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Disaster risk reduction infrastructure requirements for South-Western Bangladesh
Authors: Wedawatta Gayan , Kulatunga Udayangani , Amaratunga Dilanthi , Parvez Ahmed 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
Development of effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies for communities at risk of being affected by natural disasters is considered essential, especially in the wake of devastating disaster events reported worldwide. As part of a wider research study investigating community perspectives on existing and potential strategies for enhancing resilience to natural disasters, community perspectives on infrastructure and structural protection requirements were investigated. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
Patuakhali region in South-Western Bangladesh is a region significantly at risk of multiple natural hazards. In order to engage local communities and obtain their perspectives, focus group discussions were held with local community leaders and policy makers of at-risk communities in Patuakhali region, South-Western Bangladesh.

Findings
Infrastructure and structural protection requirements highlighted included multi-purpose cyclone shelters, permanent embankments and improved transport infrastructure. Much of the discussions of focus group interviews were focused on cyclone shelters and embankments, suggesting their critical importance in reducing disaster risk and also dependence of coastal communities on those two measures.

Originality/value
The research design adopted sought to answer the research questions raised and also to inform local policy makers on community perspectives. Local policy makers involved in DRR initiatives in the region were informed of community perspectives and requirements, thus contributing to community engagement in implementing DRR activities.
Capacity building of institutions for disaster risk reduction
Authors: Rose Jo , Jayawickrama Janaka 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the role of local communities in responding to crises and disasters. The paper highlights that most communities have their own mechanisms of dealing with uncertainties and dangers produced by disasters. The paper acknowledges that most disaster response and disaster risk reduction (DDR) organisations advocate to work with local communities and most seek to build the capacity of these communities.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors draw on a series of case studies gathered together with their experience over the past decade of working with both local communities that have been affected by disasters and international organisations involved in DDR and humanitarian responses.

Findings
This paper concludes that whilst international institutions continue to make attempts at building the capacity of local communities they need to seek to work collaboratively with local communities. International institutions must ultimately learn from them and build their own capacity for developing context specific and effective DDR strategies and disaster responses.

Originality/value
This paper offers local case studies that give a rare insight into some of the ways local communities deal with disasters and view international responses to disasters and conflicts. This paper demonstrates the role of local communities in building the capacity of international institutions for DDR.
Growing self-leaders: the role of motivating language
Authors: Mayfield Milton , Mayfield Jacqueline 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
This paper aims to examine how leader communication can help foster an employee’s ability to set and achieve goals and align these goals with organizationally relevant purposes.

Design/methodology/approach
To better understand this process, the authors use two well-supported theories – motivating language to provide a framework for understanding leader communication and self-leadership to examine employee goal setting.

Findings
Examining these two theories together has resulted in a practical, theory-based guide for how managers can use leader communication to improve workplace results.

Originality/value
This paper offers researchers a new lens through which to view workplace practices in organizations driven by innovation and knowledge management, and a framework for managers and consultants to develop methods for inspiring and guiding workers toward improved organizational performance.
TQM and market orientation in care home services
Authors: San Miguel Eduardo , Heras-Saizarbitoria Iñaki , Tarí Juan José 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to operationalize the concepts of total quality management (TQM) and market orientation (MO) and to analyze the relationship between them in a major economic sector of activity, namely, the social services sector.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper analyzes the aforementioned relationships by means of a quantitative study carried out with information from managers of 137 Spanish organizations in the field of social service provision and, more specifically, in nursing homes for the elderly. Structural equation models were used to contrast the relationships.

Findings
Evidence is provided for the multi-dimensional structure of TQM and MO. The results confirm that TQM contributes to a greater degree of MO in the organizations analyzed, since a significant positive relationship between a set of components of the first concept (namely, processes, leadership and people) and the second is found.

Practical implications
Managers need to take into account the fact that the application of a management system in nursing homes that is based on TQM dimensions favors the development of an MO culture. The staff are the key factor in orientating the residential home toward the market.

Originality/value
The research covers a gap in the literature since these relationships have not been studied empirically in depth in service sectors such as social services and nursing homes, despite great and growing economic importance of this sector.
Work-related wellbeing in UK prison officers: a benchmarking approach
Authors: Kinman Gail , James Clements Andrew , Hart Jacqui 
Published: August 2016

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the well-being of UK prison officers by utilising a benchmarking approach.Design/methodology/approachThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Stress Indicator Tool is widely used in the UK to assess key psychosocial hazards in the workplace encompassing demands, control, support from managers and co-workers, relationship quality, role and change management. This study utilises this approach to examine the extent to which a sample of UK prison officers meets the HSE recommended minimum standards for the management of work-related well-being. Levels of mental health and job satisfaction in the sector are also assessed using measures with extensive occupational norms. The psychosocial hazards that make the strongest contribution to mental health and job satisfaction are also considered.FindingsRespondents reported lower levels of well-being for all of the hazard categories than recommended. Moreover, mental health and job satisfaction were considerably poorer among prison officers than other occupational groups within the emergency and security services in the UK. Considerable variation was found in the psychosocial hazards that predicted mental health and job satisfaction.Practical implicationsThe high levels of stressors and strains experienced by UK prison officers gives serious cause for concern. Priority areas for interventions to enhance well-being in the sector are considered and areas for future research discussed.Originality/valueThis study highlights the wide-ranging benefits of a benchmarking approach to investigate work-related stressors and strains at the sector level.
Assessing m-Health success in Bangladesh
Authors: Hossain Mohammad Alamgir 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
Mobile health, i.e. m-Health possesses huge potential, especially to the developing countries and remote locations of developed countries. The success of such systems may create a healthier society through eradicating health incidents, which cannot otherwise be addressed with “brick and mortar” type of health systems. The purpose of this paper is to develop an m-Health success model from users’ perspective and validate in a developing country context.

Design/methodology/approach
Epistemologically, positivist approach has been adopted for the current research. An initial research model was developed from existing information system (IS) literature, which was then validated with survey data applying partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM).

Findings
The results summarise that continuance intention (CI) of m-Health services is dependent on perceived value (PV) and user satisfaction (STF); PV positively influences STF. Moreover, platform quality, quality of medical advice, and interaction quality have positive and direct effect on PV and STF; finally, CI drives to better quality of health life.

Practical implications
The findings of this study provide strategic implications to health managers and practitioners recognising the determinants of m-Health success and comprehending their relationships. It is underscored that, in order to secure the success of an m-Health system in a given society both human and technology-related components are vital and therefore should be taken care of.

Originality/value
This is the first attempt that develops and validates an m-Health system success model, particularly from the context of a country with low-health profile. Moreover, the contextualisation of the related variables and extension of existing IS success models is theoretically original.
Investigating the structural linkage between IT capability and organizational agility
Authors: Panda Sukanya , Rath Santanu Kumar 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
Information technology (IT) is normally regarded as an enabling factor for making firms agile. Usually, it has been realized that greater IT spending enhances a firm’s agility. However, the role of IT as an obstructing factor towards organizational agility cannot be overlooked. Taking this commonly perceived but less-studied IT-agility contradiction into account, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether IT can augment or impede organizational agility. This research which is conducted in context to privately owned Indian financial enterprises proposes the premise that effective IT resource management is imperative for organizations to thrive for greater firm-wide IT capability for enhanced agility.

Design/methodology/approach
Primary data collected from 300 business and IT executives working in various privately owned financial enterprises across India are used for this study and a structural equation modelling is employed to assess the IT-agility link.

Findings
The findings of the study are two-folded. First, this study concludes that IT capability acts as an enabler for business process and market responsive organizational agility. Second, if IT spending is not properly translated into creating superior capability, huge and impudent IT investments will impede the overall organizational agility.

Originality/value
This paper investigates both exogenous variable (IT capability) and endogenous variable (organizational agility) in terms of second-order reflective measures and establishes a significant structural link between both the dimensions of IT capability (managerial and technical) and organizational agility (business process and market responsive). This analysis illustrates the moderating effect of IT spending on each of these relationships, thereby greatly contributes and extends the existing IT capability-agility related information systems literature.
Factors affecting social interaction on social network sites: the Facebook case
Authors: Maiz Ander , Arranz Nieves , Fdez. de Arroyabe Juan Carlos 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to focus on understanding the factors which affect the social interaction in the case of Facebook. Many authors point out the great potential of these networks for social interaction and as conduits of information. However, studies show that the topology of the network is disconnected, consisting of small sub-networks that make Facebook unsuitable for disseminating information. This situation has created the need to introduce exogenous factors, aimed at boosting and providing cohesion to the network structure. In this context, the authors test the following question: how exogenous and endogenous factors contribute to encouraging social interaction on Facebook.

Design/methodology/approach
For the analysis of social interaction on Facebook, a population consisting of all the followers of the walls of ten corporate social networks was used. From the total 269,424 users analyzed, a stratified sample of 132 followers was obtained and networks were built for each of them. The authors then proceeded to search for each follower’s friends and friends of friends to build the social network up to the fourth level, obtaining a total of 132 subnets with 1,628,074 links between them. To determine the impact of both exogenous and endogenous factors in the interaction of the network the authors performed a causal analysis.

Findings
The results obtained from this study provide empirical evidence on the adequacy of companies’ dynamization measures used and how exogenous and endogenous factors influence the social interaction on Facebook. Thus, the results show that exogenous factors, such as the activity of the community manager and the digital marketing investment in the network, do not have a significant effect on the interaction. On the other hand, endogenous factors, such as network density and clustering, have a positive effect on the trigger of social interaction between the followers. Therefore, companies must consider the importance of the structural factors that characterize network followers, such as density or clustering coefficient, to be able to interpret and optimize them to obtain higher levels of social interaction.

Originality/value
This is one of a few papers that examine interactions in social network sites (SNS), particularly in corporate network sites in Facebook. The results expose the importance for organizations to have reliable information on the patterns of interaction to properly manage the resources allocated for this purpose in SNS.
Recombinant Escherichia coli with sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase and persulfide dioxygenase rapidly oxidises sulfide to sulfite and thiosulfate via a new pathway
Authors: Xin Yufeng , Liu Honglei , Cui Feifei , Liu Huaiwei , Xun Luying 
Published: August 2016

SummaryMany heterotrophic bacteria contain sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase (SQR) and persulfide dioxygenase (PDO) genes. It is unclear how these enzymes cooperate to oxidise sulfide in bacteria. Cupriavidus pinatubonensis JMP134 contains a gene cluster of sqr and pdo, and their functions were analysed in Escherichia coli. Recombinant E. coli cells with SQR and PDO rapidly oxidised sulfide to thiosulfate and sulfite. The SQR also contains a DUF442 domain that was shown to have rhodanese activities. E. coli cells with PDO and SQR‐C94S, an active site mutant of the rhodanese domain, oxidised sulfide to thiosulfate with transitory accumulation of polysulfides. Cellular and enzymatic evidence showed that DUF442 speeds up the reaction of polysulfides with glutathione to produce glutathione persulfide (GSSH). Thus, SQR oxidises sulfide to polysulfides; rhodanese enhances the reaction of polysulfides with glutathione to produce GSSH; PDO oxidises GSSH to sulfite; sulfite spontaneously reacts with polysulfides to generate thiosulfate. The pathway is different from the proposed mitochondrial pathway because it has polysulfides, that is, disulfide and trisulfide, as intermediates. The data demonstrated that heterotrophic bacteria with SQR and PDO can rapidly oxidise sulfide to thiosulfate and sulfite, providing the foundation for using heterotrophic bacteria with SQR and PDO for sulfide bioremediation.
Among friends: a qualitative exploration of the role of peers in young people's alcohol use using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and capital
Authors: MacArthur Georgie J. , Jacob Nina , Pound Pandora , Hickman Matthew , Campbell Rona 
Published: August 2016

AbstractDrinking is viewed by young people as a predominantly social activity which provides an opportunity for entertainment and bonding with friends. Using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and capital, this article explores young people's attitudes and beliefs around alcohol use, influences on behaviour, and the role of peers, with a view to informing the development of preventive interventions. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 28 young people aged 18–20 in the south west of England. We describe how friends were integral in drinking experiences, and drinking with friends was equated with fun and enjoyment. In this way, the desire for social and symbolic capital appeared to be a key motivator for adolescent drinking. Critically, however, wider cultural norms played the predominant role in shaping behaviour, via the internalisation of widely accepted practice and the subsequent externalisation of norms through the habitus. Applying Bourdieu's theory suggests that population‐level interventions that regulate alcohol consumption, and thus disrupt the field, are likely to facilitate behaviour change among young people by driving a response in habitus.
Determinants of dietary compliance among Italian children: disentangling the effect of social origins using Bourdieu's cultural capital theory
Authors: Oncini Filippo , Guetto Raffaele 
Published: August 2016

AbstractMaking use of Bourdieu's threefold conceptualisation of cultural capital, this paper examines and disentangles the association between social origins and children's food consumption. The aim of the work is twofold. Using data from the Multipurpose survey on daily life conducted by Istat (2009–2012), we first show that children's compliance with dietary advice is indeed influenced by their social origins, but more so in terms of familial cultural resources than economic ones. All types of cultural capital enhance the quality of children's nutrition. Second, we concentrate on the role of the school canteen as a child‐centred investment strategy intended to reduce health inequalities by providing a wholesome lunch for all children. Although the school meal effectively improves the degree of dietary compliance, the results indicate that this public service is less often used by children from lower social origins. Moreover, we do not find any equalising effect of the school meal on the diets of disadvantaged children. These findings are discussed in light of future research on sociology of health stratification and health promotion programmes.
A rising generation of Europeans? Revisited
Authors: DOWN IAN , WILSON CAROLE J. 
Published: August 2016

AbstractThe EJPR article ‘A rising generation of Europeans?’ provided systematic evidence for the existence of generational differences in attitudes towards the European Union (EU). In this research note, it is argued that identifying generational differences in specifically affective orientations is the crucial issue for the future of the EU. Drawing on and extending the earlier work expectations in respect to generational and life‐cycle differences in affective orientations are developed and tested, highlighting the existence of the former, their consistency across a range of indicators, and the absence of the latter. The results are an important counterpoint to the growth in ambivalence in attitudes towards the EU.
New waves underneath the purple strain
Authors: Tortajada Marta 
Published: August 2016

SummarySuccessful merging of chemical and biotechnological operations is essential to achieve cost‐efficient industrialization of bio‐based processes. The demonstration of the use of syngas, derived from microwave assisted pyrolysis of municipal solid waste, for the improved growth and poly‐3‐hydroxybutyrate production in Rhodospirillium rubrum, stands out as an example of the synergistic contribution of chemical engineering and applied microbiology to sustainable biomaterial manufacturing, paving the way to similar applications for other syngas derived bioproducts.
Association between the ratio of triglyceride to high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol and incident type 2 diabetes in Singapore Chinese men and women
Authors: Wang Ye‐Li , Koh Woon‐Puay , Talaei Mohammad , Yuan Jian‐Min , Pan An 
Published: August 2016

AbstractBackgroundIncreased triglycerides (TG) and decreased high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL‐C) are risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D). The relationship between TG:HDL‐C ratio and T2D risk is not clear, and it is not known whether the association is modified by gender, body mass index, or fasting status. This study examined the relationship between TG:HDL‐C ratio and risk of incident T2D, and the predictive ability of the ratio on top of other diabetes risk factors.MethodsBlood biomarkers were determined in 571 T2D cases and 571 controls nested within a prospective, population‐based cohort study, the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Participants were free of diagnosed diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer at the time of blood collection (1999–2004). Incident self‐reported T2D cases were identified at follow‐up interview (2006–10). Controls were matched 1:  1 for age, sex, dialect group, and date of blood collection. Multivariable logistic regression was used to compute the odds ratio (OR) and 95 % confidence interval (CI).ResultsThe ORs (95 % CI) of T2D per 1‐SD increment in TG and TG:  HDL‐C ratio were 1.70 (1.39–2.09) and 1.72 (1.37–2.17), respectively. The relationships were stronger among females than males (Pinteraction = 0.028 and 0.017, respectively), and stronger among lean (<23 kg/m2) than overweight/obese participants (Pinteraction = 0.051 and 0.046, respectively). Both TG and TG:  HDL‐C improved T2D prediction to a similar degree.ConclusionsBoth TG and TG:HDL‐C ratio are independent risk factors for incident T2D, and confer greater risk in women and lean participants. The TG:  HDL‐C ratio is not a better predictor of diabetes than TG alone.