bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A telehealth intervention for families caring for a child with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Authors: T. Woods Damith , Catroppa Cathy , Godfrey Celia , Giallo Rebecca , Matthews Jan , A. Anderson Vicki 
Published: January 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to determine the preliminary clinical utility of a telephone-support format of the “Signposts” (Hudsonet al., 2003) behavioural intervention programme to be used with a paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) population.Design/methodology/approach– Nine families caring for a child with moderate or severe TBI, participated in a pilot study of a TBI adapted “Signposts for Building Better Behaviour” manualised programme. The programme is designed to help parents learn positive parenting skills and strategies that empower them to successfully manage their child's challenging behaviour post-TBI. The programme consists of seven core sessions and two supplemental sessions. Parents work through the sessions with an accompaniment of guiding information booklets, a DVD with scenes modelling positive parenting strategies, and a workbook containing written exercises. At the completion of each session parents receive a telephone-support call from a trained Signposts practitioner who provides assistance and feedback on programme content.Findings– On average parents completed eight sessions (range seven to nine) and every family completed the seven core sessions. Participation in the telephone-support calls was high with 96 per cent of calls having been successfully received by families. All parents agreed that the telephone calls were a useful part of the programme and felt that the materials were helpful for managing challenging behaviour. Paired-samplest-tests showed significant reductions for challenging behaviour from pre- to post-intervention. Parenting practices also significantly improved over the course of the intervention. In general, parents rated a high level of consumer satisfaction with the Signposts programme and its content.Originality/value– Overall, these preliminary findings support the potential clinical utility of a telephone-support version of the Signposts programme to improve parenting skills and to reduce challenging child behaviour following TBI. This study has provided the impetus for a larger clinical research trial to be conducted.
Brain injury spousal caregivers’ experiences of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) group
Authors: Williams Jonathan , Vaughan Frances , Huws Jaci , Hastings Richard 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to understand the experiences of acquired brain injury (ABI) family caregivers who attended an acceptance based group intervention.

Design/methodology/approach
– A qualitative design and interpretative phenomenological analysis methodology were used.

Findings
– Five key themes were identified: increasing personal awareness; the dialectic of emotional acceptance vs emotional avoidance; integration of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) principles; peer support; and moving forward after the group. It seemed that some individuals found the ACT exercises distressing, whereas others reported benefits. All participants described experiences of acceptance vs avoidant means of coping, and attempts to integrate new approaches into existing belief systems.

Originality/value
– This study is the first to explore the experiences of ABI caregivers undertaking an ACT group intervention.
Paediatric neuropsychological assessment: an analysis of parents’ perspectives
Authors: Stark Daniel , Thomas Sophie , Dawson David , Talbot Emily , Bennett Emily , Starza-Smith Arleta 
Published: January 2014

Purpose– Modern healthcare services are commonly based on shared models of care, in which a strong emphasis is placed upon the views of those in receipt of services. The purpose of this paper is to examine the parents’ experiences of their child’s neuropsychological assessment.Design/methodology/approach– This was a mixed-methodology study employing both quantitative and qualitative measures.Findings– The questionnaire measure indicated a high overall level of satisfaction. Qualitative analysis of parental interviews provided a richer insight into the parental experience and indicated four major themes.Practical implications– Implications covered three major areas. Firstly, whilst a high value was placed upon the assessment, the need for further comprehensive neurorehabilitation and intervention was highlighted. Secondly, this study highlights the significant adversity experienced by such families and subsequent unmet psychological needs which also require consideration. Finally, findings from the current study could assist in improving future measures of satisfaction in similar services.Originality/value– This is the first published study of parental experiences of and satisfaction with paediatric neuropsychological assessment in the UK.
The race to implement co-creation of value with stakeholders: five approaches to competitive advantage
Authors: J. Gouillart Francis 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– After leading more than thirty co-creation projects, and observing more than 200 others, the author can offer a view on why co-creation with stakeholders is becoming a cornerstone of the creative economy and suggest how the most popular approaches contribute to helping firms gain a competitive advantage through connections that enable continuous innovation.

Design/methodology/approach
– To tackle large, complex problems, co-creation, in its most generic form, requires adopting five processes that each represent a potential source of competitive advantage; an approach can utilize each process from very little to a lot. A co-creation strategy will be most powerful when all five processes are used in combination.

Findings
– Leading theorists are predicting that in the foreseeable future the co-creation model will become a primary source of the firm's competitive advantage.

Practical implications
– Opening up the traditional value chain to stakeholders could precipitate a race to co-creation, as every firm tries to connect each function and process to the relevant ecosystem and attract the best external players as partners.

Originality/value
– Leading theorists anticipate that in the foreseeable future the co-creation model will become a primary source of the firm's competitive advantage. The article lays out five approaches.
A leader's guide to innovation in the experience economy
Authors: Joseph Pine II B. , H. Gilmore James 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– To succeed in the rapidly evolving experience economy executives must think differently about how they create economic value for their customers.

Design/methodology/approach
– Five value-creating opportunities are likely to drive further progress in the dynamic experience economy: customizing goods; enhancing services; charging for experiences; fusing digital technology with reality; and transformative experiences, a promising frontier.

Findings
– For leaders, five insights about the value-creating opportunities are key to achieving success via state-of-the-art experience staging, and they provide tested guidelines for managing in the experience economy, now and into the future.

Practical implications
– A huge first step in staging more engaging experiences is embracing the principle that work is theatre. So businesses should ask: What acts of theatre would turn our workers' functional activities into memorable events?

Originality/value
– Three key lessons: innovation to create high-quality experiences that customers will pay for is even more important than goods or service innovation. When you customize an experience, you automatically turn it into a transformation. Companies enabling transformations should charge not merely for time but for the change resulting from that time.
Voids investigation in solder joints performed with vapour phase soldering (VPS)
Authors: Kinga Synkiewicz Beata , Skwarek Agata , Witek Krzysztof 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– The main advantages of vapour phase soldering are a non-oxygen environment, the elimination of overheating and the possibility of the vacuum application, which can guarantee undeniably higher quality of solder joints, especially as regards void formation. These features are less affected by the alloy composition. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– The quality of solder joints made in two VPS options (with and without vacuum) was investigated in terms of voids formation. Solder alloys of 37%Pb63%Sn (PbSn) and 96%Sn3.5%Ag0.5%Cu (SAC 305) were applied to an etched Cu layer on a glass-epoxy substrate using the screen-printing method. 1206 SMD resistors were placed on the solder pads with a Quadra pick-and place machine. For the inspection of joint structure and void identification, 3D X-ray images of samples were taken using a computed tomography system with a 180 kV/15 W nanofocus. For comparison, traditional cross-sections of the samples were performed using a metallographic polisher. The cross-section analysis was done in a scanning electron microscope (SEM). To confirm the relevance of these data, a statistical analysis was carried out.

Findings
– The paper shows that alloy composition has less impact on the quality of joints as regards void formation. The tendency for a different arrangement of voids in a junction depending on the distance SMD element and the thickness of the solder layer was investigated using X-ray computed tomography.

Originality/value
– The use of 3D computed tomography for void investigation gives full information about the internal structure of the joint and allows for precise void identification. Vacuum application during the soldering allows significant voids elimination.
Combined loading and failure analysis of lead-free solder joints due to creep and fatigue phenomena
Authors: Jankowski Krystian , Wymyslowski Artur , Chicot Didier 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– The aim of this work is the use of specially designed, authoring device to evaluate the strength of solder alloys commonly used in all kinds of electronic and electrical devices that are used in various fields of economic and industrial development to shorten the testing period. By obtaining answers to pervade science questions on how to properly investigate the reliability of solder joints can increase lifespan (uptime) of all electronic devices, and especially those that are used in the process submitted severe external conditions (dust, humidity air, heat, mechanical stress).

Design/methodology/approach
– The basic demand for performing the experimental tests is to measure small displacements (order of fractions of micrometers or of single microns) occurring within the sample. The analysis of the displacement values in various environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, current flow) allows estimating how a given material behaves also in a longer time, under normal operating conditions. Unlike a commonly used method, based on measuring the time-to-failure, at which the item is damaged due to accelerated aging, a behaviour of the sample is being tested for the selected duration time and the given loading conditions.

Findings
– The theoretical analysis and performed numerical simulations of ATC tests based on developed failure and reliability investigation system (FRIS) imply proposed here combined loading approach a promising and affective method for accelerated reliability tests. Both indentation and FRIS techniques by numerous possibilities of loading conditions seem to be appropriate in order to study the creep and fatigue behaviour. That kind of behaviours can be used by different models which characterize separately the mechanical properties under creep or fatigue tests. In case of creep mode, the displacement is expressed as a function of time where different parameters can be used to represent the creep sensibility.

Originality/value
– New device can provide both creep and fatigue phenomena simultaneously and perform tests in digital controlled environmental conditions. That approach enables faster method for testing reliability of solder joints.
Electrodeposition of thin metallic layer for solar cell electrodes
Authors: Drabczyk Kazimierz , Socha Robert , Panek Piotr , Mordarski Grzegorz 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– The paper aims to show application of the electrochemically deposited coatings for thickening of the screen printed electric paths potentially applied in photovoltaic cells.

Design/methodology/approach
– The electric paths were screen printed with the use of silver-based paste. The paths were thickened by electrodeposition of thin copper layer in potentiostatic regime from surfactant-free plating bath. The morphology and surface quality of the paths were studied by imaging with scanning electron microscopy.

Findings
– The electric paths can be thickened successfully, but quality for the screen printed substrate determines quality of deposited layer. The EDX analysis confirmed that the deposited copper layer covered uniformly the printed paths.

Research limitations/implications
– The adhesion of the copper-covered path to the silicon wafer surface depends on adhesion of the original screen printed path.

Originality/value
– This paper confirms that electrodeposited copper can be applied for screen printed silver paths thickening in a controllable way.
Characterization of nano-enhanced interconnect materials for fine pitch assembly
Authors: Zhang Yan , Sitek Janusz , Fan Jing-yu , Ma Shiwei , Koscielski Marek , Ye Lilei , Liu Johan 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– Multiple fillers are adopted to study the filler influences on electrical and mechanical properties of the conductive adhesives. The performances of the developed nano-enhanced interconnect materials in printing process are also evaluated. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– Micron-sized silver flakes are used as the basic fillers, and submicro- and nano-sized silver spheres and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are adopted to obtain conductive adhesives with multiple fillers. Differential scanning calorimetry measurement is carried out to characterize the curing behavior of the samples with different fillers, four-probe method is used to obtain the bulk resistivity, shear test is conducted for adhesive strength, and environmental loading test is also involved. Furthermore, printing trials with different patterns have been carried out.

Findings
– The electrical resistivity of the adhesives with submicro-sized silver spheres does not monotonically change with the increasing sphere proportion, and there exists an optimized value for the ratio of silver flakes to spheres. Samples with relatively small amount of CNT additives show improved electrical properties, while their mechanical strengths tend to decrease. For the printing application, the adhesives with 18.3 volume% filler content behave much better than those with lower filler content of 6 percent. The presence of the nano-particles makes a slight improvement in the printing results.

Research limitations/implications
– More detailed printing performance and reliability test of the samples need to be carried out in the future.

Originality/value
– The conductive adhesives as interconnect materials exhibit some improved properties with optimized bimodal or trimodal fillers. The additive of the nano-fillers affects slightly on the printing quality of the bimodal conductive adhesives.
IT outsourcing in the public sector: a conceptual model
Authors: Duhamel Francois , Gutiérrez-Martínez Isis , Picazo-Vela Sergio , Luna-Reyes Luis 
Published: January 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this article is to propose a theoretical model explaining information technology outsourcing performance in the public sector as well as a set of empirically testable propositions to improve the understanding of key determinants of success.Design/methodology/approach– Based on Fountain ' s technology enactment framework, the authors integrated inter-organizational factors, such as trust, knowledge sharing, and quality of outsourcing interfaces, in the model and added organizational culture alignment between service providers and public administration to enhance Fountain ' s original framework.Findings– The authors proposed 17 empirically testable propositions to establish the relationships between key variables in IT outsourcing projects in the public sector.Research limitations/implications– The proposed model provides guidance for future research aimed at advancing knowledge of IT outsourcing.Originality/value– The contribution lies in the development of specific variables, such as trust, knowledge, and organizational culture, which are related to building an outsourcing relationship and are used as determinants of the quality of organizational interfaces between public bureaucracies and IT outsourcing providers.
How semantic technologies transform e-government domain
Authors: Lamharhar Hind , Chiadmi Dalila , Benhlima Laila 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– In e-government domain, an efficient semantic interoperability of services is a big challenge. In this context, semantic technologies play a fundamental role in numerous e-government programs. Indeed, these technologies enable enriching the public service description provided by different public administrations with additional semantic information, which allows automatic services processing and information exchange between involved members in comprehensive and interpretable manner, thus facilitating service integration and cooperation. The most frequently used technologies in this area are semantic web services (SWS) technology and ontology. Thus, for modelling efficiently public services, the authors have exploring, studying and analyzing some of e-government researches and projects that applied semantic technologies.

Design/methodology/approach
– In this paper, the authors address how semantic technologies transform the e-government domain through exploring and studying the use of SWS and ontology in numerous researches and projects applying these technologies in this area. Then, the authors have compared them through a set of criteria defined according to e-government requirements such as the SWS modelling approach for describing semantically public services, ontologies for representing governmental specific features (e.g. regulation and organizational structures) and developed portal for supporting user
'
s perspectives. Based on this study, the authors have identified the appropriate standards, frameworks, and models for developing the framework.

Findings
– The authors have developed a framework for public services which enhances existing approaches with additional aspects. Thus, the approach comparing to other works improves the service ontology with a cognitive semantic approach to support the multiple usage contexts and situations of services. This semantic is developed in form of a Sit/Ctx ontology developed based on CSs model represented through conceptual graphs theory. The authors have used this model besides OWL-S, improving thus the level of automation of discovery and composition process of public services, which become more efficient with taken into consideration their interrelations and situations.

Originality/value
– The approach comparing to other works improves the service ontology with a cognitive semantic approach to support the multiple usage contexts and situations of public services, providing thus the end-users (people and enterprises) a better orientation in discovery process.
The effect of information quality on trust in e-government systems
'
transformation
Authors: Lee Ally , Levy Yair 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of information quality (IQ) on citizens
'
trust in e-government systems.

Design/methodology/approach
– This study used a mixed-method approach. In the first phase, the study drew IQ characteristics from the literature pool and then administered a qualitative questionnaire to a sample of 20 citizens who use e-government systems. In the second phase, the study delivered a quantitative survey via web to a group of about 1,000 citizens.

Findings
– This two-phased study uncovered citizens
'
perceived IQ factors and determined the influence of the IQ factors on trust in e-government systems.

Research limitations/implications
– There were some limitations to the study. Citizen
'
s demographics, along with the type of e-government interaction, were not taken into consideration.

Practical implications
– Understanding IQ characteristics that improve trust would enhance the relationship between citizens and e-government systems, as well as aide in the design and development of such systems.

Originality/value
– This paper applied an established IQ framework, and used the value focus approach in assessing IQ characteristics that effect citizens
'
trust in e-government systems.
Patient Loyalty in a Mature IDS Market: Is Population Health Management Worth It?
Authors: Carlin Caroline S. 
Published: January 2014

ObjectiveTo understand patient loyalty to providers over time, informing effective population health management.Study SettingPatient care‐seeking patterns over a 6‐year timeframe in Minnesota, where care systems have a significant portion of their revenue generated by shared‐saving contracts with public and private payers.Study DesignWeibull duration and probit models were used to examine patterns of patient attribution to a care system and the continuity of patient affiliation with a care system. Clustering of errors within family unit was used to account for within‐family correlation in unobserved characteristics that affect patient loyalty.Data CollectionThe payer provided data from health plan administrative files, matched to U.S. Census‐based characteristics of the patient's neighborhood. Patients were retrospectively attributed to health care systems based on patterns of primary care.Principal FindingsI find significant patient loyalty, with past loyalty a very strong predictor of future relationship. Relationships were shorter when the patient's health status was complex and when the patient's care system was smaller.ConclusionsPopulation health management can be beneficial to the care system making this investment, particularly for patients exhibiting prior continuity in care system choice. The results suggest that co‐located primary and specialty services are important in maintaining primary care loyalty.