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Capturing the contribution of subject librarians
Authors: Corrall Sheila 
Published: February 2015

Purpose– The strategic contribution of subject librarians as information specialists in the digital world has been questioned by institutional administrators, but others have identified expanded roles and new opportunities in learning and research support. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the application of Kaplan and Norton’s strategic management system of balanced scorecards and strategy maps to subject librarianship in universities, with particular reference to the intellectual capital represented and created in the structures, relationships, and know-how of liaison work.Design/methodology/approach– A literature review was used to define established and emergent roles, responsibilities and skillsets of subject librarians, including their reach beyond the library. A web site survey investigated goals, actions, and values related to liaison work in UK library strategies. Data were analyzed thematically to develop an exemplar map and assess its potential for evaluating the contribution of subject librarians.Findings– Core functions continue, with expanded scope and competencies. Collaboration and integrated services are key trends for mapping. Liaison work is poorly documented in existing strategies. Preliminary results suggest that strategy maps can be used to illustrate the strategic contribution of subject librarians.Research limitations/implications– The paper reports the early stages of a multi-phase project. The results are limited to the conceptual phase. The next phase will explore the development of both maps and balanced scorecards via case studies in different countries.Originality/value– There are few examples of library applications of strategy maps and balanced scorecards at unit or program level, and none with a focus on the intangible assets of subject librarians.
One score on – the past, present and future of measurement at UOW Library
Authors: Jantti Margie 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this case study is to provide an overview of the evolution of performance measurement at the University of Wollongong (UOW) Library. Through iterative review, a framework was sought that would enable it to: demonstrate value and impact; better assess the demand and uptake of services and to evaluate relevance; improve the capture and reporting of continuous improvement initiatives; create a new narrative for communicating its role and unique contribution to UOW’s strategic agenda.

Design/methodology/approach
– Since 1996, the Performance Indicator Framework (PIF) has been used to monitor and drive improvement, and to acquire evidence and milestones of success. As the issues of value and impact emerged in both in assessment theory and practice, it was timely to critically reassess the capability of the PIF and to optimise its alignment to the Library’s new structure and strategic focus.

Findings
– Initial observations revealed an improved: confidence and independence in team leaders and managers using the PIF and communicating results and outcomes; ability to illustrate the interdependencies of processes, activities and projects; narrative for performance reporting.

Practical implications
– UOW Library acknowledges limitations in its competency to establish hard, rigorously tested measures for the indicator “impact”. A key outcome sought from the review was the formation of a new mind-set; to think differently about performance and outcomes. The Library was prepared to accept on a pragmatic level, the identification of proxy measures that could support in some way the narrative and habits that were sought in considering performance data and outcomes.

Originality/value
– This paper fulfils an identified need to challenge how libraries consider their effectiveness and their value and impact.
Evaluating the intellectual assets in the Scholarship and Collections directorate at the British Library
Authors: Schofield Alice E , Sen Barbara Anne , Vasconcelos Ana C 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the intellectual assets within the Scholarship and Collections directorate at the British Library.

Design/methodology/approach
– A phenomenographic approach is used gathering data via 25 in depth interviews with directorate staff and stakeholders complemented by document analysis.

Findings
– The findings identified issues specific to British Library such as the need for more clearly definitions of key business areas, and untapped resources within the directorate.

Research limitations/implications
– This study was limited to a single directorate within the British Library. From the findings a balanced scorecard was developed for the directorate adaptable for all departments within the directorate. The model could be adapted for other organisations.

Practical implications
– The study illustrates the value of adaptable scorecards allowing individual key performance indicators (KPIs) to be tailored to suit each department’s needs and ensure equal representation. Using the model would allow for internal benchmarking to take place.

Originality/value
– This research presents a scorecard model that allows intellectual assets to be considered alongside traditional performance indicators and acknowledge the value of intellectual assets within the organisation.
Traders and time: who moves the market?
Authors: Ferriani Fabrizio 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– This paper is aimed to investigate the impact of different categories of traders on price and volume durations at Euronext Paris. The two series are respectively related to the instantaneous volatility and the market liquidity; hence, they are particularly suited to test microstructure hypotheses.

Design/methodology/approach
– A Log-autoregressive conditional duration model was adopted to include the information on the traders’ identity at the transaction level. High-frequency data were used and how the informed traders and the liquidity provider affect the arrival of market events was studied. The robustness of our results was also checked by testing different distributions and controlling for microstructure effects.

Findings
– It was found that informed traders and the liquidity provider exert a dominant role in accelerating the market activity. This result depends on the state of the market, i.e. it is effective only during periods of high frequency of transactions. The estimates for price durations show that a high instantaneous volatility can be mainly ascribed to a great concentration of informed traders. Informed traders are also found to shorten volume durations by clustering small-size orders to disguise their private signal. For both durations, the liquidity provider is also found to foster the market activity, likely because of his contractual duties.

Originality/value
– The article is of interest for researchers in the field of market microstructure, as well as for specialists in the high-frequency trading. Results provide an empirical confirmation of information models which theorize an accelerating effect for informed trading. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first contribution to study the impact of traders’categories at the transaction level and with different definitions of durations.
Volatility behaviour of stock index futures in China: a bivariate GARCH approach
Authors: Hou Yang , Li Steven 
Published: February 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to investigate the volatility transmission and dynamics in China Securities Index (CSI) 300 index futures market.Design/methodology/approach– This paper applies the bivariate Constant Conditional Correlation (CCC) and Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) models using high frequency data. Estimates for the bivariate GARCH models are obtained by maximising the log-likelihood of the probability density function of a conditional Student’stdistribution.Findings– This empirical analysis yields a few interesting results: there is a one-way feedback of volatility transmission from the CSI 300 index futures to spot returns, suggesting index futures market leads the spot market; volatility response to past bad news is asymmetric for both markets; volatility can be intensified by the disequilibrium between spot and futures prices; and trading volume has significant impact on volatility for both markets. These results reveal new evidence on the informational efficiency of the CSI 300 index futures market compared to earlier studies.Originality/value– This paper shows that the CSI 300 index futures market has improved in terms of price discovery one year after its existence compared to its early days. This is an important finding for market participants and regulators. Further, this study considers the volatility response to news, market disequilibrium and trading volume. The findings are thus useful for financial risk management.
House price cycles in emerging economies
Authors: Ciarlone Alessio 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of house price dynamics for a sample of 16 emerging economies from Asia and Central and Eastern Europe over the period of 1995-2011.

Design/methodology/approach
– Linking housing valuations to a set of conventional fundamental determinants – relative to both the supply and the demand side of the market, institutional factors and other asset prices – and modelling short-term price dynamics – which reflect gradual adjustment to underlying fundamentals –conclusions about the existence and the basic nature of house price overvaluation (undervaluation) are drawn.

Findings
– Overall, it was found that actual house prices in the sample of emerging economies are not overly disconnected from fundamentals. Rather, they tend to reflect a somewhat slow adjustment to shocks to the latter. Moreover, the evidence that housing valuations may be driven by overly optimistic (or pessimistic) expectations is, in general, weak.

Research limitations/implications
– Residential property prices used in the empirical analysis have many limitations: while some series are derived using a hedonic pricing method, others are based on floor area prices collected by national authorities; while some countries publish house prices in national currency per-square metre (or per apartment or per dwelling), others calculate an index number scaled to some base year; while some countries publish statistics for the whole national territory, others produce data only for the capital city or for the largest cities in the country; data from national sources refer to different types of residential property; finally, available time series are relatively short, which may adversely affect the robustness of estimation results.

Practical implications
– The decomposition suggested in the paper has important implications: it would be paramount, in fact, for policymakers to implement market-specific diagnoses, and to find the right policy instruments that can ideally distinguish between the two underlying components driving house price short-run dynamics.

Originality/value
– There is a very small body of empirical literature on housing market developments in emerging economies, especially if focussed on the comparisons between the actual dynamics of housing valuations and the equilibrium ones.
Laboratory and field studies on the reproductive ecology of Parocneria orienta (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) in China
Authors: Yang Hua , Zhang Kun‐Sheng , Yang Wei , Yang Chun‐Ping 
Published: February 2015

AbstractTo lay a foundation for the monitoring, prevention and control of Parocneria orienta, a pest moth in China, we investigated the reproductive ecology of P. orienta, including the environmental factors affecting reproduction and the effects of pheromones in field traps. The results showed that the mating duration is shorter when the temperature is higher, with the optimal temperature range for P. orienta reproduction being 22–27°C. The sex ratio had an effect on the male mating capacity, which significantly increased when the sex ratio was ♀:♂ ≥ 3:1. The average number of matings was 2.44 for males, while female P. orienta mated only once in a lifetime. Males were more attracted to virgin females than to mated females, and the temperature and light period had an effect on the release of sex pheromones by females. Field trap tests using virgin females supported the results obtained in the laboratory, showing that the release of sex pheromones by P. orienta follows a distinct circadian rhythm.
Emerging concepts in the pathogenesis of diabetes in fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes
Authors: Dasgupta Riddhi , Naik Dukhabandhu , Thomas Nihal 
Published: February 2015

AbstractFibrocalcific pancreatic diabetes (FCPD) is a rare form of diabetes affecting people in the tropics and presenting with unique clinical and radiological features. The onset of diabetes usually follows the first few episodes of abdominal pain and develops by the second or third decade of life. Endocrine and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, brittle glycemic control, and insulin‐requiring, ketosis‐resistant diabetes are the novel characteristics of FCPD. The etiopathogenetic mechanisms leading to FCPD remain unknown. Although defects in insulin secretion are the major contributors, growing evidence towards a possible role for insulin resistance and body composition abnormalities have added a new dimension to the disease pathogenesis. Deciphering the key pathogenetic mechanisms may have a profound effect on therapeutic strategies in future studies on FCPD.
An examination of index‐calibration experiments: counting tigers at macroecological scales
Authors: Gopalaswamy Arjun M. , Delampady Mohan , Karanth K. Ullas , Kumar N. Samba , Macdonald David W. 
Published: February 2015

SummaryAn index‐calibration experiment involves rigorous estimation of animal abundance at a small scale to calibrate a less rigorously derived index of abundance. The efficacy of such index‐calibration experiments has been a matter of much controversy. In this study, we develop theoretical models and test them with empirical data on large‐scale index‐calibration experiments on tigersPanthera tigristo advance our understanding of this controversy.We propose two models that describe the sampling processes involved in typical index‐calibration experiments. Using analytical derivations and some simulations, we evaluate the relative roles of these sampling parameters on the(coefficient of determination) statistic – a common inferential tool used in such calibration experiments.We make predictions about thestatistic using our theoretical derivations and estimates from large‐scale occupancy surveys of tigers in India. We then compare our predictions with empirical estimates of two tiger sign index‐calibration experiments (IC‐Karanth and IC‐Jhala).Our theoretical models show that thestatistic increases when individual‐specific detection probability is high and is constant, increases when the variance‐to‐mean ratio of abundance increases, increases when precision of abundance estimates improves and declines when mean abundance increases. All predictions about the two index‐calibration experiments showed a poor performance of thestatistic (< 0·40). Inference from IC‐Karanth was extremely poor () and comparable to model predictions (Pvalue = 0·0754). Anomalously (Pvalue < 0·0001), inference from IC‐Jhala was exceedingly high ().Our study shows that such direct index‐calibration experiments using thestatistic yield poor inferences unless all the sampling process parameters lie within a limited range. Ignoring the consequence of the effect of these parameters during survey design could result in expenditure of huge resources with little gain in ecological inference. Analysis using joint likelihood models, with appropriate survey designs, may be more fruitful than clinging on to such composite, direct‐based models.
World, City, Queer
Authors: Oswin Natalie 
Published: February 2015

AbstractScholars are now well attuned to the geographies of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) tolerance and intolerance across the world's countries. Yet, the ways in which the global and national dimensions of LGBT politics are tied to the world's cities have received limited attention; a particularly important omission since we have witnessed the stunning development whereby sexual difference is increasingly marshaled as a symbol of progress and modernity for the purposes of fostering national and urban competitiveness in various contexts. To frame the remaining papers in this symposium, this introductory article puts work on sexuality and the city into conversation with debates on global urbanism. It thus provides a framework for understanding the worlding of queerness that focuses on the relationships between globalization, urbanization and sexual politics.
Providing parents with individualised support in a neonatal intensive care unit reduced stress, anxiety and depression
Authors: Cano Giménez Evelyn , Sánchez‐Luna Manuel 
Published: February 2015

AbstractAimThis study assessed the effectiveness of an individualised intervention to reduce parental stress, anxiety and depression in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).MethodsParents of infants admitted to the NICU for a minimum of 4 weeks underwent a five‐step individualised intervention programme delivered by a psychologist.ResultsThe study population comprised 40 mothers and 25 fathers in the intervention group and 40 mothers and 29 fathers in the control group who received the standard support. Similar stress levels were observed in both groups before the intervention. However, after 15 days, the group that received the individualised intervention showed a statistically significant lower level of anxiety, with none of the mothers and fathers in the intervention group reporting anxiety, compared with 2.5% of mothers and 10.3% of fathers in the control group. At discharge, 50% of mothers and 80% of fathers in the intervention group reported no level of depression, compared to all the mothers and fathers in the control group.ConclusionAn intervention programme individualised to the needs of mothers and fathers with infants admitted to a NICU for at least 4 weeks was effective in reducing anxiety and depression compared to the standard care.
Randomised clinical trial: safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of repeated doses of TAK‐438 (vonoprazan), a novel potassium‐competitive acid blocker, in healthy male subjects
Authors: Jenkins H. , Sakurai Y. , Nishimura A. , Okamoto H. , Hibberd M. , Jenkins R. , Yoneyama T. , Ashida K. , Ogama Y. , Warrington S. 
Published: February 2015

SummaryBackgroundTAK‐438 (vonoprazan) is a potassium‐competitive acid blocker that reversibly inhibits gastric H+, K+‐ATPase.AimTo evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of TAK‐438 in healthy Japanese and non‐Japanese men.MethodsIn two Phase I, randomised, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled studies, healthy men (Japan N = 60; UK N = 48) received TAK‐438 10–40 mg once daily at a fixed dose level for 7 consecutive days. Assessments included safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (intragastric pH).ResultsPlasma concentration–time profiles of TAK‐438 at all dose levels showed rapid absorption (median Tmax ≤2 h). Mean elimination half‐life was up to 9 h. Exposure was slightly greater than dose proportional, with no apparent time‐dependent inhibition of metabolism. There was no important difference between the two studies in AUC0‐tau on Day 7. TAK‐438 caused dose‐dependent acid suppression. On Day 7, mean 24‐h intragastric pH>4 holding time ratio (HTR) with 40 mg TAK‐438 was 100% (Japan) and 93.2% (UK), and mean night‐time pH>4 HTR was 100% (Japan) and 90.4% (UK). TAK‐438 was well tolerated. The frequency of adverse events was similar at all dose levels and there were no serious adverse events. There were no important increases in serum alanine transaminase activity. Serum gastrin and pepsinogen I and II concentrations increased with TAK‐438 dose.ConclusionsTAK‐438 in multiple rising oral dose levels of 10–40 mg once daily for 7 days was safe and well tolerated in healthy men and caused rapid, profound and sustained suppression of gastric acid secretion throughout each 24‐h dosing interval. Clinicaltrials.gov identifiers: NCT02123953 and NCT02141711.
Women's Experiences of Fetal Movements before the Confirmation of Fetal Death—Contractions Misinterpreted as Fetal Movement
Authors: Linde Anders , Pettersson Karin , Rådestad Ingela 
Published: February 2015

AbstractBackgroundDecreased fetal movement often precedes a stillbirth. The objective of this study was to describe women's experiences of fetal movement before the confirmation of fetal death.MethodsData were collected through a Web‐based questionnaire. Women with stillbirths after 28 gestational weeks were self‐recruited. Content analysis was used to analyze the answers to one open question. The statements from mothers of a stillborn, born during gestational weeks 28 to 36 were compared with those of a stillborn at term.ResultsThe women's 215 answers were divided into three categories: decreased, weak, and no fetal movement at all; 154 (72%) of the descriptions were divided into three subcategories: decreased and weak movement (106; 49%), no movement at all (35; 16%), and contraction interpreted as movement (13; 6%). The category fetal movement as normal includes 39 (18%) of the descriptions. The third category, extremely vigorous fetal activity followed by no movement at all, includes 22 (10%) of the descriptions. Eight (15%) of the women with stillbirths in gestational weeks 28 to 36 interpreted contractions as fetal movement as compared to 5 (5%) of the women with stillbirths at term.DiscussionUterine contractions can be interpreted as fetal movement. A single episode of extremely vigorous fetal activity can precede fetal death. The majority of the women experienced decreased, weaker, or no fetal movement at all 2 days before fetal death was diagnosed. Mothers should be educated to promptly report changes in fetal movement to their health care providers. Using fetal movement information to evaluate possible fetal distress may lead to reductions in stillbirths.
Relationships between activities of daily living, upper limb function, and visual perception in children and adolescents with unilateral cerebral palsy
Authors: James Sarah , Ziviani Jenny , Ware Robert S , Boyd Roslyn N 
Published: February 2015

AimThis study examined relationships between activities of daily living (ADL) motor and process skills, unimanual capacity, bimanual performance, and visual perception in children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP).MethodParticipants were 101 children with unilateral CP (51 males, 50 females; mean age 11y 9mo [SD 2y 5mo; range 8–17y]; Manual Ability Classification System [MACS] level I=24; level II=76; level III=1). Measures were (1) Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS), (2) Jebsen–Taylor Test of Hand Function (JTTHF), (3) Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA), and (4) Test of Visual Perceptual Skills, 3rd edition (TVPS‐3). Regression models were constructed with the AMPS motor scale and AMPS process as the dependent variables.ResultsThe AHA and JTTHF dominant upper limb score together explained 57% of the variance in AMPS motor scale scores. TVPS‐3 Visual Sequential Memory, TVPS‐3 Visual Closure, and JTTHF dominant upper limb score together explained 35% of the variance in AMPS process scale scores.InterpretationBimanual performance and unimanual capacity of the dominant upper limb are significantly associated with ADL motor skills in children with unilateral CP. Process skills of ADL are related to visual perceptual ability and dominant upper limb unimanual capacity, which may reflect motor planning required to perform daily tasks.