bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Understanding workplace violence and its prevention in New Zealand: The 2011 New Zealand workplace violence survey
Authors: Bentley Tim A , Catley Bevan E , Forsyth Darryl , Tappin David C 
Published: December 2013

AbstractThis exploratory study examined the workplace violence problem in a sample of 96 New Zealand organisations. Just over one-half of participating organisations reported cases of violence, with a total of nearly 2,500 cases reported in 2009. The incidence rate for all violence cases was high compared with internationally reported rates. Highest violence incidence rates and lost-time were reported for the health sector, where patients, customers/clients and family members were rated as sources of violence of particularly high importance. Risk factors with highest mean importance ratings were related to exposure to unstable persons, including: alcohol and drug use, harassment, and mental and physical instability/distress. Workload and time-pressure were also identified as risk factors for some organisations. Just 50% of organisations formally recognised violence as a hazard in the workplace, while interventions were largely limited to employee training and technological factors.
Distributive justice, job stress, and turnover intention: Cross-level effects of empowerment climate in work groups
Authors: Choi Byoung Kwon , Moon Hyoung Koo , Nae Eun Young , Ko Wook 
Published: December 2013

AbstractThis paper, with its multilevel design including 90 work groups in South Korea, proposes and examines how distributive justice relates to job stress, and thus leading to turnover intention at the individual level, and how this relationship is affected by empowerment climate at the group level. The results of hierarchical linear modeling show that employees’ perception of distributive justice was negatively related to job stress. We also find that job stress partially mediated the influence of distributive justice on turnover intention. In addition, at the work group level, the empowerment climate decreased employees’ job stress, and the negative relationship between distributive justice and job stress at the individual level was moderated by the empowerment climate. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Antimicrobial resistance in eight US hospitals along the US–Mexico border, 2000–2006
Authors: BENOIT S. R. , ELLINGSON K. D. , WATERMAN S. H. , PEARSON M. L. 
Published: December 2013

SUMMARYAntimicrobial resistance (AR) is a growing problem worldwide and international travel, cross-border migration, and antimicrobial use may contribute to the introduction or emergence of AR. We examined AR rates and trends along the US–Mexico border by analysing microbiology data from eight US hospitals in three states bordering Mexico. Microbiology data were ascertained for the years 2000–2006 and for select healthcare and community pathogens including, three Gram-negative (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae) and three Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus, Streptococcus pneumoniae) pathogens and 10 antimicrobial–pathogen combinations. Resistance was highest in S. aureus (oxacillin resistance 45·7%), P. aeruginosa (quinolone resistance 22·3%), and E. coli (quinolone resistance 15·6%); six (60%) of the 10 antimicrobial–pathogen combinations studied had a significantly increasing trend in resistance over the study period. Potential contributing factors in the hospital and community such as infection control practices and antimicrobial use (prescription and non-prescription) should be explored further in the US–Mexico border region.
The range, abundance and habitat of Hinde’s Babbler Turdoides hindei: fine-scale changes in abundance during 2000–2011 reflect temporal variation in scrub cover
Authors: SHAW PHIL , NJOROGE PETER , OTIENO VINCENT , MLAMBA EDSON 
Published: December 2013

SummaryIn developing countries, ‘land sparing’ may be more effective than ‘land sharing’ in partially mitigating the impacts of farming on bird species diversity. We examined the pattern of change in the global and local distribution of Hinde’s Babbler Turdoides hindei, a ‘Vulnerable’ Kenyan endemic whose local abundance is dependent on a passive form of land sharing, in which farmland is left fallow or abandoned, enabling Lantana scrub to colonise. In 2011 we assessed the species’ global range and resurveyed three IBAs, surveyed previously in 2000–2001, to determine whether fine-scale changes in abundance reflected temporal changes in habitat quality. Although the babbler’s known range increased between 1900–1970 and 1991–2011, we suggest that this apparent expansion largely reflects an improved knowledge base, and that several recently discovered sites are likely to have been overlooked in the past. In combination, the three IBAs surveyed in 2000-2001 and 2011 showed little net change in the number of individuals (+1.3%) or groups (-3.8%) encountered, despite a 68% decline in the number individuals recorded at one site. Within 1-km transect sections there was a positive correlation between change in Hinde’s Babbler abundance and change in the amount of scrub cover available, such that a reduction in scrub cover of 22 and 6 percentage points, respectively, was associated with the loss of one group or one individual. The availability of scrub cover was dependent mainly on the amount land left uncultivated, perhaps in response to changes in the value of coffee and other crops. Since the babbler’s abundance thus currently depends mainly on land sharing by default, rather than by design, we suggest that a more proactive approach, involving land purchase or payments for land set aside, might help to secure its future.
Plastic bronchitis: symptomatic improvement after pulmonary arterial stenting in four patients with Fontan circulation
Authors: Tanase Daniel , Ewert Peter , Eicken Andreas 
Published: December 2013

AbstractPlastic bronchitis is a severe complication after a Fontan procedure, with an estimated incidence around 1–2% and poor prognosis. We present the cases of four patients with plastic bronchitis after a total cavopulmonary connection with a stenosis of the left pulmonary artery that was stented successfully. In three of the four patients, symptoms improved after catheter intervention in combination with pulmonary vasodilator and inhalative treatment.
Food hygiene, deprivation, types of premises and rates of gastrointestinal illnesses in the UK
Authors: Collins Brendan 
Published: December 2013

AbstractObjectiveTo understand more about the relationship between economic deprivation, types of premises, food hygiene scores and rates of gastrointestinal illness in the UK.DesignData were extracted from the UK Food Standards Agency for about 300 000 UK premises which had hygiene scores based on visits from local authority food safety officers. These scores were analysed by type of premises, deprivation and local authority. Local authority-level average scores were mapped and compared with rates of laboratory-detected gastrointestinal illness from the Health Protection Agency.SettingUK.SubjectsUK premises (n 311 458) from 341 local authority areas that sell or produce food.ResultsThere was a modest but statistically significant relationship between average food hygiene score and deprivation, which was caused by deprived areas having more of the categories of premises with significantly lower hygiene scores; these were pub/club (n 40 525), restaurant/café/canteen (n 73 052), small retailer (n 42 932) and takeaway (n 36 708). No relationship was established between local authority average food hygiene scores and rates of laboratory-detected gastrointestinal illness; however, this result does not preclude a relationship between food hygiene and rates of gastrointestinal illnesses, as laboratory-detected illness rates make up only a small proportion of actual rates of illness in the community.ConclusionsCertain types of UK premises are more likely to have low hygiene scores, which means that they should be targeted more for enforcement. These types of premises are more prevalent in the most economically deprived areas.
Functional multi-band THz meta-foils
Authors: Wu Jianfeng , Moser Herbert O. , Xu Su , Jian Linke , Banas Agnieszka , Banas Krzysztof , Chen Hongsheng , Bettiol Andrew A. , Breese Mark B. H. 
Published: December 2013

AbstractIn this paper, we present the first experimental demonstration of double- and triple-band negative refraction index meta-foils in the terahertz (THz) region. Multi-band meta-foils constructed by multi-cell S-string resonators in a single structure exhibit simultaneously negative permittivity and negative permeability responses at multiple frequencies. The phenomena are confirmed by numerical simulations and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy measurements. The flexible, freestanding multi-band meta-foils provide a promising candidate for the development of multi-frequency THz materials and devices.
Ecology of viruses
Authors: Kirchman David L. 
Published: December 2013

Abstract
In addition to grazing, another form of top-down control of microbes is lysis by viruses. There is probably a virus or several for every one organism in the biosphere, but the most common viruses are thought to be those that infect bacteria. Viruses come in many varieties, but the simplest is a form of nucleic acid wrapped in a protein coat. The form of nucleic acid can be virtually any type of RNA or DNA, single or double stranded. Few viruses in nature can be identified by traditional methods, because their hosts cannot be grown in the lab. Direct count methods have found that viruses are very abundant, being about 10-fold more abundant than bacteria, but the ratio of viruses to bacteria varies greatly, especially so in soils. Viruses are thought to account for about 50 per cent of bacterial mortality, but the percentage varies from zero to 100 per cent, depending on the environment and time. In addition to viruses of bacteria and cyanobacteria, studies by microbial ecologists conducted to date have examined viruses of phytoplankton and the possibility that when viral lysis ends, phytoplankton blooms. While viral lysis and grazing are both top-down controls on microbial growth, they differ in several crucial respects. Unlike grazers, which often completely oxidize prey organic material to carbon dioxide and inorganic nutrients, viral lysis releases the organic material from hosts more or less without modification. Perhaps even more important, viruses may facilitate the exchange of genetic material from one host to another.
Genomes and metagenomes of microbes and viruses
Authors: Kirchman David L. 
Published: December 2013

Abstract
The sequencing of entire genomes of microbes grown in pure cultures is now routine. Sequencing studies have found that bacterial genomes range from 0.18 Mb (intracellular symbiont) to 13 Mb (a soil bacterium), whereas genomes of eukaryotes are much bigger. One fungus has a 40 Mb genome. While bacteria and their small genomes often grow faster than eukaryotes, there is no correlation between genome size and growth rates among the bacteria examined so far, although one of the slowest-growing bacterium in the lab, Pelagibacter ubique, has one of the smallest genomes (1.3 Mb) among free-living bacteria. Genomic studies have also highlighted the importance of genes exchanged (‘lateral gene transfer’) between organisms seemingly unrelated, as defined by rRNA gene sequences. Microbial ecologists use new technology to sequence all microbes in a community. This metagenomic approach has revealed unsuspected physiological processes in microbes, such as the occurrence of a light-driven proton pump, rhodopsin, in bacteria (dubbed proteorhodopsin). Metagenomic studies contributed to establishing that archaea in the deep ocean are capably of chemoautotrophy fuelled by ammonia oxidation, and other studies suggest the occurrence of sulfide oxidation by chemoautotrophic bacteria in oxic surface waters. Metagenomic studies have been even more important in identifying viruses and in showing their huge diversity.
6 The Brownian motion model of asset prices
Authors: Richmond Peter , Mimkes Jürgen , Hutzler Stefan 
Published: December 2013

AbstractThis chapter shows that Bachelier predated Einstein with his PhD thesis entitled ‘Theorie de la Speculation’, a complete analysis of futures and options, based on the ideas of random fluctuations of stock prices, superimposed on a constant drift. Einstein's work, however, was immediately recognised as being highly relevant, not only since it provided a final proof for the existence of atoms, but also for its treatment of random motion. Bachelier's results, on the other hand, remained largely unknown in the scientific and economic communities until the 1960s. A number of issues arise in Bachelier's original model, some of which must have become clear to Bachelier himself when comparing his predictions to actual financial data.
Why markets crash
Authors: Richmond Peter , Mimkes Jürgen , Hutzler Stefan 
Published: December 2013

AbstractThis chapter presents and addresses more immediately relevant questions that usually concern investors, and which are much harder to address than those questions previously explored in the book. It begins by looking at the work of Sornette and colleagues who have developed a model of crashes, based on ideas originally applied to the study of earthquakes. The discussion then moves on to an examination of insights obtained by Bouchaud and Cont, using ideas rooted in agent models. Both approaches focus on basic concepts and have the benefit of being amenable to analytic treatment. Recent years have seen a number of significant booms and crashes in asset markets. A number of models have been developed to try to account for this kind of extreme behaviour.
An introduction to physical economics
Authors: Richmond Peter , Mimkes Jürgen , Hutzler Stefan 
Published: December 2013

AbstractThis chapter introduces the concept of physical economics, an approach based on two-dimensional calculus and a model first proposed by the French medical doctor Francois Quesnay. Inspired by the circulatory flow of human blood, Quesnay considered a production process as a circuit and, as such, is sometimes thought of as one of the first economists. He analysed the simple case of a closed agricultural economy where, each and every day, farmers from households go to work into the fields. The farmers have capital in the form of fields adjacent to the village. Each day, in return for their daily toil or work, they bring home consumer goods from the fields. The goods are the reward for labour; this labour is directly related to the output of produce.
NetCoffee: a fast and accurate global alignment approach to identify functionally conserved proteins in multiple networks
Authors: Hu Jialu , Kehr Birte , Reinert Knut 
Published: December 2013

Abstract
Motivation: Owing to recent advancements in high-throughput technologies, protein–protein interaction networks of more and more species become available in public databases. The question of how to identify functionally conserved proteins across species attracts a lot of attention in computational biology. Network alignments provide a systematic way to solve this problem. However, most existing alignment tools encounter limitations in tackling this problem. Therefore, the demand for faster and more efficient alignment tools is growing.
Results: We present a fast and accurate algorithm, NetCoffee, which allows to find a global alignment of multiple protein–protein interaction networks. NetCoffee searches for a global alignment by maximizing a target function using simulated annealing on a set of weighted bipartite graphs that are constructed using a triplet approach similar to T-Coffee. To assess its performance, NetCoffee was applied to four real datasets. Our results suggest that NetCoffee remedies several limitations of previous algorithms, outperforms all existing alignment tools in terms of speed and nevertheless identifies biologically meaningful alignments.
Availability: The source code and data are freely available for download under the GNU GPL v3 license at https://code.google.com/p/netcoffee/.
Contact: Jialu.Hu@fu-berlin.de
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Bar slowdown and the distribution of dark matter in barred galaxies
Authors: Athanassoula E. 
Published: December 2013

Abstract
‘Conspiracy’ between the dark and the baryonic matter prohibits an unambiguous decomposition of disc galaxy rotation curves into the corresponding components. Several methods have been proposed to counter this difficulty, but their results are widely discrepant. In this paper, I revisit one of these methods, which relies on the relation between the halo density and the decrease of the bar pattern speed. The latter is routinely characterized by the ratio ${\cal R}$ of the corotation radius RCR to the bar length Lb, ${\cal R} = R_{\rm CR}/L_{\rm b}$. I use a set of N-body+SPH simulations, including subgrid physics, whose initial conditions cover a range of gas fractions and halo shapes. The models, by construction, have roughly the same azimuthally averaged circular velocity curve and halo density and they are all submaximal, i.e. according to previous works, they are expected to have all roughly the same ${\cal R}$ value, well outside the fast bar range (1.2 ± 0.2). Contrary to these expectations, however, these simulations end up having widely different ${\cal R}$ values, either within the fast bar range or well outside it. This shows that the ${\cal R}$ value cannot constrain the halo density, nor determine whether galactic discs are maximal or submaximal. I argue that this is true even for early-type discs (S0s and Sas).
Multiscale instabilities in soft heterogeneous dielectric elastomers
Authors: Rudykh S. , Bhattacharya K. , deBotton G. 
Published: December 2013

The development of instabilities in soft heterogeneous dielectric elastomers is investigated. Motivated by experiments and possible applications, we use in our analysis the physically relevant referential electric field instead of electric displacement. In terms of this variable, a closed form solution is derived for the class of layered neo-Hookean dielectrics. A criterion for the onset of electromechanical multiscale instabilities for the layered composites withanisotropicphases is formulated. Ageneralcondition for the onset of the macroscopic instability in soft multiphase dielectrics is introduced. In the example of the layered dielectrics, the essential influence of the microstructure on the onset of instabilities is revealed. We found that: (i) macroscopicinstabilities dominate at moderate volume fractions of the stiffer phase, (ii)interfaceinstabilities appear at small volume fractions of the stiffer phase and (iii) instabilities of afinitescale, comparable to the microstructure size, occur at large volume fractions of the stiffer phase. The latest new type of instabilities does not appear in the purely mechanical case and dominates in the region of large volume fractions of the stiff phase.
“Gossip boys”: insider trading and regulatory ambiguity
Authors: L. Hansen Laura 
Published: December 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this viewpoint, case study analysis paper is to assist in understanding how history repeats itself in the case of insider trading, even with regulatory intervention.

Design/methodology/approach
– Qualitative methodology approach, using interviews of some of the watchdogs of Wall Street (SEC, US Attorney's Office) during the insider trading scandals of the 1980s. Key themes including ambiguity of money, regulation, and the networks of financial institution professionals are discussed.

Findings
– Findings suggest that regulation is difficult if nearly impossible, in the face of limited resources and regulatory ambiguity.

Practical implications
– This paper suggests a network approach to regulators, corporate decision makers, and academics in order to understand the structure of insider trading conspiracies.

Originality/value
– Continues the tradition of qualitative research in a niche of white-collar crime that is more often approached with strict statistic analysis. Value is that the data are allowed to “speak for themselves” and patterns of structure are allowed to emerge without prior biases of hypotheses.
Intellectual capital and performance of pharmaceutical firms in India
Authors: Vishnu Sriranga , Kumar Gupta Vijay 
Published: December 2013

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and performance of pharmaceutical firms in India. The secondary objective is to propose and test modified models of Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC™) method.Design/methodology/approach– Data on 22 large pharmaceutical firms collected for empirical investigation. Return on assets and return on sales are performance variables. IC and its components – human capital, structural capital and relational capital (RC), are predictor variables. Three extended and modified VAIC™ models (e-VAIC™) are proposed. Multiple regression technique is applied on pooled data to draw inferences.Findings– Results show instances of positive relationship between IC and performance variables. RC, the new variable, does not demonstrate statistically significant relationship with performance variables.Research limitations/implications– Due to inadequate reporting of IC and its components, availability of data on various proxies is difficult. The new models proposed in this paper can be a template for future research and model development.Practical implications– VAIC™ model, the proposed models (e-VAIC™) and the result analysis can be useful for evaluation and value creation purposes.Originality/value– Previous researchers use original VAIC™ model. This paper modifies and extends the model in accordance with contemporary description and typology of IC. Inclusion of RC as a variable in VAIC™ model and use of new proxies for components of IC are the novelties of this paper.
Recognition and measurement of intellectual capital in Spanish universities
Authors: Ramírez Yolanda , Gordillo Silvia 
Published: December 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide a model for recognition and measurement of intellectual capital (IC) in Spanish universities.

Design/methodology/approach
– In this study the authors developed a questionnaire which was sent to members of the social councils of Spanish public universities in order to identify which intangible elements university stakeholders demand most. The study results served as a basis to develop a model of IC measurement for Spanish universities.

Findings
–The results of the empirical study are used to identify which intangible elements need to be measured and to define a battery of indicators.

Practical implications
– This paper aims to provide a set of IC indicators to help universities on the path to presenting useful information to their stakeholders, contributing to a greater transparency, accountability and comparability in the higher education sector.

Originality/value –
Although the scientific and professional literature has provided numerous proposals for measuring and reporting a firm's IC, further research is still needed since there are few empirically supported models for the measurement and reporting of IC in universities. This need is especially relevant when considering empirical supported IC models.