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Support and assist: approaches to mentoring in a yearlong teacher residency
Authors: Roegman Rachel , Reagan Emilie Mitescu , Goodwin A. Lin , Yu Julia 
Published: March 2016

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine mentor teachers’ approaches to mentoring preservice teachers in a yearlong teacher residency program (TRP).Design/methodology/approach– This multiple-methods study examined 15 mentor teachers’ approaches over the course of a year in an urban TRP through the lens of Wang and Odell’s (2002) framework for mentoring. Data sources included mentors’ self-assessments over three points in time across one academic year. These self-assessments included numerical ratings of practice (quantitative) as well as open-ended rationales and goal setting (qualitative).Findings– Mentors predominately provided support and technical assistance to the residents learning to teach, drawing on humanistic, and situated apprentice perspectives on mentoring. They worked to develop residents’ self-confidence and exposed residents to a range of practices and school contexts. Glimmers of a more critical constructive approach were apparent in some mentors’ discussions of reflection and collaboration.Research limitations/implications– This study informs the work of teacher education programs as they develop mentoring structures that align with program visions, expand notions of mentoring, and consider the many roles of a mentor teacher.Originality/value– Increased emphasis on clinical experiences for preservice teachers highlights the need to attend to the practices of the mentor teachers with whom they work. These mentors, as field-based teacher educators, play a critical role in teacher education, and teacher education programs need to support their professional development as mentors. Understanding mentors’ approaches to mentoring is necessary in order to provide this support.
Proposing a hybrid method based on DEA and ANP for ranking organizational units and prioritizing human capital management drivers
Authors: Tavakoli Mohammad Mehdi , Shirouyehzad Hadi , Dabestani Reza 
Published: March 2016

Purpose
– The purpose of this study is to present a hybrid analytic network process (ANP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for ranking organizational units as well as prioritizing organization’s human capital management criteria.

Design/methodology/approach
– In the proposed DEA model, human capital management criteria are considered as the inputs and organizational commitment considered as the output of DEA model. Afterward, the organizational unit’s efficiency and the weight of human capital management criteria are evaluated through DEA and the data are considered as the basis of ANP model.

Findings
– The results of prioritizing the drivers of human capital management were showed that leadership practices, human capital management and learning capacity are the most important ones. Also, the findings proved that the proposed integrated DEA/ANP can be helpful in managerial issues.

Research limitations/implications
– Filling the super-matrix and designing the questionnaire of ANP have always been the challenge of scholars because of the large number of data it requires. One of the main advantages of the proposed hybrid method in this research is that it resolves the above-mentioned problem of ANP.

Practical implications
– The results of the proposed method may provide managers this opportunity to better analyze the condition of organizational units from human capital management perspective and focus on the most important activities in this context. Moreover, the proposed hybrid method can help scholars to better use both DEA and ANP techniques and obtain more reliable findings.

Originality/value
– In this study, DEA efficiency measures of units, and the weights of inputs and outputs of DEA model are used to fill the super-matrix of ANP. In addition to having a logical approach, this method provides more reliable results and enjoys the advantages of both ANP and DEA techniques.
Predicting the progress trends of science and technology in Iran through a system dynamics approach
Authors: Dabestani Reza , Nahavandi Nasim , Saljoughian Mohammad 
Published: March 2016

Purpose
– The purpose of this study is an attempt to identify the most crucial factors and their influence on one another, which can result in predicting the country’s next phase of progress based on these factors’ variation patterns.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors proposed a model based on the existing literature and then ran a system dynamics analysis on the data obtained from the World Bank official Web site. The factors including “Research and development expenditure (% of GDP)”, “Scientific and technical journal articles”, “Patent applications”, “Trademark applications”, “Industry value added”, “Researchers in R
&
D (per million people)” and “High technology export” were considered as the related factors with science and technology.

Findings
– The findings can also reveal what aspects require more attention and investment if the government demands to facilitate and accelerate the development process. The results show that the most intense increase refers to the number of patent applications and trademark applications, and the lowest increase is related to research and development expenditure and researchers in R
&
D.

Practical implications
– The authors hope that tracking the changes of those factors leads practitioners and scholars to have a better understanding of the trends of science and technology development in a country, which in turn leads them to foresee the country’s upcoming opportunities as well as challenges.

Originality/value
– Proposing a system dynamic model for predicting science and technology trend in a country is relatively novel.
Importance of CEM in CRM-CL framework
Authors: Singh Jagwinder , Saini Shivani 
Published: March 2016

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to propose a model to understand the role of customer relationship management efforts in building, sustaining and enhancing customer loyalty (CL).Design/methodology/approach– This paper reviews extant literature in customer relationship management (CRM), customer experience management (CEM) and CL, with a particular emphasis on exploring the relationships between these proposed domains.Findings– The CRM efforts, customer acquisition, retention and experience, are suggested to have positive influence on attitudinal and behavioural loyalty. A model for testing the associations of customer relationship efforts to various forms of CL, including the satisfaction, trust and commitment as mediators in CRM-CL link are proposed.Research limitations/implications– This paper represents a first attempt to build and propose a conceptual framework of CRM–CL. This is an indicative research than a conclusive one. Therefore, research implications are to perform the empirical testing of model in different business environments.Practical implications– This application of proposed model in a business environment will be helpful for the marketing practitioners to well understand the customers’ changing expectations as well as to prioritize the marketing functions. The emphasis and right calculation about the acquisition, retention and experience decisions would be helpful to marketers to know the expected profitability of customers.Originality/value– This is the first paper to provide a comprehensive integrated model of CRM and CL to understand the effects of CRM efforts on various forms of CL.
Graphical interpretation of outranking principles
Authors: Costa Helder Gomes 
Published: March 2016

Purpose
– This study aims to use a graphical approach to highlight the differences between outranking and preference relationships. The outranking principle is based on a structure of non-dominance, which differs from the usual structures of preferences.

Design/methodology/approach
– To reach the objective, the paper makes a deep analysis of outranking and preference relationships and uses graphical representation to highlight the differences between these two concepts. Graphical interpretation is also used to support the results form ELECTRE I and to highlight misinterpretation of results, such as rank reversal in ELECTRE I.

Findings
– The results show that the assumption of rank reversal while using ELECTRE I is a mistake.

Originality/value
– It was not found in literature a previous work paper that demonstrates a result like this one.
The impact of national culture and knowledge management on governmental intelligence
Authors: De Angelis Cristiano Trindade 
Published: March 2016

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the integration of intelligences plays a great role in changing the organisational and national culture and, in consequence, in changing governmental intelligence (GI). This paper investigates the impact of national culture (NC) and knowledge management (KM) on GI.Design/methodology/approach– This paper explores the development of a culture knowledge intelligence model (CKI) to test a number of propositions through web-based survey methodology administered to 101 civil servants of two national public administrations, Brazil’s Planning Ministry and Germany’s Bundesanstalt. The data were analysed quantitatively through SPSS and SmartPLS (CFA and SEM). In this paper, the relationships between the variables (hypotheses) were empirically tested using structure equation modelling (SEM).Findings– The high correlation between organisational/national culture on GI raises the discussion of these relationships in the academic community. The impact of organisational/national culture on GI is much higher in Brazil than in Germany. In opposition to Germany, in Brazil, the GI is more influenced by culture than by knowledge. This is related to the fact that German culture, in opposition to Brazil, is future- and performance-orientated, getting information from facts, books and statistics, instead of being people-oriented, getting the first-hand (oral) information. The major practical implication is to demonstrate the importance of integration of intelligences to improve GI.Originality/value– The influence of NC on decisions of governments is paramount to understand failures in government decisions, mainly because of the difficulty of public leaders to learn by comparison and collaboration from a global, participative and integrative vision and action. Despite the importance of the relationship between NC and GI, this intuitive juxtaposition has not received attention in the literature.
The use of social media among business-to-business sales professionals in China
Authors: Niedermeier Keith E. , Wang Emily , Zhang Xiaohan 
Published: March 2016

Purpose– The purpose of this study is to explore the role of social media usage among business-to-business sales professionals in China. Specifically, the authors seek to define and explore the unique ways in which Chinese salespeople use social media, with a special emphasis on the role ofguanxi.Guanxiis a complex cultural construct that revolves around the exchange of favors to build trust and connection for business purposes.Design/methodology/approach– Three in-depth interviews of sales managers from two industries along with survey data from 42 pharmaceutical sales representatives were collected to gain an understanding of the general usage and attitudes toward social media in the sales process in China.Findings– Results indicated that virtually all the salespeople in the sample were highly familiar with social media and integrated it into the sales process. Furthermore, all participants indicated that their companies were highly supportive of the use of social media with their customers. More importantly, salespeople in China view social media as a critical tool in buildingguanxiwith their customers. Findings from this exploratory study are used to create a conceptual framework for understanding the important role of social media in buildingguanxiin China.Research limitations/implications– While the sample is limited to three managerial interviews and 42 survey responses, the data indicated a near universal acceptance and use of social media among Chinese salespeople. Most importantly, social media appears to be the modern gateway to the ancient and culturally unique construct ofguanxithat is absolutely indispensable to successful business-to-business sales performance in China.Practical implications– The structural challenges within China make trust and emotional connection essential to any potential business relationship. Trust is at the core ofguanxi. Any firm hoping to succeed in China must understandguanxiand the use of Chinese social media to help build it. This study adds to the knowledge and understanding ofguanxiand begins to elucidate the uses of social media as a tool to build and maintain it.Social implications– Social media appears to be the modern gateway to the ancient and culturally unique construct ofguanxithat is absolutely indispensable to successful business-to-business sales performance in China. This study deepens our understanding of not onlyguanxibut also how the modern phenomenon of social media is affecting it.Originality/value– This is one of very few studies to investigate the use of social media among salesforces in China. More importantly, the authors know of no other study linking social media withguanxi.
Bull's eye dermatoscopy pattern at bacillus Calmette–Guérin inoculation site correlates with systemic involvements in patients with Kawasaki disease
Authors: Tseng Han‐Chi , Ho Ji‐Chen , Guo Mindy Ming‐Huey , Lo Mao‐Hung , Hsieh Kai‐Sheng , Tsai Wen‐Chien , Kuo Ho‐Chang , Lee Chih‐Hung 
Published: March 2016

AbstractFor the past decades, although the rash at the bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) inoculation site has been recognized as a diagnostic clue in Kawasaki disease, the present study is the first known one attempting to characterize BCG inoculation by dermatoscopy in Kawasaki disease and correlate the grade of BCG reaction with systemic involvement. Thirty‐four patients diagnosed with Kawasaki disease by pediatric specialists were enrolled. We performed detailed history taking, laboratory examination, physical examination and dermatoscopy examinations. Based on the BCG reaction pattern by dermatoscopy, we were able to characterize three patterns: (A) Bull's eye pattern in 18 patients; (B) faint homogenous erythema in nine; and (C) central white patch in seven. Patients from group A exhibited the highest elevation of blood aspartate aminotransferase levels (P < 0.05). Notably, three patients from group A had a significantly dilated coronary artery despite i.v. immunoglobulin injection. We concluded that the bull's eye dermatoscopy sign is not only a useful diagnostic clue but also a severity biomarker in patients with Kawasaki disease.
Species‐specific differences in the ability of feline lentiviral Vif to degrade feline APOBEC3 proteins
Authors: Yoshikawa Rokusuke , Nakano Yusuke , Yamada Eri , Izumi Taisuke , Misawa Naoko , Koyanagi Yoshio , Sato Kei 
Published: March 2016

ABSTRACTHow host–virus co‐evolutionary relationships manifest is one of the most intriguing issues in virology. To address this topic, the mammal–lentivirus relationship can be considered as an interplay of cellular and viral proteins, particularly apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide‐like 3 (APOBEC3) and viral infectivity factor (Vif). APOBEC3s enzymatically restrict lentivirus replication, whereas Vif antagonizes the host anti‐viral action mediated by APOBEC3. In this study, the focus was on the interplay between feline APOBEC3 proteins and two feline immunodeficiency viruses in cats and pumas. To our knowledge, this study provides the first evidence of non‐primate lentiviral Vif being incapable of counteracting a natural host's anti‐viral activity mediated via APOBEC3 protein.
The case for an ultrasound mandate
Authors: Bomann J Scott 
Published: March 2016

AbstractEmergency Medicine pioneered the use of ultrasound at the bedside. All of the Colleges of Emergency Medicine in the Anglo‐American system have incorporated Emergency Ultrasound into their training curriculum, and all but ACEM have made training and proficiency mandatory. Emergency Ultrasound has not taken hold in Australasia the way it has in other parts of the world. It is a unique procedure that requires a College mandate to overcome the political and financial arguments that have kept it from flourishing in our hospitals. ACEM needs to instate such a mandate.
Influence of copper on expression of nirS, norB and nosZ and the transcription and activity of NIR, NOR and N2OR in the denitrifying soil bacteria Pseudomonas stutzeri
Authors: Black Amanda , Hsu Pei‐Chun L. , Hamonts Kelly E. , Clough Tim J. , Condron Leo M. 
Published: March 2016

SummaryReduction of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) occurs in soil environments by the action of denitrifying bacteria possessing nitrous oxide reductase (N2OR), a dimeric copper (Cu)‐dependent enzyme producing environmentally benign dinitrogen (N2). We examined the effects of increasing Cu concentrations on the transcription and activity of nitrite reductase (NIR), nitric oxide reductase (NOR) and N2OR in Pseudomonas stutzeri grown anaerobically in solution over a 10‐day period. Gas samples were taken on a daily basis and after 6 days, bacterial RNA was recovered to determine the expression of nirS, norB and nosZ encoding NIR, NOR and N2OR respectively. Results revealed that 0.05 mM Cu caused maximum conversion of N2O to N2 via bacterial reduction of N2O. As soluble Cu generally makes up less than 0.001% of total soil Cu, extrapolation of 0.05 mg l−l soluble Cu would require soils to have a total concentration of Cu in the range of, 150–200 μg g−1 to maximize the proportion of N2O reduced to N2. Given that many intensively farmed agricultural soils are deficient in Cu in terms of plant nutrition, providing a sufficient concentration of biologically accessible Cu could provide a potentially useful microbial‐based strategy of reducing agricultural N2O emissions.
Neoadjuvant chemoradiation (modified Eilber protocol) versus adjuvant radiotherapy in the treatment of extremity soft tissue sarcoma
Authors: Lehane Chris , Ho Frederick , Thompson Stephen R , Links David , Lewis Craig , Smee Robert , Parasyn Andrew , Friedlander Michael , Williams Janet , Crowe Phil 
Published: March 2016

AbstractBackgroundLocal control for extremity soft tissue sarcomas (STS) requires surgery combined with radiotherapy, usually given pre‐operatively or post‐operatively. The modified Eilber protocol, a neoadjuvant chemoradiation regimen, has been reported with excellent local control rates. This retrospective single‐centre study compared outcomes for patients treated with the modified Eilber protocol with those treated with standard adjuvant radiotherapy.MethodsPatients with a diagnosis of extremity STS were retrospectively reviewed from the Prince of Wales Hospital Sarcoma Database from 1995 to 2012. Sixty‐three patients underwent curative surgery with either neoadjuvant Eilber chemoradiotherapy (Eilber) or adjuvant radiotherapy (Adjuvant).ResultsTwenty‐nine patients were treated with modified Eilber protocol. Thirty‐four patients received adjuvant radiotherapy. Three patients (10%) in the Eilber group and five patients (15%) in the Adjuvant group developed local recurrence (P = 0.87). Major acute wound complications were noted in four patients in each group (P = 0.55). One patient (3.4%) in the Eilber group developed Grade 3 or 4 late toxicities after 1 year compared with nine patients (27%) in the Adjuvant group (P = 0.02).ConclusionNeoadjuvant chemoradiation (Eilber protocol) provided similar rates of local control when compared with adjuvant radiotherapy. Acute wound complication rates were similar but there was less severe late toxicity in the Eilber group.
Biofumigant effect of new defatted seed meals against the southern root‐knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita
Authors: Curto G. , Dallavalle E. , Matteo R. , Lazzeri L. 
Published: March 2016

AbstractIn recent years, Brassica carinata defatted seed meals (DSMs) have been successfully applied as an amendment in the control of pests and soil pathogens in several countries with clear advantages for the environment and soil fertility. The effectiveness of this product is clearly linked to the release of bioactive compounds by the well‐known glucosinolate (GL)–myrosinase (MYR) system. Until now, this commercial know‐how has been limited to allyl‐isothiocyanate, the breakdown product of hydrolysis catalysed by MYR of the GL sinigrin. Brassicaceae germplasm is an extremely wide‐ranging family, considering that more than 3500 species have been classified in this family in nature, which contains around 200 different GLs. Therefore, there is a great potential for the availability of new still unexplored bioactive compounds. This study evaluated, in controlled glasshouse conditions, the effect of biofumigation on the nematode Meloidogyne incognita and that of biostimulation on tomato plants of 13 DSMs obtained from different Brassicaceae species at different levels of soil inoculation. Among the tested DSMs, the best results for all inoculations were achieved by Eruca sativa (rocket), Barbarea verna (land cress) and Brassica nigra (black mustard), whereas the other species gave either alternate results or results not different from untreated or sunflower DSM controls. All the DSMs, including sunflower, determined a clear positive effect on plant vigour. These first results open new perspectives for the application of biofumigation in plant protection and management.
Estimated economic impact of pre‐filled ephedrine syringes in the operating room
Authors: Armoiry X. , Carry P.‐Y. , Lehot J.‐J. , Michel C. , Aulagner G. , Piriou V. 
Published: March 2016

BackgroundSyringes of ephedrine are usually prepared ahead of time in order to reduce the time to injection. Commercial pre‐filled syringes of ephedrine have been introduced to minimize the amount of waste. Our primary objective was to determine the economic impact of commercial syringes. We hypothesized that costs could be reduced compared to standard syringes.MethodsUsing data extracted from our medical records system, we retrospectively measured the total dose of ephedrine received per patient in 2013 to estimate the number of administered standard syringes. The proportion of administered standard syringes was calculated as the total number of administered standard syringes divided by the number of delivered ampoules in 2013. Thereafter, we calculated the annual cost difference as the difference between the cost for commercial syringes and the cost for standard syringes. Endpoints were calculated overall and for each operating room.ResultsAt least one dose of ephedrine was given in 19,422 patients (44,943 administrations). The overall proportion of administered standard syringes was estimated to 52.8%. The threshold proportion of administered standard syringes for which commercial syringes would add no extra cost was 20.4%. In 30/32 operating rooms, the proportion of administered standard syringes was higher than 20.4%. The overall cost increase with commercial syringes was estimated to 51,567 €. Among operating rooms, incremental costs varied between −703 and 5086 €.ConclusionBased on our findings, pre‐filled ephedrine commercial syringes do not appear to reduce costs.