bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Aiming for the stars can bring an organization down to earth
Authors: Coulson‐Thomas Colin 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on the author's five‐year investigation of various approaches to transforming performance. It aims to concentrate in particular on approaches to talent management.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explains that devoting large sums to obtain people with potential involves risks, such as whether they will fit in and whether in future years their attributes will still be in demand.FindingsThe paper advocates a shift of emphasis from recruiting and developing a cadre of high‐fliers for an uncertain future to helping people – especially those in front‐line roles – to excel at activities that are crucial today, remain current and handle challenges when and wherever they arise.Practical implicationsThe paper advances the view that a cheaper approach, performance support, can quickly deliver multiple corporate objectives and measurable benefits for both people and organizations.Social implicationsThe paper contends that average people can be helped to continually excel at difficult, complex and changing tasks as they evolve.Originality/valueThe paper warns that setting out to buy high performance can disappoint if a star in one context does not perform so well in a different one. Large amounts can be wasted on expensive individuals who are not engaged, effectively used or appropriately supported.
Antecedents and consequences of service quality in a higher education context
Authors: Sultan Parves , Yin Wong Ho 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to report on the perception of students in regard to critical antecedents, dimensions and consequences of service quality with an aim to develop a theoretical model in the context of a university in Australia.Design/methodology/approachThis research used focus group discussions with 19 students who had been studying in undergraduate and postgraduate level programs at an Australian university.FindingsThe findings show that the critical antecedents to perceived service quality are information and past experience. There are three aspects of perceived service quality, namely, academic, administrative and facilities. Student satisfaction and student trust are found to have direct and positive relationships with perceived service quality as consequences; and brand performance and behavioural intention are found to have indirect relationships with perceived service quality mediated through satisfaction and trust.Originality/valueThis paper found three separate themes and their relationships with service quality in the context of a university. These themes are: information, past experience and brand performance. Perceived service quality was found playing an important role in this theoretical model. The model provides a good explanation of university brand performance and students' behavioural intentions.
Organizational communication in Malaysia organizations
Authors: Abu Bakar Hassan , Su Mustaffa Che 
Published: January 2013

PurposeResearch on organizational communication has shown significant associations with many important outcomes. Although these researches are appealing, there have been criticisms and suggestions for improvement of the organizational communication scales, developed in Western organization settings, to make them applicable to collectivist culture‐based organizations. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to access the organizational communication construct through the development and validation of an organizational communication measure for Malaysian organizations.Design/methodology/approachItem analysis for Malaysian organizational communication scale involves survey of 250 university employees, followed by construct and criterion‐related validation using 346 employees, representing three organizations in Malaysia, resulting in a Malaysian organizational communication scale.FindingsThrough the validation of a Malaysian organizational communication measure, support was found for the proposition that Malaysian organizations are composed of information flow, communication climate, message characteristics, and communication structure, as well as new dimensions, namely, the group bond and respect.Research limitations/implicationsOne of the weaknesses of the study was the size of sample used for the focus group. Another weakness was the organizations involved in the validation segment of the study, which were service‐related organizations. Finally, current investigations limit themselves to job satisfaction. These results have to be handled carefully.Practical implicationsThe paper shows that group bond and mutual respect are salient work relationships in Malaysian organizations.Originality/valueThe emergence of group bond and respect dimensions in the Malaysian organizational communication construct is consistent with the examination of organizational behavior.
Ku‐band high power internally matched GaN HEMTs with 1.5 GHz bandwidth
Authors: Ge Qin , Liu Xinyu , Chen Xiaojuan , Luo Weijun , Liu Guoguo 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report upon high power, internally matched GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) at Ku band with 1.5 GHz bandwidth, which employ a simple and cost‐effective lossless compensated matching technique.Design/methodology/approachTwo 4 mm gate periphery GaN HEMTs are parallel combined and internally matched with multi‐section reactive impedance transformers at the input and output networks. The output matching network is designed at the upper frequency of the design band for a flat power of the circuit, while the input matching network is designed at the upper frequency for a flat gain.FindingsWith the reactively compensated matching technique, the internally matched GaN HEMTs exhibit a flat saturated output power of 43.2+0.7 dBm and an average power added efficiency of 15 per cent over 12 to 13.5 GHz.Originality/valueThis paper provides useful information for the internally matched GaN HEMTs.
Embedded passive device technology for wireless mobile devices
Authors: Yi Sung , Kim Kyungo , Lee Dongwan , Kim Hongwon , Jung Taesung 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the design and manufacture of embedded passive devices in organic substrates.Design/methodology/approachLow cost and high performance duplexers have been designed for WiMAX front‐end modules with multi‐layered organic substrates. Band‐pass filters (BPFs) and duplexers for the WiMAX FEM have been embedded in organic substrates. In addition, a new organic substrate manufacturing process has been proposed in order to improve the tolerance of embedded passives in organic substrates.FindingsThe overall size of FEM, which includes PA and bypass capacitor, is 5.4×4×1.5 mm. BPFs and duplexer show good electrical performances with low insertion loss and high attenuation. The dual‐band FEM with embedded passive components incorporates the duplexers including 2 and 5 GHz BPFs. The dimensions of BPFs and duplexer are 1.65×1.8×0.12 mm, 1.32×1.2×0.12 mm and 2×2×0.6 mm, respectively. The integrated dual‐band BPFs show an insertion loss < 1.8 dB in path band and 22‐40 dB attenuation performance in rejection band. The newly proposed fabrication process improves the tolerance for embedded capacitors in the organic substrate. This new process provides two main advantages. First, the flat coating process is not required. Second, it has a better copper pattern tolerance since the pattern is achieved with the addictive process. The tolerance of capacitances produced by the newly proposed process is compared with one manufactured by the conventional etching process. The newly proposed process provides a better capacitance tolerance.Research limitations/implicationsIn future studies, it is suggested that the tolerance study should include other variations such as thickness, alignment and material properties.Practical implicationsThe paper's findings can be used for designing and manufacturing embedded passives devices for wireless applications.Originality/valueThis study shows a technology development in the area of embedded passive devices in organic substrates.
The effect of supply chain security management on security performance in container shipping operations
Authors: Yang Ching‐Chiao , Wei Hsiao‐Hsuan 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe aim of this study is to empirically identify crucial dimensions of security management in the container shipping sector in Taiwan and assess their impacts on security performance.Design/methodology/approachData for this study were collected by questionnaire survey. An exploratory factor analysis was performed to identify crucial security management dimensions in the container shipping sector. Multiple regression analysis was then performed to examine the effect of security management on the security performance.FindingsFour crucial security management dimensions were identified: facility and cargo management; accident prevention and processing; information management; and partner relationship management. Multiple regression analysis revealed that information management and partner relationship management had significant positive effects on safety performance, whereas partner relationship management had a significant positive effect on customs clearance performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis study primarily focuses on the effect of security management on security performance. Future research could identify the drivers and barriers to comply with supply chain security initiatives.Practical implicationsContainer shipping firms can improve safety and customs clearance performance by focusing security management efforts on facility and cargo management, accident prevention and processing, information management, and partner relationship management.Social implicationsGovernment administrators or other authorities may want to consider using crucial container shipping security management dimensions as criteria for assessing security performance in container shipping firms.Originality/valueThis study presented is the first to assess the effect of security management on security performance in the container shipping sector. Particularly, partner relationship management is found to be the key dimension for supply chain security success.
Opposites attract: organisational culture and supply chain performance
Authors: Cadden Trevor , Marshall Donna , Cao Guangming 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to expand the knowledge of buyer‐supplier relationships by investigating the extent to which organisational cultural fit between a buyer and supply chain participants influences performance.Design/methodology/approachThe study was conducted in a FMCG supply chain. A cultural dimensions questionnaire was used in a focal organisation (the buyer) and it identified best and poorest performing supply chain. The results were analysed using a series of ANOVA's within the respective supply chains. The findings were then triangulated via qualitative methods.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that complementarity rather than congruence between the supply chain partners achieved successful performance outcomes. Organisations in the high‐performing supply chain had significantly different cultural profiles, reporting significant statistical differences across all six cultural dimensions. Organisations in the low‐performing supply chain had almost identical profiles across all six cultural dimensions with significantly lower mean scores across each dimension.Research limitations/implicationsThe deconstruction of organisational culture into its constituent dimensions in a supply chain provides insights for academics. Propositions are presented which provide a platform for further studies. Future studies could develop these findings by using a larger sample, over a longer period of time, and adding mediating variables that impact supply chain outcomes.Practical implicationsManagers should pay attention to cultural evaluation within the supplier selection process as well as finance or strategic evaluations. A shared supply chain culture of norm‐based trust and openness may yield better outcomes and reduced conflict and uncertainty throughout the supply chain.Originality/valueThis is one of the first papers to deconstruct and measure organisational cultural fit empirically in a supply chain context.
RCF model of Indian Bank for micro credit
Authors: Dasgupta Rajaram , Malai Manickaraj 
Published: January 2013

PurposeIndian Bank, a major commercial bank in South India, has launched Rural Credit Franchisee (RCF) model for lending money to small borrowers in villages. The study aims to study the business model, the profile of ultimate borrowers and their credit requirements and to study the economics of the model.Design/methodology/approachData used for the study are mostly primary in nature collected from the RCFs and the rural borrowers. In addition, bank officials were interviewed and also data on loan accounts of RCFs were collected from the sample bank branches and the RCFs.FindingsThe RCF scheme is a novel micro finance scheme and it has showcased that the informal institutions can be linked with the formal credit institutions. The scheme has benefited all the stakeholders including the bank, the RCFs and the rural poor.Research limitations/implicationsThe study has covered majority of the RCFs of the bank in terms of number and volume of business under the scheme and hence the results indicate the performance of the entire portfolio of the bank under the scheme.Practical implicationsThe study finds that the scheme has benefited all the stakeholders. It has particularly helped in creating competition amongst the rural moneylenders and thereby bringing down the cost of credit in rural hinterlands. Findings are strongly in favour of expanding/replicating the model by the other commercial banks and in all parts of the country, rather across the entire world.Originality/valueThe RCF model is one of its kind and the policy makers and regulators may encourage the scheme in order to attain inclusive economic growth. This is a first of its kind study investigating the operation of such a model.
The impact of internal service quality and learning organization on clinical leaders' job satisfaction in hospital care services
Authors: Pantouvakis Angelos , Mpogiatzidis Panagiotis 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThis survey aims to investigate the perceptions of clinical leaders in hospital care services in the context of the Greek public health system, to define the impact of internal service quality characteristics and learning organization dimensions on job satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachThe sample comprised doctors – department heads of 123 clinical departments of basic medical specialties operating in 15 hospitals and was addressed by the use of a questionnaire specifically designed for the purposes of this research effort. The results were processed with the use of exploratory factor analysis and multiple linear regression was applied.FindingsThe research results revealed a positive impact of interactive internal service quality characteristics and learning organization dimensions, namely, empowerment and continuous learning, on job satisfaction in hospital care services.Originality/valueThis research effort focuses, for the first time, on clinical leadership perceptions in public hospital care services. The relationship between internal service quality, learning organization and job satisfaction, can be critical in all efforts attempting to improve clinical departments functionality, thus the results of this survey provide both researchers and public health policy makers with a useful tool for the design and implementation of such efforts.
Institutional investors' involuntary trading behaviors, commonality in liquidity change and stock price fragility
Authors: Chen Guojin , Xu Aihuan , Zhao Xiangqin 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to empirically analyze the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market.Design/methodology/approachThis paper used two‐step test method in Coughenour and Saad and empirically tested the relationship between institutional investors' involuntary trading behaviors and commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market.FindingsThe results showed that to take the open‐end fund as a representative of institutional investors, their involuntary trading behaviors were an important source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market.Originality/valueFor a long time, the domestic researchers have ignored the study about the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market. But, this study's conclusion expanded the explanation about the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market from a new point of view that the demand‐side explanation. Because there is no market‐maker trading behaviors in China's stock market, the paper cannot explain the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market from the point of view of the supply‐side explanation.
Predicting responses to climate change requires all life‐history stages
Authors: Zeigler Sara 
Published: January 2013

The bog fritillary butterfly (Bolaria eunomia) alights onto Persicaria bistorta. This species of butterfly can be found in bogs, moist tundra, and willow seeps throughout the north‐temperate region of the Northern
Hemisphere. Photo: Camille Turlure.imageThe bog fritillary butterfly (Bolaria eunomia) alights onto Persicaria bistorta. This species of butterfly can be found in bogs, moist tundra, and willow seeps throughout the north‐temperate region of the Northern
Hemisphere. Photo: Camille Turlure.
In Focus: Radchuk, V., Turlure, C. & Schtickzelle, N. (2013) Each life stage matters: the
importance of assessing response to climate change over the complete life cycle in butterflies.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 82, 275–285.Population‐level responses to climate change depend on many factors, including unexpected interactions among life history attributes; however, few studies examine climate change impacts over complete life cycles of focal species. Radchuk, Turlure & Schtickzelle () used experimental and modelling approaches to predict population dynamics for the bog fritillary butterfly under warming scenarios. Although they found that warming improved fertility and survival of all stages with one exception, populations were predicted to decline because overwintering larvae, whose survival declined with warming, were disproportionately important contributors to population growth. This underscores the importance of considering all life history stages in analyses of climate change's effects on population dynamics.
Preparation and Use of Poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Cryogels Containing L‐Histidine for β‐Casein Adsorption
Authors: Yavuz Murat , Baysal Zübeyde 
Published: January 2013

AbstractThe objective of this study was to determine β‐casein adsorption by using supermacroporous poly(2‐hydroxyethyl methacrylate‐N‐methacryloyl‐(l)‐histidine methyl ester) [p(HEMA‐MAH)] cryogel. β‐Casein adsorption properties of p(HEMA‐MAH) cryogel were studied for the application of β‐casein purification. The cryogel was produced by free radical polymerization initiated by N,N,N’,N’‐tetramethylene diamine and ammonium persulfate pairs in an ice bath. P(HEMA‐MAH) cryogel was characterized by swelling tests, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The effects of the flow rate, pH, temperature, initial β‐casein concentration, and ionic strength on the adsorption efficiency of cryogel were studied. The equilibrium swelling degree of the p(HEMA‐MAH) cryogel was 6.73 g H2O/g cryogel. β‐Casein adsorption capacity of p(HEMA‐MAH) cryogel from aqueous solution was estimated as 31.17 mg/g cryogel. It was also observed that β‐casein could be repeatedly adsorbed and desorbed with p(HEMA‐MAH) cryogel without significant loss in the adsorption capacity.
Effect of Adulteration versus Storage on Volatiles in Unifloral Honeys from Different Floral Sources and Locations
Authors: Agila Amal , Barringer Sheryl 
Published: January 2013

AbstractHigh fructose corn syrup (HFCS) was added at 5% to 40% to Indiana wildflower honey and added at 40% to Ohio and Indiana honeys from blueberry, star thistle, clover and wildflower, and an unknown source to simulate honey adulteration. Unadulterated honeys were also stored at 37 ºC from 1 to 6 mo. The volatile composition was measured by Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT‐MS). Most volatiles decreased in concentration with both increasing HFCS and storage time. Furfural significantly increased in concentration in all adulterated honeys and 1,3‐butanediol, acetonitrile, and heptane in some adulterated honeys. During storage, the volatiles that increased were maltol, furfural, 5‐methylfurfural, and 5‐hydroxymethyl furfural in all honeys and also acetic acid and 1‐octen‐3‐ol levels in some honeys. Soft independent modeling by class analogy (SIMCA) was used to differentiate the volatile profiles of adulterated honeys from fresh and stored honeys. The volatile profiles of honeys in accelerated storage for up to 4 mo and the honeys adulterated with 40% HFCS were significantly different. Acetic acid had the most discriminating power in Ohio star thistle and blueberry honeys and unknown honey while furfural had the greatest discriminating power in Indiana blueberry, star thistle, and clover honeys. Adulteration and storage of honey both reduced the volatile levels, but since they changed the volatile composition of the fresh honey differently, SIMCA was able to differentiate adulteration from storage.Practical Application:  Analysis of adulterated and stored honeys determined that both decrease volatile levels, and no clear indicator volatiles were found. However, SIMCA can be used to distinguish the volatile profiles of fresh or stored honeys, from adulterated honeys.
In Vivo Genotoxicity Evaluation of an Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) Aqueous Extract
Authors: Zan Meriele A. , Ferraz Alexandre B. F. , Richter Marc F. , Picada Jaqueline N. , de Andrade Heloisa H. R. , Lehmann Mauricio , Dihl Rafael R. , Nunes Emilene , Semedo Juliane , Da Silva Juliana 
Published: January 2013

Abstract The Cynara scolymus (artichoke) is widely consumed as tea or food and shows important therapeutic properties. However, few studies have assessed the possible toxic effects of artichoke extracts. This study evaluates genotoxic and mutagenic activities of artichoke leaf aqueous extract in mice using the comet assay and the micronucleus test. Leaf extracts were given by gavage (500 mg/kg, 1000 mg/kg, and 2000 mg/kg) for 3 consecutive days. Extract composition was investigated using phytochemical screening and high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). In addition, antioxidant capacity was analyzed through the diphenyl‐picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and xanthine oxidase assay. Phytochemical screening detected the presence of phenolic compounds, flavonoids, and saponins. HPLC analyses indicated the presence of chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, isoquercetrin, and rutin. Extracts showed a dose‐dependent free radical scavenging effect of DPPH and an inhibitory effect of xanthine oxidase. The genotoxic results showed that leaf extracts did not increase micronuclei in peripheral blood cells. Compared to the control group, a significant increase in comet assay values was observed only in bone marrow of group treated with 2000 mg/kg, the highest dose tested, indicating that artichoke tea should be consumed with moderation.Practical Application:  This is the first report of in vivo mutagenic and genotoxic evaluation with C. scolymus. The present study revealed leaf aqueous extract from artichoke shows lack of mutagenicity in vivo, and low genotoxicity and antioxidant activity; indicating that artichoke tea should be consumed with moderation.