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An assessment of liquidity policies with respect to Islamic and conventional banks
Authors: Sukmana Raditya , Kholid Muhammad 
Published: July 2013

PurposeThis paper aims to describe, compare and analyze liquidity policies from the central bank of Indonesia, particularly reserve requirements, with respect to Islamic as well as conventional banks.Design/methodology/approachThis paper provides some critical assessments on the policy applied by the central bank of Indonesia to both Islamic and conventional banks with regards to the reserve requirements applied in the Indonesian banking system. The analysis is based on whether both policies (Islamic and conventional) provide fairness to the banks as well as whether those policies support the real sector. In addition, the current global practice is also briefly described as a justification of the important and relevance of the current study.FindingsThe authors find that the policy imposed on the Islamic banks is designed to boost the real sector, compared to that of conventional banks. For the policy with respect to Islamic banks, it recognizes the banks which have been doing well in their main role as financial intermediaries and “punishes” them when they fail to do so. This policy could not be found in the context of conventional banks.Practical implicationsThe authors argue that the current approach used for Islamic banks can also be adopted and imposed on conventional banks. This leads to a more stable financial system, since it supports the real sector.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to analyze central bank policies with respect to banks (Islamic as well as conventional banks) in relation to their role as financial intermediaries.
Customer satisfaction management in Italian banks
Authors: Munari Luciano , Ielasi Federica , Bajetta Luisa 
Published: July 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey that aimed to analyse the state of organisational and operative evolution of the functions and activities overseeing customer satisfaction in Italian banks.Design/methodology/approachThe research was conducted by questionnaire, to which 92 banks responded, representative of 77 per cent of the total assets of the Italian banking system.FindingsThe analysis of the results makes it possible to highlight the current approaches aimed at managing customer satisfaction, as well as the extent of integration between this and other management processes within the banks surveyed. The authors found that in these banks customer satisfaction is no longer a staff activity but increasingly a line activity, it involves the responsibility of top management and is a key indicator in staff incentive schemes.Originality/valueThe research aims to contribute to the literature on customer satisfaction on the one hand, by verifying if and how banks measure and manage some of the customer satisfaction cause‐effect relationships investigated by studies on the subject and, on the other hand, by focusing attention on organisation and internal processes aimed to support the assessment and improvement of customer satisfaction.
Nickel dental alloys can induce laryngeal edema attacks: A case report
Authors: Buyukozturk Suna , Gelincik Asli , Demirtürk Mustafa , Erdoğdu Derya , Pur Leyla , Çolakoğlu Bahattin , Deniz Gunnur , Erdem Kuruca Serap 
Published: July 2013

AbstractNickel is a strong immunological sensitizer and may result in contact hypersensitivity. Case reports of allergic reactions to intraoral nickel have occasionally been reported in the published work and these allergic reactions are generally of a delayed type (type IV). Here, we present a case of a nickel allergic patient displaying frequent laryngeal edema attacks which required treatment with epinephrine injections followed by parenteral corticosteroid doses. Her complaints ceased after the removal of the dental bridge and the foods containing nickel. In summary, we propose that in the case of recurrent laryngeal edema attacks without any explainable cause, an allergic reaction due to nickel exposure should be taken into consideration.
Gentrification in Spain and Latin America — a Critical Dialogue
Authors: Janoschka Michael , Sequera Jorge , Salinas Luis 
Published: July 2013

AbstractMajor social and political transformations such as the shift towards neoliberal urban policies have widely altered the contemporary structuring of metropolitan areas in Spain and Latin America. One key consequence is the recapture of city centres by wealthy tenants and the eviction of poorer households, a phenomenon usually designated by the term gentrification. In comparison to the comprehensive documentation of gentrification in the Anglophone environment, few scholars have paid attention to this phenomenon in this area of the world so far. This article responds to this gap, providing an exhaustive revision of the debates about gentrification occurring in Spain and Latin America during the last decade and tracking two theoretical motivations. First, it stresses the necessity of characterizing gentrification discourses in Spain and Latin America, preparing a conceptual appropriation and contextualization of the term itself. Second, it confirms that gentrification in Spain and Latin America varies substantially from processes observed in the Anglophone world. As a result, the review develops insights into emancipating and challenging debates that remain useful for the mainstream gentrification discourse too. Addressing this, it proposes a reconsideration and repoliticization of gentrification through the territorial and linguistic lens of Spanish and Latin American researchers.
Thermal Eco‐cities: Green Building and Urban Thermal Metabolism
Authors: Caprotti Federico , Romanowicz Joanna 
Published: July 2013

AbstractEco‐city projects are becoming increasingly prevalent throughout the globe and are often marketed as ‘new’ urban environments focused on achieving sustainable urban living while promoting environmental–economic transitions towards a low‐carbon technological and industrial base. The article argues for the need to consider the thermal aspects of urban metabolism, while at the same time focusing on the link between individual buildings and eco‐city master plans and wider economic development strategies at a state level. In so doing, the article encourages critical analysis of eco‐city design and planning, while keeping a focus on the role of specific building structures within eco‐cities as examples of the intermeshing of what can be termed a ‘political ecology of scale’ which stretches from specific buildings' climatic characteristics, to the metabolic master plan for eco‐cities, to provincial, regional and state‐level plans for the integration of eco‐cities within wider economic and political development trajectories. The article focuses on Masdar, in Abu Dhabi, an eco‐city under construction at the time of writing.
‘We Are Here Alone’: The Ironic Potentials and Vulnerabilities of Mixed (Up) Districts in Central Jakarta
Authors: Simone Abdoumaliq 
Published: July 2013

AbstractThe durability of central city districts in large metropolitan systems of the majority world has largely been attained through intricate intersections of physical, infrastructural, human and discursive materials, as these intersections are continuously remade through shifting constellations of the incremental initiatives of residents. Residents have learned to use the city as a place to continuously explore new relationships among things and extract a wide range of unanticipated capacities from them. This is a collective resourcefulness from which there might be much to draw in terms of using the carbon‐driven exigencies of infrastructural transformation as the occasion to reanimate more egalitarian political projects. Although many collective efforts are increasingly being disassembled, the reflections of a single resident of one of Jakarta's most heterogeneous residential districts points to how the revitalization of such efforts might be conceived. The efficacy of political efforts to address intensified vulnerability partly entails replenishing intense mixtures of built and physical environments as provocations and platforms for complex social maneuvers.
Effect of total milk solid content adjusted by adding ultrafiltered milk retentate on quality of set mango yoghurt
Authors: Narayana Nayana M N K , Gupta Vijay K 
Published: July 2013

The quality of set mango yoghurt prepared by varying total milk solids (TMS) level in mango yoghurt mix, by adding 5× ultrafiltered cow skim milk retentate and cow milk cream, was investigated. The water‐holding capacity (WHC) and values of textural attributes of mango yoghurt increased, whereas body and texture and overall acceptability scores decreased significantly (P < 0.05) with increasing TMS level. The optimised product (10.2% TMS level) was compared with conventional mango yoghurt. Acetaldehyde concentration, WHC, values of textural attributes, body and texture, overall acceptability scores and pH were significantly (P < 0.05) higher in optimised compared with conventional mango yoghurt.
Legal Geographies of Intellectual Property, ‘Traditional’ Knowledge and Biodiversity: Experiencing Conventions, Laws, Customary Law, and Karma in Thailand
Authors: ROBINSON DANIEL F. 
Published: July 2013

AbstractThis article explores the existence of customary laws relating to ‘traditional’ knowledge of plants in Thailand through micro‐ethnographic case studies. This is juxtaposed against global and national frameworks of intellectual property laws that have a privatising effect on knowledge under the rubric of discovery or ‘invention’, as well as liability rights approaches of compensation and benefit‐sharing for research access. By understanding scale and legal jurisdiction as socially and politically constructed phenomena, we explore how laws at different scales and in different jurisdictions may override each other, discriminate against foreign laws and practices, and ignore customary laws. In doing so, the paper presents complex legal geographies of plants and associated knowledge, which suggest that the customary laws and norms of Indigenous groups and traditional healers are often ignored by ‘outsiders’. The paper notes that the possibility of ‘injury’ to traditional healers remains considerable without appropriate consent and given the discriminations surrounding knowledge made by patent laws. However, the ethnographies also point to the possibility of local remedies to these injuries through ritual processes, and we note resistant co‐constitutions of law and scale through the Nagoya Protocol.
Huge primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: A case report and literature review
Authors: Zhang Lin , Ma Wei , Li Yun 
Published: July 2013

AbstractPrimary malignant melanoma of the esophagus (PMME) is a relatively rare esophageal malignancy accounting for 0.1–0.2% of all esophageal tumors. Because the tumor cells occur mainly in the esophagus mucosa and grow along the longitudinal axis in the lumen, it causes relatively late obstruction symptoms, even though the lesion is a much larger mass than found in most cases of esophagus carcinoma, protruding into the esophageal lumen. Invasive growth results in stenosis, followed by difficulty eating. A patient may not be aware of their illness until transesophageal endoscopic biopsy or postoperative pathology is confirmed. Positive expression of immunohistochemical markers human melanoma black (HMB) 45 and S‐100, are the most important factors in confirming diagnosis. Because of the high degree of malignancy and the poor prognosis of PMME, upon diagnosis total or subtotal esophagectomy plus three‐field systemic lymph node dissection with incisions in the left cervical, right chest, and superior belly, is critically required. In summary, early diagnosis and expanding esophageal resection may be the best approach to prevent local recurrence and distant metastasis.
Adoption of weather‐index insurance: learning from willingness to pay among a panel of households in rural Ethiopia
Authors: Hill Ruth Vargas , Hoddinott John , Kumar Neha 
Published: July 2013

AbstractIn this article we examine which farmers would be early entrants into weather‐index insurance markets in Ethiopia, were such markets to develop on a large scale. We do this by examining the determinants of willingness to pay for weather insurance among 1,400 Ethiopian households that have been tracked for 15 years as part of the Ethiopian Rural household Survey. This provides both historical and current information with which to assess the determinants of demand. We find that educated, wealthier individuals are more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion is associated with low insurance take‐up suggesting that models of technology adoption can inform the purchase and spread of weather index insurance. We also assess how willingness to pay varied as two key characteristics of the contract were varied and found that basis risk reduces demand for insurance particularly when the price of the contract is high, and that provision of insurance through groups is preferred by female headed households and individuals with lower levels of education.
Intolerance of uncertainty, appraisals, coping, and anxiety: The case of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic
Authors: Taha Sheena , Matheson Kim , Cronin Tracey , Anisman Hymie 
Published: July 2013

ObjectivesAlthough ambiguous and uncertain situations, such as those dealing with the threat of widespread viral illness, may have pronounced psychological ramifications, there have been few studies that examined the factors that contributed to such outcomes. The purpose of the present investigation was to examine emotional reactions to a health threat.DesignA structural equation model examined the interplay between anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty, as sequentially mediated by appraisals and coping strategies.MethodsAdult participants over the age of 18 (N = 1,027) completed online self‐report measures during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009.ResultsGreater intolerance of uncertainty was related to lower appraisals of self‐ and other control, which predicted low levels of problem‐focused coping and greater reports of H1N1‐related anxiety. Additionally, individuals with a high intolerance of uncertainty were more likely to perceive the pandemic as threatening and also were more apt to use emotion‐focused coping strategies, and both of these factors predicted elevated levels of anxiety.ConclusionsTogether, these data indicate that threats, such as those related to a potential pandemic, not only have implications for physical health, but also for psychological distress, and that such outcomes vary with a constellation of appraisal and coping factors.Statement of contributionWhat is already known on this subject? It has been established that the public is often confused by the threat that a potential pandemic virus poses and that they are unsure of what information related to the disease they can trust. Government health agencies often walk the line of minimizing the threat to prevent panic, but simultaneously emphasize the importance of action (vaccination) to prevent a worldwide pandemic.
What does this study add?

Beyond the physical threat of a pandemic, a significant psychological toll may occur for certain individuals.

Anxiety regarding H1N1 is heightened amongst those who cannot tolerate uncertainty.

Appraisals of threat, control, and the use of emotion‐focused coping mediate the above relationship.
Postural asymmetries in young adults with cerebral palsy
Authors: Rodby‐Bousquet Elisabet , Czuba Tomasz , Hägglund Gunnar , Westbom Lena 
Published: July 2013

AimThe purpose was to describe posture, ability to change position, and association between posture and contractures, hip dislocation, scoliosis, and pain in young adults with cerebral palsy (CP).MethodsCross‐sectional data of 102 people (63 males, 39 females; age range 19–23y, median 21y) out of a total population with CP was analysed in relation to Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels I (n=38), II (n=21), III (n=13), IV (n=10), and V (n=20). The CP subtypes were unilateral spastic (n=26), bilateral spastic (n=45), ataxic (n=12), and dyskinetic CP (n=19). The Postural Ability Scale was used to assess posture. The relationship between posture and joint range of motion, hip dislocation, scoliosis, and pain was analysed using logistic regression and Spearman's correlation.ResultsAt GMFCS levels I to II, head and trunk asymmetries were most common; at GMFCS levels III to V postural asymmetries varied with position. The odds ratios (OR) for severe postural asymmetries were significantly higher for those with scoliosis (OR=33 sitting), limited hip extension (OR=39 supine), or limited knee extension (OR=37 standing). Postural asymmetries correlated to hip dislocations: supine (rs=0.48), sitting (rs=0.40), standing (rs=0.41), and inability to change position: supine (rs=0.60), sitting (rs=0.73), and standing (rs=0.64).ConclusionsPostural asymmetries were associated with scoliosis, hip dislocations, hip and knee contractures, and inability to change position.
Sustainable Procurement: Integrating Classroom Learning with University Sustainability Programs
Authors: Goldschmidt Kyle , Harrison Terry , Holtry Matthew , Reeh Jeremy 
Published: July 2013

ABSTRACTOrganizations are facing increased pressure from various stakeholders to address issues of sustainability, resulting in a growing demand for sustainability education and training. Procurement groups remain the key drivers of many sustainability‐related strategies, placing pressure on universities to integrate sustainability concepts into the business curriculum. This article describes a replicable educational model that allows students to learn about sustainable procurement while concurrently promoting sustainability within the university community.
Longitudinal Strain in Friedreich Ataxia: A Potential Marker for Early Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Authors: St John Sutton Martin , Ky Bonnie , Regner Sean R. , Schadt Kim , Plappert Ted , He Jiwei , D'Souza Benjamin , Lynch David R. 
Published: July 2013

BackgroundFriedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting from deficiency of frataxin, characterized by cardiac hypertrophy associated with heart failure and sudden cardiac death. However, the relationship between remodeling and novel measures of cardiac function such as strain, and the time‐dependent changes in these measures are poorly defined.Methods and ResultsWe compared echocardiographic parameters of cardiac size, hypertrophy, and function in 50 FRDA patients with 50 normal controls and quantified the following measures of cardiac remodeling and function: left ventricular (LV) volumes, mass, relative wall thickness (RWT), ejection fraction (EF), and myocardial strain. Linear regression analysis was used to identify significant differences in echocardiographic parameters in FRDA compared with normal subjects. In analyses adjusted for age, sex, and body surface area, significant differences were observed between parameters of remodeling (LV mass, RWT, and volumes) and function in FRDA patients compared with controls. In particular, longitudinal strain was significantly decreased in FRDA patients compared with controls (−12.4% vs. −16.0%, P < 0.001), despite similar and normal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Over 3 years of follow‐up, there was no change in strain, LV size, LV mass, or LVEF among FRDA patients.ConclusionLongitudinal strain is reduced in FRDA despite normal LVEF, indicative of subclinical cardiac dysfunction. Given late declines in LVEF in FRDA, longitudinal strain may provide an earlier index of myocardial dysfunction in FRDA.
Effect on disability and safety of Tafamidis in late onset of Met30 transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy
Authors: Lozeron P. , Théaudin M. , Mincheva Z. , Ducot B. , Lacroix C. , Adams D. ,   French Network for FAP (CORNAMYL)
Published: July 2013

Background and purposeThe aim of this study was to assess the effect of Tafamidis, which slows the progression of early stages of Met30 transthyretin (TTR) familial amyloidosis polyneuropathy (FAP) in more advanced cases.MethodsThe study was a prospective, non‐randomized controlled trial carried out at the French national reference centre for FAP with follow‐up at 1 year. Thirty‐seven consecutive Met30‐TTR‐FAP patients were enrolled between December 2009 and July 2011, with NIS‐LL (Neuropathy Impairment Score‐lower limbs) > 10 and Karnofsky score > 60. Their mean (SD) age was 56.4 (19) years. Seventy‐seven per cent of patients had a walking disability. Seven patients (19%) were withdrawn for adverse effects. The primary study outcome measurements, planned before data collection began, were NIS‐LL and NIS‐UL (upper limbs) scores and disability scores.ResultsOf the 37 patients entered into the study, 29 were evaluated at 6 months and 13 at 12 months. During the first 6 months of treatment, the mean progression of NIS‐LL score was 4.8 and was similar to that during the period before treatment. Among the 45% of patients without NIS‐LL progression, the NIS‐UL score worsened in 55%. During the first year, 55% deteriorated with respect to disability and 38% with respect to NIS only; only two patients (7%) remained stable. Four (out of 20; 20%) patients who were previously stage 1 reached stage 2 (walking with aid) after this period. Two out of nine patients who were initially normotensive developed orthostatic hypotension. There were a total of 19 adverse events, including four febrile urinary tract infections and three severe diarrhoeas, with faecal incontinence in two.ConclusionIn most patients with advanced Met30 TTR‐FAP, Tafamidis is not able to stop disease progression, in respect of both NIS‐LL and disability. Other anti‐amyloid medicines should be assessed in this context.
A randomized phase III trial of adjunctive zonisamide in pediatric patients with partial epilepsy
Authors: Guerrini Renzo , Rosati Anna , Segieth Joanna , Pellacani Simona , Bradshaw Kate , Giorgi Luigi 
Published: July 2013

SummaryPurposeTo assess the efficacy and safety/tolerability of adjunctive zonisamide treatment in pediatric patients with partial epilepsy.MethodsIn this phase III, double‐blind, randomized, placebo‐controlled, multicenter trial, 207 patients (age 6–17 years) with partial epilepsy, receiving one or two antiepileptic drugs, were randomized to receive adjunctive zonisamide or placebo. Zonisamide was initiated at 1 mg/kg/day, titrated to a target dose of 8 mg/kg/day over 8 weeks (one down‐titration permitted), and maintained for 12 weeks. The primary efficacy end point was the proportion of responders (≥50% seizure frequency reduction from baseline) during the 12‐week maintenance period. Safety/tolerability assessments included the incidence of treatment‐emergent adverse events (TEAEs).Key FindingsIn total, 93 (86.9%) of 107 patients randomized to zonisamide and 90 (90.0%) of 100 patients randomized to placebo completed the trial. Responder rates were 50% for zonisamide versus 31% for placebo (p = 0.0044; intention‐to‐treat population, last observation carried forward). The overall incidence of TEAEs was similar for zonisamide (55.1%) versus placebo (50.0%), with low rates of serious TEAEs with zonisamide and placebo (3.7% vs. 2.0%) and TEAEs leading to withdrawal (0.9% vs. 3.0%). TEAEs reported more frequently with zonisamide versus placebo were decreased appetite (6.5% vs. 4.0%), decreased weight (4.7% vs. 3.0%), somnolence (4.7% vs. 2.0%), vomiting (3.7% vs. 2.0%), and diarrhea (3.7% vs. 1.0%).SignificanceAdjunctive zonisamide treatment was shown to be effective and well tolerated in pediatric patients with partial epilepsy. No new or unexpected safety findings emerged.