bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
An experimental investigation of lean management in aviation
Authors: Kumar BR Raghu , Sharma Milind Kumar , Agarwal Ashish 
Published: February 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to identify important factors those which constrain implementation and sustenance of lean strategies in aviation sector and ways to avoid slow attrition within annals of lean.Design/methodology/approach– This research is exploratory in nature and survey methodology is used for assessing the post lean management implementation environment. The focus of study is cross-sectional, within aircraft industry based on the information collected through survey and a case study.Findings– The reasons for the weak sustenance of lean initiative have been identified. The measures as undertaken in the case study implied a successful turnaround of specific department. Comparison with automobile industry indicates suggestions and pitfalls to be avoided with suitable illustration.Research limitations/implications– The target of the study is the aircraft manufacturer and hence it has the limitation in terms of the scope. However, overall results are encouraging with the survey generating expected inputs and underline the need for similar research in the aerospace sector. The study has implications for managers in all types of industrial environment, especially in aviation, in the era of globalized lean supply chain establishment.Practical implications– Inputs obtained are from both industrial research in a live environment and a case study which impacts lean management in industries.Originality/value– This paper presents novel inputs regarding post lean implementation scenario in aviation sector, which has complicated internal processes. It also tries to establish factors relevant for any organization in assessing lean initiatives.
Determination of the contamination profile of groundwater in the vicinity of petroleum products retailing stations in Nigeria
Authors: Adebiyi Festus M. , Adeyemi Adewale F. 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– The quality of groundwater in the vicinity of petroleum products retailing stations in Ile-Ife, Nigeria was investigated with a view to providing valuable information on the organic and other physico-chemical parameters associated with the contamination of the groundwaters by petroleum products. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– Three sets of samples were collected per season from artesian wells within petroleum products retailing stations for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), trace metals and other physico-chemical parameters analysis. Extraction, cleaned-up and concentration of the PAHs were done using certified analytical methods. Levels of the PAHs and metals were determined using gas chromatography coupled with flame ionization detector and bulk scientific atomic absorption spectrophotometer, respectively, while other pollution indicators were measured using standard analytical procedures.

Findings
– The groundwaters contained elevated levels of PAHs, Cu, Zn, Mn, Pb, Cr, V, Ni, Fe and total dissolved solids than their maximum allowable limits for drinking water. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) results confirmed that both seasonal variation and location had much influence on the levels of most of the analyzed parameters. Some of the parameters showed strong positive correlation with each other, while Cr/Pb and Na/Pb displayed strong negative correlation with each other, indicating similar source(s) and/or chemical affinity and vice versa, respectively. Cross-plot analysis results using metals and PAHs concentrations as variables showed significant positive correlations (R2=0.99) and (R2=0.60), respectively, suggesting similar source(s) of contamination of the two sets of samples.

Originality/value
– The level of the groundwater contamination was an indication of indiscriminate discharge of petroleum products and/or underground tank leakage within the study areas.
Sustainable biofuel strategy in Karnataka state a review
Authors: Lokesh Adappa Chandrashekar , Mahesh Naranapur Somashekhar , Gowda Balakrishna , White Peter 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present a review of strategy developed by University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore in Biofuel Park, Hassan (Government of Karnataka, initiative to develop biofuel programme in India) for promoting sustainable biodiesel production using oil extracted from tree borne oil species. The main aim of this study was to analyse the current strategy, identify the limitations and propose sustainable biodiesel production strategies for rural Karnataka.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper presents critical analysis of current Biofuel Park strategy using strength weakness opportunities and threat (SWOT) method. The data for SWOT analysis were collected from Biofuel Park log books, followed by interviews with around 50 associations of biofuel feed stock growers. Further, to evolve sustainable strategies, a case study was carried out at a local village assessing sustainability of biodiesel production and use from four local tree species oil namely; Pongamia pinnata, Azadiractha indica, Madhuca indica and Simarouba glauca. The evolved strategies were brainstormed with local farming community and the deliberations were used to lay a road map for implementing the evolved strategies.

Findings
– The strategies proposed in the paper would help in sustainability of villages with respect to local energy needs and generate employment. The roadmap proposed would minimise green house gas (GHG) emission compared to Biofuel Park model/strategy and minimise biomass displacement.

Originality/value
– This paper fulfils a need to study biofuel strategies adopted by government bodies, analyse the same for sustainability and propose alternatives to overcome the limitations of the practiced strategy.
Critical analysis of assessment methodologies for intraorganizational sustainability
Authors: Satolo Eduardo Guilherme , Simon Alexandre Tadeu 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– Sustainability is in vogue nowadays. It is a new concept and it has yet to be studied in more depth and rigor to create a stronger understanding. There are several lines of research and development in this area, each one using a specific template for measuring sustainability what poses even greater difficulties to those interested in the subject. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and compare current models for measuring organizational sustainability.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper presents a literature review identifying six models that have synergies in their structures and methods for measuring sustainability. It also analyzes each model highlighting key individual features identifying similarities and differences.

Findings
– Results indicates it is necessary to improve existing models and gathering positive features of each model may be the starting point for obtaining a measurement model of sustainability.

Research limitations/implications
– This work is restricted to perform a critical analysis of models for measuring intra-organizational sustainability.

Originality/value
– This is one of the first studies to investigate models that assess sustainability from the intra-organizational perspective.
Isolation of New Delhi metallo‐β‐lactamase 1‐producing Vibrio cholerae non‐O1, non‐O139 strain carrying ctxA, st and hly genes in southern Vietnam
Authors: Diep Tai The , Nguyen Nhi Thi Ngoc , Nguyen Thi Ngoc Cat , An Huy Khac , Nguyen Truong Quang , Nguyen Vu Hoang , Nguyen Thuong Van , Nguyen Thu Ngoc Anh , Izumiya Hidemasa , Ohnishi Makoto , Yamashiro Tetsu , Nguyen Lan Thi Phuong 
Published: February 2015

AbstractVibrio cholerae non‐O1, non‐O139 (VC_NAG) organisms are universally present in the aquatic environment and regarded as non‐pathogenic bacteria. However, considering that they do occasionally induce gastroenteritis, a study of their virulence and antibiotic resistance genes is important. The presence of enteropathogenic genes, including ctxA, VC_NAG‐specific heat‐stable toxin gene (st), hemolysin (hly), and zona occludens toxin (zot) was determined by PCR in 100 VC_NAG strains isolated in southern Vietnam in 2010–2013 from 94 environmental and six human origins. These 100 VC_NAG strains were also tested phenotypically and genotypically for the presence of the New Delhi metallo‐β‐lactamase (NDM‐1). Of the 100 VC_NAG strains tested, six were positive for ctxA; five from the environment and one of human origin. The st gene was detected in 17 isolates, 15 and two of which were of environmental and human origins, respectively. Gene hly was detected in 19 VC_NAG strains examined, two of which were isolated from humans and 17 from environments. The zot gene was not detected in any of the strains tested. Three VC_NAG strains of environmental origin were confirmed to produce NDM‐1 and the blaNDM‐1 gene was detected in those strains by PCR. Of note, one of the three NDM‐1‐producing VC_NAG strains was confirmed to carry ctxA, st and hly genes concurrently. This is the first report of isolation of NDM‐1‐producing VC_NAG strains in Vietnam.
Myocardial glycogen dynamics: New perspectives on disease mechanisms
Authors: Chandramouli Chanchal , Varma Upasna , Stevens Ellie M , Xiao Rui‐Ping , Stapleton David I , Mellor Kimberley M , Delbridge Lea MD 
Published: February 2015

SummaryCardiac glycogen regulation involves a complex interplay between multiple signalling pathways, allosteric activation of enzymes, and sequestration for autophagic degradation. Signalling pathways appear to converge on glycogen regulatory enzymes via insulin (glycogen synthase kinase 3β, protein phosphatase 1, allosteric action of glucose‐6‐phosphate), β–adrenergic (phosphorylase kinase protein phosphatase 1 inhibitor), and 5′ adenosine monophosphate‐activated protein kinase (allosteric action of glucose‐6‐phosphate, direct glycogen binding, insulin receptor). While cytosolic glycogen synthesis and breakdown are relatively well understood, recent findings relating to phagic glycogen degradation highlight a new area of investigation in the heart. It has been recently demonstrated that a specific glycophagy pathway is operational in the myocardium. Proteins involved in recruiting glycogen to the forming phagosome have been identified. Starch–binding domain‐containing protein 1 is involved in binding glycogen and mediating membrane anchorage via interaction with a homologue of the phagosomal protein light‐chain 3. Specifically, it has been shown that starch–binding domain‐containing protein 1 and light‐chain 3 have discrete phagosomal immunolocalization patterns in cardiomyocytes, indicating that autophagic trafficking of glycogen and protein cargo in cardiomyocytes can occur via distinct pathways. There is strong evidence from glycogen storage diseases that phagic/lysosomal glycogen breakdown is important for maintaining normal cardiac glycogen levels and does not simply constitute a redundant ‘alternative’ breakdown route for glycogen. Advancing understanding of glycogen handling in the heart is an important priority with relevance not only to genetic glycogen storage diseases but also to cardiac metabolic stress disorders such as diabetes and ischaemia.
Multiphyletic origins of methylotrophy in Alphaproteobacteria, exemplified by comparative genomics of Lake Washington isolates
Authors: Beck David A. C. , McTaggart Tami L. , Setboonsarng Usanisa , Vorobev Alexey , Goodwin Lynne , Shapiro Nicole , Woyke Tanja , Kalyuzhnaya Marina G. , Lidstrom Mary E. , Chistoserdova Ludmila 
Published: February 2015

SummaryWe sequenced the genomes of 19 methylotrophic isolates from Lake Washington, which belong to nine genera within eight families of the Alphaproteobacteria, two of the families being the newly proposed families. Comparative genomic analysis with a focus on methylotrophy metabolism classifies these strains into heterotrophic and obligately or facultatively autotrophic methylotrophs. The most persistent metabolic modules enabling methylotrophy within this group are the N‐methylglutamate pathway, the two types of methanol dehydrogenase (MxaFI and XoxF), the tetrahydromethanopterin pathway for formaldehyde oxidation, the serine cycle and the ethylmalonyl‐CoA pathway. At the same time, a great potential for metabolic flexibility within this group is uncovered, with different combinations of these modules present. Phylogenetic analysis of key methylotrophy functions reveals that the serine cycle must have evolved independently in at least four lineages of Alphaproteobacteria and that all methylotrophy modules seem to be prone to lateral transfers as well as deletions.
The LysR‐type transcription factor PacR is a global regulator of photosynthetic carbon assimilation in Anabaena
Authors: Picossi Silvia , Flores Enrique , Herrero Antonia 
Published: February 2015

SummaryCyanobacteria perform water‐splitting photosynthesis and are important primary producers impacting the carbon and nitrogen cycles at global scale. They fix CO2 through ribulose‐bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCo) and have evolved a distinct CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) that builds high CO2 concentrations in the vicinity of RuBisCo favouring its carboxylase activity. Filamentous cyanobacteria such as Anabaena fix CO2 in photosynthetic vegetative cells, which donate photosynthate to heterocysts that rely on a heterotrophic metabolism to fix N2. CCM elements are induced in response to inorganic carbon limitation, a cue that exposes the photosynthetic apparatus to photodamage by over‐reduction. An Anabaena mutant lacking the LysR‐type transcription factor All3953 grew poorly and dies under high light. The rbcL operon encoding RuBisCo was induced upon carbon limitation in the wild type but not in the mutant. ChIP‐Seq analysis was used to globally identify All3953 targets under carbon limitation. Targets include, besides rbcL, genes encoding CCM elements, photorespiratory pathway‐ photosystem‐ and electron transport‐related components, and factors, including flavodiiron proteins, with a demonstrated or putative function in photoprotection. Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analysis of selected All3953 targets showed regulation in the wild type but not in the mutant. All3953 (PacR) is a global regulator of carbon assimilation in an oxygenic photoautotroph.
Genetic variability and bottleneck detection of four Tricholoma matsutake populations from northeastern and southwestern China
Authors: Zeng Dong‐Fang , Chen Bin 
Published: February 2015

SummaryThe excessive commercial collection of matsutake mushrooms can lead to extreme reduction of population size, which may cause genetic bottleneck and decrease genetic diversity of Tricholoma matsutake. Here, six polymorphic microsatellite loci markers were used to examine the genetic diversity of four natural T. matsutake populations from two main producing regions of China. The minimum combinations of four loci were able to discriminate total 86 sampled individuals with distinctive multilocus genotypes. Our analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) revealed that about 80% and 20% of the overall genetic variation were respectively partitioned within and among populations. The principal‐coordinate analyses (PCA) distinguished the four tested populations into three genetic clusters, each of which was correlated with respective endemic host plants on a geographical basis. The AMOVA, PCA and pairwise population FST estimates consistently displayed the same genetic divergence patterns and spatial structure of T. matsutake mediated by host plants in China. The significant heterozygosity excesses demonstrated that a recent genetic bottleneck occurred in each population tested. The complementary M‐ratio test indicated past genetic bottleneck events over longer periods. Only four individuals were identified as putative first generation migrants within northeastern China, which implies restricted interpopulation gene flow in T. matsutake. We discuss that the significant genetic differentiation among populations of T. matsutake is most likely a function of host adaptation, host specificity, genetic bottleneck, limited dispersal and habitat fragmentation.
Politics of Evidence: The Communication of Evidence by ‘Stakeholders’ when Advocating for Tobacco Point‐of‐sale Display Bans in Australia
Authors: Cenko Clinton , Pulvirenti Mariastella 
Published: February 2015

There is a tension in the policy field about the way that the policy process should occur and the manner in which evidence should inform policy decisions. This article presents findings from a qualitative study on the introduction of point‐of‐sale tobacco display bans in Australia to provide an insight into the way this public policy was introduced and the way that evidence was used and communicated to influence the policy outcome.This study highlights that tobacco control policy does not merely consist of a series of segmented and unconnected decisions. It is an ongoing process, whereby the acceptability of forms of knowledge has shifted over time. This has enabled the introduction of tobacco control initiatives on the basis of good judgement when there is a paucity of specific evaluation information to support a policy's introduction.
‘You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day … I saw it on TV’: Children's constructions of play in the context of Canadian public health discourse of playing for health.
Authors: Alexander Stephanie A. , Fusco Caroline , Frohlich Katherine L. 
Published: February 2015

AbstractPublic health institutions in many industrialised countries have been launching calls to address childhood obesity. As part of these efforts, Canadian physical activity campaigns have recently introduced children's play as a critical component of obesity prevention strategies. We consider this approach problematic as it may reshape the meanings and affective experiences of play for children. Drawing on the analytical concept of biopedagogies, we place Canadian public health discourse on play in dialogue with children's constructions of play to examine first, how play is promoted within obesity prevention strategies and second, whether children take up this public health discourse. Our findings suggest that: (i) the public health discourse on active play is taken up and reproduced by some children. However, for other children sedentary play is important for their social and emotional wellbeing; (ii) while active play is deemed to be a solution to the risk of obesity, it also embodies contradictions over risk in play, which children have to negotiate. We argue that the active play discourse, which valorises some representations of play (that is, active) while obscuring others (that is, sedentary), is reshaping meanings of play for children, and that this may have unintended consequences for children's wellbeing.
Social class, anxieties and mothers' foodwork
Authors: Wright Jan , Maher JaneMaree , Tanner Claire 
Published: February 2015

AbstractIn the context of concerns about childhood obesity, mothers are placed at the forefront of responsibility for shaping the eating behaviour and consequently the health of their young children. This is evident in a multitude of diverse sites such as government reports, health promotion materials, reality TV shows and the advice of childcare nurses and preschools. These sites produce a range of resources available to mothers to draw on to constitute themselves as mothers in terms of caring for their children's health. Drawing on a qualitative study of mothers recruited through three Australian preschool centres, this article examines how the working‐class and middle‐class mothers of preschool‐aged children engage with knowledge about motherhood, children and health and how those engagements impact on their mothering, their foodwork and their children. We argue that, unlike the working‐class mothers pathologised in some literature on obesity, these working‐class mothers demonstrated a no‐nonsense (but still responsibilised) approach to feeding their children. The middle‐class mothers, on the other hand, were more likely to engage in practices of self‐surveillance and to demonstrate considerable anxieties about the appropriateness of their practices for their children's current and future health.
Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta
Authors: Martin Gillian M. 
Published: February 2015

AbstractChildhood obesity is a major public health concern in contemporary Malta. This article applies a critical realist approach to exploring body shape in young children, recognising fatness and obesity to be both a biologically and a socially constructed phenomenon. The agentic status of the child is central to the research design aimed at exploring understandings of body shape and how they impact on relational dynamics in the lived experiences of young children in Malta. Ethnographic methods were used in a school setting, working with children (n = 134) in two age groups: 5 and 10‐year olds. The findings show a marked difference in the two groups. The obese 5‐year‐olds, buffered by robust protective strategies in their primary group, seem to be unaware of any difference in body shape. This situation changes in the older group where the fat body is stigmatised and obese children develop private coping strategies to deal with the physical disadvantages, taunting and exclusion by their peers. The data show that there is a culturally entrenched fluidity in the lay concept of obesity that impacts on the process of embodiment in young children and may have a lasting effect on body shape and weight.
Existential multiplicity and the late‐modern smoker: negotiating multiple identities in a support group for smoking cessation
Authors: Nachtigal Anat , Kidron Carol A. 
Published: February 2015

AbstractTo examine identity work of smokers attempting to quit, we undertook participant observation at an Israeli cessation support group. Grounded theory and thematic analysis of group dialogue permitted identification of recurring themes and the presentation of illustrative vignettes. We found that, rather than the linear, goal‐oriented constitution of a univocal non‐smoking identity, identity work entailed re‐appraisals of the experience of liminality between smoking and non‐smoking selves. Although the group participants reduced their tobacco consumption and some even quit, specific technologies of self sustained the smoking self alongside the non‐smoking self. We propose that the social contextualisation of the smoker in the context of late modernity may explain the tolerance of chronic ambivalence and the constitution of a ‘resistant’ smoking– non‐smoking self. Phenomenological accounts of the experience of this hybrid self may more fully explain protracted or failed cessation and further deconstruct binary readings of indulgence or control, addiction or abstinence and illness or wellness. Our findings call for the re‐conceptualisation of the experience and outcome of protracted cessation and a tolerant policy‐driven intervention.