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Dating business cycles in India
Authors: Pandey Radhika , Patnaik Ila , Shah Ajay 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to present a chronology of Indian business cycles in the post-reform period. In India, earlier, macroeconomic shocks were about droughts and oil prices. Economic reforms have led to an interplay of a market economy, financial globalisation and decisions of private firms to undertake investment and hold inventory. This has changed the working of the business cycle and has raised concerns about business-cycle stabilisation. In the backdrop of these developments, the macroeconomics research agenda requires foundations of measurement about business-cycle phenomena. One element of this is the identification of dates of business-cycle turning points.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses the growth-cycle approach to present the chronology of business cycles. The paper uses the Christiano–Fitzgerald (CF) filter to extract the cyclical component and shows the robustness of the findings to the contemporary methods of cycle extraction. It then applies the Bry–Boschan algorithm to identify the dates of peaks and troughs.

Findings
The paper finds three periods of recession. The first recession was from 1999-Q4 to 2003-Q1; the second recession was from 2007-Q2 to 2009-Q3; and the third recession ran from 2011-Q2 till 2012-Q4. These results are robust to the choice of filter and to the choice of the business-cycle indicator. These dates suggest that, on average, expansions in India are 12 quarters in length and recessions run for 9 quarters. The paper offers evidence of change in the nature of cycles.

Originality/value
Dates of business-cycle turning points are a critical input for academic and policy work in macroeconomics. The paper offers robust estimation of the business-cycle turning points in the post-reform period using contemporary techniques of cycle extraction. This work helps lay the foundations for downstream macroeconomics research by academicians and policymakers.
Anger expression and suppression at work: causes, characteristics and predictors
Authors: Booth Jill , Ireland Jane L. , Mann Sandi , Eslea Mike , Holyoak Lynda 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
This study aims to explore the causes, characteristics and consequences of workplace anger expression and suppression, with an additional aim of testing the emotional dimension of Affective Events Theory.

Design/methodology/approach
Participants (n = 187) from management and non-management positions completed an event-contingent anger diary over a period of four working weeks, alongside measures on trait anger and job satisfaction.

Findings
Over 50 per cent of the sample disclosed anger-causing events. In keeping with Affective Events Theory, disposition was important, with trait anger higher in those disclosing anger-causing events. There appeared a range of factors predicting the expression of anger, with these focused primarily on individual issues and pre-existing emotion rather than work characteristics.

Originality/value
Through consideration of management and non-management workers and by using a longitudinal design, the study highlights the importance of individual factors in understanding workplace anger. It notes the value in focusing on discrete emotion. The findings offer a clear direction for future research that could assist with enhancing models of workplace emotion, particularly if the aim is to account for discrete emotions.
Vulnerable populations in food deserts: a case study
Authors: Wood Van , Thomas Manoj 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the realities of food deserts and the vulnerable populations in urban areas in the USA; review underlying causes of these realities; and propose a set of solutions to address challenges facing vulnerable populations living in urban food deserts.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper presents a case study with a focus on a specific vulnerable population living in a food desert in the inner city of Richmond, Virginia.

Findings
While vulnerable populations and food deserts have much in common, in general, they both reflect, for specific groups of people, a failure to achieve or even having a chance to achieve the American dream. In particular, they reflect the economic, social, culture and education disenfranchisement of many citizens in society.

Originality/value
This exploratory paper and case study offers a beginning reference point to both understand and deal with urban food deserts and the vulnerable populations that reside there-in. Food deserts are a serious problem that is historically based and contemporarily reinforced by economic, social and cultural/community realities in society. By first understanding these realities, the paper calls for research and action.
Variations in involvement: motivating bystanders to care for senior citizens
Authors: Keller Sarah , Wilkinson Timothy 
Published: May 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to determine the impact of a senior service advertising campaign designed to increase volunteerism and financial donations among bystanders.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional mail survey was administered to 2,500 adults; 384 usable responses were obtained. Survey responses were analyzed by level of exposure and involvement in senior care.FindingsHigh-involvement individuals viewed the ads more favorably and exhibited stronger senior caretaking intentions. Low-involvement consumers were less likely to see their own potential contributions to senior care services as effective.Research limitations/implicationsCharacterizing involvement in terms of awareness, awareness involvement, perceived severity and perceived susceptibility, provides a starting point for future examinations of the relationship between involvement, perceived efficacy and various forms of promotion.Practical implicationsFrom a practitioner’s standpoint, this study identifies specific features of campaign design and audience profiling that might increase the effectiveness of bystander interventions. This study offers not only constructs that can be used for identifying particular audience subsets but also illustrates the practical ways in which perceived susceptibility and perceived response efficacy to a given issue can be addressed through a mass media campaign.Social implicationsSnowballing healthcare costs coupled with an avalanche of baby boomers entering the elderly phase of the life cycle make the need for bystander involvement in the lives of seniors increasingly important.Originality/valueWith limited theoretical and practical guidance on how to motivate bystanders to engage in prosocial behaviors, health communicators and marketers are challenged to address a vast range of public health issues that require citizen engagement. The research reviewed and presented here indicates the hope for engaging the public to become active players in making the nation a safer and healthier place.
Design of repairable regular steel buildings with square plan based on seesaw motion of building structure and using DADAS dampers
Authors: Nejati Faezeh , Hosseini Mahmood , Mahmoudzadeh Amir 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
Almost design code is required for repairability of the buildings after a major earthquake. One such idea is “directed-damage design” (DDD), which means guiding the damage to some pre-decided parts of the structural system. To use the DDD idea for creation of repairable buildings, in this study, a structural system with seesaw motion with respect to a central massive support has been considered for steel buildings with square plan, and the bottom ends of the all circumferential columns at the lowest story have been equipped with double-ADAS (DADAS) dampers, which dissipate a great portion of the seismic input energy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the hysteretic behavior of DADAS dampers by using finite element analysis. At first, a set of regular steel multistory buildings with five stories have been designed based on the conventional code provisions. Then, the structures of the designed buildings have been changed into the structure with seesaw motion by using, at the base level of the building, a massive central column, eliminating other middle columns, and equipping circumferential columns with DADAS dampers.

Design/methodology/approach
For repairability buildings in the last three mentioned studies a set of orthogonal strong girders, in the form of grid, has been used. In the present study, the number of bays in the considered building is four in both directions. A major modification has been made in the yielding-plate energy dissipating elements of the circumferential columns, which makes their manufacturing and installation much practical as illustrated in the following sections of the paper.

Findings
In the proposed rocking structural system for regular multistory steel buildings, creation of the possibility of rocking motion has been done by using a space truss resting on a huge central hinge support at base level with a series of circumferential energy dissipating columns at that level.

Originality/value
One such idea is DDD idea, which means guiding the damage to some pre-decided parts of the structural system.
Network traffic reduction mechanism for collaborative Web activities
Authors: Donen Tsuyoshi , Otsubo Shingo , Nishide Ryo , Piumarta Ian , Takada Hideyuki 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to reduce internet traffic when performing collaborative Web search. Mobile terminals are now in widespread use and people are increasingly using them for collaborative Web search to achieve a common goal. When performing such searches, the authors want to reduce internet traffic as much as possible, for example, to avoid bandwidth throttling that occurs when data usage exceeds a certain quota.

Design/methodology/approach
To reduce internet traffic, the authors use a proxy system based on the peer cache mechanism. The proxy shares Web content stored on mobile terminals participating in an ad hoc Bluetooth network, focusing on content that is accessed multiple times from different terminals. Evaluation of the proxy’s effectiveness was measured using experiments designed to replicate realistic usage scenarios.

Findings
Experimental results show that the proxy reduces internet traffic by approximately 20 per cent when four people collaboratively search the Web to find good restaurants for a social event.

Originality/value
Unlike previous work on co-operative Web proxies, the authors study a form of collaborative Web caching between mobile devices within an ad hoc Bluetooth network created specifically for the purpose of sharing cached content, acting orthogonally to (and independently of) traditional hierarchical Web caching.
Design and analysis of a self-lubricating nuclear joint bearing above 320°C
Authors: Cao Jun , Yin Zhongwei , Cui Yuqing , Li Hulin , Gao Gengyuan , Wang Xinbo 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to solve the problem of most woven-fabric self-lubricating bearings that find it difficult to function at temperatures above 320°C, by designing a new type of new nuclear joint bearing. The results of this study will help designers to achieve accurate stress distribution, displacement deformation, fatigue life and damage of bearings. All of these can be a guide for designing self-lubricating joint bearings.

Design/methodology/approach
Finite element analysis is undertaken to simulate the new design bearings. To get the most appropriate and accurate results, the room temperature simulation (Simulation A), the modulus of elasticity that changes with temperature (Simulation B) and the thermal-structure-coupled simulation (Simulation C) are compared. The fatigue simulation is conducted to verify whether the self-lubricating method is reasonable and whether the bearing can function for over 60 years in an enclosed environment.

Findings
Stress distribution and displacement deformation of joint bearing can be accurately achieved via the thermal-structure coupled simulation. Work life and damage results have been achieved via the fatigue analysis, and the suggested working loads can be calculated via safety factors.

Originality/value
The newly designed joint bearing in which the graphite is laid on the outside of the inner ring functions and self-lubricates at temperatures above 320°C.
Air barrier effect in out of mesh jet lubrication of ultra-high speed spur gears
Authors: Niu Wentao , Wang Yanzhong , Chen Yanyan , Song Guanhua 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to reveal the mechanism of air barrier effect in jet lubrication and to figure out the influence of gear parameters and conditions on air barrier, thus providing guidance to the design of jet lubrication in ultra-high speed gear cooling system.

Design/methodology/approach
The computational fluid dynamics method is used to calculate the flow and pressure of ultra-high speed gears. The flow and pressure distributions are obtained under different gear parameters and working conditions, so their variations are obtained. A multiphase flow model is established to simulate the flow regime of oil jet to ultra-high speed gears. Simple experiments are carried out to observe the air barrier effect of high-speed gears.

Findings
Air barrier effect exists in the jet lubrication of ultra-high speed spur gears, which could prevent oil jet to reach on the gear surfaces. The results show that the generated pressure has positive relations with gear speed, module and width; however, as the increasing of gear width, their marginal contribution to pressure is decreasing. The computational results coincide well with the experimental results.

Originality/value
The research presented here proposed the air barrier effect of ultra-high speed gears for the first time. It also leads to a design reference guideline that could be used in jet lubrication of ultra-high speed gears, thus preventing lubrication and cooling failures.
Young adults, alcohol and Facebook: a synergistic relationship
Authors: Jones Sandra C. , Pettigrew Simone , Biagioni Nicole , Daube Mike , Chikritzhs Tanya , Stafford Julia , Tran Julien 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
There is a growing body of research into the utilisation of social networking sites (SNS) by alcohol marketers, but less research into how young people utilise SNS to create their own meanings of, and interactions with, alcohol. The purpose of this study was to explore young adults’ perceptions of the nexus between alcohol and SNS.

Design/methodology/approach
In total, 60 adults aged 18-21 years took part in an intensive data collection process over six months. All references to social media in the interviews, focus groups and written introspections were compiled and analysed.

Findings
Results showed social media use stimulates alcohol consumption and alcohol consumption stimulates social media use. Four main themes emerged: social engagement, identity, drinking culture and distancing. Participants reported being constantly exposed to, and often influenced by, images of their peers enjoying themselves while consuming alcohol, with little representation of negative outcomes.

Research limitations/implications
The relationship between SNS, social norms and drinking behaviours is complex; there is a need for further research into the dynamics of this relationship to inform social marketing interventions.

Originality/value
While there is a body of research into commercial references to alcohol on SNS, there is less research into the ways young people utilise SNS to create their own meanings of, and interactions with, alcohol. The consumer research that has been conducted to date has focused on quantifying references to alcohol and drinking behaviours, observing profiles or surveying users. This study addresses a key gap in the literature that is needed to inform social marketing interventions to reduce excessive alcohol consumption: when, why and how do young people post about alcohol.
An analysis of sustainability report assurance statements
Authors: Rossi Adriana , Tarquinio Lara 
Published: May 2017

PurposeThis paper aims to achieve the following objectives. First, through a longitudinal study, the authors explore the trend of voluntary external assurance of sustainability reports among Italian listed companies from 2008 to 2012. Thus, the authors aim to analyse the content level of the assurance statements and to test whether it is affected by certain corporate variables and by the type of practitioner chosen.Design/methodology/approachA legitimacy theory framework is adopted to investigate the phenomenon of sustainability report assurance services in Italy. The authors developed an assurance statement disclosure index (ASDI) constructed on the basis of the standards ISAE 3000 and AA1000AS. Thus, the authors tested whether the ASDI is affected by certain corporate variables using an ordinary least square (OLS) regression model. To test how each specific item is related to the assurance provider, a contingency table was developed.FindingsThe results of this paper show many differences in the assurance statements content in particular with reference to the criteria used, conclusive comments and recommendations. The presence of a corporate social responsibility committee and an expert who serves on it is positively related to a higher rank on the ASDI. In contrast, Big4 firms seem to be associated with a lower disclosure rank. Finally, Big4 are positively associated with the indications of the provider’s characteristics and negatively with their conclusive comments and recommendations.Originality/valueThis paper presents some findings in an area where little evidence exists, that is, the effects of some variables on the quantity of information disclosed in the assurance statements.
Basic solution of two collinear mode-I cracks in the orthotropic medium by use of the non-local theory
Authors: Liu Haitao 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the basic solution of two collinear mode-I cracks in the orthotropic medium by the use of the non-local theory.

Design/methodology/approach
Meanwhile, the generalized Almansi’s theorem and the Schmidt method are used. By the Fourier transform, it is converted to a pair of dual integral equations.

Findings
Numerical examples are provided to show the effects of the crack length, the distance between the two collinear cracks and the lattice parameter on the stress field near the crack tips in the orthotropic medium.

Originality/value
The present solution exhibits no stress singularity at the crack tips in the orthotropic medium.
The effect of temperature-dependent properties on generalized magneto-thermo-elastic medium with two-temperature under three-phase-lag model
Authors: Othman Mohamed I.A. , Elmaklizi Yassmin D. , Mansoure Nehal T. 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the propagation of plane waves in an isotropic elastic medium under the effect of rotation, magnetic field and temperature-dependent properties with two‐temperatures.

Design/methodology/approach
The problem has been solved analytically by using the normal mode analysis.

Findings
The numerical results are given and presented graphically when mechanical and thermal force are applied. Comparisons are made with the results predicted by the three-phase-lag (3PHL) model and dual-phase-lag model in the presence and absence of cases where the modulus of elasticity is independent of temperature.

Originality/value
In this work, the authors study the influence of rotation and magnetic field with two‐temperature on thermoelastic isotropic medium when the modulus of elasticity is taken as a linear function of reference temperature in the context of the 3PHL model. The numerical results for the field quantities are obtained and represented graphically.
Transversal skills development through cooperative learning. Training teachers for the future
Authors: Larraz Natalia , Vázquez Sandra , Liesa Marta 
Published: May 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyze and assess the impact of cooperative learning in the acquisition of generic skills in teaching students.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology underlying this research has a qualitative orientation. Anad hocquestionnaire has been used as an instrument, in addition to a team notebook, and the observation as procedure to analyze the perceptions of the students in the process.FindingsThe main results indicate that thanks to the active methodologies, more specifically, the cooperative learning, students develop and improve transferable skills, such as negotiation, leadership, teamwork, reflection, etc. Similarly, the authors have observed improvements in the classroom environment and their social interactions.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitations and possible implications of this study are in the direction of analyzing the implemented cooperative learning methodology techniques to observe the existence of differences in learning. Moreover, they are also related to the analyzing of individual implications for teamwork to assess group learning and its influence on motivation and teamwork. Finally, they are related to the analysis of the involvement of observation and self-regulatory mechanisms in the teamwork learning.Practical implicationsWith this research, the authors incise in the necessary methodological change in universities, responding to the demands of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and highlight the importance of using active methodologies.Social implicationsCooperative learning is an effective teacher training tool for future teachers who will have to develop in an interpersonal context and, in turn, will teach students who need to acquire a personal and social skills.Originality/valueThis paper evaluates the impact of using active methodologies and how they contribute to the development of transversal or generic competencies in a real context of university learning.
Digital technology and marketing management capability: achieving growth in SMEs
Authors: Foroudi Pantea , Gupta Suraksha , Nazarian Alireza , Duda Marta 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationships between digital technology, tangible/intangible assets and marketing capabilities to gain more insight into the factors related to small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs’) growth in the UK. Based on the resource-advantage theory, this research addresses the question “to what extent does digital technology influence marketing capability which leads to companies’ growth?”

Design/methodology/approach
Data were gathered through 21 in-depth interviews with managers from different multinational organizations and six focus groups with employees.

Findings
The study identifies the two key components of digital technology as information quality and service convenience. In addition, the relationships between digital technology, tangible/intangible assets and marketing capabilities perform the significant role of facilitator of a company’s growth.

Research limitations/implications
The focus on UK SMEs limits the generalizability of the results. Further studies should be conducted in other sectors and country settings to examine the associations identified in the current study.

Originality/value
This study identifies the main impacts of digital technology on intellectual/physical assets. While managers and employees have specified that marketing capability is significant for organizations, there are a few other areas of concern with regard to consequences related to a company’s growth, competence and core competence, particularly in an SME’s setting.