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HSBC Swiss bank accounts-AML compliance and money laundering implications
Authors: Naheem Mohammed Ahmad 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to provide an analysis of the HSBC Swiss bank accounts scandal, from the perspective of anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, and considers the future AML implications for the banking sector and HSBC. It reviews the use of a whistleblower to highlight AML irregularities rather than official reporting through the current AML compliance system.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper uses secondary data to offer a viewpoint on the HSBC issues from a money laundering and financial crime perspective. The paper extracts key statements from staff at HSBC and regulators and examines how AML risk assessment was undertaken at this time and what changes need to occur in the future. It considers the implications of the current theoretical context for AML from an agency theory perspective.

Findings
– The main findings are that AML compliance needs to be embedded into a proactive corporate social responsibility approach rather than relying solely on regulation to improve detection and reporting of money laundering activity.

Research limitations/implications
– The research topic is new, and therefore, analysis papers and other academic writing on this topic are limited. Future research could consider the outcomes of the Swiss bank’s attempts to prosecute the whistleblower and whether this would have implications for future internal reporting and whistleblowing approaches to support AML compliance.

Practical implications
– The implications from the research are the recommendations to the banking sector on addressing AML deficiencies especially within the context of an evolving level of criminal sophistication towards money laundering.

Social implications
– The paper supports the argument for integrating social corporate responsibility and AML compliance to produce a whole bank response to financial crime. This is in contrast to the current systems, which seem to be prevalent within the financial services, of profit and business being seen as separate rather than integral to regulation and control.

Originality/value
– The originality of this paper is the current example of the HSBC Swiss case and the focus specifically on AML compliance rather than tax evasion, which has been the media angle on the issue.
The use of the repertory grid technique in online trust research
Authors: Bauman Antonina 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to explore online consumers’ perceptions of a trustworthy Web site. Specifically, it analyzes which Web site elements and features online buyers identify as online trust cues signaling e-vendor’s trustworthiness.Design/methodology/approach– This study implemented a repertory grid technique to gain insight into the customers’ perceptions of Web site trustworthiness.Findings– The most frequently identified online trust cues belong to the “Layout”, “Easy to Use” and “Sales” categories. This is in contrast with the traditional views that Web elements related to customers’ privacy and security are leading trust cues. In addition, online shoppers confirmed two trends in e-commerce: the role of social media in developing online trust to e-vendors is increasing and online shopping is associated with entertainment.Research limitations/implications– Rich data collected from 16 participants of this qualitative study present a challenge for generalizability. A caution should be taken in extending findings to the whole population of online shoppers.Practical implications– This study proves that the repertory grid technique is a useful method for qualitative market research. This method helped to solicit a list of Web site elements and features that online consumers identified as online trust cues. As buyers refer to those cues when deciding to trust or not to trust an e-vendor with the private and confidential information, businesses could use these research findings in designing Web sites that signal trustworthiness to customers.Originality/value– This study contributes to the research methodology as it extends the use of the repertory grid technique to the study of online trust cues and collection of data online. It is one of a few qualitative studies of online trust cues.
Three-dimensional model of an ancient Egyptian falcon mummy skeleton
Authors: Du Plessis Anton , Slabbert Ruhan , Swanepoel Liani Colette , Els Johan , Booysen Gerrie J , Ikram Salima , Cornelius Izak 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present the first detailed three-dimensional (3D) print from micro-computed tomography data of the skeleton of an ancient Egyptian falcon mummy.

Design/methodology/approach
– Radiographic analysis of an ancient Egyptian falcon mummy housed at Iziko Museums of South Africa was performed using non-destructive x-ray micro-computed tomography. A 1:1 physical replica of its skeleton was printed in a polymer material (polyamide) using 3D printing technology.

Findings
– The combination of high-resolution computed tomography scanning and rapid prototyping allowed us to create an accurate 1:1 model of a biological object hidden by wrappings. This model can be used to study skeletal features and morphology and also enhance exhibitions hosted within the museum.

Originality/value
– This is the first replica of its kind made of an ancient Egyptian falcon mummy skeleton. The combination of computed tomography scanning and 3D printing has the potential to facilitate scientific research and stimulate public interest in Egyptology.
Successful treatment with ustekinumab of psoriasis vulgaris in a patient undergoing hemodialysis
Authors: Nimmannitya Kulsupa , Tateishi Chiharu , Mizukami Yukari , Hamamoto Kae , Yamada Shinsuke , Goto Hitoshi , Okada Shigeki , Tsuruta Daisuke 
Published: June 2015

AbstractPsoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory skin disease but psoriasis patients with renal impairment undergoing dialysis are not frequently seen. Furthermore, the published work contains little information on the treatment with biologic drugs of patients with end‐stage renal disease. We describe a 57‐year‐old man with refractory plaque‐type psoriasis and end‐stage renal disease due to polycystic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis. He had tried topical medications and ultraviolet therapy for many years and was then treated with ustekinumab (an interleukin‐12 and interleukin‐23 blocker), which resulted in good clinical response along with stable renal function. After a few years of therapy, no side‐effects have been observed. Our experience with this patient expands the spectrum of ustekinumab to include psoriasis patients with renal failure undergoing hemodialysis.
Why do Anolis dewlaps glow? An analysis of a translucent visual signal
Authors: Fleishman Leo J. , Ogas Brianna , Steinberg David , Leal Manuel 
Published: June 2015

Summary

Male anoline lizards utilize a colourful, expandable throat fan, called the dewlap, to rapidly and unambiguously signal their presence and species identity to conspecifics. Under some viewing conditions, the dewlaps of some species appear to glow vividly, because they transmit a great deal of diffuse light, creating a translucent signal. Translucent signals are probably found in many animal groups, but they have rarely been studied.

We hypothesized that dewlap translucence might (i) increase dewlap/background luminance contrast or (ii) increase the reliability of the colour as a species recognition signal by lowering the colour discrimination threshold in low light conditions such as forest shade.

We calculated dewlap colour (spectral radiance) for the Jamaican lizard Anolis lineatopus at natural perch sites with, and without, the inclusion of transmitted light.

Transmitted light did not significantly increase the magnitude of luminance contrast between the dewlap and background.

We plotted colours of dewlaps, background patches of habitat and dewlaps of sympatric species in an anoline perceptual colour space (the colour tetrahedron), based on the four classes of cone photoreceptors found in the retina. Using a newly developed approach, we used ellipsoidal plots of uncertainty to quantify perceptual overlap between dewlap spectral radiance and values for natural distractor colours. Diffuse transmission of light through the dewlap greatly reduced the perceptual overlap between the dewlap and natural background colours.

This finding strongly suggests that selection has favoured the evolution of a translucent dewlap as a mechanism to increase the reliability of detection of the signal under the low light conditions. In general, any animal's colour signal must emit sufficient light intensity to allow the colour to be discriminated from other distractor colours in the habitat. This will tend to favour the evolution of colours with higher total intensity (i.e. higher reflectance and/or transmittance) in animals that signal in relatively low light conditions such as forest shade.
REVIEW: Potential effects of kelp species on local fisheries
Authors: Bertocci I. , Araújo R. , Oliveira P. , Sousa‐Pinto I. 
Published: June 2015

Summary

Kelp species are ecosystem engineers in temperate coasts, where they provide valuable services to humans. Evidence of the declines of kelp forests exists from several regions, but their effects on fisheries still need to be elucidated. More effective management strategies for sustainable fisheries require a synthesis of research findings and an assessment of how research could be improved to fill current gaps.

This review aimed to: (i) summarize the available evidence on the influence of changes in kelp density and/or area on the abundance and diversity of associated fisheries and (ii) examine how research on kelp–fisheries interactions could better support effective management.

Most studies (67%) reported data ascribable, directly or indirectly, to a positive relationship between kelp and fishery‐relevant variables, 11% provided evidence of a negative relationship, 15% indicated species‐specific findings and the remaining found unclear or ‘neutral’ relationships.

Important shortcomings were identified, including the paucity of experimental studies suitable to test for unequivocal cause–effect relationships, the disproportion between North America, which is well‐studied, and other regions and between the large number of fish‐based investigations and the small number of those focusing on other commercially important organisms, and the general lack of studies carried out over spatial and temporal scales comparable to those of global processes driving patterns of distribution of both kelps and fisheries.

Synthesis and applications. The consistency of most studies in showing a positive kelp–fishery relationship supports the protection of kelp habitats stated by current environmental directives. However, achieving their goals requires that the limitations we detect are addressed through better connections between research, management practice and policy. This would require the following: (i) researchers to combine multiple approaches (large‐scale experimental studies and modelling) for the analysis of kelp–fisheries relationships; (ii) funding agencies to provide resources needed to fill the existing gaps; and (iii) researchers and institutions from less studied regions to strengthen collaborations with those from regions where there have been more investigations into kelp–fishery systems. This is essential under present and predicted environmental changes, with the ultimate aim of conserving and allowing the sustainable use of critically important habitats and of fishery resources relying on these.
Tyranny of distance and rural prehospital care: Is there potential for a national rural responder network?
Authors: Leeuwenburg Tim , Hall John 
Published: June 2015

AbstractCritical illness intersects with the workload of rural doctors inAustralia, mostly via their on‐call responsibilities to rural hospitals. A significant proportion of these are prehospital incidents – vehicle crashes, farming injuries, bushfire etc. Effective care for such patients requires an integration of prehospital ambulance services, retrieval services and tertiary level trauma services all the way through to rehabilitation. Ambulance services in rural areas are often volunteer based, and with increasing remoteness via the ‘tyranny of distance’ comes the likelihood of increased delay in arrival of specialist retrieval services. Potential exists to utilise rural clinicians to respond to prehospital incidents in certain defined circumstances, as suggested by a recent survey of rural doctors.
What Sort of Geographical Education for the Anthropocene?
Authors: PAWSON ERIC 
Published: June 2015

AbstractAs the Anthropocene concept gains in prominence, there is opportunity to explore it as a social and cultural process, not merely as a matter of scientific definition and debate. This paper seeks to sketch some of the social dimensions of the Anthropocene, in terms of anxiety about the human future, about risk, and about environmental limits. It considers how the term encapsulates a prophetic sense of concern and unease about people's place in nature, the very thing that the embrace of industrial capitalism was supposed to remove. It then explores four open‐ended attributes of a geographical education for the Anthropocene. These are: first, engaging critically with digital technologies; second, countering grand narratives with local encounters; third, setting hope alongside gloom; and fourth, remembering the past as well as the future. The purpose of such attributes is to prepare students for creative encounters with the uncertainties of the Anthropocene. The implications for educational practice are then considered, including the role of active and community‐based learning strategies within a university conceived of as a place of classrooms without borders.
When Parties Make Peoples
Authors: White Jonathan 
Published: June 2015

AbstractOne of the lessons of the 2014 Scottish referendum on independence is that political separatism may be inspired by goals of a left–right kind. The surge in support for the Yes campaign corresponded to its emergence as an anti‐austerity movement. This article examines how questions of peoplehood became linked in this case to the adversarial pursuit of political ends. To clarify the dynamics of partisanship at work, I go on to examine a second case of political separatism – Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s – where, major differences notwithstanding, a similar set of currents was present. Here too, rival definitions of peoplehood were as much the symptoms of political contestation as its inspiration. The article ends by considering what the partisan contestation of political boundaries reveals about the condition of the democracies in which it occurs.
miR‐370 and miR‐373 regulate the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis by modulating one‐carbon metabolism via SHMT‐2 and MECP‐2, respectively
Authors: Song Jinsoo , Kim Dongkyun , Chun Churl‐Hong , Jin Eun‐Jung 
Published: June 2015

SummaryThe aim of this study was to determine the mechanism underlying the association between one‐carbon metabolism and DNA methylation during chronic degenerative joint disorder, osteoarthritis (OA). Articular chondrocytes were isolated from human OA cartilage and normal cartilage biopsied, and the degree of cartilage degradation was determined by safranin O staining. We found that the expression levels of SHMT‐2 and MECP‐2 were increased in OA chondrocytes, and 3′UTR reporter assays showed that SHMT‐2 and MECP‐2 are the direct targets of miR‐370 and miR‐373, respectively, in human articular chondrocytes. Our experiments showed that miR‐370 and miR‐373 levels were significantly lower in OA chondrocytes compared to normal chondrocytes. Overexpression of miR‐370 or miR‐373, or knockdown of SHMT‐2 or MECP‐2 reduced both MMP‐13 expression and apoptotic cell death in cultured OA chondrocytes. In vivo, we found that introduction of miR‐370 or miR‐373 into the cartilage of mice that had undergone destabilization of the medial meniscus (DMM) surgery significantly reduced the cartilage destruction in this model, whereas introduction of SHMT‐2 or MECP‐2 increased the severity of cartilage destruction. Together, these results show that miR‐370 and miR‐373 contribute to the pathogenesis of OA and act as negative regulators of SHMT‐2 and MECP‐2, respectively.
Relationship of ocular and systemic factors to the visibility of choroidal–scleral interface using spectral domain optical coherence tomography
Authors: Gupta Preeti , Cheng Ching‐Yu , Cheung Chui Ming Gemmy , Htoon Hla Myint , Zheng Yingfeng , Lamoureux Ecosse L. , Aung Tin , Wong Tien‐Yin , Cheung Carol Y. 
Published: June 2015

AbstractPurposeTo assess the visibility of the choroidal–scleral interface (CSI) from spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD‐OCT) and evaluate the ocular and systemic factors influencing the visibility of CSI in healthy eyes from population‐based Malay sample.MethodsParticipants were consecutively recruited from the population‐based Singapore Malay Eye Study‐2 (SiMES‐2). SD‐OCT images were obtained by Spectralis OCT with enhanced depth imaging (EDI) mode. Visibility of CSI was assessed by a grading system ranging from 0 to 2 scores. The reliability of choroidal thickness measurement in different grades of CSI visibility was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficient. Ordinal regression analyses were performed to evaluate a range of ocular and systemic factors influencing the visibility of CSI.ResultsA total of 176 healthy eyes were analysed, and 59.1% of our subjects had well‐defined CSI (score 2), 8.5% had poorly defined CSI (score 0), and 32.4% had CSI between well and poorly defined (score 1). The reliability of subfoveal choroidal thickness measurement decreased with each grade of CSI visibility score. Decreased axial length (AL) (estimate of ordinal regression [OR] = 0.465, p = 0.003), thicker retinal thickness (estimate of OR = −0.030, p = 0.004), younger age (estimate of OR = 0.045, p = 0.030) and diabetes (estimate of OR = −0.746, p = 0.004) were associated with lower CSI visibility score.ConclusionsOnly 60% of normal healthy eyes had well‐defined CSI from SD‐OCT images. Our data suggest that choroidal thickness measurements can be substantially affected by the visibility of CSI. The visibility of CSI varies with AL, retinal thickness, age and diabetes.
A cultural heuristic approach to the study of Jamaican undergraduate students' achievement motivation
Authors: Clayton Karen E. , Zusho Akane 
Published: June 2015

BackgroundIn recent years, there have been increasing calls to develop a more contextually based sociocultural perspective of achievement motivation.AimThis mixed‐methods study examined why Jamaican undergraduate students are motivated or unmotivated and how this relates to the extant literature on achievement motivation.Sample(s)This study was conducted in two phases and consisted of 175 and 189 Jamaican undergraduate students across phases one and two, respectively.MethodsFirst, a qualitative investigation using open‐ended questionnaires and semi‐structured interviews explored Jamaican undergraduate students’ conceptualization of motivation and the factors that positively or negatively impacted their motivation. The second phase consisted of using prototype theory to capture a hierarchical cognitive representation of Jamaican students’ motivation using coded themes derived from phase one of the study.Results and conclusionsThe overall results indicated that personal, cognitive, contextual, and sociocultural factors are important determinants of Jamaican undergraduate students’ academic motivation and that sociocultural (e.g., familial, economic, religious) factors appear to play a more critical role in impacting their motivation.
Sequential karyotyping in Burkitt lymphoma reveals a linear clonal evolution with increase in karyotype complexity and a high frequency of recurrent secondary aberrations
Authors: Aukema Sietse M. , Theil Laura , Rohde Marius , Bauer Benedikt , Bradtke Jutta , Burkhardt Birgit , Bonn Bettina R. , Claviez Alexander , Gattenlöhner Stefan , Makarova Olga , Nagel Inga , Oschlies Ilske , Pott Christiane , Szczepanowski Monika , Traulsen Arne , Kluin Philip M. , Klapper Wolfram , Siebert Reiner , Murga Penas Eva M. 
Published: June 2015

SummaryTypical Burkitt lymphoma is characterized by an IG‐MYC translocation and overall low genomic complexity. Clinically, Burkitt lymphoma has a favourable prognosis with very few relapses. However, the few patients experiencing disease progression and/or relapse have a dismal outcome. Here we report cytogenetic findings of seven cases of Burkitt lymphoma in which sequential karyotyping was performed at time of diagnosis and/or disease progression/relapse(s). After case selection, karyotype re‐review and additional molecular analyses were performed in six paediatric cases, treated in Berlin‐Frankfurt‐Münster‐Non‐Hodgkin lymphoma study group trials, and one additional adult patient. Moreover, we analysed 18 cases of Burkitt lymphoma from the Mitelman database in which sequential karyotyping was performed. Our findings show secondary karyotypes to have a significant increase in load of cytogenetic aberrations with a mean number of 2, 5 and 8 aberrations for primary, secondary and third investigations. Importantly, this increase in karyotype complexity seemed to result from recurrent secondary chromosomal changes involving mainly trisomy 21, gains of 1q and 7q, losses of 6q, 11q, 13q, and 17p. In addition, our findings indicate a linear clonal evolution to be the predominant manner of cytogenetic evolution. Our data may provide a biological framework for the dismal outcome of progressive and relapsing Burkitt lymphoma.
A proposal: the need for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Specialist Centres – providing better outcomes
Authors: Dutt Tina , Scully Marie 
Published: June 2015

SummaryThrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is heralded by its demanding presentation and impending mortality. The complex and life‐threatening characteristics of TTP justify the need for early referral and responsive management in centres with comprehensive multi‐disciplinary resources. In an era where compromise of patient safety or experience is unsatisfactory, the provision of specialist‐led, organized care for this patient group remains overdue. Patients and clinical teams continue to lack the knowledge, support and resources required to achieve consistently high levels of clinical care. This forms the rationale for development of TTP Specialist Centres.In this article we focus on what we believe to be the recognized and potential merits of a specialist service provision, highlighting individual components of a high level of integrated expertise. The challenges in managing the condition from acute diagnosis to long‐term care are described alongside defining key standards that represent excellence in patient care. The emphasis will be on understanding how the evolution of TTP Specialist Centres diverges from an ad hoc approach to managing this vulnerable patient group and offers promise in the translation to improved patient outcomes.