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Why Is the Crowd Divided? Attribution for Dispersion in Online Word of Mouth
Authors: He Stephen X. , Bond Samuel D. 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
The widespread availability of online word of mouth (WOM) enables modern consumers to assess not only the opinions of others about products and services, but also the extent to which those opinions are consistent or dispersive. Despite longstanding calls for greater understanding of mixed opinions, existing evidence is inconclusive regarding effects of WOM dispersion, and theoretical accounts have relied primarily on the notion of reference dependence. Extending prior work, this research proposes an attribution-based account, in which consumer interpretation of WOM dispersion depends on the extent to which tastes in a product domain are perceived to be dissimilar, so that dispersion can be attributed to inconsistency in reviewer preferences rather than the product itself. Across four experimental studies, participants presented with online rating distributions were more tolerant of dispersion in taste-dissimilar product domains than taste-similar product domains, and the difference was driven by underlying attributions. Together, these findings expand current understanding of WOM, social distributions, and risk perception, by revealing distinct pathways through which consumers respond to differences of opinion. In addition, they suggest the opportunity to proactively influence the manner in which dispersion is perceived, highlighting its positive connotations while diminishing its association with risk.
Maryblyt v. 7.1 for Windows: An Improved Fire Blight Forecasting Program for Apples and Pears
Authors: Turechek William W. , Biggs Alan R. 
Published: February 2015

This article describes updates found in Version 7.1 of the fire blight prediction model Maryblyt, originally developed by Paul Steiner and Gary Lightner. In addition, a brief history of the development of the Maryblyt model is given. The article ends with examples comparing the performance of Version 7.1 to Version 4.3c, the last version that was validated and released prior to its upgrade to Maryblyt 7.0 for Windows. We show that Version 7.1 provides results nearly identical to the previously validated DOS version 4.x. Accepted 22 December 2014. Published 27 January 2015.
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS): clinical and pharmacological issues
Authors: Schifano Fabrizio 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide health professionals with novel psychoactive substances (NPS) clients with up to date information relating to the background, clinical pharmacology and, when possible, clinical management for each of these categories.

Design/methodology/approach
– The world of NPS is complex and diverse, including a range of different molecules such as: psychedelic phenethylamines; synthetic cannabinoids, cathinone derivatives; novel stimulants; synthetic opiates/opioids; tryptamine derivatives; phencyclidine-like dissociatives; piperazines; GABA-A/GABA-B receptor agonists; a range of prescribing medications; psychactive plants/herbs; and a large series of performance and image-enhancing drugs. These molecules are sought by users for their psychactive effects.

Findings
– The NPS categorization and classification provided here is an attempt to identify and better understand some of these substances. Given the vast range of medical and psychopathological issues associated with the NPS described it is crucial for health professionals to be aware of the effects and toxicity of NPS. The EU-MADNESS project aims to both better understand the pharmacology of the available/forthcoming NPS and to disseminate the most current NPS-related information to practising and training health professionals.

Research limitations/implications
– Further studies are required to identify a range of evidence-based, NPS-focused, clinical management and treatment strategies.

Social implications
– The rapid pace of change in the NPS online market constitutes a major challenge to the provision of current and reliable scientific knowledge on these substances.

Originality/value
– The present review will provide an overview of the clinical and pharmacological issues related to a few hundred NPS.
What have we learned and what can we do about NPS?
Authors: D'Agnone Oscar 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to describe and summarize the recent emergence of NPS onto the drug market. To show the international and national responses, legal and guidance. To indicate some of the challenges NPS present to jurisdictions. To indicate some of the challenges NPS present to treatment agencies. To outline what is known about prevalence and effects.

Design/methodology/approach
– A narrative account of the substances becoming known and the response made by jurisdictions.

Findings
– The use and effects of NPS are slowly becoming known and exchanged between jurisdictions and treatment agencies. The user group appears to differ from the “traditional” substance users groups with which agencies are familiar. The use of the internet is a characteristic of this new market and user group.

Research limitations/implications
– New substances are constantly being identified. Previous treatment approaches may not be fully relevant to NPS. The new area of cognition enhancement is being gradually realized.

Practical implications
– Treatment agencies need to develop new approaches, both to treat the effects of NPS use and to attract NPS users, who do not identify as “drug users”.

Social implications
– A new user group appears to be emerging. Cognition enhancement is a feature of NPS composition and use/attraction.

Originality/value
– An attempt to summarize existing understanding of NPS use and marketing and to predict future trends and needs.
Exceptional HR leadership rests on four foundations
Authors: Longenecker Clinton , Fink Laurence S. 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– Considers the four foundations of exceptional human resource (HR) leadership – strong business acumen, trustworthy leadership, great HR expertise and cultural stewardship – that must be in place to meet current and future human resource challenges.

Design/methodology/approach
– Considers the four foundations of exceptional HR leadership – strong business acumen, trustworthy leadership, great HR expertise and cultural stewardship – that must be in place to meet current and future human-resource challenges.

Findings
– Advances the view that if one of the cornerstones is weak or ineffective, the ability of the HR leader and his or her team to be exceptional is greatly impaired.

Practical implications
– Reveals how to take HR to the next level.

Social implications
– Demonstrates how HR leaders can add value and improve the competitiveness of their enterprises.

Originality/value
– Explains how HR can best overcome the challenges it faces in respect of talent gaps, process failures, compensation and benefits repositioning, workforce realignment, dealing with budget cuts and fiscal constraints, lack of front-line management buy-in, compliance, increased time constraints and the need to help with technological implementation, strategy execution and improving profitability.
Authentic appreciation creates a winning workforce
Authors: White Paul 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– Emphasizes the importance of keeping staff happy and feeling appreciated and reveals how best to do this.

Design/methodology/approach
– Shows what happens when employees do not feel valued and explains how best to correct this.

Findings
– Claims that when employees do not feel valued, staff dissatisfaction, tension in the office, more errors, poor customer service and higher staff turnover may follow.

Practical implications
– Describes how team members feel appreciated when appreciation is: communicated regularly; in the language and actions important to the recipient; delivered individually and is about him or her personally; and when the appreciation is viewed as being authentic.

Social implications
– Reveals that almost 80 per cent of people who quit their jobs cite not feeling valued as a key reason.

Originality/value
– Shows how communicating appreciation effectively can help to transform the workplace.
Make your people before making your products
Authors: Turner Paul , Kalman Danny 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– Considers the challenges facing people developing talent strategy in global organizations and ways of overcoming them.

Design/methodology/approach
– Describes how to maximize the potential of a multi-generational, multi-cultural, cross-organizational, inclusive-talent workforce.

Findings
– Examines the importance of: highlighting the value of people to organizational success; making the business case; ensuring that the whole organization buys into the concept; having an inclusive/selective talent strategy with equal emphasis on each area; making the chief executive the chief talent officer; joining up talent-management activity with business activity and other people-management strategies; delivering talent management well; and making sure there is involvement from all of the organization’s stakeholders.

Practical implications
– Considers that people management works best when the interests of the organization coincide with the interests of individual employees. For the organization this, means achieving its stakeholder objectives. For the employee, it means satisfaction at work, a balanced life and visible career prospects.

Social implications
– Advances the view that the focus on talent has rarely been sharper and so the concept of “make your people before you make your products” is important.

Originality/value
– Emphasizes that the attraction, development, management and retention of talented people is critical to the success of all organizations.
The tools and techniques of effective change management
Authors: Rao M.S. 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– Equips leaders with tools and techniques to lead change effectively.

Design/methodology/approach
– Explains various aspects of change leadership, including the characteristics of change leaders, and outlines a blueprint to effect change successfully.

Findings
– Argues that change requires a new mind-set, tool-set and skill-set. Lists some of the reasons for resistance to change.

Practical implications
– Highlights the differences between change and growth and considers the implications of these.

Social implications
– Seeks to justify the need to change in the current global business environment.

Originality/value
– Concludes that change is imperative for an organization to succeed in the modern business environment.
Collaborative partnerships: bridging the knowledge practice gap in client-centred care in mental health
Authors: McCay Elizabeth , Cleverley Kristin , Danaher Audrey , Mudachi Naomi 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to describe a partnership, the Ryerson-Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Collaborative for Client-Centred and Family Sensitive Care Collaborative, between an urban university and tertiary care mental health facility to build capacity in using research evidence to support client-centred care. A cornerstone of the partnership was a study exploring the connection between effective interprofessional collaboration and the capacity to provide exemplary client-centred care in mental health.

Design/methodology/approach
– The Collaborative brings together organizations with shared values and a commitment to client-centred interprofessional care. It is a strategic approach in amplifying opportunities for the uptake of research evidence and knowledge transfer. One of the principal deliverables for the Collaborative was a multi-phased study exploring the relationship between team collaboration and client-centred care.

Findings
– Research findings identified a significant association between the level of team effectiveness and collaboration and the staffs’ perceived capacity to deliver client-centred care. Client and family member perspectives highlighted the importance of interprofessional team functioning and collaboration. The work of the Collaborative helped narrow the knowledge practice gap through: a research practicum to mentor graduate students; knowledge exchange and dissemination; and working with advanced practice staff to support change within the organization.

Originality/value
– Inter-organizational relationships, such as the Collaborative, support initiatives that accelerate the use of clinically relevant research and bridge the knowledge practice gap. A university/tertiary care teaching facility partnership represents a promising model for advancing and disseminating evidenced-based knowledge.
How friendship networks work in online P2P lending markets
Authors: Li Siming , Lin Zhangxi , Qiu Jiaxian , Safi Roozmehr , Xiao Zhongyi 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of multidimensional friendship networks on economic outcomes in the domain of online people-to-people (P2P) lending markets.

Design/methodology/approach
– The empirical analysis is based on the data set of transactions and friendship networks from PPDai.com market, the most prominent P2P lending market in China. A friendship hierarchy is proposed in this paper to conceptualize friendship network types. Furthermore, methodologies of t-test, logistic regression and ordinary least squares regression are implemented to measure the impact of multidimensional friendship network variables on the probability of successful funding, as well as the interest rates on funded loans.

Findings
– The study demonstrates significant effects of structural, relational and cognitive friendship networks using PPDai.com data. The results indicate that structural friendship network measured in terms of the number of friendship ties is a significant factor of funding performance. Additionally, borrowers, who are involved in higher-quality friendship networks, are more likely to be funded and pay lower interest rates on funded loans. Also, the deeper the level of the relationship is in the friendship hierarchy, the more significant will be the effect of friendship on the final economic results. Furthermore, quality is more important than quantity in determining funding performance.

Originality/value
– This paper is the first to study the effects of multidimensional friendship networks on economic outcome variables in the domain of online P2P lending, thus broadening the theory of multidimensional social capital, which can deepen our understanding about how social networks work and have significant implications practically and theoretically.
The frontier and evolution of the strategic management theory
Authors: Tan Liwen , Ding Jingkun 
Published: February 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to help scholars to know the frontiers in the strategic management field. On studying, it was noted that business strategic management originated from America in the 1960s and has experienced more than half a century. However, strategic management development lacks systematical summary in the twenty-first century. The scientometric method was appliedto find out the frontiers and progress of the research of strategic management in the twenty-first century, based on the literature from 2001 to 2012 in theStrategic Management Journal.Design/methodology/approach– In the paper, the authors mainly used the scientometric method and applied keywords, co-occurrence method combined with multistatistical methods and mutation words analysis, author co-citation, literature co-citation and keywords co-occurrence (national).Findings– The findings show that the strategic management research focuses on the following theories and academic thoughts: knowledge-based view, network organization research and dynamic capability are the mainstream; besides, strategy risk, the stakeholders analysis of strategy management, corporate reputation and strategic concept also attract the attention of researchers; Barney, Teece and Porter have made significant contributions to strategy management research since the twenty-first century.Originality/value– The findings in the paper will help scholars in the field of strategic management to know the main frontiers of the theory, as well as the main contributors.
A phenomenological and quantitative model for shape/temperature memory effect in polypyrrole undergoing relaxation transition
Authors: Lu haibao , Yao Yongtao , Lin Long 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to present a phenomenological and quantitative model to study the constitutive relations and working mechanism for shape/temperature memory effect in polypyrrole (PPy)-based shape memory polymers (SMPs).

Design/methodology/approach
– In this paper, the origin of relaxation law was used to theoretically predict the relationships between relaxation time and internal energy and temperature based on the thermodynamics of polymers.

Findings
– A phenomenological model was proposed to quantitatively identify the factors that influence the stored mechanical energy, shape memory effect (SME) and temperature memory effect (TME) in PPy. Both structural relaxation law and Tool-Narayanaswamy (TN) model were used to couple the constitutive relations of stress and transition temperature as a function of relaxation frequency, respectively. Furthermore, the simulation of the phenomenological model was compared with experimental results reported in relevant literature for purpose of verification.

Research limitations/implications
– Exploration of the working mechanism underpinning the experimental (or phenomenal) results and significant enhancement of the understanding of relevant experimental features reported previously.

Originality/value
– The outcome of this study will provide a powerful phenomenological and quantitative tool for studies on SME and TME in SMPs.
Enhancement of styrene-butadiene rubber composites using kaolin covered with metal oxide pigments
Authors: El-Sabbagh Salwa H , Ahmed Nivin M. 
Published: February 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to express in detail the rheological, morphological and thermal properties of unpigmented and pigmented styrene-butadiene rubber composites with new prepared inorganic pigment based on kaolin covered with a thin layer of calcium and magnesium oxides or mixed oxide of both together. These new pigments combine the properties of both their constituents (kaolin and metal oxides), which are a new trend in inorganic pigments called core-shell pigments. The pigments used for comparison are kaolin (K), CaO/kaolin (CaO/K), MgO/kaolin (MgO/K) and CaO.MgO/kaolin (CaO.MgO/K).

Design/methodology/approach
– The different pigments were characterized using different analytical and spectrophotometric techniques, such as X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive X-ray and transmission electron microscopy, while rubber vulcanizates' rheological, morphological, swelling and thermal properties were examined using different standard and instrumental testing and methods.

Findings
– The study revealed that there is a significant effect of the new prepared pigments on SBR properties, where the optimum pigment loading was 40 phr for CaO/kaolin, while it was 2.5 phr for MgO/kaolin. Studying the effect of different ratios of oxides on kaolin (5, 10 and 20 per cent), different loadings of these pigments ranging between 2.5 and 40 phr were done for each pigment. These modified kaolin or core-shell metal oxide/kaolin pigments imparted new and improved reinforcing properties to SBR vulcanizates.

Research limitations/implications
– No research limitations were found.

Practical implications
– Core-shell MgO/kaolin pigments are eco-friendly and can replace other expensive pigments that are usually used as fillers in the rubber industry with less expenses and comparable efficiency.

Originality/value
– These new pigments are cheap and efficient and can be used in different fields other than rubber.
Refractory Kasabach–Merritt phenomenon successfully treated with sirolimus, and a mini‐review of the published work
Authors: Wang Zuopeng , Li Kai , Dong Kuiran , Xiao Xianmin , Zheng Shan 
Published: February 2015

AbstractKasabach–Merritt phenomenon (KMP) is a rare and life‐threatening disease involving a vascular tumor combined with severe consumptive coagulopathy. We present for the first time a case of KMP with the vascular tumor involving two anatomical sites; the patient failed to respond to steroids and vincristine. Following sirolimus therapy at a dose of 0.8 mg/m2 twice daily, the lesions shrank and the platelet count improved and remained normal 4 months after initial therapy. Current treatments for KMP are not particularly effective. Sirolimus at 0.8 mg/m2 per dose, administrated twice daily, appears to be a safe and effective management option. It appears to be an interesting therapeutic option in refractory KMP, but the time to response is variable.
Pemphigoid with antibodies to laminin γ1, BP180 and BP230, associated with psoriasis vulgaris: Successful disease control with cyclosporin
Authors: Imanishi Akiko , Tateishi Chiharu , Imanishi Hisayoshi , Sowa‐Osako Junko , Koga Hiroshi , Tsuruta Daisuke , Hashimoto Takashi 
Published: February 2015

AbstractBoth anti‐laminin γ1 pemphigoid and bullous pemphigoid are autoimmune subepidermal blistering diseases. The former is rare and characterized by autoantibodies to laminin γ1, a 200‐kDa dermal protein, while the latter is common among the elderly and characterized by autoantibodies to BP180 and BP230, both of which are hemidesmosomal proteins. We experienced a 69‐year‐old Japanese male patient with blister formation secondary to erythrodermic psoriasis, which was successfully treated with cyclosporin. The histopathology of erythema corresponded with psoriasis and that of a blistering lesion showed infiltration of neutrophils and eosinophils in and around the subepidermal blisters. Patient immunoglobulin G antibodies labeled both the epidermal and dermal sides of 1 mol/L NaCl‐split human skin by indirect immunofluorescent microscopy and recognized laminin γ1, BP180 and BP230 by immunoblotting. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of coexistence of psoriasis and atypical pemphigoid with these three autoantibodies.
Merkel cell carcinoma showing regression after biopsy: Evaluation of programmed cell death 1‐positive cells
Authors: Fujimoto Noriki , Nakanishi Gen , Kabuto Miho , Nakano Toshiaki , Eto Hikaru , Nakajima Hideki , Sano Shigetoshi , Tanaka Toshihiro 
Published: February 2015

AbstractWe present a cases of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) with Merkel cell polyomavirus that showed complete regression after biopsy. The exact mechanism of regression in MCC has remained unclear. It has been reported that apoptosis caused by T‐cell immunity was implicated in the regression, and programmed cell death 1 (PD‐1), an inhibitory receptor, was expressed in approximately half of tumor‐infiltrating T cells in MCC. However, the contribution of PD‐1‐positive cells for the regression of MCC has not been evaluated. We examined the rate of PD‐1‐positive cells among the peritumoral mononuclear cells, which showed that the percentage of PD‐1‐positive cells in the case was significantly lower compared with in MCC without regression. We propose that PD‐1‐positive cells suppress tumor immunity for MCC, and that reduction of PD‐1‐positive cells may be associated with tumor regression.