bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Research for Practice: The Management of Expatriates
Authors: McEvoy Glenn M. , Buller Paul F. 
Published: February 2013

AbstractThe objective of this article is to identify expatriate management research questions of interest to international human resource (IHR) managers. We conducted an in‐depth literature review, interviewed a small sample of IHR managers, and reviewed commercially available large sample surveys of IHR managers. Results suggest that IHR managers are concerned about determinants of the decision to accept an offer of expatriation, why expatriates show so little interest in training, perceived equity in rewards, and other areas not well studied to date. The article discusses implications for academics wishing to make their research more relevant to IHR managers and global organizations. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Diagnosis and management of intramural ectopic pregnancy
Authors: Memtsa M. , Jamil A. , Sebire N. , Jauniaux E. , Jurkovic D. 
Published: February 2013

ABSTRACTIntramural pregnancy is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy, and little is known about its etiology, prevalence and natural history. There is no consensus regarding the ultrasound criteria necessary for the diagnosis of intramural pregnancy, and management strategies vary depending on the severity of clinical presentation, exact location of the pregnancy, viability and gestational age at diagnosis. We present four cases of intramural pregnancy diagnosed in a single institution that illustrate variability in their clinical presentation and difficulty in reaching the correct diagnosis. We also propose a set of ultrasound criteria to facilitate differential diagnosis between intramural and other types of uterine ectopic pregnancy. Copyright © 2013 ISUOG. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
“You Have Votes and Power”: Women's Political Engagement with the Irish Question in Britain, 1919–23
Authors: Moulton Mo 
Published: February 2013

AbstractThe Anglo-Irish War of 1919–21 spurred organized political activity among women in Britain, including former suffragists who campaigned against coercion in Ireland and members of the Irish minority in Britain who supported more radical republican efforts to achieve Irish independence. Their efforts are particularly significant because they occurred immediately after the granting of partial suffrage to women in 1918. This article argues that the advent of female suffrage changed the landscape of women's political mobilization in distinct ways that were made visible by advocacy on Ireland, including the regendering of the discourse of citizenship and the creation of new opportunities beyond the vote for women to exercise political power. At the same time, the use of women's auxiliary organizations and special meetings and the strategic blurring of the public and private spheres through the political use of domestic spaces all indicate the strength of continuities with nineteenth-century antecedents. The article further situates women's political advocacy on Ireland in an imperial and transnational context, arguing that it was part of the process of reconceptualizing Britain's postwar global role whether through outright anti-imperialism, in the case of Irish republicans, or through humanitarianism and the new internationalism, in the case of most former suffragists. Finally, the article examines the failure of these two groups of women to forge alliances with each other, underscoring the ways in which both class and nationality challenged a notional common interest based on sex.
Daily News and the Construction of Time in Late Stuart England, 1695–1714
Authors: Claydon Tony 
Published: February 2013

AbstractRecent scholarship has suggested that frequent receipt of news, especially in new media such as newspapers, altered conceptions of time in the early modern period. In particular, a new and modern “present” was born. This occupied a half-known and semifluid point between the fixity of the past and the unpredictability of the future. It created an imagined contemporaneous moment that linked geographically dispersed events. It was progressive, appearing to move the world ever forward into a novel state. However, close examination of English newspapers in the period 1695–1713, the first era of sustained news periodicals, calls these suggestions into question. Certainly the press of this era provided a constant and corrective update of information from all over Europe. This might have encouraged a sense of a fluid, contemporaneous, and progressive present. However, newspapers also tended to catalog information like a chronicle, which had the potential to fix contents as established history rather than fluid news. Delays in communication from distant places and journalistic practices of holding back stories for later publication ensured that information of different ages was presented on the same page. This destroyed any clear sense of a contemporaneous moment. The requirement to print the next issue even when there was no new information drew explicit attention to the lack of progressive development in some stories. This article posits a highly fractured presentation of time in later Stuart newspapers. It suggests that this is perhaps best analyzed by concepts drawn from “postmodern” theory rather than a hunt for emerging features of “modernity.”
Dynamics of droplet breakup in a T-junction
Authors: Hoang D. A. , Portela L. M. , Kleijn C. R. , Kreutzer M. T. , van Steijn V. 
Published: February 2013

AbstractThe breakup of droplets due to creeping motion in a confined microchannel geometry is studied using three-dimensional numerical simulations. Analogously to unconfined droplets, there exist two distinct breakup phases: (i) a quasi-steady droplet deformation driven by the externally applied flow; and (ii) a surface-tension-driven three-dimensional rapid pinching that is independent of the externally applied flow. In the first phase, the droplet relaxes back to its original shape if the externally applied flow stops; if the second phase is reached, the droplet will always break. Also analogously to unconfined droplets, there exist two distinct critical conditions: (i) one that determines whether the droplet reaches the second phase and breaks, or it reaches a steady shape and does not break; and (ii) one that determines when the rapid autonomous pinching starts. We analyse the second phase using stop–flow simulations, which reveal that the mechanism responsible for the autonomous breakup is similar to the end-pinching mechanism for unconfined droplets reported in the literature: the rapid pinching starts when, in the channel mid-plane, the curvature at the neck becomes larger than the curvature everywhere else. The same critical condition is observed in simulations in which we do not stop the flow: the breakup dynamics and the neck thickness corresponding to the crossover of curvatures are similar in both cases. This critical neck thickness depends strongly on the aspect ratio, and, unlike unconfined flows, depends only weakly on the capillary number and the viscosity contrast between the fluids inside and outside the droplet.
Dumbbell micro-robot driven by flow oscillations
Authors: Vladimirov V. A. 
Published: February 2013

AbstractIn this paper we study the self-propulsion of a dumbbell micro-robot submerged in a viscous fluid. The micro-robot consists of two rigid spherical beads connected by a rod or a spring; the rod/spring length changes periodically. The constant density of each sphere differs from the density of the fluid, while the whole micro-robot has neutral buoyancy. An effective oscillating gravity field is created via rigid-body oscillations of the fluid. Our calculations show that the micro-robot undertakes both translational and rotational motion. Using an asymptotic procedure containing a two-time method and a distinguished limit, we obtain analytic expressions for the averaged self-propulsion velocity and averaged angular velocity. The important special case of zero angular velocity represents rectilinear self-propulsion with constant velocity. In particular, we have shown that: (a) no unidirectional oscillations of a fluid result in self-propulsion; and (b) for the oscillations of a fluid in two directions rectilinear motion of a micro-robot can be achieved.
ON THE -SEMISIMPLICITY OF THE -ALGEBRA ON AN ABELIAN -SEMIGROUP
Authors: BHATT S. J. , DABHI P. A. , DEDANIA H. V. 
Published: February 2013

AbstractTowards an involutive analogue of a result on the semisimplicity of ${\ell }^{1} (S)$ by Hewitt and Zuckerman, we show that, given an abelian $\ast $-semigroup $S$, the commutative convolution Banach $\ast $-algebra ${\ell }^{1} (S)$ is $\ast $-semisimple if and only if Hermitian bounded semicharacters on $S$ separate the points of $S$; and we search for an intrinsic separation property on $S$ equivalent to $\ast $-semisimplicity. Very many natural involutive analogues of Hewitt and Zuckerman’s separation property are shown not to work, thereby exhibiting intricacies involved in analysis on $S$.
URBAN POVERTY AND UTILIZATION OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN INDIA
Authors: PRAKASH RAVI , KUMAR ABHISHEK 
Published: February 2013

SummaryDrawing upon data from the third round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) conducted in India during 2005–06, this study compares the utilization of selected maternal and child health care services between the urban poor and non-poor in India and across selected Indian states. A wealth index was created, separately for urban areas, using Principal Component Analysis to identify the urban poor. The findings suggest that the indicators of maternal and child health care are worse among the urban poor than in their non-poor counterparts. For instance, the levels of antenatal care, safe delivery and childhood vaccinations are much lower among the urban poor than non-poor, especially in socioeconomically disadvantageous states. Among all the maternal and child health care indicators, the non-poor/poor difference is most pronounced for delivery care in the country and across the states. Other than poverty status, utilization of antenatal services by mothers increases the chances of safe delivery and child immunization at both national and sub-national levels. The poverty status of the household emerged as a significant barrier to utilization of health care services in urban India.
COMPARISON OF TWINNING RATES FOR VILLAGES IN MAKARSKA REGION, CROATIA
Authors: SUNDE JADRANKA , BORIĆ MATIJA , URLIĆ NATALIJA , URLIĆ LARA 
Published: February 2013

SummaryA detailed database on the genealogy of the Makarska region in Croatia has been created. The twinning rate for three villages in the region (Podgora, Tučepi and Brela) were analysed over the period 1870 to 1940 and factors such as mother's age and birth order are discussed. Of the three villages, Podgora was identified as having the highest twinning rate and consequently records for Podgora were examined further to include almost 400 years of historical data (from 1621 to 1950).
Money for Empire: The Yokohama Specie Bank Monetary Emissions Before and After the May Fourth (Wusi) Boycott of 1919
Authors: HORESH NIV 
Published: February 2013

AbstractOver the last three decades, a considerable body of English-language academic work has shed much light on Japan's empire-building project in Greater China during the first half of the twentieth century. At the same time, Japanese-language studies of the country's pre-war financial history have also grown in leaps and bounds. Yet, to date, neither body of literature seems to have fully examined what might appear to the naked eye as one of the critical pre-war junctures, where Japanese financial history converged on imperial policy and Chinese nationalist responses thereto.1 This paper will therefore aim to fill part of the gap by examining how the Yokohama Specie Bank, arguably the backbone of Japanese finance in China Proper, was affected by Chinese anti-foreign boycotts throughout the pre-war era (1842–1937).
Hybrid Detectors Improved Time-Lapse Confocal Microscopy of PML and 53BP1 Nuclear Body Colocalization in DNA Lesions
Authors: Foltánková Veronika , Matula Pavel , Sorokin Dmitry , Kozubek Stanislav , Bártová Eva 
Published: February 2013

AbstractWe used hybrid detectors (HyDs) to monitor the trajectories and interactions of promyelocytic leukemia (GFP-PML) nuclear bodies (NBs) and mCherry-53BP1-positive DNA lesions. 53BP1 protein accumulates in NBs that occur spontaneously in the genome or in γ-irradiation-induced foci. When we induced local DNA damage by ultraviolet irradiation, we also observed accumulation of 53BP1 proteins into discrete bodies, instead of the expected dispersed pattern. In comparison with photomultiplier tubes, which are used for standard analysis by confocal laser scanning microscopy, HyDs significantly eliminated photobleaching of GFP and mCherry fluorochromes during image acquisition. The low laser intensities used for HyD-based confocal analysis enabled us to observe NBs for the longer time periods, necessary for studies of the trajectories and interactions of PML and 53BP1 NBs. To further characterize protein interactions, we used resonance scanning and a novel bioinformatics approach to register and analyze the movements of individual PML and 53BP1 NBs. The combination of improved HyD-based confocal microscopy with a tailored bioinformatics approach enabled us to reveal damage-specific properties of PML and 53BP1 NBs.
100 GHz transformer‐coupled quadrature oscillator
Authors: Lin K.‐T. , Chen H.‐K. , Lu S.‐S. 
Published: February 2013

A 96.4–100.8 GHz quadrature oscillator utilising transformer‐coupled and magnetic tuning techniques has been implemented in 90 nm CMOS technology. Under 1 V supply operation, experimental results show that the phase and amplitude error between I and Q paths are smaller than 1.6° and 0.9 dB with power dissipation from 8.7 to 21 mW. The measured phase noise is − 110.4 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz‐offset away from the downconverted 98.6 GHz carrier. This oscillator occupies a chip area of 0.357 mm2.
Instantaneous frequency measurement with adjustable measurement range and resolution based on polarisation modulator
Authors: Zhang Hualin , Pan Shilong 
Published: February 2013

An instantaneous frequency measurement scheme incorporating a polarisation‐modulator‐(PolM)‐based link is proposed and demonstrated. With the adjustable dispersion‐induced microwave power penalties in the PolM‐based link, the measurement range and resolution can be easily tuned. Therefore, optimised resolution for a specific measurement range can be achieved. An experiment has been performed and a frequency measurement range of 3.3–18.7 GHz with a measurement resolution of ±0.15 GHz was achieved.
300 GHz vector‐sum phase shifter using InP DHBT amplifiers
Authors: Yu H.G. , Lee K.J. , Kim M. 
Published: February 2013

A vector‐sum phase shifter that provides 90° phase control with a positive signal gain is successfully demonstrated at WR‐3 band. The integrated circuit consists of input and output microstrip power dividers and two InP DHBT amplifiers with a 300 GHz gain of 14.8 dB. The measurements on a fabricated phase shifter show offset phases of − 46°, − 22°, 0°, 25°, 57° and signal gain of 7.7 to 10.1 dB at 300 GHz.
Design and tuning of superconducting filter at VHF‐band with mechanically switchable interdigital capacitors
Authors: Ying Zhijun , Guo Xubo , Cao Bisong , Wei Bin , Zhang Xiaoping 
Published: February 2013

A tunable superconducting resonator consisting of a microstrip spiral and an 8‐bit switchable interdigital capacitor array, controlled by eight mechanical switches, is presented. The measured tuning range of the resonator is 1 MHz from 198.2 to 199.2 MHz with a fine average resolution of 4 kHz and an unloaded Q of over 55000. A four‐pole narrowband superconducting filter at 198.7 MHz with 0.2% fractional bandwidth is designed with this resonator and fabricated. By changing the states of the mechanical switches, the resonant frequency of each resonator and hence the frequency response of the filter is successfully tuned.
Polarisation independent split ring frequency selective surface
Authors: Zabri S.N. , Cahill R. , Schuchinsky A. 
Published: February 2013

A frequency selective surface (FSS) is described which exhibits coincident spectral responses for TE and TM polarisation when the FSS operates at 45° incidence. The structure consists of two closely spaced arrays of ring elements with the conductor split at one or two locations to provide independent control of the resonances for the vertical and horizontal field directions. The FSS is designed to diplex two channels separated by an edge of a band ratio of 1.7:1 and yield a common − 10 dB reflection bandwidth of 10.2%. Measured and numerical results are shown to be in good agreement over the frequency range 9–12 GHz.
Room‐temperature operation of InAs‐based interband‐cascade‐lasers beyond 6 µm
Authors: Dallner M. , Höfling S. , Kamp M. 
Published: February 2013

A report is presented on long wavelength room‐temperature operation of InAs‐based interband cascade lasers (ICLs) at 6.06 µm. The broad area and ridge waveguide devices operate in pulsed mode up to 25 and 40 °C, respectively, and therewith extend the available room‐temperature operation range of ICLs to longer wavelengths.
Foliar, fruit and soilborne diseases.
Authors: Dann E. K. , Ploetz R. C. , Coates L. M. , Pegg K. G. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract

This chapter provides an in-depth review of important diseases affecting avocado production throughout the world. The importance of understanding the interaction of plant pathogens with their avocado host in order for the development of disease management options is also discussed.
Dog zoonoses and human health: a global perspective - Mini Review.
Authors: Macpherson C. N. L. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Dogs are appreciated and kept or tolerated in high numbers, playing a variety of roles in human society. The relationship facilitates over 65 zoonoses whose distribution depends on a complex interplay between the hosts and environment. Children are most at risk. Some national/local control programmes have been implemented.
An approximate Bayesian approach for mapping paired-end DNA reads to a reference genome
Authors: Shrestha Anish Man Singh , Frith Martin C. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Summary: Many high-throughput sequencing experiments produce paired DNA reads. Paired-end DNA reads provide extra positional information that is useful in reliable mapping of short reads to a reference genome, as well as in downstream analyses of structural variations. Given the importance of paired-end alignments, it is surprising that there have been no previous publications focusing on this topic. In this article, we present a new probabilistic framework to predict the alignment of paired-end reads to a reference genome. Using both simulated and real data, we compare the performance of our method with six other read-mapping tools that provide a paired-end option. We show that our method provides a good combination of accuracy, error rate and computation time, especially in more challenging and practical cases, such as when the reference genome is incomplete or unavailable for the sample, or when there are large variations between the reference genome and the source of the reads. An open-source implementation of our method is available as part of Last, a multi-purpose alignment program freely available at http://last.cbrc.jp.
Contact: martin@cbrc.jp
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Wessim: a whole-exome sequencing simulator based on in silico exome capture
Authors: Kim Sangwoo , Jeong Kyowon , Bafna Vineet 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Summary: We propose a targeted re-sequencing simulator Wessim that generates synthetic exome sequencing reads from a given sample genome. Wessim emulates conventional exome capture technologies, including Agilent’s SureSelect and NimbleGen’s SeqCap, to generate DNA fragments from genomic target regions. The target regions can be either specified by genomic coordinates or inferred from in silico probe hybridization. Coupled with existing next-generation sequencing simulators, Wessim generates a realistic artificial exome sequencing data, which is essential for developing and evaluating exome-targeted variant callers.
Availability: Source code and the packaged version of Wessim with manuals are available at http://sak042.github.com/Wessim/.
Contact: sak042@cs.ucsd.edu or vbafna@cs.ucsd.edu
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Determinants of financial governance practices: evidence from NGOs in Ghana
Authors: Ogeh Fiador Vera 
Published: February 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore financial governance as practiced by NGOs in Ghana and further examines the determinants of the financial governance structures of the NGOs. The study specifically investigates which organizational‐level characteristics exhibit any link whatsoever with governance as it relates to budget preparation, budget execution and internal controls and budget monitoring.Design/methodology/approachUsing a questionnaire to conduct the survey, a cross‐sectional regression analysis was executed.FindingsThe findings of the study indicate that the most positively influential factor in explaining an NGO's adoption of a governance framework is its size. The other variables, organizational age and independence, are not significant across all three financial governance proxies and when they prove significant, the effect is negative.Originality/valueThe findings hold important policy implications and especially so for countries that attract significant funding via relatively small‐sized NGOs.
Finding the intersection of the learning organization and learning transfer
Authors: Hee Kim Jun , L. Callahan Jamie 
Published: February 2013

Purpose– This article aims to develop a conceptual framework delineating the key dimension of the learning organization which significantly influences learning transfer.Design/methodology/approach– The conceptual framework was developed by analyzing previous studies and synthesizing the results associated with the following four relationships: the learning organization and learning transfer; the learning organization and organizational performance; the Learning Transfer System Inventory (LTSI) and learning transfer; and the Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) and the LTSI.Findings– This paper developed the learning transfer framework of the learning organization, which emphasizes the significance of leadership for learning on facilitating learning transfer in the learning organization.Research limitations/implications– First, empirical-analytical research needs to be accumulated to verify the conceptual framework developed in the present paper. Second, instruments to measure the learning organization need to incorporate the learning transfer concept. Last, organizations need to focus on leadership for learning to increase learning transfer if the organization does not have enough resources to develop all dimensions of the learning organization.Originality/value– This article contributes to the literature by producing a conceptual framework that isolates leadership for learning as a key dimension of the learning organization that specifically influences learning transfer. The pivotal dimension of leadership for learning was extracted through investigating the numerous empirical-analytical studies.