bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Relationship Between Hearing Aid Self-Efficacy and Hearing Aid Satisfaction
Authors: Kelly-Campbell Rebecca J. , McMillan Anna 
Published: September 2015

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy for hearing aids (HAs) and satisfaction with HAs in a group of adult HA owners.MethodForty-seven adults acquiring HAs (new and experienced owners) completed a demographic questionnaire, the Hearing Handicap Questionnaire (Gatehouse & Noble, 2004), and received an audiometric evaluation prior to HA fitting. Twelve weeks following the completion of the HA fitting, they completed the Measure of Audiologic Rehabilitation Self-Efficacy for Hearing Aids (Smith & West, 2006) and the Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Life (Cox & Alexander, 1999) questionnaires.ResultsThere were no significant differences between experienced and new HA owners in terms of self-efficacy or HA satisfaction. The majority of participants had adequate self-efficacy for basic HA handling and adjustment to HAs. Fewer participants had adequate self-efficacy for aided listening and advanced handling of HAs. HA self-efficacy was related to HA satisfaction in three domains: positive effect and negative features of HAs and service and cost.ConclusionMany HA owners do not have adequate self-efficacy in important HA-related domains. Clinical intervention to improve self-efficacy for HAs may help improve HA satisfaction.
Mandeville and France: The Reception of
The Fable of the Bees
in France and its Influence on the French Enlightenment
Authors: Muceni Elena 
Published: September 2015

Abstract

This article explores how
The Fable of the Bees
was received in France, and provides a broad outline of its influence on the philosophers of the French Enlightenment. Reference to Bernard Mandeville's work in French periodicals (between 1720 and 1750), together with a series of disapproving critiques that appeared after the French translation of the
Fable
, indicate keen interest in this author on the part of French intellectuals. Mandeville's reputation both on the Continent and in England as an immoral philosopher and champion of paradoxical theses, had earned him a degree of fame in France even before the publication of the French translation of the
Fable
in 1740. Even if considerably closer to the original than the unpublished translation by Émilie Du Châtelet, this translation reveals a number of discrepancies with respect to Mandeville's text, which — along with the accompanying Introduction — suggest an attempt by the editors to adjust the philosophy and to tone down the shocking ramifications of some of the author's theses. Despite the numerous adverse critiques prompted by the book, the
Fable
had a strong influence on several French authors, such as Voltaire and Jean-François Melon. In particular, Mandeville's reflections on luxury and economics had a major impact on French philosophers, fuelling a heated dispute over luxury, and pointing to the centrality of economic analysis in the study of human society.
It’s time to bring performance appraisal into the twenty-first century
Authors: Javad Shahina , S.D. Sumod 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– Examines the weaknesses of many current performance appraisals and shows how to improve them.

Design/methodology/approach
– Draws on examples from companies such as Cisco, Google and Infosys.

Findings
– Shows that there are two main sets of reasons for the failure of performance management – system related and people related. System-related problems crop up while defining the performance goals or designing the appraisal system. People-related problems usually arise while discussing the results of appraisals.

Practical implications
– Investigates the importance of the three key elements of performance appraisal – the appraiser, the appraisal period and the rating method.

Social implications
– Shows how important performance appraisal can be in the modern business world where skilled and talented workers are at a premium.

Originality/value
– Argues that present-day organizations need to develop an ongoing process to manage employee performance, make sure the right things are being measured, and that the feedback is carried out as constructively as possible.
New Zealand adult internet child pornography offenders
Authors: Price Mnthali , Lambie Ian , Krynen Ariana Marie 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to identify the demographic characteristics, psychological and mental health difficulties, victimisation histories, and offending behaviours of New Zealand child pornography offenders (CPOs) who presented to community-based treatment. Findings are compared with national and international research, and with population norms. Such comparisons can help identify factors that may play a role in the development of child pornography (CP) consumption and potential treatment needs for this population.

Design/methodology/approach
– A file audit of assessment information and service exit reports was conducted of 46 CPOs who were referred to community-based treatment service in New Zealand.

Findings
– CPOs were predominantly male, European, and unemployed. Most CPOs were single or separated/divorced, and had no friends or one to five friends, which indicates possible social functioning difficulties, including intimacy. Mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety, loneliness, and childhood abuse appear to be elevated among CPOs in comparison with general population norms. Prior to referral, one-third had engaged in contact sexual offending and most had no non-sexual offending history. CP was often in the form of photos or images, and contained European pre-pubescent females. CPOs’ mental health, social isolation, intimacy deficits, and childhood abuse could be treatment targets for this population.

Originality/value
– Limited research has been conducted concerning New Zealand CPOs. Furthermore, studies often do not compare findings with general population norms, which can help identify factors prevalent among the CPOs and treatment needs for this population.
Continuous innovation: unleashing and harnessing the creative energies of a willing and able community
Authors: Leavy Brian 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– In the recent book, Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, a team of authors and researchers offer answers to the questions: How can leaders build an organization that can innovate over and over? And why, in spite of all we know about innovation, have companies not made more progress on this important question to date?

Design/methodology/approach
– S
&
L interviewer Brian Leavy asks lead author Linda Hill about innovation misconceptions, planting the seeds of a willing innovation program and developing the innovation capability of an organization.

Findings
– Exceptional leaders of innovation don’t focus on finding the answers or setting the vision, but rather on creating the environment in which others are willing and able to collaborate and innovate together again and again.

Practical implications
– Repeat innovation requires that the leader be more of a stage-setter than the star performer.

Originality/value
– Linda Hill’s team was the first to articulate the notion that the ability to innovate on a sustained basis requires the development of three key capabilities–“creative abrasion,” “creative agility” and “creative resolution.”
The three laws of business combinations: how to create value by remixing assets
Authors: Gomes-Casseres Benjamin 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– The author defines and discusses the three laws of business combinations that are essential to a profitable use of resources.

Design/methodology/approach
– The author shows how applying these laws is necessary for success.

Findings
– All business combinations must have the potential to create joint value, must be governed to realize this value, and must share value in a way that provides a reward to each party’s investment

Practical implications
– In remix strategy, the fundamental unit of analysis is the combination of resources that yields value. That combination competes with other combinations. Some combinations will gain advantage over others because they encompass just the right resources; others will gain advantage because they manage their collective resources better than others do.

Originality/value
– The author’s insight is that instead seeing competition as a battle of firm vs. firm, practitioners need to understand how bundles of resources compete, regardless of whether they are organized as firms.
Effects of burning and rainfall on former agricultural land with remnant grassy woodland flora
Authors: Morris E. Charles , de Barse Monique , Sanders Jonathan 
Published: September 2015

AbstractGrassy woodlands have been extensively cleared for agricultural land uses; land managers need to know whether restoration of biodiversity on such sites requires further interventions beyond simply stopping agricultural land use. Cumberland Plain Woodland occurs on shale‐derived soils in western Sydney; former Cumberland Plain Woodland sites can range from grasslands cleared for agricultural use to regenerated woodlands. An experiment was established in Scheyville National Park to determine what effect repeated burning would have in this system. Four blocks were established (three in grassy areas, one in woodland) and plots in each block were either burnt in 2001 and 2005 or left unburnt. Native plant species richness was initially lower in the grassy blocks than in the woodland, and this ranking remained on unburnt plots over time. The first fire increased species richness of both natives and exotics on the grassy blocks, with the largest increases observed for native and exotic forbs, and lesser increases for grasses (native only), gramminoids and shrubs. Native species richness changed very little with burning in the woodland. Fire effects on species richness were still apparent 3 years later on the grassy blocks; the difference between the grassy blocks and the woodland was not significant on burnt plots at this stage. Changes in native species richness were far less after the second fire on the grassy blocks, with grasses and gramminoids showing increases; native species richness remained higher in the burnt treatment. The first fire reduced the initial differences in native species richness between the grassy blocks and the woodland, and the second fire maintained the benefit through time. Fire also increased exotic species richness; the proportion of total species as natives was not altered by the two fires. On unburnt grassy plots, native species richness and prior cumulative rainfall were positively related; a decline in native species richness on unburnt plots corresponded to increasingly drier conditions over the study.
Assessment and learning technologies: An overview
Authors: Farrell Treasa , Rushby Nick 
Published: September 2015

AbstractAssessment pervades the learning process. This paper provides an overview of the application of technology to support and enhance diagnostic, formative and summative assessment. The focus is on examining how it can replace what already exists, improve the functionality, catalyse a redesign of the process and in some circumstances, make possible what was previously inconceivable. The paper considers formal and informal individual learning environments, group settings and assessment at a national or international scale.
A systematic review of implant outcomes in treated periodontitis patients
Authors: Sousa Vanessa , Mardas Nikos , Farias Bruna , Petrie Aviva , Needleman Ian , Spratt David , Donos Nikolaos 
Published: September 2015

AbstractObjectivesTo investigate the effect of treated periodontitis on implant outcomes in partially edentulous individuals compared with periodontally healthy patients.Material and methodsLongitudinal studies reporting on implant survival, success, incidence of peri‐implantitis, bone loss and periodontal status, and on partially dentate patients with a history of treated periodontitis were included.ResultsThe search yielded 14,917 citations. Twenty‐seven publications met the inclusion criteria for qualitative data synthesis. Implant success and survival were higher in periodontally healthy patients, whilst bone loss and incidence of peri‐implantitis was increased in patients with history of treated periodontitis. There was a higher tendency for implant loss and biological complications in patients previously presenting with severe forms of periodontitis. The strength of the evidence was limited by the heterogeneity of the included studies in terms of study design, population, therapy, unit of analysis, inconsistent definition of baselines and outcomes, as well as by the inadequate reporting of statistical analysis and accounting for confounding factors; thus, meta‐analysis could not be performed.ConclusionsImplants placed in patients treated for periodontal disease are associated with higher incidence of biological complications and lower success and survival rates than those placed in periodontally healthy patients. Severe forms of periodontal disease are associated with higher rates of implant loss. However, it is critical to develop well‐designed, long‐term prospective studies to provide further substantive evidence on the association of these outcomes.
The outcome of fistulotomy for anal fistula at 1 year: a prospective multicentre French study
Authors: Abramowitz L. , Soudan D. , Souffran M. , Bouchard D. , Castinel A. , Suduca J. M. , Staumont G. , Devulder F. , Pigot F. , Ganansia R. , Varastet M. ,   for the Groupe de Recherche en Proctologie de la Société Nationale Française de Colo‐Proctologie and the Club de Réflexion des Cabinets et Groupe d'Hépato‐Gastroentérologie
Published: September 2015

AbstractAimThe study aimed to evaluate outcome at 1 year of one‐ and two‐stage fistulotomy for anal fistula in a large group of patients.MethodA prospective multicentre observational study was designed to include patients with anal fistula treated by one‐ or two‐stage fistulotomy. Data were collected using a self‐administered questionnaire before surgery, during healing and at 1 year after surgery.ResultsGroup A (133 patients) with a low anal fistula underwent a one‐stage fistulotomy. The median Wexner scores before and after surgery were 1.0 (0−11) and 2.0 (0−18) (P = 0.032) and the median Vaizey scores were 2.0 (0−14) and 3.0 (0−21) (P = 0.055). The Wexner scores and percentage of patients before and after fistulotomy were as follows: 0−5: 88%, 86%; 6−10: 10.7%, 10.7%; 11−15: 1.0%, 2.6%; and 16−20: 0%, 2%. Eighty‐seven per cent of the patients were satisfied. Group B (62 patients) underwent two‐stage fistulotomy for a high transsphincteric fistula. The Wexner scores and percentage of patients before the first stage and 1 year after the second stage were as follows: 0−5: 86%, 66%; 6−10: 4.5%, 20%; 11−15: 9%, 11%; and 16−20: 0%, 2%. The median Wexner scores before the first stage and after the second stage were 1 (0−14) vs 4 (0−19) (P < 0.001), and the median Vaizey scores were 1.5 (0−11) vs 4 (0−20) (P < 0.001). Eighty‐eight per cent of the patients were satisfied.ConclusionLow transsphincteric anal fistula can be treated by fistulotomy without clinically significant continence disturbance. Treating high transsphincteric anal fistulae with two‐stage fistulotomy is followed by mild continence disturbance. Satisfaction rates were high.
A Bulge in the Mid‐Left Cardiac Border: What Is the Diagnosis?
Authors: Singhal Anubhav , Kumar Sudeep , Soni Neetu , Kapoor Aditya 
Published: September 2015

Mini‐AbstractPseudoaneurysm of aorto‐mitral intervalvular fibrosa region (AMIVF) is relatively rare and leads to the development of a pulsatile cavity in the mitral–aortic junction communicating with LV outflow tract. We present a young man with a large AMIVF aneurysm in which the x‐ray revealed a prominent bulge on mid‐left cardiac border. The usual differential diagnosis of such a bulge includes an enlarged LA appendage, ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm, dilated right ventricular subinfundibulum, absent pericardium, pericardial cysts, etc. Our case highlights the fact that physicians may also need to consider the rare possibility of an AMIVF aneurysm in this list.
Modifying otter boards to reduce bottom contact: effects on catches and efficiencies of triple‐rigged penaeid trawls
Authors: Broadhurst M. K. , Sterling D. J. , Millar R. B. 
Published: September 2015

AbstractTwo otter‐board modifications designed to minimise bottom contact (and therefore habitat impacts) were compared against conventional otter boards for their relative effects on the engineering and catching efficiencies of triple‐rigged penaeid trawls. The first modification involved restricting the angle of attack (AOA) of a flat–rectangular otter board to <30° by attaching a restraining line to an adjacent sled, while the second was a ‘batwing’ otter board comprising a sled‐and‐sail assembly operating at 20° AOA. The modifications reduced otter‐board bottom contact by up to 8 ha over a night's fishing without affecting standardised catches (per ha) of the targeted eastern king prawns, Penaeus plebejus, nor the fuel required. Further, compared to all other trawls, the restrained trawls caught less discarded bycatch (by up to 37%), while the trawls spread by the modified flat–rectangular and batwing otter boards caught more individuals of three retained benthic teleost species per ha than the conventional configuration; results that were attributed to species‐specific herding responses. Both modifications represent simple alternatives where there are concerns over either benthic impacts or, for the restraining line, unwanted bycatches in penaeid‐trawl fisheries.
Can bycatch in a flatfish gillnet fishery be reduced with rectangular mesh?
Authors: Rudershausen P. J. , Price A. B. , Buckel J. A. 
Published: September 2015

AbstractGillnets fished in North Carolina, USA, estuaries have high rates of bycatch relative to the target catch of southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma Jordan & Gilbert. This study tested whether rectangular‐mesh gillnets would maintain catch rates of southern flounder and reduce fish bycatch relative to conventional diamond‐mesh gillnets in two North Carolina estuaries. In the Neuse River estuary, catch rates of legal southern flounder were not different between the two mesh shapes, but the bycatch of red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus) and other fish species was reduced with rectangular‐mesh net. In the Newport River estuary, southern flounder and red drum catches were reduced in rectangular‐mesh net, but the decrease was greater for red drum. Catches of sublegal southern flounder were reduced in the rectangular‐mesh net in both estuaries. Reduced catch rates of sublegal southern flounder and bycatch species suggest rectangular mesh may help manage stocks of estuarine fish species in areas where gillnets are used to target flatfishes.
JOHANN PETER HEBEL AND THE DYNAMICS OF HOPE
Authors: Lee Charlotte 
Published: September 2015

ABSTRACTThis article examines the place of hope in Hebel's Kalendergeschichten, both as a theme and as a mode. Many of the stories have an anticipatory flavour: both natural growth and human self‐development are signifiers of hope. Moreover, a number of the texts stimulate critical engagement on the part of the reader, which constitutes a first step towards agency and potential (self‐) improvement. Yet the depiction of human nature in these short prose texts oscillates between the loving and the grotesque, a dichotomy which has unsettled literary criticism on Hebel for some decades. This article draws on the early theological work of Jürgen Moltmann to suggest that the negative elements of the texts are essential to the particular variant of hope to which Hebel subscribes. Both thinkers were concerned to rehabilitate eschatology in their own time. For both, earthly life has the capacity for considerable self‐renewal; but it also has severe limitations, through which only a divine redemptive force can break. Facing up to the ugliest aspects of human existence is a precondition for the engaged, eschatological hope which underpins Moltmann's theology and which, arguably, is also reflected in Hebel's writing.Der Artikel befasst sich mit der Rolle der Hoffnung als Thema und als Schreibmodus in Hebels Kalendergeschichten. Diese sind oft auf die Zukunft ausgerichtet, und das natürliche Wachstum sowie die menschliche Selbstentwick‐lung suggerieren Hoffnung. Darüber hinaus regen die Kalendertexte den Leser nicht selten zur aktiven intellektuellen Beteiligung an, die zur Tatkraft und zur Weiterbildung führen kann. Allerdings schwankt die Darstellung der Menschheit in diesen kurzen Prosastücken zwischen dem Liebevollen und dem Grotesken. Schon seit Langem sieht sich die Forschung zu Hebel von dieser Dichotomie beunruhigt. Anhand der frühen theologischen Schriften Jürgen Moltmanns wird in diesem Artikel argumentiert, dass die negativen Elemente der Texte für die besondere Art Hoffnung grundlegend sind, der sich Hebel anschließt. Wie Moltmann im 20. Jahrhundert war Hebel auch bestrebt, die Eschatologie in den zeitgenössischen theologischen Diskurs wieder einzugliedern. Für beide ist das irdische Leben durchaus zur Selbsterneuerung fähig, doch stößt es auf starke Grenzen, die zu durchbrechen nur eine göttliche Erlösungskraft imstande ist. Den hässlichsten Aspekten der menschlichen Existenz ins Auge zu sehen ist gleichsam eine Vorbedingung für die engagierte, eschatologische Hoffnung, die Moltmanns Theologie zugrunde liegt und die Hebels Kalendergeschichten wohl auch vorwegnehmen.
CHAOS UND FORM, RAUM UND ETHOS IN STIFTERS BUNTE STEINE
Authors: Nitschke Claudia 
Published: September 2015

ABSTRACTForm, order, and the desire to create structure are ubiquitous in Adalbert Stifter's work, both as theme and in the presentation of his oeuvre. It is striking that quotidian rituals and emergency situations such as thunder and snowstorms are often intrinsically tied to places. In Stifter's narratives the spatial concurrence of danger as a manifestation of formlessness, and structure as a potential remedy for the precarious situations, reveals a specific technique of stabilisation. This omnipresent need for stabilising rituals (occurring in a specific place) indirectly demonstrates that notions of transgression are integral to Stifter's texts, even though he consistently attempts to transform it into a certain structure: in this regard an individual and collective moral style of life is presented as the best and most natural way of coping with external forces by dint of an autonomous (but naturally pre‐ordained) order.Form, Ordnung und Streben nach Struktur sind bei Adalbert Stifter omnipräsent, sowohl als Thema in den Erzählungen wie auch als mise‐en‐abyme bei der textlichen Präsentation. Besonders auffällig ist dabei, dass für Stifter typische Ritualisierungen des Alltags sowie affektgeladene Ausnahmesituationen (etwa Gewitter oder Schneesturm) und ihre potentielle Regulierung intrinsisch an Örtlichkeiten geknüpft werden. Das spatiale Zusammenfallen von Gefahr als Strukturlosigkeit und Struktur als potentieller Rettung legt eine spezifische Stabilisierungstechnik offen, die hier in der räumlichen Verdichtung deutlich macht, wie stark Stifter Vorstellungen von Transgression in seine Texte integriert, auch wenn diese konsequent in einer ‘Form’ stabilisiert wird. Als strukturgebend erweist sich hier ein individueller oder kollektiver moralischer Lebensentwurf, der den externen Gewalten die eigene Ordnung entgegensetzt.