bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
On condition of reaching a high level of consensus when new decision makers join
Authors: Gong Zaiwu , Forrest Jeffrey , Yang Yingjie , Wei Cuiping 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The consensus opinion helps with the achievement of fairness of the decision process, especially when the new decision makers (DMs) are added into the group decision making (GDM). This paper aims to show by constructing consensus models that when some conditions are met, the consensus level does not decrease even when new DMs are invited to join the GDM (new opinions are added to the GDM).

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper first constructs a deviation which is the difference between each two individual opinions. The smaller these differences are, the higher consensus degree (level) of the group. Then, a consensus optimization model based on individual differences (IDCO) is constructed by minimizing the aggregated deviations. Lastly, based on the optimization model, the condition of reaching a high level of consensus when new DMs are added into the GDM is discussed.

Findings
– The discussion on the properties of the IDCO indicates that once the consensus with all DMs reaching an acceptable level, the consensus deviation degree decreases as the number of DMs increases when certain conditions are met, and the consensus level does not decrease even when new DMs join the GDM.

Originality/value
– Practically, high-level consensus needs to be reached no matter how difficult it is when the new opinions are added into the GDM. To see how this end could be achieved, this paper takes the fuzzy preference relations as particular instances to investigate the conditions of consensus under which new DMs (opinions) are added into the GDM. The rather holistic analysis leads us to such a conclusion that the authors can replace this particular kind of preference, as used in the discussion, in many other cases by, for instance, multiplicative preference relation, linguistic preference relation, etc.
Aging silently
Authors: Church Tydings Judith 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to discuss the transforming effect of pursuing person centered ethnography using contemporary reflexive methods and a cultural traditions model on a researcher in late life. It attempts to show the usefulness of life history research as a lens through which to examine the complex ways people age. It adds to literature dealing with ethnographic studies of aging women and demonstrates personal narrative as a way to convey information. Lastly it demonstrates the value of studies pursued by researchers in old age, and illuminates aspects of ethnographic work when women interview women.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using a journey format, the paper uses personal narrative as a way to achieve its goals. The personal account is complemented by noting other ethnographic studies that have contributed to age studies literature, and it draws attention to the value of reflexivity in good ethnographic work as proposed by anthropologists Barbara Myerhoff and John Caughey.

Findings
– The paper points toward research institutions who study aging valuing ethnographic findings and making use of researchers in old age to engage in ethnographic studies. It points to the possibility that elders engaged in such research may strengthen their sense of self and empower them as they make a contribution to age studies.

Research limitations/implications
– This paper deals with the transformative power of engaging in reflexive life history research, especially as it is done by an ethnographer in late life. This freeing from customary cultural ways of thinking may be as beneficial to the researcher as life review or reminiscence. This should be explored further.

Originality/value
– The paper points to the idea, implicit not explicit, that an elder who engages in reflexive life history research that involves doing a self-ethnography, can benefit in ways similar to having engaged in life review or reminiscence. This is original.
A gerontologist and her career
Authors: Tinker Anthea 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to offer some insight into how an individual enters a career as a gerontologist.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper is an invited opinion piece and comment based on the author's experience and career choices. It is a brief autobiographical account focused on occupational opportunities.

Findings
– Career choice can often be a mix of opportunity and chance. Having good colleagues and a supportive research community is the secret to success.

Originality/value
– Personal insights from professionals at the height of their career can help less experienced researchers understand what it means to take opportunities when they arise.
From engineer to farmer
Authors: Barcanescu Ileana 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to encourage readers to think about a life after retirement, with an emphasis on the nature and activities of small agribusiness for actively retired people. The article can also provide a comparison between the activities of “re-converted” elderly farmers in different parts of Europe.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper is an invited viewpoint piece and based upon the experience and opinions of an actively retired Romanian citizen, currently managing her small family farm.

Findings
– A complete change of work and living environment can be the much-needed step that many actively retired professionals need. Nevertheless, the success and happiness found following such a decision is also dependent on previous experiences and knowledge in the newly chosen field of activity, since these activities are not just a pastime, but can easily become the equivalent of a fulltime job… or even more than this.

Originality/value
– The article provides not only a succinct overview of a small agribusiness run by an actively retired person, but also remarkable insight and understanding of the retirement for people from different cultures and professional backgrounds. It presents a different perspective of active retirement for elderly people in Eastern European countries.
Are your leaders brain-savvy, and why should you care?
Authors: Hills Jan 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– This paper discusses the findings of a survey carried out to understand how employees perceived their leaders. The author was particularly interested in how brain-savvy leaders were – by this, is meant are leaders working in a way that is consistent with how the brain works? The author was interested in the question because she believes that working in a way that is consistent with how the brain works creates efficiency, productivity and engagement as well as improves the chances that change will be successful.

Design/methodology/approach
– We surveyed 2,000 people by telephone. Respondents were based in the UK and consisted of public sector and private sector employees spanning across all industry sectors.

Findings
– Our findings suggest leaders are failing to act in a way that is consistent with how the brain works. Less than 5 percent of UK employees said that their leaders were working in a brain-savvy manner and 24 percent said the leader in their organization was brain-fried, that is over stressed, a poor communicator and lacking personal connection.

Originality/value
– Neuroscience, the science of how the brain works offers insight into the implications for HR in organizations. The science is pointing to a number of ways the brain responds, for example, perceiving threat over reward leading to avoidance and reductions in creativity and effective decision making, and the importance of relationships as a motivator and creating engagement. The science also points to ways HR can help create more brain-savvy leaders and businesses.
What makes employees stay?
Authors: Sengupta Santoshi , Dev Santosh 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– Business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in India is progressing with an unparalleled velocity. Although, much research has taken place time and again elaborating on attrition, which is a menace to this industry, not much of work has been done on retention. The present study aims to explore the dimensions of retention in a comprehensive manner. The paper identifies the main factors that lead to retention, compares these dimensions across various demographic characteristics and develops a regression model to find out the contribution of the factors to the long term sustenance of employees in a BPO.

Design/methodology/approach
– A questionnaire was completed by 500 BPO employees located in the National Capital region of India. It measured their perception towards the importance of factors that are responsible for their sustenance in the organization. Data was analyzed using tests like factor analysis, descriptive stats, correlation and regression.

Findings
– Four major dimensions of retention were extracted. Of the four job-related dimensions and five personal characteristics, intrinsic motivation factor, employee involvement factor, age and education are the primary determinants of employee retention. It was also found that there is a difference in perception of BPO employees towards the importance of these job-related retention dimensions.

Research limitations/implications
– Due to selection of only a few facets of job characteristics, and limited geographical area of data collection, generalization of the study findings is limited. Future replication studies with more job characteristics and wider geographical selection in other related subject areas are also recommended.

Practical implications
– Research findings will contribute to the body of knowledge in the BPO literature on employee retention programs and educate BPO employers on the organizational benefits associated with loyal, committed workers. Study implications will contribute towards industry's continual pursuit for growth, prosperity and profitability.

Originality/value
– The present study explores novel dimensions of employee retention and makes a major contribution to the relative influence of job and personal characteristics in the BPO industry.
The Mulberry Bush School and UK therapeutic community practice for children and young people
Authors: Diamond John 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to inform readers and researchers about the use of a “lived experience” of therapeutic community work as an effective intervention for severely emotionally troubled children.

Design/methodology/approach
– An explanation of the main developmental influences and how the Mulberry Bush School is continuing to incorporate new theories and approaches.

Findings
– How the Mulberry Bush as a specialist therapeutic residential provision can bring about excellent outcomes for severely emotionally troubled children.

Research limitations/implications
– The paper explores the work and legacy of the school's founder Barbara Dockar-Drysdale and of her collaboration with Donald Winnicott to create a lived experience of community as an agent of therapeutic change. The paper also provides descriptions and a case study of the current multi-disciplinary work of the school, including how neuroscientific research is influencing the evolution of the therapeutic task with traumatised children.

Practical implications
– The paper shows how a highly evolved model of integrated provision can support excellent outcomes for traumatised children and young people.

Originality/value
– To broaden and deepen knowledge about the use of therapeutic community principles in the treatment of severely emotionally trouble children and young people.
Influences in children's materialism: a conceptual framework
Authors: Francisco Dávila Juan , Casabayó Mònica 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to answer two questions: According to research carried out in the last decades, what are the factors that influence materialism in children? And, can these factors be classified in a comprehensive conceptual framework?

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper reviews the most cited articles on the topic published in academic journals during the last 35 years, as well as a selection of articles in specific journals published during the last ten years.

Findings
– A conceptual framework is provided which classifies the factors in three groups: individual factors, semi-contextual factors (family related) and contextual factors (external influences).

Practical implications
– The classification helps to understand how the factors relate to each other, and is intended to be a tool for parents, educators and policy makers willing to understand how to deal effectively with materialism in children.

Originality/value
– As far as is known, this paper is the first attempt to classify the factors that influence materialism in children in a conceptual framework.
“You can't buy friends, but … ” children's perception of consumption and friendship
Authors: Lundby Erika 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– This article aims to explore, and compare, the perceived association between economic resources and peer relationships among two age groups of Swedish tweens.

Design/methodology/approach
– The data consist of 101 drawings by Swedish tweens, aged nine, and aged 12. The children were asked if and how children can attract friends through the use of money.

Findings
– Most children did perceive economic resources as a means to attract friends. However, both the kind of items that were found in the drawings, and the children's perceptions of how to use the items, were relatively different between children aged nine and children aged 12.

Research limitations/implications
– Because of the small sample size, it is not possible to generalize results obtained in the current study to a population of children in general.

Practical implications
– If children believe that they can use material goods to become more popular and accepted, they may be highly vulnerable to the internalisation of materialistic values. In order to more deeply understand the meaning of consumption in children's peer relationships, there is a need to gain more knowledge of the extent to which children themselves perceive money as a means of attracting friends.

Originality/value
– Previous research indicates that material possessions are important for children in order to gain popularity among peers. However, few studies have tried to investigate if and how children perceive economic resources as a means to attract friends, in different age groups.
Children's food meanings and eating contexts: schools and their surroundings
Authors: Horta Ana , Truninger Monica , Alexandre Silvia , Teixeira Jose , Aparecida da Silva Vanda 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– Concerns on children's obesity and overweight have been related to food diets with excessive sugar and fat. Given the relevance of school meals in Portuguese children's lives, schools follow governmental guidelines in order to provide nutritiously balanced and healthy meals. As imbalances persist, this study aims at understanding the acceptance of school meals by children, in the context of competing marketing allures of nutritiously poor foods outside the schools.

Design/methodology/approach
– Plural qualitative research techniques (focus groups with children and parents, direct observation and interviews with school directors and kitchen staff) were combined to analyse children's food-related meanings and practices, and also images of food displayed at schools and in their surroundings. The empirical data were collected in four primary and secondary public schools with different socio-economic backgrounds in the area of Lisbon.

Findings
– Results show sharp contrasts between food images and meanings at school canteens and commercial food outlets outside schools. Data suggest that subjection to supervision, unappetizing school meals and images in the canteens stand out against favourite flavours and social levers (such as autonomy and status) of food available outside school.

Research limitations/implications
– This study has an exploratory nature and results are not-generalizable to other schools of the country.

Originality/value
– Limited attention has been paid to competing social contexts of children's food consumption at schools and their surroundings in Portugal. Research results can bring insights to conceptual development on school meals and children's food practices.
The role of overgrazing and anthropogenic disturbance in shaping spatial patterns of distribution of an invasive seaweed
Authors: Tamburello Laura , Bulleri Fabio , Balata David , Benedetti‐Cecchi Lisandro 
Published: November 2013

Summary

Natural and human‐generated disturbances are widely acknowledged as key drivers of biological invasions. Understanding the role of spatial patterns of compounded disturbances in determining invader establishment and spread can enhance the effectiveness of control strategies.
Using the framework of 1/f noise models and by means of a field experiment, we evaluated how the simultaneous exposure of Posidonia oceanica meadows to disturbances (namely overgrazing and rhizome uprooting from vessel anchoring) differing in spatial extent and degree of autocorrelation influenced the establishment and spread of the invasive seaweed, Caulerpa racemosa. Effects on invader establishment and spread were evaluated by means of mixed‐effect models relating spatial patterns of disturbance and presence or abundance of C. racemosa, quantified through spectral coefficients.
The spatial distribution of C. racemosa mimicked that of overgrazing, both variables showing positive autocorrelation. Yet, C. racemosa was unable to disperse from disturbed patches into adjacent intact areas. The uprooting of rhizomes did not promote the establishment of C. racemosa, but magnified (≃18 times) the proliferation of the exotic seaweed when coupled with overgrazing.
Synthesis and applications. Fish overgrazing of Posidonia oceanica lessens the resistance of seagrass beds to invasion by Caulerpa racemosa. Thus, conservation strategies (e.g. marine protected areas) aiming to restore over‐exploited fish populations may indirectly enhance the susceptibility of P. oceanica meadows to invasion by C. racemosa. Uprooting of P. oceanica rhizomes, such as that caused by boat anchoring, exacerbates the effects of overgrazing. The anchoring of recreational vessels should be, therefore, strictly regulated in areas characterized by intense grazing of P. oceanica leaves. More generally, our study shows that native herbivores may indirectly facilitate invasion by reducing the resistance of resident plant communities and suggests that sounded strategies for controlling the establishment and spread of invasive species require taking into account the interactive effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances.
The ubiquitous nature of Listeria monocytogenes clones: a large‐scale Multilocus Sequence Typing study
Authors: Haase Jana K. , Didelot Xavier , Lecuit Marc , Korkeala Hannu ,   L. monocytogenes MLST Study Group, Achtman Mark 
Published: November 2013

SummaryListeria monocytogenes is ubiquitously prevalent in natural environments and is transmitted via the food chain to animals and humans, in whom it can cause life‐threatening diseases. We used Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) of ∼2000 isolates of L. monocytogenes to investigate whether specific associations existed between clonal complexes (CCs) and the environment versus diseased hosts. Most CCs (72%) were not specific for any single source, and many have been isolated from the environment, food products, animals as well as from humans. Our results confirm that the population structure of L. monocytogenes is largely clonal and consists of four lineages (I–IV), three of which contain multiple CCs. Most CCs have remained stable for decades, but one epidemic clone (CC101) was common in the mid‐1950s and very rare until recently when it may have begun to re‐emerge. The historical perspective used here indicates that the central sequence types of CCs were not ancestral founders but have rather simply increased in frequency over decades.
Complete Cardiac Rupture Associated with Closed Chest Cardiac Massage: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Authors: Tattoli Lucia , Maselli Eloisa , Romanelli Maria Carolina , Di Vella Giancarlo , Solarino Biagio 
Published: November 2013

AbstractChest skeletal injuries are the most frequent complications of external chest massage (ECM) during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but heart and great vessels lacerations that are indeed very rare. We report the case of a 35‐year‐old workman who collapsed and underwent ECM by his co‐workers for almost 30 min. At autopsy, no external injuries, fractures or bruises of the ribs or sternum, were observed. A hemopericardium with a rupture of the heart was found, with no signs of pre‐existent cardiac disease. Bruises of thoracic aortic wall, lung petechiae, a contusion of the liver, and bruises of lumbar muscles were found. The cause of death was due to sudden cardiac death with an extensive cardiac rupture. This is an unusual report of massive heart damage without any skeletal or muscle chest injuries, secondary to cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This kind of cardiac lesions may be considered when thoracic–abdominal trauma, or medical history, is unclear.
Citrate Content of Bone for Time Since Death Estimation: Results from Burials with Different Physical Characteristics and Known PMI
Authors: Kanz Fabian , Reiter Christian , Risser Daniele U. 
Published: November 2013

AbstractA recently introduced method to determine the postmortem interval (PMI) based on quantification of the citrate content in bone was applied on the temporal bones and femora of 20 individuals buried in wooden coffins (WO) and body bags (BB), respectively. Concerning known vs. calculated PMI, a significant difference between the temporal and the femur bone samples of the same individuals was observed in the BB group (p = 0.012). In contrast, differences were insignificant for the WO group (p = 0.400). Moreover, similar levels of underestimation of PMIs resulted from the analysis of the femora for both burial groups (p = 0.247). Also, there was consistently less citrate preserved in the flat temporal bones as compared to the femora, indicating that the cortical layer of the long bones should be preferentially employed for citrate‐based PMI estimations. The results call for additional research on subsurface‐buried and surface‐deposited remains to enhance the accuracy of the published PMI equation.
Comparative Analysis of Insect Succession Data from Victoria (Australia) Using Summary Statistics versus Preceding Mean Ambient Temperature Models
Authors: Archer Mel 
Published: November 2013

AbstractMinimum postmortem interval (mPMI) can be estimated with preceding mean ambient temperature models that predict carrion taxon pre‐appearance interval. But accuracy has not been compared with using summary statistics (mean ± SD of taxon arrival/departure day, range, 95% CI). This study collected succession data from ten experimental and five control (infrequently sampled) pig carcasses over two summers (n = 2 experimental, n = 1 control per placement date). Linear and exponential preceding mean ambient temperature models for appearance and departure times were constructed for 17 taxa/developmental stages. There was minimal difference in linear or exponential model success, although arrival models were more often significant: 65% of linear arrival (r2 = 0.09–0.79) and exponential arrival models (r2 = 0.05–81.0) were significant, and 35% of linear departure (r2 = 0.0–0.71) and exponential departure models (r2 = 0.0–0.72) were significant. Performance of models and summary statistics for estimating mPMI was compared in two forensic cases. Only summary statistics produced accurate mPMI estimates.