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Diplomatic Asylum and the Assange Case
Authors: DEN HEIJER MAARTEN 
Published: May 2013

AbstractThis article traces the place and development of diplomatic asylum in international law in close connection with the more specific questions raised by the case of Julian Assange, who was granted asylum in the Ecuador embassy in London on 16 August 2012. After discussing the historical rise and decline of diplomatic asylum, the article reviews the current status of diplomatic asylum in international law and its implications for the triangular legal relationship between the United Kingdom, Ecuador, and Mr Assange. The article submits that, although there would not seem to be a title in general international law or human rights law for Ecuador to grant asylum to Assange, there is no obvious legal route for the United Kingdom to terminate the asylum. The fate of Assange resembles that of a long series of historical precedents where diplomatic asylum resulted in protracted stays. Although this may seem an unsatisfactory result from the perspective of international law, the uneasy balance between territorial sovereignty and diplomatic inviolability also engenders incentives to avoid disputes or to resolve them through diplomatic channels.
Automatic Crystallographic Characterization in a Transmission Electron Microscope: Applications to Twinning Induced Plasticity Steels and Al Thin Films
Authors: Galceran M. , Albou A. , Renard K. , Coulombier M. , Jacques P.J. , Godet S. 
Published: May 2013

AbstractA new automated crystallographic orientation mapping tool in a transmission electron microscope technique, which is based on pattern matching between every acquired electron diffraction pattern and precalculated templates, has been used for the microstructural characterization of nondeformed and deformed aluminum thin films and twinning-induced plasticity steels. The increased spatial resolution and the use of electron diffraction patterns rather than Kikuchi lines make this tool very appropriate to characterize fine grained and deformed microstructures.
The Conserved Tetrameric Subunit Stoichiometry of Slc26 Proteins
Authors: Hallworth Richard , Stark Kelsey , Zholudeva Lyandysha , Currall Benjamin B. , Nichols Michael G. 
Published: May 2013

AbstractThe Slc26 family proteins, with one possible exception, transport anions across membranes in a wide variety of tissues in vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. Mutations in human members of the family are a significant cause of disease. Slc26 family proteins are thought to be oligomers, but their stoichiometry of association is in dispute. A recent study, using sequential bleaching of single fluorophore-coupled molecules in membrane fragments, demonstrated that mammalian Slc26a5 (prestin) is a tetramer. In this article, the stoichiometry of two nonmammalian prestins and three human SLC26 proteins has been analyzed by the same method, including the evolutionarily-distant SLC26A11. The analysis showed that tetramerization is common and likely to be ubiquitous among Slc26 proteins, at least in vertebrates. The implication of the findings is that tetramerization is present for functional reasons.
Aktionswoche Alkohol 2011 – Ergebnisse einer Evaluation
Authors: Soellner Renate , Berganski Kamila , Krieger Julia , Stephany Sally , Storm Vera 
Published: May 2013

Fragestellung: Die Aktionswoche Alkohol, die seit 2007 in einem zweijährigen Rhythmus von der Deutschen Hauptstelle für Suchtfragen e. V. (DHS) veranstaltet wird, zielt auf einen bewussteren und maßvolleren Umgang mit Alkohol in der Bevölkerung. Im Jahr 2011 fanden über 1500 Veranstaltungen von verschiedenen Institutionen statt. Erstmalig wurde begleitend zur Aktionswoche eine umfassende Evaluation durchgeführt, um eine systematische Bewertung hinsichtlich der Konzeption und Durchführung sowie der Erreichbarkeit der Zielgruppe zu ermöglichen und Empfehlungen für zukünftige Veranstaltungen abzuleiten. Methode: Mit dem Ansatz eines deskriptiv-summativen Evaluationsdesigns wurde in insgesamt sechs Studien die Kooperation zwischen der DHS und Veranstaltern, die Eignung des Mottos und der Botschafter der Aktionswoche, die Medienpräsenz der Aktionswoche, der Internetauftritt sowie das zur Verfügung gestellte Material evaluiert. Ergebnisse: Die Zufriedenheit der Veranstalter mit der Kooperation der DHS fiel insgesamt sehr gut aus. In den Bereichen der Materiallieferung und der Unterstützung bei der konkreten Durchführung von Aktionen sahen die Veranstalter noch Verbesserungspotential. Der Internetauftritt wurde von der Öffentlichkeit und den Veranstaltern als insgesamt positiv bewertet. Hinsichtlich der Übersichtlichkeit und Bestellmöglichkeit von Materialien wurde noch Optimierungsbedarf gesehen. Die Präsenz der Aktionswoche Alkohol 2011 in Fernsehen, Zeitungen und Rundfunk war gering. Schlussfolgerung: Die Aktionswoche Alkohol wurde zu großen Teilen positiv bewertet. In Teilbereichen wird Optimierungsbedarf gesehen. Die hier vorliegende Evaluation liefert wertvolle Ergebnisse und Anregungen für die vierte im Mai 2013 stattfindende Aktionswoche und andere vergleichbare Präventionskampagnen.
Studies of photoconductivity and field effect transistor behavior in examining drift mobility, surface depletion, and transient effects in Si-doped GaN nanowires in vacuum and air
Authors: Sanford N. A. , Robins L. H. , Blanchard P. T. , Soria K. , Klein B. , Eller B. S. , Bertness K. A. , Schlager J. B. , Sanders A. W. 
Published: May 2013

Variable intensity photoconductivity (PC) performed under vacuum at 325 nm was used to estimate drift mobility (μ) and density (σs) of negative surface charge for c-axis oriented Si-doped GaN nanowires (NWs). In this approach, we assumed that σs was responsible for the equilibrium surface band bending (∅) and surface depletion in the absence of illumination. The NWs were grown by molecular beam epitaxy to a length of approximately 10 μm and exhibited negligible taper. The free carrier concentration (N) was separately measured using Raman scattering which yielded N = (2.5 ± 0.3) × 1017 cm−3 for the growth batch studied under 325 nm excitation. Saturation of the PC was interpreted as a flatband condition whereby ∅ was eliminated via the injection of photogenerated holes. Measurements of dark and saturated photocurrents, N, NW dimensions, and dimensional uncertainties, were used as input to a temperature-dependent cylindrical Poisson equation based model, yielding σs in the range of (3.5 to 7.5) × 1011 cm−2 and μ in the range of (850 to 2100) cm2/(V s) across the (75 to 194) nm span of individual NW diameters examined. Data illustrating the spectral dependence and polarization dependence of the PC are also presented. Back-gating these devices, and devices from other growth batches, as field effect transistors (FETs) was found to not be a reliable means to estimate transport parameters (e.g., μ and σs) due to long-term current drift. The current drift was ascribed to screening of the FET back gate by injected positive charge. We describe how these gate charging effects can be exploited as a means to hasten the otherwise long recovery time of NW devices used as photoconductive detectors. Additionally, we present data illustrating comparative drift effects under vacuum, room air, and dry air for both back-gated NW FETs and top-gated NW MESFETs.
Control of two-dimensional growth of AlN and high Al-content AlGaN-based MQWs for deep-UV LEDs
Authors: Yang Weihuang , Li Jinchai , Lin Wei , Li Shuping , Chen Hangyang , Liu Dayi , Yang Xu , Kang Junyong 
Published: May 2013

Dense and atomically flat AlN film with root-mean-square roughness value of 0.32 nm was grown on sapphire substrate at a relatively lower temperature by using a three-step epitaxy technique. On the basis of this AlN template, AlGaN-based multiple quantum wells (MQWs) with atomically flat hetero-interfaces were epitaxially grown to suppress nonradiative recombination by introducing In as a surfactant during simultaneous source supply. As a result, single intense- and narrow-peaked photoluminescence was obtained from the MQWs. Finally, the deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes with well-behaved I-V characteristic and strong electroluminescence in the range of 256–312 nm were fabricated successfully.
Dynamic gradients of an intermediate filament-like cytoskeleton are recruited by a polarity landmark during apical growth
Authors: Fuchino Katsuya , Bagchi Sonchita , Cantlay Stuart , Sandblad Linda , Wu Di , Bergman Jessica , Kamali-Moghaddam Masood , Flärdh Klas , Ausmees Nora 
Published: May 2013

SignificanceHere, we show that FilP, a bacterial cytoskeletal protein related to metazoan intermediate filament (IF) proteins, can self-assemble into a regular network structure. This finding offers a possible explanation for its previously characterized role in cellular rigidity and elasticity and might offer insights into the mechanical role of human IFs. The assembly of FilP cytoskeleton is coupled to the function of the polarisome, a protein complex orchestrating the polar growth characteristic ofStreptomyces. These results suggest that apical assembly of a stress-bearing cytoskeleton is a common strategy in tip-growing walled cells, such as filamentous fungi, pollen tubes, and mycelial bacteria.
Practices of Aesthetic Self-Cultivation: British Composer-Critics of the ‘Doomed Generation’
Authors: Collins Sarah 
Published: May 2013

AbstractThe spectre of music as a transcendent artistic ideal figures prominently in the literary criticism of Victorian aestheticism, though the extent to which aestheticism of the movement actually influenced the thinking of British composers has received only marginal scholarly attention. By the first decades of the twentieth century, aestheticism had become decidedly unfashionable even in literary circles, so it is unsurprising that composers of the time would choose to distance themselves from its rhetoric. The prevalence of a certain type of metaphysical conception of the creative act of the artist and intuitive act of the critic, however, may suggest an important remnant of aesthetic influence. Drawing from new critical trends which themselves mirror those of aestheticism, this article posits a revised conception of aesthetic discourse as an activity of self-cultivation, and examines its role in shaping the lives of selected British composer-critics from the early part of the twentieth century. By casting the aesthetic ethos not as a doctrine but as a set of internal practices that inform the creation and subversion of doctrine, the article demonstrates how a ‘relational musicology’ can act as a tool for historical inquiry.
‘A Heap of Broken Images’? Reviving Austro-German Debates over Musical Meaning, 1900–36
Authors: Pritchard Matthew 
Published: May 2013

AbstractThis article examines a range of writings on the status of musical interpretation in Austria and Germany during the early decades of the twentieth century, and argues their relevance to current debates. While the division outlined by recent research between popular-critical hermeneutics and analytical ‘energetics’ at this time remains important, hitherto neglected contemporary reflections by Paul Bekker and Kurt Westphal demonstrate that the success of energetics was not due to any straightforward intellectual victory. Rather, the images of force and motion promoted by 1920s analysis were carried by historical currents in the philosophy, educational theory and arts of the time, revealing a culturally situated source for twenty-first-century analysis's preoccupations with motion and embodiment. The cultural relativization of such images may serve as a retrospective counteraction to the analytical rationalizing processes that culminated specifically in Heinrich Schenker's later work, and more generally in the privileging of graphic and notational imagery over poetic paraphrase.
The role of management involvement in innovation
Authors: Kam Sing Wong Stanley 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe purpose of the current study is to investigate the role of management involvement in innovation and its relationships with organizational, technical and marketing innovations. Organizational innovation, which features both administrative and human capital innovation, is introduced as the intermediate construct to test its indirect effects on the influences of management involvement on technical and marketing innovations.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 196 respondents to an online questionnaire that was sent to 2,500 potential participants randomly selected from electronics manufacturing firms across China. Structural equation model using AMOS 18 was used to analyse the data.FindingsThe findings reveal that management involvement has a positive and significant impact on all dimensions of innovation featured. It is also found that organizational innovation has a mediating effect on the association between management involvement and technical innovation, though no such effect can be found in the relationship between management involvement and marketing innovation.Research limitations/implicationsSince the study is quantitative using data emanating from the electronics manufacturing industry in China, further empirical study would be useful to verify and complement the results in other industries and other countries.Practical implicationsThe findings show that management involvement appears to exert permeating impacts on all strata of innovation, presenting a reminder to practitioners and researchers that clear senior management direction, endorsement and support are essential to innovation pursuits.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the body of knowledge relating to innovation and innovation decisions. By investigating the interrelationships between management involvement and the various dimensions of innovation featured, the study identifies and charts the casual chains that can be used to guide innovation decisions.
HR management during lean production adoption
Authors: José Martínez‐Jurado Pedro , Moyano‐Fuentes José , Jerez Gómez Pilar 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThis paper aims to identify the success factors linked to human resources management during the lean production (LP) adoption process. A model of these factors and their interrelationships is also to be built to understand the sequence that leads to the cultural change required in lean production adoption.Design/methodology/approachA case study is carried out in selected same‐industry companies that are on the same level in the supply chain and have recently completed LP adoption. Twelve first‐tier production plants in the aeronautics industry were selected. Data were gathered from interviews with plant managers and the people in charge of LP in the plant. Data were analyzed using open and coaxial coding and triangulation both within cases and across cases.FindingsThe results highlight a number of success factors that depend on the phase of the LP adoption process. In the phase prior to adoption, the success factors are the incorporation of external change agents and the management averting inertia, whereas in the other phases of the adoption process five main factors were found: training, communication, rewards, job design and work organization.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings stress the importance of human resources being managed appropriately during LP adoption for LP to be accepted and adapted. There are a number of key aspects related to human resource management that should be taken into account during each of the phases that occur during the LP adoption process. Further developments include measuring the intensity of the relationships identified and combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies simultaneously to overcome problems with the limited generalization of the results.Practical implicationsPractitioners in charge of LP adoption must be mindful of the key human resource management‐related aspects before and during the LP adoption process and the guidelines to be followed in each of these aspects for the outcomes of LP to be achieved and maintained.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to research in the area of the role that people play in LP with a new line of research centered on the role of human resource management during the LP adoption process. Unlike prior research, this study analyzes the changes that take place in human resource management from the time the company makes the decision to adopt LP until it is implemented.
Intention to use advanced mobile phone services (AMPS)
Authors: Islam Zahidul , Kim Cheng Low Patrick , Hasan Ikramul 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the influence and applications of both the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the diffusion of innovation (DOI) model on the intention to use advanced mobile phone services (AMPS) among Bangladeshi users. It also seeks to examine the moderating role of attitude towards use in the AMPS research model.Design/methodology/approachThis is a quantitative study. A questionnaire was developed from previous studies and data were collected from young people between 18 and 31 years of age in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Regression was employed to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicate that perceived usefulness and compatibility are key factors for using AMPS, while other factors such as perceived ease of use and complexity are not as significant. Findings also confirm that attitudes towards use play a moderating role between perceived usefulness/complexity and intention to use AMPS.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research is required as this paper focuses only on the younger age range in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Practical implicationsFindings indicate that AMPS can be used by younger segments of the population if the elements of TAM and DOI theory are emphasised.Originality/valueThe paper reinforces the body of knowledge relating to AMPS in the telecommunications industry.
The influence of social capital on service quality evaluation
Authors: Imrie Brian C. 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThis research seeks to provide guidance for the global manager by determining the manner through which social interaction influences service quality evaluation. Furthermore, the paper aims to explore the function of economic development in altering the role of social relationships in service quality evaluation.Design/methodology/approachConsistent with the critical realism paradigm a multi‐method design is adopted for this study. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's structuralist perspective of culture is utilised as the analytical framework.FindingsThe findings challenge both marketing and sociology theory that propose that individuals are less focussed on nurturing inter‐personal relationships as they are empowered economically. Indeed it is found that social networks (i.e. social capital) perform a key role in service quality preference formation and dissemination. The evidence suggests that economic development has not mitigated the influence of social relationships upon service consumption.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper identifies a research agenda towards developing a measure of service quality that more comprehensively probes the social element of the service encounter. In order to more fully explore the impact of economic capital on the service quality construct it is identified that a longitudinal study is required that focuses upon nations as they transition from developing to developed nation status.Practical implicationsThis study has significant implications for marketing managers seeking to build a presence in Taiwan or other similarly profiled Confucian based societies. It is advised that strategists should adopt a customised strategic plan when operating within Taiwan and similarly profiled cultures. In particular this study encourages a focus upon nurturing inter‐personal relationships and leveraging these relationships to effectively communicate to target markets in Confucian societies.Originality/valueThis study adopts a sociological perspective of the cultural influence upon the service quality evaluation process.This approach is presented as preferable to the national values‐oriented studies that have dominated research in the area.
Knowledge management goals revisited
Authors: Richter Alexander , Stocker Alexander , Müller Sebastian , Avram Gabriela 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide both practice‐oriented researchers and practitioners with detailed insights into the social software goals and implementation strategies for corporate environments. Also, to illustrate the novelty and specificity of corporate social software (CSS) compared to other groupware or knowledge management systems.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is grounded in the ongoing discussion on differences and commonalities of knowledge management and Enterprise 2.0 applications and motivated by the lack of scientific studies on this topic. The authors have therefore made a comprehensive study of social software adoption in corporate environments, performing a cross‐case analysis of 23 enterprises. The study was meant to enable researchers and practitioners to acquire a better understanding and appropriate related explanations of the relatively new phenomenon of CSS appropriation and use.FindingsFrom the cross‐case analysis, six main goals of CSS adoption were derived and compared with the goals of knowledge management projects and initiatives. While some of the goals set for the introduction of CSS seem to coincide with those resulting from knowledge management studies (e.g. establishing networks of experts), others appear to be novel and specific for CSS (e.g. improving employee‐to‐employee communication).Originality/valueBy investigating 23 different cases (most of these case studies being documented by the authors), this paper presents one of the most comprehensive cross‐case analyses systematically exploring pursued goals and implementation approaches adopted for CSS. The contribution of the study is relevant for both research and practice and it is aimed to contribute to the ongoing scientific debate on social software in knowledge management and information systems research.
A longitudinal examination of intellectual capital disclosures and corporate governance attributes in Malaysia
Authors: Ahmed Haji Abdifatah , Mohd Ghazali Nazli A. 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) and corporate governance attributes following the revised code on corporate governance in Malaysia in 2007.Design/methodology/approachThe sample of the present study was drawn from top companies listed on Bursa Malaysia based on their market capitalization for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. A self‐constructed disclosure index was used to assess the extent and quality of ICDs. The panel data regression analysis was employed to examine the relationship between ICDs and corporate governance.FindingsThe results revealed that all corporate governance attributes namely board size, independent directors, board effectiveness and position of the chairman (except family members on the board) were significant in explaining the extent and quality of ICDs in the expected direction. Director ownership was found to be consistent in negatively relating to both the extent and quality of ICDs. Government ownership was marginally significant in determining the extent of ICDs.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that the revised corporate governance code has a positive impact on ICD at least in the case of large Malaysian listed companies. This implies that regulatory efforts in enhancing corporate governance in Malaysia is starting to prove fruitful in encouraging companies to be involved in more IC investment and hence disclosure.Originality/valueThis paper is one of the few studies which investigate the influence of corporate governance on ICDs longitudinally in a developing country following revision to the corporate governance code in Malaysia in 2007.