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Digital preservation strategies at Colorado State University Libraries
Authors: Oehlerts Beth , Liu Shu 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an account of digital archiving and preservation practices and processes successfully implemented at an academic institution.Design/methodology/approachThis case study chronicles the planning and actions taken to identify, select, package, and archive local digital assets for long‐term access and migration. It includes a literature review and offers selected resources as a starting point for other institutions investigating digital preservation tools and practices.FindingsDigital preservation is a broad, evolving, and important facet of digital asset management, yet often overlooked by library administration and understated in library operations. Collaborative approaches should be considered in implementing digital preservation tools and processes with limited resources.Practical implicationsWhat is successfully in operation at CSUL may be learned by other institutions. An effective preservation plan and established workflows will give an organization the capability to maximize limited funds and staff time.Originality/valueThe majority of the current literature provides theories, technologies, conceptual models, and large‐scale collaborations, with relatively little describing needs, practices, operations, and experiences at a specific academic library. This paper will contribute to the literature by discussing digital preservation from actual experience, based on the work we perform, the needs we face, and the solutions we reach within our current environment.
The relationship between leader fit and transformational leadership
Authors: Guay Russell P. 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe aim of the current study is to further understanding of transformational leadership antecedents by examining a gap in the literature that fails to address the relationship between leader fit and transformational leader behaviors.Design/methodology/approachThis study examined the relationship between leaders' person‐organization fit, needs‐supplies fit, and demands‐abilities fit and transformational leader behavior using a sample of 215 leaders in ten organizations, their supervisors, and 1,284 followers.FindingsDemands‐abilities fit was positively related to transformational leadership, whereas person‐organization fit was negatively related. Transformational leadership was also related to leader effectiveness (rated by the leaders' own supervisors) and mediated the relationship between demands‐abilities fit and supervisor ratings of leader effectiveness.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough demands‐abilities fit was positively related to transformational leadership, these results should be interpreted with caution as it is not possible to infer causality from cross‐sectional research. Thus, longitudinal or experimental research is needed to replicate these findings.Practical implicationsWhether promoting from within or hiring externally, organizations should place more emphasis on demands‐abilities fit when trying to predict who will engage in transformational leadership behavior. In addition, leaders' own supervisors and followers appear to be in strong agreement on whether someone is an effective leader.Originality/valueTo the author's knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship between leader fit and transformational leadership.
Socioeconomics of crime and discretionary punishment: the case of Ghana
Authors: Akpalu Wisdom , Mohammed Anatu 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to empirically verify whether “unfettered” judicial discretion in developing countries breeds corruption or not as judges could favour elites who have access to more money to steal or punish the poor who are petty‐thieves rather harshly.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs Suits index and regression analysis to investigate the relationship between the amount stolen and jail time. The index which is based on Lorenz curve is used to verify whether punishment for theft cases prosecuted in Ghana is anti‐petty theft, neutral, or anti‐serious theft. The regression analysis is used to explore the determinants of punishment per unit of the crime (i.e. amount stolen).FindingsThe results strongly support the claim that disproportionate penalty is assigned to petty thefts committed mostly by the poor and non‐elites. Moreover, the regression line which is almost a perfect fit indicates penalty per unit of the amount stolen decreases by 0.8 percent if the total amount stolen increases by 1 percent.Research limitations/implicationsDue to poor records on criminals, there was very limited information on recidivism, hence this was not considered in the analysis. Second, there are much more theft convictions each year in Ghana than the sample represents. However, since the convicted cases used are random, the results are reliable enough.Social implicationsGranting enormous discretionary powers to judges in developing countries may not guarantee retributive justice. Indeed the judiciary is likely to grant favours to elites who steal more and punish the poor who normally engage in petty theft disproportionately. Consequently, high discretionary powers to judges could potentially result in high blue and white collar crimes.Originality/valueThe paper makes a novel attempt at employing Suits index and regression analysis to verify the feasibility of retributive justice in the presence of unlimited discretionary powers.
Does financial development increase rural‐urban income inequality?
Authors: Tiwari Aviral Kumar , Shahbaz Muhammad , Islam Faridul 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of financial development on the rural‐urban income inequality in India using annual data from 1965 to 2008.Design/methodology/approachThe Ng‐Perron unit root test is utilised to check for the order of integration of the variables. The long run relation is examined by implementing the ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration.FindingsThe results confirm a relation among the variables. Evidence suggest that financial development, economic growth and consumer prices aggravate rural‐urban income inequality in the long run.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study offers fresh insights to policy makers on crafting appropriate policies that reduce rural‐urban income inequality in India.Originality/valueThe contribution of this paper is lies in extending the literature in the context of India towards an extensively researched area of rural‐urban divide but in time series framework and utilization of a better approach of time series approach, i.e. ARDL. Specifically, to the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first empirical study to test poverty‐finance nexus using the basic principles of the GJ hypothesis and provide evidence of short‐ and long‐run dynamics on the postulated relation for India.
The role of public libraries in culture‐led urban regeneration
Authors: Skot‐Hansen Dorte , Hvenegaard Rasmussen Casper , Jochumsen Henrik 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to present a research project on public libraries in urban development focusing on how libraries contribute to culture‐led urban regeneration as icons, placemakers and community vitalization.Design/methodology/approachThe research project is based on case studies of new “cutting‐edge” public libraries in Europe and North America. These case studies have been conducted through analysis of documents, observation and qualitative interviews with key informants.FindingsThe article finds that new public libraries have re‐conceptualized their design, brand and functions as an answer to strategies of culture‐led urban regeneration, and at the same time they have actively contributed to urban development by changing the image and identity of urban places, contributing to urban diversity and addressing social and economic problems.Practical implicationsThe article provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for public libraries and a point of departure for the discussion of the library's contribution to urban development.Originality/valueThis is the first public presentation of the findings of the results of the research project Public Libraries in Urban Development – Creativity, Innovation and Experience outside the Nordic countries.
Measuring the competitiveness of a firm for an award system
Authors: Cetindamar Dilek , Kilitcioglu Hakan 
Published: January 2013

PurposeCompetition is of interest to both policy makers and managers. However, existing studies concentrate on the measurement of national competitiveness while neglecting firm competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by developing a comprehensive and generic measurement model to understand firm competitiveness. The model is used to develop an award system to help companies in the self‐assessment of their competitiveness.Design/methodology/approachThe theoretical base of the measurement of firm level competitiveness is driven from two national competitiveness models, namely World Competitive Yearbook and Global Competitiveness Index, while the assessment structure is based on the well‐known European Foundation for Quality Management Excellence Award. The competitiveness model developed in this paper is put into use in Turkey. The measures of the model are used for assessing the competitiveness of ten firms, in order to choose the most competitive firm of the year. The study in Turkey explains how the measurement model works by illustrating an example.FindingsThis paper attempts to develop a generic model in which the competition parameters do not change for individual companies. The model covers a wide variety of parameters that form the base of competition at the firm level. It is demonstrated that the competition model developed in the paper works in practice.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the national competitiveness by providing deeper understanding of the dynamics of firm‐level competitiveness and provides some implications and suggestions for further studies.
Intellectual capital accounting in action: enhancing learning through interventionist research
Authors: Serena Chiucchi Maria 
Published: January 2013

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to contribute to understanding how measuring intellectual capital (IC) can favor IC mobilization, examining the role of actors who design and implement the system in influencing managers’ IC learning processes and their take up of IC management practices.Design/methodology/approachA constructive case study, in which the researcher was directly involved in measuring IC, is presented. Kolb's experiential learning theory model examines if and how the actors mobilized IC and how the researcher and controller influenced their learning process.FindingsThe paper shows that actors must complete an experiential learning cycle to mobilize IC. The controller's role is pivotal in promoting IC mobilization, provided he/she experiences a deep learning process and he/she moves from “IC counting” to “IC accounting.” The paper also highlights how research intervention contributes to IC mobilization by influencing the actors’ learning process.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is limited to one Italian company, so the results cannot be generalized; they were influenced by the researcher's “strong” interventionist approach and by the model adopted.Practical implicationsCompanies introducing IC will become aware of barriers and levers to measuring and mobilizing IC, thus enabling them to devise strategies to avoid the former and take advantage of the latter.Originality/valueThe experiential learning theory model offers an alternative way of understanding how IC measurement produces effects and how the controller and researcher can influence the managers’ IC learning journey thus contributing to mobilization of IC.
Evaluation of medical students' attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: a naturalistic study in one medical school
Authors: Sinai Amanda , Strydom Andre , Hassiotis Angela 
Published: January 2013

PurposeIt is increasingly recognised that people with intellectual disabilities have poorer access to health care. One of the recommendations from the independent report, Healthcare for All is compulsory undergraduate medical teaching about people with intellectual disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the attitudes of medical students towards people with intellectual disabilities. The authors hypothesised that knowledge and attitude will change over the course of a 14‐week Neurosciences block, which included a taught intellectual disabilities module and opportunity to undertake a clinical placement.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a naturalistic prospective study in a London university. Data were collected at the beginning and the end of each of the three 14‐week Neurosciences blocks during the year. Attitude was measured using a self‐report questionnaire, including an amended short form of the Community Living Attitudes Scale (CLAS), administered in hard and e‐copy.FindingsIn total 136 medical students (35 per cent response rate) completed the questionnaire at the beginning and 133 (34 per cent response rate) at the end of the block. By the end of the block, students had increased knowledge of the definition of intellectual disability. Medical students showed generally favourable attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities but there was no significant change in attitude between the start and end of the block.Originality/valueThis study shows that didactic teaching and limited exposure to people with intellectual disabilities, although it increases knowledge, is not enough to affect the kind of changes required to improve attitude. Increased face to face contact with people with intellectual disabilities and other innovative teaching methods are more likely to influence attitude in future medical practitioners. These will require further evaluation.
Water and CO2 permeability of SsAqpZ, the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 aquaporin
Authors: Ding Xiaodong , Matsumoto Tadashi , Gena Patrizia , Liu Chengwei , Pellegrini‐Calace Marialuisa , Zhong Shihua , Sun Xiaoli , Zhu Yanming , Katsuhara Maki , Iwasaki Ikuko , Kitagawa Yoshichika , Calamita Giuseppe 
Published: January 2013

AbstractBackground informationCyanobacteria possess Aquaporin‐Z (AqpZ) membrane channels which have been suggested to mediate the water efflux underlying osmostress‐inducible gene expression and to be essential for glucose metabolism under photomixotrophic growth. However, preliminary observations suggest that the biophy‐sical properties of transport and physiological meaning of AqpZ in such photosynthetic microorganisms are not yet completely assessed.ResultsIn this study, we used Xenopus laevis oocyte and proteoliposome systems to directly demonstrate the water permeability of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 aquaporin, SsAqpZ. By an in vitro assay of intracellular acidification in yeast cells, SsAqpZ was found to transport also CO2. Consistent with this result, during the entire exponential phase of growth, Synechococcus SsAqpZ‐null‐mutant cells grew slower than the corresponding wild‐type cells. This phenotype was stronger with higher levels of extracellular CO2. In line with the conversion of CO2 gas into HCO3− ions under alkaline conditions, the impairment in growth of the SsAqpZ‐null strain was weaker in more alkaline culture medium.ConclusionsCyanobacterial SsAqpZ may exert a pleiotropic function in addition to the already reported roles in macronutrient homeostasis and osmotic‐stress response as it appears to constitute an important pathway in CO2 uptake, a fundamental step in photosynthesis.
Diagnostic nomenclature for foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: the continuing challenge of causality
Authors: Miller A. R. 
Published: January 2013

AbstractPrenatal alcohol exposure is a risk factor for neurologically based cognitive and adaptive disability. Diagnostic nomenclature for prenatally exposed children with cognitive and adaptive disability who lack features for foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or partial FAS includes the terms alcohol‐related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND) and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder(s) (FASD). Although these terms are now widely used, this paper argues that both are problematic. ARND is flawed by unjustifiably turning a risk factor into a causal factor and shrouding the result in terminological ambiguity, while FASD is not appropriate as a clinical label, and its use as a proxy for ARND deflects critical attention from the causal inferencing that is integral to diagnosing children with an alcohol‐related teratogenic condition. Existing nomenclature is at odds with logical and evidence‐based diagnosing and also has implications for interpretation of epidemiological data. Diagnostic nomenclature that is not tightly linked to causal inference is preferable at the present stage of this field's development.
Deconvolution‐based assessment of pituitaryGHsecretion stimulated withGHRH+arginine inPrader‐Willi adults and obese controls
Authors: Grugni Graziano , Marostica Eleonora , Crinò Antonino , Marzullo Paolo , De Nicolao Giuseppe , Sartorio Alessandro 
Published: January 2013

SummaryObjectiveThe assessment ofGHdeficiency in adult patients with Prader‐Willi syndrome (PWS) has been previously assessed through the evaluation of quantitative parameters, such as the peak value ofGHresponse to exogenous stimuli. A comprehensive description of the pattern of secretory response obtainable by deconvolution analysis is still lacking. The aim of our study was to characterize the time evolution of responses ofPWSsubjects compared with obese controls.Design and subjectsGHresponsiveness was measured following the combined administration ofGHRH+arginine to 65PWSadults (24 males, 41 females) aged 18–41·2 years, and 17 age‐, gender‐ and body mass index‐matched obese controls.PWSsubjects were analysed considering the stratification on different genotypes.MeasurementsGHresponse toGHRH+arginine was analysed in terms of peak values, standard area under the curves (AUCs),AUCs due to the stimulus,AUCs of the Instantaneous Secretion Rate signal and Secretion Response Analysis.ResultsIn terms of both peak values andAUC,GHresponses were statistically different betweenPWS UPD15 andPWS DEL15 subjects as well as betweenPWS UPD15 and obese controls.PWSsubjects showed a lower and a more delayedGHresponse compared with obese controls. Moreover,PWS UPD15 subjects had the most delayedGHresponse.ConclusionsOur findings demonstrate that impairedGHsecretion inPWSsubjects compared with obese controls regards not only amplitude parameters such as peak value andAUC, but also the shape of the secretory response, which is more delayed, especially forUPD15 subjects.
Long‐Term Evaluation of Immediately Loaded Implants in the Edentulous Mandible Using Fixed Bridges and Platform Shifting
Authors: Romanos Georgios E. , Gaertner Kathrin , Nentwig Georg H. 
Published: January 2013

AbstractBackgroundThe immediate loading concept has been extensively documented in the anterior part of the mandible when six primary stable implants are placed, splinted with a fixed prosthesis.PurposeThe aim of this study was to evaluate the long‐term success of immediately occlusal loaded implants with a progressive thread design and platform shifting in the edentulous mandible.Materials and MethodsSeventy‐eight implants placed in 13 patients and were connected with their abutments immediately after surgery. The implants were splinted using a fixed temporary restoration having occlusal contacts in the centric and group function in the lateral movements of the mandible (immediate occlusal loading). The patients were advised to use soft/liquid diet for the first 6 to 8 weeks of healing in order to reduce excessive loading in the bone‐to‐implant interface. Abutment level impressions were taken without removing the abutments in order to fabricate the final prostheses. The final restorations were delivered 4 to 8 weeks after surgery and cemented temporarily in order to evaluate the peri‐implant soft tissue condition at the different time intervals after removal of the restoration. Clinical stability and radiological indices were evaluated at the start of loading, at 3‐month interval after loading, and then annually.ResultsAfter a mean loading period of 75.29 (± 38.18) months, no implant was lost (100% success rate). All clinical indices had values in normal levels. The Periotest values demonstrated a continuous reduction, representing high stability. The crestal bone level was relatively stable and only minimal crestal bone loss was observed in some implants.ConclusionsLong‐term success and stability of the peri‐implant tissues around immediately loaded mandibular implants are expected when implants with platform shifting are restored with bridges without abutment removal.
The immunohistochemical differential diagnosis of microcystic adnexal carcinoma, desmoplastic trichoepithelioma and morpheaform basal cell carcinoma using BerEP4 and stem cell markers
Authors: Sellheyer Klaus , Nelson Paula , Kutzner Heinz , Patel Rajiv M. 
Published: January 2013

BackgroundMicrocystic adnexal carcinoma (MAC), desmoplastic trichoepithelioma (DTE) and morpheaform basal cell carcinoma (BCC) frequently impose a considerable differential diagnostic challenge and immunohistochemistry is often used as a differentiating diagnostic adjunct.MethodsUsing standard immunohistochemical techniques, we examined 21 examples of DTE, 17 examples of morpheaform BCC and 10 examples of MAC for the expression of BerEP4, a marker of epithelial cells, and of three stem cell markers, pleckstrin homology‐like domain, family A, member 1 (PHLDA1) [T cell death‐associated gene 51 (TDAG51)], cytokeratin 15 (CK15) and cytokeratin (CK19).ResultsAll but one MAC was negative for BerEP4 and all morpheaform BCC expressed BerEP4. Sixteen out of 21 DTE were immunoreactive for BerEP4. All 21 DTE were PHLDA1 positive and all 17 morpheaform BCC were PHLDA1 negative. MAC showed a mixed staining pattern for PHLDA1. CK15 was expressed in 20/21 DTE, whereas the majority of cases of MAC and morpheaform BCC were CK15 negative. CK19 stained more MAC than DTE and morpheaform BCC.ConclusionsBerEP4 differentiates between MAC and morpheaform BCC but not between MAC and DTE whereas PHLDA1 differentiates between DTE and morpheaform BCC but shows variable staining in MAC. CK15 and CK19 are helpful adjuncts in the differential diagnosis of sclerosing adnexal neoplasms but are second in line to BerEP4 and PHLDA1. We propose an algorithm for the immunohistochemical work‐up of sclerosing adnexal neoplasms.