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Student perceptions of the employability of the first degree in Portugal
Authors: Sin Cristina , Tavares Orlanda , Amaral Alberto 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
The paper presents and analyses quantitative data on student perceptions about the employability of the first degree, and their trajectory choices on graduation. The purpose of this paper is to assess the value of the first degree as a positional good in Portugal, further to the degree’s reduced duration after the implementation of the Bologna Process.

Design/methodology/approach
In total, 828 students responded to an online survey administered between September 2013 and February 2014. Students came from 17 institutions, public and private, universities and polytechnics, across the country. Differences in student perceptions were analysed by higher education sector, study level and gender through descriptive statistics.

Findings
The majority of surveyed students, across sectors, study level and gender, assessed as negative the impact of the implementation of the Bologna reforms on the employability of the first degree. This had implications for students’ intended choices on graduation, as the majority consider enroling in a master degree (except for polytechnic students). Additionally, a large proportion of students felt unprepared to enter the labour market after the first degree.

Research limitations/implications
The size and distribution of the sample pose limitations for the generalisation of results to the student population.

Practical implications
The finding suggest that enrolments in master degrees are likely to keep rising, a valuable piece of information for institutions and policy-makers responsible for regulating higher education in Portugal.

Originality/value
Opinions about the value of the first degree have generally been based on qualitative research or anecdotal evidence. This study brings a quantitative perspective on the first degree’s value for different groups of students.
Positive team coaching
Authors: Brennan Diane , Hellbom Kaj 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
This paper is in follow up to a presentation by its authors at the 2015 Association of Training and Development Conference in Orlando, Florida where participants gathered to learn new and innovative ways of working with people. Teams are everywhere in our global society, and we see untapped opportunities to harness the energy and potential to achieve positive results. The purpose of this paper is to offer a coaching approach to working with teams that utilizes positive deviance eliciting strengths, unique skills and knowledge, and building on these to create engagement and results.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on the coaching and professional development work with leaders and teams in organizations. The concept of positive deviance is one that the authors have explored with individuals, groups, and teams over the past several years. The approach emerged from the application of theory in practice supporting ongoing learning and development.

Findings
The authors of this paper find organizations and members of teams wanting to be successful yet often still operating in silos. Supporting leaders and team members using a positive team coaching approach creates an environment that expands thinking, encourages creativity and learning, and develops strong teams.

Originality/value
This paper proposes utilizing an approach that brings multiple theories together in practice. Positive team coaching includes establishing a mindset of positivity, exploring for and promoting positive deviance, and cultivating positive beliefs.
Harnessing the customer identity in the construction sector
Authors: de Rijk Lisa 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to show the reader how to harness customer identity in the construction sector.

Design/methodology/approach
Using the NLP modelling process to identify customer personas.

Findings
The consultants discovered that it was easier to elicit values and motivational traits using Charvet’s (1995) work during the actual workshop. This enabled more specific examples of motivational language to be used in summarising the findings of the workshop and recommendations for application to the developer. Charvet’s work does provide recommendations on motivational language to be used, and she is now developing software that enables this to be used in written language such as e-mail: www.weongozi.com

Originality/value
All original research.
Non destructive fabric weight measurement using capacitance principle
Authors: Senthilkumar Mani , Kumar L. Ashok 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to design and develop an instrument for non-destructive fabric grams per square metre (GSM) measurement. This study uses the capacitance principle to obtain the fabric GSM. The relative permittivity of the sample fabrics changes the capacitance value. A relationship between capacitance and GSM that best fits the look-up table is obtained. Also, the developed system is applicable for all kind of fabrics both knitted and woven fabrics. The comparison study was carried out with existing test method.

Design/methodology/approach
The purpose of the study is to design and develop an instrument for non-destructive fabric GSM measurement.

Findings
The proposed non-destructive method of fabric GSM measurement using capacitance principle is designed, developed and tested. Also, the developed system is applicable for all kind of fabrics both knitted and woven fabrics. The comparison study was carried out with existing test method.

Research limitations/implications
The change in capacitance due to relative permittivity of the sample fabric is in pF range (10-12). The system can be further improved by using a capacitance sensor of sensitivity upto 1 fF (10-15). By doing so, the proposed system provides better results in terms of accuracy and resolution. The system developed can be further extended by making it online equipment which measures the fabric GSM instantaneously.

Originality/value
So far there is no non-destructive testing method available for fabric weight measurement. The newly designed and developed instrument is used to test the fabric both woven and knitted non-destructively.
The interaction of clothing ventilation with dry and evaporative heat transfer of jackets
Authors: Dai Xiao-Qun , Havenith George 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of air and vapor permeability of jacket materials on ventilation, heat and moisture transfer.

Design/methodology/approach
Clothing ventilation (V), thermal insulation (I) and vapor resistance (R

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) of three jackets made of different materials (normal textile, PVC and “breathable” membrane coated textile), worn on an articulated thermal manikin in a controlled climate chamber, were measured under various conditions, respectively. The various conditions of microenvironment ventilation were created by making the manikin stand and walk, combined with three wind speeds of <0.2, 0.4 and 2.0 m/s, respectively.

Findings
In the condition without any forced convection, the air permeability makes no big difference to dry and evaporative heat transfer among the jackets, while the vapor permeability plays a big role in the evaporative heat loss. In the condition with forced convection, the dry heat diffusion is strongly coupled to the evaporative heat transfer in air and vapor permeable textile material.

Research limitations/implications
The effects of ventilation on heat and moisture transfer varies because of different ways of ventilation arising: penetration through the fabric is proven to be the most effective way in vapor transfer although it does not seem as helpful for dry heat diffusion.

Originality/value
The achievements in this paper deepens the understanding of the process of the dry and evaporative heat transfer through clothing, provides clothing designer guidance to choose proper materials for a garment, especially work clothing.
Interactive brand experience pathways to customer-brand engagement and value co-creation
Authors: Merrilees Bill 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
The paper aims to address a question posed by Ruth Bolton (2011):“What kinds of interactive experiences lead to favourable customer engagement rates”?

Design/methodology/approach
Building on the literature, the paper develops different interactive experience pathways for both functional and hedonic brands.

Findings
The different pathways are developed formally for both brand types. Different facets of brand experience and different facets of interactivity are entailed for each brand type. The models are illustrated with actual brands.

Research limitations/implications
The study is primarily conceptual and requires empirical testing. The purpose of the paper is to motivate academics to explore the nature of interactive experiences in whatever way they choose.

Practical implications
The different interactive experience pathways between functional and hedonic brands imply different engagement and co-creation strategies by firms. Generally, a richer set of engagement options are relevant to the hedonic brand. However, using the Domino’s Pizza example, the paper suggests that functional brands can extend their repertoire of engagement tools by borrowing inspiration from the hedonic brands.

Social implications
There is a major social or community aspect to interactive experiences. Moreover, some of the brands used as examples in the paper, such as Patagonia, have major social or environmental impacts.

Originality/value
This original research pioneers the discovery and coding of the nature of interactive brand experiences. Hitherto, the domain can be construed as the idiomatic, “elephant in the room”, an important topic but not discussed. The conversation has now begun.
Retrospective: service failure and loyalty: an exploratory empirical study of airline customers
Authors: Palmer Adrian , Bejou David 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
This paper aims to reflect on the paper “Service failure and loyalty: an exploratory empirical study of airline customers” published 18 years ago. It positions it in the evolving literature on relationship marketing and suggests directions for further research and developments in the area.

Design/methodology/approach
A review of key contributions of the paper to the study of relationship marketing and the effects of service failures on relationships identifies emerging strands of research.

Findings
The concept of a “relationship lifecycle” is now widely used in marketing for identifying customer segments. Different points in the lifecycle are associated with differing sets of relationship expectations and levels of tolerance to service failure. Customer relationship management has tended to morph into customer experience management where principles of relationship lifecycles have been applied to mapping customer “journeys” through a service process.

Practical implications
The original study informed practices of managing relationship expectations and handling failed expectations, depending on a customer’s length of relationship with a company. Although relationship marketing was originally conceived as an integrator of marketing cues, its emphasis on cognitive evaluations may have been too limiting and customer experience management has since introduced additional affective dimensions.

Originality/value
The original paper had been widely cited and generated discussion and important further research. It has value as part of the emerging landscape of services marketing research. This retrospective analysis locates this historical development with reference to currently popular issues of customer experience management.
Disentangling the interplay of generative and vegetative propagation among different functional groups during gap colonization in meadows
Authors: Vítová Alena , Macek Petr , Lepš Jan 
Published: August 2016

Summary

Meadow plant communities are commonly driven by strong competition, and the colonization of gaps plays an important role in the maintenance of their species diversity. Despite this, species‐specific information about the dynamics of vegetative and generative propagation, and on the role of seed bank and seed rain, is rather scarce.

In a 3‐year manipulative experiment, we aimed to disentangle the effects of seed bank, seed rain and vegetative propagation in vegetation and during colonization of artificial gaps in a mesotrophic meadow. Vegetative propagation was manipulated by felting and the presence of the seed bank by soil sterilization using gamma radiation. We focused on the dynamics of four main species groups with different regeneration strategies: dicots, Cyperaceae, Juncaceae and Poaceae. The shift from seedling dominance in early stages towards vegetative resprouts dominating at a later stage in the gap colonization process differed considerably among the four species groups.

Dicots and Juncaceae, regenerating frequently from the seed bank, acted as pioneer species, and determined species composition of newly disturbed sites. Seed rain became crucial later in the season and resulted in shifting dominance to the more competitive Poaceae. Stress‐tolerating Cyperaceae were colonizing the gaps vegetatively mainly towards the end of the experiment. While graminoids showed preference for growing into gaps clonally, dicots propagated vegetatively mostly within intact vegetation.

Although seed rain soon equalized seedling numbers in plots with and without a seed bank, the presence of a seed bank proved to be crucial for certain species, and its effect on species diversity remained positive in all functional groups for the duration of the experiment, demonstrating the importance of a seed bank for the maintenance of species diversity. Nevertheless, seedling assembly converged to a similar functional composition in all gap types after 3 years. We have not detected any competitive effect of vegetative resprouts on seedlings or seedlings on vegetative resprouts throughout the experiment.

Each of the three means of regeneration has its unique role in the maintenance of species diversity during gap colonization, and the importance of these roles differs in different functional groups.
Dissection of the HOG pathway activated by hydrogen peroxide in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Authors: Lee Young Mi , Kim Eunjung , An Jieun , Lee Yeji , Choi Eunyong , Choi Wonja , Moon Eunpyo , Kim Wankee 
Published: August 2016

SummaryCells usually cope with oxidative stress by activating signal transduction pathways. In the budding yeast Sacchromyces cerevisiae, the high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway has long been implicated in transducing the oxidative stress‐induced signal, but the underlying mechanisms are not well defined. Based on phosphorylation of the mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) Hog1, we reveal that the signal from hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) flows through Ssk1, the response regulator of the two‐component system of the HOG pathway. Downstream signal transduction into the HOG MAPK cascade requires the MAP kinase kinase kinase (MAP3K) Ssk2 but not its paralog Ssk22 or another MAP3K Ste11 of the pathway, culminating in Hog1 phosphorylation via the MAP2K Pbs2. When overexpressed, Ssk2 is also activated in an Ssk1‐independent manner. Unlike in mammals, H2O2 does not cause endoplasmic reticulum stress, which can activate Hog1 through the conventional unfolded protein response. Hog1 activated by H2O2 is retained in the cytoplasm, but is still able to activate the cAMP‐ or stress‐responsive elements by unknown mechanisms.
The development of healthcare use among a cohort of Finnish social assistance clients: testing the social selection hypothesis
Authors: Vaalavuo Maria 
Published: August 2016

AbstractThis article examines the association between healthcare use and receipt of social assistance. It focuses on asking to what extent the use of healthcare (seen as a proxy for health status) leads to social assistance. This is answered by describing the use of healthcare services among a cohort of Finnish social assistance clients before, during and after the first receipt of benefit by means of fixed‐effects logistic regression. Using register data, the study follows a group of social assistance recipients from 2005 to 2011 and compares their use of healthcare to those not claiming social assistance during this same period and analyses how their use of health services develops over time. The results show that recipients use public healthcare clearly more than non‐recipients, but they do so already prior to the first social assistance receipt. This partly confirms the social selection hypothesis according to which health problems lead to low income. However, the results do not exclude the existence of social causation. The causality is most likely bi‐directional. The findings of the descriptive analyses are corroborated by a fixed‐effects logistic regression analysis: the use of healthcare services increases the probability of receiving social assistance in the following month.
Maternal creatine in pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study
Authors: Dickinson H , Davies‐Tuck M , Ellery SJ , Grieger JA , Wallace EM , Snow RJ , Walker DW , Clifton VL 
Published: August 2016

ObjectiveTo estimate creatine concentrations in maternal plasma and urine, and establish relationships with maternal characteristics, diet and fetal growth.DesignRetrospective cohort study.SettingLyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.PopulationA biobank of plasma and urine samples collected at 13, 18, 30 and 36 weeks’ gestation from 287 pregnant women from a prospective cohort of asthmatic and non‐asthmatic women.MethodsCreatine was measured by enzymatic analysis. Change in creatine over pregnancy was assessed using the Friedman test. Linear mixed models regression was used to determine associations between maternal factors and diet with creatine across pregnancy and between creatine with indices of fetal growth at birth.Main outcome measuresMaternal creatine concentrations, associations between maternal factors and creatine and between creatine and fetal growth parameters.ResultsMaternal smoking, body mass index, asthma and socio‐economic status were positively and parity negatively associated with maternal plasma and/or urine creatine. Maternal urine creatine concentration was positively associated with birthweight centile and birth length. After adjustment, each μmol/l increase in maternal urinary creatine was associated with a 1.23 (95% CI 0.44–2.02) unit increase in birthweight centile and a 0.11‐cm (95% CI 0.03–0.2) increase in birth length.ConclusionsMaternal factors and fetal growth measures are associated with maternal plasma and urine creatine concentrations.Tweetable abstractMaternal creatine is altered by pregnancy; fetal growth measures are associated with maternal creatine concentrations.
Nifedipine maintenance tocolysis and perinatal outcome: an individual participant data meta‐analysis
Authors: van Vliet EOG , Dijkema GH , Schuit E , Heida KY , Roos C , van der Post JAM , Parry EC , McCowan L , Lyell DJ , El‐Sayed YY , Carr DB , Clark AL , Mahdy ZA , Uma M , Sayin NC , Varol GF , Mol BW , Oudijk MA 
Published: August 2016

BackgroundPreterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in developed countries. Whether continued tocolysis after 48 hours of rescue tocolysis improves neonatal outcome is unproven.ObjectivesTo evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance tocolytic therapy with oral nifedipine on the reduction of adverse neonatal outcomes and the prolongation of pregnancy by performing an individual patient data meta‐analysis (IPDMA).Search strategyWe searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases for randomised controlled trials of maintenance tocolysis therapy with nifedipine in preterm labour.Selection criteriaWe selected trials including pregnant women between 24 and 366/7 weeks of gestation (gestational age, GA) with imminent preterm labour who had not delivered after 48 hours of initial tocolysis, and compared maintenance nifedipine tocolysis with placebo/no treatment.Data collection and analysisThe primary outcome was perinatal mortality. Secondary outcome measures were intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH), necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS), prolongation of pregnancy, GA at delivery, birthweight, neonatal intensive care unit admission, and number of days on ventilation support. Pre‐specified subgroup analyses were performed.Main resultsSix randomised controlled trials were included in this IPDMA, encompassing data from 787 patients (n = 390 for nifedipine; n = 397 for placebo/no treatment). There was no difference between the groups for the incidence of perinatal death (risk ratio, RR 1.36; 95% confidence interval, 95% CI 0.35–5.33), intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) ≥ grade II (RR 0.65; 95% CI 0.16–2.67), necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) (RR 1.15; 95% CI 0.50–2.65), infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) (RR 0.98; 95% CI 0.51–1.85), and prolongation of pregnancy (hazard ratio, HR 0.74; 95% CI 0.55–1.01).ConclusionMaintenance tocolysis is not associated with improved perinatal outcome and is therefore not recommended for routine practice.Tweetable abstractNifedipine maintenance tocolysis is not associated with improved perinatal outcome or pregnancy prolongation.
Changing paediatric emergency department model of care is associated with improvements in the National Emergency Access Target and a decrease in inpatient admissions
Authors: Margolis Stephen A , Muller Reinhold , Ypinazar Valmae A , Lawton Ben 
Published: August 2016

AbstractObjectiveTo assess the impact on patient flow as noted by the National Emergency Access Target (NEAT), with the introduction of a new Paediatric ED (PEM ED) model of care.MethodsThis longitudinal observational study was conducted at the Logan Hospital, a 344 bed public hospital in metropolitan Brisbane, which opened a physically separate, dedicated PEM ED on 14 October 2014, incorporating approximately 30% more staff, limited changes in processes and no changes in governance. De‐identified data of the entire clientele from the ED Information System were compared 365 days before and after the opening of the PEM ED.ResultsAlthough the number of children presenting to ED increased by 23% (pre 18 142, post 22 391), the median length of stay decreased substantially from 152 min to 138 min, resulting in a 7.75% rise in presentations that met the NEAT target (pre 77.41%, post 85.16%; P < 0.0001). Admission to the ED Short Stay Unit rose by 16.48% (pre 5.38%, post 21.86%; P < 0.0001), whereas final disposition to the inpatient paediatric unit fell by 2.30% (pre 11.43, post 9.13%; P < 0.0001). The clinical presentations were similar pre and post across age, sex, ethnicity, referral and arrival mode, Australasian Triage Scale category, presenting problem and discharge diagnosis.ConclusionNEAT times improved after changing the PEM ED model of care. Further studies may assist identifying which of the specific features within the new model are most effective for improving patient flow.