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Combination of drainage and chemotherapy for treatment of a Staphylococcus aureus brain abscess in a pre-term infant
Authors: Suárez Marta , Costa Marta , Solís Gonzalo , Fernández Belén , García Enrique , Arias Rosa , Peña Jorge , Coto Daniel 
Published: November 2015

Introduction:
Neonatal brain abscess is an uncommon intracranial suppuration that usually occurs as a complication of bacterial meningitis or septicaemia. Staphylococcus aureus rarely causes brain abscesses during the first months of life.

Case presentation:
A case of a premature infant who developed cerebellar, left temporal and left occipital lobe abscesses after S. aureus sepsis is presented. The pus provided the same S. aureus strain of the sepsis. The patient was treated with vancomycin for 37 days, accompanied by extraction of the purulent material. The abscesses resolved and no sequelae remained.

Conclusion:
It appears that long antibiotic treatment regimes, when associated with early pus drainage, are effective in resolving infection and abscesses caused by S. aureus in neonates.
Evaluation of hybrid and non-hybrid methods for de novo assembly of nanopore reads
Authors: Sović Ivan , Križanović Krešimir , Skala Karolj , Šikić Mile 
Published: November 2015

AbstractRecent emergence of nanopore sequencing technology set a challenge for the established assembly methods not optimized for the combination of read lengths and high error rates of nanopore reads. In this work we assessed how existingde novoassembly methods perform on these reads. We benchmarked three non-hybrid (in terms of both error correction and scaffolding) assembly pipelines as well as two hybrid assemblers which use third generation sequencing data to scaffold Illumina assemblies. Tests were performed on several publicly available MinION and Illumina datasets ofE. coliK-12, using several sequencing coverages of nanopore data (20x, 30x, 40x and 50x). We attempted to assess the quality of assembly at each of these coverages, to estimate the requirements for closed bacterial genome assembly. Results show that hybrid methods are highly dependent on the quality of NGS data, but much less on the quality and coverage of nanopore data and perform relatively well on lower nanopore coverages. Furthermore, when coverage is above 40x, all non-hybrid methods correctly assemble theE. coligenome, even a non-hybrid method tailored for Pacific Bioscience reads. While it requires higher coverage compared to a method designed particularly for nanopore reads, its running time is significantly lower.
Magnetic field effect on the unsteady natural convection in a right-angle trapezoidal cavity filled with a nanofluid
Authors: Bondareva N.S. , Sheremet M. A. , Pop I. 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– Unsteady natural convection of water-based nanofluid within a right-angle trapezoidal cavity under the influence of a uniform inclined magnetic field using the mathematical nanofluid model proposed by Buongiorno is presented. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– The left vertical and right inclined walls of the enclosure are kept at constant but different temperatures whereas the top and bottom horizontal walls are adiabatic. All boundaries are assumed to be impermeable to the base fluid and to nanoparticles. In order to study the behavior of the nanofluid, a non-homogeneous Buongiorno’s mathematical model is taken into account. The physical problems are represented mathematically by a set of partial differential equations along with the corresponding boundary conditions. By using an implicit finite difference scheme the dimensionless governing equations are numerically solved.

Findings
– The governing parameters are the Rayleigh, Hartmann and Lewis numbers along with the inclination angle of the magnetic field relative to the gravity vector, the aspect ratio and the dimensionless time. The effects of these parameters on the average Nusselt number along the hot wall, as well as on the developments of streamlines, isotherms and isoconcentrations are analyzed. The results show that key parameters have substantial effects on the flow, heat and mass transfer characteristics.

Originality/value
– The present results are new and original for the heat transfer and fluid flow in a right-angle trapezoidal cavity under the influence of a uniform inclined magnetic field using the mathematical nanofluid model proposed by Buongiorno. The results would benefit scientists and engineers to become familiar with the flow behavior of such nanofluids, and the way to predict the properties of this flow for possibility of using nanofluids in advanced nuclear systems, in industrial sectors including transportation, power generation, chemical sectors, ventilation, air-conditioning, etc.
Numerical study on the pressure drop of fluid flow in rough microchannels via the lattice Boltzmann method
Authors: Bo Zheng , Zhao Qi , Shuai Xiaorui , Yan Jianhua , Cen Kefa 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative assessment on the effect of wall roughness on the pressure drop of fluid flow in microchannels.

Design/methodology/approach
– The wall roughness is generated by the method of random midpoint displacement (RMD) and the lattice Boltzmann BGK model is applied. The influences of Reynolds number, relative roughness and the Hurst exponent of roughness profile on the Poiseuille number are investigated.

Findings
– Unlike the smooth channel flow, Reynolds number, relative roughness and the Hurst exponent of roughness profiles play critical roles on the Poiseuille number Po in rough microchannels. Modeling results indicate that, in rough microchannels, the rough surface configuration intensifies the flow-surface interactions and the wall conditions turn to dominate the flow characteristics. The perturbance of the local flows near the channel wall and the formation of recirculation regions are two main features of the flow-surface interactions.

Research limitations/implications
– The fluid flow in parallel planes with surface roughness is considered in the current study. In other words, only two-dimensional fluid flow is investigated.

Practical implications
– The LBM is a very useful tool to investigate the microscale flows.

Originality/value
– A new method (RMD) is applied to generate the wall roughness in parallel plane and LBM is conducted to investigate the pressure drop characteristics in rough microchannels.
Logical acquisition and analysis of data from android mobile devices
Authors: Srivastava Himanshu , Tapaswi Shashikala 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach that helps in acquisition of live data as well as data stored in the internal/external memory of android mobile device considering that the data on the device are not much altered during the extraction process. Also, the emphasis is laid on testing the validity of existing forensic tools against the data obtained manually and by using this approach. Smartphones have spurred the mobile computing technology, and Android is widely used as an Operating System in these devices. These days, users store most of their personal information like emails, images, contacts etc., on Phones/Tablets as their data would be readily accessible and thus convenient for them.

Design/methodology/approach
– Android Operating System is built on the Linux Kernel and scripts to extract data from Android Mobile Device with the use of Android Debugging Bridge have been written. The approach is more focused on the logical acquisition of data from devices rather than acquisition using physical methods.

Findings
– Live data of the Facebook application running on the device can be extracted. Also, the password of the LuksManager application (used to create an encrypted volume on the device), which is stored in the internal memory, is also extracted and identified.

Research limitations/implications
– The study has been conducted in an academic environment, thereby limiting external validity. Another limitation is the limited edition of some of the software forensics tools that are used. The full access to these software tools are restricted by Law enforcement and Investigation policies. The research provides a different approach which could aid in criminal investigation activities on mobile devices.

Practical implications
– The devices which have the latest versions of Android not only store messages and mails, but a lot of information about GPS, as well as information about popular applications like Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. This could practically help a lot in criminal investigation.

Originality/value
– This study is important because very few works have been done on recent versions (Jellybean and Kitkat) of Android. The proposed approach could extract large amounts of information as compared to earlier approaches with the newer versions of Android having larger memory and new features.
Taxonomy of technological risks of open source software in the enterprise adoption context
Authors: Silic Mario , Back Andrea , Silic Dario 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to identify the technological risks in the context of open source software (OSS) and suggest an integrative OSS risk taxonomy.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors conducted an extensive literature review followed by expert interviews and applied the method for taxonomy development.

Findings
– This research has identified an integrative OSS risk taxonomy composed of 8 categories with 51 risk items.

Originality/value
– This taxonomy is a very useful tool for practitioners during the decision-making process when evaluating, assessing and calculating risks related to OSS adoption. Moreover, researchers can use it as a starting point for future studies to better understand the OSS phenomenon.
Towards a framework for the potential cyber-terrorist threat to critical national infrastructure
Authors: Alqahtani Abdulrahman 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The main purpose of this research is to produce the most accurate theoretical framework of the potential threat of cyberterrorism to the national security, compared to conventional terrorism. So it aims to identify the theoretical framework that best explains the threat of cyberterrorism and conventional terrorism to national security derived from empirical data, using grounded theory, and to validate the developed grounded theory statistically by quantitative data.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper presents the results of the quantitative study survey. It provides in the beginning basic information about the data. To purify the data, reliability and exploratory factor analysis, as well as confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), were performed. Then, structural equation modelling was utilised to test the final model of the theory and to assess the overall goodness-of-fit between the proposed model and the collected data set.

Findings
– The first study, as a qualitative exploratory study, gives a rich data set that provides the foundation of the development of the second study, as a quantitative confirmatory study. In the researcher’s previous qualitative study, it provides a better theoretical understanding of the potential threat of cyber and conventional terrorism to Saudi national security. Also, it provides the development of the grounded theory of the study (Figure 1). It also has led to the development of the conceptual framework and the hypotheses for the second phase of the study (i.e. survey).

Originality/value
– It is original study based on empirical data collected from Saudi military and security officials and experts in the critical infrastructures.
3D fabric dynamic simulation based on Mapreduce
Authors: Shi Hengliang , Bai Xiaolei , Duan Jianhui 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– In cloth animation field, the collision detection of fabric under external force is very complex, and difficult to satisfy the needs of reality feeling and real time. The purpose of this paper is to improve reality feeling and real-time requirement.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper puts forward a mass-spring model with building bounding-box in the center of particle, and designs the collision detection algorithm based on Mapreduce. At the same time, a method is proposed to detect collision based on geometric unit.

Findings
– The method can quickly detect the intersection of particle and triangle, and then deal with collision response according to the physical characteristics of fabric. Experiment shows that the algorithm improves real-time and authenticity.

Research limitations/implications
– Experiments show that 3D fabric simulation can be more efficiency through parallel calculation model − Mapreduce.

Practical implications
– This method can improve the reality feeling, and reduce calculation quantity.

Social implications
– This collision-detection can be used into more fields such as 3D games, aero simulation training and garments automation.

Originality/value
– This model and method have originality, and can be used to 3D animation, digital entertainment, and garment industry.
Connexion
Authors: Bai Zi-qian , Tan Jeanne , Johnston Clare Frances , Tao Xiao-Ming 
Published: November 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how electronic components can be utilized and integrated into polymeric optical fibre (POF) textiles to refine the design aesthetic, tactile quality and initiate the interaction of textiles with the users; and to study the design process of interactive products by using a novel design process model.Design/methodology/approach– Fashion and textile design methods, textile technology are used in combination with modern technologies such as laser engraving, sensing, short-distance communication technology, throughout the entire process of development of interactive photonics creations.Findings– The results of evaluation indicate that the engineered prototypes can enhance the interactive function of interior furnishing. The usability of interactive POF cushions is optimized by innovative design methods considering both design and technology.Originality/value– This research explores to combine knowledge from different disciplines, including textile, electronics, sensor and laser to create interactive soft furnishings. The inter-disciplinary research provides a new perspective on how POF fabric can be utilized as a new media to change the way people interact with their living surroundings. The interior soft furnishings are no longer unresponsive to people, but can react to them, adapt to their behaviors, change color according to their preferences and therefore merge into our daily life. The developed prototypes reshape interior soft furnishing, and therefore have both theoretical and practical significance.
Determinants of industrial land prices in The Netherlands: a behavioural approach
Authors: Ploegmakers Huub , de Vor Friso 
Published: November 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the specification of hedonic pricing models can be improved by using insights generated from qualitative research. In doing so, it seeks to address one of the main problems in the specification of hedonic models, namely that theory yields little guidance in the selection of the characteristics that should be included on the right-hand side.Design/methodology/approach– Building on the behavioural tradition in real estate research, this paper introduces a research approach that integrates insights from qualitative analysis in an econometric model of land values. The empirical segment explores the way in which asking prices of building plots for industrial purposes are determined in The Netherlands. It draws from interviews with municipal land developers, who dominate supply in this market. The information secured during these interviews relates to the characteristics considered important and the kind of information used in the valuation process. Based on these qualitative data, an econometric model is developed and estimated.Findings– The estimation results confirm qualitative evidence that the typical developer considers only a limited number of features of the land in the valuation process and that the primary source of information in setting asking prices relates to the prices charged in neighbouring municipalities.Originality/value– This paper represents a novel attempt to examine the determination of land and property values by merging qualitative and quantitative, econometric analyses.
Market forces or institutional factors: what hinders housing development on brownfield land?
Authors: Hutchison Norman , Disberry Alan 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to understand the barriers to housing development on brownfield land in the UK, making clear the distinction between market and institutional factors and identify appropriate public and private sector solutions to encourage more residential development.

Design/methodology/approach
– In this research, the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands of England was chosen as the case study city. The research was based on secondary literature review of relevant local authority reports, Internet searches, consultancy documents and policy literature. Detailed case studies were undertaken of 30 sites in Nottingham which included a questionnaire survey of developers. Officials from Nottingham City Council assisted with the gathering of planning histories of the sites. The investigation took place in 2014.

Findings
– Based on the evidence from Nottingham, the most frequently occurring significant constraint was poor market conditions. At the local level, it is clear that there are options that can be promoted to help reduce the level of friction in the market, to reduce delay and cost and, thus, to encourage developers to bring forward schemes when the market allows. Securing planning permission and agreeing the terms of a S106 agreement is recognised as a major development hurdle which requires time to achieve.

Practical implications
– Market forces were clearly the dominant factor in hindering development on brownfield sites in Nottingham. The local authority should be more circumspect in the use of S106 agreements in market conditions where brownfield development is highly marginal. Imposing additional taxation on specific developments in weak markets discourages development and is counterproductive.

Originality/value
– This detailed study of 30 development sites is significant in that it provides a better understanding of the barriers to residential development on brownfield land in the UK.
The association between accounting performance and constituent response in political markets
Authors: Bradbury Michael , Scott Tom 
Published: November 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether constituents respond to local government accounting data. Since 2006, New Zealand local authorities (councils) have been required to disclose long-term accounting data relating to forecast operating revenue and expenses.Design/methodology/approach– The authors test whether the difference between the actual operating expenditure as reported in the annual report and as forecasted is associated with electoral outcomes.Findings– The authors find that accounting performance and the sign of accounting performance (i.e. expenditure over-runs) are associated with greater councilor re-election. Furthermore, accounting performance is also associated with greater voter turnout.Originality/value– The production and disclosure of council planning data is based on the perceived accountability of the council to its constituents. The authors find that accounting, in an electoral context, has both information content and conveys good/bad news about accounting performance to voters.
The role of management control systems in situations of institutional complexity
Authors: Schäffer Utz , Strauss Erik , Zecher Christina 
Published: November 2015

Purpose– This study investigates in depth how decision-making of different organisational members is shaped by various management control systems (MCSs) that reflect different institutional logics, how the entire organisation deals with the arising institutional complexity and which role different management controls as a system play in such situations.Design/methodology/approach– A case study was conducted on a German Mittelstand firm whose MCSs were shaped by three different logics over time: a family logic, a stakeholder logic and a shareholder logic.Findings– This paper shows how different actors of an organisation confronted with institutional complexity used selective coupling of different MCS components and compartmentalizing MCS components to deal with clashing institutional logics. Thereby, it was possible for the actors to balance different sub-communities within the firm that were shaped by conflicting but yet complementary logics that were required for organisational survival.Research limitations/implications– This study contributes to the understanding of how an MCS can be exploited for organisational structural responses to multiple logics. Due to this research design, the present study deals with challenges ofex postrationalization.Practical implications– The results show options for organisational leaders to deal with different kind of worldviews (i.e. logics) that shape employees’ behaviour. Particularly, this paper explains how leaders can restructure their MCSs to influence human behaviour in times of radical change.Originality/value– This paper contributes to the literature on MCSs by showing what role MCSs play in structural responses to institutional complexity.
Unpacking the package
Authors: Evans Mark , Tucker Basil Phillip 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which both formal and informal control, operating as a package, are implicated in responding to organisational change arising from the introduction of the Australian Federal Government’s Clean Energy Act (2011).

Design/methodology/approach
– This investigation is based on a review of archival data, and semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 staff at different hierarchical levels within an Australian renewable energy company.

Findings
– Although formal management control systems and informal control both played important roles in the organisation’s reorientation to organisational change, it was the latter form of control that predominated over the former. The influence of the prevailing organisational culture, however, was pivotal in orchestrating both formal and informal control efforts within this organisation.

Originality/value
– This study contributes to management control theory and practice in two ways: first, it provides much needed empirical evidence about the ways in which management controls act as a package; second, it offers insights into the relative importance of the components of a management control package in the context of a particular organisational change. In addition, it responds to Laughlin’s (1991) call for empirical “flesh” to be added to the skeletal framework he advocates to make this conceptualisation of organisational change, “more meaningful”.