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Successful Treatment of Athletic Pubalgia in a Lacrosse Player with Ultrasound‐Guided Needle Tenotomy and Platelet‐Rich Plasma Injection: A Case Report
Authors: Scholten Paul M. , Massimi Stephen , Dahmen Nick , Diamond Joanne , Wyss James 
Published: August 2014

AbstractAthletic pubalgia is a syndrome of persistent groin pain due to chronic repetitive trauma or stress involving the pelvic joints and many musculotendinous structures that cross the anterior pelvis. As a result, the differential diagnosis can be complex, but insertional tendinopathies are the most common. This case report describes a novel approach to the treatment of distal rectus abdominis tendinopathies with ultrasound‐guided needle tenotomy and platelet‐rich plasma (PRP) injection. After injection, the patient returned to pain‐free play at his previous level of intensity. This suggests that PRP may be a useful treatment for this diagnosis.
Use of an Ankle‐Foot Orthosis Improves Aerobic Capacity in Subacute Hemiparetic Stroke Patients
Authors: Hyun Chul Woong , Kim Bo Ryun , Han Eun Young , Kim Sun Mi 
Published: August 2014

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate aerobic capacity with and without an ankle‐foot orthosis (AFO) in subacute hemiparetic stroke patients.DesignProspective crossover intervention study.SettingRehabilitation clinic in secondary care.PatientsPatients diagnosed with first‐ever cerebral stroke involving the cortical or subcortical area resulting in hemiparesis (n = 15, 8 men and 7 women; average age, 62.1 years).MethodsAll subjects participated in 2 continuous, symptom‐limited, low‐velocity graded treadmill exercise stress tests under 2 different conditions, namely, with and without an AFO. The rest interval between tests was at least 48 hours. The order of exercise stress tests was randomized.Main Outcome MeasurementsTo assess cardiorespiratory responses, oxygen consumption, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, rate‐pressure product, and respiratory exchange ratio were measured continuously throughout the test, and peak values were obtained. The rating of perceived exertion was recorded immediately after each test. The percentage of the age‐predicted maximal heart rate and total exercise duration were also measured. Gait function was assessed by the Six‐Minute Walk Test.ResultsUsing an AFO significantly increased peak oxygen consumption and Six‐Minute Walk Test results. Peak values of each of heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, rate‐pressure product, and respiratory exchange ratio, rating of perceived exertion, percentage of age‐predicted maximal heart rate, and total exercise duration were similar regardless of AFO use.ConclusionsUse of an AFO may improve aerobic capacity in subacute hemiparetic stroke patients, and may improve energy efficiency and gait endurance.
Does non‐interest income make banks more risky? Retail‐ versus investment‐oriented banks
Authors: Köhler Matthias 
Published: August 2014

AbstractIn this paper, we show that the impact of non‐interest income on bank risk differs between retail‐ and investment‐oriented banks. More specifically, while retail‐oriented banks such as savings, cooperative and other banks that focus on lending and deposit‐taking services become significantly more stable (in the sense of having a higher Z‐score) if they increase their share of non‐interest income, investment‐oriented banks become significantly more risky. They do not only generate a higher share of their income from non‐traditional activities, but also engage in significantly different activities from retail‐oriented banks. This might limit the potential benefits to investment‐oriented banks of diversifying into non‐interest income. Overall, therefore, our paper implies that it is important to distinguish between retail‐ and investment‐oriented banks when drawing general conclusions regarding the impact of non‐interest income on bank risk.
Structural insights into +1 frameshifting promoted by expanded or modification-deficient anticodon stem loops
Authors: Maehigashi Tatsuya , Dunkle Jack A. , Miles Stacey J. , Dunham Christine M. 
Published: August 2014

Significance
Biological fitness is dependent on the accurate flow of genetic information from DNA to mRNA to protein. Breakdown in ribosome translational fidelity is detrimental because of its central role in the production of proteins. Altering the 3-base genetic code usually results in the expression of aberrant or nonsense proteins that are degraded. Here, we describe molecular snapshots of the ribosome in the process of decoding a 4-base codon by a frameshift suppressor tRNA that results in a +1-nt shift of the mRNA reading frame. Conformational dynamics of the anticodon stem loop seem to drive remodeling of the tRNA–mRNA interaction to promote the +1 movement, which we predict occurs after accommodation of the tRNA onto the ribosome.
Transposable elements contribute to activation of maize genes in response to abiotic stress
Authors: Makarevitch Irina , Waters Amanda J. , West Patrick T. , Stitzer Michelle C. , Ross-Ibarra Jeffrey , Springer Nathan M. 
Published: August 2014

AbstractTransposable elements (TEs) account for a large portion of the genome in many eukaryotic species. Despite their reputation as “junk” DNA or genomic parasites deleterious for the host, TEs have complex interactions with host genes and the potential to contribute to regulatory variation in gene expression. It has been hypothesized that TEs and genes they insert near may be transcriptionally activated in response to stress conditions. The maize genome, with many different types of TEs interspersed with genes, provides an ideal system to study the genome-wide influence of TEs on gene regulation. To analyze the magnitude of the TE effect on gene expression response to environmental changes, we profiled gene and TE transcript levels in maize seedlings exposed to a number of abiotic stresses. Many genes exhibit up- or down-regulation in response to these stress conditions. The analysis of TE families inserted within upstream regions of up-regulated genes revealed that between four and nine different TE families are associated with up-regulated gene expression in each of these stress conditions, affecting up to 20% of the genes up-regulated in response to abiotic stress and as many as 33% of genes that are only expressed in response to stress. Expression of many of these same TE families also responds to the same stress conditions. The analysis of the stress-induced transcripts and proximity of the transposon to the gene suggests that these TEs may provide local enhancer activities that stimulate stress-responsive gene expression. Our data on allelic variation for insertions of several of these TEs show strong correlation between the presence of TE insertions and stress-responsive up-regulation of gene expression. Our findings suggest that TEs provide an important source of allelic regulatory variation in gene response to abiotic stress in maize.
Fitting optimization based on weighted Gaussian imaging method for auto body taillight assembly
Authors: Gao Xiang , Wang Hua , Chen Guanlong 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– Fitting evenness is one key characteristic for three-dimensional objects' optimal fit. The weighted Gaussian imaging method is developed for fitting evenness of auto body taillight fitting optimization.

Design/methodology/approach
– Fitting boundary contours are extracted from scanning data points. Optimal fitting target is represented with gap and flushness between taillight and auto body. By optimizing the fitting position of the projected boundary contours on the Gaussian sphere, the weighted Gaussian imaging method accomplishes optimal requirements of gap and flushness. A scanning system is established, and the fitting contour of the taillight assembly model is extracted to analyse the quality of the fitting process.

Findings
– The proposed method accomplishes the fitting optimization for taillight fitting with higher efficiency.

Originality/value
– The weighted Gaussian imaging method is used to optimize the taillight fitting. The proposed method optimized the fitting objects' 3-D space, while the traditional fitting methods are based on 2-D algorithm. Its time complexity is O(n3), while those of the traditional methods are O(n5). The results of this research will enhance the understanding of the 3-D optimal fitting and help in systematically improving the productivity and the fitting quality in automotive industry.
Entrepreneurship and engineering: the triumph of All India Warehousing Private Ltd
Authors: Koul Saroj , Guha Ankush 
Published: August 2014

Subject area
Operations management.

Study level/applicability
Logistics, Warehousing, India.

Case overview
Joy Banerjee and Gaurav Tripathi have recently joined as Managers in the Planning Department at All India Warehousing Private Limited (AIWPL). Their on-job training is completed. They have met with almost all the officials at the warehouse, have interacted with labour to understand the company and its functions, and are planning to meet Kamlesh Patel, their Managing Director, to discuss the challenges and opportunities and to suggest strategies. Will they be able to make a satisfactory presentation to Kamlesh Patel on the company performance and the parameters that are going to be crucial to AIWPL's continued success? This case study may prove useful to practicing managers and management students on understanding the working of a family run private warehouse, business environment in the warehousing sector, use of technology and organizational capability to manage multi-product, multi-location warehouses.

Expected learning outcomes
To illustrate typical organizational responsibility structure at a private warehousing site. To illustrate the planning and administrative control mechanism in implementing strategy at a warehousing site. Offer students opportunity to understand and take view of a typical operational (project) structure. Opportunity for students to speculate adaptations in the wake of ever-changing business and company environment. Opportunity to introduce Logistic Scenario in India, warehousing technology and relate with the case in context.

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Mysore Sandal Millennium, the launch of India's most expensive soap
Authors: Reddy Srinivas , Joshi Havovi 
Published: August 2014

Subject area
Marketing, innovation, strategy.

Study level/applicability
Undergraduate, post-graduate and executive education.

Case overview
This case is set in January 2012, a few days before the launch of Mysore Sandal Millennium, a super-premium luxury soap offering from the Indian public sector enterprise, Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Ltd. (“KS&DL”). Three years of research had been put into this product, which contained some of the finest, high-quality ingredients. KS&DL had, over the past decade or so, observed a significant fall in brand image for its signature product, the Mysore Sandalwood soap. While this soap had for many years been considered the premium brand in India, it had lost its place when well-known foreign brands became available in India, and local manufacturers moved towards this segment, manufacturing a whole new range of competitive products such as liquid body washes and gels. It was with an aim to rebuild its image that the company decided to launch the Millennium soap. KS&DL was clear that the product would be initially aimed at the high-income Indians, and then move to expand into the overseas market. However, it remained to be seen if the company could be truly successful in marketing a product priced at a level which would make it unaffordable to most Indians, other than a very thin layer of the ultra-rich. The question remains as to how KS&DL could best go about executing and communicating its strategy to make this launch a success.

Expected learning outcomes
This case provides students the opportunity to learn about the challenges faced when a company launches a new brand, particularly a luxury brand in a developing country such as India. Through this case, students will learn about the concepts of brand extension, and, above all, vertical brand extension. It can also be used to discuss the spill-over effects of the launch (and its success) on other existing brands of the company, as well as the overall corporate brand.

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CSR as an organizational routine: Bintulu Development Authority
Authors: Loi Teck Hui 
Published: August 2014

Subject area
Business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate strategy and public administration.

Study level/applicability
Undergraduate (final year) and Master level course (e.g. MBA, EMBA, Master in management and Master in public administration).

Case overview
This case accounts the experience of a Malaysian Governmental Development Agency cum City Council, Bintulu Development Authority (BDA), in organizing and strategizing its CSR initiatives so as to discharge its self-interests and societal expectations. BDA was established following the discovery of huge reserves of natural gas and oil offshore in Bintulu, an industrial town in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. It serves as the governmental instrument to undertake and coordinate development initiatives in Bintulu. There have been several driving forces prompted BDA to be more vigilant in discharging its social obligations along with its statutory obligations as a development agency and municipal services provider. They are, namely, the BDA Ordinance 1978 that governs its legitimate existence, the emergence of social media era that alters the access of people to information, the growing ecological and social concerns, and the unpredictable geopolitical environment that makes the logic of long-term strategic planning questionable. To ensure discharging its statutory and social obligations, BDA articulated vision and mission statements with strong social orientation. Two master development plans, embedded with social and environmental considerations, have guided BDA in translating its strategic mission into real structured development and action plans from 1978 to present. Through institutionalization of CSR elements as part of the organization's core business routines, annual budget allocation, performance control and reward mechanisms, CSR becomes an organizational routine of value to BDA.

Expected learning outcomes
This case has three learning objectives: it assists students to understand the contextual background of the case so as to establish the strategic position of CSR initiatives within the organization; it assists students to assess the embeddedness of CSR in an organization's core business routines and its potential sources of value creation; and it encourages students to examine the possible critical factors that enable or impede the initiation and implementation of regular CSR programs in an organization.

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GranuLab: positioning GranuMaS in the bone graft substitute industry
Authors: Adham Khairul Akmaliah , Isa Rosmah Mat , Senik Zizah Che , Yasin Norjaya M. 
Published: August 2014

Subject area
Developing and communicating a positioning strategy covering issues on market positioning, product lifecycle, product differentiation strategies and developing the marketing mix strategies in order to compete with competitors.

Study level/applicability
Advanced undergraduate and MBA student, taking courses of marketing management, strategic marketing, and brand management.

Case overview
GranuLab is a private limited company based in Shah Alam, about 30 km from Malaysia's capital city of Kuala Lumpur; it was a producer of synthetic bone graft substitute GranuMaS. GranuMaS was launched in the Malaysian market in late 2010. At that time, the company aimed to capture 50-70 percent of the Malaysian bone graft substitute market by the end of 2015. However, by the end of 2012, GranuLab was experiencing low sales and the company had suffered a two-year loss due to manufacturing at low capacity. GranuLab also faced stiff competition from multinational competitors that had penetrated the Malaysian market earlier with competitive product offerings. The pressure to increase the sale ofGranuMaS was mounting for Mr Romli Ishak, the Managing Director of GranuLab, Mr Fadil Dalal, the new General Manager of Marketing, and GranuLab's management team. This is especially so since the company's contract to supply GranuMaS to government hospitals under the Ministry of Health (MOH) program would end soon. These situations forced the company to make a quick decision. In December 2012, Mr Romli and his team pondered upon the best strategy that the company should pursue to achieve its objective of being a dominant player in the Malaysian bone graft substitute industry. This teaching case is designed to stimulate case analysts' thinking on positioning a medical device product in a market which was already conquered by established multinational companies.

Expected learning outcomes
Understanding of the concept of product positioning, product lifecycle, marketing mix strategies, and social exchange theory, enables case analysts to extend the concepts to analyzing many other products and services in organizational settings.

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Discharge planning in a cardiology out-patient clinic: a clinical audit
Authors: Ingram Shirley , Khan Barkat 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to audit the active discharge (DC) planning process in a general cardiology clinic, by pre-assessing patients’ medical notes and highlighting those suitable for potential DC to the clinic physician.

Design/methodology/approach
– The cardiology clinical nurse specialist (CNS) identified patients’ for nine- to 12-month return visits one week prior to attendance. The previous consultation letter was accessed and information was documented by the CNS in the medical record. The key performance indicator (KPI) used was patient DCs for each clinic visit. The process was audited at three separate times to reflect recommended action carried out.

Findings
– The CNS pre-assessment and presence at the clinics significantly increased total DCs during the first period compared to usual care, 11 vs 34 per cent (p<0.0001). During the third audit period, DCs fell (9 per cent) with a reduction in CNS pre-assessed DCs (10 per cent). Recommendations were implemented. The process was continued by clinic administration staff, colour coding all nine- to 12-month returns, resulted in a 19 per cent DC rate in 2012.

Practical implications
– CNS pre-assessment and highlighting DC suitability increased the number of patient DCs. As the CNS presence at the clinic reduced so did the rate of DC. Specific personnel need to be responsible for monitoring and reminding staff of the process; this does not always have to be medical or nursing.

Originality/value
– Implementing positive discharging procedures is aimed at improving quality, increasing efficiency and accessibility of services for patients. This audit describes a process to promote DC planning from cardiology outpatients.
Broker-dealers need to respond to recent focus on cybersecurity threats
Authors: Petron David , Wolk Michael , McNicholas Edward 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– To alert broker-dealers to several regulatory developments relating to cybersecurity threats.

Design/methodology/approach
– Reviews four regulatory developments in the cybersecurity area and provides several steps broker-dealers should undertake to review and improve their cybersecurity and information technology protocols and practices.

Findings
– While FINRA’s new cybersecurity sweep appears to be an exploratory and learning exercise to obtain regulatory knowledge and intelligence, firms should be cognizant of the fact that both FINRA and the SEC have imposed significant sanctions against Firms when it has found inadequate cyber security policies and procedures.

Practical implications
– Broker-dealers should review the White House’s recent Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity and evaluate their own cybersecurity preparedness under the key areas of the Framework.

Originality/value
– Practical guidance from experienced privacy and securities regulatory lawyers that consolidates several recent developments in one piece.
Identifying upstream factors using the community readiness model
Authors: J. Kelly Kathleen , Stanley Linda 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to, with increasing recognition of the importance of upstream factors in individual behavior, provide an example of how the Community Readiness Model (CRM) was used as a tool to understand the barriers within the broader environment to achieving reductions in the use of alcohol by college students and how this resulted in identifying upstream social marketing strategies. Downstream social marketing approaches have been broadly implemented on college campuses to curb alcohol use and binge drinking, with mixed results.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using the CRM protocol, assessments to measure the community readiness to address issues related to college alcohol use were conducted for each of 12 campuses belonging to a Midwestern state university. Six key informants at each campus were interviewed. Interviews were scored for each of six dimensions, and they were also analyzed for themes. Results were then used in a workshop to develop action plans based on social marketing principles.

Findings
– All campuses received high scores for the efforts dimension and, to a lesser extent, resources. However, leadership readiness levels varied significantly across campuses, while community climate and knowledge of the issue readiness levels were relatively low. Top leadership and faculty were identified by campuses as specific areas to target using social marketing principles.

Originality/value
– The CRM is an accessible and inexpensive method for gathering data on upstream factors related to social issues, such as college drinking. It can be used in conjunction with other data gathering tools (e.g. prevalence surveys) to better understand the macroenvironment in which behavior takes place.