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Interest on equity and capital structure in the Brazilian context
Authors: Zani João , Tomedi Leites Eduardo , Beatriz Macagnan Clea , Telles Portal Márcio 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– The interest paid on own capital can benefit companies in the Brazilian capital market as it can be considered a business expense and is, therefore, deductible as a corporate tax. The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of interest on equity (IOE) on capital structure decisions.

Design/methodology/approach
– The initial sample consisted of 524 publicly traded companies from different industries in the Brazilian capital market that were listed on Bovespa. Companies in the finance, insurance and funds industries were excluded from the sample due to the unique features of these financial intermediaries. Some companies in the initial sample were excluded due to a lack of published data, inactivity during the sample period, etc. Thus, the paper excluded those companies that did not have valid observations or failed to publish them. The final sample included 370 companies and covered the nine-year period from 1998 through 2006.

Findings
– To this end, the authors identified the main determinants of capital structure and analyzed, through panel data, the relationship of IOE in addition to other determinants of capital structure, such as size, profitability, investment opportunities, risk, sales growth, real interest rate and real exchange rate, in corporate debt. The novel contribution of this study is the inclusion and analysis of the IOE in studies on the determination of capital structure of Brazilian companies. A new capital structure scenario was created when Law No. 9.249/95 required changes in legislation, ceasing the restatement of balance sheets and allowing companies to compensate their stockholders through IOE. Before this change, companies could only benefit from the tax benefits of debt, using debt capital. Now, they can also benefit from the use of equity because, by requiting equity through the IOE, deductions of income tax and social contributions on net income are allowed by tax law because the IOE may be considered a financial expense.

Originality/value
: The authors were not able to find any other publication of a similar study in a review of the extant empirical literature.
From ad-man to digital manager
Authors: Ellinor Rosén Maria 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze changes in the descriptions and requirements of professional communicators in Swedish job advertisements between 1960 and 2010.

Design/methodology/approach
– Through a quantitative content analysis, this study approaches organizational requirement information in order to better understand changes in the description of the ideal candidate and professionalization.

Findings
– The results show that job titles have gradually become more specified and strategically orientated. Tactical qualifications dominated the first decades but operational and strategic skills were increasingly required in the material over the last two decades.

Research limitations/implications
– Even if job advertisements could expose the historical changes in expectations and demands on communicational professional practitioners, further studies could entail complementary material such as interviews with senior communications managers and headhunters.

Practical implications
– In order to be legitimized as a field of profession, scholars, teachers and practitioners need to create ideals and ideologies that can justify and defend business and education. This paper stimulates practitioners to reflect critically on such issues.

Originality/value
– The key contribution of this paper is to explicate how the image of communication practice and the demands on communication practitioners have changed during the last 50 years.
Teachers’ individual citizenship behavior (ICB): the role of optimism and trust
Authors: Schwabsky Nitza 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of teachers’ optimism and trust in their individual citizenship behavior (ICB), and the extent to which teachers’ optimism is related to teachers’ ICB, and mediated by teachers’ trust. ICB is a concept coined by Hoy et al. (2008). The concept refers to teachers’ voluntary and discretionary behavior directed toward colleagues, students, and the students’ parents, that exceeds the formal job expectations. The primary aim of ICB is to enhance students’ academic success.

Design/methodology/approach
– In all, 370 teachers from public elementary schools in northern Israel completed questionnaires, assessing teachers’ optimism, trust, and ICB; the category was examined both by direct and projective measures. Factor and reliability analyses; a bi-variate correlation Pearson test; a hierarchical regression analysis; and a structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis were conducted to analyze the data.

Findings
– The research hypotheses were partially supported: teachers’ optimism, trust, and ICB were positively correlated; teachers’ optimism and trust predicted ICB; trust in students and their parents mediated the association between optimism and ICB, whereas trust in teachers mediated the association between optimism and the projective measure of ICB.

Originality/value
– The study results confirm that optimism and trust in students and their parents, and in other teachers have a significant presence in teachers’ ICB; emphasize the importance of a positive school environment; emphasize the importance of teachers’ ICB toward students’ and their parents; indicate the potential benefit of using direct and projective measures; and show support for the mediating model.
Facilities management: the strategic selection of a maintenance system
Authors: Fraser Kym 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– A major role of facilities management is ensuring the useability, reliability, and safety of the asset being managed. To achieve this management must use a system to control the maintenance function. The purpose of the paper is to identify and describe the various maintenance management models and systems available for facilities managers to consider.

Design/methodology/approach
– Two comprehensive reviews of the literature were undertaken to categorise the various maintenance management models and identify popular models in practice.

Findings
– The review identified 37 maintenance management models. From these, four were found to be popular: total productive maintenance (TPM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), reliability-centred maintenance (RCM), and condition monitoring (CM). While many thousands of papers can be found of these four models, the support in the literature for the remaining 33 models is very limited.

Research limitations/implications
– While providing a sound foundation for future research, the papers findings are based solely on reviewing literature.

Practical implications
– For facilities managers seeking to expand their knowledge of a particular model or maintenance management systems in general, the paper provides a practical understanding.

Originality/value
– Papers focused solely on identifying and describing maintenance management models are scarce and this paper makes a concerted attempt to link academic research with management practitioners.
Remote energy management benefits in retail building portfolios
Authors: Määttänen Eeva , Kyrö Riikka , Aaltonen Anna , Sarasoja Anna-Liisa , Junnila Seppo 
Published: January 2014

Purpose– The study aims to investigate the effects of a remote energy management service to the energy consumption of retail buildings. The study focuses on analysing the changes in energy consumption after the implementation of a facility service concept where building processes are optimized with a remote energy management system. The paper seeks to demonstrate that remotely operated building management practices, which allow high competence service for all facilities, have a positive impact, beyond traditional facility services, on energy and environmental performance of buildings.Design/methodology/approach– The research analyses the metered energy consumption of two retail building portfolios comprising altogether 44 properties. Additionally, secondary data are collected from archive reviews, observation and interviews.Findings– The research shows that remote energy management service reduced the total energy consumption during the two-year service period by 12 and 6 per cent depending on the portfolio. Electricity consumption was found to decrease by 7 per cent and heating energy by 26 per cent on the average in the first portfolio, and 7 and 4 per cent in the second one, respectively.Research limitations/implications– Variation between buildings was found to be relatively high as the individual characteristics and history of the different buildings inevitably affect the achieved results.Practical implications– The study indicates that remote energy management offers an effective means to reduce the energy consumption and costs, and ultimately climate impacts derived from buildings.Originality/value– The study adds to the knowledge of facilities management in context to energy management and environmental performance of buildings.
Servitization and remote monitoring technology
Authors: Grubic Tonci 
Published: January 2014

Purpose
– Servitization centres on the transfer of risks from the customer to manufacturer. By providing real-time information about current and predicted health of a product in the field, remote monitoring technology can mitigate some of those risks. Although recognised as one of the key enablers of servitization, the mainstream servitization research community has shown very little interest in this topic. The aim is to identify and critically analyse relevant research addressing the topic of remote monitoring technology and servitization and, based on this analysis, propose an agenda to guide future research in this area.

Design/methodology/approach
– The methodology adopted is literature review consisting of three steps: define purpose and research questions, select keywords and databases, and identify and analyse relevant papers.

Findings
– Ten findings have been made, which characterise current state of research under categories of examples, benefits, and challenges of using remote monitoring technology to support servitized strategies. Several areas that call for further research are suggested, but general impression is that the understanding about the role and contribution of remote monitoring technology in service delivery and strategy is still in its infancy and much greater effort will have to be invested to change this. It is also suggested that this technology holds a great potential for service and business model innovation; hence, more research is needed to further the knowledge about these topics.

Originality/value
– This paper qualifies as the first attempt to consolidate and analyse relevant research at the intersection of servitization and remote monitoring technology.
Streamlining humanitarian and peacekeeping supply chains
Authors: Merminod Nathalie , Nollet Jean , Pache Gilles 
Published: January 2014

Purpose– Over the last decade, temporary supply chains (TSCs) have become a well-recognized logistics model. In TSCs, supply chain members are organized for anad hocproject; they pool resources in order to make the project successful. Although it might be perceived that TSCs are unstable due to their temporary nature, this paper aims to discuss how TSCs can be managed so as to be both stable and agile, while achieving the stated objectives; since the stability-agility context could be really challenging in humanitarian and peacekeeping supply chains, this is the one that has been selected.Design/methodology/approach– The authors reviewed the literature, research reports and electronic documents on humanitarian and peacekeeping supply chains, to understand the main challenges in terms of managerial and social impacts of logistical operations in a disaster context.Findings– The disaster context is very peculiar, since it requires tremendous agility when a natural or man-made catastrophe hits, so that as many lives as possible can be saved and that the situation could get back rapidly to a relatively normal level. The paper shows that TSCs require an advanced level of time and organizational stability of the human and material resources involved in order to be highly flexible. In other words, an efficient TSC relies on “anticipated responsiveness”, a major managerial challenge in the years to come.Originality/value– The paper clarifies the management of humanitarian and peacekeeping supply chains and identifies the importance of anticipation capability to improve logistical responsiveness.
What can the corporate world learn from the cellarer?
Authors: R.W. Hiebl Martin , Feldbauer-Durstmüller Birgit 
Published: January 2014

Purpose– Benedictine abbeys are highly stable organisations that have existed for almost 1,500 years. The extant literature ascribes this stability in part to the notion of Benedictine governance, which centres on the Rule of St Benedict (RB). An integral part of Benedictine governance is the cellarer, who plays a role comparable to that of a chief financial officer (CFO) in a traditional corporation. Unlike corporations, however, in which the CFO has emerged into a more important role over the past few decades, the cellarer has been an official position in Benedictine abbeys since the introduction of the RB in the sixth century. The present paper aims to explore the cellarer's role and assesses which parts of it could be reasonably transferred to the corporate world.Design/methodology/approach– Informed by organisational role theory, the authors conducted a single case study in an Austrian Benedictine abbey. The authors used group discussions and semi-structured interviews as the main research instruments.Findings– The authors find that the cellarer's behaviour shows strong signs of stewardship, which could serve as a role model for corporate CFOs. However, because of the studied abbey's situation of financial distress, the cellarer also experienced severe role conflicts rooted in his obedience to the abbot, the high involvement of the abbey in the local economy, and the cellarer's conscience as a Christian monk. From these findings, the authors describe those aspects of the cellarer's role that should thus be avoided for corporate CFOs.Research limitations/implications– The presented findings are based on a single case study. Therefore, because of the contextual factors idiosyncratic to the abbey under investigation, the results must be interpreted with care. Nevertheless, the findings explain the cellarer's role and depict its potential benefits for the corporate world, which should induce further research.Originality/value– This is the first paper to explore in-depth the cellarer's role as well as one of the first to transfer the potential benefits of single roles rooted in Benedictine governance to the corporate world.
Three‐dimensional inversion of towed streamer electromagnetic data
Authors: Zhdanov Michael S. , Endo Masashi , Cox Leif H. , Čuma Martin , Linfoot Johnathan , Anderson Chris , Black Noel , Gribenko Alexander V. 
Published: January 2014

ABSTRACTA towed streamer electromagnetic system capable of simultaneous seismic and electromagnetic data acquisition has recently been developed and tested in the North Sea. We introduce a 3D inversion methodology for towed streamer electromagnetic data that includes a moving sensitivity domain. Our implementation is based on the 3D integral equation method for computing responses and Fréchet derivatives and uses the re‐weighted regularized conjugate gradient method for minimizing the objective functional with focusing regularization. We present two model studies relevant to hydrocarbon exploration in the North Sea. First, we demonstrate the ability of a towed electromagnetic system to detect and characterize the Harding field, a medium‐sized North Sea hydrocarbon target. We compare our 3D inversion of towed streamer electromagnetic data with 3D inversion of conventional marine controlled‐source electromagnetic data and observe few differences between the recovered models. Second, we demonstrate the ability of a towed streamer electromagnetic system to detect and characterize the Peon discovery, which is representative of an infrastructure‐led shallow gas play in the North Sea. We also present an actual case study for the 3D inversion of towed streamer electromagnetic data from the Troll field in the North Sea and demonstrate our ability to image all the Troll West Oil and Gas Provinces and the Troll East Gas Province. We conclude that 3D inversion of data from the current generation of towed streamer electromagnetic systems can adequately recover hydrocarbon‐bearing formations to depths of approximately 2 km. We note that by obviating the need for ocean‐bottom receivers, the towed streamer electromagnetic system enables electromagnetic data to be acquired over very large areas in frontier and mature basins for higher acquisition rates and relatively lower cost than conventional marine controlled‐source electromagnetic methods.
Transfusion policy after severe postpartum haemorrhage: a randomised non‐inferiority trial
Authors: Prick BW , Jansen AJG , Steegers EAP , Hop WCJ , Essink‐Bot ML , Uyl‐de Groot CA , Akerboom BMC , van Alphen M , Bloemenkamp KWM , Boers KE , Bremer HA , Kwee A , van Loon AJ , Metz GCH , Papatsonis DNM , van der Post JAM , Porath MM , Rijnders RJP , Roumen FJME , Scheepers HCJ , Schippers DH , Schuitemaker NWE , Stigter RH , Woiski MD , Mol BWJ , van Rhenen DJ , Duvekot JJ 
Published: January 2014

ObjectiveTo assess the effect of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion on quality of life in acutely anaemic women after postpartum haemorrhage.DesignRandomised non‐inferiority trial.SettingThirty‐seven Dutch university and general hospitals.PopulationWomen with acute anaemia (haemoglobin 4.8–7.9 g/dl [3.0–4.9 mmol/l] 12–24 hours postpartum) without severe anaemic symptoms or severe comorbidities.MethodsWomen were allocated to RBC transfusion or non‐intervention.Main outcome measuresPrimary outcome was physical fatigue 3 days postpartum (Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory, scale 4–20; 20 represents maximal fatigue). Non‐inferiority was demonstrated if the physical fatigue difference between study arms was maximal 1.3. Secondary outcomes were health‐related quality of life and physical complications. Health‐related quality of life questionnaires were completed at five time‐points until 6 weeks postpartum.ResultsIn all, 521 women were randomised to non‐intervention (n = 262) or RBC transfusion (n = 259). Mean physical fatigue score at day 3 postpartum, adjusted for baseline and mode of delivery, was 0.8 lower in the RBC transfusion arm (95% confidence interval: 0.1–1.5, P = 0.02) and at 1 week postpartum was 1.06 lower (95% confidence interval: 0.3–1.8, P = 0.01). A median of two RBC units was transfused in the RBC transfusion arm. In the non‐intervention arm, 33 women received RBC transfusion, mainly because of anaemic symptoms. Physical complications were comparable.ConclusionsStatistically, non‐inferiority could not be demonstrated as the confidence interval crossed the non‐inferiority boundary. Nevertheless, with only a small difference in physical fatigue and no differences in secondary outcomes, implementation of restrictive management seems clinically justified.
Identification of Core Competencies for an Undergraduate Food Safety Curriculum Using a Modified Delphi Approach
Authors: Johnston Lynette M. , Wiedmann Martin , Orta‐Ramirez Alicia , Oliver Haley F. , Nightingale Kendra K. , Moore Christina M. , Stevenson Clinton D. , Jaykus Lee‐Ann 
Published: January 2014

AbstractIdentification of core competencies for undergraduates in food safety is critical to assure courses and curricula are appropriate in maintaining a well‐qualified food safety workforce. The purpose of this study was to identify and refine core competencies relevant to postsecondary food safety education using a modified Delphi method. Twenty‐nine experts representing food safety professionals in academia, government, and industry were given 2 rounds of questionnaires that specified initial food safety competencies, core domains, and subdomains. Competencies were defined as a set of skills, knowledge, and abilities that correlate to success of a trainee. The framework for which competencies were classified consisted of (1) core domains, defined as broad food safety subjects; and (2) subdomains, or more specific food safety subjects. The expert panel used a 5‐point Likert scale with an acceptance criterion, or consensus, of 75%, with a rating of “4” or greater. After 2 rounds of questionnaires and revisions from the expert panel, 5 core domains were established: (1) Food Production, Manufacturing, Retail, and Consumer; (2) Foodborne Hazards; (3) Public Health; (4) Legislation and Policy; and (5) Communication and Education. Specific responses from the experts highlighted areas in which further curriculum revision would be beneficial. This study provides a framework for the development of a vetted, standardized undergraduate food safety curriculum. The Delphi method, with its inclusion of professionals representing various sectors of food safety, provided relevant perspectives for curriculum design, and also allowed participants the opportunity to contribute to the education of future food safety professionals.
All‐Trans‐Retinoic Acid Ameliorates the Inflammation by Inducing Transforming Growth Factor Beta 1 and Interleukin 10 in Mouse Epididymitis
Authors: Cao Wei , Chen Weigan , Liang Xiaoxuan , Zhou Jinlian , Wei Chao , Cui Sheng , Liu Jiali 
Published: January 2014

ProblemEpididymitis, one of the most common urological diseases, can lead to the destruction of the epididymal duct and cause transient or permanent sterility. The aim of this study was to investigate the functions and related mechanisms of all trans retinoic acid (atRA) in alleviating the acute inflammation of epididymitis.Method of studyThe mouse model of the epididymitis was induced by injecting Escherichia coli into the cauda epididymis. atRA was administrated for five consecutive days through intraperitoneal injection. The expression levels of inflammatory cytokines were measured by real‐time PCR and Western blot. In addition, cultured primary mouse epididymal epithelial cells were treated with different concentrations of atRA and RAR antagonists to identify whether the effect of atRA was mediated through RAR.ResultsOur results demonstrate that atRA ameliorates the inflammation in mouse epididymitis by decreasing the expression of the pro‐inflammatory cytokines and increasing the expression of anti‐inflammatory factors including TGF‐β1 and IL‐10. Our results show that the upregulating effect of atRA on TGF‐β1 was mediated by RARα, and the enhancing effect of atRA on IL‐10 expression was mediated via RARβ.ConclusionThese new results suggest that atRA is involved in regulating the inflammatory response of epididymis.