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Perceptions of the roles and responsibilities of elementary school mathematics coaches
Authors: Polly Drew , Algozzine Robert , Martin Christie Sullivan , Mraz Maryann 
Published: May 2015

Purpose– In the USA, school districts are funding mathematics coaching positions to provide school-level support to teachers. The purpose of this paper is to survey school personnel whose job responsibilities included mathematics coaching in order to examine their job responsibilities and what they felt that their job responsibilities should be.Design/methodology/approach– In all, 67 elementary school mathematics coaches completed a survey that included 30 aspects of the job of elementary school mathematics leaders.Findings– Quantitative analyses indicated that there were statistically significant differences between their actual roles and their preferred roles on 24 of the 30 items. This means that coaches reported that the aspects of their current role did not align to what they thought their job should be.Research limitations/implications– The findings indicate a need to collect further information in a longitudinal study, potentially from a combination of surveys, interviews, and observations, about elementary mathematics coaches’ job responsibilities and the impact that coaches have on both teachers and students.Practical implications– The findings indicate a need for school leaders, mathematics leaders (coaches), and classroom teachers to work together to utilize mathematics leaders more effectively so as to best support teachers’ instruction and students’ learning.Originality/value– While some research has been published on literacy coaching, the research base on mathematics coaching is scant. This study contributes to the knowledge base about the roles and duties of coaches in elementary school settings.
Personality predictors for the use of multiple internet functions
Authors: Kim Yeolib , Jeong Jae Seon 
Published: May 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore how the Big-Five model of personality traits relates to the use of multiple internet functions and test if the relationship differs by gender, age, and education.

Design/methodology/approach
– To test the research questions, this study uses data from a large-scale survey of 9,479 Korean media users. Poisson’s regression is applied to model the count data, which accounts for the number of internet functions used. In the regression models, the first block entered is socio-demographics followed by a second block including personality traits.

Findings
– Results indicate that openness to experience and conscientiousness are positively related to using multiple internet functions, whereas emotional stability has a negative relationship. The findings differed depending on age and education. The younger age cohort, with higher levels of conscientiousness and extraversion, are likely to use more internet functions. In addition, the relationship between conscientiousness and using multiple internet functions is relevant for users with higher education levels.

Originality/value
– The present paper is the first that uses multiple internet functions as a critical variable to study individual difference factors. Overall, this study provides evidence that individual difference factors such as socio-demographics and personality traits have a strong role to play in internet research.
Business knowledge requirements and onsite offshore work division in Indian software outsourcing projects
Authors: Mishra Debasisha , Mahanty Biswajit 
Published: May 2015

Purpose– The purpose of the paper is to find out the knowledge requirements and its effect on both onsite and offshore project work division for development, re-engineering and maintenance projects in Indian outsourcing software industry in different phases of software development.Design/methodology/approach– This study employs an expert interview approach in Indian software industry to find out knowledge requirement for project execution and division of work between onsite and offshore locations. The requisite data were collected through expert interviews and direct observations.Findings– The study found that the development projects require higher level of domain, strategic, business process and operation process knowledge in comparison to re-engineering and maintenance projects. So there is a need of higher onsite presence in development projects. The maintenance work is taken up at the offshore location in a phase-wise manner.Research limitations/implications– The implication of the study is in the development of a broad framework of knowledge requirements and work division in on-shore and offshore locations for Indian software outsourcing projects. As the study is based on expert opinion in the context of India, it cannot be generalized for outsourcing scenarios elsewhere.Practical implications– The software project manager can use the findings to get more insight into the project and divide the software team between onsite and offshore location.Originality/value– The study is novel, as there is little attempt at finding the knowledge requirement to execute various kinds of business software development in outsourcing environment in the context of India.
The key to carving out a high corporate reputation based on innovation: corporate social responsibility
Authors: Mattera Marina , Baena Veronica 
Published: May 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this study is to analyze how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects a firm’s value added. Specifically, through a combination of Stakeholder Theory and specific concept within the Innovation Theory framework (called Social Innovation Capital), this work explores the relation between effective stakeholder management and how marketable innovation production affects a company’s possibility of achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. By doing so, new insights on CSR management to gain competitive advantage are provided.Design/methodology/approach– The present study analyzes the role of a firm’s international presence, and the company’s social commitment initiatives as drivers of the enterprise’s corporate intangible assets. A company’s reputation has also been considered as a control variable. To achieve this goal, the Spanish market was analyzed. Specifically, those Spanish companies who had the highest reputation in the global reputation pulse and showed the highest level of brand awareness, according to the latest report published by the Forum of Leading Spanish Brands, were considered.Findings– Findings show that companies including their stakeholders’ interests in the knowledge-creation and innovation process are able to enhance their intangible assets and thus the capitalization of such knowledge. Similarly, firms with international presence have a large number of global stakeholders, which also evidences a positive relation with its intangible assets. By honoring the social contract, firms benefit from stakeholders while contributing to social welfare, creating a win–win situation.Originality/value– This study categorizes how intangible assets can be increased through stakeholder’s involvement and firm’s international presence. Consequently, researchers studying business strategy can incorporate these variables as key elements in strategic planning. Scholars in fields of information systems, operations management, knowledge or supply chain management can also evaluate the inclusion of corporate social responsibility into their studies to evaluate how it reflects on tangible assets, production process, supply chain management or the knowledge production life cycle. Moreover, this work illustrates the convenience of using Innovation Theory in conjunction with the Stakeholder Theory to analyze a firm’s intangible assets enhancement.
Understanding the role of the broker in business non-profit collaboration
Authors: Lee Louise 
Published: May 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to investigate the contribution of brokers to business non-profit collaborations, in the context of employee volunteering. It investigates the roles brokers play and ways they contribute to value creation within social alliances.

Design/methodology/approach
– This research focusses on a case study of a UK employee volunteering broker programme run by a local volunteer centre. A combined qualitative methodology involved document analysis and interviews, with brokers and business, community and government partners involved in employee volunteering collaborations.

Findings
– Brokers play three key roles in business non-profit collaboration as connectors, facilitators/co-designers and learning catalysts. These roles help stimulate manifestations of associational value, transferred resource value, interaction value and synergistic value.

Research limitations/implications
– Results indicate brokers play an important part in nurturing conditions underpinning innovation and value co-creation, key characteristics of transformational forms of business non-profit collaboration. This study was based on a single case study. Future research could explore broker contributions within a variety of business non-profit settings.

Practical implications
– For managers implementing business non-profit collaborations, this paper provides a framework depicting key broker roles and ways brokers enable collaborative value that may be useful when assessing whether to use the services of a broker.

Originality/value
– This paper enriches the understanding of business non-profit collaboration and the role of individual actors in affecting value creation, an under-researched area in the social alliance literature. It provides a framework for assessing broker contributions in business non-profit collaborations.
The effect of corporate social responsibility on firm risk
Authors: Nguyen Pascal , Nguyen Anna 
Published: May 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and risk for a sample of US firms rated by KLD.Design/methodology/approach– The authors’ approach involves three distinctive features. First, the authors use individual indicators of CSR to highlight which CSR dimension matters most for a firm’s risk. Second, the authors distinguish CSR strengths and concerns to reveal potentially nonlinear relationships. Third, the authors use a measure of risk that takes into account the predictable changes in a firm’s performance and that does not collapse the panel data into a single cross-section. This allows the CSR–risk relationship to be estimated by the variation within each firm and the variation across firms.Findings– Consistent with existing results, the authors find that CSR concerns relating to diversity, employee relations and corporate governance increase the risk to shareholders. More interestingly, the authors show that CSR strengths relating to diversity and employee relations are also associated with higher risk. The positive influence of both CSR strengths and concerns on a firm’s risk is confirmed using aggregate CSR indicators.Research limitations/implications– The results confirm that CSR strengths and concerns represent distinct constructs that should not be aggregated into a single measure. The effect of poor CSR on firm risk is more significant than what would appear to be the case using an aggregate index.Practical implications– Although lack of CSR engagement may not affect (and may even benefit) a firm’s current performance, it may seriously damage its performance in the future. Firms should be aware of this risk.Originality/value– The positive relationship found between CSR and firm risk underscores the inherent conflict between the interests of employees and those of shareholders. By committing to a more favorable treatment of their employees, firms incur a fixed cost that inevitably transfers more risk to their shareholders.
Close correlation of herpes zoster‐induced voiding dysfunction with severity of zoster‐related pain: A single faculty retrospective study
Authors: Fujii Mizue , Takahashi Ichiro , Honma Masaru , Ishida‐Yamamoto Akemi 
Published: May 2015

AbstractHerpes zoster (HZ), a common vesiculo‐erythematous skin disease associated with reactivation of varicella zoster virus in the cranial nerve, dorsal root, and autonomic ganglia, is accompanied by several related symptoms represented by postherpetic neuralgia. Among them, involvement of vesicorectal dysfunction is relatively rare. The vesicorectal symptom can usually be recovered in transient course, but is quite important in terms of impaired quality of life. Male individuals affected with HZ and skin lesions on sacral dermatome have been reported as independent risk factors of zoster‐related voiding dysfunction. In this study, urinary symptoms were focused upon and six patients with zoster‐related voiding dysfunction at a single faculty of dermatology in Japan from 2009 to 2014 were retrospectively analyzed. All patients showed HZ lesions on the sacral area and the urinary symptom recovered in approximately 2 months (14 days to 7 months). The term of treatment for zoster‐associated urinary dysfunction was positively correlated with that for zoster‐related pain without significance (r = 0.661, P = 0.153). Average treatment term for pain relief of sacral HZ accompanied by voiding dysfunction (91.3 ± 76.44 days) was significantly longer than that of sacral HZ without urinary symptom (18.9 ± 20.42 days) (P = 0.032). These results suggested that zoster‐related voiding dysfunction would mainly be involved in sacral HZ and closely associated with severity of zoster‐related pain. Dermatologists should be aware that severe zoster‐related pain accompanied by sacral HZ, which is related to prolonged treatment of pain relief, can be a predictive factor of voiding dysfunction.
Positive hepatitis B surface antibody is associated with reduced risk of diabetes mellitus in retired female Chinese workers
Authors: Li Ming , Zhou Hui , Guan Yufeng , Peng Haiying , Wang Shunyu , Zhang Ping , Su Benli 
Published: May 2015

AbstractBackgroundTo study the relationship between positivity for hepatitis B surface antibody (HBsAb) and the risk of diabetes mellitus in the retired Chinese population.MethodsA cross‐sectional analysis was conducted in 900 retired Chinese workers attending a health check‐up program. HBsAb, hepatitis B surface antigen, oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), fasting plasma glucose (FBG), 2‐h plasma glucose 2hBG, and insulin levels were collected.ResultsParticipants positive for HBsAb were younger, with lower blood pressure, lower FBG and 2hBG serum uric acid, and glutamic pyruvic transaminase than those who were HbsAb negative. There were 306 subjects with impaired glucose tolerance and 121 with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the present cohort. Using Chi‐squared analysis to assess the risk of diabetes, women positive for HBsAb had a lower prevalence of T2D than those negative for HBsAb (15.7% vs 26.5%, respectively; P < 0.01). Multivariate analysis revealed family history of diabetes, age, and waist circumference were independently associated with a higher prevalence of diabetes, and that HBsAb positivity was independently associated with a lower prevalence of diabetes (odds ratio 0.579; 95% confidence interval 0.388–0.918) when adjusted for sex, family history of hypertension and dyslipidemia, and body mass index.ConclusionsAn HBsAb‐positive status is associated with a low rate of diabetes and better metabolic status. A prospective study of patients with known vaccination records is needed to investigate whether hepatitis B virus vaccination could protect against the development of diabetes.
Quantification of mesocosm fish and amphibian species diversity via environmental DNA metabarcoding
Authors: Evans Nathan T. , Olds Brett P. , Renshaw Mark A. , Turner Cameron R. , Li Yiyuan , Jerde Christopher L. , Mahon Andrew R. , Pfrender Michael E. , Lamberti Gary A. , Lodge David M. 
Published: May 2015

AbstractFreshwater fauna are particularly sensitive to environmental change and disturbance. Management agencies frequently use fish and amphibian biodiversity as indicators of ecosystem health and a way to prioritize and assess management strategies. Traditional aquatic bioassessment that relies on capture of organisms via nets, traps and electrofishing gear typically has low detection probabilities for rare species and can injure individuals of protected species. Our objective was to determine whether environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling and metabarcoding analysis can be used to accurately measure species diversity in aquatic assemblages with differing structures. We manipulated the density and relative abundance of eight fish and one amphibian species in replicated 206‐L mesocosms. Environmental DNA was filtered from water samples, and six mitochondrial gene fragments were Illumina‐sequenced to measure species diversity in each mesocosm. Metabarcoding detected all nine species in all treatment replicates. Additionally, we found a modest, but positive relationship between species abundance and sequencing read abundance. Our results illustrate the potential for eDNA sampling and metabarcoding approaches to improve quantification of aquatic species diversity in natural environments and point the way towards using eDNA metabarcoding as an index of macrofaunal species abundance.
Ovarian responses of dairy buffalo cows to timed artificial insemination protocol, using new or used progesterone devices, during the breeding season (autumn–winter)
Authors: Monteiro Bruno Moura , de Souza Diego Cavalcante , Vasconcellos Guilherme Souza Floriano Machado , Corrêa Thalita Bueno , Vecchio Domenico , de Sá Filho Manoel Francisco , de Carvalho Nelcio Antonio Tonizza , Baruselli Pietro Sampaio 
Published: May 2015

AbstractThis study evaluated the effect of new or used P4 devices on the ovarian responses of dairy buffalo that were administered an estradiol (E2) plus progesterone (P4)‐based timed artificial insemination (TAI) protocol during the breeding season. On the first day of the TAI protocol, 142 cows were randomly assigned to receive one of the following: a new device (New; 1.0 g of P4; n = 48); a device that had previously been used for 9 days (Used1x, n = 47); or a device that had previously been used for 18 days (Used2x, n = 47). Ultrasound was used to evaluate the following: the presence of a corpus luteum (CL); the diameter of the dominant follicle (ØDF) during protocol; ovulatory response; and pregnancies per AI (P/AI). Despite similar responses among the treatments, there was a significant positive association of the ØDF during TAI protocol with ovulatory responses and number of pregnancies. In conclusion, satisfactory ovarian responses and a satisfactory pregnancy rate were achieved when grazing dairy buffalo were subjected to the TAI protocol in breeding season, independent of whether a new or used P4 device was used. Furthermore, the presence of the larger follicle was associated with a higher ovulation rate and higher P/AI following TAI.
Family functioning in paediatric obsessive compulsive and related disorders
Authors: Murphy Yolanda E. , Flessner Christopher A. 
Published: May 2015

ObjectiveResearch among youths with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has shown a significant relationship between illness severity, treatment outcome, and the family environment yet little work has been undertaken among the broader class of obsessive compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) – Trichotillomania, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), skin picking disorder (SPD), and hoarding. The aim of this study was to (1) review the family functioning literature among paediatric OCRDs, (2) address limitations to previous studies, and (3) highlight areas in need of further research.MethodsA review of the literature was conducted using several databases (i.e., Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect) and employing key search terms (e.g., ‘family functioning’, ‘paediatric OCD’). The resultant articles examined several domains subsumed under the broader heading of family environment including parental mental health, parenting practices, family dynamics, family involvement with symptoms, and family emotional climate.ResultsThe literature reviewed demonstrated a strong relationship between paediatric OCD and adverse family functioning (e.g., parental symptoms of anxiety and depression, family accommodation, family strain and stress, parental guilt and fear) in all identified domains. While family functioning research in paediatric HPD was relatively scant, research suggested similar familial dysfunction (e.g., limited independence, low family cohesion, family violence). Collectively, only 1 article, examining BDD, assessed family functioning within other OCRDs.ConclusionsThis review supports the need for further research in the OCRDs. Limitations to the available literature and targeted suggestions for future research are discussed.Practitioner points

The domains of family environment in this study indicate specific family functioning deficits that may serve as aetiological and/or maintenance factors in paediatric OCRDs, possibly contributing to the understanding of these complex disorders.

The recognition of family deficits in paediatric OCRDs may prove beneficial in developing or bolstering preventative and/or therapeutic interventions.

Insufficient number of articles pertaining to family functioning in some paediatric OCRDs (i.e., hoarding, skin picking) inhibits formal conclusions.

Magnitudes of family functioning effects were not calculated; therefore, future research should consider meta‐analytic analyses.
Phase I study of carfilzomib, lenalidomide, vorinostat, and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma
Authors: Vesole David H. , Bilotti Elizabeth , Richter Joshua R. , McNeill Ann , McBride Laura , Raucci Laura , Anand Palka , Bednarz Urszula , Ivanovski Kristin , Smith Judith , Batra Veena , Aleman Adolfo , Sims Taliah , Guerrero Laura , Mato Anthony , Siegel David S. 
Published: May 2015

SummaryResearch has shown that proteasome inhibitors (e.g., carfilzomib), immunomodulatory agents (e.g., lenalidomide), histone deacetylase inhibitors (e.g., vorinostat) and corticosteroids (e.g., dexamethasone) have synergistic anti‐multiple myeloma (MM) activity. This phase I dose‐escalation study evaluated a regimen combining carfilzomib, lenalidomide, vorinostat and dexamethasone (QUAD) in patients with relapsed and/or refractory MM. Seventeen patients received carfilzomib (15, 20, or 20/27 mg/m2; 30‐min infusion; days 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16), lenalidomide (15 or 25 mg; days 1–21), vorinostat (300 or 400 mg; days 1–7, 15–21), and dexamethasone (40 mg; days 1, 8, 15, 22) in 28‐d cycles. No dose‐limiting toxicities were observed; the maximum tolerated dose was not reached. The maximum administered dose was carfilzomib 20/27 mg/m2, lenalidomide 25 mg, vorinostat 400 mg, and dexamethasone 40 mg. Common grade ≥3 adverse events included neutropenia (53%), thrombocytopenia (53%) and anaemia (41%). The overall response rate was 53%: 12% of patients achieved a very good partial response (PR) and 41% of patients achieved a PR. At a median follow‐up of 10 months, median progression‐free survival was 12 months and median overall survival was not reached. Treatment with QUAD was feasible and had encouraging activity in patients with relapsed and/or refractory MM.