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A novel ontology matching approach using key concepts
Authors: Kiren Tayybah , Shoaib Muhammad 
Published: December 2015

Purpose
– Ontologies are used to formally describe the concepts within a domain in a machine-understandable way. Matching of heterogeneous ontologies is often essential for many applications like semantic annotation, query answering or ontology integration. Some ontologies may include a large number of entities which make the ontology matching process very complex in terms of the search space and execution time requirements. The purpose of this paper is to present a technique for finding degree of similarity between ontologies that trims down the search space by eliminating the ontology concepts that have less likelihood of being matched.

Design/methodology/approach
– Algorithms are written for finding key concepts, concept matching and relationship matching. WordNet is used for solving synonym problems during the matching process. The technique is evaluated using the reference alignments between ontologies from ontology alignment evaluation initiative benchmark in terms of degree of similarity, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and IR measures precision, recall and F-measure.

Findings
– Positive correlation between the degree of similarity and degree of similarity (reference alignment) and computed values of precision, recall and F-measure showed that if only key concepts of ontologies are compared, a time and search space efficient ontology matching system can be developed.

Originality/value
– On the basis of the present novel approach for ontology matching, it is concluded that using key concepts for ontology matching gives comparable results in reduced time and space.
Improving retrieval relevance using users’ explicit feedback
Authors: Balakrishnan Vimala , Ahmadi Kian , Ravana Sri Devi 
Published: December 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to improve users’ search results relevancy by manipulating their explicit feedback.Design/methodology/approach– CoRRe – an explicit feedback model integrating three popular feedback, namely, Comment-Rating-Referral is proposed in this study. The model is further enhanced using case-based reasoning in retrieving the top-5 results. A search engine prototype was developed using Text REtrieval Conference as the document collection, and results were evaluated at three levels (i.e. top-5, 10 and 15). A user evaluation involving 28 students was administered, focussing on 20 queries.Findings– Both Mean Average Precision and Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain results indicate CoRRe to have the highest retrieval precisions at all the three levels compared to the other feedback models. Furthermore, independentt-tests showed the precision differences to be significant. Rating was found to be the most popular technique among the participants, producing the best precision compared to referral and comments.Research limitations/implications– The findings suggest that search retrieval relevance can be significantly improved when users’ explicit feedback are integrated, therefore web-based systems should find ways to manipulate users’ feedback to provide better recommendations or search results to the users.Originality/value– The study is novel in the sense that users’ comment, rating and referral were taken into consideration to improve their overall search experience.
Alternative metric indicators for funding scheme evaluations
Authors: Thelwall Mike , Kousha Kayvan , Dinsmore Adam , Dolby Kevin 
Published: December 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential of altmetric and webometric indicators to aid with funding agencies’ evaluations of their funding schemes.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper analyses a range of altmetric and webometric indicators in terms of suitability for funding scheme evaluations, compares them to traditional indicators and reports some statistics derived from a pilot study with Wellcome Trust-associated publications.

Findings
– Some alternative indicators have advantages to usefully complement scientometric data by reflecting a different type of impact or through being available before citation data.

Research limitations/implications
– The empirical part of the results is based on a single case study and does not give statistical evidence for the added value of any of the indicators.

Practical implications
– A few selected alternative indicators can be used by funding agencies as part of their funding scheme evaluations if they are processed in ways that enable comparisons between data sets. Their evidence value is only weak, however.

Originality/value
– This is the first analysis of altmetrics or webometrics from a funding scheme evaluation perspective.
Food safety and Chinese geographical indications
Authors: Zhao Xing , Kneafsey Moya , Finlay Donald 
Published: December 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the ability of the Chinese geographical indications (GI) system to offer extra guarantees on food safety.Design/methodology/approach– Based on a network approach, the research includes a literature review and takes a sample of GI products in Jiangxi Province as a means of exploring the ability of the GI system to enhance food safety in China.Findings– The safety level of Chinese GI food products is not automatically ensured by GI schemes alone. The Chinese Government appears to be using GI labels more as a promotional tool to enhance farmers’ incomes rather than as a means of reducing safety concerns and is thus missing an opportunity to enhance food safety in tandem with adding value.Originality/value– This research is of academic value and of value to policy makers. The results suggest an urgent need to encourage producers to attend GI management programmes, to generate appropriate GI standards, to be actively involved in GI issuing processes, and thus to provide “safe” GI products. Meanwhile, with weak government enforcement, there is also a need to build an effective food safety regulatory system to ensure food safety and protect consumers’ rights.
Chinese consumers’ behavior and preference to table grapes
Authors: Weisong Mu , Chengcheng Li , Dong Tian , Jianying Feng 
Published: December 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to analyze and identify Chinese consumers’ behavior and preference characters toward table grapes, especially to explore the variance of consumption preference in recent five years.

Design/methodology/approach
– Two representative China-wide questionnaire surveys were conducted by face-to-face and online questionnaire survey, respectively, in 2009 and 2014. Comparative study was adopted to dig the changes of consumers’ preferences and habits. ANOVA was adopted to explore the statistically difference among consumers’ behavior and preferences.

Findings
– The results indicate that Chinese consumers are rational-motivation-driven grape consumers, they prefer to sweet taste, seedless and medium priced grapes. Safety and quality characters (clean appearance, freshness and taste) were ranked as the most important grape attributes. As a whole, it was found that consumers are more quality-focussed and safety-conscious five years later, so some variances was showed in their purchase habits and preferences, such as the choice of purchase place, attitude to special grapes and willingness to pay to safe and genetically modified grapes.

Originality/value
– This research not only indicates some stable preferences of Chinese consumers toward table grape, but also finds out some significant changes in consumers’ behavior before and after five years based on a comparative study in 2009 and 2014.
Building psychological safety for employee engagement in post-recession
Authors: Tiwari Binita , Lenka Usha 
Published: December 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the role of psychological safety in engaging employees at times of economic recession.Design/methodology/approach– Review of literature.Findings– On perceiving a psychologically safe environment, employees freely share their knowledge, learn, and take risks to build their intrapreneurial abilities that would facilitate their level of engagement toward organization.Originality/value– Focuses on employee engagement by taking into consideration the key measurements of psychological safety in post-recession.
Improving critical thinking skills through the integration of problem based learning and group investigation
Authors: Asyari Marhamah , Al Muhdhar Mimien Henie Irawati , Susilo Herawati , . Ibrohim 
Published: December 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to improve the critical thinking of biology students of STKIP Hamzanwadi Selong on an environment course through the implementation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Group Investigation (GI) through Lesson Study.

Design/methodology/approach
– This study employed a descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of the study were 73 freshmen biology students academic year 2013/2014 who were divided into two classes. The Lesson Study was conducted in 16 cycles, comprising Plan, Do, and See stages. The instrument of the study used to measure the students’ critical thinking was an essay test which covered several criteria of critical thinking adapted from SOLO Taxonomy.

Findings
– The implementation of PBL and GI encouraged the students to think critically through planning, arguing, stating questions and problems, and analysing and providing solutions to the surrounding environmental problems.

Originality/value
– This study depicted Lesson Study activity on an environment course which focused on the students’ critical thinking activity through the integration of PBL and GI. The learning was conducted through Lesson Study and was based on the environment. The crucial value of the Lesson Study was the lecturers showed more attention to the students since they wanted to know the students’ learning style and what made them learn.
Using the socio-economic approach to management to augment Lean Six Sigma
Authors: Goffnett Sean P. , Lepisto Lawrence , Hayes Randall 
Published: December 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a framework and a case that delineates the coordinated use of the socio-economic approach to management (SEAM) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to facilitate operational change.Design/methodology/approach– This study uses action research and thematic analysis to explore the augmentation of existing process improvement and organizational assessment methodologies in a production environment.Findings– Organizations are under increasing pressure to improve all aspects of business. Project leaders and consultants often follow popular quantitatively oriented protocols like LSS to evaluate explicit operational processes. Including a qualitatively oriented protocol like SEAM expands the project leader’s capability through greater consideration of implicit organizational issues. This paper presents a case where LSS was complemented by SEAM to assess a process that was entangled with several latent organizational dysfunctions.Practical implications– SEAM and LSS are accepted protocols to facilitate process improvement and organizational change. Pairing the two protocols into a SEAM-LSS model offers the strengths of each approach, while compensating for the limitations of each. The result is a more inclusive change protocol that reduces potential oversights and inefficiencies that could occur if project leaders worked within the purview of only one methodology.Originality/value– This paper uses action research to propose a model to bring qualitative and quantitative methodologies together into a larger complementary framework to use when evaluating organizational problems and opportunities. This paper aims to stimulate discussion and research that would lead to more robust process improvement protocols.
Impact of perceived organizational support, psychological empowerment and leader member exchange on commitment and its subsequent impact on service quality
Authors: Jaiswal Deepakshi , Dhar Rajib Lochan 
Published: December 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of perceived organizational support (POS), psychological empowerment (PE) and leader member exchange (LMX) as antecedents on the commitment level of employees working in the hotel industry and their subsequent impact on service quality (SQ).Design/methodology/approach– Data were collected from 436 employees and 1,320 customers from 34 hotels with the help of a structured self-administered questionnaire. The analysis of data were done by applying a confirmatory factor analysis along with a structural equation model.Findings– The findings of the study indicate that organizational commitment acts as a full mediator between: POS and SQ; and leader-member exchange and SQ. On the other hand, it acts a partial mediator between PE and SQ.Originality/value– This study contributes to organizational behavior and services marketing literature. It examines the relationship between antecedents (LMX, PE and POS) and outcome (SQ) so as to observe the cumulative effect of antecedents on outcome through an integrated model. The study suggests the managerial as well as theoretical implications on the basis of the findings.
Suicidality in the Deep South: risks for adolescent Mississippians
Authors: Mandracchia Jon , To Yen , Pichette Shauna 
Published: December 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to better understand suicidality among adolescent Mississippians.

Design/methodology/approach
– Mississippi-specific data were obtained from an existing national health data set and utilized for two hierarchal linear regressions.

Findings
– Highest risk for adolescent suicidality is for females with poor body image and a history of traumatic experiences.

Research limitations/implications
– This study demonstrates the need for further research into unique suicide risk factors for adolescents in Mississippi. Causality cannot be inferred due to the correlational nature of this study, and direct comparison of the findings to adolescents from other states cannot be made.

Originality/value
– This exploratory study employed a holistic, inclusive approach toward better identifying adolescent Mississippians most at-risk for suicidality; findings lead to future, targeted research efforts for better understanding specific suicide risk factors in this population.
“It’s our Scotland just as much as anyone else’s”
Authors: Hood Ian 
Published: December 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to look at some of the experiences of people with learning disabilities in Scotland during the Independence Referendum campaign, through the prism of a series of workshops run by a collective advocacy organisation. These workshops took an inclusive approach to the views of everyone with a learning disability.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper is a record of the workshops written after the event.

Findings
– People with learning disabilities were engaged in the discussion and campaigns around the referendum in similar ways to other members of their communities. The issues that especially affect people with learning disabilities figured highly in the workshops. However, there was also discussion of more general issues such as employment, jobs and constitutional arrangements that affect all citizens.

Research limitations/implications
– This is an observational study written up by the workshop leader and, as such, can make no claims of complete impartiality.

Practical implications
– Experience of the workshops suggests that many of the barriers that prevent civic participation of people with learning disabilities may be ones of staff attitude and approach. The support offered to enable people to take part in the community may on some occasions have the opposite effect.

Social implications
– Nonetheless, for those who have been able to overcome these barriers, there are signs of much greater participation in public life. This reflects an ongoing process of change with many people now joining political parties or being able to make contributions towards political debate.

Originality/value
– This paper provides an important record of the growing involvement of people with learning disabilities in civil society.
Changes in soil respiration components and their specific respiration along three successional forests in the subtropics
Authors: Huang Wenjuan , Han Tianfeng , Liu Juxiu , Wang Gangsheng , Zhou Guoyi 
Published: December 2015

Summary

Understanding how soil respiration components change with forest succession is critical for modelling and predicting soil carbon (C) processes and its sequestration below‐ground. The specific respiration (a ratio of respiration to biomass) is increasingly being used as an indicator of forest succession conceptually based on Odum's theory of ecosystem development. However, the hypothesis that specific soil respiration declines with forest succession remains largely untested.

We used a trenching method to partition soil respiration into heterotrophic respiration and autotrophic respiration (RH and RA) and then evaluated the specific RH and specific RA in three successional forests in subtropical China.

Our results showed a clear seasonality in the influence of forest succession on RH, with no significant differences among the three forests in the dry season but a higher value in the old‐growth forest than the other two forests in the wet season. RA in the old‐growth forest tended to be the highest among the three forests. Both the specific RH and specific RA decreased with the progressive maturity of three forests.

Our results highlight the importance of forest succession in determining the variation of RH in different seasons. With forest succession, soil microbes and plant roots become more efficient to conserve C resources, which would result in a greater proportion of C retained in soils.
Party debate over Europe in national election campaigns: Electoral disunity and party cohesion
Authors: HELLSTRÖM JOHAN , BLOMGREN MAGNUS 
Published: December 2015

AbstractFew political parties are willing to lead the public debate on how the European Union should develop and parties rarely publicly discuss issues on the EU agenda. This is probably one of the most important democratic problems in the contemporary EU. When and why parties are willing (or not willing) to discuss European cooperation is therefore an essential issue in which political science should engage. Previous research has shown that parties that are internally divided on EU issues downplay these issues in order to avoid internal disputes. At the same time, parties that have severe intraparty conflicts over the issue are unable to contain the debate. Thus, parties that are unified in their position on EU issues and parties that are heavily split speak about the EU, but others do not. Also, earlier research has shown that political parties downplay issues in response to internal divisions among their supporters. It is argued in this article that the focus should not be solely on intraparty conflict or whether or not a party's voters are hesitant or disunited, but rather on how these factors interact in order to better understand how parties act strategically regarding EU issues. Using a new dataset that relies on quantitative content analysis of quality newspapers during the national election campaigns in the period 1983–2010 in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Sweden, it is found that parties that have a high degree of internal dissent on European issues, while at the same time having an equally divided electorate, are the parties that are most present in the public debate. Hence, it is the interaction between these two important factors that explains much of the variation in the amount of attention paid to European issues in national election campaigns.
Presenting Food Science Effectively
Authors: Winter Carl K. 
Published: December 2015

AbstractWhile the need to present food science information effectively is viewed as a critical competency for food scientists by the Institute of Food Technologists, most food scientists may not receive adequate training in this area. Effective presentations combine both scientific content and delivery mechanisms that demonstrate presenter enthusiasm for the topic and generate audience interest. This paper provides food science presentation “best practices” based upon the results of the author's 10 y of experience teaching communication skills to 1st‐year graduate students. Topics include development of a “Presentation Inventory” that encourages presenters to consider why they are presenting, who they are presenting to, what information they plan to present, and how they plan to present the information. More specific sections of the paper address presentation introductions and conclusions, developing visual aids, responding to audience questions, flow, pacing, and time management, technological competency, and tips on how to practice a presentation. Such information should be applicable to all types of food science practitioners including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, teaching and research academics, and government, industrial, and consulting food scientists. An awareness of such “best practices” among presenters of food science information can help raise the bar to improve the quality of contemporary food science presentations.
Mechanically Assisted Total Cavopulmonary Connection With an Axial Flow Pump: Computational and In Vivo Study
Authors: Gandolfo Fabrizio , Brancaccio Gianluca , Donatiello Salvatore , Filippelli Sergio , Perri Gianluigi , Iannace Enrico , D'Amario Domenico , Testa Giuseppina , D'Avenio Giuseppe , Grigioni Mauro , Amodeo Antonio 
Published: December 2015

AbstractA relevant number of patients undergoing total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) experience heart failure (HF). Heart transplant is then the final option when all other treatments fail. The axial flow blood pumps are now the state of the art; however, there is little experience in low‐pressure circuits, such as support of the right ventricle or even a TCPC circulation. A new T‐shaped model of mechanically assisted TCPC using the “Jarvik Child 2000” axial pump, (flow rates between 1 and 3 L/m in a range of 5000–9000 rpm) was designed, simulated numerically, and then tested in animals. Eight sheep (42–45 kg) were studied: two pilot studies, four pump‐supported (PS) TCPC for 3 h, and two not pump‐supported (NPS) TCPC. In the PS, the axial pump was set to maintain the baseline cardiac output (CO). Pressures, CO, systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance, lactate levels, and blood gases were recorded for 3 h. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study allows us to set the feasible operating condition and the safety margins to minimize the venous collapse risk. In the NPS animals, a circulatory deterioration, with increasing lactate level, occurred rapidly. In the PS animals, there was a stable cardiac index of 2.7 ± 1.4 L/min/m2, central venous pressure of 12.3 ± 1 mm Hg, and a mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) of 18.1 ± 6 after 3 h of support up to 9000 rpm. systemic vascular resistance (SVR), pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), blood gasses, and arterial lactate levels remained stable to baseline values. No caval collapse occurred. A new pediatric axial flow pump provides normal CO and physiologic stability in a new T‐shaped model of TCPC in sheep, in vivo. CFD and in vivo data showed that this experimental arrangement will allow us to evaluate the potential for mechanical support in patients with Fontan failure avoiding major adverse events.