bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Sex and the ballot box: perception of ballot measures regarding same-sex marriage and abortion in California
Authors: Burnett Craig M. , McCubbins Mathew D. 
Published: October 2013

AbstractVoters in many American states have considered important social policies that redefine civil liberties within their state through the initiative and referendum. An important question remaining is, are voters knowledgeable enough to make decisions on these social policies that have far-reaching effects? The common wisdom is that voters rely on information shortcuts in lieu of extensive knowledge about the issues. Unlike candidate elections, however, ballot measures lack some prominent and useful information shortcuts (i.e. party identification). We test the hypothesis that voters use shortcuts to inform their decisions on two ballot measures central to today's policy debates: California's Proposition 4 on parental notification for abortion and Proposition 8 on same-sex marriage. We show that voters do not use cues universally, and, furthermore, factual information has a limited effect on voters’ decisions. In particular, we find that the persuasiveness of an endorsement is conditional on whether an individual trusts the source.
The Search for the Past: Postmodern Historical Consciousness in the Operas of Istvan Anhalt
Authors: RENIHAN COLLEEN 
Published: October 2013

AbstractThe literature on the Hungarian-Canadian composer Istvan Anhalt (1919–2012) has centered on Anhalt's immigrant status and on the connections between his life story and his creative work—deservedly so, as his compositions reflect an interest in issues of displacement, memory, and the relationship between the present and the past. These biographical and geographical themes, however, have yet to be explored as they have been expressed temporally in his music. An examination of his historically based operas,La Tourangelle(1975) andWinthrop(1986) through literary theorist Steven Connor's lens of contemporality reveals the ways in which these works reflect a postmodern conception of temporality and experience. Through their temporal flexibility, these operas demonstrate the genre's ability to express historical processes and experience in a way that literary accounts cannot. The models of subjectivity and contemporality expressed in these works moreover reflect the composer's own complex identity as one that celebrates the continued life of the past in the present.
Developments in international criminal law and the case of business involvement in international crimes
Authors: Kyriakakis Joanna 
Published: October 2013

AbstractIn the wake of the mandate of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights (SRSG), international criminal law looks set to play a role in measures towards the legal accountability of business actors involved in gross human rights and humanitarian law violations. Against the backdrop of the SRSG's now completed mandate, this article looks at three recent developments in international criminal law to consider the field's potential relevance to business actors involved in conflict. The first is the newest mode of liability recently adopted by the International Criminal Court, indirect perpetration through an organisation. The second is the aiding and abetting doctrine as applied by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in theCharles Taylorcase. The third is the potential uptake of a practice of thematic prosecutions focusing on particular under-regulated issues of concern for the international community.
Novel dielectric anomalies due to spin-chains above and below Néel temperature in Ca3Co2O6
Authors: Basu Tathamay , Iyer Kartik K. , Singh Kiran , Sampathkumaran E. V. 
Published: October 2013

AbstractWe bring out novel dielectric behavior of a spin-chain compound, Ca3Co2O6, undergoing Néel order at (TN = ) 24 K. It is found that the virgin curve in the plot of isothermal dielectric constant (ε') versus magnetic-field lies outside the ‘butterfly-shaped’ envelope curve well below TN (e.g., 2.6 K), with a signature of a partial arrest of the high-field magnetoelectric (ME) phase in zero-field after travelling through magnetic-field-induced magnetic transitions. This behavior is in contrast to that observed in the isothermal magnetization data. Thus, this work brings out a novel case for ‘phase-coexistence phenomenon’ due to ME coupling. Another strange finding is that there is a weak, but a broad, peak in ε' around 85–115 K well above TN, attributable to incipient spin-chain magnetic ordering. This finding should inspire further work to study ME coupling on artificial assemblies of magnetic chains, also keeping in mind miniaturization required for possible applications.
A strategy for trade monitoring and substitution of the organs of threatened animals
Authors: Luo Jiao-yang , Yan Dan , Song Jing-yuan , Zhang Da , Xing Xiao-yan , Han Yu-mei , Yang Mei-hua , Dong Xiao-ping , Peng Cheng , Chen Shi-lin , Xiao Xiao-he 
Published: October 2013

AbstractThe use of threatened animals as a source of traditional medicines is accelerating the extinction of such species and imposes great challenges to animal conservation. In this study, we propose a feasible strategy for the conservation of threatened medicinal animals that combines trade monitoring and the search for substitutes. First, DNA barcoding provides a powerful technique for monitoring the trade of animal species, which helps in restricting the excessive use and illegal trade of such species. Second, pharmacological tests have been adopted to evaluate the biological equivalence of threatened and domestic animals; based on such testing, potential substitutes are recommended. Based on a review of threatened animal species and their substitutes, we find that the search for substitutes deserves special attention; however, this work is far from complete. These results may be of great value for the conservation of threatened animals and maintaining the heritage of traditional medicine.
Highly expressed loci are vulnerable to misleading ChIP localization of multiple unrelated proteins
Authors: Teytelman Leonid , Thurtle Deborah M. , Rine Jasper , van Oudenaarden Alexander 
Published: October 2013

Significance
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a gold standard technique for genomic protein localization. We have discovered an artifact in ChIP that leads to reproducible but biologically meaningless enrichment of proteins at highly expressed genes, caused by high levels of polymerase II and polymerase III transcription. These findings call into question reports of unexpected localization of transcription factors, repressors, and cytosolic proteins to highly expressed genes. We suggest caution when interpreting ChIP enrichment at highly expressed genes and suggest a heterologous protein control in ChIP experiments to discern biologically meaningful from artifactual enrichment.
Purcell and the Reception of Lully's ‘Scocca pur’ (LWV 76/3) in England
Authors: Woolley Andrew 
Published: October 2013

ABSTRACTThis article examines the English reception of an Italian song by Lully, ‘Scocca pur tutti tuoi strali’ (LWV 76/3), and its importance for English music of the late seventeenth century. In English sources, this song exists in arrangements for keyboard, and for two violins and bass. It was also the source of a five-bar bass formula used variously in the 1680s. Purcell, for example, clearly used the bass, or an adapted version of it, as an ostinato pattern in three instances. ‘Scocca pur’ is the clearest example of a model composition in Italian style that was known to English musicians in the late seventeenth century. By implication, Italian-style compositional practice was developed from a limited number of models, which were adapted freely, disseminated aurally, and modified to suit native tastes and practices.
snoStrip: a snoRNA annotation pipeline
Authors: Bartschat Sebastian , Kehr Stephanie , Tafer Hakim , Stadler Peter F. , Hertel Jana 
Published: October 2013

Abstract
Motivation: Although small nucleolar RNAs form an important class of non-coding RNAs, no comprehensive annotation efforts have been undertaken, presumably because the task is complicated by both the large number of distinct small nucleolar RNA families and their relatively rapid pace of sequence evolution.
Results: With snoStrip we present an automatic annotation pipeline developed specifically for comparative genomics of small nucleolar RNAs. It makes use of sequence conservation, canonical box motifs as well as secondary structure and predicts putative targets.
Availability and implementation: The snoStrip web service and the download version is available at http://snostrip.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/
Contact: sebastian@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de
SN2012ca: a stripped envelope core-collapse SN interacting with dense circumstellar medium
Authors: Inserra C. , Smartt S. J. , Scalzo R. , Fraser M. , Pastorello A. , Childress M. , Pignata G. , Jerkstrand A. , Kotak R. , Benetti S. , Della Valle M. , Gal-Yam A. , Mazzali P. , Smith K. , Sullivan M. , Valenti S. , Yaron O. , Young D. , Reichart D. 
Published: October 2013

Abstract
We report optical and near-infrared observations of SN2012ca with the Public ESO Spectroscopy Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO), spread over one year since discovery. The supernova (SN) bears many similarities to SN1997cy and to other events classified as Type IIn but which have been suggested to have a thermonuclear origin with narrow hydrogen lines produced when the ejecta impact a hydrogen-rich circumstellar medium (CSM). Our analysis, especially in the nebular phase, reveals the presence of oxygen, magnesium and carbon features. This suggests a core-collapse explanation for SN2012ca, in contrast to the thermonuclear interpretation proposed for some members of this group. We suggest that the data can be explained with a hydrogen- and helium-deficient SN ejecta (Type I) interacting with a hydrogen-rich CSM, but that the explosion was more likely a Type Ic core-collapse explosion than a Type Ia thermonuclear one. This suggests that two channels (both thermonuclear and stripped envelope core-collapse) may be responsible for these SN 1997cy-like events.
The place of medication for challenging behaviour: a whole system perspective
Authors: Bamidele Kunle , Hall Ian 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore the place of medication in the management of challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disability by considering it in the context of the whole system around the person and by considering the challenges of implementing best practice guidance.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper identify factors that are barriers to implementing appropriate best clinical practice guidelines (such as “Challenging behaviour: a unified approach”) in relation to medication intervention. The paper explores current policy and recommendations on how to improve services for people with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour and make suggestions about how to ensure better compliance with existing guidelines and improve service delivery.

Findings
– Better integration of services, access to specialist interventions including applied behavioural analysis and understanding communication are all essential to reducing the use of medication, as is the need for reactive, personalised and skilled social care provision.

Originality/value
– The paper will help professionals and those involved in the provision of service to people with challenging behaviour to focus on areas of improvement and ensure that available resources are maximised to deliver the best outcome for them.
Self-adaptation evaluation method in real time dynamics decision-making system based on grey close relationship
Authors: Zhu Jianjun 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The evaluation scores of each criterion and the integration are given by decision makers, respectively. Owing to the heavy time-pressure in real time decision-making, decision makers may have different judgment abilities, which reflects the instability and inconsistent weight of criteria and scores. It will lead to the unreliable results. To rank alternatives more rational, the consistency of decision makers is considered. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– First, the weight estimation model of the criteria is developed to find the dynamic change and the inconsistency of decision makers, which is based on the objects of weight stability and the consistency measured by the distance between scores of each criterion and the integration. Following that, scores of alternatives given by each decision maker are modified according to the requirement of stability and consistency of the decision-making. In addition, the weight of decision makers is deduced based on the self-consistency and group's similarity that measured by grey close relationship. In the last, the score of alternatives can be modified according to the weight of the decision maker and criteria, and then, alternatives can be ranked via the final score.

Findings
– The self-adaptation evaluation method is suggested in real time decision-making environment.

Originality/value
– Its application step and feasibility is showed via a real decision-making problem.
Model GM(1,1,β) and its applicable region
Authors: Li Xican , Tao Yu , Zheng Yuan 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The paper aims to analyze some properties of GM(1,1,β) model based on the principle that the grey GM(1,1) model parameters are grey and adjustable.

Design/methodology/approach
– At first, according to the principle that grey GM(1,1) model parameters are grey and adjustable, and the GM(1,1,β) model with parameter packet is put forward. Second, some properties of the GM(1,1,β) model are discussed, and the applicable region of the GM(1,1,β) model is given based on the grey differential equation of the GM(1,1,β) model. At last, the background value coefficient's calculation formula and optimization algorithm of the GM(1,1,β) model are also given. A numeric example is also computed in the last part of the paper.

Findings
– The result of the study shows that the application scope of the GM(1,1,β) model is (−8,+8).

Practical implications
– The GM(1,1,β) model provides the theoretical basis for the GM(1,1) model's optimization and can hence forecast its precision.

Originality/value
– The paper succeeds in realizing the GM(1,1) model's application scope (−2,+2) is broadened to (−8,+8).
GM(1, 1) in bankruptcy forecasting
Authors: Delcea Camelia , Bradea Ioana , Maracine Virginia , Scarlat Emil , Cotfas Liviu-Adrian 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The present paper tries to give a new vision on the firm's future evolution forecasting. By taking into account some of the current values of its symptoms and applying one of the most used models in the grey systems theory, namely the GM(1,1), the predictions related to its future symptoms' values can be determined. Having these projected values and the grey economic-financial matrix, K, the future diseases that can hit a company can be depicted along with their causes. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– Forecasting the future development of a firm is always an important issue in firm's survival in nowadays economy. Most of all, it is extremely important to be aware all the time about the inner and outer factors than can make a difference between a successful and a bankrupt firm. For this, here the authors have used three GM(1,1) models for forecasting the future symptoms (expressed through financial indicators) and performance indicator of a firm. Each time, based on the determined accuracy rate, a specific GM model has been chosen for every indicator's forecasting.

Findings
– Considering some previous researches and findings in bankruptcy modelling and diagnosis, this paper enlarges their applicability by adding the possibility to make future predictions on the indicators' evolution and to observe and to better manage their causes. As it was expected, the GM(1,1) models used for the forecasting of the various time series variables taken into account were different from one case to another, choosing the best-specific model for each variable case conducted to more accurate data-fit, with direct results in the causes hierarchy.

Practical implications
– By knowing the main causes that determine a certain state in firms' development and understanding them, the manager can action upon them in a manner that can make the difference between a bankrupt and a real successful firm.

Originality/value
– The paper succeeds in enlarging the view regarding bankruptcy forecasting by adding a dynamic view over the considered variables. If, in most of the cases when facing with financial forecasting, a single model is used for predictions, here the best GM model has been chosen for each variable based on the obtained accuracy rate. The results are concluding.
Evaluating industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development level by grey target theory
Authors: Huang Xinhuan , Wang Wenping 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to construct evaluation index system of industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development based on “driving-force-pressure-state-impact-response” conceptual model. Grey target theory is introduced to evaluate industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development level and identify its key influencing factors. On that basis, the countermeasures are proposed to improve industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development in China.

Design/methodology/approach
– Bull's-eye degree of grey target theory is introduced to evaluate industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development level of 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China. The contribution degree of influence factors is analyzed by contribution degree theory.

Findings
– The results show that first, the overall level of industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development in China is not high, there is a big gap of coordinated development level between provinces, municipalities and autonomous region, and there is still a large room to improve the status quo. Second, the major factors affecting industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development are gross industrial output value (GIOV) share of investment completed in the treatment of industrial pollution, common industrial solid wastes produced per GIOV, sulphur dioxide emission per GIOV, energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of gross regional product.

Originality/value
– This paper constructs evaluation index system of industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development and applies grey target theory to evaluate industrial economy-ecology-coordinated development level and identify its key influencing factors.
Considering game theory to improve leadership in partnership working within the UK public services
Authors: Meaklim Timothy 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide a perspective on one of the key complexities of collaboration and co-operative working in the public service within the UK.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper focuses the attention on the difficulty of partnership working at a time when leading collaboration is a necessity for all leaders in the public sector. It explores one area of this complexity, namely game theory in order to offer an explanation why departments or organisations find it difficult to co-operate as they should.

Findings
– The paper allows leaders to understand the complexities of co-operation and the reason why there is often a tendency for individuals to act in a selfish manner on behalf of their organisation. Being aware of this behaviour will provide leaders with a greater ability to build trust and develop joint strategies which will provide positive outcomes.

Originality/value
– The paper will highlight how greater understanding of game theory including the prisoner dilemma and the stag hunt can help improve leadership, relationships and outcomes within partnerships.
Productivity, wages, and the returns to firm-provided training: fair shared capitalism?
Authors: Sofia Lopes Ana , Teixeira Paulino 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the productivity gains associated with workplace training are shared by both the firms concerned and their workers. The approach is both theoretical and empirical as an explicit formula for the internal rate of return for firms and workers is derived; and production and cost functions are estimated in conjunction with wage and productivity equations.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors use a unique linked employer-employee longitudinal dataset with detailed information on firm formal training and run regression models to obtain the determinants of the internal rate of return to firm-sponsored training. Analysis of training costs is also provided as well as the econometric framework required to control for firm heterogeneity.

Findings
– The results obtained from the model specifications indicate that an additional hour of training per worker results in an increase of 0.12 per cent in productivity and 0.04 per cent in wages, or an increase of 0.16 and 0.08 per cent, respectively, if one uses firm training as a stock variable. It is also found that 82 per cent of the gains in productivity are captured by firms and 18 per cent by workers. Given the training costs, it is obtained an IRR of 13 per cent for firms and 33 per cent for workers at sample means.

Practical implications
– Training investments are good otherwise they would not even be considered by firms. However, knowing with greater accuracy the gains captured by firms (and workers) is critical for policy makers in their decision-making process. The estimates found in the paper shows that firm training is a genuinely worthwhile investment for all participants.

Originality/value
– The authors derive an explicit formula for the internal rate of return to firm-sponsored training and provide workers’ and firms’ shares of the productivity gains using firm-level data. Another original contribution is that the gains enjoyed by firms are computed as net gains, that is, net of the training costs on the one hand, and net of all the gains accruing to workers through higher wages on the other.
High-level geospatial information discovery and fusion for geocoded multimedia
Authors: Ennis Andrew , Chen Liming , D. Nugent Chris , Ioannidis George , Stan Alexandru 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– Improvements and portability of technologies and smart devices have enabled a rapid growth in the amount of user-generated media such as photographs and videos. Whilst various media generation and management systems exist, it still remains a challenge to discover the right information, for the right purpose. This paper aims to propose an approach to reverse geocoding by cross-referencing multiple geospatial data sources to enable the enrichment of media and therefore enable better organisation and searching of the media to create an overall picture about places.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper presents a system architecture that incorporates the proposed approach to aggregate several geospatial databases to enrich geo-tagged media with human readable information, which will further enable the goal of creating an overall picture about places. The approach enables the semantic information relating to point of interest.

Findings
– Implementation of the proposed approach shows that a single geospatial data source does not contain enough information to accurately describe the high-level geospatial information for geocoded multimedia. However, fusing several geospatial data sources together enables richer, more accurate high-level geospatial information to be tagged to the geocoded multimedia.

Originality/value
– The contribution in this paper shows that high-level geospatial information can be retrieved from many data sources and fused together to enrich geocoded multimedia which can facilitate better searching and retrieval of the multimedia.