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Exploring the moderating role of context satisfaction between job characteristics and turnover intention of employees of Indian public sector banks
Authors: Ghosh Piyali , Rai Alka , Chauhan Ragini , Gupta Nitika , Singh Anamika 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– An employee’s satisfaction with the work context may affect her/his perception of the organization and may hence be a predictor of her/his intention to leave. The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible mediating role of context satisfaction between employees’ perception of job characteristics and their turnover intention and rests on the Job Characteristics Model (JCM).Design/methodology/approach– Hierarchical regression analysis was used to test the moderation hypothesis on sample data of 214 employees of 19 public sector banks in India. The population comprised both junior and middle management grade employees as these are expected to succeed retiring middle and senior management employees.Findings– Findings suggest that in addition to enriched jobs, context satisfaction is critical to establish a positive environment to lessen turnover intention of employees. This highlights the need for a positive and supportive work context to maximize the benefits of jobs with positive characteristics.Originality/value– The study is important for academicians and practitioners alike as it is evidence to the underlying process of how perception towards job characteristics together with work context as a less researched construct of JCM may influence intention to quit. The findings find relevance in the Indian banking sector, where retaining talent is a major challenge.
Developing vulnerability trust in temporary high performance teams
Authors: Moldjord Christian , Iversen Anne 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore one vital aspect of team performance, the development of vulnerability trust in temporary high-performance teams (HPTs), within the context of after-action debriefing sessions.

Design/methodology/approach
– In-depth interviews were conducted with military aircrew members about sharing vulnerable and personal experiences after action in a war scenario. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the qualitative material.

Findings
– The study identified six themes that influence the development of vulnerability trust in temporary HPTs: creating familiarity, caring attitude and recognition of other crew members, the power of transparency, fear of rejection, contradictions between team members and the number of listeners in a sharing session. All these themes appeared to have an effect on the development of vulnerability trust.

Practical implications
– The study shows how vulnerability trust may affect team development and team performance.

Social implications
– The paper not only specifically provides an insight into the development of trust in HPTs but also helps to broaden the understanding of the importance of trust for team development in general.

Originality/value
– The paper contributes knowledge on the development of vulnerability trust that is new to research on HPTs, and the study explores how vulnerability trust may affect team development and team performance. The data material for this research has been collected from military operators’ experiences in a war context. Such environments are often shielded from and minimally available for qualitative research.
Intentions for cooperative conflict resolution in groups
Authors: Dodoiu Gabi 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to test to what extent a cooperative conflict management style can be related to attitudes, norms and perceived volitional control. Second, because conflict resolution is an activity that unfolds at the team level, the validity of the theoretical model was tested at the team level of analysis. The aim was to extend the understanding we have on antecedents of conflict management styles and to build a bridge between two different levels of analysis.

Design/methodology/approach
– This was done by building on the theory of planned behavior, which, to the authors’ knowledge, has neither been related to organizational behaviors nor to small group dynamics. A questionnaire was distributed to subjects that have experienced working together in teams. In total, 131 team members (grouped in 33 teams) provided answers on the key concepts of the model.

Findings
– First, perceived norms and high volitional control relate to individuals’ intentions to engage in cooperative conflict management activities, with intentions not mediating to role of norms on behavior. Second, at the team level, a high level of perceived norms relates to a higher occurrence of a cooperative resolution style. Additionally, high diversity on the attitudes over the value of this style negatively impacts its occurrence.

Research limitations/implications
– This study offers a cross-sectional image of an important process in the team. Additionally, relying on the subjects’ self-reports represents a limitation in the current study, considering the goal of the model is to predict behavior. Future research could address this, and additionally, consider team characteristics or individual traits that could add to the model of planned behavior.

Originality/value
– This paper adds to the literature as an attempt the bridge individual level constructs team-level processes. Moreover, it provides evidence for potential antecedents of conflict management styles. This latter contribution can be relevant for practitioners as well, that could invest in the institutionalization of favored resolution style to benefit from it.
Patento-scientometric indicators for the selection of projects by investment funds
Authors: Motta Gustavo da Silva , Quintella Rogério Hermida , Garcia Pauli Adriano de Almada 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to assess a method that applies scientometric and patentometric indicators in the selection process of projects by seed capital funds. There is increasing interest in technology-based enterprises, for their capacity to contribute to economic and social development. Nevertheless, in practice, there is some difficulty in assessing non-financial criteria associated with technology for the purposes of choosing investment opportunities.

Design/methodology/approach
– The literature has presented various methods to instrumentalize the process of evaluation and selection of investment projects. This study focuses on an enterprise that received an investment by the largest seed capital fund in Brazil, to assess to what extent scientific and technological indicators can contribute to understanding the market potential of the firm’s technology.

Findings
– The results show that the use of scientometric and patentometric indicators favors the process of judging non-financial criteria, in particular those related to technology, market, divestment and team.

Originality/value
– The originality of this paper is in the evaluation of a patento-scientometric approach for the selection process of projects by seed capital funds.
Suppression of near‐surface scattered body‐to‐surface waves: a steerable and nonlinear filtering approach
Authors: Almuhaidib Abdulaziz M. , Toksöz M. Nafi 
Published: July 2015

ABSTRACTWe present an approach based on local‐slope estimation for the separation of scattered surface waves from reflected body waves. The direct and scattered surface waves contain a significant amount of seismic energy. They present great challenges in land seismic data acquisition and processing, particularly in arid regions with complex near‐surface heterogeneities (e.g., dry river beds, wadis/large escarpments, and karst features). The near‐surface scattered body‐to‐surface waves, which have comparable amplitudes to reflections, can mask the seismic reflections. These difficulties, added to large amplitude direct and back‐scattered surface (Rayleigh) waves, create a major reduction in signal‐to‐noise ratio and degrade the final sub‐surface image quality. Removal of these waves can be difficult using conventional filtering methods, such as an filter, without distorting the reflected signal. The filtering algorithm we present is based on predicting the spatially varying slope of the noise, using steerable filters, and separating the signal and noise components by applying a directional nonlinear filter oriented toward the noise direction to predict the noise and then subtract it from the data. The slope estimation step using steerable filters is very efficient. It requires only a linear combination of a set of basis filters at fixed orientation to synthesize an image filtered at an arbitrary orientation. We apply our filtering approach to simulated data as well as to seismic data recorded in the field to suppress the scattered surface waves from reflected body waves, and we demonstrate its superiority over conventional techniques in signal preservation and noise suppression.
Comparing the Cost of Caring for Medicare Beneficiaries in Federally Funded Health Centers to Other Care Settings
Authors: Mukamel Dana B. , White Laura M. , Nocon Robert S. , Huang Elbert S. , Sharma Ravi , Shi Leiyu , Ngo‐Metzger Quyen 
Published: July 2015

ObjectiveTo compare total annual costs for Medicare beneficiaries receiving primary care in federally funded health centers (HCs) to Medicare beneficiaries in physician offices and outpatient clinics.Data Sources/Study SettingsPart A and B fee‐for‐service Medicare claims from 14 geographically diverse states. The sample was restricted to beneficiaries residing within primary care service areas (PCSAs) with at least one HC.Study DesignWe modeled separately total annual costs, annual primary care costs, and annual nonprimary care costs as a function of patient characteristics and PCSA fixed effects.Data CollectionData were obtained from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.Principal FindingsTotal median annual costs (at $2,370) for HC Medicare patients were lower by 10 percent compared to patients in physician offices ($2,667) and by 30 percent compared to patients in outpatient clinics ($3,580). This was due to lower nonprimary care costs in HCs, despite higher primary care costs.ConclusionsHCs may offer lower total cost practice style to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which administers Medicare. Future research should examine whether these lower costs reflect better management by HC practitioners or more limited access to specialty care by HC patients.
The association between involuntary memory and emotional adjustment after childbirth
Authors: Briddon Emma , Isaac Claire , Slade Pauline 
Published: July 2015

ObjectivesA woman's memory of her experience of giving birth can strongly influence her mental health, and the development of her relationship with her infant, in a positive or negative direction. Highly distressing, involuntary memories of the birth may indicate symptoms of post‐traumatic stress (PTS), which is increasingly recognized as a possible outcome of childbirth. Involuntary memories are not, however, exclusive to trauma and can also be experienced after positive events. This study sought to investigate involuntary memories for childbirth, as this is an event that is known to be potentially experienced both as highly positive and negative, and associated with a range of emotional outcomes, including greater well‐being and symptoms of PTS.MethodsA total of 122 women completed a measure of their emotional experience of giving birth within 3 days of the event, and 65 of these women responded to a postal follow‐up at 6 weeks, with measures of involuntary memory experience, PTS symptoms and well‐being.ResultsExperiencing pleasant involuntary memories was more common than experiencing unpleasant involuntary memories of the birth. The frequency of these memories and how they were experienced as either distressing or enjoyable was associated with post‐partum emotional adjustment, demonstrated by the development of PTS symptoms or greater well‐being.ConclusionsThese results are important because to date, little research has examined the development of positive involuntary memories and their association with positive emotional adjustment.
Statement of contribution

What is already known on this subject?

Positive and negative emotional experiences can coexist in childbirth.

Involuntary memories after negative events can be associated with post‐traumatic stress.

Involuntary memories can also occur after strongly positive events.

What does this study add?

Women can experience both positive and negative involuntary memories after childbirth.

Involuntary negative memories mediate the link between birth experience and post‐traumatic stress.

Positive involuntary memories are associated with greater well‐being in the post‐partum.

Transformation of negatively experienced events into positively experienced involuntary memories may facilitate adjustment after childbirth.
An 800‐year ultraviolet radiation record inferred from sedimentary pigments in the Ross Sea area, East Antarctica
Authors: Chen Qianqian , Nie Yaguang , Liu Xiaodong , Xu Liqiang , Emslie Steven D. 
Published: July 2015

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with mass spectrometry (MS) was used to analyse deposited pigments (including chlorophyll a, phaeophytin a, canthaxanthin, echinenone, zeaxanthin, scytonemin and mycosporine‐like amino acids) from two sediment profiles of ponds in the Ross Sea area, East Antarctica. We explored the sources and characteristics of each pigment, reconstructed an 800‐year record of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and total incoming light intensity, and identified the possible factors that may have influenced historical UVR changes in this region. The results indicated at least four UVR peaks during the past 800 years, corresponding to c. AD 1950–2000, 1720–1790, 1560–1630 and 1350–1480, with the intensity from the most recent sediments being the highest. A comparison between the changes in UVR and total incoming light intensity showed similar patterns between AD 1720 and 1830, suggesting that factors controlling the UVR intensity in the Ross Sea area may be related to insolation fluctuation at that time. The two proxies are, however, weakly correlated during other periods. Historically, there is a relationship between the reconstructed UVR and solar activity, but this natural process may be strongly affected by multiple factors, including climate parameter change and anthropogenic activities during the modern times.
Tectono‐sedimentary development of early syn‐rift deposits: the Abura Graben, Suez Rift, Egypt
Authors: Lewis Matthew M. , Jackson Christopher A.‐L. , Gawthorpe Robert L. 
Published: July 2015

AbstractThe thickness and distribution of early syn‐rift deposits record the evolution of structures accommodating the earliest phases of continental extension. However, our understanding of the detailed tectono‐sedimentary evolution of these deposits is poor, because in the subsurface, they are often deeply buried and below seismic resolution and sparsely sampled by borehole data. Furthermore, early syn‐rift deposits are typically poorly exposed in the field, being buried beneath thick, late syn‐rift and post‐rift deposits. To improve our understanding of the tectono‐sedimentary development of early syn‐rift strata during the initial stages of rifting, we examined quasi‐3D exposures in the Abura Graben, Suez Rift, Egypt. During the earliest stage of extension, forced folding above blind normal fault segments, rather than half‐graben formation adjacent to surface‐breaking faults, controlled rift physiography, accommodation development and the stratigraphic architecture of non‐marine, early syn‐rift deposits. Fluvial systems incised into underlying pre‐rift deposits and were structurally focused in the axis of the embryonic depocentre, which, at this time, was characterized by a fold‐bound syncline rather than a fault‐bound half graben. During this earliest phase of extension, sediment was sourced from the rift shoulder some 3 km to the NE of the depocentre, rather than from the crests of the flanking, intra‐basin extensional forced folds. Fault‐driven subsidence, perhaps augmented by a eustatic sea‐level rise, resulted in basin deepening and the deposition of a series of fluvial‐dominated mouth bars, which, like the preceding fluvial systems, were structurally pinned within the axis of the growing depocentre, which was still bound by extensional forced folds rather than faults. The extensional forced folds were eventually locally breached by surface‐breaking faults, resulting in the establishment of a half graben, basin deepening and the deposition of shallow marine sandstone and fan‐delta conglomerates. Because growth folding and faulting were coeval along‐strike, syn‐rift stratal units deposited at this time show a highly variable along‐strike stratigraphic architecture, locally thinning towards the growth fold but, only a few kilometres along‐strike, thickening towards the surface‐breaking fault. Despite displaying the classic early syn‐rift stratigraphic motif recording net upward‐deepening, extensional forced folding rather than surface faulting played a key role in controlling basin physiography, accommodation development, and syn‐rift stratal architecture and facies development during the early stages of extension. This structural and stratigraphic observations required to make this interpretation are relatively subtle and may go unrecognized in low‐resolution subsurface data sets.
Manifold Next Event Estimation
Authors: Hanika Johannes , Droske Marc , Fascione Luca 
Published: July 2015

AbstractWe present manifold next event estimation (MNEE), a specialised technique for Monte Carlo light transport simulation to render refractive caustics by connecting surfaces to light sources (next event estimation) across transmissive interfaces. We employ correlated sampling by means of a perturbation strategy to explore all half vectors in the case of rough transmission while remaining outside of the context of Markov chain Monte Carlo, improving temporal stability. MNEE builds on differential geometry and manifold walks. It is very lightweight in its memory requirements, as it does not use light caching methods such as photon maps or importance sampling records. The method integrates seamlessly with existing Monte Carlo estimators via multiple importance sampling.
Radiometric Transfer: Example‐based Radiometric Linearization of Photographs
Authors: Li Han , Peers Pieter 
Published: July 2015

AbstractWe present an example‐based approach for radiometrically linearizing photographs that takes as input a radiometrically linear exemplar image and a target regular uncalibrated image of the same scene, possibly from a different viewpoint and/or under different lighting. The output of our method is a radiometrically linearized version of the target image. Modeling the change in appearance of a small image patch seen from a different viewpoint and/or under different lighting as a linear 1D subspace, allows us to recast radiometric transfer in a form similar to classic radiometric calibration from exposure stacks. The resulting radiometric transfer method is lightweight and easy to implement. We demonstrate the accuracy and validity of our method on a variety of scenes.
Evaluation of a one‐piece ceramic implant used for single‐tooth replacement and three‐unit fixed partial dentures: a prospective cohort clinical trial
Authors: Jung Ronald E. , Grohmann Philipp , Sailer Irena , Steinhart Yann‐Niclas , Fehér Aurel , Hämmerle Christoph , Strub Jörg Rudolf , Kohal Ralf 
Published: July 2015

AbstractAimThe aim of this clinical trial was to evaluate the safety and efficiency of a one‐piece zirconia oral implant after 1 year of function.Materials and methodsTwo centers included 60 subjects in need of implant‐supported single‐tooth restorations or three‐unit bridges. A total of 71 zirconia one‐piece implants were placed and immediately restored with a temporary reconstruction for at least 2 months. The final veneered zirconia restorations were then cemented and followed for 6 months and 1 year after insertion of the restorations. At each visit, a clinical evaluation was performed to analyze biological parameters of the implants and the neighboring teeth. A standardized periapical radiograph was taken at implant insertion, at the placement of the restorations and at the 1‐year follow‐up.ResultsSixty patients with 71 implants (48 in the mandible, 23 in the maxilla) were included in this study and provided with 11 bridges and 49 crowns. Two patients with three implants (one bridge and one single crown) could not be evaluated. One patient lost his implant 5 weeks after implant insertion. Based on 58 patients, the mean survival rate was 98.3% after one year when the implants of the two patients that did not show up were not counted as lost. The mean marginal bone loss from implant insertion to the 1‐year follow‐up after the final prosthetic restoration was 0.78 mm with a standard deviation of 0.79 mm. The probing depth around the implants increased from 2.7 mm at insertion of the prosthetic reconstruction to 3.5 mm one year after insertion. The probing depth around the adjacent teeth remained stable at 2.5 mm. At the 1‐year recall, the difference was significant. The clinical attachment levels at implants and teeth were not different at the 1‐year follow‐up with 3.1 mm at tooth and implant sites.ConclusionsThe presently tested one‐piece ceramic implant was successful in replacing single tooth and three‐unit gaps after one year of function. Further long‐term data are necessary to verify these initial findings.
Polymorphisms in CYP‐mediated arachidonic acid routes affect the outcome of renal transplantation
Authors: Gervasini Guillermo , García‐Cerrada Montserrat , Vergara Esther , García‐Pino Guadalupe , Alvarado Raul , Fernández‐Cavada Maria Jesús , Barroso Sergio , Doblaré Emilio , Cubero Juan José 
Published: July 2015

AbstractBackgroundArachidonic acid (AA) is metabolized by cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes to vasoactive metabolites (mainly epoxyeicosatrienoic acids) which are known to play a protective role against damaging processes that may occur after re‐oxygenation of the graft. We aimed to investigate whether the presence of functional polymorphisms along these metabolic routes may play a role in the outcome of renal transplantation.DesignOne‐hundred and forty Caucasian renal transplant recipients and 137 donors were included. We determined the presence of seven common functional polymorphisms in the five genes governing the CYP‐mediated AA metabolic pathway (CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP2J2, CYP4A11 and CYP4F2). Associations with parameters and events related to graft function and survival were retrospectively investigated throughout the first year after grafting.ResultsThe CYP2J2*7 allele of the donor was significantly associated with higher risk for delayed graft function [OR = 4·40 (1·45–13·37), P < 0·01] and lower death‐censored graft survival [107·90 (84·19–131·62) vs. 176·89 (166·47–187·32) months for CYP2J2*1/*1 grafts; log‐rank P = 0·015]. In addition, patients whose donors carried the CYP4A11 434S variant of the F434S polymorphism displayed impaired creatinine clearance, with statistically significant differences vs. 434FF subjects throughout the whole period of study (P < 0·05, P < 0·01, P < 0·001 and P < 0·05 for 1 week, 1 month, 5 months and 1 year after grafting, respectively).ConclusionsTaken together, these results indicate that variability in the CYP450 genes involved in the synthesis of eicosanoids from AA may have a significant impact on graft function and survival in renal transplantation.