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Academic entrepreneurship revisited – university scientists and venture creation
Authors: Lundqvist Mats A. , Williams Middleton Karen L. 
Published: August 2013

PurposeVenture creation is often seen as the form of academic entrepreneurship least compatible with the role of university scientists. The purpose of the article is to explore the changing role of university scientists towards venture creation, and understand the influence of university‐driven initiatives for venture creation.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on a qualitative study of two venture creation cases: one from a US university, and one building from two universities in Sweden. The cases and associated university environments were selected due to their venture creation activity. University venture creation data of the three universities complements the cases.FindingsVenture creation at universities can be more compatible with the traditional role of the university scientist. Centers and laboratories concerned with entrepreneurship and action‐based education are identified as key university resources allowing university scientists to engage in venture creation in more compatible ways, and not having to become the lead venture creator.Research limitations/implicationsThe study underlying the article is limited to three university environments (in two countries) where venture creation activity is relatively frequent.Originality/valueThe article shows that venture creation can be more compatible with the role of the university scientist due to more collective entrepreneurial activity at universities. Furthermore, university scientists, in synergizing between different entrepreneurial roles, are important for venture creation without taking the lead venture entrepreneur role. Involving students in venture creation together with scientists is proposed as one such important entrepreneurial role that has not previously been recognized.
The relative importance of working capital management and its components to SMEs' profitability
Authors: Tauringana Venancio , Adjapong Afrifa Godfred 
Published: August 2013

PurposeThis paper aims to report the results of an investigation of the relative importance of working capital management, measured by the cash conversion cycle (CCC), and its components (inventory, accounts receivable and accounts payable) to the profitability of SMEs.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs panel data regression analysis and a questionnaire survey on a sample of 133 Alternative Investment Market (AIM) listed SMEs. The panel data analysis utilises financial data for the period 2005 to 2009. The questionnaire survey results are based on 19 SMEs that responded.FindingsPanel data analysis results show that the management of accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) is important for SMEs profitability. However, AP management is relatively more important than AR management. Inventory (INV) and CCC management is not important for SMEs profitability. Questionnaire results suggest that management of CCC and all its components is perceived as important for SMEs profitability. In terms of relative importance, AR management is most important, followed by AP, INV and CCC respectively.Research limitations/implicationsThe sample is limited to AIM listed SMEs, and therefore the findings cannot be generalised to all companies.Practical implicationsOverall the results imply that the SMEs need to concentrate their limited resources on managing AR and AP in order to be more profitable.Originality/valueThe study is the first to investigate the relative importance of WCM and its components to SMEs profitability and use both regression analysis and questionnaire survey.
Social work: a profession in flux
Authors: Daniel Brigid 
Published: August 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the current context of social work as a profession and some of the major transition factors that are affecting social workers and social work organisations.Design/methodology/approachThe paper first explores what social work is, and how it has developed as a profession. It reflects on social work academia and the place of social work educators and researchers. It then goes on to consider three factors that are having a major influence on social work as a profession: concepts of risk; personalisation; and the multi‐disciplinary environment.FindingsThe implications of these factors and the kind of transitions they are driving are discussed in the context of some of the potential implications for professional learning.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper does not aim to provide a comprehensive overview of all the factors that are affecting contemporary social work – the aim is to offer contextual information to help the reader consider some of the forces at play in social work. The paper does not introduce new empirical evidence, rather it identifies gaps in the existing evidence about these key influential factors.Social implicationsThe implications of social work in transition for society are that efficacy may be impeded if the profession is too inward looking.Originality/valueThis paper draws from the empirical and conceptual work of others – here the aim is to provide a broad overall context within which to consider the more detailed implications set out in further papers in the present issue.
“We put teamwork back on the agenda again and again”
Authors: Rolfsen Monica 
Published: August 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on teamwork by focusing on the influence support systems, like industrial relations, have on teamwork. Teamwork is conceptualized through three dimensions; technical, governmental and normative.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a case study approach in a single company with available data over a long period of time.FindingsIndustrial relations conceptualized as local representation and partnership had a strong influence on all three dimensions of teamwork; technical, governmental and normative. Especially important is the union's involvement in the introduction of teamwork, shaping the arrangement and interpretation of it.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is based on a single company, describing a particular phenomenon. Also, the contextual environment with a strong partnership culture with cooperative industrial relations is important.Practical implicationsThe practical implications emphasize the importance for members of an organization to be involved in the introductory part of new organizational development such as teamwork in order to have an influence on arrangement of teams and the interpretation of teamwork.Social implicationsThe social implications are connected to industrial democracy and high level of involvement, which has consequences for the work environment in a company working along these lines.Originality/valueThere are not many available cases of semi‐autonomous teams working over a long period of time, and the paper gives an in‐depth understanding of the strength of this way of working. The main contribution is to highlight how local representation and labor‐management partnership has influenced the dimensions of teamwork.
Does the Racial/Ethnic Composition of Medicare Advantage Plans Reflect Their Areas of Operation?
Authors: Weinick Robin , Haviland Amelia , Hambarsoomian Katrin , Elliott Marc N. 
Published: August 2013

ObjectiveTo assess the extent to which the racial/ethnic composition of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans reflects the composition of their areas of operation, given the potential incentives created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Quality Bonus Payments for such plans to avoid enrolling racial/ethnic minority beneficiaries.Data Sources/Study Setting2009 Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (MCAHPS) survey and administrative data from the Medicare Enrollment Database.Data Collection/Extraction MethodsWe defined each plan's area of operation as all counties in which it had MA enrollees, and we created a matrix of race/ethnicity by plan by county of residence to assess the racial/ethnic distribution of each plan's enrollees in comparison with the racial/ethnic composition of MA beneficiaries in its operational area.Principal FindingsThere is little evidence that health plans are selectively underenrolling blacks, Latinos, or Asians to a substantial degree. A small but potentially important subset of plans disproportionately serves minority beneficiaries.ConclusionsThese findings provide a baseline profile that will enable crucial ongoing monitoring to assess how the implementation of Quality Bonus Payments may affect MA plan coverage of minority populations.
Complications of Native Arteriovenous Fistula: The Role of Color Doppler Ultrasonography
Authors: Visciano Bianca , Riccio Eleonora , De Falco Vincenzo , Musumeci Antonino , Capuano Ivana , Memoli Andrea , Di Nuzzi Antonella , Pisani Antonio 
Published: August 2013

AbstractColor Doppler ultrasonography (CDUS) is a readily available, inexpensive and noninvasive method, which has improved the survival of native arteriovenous fistula (AVF) by increasing the early diagnosis of complications. Although angiography has been currently considered as the gold standard for imaging of vascular access abnormalities, CDUS may be superior in some aspects, since it provides information both on the morphology and on the function of vascular access and it is the only tool directly available to the nephrologist. In addition, CDUS offers the advantage of a non‐invasive bedside procedure with lower costs and with no need for radiocontrast.
Planning, Law, and Sexuality: Hiding Immorality in Plain View
Authors: PRIOR JASON , CROFTS PENNY , HUBBARD PHIL 
Published: August 2013

AbstractEmerging research in sexuality and space outlines the diverse forms of spatial governmentality used to discipline non‐normative sexual behaviours, exploring how exclusion, concealment, and repression combines to ensure that ‘immoral’ sexualities are out of the sight of the ‘moral majority’. In this paper, we explore this contention in relation to planning for sex service premises (brothels) in New South Wales, Australia. Though such sex service premises are now legal, our analysis nonetheless considers the way that these premises have been subject to forms of planning constraint that reflect planners' assumptions about the appropriate manifestation of sex premises within the urban landscape. By exposing the assumptions written into planning law that sex premises are legal but potentially disorderly, we demonstrate the evidential power of planning to reinforce dominant moral geographies through instruments which, at first glance, appear to be focused on objective questions of amenity and the ‘best use of land’. This paper hence explores the ways in which planners have translated assumptions of disorder into categories of visibility and distance, meaning that brothels have become hidden in plain view so as not to disturb the integrity of residential ‘family’ spaces.
Serum total bilirubin levels and prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in a Chinese population (中国人群血清总胆红素水平与糖尿病视网膜病变相关性的研究)
Authors: Najam Syeda Sadia , Sun Jichao , Zhang Jie , Xu Min , Lu Jieli , Sun Kan , Li Mian , Wang Tiange , Bi Yufang , Ning Guang 
Published: August 2013

AbstractBackgroundPatients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are at a high risk of developing microvascular complications, such as diabetic retinopathy (DR). Previous studies have shown that low serum bilirubin concentrations in T2D patients may increase the risk of diabetic complications. Thus, the aim of the present was to investigate the association between the prevalence of DR and serum concentrations of total bilirubin in a Chinese population.MethodsThe present study was a population‐based cross‐sectional study on 1761 T2D patients aged ≥40 years from the Jiading district of Shanghai, China. Fundus photographs were taken to confirm the presence and severity of DR. Subjects were assigned to quartiles based on serum total bilirubin concentrations (Quartile (Q) 1 <0.60 mg/dL; Q2 0.60–0.76 mg/dL; Q3 0.77–0.99 mg/dL; Q4 >0.99 mg/dL). Logistic regression models were used to explore the association between bilirubin concentrations and the prevalence of DR.ResultsThe prevalence of DR in the entire study population was 9.6%. The prevalence of DR was significantly lower in Q4 compared with the other three quartiles (Ptrend = 0.004). After adjustment for multiple confounding factors, T2D patients in Q4 (i.e. serum bilirubin >0.99 mg/dL) were less likely (odds ratio 0.55; 95% confidence interval 0.33–0.91) to suffer from DR than patients in Q1 (i.e. serum bilirubin <0.60 mg/dL).ConclusionSerum bilirubin concentrations were inversely associated with DR in an elderly Chinese population, independent of traditional risk factors for microvascular complications.
Perioral dermatitis from high fluoride dentifrice: a case report and review of literature
Authors: Peters P , Drummond C 
Published: August 2013

AbstractPerioral dermatitis is a papulopustular eruption, commonly related to the inappropriate application of topical corticosteroids with occasional reports of inhaled corticosteroids and decreased personal hygiene. We present a case of a 45‐year‐old female with a one‐year history of perioral dermatitis related to the use of highly fluoridated toothpaste commenced to control dental caries.
Effect of non‐surgical periodontal treatment on HbA1c: a meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials
Authors: Liew AKC , Punnanithinont N , Lee Y‐C , Yang J 
Published: August 2013

AbstractBackgroundA meta‐analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) was conducted to evaluate whether non‐surgical periodontal treatment can reduce the HbA1c% level in type 2 diabetic patients.Recent accumulation of RCTs necessitates updating of the findings of previous reviews.MethodsA search of the literature on English publications was conducted in Cochrane CENTRAL, Medline and EMBASE (until 31 March 2012). An RCT was selected if the study population was type 2 diabetic patients (≥16 years old) diagnosed with periodontitis, and compared HbA1c% change with or without non‐surgical periodontal treatment for at least three months of the study duration. Weighted mean differences for pooled data and antibiotic use strata were calculated. Heterogeneity and publication bias were explored.ResultsA total of 358 articles were identified but only six were suitable. Compared to the control group, the pooled analysis (n = 422) showed −0.41% (95% CI: −0.73% to −0.09%, p = 0.013) absolute difference in HbA1c% with treatment. Studies without adjunctive antibiotic had HbA1c% change of −0.64% (95% CI: −1.06% to −0.23%, p = 0.002), but we could not conclude on the effect of adjunctive antibiotic use (p = 0.734). Publication bias was significant with Egger's test (p = 0.014) but not with Begg's test (p = 0.06).ConclusionsThe meta‐analysis suggested that non‐surgical periodontal treatment was associated with a reduction in HbA1c%.
Patent Angiostrongylus mackerrasae infection in a black flying fox (Pteropus alecto)
Authors: Mackie JT , Lacasse C , Spratt DM 
Published: August 2013

BackgroundA wild adult male black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) was presented unable to fly or hang strongly.ResultsNecropsy and histological examination revealed a severe pneumonia, with numerous Angiostrongylus mackerrasae in the pulmonary artery. The pulmonary parenchyma contained numerous eggs and rare larvae.ConclusionThis is the first report of patent Angiostrongylus infection in an accidental (i.e. non‐Rattus) host species. It is also the first report of A. mackerrasae infection in an accidental host (including flying foxes). Worms recovered from cases of suspected angiostrongyliasis should be examined in morphological detail to ensure correct identification.
Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research
Authors: Jackson Gregory , Kuruvilla Sarosh , Frege Carola 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThe overall complexity of employment relations today raises new challenges for scholars to extend their work across the boundaries of particular geographies, organizations, theoretical perspectives and disciplines. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of theBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, this article introduces key aspects of global challenges facing employees and research on employment relations. Drawing on the articles of this anniversary issue, we identify several theoretical concepts drawn from the wider social sciences that have proven useful in understanding global challenges around global value chains, transnational and multi‐level institutional frameworks, and the role of global finance. We also identify and discuss the emergence of new actors that have a growing salience for global employment research and the establishment of more global forms of worker representation. By further developing theoretical concepts around these global challenges, we argue that employment relations research will increase its dialogue with and distinctive contribution to wider debates in the social sciences.
Investigating changes in use of services by high‐need families following the Helping Families Programme, an innovative parenting intervention for children with severe and persistent conduct problems
Authors: Stevens Madeleine , Harris Lucy , Ellis Megan , Day Crispin , Beecham Jennifer 
Published: August 2013

BackgroundInterventions aimed at high‐need families have difficulty demonstrating short‐term impact on child behaviour. Measuring impact on use of services could provide short‐term indication of longer term benefits.MethodDuring a feasibility pilot study we collected data on service use and attitudes to services from a small sample of parents from high‐need families, before and after receiving the Helping Families Programme.ResultsRespondents provided a range of opinions on a variety of social and community services received.ConclusionsThe study demonstrates the potential of short‐term changes in enhanced service use data for building hypotheses of longer term change.
Blood–neural barrier: Overview and latest progress
Authors: Sano Yasuteru , Kanda Takashi 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThe central and peripheral nervous systems are tightly sealed from the blood by the blood–brain barrier, the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier, the blood–spinal cord barrier and the blood–nerve barrier (BNB). These neural barriers inhibit free paracellular diffusion of water soluble molecules through complex tight junctions that interconnect endothelial cells and choroid plexus epithelial cells. These barriers also play a role in the influx transport of essential molecules and the efflux transport of xenobiotics. The differences and commonalities between these barrier systems have been gradually elucidated in recent years. It is now clear that disruption of the blood–neural barrier plays a key role in a number of diseases affecting the central and peripheral nervous systems. In the present review, we describe the current knowledge regarding the cellular and molecular basis of the functional blood–neural tissue barrier, while addressing the BNB in particular detail.
Composite efficacy parameters and predictors of hypoglycaemia in basal‐plus insulin therapy—a combined analysis of 713 type 2 diabetic patients
Authors: Seufert J. , Brath H. , Pscherer S. , Borck A. , Bramlage P. , Siegmund T. 
Published: August 2013

AimsWe aimed to identify predictors of hypoglycaemia in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes treated with a single daily bolus of insulin glulisine on top of insulin glargine and oral antidiabetic drugs (basal‐plus regimen).MethodsWe retrospectively analysed four large basal‐plus trials including 713 patients (47% female) with type 2 diabetes, mean age of 59.9 ± 9.5 years and diabetes duration of 11 ± 7.0 years. Predictors for symptomatic, severe and nocturnal hypoglycaemia were identified by multivariate logistic regression analyses, calculation of odds ratios (ORs) and Wald 95% confidence intervals (CIs).ResultsMean numbers of hypoglycaemic events per year were 4.64 ± 11.4 (symptomatic < 60 mg/dl), 0.59 ± 2.28 (nocturnal) and 0.03 ± 0.22 (severe). A total of 44.5% of patients reached the composite endpoint of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) <7.0% plus no severe hypoglycaemia, and 26.7% reached the composite of HbA1c <7.0% plus no symptomatic hypoglycaemia. Predictors of nocturnal and symptomatic hypoglycaemia were female gender (OR 1.82; 95% CI 1.07–3.11 and OR 1.89; 95% CI 1.31–2.78), diabetes duration >10 versus <5 years (OR 2.61; 95% CI 1.03–6.59 and OR 2.01; 95% CI 1.15–3.51) and higher basal insulin dose (per unit of increase) (OR 1.01; 95% CI 1.00–1.03 and OR 1.01; 95% CI 1.00–1.02). Conversely, a higher body mass index (BMI) (27–30 vs. <27 kg/m2 and >30 vs. <27 kg/m2) conferred a reduced risk of symptomatic hypoglycaemia with an OR of 0.53 (95% CI 0.31–0.90) and an OR of 0.61 (95% CI 0.39–0.97).ConclusionsFemale gender, a long diabetes duration and higher basal insulin dose were predictors of hypoglycaemia, while protection was provided by BMI > 30. These results may help to successfully establish basal‐plus insulin regimen in individual patients on their transition from basal‐only to basal‐bolus treatment.
Economic Geographies of Brands and Branding
Authors: Pike Andy 
Published: August 2013

AbstractBrands and branding are an underinvestigated area in economic geography. Despite their pervasive growth as sources and carriers of meaning and value, the economic geographic dimensions of brands and branding lack conceptual clarity and remain undertheorized. This article introduces the idea of geographical associations to provide stronger conceptual and theoretical foundations to explain the importance and role of brands and branding in economic geographies. It then builds on and critically examines the worth of this understanding in an empirical exploration of the Burberry brand and its branding in the luxury fashion business. The argument is that conceiving of the geographical associations constituting the economic geographies of brands and branding explains their role as means of cohering and stabilizing meaning and value in spatial circuits. Concerted attention to brands and branding can broaden the reach of economic geography in its intersections between cultural and political economy.