bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Organizing education: schools, school districts, and the study of organizational history
Authors: Duke Daniel L. 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a rationale for organizational histories of schools and school districts and discuss the findings of selected examples of the genre.Design/methodology/approach– The author presents a vignette of an organizational history, discusses key elements of the methodology, and offers seven ways in which organizational histories address important issues in educational research.Findings– A case is made, using actual examples of research, that organizational histories of schools and school districts can contribute to testing existing theory, developing new theory, describing how educational change occurs, accounting for the sustainability of educational change, explaining organizational continuity over time, understanding school and district responses to persistent social issues, and balancing an over-emphasis on the impact of school and district leaders.Originality/value– The paper draws on the author’s original contributions to organizational history as well as the contributions of his doctoral students and others.
It’s never too late to learn
Authors: Warhurst Russell Paul , Black Kate Emma 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– This article aims to review the changing demographics of employment and it proceeds to critically examine the existing literature on later-career workers’ experiences of training and development. Population ageing in developed economies has significant implications for workplace learning, given suggestions that most occupational learning for later-career workers occurs on-the-job within the workplace. The literature suggests that later-career workers receive very little formal occupational training. However, significant gaps are revealed in the existing research knowledge of the extent and nature of older workers learning particularly with regard to incidental learning in the workplace.

Design/methodology/approach
– A qualitative empirical investigation has been conducted among later-career managerial workers and the visual elicitation methodology adopted is detailed.

Findings
– The results of the investigation show how the later-career managers in question were learning extensively, albeit incidentally, from workplace challenges specifically those associated with their responsibilities and from interacting with their managers, teams and external stakeholders.

Originality/value
– The article draws conclusions for policymakers and those tasked with ensuring the continued learning and development of an ageing workforce.
Karl E. Weick and the dawning awareness of organized cognition
Authors: Starbuck William H 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– Cognitive perspectives have emerged from many years of struggle for recognition, and grown into a dominant theme in psychology. The purpose of this paper is to discuss what Karl Weick expressed as important themes in this struggle, made major contributions to the content of cognitive psychology, and helped to make cognition relevant for organizational behavior.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper reviews key developments in the history of psychology, points out central issues, and summarizes Weick’s contributions.

Findings
– Weick brought sensemaking into sharp focus as a major activity of people and organizations. His writings established information processing as the core of organizational activities. He also showed how sensemaking affects organizational reliability.

Originality/value
– Weick is one of the authors whom management scholars cite very often because he has been a thought leader. The paper places Weick’s work in historical context and points to his major contributions.
R
&
D collaboration in the automotive innovation environment
Authors: Agostini Lara , Caviggioli Federico 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is twofold: to analyze to what extent innovation output of R
&
D collaborations, proxied by co-patenting activities in terms of quantity, characteristics and value, differs depending on whether the engaged R
&
D partners have a certain type of relationship (allies, suppliers and subsidiaries); to identify possible automakers co-patenting patterns taking into account the differences in the innovation output with their R
&
D partners.

Design/methodology/approach
– To reach the aims, the authors matched two types of data: co-assigned patent portfolio of four automakers and relationship type between automakers and their co-assignees. Matching the company names of the two data sources allowed the authors to obtain the final data set used to carry out extensive descriptive and regression analysis, both on a firm- and patent-level.

Findings
– Results show differences in the characteristics and the technological value of patented inventions in relation with the type of collaboration partner; they also support the authors in the identification of four co-patenting patterns (contingent, purposive, watchful and advanced) according to the co-patenting propensity and the presence of a preferred relationship type.

Originality/value
– The paper contributes to the literature by investigating the presence of differences across the patenting activities of a selection of automakers and their supplier, allied and subsidiary firms. The issue related to patent value represents an emerging area of interest in the field of collaborations for innovation. The methodology constitutes a novelty by matching two different sources and standardizing the company names (“name game”) through an automated algorithm and a double manual check, by searching company web sites and corporate trees.
Investor communication in equity-based crowdfunding: a qualitative-empirical study
Authors: Moritz Alexandra , Block Joern , Lutz Eva 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– This study’s aim is to investigate the role of investor communication in equity-based crowdfunding. The study explores whether and how investor communication can reduce information asymmetries between investors and new ventures in equity-based crowdfunding, thereby facilitating the crowd’s investment decisions.Design/methodology/approach– This paper follows an exploratory qualitative research approach based on semi-structured interviews with 23 market participants in equity-based crowdfunding: 12 investors, 6 new ventures and 5 third parties (mostly platform operators). After analyzing, coding and categorizing the data, this paper developed a theoretical framework and presented it in a set of six propositions.Findings– The results indicate that the venture’s overall impression – especially perceived sympathy, openness and trustworthiness – is important to reduce perceived information asymmetries of investors in equity-based crowdfunding. To communicate these soft facts, personal communication seems to be replaced by pseudo-personal communication over the Internet (e.g. videos, investor relations channels and social media). In addition, the communications of third parties (e.g. other crowd investors, professional and experienced investors and other external stakeholders) influence the decision-making process of investors in equity-based crowdfunding. Third-party endorsements reduce the perceived information asymmetries and lower the importance of pseudo-personal communications by the venture.Originality/value– Prior research shows that investor communication reduces information asymmetries between companies and investors. Currently, little is known about the role of investor communication in equity-based crowdfunding. This study focuses on the role of investor communication to reduce the perceived information asymmetries of investors in equity-based crowdfunding.
Teleinvestmentevangelists: celebrity, ritual and religion and the quest to “beat the market”
Authors: Allen Douglas E , Keller Mary , McGoun Elton (Skip) 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to offer a cultural understanding of investor faith in stock picking despite overwhelming evidence questioning its efficacy. Why, in the face of very widely communicated findings calling into question the advice and assistance offered by financial professionals to help them pick stocks or manage their mutual funds, do so many people persist in these practices? The authors believe that the best way to understand investor faith in the efficacy of stock picking is through teleinvestmentevangelists such as Jim Cramer, whose fusion of celebrity and religion taps into the ritualistic elements of investment that usually lie hidden. Drawing from media, religious and cultural studies theory, the authors flesh out the dynamics of the teleinvestmentevangelist as a powerful character, the understanding of which provides insights on the pre-modern meanings that inhere in mediated global capital.Design/methodology/approach– This conceptual work draws on theoretical perspectives and qualitative experiences of everyday investors to explain why the entire field of stock picking remains so robust and captivating in the face of ample evidence that calls into question the validity of the entire phenomenon.Findings– This paper derives and introduces the hypothetical figure of the “Teleinvestmentevangelist” in an attempt to weave dimensions of celebrity, ritual and religion together to explain investors undeterred faith in the ability to pick individual stocks and “beat the market”.Research limitations/implications– The primary research implication of this paper is that it exhibits the continued value of integrating interdisciplinary perspectives for understanding investing experience beyond more limited views undergirded by neoclassical economics. One challenge of the paper is that it attempts to merge three disparate perspectives that have not typically been integrated and applied to financial phenomena.Practical implications– One practical implication of this paper is that it provides a perspective and vocabulary that enables us to understand financial experiences more fully and reflect on these understandings more critically.Social implications– Armed with a richer understanding of financial and investing experience, individual investors can better appreciate fundamental cultural misrecognitions that potentially culminate in symbolic violence whereby certain groups of investors are systematically disadvantaged.Originality/value– The originality of this paper lies in its synthesis of disparate literature bases and application of this synthesis to the financial and investing world. Not only are the individual theoretical perspectives rarely consultedvis-à-visinvesting experience but also is their synthesis particularly unique and original in the context of financial and investing phenomena.
A Study on Test Pressures for Hot Tap for Large Diameter Pipes
Authors: Saha Subrata , Pisal Abhijit 
Published: July 2015

Hot tapping [1–3] is the operation which allows attaching new branch connection on piping system and pipelines containing hydrocarbons under operating conditions. This operation is associated with high level of risk and is undertaken with extreme caution.
A major source of risk from the point of structural integrity is the low limits on value of test pressure as compared to the Code specified test pressures [4]. The reason is pipes are not designed for external pressure and they may “buckle” under external pressure during testing. The current practice is to use curves which are specifically developed by various operating companies [3] and are not generally available in the public domain. The problem becomes severe for large diameter thin pipes where the safe test pressure becomes quite low. This has potential risk as the pressures could be much lower than the operating pressures.
This paper discusses this problem and also details out an analytical method which can be used to obtain higher “Strength test pressure” with respect to ratio of parent pipe diameter and thickness. So that design reliability of the hot tap branch can be increased. Methodology explained in paper gives lot of flexibility to go for higher test pressure. FEA analysis is used to demonstrate these results.
Globally acceptable procedures also advocate using FEM analysis to confirm the strength test pressure. Based on that FEA analysis was done and it is established that hot tap design can sustain higher test pressure than operating. In reality Hot Taps have been performed and tested successfully with the test pressures as per our proposed method which in a way validates our theory.
Remote-Controlled Plugging Technology Minimizes Platform Downtime: Valve Replacement Through SmartPlug® Isolation
Authors: Lie Rolf Gunnar , Muangsuankwan Natthasart 
Published: July 2015

Following a planned inline inspection pigging program of its 32-inch gas export pipeline (GEP) on the Bongkot platform in the Gulf of Thailand, PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) discovered that the line’s primary shutdown valve (SDV), last manual isolation valve, and one of the two isolation valves for the line’s pig trap were defective. The issues were creating unacceptable internal passing rates and external leakage to the atmosphere. In addition, the line had severe corrosion at the surface of a 5D bend underneath the deck sealing block. The situation mandated valve repair, removal and replacement operations, while the corroded bend necessitated treatment with composite fiber wrap.
PTTEP planned for their shutdown and maintenance for over a year and it was to take place in April 2014. Faced with two options for safe and reliable isolation of its gas export line, PTTEP could either bleed down the entire line — a protracted and very costly option, or it could pressure isolate the line downstream of the valves and just bleed down the section back to the pig launcher. PTTEP chose SmartPlug pressure isolation with the remote-controlled plugging technology engineered by T.D. Williamson (TDW).
With the export line securely isolated, the SDV and manually operated valves were replaced. Following the replacement of the valves, a hydrotest was carried out against the SmartPlug tool’s third plugging module to verify the integrity of the repair work.
This paper describes the challenges of such an offshore pressure isolation, as well as the steps taken from planning, to site visit and engineering, to safely and successfully executing the isolation.
Challenges and Best Safety Practices in CGD Industry
Authors: Sharma Alok 
Published: July 2015

Indraprastha Gas Limited — the largest CGD Company in the country serving more than 11 Lakh customers with uninterrupted gas supply round the clock with largest pipeline network (more than 9200 kms) in the National Capital Region of the Country.
IGL has adopted best safety practices and always strives to ensure safety of employees, workers, consumers, stake holders and general public at large. However IGL’s City Gas Distribution network operations in National Capital Region pose its own very typical challenges in CNG (Compressed Natural Gas – Vehicle Refueling) & PNG (Piped Natural Gas) operations. There are various challenges during Laying of Pipeline as per relevant codes & statutes as obtaining permissions, clearances, NoCs, approvals, etc., availability & retaining of trained & experienced manpower, constraints in laying of pipeline in highly populated area, presence of other utilities, etc. Similarly during the O&M of Pipeline, the organization faces challenges like third party damages leading to gas leak & fire, massive expansion projects of other companies in Delhi/NCR like Delhi Metro/Delhi Jal Board/MTNL, etc. Same is the case with CNG Operations where we are handling incidents/emergencies due to the customers’ negligence like an important issue of CNG cylinder validation, Poor Maintenance of CNG Vehicles and their CNG Kits, Untested and unsafe cylinders is a matter of serious concern, Installation of unauthorized spare parts in CNG Kits of vehicles, leading to serious consequences at our CNG stations.
Based on scientific analysis of the incidents happening on day to day basis, various initiatives are taken to control and avoid their recurrence.
Integrity Management: II — Pipeline Operation and Maintenance
Authors: Dey Rajib Kumar , Iyengar Srivatsan K. 
Published: July 2015

Oil & Gas pipeline industry has experience external corrosion and damage impacting its structural integrity for decades. Over 30 years, composite technology has been implemented to strengthen pipelines back to its design condition. The composite application is very common for pipelines of all sizes having operating temperatures from ambient to 60 deg. C.
ONGC – Uran plant is a major facility to process crude oil with associated gas and condensate received from Mumbai High through Subsea pipeline. Regeneration Column was designed for 50 PSI with Design Temperature of 130 Deg. C. and insulated skin. Weather and humidity was accelerating external corrosion around stiffener rings to the point that, it warranted a shutdown to replace either a section or full tower, thereby impacting the production throughput of ONGC-Uran facility.
ONGC hired M/s. EIL as a consulting company to map out extent of corrosion and to identify area needed attention to rehabilitate. Consultant recommended to go for weld build up in identified LML areas (Local Metal Loss) through a planned shutdown of the column.
We were aware about composite technology and further investigation helped to find the right combination of Carbon and High Temperature Epoxy system meeting our requirement through online repair and rehabilitation avoiding shutdown of Regeneration Column.
We selected Carbon with high temperature epoxy based composite system designed for 130 deg. C and installation between 90 to 110 deg. C. Composite application system was designed accordingly and a third party inspection agency was hired to witness prototype tests and composite application techniques. Bonding of Carbon Composite to the Carbon Steel pipe of equivalent grade was successfully tested in the lab.
After infield application, the thickness and hardness of composite system were measured throughout the repaired area during and after the process by TPI. Project was completed by T.D. Williamson in end 2012.
Support from Phylogenomic Networks and Subspecies Signatures for Separation of Mycobacterium massiliense from Mycobacterium bolletii
Authors: Tan Joon Liang , Ngeow Yun Fong , Choo Siew Woh 
Published: July 2015

ABSTRACT

Mycobacterium abscessus
subspecies classification has important clinical implications. We used phylogenomic network and amino acid analyses to provide evidence for the separation of
Mycobacterium bolletii
and
Mycobacterium massiliense
into two distinct subspecies which can potentially be differentiated rapidly by their protein signatures.
Multilocus Sequence Analysis of Clinical “Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis” Strains from Europe
Authors: Grankvist Anna , Moore Edward R. B. , Svensson Stadler Liselott , Pekova Sona , Bogdan Christian , Geißdörfer Walter , Grip-Lindén Jenny , Brandström Kenny , Marsal Jan , Andréasson Kristofer , Lewerin Catharina , Welinder-Olsson Christina , Wennerås Christine 
Published: July 2015

ABSTRACT

“
Candidatus
Neoehrlichia mikurensis” is the tick-borne agent of neoehrlichiosis, an infectious disease that primarily affects immunocompromised patients. So far, the genetic variability of “
Ca
. Neoehrlichia” has been studied only by comparing 16S rRNA genes and
groEL
operon sequences. We describe the development and use of a multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) protocol to characterize the genetic diversity of clinical “
Ca
. Neoehrlichia” strains in Europe and their relatedness to other species within the
Anaplasmataceae
family. Six genes were selected:
ftsZ
,
clpB
,
gatB
,
lipA
,
groEL
, and 16S rRNA. Each MLSA locus was amplified by real-time PCR, and the PCR products were sequenced. Phylogenetic trees of MLSA locus relatedness were constructed from aligned sequences. Blood samples from 12 patients with confirmed “
Ca
. Neoehrlichia” infection from Sweden (
n
= 9), the Czech Republic (
n
= 2), and Germany (
n
= 1) were analyzed with the MLSA protocol. Three of the Swedish strains exhibited identical
lipA
sequences, while the
lipA
sequences of the strains from the other nine patients were identical to each other. One of the Czech strains had one differing nucleotide in the
clpB
sequence from the sequences of the other 11 strains. All 12 strains had identical sequences for the genes 16S rRNA,
ftsZ
,
gatB
, and
groEL
. According to the MLSA, among the
Anaplasmataceae
, “
Ca
. Neoehrlichia” is most closely related to
Ehrlichia ruminantium
, less so to
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
, and least to
Wolbachia
endosymbionts. To conclude, three sequence types of infectious “
Ca
. Neoehrlichia” were identified: one in the west of Sweden, one in the Czech Republic, and one spread throughout Europe.
Humicola sp. as a Cause of Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis
Authors: Burns Nathan , Arthur Ian , Leung Michael , Ketharanathan Selva , Sandoval-Denis Marcelo , Gené Josepa , Guarro Josep , Chakera Aron 
Published: July 2015

ABSTRACTPeritoneal dialysis is the renal replacement modality used by ∼20% of patients with end-stage kidney disease (S. McDonald, P. Clayton, and K. Hurst, p. 6.2–6.27,in ANZDATA 2012 Annual Report, 35th ed., 2012). A major complication of peritoneal dialysis is the development of peritonitis. We describe a case ofHumicolasp. causing peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritonitis, successfully treated with a prolonged course of antifungal therapy.
Measles Virus Infection Inactivates Cellular Protein Phosphatase 5 with Consequent Suppression of Sp1 and c-Myc Activities
Authors: Sato Hiroki , Yoneda Misako , Honma Reiko , Ikeda Fusako , Watanabe Shinya , Kai Chieko 
Published: July 2015

ABSTRACT
Measles virus (MeV) causes several unique syndromes, including transient immunosuppression. To clarify the cellular responses to MeV infection, we previously analyzed a MeV-infected epithelial cell line and a lymphoid cell line by microarray and showed that the expression of numerous genes was up- or downregulated in the epithelial cells. In particular, there was a characteristic comprehensive downregulation of housekeeping genes during late stage infection. To identify the mechanism underlying this phenomenon, we examined the phosphorylation status of transcription factors and kinase/phosphatase activities in epithelial cells after infection. MeV infection inactivated cellular protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) that consequently inactivated DNA-dependent protein kinase, which reduced Sp1 phosphorylation levels, and c-Myc degradation, both of which downregulated the expression of many housekeeping genes. In addition, intracellular accumulation of viral nucleocapsid inactivated PP5 and subsequent downstream responses. These findings demonstrate a novel strategy of MeV during infection, which causes the collapse of host cellular functions.

IMPORTANCE
Measles virus (MeV) is one of the most important pathogens in humans. We previously showed that MeV infection induces the comprehensive downregulation of housekeeping genes in epithelial cells. By examining this phenomenon, we clarified the molecular mechanism underlying the constitutive expression of housekeeping genes in cells, which is maintained by cellular protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) and DNA-dependent protein kinase. We also demonstrated that MeV targets PP5 for downregulation in epithelial cells. This is the first report to show how MeV infection triggers a reduction in overall cellular functions of infected host cells. Our findings will help uncover unique pathogenicities caused by MeV.