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The perceptions regarding social workers from within an integrated trust in an age of austerity
Authors: Phillipowsky Darryl James 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore community professionals’: opinions concerning social worker’s roles and statutory functions; understanding of collaborative and cooperative work; experiences of professional support; opinions on the aspects of anti-oppressive practices in social work; views on social work identity within multi-disciplinary team structures; exploring perceptions regarding the challenges of cultural; and contextual drivers of social work practice.

Design/methodology/approach
Design: thematic analysis of free-text data from a survey. Setting and participants: social workers, occupational therapists and nurses working within an integrated Health and Social Care NHS Trust. Main outcome measures: free-text coded and categorised by theme. Overarching themes are identified incorporating comment categories. Methods: 41 respondents (of n=600 survey respondents) provided free-text comments. Data were coded using a multistage approach: coding of comments into general categories (e.g. resources, budgets); coding of subcategories within main categories (e.g. s75 agreement, staffing levels); cross-sectional analysis to identify themes cutting across categories; and mapping of categories/subcategories to corresponding comparable research for comparison.

Findings
Most free-text respondents (51 per cent) were from social workers, with 32 per cent from occupational therapists and 17 per cent from nurses. These respondents provided comments that the authors developed into four overarching themes: first, culture – cultural biases and clashes of culture within an integrated care organisation which result in a negative experience for professionals and confusion for service users and/or carers. A lack of shared socialisation and the development of a shared culture. Second, austerity: the impact of economic austerity. Third, organisation: conceptual confusion in respect of defining/organising/structuring integrated care within a health organisation. Fourth, political: the political drivers of integration.

Originality/value
This study presents specific areas of concern for social workers and for integrated social care and health as a whole, revealing a number of themes present across the integration journey. While the majority of comments were negative, analysis reveals concerns shared by significant numbers of respondents: conceptual confusion in respect of organising integrated care within a health organisation, a lack of shared socialisation and the development of a shared culture within the integrated organisation, and the impact of economic austerity on integration.
Building and maintaining the family business-private equity relationship
Authors: Molly Vincent , Arijs Diane , Lambrecht Johan 
Published: December 2017

PurposeAdopting an integrated agency and stewardship perspective, the purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between family businesses (FBs) and private equity (PE) investors at three stages: entry, cooperation, and exit.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative study combines the perspectives of 11 FB owners and/or managers, seven PE investors, and four intermediaries. The in-depth interviews of this purposive sample are analysed at the intra- and inter-case level using a template analysis approach up to reaching theoretical saturation.FindingsBuilding and maintaining an effective relationship between the FB and the PE investor requires both a stewardship perspective (i.e. reciprocal principal-steward behaviour) and a necessary but insufficient agency perspective (i.e. principal-principal behaviour).Research limitations/implicationsMore large-scale studies with an integrated agency-stewardship perspective on FBs using PE can increase the external validity of the insights from this research to build and maintain an effective relationship between both parties.Practical implicationsProviding insights into the relationship building process and best practices, this study helps reduce the knowledge and empathy gap that exists between FBs and PE.Originality/valueThe results clarify the need to reconcile an agency and stewardship perspective to thoroughly understand the relationship and behaviour of FBs and PE investors, and to help the parties understand and benefit from each other’s added value.
Group art therapy: supporting social inclusion through an ancient practice?
Authors: Holttum Sue 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
Group art therapy involves art-making, which has been used throughout human history to symbolise struggle and transformation with group support. The purpose of this paper is to discuss two recent papers on how and why group art therapy may be helpful.

Design/methodology/approach
A search was carried out to find recent papers on group art therapy, with a focus on how and why it may be helpful.

Findings
One paper reported on 119 accounts of why group art therapy may be helpful. Five things seemed specific to group art therapy: using artworks to express experiences symbolically, connect with others, place confusing feelings outside oneself, and be playful, and following a set routine with others. The other paper reported in detail on group art therapy sessions with people who had a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. Group interaction became most supportive when the art therapist clearly focused on people’s thoughts and feelings about artworks made by group members.

Originality/value
It has been unclear how group art therapy may help people. Understanding this means researchers can do more rigorous research on it. The two papers discussed represent probably the largest synthesis of different sources on how group art therapy might work, and the most detailed observation of what happens in practice. Both papers suggest group art therapy uses art to symbolise struggle and transformation with support from others, thus normalising this process and including those going through it rather than marginalising them. Parallels can be drawn with older healing rituals, in which crisis and struggle were viewed as normal.
Scrutinization of thermal stratification, nonlinear thermal radiation and quartic autocatalytic chemical reaction effects on the flow of three-dimensional Eyring-Powell alumina-water nanofluid
Authors: Koriko O.K. , Animasaun I.L. , Reddy M. Gnaneswara , Sandeep N. 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the effects of nonlinear thermal radiation and thermal stratification effects on the flow of three-dimensional Eyring-Powell 36 nm alumina-water nanofluid within the thin boundary layer in the presence of quartic autocatalytic kind of chemical reaction effects, and to unravel the effects of a magnetic field parameter, random motion of the tiny nanoparticles and volume fraction on the flow.

Design/methodology/approach
The chemical reaction between homogeneous (Eyring-Powell 36 nm alumina-water) bulk fluid and heterogeneous (three molecules of the catalyst at the surface) in the flow of magnetohydrodynamic three-dimensional flow is modeled as a quartic autocatalytic kind of chemical reaction. The electromagnetic radiation which occurs within the boundary layer is treated as the nonlinear form due to the fact that Taylor series expansion may not give full details of such effects within the boundary layer. With the aid of appropriate similarity variables, the nonlinear coupled system of partial differential equation which models the flow was reduced to ordinary differential equation boundary value problem.

Findings
A favorable agreement of the present results is obtained by comparing it for a limiting case with the published results; hence, reliable results are presented. The concentration of homogeneous bulk fluid (Eyring-Powell nanofluid) increases and decreases with ϕ and Pr, respectively. The increase in the value of magnetic field parameter causes vertical and horizontal velocities of the flow within the boundary layer to decrease significantly. The decrease in the vertical and horizontal velocities of Eyring-Powell nanofluid flow within the boundary layer is guaranteed due to an increase in the value of M. Concentration of homogeneous fluid increases, while the concentration of the heterogeneous catalyst at the wall decreases with M.

Originality/value
Considering the industrial applications of thermal stratification in solar engineering and polymer processing where the behavior of the flow possesses attributes of Eyring-Powell 36 nm alumina-water, this paper presents the solution of the flow problem considering 36 nm alumina nanoparticles, thermophoresis, stratification of thermal energy, Brownian motion and nonlinear thermal radiation. In addition, the aim and objectives of this paper fill such vacuum in the industry.
Are earnings strings restrained after SOX?
Authors: Kohlbeck Mark , Sankara Jomo , Stewart Errol G. 
Published: December 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to examine whether external monitors (auditors and analysts) constrain earnings strings, an indicator of earnings management, and whether this monitoring is more effective after the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), given the emphasis of SOX on improving auditing, financial reporting and the information environment.

Design/methodology/approach
Agency theory establishes the premise between external monitoring and earnings strings. Auditor tenure and number of analysts following provide measures for external monitoring quality. Using prior research, empirical models explaining the presence of an earnings strings and earnings strings trend are developed to test the hypotheses.

Findings
Pre-SOX, extreme auditor tenure, indicating lower quality external monitoring, is associated with greater earnings strings trend, and analyst coverage is associated with increased likelihood of earnings strings and greater earnings strings trend consistent with analyst pressure on management. More effective auditor and analyst monitoring occurs post-SOX in terms of reduced likelihood of earnings strings and earnings strings trend.

Originality/value
The authors provide evidence on how elements of external monitoring are associated with increased earnings strings pre-SOX. Further, they contribute to the debate on the impact of SOX on external firm monitoring and the overall financial information environment. By focusing on earnings strings, the outcome of earnings management, the authors provide a unique understanding of external monitoring that also provides insight on the overvaluation of equity and ultimate destruction of firm value. The evidence demonstrates how regulation has contributed to an improved financial reporting environment and external monitoring.
Auditors’ assessment of the capital market liability of foreignness
Authors: Smith Deborah Drummond , Gleason Kimberly C. , Wiggenhorn Joan , Kannan Yezen H. 
Published: December 2017

PurposeThis paper aims to apply the Capital Market Liability of Foreignness (CMLOF) framework to the audit fees of a sample of foreign firms listed on US exchanges to examine whether American auditors price foreignness.Design/methodology/approachThe four components of the CMLOF are institutional distance (civil versus common law system and enforcement), information asymmetry (disclosures and mandatory IFRS adoption), unfamiliarity (exports, English language and geographical distance) and cultural difference [Hofstede (1980) dimensions of culture]. These variables are examined in a regression model that explains audit fees to determine the auditor perception of risk associated with the CMLOF.FindingsExamining the factors that mitigate perceived agency costs, this investigation determines that auditors price risk according to each component of the liability of foreignness. Audit fees are higher for shareholders of firms headquartered in countries exhibiting greater institutional distance, unfamiliarity and cultural distance. Audit fees are higher for firms when their home country requires additional disclosures or the adoption of IFRS to reduce information asymmetry.Practical implicationsCMLOF is costly for capital market participants and has implications for auditors, shareholders of foreign firms and managers considering listing in the US Auditors, and investors should carefully assess this risk for pricing and valuation, and managers should take action, to the extent possible, to reduce the firm-specific level of unfamiliarity and increase transparency.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to apply the CMLOF to examine whether auditors price aspects of foreignness of their non-US-headquartered clients.
The effectiveness of risk disclosure practices in the European insurance industry
Authors: Malafronte Irma , Starita Maria Grazia , Pereira John 
Published: December 2017

PurposeThis paper aims to examine whether risk disclosure practices affect stock return volatility and company value in the European insurance industry.Design/methodology/approachUsing a self-constructed “risk disclosure index for insurers” (RDII) to measure the extent of information disclosed on risks and using panel data regression on a sample of European insurers for 2005-2010, it tests the relationship between RDII and stock return volatility; whether this relationship is affected by financial crisis; and whether RDII affects insurance companies’ embedded value.FindingsThe main results indicate that higher RDII contributes to higher volatility, suggesting that “less is more” rather than “more is good”. However, higher RDII leads to lower volatility when the insurer has a positive net income, thus “more is good when all is good” and “less is good when all is bad”. Furthermore, the relationship between RDII and stock return volatility is not affected by financial crisis, raising concerns regarding the effectiveness of insurers’ risk disclosure to reassure the market. Moreover, higher RDII is found to impact positively on embedded value, thus contributing toward higher firm value.Practical implicationsThe findings could drive insurers’ choices on communication and transparency, alongside regulators’ decisions about market discipline. They also suggest that risk disclosure could be used to strengthen market discipline and should be added to the other variables traditionally used in stock return volatility and firm value estimation models in the insurance industry.Originality/valueThis paper offers new insights in the debate on the bright and dark sides of risk disclosure in the insurance industry and provides interesting implications for insurers and their stakeholders.
Consistent temporal variation in the diet of an endangered alpine lizard across two south‐eastern Australian sky‐islands
Authors: Atkins Zak S. , Clemann Nick , Schroder Mellesa , Chapple David G. , Davis Naomi E. , Robinson Wayne A. , Wainer John , Robert Kylie A. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractA species' diet and feeding strategy directly affect fitness and environmental interactions. Understanding spatial and temporal variation in diets can identify key resources, inform trophic relationships, and assist in managing threatened species. The nationally endangered Guthega skink, Liopholis guthega, is restricted to two isolated Australian alpine plateaux, the Bogong High Plains (BHP) in Victoria and Kosciuszko National Park (KNP) in New South Wales. We compared this species' foraging ecology over the summer period between these ‘sky‐islands’ separated by ~100 km of lowland valleys. Scat composition did not differ between the two lizard populations, despite differences in the invertebrate assemblages present. However, L. guthega diet varied temporally over summer at both locations. Invertebrates, predominantly Hymenoptera and Coleoptera, were the dominant food group in early summer (78% volume (V), 100% frequency occurrence (F)) and mid‐summer (80% V, 100% F). A significant dietary shift occurred in late summer, when lizards consumed predominantly plant material (63% V, 95.5% F), consisting primarily of seasonally abundant berries from the snow beard heath, Acrothamnus montanus. In contrast to similar‐sized Egerniinae species, it appears L. guthega is capable of opportunistically shifting its diet towards plant material in response to temporal variation in resource availability. Furthermore, the prevalence of intact seeds in scats indicates L. guthega may play a significant role in seed dispersal. Understanding these trophic interactions will assist conservation management of L. guthega, allowing conditions for an already established captive colony to mimic the temporally variable diets present in situ, as well as informing revegetation initiatives aimed at maintaining and expanding wild populations.
Weight‐based carbohydrate treatment of hypoglycaemia in people with Type 1 diabetes using insulin pump therapy: a randomized crossover clinical trial
Authors: McTavish L. , Corley B. , Weatherall M. , Wiltshire E. , Krebs J. D. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractAimTo test whether weight‐based treatment is more effective than usual care in people with Type 1 diabetes receiving continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy with regard to both hypoglycaemia and avoiding excessive rebound hyperglycaemia.MethodsChildren and adults on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion were enrolled into a study with a crossover design. Each episode of hypoglycaemia (defined as capillary glucose <4.0 mmol/l) was randomly assigned one of two treatment protocols using glucose tablets: either 0.3 g/kg body weight or usual treatment with 15 g (adults) or 10 g (children) for capillary glucose levels 3–3.9 mmol/l or twice these doses for capillary glucose levels <3 mmol/l. All participants received each treatment in random order for up to 10 hypoglycaemic episodes. Glucose levels were re‐tested 10 min after treatment, with a repeat dose if still <4 mmol/l.ResultsOf the 37 participants enrolled, 35 (aged 6–68 years) completed the study. Twenty‐four participants completed all treatment episodes, while 10 participants had <10 hypoglycaemic episodes and two withdrew without data. The mean glucose difference between weight‐based and usual treatment after 10 min was 0.33 mmol/l (95% CI 0.005 to 0.66; P=0.047) in adults and 0.45 (95% CI 0.18 to 0.72; P=0.001) in children. The odds ratios for resolution of hypoglycaemia at 10 min with a single treatment using weight‐based compared with usual treatment were 3.12 (95% CI 1.38 to 7.02; P=0.0070) in adults and 2.61 (95% CI 1.19 to 5.74; P=0.017) in children.ConclusionsWeight‐based treatment using 0.3 g/kg glucose was more effective for symptomatic hypoglycaemia in children and adults with Type 1 diabetes who were using continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion than treatment based on current international recommendations.
Fetal interventions for structural heart disease
Authors: Schidlow David N. , Freud Lindsay , Friedman Kevin , Tworetzky Wayne 
Published: December 2017

Fetal cardiac intervention (FCI) offers the potential to alter in utero anatomy and physiology. For aortic stenosis with evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome and pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum with evolving hypoplastic right heart syndrome, FCI may result in maintenance of a biventricular circulation, thus avoiding single‐ventricle palliation and its attendant complications. In the case of hypoplastic left heart syndrome with intact atrial septum, FCI may ameliorate in utero pathophysiology and portend a more favorable postnatal prognosis. In all cases, a detailed fetal echocardiographic assessment to identify the appropriate FCI candidate is essential. This article reviews the three aforementioned lesions for which FCI can be considered. The pathophysiology and rationale for intervention, echocardiographic assessment, patient selection criteria, and outcomes for each lesion will be reviewed. A primary focus will be the echocardiographic evaluation of each lesion.
Pulmonary hypoplasia in fetuses with congenital conotruncal defects
Authors: Wang Qian , Zhao Ying , Han Ling , Zhang Ye , Ge Shuping , He Yihua 
Published: December 2017

ObjectivesWe sought to investigate pulmonary hypoplasia (PH) and associated risk factors in fetuses with congenital conotruncal defect (CTD).MethodsA total of 75 fetuses with CTD (gestational age (GA): 22–32 weeks) and 150 normal GA‐matched fetuses as the control group were studied. We measured diameters of aorta (Ao); main, left, and right pulmonary artery (PA); and their Z‐scores by fetal echocardiography (FE). We also measured the lung area, lung area/chest area ratio (LCR), lung‐to‐head circumference ratio (LHR), right lung area/head circumference2 (quantitative lung index, QLI), and Z‐scores.ResultsThe PA, left pulmonary artery (LPA), RPA, and their Z‐scores and the lung area measurements (except for QLI) were significantly smaller in the CTD group, compared with the normal control group. Subgroup analysis showed the following: (1) CTD with right ventricular outflow tract obstruction (RVOTO) had smaller main and branch PA dimensions and small lung areas in contrast to CTD without RVOTO. (2) CTD with pulmonary atresia had smaller LPA and RPA dimensions but no difference in lung areas. (3) In the common types of CTD, lung area variables were mostly smaller in double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), but there was no difference in transposition of the great arteries (TGA).ConclusionsCTD is associated with hypoplastic main and branch pulmonary arteries as well as PH. Risk factors for PH included defect types (DORV and TOF but not TGA) and RVOTO. It is plausible that pulmonary blood flow, rather than the type of CTD, RVOTO, or pulmonary artery dimensions, plays a key role in PH.
The Use and Abuses of Emulation as a Pedagogical Practice
Authors: Jonas Mark E. , Chambers Drew W. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractFrom the late eighteenth through the end of the nineteenth century, educational philosophers and practitioners debated the benefits and shortcomings of the use of emulation in schools. During this period, “emulation” referred to a pedagogy that leveraged comparisons between students as a tool to motivate them to higher achievement. Many educationists praised emulation as a necessary and effective motivator. Other educationists condemned it for its tendency to foster invidious competition between students and to devalue learning. Ultimately, by the late nineteenth century emulation as a specific pedagogical practice had disappeared in American educational culture. In this article, Mark Jonas and Drew Chambers ask whether the disappearance of emulation is something to be celebrated or lamented. To answer this question they examine the historical concept of educational emulation and analyze the bases on which proponents and opponents argued. Parties on both sides of the debate framed their arguments in close relation to the way emulation was being used at that time, which prioritized actual competitions and prizes. In that context, the opponents made a better case, which presumably contributed to emulation's disappearance in schools afterwards. However, as earlier proponents of emulation argued, emulation need not be restricted to competitions and prizes. Instead, these proponents offered a philosophically and psychologically rich defense of emulation, but these were not carried through to an appropriate degree. The authors conclude that, construed appropriately, emulation not only had tremendous educational potential then, but still does today. With intentional effort on the part of teachers, emulation can greatly enrich students' lives and act as a powerful learning motivator.
Dynamic Agency and Large‐Risk Taking
Authors: Li Rui 
Published: December 2017

AbstractI propose a dynamic investment model with moral hazard under which greater exposure to future uncertainties about losses could enhance incentive provisions and improve firm value. The model provides an explanation for why many financial companies and investment banks choose to improve their short‐run performance by putting themselves at greater risk of catastrophic losses in the future, as what happened prior to the 2007 financial crisis.