bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Care and Control: Are the National Minimum Wage Entitlements of Homecare Workers at Risk under the Care Act 2014?
Authors: Hayes LJB 
Published: October 2015

Abstract
Homecare is a major source of women’s low-wage employment in the UK. Practices of unpaid working time are widespread and many workers are not paid in accordance with their existing national minimum wage entitlements. On 1 April 2015, a new duty of well-being in social care came into force and local authorities are required to promote the control of care by service-users. As a consequence, homecare workers will increasingly be engaged in complex multi-lateral work relations and subject to multi-party control. This article examines how the national minimum wage entitlements of homecare workers have been legally interpreted and questions if their entitlements might be adversely affected under provisions of the Care Act 2014. There is a legacy of judicial decision-making in which care-giving is not recognised as ‘work’ for the purposes of the national minimum wage. Yet recent decisions have produced a more satisfactory entitlement framework by establishing that employer control over working time determines ‘work’. However, it seems this framework is put at risk by the statutory promotion of service-user control. As work relations are re-cast, contractual relationships in which care-giving falls outside the protection of national minimum wage law will appear increasingly attractive because they may both enhance service-user control and facilitate very low cost labour. Without innovation in legal treatments of multi-party control and sustained attention to the worth of care-giving as employment, the rights of homecare workers are at risk under the Care Act 2014.
Prolonged Use of Oritavancin for Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
Authors: Johnson Jennifer A. , Feeney Eoin R. , Kubiak David W. , Corey G. Ralph 
Published: October 2015

Abstract
Oritavancin is a novel lipoglycopeptide with activity against Gram-positive organisms including streptococci, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant S aureus (VRSA), and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) [1–3]. The US Food and Drug Administration approved oritavancin as a single intravenous dose of 1200 mg for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections on the basis of 2 clinical trials demonstrating noninferiority compared with vancomycin [4, 5].
There are limited options for treatment of serious VRE infections. Monotherapy with daptomycin or tigecycline or linezolid may be sufficient in some cases, but combination therapy is often indicated for severe or complicated infections such as endocarditis. Several antibiotic combinations have been used in isolated case reports with some efficacy, including the following: high-dose ampicillin with an aminoglycoside [6], ampicillin with ceftriaxone or imipenem [7, 8], high-dose daptomycin with ampicillin and gentamicin [9] or with gentamicin and rifampin [10], daptomycin with tigecycline [11, 12], quinupristin-dalfopristin with high-dose ampicillin [13] or doxycycline and rifampin [14], and linezolid with tigecycline [15]. The limited efficacy, limited susceptibility, and extensive toxicities with many of these agents and combinations present barriers to effective treatment. Additional treatment options for VRE endocarditis would be valuable. Although oritavancin has been shown to have in vitro activity against some isolates of VRE, clinical data are lacking. We describe the first use of a prolonged course of oritavancin in the treatment of a serious VRE infection, prosthetic valve endocarditis.
New Approach to Exclude the Left Atrial Appendage during Minimally Invasive Cryothermic Surgical Ablation
Authors: Ad Niv , Massimiano Paul S. , Shuman Deborah J. , Pritchard Graciela , Holmes Sari D. 
Published: October 2015

Objective Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an increased risk for embolic stroke originating from the left atrial appendage (LAA). A recently introduced LAA epicardial clip occluder, the AtriClip PRO, can be applied through midsternotomy or small thoracotomy. We assessed the safety and efficacy of a new surgical approach to apply the AtriClip PRO and exclude the LAA through right minithoracotomy and transverse sinus. Methods The AtriClip PRO was applied in 24 patients with the new approach. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography was used to exclude LAA thrombi at baseline and evaluate LAA perfusion and residual neck postoperatively. Results Mean (SD) age was 64.5 (8.6) years; 95% of the patients had nonparoxysmal AF with median AF duration of 39 months (interquartile range, 9.3–85.3 months), and mean (SD) left atrium diameter was 4.5 (0.7) cm (range, 3.1–5.7 cm). In one attempt, the clip was not deployed because of severe adhesions in the transverse sinus area. The procedural success rate was 95%. Nine minimally invasive mitral valve repairs were combined with surgical ablation; the rest were isolated right minithoracotomy Cox maze procedures. There was no remaining LAA neck in 71% of the patients. Perioperative outcomes were acceptable, and median length of stay was 5.5 days. Conclusions The development of a reliable approach to LAA management during minimally invasive surgical ablation through right minithoracotomy has been challenging. This new approach is safe and effective and should offer a superior and consistent early and long-term solution compared with the current approach of endocardial stitch closure.
Phlegmonous Gastritis
Authors: Kelly Sean G. , Vanagunas Arvydas D. , Dinh Minh H. 
Published: October 2015

Abstract
Phlegmonous gastritis is a rare, life-threatening, rapidly progressive purulent infection of the gastric wall. Multiple pathogens have been associated with this disease, notably Streptococcus species. We report what we believe to be the first case of phlegmonous gastritis due to Listeria monocytogenes.
Suprasellar Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor in an Adult
Authors: Espino Barros Palau Angelina , Khan Khurrum , Morgan Michael L. , Powell Suzanne Z. , Lee Andrew G. 
Published: October 2015

Abstract:
Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) of the central nervous system (CNS) are a heterogeneous group of embryonal malignancies that are composed of undifferentiated or poorly differentiated neuroepithelial cells. Supratentorial PNET is the second most common CNS embryonal malignancy in children, but it is rare in adults. We report the case of a 31-year-old woman with bilateral vision loss and a bitemporal hemianopia. Neuroimaging revealed a suprasellar mass, and pathology was consistent with PNET. After surgical debulking of the tumor followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy, the patient had significant visual recovery and remained stable over 14 months of follow-up.
High efficiency transfection of thymic epithelial cell lines and primary thymic epithelial cells by Nucleofection
Authors: O’Neil Richard T. , Wei Qiaozhi , Condie Brian G. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractThymic epithelial cells (TECs) are required for the development and differentiation of T cells and are sufficient for the positive and negative selection of developing T cells. Although TECs play a critical role in T cell biology, simple, efficient and readily scalable methods for the transfection of TEC lines and primary TECs have not been described. We tested the efficiency of Nucleofection for the transfection of 4 different mouse thymic epithelial cell lines that had been derived from cortical or medullary epithelium. We also tested primary mouse thymic epithelial cells isolated from fetal and postnatal stages. We found that Nucleofection was highly efficient for the transfection of thymic epithelial cells, with transfection efficiencies of 30-70% for the cell lines and 15-35% for primary TECs with low amounts of cell death. Efficient transfection by Nucleofection can be performed with established cortical and medullary thymic epithelial cell lines as well as primary TECs isolated from E15.5 day fetal thymus or postnatal day 3 or 30 thymus tissue. The high efficiency of Nucleofection for TEC transfection will enable the use of TEC lines in high throughput transfection studies and simplifies the transfection of primary TECs forin vitroorin vivoanalysis.
MetaR: simple, high-level languages for data analysis with the R ecosystem
Authors: Campagne Fabien , Digan William ER , Simi Manuele 
Published: October 2015

AbstractData analysis tools have become essential to the study of biology. Here, we applied language workbench technology (LWT) to create data analysis languages tailored for biologists with a diverse range of experience: from beginners with no programming experience to expert bioinformaticians and statisticians. A key novelty of our approach is its ability to blend user interface with scripting in a single platform. This feature helps beginners and experts alike analyze data more productively. This new approach has several advantages over state of the art approaches currently popular for data analysis: experts can design simplified data analysis languages that require no programming experience, and behave like graphical user interfaces, yet have the advantages of scripting. We report on such a simple language, called MetaR, which we have used to teach complete beginners how to call differentially expressed genes and build heatmaps. We found that beginners can complete this task in less than 2 hours with MetaR, when more traditional teaching with R and its packages would require several training sessions (6-24hrs). Furthermore, MetaR seamlessly integrates with docker to enable reproducibility of analyses and simplified R package installations during training sessions. We used the same approach to develop the first composable R language. A composable language is a language that can be extended with micro-languages. We illustrate this capability with a Biomart micro-language designed to compose with R and help R programmers query Biomart interactively to assemble specific queries to retrieve data, (The same micro-language also composes with MetaR to help beginners query Biomart.) Our teaching experience suggests that language design with LWT can be a compelling approach for developing intelligent data analysis tools and can accelerate training for common data analysis task. LWT offers an interactive environment with the potential to promote exchanges between beginner and expert data analysts.
Why a feedback culture will transform your business
Authors: Cole Gary 
Published: October 2015

Purpose
– Establishing a feedback culture can transform a business but only if feedback is defined in the right way and given and received constructively in pursuit of individual, team and company goals. This paper provides practical advice on how to establish an effective feedback culture.

Design/methodology/approach
– This was written from professional experience.

Findings
– The very essence of the term “feedback” is a key function to meeting (and possibly exceeding) the goal(s) of your business. In an organizational context, this must mean that all individuals and teams should seek and receive feedback about their progress toward the organizational goal(s), in additional to their team goal(s). Furthermore, when this is cascaded down and managed superbly and consistently at an individual level, the power of a feedback culture will drive and maintain outstanding business performance.

Originality/value
– Practical advice on how to establish and maintain a highly effective feedback culture in organizations.
Con-men and corporate trainers: show me the learning
Authors: Gray Jeremy Lamar 
Published: October 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to increase awareness of how organizations can better recruit and hire Workplace Educators to increase organizational effectiveness through heighten learning and development programs. As a Doctor of Education in the field of organizational leadership, I have witness the task of workplace learning and development relegated to inarticulate and inauthentic trainers who lack the skills-set to provide effective organizational strategy needed in the workplace. The paper gives insight on identifying the less qualified and hiring the better qualified.

Design/methodology/approach
– The approach to this paper was one of gathering information from the professional experience of the author, literature written on organizational behavior and workplace learning and development. This paper was designed to review the history and examine the current state of learning and development in the workplace.

Findings
– The findings from the literature review gives creditability to the author’s view that it is time for organizations to create more effective learning environments that starts with recruiting and hiring the most effective Workplace Educators, organizations should separate learning and development from human resources and Workplace Educators should be given a sit at the executive table.

Originality/value
– This paper provides information for organizations and human resource departments to enhance their knowledge of how they are choosing the people to educate their workplace in the study organizational behavior and learning and development. The focus of the paper is to review the history and build more appreciation and respect for the study of organizational behavior and workplace learning and development.
Why didn’t it work out? The effects of attributions on the efficacy of recovery strategies
Authors: Iglesias Víctor , Varela-Neira Concepción , Vázquez-Casielles Rodolfo 
Published: October 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of attributions on the efficacy of service recovery strategies in preventing customer defection following a service failure.

Design/methodology/approach
– The empirical investigation is carried out on the retail banking industry with a final sample of 448 real cases of customer retention or defection after a service failure.

Findings
– The results of the study not only highlight the relevance of intentionality as an additional factor in explaining customer defection, but also show the effects of some attributional dimensions (intentionality and controllability) on the efficacy of some recovery strategies (redress, apology and explanation) applied by companies to prevent post-complaint customer defection.

Practical implications
– The efficacy of the recovery strategies depends on the causal attributions that the customer makes about the service failure.

Originality/value
– This study analyzes not only the effects of traditional dimensions of attribution (stability and controllability), but also the additional effect that intentionality attributions may have on actual customer defection (not intentions). Moreover, it analyzes their effects on the effectiveness of recovery strategies in preventing customer defection. Most of these effects have never been empirically analyzed in the literature.
Service employee evaluations of customer tips: an expectations-disconfirmation tip gap approach
Authors: Saunders Stephen G. 
Published: October 2015

Purpose– Many service employees rely on non-contractual voluntary customer tips as a major source of their income. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the relationship between the service employee’s cognitive evaluation of the tip (expectations-disconfirmation tip gap), affective state (AS) and displayed emotions (DE) toward customers in the workplace.Design/methodology/approach– An experimental, between-subjects, scenario-based research design was conducted on 107 waiters in the US restaurant industry. A simple mediation model was first tested, before testing a more complex moderated mediation model that was developed to investigate if employees self-control (SC) moderates the relationship between the employees tip gap, AS, and DE.Findings– An employee’s negative disconfirmation tip gap negatively influences the employee’s AS, which in turn results in negative DE toward customers in the workplace. However, an employee’s positive tip gap does not positively influence the employee’s AS, relative to the control. In addition, employees’ SC does not moderate the relationship, which suggests that when employees experience negative tip disconfirmation they may openly violate the service provider’s display rules and service scripts, and display negative emotions toward customers in the workplace.Research limitations/implications– The scenario-based research design was limited to self-reported perceived levels of SC and DE. The scenario was also limited to one country and one tipping context (i.e. restaurants). Future studies could compliment these findings by conducting both qualitative studies, and survey research that relies on actual tipping data or re-enactments of actual service encounters.Practical implications– Service managers not only need to manage display rules and service scripts to influence employee DE, but also need to manage employee tip expectations, especially when employees expect to receive tips that are greater than actual tips (i.e. negative disconfirmation). Communicating and educating employees on customer tipping and what tips to expect should be central to managing employees who rely on customer tips.Originality/value– Tipping has received very little attention in the services management literature. This study broadens the focus of tipping research in the literature by presenting a more complex expectations-disconfirmation tip gap model.
Consumer delight and outrage: scale development and validation
Authors: Liu Maggie Wenjing , Keh Hean Tat 
Published: October 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate measurement scales for consumer delight and outrage.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper used both qualitative, survey, and experiment methodology.

Findings
– First, develop and validate the scale of customer delight, second, conceptualize the construct of customer outrage, as well as develop and validate its scale; third, explore the differential behavioral results of delight vs satisfaction, and outrage vs dissatisfaction; and fourth, further our understanding of the satisfaction-dissatisfaction continuum.

Originality/value
– While researchers increasingly recognize that delight and outrage are distinct from satisfaction and dissatisfaction, it is important to have scales that differentiate between these constructs. To this end, this paper develops and validates scales to measure consumer delight and outrage, respectively. These scales will be useful to other researchers interested in measuring consumer delight and outrage in various research contexts.
Third-person perceptions of gambling sponsorship advertising
Authors: Johnston Margaret A. , Bourgeois Luc R. 
Published: October 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptual and behavioural components of the third-person effect for sport sponsorship marketing communications by legalised gambling companies. Specifically, this research examines judgements about the perceived influence of gambling sponsorship on self, children, and other adults. It also investigates behavioural reactions towards the censorship of gambling sponsorship, and intentions to gamble with sponsors.

Design/methodology/approach
– An online survey was fielded to a commercial consumer database and yielded 511 usable responses. Four hypotheses were tested to examine perceptions of the effects of gambling sponsorship on self and on others, and whether perceived differences in self/other effects influenced pro-censorship behaviours and gambling intentions.

Findings
– Findings reveal a range of responses to sport sponsorship by gambling companies. Some individuals view gambling sponsorship positively, they are anti-censorship, and happy to bet with sponsors. Others, who bet on sports, but have no particular allegiance to gambling sponsors, appear highly protective of children, and endorse censorship.

Research limitations/implications
– This study focused on the perceived impact of gambling sponsorship on other adults and on children. Future research may consider targeting more specific groups such as other sports fans, others engaged in online sports betting, or primary/secondary school age children.

Originality/value
– This study provides new insights on sponsorship effects, specifically public perceptions of gambling sponsorship advertising and their associated behavioural consequences.
Talent development in football: are young talents given time to blossom?
Authors: Sæther Stig Arve , Solberg Harry Arne 
Published: October 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what degree football clubs recruit talents and give them playing time in matches. It also investigates if foreign players displace younger talents. Furthermore, it analyses to what degree the use of younger talents and foreign players influence the performances of clubs.

Design/methodology/approach
– The empirical data are from Norwegian elite clubs, and come from two web sites: www.altomfotball and www.nettavisen.no. The analyses were done by means of OLS-regressions.

Findings
– OLS-regressions showed that clubs that had many foreign players gave less playing time to U20 players than other clubs did. However, these clubs did not have fewer younger talents in the squad than other clubs did. This indicates that foreign players reduce the playing time being given to younger players, but not their ability to train with other teammates. The clubs that won the most points gave less playing time to U20 players (in terms of minutes). Surprisingly, the regression showed that the clubs that had most foreign players did not win more points than others.

Research limitations/implications
– Norwegian football clubs have significantly less financial resources than, for example, clubs in the big European football nations. Therefore, more research is necessary to find out whether the findings in this research corresponds with the pattern in other nations.

Originality/value
– So far, the discussions about these issues have mainly been based on anecdotal evidence and very little on the findings in academic research. Therefore, this research give new insight to a field that needs more empirical-based analyses.
Can social enterprises remain sustainable and mission-focused? Applying resiliency theory
Authors: Young Dennis R. , Kim Choony 
Published: October 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to adapt concepts from resiliency theory to understand the conditions under which social enterprises may remain true to form and purpose or are likely to change their character. This leads us to consider issues of governance, economic incentives associated with different organizational forms of social enterprise and the effects of the financial environment, the role of organizational slack and the influence of organizational leadership on the dynamics of social enterprises. Three case studies of organizations in the USA are analyzed to illustrate the application of resiliency theory to the stability of social enterprises. The fact that all forms of social enterprise must reconcile the tensions of social purpose and market raises important questions about the dynamics of these enterprises.Design/methodology/approach– Theory and case study analysis.Findings– Governance, financial incentive structure, organizational slack and leadership influence the stability of social enterprises.Originality/value– First application of resiliency theory to the analysis of social enterprise stability.