bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Leader-member exchange, safety climate and employees’ safety organizational citizenship behaviors in container terminal operators
Authors: Lu Chin-Shan , Weng Hsiang-Kai , Lee Chih-Wen 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
Container terminal operation is one of the most risky industries. Many of the accidents that occurred were found to be caused by human errors. However, it seems relatively little research has been conducted to examine the influence of leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship on employee safety behavior. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the effects of leader-member exchange and safety climate on employees’ safety organizational citizenship behaviors (SOCB) in the container terminal context based on the social exchange theory.

Design/methodology/approach
A structural equation modeling was used with confirmatory factor analysis, and survey data are collected from 265 employees in major container terminals in Taiwan.

Findings
Results indicated that LMX is positively associated with safety climate, whereas safety climate positively influences employees’ safety citizenship behavior. Specifically, results indicated that safety climate mediates the effect of LMX on employees’ SOCB.

Research limitations/implications
This study was limited to LMX dimensions adapted from the studies of Li and Liao (2014) and Vidyarthiv et al. (2014). Future research could examine the linkages between LMX, ethical climate, safety performance and supervisor leadership influence. Furthermore, this research focused specifically on employees from the container terminal operators in Taiwan. It would be valuable to collect data from employees from other countries to obtain a balanced view of the relationship between LMX, team-member exchange (TMX), safety climate and employee SOCB in container terminal operations.

Practical implications
This research provides a useful implication for container terminal operators to enhance LMX qualities and employee safety behavior through organizational participation, employee-helping behaviors and informing workers to obey safety rule and regulation.

Originality/value
Given the prevalence of accidents and unsafe behavior in container terminal operations, this research sought to examine the relationships among LMX, safety climate and employee SOCB in the container terminal context. Theoretically, this study highlights the importance of LMX and safety climate in explaining the SOCB of employees.
Challenging toxic masculinity in schools and society
Authors: Elliott Kathleen 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to discuss the contours and consequences of simplified, toxic forms of masculinity in schools and society.

Design/methodology/approach
Using a lens influenced by a feminist cultural critique, the author situates concerns about gender, power and inequality in current events in the American culture.

Findings
The author argues that toxic masculinity supports and is supported by gendered patterns of power that perpetuate broad inequalities and that schools have an important role to play in challenging these inequalities.

Practical implications
The paper includes concrete steps that educators can take to interrupt and teach against toxic masculinity and to involve young men and boys in this work as allies.

Social implications
The author argues that these steps have powerful social implications given schools’ influence as socializing institutions.

Originality/value
In this way, the paper’s value lies in highlighting how, by including discussions of masculinity and involving men and boys, schools can build on previous successes in fighting gender inequality that were aimed at girls and young women to effect a broad cultural transformation and help create a more just and equitable society.
Accounts of the future
Authors: Palermo Tommaso 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the design and use of scenarios in planning and management control processes.

Design/methodology/approach
The study is based on an exploratory case-study approach. Qualitative data have been collected between 2008 and 2011 from three energy companies operating in Italy.

Findings
The paper sheds light on three styles of designing and using scenarios. In the first (called “reactive”), scenarios provide a means for corporate actors to analyse past performance in the light of future expected performance. In the second (“proactive”), scenarios contribute to envision different future states of the world. In the third (“disciplined”), scenarios contribute to develop plausible, if not accurate, narratives about future outcomes.

Research limitations/implications
The study is comparative and exploratory. Possible areas for further work based on in-depth studies of scenarios within planning and control processes are identified.

Practical implications
The comparative analysis of the case-study material has implications for the ways in which flexible forms of management control can be mobilised by managers as a resource of action. It is shown that choices around the design and use of scenarios can mitigate some concerns with traditional planning and management control processes focused on the achievement of a single set of targets, but also raise new ones.

Originality/value
The paper sheds light on a scenario-based approach – called “disciplined flexibility” – that avoids the restrictive nature of budgetary controls without losing the benefits of setting a plan and a target for the future. The paper outlines elements that may support the use of “disciplined flexibility”, but also its potential limitations.
Comparison and optimization of PVD and CVD method on surface roughness and flank wear in hard-machining of DIN 1.2738 mold steel
Authors: Kara Fuat , Öztürk Burak 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the performance of the machining parameters used in the hard-turning process of DIN 1.2738 mold steel and identify the optimum machining conditions.

Design/methodology/approach
Experiments were carried out via the Taguchi L18 orthogonal array. The evaluation of the experimental results was based on the signal/noise ratio. The effect levels of the control factors on the surface roughness and flank wear were specified with analysis of variance performed. Two different multiple regression analyses (linear and quadratic) were conducted for the experimental results. A higher correlation coefficient (R2) was obtained with the quadratic regression model, which showed values of 0.97 and 0.95 for Ra and Vb, respectively.

Findings
The experimental results indicated that generally better results were obtained with the TiAlN-coated tools, in respect to both surface roughness and flank wear. The Taguchi analysis found the optimum results for surface roughness to be with the cutting tools of coated carbide using physical vapor deposition (PVD), a cutting speed of 160 m/min and a feed rate of 0.1 mm/rev, and for flank wear, with cutting tools of coated carbide using PVD, a cutting speed of 80 m/min and a feed rate of 0.1 mm/rev. The results of calculations and confirmation tests for Ra were 0.595 and 0.570 µm, respectively, and for the Vb, 0.0244 and 0.0256 mm, respectively. Developed quadratic regression models demonstrated a very good relationship.

Originality/value
Optimal parameters for both Ra and Vb were obtained with the TiAlN-coated tool using PVD. Finally, confirmation tests were performed and showed that the optimization had been successfully implemented.
The Impact of the 1918 Reform Act on the Politics of the West Midlands
Authors: Cawood Ian 
Published: March 2018

AbstractDespite the impact of the Representation of the People Act of 1918 on the political culture of the west midland region in the interwar years, the elements of continuity in the politics of the region are striking. The Labour Party failed to dislodge the Unionists’ political control in the region (with the exception of the Black Country) for most of the 1920s and 1930s, notwithstanding the presence of a significant industrial working‐class population in the bulk of the region's constituencies. The essay argues that the lack of a significant redistribution of seats in the region, in spite of wartime growth in all urban areas, enabled the well‐organised and well‐funded Unionist organisations controlled by Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain to adapt their cross‐class, non‐denominational message to appeal to the newly‐enlarged electorate. Although the Labour Party appeared on the brink of a breakthrough in the west midlands, owing to this ‘franchise factor’, the Unionists adapted better to the new age of mass communications and political sloganeering which replaced the Edwardian politics of confrontation and public meetings. The Representation of the People Act of 1918 may have changed the political culture of elections in Britain, but, in the west midlands at least, it did not alter the Unionists’ ability to manage the outcomes of the elections.
The Impact of the 1918 Reform Act in Ireland
Authors: Coakley John 
Published: March 2018

AbstractIronically, the Representatiion of the People Act of 1918, the penultimate measure in democratising the electoral franchise in the United Kingdom, had the effect not of modernising and consolidating political structures there but rather of paving the way for the kingdom's break‐up. The near‐threefold increase in the size of the Irish electorate opened the door to radical political forces, permitting the newly‐minted republican‐nationalist Sinn Féin party to win an overwhelming majority of Irish seats. Since the Sinn Féin members refused to attend parliament in Westminster and instead sought to establish an Irish republic, this effectively ended southern Irish representation in the house of commons. The act also facilitated a tightening of the Unionist grip in the northern part of the island, leading to the partition of Ireland in 1921: Northern Ireland continued as a near‐independent component of the United Kingdom, while the rest of Ireland left the United Kingdom in 1922. The essay explores the dynamics of this process, considering five matters in turn: the Irish political context within which the 1918 Reform Act was located; the nature of the act's provisions as they applied to Ireland; the outcome in Ireland of the first general election under the act; the extent to which this outcome was conditioned by the terms of the Reform Act; and the longer‐term consequences of the act. It concludes that the significance of the act for Ireland lay more in the domain of ideology than of constitutional law, given its symbolic importance for later generations of Irish nationalist activists.
A new permutation test statistic forK‐sample multivariate designs
Authors: Samonenko I. , Robinson J. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryWe consider permutation tests based on a likelihood ratio like statistic for the one way ork‐sample design where the observations arel‐dimensional vectors. This generalizes both the univariatek‐sample case and the two sample multivariate case used in the examples of Kolassa and Robinson. We also give a saddlepoint approximation for the permutation test. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the accuracy of the saddlepoint approximation and the improvement in the power of the tests compared to the classical statistics in the case of long tailed error distributions and no loss of power for normal error distributions.
Tail sums of Wishart and Gaussian eigenvalues beyond the bulk edge
Authors: Johnstone Iain M. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryConsider the classical Gaussian unitary ensemble of size N and the real white Wishart ensemble with N variables and n degrees of freedom. In the limits of large N and n, with positive ratio γ in the Wishart case, the expected number of eigenvalues that exit the upper bulk edge is less than one, approaching 0.031 and 0.170 respectively, the latter number being independent of γ. These statements are consequences of quantitative bounds on tail sums of eigenvalues outside the bulk which are established here for applications in high dimensional covariance matrix estimation.
Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts: What Can We Learn from 40 Years of China's Reform and Opening up?
Authors: Cai Fang 
Published: March 2018

AbstractChina's reform, opening up and resultant economic growth in the past 40 years have led to the accumulation of an immense array of experiences, which economists are obligated to look into, analyze and theorize upon. In fact, the rich literature in this area has positively assessed and documented China's successful experiences. However, theories that were established in Western countries have been applied as doctrine to judge China's experiences. By adopting an analytical framework unifying historical logic and theoretical logic, the purpose of this paper is to reveal the unique Chinese experience and its relevance to the general laws of economic development. Based on the experiences of and in reference to research findings about China, this paper chronicles the process of reform, opening up and economic growth, and analyzes the nexus between them. The study demystifies how the incentive mechanism, the factor accumulation and allocation system, market development, and macro policy environment reforms have spurred China's economic growth, structural changes and the increase in productivity. The changes in development stage are examined and policy implications for further reform are discussed.
Birt‐Hogg‐Dubé syndrome: an underdiagnosed genetic tumor syndrome
Authors: Steinlein Ortrud K. , Ertl‐Wagner Birgit , Ruzicka Thomas , Sattler Elke C. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryBirt‐Hogg‐Dubé syndrome (BHD, also referred to as Hornstein‐Knickenberg syndrome) is an autosomal dominant tumor syndrome caused by mutations in the FLCN gene located on chromosome 17. Depending on their age, patients with BHD may exhibit various clinical signs and symptoms. Disease severity can vary greatly among members of the same family. Early symptoms include basal lung cysts, which can lead to recurrent spontaneous pneumothoraces. The majority of patients (> 90 %) develop multiple fibrofolliculomas, especially on the face and upper trunk, in the second or third decade of life. Given the 12–34 % lifetime risk of developing benign or malignant renal tumors, targeted screening programs are prognostically crucial. While these renal tumors may belong to various histological subtypes, common variants include multifocal – sometimes bilateral – chromophobe and oncocytic hybrid tumors. Early diagnosis and adequate long‐term care of families with BHD require interdisciplinary cooperation.
Birt‐Hogg‐Dubé‐Syndrom: ein zu selten diagnostiziertes erbliches Tumorsyndrom
Authors: Steinlein Ortrud K. , Ertl‐Wagner Birgit , Ruzicka Thomas , Sattler Elke C. 
Published: March 2018

ZusammenfassungDas Birt‐Hogg‐Dubé‐Syndrom (BHD‐Syndrom, eigentlich Hornstein‐Knickenberg‐ Syndrom) ist ein autosomal dominant erbliches Tumorsyndrom, welches durch Mutationen im FLCN‐Gen auf Chromosom 17 verursacht wird. Patienten mit BHD‐Syndrom können altersabhängig verschiedene Symptome zeigen, deren Ausprägung auch innerhalb einer Familie unterschiedlich schwer sein kann. Ein frühes Symptom sind basal betonte Lungenzysten, welche Ursache wiederholter Spontanpneumothoraces sein können. Die Mehrheit der Patienten (> 90 %) entwickelt im mittleren Lebensalter zahlreiche Fibrofollikulome vor allem im Gesicht und am Oberkörper. Für die Prognose entscheidend ist eine gezielte Tumorvorsorge, da ein Lebenszeitrisiko von 12–34 % für benigne und maligne Nierentumoren besteht. Die Nierentumoren beim BHD‐Syndrom können verschiedenen histologischen Subgruppen angehören, wobei multifokale, auch bilaterale Hybridtumoren mit chromophoben und onkozytären Anteilen häufig sind. Die frühzeitige Diagnosestellung ebenso wie die langfristige Betreuung von Familien mit BHD‐Syndrom erfordern eine interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit.
Analyse der pharmazeutischen Versorgungssituation von Patienten mit Psoriasis‐Arthritis auf Basis von Routinedaten der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung
Authors: Sondermann Wiebke , Ventzke Julia , Matusiewicz David , Körber Andreas 
Published: March 2018

ZusammenfassungHintergrundDie Psoriasis‐Arthritis (PsA) gehört zu den chronisch entzündlichen Gelenkerkrankungen. Trotz zahlreicher versorgungswissenschaftlicher Studien in Deutschland liegen zur pharmazeutischen Versorgungssituation von PsA‐Patienten bisher kaum aktuelle Ergebnisse vor.Studienpopulation und MethodikMit Hilfe einer systematischen Literaturrecherche sowie anhand von Routinedaten der Allgemeinen Ortskrankenkasse (AOK) Rheinland/Hamburg wird ein aktueller Überblick über die pharmazeutische Versorgung von PsA‐Patienten in Deutschland gegeben. Selektiert wurden Versicherte aus dem ambulanten und stationären Bereich, die im 1. und 2. Quartal des Jahres 2014 die gesicherte Abrechnungsdiagnose Psoriasis‐Arthritis L40.5+ aufwiesen. Anschließend wurden auf Basis dieser „vorab definierten“ Kohorte die Arzneimitteldaten für 5 Jahre (01.01.2010‐31.12.2014) abgerufen.ErgebnisseEs konnten insgesamt n = 3205 Versicherte (45 % männlich, 55 % weiblich) der AOK Rheinland/Hamburg mit einer gesicherten PsA‐Diagnose selektiert werden. Das Durchschnittsalter betrug 58,9 Jahre. 53,7 % der PsA‐Patienten wurden mit systemischen PsA‐relevanten Arzneimitteln versorgt. Nichtsteroidale Antirheumatika (NSAR) wurden am häufigsten verordnet, gefolgt von systemischen Glucocorticoiden. Von den selektierten PsA‐Patienten, die eine Systemtherapie erhielten, wurden 72,1 % mittels einer Disease‐modifying‐antirheumatic‐Drug (DMARD)‐Monotherapie behandelt, gefolgt von der Kombinationstherapie aus DMARDs und Biologika (20,9 %).SchlussfolgerungenDie pharmakologische Therapie der PsA muss eine Gewährleistung zwischen adäquater Versorgung der PsA mit Verhinderung der Krankheitsprogression und ökonomischer Verantwortung darstellen.
A House of Living Stones
Authors: Potter Philip 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis report to the 6th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Vancouver in 1983 describes the church as a “House of Living Stones,” based on the First Letter of Peter. The ecumenical movement is the means by which the churches that form the house, the oikos of God, are seeking to live and witness before all peoples. The image of the house of living stones is a reminder that only as the churches relate to each other as living stones will they discover new realities about their essential calling to be the church, the house of the triune God, as a fellowship of confessing, learning, participating, sharing, healing, reconciliation, unity, and expectancy to the glory of God.
Reformation, Africa, and Diakonia
Authors: Phiri Isabel Apawo 
Published: March 2018

AbstractWhat does the inheritance of Reformation mean for Africa in church and in society in the context of the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace of the World Council of Churches? This article argues that the commemoration of the Reformation provides important markers for the global and ecumenical context drawing from the three dimensions of the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace; namely, celebrating the gifts of the Reformation, visiting the wounds of injustices, and identifying areas that require transformation or have already showed signs of hope for transformation toward justice for all. Throughout the conversation, there is constant questioning of what the Reformation should look like in the context of Africa to reject distortion of truth and embrace the experience of justice for all. For the way forward, the proposal is made that focusing on action through diakonia will bring meaningful transformation in the church and society in a way that promotes ecumenism and life in fullness for all the children of God and God's creation.
Emilio Castro: A Passion for the Gospel
Authors: Sintado Carlos A. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis article reviews the role of Emilio Castro as general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1985–1992), highlighting his involvement in the Conciliar Process for Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation; his appreciation for Orthodox spirituality and theology; and his commitment to strengthening relationships with Pentecostals and evangelicals.
Eugene Carson Blake: Renewal in Church and Society
Authors: Gill Theodore A. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis article reviews the ecumenical involvement of Eugene Carson Blake, the second general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) from 1966 to 1972, focusing on the support for the US civil rights movement and rejection of racism that he brought with him to the WCC. It also examines his role at the WCC's 4th Assembly, in Uppsala, which is often seen as a turning point in ecumenical history.
Willem A. Visser ‘t Hooft: The Future of Peace
Authors: Rein Gerhard 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis is an edited translation of an address given on 20 July 2017, the 73rd anniversary of the bomb plot against Adolf Hitler, at the Adam von Trott Foundation in Imshausen, Germany. It recalls the contacts of Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, the first general secretary of the World Council of Churches, with the German resistance during the Second World War, discusses the relevance of their vision of the post‐war future to contemporary politics, and highlights the significance of Visser 't Hooft for the ecumenical movement.
The Mandate of the Ecumenical Movement
Authors: Visser 't Hooft Willem A. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis is the text of the address given by Willem A. Visser 't Hooft to the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in 1968 after being named honorary president of the WCC, following his retirement as general secretary two years earlier. In this address, Visser 't Hooft reviews the 20th‐century history of the ecumenical movement and the contemporary mandate of the WCC, in which the central issue is the relationship between the church and the world, where the vertical dimension to God of the church's unity determines the horizontal dimension of its service to the world. The address concludes with four challenges: no horizontal advance without vertical orientation; the ecumenical movement and the churches need each other; church unity is important; and youth expects answers.
Complete Genome Sequence of the Environmental Burkholderia pseudomallei Sequence Type 131 Isolate MSHR1435, Associated with a Chronic Melioidosis Infection
Authors: Sahl Jason W. , Mayo Mark , Price Erin P. , Sarovich Derek S. , Kaestli Mirjam , Pearson Talima , Williamson Charles H. D. , Nottingham Roxanne , Sheridan Krystal , Wagner David M. , Currie Bart J. , Keim Paul 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

The
Burkholderia pseudomallei
isolate MSHR1435 is a fully virulent environmental sequence type 131 (ST131) isolate that is epidemiologically associated with a 17.5-year chronic melioidosis infection. The completed genome will serve as a reference for studies of environmental ecology, virulence, and chronic
B. pseudomallei
infections.
Metagenomic Exploration of Microbial Signatures on Periyar River Sediments from the Periyar Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats
Authors: Chakkamadathil Rajeev Aparna , Sahu Nishi , Deori Maushumi , Arun Dev Suma , Pal Yadav Vijay , Ghosh Ilora 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

We report here targeted deep-sequencing metagenomic data that reveal a high level of diversity in the microbiota residing in the sediment of the Periyar River in a reserve forest of the Western Ghats. Of the 4,674 operational taxonomic units discovered, the dominant phyla represented were
Proteobacteria
(33.12%),
Actinobacteria
(14.58%),
Acidobacteria
(12.81%), and
Bacteroidetes
(9.89%).
First Complete Genome Sequence of Cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus from Papua New Guinea
Authors: Maina Solomon , Barbetti Martin J. , Edwards Owain R. , Minemba David , Areke Michael W. , Jones Roger A. C. 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

Analysis of an RNA-Seq library from cucumber leaf RNA revealed the first complete genome sequence of
Cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus
(CABYV) from Papua New Guinea. We compared it with 36 complete CABYV genomes from other world regions. It most resembled the genome of South Korean isolate GS6.