bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Reliability/risk centered cost effective preventive maintenance planning of generating units
Authors: E. Umamaheswari , S. Ganesan , M. Abirami , S. Subramanian 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
Finding the optimal maintenance schedules is the primitive aim of preventive maintenance scheduling (PMS) problem dealing with the objectives of reliability, risk and cost. Most of the earlier works in the literature have focused on PMS with the objectives of leveling reserves/risk/cost independently. Nevertheless, very few publications in the current literature tackle the multi-objective PMS model with simultaneous optimization of reliability, and economic perspectives. Since, the PMS problem is highly nonlinear and complex in nature, an appropriate optimization technique is necessary to solve the problem in hand. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
The complexity of the PMS problem in power systems necessitates a simple and robust optimization tool. This paper employs the modern meta-heuristic algorithm, namely, Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO) to obtain the optimal maintenance schedules for the PMS problem. In order to extract best compromise solution in the multi-objective solution space (reliability, risk and cost), a fuzzy decision-making mechanism is incorporated with ALO (FDMALO) for solving PMS.

Findings
As a first attempt, the best feasible maintenance schedules are obtained for PMS problem using FDMALO in the multi-objective solution space. The statistical measures are computed for the test systems which are compared with various meta-heuristic algorithms. The applicability of the algorithm for PMS problem is validated through statistical t-test. The statistical comparison and the t-test results reveal the superiority of ALO in achieving improved solution quality. The numerical and statistical results are encouraging and indicate the viability of the proposed ALO technique.

Originality/value
As a maiden attempt, FDMALO is used to solve the multi-objective PMS problem. This paper fills the gap in the literature by solving the PMS problem in the multi-objective framework, with the improved quality of the statistical indices.
The application of quality tools in effective implementation of HACCP
Authors: Kharub Manjeet , Limon Shah , Sharma Rajiv Kumar 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the quality tool’s impact on the effectiveness of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)-based food safety system and correlation studies between HACCP effectiveness and business performance in food and pharmaceutical industries.

Design/methodology/approach
A total of 116 survey responses of prominent food and pharmaceutical firms are used to fulfil the aim of this study. The principal component analysis (PCA) method was applied to classify quality tools into a finite number of groups. Further, multiple regression methods are employed to investigate the correlation between HACCP effectiveness and firm’s performance indicators.

Findings
Quality tools are classified into three categories on the basis of their application by using the PCA method: quality tools for hazard identification, quality tools for hazard analysis (QTHA) and quality tools for hazard control. The regression analysis revealed that QTHA has a substantial impact on HACCP objectives (hazard identification, hazard assessment and hazard control). Additionally, the results suggest that the successful implementation of HACCP-based food safety system also delivers a direct influence on the operational and financial performance of the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the existing body of HACCP knowledge by providing a framework supported by an empirical case study. The case study clustered quality tools into three broad categories related to their application of a HACCP project. Study results can guide and motivate managers to use quality tools with the aim of successful implantation of the HACCP-based food safety system, especially in food and pharmaceutical industries.
Transforming the stakeholders’ Big Data for intellectual capital management
Authors: Uden Lorna , Del Vecchio Pasquale 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThis paper aims to define a conceptual framework for transforming Big Data into organizational value by focussing on the perspectives of service science and activity theory. In coherence with the agenda on evolutionary research on intellectual capital (IC), the study also provides momentum for researchers and scholars to explore emerging trends and implications of Big Data for IC management.Design/methodology/approachThe paper adopts a qualitative and integrated research method based on a constructive review of existing literature related to IC management, Big Data, service science and activity theory to identify features and processes of a conceptual framework emerging at the intersection of previously identified research topics.FindingsThe proposed framework harnesses the power of Big Data, collectively created by the engagement of multiple stakeholders based on the concepts of service ecosystems, by using activity theory. The transformation of Big Data for IC management addresses the process of value creation based on a set of critical dimensions useful to identify goals, main actors and stakeholders, processes and motivations.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper indicates how organizational values can be created from Big Data through the co-creation of value in service ecosystems. Activity theory is used as theoretical lens to support IC ecosystem development. This research is exploratory; the framework offers opportunities for refinement and can be used to spearhead directions for future research.Practical implicationsThe paper proposes a framework for transforming Big Data into organizational values for IC management in the context of entrepreneurial universities as pivotal contexts of observation that can be replicated in different fields. The framework provides guidelines that can be used to help organizations intending to embark on the emerging paradigm of Big Data for IC management for their competitive advantages.Originality/valueThe paper’s originality is in bringing together research from Big Data, value co-creation from service ecosystems and activity theory to address the complex issues involved in IC management. A further element of originality offered involves integrating such multidisciplinary perspectives as a lens for shaping the complex process of value creation from Big Data in relationship to IC management. The concept of how IC ecosystems can be designed is also introduced.
Jungian dialogism and the problem of depth
Authors: Smythe William E. 
Published: August 2018

AbstractNotions of dialogical inquiry and of the dialogical self have become increasingly influential in contemporary psychology in response to the limitations of the traditional view of monologically encapsulated and radically disengaged consciousness. Conceptions of self and inquiry as intrinsically embedded in and constituted by our shared life with others seem to do better justice to the richly interconnected character of contemporary life. At the same time, our highly interconnected global world has also tended to foster a flattening of cultural and inter‐cultural horizons that undermines dialogical engagement in any deeply meaningful sense. What is needed is to enrich current conceptions of dialogue with an understanding of experiential and cultural depth. This paper seeks an understanding of the depth dimensions of dialogue through an engagement of dialogical self theory with Jungian dialogical thought. Critical to this engagement is to appreciate the expressive potential of Jungian dialogism beyond Jung's theoretical claims about dialogue.
Commensuration, performativity, and the reform of statistics in Turkey
Authors: SILVERSTEIN BRIAN 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACTTurkey's application to join the European Union, while currently a distant prospect, has nonetheless required the Turkish state to learn new things about the country in light of new norms and to use new formats and methodologies. The reform of its statistics is a key mechanism through which this transformation is taking place. A focus of intensive reforms is agricultural statistics, and these reforms have had an impact on farmers’ practices and livelihoods. The attempt to measure agriculture in new ways in Turkey is changing it through a logic of performativity. It is in and through this performativity that important work of institutional commensuration between Turkey and the EU is happening, illustrating the technopolitical nature of reform in many parts of the world. [statistics, commensuration, technopolitics, performativity, agriculture, European Union, Turkey]
Immersive invisibility in the settler‐colonial city:
Authors: HACKL ANDREAS 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACTThe inclusion of indigenous people into settler‐colonial cities is often highly conditional. For middle‐class Palestinian citizens of Israel in Tel Aviv, the invisibility of their ethnonational identity is a precondition for their access to the city's neoliberal economy and “liberal” lifestyle. To increase their mobility and socioeconomic opportunities, they employ diverse tactics of immersive invisibility. Some, in hopes of overcoming their stigmatized identity, aspire to be recognized as unmarked individuals and successful professionals. Although immersive invisibility does not change settler‐colonial exclusion, it determines how much individuals can achieve within existing parameters. Tactics of immersive invisibility do not necessarily enable one to transcend categorical difference and racialized exclusion, but they reveal how neoliberal inclusion and the settler‐colonial politics of exclusion become entangled and constitute each other. [visibility,identity,urban inclusion,stigmatization,settler colonialism,Palestine,Israel]
Contesting love through commodification:
Authors: NUHRAT YAĞMUR 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACTSoccer in Turkey has in recent decades become increasingly commodified. This process has been reinforced by a national law passed in 2011 that promises to prevent violence in the stands and “civilize” fandom. For upper‐middle‐class fans, the new “cleaned‐up” version of soccer secures class distinction, but among less affluent and working‐class fans, it has inspired resistance. Class conflict is here indexed through contestations over what it means to be a true fan and especially the quality of one's love for the team. Working‐class fans often describe their love as maddening or self‐sacrificing, while more affluent fans, sponsors, and administrators associate love with consumption. In the context of increasing political repression, fan resistance to commodification is discursively entangled with love and violence. [soccer, love, affect, resistance, social class, commodification, Turkey]
The effect of rate of injection on injection pressure profiles measured using in‐line and needle‐tip sensors: an in‐vitro study
Authors: Saporito A. , Quadri C. , Kloth N. , Capdevila X. 
Published: August 2018

SummaryAlongside ultrasonic visualisation, measurement of injection pressure is an effective tool for reducing the risk of intraneural injection during peripheral nerve block. The aim of this study was to compare injection pressure profiles when measured along the injection line with the pressure measured directly at the needle tip using different rates of injection. A syringe pump delivered a 5‐ml injection of saline into silicone gel at three different speeds (5 ml.min−1, 10 ml.min−1 and 15 ml.min−1). Fibreoptic pressure sensors recorded real‐time pressure profiles of the injection pressure directly at the needle tip and along the injection line. A total of 15 injections were successfully performed, five for each injection rate, totalling 30 recorded pressure profiles. More rapid rates of injection caused peak pressure measured in‐line to increase, whereas pressure measured at the needle tip remained constant (mean (SD) pressure in‐line 30.76 (3.45) kPa vs. 72.25 (1.55) kPa and mean (SD) pressure at needle tip 19.92 (1.22) kPa vs. 20.93 (2.66) kPa at 5 ml.min−1 and 15 ml.min−1, respectively). Injection pressure profiles showed that in‐line pressure measurement failed to record precise real‐time pressure changes occurring at the needle tip (mean (95%CI) pressure difference 10.8 (6.98–14.70) kPa vs. 51.2 (47.52–54.89) kPa for in‐line and needle‐tip measures, respectively). We conclude that, in order to accurately monitor the true injection pressure generated, independent from operator and injection parameters, measurement at the needle tip is necessary, as injection pressure measured along the injection line is an unreliable surrogate.
Charting New Terrain in Work Design: A Study of Hybrid Work Characteristics
Authors: Xie Jia Lin , Elangovan A.R. , Hu Jing , Hrabluik Coreen 
Published: August 2018

AbstractResearch on work design to date has focused on work characteristics associated primarily with one of three domains—task, social, or contextual. The present paper introduces a new concept—hybrid work characteristics—that refer to work characteristics which are not fully captured within any one of the three domains but possess features from more than one domain. We identify boundarylessness, multitasking, non‐work‐related interruptions, and demand for constant learning as hybrid work characteristics in the modern work environment. Furthermore, we theorise that boundarylessness, multitasking, and demand for constant learning carry both enriching and depleting potential, but non‐work‐related interruptions have only depleting potential. In our study, we developed instruments to assess the four work characteristics and tested their relationship with jobholders’ job satisfaction, occupational commitment, emotional exhaustion, and somatic health symptoms, through three independent studies (a total of 968 employees across a wide range of jobs). The results demonstrated convergent, predictive, and discriminant validity for the newly developed scales, and showed partial support for the prediction that boundarylessness and multitasking are beneficial as well as detrimental for jobholders and consistent support for the depleting potential inherent in non‐work‐related interruptions. We conclude with a discussion of how our exploration of hybrid work characteristics contributes to research on work design and management practices.
Adverse events and concurrent medications associated with parenteral nutrition use
Authors: Eum Seenae , Ock Miyoung , Lee Sera , Kim Hyunah 
Published: August 2018

AbstractIn this study, clinical manifestations of adverse events and frequently used medications in patients receiving parenteral nutrition (PN) in Korea were evaluated using Korea Adverse Event Reporting System (KAERS) database records between 2011 and 2015. Amino acids, fat emulsions, carbohydrates, combinations and solutions for PN were identified as causative agents. Adverse events classified as “certain”, “probable” and “possible” based on the WHO‐Uppsala Monitoring Centre criteria were analysed. In total, 6439 adverse events from 4260 patients were included for analysis. Mean patient age was 54.4 ± 18.1 years and the mean number of adverse events per patient was 1.5 ± 1.1. Frequent adverse events were gastrointestinal (2159 events, 33.5%), skin/appendage (1344 events, 20.9%), general (846 events, 13.1%) and central/peripheral nervous system (716 events, 11.1%) disorders. Common clinical symptoms were nausea (1248 events, 19.4%), vomiting (558, 8.7%), pruritus (456 events, 7.1%), rash (386 events, 6.0%) and dizziness (329 events, 5.1%). The frequently reported concomitant agents were tramadol (n = 475, 3.1%), fentanyl (n = 405, 2.7%), paracetamol (n = 329, 2.2%), ketorolac (n = 322, 2.1%) and metoclopramide (n = 289 cases, 1.9%). The frequent adverse events remained consistent after accounting for concurrent medications. Our findings from a nationwide reporting system database found that gastrointestinal disorders (nausea and vomiting) were the leading adverse events, requiring further studies on their prevalence, mechanisms and therapeutic options.
Does it matter why we do restoration? Volunteers, offset markets and the need for full disclosure
Authors: Maron Martine , Louis Winnifred R. 
Published: August 2018

SummaryVolunteers are behind much of the ecological restoration work done in Australia. Private landholders, environmental nongovernment organisations (ENGOs) and community groups all donate time and money to much‐needed restoration and revegetation efforts. Biodiversity offsetting has emerged as a potential source of financial support for such work. We consider the question: should it matter to practitioners of restoration, particularly landholders and volunteers, how it is financed? We argue it should, because when offsets fund restoration work, the net environmental outcome is usually intended to be neutral – not an environmental gain. This is often not clear, because only the localised environmental gain is seen by the restoration practitioner, not the associated loss. For mandated offsets, the restoration work is required to occur regardless of whether the volunteer contributes to it or not, so their contribution only replaces work that would otherwise be done by a commercial provider. We contend that informed involvement in offset provision requires full disclosure, particularly to volunteers and landholders. Unfortunately, however, such transparency does not always occur. We acknowledge that there are valid reasons why well‐informed practitioners might willingly subsidise offset provision, but they might equally choose not to. Furthermore, offsets are intended to cover the full cost of biodiversity damage, creating a disincentive for damage by developers. Yet, subsidies from offset providers work against sending market signals that reflect the true replacement cost of biodiversity. We recommend that all ENGOs, developers, offset funders and brokers commit to transparency, particularly to landholders, donors and volunteers, about the environmental impact that is to be offset and the fact that their involvement generates no additional environmental benefit, as the offset is a condition of approval for a permitted loss, much like the rehabilitation of a mine site. Providing restoration services in partnership with industry may be something that landholders, volunteers and ENGOs are happy to support. But this must be decided consciously, not through unnoticed incremental changes that contradict some volunteers’ values or donors’ understanding of an organisation's mission.
Propensity to plan, financial capability, and financial satisfaction
Authors: Xiao Jing Jian , O'Neill Barbara 
Published: August 2018

AbstractPropensity to plan is an indicator of financial capability that contributes to consumer financial well‐being. Previous research has shown that propensity to plan is positively related to objective financial well‐being but little research was found to examine its association with subjective financial well‐being. Using financial satisfaction to measure subjective financial well‐being, this study addressed this research gap and had three objectives: (1) to explore factors associated with propensity to plan, (2) to examine the association between propensity to plan and financial capability factors, and (3) to examine the association between propensity to plan and financial satisfaction. Using data from the 2015 US National Financial Capability Study, the results showed socioeconomic differences in propensity to plan. The results suggest consumers with more economic resources had higher scores in propensity to plan. In addition, propensity to plan was positively associated with financial capability factors, suggesting financial planning is a desirable financial behavior. Finally, propensity to plan made unique contributions to financial satisfaction after controlling for socioeconomic and other financial capability factors.
Caste‐specific microRNA expression in termites: insights into soldier differentiation
Authors: Matsunami M. , Nozawa M. , Suzuki R. , Toga K. , Masuoka Y. , Yamaguchi K. , Maekawa K. , Shigenobu S. , Miura T. 
Published: August 2018

AbstractEusocial insects have polyphenic caste systems in which each caste exhibits characteristic morphology and behaviour. In insects, caste systems arose independently in different lineages, such as Isoptera and Hymenoptera. Although partial molecular mechanisms for the development of eusociality in termites have been clarified by the functional analysis of genes and hormones, the contribution of microRNAs (miRNAs) to caste differentiation is unknown. To understand the role of miRNAs in termite caste polyphenism, we performed small RNA sequencing in a subterranean termite (Reticulitermes speratus) and identified the miRNAs that were specifically expressed in the soldier and worker castes. Of the 550 miRNAs annotated in the R. speratus genome, 74 were conserved in insects and 174 were conserved in other termite species. We found that eight miRNAs (mir‐1, mir‐125, mir‐133, mir‐2765, mir‐87a and three termite‐specific miRNAs) are differentially expressed (DE) in soldiers and workers of R. speratus. This differential expression was experimentally verified for five miRNAs by real‐time quantitative PCR. Further, four of the eight DE miRNAs in soldier and worker termite castes were also differentially expressed in hymenopteran castes. The finding that Isoptera and Hymenoptera shared several DE miRNAs amongst castes suggests that these miRNAs evolved independently in these phylogenetically distinct lineages.
Association Between Physical Therapy in the Emergency Department and Emergency Department Revisits for Older Adult Fallers: A Nationally Representative Analysis
Authors: Lesser Adriane , Israni Juhi , Kent Tyler , Ko Kelly J. 
Published: August 2018

AbstractObjectivesTo determine whether providing physical therapy (PT) services in the emergency department (ED) improves outcomes for older adults who fall.DesignWe used Medicare claims data to examine differences in recurrent fall‐related ED revisit rates of older adults who presented to the ED for a ground‐level fall and whether they received PT services in the ED. Our logistic regression model controlled for age, sex, Medicaid eligibility, acute injury, and certain known chronic comorbidities associated with risk of falling.SettingWe analyzed national 2012–13 Medicare claims data for individuals aged 65 and older.ParticipantsThis was a claims‐based analysis. We defined an index visit as any ED claim that included an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification E‐Code indicating a ground‐level fall. Visits resulting in admission were excluded, as were claims associated with an individual who died during follow‐up; 17,975 of the 560,277 claims for eligible outpatient index visits included revenue center codes for PT services.MeasurementsWe calculated the proportion of index visits associated with a fall‐related ED revisit within 30 and 60 days and assessed differences in these proportions between individuals who did and did not receive PT services in the ED.ResultsReceiving PT services in the ED during an index visit for a ground‐level fall was associated with a significantly lower likelihood of a fall‐related ED revisit within 30 days (odds ratio (OR)=0.655, p<.001) and 60 days (OR=0.684, p<.001).ConclusionExpanding PT services in the ED may reduce future fall‐related ED use of older adults. Additional analyses could assess characteristics of individuals receiving PT in the ED and follow‐up PT use after discharge. J Am Geriatr Soc 66:2205–2212, 2018.