatings produced in the plant. A quick hydrochloric acid test was developed to determine semi-quantitatively the amounts of these contaminating metals present in zinc coatings. With the aid of this test it was found possible to determine the source of the contaminants in
the coatings, how to reduce the amount of them entering the plating bath and thus the zinc coating, and how to remove the contaminants which had succeeded in entering the plating bath. 'Cartridge cases are now being zinc plated on an industrial scale using decontaminated baths. The freedom of the
bath from nickel, iron and similar impurities is being checked periodically by subjecting plated samples to the hydrochloric acid test.
The effect of uranium additions on the corrosion behaviour of AISI type 430 stainless steel
Authors: Biefer G J
Published: July 2017

AISI Type 430 stainless steels, and similar Steel s with 0.017-3.11% uranium, were subjected to laboratory corrosion tests in several aqueous solutions. The results indicated that uranium additions in the range 0.1-0.5% brought about improvements in
corrosion resistance. To determine whether the laboratory results are correlated with improved corrosion resistance under service conditions, AISI Type 430 steels with 0% 1 uranium are -undergoing long- 0.25% and 0.5% term field tests.
Humidity and static electricity in pneumatic loading of blasting explosives
Authors: Darling J A , Stevenson D A B
Published: July 2017

The occasional generation of static electricity in ammonium nitrate jet loaders is a serious matter because of the potential hazard presented to the operating personnel through the prematu.re ignition of the blasting caps and initiating devices resulting from the
development and discharge of static electrical charges. Previous methods of control of these hazards have included the introduction of conductive hoses and the grounding of the metal injector of loaders. Electric blasting caps have been forbidden in bottom primed drill holes. In addition static
proof safety fuses and detonating fuses have been developed. This work explores the possibility of controlling the of static electricity by additions of water or of water vapour generation to jet loaders. It has been discovered that this water vapour may be automatically provided by exposures of
ammonium nitrate or ammonium nitrate-oil mixtures to an air stream of high relative humidity immediately prior to loading. This exposure limits, to safe values, the voltages produced in the ammonium nitrate-hose wall static electricity generating system that may be operating in a pneumatic
loader.
The preparation of high-purity ammonium metavanadate from impure vanadium pentoxide by precipitation with ammonium chloride
Authors: Vezina J A , Gow W A
Published: July 2017

High-purity ammonium metavanadate can be obtained as a precipitate when the filtered solutions from the leaching of crude vanadium pentoxide are treated with ammonium chloride. The effect of using an excess of sodium carbonate, as a leaching agent, on the rate of
leaching of vanadium pentoxide has been qualitatively investigated, and the effects of excess sodium carbonate, and of the concentration of vanadium pentoxide in the leach liquor on the efficiency of precipitation with ammonium chloride have been quantitatively determined. Data are given showing the
results obtained when both pure and crude vanadium pentoxides are treated in this way. Conditions are specified which result in the dissolution of 97% of the vanadium from crude vanadium pentoxide, and in the precipitation of 99% of the dis solved vanadium as ammonium metavanadate of high
purity
Evaluation of peat moss in some bogs of the Rainy River district, Ontario
Authors: Graham R B , Tibbetts T E
Published: July 2017

In this report, seventeen peat bogs in the Rainy River District of Ontario are illustrated by aerial photographs and are assessed from the viewpoints of location, access, area, depth, cover, drainage and nature of the peat material present. The locations of
several other bogs in the district are noted. Analytical procedures and the importance of sampling are emphasized in this demonstration of the methodology of evaluating the potential of peat bogs for commercial development.
A combined spectrophotometric-fluorimetric method for the determination of aluminum in, products from wet-process phosphoric acid manufacture
Authors: Barkley D J
Published: July 2017

This report describes methods for the determination of aluminum in products obtained during the manufacture of wet-process phosphoric acid from Florida land-pebble phosphate ore. The methods feature a combination of spectrophotometric and fluorimetric techniques
to permit the determination of aluminum over a wide range of concentration,
The status of the hydrogen problem in steel
Authors: McDonald R D
Published: July 2017

Hydrogen problems in steel are described, with particular emphasis on the problem of embrittlernent of ultra-high strength steels as manifested by delayed failure. Ways are described in which hydrogen enters steel and is recognized by tests. Theories that have
been developed over the years of research are related and explained briefly in order of sequence up to the most recent proposals advanced. These theories serve to explain many of the observations concerning hydrogen, although gaps in the knowledge still exist. Alleviation of ernbrittlemen.t still
depends heavily upon diffusion treatments at baking temperatures, although many ways of preventing entry of hydrogen are being tried with moderate success.
Polarization measurements on ASTM type 6061-t6 aluminum alloy in three Ontario mine shaft waters
Authors: Biefer G J
Published: July 2017

Cathodic polarization measurements carried out on ASTM 6061-T6 aluminum alloy in three Ontario mine waters of different acidities and compositions provided a rapid estimate of relative corrosion rates even though these rates were too low to be readily measured by
conventional weight-loss methods. The results showed that corrosion rates in water fro.ms the Helen iron ore mine, were much lower than those in waters from the two other mines. This correlated with the corrosion fatigue behaviour of ASTM 6061- T6 alloy in the same waters.
A comparison of manual and automatic control of the grinding circuit at east mal, artic mines limited, Norrie, Quebec
Authors: Kelly F J , Gow W A
Published: July 2017

Surveys were made of the East Malartic Mines Limited grinding circuit while it was under manual control and when it was under automatic control. The automatic control system used involved the measurement of the intensity of a narrow frequency range of the sound
emanating from the grinding units, and control of the feed rate so as to maintain the sound intensity at a ire-set value. Eighty per cent of the control signal came from the primary open-circuit rod mill and the remaining twenty per cent from one of two secondary ball mills operating in parallel in
closed circuit with hydraulic cyclones. The surveys showed that the application of automatic control resulted in a significant reduction in the variability of the fineness of grind, and in the variability of the screen analyses, of all the products from the grinding circuit. For example, under
manual control the 50% passing size of the rod mill discharge varied from 48 mesh to 150 mesh, while under automatic control the variation was within one Tyler screen size, i.e. from just less than 28 mesh to just less than 35 mesh.
Determination of silicon by measurement of the absorbance of the n-amyl alcohol extract of a-silicomolybdic acid (application to high-purity copper metal and brasses)
Authors: Donaldson E M , Inman W R
Published: July 2017

A procedure involving n-amyl alcohol extraction of a-silicomolybdic acid and spectrophotometric measurement of the extract (at 350 rn?4 has been applied to the determination of trace amounts of silicon in high-purity copper metal and brasses. Interference from
phosphorus and arsenic is eliminated by the selective destruction of their heteropoly complexes in a 3N sulphuric acid medium prior to the extraction of the silicon complex.
Effects of various alloying additions on the corrosion of AISI type 430 ferritic stainless steel
Authors: Biefer G J
Published: July 2017

As part of a larger research project aimed at determining the effect of alloying elements upon the corrosion behaviour of ferritic stainless steels, aqueous corrosion tests were carried out upon AISI Type 430 stainless steels containing additions of each of Mo,
V, W, Ta, Si, Re, Pd and Ge, and upon a control steel, AISI Type 304 stainless. It was found that Mo, V and W additions each conferred improved corrosion resistance in non-oxidizing normal sulphuric and normal hydrochloric acid solutions. W was the most effective and V the least effective at the
lower addition levels, below 1%. Mo and, to a lesser extent, Re were the only additions that conferred increased resistance to oxidizing normal ferric chloride solution, while all the additions except Re and Ta were, to at least some extent, deleterious to corrosion resistance in boiling 65%
nitric acid. Pd additions were unique in that, in the range 0,46-1.91%, they brought about passivation in normal sulphuric acid, thus outperforming AISI Type 304 stainless steel in that medium. However, Pd additions of less than 0.46% were deleterious to corrosion resistance in sulphuric
acid, whereas Pd additions at all levels were deleterious to corrosion resistance in the other test solutions, A Type 430 steel containing 3.11% Mo showed corrosion resistance most nearly approaching that of Type 304 steel in the sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid and ferric chloride solutions.
However, this steel had extremely poor resistance to boiling 65% nitric acid, while the Type 304 steel (as expected) showed excellent resistance to this medium.
Improvement of a continuous process for the production of high-purity tungstic trioxide from scheelite: preleaching the scheelite with weak hydrochloric acid
Authors: Vezina J A , Gow W A
Published: July 2017

The effect of leaching Canadian scheelite concentrates with weak hydrochloric acid at pH 1.0 prior to treatment by a previously described Mines Branch process was investigated. The work showed that the weak-acid leach removed about 25 per cent of the iron, 90 per
cent of the phosphorus, 10 per cent of the calcium and 0.1 per cent of the tungsten from a scheelite concentrate analysing 54.4 per cent W03 , 15.8 per cent CaO, 3.9 per cent Fe, and 0.43 per cent P. The overall cost on the basis of acid consumption and tungsten loss would be about $0.04 less per
pound of tungsten than for the original Mines Branch process where the weak-acid leach was not used.
Exploratory stress-corrosion cracking tests on some low-alloy high-strength steels
Authors: Biefer G J
Published: July 2017

Using a test rig in which the test specimens are small bent strips, held in this configuration under spring loading, stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) tests were performed in several media upon four alloys resembling AISI Type 4320 but with different Si and Mn
contents. One of the steels had the composition of MY-Tuf, a proprietary steel said to have high resistance to hydrogen embrittlement cracking. A steel containing 1.48% Si and 0.68% Mn showed the best all-round resistance to SCC in tests in normal sulphuric acid (with and without a cathodic
"poison"), boiling calcium-ammonium nitrate, and 3.5% NaC1 solution, outperforming the steel having the "HY-Tuf" composition.
Concentration of uranium minerals from Canadian ores by magnetic means
Authors: Hartman F H , Wyman R A
Published: July 2017

Because previous work with a Jones Wet Magnetic Mineral Separator demonstrated the possibility of concentrating certain uranium minerals by this means, a more extensive examination was undertaken. Ores from three areas, viz. Bancroft (one mine), Beaverlodge (two
mines) and Elliot Lake (three mines), were investigated, using a number of experimental conditions and procedures, with results as summarized below: