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A framework for work-based learning: basic pillars and the interactions between them
Authors: Ferrández-Berrueco Reina , Kekale Tauno , Devins David 
Published: January 2016

Purpose
– European policy is placing an increasing emphasis on involving employers and labour market institutions in the design and delivery of higher education (HE) programmes that match curricula to current and future needs of the economy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the curriculum development process for work-based learning (WBL) programmes and to connect it to the basic pillars, organizational and pedagogical strategies and key stages that enable higher education institutions (HEIs) to foster students’ learning, employability and innovation.

Design/methodology/approach
– Case studies of 14 European WBL programmes in HE are reported using interviews and document analysis. These case studies are used to develop a final framework and examples of practice.

Findings
– A framework was designed to develop WBL programmes that include three basic pillars and the interactions between them to enhance learning quality (doctrine), provide authentic experiences (authenticity) and respect the ways of developing and delivering WBL (culture).

Research limitations/implications
– While selecting the cases on this “best practices” basis, some important pitfalls were not discussed. Thus, rather than offering a definitive theory, the authors provide a framework of issues that should at least be taken into account in the different stages of planning, delivery and reflection.

Practical implications
– The framework is simultaneously a kind of “checklist” for WBL curriculum developers.

Originality/value
– The research presents 14 case studies from programmes recognized in six European countries and develops an original WBL programme planning, delivery and evaluation framework that can also be used as a checklist for HEIs offering WBL programmes.
Organizational supports and individuals commitments through work integrated learning
Authors: Pennaforte Antoine Pierre 
Published: January 2016

Purpose– The development of individual work competencies through work integrated learning (WIL) emanates from expectations of students to learn from both the workplace and their educational institution, and an assumption that WIL stakeholders will support them. This exchange between individuals and organizational insiders, according to the social exchange norm of reciprocity, may also nurture organizational behaviors. WIL student-workers may perceive support from insiders, and orient their behaviors to increase their contribution to the host organization in terms of performance, by developing specific bonds of commitment toward different targets. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach– By designing a “WIL perception of workplace support system” including four core stakeholders as a predictor of bonds of commitments, the author tested these relationships on a sample of 2,457 co-op students enrolled in a North American University.Findings– Results globally supported the hypotheses. Student-workers perception of co-workers and supervisor supports developed commitment to team. Student-workers perception of co-workers, supervisor, and organizational supports developed commitment to the host organization and to the work. However, the effect of perception of University support on commitment to host organization and to work was non-significant.Originality/value– Given the lack of studies in the WIL field from an organizational approach, the author propose to investigate what supports are perceived by WIL student-workers, and whether these supports develop specific bonds of commitment.
Intellectual capital reporting, leadership and strategic change
Authors: Slack Richard , Munz Matthias 
Published: January 2016

Purpose
– A change in leadership can signal a shift in corporate strategy to drive future value creation. To help achieve this, a different emphasis may be placed upon the intellectual capital (IC) resources within the organisation. The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes in volume, composition and emphasis of IC disclosure in annual reports mapped against the re-orientation of corporate strategy and associated leadership change.

Design/methodology/approach
– A longitudinal period of over three decades (1979-2010) is examined. Adopting a case-based approach, Daimler AG is purposively selected for this research having a number of distinct changes in strategy over the period, reflective of leadership change. Using content analysis, annual report IC-related disclosures (structural, relational and human capital) by Daimler AG are examined, by category and more detailed sub-categories, against corporate strategy.

Findings
– The composition and emphasis of IC disclosures found in the annual reports changes over the longitudinal period and is reflective of the prevailing corporate strategy at that time. There were four identified periods of strategy, each associated with leadership change. The prevalence and qualitative focus of IC disclosures relevant to each period reflects the importance of respective IC components in corporate value creation.

Research limitations/implications
– The research is based on annual report IC disclosures within one case company and hence reflect the messages conveyed by that company over the longitudinal period. Additionally, the authors recognise that the annual report is only one source of corporate information, but as a historic record it serves to consistently capture management disclosure over a long-time period. Future research, adopting an econometric approach, could further test the linkages between leadership change, strategic shift and IC-related disclosure.

Practical implications
– The research reveals how IC-related disclosure shifts to reflect leadership and strategic change within a case company. Through such disclosure, the authors are able to gain greater insight into how a specific business seeks to create value drawing on the components of IC underpinning corporate strategy.

Originality/value
– The research provides new insights into IC disclosure by mapping its content and emphasis against changes in corporate strategy. This has contemporary significance due to the wider disclosure debate concerning strategy and value creation in the annual report, for instance through integrated reporting. Further, the research shows the value of annual reports for longitudinal disclosure research.
The information content of small business earnings
Authors: Benkraiem Ramzi 
Published: January 2016

Purpose– This paper starts from the observation that small businesses in France report a significant fraction of their net income in the form of non-core earnings. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to examine the persistence and informativeness of both core and non-core earnings of small businesses listed on the Euronext Paris market.Design/methodology/approach– Panel regressions estimated with heteroskedasticity robust standard errors are used to investigate the relationships between earnings components, future performance and stock market valuation of small businesses.Findings– The findings show that core and non-core earnings of the current year (t), contrary to those of the previous year (t−1), make it possible to predict the performance of the next year (t+1). However, only the persistence of current core earnings is valued by the stock market.Research limitations/implications– The study puts forward an anomaly of market efficiency. Thus, it shows that investors in the French stock market do not appropriately price a part of the available financial information (i.e. non-core earnings) that may contribute to a better assessment of the future performance of listed small businesses.Practical implications– The persistence of non-core earnings is certainly less important than that of core elements but able to help investors appraise the future performance of listed small businesses. Hence, it represents useful financial information for investors.Originality/value– This paper contributes to the existing literature by investigating the relationships between earnings, future performance and stock market valuation of listed SMEs, especially. Thus, the findings of this research allow a better understanding of earnings components properties (i.e. persistence) and their implication on the stock market valuation (i.e. informativeness) of listed SMEs. Given the observed specificities of earnings for this category of firms, these findings may be of particular interest to both researchers and investors.
Agency theory: the times, they are a-changin’
Authors: Bendickson Josh , Muldoon Jeff , Liguori Eric , Davis Phillip E 
Published: January 2016

Purpose– Theories develop over time and are influenced by both events and people. Looking primarily at the applications between contracting principal-agent relationships, the purpose of this paper is to explore how agency theory emerged from a number of economic and social developments. In doing so, the authors explain how this once dominant theory comes up short regarding varying realms of entrepreneurship as well as with multiple modern business phenomena.Design/methodology/approach– The authors first present a brief overview of agency theory. Second, the authors identify major events and people and address how they impacted the development of agency theory. Third, the authors provide insights on agency theory across three contexts (strategic entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and family business). Implications, limitations, and future research directions are then offered.Findings– The authors provide a deeper understanding of agency theory, thus broadening its underpinnings and enabling readers to more readily understand why agency theory is limited in its explanation of certain and modern business phenomena. The authors find that some of the seminal influences to agency theory are quite dated which has limited its explanatory power in terms of the modern day business and with more recent disciplines such as entrepreneurship.Research limitations/implications– The authors are limited by their choices of major events that influenced agency theory at the expense of not being able to include everything that may have impacted the theory over time. These limitations, however, are offset by the research implications. As the authors highlight the underpinning of agency theory, the authors subsequently provide scholars and practitioners with five primary boundary conditions, each of which are in need of attention for agency theory to maintain relevant explanatory power.Originality/value– A deeper understanding of agency theory can be gained by looking at its underpinnings. By presenting numerous principal-agent conflicts and demonstrating areas in which it has fallen short (i.e. entrepreneurship and more recent business phenomenon), we shed light on the obstacles agency theory must overcome in order to maintain its position as a prominent theory.
Anti-migration enhanced tracheal stent design, rapid manufacturing and experimental tests
Authors: Fiorentino Antonio , Piazza Cesare , Ceretti Elisabetta 
Published: January 2016

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to focus on tracheal stent production with the aim of investigating the available devices and improving their performances. The biomedical field is a continuously growing area of the market always in search of the most innovative and competitive solutions for healthcare. Beside the actual critical period of the world economy, it shows continuous improvements in research and innovation.

Design/methodology/approach
– Within a market analysis and the collaboration between engineering and biomedical research fields, it was outlined a new product concept able to satisfy the patient’s and physician’s requirements with the focus on the enhancement of the stent anchorage. As a result, the concept of a custom- or tailor-made stent was identified as a potential solution. Moreover, additive technologies were identified as the economically sustainable processes for manufacturing these innovative stents. In the present paper, different types of stents were derived from the proposed concept, they were designed, manufactured and their anchorage capability was tested. In particular, the procedures adopted for their design are described and discussed. Moreover, silicone fused deposition modelling was adopted and two types of deposition method, namely, layer-by-layer and continuous, were used to manufacture the devices identifying their pro, cons and limits. Finally, the stents were tested against migration and results were compared with one of the most widely used today.

Findings
– The results show how additive manufacturing allowed to manufacture more efficient and migration resistant stents.

Originality/value
– It is expected that this new stent design will reduce the risk of complications in stenting, as granulation, thanks to a more uniform stress distribution on the trachea tissues. These improved characteristics will allow to enhance the quality of both the product and the patient’s healthcare.
Unpredictability in seagrass restoration: analysing the role of positive feedback and environmental stress on Zostera noltii transplants
Authors: Suykerbuyk Wouter , Govers Laura L. , Bouma Tjeerd J. , Giesen Wim B. J. T. , de Jong Dick J. , van de Voort Roy , Giesen Kris , Giesen Paul T. , van Katwijk Marieke M. 
Published: January 2016

Summary

Restoration of key species in dynamic coastal ecosystems benefits from reduction in environmental stress. This can be realized by promoting positive feedback (intrinsic processes) or by reducing extrinsic negative forcing.

In a seagrass (Zostera noltii) restoration project in the south‐western Netherlands, we investigated transplantation success in relation to intrinsic processes (i.e. comparing sods vs. single shoots, transplant size, transplant configuration and transplant density) and extrinsic forcing (i.e. bioturbation by Arenicola marina, desiccation and exposure to water dynamics). In total, 2600 m2 of seagrass sods were mechanically transplanted to six intertidal flats over the course of 5 years.

In total, 43% of sod transplants (2·25 m2) survived at the long term, whereas single shoot transplants failed within the first 3 months. The use of larger, or more compact (sod), transplant configurations had no long‐term effect on survival, and initial densities did not affect transplantation success either. Reducing desiccation stress increased the transplantation success during the first growing season. Shielding transplants from bioturbating lugworms had a positive effect on long‐term survival.

Seagrass abundance in summer was related to spring abundance, whereas winter survival was not related to prior seagrass abundance. At four of the six intertidal flats, transplants gradually decreased in size over time. At the other two, extensive colonization occurred around the transplant areas in some years and was still partly present in 2015. A correlation with the studied environmental parameters was not found.

Synthesis and applications. Intrinsic processes favour transplantation development during the growing season, allowing positive feedback. Extrinsic processes favour the development at a longer time‐scale (i.e. reduction in bioturbation, thus breaking the positive feedback of the bare state). Most surprisingly, the starting colonization of two out of six tidal flats could not be related to environmental factors (hydrodynamics, light, emergence time, sediment characteristics, macro‐algae and grazing). Environmental managers can improve transplantation success by restoring the positive feedback, reducing stress, but also via risk spreading by performing transplants over wider areas. They thereby accept the complexity of processes and unpredictable temporal and spatial variation in which transplantation sites turn out to be successful.
Improvement of cardiovascular remodelling by chymase inhibitor
Authors: Takai Shinji , Jin Denan 
Published: January 2016

SummaryChymase has been identified as an angiotensin II‐forming enzyme found in cardiovascular tissues. Angiotensin II is involved not only in the regulation of blood pressure, but also in the progression of cardiovascular remodelling. Interestingly, chymase inhibitors prevent cardiovascular remodelling without lowering blood pressure. The reason why chymase inhibitors do not affect blood pressure may depend on the localization of chymase in vivo. In normal tissues, chymase is stored in mast cell granules and has no enzymatic function; whereas, in damaged tissues, chymase exhibits enzymatic activity immediately following its release from the granules. Chymase also activates transforming growth factor‐β and matrix metalloproteinase‐9, both of which are involved in cardiovascular remodelling, and their enzymatic functions are also observed only in damaged tissues. In animal models of hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolaemia, chymase inhibitors improve cardiovascular remodelling without a general circulatory effect, including blood pressure. Thus, it is proposed that chymase is a potentially important target for preventing cardiovascular diseases.
A conversation analytic study of building and repairing the alliance in family therapy
Authors: Muntigl Peter , Horvath Adam O. 
Published: January 2016

In this paper, we draw from the methods of conversation analysis to illustrate how different alliances that form the ‘web of relationships’ of family therapy are ruptured and subsequently repaired. By focusing on the interactional practices of a master therapist, Dr Salvador Minuchin, we examine how he effectively manages a disaffiliative episode that occurred at the very beginning of a therapy session. In particular, we show how Minuchin's practices function to re‐establish consensus and a positive alliance and to endorse the mother's parental authority (in a context where she claims to be helpless and lack agency). Minuchin thus uses a range of alliance building strategies to join with the family by sharing their distress and, at the same time, moves the conversation forward in a therapeutically‐driven direction to facilitate a restructuring of familial roles and relations.Practitioner points

Find ways to disagree with clients’ position without generating stress or rupture in the alliance
Verbal and nonverbal discursive moves to join with clients can create an inclusive context for the therapy
Discursive strategies can endorse client authority and counter a self‐deprecating client stance
Dartmouth Atlas Area‐Level Estimates of End‐of‐Life Expenditures: How Well Do They Reflect Expenditures for Prospectively Identified Advanced Lung Cancer Patients?
Authors: Keating Nancy L. , Landrum Mary Beth , Huskamp Haiden A. , Kouri Elena M. , Prigerson Holly G. , Schrag Deborah , Maciejewski Paul K. , Hornbrook Mark C. , Haggstrom David A. 
Published: January 2016

ObjectiveAssess validity of the retrospective Dartmouth hospital referral region (HRR) end‐of‐life spending measures by comparing with health care expenditures from diagnosis to death for prospectively identified advanced lung cancer patients.Data/Setting/DesignWe calculated health care spending from diagnosis (2003–2005) to death or through 2011 for 885 patients aged ≥65 years with advanced lung cancer using Medicare claims. We assessed the association between Dartmouth HRR‐level spending in the last 2 years of life and patient‐level spending using linear regression with random HRR effects, adjusting for patient characteristics.FindingsFor each $1 increase in the Dartmouth metric, spending for our cohort increased by $0.74 (p < .001). The Dartmouth spending variable explained 93.4 percent of the HRR‐level variance in observed spending.ConclusionsHRR‐level spending estimates for deceased patient cohorts reflect area‐level care intensity for prospectively identified advanced lung cancer patients.
Comparison of fetuin‐A and transforming growth factor beta 1 levels in patients with spondyloarthropathies and rheumatoid arthritis
Authors: Harman Halil , Tekeoğlu İbrahim , Gürol Gönül , Sağ Mustafa Serdar , Karakeçe Engin , Çİftçİ İhsan Hakkı , Kamanlı Ayhan , Nas Kemal 
Published: January 2016

AbstractAimWe investigated the serum transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFβ1) and fetuin‐A levels, and determined the relationships between these biomarkers and disease activity, mobility and radiologic progression in patients with spondyloarthropathy (SpA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).MethodThe study included 55 patients with SpA and 38 patients with RA, together with 28 healthy subjects. In AS patients, we assessed disease activity using the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), functional ability using the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI), and mobility using the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Metrology Index (BASMI), radiologic progression using the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Radiology Index (BASRI). Serum fetuin‐A and TGFβ1 were determined using enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) equipment.ResultsFetuin‐A was significantly higher in the axial SpA and RA groups than in healthy subjects (P < 0.01). Serum TGFβ1 and fetuin‐A levels were similar in the peripheral SpA group and in healthy subjects. A significant positive correlation was found between the fetuin‐A and TGFβ1 levels in the axial SpA, peripheral SpA, and RA groups (r = 0.293, P = 0.009; r = 0.215, P = 0.04; r = 0.223, P = 0.05, respectively). Significant correlations were found between fetuin‐A and the BASMI and BASRI values in the axial SpA patients (r = 0.444, P = 0.031; r = 0.486, P < 0.001, respectively).ConclusionWe conclude that Fetuin‐A may be one of the steps that can be active in disease progression in axial SpA patients.
Complications after surgery for the relief of dyspareunia in women with lichen sclerosus: a case series
Authors: Burger Matthé P.M. , Obdeijn Miryam C. 
Published: January 2016

AbstractIntroductionThe objective of this study was to analyse complications after surgical intervention on the vulva, especially with grafting of the vaginal epithelium, for the relief of dyspareunia in women with lichen sclerosus.Material and methodsA case series of 23 women with histologically confirmed lichen sclerosus who underwent vulvar surgery because of disabling sexual dysfunction. Surgical care was provided in a university hospital (tertiary referral center) between 2008 and 2012. The interventions were posterior vestibuloplasty (perineoplasty), dehooding of the glans clitoridis and anterior vestibuloplasty with grafts of vaginal epithelium.ResultsA posterior vestibuloplasty was performed in all 23 women. Short‐term complications included postoperative infection with subtotal dehiscence of the advanced vaginal epithelium (n = 1), and reactivation of lichen sclerosus with the formation of bullae due to the postoperative discontinuation of dermatosteroid use (n = 1). The long‐term complications included localized pain (n = 3); although the relation with the surgical intervention was unclear. Four women underwent dehooding of the glans clitoridis, all without complications. Anterior vestibuloplasty with a free full‐thickness graft of vaginal mucosa was performed in five women. One woman underwent a second operation because of contraction and keratinization of the graft. The importance of estrogens for the condition of the graft was unclear.ConclusionsAfter reconstructive vulvar surgery in women with lichen sclerosus, issues such as infection, reactivation of the disease and pain require attention. The use of vaginal grafts in the repair of the anterior vestibule is a novel approach and deserves further exploration.