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CABS: a conceptual model for context-aware B2B sales applications
Authors: Rogers Beth , Clark Lillian 
Published: March 2016

Purpose
– This paper aims to propose a conceptual model that will guide development of mobile applications to support value-added business-to-business (B2B) sales activities.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper reviews the concepts of context-aware applications and context-marketing, then examines B2B selling and the creation of value, utilizing Terho’s model of value-based selling, and presenting the potential role of context-aware B2B selling in creating value. Terho’s model is then combined with a taxonomy of context modeling to produce step-by-step a conceptual model for developing context-aware B2B sales applications (CABS).

Findings
– By mapping the context-aware application development taxonomy against each stage of Terho’s “value-based selling” model, the CABS model is proposed. This model provides a platform for the B2B salesforce, their customers and information technology (IT) staff to work together in developing requirements and prototypes for mobile B2B context-aware applications.

Research limitations/implications
– The CABS model would require empirical testing to assess its viability and suitability. This would initially be done via focus groups in targeted sales organizations.

Practical implications
– The CABS model could utilized by sales staff and their customers to develop requirements for mobile context-aware applications to support B2B activity. In addition, the CABS model could be utilized in joint application design processes to enable sales and IT staff to work together in developing prototype mobile applications.

Originality/value
– While context-aware applications are beginning to transform business-to-sale (B2C) sales activities, it is clear that B2B sales could also benefit from these types of applications, but little progress has been made in understanding or developing their potential. The CABS model enables B2B sales staff and their customers to recognize these benefits and facilitate working with IT staff in defining requirements and developing prototypes.
How do you solve a problem like Lucinda?
Authors: Wilson-Mah Rebecca 
Published: March 2016

SynopsisA room attendant in a small hotel with approximately 63 employees undermines her supervisors and disregards authority in deliberate defiance of company policies, rules, regulations and procedures. Disrespect is shown in several behaviours that include interfering with the work of other employees, spreading rumours, gossiping to other room attendants and complaining about unfair treatment.Research methodologyThis case was field researched and the company and individuals are disguised.Relevant courses and levelsThis case is suitable for third- or fourth-year undergraduate students. Within human resource management it is suited for use in a course or series of classes on employee relations or performance management. The case could also be used for an organizational behaviour course to explore conflict and struggle in organizations and the range of passive and active resistance practices that occur. In this particular case the context of women and minorities working in low-skilled roles could be examined.Theoretical basesIn advance of this case students should have a background in performance management theory and practice, disciplinary systems and practice and the behaviours associated with workplace resistance, insubordination and misconduct.
Restaurant operations at the Rose Capital Inn: a case study exercise
Authors: Gopalakrishna-Remani Venugopal , Cater III John James , Massey Jerry James 
Published: March 2016

Synopsis
This case study exercise highlights the importance of food supplier selection and forecasting to minimize food cost and maximize profit for a hotel restaurant. The importance of data analytics in supplier selection is emphasized. The case exercise provides students with a more comprehensive understanding of spoilage and the calculation of food cost percentage, which should save the hotel restaurant under study significant dollars, help the environment, and strengthen the operation. The events described in this case are based on real world experiences.

Research methodology
This research uses a data driven problem-solving approach to accurately forecast food requirements and minimize spoilage.

Relevant courses and levels
Because of its focus on restaurant operations, the case exercise is appropriate for senior-level undergraduate courses or graduate courses in Operations Management, Restaurant Food and Beverage Management, Hotel Management, and Data Analytics.
Comparison of migration‐based location and detection methods for microseismic events
Authors: Trojanowski Jacek , Eisner Leo 
Published: March 2016

ABSTRACTMicroseismic monitoring in the oil and gas industry commonly uses migration‐based methods to locate very weak microseismic events. The objective of this study is to compare the most popular migration‐based methods on a synthetic dataset that simulates a strike‐slip source mechanism event with a low signal‐to‐noise ratio recorded by surface receivers (vertical components). The results show the significance of accounting for the known source mechanism in the event detection and location procedures. For detection and location without such a correction, the ability to detect weak events is reduced. We show both numerically and theoretically that neglecting the source mechanism by using only absolute values of the amplitudes reduces noise suppression during stacking and, consequently, limits the possibility to retrieve weak microseismic events. On the other hand, even a simple correction to the data polarization used with otherwise ineffective methods can significantly improve detections and locations. A simple stacking of the data with a polarization correction provided clear event detection and location, but even better results were obtained for those data combined with methods that are based on semblance and cross‐correlation.
Export Restrictions and Smooth Transition Cointegration: Export Quotas for Wheat in Ukraine
Authors: Götz Linde , Qiu Feng , Gervais Jean‐Philippe , Glauben Thomas 
Published: March 2016

AbstractWe extend previous modelling approaches to identify domestic price effects of export controls. We allow for smooth transition between free‐trade price transmission regimes and those under export restricting regimes, using a smooth transition cointegration (STC) approach, rather than the more common assumption that regime changes are abrupt. Our approach has the advantage that the switch in the price transmission regime may be induced not only by an actual but also by an expected policy change. Results confirm the gradual nature of the transition between the regimes, which reflect trader heterogeneity and wheat storage decisions. We find that theSTCapproach outperforms alternative model approaches in terms of both regime classification and goodness of fit, when explaining Ukrainian domestic wheat prices under export controls. In particular, application of the Markov‐switching error correction model (MSECM) to the same data generates results which do not reflect any identifiable economic reality (in contrast to Götzet al.,).
Point of care testing for group A streptococci in patients presenting with pharyngitis will improve appropriate antibiotic prescription
Authors: Orda Ulrich , Mitra Biswadev , Orda Sabine , Fitzgerald Mark , Gunnarsson Ronny , Rofe Geoff , Dargan Anna 
Published: March 2016

AbstractObjectiveHistory, clinical examination and throat culture may be inadequate to rule in or out the presence of group A streptococci (GAS) infection in patients with sore throat in a remote location. We correlated the diagnostic accuracy for guiding antibiotic prescription of clinical decision and physiological scoring systems to a rapid diagnostic point of care (POC) test result in paediatric patients presenting with sore throat.MethodsProspective diagnostic accuracy study conducted between 30 June 2014 and 27 February 2015 in a remote Australian ED using a convenience sample. Among paediatric patients presenting with sore throat, the Centor criteria and clinical decision were documented. Simultaneously, patients without sore throat or respiratory tract infection were tested to determine the number of carriers. A throat swab on all patients was tested using a POC test (Alere TestPack +Plus Strep A with on board control), considered as reference standard to detect GAS infection.ResultsA total of 101 patients with sore throat were tested with 26 (25.7%) positive for GAS. One hundred and forty‐seven patients without sore throat were tested with one positive POC test result (specificity 99%; 95% CI 96–100). Positive predictive value for clinician decision‐making for a positive GAS swab (bacterial infection) was 29% (95% CI 17–43), negative predictive value 78% (95% CI 63–88). Area under ROC for the Centor score was 0.70 (95% CI 0.58–0.81).ConclusionClinician judgement and Centor score are inadequate tools for clinical decision‐making for children presenting with sore throat. Adjunctive POC testing provides sufficient accuracy to guide antibiotic prescription on first presentation.
Pathological gambling: a review of the neurobiological evidence relevant for its classification as an addictive disorder
Authors: Fauth‐Bühler Mira , Mann Karl , Potenza Marc N. 
Published: March 2016

AbstractIn light of the upcoming eleventh edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD‐11), the question arises as to the most appropriate classification of ‘Pathological Gambling’ (‘PG’). Some academic opinion favors leaving PG in the ‘Impulse Control Disorder’ (‘ICD’) category, as in ICD‐10, whereas others argue that new data especially from the neurobiological area favor allocating it to the category of ‘Substance‐related and Addictive Disorders’ (‘SADs’), following the decision in the fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The current review examines important findings in relation to PG, with the aim of enabling a well‐informed decision to be made with respect to the classification of PG as a SAD or ICD in ICD‐11. Particular attention is given to cognitive deficits and underlying neurobiological mechanisms that play a role in SADs and ICDs. These processes are impulsivity, compulsivity, reward/punishment processing and decision‐making. In summary, the strongest arguments for subsuming PG under a larger SAD category relate to the existence of similar diagnostic characteristics; the high co‐morbidity rates between the disorders; their common core features including reward‐related aspects (positive reinforcement: behaviors are pleasurable at the beginning which is not the case for ICDs); the findings that the same brain structures are involved in PG and SADs, including the ventral striatum. Research on compulsivity suggests a relationship with PG and SAD, particularly in later stages of the disorders. Although research is limited for ICDs, current data do not support continuing to classify PG as an ICD.
The Inconsistent City, Participatory Planning, and the Part of No Part in Recife, Brazil
Authors: de Vries Pieter 
Published: March 2016

AbstractThis article engages with the trajectory of urban participation in Recife, Brazil, from its start as a governance system aimed at ensuring the right of the poor to the city, to the introduction by the Workers’ Party of participatory budgeting. I argue that participation is used by the state in order to include populations within governmental structures while the poor struggle for the right to belong to the city. Drawing on Alain Badiou's ontology of multiplicity I contend that the urban situation is grounded in inconsistency, as manifested in the existence of a category of people who “sit at the edge of the void”, that neither is included nor belongs. I conclude that the popular mobilizations in Recife in the 1980s constituted a true emancipatory event that exposed the divisions of the city, the existence of a fundamental wrong, and that proclaimed the right of the excluded to the city.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE NETWORKS UNDER GLOBAL TREATY STABILITY
Authors: May Daniel E. 
Published: March 2016

ABSTRACTThe stability of international trade networks has been investigated using the pairwise stability concept. This concept is suitable to study the formation of bilateral agreements. However, it cannot be used to determine the stability of global trade agreements. This article proposes an alternative stability concept that can be adopted to determine the stability of global agreements such as the Doha agreement. This concept is named in this paper Global Treaty Stability.
Relationship between plasma bilirubin level and oxidative stress markers in HIV‐infected patients on atazanavir‐ vs. efavirenz‐based antiretroviral therapy
Authors: Estrada V , Monge S , Gómez‐Garre MD , Sobrino P , Masiá M , Berenguer J , Portilla J , Viladés C , Martínez E , Blanco JR ,   CoRIS and the HIV Biobank integrated in the Spanish AIDS Research Network
Published: March 2016

ObjectivesChronic oxidative stress (OS) may play a role in cardiovascular disease in HIV‐infected patients, and increased bilirubin levels may have a beneficial role in counteracting OS. Atazanavir (ATV) inhibits UDP‐glucuronosyl‐transferase 1A1 (UGT1A1), thus increasing unconjugated bilirubin levels. We aimed to compare changes in OS markers in patients on ATV/ritonavir (ATV/r)‐ vs. efavirenz (EFV)‐based first‐line antiretroviral therapy (ART).MethodsA multicentre, prospective cohort study of HIV‐infected patients who started first‐line ART with either ATV/r or EFV was conducted. Lipoprotein‐associated phospholipase A2 (Lp‐PLA2), myeloperoxidase (MPO) and oxidized low‐density lipoprotein (oxLDL) were measured for 145 patients in samples obtained at baseline and after at least 9 months of ART during which the initial regimen was maintained and the patient was virologically suppressed. The change in OS markers was modelled using multiple linear regressions adjusting for baseline values and confounders.ResultsAfter adjustment for baseline variables, patients on ATV/r had a significantly greater decrease in Lp‐PLA2 [estimated difference −16.3; 95% confidence interval (CI) −31.4, −1.25; P = 0.03] and a significantly smaller increase in OxLDL (estimated difference −21.8; 95% CI −38.0, −5.6; P < 0.01) relative to those on EFV, whereas changes in MPO were not significantly different (estimated difference 1.2; 95% CI −14.3, 16.7; P = 0.88). Adjusted changes in bilirubin were significantly greater for the ATV/r group than for the EFV group (estimated difference 1.33 mg/dL; 95% CI 1.03, 1.52 mg/dL; P < 0.01). Changes in bilirubin and changes in OS markers were significantly correlated.ConclusionsWhen compared with EFV, ATV/r‐based therapy was associated with lower levels of oxidative stress biomarkers, which was in part attributable to increased bilirubin levels.
Effects of exogenous 24‐epibrassinolide to control grey mould and maintain postharvest quality of table grapes
Authors: Liu Qing , Xi Zhumei , Gao Jiangman , Meng Ying , Lin Sun , Zhang Zhenwen 
Published: March 2016

SummaryThe potential of various concentrations of 24‐epibrassinolide (EBR) treatments on the control of grey mould in artificial Botrytis cinerea inoculation test and on the maintenance of postharvest quality of table grapes without inoculation in cold storage were researched. In the cold storage, clusters of grapes with exogenous EBR application (EBR1, 0.1 mg L−1 EBR; EBR2, 0.4 mg L−1 EBR; EBR3, 0.8 mg L−1 EBR) were stored at 0 ± 1 °C. Fruits’ quality attributes including berry firmness, weight loss, berry drop, decay berry percentages, total sugar and titratable acidity were measured at 15, 30 and 60 days. The results showed that EBR treatments exhibited a higher berry firmness and a lower percentage of weight loss, berry drop and decay berry. In the artificial inoculation trial, single berries were immersed in EBR1, EBR2 and EBR3, then inoculated by spraying with a B. cinerea spore suspension and stored at 25 ± 2 °C and 95% relative humidity. Disease severity (DS), lipid peroxidation and defence‐related enzymes of these berries were analysed every 2 days. EBR‐treated berries resulted in an increase in activities of defence‐related enzymes including superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, catalase and phenylalanine ammonia‐lyase compared with control berries inoculated by B. cinerea. Simultaneously, significant decreases in DS and production of superoxide anion radical and malondialdehyde were observed. These results suggested that exogenous application of EBR could play a protective role in controlling the grey mould of postharvest grapes and maintaining the postharvest quality during cold storage.
l‐histidine improves water retention of heat‐induced gel of chicken breast myofibrillar proteins in low ionic strength solution
Authors: Chen Xing , Li Yong , Zhou Ruiyun , Liu Zhaiming , Lu Fengzhi , Lin Huang , Xu Xinglian , Zhou Guanghong 
Published: March 2016

SummaryThe effects of 5 mm l‐histidine (l‐His) on water‐binding capacity, gel strength, thermal gelling properties of chicken breast myofibrillar proteins (MPs) in 1 mm NaCl or 0.6 m NaCl solutions (pH 7.0) were investigated. l‐His could significantly increase the solubility and thermal gelling ability of MPs in 1 mm NaCl. l‐His at 1 mm NaCl shortened the water relaxation time and decreased the water mobility of MPs gel. l‐His promoted the formation of MPs gel structure with small pores and thin strands at 1 mm NaCl. These resulted in the enhanced water retention and weak gel strength of MPs in low ionic strength solution. The water‐binding capacity of MPs gels formed in 1 mm NaCl containing 5 mm l‐His was equivalent to that with 0.6 m NaCl. The information could offer certain theoretical foundation to apply l‐His as sodium salt substitute for developing low‐salt meat gelling product with high yield.
Modulation of antigen processing by haem‐oxygenase 1. Implications on inflammation and tolerance
Authors: Riquelme Sebastián A. , Carreño Leandro J. , Espinoza Janyra A. , Mackern‐Oberti Juan Pablo , Alvarez‐Lobos Manuel M. , Riedel Claudia A. , Bueno Susan M. , Kalergis Alexis M. 
Published: March 2016

SummaryHaem‐oxygenase‐1 (HO‐1) is an enzyme responsible for the degradation of haem that can suppress inflammation, through the production of carbon monoxide (CO). It has been shown in several experimental models that genetic and pharmacological induction of HO‐1, as well as non‐toxic administration of CO, can reduce inflammatory diseases, such as endotoxic shock, type 1 diabetes and graft rejection. Recently, it was shown that the HO‐1/CO system can alter the function of antigen‐presenting cells (APCs) and reduce T‐cell priming, which can be beneficial during immune‐driven inflammatory diseases. The molecular mechanisms by which the HO‐1 and CO reduce both APC‐ and T‐cell‐driven immunity are just beginning to be elucidated. In this article we discuss recent findings related to the immune regulatory capacity of HO‐1 and CO at the level of recognition of pathogen‐associated molecular patterns and T‐cell priming by APCs. Finally, we propose a possible regulatory role for HO‐1 and CO over the recently described mitochondria‐dependent immunity. These concepts could contribute to the design of new therapeutic tools for inflammation‐based diseases.
A vision of KIR variation at super resolution
Authors: Hammond John A , Carrington Mary , Khakoo Salim I 
Published: March 2016

SummaryThe Ninth Killer Cell Immunoglobulin‐Like Receptor (KIR) Workshop was held in Winchester, UK late in the summer of 2015. The extraordinary diversity of KIR and its functional consequences were key themes throughout the meeting. Novel sequencing technologies and new bioinformatics techniques continue to increase our understanding of the genetic diversity and evolution of the KIR; while a deeper understanding of KIR functions, including their specificity for MHC and its peptide ligands, are generating more refined models of their role in disease. Limited to 100 delegates from around the world, this intimate workshop facilitated vigorous discussion, generating new ideas for research in this ever‐expanding field.
Counter‐Credit‐Risk Yield Spreads: A Puzzle in China's Corporate Bond Market
Authors: Luo Jian , Ye Xiaoxia , Hu May 
Published: March 2016

AbstractIn this paper, using China's risk‐free and corporate zero yields together with aggregate credit risk measures and various control variables from 2006 to 2013, we document a puzzle of counter‐credit‐risk corporate yield spreads. We interpret this puzzle as a symptom of the immaturity of China's credit bond market, which reveals a distorted pricing mechanism latent in the fundamental of this market. We also find interesting results about relationships between corporate yield spreads and interest rates and risk premia and the stock index, and these results are somewhat attributed to this puzzle.
The Effect of Regulations on Pension Risk Shifting: Evidence from the US and Europe
Authors: Guan Yanling , Lui Daphne 
Published: March 2016

AbstractThis paper provides evidence that pension regulations can incentivize or curb risk shifting in the investment of defined benefit plan assets. We document that in the US, where the pension insurance premium charged by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is largely flat, financially distressed firms with severely underfunded plans shift pension investment risk. We further find that risk shifting is mitigated in the UK after the implementation of risk‐adjusted pension insurance premiums, and in the Netherlands where full pension funding is mandatory. Overall the results in this paper lend support to the view that structural flaws in the US statutory pension insurance scheme incentivize high‐risk sponsors to gamble their pension assets when distress terminations of their plans become foreseeable.
Gestural praxis in young adults with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities
Authors: Pinto S. , Chong Y. , García R. , Almeida A. , Perea M. V. , Ladera V. 
Published: March 2016

AbstractBackgroundPraxis functioning in the population with intellectual disabilities (ID) has been poorly studied. The goal of this research was to look for a starting point to study the praxic functioning in young adults with mild to moderate ID.MethodThirty young adults with ID and 30 young adults without ID, between the ages of 18 and 35 years, participated in this study. All participants completed tests that assessed gestural praxis.ResultsIt was possible to observe similar praxis behaviour in the group with ID in almost all domains studied, albeit showing statistical values lower than those of the group without ID.DiscussionsDespite the high number of errors committed, the sample of participants with ID was able to reach the goal of praxic tasks performed; such errors may be associated with a deficit in the development of various brain functions and not only with praxis functioning, mainly related to a lower yield in terms of planning, monitoring and correcting intentional movement.