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“Bouncing back” after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Authors: Grattan Lynn M. , Brumback Babette , Roberts Sparkle M. , Buckingham-Howes Stacy , Toben Alexandra C. , Morris Glenn 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe psychological and behavioral consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster were among the most widespread, long term, and costly of all oil spill-related disasters. However, many people were resilient, and understanding the factors associated with resilience in the immediate aftermath of this disaster are needed to guide early interventions. The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 133 adults from the Northeast Gulf Coast participated in a study of mental health outcomes during the oil spill and one year later. Participants completed a battery of measures that assessed their basic demographics, income status, perceived environmental risk (i.e. characteristic way people think about and interpret environmental risks), self-reported resilience (i.e. ability to “bounce back” after a disaster), and mental health status.FindingsResults of univariate analyses indicated similar, elevated levels of mental health problems at both time points; however, environmental risk perception was higher one year post-spill than during the spill. In multivariate analyses, income stability, increased time, higher self-reported resilience, and lower environmental risk perception were associated with better mental health outcomes while age and gender had no association.Originality/valueOil spills are protracted disasters, and better mental health outcomes are linked to financial stability, as well as a belief in environmental restoration and one’s own capacity for resilience. Since resilience and environmental worry are potentially modifiable processes, they might be targeted in prevention and early intervention efforts in order to create more robust, prepared individuals in the face of an oil spill disaster.
Climate change from the lens of Malolos children: perception, impact and adaptation
Authors: Berse Kristoffer 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to understand how Filipino children perceive climate change; second, to determine how children themselves adapt to its impacts; and third, to identify the level of support available at the household, community, and city levels as children adjust to their changing environment.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative study was conducted in three peri-urban communities in Malolos, Philippines, looking at the perception and adaptation mechanisms of children in the face of climate change, using Lazarus and Folkman’s typology for children’s coping strategies in stressful situations. The support that children receive at the household, community, and city levels was also examined.FindingsClimate change has impacted the daily lives of children, aggravating in particular the “everyday” and “invisible” risks of those who belong to poor households. In general, emotion-focused coping that hinges on denial or distancing did not seem to be prominent among children; many of them were rather pre-disposed to problem-focused coping as they try to cope with the impacts of climate change in their immediate environment. Unfortunately, however, interventions to mitigate the impacts of climate change on children at the household, community, and city levels were found to be lacking.Research limitations/implicationsThe selected communities do not represent the wide spectrum of localities in the Philippines. At best, findings from the small sample size provide only a snapshot of the conditions of children living in peri-urban areas.Practical implicationsThe study points to the need for child-sensitive climate change adaptation at the household, community, and city levels to support the coping mechanisms of children.Originality/valueThe study adopts a multi-level approach at understanding the impacts of climate change on Filipino children and the interventions that they and other social institutions have undertaken in response thereto. Findings add empirical evidence to growing literature on the subject, especially in the context of the Philippines where academic studies on the matter remain scant.
Exploring public universities as social enterprises
Authors: Miles Morgan P. , Verreynne Martie-Louise , McAuley Andrew , Hammond Kevin 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how universities attempt to balance meeting their traditional mission of education, research and community engagement while remaining economically sustainable.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey was conducted in 2014 of university executives and found that universities in Australia are rapidly transitioning from public supported institutions to an organizational form much more like social enterprise, with all of the organizational, marketing and ethical ramifications.

Findings
Australian universities were found to be focused on maintaining financial viability and that the most significant source of future revenue for Australian universities is perceived to be from international students.

Originality/value
The findings have tremendous public policy and ethical implications – suggesting a shift in the classification of university education from what was generally considered a public good to what is increasingly perceived as a private good in the contemporary market place, with the increasing importance of international students.
Uncovering the structures and maturity of the new service development research field through a bibliometric study (1984-2014)
Authors: Mendes Glauco H.S. , Oliveira Maicon Gouvea , Gomide Eduardo H. , Nantes José Flávio Diniz 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a deeper understanding of the new service development (NSD) research field. It addresses its scientific production, social and intellectual structures, and maturity.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a bibliometric-based literature review. Quantitative and qualitative analyses are performed on a sample of 277 NSD articles (published from 1984 to 2014). These articles are organized into four periods to improve the analyses from an evolutionary perspective: Early Writings (1984-1995), Advancing of Literature (1996-2001), Progressive Literature (2002-2008), and Recent Works (2009-2014).

Findings
The scientific production in the NSD field has grown significantly over these four periods, and the entry of new authors has extended the social structure. However, collaboration networks seem disconnected from one another. Nonetheless, the intellectual structure has shown great progress, making NSD an independent area of research and discovery from the new product development domain, with its own foundations and expansions into new topics. Although the NSD research field has not yet reached maturity, it is consistently moving toward it.

Originality/value
This study delivers a multiperspective view of research on NSD using a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach. It provides new insights into the discussion of the field’s maturity and can be used as a roadmap for academics and practitioners who would like to understand the state of existing knowledge and are looking for research opportunities.
Leveraging marketer-generated appeals in online brand communities
Authors: Weiger Welf H. , Wetzel Hauke A. , Hammerschmidt Maik 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The proliferation of online brand communities has shifted control over brands from firms to consumers. Demonstrating how marketers can stimulate consumers to use these opportunities and engage with the brand in such communities, the purpose of this paper is to address the effectiveness of normative and utilitarian appeals commonly employed in practice for enhancing engagement intensity and brand equity in turn.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents two studies at an individual user level. The first study builds on matched data on marketing actions, user behavior, and user perceptions from a Facebook brand community. The second study uses an experiment with members of a firm-hosted online brand community. The authors employ seemingly unrelated regressions while controlling for self-selection.

Findings
Marketer-generated appeals have a positive effect on brand equity that is mediated by engagement intensity. However, the strength of these effects depends highly on community, user, and relationship characteristics.

Practical implications
Generally speaking, marketer-generated appeals are effective tools for marketers to build brand equity through enhanced user engagement. However, their effectiveness can be improved when managers use a targeted approach. To offer precise managerial guidance, this paper shows how entertainment value, content consumption asymmetry (e.g. whether a user prefers user-generated content over marketer-generated content), and membership duration increase or lower the impact of appeals in building the brand through engagement intensity.

Originality/value
The authors provide evidence that appeals designed to drive user engagement in online brand communities are effective tools for boosting brand equity.
The impact of sustainable supplier management practices on buyer-supplier performance
Authors: Yang Fan , Zhang Xiongfei 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThis paper aims to present an empirical study on the multidimensional relationships between sustainable supplier management (SSM) practices and buyer–supplier performance from the buying firms’ perspective. Specifically, the authors focus on four SSM practices, namely, sustainable supplier selection, sustainable supplier monitoring, sustainable supplier development and sustainable supplier collaboration, and test their effects on three buyer–supplier performance measures, namely, supplier performance, buyer–supplier relationship and buyer competitive advantage.Design/methodology/approachBased on data collected from 256 manufacturers across different geographical areas and industrial branches in Greater China. A conceptual model was proposed and tested using structural equation modeling technique with the help of SmartPLS 3.0.FindingsThe sustainable supplier development and sustainable supplier collaboration have positive relationships with supplier performance, while sustainable supplier selection, sustainable supplier monitoring and sustainable supplier collaboration have positive influence on buyer–supplier relationship and buyer competitive advantage. Furthermore, the relative importance and contributions of the individual measures was also identified.Originality/valueThis study simultaneously integrates the constructs of SSM practices and buyer–supplier performance. Moreover, it seeks to make a contribution to existing literature from a theoretical perspective by investigating the sub-dimensions of SSM practices and buyer–supplier performance.
Scenario planning as organizational intervention
Authors: Balarezo Jose , Nielsen Bo Bernhard 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThis paper aims to identify four areas in need of future research to enhance the theoretical understanding of scenario planning (SP), and sets the basis for future empirical examination of its effects on individual and organizational level outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThis paper organizes existing contributions on SP within a new consolidating framework that includes antecedents, processes and outcomes. The proposed framework allows for integration of the extant literature on SP from a wide variety of fields, including strategic management, finance, human resource management, operations management and psychology.FindingsThis study contributes to research by offering a coherent and consistent framework for understanding SP as a dynamic process. As such, it offers future researchers with a systematic way to ascertain where a particular study may be located in the SP process and, importantly, how it may influence – or be influenced by – various factors in the process.Originality/valueThis study offers specific research questions and precise guidelines to future scholars pursuing research on SP.
Going global in groups: a relevant market entry strategy?
Authors: Masiero Gilmar , Ogasavara Mario Henrique , Risso Marcelo Luiz 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify whether the new Chinese phenomenon of going global in groups represents a more advantageous market entry mode than the phenomena considered in previous studies.

Design/methodology/approach
In this empirical research paper, the authors draw upon the literature in academic journals and books regarding the Chinese special economic zones overseas to analyze and compare collective internationalization (i.e. going global in groups) with traditional market entry modes as per the ownership, location and internalization paradigm (OLI) and transaction cost approach (TCA).

Findings
The authors identified that financial and diplomatic support provided by the Chinese Government has reinforced internationalization in groups, thereby minimizing some structural risks in host countries. Pre-operational and operating costs have been lowered or shared among group members, and weighted average cost of capital has dropped due to the availability of specific funding lines with subsidized interest rates.

Research limitations/implications
Given the lack of available literature on the topic, the authors based their study of the collective internationalization of Chinese firms on very few cases, most of which represent market entry in African countries.

Practical implications
The study calls attention to a new, more efficient and less risky characteristic of international entry modes, which implies that companies can reap multiple benefits by entering markets in global groups.

Originality/value
As literature addressing market entry modes focuses mostly on individual enterprises, this paper contributes to the identification of advantages in collective internationalization.
Accountability regimes in federal‐provincial Labour Market Agreements 1995‐2015
Authors: Wood Donna E. , Klassen Thomas R. 
Published: March 2017

AbstractWorkforce development policy in Canada has undergone extensive reforms in the past two decades, often driven by intergovernmental pressures. Many of these reforms, including the transfer of thousands of federal civil servants to the provinces, along with $2.5 billion annually, have occurred largely unnoticed by the public, or even recipients of services. Accountability measures have remained weak as the federal and provincial governments have few incentives to increase public scrutiny. In particular, transparency (making information available for public scrutiny) and justification (the provision of reasons for decisions) are inadequate. A more inclusive public accountability framework in the policy area needs to be developed that can support innovation in programs.
High‐resolution HLA‐A, ‐B and ‐DRB1 allele and haplotype frequencies in 7823 Han marrow donors of Liaoning province, China
Authors: Shao L.‐N. , Zhang S.‐T. , Yu W.‐J. , Zhou S.‐H. , Duan Y. , Pan L.‐Z. , Wang N. , Liu M. 
Published: March 2017

BackgroundThe human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system is the most polymorphic gene cluster in humans. High‐resolution donor‐recipient matching for HLA genes improves patient survival after unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Materials and MethodsIn this study, we analyzed the high‐resolution allele and haplotype frequencies at the HLA‐A, ‐B and ‐DRB1 loci in the Liaoning Han population and analyzed its relationships with other populations.ResultsThe 3 most frequent alleles at the HLA‐A, ‐B and ‐DRB1 loci were A*24:02, A*02:01:01G, A*11:01; B*13:02, B*46:01, B*40:01:01G; DRB1*09:01, DRB1*15:01 and DRB1*07:01, respectively. The most frequent 2‐locus haplotypes were A*30:01‐B*13:02 and B*13:02‐DRB1*07:01. A*30:01‐B*13:02‐DRB1*07:01 was determined to be the predominant 3‐locus haplotype. Hot maps and multiple correspondence analyses based on the frequencies of HLA specificities, which allow statistical visualization of dependent and independent relationships among variables, indicate that the Liaoning Han population is closely related to Northern populations of China and shows relative close relationships with Asian populations.ConclusionThese data will provide an outline of the HLA characteristics of healthy individuals in our region and help bone marrow transplantation patients find suitable HLA‐matched donors.
Decomposition-Coordinating Method for Parallel Solution of a Multi-area Combined Economic Emission Dispatch Problem
Authors: Krishnamurthy Senthil , Tzoneva Raynitchka 
Published: March 2017

<p>Multi-area Combined Economic Emission Dispatch (MACEED) problem is an optimization task in power system operation for allocating the amount of generation to the committed units within the system areas. Its objective is to minimize the fuel cost and the quantity of emissions subject to the power balance, generator limits, transmission line and tie-line constraints. The solutions of the MACEED problem in the conditions of deregulation are difficult, due to the model size, nonlinearities, and the big number of interconnections, and require intensive computations in real-time. High-Performance Computing (HPC) gives possibilities for the reduction of the problem complexity and the time for calculation by the use of parallel processing techniques for running advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly. These applications are considered as very new in the power system control centers because there are not available optimization methods and software based on them that can solve the MACEED problem in parallel, paying attention to the existence of the power system areas and the tie-lines between them. A decomposition-coordinating method based on Lagrange’s function is developed in this paper. Investigations of the performance of the method are done using IEEE benchmark power system models.</p>
A Novel Approach to PID Controller Design for Improvement of Transient Stability and Voltage Regulation of Nonlinear Power System
Authors: Chaudhary Rekha , Singh Arun Kumar , Agrawal Saligram 
Published: March 2017

<p>In this paper, a novel design method for determining the optimal PID controller parameters for non-linear power system using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is presented. The direct feedback linearization (DFL) technique is used to linearize the nonlinear system for computing the PID (DFL-PID) controller parameters. By taking an example of single machine infinite bus (SMIB) power system it has been shown that PSO based PID controller stabilizes the system and restores the pre-fault system performance after fault is cleared and line is restored. The performance of this controlled system is compared with the performance of DFL-state feedback controlled power system. It has been shown that the performance of DFL-PID controlled system is superior compared to DFL-state feedback controlled system. For simulation MATLAB 7 software is used. </p>
Experimental and Simulation Studies of Thermal Distribution on Modified Connector of Li-Ion Battery for Electric Vehicles Application
Authors: Risdiyanto Agus , Khayam Umar , A. Rachman Noviadi , Arifin Maulana 
Published: March 2017

<p>One of the several failure cases in electric vehicle could be occured at the Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery connectors when loaded by high current. This failure caused by bad contact of connectors so that the contact resistance increase and lead to high power losses, overheating, and it can even cause a fire hazard. This paper presents a thermal distributions of Li-ion battery connectors on different coating material in relation to the value of contact resistance. There were two test samples of modeled: copper connection without coating and copper connection with silver coating. Each sample was loaded by the DC current of 350A, and temperature at the connection was measured until steady state condition reached and simulated by Solidwork software. The results show that the temperature at the inside contact area was higher than the outside contact area of connection that appears caused by higher of the contact resistance. Both measurement and simulation results have same tendency that copper connection with silver coating having lower contact resistance, lower maximum temperature, and lower losses about 32 % than copper connection without coating. Silver coating can be considered as other alternative to prevent overheating, high losses, and failure in Li-ion battery connector.</p>
Circuit Models of Lossy Multic onductor Transmission Lines: Incident Plane Wave Effect
Authors: Mohamed Saih , Hicham Rouijaa , Abdelilah Ghammaz 
Published: March 2017

<p>In this paper, we concentrate on the variety impacts of incident plane wave on multiconductor transmission lines, utilizing Branin’s method, which is alluded to as the method of characteristics. The model can be directly used for the time-domain and frequency-domain analyses, Moreover, it had the advantage of being used without the need of setting the preconditions of the charges applied to its ends; this permits it to be effortlessly embedded in circuit simulators, for example Spice, Saber, and Esacap. This model validity is affirmed by contrasting our simulation results under ESACAP and different results, and we will talk about variety impacts of incident plane wave.</p>
Environment Friendly Voltage Up-gradation Model for Distribution Power Systems
Authors: Nithiyananthan K. , Umasankar Umasankar 
Published: March 2017

<p>The main aim of this research work is to analyze and develop voltage up gradation procedure model for effective &amp; economic power distribution in urban and suburban area. Voltage up gradation from 6.6KV to 11KV of the distribution power system network has been considered for the proposed research work. Electric power consumption has been increasing uninterruptedly, being this increase specially accelerated in the last few years. Nowadays electric lines are saturated; they are reaching critical values of ampere capacity and sag. Therefore, building new lines has been necessary to provide the ever increasing consumption. The difficulty to find new corridors to construct new distribution lines, underground cables is increasing in cities, industrial areas and in many cases it is simply impossible. The construction of new electric lines is increasing difficulty, thus there is a need to look at alternatives that increases the power transfer capacity. Voltage up gradation of the existing electric cables/lines of the distribution system is the most viable solution and it stresses on the savings of power due to a reduction in system losses when the voltage is high. The proposed research work is to develop and analyze voltage up gradation procedures and protocols for converting 6.6KV network into 11KV network in a distributed system. It also takes into account the expenses incurred in the process and the various other important constraints.</p>