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IRS, information services and LIS research – a reminder about affect and the affective paradigm … and a question
Authors: Fourie Ina , Julien Heidi 
Published: April 2014

Purpose– A previous contribution argues in favour of a balance in emphasis between information communication technology (ICT); information retrieval systems (IRS) such as databases, library catalogues, repositories, Google Scholar, digital libraries, portals, search engines; and the users of these systems. This contribution aims to pursue the need to consider affect and an affective paradigm more prominently in the design, evaluation, promotion and use of IRS and library and information services (LIS).Design/methodology/approach– The contribution is written against the background of research in information behaviour, user studies, systems design, and information literacy.Findings– Although the literature from LIS and other disciplines notes an affective paradigm or even paradigms, it is not strongly positioned compared with the systems and cognitive paradigms. A growing body of research and work practices such as information representation and tagging, and information skills training, is taking a slant towards affect and emotion. The question, however, is whether current work is sufficient to argue for an affective paradigm complementary to the systems, cognitive and socio-cognitive paradigms, and how an affective paradigm should be introduced in training/education for LIS.Originality/value– Although there are a number of publications on affect and emotion, and references to an affective paradigm, this contribution is aimed at stimulating thought on whether we should prominently introduce the affective paradigm into LIS curricula as preparation for adding more value to IRS, library services, and in dealing with emotion-laden jobs, and if so, how.
Outcomes-based approach to quality assessment and curriculum improvement in higher education
Authors: Tam Maureen 
Published: April 2014

Purpose
– This paper was written for practitioners in higher education, including academics and instructional designers who are engaged in curriculum revision. It aims to examine the notion of outcomes-based education, survey the literature and provide a critical review of the outcomes-based approach to quality assessment and curriculum improvement in higher education. The outcomes-based approach is completely student-centred, which focuses on what students know and can actually do. Sharpening the focus onto student learning outcomes goes beyond mere tinkering with traditional structures and methods; it really constitutes a paradigm shift in educational philosophy and practice.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper begins with a summary of developments in institutional quality assessment and curriculum improvement in higher education in recent decades. Then, it identifies the underlying concepts and principles that characterize the outcomes-based approach for the design and improvement of curriculum and instruction in higher education. Finally, the outcomes-based approach is critically reviewed for its value from the perspectives of both practical and philosophical considerations.

Findings
– In so doing, it is directed to the heightening of sensitivity as to the manner and situations in which the outcomes-based approach may be employed.

Originality/value
– A final note is that while learning outcomes approaches are useful, care is needed to take into account the different views and perceptions of those involved in defining learning outcomes and to keep the ultimate goal of improving student learning clearly in mind. Care must also be taken to avoid rigidity and conceptual reification during implementation in curriculum and instructional design.
Job satisfaction of the academic staff of the vocational schools of the foundation and public universities
Authors: Çolakoğlu Nurdan , Atabay Esra 
Published: April 2014

Purpose
– This study aims to highlight the differences between the public and foundation universities determining the level of job satisfaction of academic personnel working at vocational schools within the body of public and foundation universities in Turkey.

Design/methodology/approach
– In the present study, the questionnaire developed by Ardic and Bas and used in a similar study is taken as the basis for this study. Some amendments have been made to the instrument. The reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated using the Cronbach alpha coefficient and some statistical methods such as independent samples t test and chi-square test depending on the data. Differences of opinion based on demographic characteristics are presented giving the frequencies and percentages of demographic characteristics of the data.

Findings
– Three questions were focused on in the present study: the first is to present the most important factor affecting the job satisfaction or dissatisfaction of the academic personnel working at the public and foundation universities; the second is to determine whether there is a difference between public and foundation universities and the third is to set forth the reasons of these differences, if any.

Research limitations/implications
– The current study selected 12,160 academic personnel throughout Turkey and the questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument. The instrument could not be delivered to all the personnel. This is because it was not possible to have access to the e-mail addresses of some of the academic personnel, some of the e-mail addresses were not in use or out of date while some personnel do not use the internet.

Originality/value
– The aim of this study is to determine job satisfaction level of academic personnel working in vocational high schools operating under the umbrella of state and foundation universities, which offer educational services in Turkey. Since no study is encountered as a result of the literature survey made, that addressed especially the level of the job satisfaction of the academic staff working in the vocational schools in Turkey in a way to cover all public and foundation universities, such a study was made for the purpose of removing the deficiency in this subject.
The advanced use of mobile phones in five European countries
Authors: Fortunati Leopoldina , Taipale Sakari 
Published: April 2014

AbstractThe paper explores the advanced users of mobile phones in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the UK (EU5 countries) and aims to clarify the social meaning of advanced use. The mobile phone is seen as a strategic tool of social labour, whose capabilities are exploited to a different extent in the five studied countries. The analysis is based on a cross‐national survey data collected in 2009 (N = 7,255). First, the results show that there are substantial differences in the advanced use of mobile phone and its predictors in Europe. Generally, only about one third of the studied mobile features are exploited. British and French people are the most advanced users, followed by German, Spanish and Italians. While Italians have stuck to early developed mobile phone features, Britons especially have continued to adopt the newer properties of the mobile phone. Second, the article shows that owing to the extensive under‐utilization of its features, the mobile phone as a tool of social labour is efficiently exploited by only a small number of people. They, however, constitute technological vanguards that make use of the diverse features in different countries. This limited use of advanced features results in the new patterns of social stratification.
Fishing Livelihoods, Seashore Tourism, and Industrial Development in Coastal Rio de Janeiro: Conflict, Multi‐Functionality, and Juxtaposition
Authors: HOEFLE SCOTT WILLIAM 
Published: April 2014

AbstractCritical global political ecology and critical cultural political economy approaches are used in a study involving decades of research to evaluate the changing relationship between fisher livelihoods, seashore tourism, and urban industrial development in an economically dynamic region of coastal Brazil. As the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro expanded and encompassed fishing communities, socio‐environmental transformations created threats to fisher ways of life, opened new multi‐functional opportunities, and also introduced unrelated juxtaposed activities. As stocks fell due to overfishing and urban industrial pollution over the last two decades, small‐scale inshore fishing declined in the bay–lagoon systems located to the east and south‐west of Rio de Janeiro. Tourism increased but proved to be a poor substitute for declining fishing activities because it and other new multi‐functional activities rarely aggregated significant value to local livelihoods. Consequently, only a small minority of fishers benefited and remained on the islands and sand spits, while the great majority left for the mainland. New cultural and environmental functions were also absent, so that of the types of multi‐functionality identified by Wilson and Holmes, those present in the study area are weak and basically serve outside urban production and consumption interests.
New South Wales public‐hospital dietitians and how they feel about their workplace: An explorative study using a grounded theory approach
Authors: Milosavljevic Marianna , Noble Gary , Goluza Ivana , Keep Ashleigh , Ponta Gabriella 
Published: April 2014

AbstractAimThe hospital environment as a workplace has undergone rapid changes over the last 50 years. Despite this, there has been very little research exploring how dietitians working in hospitals perceive their workplace. Moreover, previous studies in this area have focused predominantly on examining the North American experience of dietitians. Only a handful of previous studies have investigated the experiences of Australian dietitians at different stages of their careers. Therefore this study, in part, addresses a gap in the extant literature by examining how New South Wales (NSW) public‐hospital dietitians perceive their workplace and its influence on their ability to function as healthcare professionals.MethodsIn 2011, 32 in‐depth interviews were conducted with dietitians from 11 NSW public hospitals. Participants were selected from four career stages: new graduates, mid‐career, specialists and managers. Data from the interviews were analysed through a grounded theory approach.ResultsData analysis revealed that dietitians sought validation of their work experience from five sources within the workplace. In this paper, these five sources have been depicted as a conceptual model labelled the ‘Five Sources of Value’. The five sources identified were: acquisition of knowledge; relationships with others; work culture; role clarity; and personal attributes. This study also found the relative importance of these values changed according to the career stage of the individual dietitian.ConclusionsThe retention and engagement of staff within a hospital environment is an ongoing issue for dietetic managers. The ‘Five Sources of Value’ identified through this study and their relative influence at different career stages may assist managers in developing workplace strategies that addresses the major areas of concern for many staff. As a result of the qualitative nature of this exploratory study, the generalisability of the findings are limited. To address this limitation, future research may follow a more quantitative approach.
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma in a patient with systemic onset juvenile arthritis: case report and review of literature
Authors: Singh Bharat K. , Antony Paul T. , Verma Surendra K. , Basu Debdutta , Negi Vir S. 
Published: April 2014

AbstractThe association of malignancy with autoimmune rheumatic diseases has been a subject of investigation. It has been shown that there is increased risk of malignancies, mainly non‐Hodgkin lymphoma, in patients with autoimmune disorders. There is scarcity of data about malignancy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). We report the occurrence of anaplastic large cell lymphoma in a patient with systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis treated with low dose methotrexate (MTX). A relationship between MTX treatment and the occurrence of lymphoma in autoimmune diseases has been suggested. The hypothesis that MTX has a role in the aetiology of lymphoproliferative disorders is supported by the observation of spontaneous remission of lymphoma in few cases on cessation of MTX therapy. However, systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients receiving MTX must be periodically examined for the development of lymphoproliferative disorder especially if the disease is difficult to control or patient develop new symptoms on therapy.
Waiting list may be a nocebo condition in psychotherapy trials: a contribution from network meta‐analysis
Authors: Furukawa T. A. , Noma H. , Caldwell D. M. , Honyashiki M. , Shinohara K. , Imai H. , Chen P. , Hunot V. , Churchill R. 
Published: April 2014

ObjectiveVarious control conditions have been employed in psychotherapy trials, but there is growing suspicion that they may lead to different effect size estimates. The present study aims to examine the differences among control conditions including waiting list (WL), no treatment (NT) and psychological placebo (PP).MethodWe comprehensively searched for all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing cognitive‐behaviour therapies (CBT) against various control conditions in the acute phase treatment of depression, and applied network meta‐analysis (NMA) to combine all direct and indirect comparisons among the treatment and control arms.ResultsWe identified 49 RCTs (2730 participants) comparing WL, NT, PP and CBT. This network of evidence was consistent, and the effect size estimates for CBT were substantively different depending on the control condition. The odds ratio of response for NT over WL was statistically significant at 2.9 (95% CI: 1.3–5.7). However, the quality of evidence, including publication bias, was less than ideal and none of the preplanned sensitivity analyses limiting to high‐quality studies could be conducted, while findings of significant differences did not persist in post hoc sensitivity analyses trying to adjust for publication bias.ConclusionThere may be important differences in control conditions currently used in psychotherapy trials.
Remarkable uniformity in the densities of feral honey bee Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in South Eastern Australia
Authors: Arundel Jonathan , Oxley Peter R , Faiz Alen , Crawford John , Winter Stephan , Oldroyd Benjamin P 
Published: April 2014

AbstractIt is often assumed that the density of feral honey bee colonies in Australia is sufficient to provide adequate pollination services to the many agricultural crops that require pollination. In contrast, there is concern that the density of feral colonies is sufficiently high to have inimical effects on Australian biota. For both these reasons, it is desirable to have robust estimates of the density of feral honey bee colonies in Australian landscapes. In this study, we mated four to five queens with wild drones at disturbed and undisturbed sites in three of the major ecosystems in Victoria Australia and examined the paternities of worker offspring to estimate the density of feral colonies within mating range of the test queens. We show that the density of feral colonies differs little with land use (cleared or uncleared) and is similar across the state. Our data suggest that the density of feral colonies is probably insufficient to provide adequate pollination of agricultural crops and that neither land use nor local climate variation is a major factor determining density. Finally, our data suggest that the mating range sampled by test queens is significantly greater than previously assumed.
Essentialism and the Indigenous Politics of Recognition in Southern Africa
Authors: Sylvain Renée 
Published: April 2014

ABSTRACTIn this essay, I explore familiar tensions between anthropological theories of identity and activism on behalf of indigenous causes, with special attention to strategic uses of theoretically dubious forms of essentialism. I examine the contradictions between essentialism and constructionism, and between recognition and redistribution, in light of San struggles for rights to traditional territories in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana. I begin by outlining how the politics of theorizing in an apartheid context imposed a false choice between essentialist and deconstructionist views of identity. I then discuss the controversial relocation of San from the CKGR and how the opposition between an essentialist politics of recognition and a deconstructionist emphasis on redistribution framed public debates. I show how the competing positions shared a racial epistemology that requires us to see San as “prepolitical” people transitioning into a modern world, and in conclusion, I suggest that this shared epistemology sustains a racialized politics of recognition.
Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language
Authors: Hedquist Saul L. , Koyiyumptewa Stewart B. , Whiteley Peter M. , Kuwanwisiwma Leigh J. , Hill Kenneth C. , Ferguson T. J. 
Published: April 2014

ABSTRACTThe toponyms of Hopitutskwa (“Hopi land”) explicate Hopi history and culture. Place‐names mark sacred locations, landforms associated with deities and historical events, springs, trails, and “footprints” of ancestral villages, petroglyphs, and other archaeological sites. The National Science Foundation funded a collaborative project to document the Hopi language by recording toponyms and associated narratives. Interviews with 15 Hopi individuals produced linguistic and ethnocartographic records of 282 place‐names. Audio and video recordings preserve the vocalization of place‐names pronounced in Hopi as well as their use in a larger Hopi language contextualization. The variety and distribution of toponyms discussed during interviews demonstrates how Hopis remember, interact with, and honor their land.
Recent Rituals of Indigenous Recognition in Australia: Welcome to Country
Authors: Merlan Francesca 
Published: April 2014

ABSTRACTIn this article, I examine the recent emergence in Australia of two small, and now regularly enacted, rituals: “Acknowledgments” and “Welcomes to Country.” These are expressions of recognition, or response to perceived neglect and injustice. Recognition has become a global theme, part of a broader politics of reparation focused on indigenous and other colonized and subordinated peoples, and includes practices of apology and reconciliation. In Australia, recognition implies expansion the of relationship between categories of people who have been on unequal, distant, and (at some levels) negligible terms as settlers and natives, colonizers and colonized. Practices of recognition are therefore ambiguous: What is to be recognized, and how is recognition to proceed? Here I consider these rituals and their putative origins, structure, content, variations, and affect of participants and audiences. Both rituals cast recognition in ways that continue recent decades of national emphasis on indigenous emplacement, judgments concerning originariness, and authenticity; “Welcomes” also recast relations in terms of a host–guest framework. The emergence of these rituals fosters new kinds of indigenous public expression and receptions of recognition as well as some standardization of both. It is an indication of change, as well as of its limits in indigenous–nonindigenous relationships.
Revascularization by carotid artery stenting and off‐pump coronary artery bypass
Authors: Yang Tao , Zhang Lefeng , Wang Xianqiang , Dong Hui , Jiang Xiongjing , Sun Hansong 
Published: April 2014

AbstractBackgroundThe optimal management of patients with concomitant carotid and coronary artery disease remains controversial currently. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of hybrid or staged revascularization by carotid artery stenting (CAS) and off‐pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) in the treatment of these patients.MethodsFrom September 2006 to January 2011, 59 consecutive patients with carotid and coronary artery disease underwent either hybrid (n = 20) or staged (n = 39) CAS and OPCAB, the perioperative and long‐term outcomes were analysed. The primary endpoint was the incidence of stroke, perioperative myocardial infarction (MI) or death within 30 days of the procedures.ResultsNo death occurred post‐operatively. Two patients (2/20) in hybrid group and two patients (2/39) in staged group suffered from non‐fatal stroke. The combined incidence of stroke, MI or death at 30 days was 10.0% in hybrid group and 5.1% in staged group (P = 0.875). The median follow‐up time was 44 months (range, 28 to 80 months) with 57 patients (96.6%) available. During follow‐up period, one patient had non‐fatal stroke in hybrid group and one patient suffered from MI in staged group, respectively. There was no significant difference of long‐term event‐free survival between the two groups (log‐rank test, P = 0.390).ConclusionOur findings demonstrate that for patients with carotid and coronary artery disease, both hybrid and staged revascularization by CAS and OPCAB are feasible and safe therapeutic strategies with good early and long‐term outcomes. However, our results have to be substantiated by larger scale studies and randomized trials.
Retrospective analysis of surgery and trans‐arterial embolization for major non‐variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Authors: Griffiths Ewen A. , McDonald Chris R. , Bryant Robert V. , Devitt Peter G. , Bright Tim , Holloway Richard H. , Thompson Sarah K. 
Published: April 2014

AbstractBackgroundWith proton pump inhibitors and current sophisticated endoscopic techniques, the number of patients requiring surgical intervention for upper gastrointestinal bleeding has decreased considerably while trans‐arterial embolization is being used more often. There are few direct comparisons between the effectiveness of surgery and embolization.MethodsA retrospective study of patients from two Australian teaching hospitals who had surgery or trans‐arterial embolization (n = 103) for severe upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage between 2004 and 2012 was carried out. Patient demographics, co‐morbidities, disease pathology, length of stay, complications, and overall clinical outcome and mortality were compared.ResultsThere were 65 men and 38 women. The median age was 70 (range 36–95) years. Patients requiring emergency surgical intervention (n = 79) or trans‐arterial embolization (n = 24) were compared. The rate of re‐bleeding after embolization (42%) was significantly higher compared with the surgery group (19%) (P = 0.02). The requirement for further intervention (either surgery or embolization) was also higher in the embolization group (33%) compared with the surgery group (13%) (P = 0.03). There was no statistical difference in mortality between the embolization group (5/24, 20.8%) and the surgical group (13/79, 16.5%) (P = 0.75).ConclusionEmergency surgery and embolization are required in 2.6% of patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Both techniques have high mortalities reflecting the age, co‐morbidities and severity of bleeding in this patient group.