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Women bus drivers and organizational change
Authors: Sanchez de Miguel Manuel , Lizaso Izarne , Larranaga Maider , Arrospide Juan Jose 
Published: January 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to discuss the gender practices of a female urban bus driver who retired after 40 years (1967-2007) in an urban bus company in northern Spain. The main objective of this study was to explore and understand the move from irreflexive to reflexive practices from a gender perspective, and to uncover new key aspects relating to the influence of women in organizational changes.Design/methodology/approach– This qualitative exploratory study (interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)) contains semi-structured interviews which explore, using a process of analytic induction, the personal- and work-related experiences of a woman who was a pioneer in the traditionally male-dominated field of urban bus services. In order to obtain a broader overview of the organization, and using the same method, four other female bus drivers from the same company were also interviewed, along with the personnel manager.Findings– Three different situations are presented. The first summarizes the woman’s personal motivations and hesitations during the 1960s regarding her decision to become a bus driver, occurring during her adolescence and pre-professional phase; the second illustrates the organizational and social reactions triggered by the (visible) presence of a lone woman in a traditionally male professional environment (resistance); and finally, the third situation shows the empowerment and organizational change which occurred, focussing on the possible deconstruction of the masculine hegemony at the heart of the organization.Originality/value– The IPA points to a new level of visibility of this transgressed traditional role, which combined both individual and collective actions. Her experiences recount how she overcame individual, organizational and social barriers. The authors suggest a new interpretation of this visibility, enabling us to imagine gender practice as an intersection of people, organizational change and society.
Eco-innovation practices
Authors: Mele Cristina , Russo-Spena Tiziana 
Published: January 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine eco-innovation practices within project networks. Eco-innovation practices involve systematic series of actions that integrate resources to create value.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using case research, the authors conducted an intensive study of innovation practices within project networks, using multiple sources of evidence to provide information to scholars and practitioners (Halinen and Tornroos, 2005). Analyzing practices facilitated an empirical investigation of how contextual elements shaped the social construction of eco-innovation.

Findings
– An empirical analysis of eight project networks identifies three eco-innovation practices: cleaning up the landscape, connecting life and work, and boosting the efficiency of inbound and outbound processes. A methodological framework based on this practice approach is used to discuss the main elements of the practices in question, including actors, actions, resources, and value.

Practical implications
– The practice-based approach (PBA) may help companies to make information and communication technology (ICT) more sustainable. By developing forms of eco-innovation that support project networks, companies can focus on holistic corporate performance, efficiency, and business value. Eco-innovation thus becomes a collective achievement that allows practitioners to appraise and critique the performance of their environmental practices, and that thereby allows them to constantly refine those practices.

Social implications
– The development and use of Green ICT solutions enable actors’ sense-making and sense-giving within ongoing social practices wherein macro-level phenomena, such as sustainability and environmental issues, are created and recreated through the micro-level actions of project network actors.

Originality/value
– This research extends beyond the more traditional issues of ecologically sound company operations and sustainable ICT use to address sustainable ways of doing business.
Examining the relationship between organizational change and financial loss
Authors: Mellert Lars Derek , Scherbaum Charles , Oliveira Justina , Wilke Bernd 
Published: January 2015

Purpose– Research on the effectiveness of organizational change initiatives tends to focus primarily on the positive benefits of organizational change including improved financial performance. Rarely are negative outcomes examined, such as financial losses resulting from change initiatives. However, negative outcomes are possible, common, and understudied. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between organizational change and financial loss.Design/methodology/approach– The research used a database of insurance losses from a global reinsurance company over a 30-year period. Each loss event was examined to determine the cause of the loss, the amount of loss, and type of organizational change if any that preceded the loss.Findings– The results indicate that losses attributed to the organization and its employees are preceded by an organizational change initiative more often than not. In particular, the occurrence of losses attributable to the organization and its employees were preceded more often by organizational changes involving mergers, acquisitions and changes to ownership, changes involving downsizing, changes involving restructuring, but not changes to reporting relationships.Originality/value– This research represents one of the few studies to examine financial loss from a wide variety of different types of organizational change and the only that has examined these questions using data from insurance losses. Findings support the growing theoretical movement focussing on the risks of organizational change.
Leadership role and employee acceptance of change
Authors: Johannsdottir Lara , Olafsson Snjolfur , Davidsdottir Brynhildur 
Published: January 2015

Purpose
– The change management literature on strategy implementation identifies different dimensions of resistance to change. The contrary view – that of dimensions of acceptance of change when implementing strategy – has received less attention. The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of environmental sustainability strategies by Nordic insurers, the role of leadership in implementing these changes, and employee acceptance of change.

Design/methodology/approach
– For achieving this purpose, this paper reports on an explanatory case study of Nordic non-life insurers, where interviews with insurance executives and specialists were the primary source of data.

Findings
– The authors have developed simple strategy maps, focusing on insurers’ own operations, product offerings, loss prevention and claims settlements, investments and influence on stakeholders, to show how common elements of environmental strategies are implemented within the insurance industry. The importance of leadership in organizational change is evident in the data, as well as in employees’ positive attitudes towards implementation of environmental sustainability strategies.

Originality/value
– The scientific contribution of this paper is the empirical mapping of a hitherto unexplored area of the implementation of environmental sustainability strategies within the Nordic insurance industry, highlighting the leadership role in implementing environmental sustainability strategies and the elements shaping employee acceptance of change when implementing environmental sustainability strategies.
Making journals accessible front
&
back: examining open journal systems at CSU Northridge
Authors: Borchard Laurie , Biondo Michael , Kutay Stephen , Morck David , Weiss Andrew Philip 
Published: January 2015

Purpose
– This study aims to examine Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Open Journal Systems (OJS) for its overall web accessibility and compliance with the Federal Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility and Compliance Act, also known as Section 508.

Design/methodology/approach
– Twenty-one individual web pages in the CSUN test instance of PKP’s OJS version 2.4.0 used in three back-end journal development user roles were examined using three web-accessibility tools (WAVE, Fangs, Functional Accessibility Evaluator). Errors in accessibility were then logged and mapped to specific Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) criteria.

Findings
– In all, 202 accessibility errors were reported across the 21 OJS pages selected for testing. Because of this, the OJS cannot be efficiently utilized by assistive technologies and therefore does not pass the minimal level of acceptability as described in the WCAG 2.0. However, the authors found that the types of errors reported in this study could be simply and effectively remedied.

Research limitations/implications
– Further studies will need to corroborate, on a larger scale, the problems of accessibility found in the specific pages. Only three user roles were examined; other roles will need to be analyzed for their own problems with accessibility. Finally, although specific errors were noted, most can be easily fixed.

Practical implications
– There is an important need for accessible software design. In the case of CSUN, one of the campus partners will be better served by improving the web accessibility of the authors’ online open access journals.

Originality/value
– Although many studies and analyses of Section 508 compliance of front-facing web resources have been conducted, very few appear to address the back-end of such tools. This is the first to examine what problems in accessibility journal users with disabilities might encounter as OJS system administrators, journal managers or journal editors.
E-ViVa, the national Hellenic fulltext database on Librarianship and Information Science
Authors: Tsimpoglou Filippos , V. Koukounidou Vasiliki , K. Sakka Eleni 
Published: January 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present E-ViVa (Ellinike Vivliothikonomike Vase), the national Hellenic fulltext database on Librarianship and Information Science, developed by the Library of the University of Cyprus. The objectives of E-ViVa are to identify, locate, gather, organize, index, digitize, preserve and promote the results of the research conducted in Greece and Cyprus in the scientific fields of Archival, Library and Information Sciences.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper provides data concerning the volume, the coverage, the inclusion criteria, the content, the format and the platform of the database, as well as the steps that have been followed for the development. The legal framework related with the copyright issues that are raised are also discussed.

Findings
– A comparison is attempted between the coverage of E-ViVa and the relative records included in five subject-related databases: eLIS, LISA, LISTA, ISI-SSCI and SCOPUS. Finally the future plans for the project are presented.

Research limitations/implications
– Future plans concerning E-ViVa are based on the completeness of the database, the linguistic exploitation of the terms used through time and check of Lotka's law application concerning authors.

Practical implications
– As the vast majority of the records and fulltext are not provided by any other organized database, E-ViVa emerges as a “must search first” for any future author of scientific paper concerning the situation on librarianship research in Greece and Cyprus. The case of E-ViVa and the methodology that was followed can be used as a pattern for developing national databases on LIS or other fields.

Social implications
– E-ViVa is offered as an open access database with fulltext.

Originality/value
– E-ViVa is the only fulltext database on Librarianship and Information Science, which concentrates the related publications produced in or related to Greece and Cyprus.
Factors affecting the satisfaction of an online community for archive management in Taiwan
Authors: HSU Fang-Ming , Chen Tser-Yieth , Fan Chiu-Tsu , Lin Chun-Min , Chiu Chu-Mei 
Published: January 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the richness of information and the satisfaction of participants in an online community regarding archive management in Taiwan.Design/methodology/approach– An investigation was deployed to attendants in 20 training courses created by the National Archives Administration (NAA) in Taiwan for records staff on the topic of digital preservation. The responses were collected from respondents who were participating in an online community for archive management. Through structural equation modeling method, this study examined the effects of channel richness, information transparency and accessibility of archive to brand image and trust and then continued to the satisfaction of professional participants to archive management in an online community.Findings– Appropriate disclosure of information regarding archiving can effectively improve the satisfaction of participants in the online community to archive. Channel richness of communication, information transparency and accessibility of archive significantly affect the brand image of archive and the trust of participants to archivists and finally affect the satisfaction of participants in the online community towards archive management.Practical implications– The larger the amount of information exchanged, the more the trust among participants and the better brand image of the archives. The more trust and brand image exists among participants, the more satisfaction they will obtain from archive management.Originality/value– The results can provide a strategic direction for managers of the national archive and the online community in government agencies to allocate resources for enhancing the information richness and the image of archive as well as achieving the satisfaction of participants in the professional community.
Cerebrospinal fluid Th1/Th2 cytokine profiles in children with enterovirus 71‐associated meningoencephalitis
Authors: Li Huajun , Li Shuxian , Zheng Jianfeng , Cai Chunyan , Ye Bin , Yang Jun , Chen Zhimin 
Published: January 2015

AbstractEnterovirus 71 (EV71) infection can cause severe neurological complications including meningoencephalitis (ME) in some patients with hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). However, to date no studies have reported changes in cytokine concentrations and their correlations with clinical variables in patients with ME following EV71 infection. In this study, responses of Th1/Th2 cytokine, including IL‐2, IL‐4, IL‐6, IL‐10, TNF‐α and IFN‐γ, in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients with EV71‐related HFMD with ME and patients with febrile convulsions (FC) were analyzed using cytometric bead array technology. It was found that CSF IL‐6 and IFN‐γ concentrations were significantly higher in patients with EV71‐related ME than in those with FC. Additionally, both CSF IL‐6 and IFN‐γ concentrations were correlated with CSF cytology, fever duration and duration of hospital stay. More interestingly, a positive correlation between CSF IL‐6 and IFN‐γ concentrations was observed. Finally, receiver operating characteristic analysis revealed that when a cutoff value of 9.40 pg/mL was set for IL‐6, the sensitivity and specificity were 84.5% and 85.5%, respectively, for discriminating EV71‐related ME from FC. In conclusion, IL‐6 and IFN‐γ may be associated with EV71‐induced neuropathology.
Spatially non‐local model of inelastic deformations: applications for rock failure problem
Authors: Dorovsky V. , Romensky Е. , Sinev А. 
Published: January 2015

ABSTRACTA spatially non‐local model for inelastic deformation of solids is proposed and studied. The non‐locality of deformation is taken into account by the additional parameter of state beyond the classical parameters such as stress and strain tensors. This additional parameter is the curvature tensor expressed in terms of the metric strain tensor, and it is called the failure parameter. In the case of small deformation, it is equivalent to the Saint‐Venant incompatibility tensor. Thermodynamic properties of the model are studied, and governing differential equations for spatially non‐local model are formulated, which are composed by the elasticity equations and parabolic equation for the failure parameter. The model can be applied to the study of the rock failure problem, and as an example, the one‐dimensional problem for the deformation of half‐plane loaded by the normal surface stress is studied. Stationary and non‐stationary formulations of the problem are considered, and qualitative agreement with available experimental data is observed.
Variation in neighbourhood context shapes frugivore‐mediated facilitation and competition among co‐dispersed plant species
Authors: Albrecht Jörg , Bohle Victoria , Berens Dana G. , Jaroszewicz Bogdan , Selva Nuria , Farwig Nina 
Published: January 2015

Summary

Co‐occurring and simultaneously fruiting plant species may either compete for dispersal by shared frugivores or enhance each other's dispersal through joint attraction of frugivores. While competitive plant–plant interactions are expected to cause the evolutionary divergence of fruit phenologies, facilitative interactions are assumed to promote their convergence. To which extent competitive and facilitative interactions among plant species with similar phenological niches are controlled by spatial variation in their local abundance and co‐occurrence is poorly understood.
Here, we test the hypotheses that when a plant species fruits in high densities, large phenological overlap with other plant species causes competition for seed dispersers owing to frugivore satiation. Conversely, we expect large phenological overlap to enhance the dispersal of a plant species fruiting in low densities through attraction of frugivores by other species in its local neighbourhood.
We test these predictions on plant–frugivore networks based on seed removal from 15 woody, fleshy‐fruited plant species by 30 avian and 4 mammalian frugivore species across 13 study sites in Białowieża Forest, Poland.
A null model indicated that fruit phenologies of the regional plant assemblage were more differentiated than expected by chance. In the local networks, the tendency of plants to share frugivores increased with phenological overlap. High phenological overlap reduced the seed removal rates, interaction strength (proportion of interactions) and the number of partners of plant species fruiting in high densities. Conversely, plant species fruiting in low densities mainly profited from high phenological overlap with other species. Importantly, the sharing of mutualistic partners among co‐fruiting plant species was also reflected in their co‐occurrence.
Synthesis. Our study highlights that, in spite of the overall signal of competition, frugivore‐mediated interactions among cofruiting plant species may consistently promote the establishment and persistence of rare species through facilitation. In addition, our results suggest that, among other factors, indirect coupling of species through shared mutualistic partners might be an important determinant of plant community assembly. The coupling through shared mutualists may cause the formation of associations among co‐dispersed plant species and might contribute to the coexistence of species in plant–animal mutualistic communities.
Eliciting web site preferences of people with learning disabilities
Authors: Williams Peter 
Published: January 2015

The Internet can be an excellent tool to help people with learning disabilities access relevant and appropriately written information. However, little work has been undertaken to ascertain web design or content preferences for this cohort. This paper examines methods to address this issue. Twenty five participants were presented with three web sites dealing with employment information. They were asked to browse each and carry out a series of set‐tasks. Interviews and a rating scale ascertained preferences. The problem of acquiescence bias, the tendency for people to automatically agree with those in perceived positions of authority, was minimised by the avoidance of ‘polar interrogatives’ (questions requiring a ‘yes/no’ or similarly polarised answer).Participants liked the use of pictures, especially when they featured other young people with learning disabilities. Abstract content related to money or benefits often went unnoticed. Audio was appreciated where offered, although not extensively used. Preferences regarding text size and menu position were also established. Results are compared to other relevant literature and recommendations formulated to help web developers and information providers. The methodological issues inherent in this study were the use of the rating system, and the interview technique. The former was adapted following early findings that the neutral position, on a three point scale, was confusing. Using four points avoided this problem and produced more varied results. Avoiding polar interrogatives greatly helped in minimising ‘acquiescence bias’. The study concludes that it is possible to elicit considerable information from people who find it difficult to articulate their views.
Outpatient Clinic for Health Education: Contribution to Self‐Management and Self‐Care for People With Heart Failure
Authors: de Souza Carneiro Camila , Dias de Oliveira Ana Paula , de Lima Lopes Juliana , Bachion Maria Márcia , Herdman T. Heather , Moorhead Sue A. , Bottura Leite de Barros Alba Lúcia 
Published: January 2015

ObjectiveTo report the experience of an outpatient nursing education clinic caring for people with chronic heart failure.Experience ReportIn this service, qualified “listening,” recreational educational actions about the disease and its treatment are conducted, based on the interventions from the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), as well as the evaluation of self‐care behaviors with the outcomes from the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC). This article describes the practice of health education activities and the use of NANDA‐I‐NIC‐NOC in a nursing clinic.ConclusionThe outpatient clinic supports client learning about the treatment of disease and stimulates self‐control of health behaviors.Implications for Nursing PracticeThis experience report will guide nurses in the establishment of outpatient nursing education clinics for different populations of patients with chronic health conditions.ObjetivoRelatar a experiência de um ambulatório de educação em saúde para pessoas com insuficiência cardíaca crônica.Relato De ExperiênciaNeste serviço são realizadas a “escuta” qualificada e ações educativas sobre a doença e o tratamento, baseadas nas intervenções da Classificação de Intervenções de Enfermagem (NIC), bem como a avaliação dos comportamentos de autocuidado dos resultados da Classificação dos Resultados de Enfermagem (NOC). Este artigo descreve a atividade de educação em saúde e o uso da NANDA‐I‐NIC‐NOC na prática clínica.ConclusãoO ambulatório apoia o aprendizado do paciente sobre o tratamento da doença e estimula o autocontrole de comportamentos de saúde.Implicações Para A PrÁticaEste relato de experiência guiará os enfermeiros no estabelecimento de um ambulatório de educação de enfermagem para diferentes populações de pacientes com doenças crônicas.