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Just why do we need school libraries? Some ideas from students
Authors: Kenneth Shenton Andrew 
Published: April 2014

Purpose– The paper aims to explore the purposes of school libraries as they are viewed by teenagers attending a high school in northern England.Design/methodology/approach– The work is based on qualitative data contributed by 245 youngsters. Their material was coded inductively and frequency counts were generated in order to determine the balance of the data in relation to individual themes.Findings– Typically, the school library was understood as an area that made available books either for pleasure reading or academic purposes. No participant referred either to the work of librarians or to the value of libraries in enabling the user to find information in support of personal interests.Research limitations/implications– The research took place in only one school and it may well have been the case that many students who were apathetic towards school libraries simply declined the opportunity to participate in the work.Practical implications– Although the attitudes of the young people who contributed data were to an overwhelming degree constructive, key gaps were evident in their awareness of the potential of a school library. These are best rectified by managers developing their facility in such a way that it serves to demonstrate effectively to students the roles that the school library can play in a diversity of situations.Originality/value– Much of the published literature dealing with the purposes of school libraries and the prerequisites necessary to ensure their effectiveness pays little regard to the ideas of young people themselves. This paper goes some way towards remedying the deficiency.
Faculty adoption and usage behaviour of open access scholarly communication in health science universities
Authors: Tandi Lwoga Edda , Questier Frederik 
Published: April 2014

Purpose
– The study seeks to investigate factors that affect the adoption and use of open access in Tanzanian health sciences universities.

Design/methodology/approach
– Based on a cross-sectional questionnaire survey, 415 faculty members were selected through a stratified random sampling from a population of 679 in all eight health sciences universities in Tanzania. The response rate was 71.1 per cent.

Findings
– Based on the social exchange theory (SET), and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the study developed a model suitable for assessing open access adoption and usage in academic institutions. The study found that facilitating conditions, extrinsic benefits (professional recognition), behavioural intention and individual characteristics (professional rank, technical skills and number of publications) predicted actual usage of open access. Other factors related to contextual factors (attitude, and open access culture), and extrinsic benefits (academic reward, accessibility and preservation) determined behavioural intention to use open access. Fear to violate publisher's copyright policies and effort expectancy however de-motivated faculty to adopt open access, while copyright concerns inhibited faculty's actual usage of open access.

Originality/value
– This is the first comprehensive study focusing on the health sciences faculty's open access adoption and usage behaviour in Africa, and Tanzania in particular, and reveals findings that are useful for planning and implementing open access initiatives in other institutions with similar conditions.
Collaboration between rural school and public youth services librarians
Authors: Smith Daniella 
Published: April 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this article is to determine the types of collaborative activities public youth services and school librarians in rural locations engage in and to ascertain whether there are methods that youth service librarians believe can be employed to improve collaborative activities with public school librarians.

Design/methodology/approach
– A mixed method design was implemented with an online self-administered survey. The survey contained open and closed-ended questions.

Findings
– The findings indicate that many public librarians serving youth in rural locations find it important to collaborate with school librarians. Yet, they struggle to build strong collaborative relationships. Factors such as time, a lack of school librarian administrative support, and a lack of understanding about the roles of school librarians and public librarians, are collaborative barriers.

Research limitations/implications
– The study was limited to a purposive sample of 80 public librarians serving youth in rural areas in the United States.

Practical implications
– Librarianship training programs can help school librarians and youth services librarians learn how to form collaborative partnerships through mentorship programs, requiring pre-service school and youth services librarians to collaborate on projects, and educating them about the similarities in their goals. School and public librarians can also benefit from training to teach them how to build community partnerships.

Originality/value
– The results provide evidence that public librarians serving youth in rural areas favor building stronger collaborative relationships with school librarians. Building these relationships can improve the quality of education for youth in these locations. This article also includes proposed strategies for improving these relationships.
Special library in teacher training and information literacy
Authors: Chua May 
Published: April 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to examine the underemphasized importance of libraries in cultivating information literacy habits in teacher trainees that in turn generate the multiplier effects of inculcating positive habits of information literacy of children in schools.

Design/methodology/approach
– By using Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE) Library as a case study, this paper provides an overview of its institutional and cultural dynamics that create a favorable environment to cultivate information literacy in trainee teachers.

Findings
– NIE Library's unique embeddedness in the public education system and education research system allows it to provide world-class information literacy support for teacher trainees.

Originality/value
– Provides a description of how special libraries are vital in supporting a nation-wide effort in information literacy through the support of teacher trainee and education researchers.
Web tutorials workflows
Authors: Kathryn Nichols Hess Amanda 
Published: April 2014

Purpose
– This article examines a structured redesign of one academic library's offering of its online learning objects. This process considered both improving the online learning objects and developing a feasible workflow process for librarians. The findings for both processes are discussed.

Design/methodology/approach
– The scholarship on online library learning objects and web tutorials, beginning with Dewald's seminal study, was examined for trends, patterns, and best practices. From this research, informal interviews were conducted with library faculty members. Once this information had been collected, other public university libraries in the state of Michigan – 14 in all – were considered in terms of if, and how, they offered online learning objects and web tutorials. These three areas of inquiry provide a foundation for the best practices and workflows developed.

Findings
– Based on the scholarship, librarian feedback, and informal assessment of other public university libraries' practices, best practices were developed for web tutorial evaluation and creation. These best practices are to make online learning content: maintainable, available, geared at users, informative, and customizable. Workflows for librarians around these best practices were developed. Also, using these best practices, the library redesigned its tutorials web page and employed a different content management tool, which benefitted both librarians and users with increased interactivity and ease of use.

Originality/value
– This article shares best practices and library workflows for online learning objects in ways that are not commonly addressed in the literature. It also considers the library's online instructional presence from the perspectives of both user and librarian, and works to develop structures in which both can function effectively. This article is also of value because of the practical implications it offers to library professionals.
Deciphering men: reading the masculine inModern Family
Authors: Buchbinder David 
Published: April 2014

Purpose– The growing public anxiety towards the end of the twentieth century that men were “in crisis” was articulated in popular-cultural texts. The purpose of this paper is to examine the TV family sitcomModern Family, in order to explore the ways that it constructs the masculine post-9/11.Design/methodology/approach– The approach used is that of cultural studies, a field which draws together theorisation and analytical methods from a variety of disciplines.Findings– Despite the variety of family structures represented in the seriesModern Family, its narratives continue to foster traditional notions of patriarchal power. However, the presence of alternate versions of “family” and “masculinity” suggests an awareness of other possibilities.Practical implications– This paper may model to its readers a way of approaching and analysing other popular-cultural texts for their representations of masculinity.Social implications– An understanding of the dynamics of masculinity and its alternative forms of masculinity may be likely to have a material impact in the social sphere.Originality/value– By drawing together theory and analytical approaches from a variety of relevant disciplines, the paper demonstrates that, in the wake of the events of 9/11, there are twin impulses simultaneously to adhere to a familiar, dominant notion of masculinity, yet to propose alternate forms of the masculine.
Masculinist method: a cautionary tale
Authors: Kaufmann Jodi 
Published: April 2014

Purpose– This is a cautionary tale. In previous research on male-to-female transsexuals, the author's analysis was too knowing, detached, and full of authorial superiority. In other words, it was too masculine. The paper aims to discuss theses issues.Design/methodology/approach– In this paper, the author brings to the fore the deleterious effects of the masculinist method. The author then writes a palinode in order to allow masculinity and male to be performed and un/tethered differently by and on different bodies and different subjects.Findings– The paper concludes with a discussion of how a masculinist method emerged and its consequences.Originality/value– This is a revised look at the author's previous work on the subject.
Across intergenerational masculinities: straight divisions, gay multiplications
Authors: Davis Ian , Vicars Mark 
Published: April 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present two examples how stories and storying can be utilised to excavate forgotten points and junctures that result as fundamental episodes in the forming of the subjective selves. Writing in-between masculinity and queerness both stories trace the experience of two boys through accounts of initiation and subjection.Design/methodology/approach– Using autobiography as a method, in concert with Deleuzian-Guattarian notions of becoming and becoming other the paper explores how the discovery of subjective difference informs how the work of identity making and survival take place.Findings– What is uncovered in the process of the paper is how we learn the disguises needed for survival through an early encounter away from the dominating and into the dominated. In this process of becoming other strategies are designed to disguise difference and avoid detection.Social implications– The gaps and fissures that exist between intergenerational positions in conjunction with the straight/gay sexuality binary provide the environment within which the paper operates. Through personal biography the paper investigates how this structure informs the subjective positionality and the identity construction.Originality/value– The openness of the writing found in both of these accounts, although clearly a narrative construction, are also akin to a stream of remembering or spontaneous prose writing. The accounts themselves are not heavily edited; they have not been figured and refigured to produce pleasing literary effects. Instead they remain raw utilising narrative tropes such as flash-back and dramaturgy simply as conduits to memory. The tropes that are employed could be read as defensive or distancing mechanism, a protection against the capacity of the unfolding lived experience to disturb and disrupt.
Neural basis of new clinical vestibular tests: otolithic neural responses to sound and vibration
Authors: Curthoys Ian S , Vulovic Vedran , Burgess Ann M , Manzari Leonardo , Sokolic Ljiljana , Pogson Jacob , Robins Mike , Mezey Laura E , Goonetilleke Samanthi , Cornell Elaine D , MacDougall Hamish G 
Published: April 2014

SummaryExtracellular single neuron recording and labelling studies of primary vestibular afferents in Scarpa's ganglion have shown that guinea‐pig otolithic afferents with irregular resting discharge are preferentially activated by 500 Hz bone‐conducted vibration (BCV) and many also by 500 Hz air‐conducted sound (ACS) at low threshold and high sensitivity. Very few afferent neurons from any semicircular canal are activated by these stimuli and then only at high intensity. Tracing the origin of the activated neurons shows that these sensitive otolithic afferents originate mainly from a specialized region, the striola, of both the utricular and saccular maculae. This same 500 Hz BCV elicits vestibular‐dependent eye movements in alert guinea‐pigs and in healthy humans. These stimuli evoke myogenic potentials, vestibular‐evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs), which are used to test the function of the utricular and saccular maculae in human patients. Although utricular and saccular afferents can both be activated by BCV and ACS, the differential projection of utricular and saccular afferents to different muscle groups allows for differentiation of the function of these two sensory regions. The basic neural data support the conclusion that in human patients in response to brief 500 Hz BCV delivered to Fz (the midline of the forehead at the hairline), the cervical VEMP indicates predominantly saccular function and the ocular VEMP indicates predominantly utricular function. The neural, anatomical and behavioural evidence underpins clinical tests of otolith function in humans using sound and vibration.
Granitohyoidea calycopeplus gen. nov. and sp. nov: a new plant bug taxon (Heteroptera: Miridae) affiliated with granite outcrops in south‐west Western Australia, and its Palearctic affinity and host plant associations
Authors: Cassis Gerasimos , Symonds Celia 
Published: April 2014

AbstractGranitohyoidea calycopeplus sp. nov. is described from the south‐west of Western Australia. It is associated with the euphorb species, Calycopeplus paucifolius, which is found in association with granite outcrops. It is proposed that G. calycopeplus has affinity with the Palearctic genus Hyoidea Reuter, with the later associated with species of the gymnosperm genus Ephedra. The hosts of Granitohyoidea gen. nov. and Hyoidea are distantly related, but their vegetative and reproductive characters are putatively convergent and are postulated to offer similar ecological niches.
Fertilizer subsidies and private market participation: the case of Kano State, Nigeria
Authors: Liverpool‐Tasie Lenis Saweda O. 
Published: April 2014

AbstractThis article estimates the effect of a fertilizer voucher program on farmer participation in the private fertilizer market in Nigeria. Using a double‐hurdle model (to address corner solution challenges with estimating input demand) and a control function approach (to account for the endogeneity of subsidized fertilizer acquired), the study finds evidence that receiving subsidized fertilizer in Kano, Nigeria increased both the probability and extent of participation in the private fertilizer market. Findings demonstrate that under certain circumstances, e.g., where input dealers’ links to farmer are weak; there could be significant gains from the temporary use of voucher programs to strengthen such links.
Chemerin suppresses murine allergic asthma by inhibiting CCL2 production and subsequent airway recruitment of inflammatory dendritic cells
Authors: Zhao L. , Yang W. , Yang X. , Lin Y. , Lv J. , Dou X. , Luo Q. , Dong J. , Chen Z. , Chu Y. , He R. 
Published: April 2014

AbstractBackgroundChemerin has been implicated to play opposing roles, either pro‐inflammatory or anti‐inflammatory, in various tissue inflammation processes primarily through the regulation of tissue recruitment of immune cells. However, the effect of chemerin in allergic asthma has not yet been explored. We sought to investigate the role of chemerin in the murine model of allergic asthma and explore the underlying mechanism.MethodsWe examined the effect of intranasal (i.n.) administration of chemerin during antigen challenge in murine models of asthma. Moreover, we examined whether administration of CCL2 or bone marrow‐derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) transfer reversed the effects of chemerin on ovalbumin‐induced asthma. We finally examined the effect of chemerin on CCL2 expression in activated lung epithelial cells in vitro.ResultsThe administration of chemerin attenuated allergic airway inflammation and airway hyperreactivity during antigen challenge. Chemerin treatment caused significant decreases in BALF CD4+ T‐cell accumulation and mRNA expression of Th2‐attracting chemokines, CCL17 and CCL22, which was accompanied by significantly decreased BALF CD11c+CD11b+ inflammatory DC accumulation and CCL2 production. Furthermore, airway administration of exogenous CCL2 or adoptive transfer of CD11c+CD11b+ BMDCs abrogated the suppressive effects of chemerin on allergic asthma. Finally, in vitro study showed that chemerin inhibited CCL2 secretion by low‐dose LPS‐stimulated lung epithelial cells, which led to decreased chemotaxis of BMDCs.ConclusionsOur study demonstrates that chemerin plays a protective role in allergic asthma by suppressing airway recruitment of inflammatory CD11c+CD11b+ DCs through the inhibition of CCL2 secretion by active lung epithelial cells.
To infiltrate or not? Acute effects of local anaesthetic in breast surgery
Authors: Campbell Ian , Cavanagh Shelley , Creighton Jane , French Rowan , Banerjee Shramana , Kerr Emily , Shirley Rachel 
Published: April 2014

AbstractBackgroundThere is limited evidence to support use of local anaesthetic (LA) wound infiltration in breast surgery. This study seeks to examine whether wound infiltration of bupivacaine (0.25%) decreases post‐operative pain and analgesic use, without increasing post‐operative complications.MethodsA prospective single‐blind study was undertaken of 90 patients undergoing breast lump excision, wide local excision and mastectomy with or without axillary surgery. Patients were randomized to receive infiltration with bupivacaine (0.25%) into the surgical wound (Group LA) or no infiltration (Group No LA). Data on post‐operative analgesia use was collected. Pain scores were assessed at 1, 24, 48 h and 1 week with a visual analogue scale. Complications associated with wound healing were documented at the first post‐operative visit.ResultsForty‐five patients received infiltration and 34 patients received none. There were no significant differences in baseline characteristics between patient groups or surgical details. Analysis revealed Group LA used significantly less opioids than Group No LA during the first 48 h post‐op (3.42 mg versus 7.33 mg; P = 0.02). Overall, Group LA used half the total average opioid equivalent amount (5.04 mg versus 10.08 mg; P = 0.069). There were no significant differences in post‐operative pain scores or complications. Overall pain scores were low, suggesting effective analgesic use by nursing staff.DiscussionLA infiltration during breast surgery has a marked opioid sparing effect, which has significant patient benefits as well as reducing nursing workload and drug costs.
Sentinel lymph node biopsy before mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction does not significantly delay surgery in early breast cancer
Authors: Mannu Gurdeep S. , Navi Ali , Hussien Maged 
Published: April 2014

AbstractBackgroundSentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) before mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) may help to avoid the negative cosmetic effects of radiotherapy on reconstructed breasts in lymph node‐positive patients. Concerns have been raised regarding possible delays whilst awaiting the SLNB result prior to definitive surgery, which needs to be performed within 31 days of cancer diagnosis. The aim was to investigate whether initial SLNB delays mastectomy and IBR.MethodsAll patients who had IBR between January 2005 and 2007 were reviewed retrospectively. Before October 2005 axillary staging was performed simultaneously with mastectomy and IBR (Group I). After October 2005, SLNB was performed as an initial procedure and patients with positive SLNB were only offered a temporary tissue expander to be replaced by autogenous reconstruction after completing the cancer treatment (Group II). Date of diagnosis and waiting times were recorded and the two groups were compared. Different reasons for delays in treatment were studied.ResultsOne hundred and thirty‐nine IBR (123 patients) were included in the statistical analysis (67 IBR in Group I and 72 IBR in Group II). Seventy‐one patients (57.7%) had no delay (mean waiting time of 23 days). Fifty‐two patients (42.3%) had delay longer than 31 days (mean waiting time of 66 days). Group I patients had a mean waiting time (standard deviation) of 38.8 (38) days and Group II patients 42.7 (24) days (p = 0.51).ConclusionsIn this group of patients, SLNB before mastectomy and IBR does not significantly delay definitive breast cancer surgery.
Simultaneous laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy to treat an elderly patient with a large paraesophageal hernia: A case report
Authors: Mimatsu Kenji , Oida Takatsugu , Kida Kazutoshi , Fukino Nobutada , Kawasaki Atsushi , Kano Hisao , Kuboi Youichi , Amano Sadao 
Published: April 2014

AbstractLaparoscopic Nissen fundoplication (LNF) and gastrostomy are often performed in children with gastroesophageal reflux disease. With a population that is increasingly aging, the number of elderly patients with paraesophageal hernia who have a nutritional disorder due to dysphagia has increased. In these patients with feeding difficulties, LNF and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) are effective procedures for providing nutritional support. Here, we describe the case of an 82‐year‐old woman with paraesophageal hernia and certain comorbidities. She was receiving enteral feeding through a nasogastric tube, which was discontinued because aspiration pneumonia occurred. Therefore, LNF and crural repair without mesh placement were performed. The PEG tube was placed using the Ponsky pull technique under direct visualization with a laparoscope and gastroscope. The patient's nutritional status improved after she received enteral nutrition through the PEG tube. Thus, LNF and PEG may be useful techniques for nutritional support in elderly patients with a large paraesophageal hernia.