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A comprehensive insight into the Six Sigma DMAIC toolbox
Authors: Uluskan Meryem 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
As opposed to general literature reviews, by narrowing down the context only around the resources related to Six Sigma tools, this study aims to offer a strong discussion about Six Sigma toolbox which has a vital role in the success of Six Sigma.

Design/methodology/approach
Based on a comprehensive literature research, the most used tools; classification of tools; flow of tools with respect to define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) steps; tools as critical success factors and reasons of ineffective use of tools are reviewed. To stay focused and not to diverge from the research aim, 60 articles which are suitable to the context and flow of the discussion are selected during the construction of the study.

Findings
The study provides a detailed and integrated review of Six Sigma articles about tools. The most used tools are listed from different perspectives and resources, and the role of these tools has been discussed. After a broad review, a more practical and combined classification of Six Sigma tools is proposed. Next, the issue of using which tools during which steps of DMAIC is systematically addressed. Finally, emergence of tools as a critical success factor and the gaps in the literature related to tools of Six Sigma are pointed out.

Practical implications
Addressing important statistics and the facts related to the tools of Six Sigma helps new practitioners in particular to build a strategic filter to select the most proper tools throughout their projects.

Originality/value
This study is unique in investigating only Six Sigma toolbox and providing a literature review on this subject.
A systematic literature review of Lean Six Sigma in different industries
Authors: Raja Sreedharan V. , Raju R. 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to review Lean Six Sigma (LSS) literature and report different definitions, demographics, methodologies and industries.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper highlights various definitions by different researchers and practitioners. A total of 235 research papers has been reviewed for the LSS theme, research methodology adopted, type of industry, author profile, country of research and year of publication.

Findings
From the review, four significant LSS classifications were identified that deal with the spread of LSS in different industries followed by observation for classification.

Practical implications
LSS is a strategy for success, but it did not examine its presence in various Industries. From this paper, readers can understand the quantum of its spread before implementing LSS. For academicians, it will be a comprehensive list of papers for research.

Originality/value
This paper reviews 235 research papers for their year, author profile, research methodology and type of industry. Various characteristics of LSS definitions and their theme are also reviewed.
Leveraging new knowledge with relational capabilities
Authors: Martins Jorge Tiago , Canhoto Rosa 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
This paper aims to identify and conceptualize a set of relational capabilities that school libraries in the Alentejo region of Portugal develop for acquiring new knowledge that exists externally in the wider community.

Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative research design operationalized via case studies was followed for the empirical analysis. Empirical findings are based on the analysis of the 84 narrative reports submitted by school libraries as part of a national performance evaluation exercise that took place between 2010 and 2012. Data analysis followed the techniques of inductive data categorization, within case-analysis, and cross-case analysis.

Findings
The exploration of the relational capabilities that school libraries in the Alentejo region of Portugal develop for acquiring new knowledge that exists externally in the community resulted in the identification of relationships that school libraries in the region have established to acquire new knowledge: connecting with and supporting organizations committed to civic engagement; facilitating discussions about challenging issues through strategic partnerships; convening community conversations to identify shared concerns and solutions; and embracing local culture to foster endogenous development.

Originality/value
The ability to seek and recognize the value of new and external knowledge, assimilate it and apply it to organizational ends has been traditionally linked to the concept of absorptive capacity. While absorptive capacity literature in business settings is prolific, literature that focuses on school libraries’ ability to identify and explore external knowledge and applying it to improve their performance is scarce. Focusing on the specific context of the Alentejo region of Portugal as an archetypical rural area, this paper identifies how knowledge existing externally in the community is absorbed by rural school libraries through specific relational capabilities that reflect school libraries’ community orientation and engagement in participatory processes that develop social resilience.
Use of electronic journal resources by postgraduate students at the University of Dar es Salaam
Authors: Katabalwa Anajoyce Samuel 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
This paper aims to assess the use of electronic journal resource at the University of Dar es Salaam. The study involved the postgraduate students in the School of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam.

Design/methodology/approach
A combination of questionnaires for postgraduate students and interview for the reference librarians was used, whereby 100 postgraduate students and six reference librarians were involved in the study. SPSS and content analysis were used to analyse the data.

Findings
Major findings of the study reveal that majority of the students reported using electronic journal resources for various purposes including working on the assignments, research proposal writing, literature review, research report writing, current awareness, leisure and for extra exploration of ongoing scientific debates through peer-reviewed papers. The challenges encountered in the use of electronic journal resources include power outage, inadequate bandwidth, slow download speed, inability to access the resources from home, lack of training, lack of awareness, limited access to computers and difficulty in searching. Finally, the recommendations for improving the use of electronic journal resources are provided.

Originality/value
This is the first time an effort has been made to assess the use of electronic journal resources by postgraduate students in the School of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam. The study could be used to assess the postgraduate students’ need for electronic resources at the University of Dar es Salaam and other users in higher learning institutions.
Embracing the future while storing the past: the Joint Library Facility story
Authors: vanDuinkerken Wyoma , Romano Joanne 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Joint Library Facility services and how Medical Science Libraries have embraced the Resource in Common model to save service copies for their patron’s use while allowing libraries to reclaim critically needed space and develop library services that better meet the needs of their patrons.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper begins with a description of the Joint Library Facility and its targeted users. It will discuss how this unique library storage facility shares ownership of its material with other libraries to reduce duplication of low-use print items on library shelves.

Findings
Although electronic materials are more popular with library patrons, there is still scholarly value in keeping low-use print materials as service copies.

Originality/value
This paper is a case study of a unique library storage facility that shares ownership of its material with other libraries. Its findings will help other libraries plan and implement their own shared print repository.
Revised guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of acquired idiopathic generalized anhidrosis in Japan
Authors: Munetsugu Takichi , Fujimoto Tomoko , Oshima Yuichiro , Sano Kenji , Murota Hiroyuki , Satoh Takahiro , Iwase Satoshi , Asahina Masato , Nakazato Yoshihiko , Yokozeki Hiroo 
Published: October 2016

AbstractAcquired idiopathic generalized anhidrosis (AIGA) is characterized by an acquired impairment in total body sweating despite exposure to heat or exercise. Severe cases may result in heatstroke. Most cases of AIGA have been reported in Asia, especially in Japan. However, there is limited information on the epidemiology of this condition, and no diagnostic criteria or appropriate treatment options have been established. This guideline was developed to fill this gap. It contains information on the etiology, diagnosis, evaluation of disease severity and evidence‐based recommendations for the treatment of AIGA. Appropriate treatment according to disease severity may relieve the clinical manifestations and emotional distress experienced by patients with AIGA.
Habitat and taxon as driving forces of carbohydrate catabolism in marine heterotrophic bacteria: example of the model algae‐associated bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT
Authors: Barbeyron Tristan , Thomas François , Barbe Valérie , Teeling Hanno , Schenowitz Chantal , Dossat Carole , Goesmann Alexander , Leblanc Catherine , Oliver Glöckner Frank , Czjzek Mirjam , Amann Rudolf , Michel Gurvan 
Published: October 2016

SummaryThe marine flavobacterium Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT was isolated from a red alga and by now constitutes a model for studying algal polysaccharide bioconversions. We present an in‐depth analysis of its complete genome and link it to physiological traits. Z. galactanivorans exhibited the highest gene numbers for glycoside hydrolases, polysaccharide lyases and carbohydrate esterases and the second highest sulfatase gene number in a comparison to 125 other marine heterotrophic bacteria (MHB) genomes. Its genome contains 50 polysaccharide utilization loci, 22 of which contain sulfatase genes. Catabolic profiling confirmed a pronounced capacity for using algal polysaccharides and degradation of most polysaccharides could be linked to dedicated genes. Physiological and biochemical tests revealed that Z. galactanivorans stores and recycles glycogen, despite loss of several classic glycogen‐related genes. Similar gene losses were observed in most Flavobacteriia, suggesting presence of an atypical glycogen metabolism in this class. Z. galactanivorans features numerous adaptive traits for algae‐associated life, such as consumption of seaweed exudates, iodine metabolism and methylotrophy, indicating that this bacterium is well equipped to form profitable, stable interactions with macroalgae. Finally, using statistical and clustering analyses of the MHB genomes we show that their carbohydrate catabolism correlates with both taxonomy and habitat.
Various Approaches to the Aggregation of Economic Productivity Indices
Authors: Balk Bert M. 
Published: October 2016

AbstractThis paper discusses the aggregation of economic productivity indices, in particular Caves, Christensen and Diewert and Moorsteen–Bjurek indices. As part of the theory, some proposals developed in a number of recent papers (co‐) authored by Valentin Zelenyuk are put into context. Alternatives are offered which at the same time show that meaningful aggregation is not so simple.
Biased dispersal ofMetrioptera bicolor, a wing dimorphic bush‐cricket
Authors: Heidinger Ina Monika Margret , Hein Silke , Feldhaar Heike , Poethke Hans‐Joachim 
Published: October 2016

AbstractIn the highly fragmented landscape of central Europe, dispersal is of particular importance as it determines the long‐term survival of animal populations. Dispersal not only secures the recolonization of patches where populations went extinct, it may also rescue small populations and thus prevent local extinction events. As dispersal involves different individual fitness costs, the decision to disperse should not be random but context‐dependent and often will be biased toward a certain group of individuals (e.g., sex‐ and wing morph‐biased dispersal). Although biased dispersal has far‐reaching consequences for animal populations, immediate studies of sex‐ and wing morph‐biased dispersal in orthopterans are very rare. Here, we used a combined approach of morphological and genetic analyses to investigate biased dispersal ofMetrioptera bicolor, a wing dimorphic bush‐cricket. Our results clearly show wing morph‐biased dispersal for both sexes ofM. bicolor. In addition, we found sex‐biased dispersal for macropterous individuals, but not for micropters. Both, morphological and genetic data, favor macropterous males as dispersal unit of this bush‐cricket species. To get an idea of the flight ability ofM. bicolor, we compared our morphological data with that ofLocusta migratoriaandSchistocerca gregaria, which are very good flyers. Based on our morphological data, we suggest a good flight ability for macropters ofM. bicolor, although flying individuals of this species are seldom observed.
The Effects of Out‐of‐Regime Guidance on Auditor Judgments About Appropriate Application of Accounting Standards
Authors: Scott Asay H. , Brown Tim , Nelson Mark W. , Jeffrey Wilks T. 
Published: October 2016

AbstractAccountants making judgments with respect to a particular set of standards are increasingly aware of standards from other reporting regimes that offer additional or conflicting guidance. In fact, IFRS encourages reliance on out‐of‐regime standards when IFRS lacks guidance. This paper reports the results of two experiments which provide evidence that auditors in such circumstances are vulnerable to contrast effects, whereby reporting judgments under IFRS are systematically influenced away from the accounting treatment supported by standards from another regime (U.S. GAAP). Contrast effects are observed (i) when out‐of‐regime standards are considered before making a reporting judgment under IFRS, and (ii) when out‐of‐regime standards are applied as local GAAP for a subsidiary of a foreign parent that reports under IFRS. We also find that contrast effects are reduced when auditors believe IFRS lacks guidance. These results have implications for financial statement preparers and auditors in the current incomplete‐convergence environment.
Clinical and genetic heterogeneity in Slovenian patients with BEST disease
Authors: Glavač Damjan , Jarc‐Vidmar Martina , Vrabec Katarina , Ravnik‐Glavač Metka , Fakin Ana , Hawlina Marko 
Published: October 2016

AbstractPurposeTo determine the spectrum of BEST1 mutations and to study the phenotype in Slovenian families with Best vitelliform macular dystrophy (BVMD) to identify genotype–phenotype correlations.MethodsTwenty patients from five families underwent the ophthalmological examination including electrooculogram (EOG; N = 17), fundus autofluorescence imaging (N = 16) and optical coherence tomography (N = 14). Mutational screening was performed by direct DNA sequencing of the BEST1 gene.ResultsMutation c.43G>C (p.Gly15Arg) was detected in three patients from family M presenting with different clinical stages of Best disease. Mutation c.313G>C (p.Arg105Gly) was found in families K, ST, S, B and was associated with incomplete clinical penetrance and variable retinal changes, including extramacular and multifocal lesions. In three patients from family K, an atypical form of BVMD was observed; there were additional peripheral lesions outside of the vascular arcades in addition to the typical macular lesions. Multiple alterations between the vitelliruptive and pseudohypopyon stages over a period of 11 years were seen in one patient.ConclusionTwo previously unreported disease‐associated variants in the BEST1 gene (p.Gly15Arg and p.Arg105Gly) were found in Slovenian patients with Best disease. Our data expand the mutation spectrum of the BEST1 gene and further support the broad phenotypic variability observed clinically and with optical coherence tomography (OCT) and AF imaging.
Sentinel lymph node biopsy for ocular adnexal melanoma
Authors: Pfeiffer Margaret L. , Ozgur Omar K. , Myers Jeffrey N. , Peng Andrew , Ning Jing , Zafereo Mark E. , Thakar Sudip , Thuro Bradley , Prieto Victor G. , Ross Merrick I. , Esmaeli Bita 
Published: October 2016

AbstractBackgroundWe sought to update our prior report of findings on sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and predictors of a positive SLN in patients with conjunctival or eyelid melanoma.MethodsWe reviewed the records of all patients with ocular adnexal melanoma who underwent SLNB at one institution during 2000–2015. We determined rates of positive and false‐negative findings on SLNB, primary tumour features correlated with positive findings and rate of nodal recurrence (false‐negative event) after negative findings.ResultsThe study included 51 patients, 31 with conjunctival and 20 with eyelid melanoma. These patients include 30 patients who underwent SLNB during 2000–2008, described in our previous report, and 21 additional patients who underwent SLNB during 2008–2015. There were 30 women and 21 men with median age at SLNB of 62 years (range, 24–83). The nodal basins most commonly sampled were intraparotid (27 patients) and level II (14 patients). Ten patients had positive SLNB findings. Compared to tumours with negative findings, tumours with positive findings had greater median thickness (3.5 mm versus 2.2 mm, p = 0.04), greater median number of mitotic figures (6 versus 2, p = 0.03) and greater incidence of ulceration (80% versus 26%, p = 0.003). Perineural and vascular invasion were not significantly associated with positive findings. There were three false‐negative events. Three patients (6%) had temporary marginal mandibular weakness which resolved spontaneously.ConclusionSLNB in patients with ocular adnexal melanoma is safe and identifies nodal micrometastasis in approximately 20% of cases. Histologic features associated with a positive SLN included greater tumour thickness, greater number of mitotic figures and ulceration.
Thickness of macular inner retinal layers and peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer in neuromyelitis optica spectrum optic neuritis and isolated optic neuritis with one episode
Authors: Peng Chunxia , Wang Wei , Xu Quangang , Yang Mo , Zhou Huangfen , Zhao Shuo , Wei Shihui 
Published: October 2016

AbstractPurposeThe aim of this study was to evaluate the differences between macular inner retinal layers and peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer (pRNFL) thickness in Chinese patients with neuromyelitis spectrum optic neuritis (NMOSD‐ON) and isolated optic neuritis (ION) with only one episode.MethodsThis cross‐sectional study included 35 patients (35 eyes) with NMOSD‐ON (NMO‐IgG seropositive) and 46 patients (46 eyes) with ION after one episode. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD‐OCT) was used to quantify pRNFL, macular RNFL (mRNFL), ganglion cell and inner plexiform layers (GCIPL) and inner nuclear layer (INL) thickness using an automated algorithm. Differences in OCT parameters between NMOSD‐ON and ION were compared after adjusting for age, sex and disease duration.ResultsThe pRNFL and mRNFL in some locations (average pRNFL, nasal pRNFL, nasal inferior (NI) pRNFL, nasal/temporal (N/T) ratio pRNFL, average mRNFL, inner temporal mRNFL, outer nasal mRNFL and outer temporal mRNFL) in NMOSD‐ON differed significantly from those in ION (all p < 0.05). These parameters had moderate diagnostic accuracy, with area under curves (AUCs) ranging from 0.684 to 0.762 for pRNFL and from 0.660 to 0.700 for mRNF. The thickness of GC‐IPL and INL in all sectors was similar in NMOSD‐ON and ION (p > 0.05). This study and our meta‐analysis of four previous studies obtained consistent results, with pooled mean difference (MD) −10.4 μm (95% CI: −12.4 to −8.4, p < 0.001) for pRNFL, −1.5 μm (95% CI: −3.5 to 0.6, p = 0.158) for mRNFL and 0.2 μm (95% CI: −0.4 to 0.9, p = 0.490) for GC‐IPL, respectively.ConclusionsNeuromyelitis spectrum optic neuritis (NMOSD‐ON) patients had more pRNFL and mRNFL loss compared to ION patients after one episode. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD‐OCT) may help to distinguish NMOSD‐ON from ION with only moderate diagnostic accuracy.
Towards better characterization and quantification of emulsification of silicone oil in vitro
Authors: Chan Yau Kei , Czanner Gabriela , Shum Ho Cheung , Williams Rachel L. , Cheung Ning , Wong David 
Published: October 2016

AbstractPurposeEmulsification is related to complications arising from silicone oil (SO) tamponade. Currently, there is no widely accepted method for testing the propensity of SO to emulsify that are physiologically realistic and quantitative.MethodsWe compared different ways of inducing emulsification namely vortex mixing, sonication and homogenization. Silicone oil (SO) emulsification was quantitatively assessed using the Coulter counter and laser light scattering. The in vitro results are compared with the droplet size distribution profile of vitreous clinical washout. Conventional SO was compared with two novel SO blends with high‐molecular‐weight (HMW) additives (SOHMW2000 and SOHMW5000).ResultsOf the three methods for inducing emulsification, homogenization generated the most consistent emulsion samples with the smallest variance. The results from the Coulter counter measurement correlated strongly with the laser light scattering measurement within the range of 1 to 30 µm. The droplet size distribution profiles from human eyes were similar to that of emulsions generated in vitro by homogenization. The human size distribution profile was within the range of values obtained by the in vitro experiment. Compared to the conventional SO, the emulsion droplet counts for the new SO blends were significantly lower (SOHMW2000 and SOHMW5000 were 79% (±17%) and 49% (±18%) of the SO2000 and SO5000, respectively; p = 0.03 and p = 0.002).ConclusionEmulsion generated in vitro by homogenization has similar droplet size profile as human eyes filled with SO. Using this method to induce emulsion, SO blends with HMW additives demonstrated less propensity to emulsification with lower droplet counts compared to conventional SO with similar shear viscosity.