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Do mental health stigma and gender influence MBAs’ willingness to engage in coaching?
Authors: Anne Millard Julia , Korotov Konstantin 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– While much research has been done on how attitudes toward therapy relate to engagement in it, the willingness to engage in coaching has not yet been studied. As coaching continues to grow in popularity and makes its way into curricula of Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs, it is worth examining what factors may influence people's attitudes toward this new type of psychological support. With frequently noticed and discussed similarities between coaching and therapy, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether particular antecedents of engagement in therapy, namely mental health stigma and gender, would be equally relevant for engagement in coaching by MBA students.Design/methodology/approach– This was survey research with 54 MBAs at a major European business school.Findings– The results suggest that while gender does influence an individual's attitude toward therapy, it does not influence an individual's attitude toward coaching. Stigma, however, still impacts attitudes toward both therapy and coaching.Research limitations/implications– This paper focusses on attitudes. Further research could explore how closely attitudes result in specific behaviors, such as requesting a coach or agreeing to be coached when suggested by MBA program educators.Practical implications– Implications concern positioning of coaching within MBA programs and preparation of coaches and educators.Social implications– Gender neutrality of willingness to engage in coaching suggests opportunities for acceptance of other forms of psychological support.Originality/value– This paper is one of the early investigations of willingness to be coached, particularly in the MBA context.
The Protégé mentoring mindset: a framework for consideration
Authors: J. Searby Linda 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to define and describe the mentoring mindset in a protégé. The central research question was: What constitutes a mentoring mindset in a protégé who is poised to receive maximum benefits from a mentoring relationship, as described by the mentor?

Design/methodology/approach
– A phenomenological approach was used to conduct this study. Interviews were conducted with veteran school principals who were trained mentors, assigned and paired with newly appointed principals for a year of mentoring. The identification of the phenomenon of the mentoring mindset of the protégé was derived from the mentors’ perspectives of their protégés’ behaviors, dispositions, attitudes, and competencies, as they were conveyed in the research interviews.

Findings
– A definition of the protégé's mentoring mindset was created after analysis of the interview data, and indicators of the presence and absence of the mindset were formulated into a Protégé Mentoring Mindset Framework that provides information on protégé competencies. The protégé with a mentoring mindset takes initiative, possesses a learning orientation, has a goal orientation, is relational and reflective. Conversely, the protégé who does not have a mentoring mindset lacks initiative, lacks a learning orientation, a goal orientation, and is not relational or reflective.

Research limitations/implications
– One limitation of the study is that it only gathered the perceptions of the mentor, but the protégé is the one being described. This, however, is consistent with other studies of protégé competencies. The study was conducted with a specific population (school principals) in a southern state of the USA. Hence, it cannot be assumed to be generalizable to other populations or fields of study. Replication of this research in other settings is suggested, so that the Framework can be further affirmed, disconfirmed, or augmented. Implications of this research could be that the Mentoring Mindset Framework can be used for considering the varied competencies of the protégé, and can be used in both mentor and protégé training.

Originality/value
– To this researcher's knowledge, there has not been a Protégé Mentoring Mindset Framework of competencies created in mentoring research.
Evaluation of occupational health checks for hospital employees
Authors: Blake Holly , Bennett Eleanor , E. Batt Mark 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to ascertain which employees choose to access occupational health checks (OHCs), their perceptions of the usefulness of information received and whether they choose to act on tailored advice provided.

Design/methodology/approach
– In total, 253 hospital employees attended workplace OHC then completed online questionnaire survey.

Findings
– Participants included new cases (80 per cent) and those who had accessed the service previously (20 per cent), all age categories (23-69 years) and all occupational groups, although the vast majority were in office-based sedentary job roles, nursing or allied health professions (AHP) (78.3 per cent). Almost half were overweight or obese (46.7 per cent); many reported existing health problems or family history of chronic disease. Participants perceived OHC s to be convenient, informative and useful for raising their awareness of health issues, reassurance and monitoring, early identification of potential health problems and signposting to appropriate services. Participants reported post-check dietary changes (41 per cent) and increases in physical activity (30 per cent); smokers reported quitting or cutting down (44 per cent) and those exceeding alcohol limits reported cutting frequency or units of consumption (48 per cent). More than half those advised to visit their GP complied (53 per cent).

Research limitations/implications
– Future studies should investigate the efficacy of OHCs and whether reported lifestyle changes are sustained in the long-term.

Originality/value
– General health checks can be feasibly delivered in a multi-site hospital workplace setting with diverse appeal. Provision of tailored health information can help to raise health awareness and motivate health behaviour change or maintenance amongst hospital employees, including those reporting risk factors for chronic disease. Employees value the investment of healthcare organisations in the health and wellbeing of their workforce.
Security culture and the employment relationship as drivers of employees’ security compliance
Authors: D'Arcy John , Greene Gwen 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of security-related and employment relationship factors on employees’ security compliance decisions. A major challenge for organizations is encouraging employee compliance with security policies, procedures and guidelines. Specifically, we predict that security culture, job satisfaction and perceived organizational support have a positive effect on employees’ security compliance intentions.Design/methodology/approach– This study used a survey approach for data collection. Data were collected using two online surveys that were administered at separate points in time.Findings– Our results provide empirical support for security culture as a driver of employees’ security compliance in the workplace. Another finding is that an employee’s feeling of job satisfaction influences his/her security compliance intention, although this relationship appears to be contingent on the employee’s position, tenure and industry. Surprisingly, we also found a negative relationship between perceived organizational support and security compliance intention.Originality/value– Our results provide one of the few empirical validations of security culture, and we recognize its multidimensional nature as conceptualized through top management commitment to security (TMCS), security communication and computer monitoring. We also extend security compliance research by considering the influence of employment relationship factors drawn from the organizational behavior literature.
Stock markets and the costs of banking crises
Authors: DeLean Tess , P. Joyce Joseph 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to investigate whether stock markets can reduce the output costs of banking crises. The work is motivated by Alan Greenspan’s claim that capital markets serve as a financial “spare tire” in the event of a banking crisis.

Design/methodology/approach
– We test the impact of stock market capitalization, liquidity and turnover on the output losses of 76 banking crises in 66 countries over the period of 1975-2008.

Findings
– Our results indicate that stock markets can mitigate the effect of banking crises on economic activity. There is also some evidence that foreign equity holdings lower output costs.

Practical implications
– These results suggest that the development of equity markets will contribute to reducing the costs of banking crises. Such development, however, should be accompanied by adequate supervisory and regulatory oversight.

Originality/value
– Our analysis is the first direct empirical investigation of the impact of stock markets on the output costs of banking crises. This paper demonstrates that equity markets can lessen the severity of such crises.
The response of macroeconomic aggregates to monetary policy shocks in Pakistan
Authors: Rashid Abdul , Jehan Zainab 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to empirically examine how shocks to monetary policy measures (the short-term nominal interest rate and broad money supply) affect macroeconomic aggregates, namely, output growth of the economy, national price levels and the nominal exchange rate.

Design/methodology/approach
– Johansen’s (1995) cointegration technique and error correction models are used to explore the long-run relationship among variables. To investigate how macroeconomic aggregates respond to a one-standard deviation shock to the underlying monetary measures, the authors estimate impulse response functions based on error correction models. The study uses quarterly data covering the period 1980-2009.

Findings
– The results provide evidence that there is a long-run stable relationship between the authors' monetary measures and the underlying macroeconomic aggregates. They also find that the industrial production adjusts at a faster speed relative to commodity prices and the exchange rate over the examined period. Further, they show that the short-term interest rate has relatively stronger effects on output as compared to broad money supply, whereas prices and exchange rates adjust more quickly to their long-run equilibrium when money supply is used as a measure of monetary policy. Finally, the authors find significant evidence of a price puzzle regardless of whether they consider a closed or an open economy case. However, an initial appreciation of exchange rate is observed in response to a one-standard deviation shock to money supply, indicating the overshooting hypothesis phenomenon.

Practical implications
– The findings of the analysis suggest that the interest rate-oriented monetary policy is more effective when the monetary authorities’ objective is to enhance the output growth of the economy. However, in case of inflation targeting, the broad money supply seems a more appropriate instrument. Our findings also suggest that the monetary policy has a significant role in stabilizing both real and nominal sectors of the economy.

Originality/value
– The main value of this paper is to examine the significance of monetary policy for a developing and relatively small open economy, namely, Pakistan. The authors use the error correction model, which improves the estimation by accounting for the long-run association. They also take into account the world oil prices by including the world commodity price index as a control variable in their empirical investigation. Finally, they utilize quarterly data rather than annual, and they cover a relatively recent sample period.
Trade Openness, Financial Development Index and Economic Growth
Authors: Satyanarayana Murthy Dogga , Kumar Patra Suresh , Samantaraya Amaresh 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this article is to examine the inter-relationship and direction of causality among three macroeconomic variables such as trade liberalization, financial development and economic growth.

Design/methodology/approach
– The empirical analysis is based on the principal component analysis as method to construct financial development index (FDI), augmented Dickey–Fuller and Phillips–Perron tests as the unit root test, Johansen’s co-integration test and VECM for direction of causality in the long run among TOP, FDI and economic growth.

Findings
– The empirical results confirmed that there exists a long-run association among trade openness, financial development and economic growth. This study has also found that there is bidirectional causality between financial development and growth. However, the causality runs from growth to finance is stronger than that from finance to growth. This study also observed unidirectional causality that runs from financial development and economic growth to trade openness.

Research limitations/implications
– The policy implications that could be drawn from the present study is that, initiation of financial reforms to improve the size of financial system would lead to higher economic growth. Another key implication from this study is that because trade openness has no effect on both domestic financial sector development and output growth, it would be better to deploy the resources into creating a sustained domestic demand rather than concentrating more on the external front in general and trade openness in particular.

Originality/value
– The study constructs a summary IFD for India by taking into account four broad financial development indicators for the period 1971-2012. The present paper also suggests that it would be better to deploy the resources to create a sustained domestic demand rather than concentrating more on the external front in general and trade openness in particular.
Publication productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania
Authors: Said Sife Alfred , Tandi Lwoga Edda 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this scientometric study was to conduct an analysis of the research productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania for a period of 30 years from 1984 to 2013.Design/methodology/approach– Data were obtained using the Publish or Perish software which uses Google Scholar to retrieve scholars’ publications, citations and related metrics. For each librarian, the retrieved metrics were the number of papers, papers per author, citation counts, average citations per paper, average papers per author, average citations per year, average citations per author and four indices, namely, the h-index, g-index, Hc-index and the HI-norm.Findings– The study findings indicate that 434 publications were recorded for all librarians, giving an average of 14.5 publications per year. The year 2008 had the most (9.9 per cent) publications followed by 2010 (7.8 per cent), while the years 1985 and 1987 had the lowest (0.2 per cent) number of publications. About 43 per cent of the publications were single-authored and the degree of collaboration was 0.57. The top-ten ranked librarians contributed more than half (53.2 per cent) of all publications, although they showed considerable variation among different metrics. Only three journal articles had 25 or more citations.Originality/value– Previous studies on the topic are scarce, and, therefore, this paper provides useful recommendations to library and information science (LIS) schools, libraries and universities to improve research productivity of their academic librarians in Tanzania and other countries with a similar setting.
Oral lichen planus with antibodies to desmogleins 1 and 3
Authors: Kinjyo Chihiro , Kaneko Takahide , Korekawa Ayumi , Rokunohe Akiko , Aizu Takayuki , Matsuzaki Yasushi , Nakano Hajime , Sawamura Daisuke 
Published: October 2014

AbstractLichen planus (LP) is a chronic inflammatory disorder involving the skin or mucous membranes. Previous studies have demonstrated that some LP patients showed positive enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for desmoglein (DSG) antibodies. We report a case with intractable painful oral lesions. ELISA indices for DSG1 and 3 antibodies were increased by 49 and 36, respectively. Histopathological analysis revealed irregular acanthosis and band‐like infiltration of lymphocytes at the dermal–epidermal interface. Direct immunofluorescence revealed negative deposits of immunoglobulin G and C3 in intracellular spaces of the epidermis. Indirect immunofluorescence of normal skin also did not detect any antibodies. Consequently, we made a final diagnosis of oral LP. The previous two LP cases with positive ELISA for DSG antibodies and our case manifested the erosive form, the most advanced oral LP. Therefore, it is a possibility that severe damage of keratinocytes may induce generation of DSG antibodies. However, negative results of immunofluorescence and no relation between disease severity and titers of antibodies make the possibility unlikely. We should measure titers of DSG antibodies in LP patients and accumulate data to establish a valid conclusion.
“YFlag” – A Single‐base Extension Primer Based Method for Gender Determination
Authors: Allwood Julia S. , Harbison Sally Ann 
Published: October 2014

AbstractAssigning the gender of aDNAcontributor in forensic analysis is typically achieved using the amelogenin test. Occasionally, this test produces false‐positive results due to deletions occurring on the Y chromosome. Here, a four‐marker “YFlag” method is presented to infer gender using single‐base extension primers to flag the presence (or absence) of Y‐chromosomeDNAwithin a sample to supplement forensicSTRprofiling. This method offers built‐in redundancy, with a single marker being sufficient to detect the presence of maleDNA. In a study using 30 male and 30 female individuals, detection of maleDNAwas achieved withc. 0.03 ng of maleDNA. All four markers were present in male/female mixture samples despite the presence of excessive femaleDNA. In summary, theYFlag system offers a method that is reproducible, specific, and sensitive, making it suitable for forensic use to detect maleDNA.
Ethanol Supports Macrophage Recruitment and Reinforces Invasion and Migration of Lewis Lung Carcinoma
Authors: Yu Keke , Yang Jinlian , Wang Fei , Chen Li , Lu Yanmin , Luo Jia , Wang Siying 
Published: October 2014

BackgroundInflammation plays a critical role in cancer progression, and our data suggested that ethanol (EtOH) could promote the progression of breast cancer via increased monocyte chemo‐attractant protein‐1 (MCP‐1). Thus, we investigated the effects of EtOH on lung cancer growth and metastasis to explore whether immunosuppression had a role.MethodsC57BL/6 mice (n = 10) implanted with Lewis lung cancer (LLC) cells were used to model physiologically relevant EtOH intake on tumor growth and inflammation after macrophage polarization. Tumors were isolated and measured, and MCP‐1 expression was measured via immunohistochemistry and Western blot. Recruitment of macrophages using CD11b and F4/80 antibodies was detected with immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry. Changes in arginase I and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression were measured with immunofluorescent microscopy. EtOH's effect on in vitro tumor angiogenesis was evaluated in culture, and the tumor microvessel density was assessed with CD31 immunohistochemistry. Matrix metalloproteinase 9 and interleukin 10 expressions were measured by Western blot, ELISA, and immunohistochemistry. Finally, we treated a macrophage cell line RAW264.7 with EtOH and measured changes in arginase I and iNOS expression.ResultsWith EtOH exposure, macrophage density was positively correlated with MCP‐1 expression. Macrophages infiltrated the tumor site, becoming tumor‐associated macrophages that polarized to M2 phenotypes (ArgIhigh/iNOSlow) after EtOH treatment. Cancerous cells interacted with immune cells, especially M2 macrophages, and promoted tumor angiogenesis, progression, and invasiveness. RAW264.7 cells stimulated with EtOH expressed more arginase I and less iNOS than controls. These results agreed with the features of M2 phenotype macrophages (ArgIhigh/iNOSlow).ConclusionsData show that EtOH induced M2 phenotype macrophages, suggesting that progression and metastasis of LLC may be mediated by recruitment of M2 macrophages, especially under the influence of EtOH.
Predictors of Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
Authors: Goodson Carrie M. , Clark Brendan J. , Douglas Ivor S. 
Published: October 2014

BackgroundSeverity of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is associated with hospital mortality and length of stay. However, as there is no consensus regarding how to predict the development of severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome (SAWS), we sought to determine independent predictors of SAWS.MethodsWe conducted a systematic review and meta‐analysis of studies evaluating hospitalized patients with AWS versus SAWS—delirium tremens (DT) and/or seizures. Random‐effects meta‐analysis [PRISMA guidelines] was performed on common baseline variables and predictive effects for development of SAWS were calculated using RevMan v5.2. Funnel plots were constructed, and tests of heterogeneity were performed.ResultsOf 226 studies screened, 17 met criteria and 15 were included in the meta‐analysis. The primary findings were that an incident occurrence of DT or alcohol withdrawal seizures was significantly predicted by history of a similar event (OR 2.58 for DT vs. no‐DT, 95% CI 1.41, 4.7; OR 2.8 for seizure vs. no‐seizure, 95% CI 1.09, 7.19). Both a lower initial platelet count and serum potassium level were predictive of an incident occurrence of DT (platelet count mean difference [MD] −45.64/mm3 vs. no‐DT, 95% CI −75.95, −15.33; potassium level MD −0.26 mEq/l vs. no‐DT, 95% CI −0.45, −0.08), seizures, and SAWS. Higher initial alanine aminotransferase was seen in patients with SAWS (MD 20.97 U/l vs. no‐SAWS, 95% CI 0.89, 41.05). Higher initial serum gamma‐glutamyl transpeptidase was seen in patients with incident alcohol withdrawal seizures (MD 202.56 U/l vs. no‐seizure, 95% CI 3.62, 401.5). Significant heterogeneity was observed, and there was evidence of publication bias. Notably, neither gender nor comorbid liver disease was predictive.ConclusionsThe course of prior episodes of AWS is the most reliable predictor of subsequent episodes. Thrombocytopenia and hypokalemia also correlate with SAWS. We propose further research into drinking patterns, gender, and medical comorbidities.