bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Understanding patients’ behavioral intentions
Authors: Zarei Ehsan , Arab Mohammad , Mahmoud Ghazi Tabatabaei Seyed , Rashidian Arash , Rahimi forushani Abbas , Khabiri Roghayeh 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– In the ever-increasing competitive market of private hospital industry, creating a strong relationship with the customers that shapes patients’ loyalty has been considered a key factor in obtaining market share. The purpose of this paper is to test a model of customer loyalty among patients of private hospitals in Iran.

Design/methodology/approach
– This cross-sectional study was carried out in Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2010. The study samples composed of 969 patients who were consecutively selected from eight private hospitals. The survey instrument was designed based on a review of the related literature and included 36 items. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling.

Findings
– For the service quality construct, three dimensions extracted: Process, interaction, and environment. Both process and interaction quality had significant effects on perceived value. Perceived value along with the process and interaction quality were the most important antecedents of patient overall satisfaction. The direct effect of the process and interaction quality on behavioral intentions was insignificant. Perceived value and patient overall satisfaction were the direct antecedents of patient behavioral intentions and the mediators between service quality and behavioral intentions. Environment quality of service delivery had no significant effect on perceived value, overall satisfaction, and behavioral intentions.

Originality/value
– Contrary to previous similar studies, the role of service quality was investigated not in a general sense, but in the form of three types of qualities including quality of environment, quality of process, and quality of interaction.
Optimal overbooking decision for hotel rooms revenue management
Authors: Phumchusri Naragain , Maneesophon Panaratch 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– This paper aims to develop overbooking models to determine the optimal number of overbooking for hotels having one and two different types of rooms.Design/methodology/approach– This paper presents mathematical modeling to find the optimal solutions of overbooking for stochastic cancellation.Findings– The authors prove that for hotels with only one type of room, there exists a closed form solution to guarantee the optimal number of overbooking, depending on the cost of walking customers to other hotels, the cost of unsold rooms and cancellation distribution observed in the past. For hotels with two types of room, they prove the convexity structure and identify equations to seek the number of overbooking for low-price and high-price rooms. The authors also provide key comparative statics on how model parameters impact the optimal decisions under different scenarios.Practical implications– Overbooking decision is one of important and complicated decision-makings, which is related directly to the yield of hotel revenue management. It is necessary for a hotel manager to observe cancellation pattern in the history to make a reliable decision. This paper presents a method that can help hotel manager make this decision in practice.Originality/value– This paper is one of the first articles in the hotel industry that considers the marginal cost for each room unsold caused by no shows and the marginal cost for each walking guest in a comprehensive perspective.
Understanding the actual use of mobile devices in private clubs in the US
Authors: Morosan Cristian , DeFranco Agnes 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to identify systematic ways of linking club members’ behavioral and demographic characteristics to their use of mobile devices in clubs. While the traditional private club experience is characterized by intensive personalization and face-to-face interactions, clubs are increasingly deploying information technology (IT) tools to optimize some of their internal processes and offer a better value proposition to their members.

Design/methodology/approach
– Based on data from 737 actual club members from the USA, this research used a series of logistic regressions to reveal the manner in which a series of behavioral and demographic variables can be used to predict the likelihood of use of mobile devices in clubs for specific club-related tasks.

Findings
– This research revealed that there are differences between the two main types of clubs (i.e. golf/country and city/athletic), as well as differences among club members residing in different regions of the USA in the manner in which members use mobile devices for club-related tasks.

Research limitations/implications
– This research offers a number of notable theoretical contributions. This research uses actual mobile device use data from actual club members in the USA. In addition, this research offers a comprehensive operationalization of the actual mobile use behaviors in clubs, and offers a methodological blueprint for predicting mobile device user behavior using easily collectable variables.

Practical implications
– This research provides specific suggestions to pinpoint the mobile technology deployment in clubs according to behavioral and demographic profile criteria.

Social implications
– This research could lead to feasible segmentation procedures and explicates the increasing role of mobile devices within the contemporary society.

Originality/value
– This research addresses a novel research topic in an industry characterized by a grave lack of research on IT.
Quality of relationship on information technology outsourcing for organizational success in hospitality industry
Authors: Sukru Cetinkaya Ali , Ergul Mehmet , Uysal Muzaffer 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to investigate the effects of vendor – client relationship on organizational success in the hospitality industry. The relationship between vendors and clients regarding information technology outsourcing does not always go in harmony. In the viewpoint of hospitality practitioners, information technology (IT) providers do not necessarily abide by the given promises stated on contracts, all the time. The service flows, which are mostly generated by the lack of quality relationship between vendors and clients directly affect hotels’ organizational performance.

Design/methodology/approach
– Data were collected by an online survey and analyzed using multivariable statistics (path analysis) to determine the effects of service quality and relationship quality on outsourcing success, and its effect on organizational performance. Data from 102 valid responses received from ten different countries, representing 230 hotels in total were analyzed.

Findings
– Service quality and relationship quality, which are two dimensions of outsourcing relationships, were found to be positively related to outsourcing success (r = 0.60 and 0.70, p < 0.01, respectively) and intangible organizational performance (r = 0.20, p < 0.05; 0.26 and 0.27, p < 0.01, respectively).

Research limitations/implications
– The research was designed to investigate the IT outsourcing service receiver’s (client) perspective. The IT service provider’s (vendor) perspective is disregarded. Disturbance results are very high (i.e. more than 0.95). This may well be the case that certain facets of the outsourcing success construct are not adequately represented by the chosen indicators. Research results may reveal an idea about the research subject, in general, but may not be generalized to the whole industry due to its sampling size. Finally, the survey was conducted online, and all online research restrictions were applicable to this research such as receiving very limited response rates.

Practical implications
– The results of this research provide important information for practitioners in the hospitality industry and IT service providers. Relationship quality between vendor and client was observed to be the most determinant factor in IT outsourcing success.

Social implications
– The proposed model may well serve as a framework for further examining mediating and possible moderating variables.

Originality/value
– There is limited research in the previous literature investigating the relationship between information technology vendor and client, in terms of service quality and relationship quality in hospitality industry. This paper may serve to fill in this gap.
Multiple constituencies model in the identification of library effectiveness
Authors: Henricks Susan A , Henricks-Lepp Genevieve M. 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– Public libraries can benefit from understanding the perspectives of various stakeholders leading to the development of measures for decision making and competing for funding as well as demonstrating accountability. The purpose of this paper is to examine library effectiveness from the perspective of multiple stakeholders from a list of indicators pertinent to today and to determine which are most important to a constituency of a single library and any differences among the various constituencies.Design/methodology/approach– A survey that listed indicators of effectiveness for a public library was given to four stakeholder groups of a city library: employees, library board, library foundation members, and the public.Findings– Of the 51 indicators, 39 comprised eight dimensions of effectiveness under the labels of: user experience, facility, digital collection, social media and board, community use, employees, administration, and collection management. The number of statistically significant differences was greatest between the library board and the public as well as the employees and the public.Originality/value– Indicators of public library effectiveness have not been updated for the twenty-first century.
Informing library research with focus groups
Authors: Walden Graham R. 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate alternative strategies to enhance participant interaction in library focus groups.

Design/methodology/approach
– Descriptive alternatives strategies are suggested as techniques to enhance participant interaction in library focus groups.

Findings
– There are no findings as such, rather this is a paper which suggests different approaches than have hitherto be tried in library focus groups.

Originality/value
– There has not been a similar article or set of proposed alternative strategies on this subject in so far as library focus groups are concerned.
Plane wave propagation in an anisotropic dual-phase-lag thermoelastic diffusion medium
Authors: Kumar Rajneesh , Gupta Vandana 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to depict the effect of thermal and diffusion phase-lags on plane waves propagating in thermoelastic diffusion medium with different material symmetry. A generalized form of mass diffusion equation is introduced instead of classical Fick's diffusion theory by using two diffusion phase-lags, one phase-lag of diffusing mass flux vector, represents the delayed time required for the diffusion of the mass flux and the other phase-lag of chemical potential, represents the delayed time required for the establishment of the potential gradient. The basic equations for the anisotropic thermoelastic diffusion medium in the context of dual-phase-lag heat transfer (DPLT) and dual-phase-lag diffusion (DPLD) models are presented. The governing equations for transversely isotropic and isotropic case are also reduced. The different characteristics of waves like phase velocity, attenuation coefficient, specific loss and penetration depth are computed numerically. Numerically computed results are depicted graphically for anisotropic, transversely isotropic and isotropic medium. The effect of diffusion and thermal phase-lags are shown on the different characteristic of waves. Some particular cases of result are also deduced from the present investigation.Design/methodology/approach– The governing equations of thermoelastic diffusion are presented using DPLT model and a new model of DPLD. Effect of phase-lags of thermal and diffusion is presented on different characteristic of waves.Findings– The effect of diffusion and thermal phase-lags on the different characteristic of waves is appreciable. Also the use of diffusion phase-lags in the equation of mass diffusion gives a more realistic model of thermoelastic diffusion media as it allows a delayed response between the relative mass flux vector and the potential gradient.Originality/value– Introduction of a new model of DPLD in the equation of mass diffusion.
Shall we dance? A Shakespearian reading of the subprime crisis
Authors: Bazin Yoann 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to open a dialogue between academic accounts of the subprime crisis and The Life of Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare.

Design/methodology/approach
– Andre Orlean’s analysis of the crisis published in 2009 is closely examined to trace the ways in which it echoes this seventeenth-century play on issues of debt, gift, trust and belief.

Findings
– Shakespeare’s play provides an astonishingly relevant description that can account for and provide a new reading of most of Orlean’s (2009) detailed and in-depth academic analysis.

Originality/value
– Following the chronology of a literary piece, this article opens a dialogue with the academic literature to allow for gaining a particular perspective, namely, beyond specific elements, the underlying dynamics of the subprime crisis are sadly classic in terms of trust and beliefs. As we will see, Shakespeare had already seen everything […].
Functional response of plant communities to clearcutting: management impacts differ between forest vegetation zones
Authors: Kusumoto Buntarou , Shiono Takayuki , Miyoshi Mai , Maeshiro Ryo , Fujii Shin‐jiro , Kuuluvainen Timo , Kubota Yasuhiro 
Published: October 2014

Summary

Understanding of the ecological impacts of logging practices on biodiversity and associated ecosystem processes is essential for developing sustainable forest management approaches. We documented the impacts of clearcutting on the functional structure of tree and herbaceous communities in hemiboreal, cool‐temperate, warm‐temperate and subtropical forests in the Japanese archipelago and identified forest vegetation that is vulnerable to deterioration of important ecosystem functions.

We combined species data for leaf, stem, flower and fruit traits related to productivity, nutrient cycling and habitat quality for wildlife with phytosociological vegetation data from unmanaged and previously clearcut forests, then calculated functional structure indices [community mean (CM) of trait values, functional richness (FRic) and functional divergence (RaoQ)] of plant communities.

For tree species, functional structure indices of specific leaf area (SLA), leaf carbon and nitrogen concentrations, maximum height, wood density and flower size differed between unmanaged and clearcut forests, while for herb species, only maximum height differed between the two forest types.

Functional structure indices showed divergent patterns across forest vegetation zones. In hemiboreal, cool‐temperate and warm‐temperate forests, the CMs of SLA and leaf nitrogen concentration were greater and that of leaf carbon concentration was smaller in clearcut than in unmanaged forests. Although clearcut forests had greater species richness than unmanaged forests, FRic and/or RaoQ of maximum height were smaller in clearcut forests. In hemiboreal and cool‐temperate forests, FRic and RaoQ of SLA were also smaller in clearcut forests. In contrast, subtropical forests showed no differences in species richness and functional structures between unmanaged and clearcut forests.

Synthesis and applications. Functional redundancy of plant communities differs among traits and among forest vegetation zones. After intensive logging, hemiboreal, cool‐temperate and warm‐temperate forests were more vulnerable to the loss of ecosystem functions related to leaf and stem traits of tree species than were subtropical forests, which appeared relatively resilient. Locally adaptive management to maintain multiple ecosystem functions should be developed based on the degree of functional complementarity among plant species in forest communities.
Higher frequency of peripheral blood follicular regulatory T cells in patients with new onset ankylosing spondylitis
Authors: Shan Yuxing , Qi Changlin , Zhao Jixue , Liu Yijun , Gao Hui , Zhao Ding , Ding Fupeng , Wang Jing , Jiang Yanfang 
Published: October 2014

SummaryFollicular helper T (TFH) cells and B cells are linked to the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Follicular regulatory T (TFR) cells suppress TFH cell and germinal center B cell numbers in vivo. The role of TFR cells in AS is unknown. The frequency of peripheral blood inducible FOXP3+CXCR5+CD4+TFR cells and CXCR5+CD4+TFH cells were taken from 20 onset AS patients and 10 healthy controls, and were examined by flow cytometry, their disease activity were measured by the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index. The concentrations of serum interleukin (IL)‐21, immunoglobulin G, immunoglobulin A, immunoglobulin M and C‐reactive protein were examined, and the values of erythrocyte sedimentation rate were measured. The frequency of peripheral blood FOXP3+CXCR5+CD4+TFR cells, CXCR5+CD4+TFH cells, the ratio of FOXP3+CXCR5+CD4+TFR/CXCR5+CD4+TFH cells and the concentration of serum IL‐21 in the AS patients were significantly higher than those in the healthy controls (P < 0.0001, P = 0.0027, P < 0.0001, P = 0.0039, respectively). The frequency of FOXP3+CXCR5+CD4+TFR cells and the ratio of FOXP3+CXCR5+CD4+TFR/CXCR5+CD4+TFH cells still significantly rose in those patients after standard treatment (P = 0.0006, P < 0.0001), the concentration of serum IL‐21 decreased after treatment (P = 0.0049), accompanied by significantly minimized disease activities. Furthermore, the TFR cells were negatively correlated with serum immunoglobulin A in those patients before treatment (r = −0.582, P = 0.0071), and the frequency of TFR cells was negatively correlated with that of TFH cells and the concentration of serum IL‐21 after treatment (r = −0.550, P = 0.046; r = −0.581, P = 0.0371). TFR cells might participate in the pathogenesis of AS, and might be responsible for controlling the autoantibodies, the frequency and function of TFH cells to inhibit the development of AS.
Contribution of MDR1 gene polymorphisms on IBD predisposition and response to glucocorticoids in IBD in a Chinese population
Authors: Yang Qing Fan , Chen Bai Li , Zhang Qing Sen , Zhu Zhen Hua , Hu Bin , He Yao , Gao Xiang , Wang Yi Ming , Hu Pin Jin , Chen Min Hu , Zeng Zhi Rong 
Published: October 2014

ObjectiveThe cornerstone of conventional treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is glucocorticoid (GC). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes such as multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) are related to patient's response to GC, and MDR1 polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to IBD in Caucasians. We aimed to investigate whether the polymorphisms of five genes including MDR1 influence the response to GC in Chinese patients and the relationship between MDR1 and IBD susceptibility.MethodsSNPs were selected and genotyped in 156 IBD patients treated with GC and 223 healthy controls. Patients were evaluated and classified as GC‐dependent, GC‐resistant or responsive to GC after treatment.ResultsThe CC genotypes of rs1128503 and rs1045642 in MDR1 gene were more frequent in Crohn's disease (CD) patients who were GC‐dependent than in those responsive to GC (odds ratio [OR] 6.583, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.760–24.628, P = 0.019 and OR 3.873, 95% CI 1.578–9.506, P = 0.009, respectively). The G allele of MDR1 rs2032582 was less frequent among CD patients than in controls (OR 0.668, 95% CI 0.484–0.921, P = 0.014). G allele carriers were also less likely to develop non‐stricturing and non‐penetrating CD (OR 0.661, 95% CI 0.462–0.946, P = 0.023) and ileocolonic CD (OR 0.669, 95% CI 0.472–0.948, P = 0.024).ConclusionsPolymorphisms of MDR1 are associated with patient's GC response and a predisposition to CD in Chinese population. Further studies are needed to elucidate the role of MDR1 polymorphisms in IBD and that as genetic markers for GC response.
Understanding movements of organisms: it's time to abandon the Lévy foraging hypothesis
Authors: Pyke Graham H. 
Published: October 2014

Summary

Interest in Lévy walks within the context of movement of organisms has recently soared, with some now referring to this approach as the Lévy walk/flight paradigm. The principal assumptions, taken from the world of physics, have been that organisms searching for food or some other resource adopt random walks, whereby the direction of each successive step in the walk is chosen at random from the complete circle and the length of each step, unless terminated through resource encounter, is chosen from a Lévy probability distribution with a particular exponent μ. The additional assumption that organisms forage optimally, such that μ maximizes the rate of resource encounter, has led to the so‐called Lévy foraging hypothesis, with many attempts to test it.

However, the Lévy walk model is unrealistic, especially as it omits directionality between successive steps, a typical feature of movements of individual organisms at spatial scales relevant to their movement decisions. It also results in lower foraging efficiency than other more realistic models and the evidence that organisms actually ‘do the Lévy walk’ is weak to non‐existent, despite claims to the contrary. Early optimal foraging studies of movements of organisms and a new generation of movement models avoid these problems.

It is therefore time to divorce the Lévy walk model from optimal foraging theory, revisit some of the early optimal foraging studies of movements and pursue the new generation of movement models. However, the Lévy approach may still prove useful at relatively large spatial scales, in terms of both theory and observations, especially in relation to distribution, dispersal and other population‐level phenomena, and in this way biology, physics and mathematics may yet work well together.
Activity of a novel bactericide, zinc thiazole against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in Anhui Province of China
Authors: Chen Y. , Yang X. , Gu C‐Y. , Zhang A‐F. , Zhang Y. , Wang W‐X. , Gao T‐C. , Yao J. , Yuan S‐K. 
Published: October 2014

AbstractBacterial leaf blight of rice (BLB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae, is one of the most serious bacterial diseases in China. Presently, bismerthiazol has been the major bactericide for the control of BLB, however, bismerthiazol‐resistant strains of X. oryzae pv. oryzae have appeared in the field in China. Zinc thiazole is a novel bactericide with strong antibacterial activity against Xanthomonas spp. In this study, sensitivity of 109 X. oryzae pv. oryzae strains to zinc thiazole was determined. The EC50 values for zinc thiazole in inhibiting bacterial growth of the 109 X. oryzae pv. oryzae strains were 0.53–9.62 µg mL−1 with the average EC50 value of 4.82 ± 1.86 µg/ml. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of zinc thiazole against the 109 X. oryzae pv. oryzae strains were assessed and the results showed that the MIC values of zinc thiazole for completely inhibiting the growth of these 109 strains ranged from 5.0 to 40.0 µg mL−1. In the evaluation of protective and curative activity test, zinc thiazole exhibited great activity against BLB and provided over 88% control efficacy (at 300 µg mL−1) 1 and 3 days before or after inoculations, which was also higher that that of bismerthiazol in the corresponding treatments. Our field trials showed that zinc thiazole at 375 g.a.i ha−1 provided over 70% control efficacy in 2012 and over 80% control efficacy in 2013 at both sites. Moreover, in all the four field trials, zinc thiazole at 250 g.a.i ha−1 provided higher control efficacy than that of bismerthiazol at 250 g.a.i ha−1. Taken together, zinc thiazole is therefore an alternative tool for the management of BLB.