bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Application of life cycle assessment and Monte Carlo simulation for enabling sustainable product design
Authors: Vinodh Sekar , Rathod Gopinath 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present an integrated technical and economic model to evaluate the reusability of products or components.

Design/methodology/approach
– Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology is applied to obtain the product’s environmental performance. Monte Carlo simulation is utilized for enabling sustainable product design.

Findings
– The results show that the model is capable of assessing the potential reusability of used products, while the usage of simulation significantly increases the effectiveness of the model in addressing uncertainties.

Research limitations/implications
– The case study has been conducted in a single manufacturing organization. The implications derived from the study are found to be practical and useful to the organization.

Practical implications
– The paper reports a case study carried out for an Indian rotary switches manufacturing organization. Hence, the model is practically feasible.

Originality/value
– The article presents a study that investigates LCA and simulation as enablers of sustainable product design. Hence, the contributions of this article are original and valuable.
Assessing sovereign risk: the case of rich countries
Authors: Gaillard Norbert 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to shed new light on the inability of credit rating agencies (CRAs) to forecast the recent defaults and so-called quasi-defaults of rich countries. It also describes how Moody’s sovereign rating methodology has been modified – and could be further improved – to solve this problem.

Design/methodology/approach
– After converting bond yields into yield-implied ratings, accuracy ratios are computed to compare the respective performances of CRAs and market participants. Then Iceland’s and Greece’s ratings at the beginning of the Great Recession are estimated while accounting for the parameters included in the new methodology implemented by Moody’s in 2013.

Findings
– Market participants outperformed Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s in terms of anticipating the sovereign debt crisis that hit several European countries starting in 2008. However, the new methodology implemented by Moody’s should lead to more conservative and accurate sovereign ratings.

Originality/value
– The chronic inability of CRAs to anticipate public debt crises in rich countries is dangerous because the countries affected – which are generally rated in the investment-grade category – are substantially downgraded, amplifying the sovereign debt crisis. This study is the first to demonstrate that Moody’s has learned from its recent failures. In addition, it recommends ways to detect serious threats to the creditworthiness of high-income countries.
Banking regulation and supervision: can it enhance stability in Europe?
Authors: Ben Bouheni Faten 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to find the effects of regulatory and supervisory policies on bank risk-taking. The same regulation and supervision have different effects on bank risk-taking depending on influence factors. These factors were considered and a sample of the largest European banks from France, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain and Greece was used over the period 2005-2011.

Design/methodology/approach
– In this paper, the author analyses the effects of regulation and supervision on risk-taking. The author uses a sample of the biggest banks from six European countries (France, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece) over the period 2005-2011. Because the applicable entry of IFRS was in 2005, thus data of European banks are not available before this date. For each country in the sample, the 10 largest banks (defined by total assets) that lend money to firms were identified. The author does not include central banks or postal banks, which generally do not lend money to firms and are described as non-banking institutions (La Porta et al., 2002).

Findings
– It was found that restrictions on bank activities, supervisors’ power and capital adequacy decrease risk-taking. Thus, regulation and supervision enhance bank’s stability. While, deposit insurance increases the risk due to its association to moral hazard. Finally, it was found that strengthening regulatory and supervisory framework raises the risk-taking and weakens the stability of European banks.

Originality/value
– The author contributes to existing empirical analyses in three ways. First, the existing literature has drawn a lot of attention on US banks. However, the purpose of this paper is to examine the biggest banks of three European leaders (France, Germany and UK) and three more European countries influenced by the recent crisis (Spain, Italy and Greece) over the period 2005-2011. Second, most studies focus mainly on the relationship between regulation and profitability, yet seldom on the relationship between regulation, supervision and risk-taking. The author focuses on this relationship. Third, this study applies the two-step dynamic panel data approach suggested by Blundell and Bond (1998) and also uses dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM) method to address potential problems. The two-step GMM estimator that the author uses is generally the most efficient.
Misunderstanding embeddedness: a response to Ferraris’ rethinking multiple embeddedness
Authors: Rašković Matevž 
Published: August 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to address the misapplication of the embeddedness concept in Ferraris’s (2014) paper and show how it needs to be used as a cornerstone economic sociology concept within his proposed framework. This paper is a response to his paper in theMultinational Business Review“Rethinking the literature on ‘multiple embeddedness’ and subsidiary-specific advantages”.Design/methodology/approach– The paper outlines the origin of the embeddedness concept and its evolution within the economic sociology literature. It addresses different types of embeddedness and continues with a critical analysis of Ferraris’s (2014) proposed framework of four main types of multinational enterprise (MNE) relationships. It provides suggestions for its improvement and application, as well as discusses the appropriate applications of embeddedness concept by international business (IB) scholars in MNE research.Findings– The paper shows how the embeddedness concept is mostly used as a metaphor and as a simple umbrella label for different types of connections between MNEs, their subsidiaries and different types of environments. The analysis of Ferraris’s (2014) proposed framework shows how MNE embeddedness is incorrectly understood as emanating from the balancing of local responsiveness and global integration within MNEs, where subsidiaries develop subsidiary-specific advantages (SSAs) by recombining home – host country-specific advantages and parent – subsidiary firm-specific advantages (FSAs).Originality/value– The paper adds to the existing IB understanding of MNEs’ multiple embeddedness and subsidiaries’ dual embeddedness through a wider and more structured economic sociology perspective. It provides an appropriate economic sociology-grounded typology of different types of embeddedness. A discussion of possible future research directions stresses how the embeddedness – dissembeddedness capability is a key source of MNE competitive advantage, which moderates the actual recombination process of producing FSAs and SSAs.
Inward foreign direct investment and constitutional change in Scotland
Authors: Young Stephen , Ross Duncan , MacKay Brad 
Published: August 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to undertake an analysis of the implications of potential Scottish independence for inward foreign direct investment (FDI), multinational enterprise strategies and the local economy.Design/methodology/approach– This paper takes a multidisciplinary approach drawing on literature and evidence in the international business and management, political economy and economic geography fields to analyse the role and impact of inward FDI in Scotland following possible Scottish independence.Findings– Scotland continues as an attractive location for FDI, with greater diversity than hitherto. While the country’s comparative advantages in immobile natural resources provide some protection from uncertainty, weak embeddedness is a risk factor irrespective of independence. A range of transition costs of independence are identified, which could be high and of indeterminate duration, and some will be sector-specific. There are also new possibilities for tailoring of policies and potential reindustrialization opportunities in renewable technologies. The foreign investors most vulnerable to political risks and uncertainties are those whose market scope is the rest of the UK (rUK) either as exporters or value-chain integrators, in addition to the high political risk industries of energy, banking and financial services and defence. Scottish subsidiaries’ significance within their parent MNE groups will also be a major factor in determining responses to political risks and uncertainties.Originality/value– Specific focus on the impact of potential independence on the foreign-owned sector as a major contributor to the Scottish economy.
Opening research data: issues and opportunities
Authors: Childs Sue , McLeod Julie , Lomas Elizabeth , Cook Glenda 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to explore the issues, the role of research data management (RDM) as a mechanism for implementing open research data and the role and opportunities for records managers. The open data agenda is premised on making as much data as possible open and available. However, in the context of open research data there are methodological, ethical and practical issues with this premise.

Design/methodology/approach
– Two collaborative research projects focusing on qualitative health data were conducted. “DATUM for Health” designed and delivered a tailored RDM skills training programme for postgraduate research students in health studies. “DATUM in Action” was an action research project between researchers from information sciences, health, mathematics and computing, looking at planning and implementing RDM.

Findings
– Three key issues emerged about what research data is appropriate to make open/accessible for sharing and reuse: re-using qualitative data conflicts with some of the epistemological and methodological principles of qualitative research; there are ethical concerns about making data obtained from human participants open, which are not completely addressed by consent and anonymisation; many research projects are small scale and the costs of preparing and curating data for open access can outweigh its value. In exploring these issues, the authors advocate the need for effective appraisal skills and researcher-focused RDM with records managers playing a useful role.

Research limitations/implications
– The findings come from two small-scale qualitative projects in health studies. Further exploration of these issues is required.

Practical implications
– Records managers have new crucial opportunities in the open data and RDM contexts, bringing their expertise and experience in managing a wider range of data and information. They can help realise the benefits of multiple perspectives (researcher, data manager, records manager and archivist) on open research data.

Social implications
– Researcher-focused RDM offers a mechanism for implementing open research data.

Originality/value
– It raises complex issues around open research data not found in the records management literature, highlights the need for researcher-focussed RDM and research data appraisal skills and a not yet fully recognised role for records managers.
Open data?
Authors: Borglund Erik , Engvall Tove 
Published: August 2014

Purpose– The aim of the article is to investigate what characterizes the information constructs that the archival discourse and the open data discourse communicate in text, and what their similarities and differences are. This article proposes that it is possible to see the open data initiative and modern archival practice as two discourses that have used different terminology to express and communicate their messages in the literature. In this article, we have applied a hypothesis-like assumption that the information constructs used in open data are actually nothing other than records, as they are in the archival discourse.Design/methodology/approach– This article is based on a mixed method approach. A quantitative text analysis (word count) was carried out in a large set of documents representing the open data discourse and in the archival discourse. This was followed by a qualitative text analysis.Findings– It was found that both discourses did focus on records. However, the opendata discourse very seldom used the term record, but used information and data much more frequently. The archival discourse used the term information almost as often as record. A possible adaption of communication strategies can be identified, targeting a much wider audience through a user-centered approach. This could be an indication of a change in the archival discourse, which seems to be moving from a discourse that is very much regulated by law toward a discourse that is more focused on benefit and usability.Originality/value– This research indicates that it is possible to interpret both the open data and the archival discourse as one united discourse, an effect derived from working with e-government. There is an ongoing harmonization of the words used, and in the studied archival discourse, a more user- and business-oriented focus can be seen.
New motherhood: a moment of change in everyday shopping practices?
Authors: Burningham Kate , Venn Susan , Christie Ian , Jackson Tim , Gatersleben Birgitta 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to draw on data from 16 interviews (two each with eight women) to explore some of the ways in which everyday shopping may change as women become mothers. The meanings, practices and implications of the transition to motherhood have long been a topic for sociological inquiry. Recently, interest has turned to the opportunities offered by this transition for the adoption of more sustainable lifestyles. Becoming a mother is likely to lead to changes in a variety of aspects of everyday life such as travel, leisure, cooking and purchase of consumer goods, all of which have environmental implications. The environmental impacts associated with such changes are complex, and positive moves toward more sustainable activities in one sphere may be offset by less environmentally positive changes elsewhere.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper draws on data from 16 interviews (two each with eight women) to explore some of the ways in which everyday shopping may change as women become mothers.

Findings
– This paper focuses on the ways in which modes and meanings of everyday shopping may shift through the transition to mother, and on indicating any potential sustainability implications. The paper explores the adoption of more structured shopping and of shifting the mode of grocery shopping online or offline. The paper draws attention to the way in which practices are embedded and interrelated and argue that more consideration needs to be given to the influence of all household members.

Originality/value
– The question here is not whether women purchase different products or consume more once they have a child, but rather how does the everyday activity of shopping for groceries and the meanings it has change with new motherhood and what sustainability implications might this have? In this context, this paper provides a novel addition to research on new mothers and consumption.
Are YouTube videos accurate and reliable on basic life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
Authors: Yaylaci Serpil , Serinken Mustafa , Eken Cenker , Karcioglu Ozgur , Yilmaz Atakan , Elicabuk Hayri , Dal Onur 
Published: August 2014

AbstractObjectiveThe objective of this study is to investigate reliability and accuracy of the information on YouTube videos related to CPR and BLS in accord with 2010 CPR guidelines.MethodsYouTube was queried using four search terms ‘CPR’, ‘cardiopulmonary resuscitation’, ‘BLS’ and ‘basic life support’ between 2011 and 2013. Sources that uploaded the videos, the record time, the number of viewers in the study period, inclusion of human or manikins were recorded. The videos were rated if they displayed the correct order of resuscitative efforts in full accord with 2010 CPR guidelines or not.ResultsTwo hundred and nine videos meeting the inclusion criteria after the search in YouTube with four search terms (‘CPR’, ‘cardiopulmonary resuscitation’, ‘BLS’ and ‘basic life support’) comprised the study sample subjected to the analysis. Median score of the videos is 5 (IQR: 3.5–6). Only 11.5% (n = 24) of the videos were found to be compatible with 2010 CPR guidelines with regard to sequence of interventions. Videos uploaded by ‘Guideline bodies’ had significantly higher rates of download when compared with the videos uploaded by other sources. Sources of the videos and date of upload (year) were not shown to have any significant effect on the scores received (P = 0.615 and 0.513, respectively). The videos' number of downloads did not differ according to the videos compatible with the guidelines (P = 0.832). The videos downloaded more than 10 000 times had a higher score than the others (P = 0.001).ConclusionThe majority of You‐Tube video clips purporting to be about CPR are not relevant educational material. Of those that are focused on teaching CPR, only a small minority optimally meet the 2010 Resucitation Guidelines.
Expression of recombinant anti‐breast cancer immunotherapeutic monoclonal antibody in baculovirus–insect cell system
Authors: Lee Jeong‐Hwan , Hwang Kyung‐A , Park SungSu , Choo Young‐Kug , Ko Kisung 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThe anti‐breast cancer monoclonal antibody (mAb) BR55 was expressed in the baculovirus–insect cell expression system, which is advantageous because of its high production capacity, cell culture flexibility and glycosylation capability. The baculovirus–insect cell expression system was successfully established for production of mAb BR55 and mAb BR55 fused with the KDEL (Lys–Asp–Glu–Leu) endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention signal (mAb BR55K). The heavy chain (HC) and light chain (LC) genes of mAb BR55 were cloned under the control of the polyhedrin (PPH) and P10 promoters, respectively, in the pFastBacDual vector. The antibody gene‐expression cassettes carrying both the HC and LC genes were transferred into a bacmid in Escherichia coli (DH10Bac). The bacmid carrying the expression cassettes was transfected into Sf9 insect cells to generate baculovirus expressing mAb BR55 and BR55K. Western blot analysis confirmed the expression of mAb BR55 and BR55K in baculovirus‐infected insect cells. Cell direct enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) showed that both mAbs from insect cell lysates or cell culture medium bound to MCF‐7 human breast cancer cells. Both mAb BR55 and BR55K were successfully purified using a Protein A affinity column. Collectively, these results suggest that the anti‐breast cancer mAb BR55 can be expressed, properly assembled and purified from the baculovirus expression system, which can serve as an alternative system for antibody production.
Post‐partum plasma C‐peptide and ghrelin concentrations are predictive of type 2 diabetes in women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus 曾患妊娠期糖尿病的妇女的产后血浆C‐肽与饥饿素浓度是2型糖尿病的预测因子
Authors: Lappas Martha , Jinks Debra , Ugoni Antony , Louizos Connie C.J. , Permezel Michael , Georgiou Harry M. 
Published: August 2014

AbstractBackgroundWomen with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (pGDM) are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life. The aim of this study was to determine if circulating levels of metabolic hormones 12 weeks following a GDM pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes 8–10 years later.MethodsFasting plasma concentrations of glucose, insulin, C‐peptide, ghrelin, GIP, GLP‐1, glucagon, leptin, PAI‐1, resistin and visfatin were measured in 98 normal glucose tolerant women, 12 weeks following an index GDM pregnancy. Women were assessed every 2 years for up to 10 years for development of overt type 2 diabetes.ResultsAfter a median follow‐up period of 8.7 years, 22.5% of women with a pGDM pregnancy developed type 2 diabetes. Significant risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes were fasting plasma glucose levels >5 mmol/L during pregnancy and at 12 weeks post‐pregnancy. In addition, higher C‐peptide levels and lower ghrelin levels at 12 weeks post‐pregnancy were also significant risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes.ConclusionsFasting plasma glucose during pregnancy and post‐partum, and post‐partum C‐peptide and ghrelin levels were significant risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes in women with pGDM. This is the first report that identifies C‐peptide and ghrelin as potential biomarkers for the prediction of type 2 diabetes in women with a history of GDM.
A New Enantiornithes (Aves) from the Early Cretaceous of China
Authors: DALSÄTT Johan , ERICSON Per G.P. , ZHOU Zhonge 
Published: August 2014

AbstractA new bird from the early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China is described. This new species, Grabauornis lingyuanensis, shares several synapomorphies with the Enantiornithes. The specimen is relatively well preserved. The skeletal morphology of Grabauornis bears close resemblance to that of other Chinese members of this clade. The brachial index (the ratio between the lengths of humerus and ulna) is 0.95, which is close to the average for enantiornithine birds. It indicates that Grabauornis was a rather good flyer, and the presence of an alula in the wing further testifies to this.
A New Lizard (Lepidosauria: Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Henan, China
Authors: XU Li , WU Xiaochun , Junchang LÜ , JIA Songhai , ZHANG Jiming , PU Hanyong , ZHANG Xingliao 
Published: August 2014

AbstractFuniusaurus luanchuanensis gen. et sp. nov. was described on the basis of an incomplete skull from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of the Tantou Basin in Luanchuan County, Henan Province. It is the second representative of lizards known from Luanchuan and adds a new member to the Luanchuan Fauna. F. luanchuanensis is a small‐sized lizard and systematically assigned to the Polyglyphanodontidae of the Teiioidea because of the presence of a caniniform tooth and an elongate posterior process of the postorbital. It is distinctive in that the heterodont dentition bears 19 teeth in both the upper and lower jaws, the 3rd maxillary tooth is large and caniniform, the post‐caniniform teeth in maxilla and those posterior to the 3rd dentary tooth are chisel‐like in lateral view, the prefrontal possesses a fossa on its lateral surface, the postorbital with an extremely elongate posterior process and the well‐developed retroarticular process has a deep fossa on its dorsal surface. In phylogeny, our analysis suggests a close relationship of Funiusaurus to the large‐sized Tianyusaurus from the same basin within the Tuberocephalosaurinae. The discovery of Funiusaurus is significant in confirming the status of the Tuberocephalosaurinae, which includes a group of the Asian members of the Polyglyphanodontidae only.