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Impact of executive citizenship and organizational commitment on corporate social responsibility
Authors: Mahenthiran Sakthi , Terpstra-Tong Jane Lai Yee , Terpstra Robert , Rachagan Shanthy 
Published: May 2015

Purpose– This Malaysian study aims to use upper echelons theory and social identity theory variables to determine the chief executive officer (CEO) characteristics and attitudes associated with economic corporate social responsibility (CSR), legal-ethical CSR and discretionary CSR in Malaysian firms. The authors hypothesize that CSR engagements in the form of altruistic behaviour, with executives being part of the upper echelon, would tend to be expressing their values at individual level through the firm if they are affectively committed to their company.Design/methodology/approach– Using a sample of 151 Malaysian firms that took part in an annual CEO survey in 2010, the study measures executive citizenship as CEOs’ having critical attitude towards public issues such as public transportation, public education and crime. Hierarchical regression analyses are used to associate the CEO attitudes with the firms CSR.Findings– The authors find that executive citizenship attitude is significant and positively related to firm’s legal–ethical CSR. The authors also find that executive organizational commitment has a significant positive impact on dimensions of CSR. Additionally, the executive tenure impacts the level of philanthropic CSR of the firm.Originality/value– In Malaysia, firms have a strong incentive to engage in CSR to enhance their reputation and legitimacy because of the government’s influence on commercial activities. Our study is the first to examine how this notion of legitimization efforts at the individual level affects firms CSR activities.
The business-case for community investment: evidence from Fiji’s tourism industry
Authors: Bradly Andrew 
Published: May 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to argue that the rationale for community investment in developing countries is broader and more complex than in the West, and that the usual drivers of corporate social responsibility (CSR) behaviour are less explicit and robust in these settings.Design/methodology/approach– Development of descriptive theory using the results of a qualitative study of 42 firms in Fiji’s tourism industry. The primary data were derived from in-depth interviews with senior managers about their firm’s CSR values and practices. This paper focuses on one aspect of CSR practice, community investment, and provides a comparative analysis of the results from the interview data.Findings– The paper presents evidence that shows that the rationale for engaging with and supporting local communities is more concerned with long-term sustainability than short-term profitability. The findings reveal that issues of legitimacy, interdependence and risk management are important strategic reasons for undertaking community investment.Research limitations/implications– The paper adds to theoretical understanding of the nature of CSR practices in developing countries. In particular, it reveals the importance of institutional factors in community investment decision-making and argues for an expanded theory of the business-case for CSR.Originality/value– This research adds to the growing number of developing-country case studies by focusing on a region that has been largely absent from empirical CSR research.
Market timing and selectivity performance of socially responsible funds
Authors: Das Praveen K. , Rao S. P. Uma 
Published: May 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the market timing and stock selection abilities of socially responsible (SR) mutual funds. Some high-profile SR fund managers try to embrace market timing and security selection plans to add value to the performance. Market timing relies on forecasting the equity market and shifting assets into or out of the market in anticipation of market movements. The selectivity measure assesses fund managers ability to select undervalued securities. Furthermore, the authors examine whether fund characteristics play any role in market timing and security selection ability.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors use Treynor and Mazuy's’ (1966) and Henriksson and Mertons’ (1981) model to examine the market timing and security selection ability. The study uses a decade of monthly returns to examine the skills of fund managers in the SR industry for the period from July 2002 to June 2012.

Findings
– The main findings are that the managers – though not very successful – do indulge in stock selection and market timing activities. It was found that 48 funds have positive statistically significant stock selectivity coefficients and only a very small number of five funds with positive statistically significant market timing coefficients. Results suggest that there is a trade-off between the two activities. It was found that aggressive funds, funds with higher growth rate and riskier funds are more likely to engage in market timing rather than stock selection.

Practical implications
– The implication is that SR managers cannot achieve superior stock selection and market timing ability simultaneously. Risk-averting investors in SR funds expect SR behavior from the managers. This means that managers of SR funds, with very little evidence of market timing ability, may have to refrain from market timing of SR funds.

Originality/value
– Using a Morningstar dataset comprising almost all SR funds in existence as of June 2012, this is probably the most exhaustive long-term study to date on market timing and stock selection abilities of SR fund managers.
Social media: the Wild West of CSR communications
Authors: Tench Ralph , Jones Brian 
Published: May 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to posit the central argument that traditional media of old presented a clear, ordered world of communication management for organisations to extol their corporate social responsibility (CSR) credentials. In contrast to this, new Web 2.0 social media is increasingly being used by activists and hactivists to challenge corporate communication CSR messages and does so by highlighting instances and examples of corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) (Joneset al., 2009; Tenchet al., 2012).Design/methodology/approach– The paper reports on research data from the European Communication Monitor, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (www.communicationmonitor.eu/) and draws on work already published in this area (Tenchet al., 2009; Verhoevenet al., 2012; Zerfasset al., 2010, 2011) to illustrate the unruly, unregulated Web 2.0 social media communication landscape in Europe. A range of literature is drawn on to provide the theoretical context for an exploration of issues that surround social media.Findings– In late modernity (Giddens, 1990), communication comes in many guises. Social media is one guise and it has re-shaped as well as transformed the nature of communications and the relationship between organisations and their stakeholders.Originality/value– Communicating CSR in the Wild West of social media requires diplomatic and political nous, as well as awareness and knowledge of the dangers and pitfalls of CSI. The data reported on in this paper well illustrate the above points and set out scenarios for future development of corporate communication of CSR through and with social media.
Cutaneous S100‐negative, CD1a‐positive histiocytosis successfully treated with combination therapy of oral methotrexate and corticosteroid
Authors: Takahashi Chiaki , Kaneta Kazuhiro , Nomura Wakana , Ohishi Yasushi , Uehara Jiro , Honma Masaru , Ishida‐Yamamoto Akemi , Sato Hidetsugu , Takagi Akiyoshi , Iizuka Hajime 
Published: May 2015

AbstractS100‐negative, CD1a‐positive histiocytosis is a rare histiocytic disorder characterized by proliferation of histiocytic cells possessing a phenotype of epidermal Langerhans cells except for the lack of S100 expression and Birbeck granules. We report the case of a Japanese man suffering from S100‐negative, CD1a‐positive histiocytosis. The patient showed numerous smooth erythematous 5–10‐mm papules/nodules on most of his body. The key histopathological feature was the presence of dermal infiltrates of non‐epidermotropic S100‐negative CD1a‐positive mononuclear cells. No systemic involvement was detected. Initially bath‐psoralen plus ultraviolet A therapy was effective, but the lesions became recalcitrant to this treatment. Methylprednisolone pulse therapy followed by low‐dose methotrexate (up to 30 mg/week) in combination with prednisolone (15 mg/day) effectively controlled the skin lesions.
Pasteurised, microfiltered and lactose‐hydrolysed skimmed milk with added probiotics: Development and storage stability
Authors: Silva e Alves Adriana T , Antunes Adriane E C , Trento Fabiana K H S , Zacarchenco Patricia B , Ormenese Rita C S C , Spadoti Leila M 
Published: May 2015

Recently the food industry has been attempting to innovate its products to meet consumer demands for health benefits from their food. Thus, the objective of this research was to study the combination of technologies to obtain a pasteurised, microfiltered, and lactose‐hydrolysed skim milk with an extended shelf life and with added probiotics (PMLHSP). This PMLHSP was subjected to physicochemical, microbiological and sensory evaluations, plus its shelf life was estimated at 5 °C. The viability of the probiotics in this system was also evaluated during storage at 5 °C and indicated a shelf life of about 28 days. The probiotic culture added to the microfiltered skim milk presented good viability in the product throughout refrigerated storage, with counts of above 8 log CFU/mL.
New ways of learning: Comparing the effectiveness of interactive online media in distance education with the European textbook tradition
Authors: Krämer Bernd J. , Neugebauer Jonas , Magenheim Johannes , Huppertz Helga 
Published: May 2015

AbstractAlthough many innovations exploiting web technologies have been suggested in distance higher education, very little original research exists investigating the impact of web‐based learning environments on distance students' learning processes and outcomes. To close this gap, four sets of data have been collected in a distance‐learning course: behaviour and usage data derived from the log files of an online learning environment; responses from a competence pre‐ and posttest that measures the competence gain of online and offline students; technology assessment data from the online students capturing their perception of the learning environment; and formal assessment data acquired from a written examination test. By analysing these data, insight into the effectiveness of online learning material compared with custom‐designed textbooks for self‐controlled distance study can be gained. Distance educators and open or distance universities may take the analysis results as a basis for the decision whether to migrate from textbooks to online learning materials.A video abstract of this article can be viewed at https://youtu.be/sLF6PNmAYpY
Shapes In a Box: Disassembling 3D Objects for Efficient Packing and Fabrication
Authors: Attene Marco 
Published: May 2015

AbstractModern 3D printing technologies and the upcoming mass‐customization paradigm call for efficient methods to produce and distribute arbitrarily shaped 3D objects. This paper introduces an original algorithm to split a 3D model in parts that can be efficiently packed within a box, with the objective of reassembling them after delivery. The first step consists in the creation of a hierarchy of possible parts that can be tightly packed within their minimum bounding boxes. In a second step, the hierarchy is exploited to extract the (single) segmentation whose parts can be most tightly packed. The fact that shape packing is an NP‐complete problem justifies the use of heuristics and approximated solutions whose efficacy and efficiency must be assessed. Extensive experimentation demonstrates that our algorithm produces satisfactory results for arbitrarily shaped objects while being comparable to ad hoc methods when specific shapes are considered.
High‐Resolution Three‐Dimensional Computed Tomography Analysis of the Clinical Efficacy of Cultured Autogenous Periosteal Cells in Sinus Lift Bone Grafting
Authors: Ogawa Shin , Hoshina Hideyuki , Nakata Koh , Yamada Kazuho , Uematsu Kohya , Kawase Tomoyuki , Takagi Ritsuo , Nagata Masaki 
Published: May 2015

AbstractBackground and PurposeSinus lift (SL) using cultured autogenous periosteal cells (CAPCs) combined with autogenous bone and platelet‐rich plasma (PRP) was performed to evaluate the effect of cell administration on bone regeneration, by using high‐resolution three‐dimensional computed tomography (CT).Materials and MethodsSL with autogenous bone and PRP plus CAPC [CAPC(+)SL] was performed in 23 patients. A piece of periosteum taken from the mandible was cultured in M199 medium with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) for 6 weeks. As control, 16 patients received SL with autogenous bone and PRP [CAPC(−)SL]. Three‐dimensional CT imaging was performed before and 4 months and 1 year after SL, and stratification was performed based on CT numbers (HUs) corresponding to soft tissue and cancellous or cortical bone.ResultsThe augmented bone in CAPC(+)SL revealed an increase in HUs corresponding to cancellous bone as well as a decrease in HUs corresponding to grafted cortical bone. In addition, HUs corresponding to cancellous bone in the graft bed were increased in CAPC(+)SL but were decreased in CAPC(−)SL. Insertion torque during implant placement was significantly higher in CAPC(+)SL.ConclusionBy promoting bone anabolic activity both in augmented bone and graft bed, CAPCs are expected to aid primary fixation and osseointegration of implants in clinical applications.
A Computational Evaluation of Sentence Processing Deficits in Aphasia
Authors: Patil Umesh , Hanne Sandra , Burchert Frank , De Bleser Ria , Vasishth Shravan 
Published: May 2015

AbstractIndividuals with agrammatic Broca's aphasia experience difficulty when processing reversible non‐canonical sentences. Different accounts have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. The Trace Deletion account (Grodzinsky, 1995, 2000, 2006) attributes this deficit to an impairment in syntactic representations, whereas others (e.g., Caplan, Waters, Dede, Michaud, & Reddy, 2007; Haarmann, Just, & Carpenter, 1997) propose that the underlying structural representations are unimpaired, but sentence comprehension is affected by processing deficits, such as slow lexical activation, reduction in memory resources, slowed processing and/or intermittent deficiency, among others. We test the claims of two processing accounts, slowed processing and intermittent deficiency, and two versions of the Trace Deletion Hypothesis (TDH), in a computational framework for sentence processing (Lewis & Vasishth, 2005) implemented in ACT‐R (Anderson, Byrne, Douglass, Lebiere, & Qin, 2004). The assumption of slowed processing is operationalized as slow procedural memory, so that each processing action is performed slower than normal, and intermittent deficiency as extra noise in the procedural memory, so that the parsing steps are more noisy than normal. We operationalize the TDH as an absence of trace information in the parse tree. To test the predictions of the models implementing these theories, we use the data from a German sentence—picture matching study reported in Hanne, Sekerina, Vasishth, Burchert, and De Bleser (2011). The data consist of offline (sentence‐picture matching accuracies and response times) and online (eye fixation proportions) measures. From among the models considered, the model assuming that both slowed processing and intermittent deficiency are present emerges as the best model of sentence processing difficulty in aphasia. The modeling of individual differences suggests that, if we assume that patients have both slowed processing and intermittent deficiency, they have them in differing degrees.
Unilateral static and dynamic hamstrings stretching increases contralateral hip flexion range of motion
Authors: Chaouachi Anis , Padulo Johnny , Kasmi Sofien , Othmen Aymen Ben , Chatra Moktar , Behm David G. 
Published: May 2015

SummaryStatic (SS) and dynamic stretching (DS) can lead to subsequent performance impairments or enhancement with the stretched limb. Crossover or non‐local muscle fatigue (NLMF) refers to unilateral fatigue‐induced impairments in a contralateral or non‐exercised muscle. Whereas there are conflicting findings in the NLMF literature, there are few studies examining the effect of an acute bout of SS or DS on contralateral flexibility, torque or power. Fourteen highly trained subjects (means ± standard deviations: 18 ± 2 years; 179·4 ± 4·6 cm; 70·5 ± 6·3 kg; %body fat: 10·7 ± 2·5%) were tested before and following separate sessions of eight repetitions of 30 s of unilateral hip flexion SS or DS. Pre‐ and postintervention testing at 1 and 10 min included hip flexor range of motion (ROM), isokinetic leg flexion torque and power at 60°.s−1 and 300°.s−1 of the stretched and contralateral limbs. The stretched limb had a 6·3% (P = 0·01; ES: 0·91) ROM increase with DS at 10 min. The contralateral non‐stretched hip flexors experienced ROM increases with SS of 5·7% (P = 0·02; ES: 0·68) from pretest to 1 min post‐test, whereas DS showed 7·1% (P<0·0001; ES: 1·09) and 8·4% (P = 0·005; ES: 0·89) increases, respectively. There were no relative differences in ROM changes between conditions or limbs nor any stretch‐induced changes in isokinetic torque or power. In conclusion, unilateral SS and DS augment contralateral limb ROM likely through an increased stretch tolerance.
S1‐Leitlinie „Berufliche Hautmittel: Hautschutz, Hautpflege und Hautreinigung“ (ICD 10: L23, L24) – Kurzversion
Authors: Fartasch Manigé , Diepgen Thomas L. , Drexler Hans , Elsner Peter , John Swen Malte , Schliemann Sibylle 
Published: May 2015

ZusammenfassungBeruflich bedingte Handekzeme stehen an der Spitze der angezeigten Berufskrankheiten. Zur Primär‐und Sekundärprävention von beruflich bedingten Handekzemen werden sog. berufliche Hautmittel – worunter Hautschutz, Hautpflege‐ und Hautreinigungsmittel verstanden werden – eingesetzt. Im Sinne einer evidenzbasierten Medizin sollten nur solche Präventivmaßnahmen bzw. nur solche beruflichen Hautmittel Verwendung finden, deren Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Wirksamkeit wissenschaftlich untermauert werden kann. Zu diesem Zwecke hat die Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Berufs‐ und Umweltmedizin e.V. (ABD) der DDG und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Arbeits‐ und Umweltmedizin (DGAUM) den wissenschaftlichen Kenntnisstand und Empfehlungen dazu, in der aktualisierten Leitlinie dargelegt. Im Rahmen von rezenten klinisch‐epidemiologischen Studien konnte der Benefit der kombinierten Anwendung von Hautschutz‐ und Hautpflegeprodukte in der Primär‐ und Sekundärprävention beruflich bedingter Kontaktekzeme weitgehend bestätigt werden. Die Leitlinie legt ferner dezidiert die Notwendigkeit der Darlegung des Wirksamkeitsnachweises von Hautschutz und Hautreinigungsmitteln durch in‐vivo – Methoden im Sinne repetitiver Applikationen dar. Hierzu wurden zwischenzeitlich durch Multicenterstudien sowohl für Hautschutzpräparate als auch für die Hautreinigung transferfähige und standardisiertes Testverfahren für die Untersuchung des Irritationspotentials und damit der Hautverträglichkeit beruflicher Hautreinigungsmittel und der Reduktion der Irritation durch Hautschutzmittel entwickelt und multizentrisch validiert. Außerdem wird der Stand der aktuellen Sicherheitsbewertung der beruflichen Hautmittel dargelegt.
Frequent bacterial skin and soft tissue infections: diagnostic signs and treatment
Authors: Sunderkötter Cord , Becker Karsten 
Published: May 2015

SummarySkin and soft tissue infections rank among the most frequent infections worldwide. Classic erysipelas is defined as a non‐purulent infection by beta‐hemolytic streptococci. The typical signs are tender, warm, bright erythema with tongue‐like extensions and early systemic symptoms such as fever or at least chills. Erysipelas always and best responds to penicillin.Limited soft tissue infection or limited cellulitis are the terms we have introduced for infections frequently caused by S. aureus and often originating from chronic wounds or acute trauma. Clinically, they are marked by tender, erythematous swelling which, unlike erysipelas, exhibit a darker red hue and is not always accompanied by fever or chills at onset.Severe cellulitis is a purulent, partially necrotic infection extending to the fascia, with general symptoms of infection, requiring surgical management in addition to antibiotics. It often fulfils criteria of so‐called complicated soft tissue infections according to the definition of the FDA, due to their frequent association with e.g. severe diabetes mellitus, peripheral arterial occlusive disease or severe immunosuppression. In contrast, the rare necrotizing skin and soft tissue infections represent a distinct entity, characterized by rapid progression to ischemic necroses and shock due to special bacterial toxins.Limited cellulitis should be treated with cephalosporins group 1 or 2, or, when S.aureus is the isolated or highly likely causative agent, isoxazolyl‐penicillins (exploiting their minimal selection pressure on other bacteria). For severe cellulitis, initial antibiotic treatment (mostly iv) includes – depending on the location ‐ agents also active against gram‐negative and/or anaerobic bacteria. (e.g. clindamycine, aminopeniclilline with inhibitors of betalaktamase, fluochinolons, cephalosporines group 4).For cutaneous abscesses, drainage presents the therapy of choice. Only under certain conditions additional antibiotic therapy is required.Adherence to the diagnostic criteria and to evidence‐based or consensus‐derived treatment recommendations as presented herein should allow for an antibiotic therapy with a good balance of efficacy, tolerability by patients and low selection pressure for highly resistant bacteria.