bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Green university initiatives in China: a case of Tsinghua University
Authors: Zhao Wanxia , Zou Yonghua 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine green university initiatives in the context of China, using Tsinghua University, which is China’s green university pioneer, as a case study.

Design/methodology/approach
– The research method used for this paper is a case study based on participant observation and document analysis. The approach to data collection includes the examination of archive records, yearbooks and statistical information regarding Tsinghua University.

Findings
– This paper finds that Tsinghua’s green university initiative is a response to Tsinghua’s strategy of establishing a word-class university, with a goal of bearing more responsibility in promoting a sustainable society. Tsinghua employs one principle (green university) and three dimensions (green education, green research and green campus) to frame its green university initiative. Tsinghua’s green university initiative has earned many achievements, but it has also faced many challenges, such as ignoring social justice, fragmented coordination efforts and the lack of effective communication and assessment mechanisms.

Practical implications
– As a leading university and the pioneering green university in the country, Tsinghua University is very influential with regard to the development of green universities in China. Many other universities have designed their own programs based on Tsinghua’s experiences in the green university initiative. As such, Tsinghua’s experiences provide reference values to other universities in China.

Originality/value
– This paper comprehensively examines the evolution, framework, achievements and challenges of the green university initiative of Tsinghua University. It helps the audience to know how China’s universities understand and practice education for sustainable development.
Environmental management and sustainability in higher education
Authors: León-Fernández Yolanda , Domínguez-Vilches Eugenio 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to analyse trends in implementing the main initiatives in the field of environmental management and sustainability in Spanish universities, taking as a reference point the guidelines adopted by a number of universities in countries most committed to sustainable development.Design/methodology/approach– An analysis of information available on the Internet and of data collected from a questionnaire completed by a significant proportion of Spanish higher education institutions was carried out.Findings– The research found that the Spanish university system follows international trends: it possesses permanent working structures, applies a variety of environmental management and sustainability tools and carries out other activities related to the environment and sustainable development. But there still appears to be scope for improvement in some aspects, including to increase the visibility of the efforts in the environmental area, and other aspects such as the varying terminology used to refer to similar tools and processes and, conversely, of the same nomenclature to refer to distinct concepts.Originality/value– This paper provides new data and updated information on sustainability in Spanish universities and some recommendations for improvement.
Employing smartphone as on-board navigator in unmanned aerial vehicles: implementation and experiments
Authors: Zhao Boxin , Hellwich Olaf , Hu Tianjiang , Zhou Dianle , Niu Yifeng , Shen Lincheng 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– This study aims to investigate if smartphone sensors can be used in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization system. With the development of technology, smartphones have been tentatively used in micro-UAVs due to their lightweight, inexpensiveness and flexibility. In this study, a Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone is selected as an on-board sensor platform for UAV localization in Global Positioning System (GPS)-denied environments and two main issues are investigated: Are the phone sensors appropriate for UAV localization? If yes, what are the boundary conditions of employing them?

Design/methodology/approach
– Efficient accuracy estimation methodologies for the phone sensors are proposed without using any expensive instruments. Using these methods, one can estimate his phone sensors accuracy at any time without special instruments. Then, a visual-inertial odometry scheme is introduced to evaluate the phone sensors-based path estimation performance.

Findings
– Boundary conditions of using smartphone in a UAV navigation system are found. Both indoor and outdoor localization experiments are carried out and experimental results validate the effectiveness of the boundary conditions and the corresponding implemented scheme.

Originality/value
– With the phone as a payload, UAVs can be further realized in smaller scale at lower cost, which will be used widely in the field of industrial robots.
Sweeping it under the carpet: the role of legislators in corrupt practice in Nigeria
Authors: Otusanya Olatunde Julius , Lauwo Sarah , Ige Oluwaseun Joseph , Adelaja Olunlade Samuel 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– This study aims to contribute to the emerging discourse on elite financial crime, with particular attention devoted to the role played by the legislature in corrupt practices in Nigeria. Separations of power, watchdog role of legislature and ideologies have become a major influence in democratic system. Legislative power has developed as a means of providing oversight functions over the executives, thereby inhibiting fraudulent practices in governments.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper argues that the political institutional structures embedded with monopoly, discretion and little or no accountability facilitate financial corrupt practices within the legislature. The paper uses publicly available evidence to show that the legislators in developing countries are actively engaged in corrupt practices.

Findings
– The evidence provided in this paper shows that separation of power and representative democracy had not brought about transparency and accountability in government activities in Nigeria. Legislature often trade-off their constitutional power and their claim of service to the public interest by engaging in financial criminal practices.

Research limitations/implications
– This paper does not set out to provide a comprehensive analysis of political corruption. Instead, it considers the “dark” side of legislative practice by examining the involvement of legislature in facilitating corrupt financial practices in Nigeria.

Practical implications
– The inability of the regulators to effectively sanction legislators implicated in corrupt practices suggests that the current institutional and regulatory apparatus are not fully equipped in dealing with the financial criminal activities of legislators.

Social implications
– Despite the arrest and prosecution of some legislators, a number of cases are swept under the carpet. Therefore, this paper suggests that Nigeria need to reform its political system and institutions to promote transparency and accountability in government and to build trust in the legislative process.

Originality/value
– This paper considers the “dark” side of legislative practice by examining the involvement of legislature in facilitating corrupt financial practices in Nigeria.
Cutting fraud losses in Canadian organizations
Authors: Peltier-Rivest Dominic , Lanoue Nicole 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of various internal controls (i.e. hotlines, regular ethics (fraud) training, surprise audits, internal and external audits and background checks) on reducing occupational fraud losses by victim organizations.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper, based on data from an occupational fraud report co-authored by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and Peltier-Rivest (2007), uses a multivariate regression analysis to analyze the effect of various internal controls on preventing fraud losses.

Findings
– The authors’ analyses demonstrate that hotlines, regular ethics (fraud) training, surprise audits and internal audits all decrease fraud losses when used separately. However, hotlines and surprise audits are the only statistically significant controls when controlling for the potential correlation among all internal controls. Hotlines are associated with a reduction of 54 per cent in median fraud losses, while surprise audits cut median losses by 69 per cent.

Research limitations/implications
– This study contributes to academia and the anti-fraud profession by assessing the statistical effect of six internal controls on preventing fraud losses, while controlling for the potential correlation among these controls.

Practical implications
– This study discusses the relative benefits (loss savings) of various internal controls to organizations, governments, managers and anti-fraud professionals. This information may help determine investment priorities in the context of scarce resources.

Originality/value
– This paper is based on proprietary data owned by the ACFE and is the first to analyze the statistical significance of various internal controls on the reduction of fraud losses in Canada.
The micro-processes during repatriate knowledge transfer: the repatriates’ perspective
Authors: Burmeister Anne , Deller Jürgen , Osland Joyce , Szkudlarek Betina , Oddou Gary , Blakeney Roger 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to add a process perspective to the literature on repatriate knowledge transfer (RKT) and to understand how the knowledge transfer process unfolds in the repatriation context. Thus, this qualitative study uses existing knowledge transfer process models to assess their applicability to the context of repatriation and explain the micro-processes during RKT.Design/methodology/approach– To provide a rich understanding of these processes from the repatriate perspective, critical incidents reported by 29 German and US American repatriates were content-analyzed.Findings– The findings are summarized in a proposed RKT process model, which describes the roles and knowledge transfer-related activities of repatriates, recipients and supervisors as well as their interaction during four transfer phases: assessment, initiation, execution and evaluation.Research limitations/implications– The experiences of repatriates from different geographic areas as well as the perspectives of knowledge recipients and supervisors were not studied but should be included in future research. In addition, future research could test the applicability of the identified micro-processes to different knowledge transfer contexts.Practical implications– Managers can use the findings to facilitate the RKT process more effectively because the type of organizational support offered can be aligned with the changing needs of repatriates, recipients and supervisors during the four identified phases.Originality/value– This is the first study that takes a process perspective to understand RKT. The integration of the current findings with the existing literature can enable a more nuanced view on RKT.
A systematic review of approaches to assessing cybersecurity awareness
Authors: Rahim Noor Hayani Abd , Hamid Suraya , Mat Kiah Miss Laiha , Shamshirband Shahaboddin , Furnell Steven 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to survey, explore and inform researchers about the previous methodologies applied, target audience and coverage of previous assessment of cybersecurity awareness by capturing, summarizing, synthesizing and critically comment on it. It is also conducted to identify the gaps in the cybersecurity awareness assessment research which warrants the future work.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors used a systematic literature review technique to search the relevant online databases by using pre-defined keywords. The authors limited the search to retrieve only English language academic articles published from 2005 to 2014. Relevant information was extracted from the retrieved articles, and the ensuing discussion centres on providing the answers to the research questions.

Findings
– From the online searches, 23 studies that matched the search criteria were retrieved, and the information extracted from each study includes the authors, publication year, assessment method used, target audiences, coverage of assessment and assessment goals.

Originality/value
– The review of the retrieved articles indicates that no previous research was conducted in the assessment of the cybersecurity awareness using a programme evaluation technique. It was also found that few studies focused on youngsters and on the issue of safeguarding personal information.
Structuration theory: reflections on its further potential for management accounting research
Authors: Coad Alan , Jack Lisa , Kholeif Ahmed Othman Rashwan 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to examine the potential of strong structuration theory in management accounting research.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper explains how the ontological perspective of strong structuration theory extends the work of Giddens and explores how the perspective overcomes a number of the limitations of existing management accounting research based on structuration theory.

Findings
– Strong structuration theory develops and extends the work of Giddens, providing greater insights into the role of agents, improves our understanding of the diffusion of accounting practices through organisational fields, adds to our knowledge of how artefacts are used in the production and reproduction of organisational life and improves research design.

Research limitations/implications
– Strong structuration theory provides clear guidance about management accounting case study research design, and suggests the potential for the accounting research community to engage more actively in debates about the development of structuration theory beyond the work of Giddens.

Originality/value
– This paper provides a clear explanation of the ontology of strong structuration theory, its implications for research design and how it holds the potential to overcome many of the limitations of earlier management accounting studies deploying structuration theory.
Nonlinear vibration-FBG sensing technique for plate detection
Authors: Cai Li , Tan Yuegang , Wei Qin 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to put forward a nonlinear vibration method for crack detection based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG), which is used to receive the waves in the plate.

Design/methodology/approach
– First of all, measuring principle of nonlinear vibration technique and FBG sensing principle are introduced. Then nonlinear signal spectrum is analyzed to reveal various models of nonlinear vibration, and modal analysis of the plate structure is performed to lay the foundation for the later experiment. This approach is the cross-modulation effect from a persistent excitation to the receipt signal.

Findings
– The experimental system is built and its results are in agreement with theoretical analysis, and show that this nonlinear vibration method based on FBG sensor is sensitive to crack damage.

Originality/value
– Taking the board structure as the object, a new attempt by nonlinear vibration detection with FBG sensor has been investigated.
Visual-commercial discourses of infants in direct marketing sent to first-time parents
Authors: Sjöberg Johanna 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of the paper is to analyze what notions of infants parents are visually met through addressed direct marketing. Questions discussed are: How are infants visually constructed as a category? and How are they argued to be in need of consumption?

Design/methodology/approach
– Unsolicited direct marketing sent to three Swedish first-time parents during their child’s first year has been collected and analyzed. Using critical visual discourse analysis, attention is paid to recurring visual patterns and contradictions in how infants are visualized and described at the intersection of materiality, image and text.

Findings
– The analysis shows three dominant visual commercial discourses of infants, here called “the angel”, “the adventurer” and “the transformer”. These discourses are articulated in such a way and with such a strong claim to truth that it appears as if it is not the marketer that is arguing for consumption, but that it is the infant’s character that demands and drives parents toward consumption.

Social implications
– As the visualizations of the age category infants, as well as of parents, are shown to be very uniform and that the marketing play on especially mothers’ fear of not providing the optimal conditions for the child, the study highlights the necessity of a critical dialogue between marketers, producers, parents and other actors in the child consumer business about their respective responsibilities and needs.

Originality/value
– The youngest children are practically invisible in childhood studies as well as in the field of consumer culture. The paper thus contributes to those fields and to the study of visualization of children.
Effects of Discrete Time Delays and Parameters Variation on Dynamical Systems
Authors: Diakite Ibrahim Oumar , Chen-Charpentier Benito 
Published: June 2015

Delay Differential Equations (DDE's) have received considerable attention in recent years. В While most of these articles focused on the effects of the time delays on the stability of the equilibrium points and on the bifurcation that they may raised, В very few papers address the key roles that В system parameters В play В on if and how В the discrete delays induce stability changes of the equilibria and produce bifurcations near such equilibria. In this article we focus on that question in a general setting, that is, if you have a system of DDE's with one or multiple discrete time delays, what are the results of changing the system parameters values on the effects of the discrete time delays on the dynamic of the system. We present general results for one equation with one and two delays В and study a specific example of one equation with one delay. We then establish the procedure for n equations with multiple delays and do a specific example for two equations with two delays. We compute the steady states and analyze their stability as both chosen bifurcation parameters, the discrete time delay ...
Draft Genome Sequence of Raoultella terrigena R1Gly, a Diazotrophic Endophyte
Authors: Schicklberger M. , Shapiro N. , Loqué D. , Woyke T. , Chakraborty R. 
Published: June 2015

ABSTRACT

Raoultella terrigena
R1Gly is a diazotrophic endophyte isolated from surface-sterilized roots of
Nicotiana tabacum
. The whole-genome sequence was obtained to investigate the endophytic characteristics of this organism at the genetic level, as well as to compare this strain with its close relatives. To our knowledge, this is the first genome obtained from the
Raoultella terrigena
species and only the third genome from the
Raoultella
genus, after
Raoultella ornitholytic
and
Raoultella planticola
. This genome will provide a foundation for further comparative genomic, metagenomic, and functional studies of this genus.
Genome Sequence of Listeria monocytogenes Strain HPB5415, Collected during a 2008 Listeriosis Outbreak in Canada
Authors: Pightling Arthur W. , Pagotto Franco 
Published: June 2015

ABSTRACT

Listeria monocytogenes
strain HPB5415—isolated from deli meat—was found in 2008 to have the same pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns as a clinical strain (08-5923). However, whether nucleotide differences (single nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]) exist between their genomes was not determined. We sequenced the
L. monocytogenes
strain HPB5415 genome and identified 52 SNPs relative to strain 08-5923.
ЕФЕКТИВНІСТЬ ВИКОНАННЯ КОМП'ЮТЕРНО-ГЕНЕРОВАНИХ ВПРАВ ІЗ ПРЕДМЕТА «ІНФОРМАЦІЙНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ В ФАРМАЦІЇ НА ОСНОВІ КОГНІТИВНИХ ПРОТОТИПІВ
Authors: Popov A. M. 
Published: June 2015

The paper describes a research to corroborate a hypothesis that wor king on training exercises based on prototypes of human cognitive structures helps enhance student’s knowledge digestion and engagement in learning process, gain a higher level of t h eir progress in studies and achieve a better academic performance. The results of t he research confirmed the hypothesis of better and more rapid digestion of declarative knowledge on the subject of “Information Technologies in Pharmacy”, represented in the tor m of prototypes of human cognitive structures. The results of the entrance test controls showed better on average by 10 % (p&lt;0.05) theoretical achievements of students in the experimental group who wor ked on training exercises in the format of cognitive structures. Drowning a ch art of students’ perfor mance in control and experimental groups for ten lessons and a trend line (linear regression) on it allowed us to hi ghlight the si gnificant difference in the inclinations of the lines with indices of 0.067 and 0.111 in the control and experimental group, respectively. This indicated a stable acceleration of knowledge by students in t he experimental group in comparison with the control group and proved an enhanced academic perfor mance among the groups of students.
КОНГРУЕНТНІ РІШЕННЯ ЗАВДАНЬ ТРАНСФЕРУ ЗНАНЬ ТА ПРОБЛЕМ КОГНІТИВІЗМУ ПРИ МЕДИЧНИХ КОМУНІКАЦІЯХ
Authors: Palagin O. V. , Mintser O. P. , Romanov V. O. , Galelyuka I. B. 
Published: June 2015

<p>Analysis of possible interrelated directions of communicators in emergency and family medicine development and application was performed. According to the first direction the information communicators are intended for supporting alternative communication with people, loosed temporarily or permanently possibility to speak. According to the second direction proposed communicators have databases included detailed information about types of diseases and traumas, and by results of analysis of injured person symptoms or feelings the software subsystem generates some variants of possible diseases or traumas diagnosis.</p>
ПРО ДОСВІД ІНТЕГРАЦІЇ ХМАРНОГО СЕРВІСУ GOOGLE APPS FOR EDUCATION ТА НАЯВНОЇ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОЇ ІНФРАСТРУКТУРИ МЕДИЧНОГО ВНЗ
Authors: Semenets A. V. , Kovalok V. Yu. , Chekanov S. B. 
Published: June 2015

<p>Some aspects of informatization of the medical ed ucation field are considered. The problem of providing the interoperability<br />between cloud services and information systems that can exist in the medical university is determined. The approach of the integration of the Google Apps for Education cloud services with the existing information systems based on the Google Apps For Developers features is propose d. The example of the integration solution in Ternopil State Medical University by I. Ya. Horbachevsky which is based on the "SysAdminka" information system development is shown. Practical recipes of the application of the School Directory Sync util as the "SysAdminka" information system component are offered.</p>