bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Does logistics influence economic growth? The European experience
Authors: D’Aleo Vittorio , Sergi Bruno S. 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to set forth a new economic model that includes variables that take account the mediator effect of global competitiveness index to better identify the whole phenomenon behind the relationship between GDP and competition in Europe.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors test the consistency of the Baron and Kenny mediator model through an explanatory linear regression model, then the authors deploy a panel analysis and a simultaneous equation system to assess the model consistency to bypass much of the endogeneity problem.

Findings
This paper’s findings show a positive influence of global competitiveness index on GDP and this effect is by far more evident when other variables (e.g. the logistics performance index) interact simultaneously.

Research limitations/implications
The GCI is a correct variable to assess growth. The study shows how the recent economic crisis has increased the importance of competitiveness for economic recovery as well as key strategic decisions aimed at strengthening growth and competitiveness.

Originality/value
This paper’s theoretical construct is a unique methodology applied to disentangle the role of a new model that takes account of global competitiveness index as a mediator variable to economic growth.
Configurational examination of successful human resources outsourcing
Authors: Nguyen Thuy Thi Thanh , Chang Man-Ling 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe causal conditions leading to successful human resources outsourcing (HRO) have until now attracted only limited research attention. To address this shortcoming, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how a firm and a HR provider should work together to ensure successful HRO.Design/methodology/approachBy applying a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, the authors demonstrate how combining in different ways provider quality, business understanding, trust, and closed HRO networks can lead to HRO success. In addition, this study compares the causal combinations between cases with differing levels of HR-task interdependence and IT use.FindingsThe results of this study reveal three common solutions that lead to successful HRO from both economic and relational viewpoints. The findings also indicate that, from an economic viewpoint, trust is a core condition for achieving HRO success. Moreover, HR-task interdependence and IT use alter the number of solutions and the conditions for attaining HRO success.Practical implicationsBased on the solutions proposed herein, firms can consider different ways to achieve HRO success under diverse conditions.Originality/valueThis work also contributes to building new theories regarding HRO, trust, knowledge sharing, and IT use.
Police legitimacy in context: an exploration of “soft” power in police custody in England
Authors: Skinns Layla , Rice Lindsey , Sprawson Amy , Wooff Andrew 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how police authority – in its “soft” form – is used and understood by staff and detainees in police custody in England, examining how these meanings are shaped by this unique police setting. It is argued that the nature of this setting, as fraught and uncertain, along with the large volume of citizens who come into contact with the police therein, makes police custody the ultimate “teachable moment”.Design/methodology/approachThe present paper is based on in-depth qualitative data collected between March 2014 and May 2015 in four custody suites (in four forces). In each site, the researchers spent three to four weeks observing and then interviewed 10-15 staff (largely police officers, detention officers but also a few other criminal justice practitioners) and 10-15 detainees. In total, the paper is based on 532 hours of observing and 97 interviews (47 with staff and 50 with detainees).FindingsOne way that the staff used their authority in the custody suites in the research was softly and innocuously; this entailed for example staff communicating in a respectful manner with detainees, such as by being deliberately polite. The authors conclude that this “soft” power was a dynamic, processual matter, shaped in particular by the physical conditions of the suite, the uncertain and insecure nature of detainees’ circumstances, as well as by the sense of disempowerment they felt as a result of being deprived of their liberty and autonomy, all of which contributed to police custody being the ultimate “teachable moment”.Originality/valueThe paper draws on a range of qualitative data collected from both staff and detainees in four types of police custody suites as part the “good” police custody study. It therefore makes an original contribution to the field which has tended to rely on cross-sectional surveys of citizens not policed populations (Harkin, 2015; Worden and Mclean, 2017).
MFS-LDA: a multi-feature space tag recommendation model for cold start problem
Authors: Masood Muhammad Ali , Abbasi Rabeeh Ayaz , Maqbool Onaiza , Mushtaq Mubashar , Aljohani Naif R. , Daud Ali , Aslam Muhammad Ahtisham , Alowibdi Jalal S. 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
Tags are used to annotate resources on social media platforms. Most tag recommendation methods use popular tags, but in the case of new resources that are as yet untagged (the cold start problem), popularity-based tag recommendation methods fail to work. The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel model for tag recommendation called multi-feature space latent Dirichlet allocation (MFS-LDA) for cold start problem.

Design/methodology/approach
MFS-LDA is a novel latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA)-based model which exploits multiple feature spaces (title, contents, and tags) for recommending tags. Exploiting multiple feature spaces allows MFS-LDA to recommend tags even if data from a feature space is missing (the cold start problem).

Findings
Evaluation of a publicly available data set consisting of around 20,000 Wikipedia articles that are tagged on a social bookmarking website shows a significant improvement over existing LDA-based tag recommendation methods.

Originality/value
The originality of MFS-LDA lies in segregation of features for removing bias toward dominant features and in synchronization of multiple feature space for tag recommendation.
Using Twitter sentiment and emotions analysis of Google Trends for decisions making
Authors: D’Avanzo Ernesto , Pilato Giovanni , Lytras Miltiadis 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
An ever-growing body of knowledge demonstrates the correlation among real-world phenomena and search query data issued on Google, as showed in the literature survey introduced in the following. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a pipeline, implemented as a web service, which, starting with recent Google Trends, allows a decision maker to monitor Twitter’s sentiment regarding these trends, enabling users to choose geographic areas for their monitors. In addition to the positive/negative sentiments about Google Trends, the pipeline offers the ability to view, on the same dashboard, the emotions that Google Trends triggers in the Twitter population. Such a set of tools, allows, as a whole, monitoring real-time on Twitter the feelings about Google Trends that would otherwise only fall into search statistics, even if useful. As a whole, the pipeline has no claim of prediction over the trends it tracks. Instead, it aims to provide a user with guidance about Google Trends, which, as the scientific literature demonstrates, is related to many real-world phenomena (e.g. epidemiology, economy, political science).

Design/methodology/approach
The proposed experimental framework allows the integration of Google search query data and Twitter social data. As new trends emerge in Google searches, the pipeline interrogates Twitter to track, also geographically, the feelings and emotions of Twitter users about new trends. The core of the pipeline is represented by a sentiment analysis framework that make use of a Bayesian machine learning device exploiting deep natural language processing modules to assign emotions and sentiment orientations to a collection of tweets geolocalized on the microblogging platform. The pipeline is accessible as a web service for any user authorized with credentials.

Findings
The employment of the pipeline for three different monitoring task (i.e. consumer electronics, healthcare, and politics) shows the plausibility of the proposed approach in order to measure social media sentiments and emotions concerning the trends emerged on Google searches.

Originality/value
The proposed approach aims to bridge the gap among Google search query data and sentiments that emerge on Twitter about these trends.
Wearable expert system development: definitions, models and challenges for the future
Authors: Sartori Fabio , Melen Riccardo 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
A wearable expert system (WES) is an expert system designed and implemented to obtain input from and give outputs to wearable devices. Among its distinguishing features are the direct cooperation between domain experts and users, and the interaction with a knowledge maintenance system devoted to dynamically update the knowledge base taking care of the evolving scenario. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
The WES development method is based on the Knowledge Acquisition Framework based on Knowledge Artifact (KAFKA) framework. KAFKA employs multiple knowledge artifacts, each devoted to the acquisition and management of a specific kind of knowledge. The KAFKA framework is introduced from both the conceptual and computational points of view. An example is given which demonstrates the interaction, within this framework, of taxonomies, Bayesian networks and rule-based systems. An experimental assessment of the framework usability is also given.

Findings
The most interesting characteristic of WESs is their capability to evolve over time, due both to the measurement of new values for input variables and to the detection of new input events, that can be used to modify, extend and maintain knowledge bases and to represent domains characterized by variability over time.

Originality/value
WES is a new and challenging concept, dealing with the possibility for a user to develop his/her own decision support systems and update them according to new events when they arise from the environment. The system fully supports domain experts and users with no particular skills in knowledge engineering methodologies, to create, maintain and exploit their expert systems, everywhere and when necessary.
Why do players purchase in mobile social network games? An examination of customer engagement and of uses and gratifications theory
Authors: Huang Taozhen , Bao Zheshi , Li Yan 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the purchase intention in mobile social network games (M-SNGs) through a new perspective and discuss how to effectively promote players’ payment.

Design/methodology/approach
The author proposed a research model by integrating customer engagement (CE) and uses and gratification theory (U&G). Three dimensions of CE and three types of U&G were analyzed, respectively to explore the direct and indirect effects on purchase intention in M-SNGs. Online questionnaires were adopted to collect data, and 354 valid samples were analyzed by structural equation modeling approach.

Findings
The findings show that hedonic gratification (entertainment) and social gratification (self-presentation) have significant indirect effects on players’ purchase intention in M-SNGs through the mediation effects of CE, whereas this mechanism is not fully applied to utilitarian gratification (flexibility). Besides, three dimensions of CE are not independent, because absorption can indirectly affect vigor through dedication.

Research limitations/implications
The findings suggest that hedonic gratification (entertainment) and social gratification (self-presentation) can trigger three dimensions of CE to stimulate purchase intentions in M-SNGs, and utilitarian gratification (flexibility) can also promote players’ payment through absorption which is one dimension of CE. Some other theoretical and practical implications are also provided.

Originality/value
This study is novel in exploring players’ purchase intentions in M-SNGs by integrating CE and U&G. Meanwhile, the author also intends to reveal the relationships among the three dimensions of CE which are related to in-game purchase intention.
Human rights, the capability approach and Quality of Life: an integrated paradigm of support in the quest for social justice
Authors: De Maeyer Jessica , Vandenbussche Hanne , Claes Claudia , Reynaert Didier 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
This paper highlights the integrative character of orthopedagogics. Quality of Life (QoL), as guiding the normative framework in orthopedagogics is explicitly connected with the framework of human rights and the capability approach (CA) in the quest for social justice and human dignity. The purpose of this paper is to question that how these three specific frameworks can cross-fertilize each other and result in the development of an integrated normative foundation for supporting people living in socially vulnerable situations.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper reflects on the question on how the human rights framework, the CA and the framework of QoL can be integrated in the support of people who find themselves in a socially vulnerable situation.

Findings
The core features of each framework are described.

Originality/value
To conclude the paper, commonalities and the added value of integrating these three frameworks are explored. By integrating these three frameworks, they could function as a shared agenda that gives direction to the daily actions of professionals, with attention for aspects at the micro, meso and macro levels. Each framework and their interrelatedness urge for an integrative approach of orthopedagogics where the strengths of different frameworks are recognized and used in order to support people in socially vulnerable situations to achieve a life worth living.
Environment and geographic distance differ in relative importance for determining fungal community of rhizosphere and bulk soil
Authors: Zhang Kaoping , Adams Jonathan M. , Shi Yu , Yang Teng , Sun Ruibo , He Dan , Ni Yingying , Chu Haiyan 
Published: July 2017

SummaryRhizospheric fungi play major roles in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. However, little is known about the determinants of their diversity and biogeographic patterns. Here, we compared fungal communities in rhizosphere and bulk soils of wheat fields in the North China Plain. The rhizosphere had a lower fungal diversity (observed OTUs and Chao1) than bulk soil, and a distinct fungal community structure in rhizosphere compared with bulk soil. The relative importance of environmental factors and geographic distance for fungal distribution differed between rhizosphere and bulk soil. Environmental factors were the primary cause of variations in total fungal community and major fungal phyla in bulk soil. By contrast, fungal communities in soils loosely attached to roots were predictable from both environmental factors and influences of geographic distance. Communities in soils tightly attached to roots were mainly determined by geographic distance. Our results suggest that both contemporary environment processes (present‐day abiotic and biotic environment characters) and historical processes (spatial isolation, dispersal limitation occurred in the past) dominate variations of fungal communities in wheat fields, but their relative importance of all these processes depends on the proximity of fungal community to the plant roots.
Nitrifier‐induced denitrification is an important source of soil nitrous oxide and can be inhibited by a nitrification inhibitor 3,4‐dimethylpyrazole phosphate
Authors: Shi Xiuzhen , Hu Hang‐Wei , Zhu‐Barker Xia , Hayden Helen , Wang Juntao , Suter Helen , Chen Deli , He Ji‐Zheng 
Published: July 2017

SummarySoil ecosystem represents the largest contributor to global nitrous oxide (N2O) production, which is regulated by a wide variety of microbial communities in multiple biological pathways. A mechanistic understanding of these N2O production biological pathways in complex soil environment is essential for improving model performance and developing innovative mitigation strategies. Here, combined approaches of the 15N‐18O labelling technique, transcriptome analysis, and Illumina MiSeq sequencing were used to identify the relative contributions of four N2O pathways including nitrification, nitrifier‐induced denitrification (nitrifier denitrification and nitrification‐coupled denitrification) and heterotrophic denitrification in six soils (alkaline vs. acid soils). In alkaline soils, nitrification and nitrifier‐induced denitrification were the dominant pathways of N2O production, and application of the nitrification inhibitor 3,4‐dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP) significantly reduced the N2O production from these pathways; this is probably due to the observed reduction in the expression of the amoA gene in ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in the DMPP‐amended treatments. In acid soils, however, heterotrophic denitrification was the main source for N2O production, and was not impacted by the application of DMPP. Our results provide robust evidence that the nitrification inhibitor DMPP can inhibit the N2O production from nitrifier‐induced denitrification, a potential significant source of N2O production in agricultural soils.
Seabirds (Laridae) as a source of Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp. and antimicrobial resistance in South Africa
Authors: Moré Elisabet , Ayats Teresa , Ryan Peter G. , Naicker Preneshni R. , Keddy Karen H. , Gaglio Davide , Witteveen Minke , Cerdà‐Cuéllar Marta 
Published: July 2017

SummaryZoonotic thermophilic Campylobacter and nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica are a major cause of foodborne human gastroenteritis worldwide. There is little information about reservoirs of these zoonotic agents in Africa. Thus, chicks of kelp gulls (Larus dominicanus, n = 129) and greater crested terns (Thalasseus bergii, n = 100) were studied at five colonies on the Western Cape coast (South Africa) during summer 2013/2014. Campylobacter spp. occurrence was 14.0% (CI95%: 9.9–19.3), with C. jejuni the most frequently isolated species, whilst that of Salmonella was 27.5% (CI95%: 21.9–33.9) overall, with a higher prevalence in gulls (43.0%, CI95%: 34.8–52.4) than terns (7.0%, CI95%: 3.1–14.4). Among the 16 different S. enterica serovars found, Anatum, Enteritidis and Hadar were the most frequent. The same or highly similar pulsed‐field gel electrophoresis genotype was found in some Salmonella isolates from seabirds and humans presenting with salmonellosis in Cape Town hospitals. Both Campylobacter and Salmonella isolates exhibited antimicrobial resistance to several agents, including critically important antimicrobials (quinolones, tetracyclines and β‐lactams) and multidrug resistance in Salmonella serovars from kelp gulls. Our results highlight the importance of seabirds as reservoirs of Campylobacter and Salmonella resistant strains and their role in the maintenance and transmission of these bacteria in the environment, with implications for public health.
Evidence of microbial rhodopsins in Antarctic Dry Valley edaphic systems
Authors: Guerrero Leandro D. , Vikram Surendra , Makhalanyane Thulani P. , Cowan Don A. 
Published: July 2017

SummaryMicroorganisms able to synthesize rhodopsins have the capacity to translocate ions through their membranes, using solar energy to generate a proton motive force. Rhodopsins are the most abundant phototrophic proteins in oceanic surface waters and are key constituents in marine bacterial ecology. However, it remains unclear how rhodopsins are used in most microorganisms. Despite their abundance in marine and fresh‐water systems, the presence of functional rhodopsin systems in edaphic habitats has never been reported. Here, we show the presence of several new putative H+, Na+ and Cl+ pumping rhodopsins identified by metagenomic analysis of Antarctic desert hypolithic communities. Reconstruction of two Proteobacteria genomes harboring xanthorhodopsin‐like proteins and one Bacteroidetes genome with a Na‐pumping‐like rhodopsin indicated that these bacteria were aerobic heterotrophs possessing the apparent capacity for the functional expression of rhodopsins. The existence of these protein systems in hypolithic bacteria expands the known role of rhodopsins to include terrestrial environments and suggests a possible predominant function as heterotrophic energy supply proteins, a feasible microbial adaptation to the harsh conditions prevalent in Antarctic edaphic systems.
Foreign Competition and Innovation: The Mediating Role of Imitation
Authors: Xia Tianjiao , Liu Xiaohui 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThis study examines the extent to which foreign competition affects the innovation performance of domestic firms through imitation, given firms’ absorptive capacity. In analysing longitudinal firm‐level data from the UK, we find a mediating effect of imitation on the relationship between foreign competition and local firms’ innovation performance, and an inverted U‐shaped relationship between imitation and the innovation performance of local firms. Our findings further reveal that absorptive capacity moderates the mediating effect of imitation, diminishing innovation gains at moderate levels of imitation and mitigating the diminishing innovation performance at high levels of imitation.
Re‐examining the Glass Cliff Hypothesis using Survival Analysis: The Case of Female CEO Tenure
Authors: Elsaid Eahab , Ursel Nancy D. 
Published: July 2017

AbstractWe use the glass cliff to study the appointment and employment duration of 193 female CEOs between 1992 and 2014 in a sample of large, small and mid‐size North American firms. Consistent with the glass cliff, we find that women are appointed as CEOs in precarious situations. However, we find female CEOs are 40% less likely to face turnover at any point after appointment than male CEOs. This conflicts with an implication of the glass cliff and differs significantly from existing research which shows that female CEOs have only a slightly lower risk of turnover than male CEOs. Our larger, more recent sample captures changes in the labour market that explain the departure from the results of earlier studies. We find evidence that the lower turnover rate of female CEOs is related to firms’ desire to avoid the negative publicity that would accompany their termination, and we also show that greater education has a positive impact on CEO job security.
Implicit prosody and parsing in silent reading
Authors: Webman‐Shafran Ronit 
Published: July 2017

BackgroundThe current study explored the effect of implicit prosody on syntactic parsing in the silent reading of an ambiguous double prepositional phrase (PP) construction in Hebrew by employing the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis test (Fodor, ).MethodThe parsing preferences of the construction in silent reading were tested and compared to those in a reading aloud study (Webman‐Shafran & Fodor, ) containing the same experimental material.ResultsThe parsing results were remarkably similar.ConclusionsIt is suggested that implicit prosody was responsible for syntactic ambiguity resolution preferences in silent reading in the current study in the same way as overt prosody in reading aloud in Webman‐Shafran and Fodor (). This study supports the assumption that reading prosody is projected in silent reading and affects comprehension.ImplicationsThe contribution of implicit prosody to the reading process may have important implications for reading instruction in FLA, SLA and reading disorder intervention programs.