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The Asteroid Catalog Using AKARI IRC Slow-Scan Observations
Authors: Hasegawa Sunao , Müller Thomas G. , Kuroda Daisuke , Takita Satoshi , Usui Fumihiko 
Published: March 2014

Abstract
We present an asteroidal catalog from the mid-infrared wavelength region using the slow-scan observation mode obtained by the Infrared Camera (IRC) on-board the Japanese infrared satellite AKARI. An archive of IRC slow-scan observations comprising about 1000 images was used to search for serendipitous encounters of known asteroids. We have determined the geometric albedos and diameters for 88 main-belt asteroids, including two asteroids in the Hilda region, and compared these, where possible, with previously published values. Approximately one-third of the acquired data reflects new asteroidal information. Some bodies classified as C or D-type with high albedo were also identified in the catalog.
Time Lag in the Intra-Day Variability of Sagittarius A between Light Curves at 90 and 102 GHz
Authors: miyazaki Atsushi , tsuboi Masato , tsutsumi Takahiro 
Published: March 2014

Abstract
We performed observations of the flux densities of Sgr A$ ^\star$ at 90 and 102 GHz in order to detect any time lag between these frequencies using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array, which was previously reported at lower frequencies. We detected a radio flare during the observation period on 2005 April 6, and calculated the z-transformed discrete correlation function between the light curves. No time lag between these frequencies was detected. If the expanding plasma model, which explains a time lag at lower frequencies, is valid, the light curve at 90 GHz would be delayed in respect to that at 102 GHz. This result suggests that plasma blobs ejected close to the Galactic center black hole may be widely diverse, especially in optical thickness. Another possibility is that a major portion of the flux above 100 GHz does not originate in blobs.
Search for Non-Thermal Emissions from an Isolated Magnetic White Dwarf, EUVE J0317 855, with Suzaku
Authors: Harayama Atsushi , Terada Yukikatsu , Ishida Manabu , Hayashi Takayuki , Bamba Aya , Tashiro Makoto S. 
Published: March 2014

Abstract
To search for possible non-thermal emissions from magnetic white dwarfs (WDs), we selected the most suitable candidates from among magnetic cataclysmic variables and isolated WDs. After the magnetic cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii, which emits hard X-ray pulses, the isolated WD EUVE J0317$-$855 is expected to emit the second most powerful magnetic dipole radiation with energies reaching $\sim$1.1 $\times$10$^{29}$ erg s$^{-1}$. EUVE J0317$-$855 was observed with Suzaku from 2009 July 16 to 2009 July 17 for about 60 ks. No significant emissions were detected from the object in the 0.5–10 keV band, and the upper limit of the X-ray flux was estimated to be 1.7 $\times$10$^{-13}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ in the 2–10 keV band. This value corresponds to less than 0.05% of the calculated spin-down energy. It excludes the possibility of explaining soft gamma-ray repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars as WDs, but may indicate that the activity in the magnetosphere of WDs is not so different from that occurring in radio pulsars. Curvature radiation, which is one of the suggested mechanism for emissions from the magnetosphere of compact objects, may explain the observed X-ray flux of AE Aquarii, and is consistent with the non-detection of EUVE J0317$-$855.
A survey on evacuation planning and its challenges for potential earthquake in Tehran
Authors: Amini Hosseini Kambod , Hosseini Maziar , Hosseinioon Solmaz , O. Izadkhah Yasamin , Shaw Tomoko , Takahashi Ryoji 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The paper aims to introduce the activities carried out for preparing evacuation plans in Tehran and the challenges observed for involving local communities in earthquake risk mitigation.

Design/methodology/approach
– In order to prepare the evacuation plans, at first the earthquake risk at different scenarios was determined and the potential damages and casualties at neighborhood levels were estimated accordingly. Then, by considering geological and man-made hazards as well as socio-economic parameters, the potential evacuation places were investigated to be equipped with necessary materials for emergency conditions. In addition, some drills were organized at each neighborhood, and the residents were trained about evacuation and other necessary activities at time of crisis.

Findings
– The methodology developed in this research provides practical means for promoting public participation and earthquake risk mitigation. Furthermore, the paper proposes some measures for involving local communities in risk reduction activities.

Research limitations/implications
– Considering the complexities of socio-economic conditions in Tehran, the plan was implemented at two different neighborhoods in 2008. Therefore, similar researches should be conducted in other places to make generalized evacuation plans.

Originality/value
– This paper introduces new methods for promoting preparedness and discusses the impacts of socio-economic conditions on developing risk mitigation plans.
Prioritisation on 5S activities for a semiconductor wafer fabrication: an empirical study
Authors: Chang Yung-Chia , Chen Chuan-Yung 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– Semiconductor wafer fabrication (FAB) is recognized as one of the most complex manufacturing systems. A newly built FAB has to pass various audits from its customer before the customer's wafers are initially produced. 5S audit is one of them. In order to comply with customer (auditor) expectations toward 5S practice, this paper assists wafer fabrication managers in allocating the limited resources to places that are valued most by their customer. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper applied Yang's refined Kano model to Ho's 5S checklist to prioritise these checkpoints for a FAB. An empirical study based on Ho's 5S checklist from experienced internal auditors (respondents) to prioritise 5S activities was explored to justify its feasibility for a FAB and importance-satisfaction for customer.

Findings
– An empirical study in a case FAB demonstrated how the refined model prioritised 5S activities based on Ho's 5S checklist. The result of this study further showed that quality attributes possess different identities, which could offer management more framable scopes to implement 5S practice and sustain 5S scene management.

Research limitations/implications
– Since this empirical study was focused on a 300-mm wafer fabrication company, the results and findings may not generally explain other wafer-size fabrications.

Practical implications
– This study was applied to a real-world case of a newly built 300-mm semiconductor fabrication in Taiwan. It is a straightforward bridge to link a methodology in a practical manner to disseminate information to both researchers and practitioners.

Originality/value
– From the adoption of the refined Kano model, specific required check points for 5S practice are transformed from subjective, conceptual and linguistic practice to be identified, quantified and prioritised for semiconductor wafer fabrication under resources constraints to cater customer's 5S expectations and to generate more attention in building-up a much more robust scene management. This paper provided a systemic way to prioritise 5S activities for a semiconductor wafer fabrication.
The influence of a virtual agent on web-users' desire to visit the company
Authors: Etemad-Sajadi Reza 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this study is to measure the perception and the behavioural intention of web-users who interact with a virtual agent on a web site. The author wants to measure the added value of this technology in terms of providing e-service and measure web-users' desire to have a concrete experience with a firm after experiencing its web site.

Design/methodology/approach
– The author integrated a virtual agent on a restaurant's web site and conducted an online survey. The author asked respondents to interact with the virtual agent and then fill in the questionnaire. The author used the expanded version of the technology acceptance model (TAM) for measuring the intention of potential customers to accept a new technology and for evaluating the characteristics of the virtual agent. In order to measure the e-service quality, the author adapted items of WebQual to restaurant industry. As the author had several latent variables, the author used partial least squares (PLS), a variance-based structural equation modeling method.

Findings
– Results show that the utilitarian and hedonic values of the virtual agent increase significantly the desire of potential clients to experiment the restaurant. Hedonic value seems to play a major role. This is a crucial factor for restaurant and hotel industries which can be considered as hedonic industries.

Practical implications
– This research can help firms to manage relationships with current and potential clients through their web site. The nature of the company plays an important role in the success of the virtual agent's implementation. Even if in the case the author applied the virtual agent to a hedonic industry, a lot of companies in other sectors can benefit from having a virtual agent, especially if the company in question is service-oriented (e.g. bank, airline, etc.).

Originality/value
– According to the author's knowledge, virtual agents have never been applied to restaurant/hotel industries before. The results of this research significantly advanced the understanding of the impact of virtual agents, especially in the hospitality industry. Moreover, the author applied the TAM to the characteristics of virtual agent, which is very new for the academic world. Finally, the framework the author presented in this research could be used as a basis of measurement of virtual agent effectiveness.
Warming to the idea: university students' knowledge and attitudes about climate change
Authors: Wachholz Sandra , Artz Nancy , Chene Douglas 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The literature on climate change knowledge and attitudes has focused on primary and secondary school children. The limited research on college students is dated or narrowly focused. This study aims to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of views about climate change across a wide range of current college students.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors surveyed college students in a sample of lower- and upper-division courses in three content areas: knowledge and attitudes about climate change, intentions to reduce their personal greenhouse gas emissions, and student satisfaction with the amount of current teaching at the university about climate change and suggestions for improvement.

Findings
– A strong majority of respondents believe that climate change is real and largely human-induced; a majority express concern about climate change. Yet, students in the sample hold misconceptions about the basic causes and consequences of climate change.

Research limitations/implications
– Further research is warranted to understand the college population, so educators can improve and target their educational efforts to the students most in need.

Practical implications
– Higher education needs to expand its educational efforts to ensure that all university graduates understand scientific consensus about climate change and are actively engaged as part of the solution in their public and private roles.

Originality/value
– This paper contributes to the literature by providing a broad portrayal of college student knowledge and engagement with climate change issues, at least for students on one campus. The study is the first to observe noteworthy differences in climate change understanding and concern between college women and men and across academic majors. It is the only study that asks college students how they would like to learn about global warming.
Sustainability capabilities, graduate capabilities, and Australian universities
Authors: Thomas Ian , Day Teresa 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– In the context of universities implementing education for sustainability (EfS), the aim of the research presented here is to review the extent to which capabilities related to sustainability are represented by the capabilities generally sought by employers, and to determine whether these are incorporated in the graduate capability statements of Australian universities.

Design/methodology/approach
– Based on the discussion of graduate capabilities and those associated with sustainability, a web-based survey of university graduate attribute statements was undertaken.

Findings
– Generally, Australian universities have established frameworks of graduate capabilities that relate to the broad needs of employers. Of eight capabilities listed as important by employers, six were identified at some two-thirds of universities. Just under half of the universities' statements contained references to sustainability, while all the literature derived sustainability capabilities, except for “systems/holistic thinking”, are represented to some degree. Those most strongly represented included understanding of social justice and equity; skills in communication and cooperation; and having commitment to social justice and equity.

Practical implications
– Apparently, in Australian universities, the framework for the development of sustainability capabilities is broadly in place, but not all have sustainability capabilities in place. This framework supports the implementation of EfS, but without development of pedagogy to underlie implementation, the authors have little insight about the extent of implementation, and whether graduates leave with sustainability capabilities.

Originality/value
– Uniquely this research identifies the extent to which Australian universities are providing direction in the development of capabilities related to the requirements of employers, and for sustainability.
The reaction against conventional knowledge in higher education
Authors: L. Anderson Gordon 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– Liberal education should consist of a healthy dynamic of mastering and transcending received traditions. This paper aims to discuss this point.

Design/methodology/approach
– This article discusses the inherent tension between the concepts of “liberal” and “education,” where “education” involves imparting conventional knowledge and “liberal” involves freeing the mind from it.

Findings
– With the rise of the social sciences and the maturation of the baby-boomers, higher education in the twentieth century gained a general bias against traditional knowledge. This bias is reflected in higher education becoming more jobs oriented, more ideological, and relativistic in values.

Practical implications
– Higher education should consist of greater integration of historical aspects of education pushed aside in the twentieth-century while continuing its transformation through new scientific research, making twenty-first century education more genuinely liberal.

Originality/value
– The required transformation will be difficult for many baby-boomers now in positions of authority in higher education who rejected conventional knowledge in the 1960s.
Liberal arts in a new era
Authors: B. Jennings Wayne 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness and outcomes of liberal arts in preparing people for adult roles.

Design/methodology/approach
– Review of research and opinions about the liberal arts.

Findings
– Liberal-arts outcomes results have fallen short of expectations though this may be a short coming of higher education generally. A new era of the knowledge society will shrink liberal-arts departments in humanities, literature and philosophy.

Research limitations/implications
– Liberal arts need definition and clarity of expected outcomes.

Practical implications
– Jobs in liberal arts colleges will decrease given its weak effectiveness. Online education for liberal-arts areas will grow explosively.

Originality/value
– Liberal-arts critics have been active for decades. What is different today is world wide access to all information 24/7 and massive open online courses (MOOCs).
How can our human world exist and best flourish embedded in the physical universe? An outline of a problem-based liberal-studies course
Authors: Maxwell Nicholas 
Published: March 2014

Purpose–In this paper the author aims to sketch a liberal-studies course designed to explore our fundamental problem of thought and life: How can our human world exist and best flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe? The fundamental character of this problem provides one with the opportunity to explore a wide range of issues.Design/methodology/approach–The paper addresses the following questions: what does physics tell us about the universe and ourselves? How do we account for everything physics leaves out? How can living brains be conscious? If everything occurs in accordance with physical law, what becomes of free will? How does Darwin's theory of evolution contribute to the solution to the fundamental problem? What is the history of thought about this problem? What is of most value associated with human life? What kind of civilized world should we seek to help create? Why is the fundamental problem not a part of standard education in schools and universities? What are the most serious global problems confronting humanity? Can humanity learn to make progress towards as good a world as possible?Findings–Taking the fundamental problem as central provides the course with a coherent structure. The course would be conducted as a seminar, and it would respond to queries and suggestions from students.Research limitations/implications–The paper provides only a sketch of the character of the course.Practical implications–The course would be conducted as a seminar, and it would respond to queries and suggestions from students.Originality/value–Taking the fundamental problem as central provides the course with a coherent structure.
Can outsourcing recruitment deliver satisfaction? A hiring manager perspective
Authors: Johnson Graeme , Wilding Philip , Robson Andrew 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to determine whether an outsourced recruitment service can provide a satisfactory organisational solution from the perspective of its line-managers.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study is based on a single, large organisation involving dissemination of an on-line survey targeting line-managers with a recent record of hiring new employees. Using quantitative analysis including correlation, multiple regression and binary logistic regression, assessment is made regarding manager perception, including experience as customers, overall rating of the recruiter and a willingness to recommend the service.

Findings
– Aspects of standard service, assessed in terms of operations and recruiter provision, are perceived as being at appropriately high levels, while the arguably more demanding external aspects of the recruitment process are perceived to be less successful. Line-manager satisfaction as customers and satisfaction with the recruiter are explained by various experiences of both service and recruiter, while willingness to recommend is explained in terms of customer satisfaction, satisfaction with the recruiter and recognition that the service provides added value. Personal line-manager experiences, perceived realisation of organisational values or achieving preferred line-manager recruitment objectives play no significant part in these explanations.

Research limitations/implications
– The research considered an individual organisation, with participating managers being solely from within. Further research could see the assessment being extended to other organisations perhaps at different points of maturity in their relationships with an external recruitment partner, as well as revisiting the participating organisation at a later point in time to assess potential changes in the relationships assessed.

Practical implications
– To enhance line-manager satisfaction with service and with the recruiter, aspects of process and recruiter contribution both play a role, while these satisfaction indicators, in tandem with an appreciation of added value will prompt a line-manager to ultimately recommend such a service.

Originality/value
– This centres on the assessment of an outsourced recruitment service from the particular perspective of its hiring line-managers, through evaluation of service satisfaction and willingness to recommend.
Asymmetry of plant‐mediated interactions between specialist aphids and caterpillars on two milkweeds
Authors: Ali Jared G. , Agrawal Anurag A. 
Published: March 2014

Summary

Plant‐mediated interactions between co‐occurring herbivores play an important role in insect herbivore communities. Although induced resistance pathways associated with jasmonic acid and salicylic acid are often implicated in such plant‐mediated interactions, there are few examples from non‐model systems involving specialized herbivores that regularly interact in nature.

Here, we tested reciprocal impacts between co‐occurring specialist herbivores from two feeding guilds, monarch caterpillars Danaus plexippus and oleander aphids Aphis nerii, on two co‐occurring and closely related, but defensively contrasting milkweeds, Asclepias syriaca and A. tuberosa.

Larvae grew 38% faster on aphid‐infested A. syriaca compared to controls. Reciprocally, aphid growth was >50% lower on caterpillar‐damaged A. syriaca compared to controls. While caterpillar feeding on A. syriaca induced a jasmonate burst and higher defensive end products (cardenolides and latex), this induction was substantially attenuated in the presence of aphids. We found a negative correlation between jasmonic acid and salicylic acid only on A. syriaca infested by both caterpillars an aphids.

Asclepias tuberosa displayed distinct hormonal dynamics and lacked induction of defensive end products. Accordingly, we found no evidence for plant‐mediated interactions between monarchs and aphids on A. tuberosa.

Thus, A. syriaca has specific responses to each herbivore, but if challenged simultaneously, the outcome is asymmetric: monarchs benefit from defence attenuation by aphids, while aphids are impaired by monarch feeding.

Our results suggest phytohormonal trade‐offs induced by two feeding guilds can differ between closely related plant species, and our notion of trade‐offs in defence based on phytohormonal pathways would improve with further comparative designs from both model and non‐model systems.