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Ecologies of practice in tertiary art and design: a review of two cases
Authors: Rourke Arianne Jennifer , Snepvangers Kim 
Published: January 2016

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to re-orientate assessment tasks in tertiary art and design, arguing the important role ecologies of practice and work-place learning play in professional identity formation. Linking coursework design with dilemmas and self-regulatory tasks which move beyond compliance and static content in isolated courses.Design/methodology/approach– Two purposive case studies were selected from one academic year across two programs. Student feedback data demonstrated how the first blog journal case provided a metacognitive structure for postgraduates’ while working in the arts industry. The second eportfolio case illustrates ecologies supporting undergraduate “practice architectures” during pre-service practicum.Findings– Ecologies of practice reveal complexity and inform professional judgment by allowing unsettling issues and concerns to be addressed. Changing commitment through future orientation counteracts institutional requirements for self-portrayal by fostering greater participation by learners.Research limitations/implications– Survey data limitations are addressed through peer-review, emergent trends and longevity of the learning design. Guidelines on how to provide critical and constructive feedback within collaborative cohorts, prioritizes intrinsic motivation, indeterminacy and authentic principles in career related pathways.Practical implications– Assessment, course and program re-design engaged with ecologies of practice produced student qualitative commentary giving “voice” and evidence of teleo (purpose) and affective (commitment) in ways not typically known in academic programs.Social implications– Students self-regulate learning and utilize technology within a “safe” learning space. Social connectedness through articulated encounters powerfully impacts personal awareness, confidence and resilience.Originality/value– This research has provided critical guidelines for how to scaffold feedback in professional learning. The case studies show how reflective environments engaged with unresolved critical incidents build professional knowledge and identity across time.
Implementation of quality initiatives in Indian public and private sector organizations
Authors: Krishnan Archana 
Published: January 2016

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to analyse and compare the implementation of quality initiatives in banking, insurance and tele-communication industry under public and private sectors in India.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study comprised of a descriptive research with a cross-sectional design. Preliminary interviews and extensive literature review was done to identify the quality initiatives to be considered for the study. Data were gathered through a questionnaire comprising of items on a five-point Likert’s scale. Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviations and inferential statistics such as paired t-test and correlation were used for analysing the data.

Findings
– The results depict that although both the sectors are trying to outsmart each other by the various quality initiatives undertaken, the private sector is still ahead in quality implementation. It is also worth witnessing a major overhaul in the public sector operations to service the end customer with utmost commitment good enough to match its private counterparts.

Practical implications
– The paper provides insights to young managers and researchers about the level of implementation of quality practices in public and private sector organisations and strategies for improvement.

Originality/value
– The paper contributes to theory and practice as little empirical research is available to understand the differences between the two sectors on the basis of quality initiatives. Also there is dearth of such a research in industries other than banking.
The moderating effects of environmental risk of the industry on the relationship between corporate environmental and financial performance
Authors: Semenova Natalia , Hassel Lars G. 
Published: January 2016

Purpose– Industries differ in their environmental impacts, such as emissions, water and energy use, fuel consumption and hazardous wastes, which will have implications for how environmental performance translates to operating performance and market value at company level. By incorporating industry-specific differences of environmental impacts, this paper includes industry-level environmental risk as a moderating factor on the relationship between two indicators of corporate environmental performance (CEP) (management and policy) and corporate financial performance (profitability and market value). The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach– Using panel data of US companies across all industries, the paper empirically tests a regression model, which includes an interaction effect representing both the form and strength of dependency of CEP on the environmental risk of the industry. The paper adopts the natural resource based theory to argue that financial returns are a decreasing function of CEP in high environmental impact industries, where environmental spending beyond compliance is costly and there is not much opportunity for consumer orientation.Findings– The results show that environmental management has different impacts on operating performance at high and low environmental risk of the industry (form of relationship) while environmental policy (reporting) has a stronger signal on market premium in industries with low rather than high environmental risk (strength of relationship). Differences in both form and strength of moderating effects are demonstrated.Research limitations/implications– Further research can introduce other industry-specific moderating factors, such as the disclosure maturity of the industry and the institutionalization of environmental disclosures across boarders in the industries, in order to explore the complexity of the relationship.Practical implications– The results of the paper are relevant to investors, company managers and a broad group of stakeholders when considering both industry- and company-level environmental risks.Originality/value– Previous studies have relied on controlling for industry membership. This paper uses an industry-specific environmental variable, environmental risk of the industry, to examine the form and strength of moderating effects.
Modelling of hardwood forest in Quebec under dynamic disturbance regimes: a time‐inhomogeneous Markov chain approach
Authors: Liénard Jean F. , Strigul Nikolay S. 
Published: January 2016

SummaryWe investigate the consequences of global warming scenarios in Quebec forests using an inhomogeneous Markov chain model. This allows us to unify predictions from climate change models and mechanistic models of forest disturbance and growth and allows predicting the potential impacts of climate change on Quebec forests. The model predicts changes in fire rate in Quebec hardwood forests as well as possible growth enhancements due to increasingand temperature.Our original method consists of three steps. (i) We estimate biomass transition matrices from forest inventories using the Bayesian method. (ii) We incorporate dynamic disturbance and forest growth scenarios, and (iii) we simulate transient dynamics and stationary states. This modelling approach allows for sensitivity analysis and quantitative assessment effects of variability of climate change scenarios.We have considered published climate change scenarios for Quebec and conducted simulations for the most extreme predictions (the smallest and largest predicted changes). None of the considered scenarios is able to counterbalance the currently observed trend of increasing biomass in the next 40 years. By the beginning of 2090, the extreme scenarios diverge within about ±5% mean biomass.Synthesis. In this work, we have developed an original modelling approach incorporating time‐ inhomogeneous effects within the Markov chain framework. We applied this approach to examine effects of climate change in Quebec's forests. The results demonstrate that the current trend of increase in forest biomass is robust with respect to a broad range of climate change scenarios. This study was not possible with previously employed homogeneous Markov chain models. The model can also be extended to include different harvesting methods and land‐use practices, enabling better long‐term management of Quebec's forest.
Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in Rhododendron simsii (Ericaceae)
Authors: Wang Shuzhen , Li Zhiliang , Jin Weibin , Xiang Fu , Xiang Jun , Fang Yuanping 
Published: January 2016

AbstractA set of 14 polymorphic microsatellite markers has been developed and characterized using FIASCO (fast isolation by AFLP of sequences containing repeats) methods for the garden plant, Rhododendron simsii Planch. Forty‐one R. simsii individuals showing large morphological differences were used to identify these markers. The total number of alleles for each locus ranged from 2 to 6, with an average value of 3.643. The expected heterozygosities and observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.137 to 0.778 and 0.000 to 0.769, respectively. Eight loci exhibited significant deviations from Hardy‐Weinberg equilibrium. Among these microsatellites, seven could successfully be transferred to four related species (R. pulchrum, R. hybrida, R. alutaceum and R. molle (Blume) G. Don). These novel microsatellite markers could be further used for assessment of genetic diversity and population structure, phylogeographic analysis and marker‐assisted selection for R. simsii and other Rhododendron species.
The effects of pollinators and seed predators (Bruchidius koenigi Schilsky) on the breeding biology of Hedysarum criniferum Boiss
Authors: Shahbazi Atefeh , Matinkhah SayedHamid , Khajeali Jahangir , Bashari Hossein , Tarkesh Esfahani Mostafa 
Published: January 2016

AbstractAntagonists and mutualists both play important roles in a plant's reproductive fitness. In the present study, seed predator and pollinator effects were studied simultaneously in a patchily distributed legume, Hedysarum criniferum, in its natural habitat in the Irano‐Turanian region. This experiment examined whether a relationship existed between seed predator and pollinator effects on H. criniferum seed production, and the degree to which each of them impacts the plant's seed survival. To achieve this goal, the effects of seed predators and pollinators in an exclosure were separately and simultaneously evaluated, using a 2 × 2 factorial design, with 16–20 plants per treatment (n = 70) in four replications. The results show that the pollinators caused a 40‐fold increment in loments, a 59.3‐fold greater production in seeds and a 14‐fold increment in gross fecundity compared with their absence. Moreover, the seed predators infected on average 23% of the seeds. It was also observed that seed abortion, as well as the interaction of seed predator × pollinator effects on seed production, was insignificant. Despite the loss of some seeds caused by seed predators, the healthy seeds were sufficient to guarantee plant survival. Consequently, seed predators seem not to be the main factor in the patchy distribution of H. criniferum and, therefore, to develop plant habitats by seeds, it is more important to protect the pollinators than to devise any intervention to remove the predators. Bruchidius koenigi Schilsky and a description of its host plant are reported here for the first time from Iran.
Relating therapeutically in family therapy: pragmatics and intangibles
Authors: Flaskas Carmel 
Published: January 2016

This paper offers a set of theory reflections on the challenges of relating therapeutically and holding a therapeutic position in family therapy. The context is the relational space of family therapy, which shapes the possibilities and limits of therapeutic relating. Pragmatics unfold in the doing of therapy within this space, and processes of engagement, empathy and the therapist's capacities for resonance and reactivities are all considered as part of the pragmatics of therapeutic relating in family therapy. Yet these processes and the therapist's involvement of self are not simply pragmatic. The exploration turns to ideas that attempt to meet the intangibles of the intersubjective space of therapeutic relationships. Ideas from contemporary family therapy discussions drawing on psychoanalytic ideas are placed side‐by‐side ideas of dialogical therapy as a way of opening out different understandings of the intangibles of the space between in therapeutic relating.Practitioner points

The relational space of family therapy shapes the possibilities and limits of therapeutic relating
Practices in relation to engagement, empathy and the therapist's involvement of self unfold as part of the pragmatics of therapeutic relating within this relational space
Complexities of the therapist's involvement and use of self, and the richness and potentials of the therapeutic relationship, also lie in the intangibles of the space between
Ideas from psychoanalytic thinking and dialogical therapy offer understandings of the intangibles of the intersubjective space of therapeutic relating.
Accountability across the Continuum: The Participation of Postacute Care Providers in Accountable Care Organizations
Authors: Colla Carrie H. , Lewis Valerie A. , Bergquist Savannah L. , Shortell Stephen M. 
Published: January 2016

ObjectiveTo examine the extent to which accountable care organizations (ACOs) formally incorporate postacute care providers.Data SourcesThe National Survey of ACOs (N = 269, response rate 66 percent).Study DesignWe report statistics on ACOs' formal inclusion of postacute care providers and the organizational characteristics and clinical capabilities of ACOs that have postacute care.Principal FindingsHalf of ACOs formally include at least one postacute service, with inclusion at higher rates in ACOs with commercial (64 percent) and Medicaid contracts (70 percent) compared to ACOs with Medicare contracts only (45 percent). ACOs that have a formal relationship with a postacute provider are more likely to have advanced transition management, end of life planning, readmission prevention, and care management capabilities.ConclusionsMany ACOs have not formally engaged postacute care, which may leave room to improve service integration and care management.
The Effect of the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations on Mammography Rates
Authors: Gray Natallia , Picone Gabriel 
Published: January 2016

ObjectiveTo examine the effect of a change in U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening guidelines on mammography rates in the United States.Principal FindingsIn 2010, the year following the change in guidelines, 12‐month mammography prevalence among women aged 40–49 years fell by 2.09 percentage points (95 percent confidence interval [CI]: −2.87 to −1.31) from 54.63 percent in 2008. For women aged 50–74 years, and aged 75 years and older, 12‐month screening rates were 2.21 (95 percent CI: −2.65 to −1.77) and 3.60 (95 percent CI: −4.48 to −2.70) percentage points lower than those in 2008. In 2012, for women aged 40–49 years, 12‐month prevalence fell to 52.51 percent, a decline of 2.12 percentage points (95 percent CI: −2.79 to −1.32) relative to screening rates prior the USPSTF announcement. For women aged 50–74 years and aged 75 years and older screening rates were 2.45 (95 percent CI: −2.96 to −2.07) and 5.71 (95 percent CI: −6.61 to −4.81) percentage points lower, respectively, in 2012 than in 2008.ConclusionThis study demonstrates an immediate and lasting reduction in the rates of breast cancer screening among women of all age groups after the 2009 revision of screening guidelines by the USPSTF.
Impact of cold on the immune system of burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae)
Authors: Urbański Arkadiusz , Czarniewska Elżbieta , Baraniak Edward , Rosiński Grzegorz 
Published: January 2016

AbstractInsect overwintering is one of the most astonishing phases of the insect life cycle. Despite vast amounts of knowledge available about the physiological mechanisms of this phenomenon, the impact of stress factors on insect immune system functioning during the winter is still unknown. The aim of this study is to analyze how low temperatures influence the immune system of the beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. The results show that the beetle's immune system is differently modulated by cold induced in laboratory settings than that which occurs in natural conditions. Among beetles cultured in conditions similar to summer, low temperatures, did not influence the number of circulating haemocytes, phenoloxidase activity, haemocytes morphology, and percentage ratio of haemocyte types. In these beetles, differences were noted only in the ability of haemocytes to perform phagocytosis. Individuals acclimated in natural conditions in autumn had a higher level of humoral response and a different percentage ratio of haemocyte types. During the winter period, the number of haemocytes in the beetles decreased, but the percentage ratio of phagocytic haemocytes increased. Furthermore, we noted an increase of phenoloxidase activity. Our study also showed mitotic divisions of haemocytes in haemolymph collected from burying beetles after cold exposure and from burying beetles collected from natural conditions during autumn and winter. Differences in response to low temperatures in laboratory conditions and the natural environment suggest that the simultaneous presence of other stress factors during winter such as desiccation and starvation have a significant influence on the activity of burying beetle's immune system.
Global Public Health: A Review and Discussion of the Concepts, Principles and Roles of Global Public Health in Today's Society
Authors: Jenkins Chris , Lomazzi Marta , Yeatman Heather , Borisch Bettina 
Published: January 2016

AbstractGlobal public health as a concept needs examination. Given that the use of the term has become so common, across such broad topics, it is worthwhile to take stock, review and evaluate how it is being used. In an ever‐changing and increasingly globalised context, how should global public health be understood and how should it adapt?We conducted a literature review of articles between 1990 and 2014 that included the phrase ‘global public health’ in the title and/or abstract. Using these articles and some specifically selected influential articles from outside the search parameters we found that the articles rarely engage with political factors impacting on health, instead focusing on disease‐specific challenges or technical issues.This article seeks to contribute to a wider study and discussion on the role of global public health in today's global setting, conducted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva.
Digestive evaluation of soy isolate protein as affected by heat treatment and soy oil inclusion in broilers at an early age
Authors: Zhang Xianglun , Lu Peng , Xue Wenyue , Wu Dawei , Wen Chao , Zhou Yanmin 
Published: January 2016

AbstractSoy protein isolate (SPI) mixed with soybean oil (SPIO) incubated at 100°C for 8 h was used to evaluate changes of solubility and digestibility of SPI in vitro and digestive function in broilers at an early age. Arbor Acres broilers were allocated to three groups with six replicates of 12 birds, receiving basal diet (CON), 8 h heat‐oxidized SPI diet (HSPI) and 8 h heat‐oxidized mixture of SPI and 2% soybean oil diet (HSPIO) for 21 days, respectively. Nitrogen solubility index (NSI) declined and soybean oil accelerated the decline of NSI during incubation (P < 0.05). Decreased in vitro digestibility of dry matter (DM) and crude protein (CP) were observed in SPIO (P < 0.05). HSPI and HSPIO decreased body weight gain, relative jejunum weight and pancreatic trypsin activity at day 21 (P < 0.05). HSPIO decreased anterior intestinal trypsin activity at day 14 and amylase and trypsin activity at day 21, pancreatic amylase activity at day 21 and apparent digestibility of DM, organic matter and CP of broilers from days 18 to 20 (P < 0.05). Heat treatment and soybean oil could induce oxidative modification of SPI, and oxidized SPI negatively affected growth and digestion of broilers. © 2016 Japanese Society of Animal Science
Radiographic size of retroperitoneal lymph nodes predicts pathological nodal involvement for patients with renal cell carcinoma: development of a risk prediction model
Authors: Gershman Boris , Takahashi Naoki , Moreira Daniel M. , Thompson Robert H. , Boorjian Stephen A. , Lohse Christine M. , Costello Brian A. , Cheville John C. , Leibovich Bradley C. 
Published: January 2016

ObjectivesTo evaluate the ability of clinical and radiographic features to predict lymph node (pN1) disease among patients with renal cell carcinoma undergoing radical nephrectomy (RN), and to develop a preoperative risk prediction model.Patients and MethodsIn all, 220 patients with preoperative computed tomography scans available for review underwent RN with lymph node dissection (LND) from 2000 to 2010. Radiographic features were assessed by one genitourinary radiologist blinded to pN status. Associations of features with pN1 disease were evaluated using logistic regression to develop predictive models. Model performance was assessed using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and decision curve analysis.ResultsThe median (interquartile range) lymph node yield was 10 (5–18). In all, 55 patients (25%) had pN1 disease at RN. On univariable analysis, the maximum lymph node (LN) short axis diameter [odds ratio (OR) 1.17; P < 0.001] predicted pN1 disease with an AUC of 0.84. Although several clinical and radiographic features were associated with pN1 disease, only two were retained in the multivariable model: maximum LN short axis diameter (OR 1.19; P <0.001) and radiographic perinephric/sinus fat invasion (OR 44.64; P = 0.01), with an AUC of 0.85. On decision curve analysis, the single variable and multivariable models showed similar net benefit.ConclusionTwo radiographic features, maximum LN short axis diameter and perinephric/sinus fat invasion, outperformed traditional clinical variables in predicting pN1 disease. Maximum LN short axis diameter alone showed excellent predictive performance, and, if validated externally, would provide for a simple model to guide patient selection for LND.