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Developing a values scorecard
Authors: Stephen Town J. , Kyrillidou Martha 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to define a framework and categorization of the types of evidence required to prove the value and impact of libraries. It questions the limitations of current measurement for library value, and hence for contributing to academic and research library planning and advocacy. The paper describes and draws on some of the recent progress in value and impact measurement over the last five years. Scenario planning exercises conducted by both ARL and SCONUL are used to analyse the likely future value proposition emerging for libraries. A values‐based value scorecard is proposed, which would demonstrate the transcendent value of academic and research libraries now and in the future.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines research literature from library and general management texts to propose a framework for measuring the value and impact of libraries.FindingsThe paper concludes that a value scorecard can be used alongside the balanced scorecard to add a more value‐oriented picture of library strengths and contribution. The potential benefit of the proposed value scorecard is to gather evidence which will assist both strategic planning and decision making in relation to key areas for future investment.Originality/valueThe proposal defines a new framework aimed at measuring the full value of academic research libraries, considering both tangible and intangible assets. The proposal has been developed by exploring measurement gaps in the library management field and exploring potential options from this area and general management literature. If applied successfully, the model should provide a useful tool for strategic management and decision making.
Biofuel research and data mining
Authors: Mittal Rekha 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore and map the intellectual structure of biofuel research.Design/methodology/approachThe study attempts to present the structure of biofuel research through document co‐citation patterns of core references. Document co‐citation analysis was performed using the Web of Science of the Thomson‐ISI database. A sample of 26 cited references was identified and the co‐citation frequencies were analyzed and represented them systematically within groups of similar researched topics.FindingsThe study shows the co‐citation analysis method suitable for depicting structure of biofuel research in document clusters by performing multivariate analysis: cluster analysis, factor analysis, multidimensional scaling and network analysis.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited to research articles and co‐citation data for the first author only. For the co‐citation analysis, the cited references rather than the cited authors were used as the units for analysis.Practical implicationsCo‐citational analysis using multivariate tools provides a useful technique to explore and document the development of the field supplementing the insights normally available from the routine co‐citational analysis.Originality/valueSpecialties in biofuel research are identified and this may provide a valuable building block for future research.
An analysis of the human activities impact on water quantity in the Jequitinhonha Valley, MG/Brazil
Authors: Nogueira de Andrade Larice , Garcia Praça Leite Mariangela 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the changes of the characteristics of the study area caused by human influence and the reduction of flow rates with time, in Água Limpa stream basin, Jequitinhonha Valley of Minas Gerais, Brazil.Design/methodology/approachThe study area is a typical arid zone in the northeast of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Field observations, collection and analyses of precipitation, evaporation, temperature and flow rate data were the main approaches used in this study. The data cover the last 50 years, including aerial photographs and satellite images of different dates. The stream flow rate has decreased in the region of the Jequitinhonha valley in the last decades, in particular during draught periods (base flows), with serious social‐economic and environmental consequences. The increase in stream intermittence is responsible for rural exodus to other parts of the country, mainly to São Paulo state. The study presented provides decision makers with important information that can assist them in making objective decisions relational this problem.FindingsThe research shows that the forest cover has declined, the agricultural and pasture cover have decreased and the deforestation areas have grown. These changes resulted in a spatially diverse landscape with implications in the flow rate, and consequently, in the social‐economic condition of the region considering the high rate of emigration.Practical implicationsThe expected results of this study will be of great importance, because the clarification of the factors addressed in this project will allow progress in the understanding of the reduction of flow rates. This reduction has been occurring in the Jequitinhonha Valley and also in almost all Brazilian rivers.Originality/valueThis paper is original and reports the main causes for decreasing of the stream flow rate in the region of the Jequitinhonha valley in Brazil.
Leveraging the Patient‐Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model as a health care logistics support strategy
Authors: VanVactor Jerry D. 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this work is to add to professional practice and academia information related specifically to health care supply chain management and to demonstrate how an existing health care management model can be applied to supply chain operations.Design/methodology/approachEmploying a review of practice‐oriented literature related to the patient‐centered medical home model this work examines and expounds on the implications and applicability toward more effective supply chain management.FindingsThis paper presents a discourse in evaluating health care supply chain management processes to place more emphasis on interactive customer relationships, collaborative communications, and more effective support to health care operations.Practical implicationsAn effective health care supply chain operation involves key tenets of ensuring that the right products are provided to the right customer in a timely manner. While this discussion is directed specifically toward health care, the principles are applicable across a wide array of industries.Social implicationsHealth care logistics involves a symbiotic relationship among multi‐disciplined, multifaceted stakeholders working closely together and leveraging one another, patients, and technology to produce a desired outcome related to cost effective processes and business practices.Originality/valueWhile existent literature provides information related to the effective management of logistics (outside of health care organizations) little information is directly concerned with operations within a health care environment. In an applied sense, this article provides practitioners with concepts related to cost reduction and effective supply chain management.
Michael J. Baker: reflections on a career in marketing
Authors: Baker Michael John 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to summarize highlights of a career as a marketing practitioner/academic extending for a period of more than 50 years.Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes an autobiographical approach.FindingsIn common with other professional disciplines, the practice of marketing calls for the understanding of an extensive body of knowledge derived from prior research and experience and the ability to apply this to current and future issues and problems. The role of an academic is to codify this knowledge, communicate it through teaching and publication, and to add to it through their own original scholarship and research. While a degree of specialisation is to be encouraged, the contribution of individual academics should be based on an evaluation of their overall impact on practice based on all three activities – research, teaching, and “administration/leadership”.Originality/valueWhile based on a sample of one, the account illustrates that professional reputation calls for recognition by multiple constituencies using different criteria to assess one's contribution. It is hoped this will encourage younger academics (and those who sit in judgement on them) to look beyond publication in “leading journals” as the sole criterion for success.
William Lazer: reflections on my career
Authors: Lazer William 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThis paper seeks to record the author's personal reflections on his career as a marketing scholar.Design/methodology/approachPersonal reflections are provided in an autobiographical approach.FindingsThe author's career as a student, teacher, and scholar are described in some detail.Originality/valueThis paper records events and memories that might otherwise be forgotten. No other such account has been published of William Lazer's career.
Stanley Shapiro: looking backward, a personal retrospective
Authors: Shapiro Stanley J. 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThis paper was written to put “on record” what, in retrospect, appear to the author to be the most significant aspects of his academic career, one that spans more than half a century.Design/methodology/approachThe author begins by discussing his Wharton School experience (1957‐1964) and then traces how his activities and experiences at that time laid the groundwork for a number of career long themes (academic administration, pedagogy, and quasi‐governmental consulting) and academic interests (macromarketing, marketing history).FindingsThe author's Wharton School experiences and, more specifically, his contacts with Wroe Alderson and David D. Monieson did indeed shape his subsequent career.Originality/valueThis paper calls attention to certain events and research efforts that might otherwise be forgotten. It also serves as an example of one approach others might follow in preparing their own career retrospectives.
Explaining development aid allocation by growth
Authors: Doucouliagos Hristos , Paldam Martin 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study a little researched relation: the relation from economic growth in a less developed country to the development aid it receives. Does economic growth influence donor aid allocation decisions?Design/methodology/approachThe authors’ apply two different methodologies. First, a quantitative and systematic review is presented of the literature of 30 empirical studies of aid allocation where a growth coefficient is estimated. Second, a primary study is presented of the data using a panel of 147 countries for the period 1967‐2004.FindingsThe growth‐aid relation should be negative if humanitarian motives dominate aid allocation decisions. The result from both the meta‐analysis and the primary data analysis suggests a very small effect between lagged growth and aid allocations, with a dominating positive sign. This result appears to be driven partly by the large development banks.Originality/valueNo attempt has previously been made to summarize the literature on growth as a motive for giving aid. This paper offers the first attempt to do so, by presenting a meta‐analysis of the empirical literature, as well as analysis of the primary data.
Entrepreneurship and state economic growth
Authors: Hafer R.W. 
Published: April 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to test whether entrepreneurship is a significant factor in explaining economic growth at the state level.Design/methodology/approachThis paper, unlike previous work, uses the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity (KIEA) as the measure of entrepreneurial activity. Based on standard growth regressions using real per capita gross state product, real per capita personal income and employment growth, we test for the independent role that entrepreneurial activity may have on state economic growth.FindingsWe find that an increase in the level of entrepreneurial activity is robustly associated with an increase in economic growth. Such findings reinforce calls for policy changes at the state level that promote more productive entrepreneurship.Research limitations/implicationsThese conclusions are tentative. The findings are based on the growth of the 50 states over a relatively short period. A longer data set would be preferable, if data were available. Moreover, the author has not attempted to distinguish between different categories of entrepreneurship, for example productive and unproductive entrepreneurship.Practical implicationsSuch findings reinforce calls for policy changes at the state level that promote more productive entrepreneurship. This would include, among others, changes such as reducing or eliminating state income taxes and setting strict limits on the government's use of eminent domain and environmental property takings.Originality/valueThe study uses the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity (KIEA), arguably a superior measure of state‐level entrepreneurial activity, to explain state economic growth. The topic is timely and the results have important policy implications.
Technifying Public Space and Publicizing Infrastructures: Exploring New Urban Political Ecologies through the Square of General Vara del Rey
Authors: DomÍnguez Rubio Fernando , Fogué Uriel 
Published: April 2013

AbstractThe aim of this article is to explore new ways of integrating technology, nature and infrastructures into urban public spaces. This is done through a case study, the design of General Vara del Rey, which is offered here as a model to explore a novel urban political ecology that calls into question dominant definitions of public spaces as self‐contained sites operating independently of natural and infrastructural spaces. Through the double movement of ‘the technification of public space’ and ‘the publicization of infrastructures’, the square aims to rethink the political ecology of urban public spaces by enabling the effective incorporation and participation of infrastructural and natural elements as active actors into the public and political life of the community. It is argued that the transformation of infrastructures into fully visible, public and political agents provides a useful model to address the growing proliferation of infrastructural and technological elements onto contemporary urban surfaces and to open up the possibility of new forms of civic participation and engagement.
The incidence rate and characteristics in patients with testicular torsion: a nationwide, population‐based study
Authors: Huang Wei‐Yi , Chen Yu‐Fen , Chang Hong‐Chiang , Yang Teng‐Kai , Hsieh Ju‐Ton , Huang Kuo‐How 
Published: April 2013

AbstractAimTo determine the incidence rate and characteristics in patients with testicular torsion in Taiwan using a nationwide insurance database.MethodsThis study utilizes a subset of national health insurance research database, which contains the data of all paid medical benefit claims over the period 1997–2010 for in 1 000 000 beneficiaries in 2005. We analysed claims data for all male subjects younger than 25 years with the diagnosis of testicular torsion.ResultsA total of 86 subjects younger than 25 years with the diagnosis of testicular torsion were included. Among them, 22 (25.6%) underwent orchiectomies and 64 (74.4%) underwent orchiopexies. The estimated incidence of testicular torsion was 3.5 per 100 000 person‐years. There are two peaks in the age‐specific incidence rates: the first in boys aged 10–14 years (at 7.7 per 100 000 person‐years) and the second in male infants aged <1 year (at 7.6 per 100 000 person‐years). There was significant difference between orchiectomy and orchiopexy groups in the Insurance fee (p = 0.032).ConclusionThe incidence of testicular torsion in Taiwan was similar with previous report in the United States. It is important to improve the medical access to achieve better outcomes of testicular torsion.
China's (Painful) Transition from Relation‐Based to Rule‐Based Governance: When and How, Not If and Why
Authors: Li Shaomin 
Published: April 2013

AbstractManuscript TypePerspectiveResearch Question/IssueRelation‐based governance has helped China to achieve rapid economic growth in its early stage; however, continuing to rely on it may hinder China's further development. The research question is: given China's cultural heritage and other institutional settings, will China be able to transition from relation‐based to rule‐based governance?Research Findings/InsightsI discuss this question based on theoretical and empirical evidence and conclude that, first, from cost/benefit and social justice perspectives, China must complete the transition; second, cultural heritage is not the main obstacle to the transition, for the main obstacle is the powerful political forces that have been deeply entrenched in and benefited from the relation‐based system.Theoretical/Academic ImplicationsI distinguish between the governance environment at the national level and the governance choice at the organizational and individual levels. The governance environment – the set of dominant political, economic, social, and cultural institutions – facilitates and constrains the choice of the mode of governance (e.g., rule‐based versus relation‐based).Practitioner/Policy ImplicationsChinese government officials must realize the inevitability of the transition and the dire consequences of not completing it and take initiative to pursue the transition peacefully. For businesses, they must realize that the relation‐based way may be in decline and must be prepared to embrace the rule‐based way.
Structural correlates of impaired working memory in hippocampal sclerosis
Authors: Winston Gavin P. , Stretton Jason , Sidhu Meneka K. , Symms Mark R. , Thompson Pamela J. , Duncan John S. 
Published: April 2013

SummaryPurposeTemporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) has been considered to impair long‐term memory, whilst not affecting working memory, but recent evidence suggests that working memory is compromised. Functional MRI (fMRI) studies demonstrate that working memory involves a bilateral frontoparietal network the activation of which is disrupted in hippocampal sclerosis (HS). A specific role of the hippocampus to deactivate during working memory has been proposed with this mechanism faulty in patients with HS. Structural correlates of disrupted working memory in HS have not been explored.MethodsWe studied 54 individuals with medically refractory TLE and unilateral HS (29 left) and 28 healthy controls. Subjects underwent 3T structural MRI, a visuospatial n‐back fMRI paradigm and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Working memory capacity assessed by three span tasks (digit span backwards, gesture span, motor sequences) was combined with performance in the visuospatial paradigm to give a global working memory measure. Gray and white matter changes were investigated using voxel‐based morphometry and voxel‐based analysis of DTI, respectively.Key FindingsIndividuals with left or right HS performed less well than healthy controls on all measures of working memory. fMRI demonstrated a bilateral frontoparietal network during the working memory task with reduced activation of the right parietal lobe in both patient groups. In left HS, gray matter loss was seen in the ipsilateral hippocampus and parietal lobe, with maintenance of the gray matter volume of the contralateral parietal lobe associated with better performance. White matter integrity within the frontoparietal network, in particular the superior longitudinal fasciculus and cingulum, and the contralateral temporal lobe, was associated with working memory performance. In right HS, gray matter loss was also seen in the ipsilateral hippocampus and parietal lobe. Working memory performance correlated with the gray matter volume of both frontal lobes and white matter integrity within the frontoparietal network and contralateral temporal lobe.SignificanceOur data provide further evidence that working memory is disrupted in HS and impaired integrity of both gray and white matter is seen in functionally relevant areas. We suggest this forms the structural basis of the impairment of working memory, indicating widespread and functionally significant structural changes in patients with apparently isolated HS.
Lacosamide treatment following status epilepticus attenuates neuronal cell loss and alterations in hippocampal neurogenesis in a rat electrical status epilepticus model
Authors: Licko Thomas , Seeger Natalie , Zellinger Christina , Russmann Vera , Matagne Alain , Potschka Heidrun 
Published: April 2013

SummaryPurposeThe antiepileptic drug, lacosamide, exerts its therapeutic activity by enhancing slow inactivation of voltage‐gated sodium channels. Because putative preventive or disease‐modifying effects of drugs may affect epileptogenesis, intrinsic severity, and comorbidities, it is of particular interest to assess the effect of lacosamide on the development of epilepsy and associated cellular alterations.MethodsThe effect of lacosamide was evaluated in an electrical rat status epilepticus (SE) model with a 24‐day treatment phase following induction of SE. The impact of lacosamide on the development of spontaneous seizures based on continuous video–electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring, as well as the impact on neuronal cell loss and alterations in hippocampal neurogenesis, was assessed.Key FindingsNeither low‐dose nor high‐dose lacosamide affected the development of spontaneous seizures. A dose‐dependent neuroprotective effect of lacosamide with significant reduction of neuronal cell loss was observed in the hippocampal CA1 region, as well as in the piriform cortex. In addition, lacosamide attenuated the impact of SE on the rate of hippocampal cell neurogenesis. Moreover, lacosamide prevented a significant rise in the number of persistent basal dendrites.SignificanceOur data do not support an antiepileptogenic effect of lacosamide. However, because lacosamide reduced SE‐associated cellular alterations, it would be of interest to determine whether these effects indicate a putative disease‐modifying effect of lacosamide in future studies.
Law and the Financial Crisis: Searching for Europe's New Gold Standard
Authors: Wilsher Daniel 
Published: April 2013

AbstractThe role of law in the governance of the Eurozone confronts divergent economic and political perspectives which are reminiscent of the gold standard era. The Maastricht model sought to use to law to create a sound currency. In practice, fixed exchange rates caused large trade imbalances and risky cross‐border investments resulting in a Eurozone‐wide crisis of first private, and then later, public insolvency. In the face of continued political unwillingness to either pool fiscal resources or impose massive austerity and structural reform, the European Central Bank ECB has been forced to become lender of last resort to sovereigns to maintain the single currency. Ordo‐liberal critics argue that the ECB has created a transfer union in breach of the Maastricht agreement. Keynesians, by contrast, argue that, just as under the gold standard, using ‘constitutionalised’ austerity to rebalance trade is neither just nor credible. The Eurozone's reliance on law and markets above developed political institutions has failed, but no democratically legitimate process has replaced it.