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The Arabidopsis Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Ion Channels AtCNGC2 and AtCNGC4 Work in the Same Signaling Pathway to Regulate Pathogen Defense and Floral Transition
Authors: Chin Kimberley , DeFalco Thomas A. , Moeder Wolfgang , Yoshioka Keiko 
Published: September 2013

Abstract
Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels (CNGCs) form a large family consisting of 20 members and have been implicated in Ca2+ signaling related to various physiological processes, such as pathogen defense, development, and thermotolerance. The null mutant of AtCNGC2, defense, no death (dnd1), exhibits autoimmune phenotypes, while it is impaired in mounting the hypersensitive response, which is a hallmark of effector-triggered (i.e. RESISTANCE-gene mediated) resistance. It has been suggested that AtCNGC2 is involved in defense responses and likely other aspects of physiology through its role as a Ca2+-conducting channel. However, the downstream signaling components and its relation with AtCNGC4, which is the closest paralog of AtCNGC2, remain elusive. Despite the fact that cngc4 mutants display almost identical phenotypes to those seen in cngc2 mutants, not much is known about their relationship. Here, we report the identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis mutant repressor of defense no death1 (rdd1), obtained from a suppressor screen of a transfer DNA insertion knockout mutant of AtCNGC2 in order to identify downstream components of dnd1-mediated signal transduction. rdd1 suppressed the majority of dnd1-mediated phenotypes except Ca2+ hypersensitivity. In addition, rdd1 also suppressed the dnd1-mediated late-flowering phenotype that was discovered in this study. Our genetic analysis conducted to elucidate the relationship between AtCNGC2 and AtCNGC4 indicates that RDD1 is also involved in AtCNGC4-mediated signal transduction. Lastly, bimolecular fluorescence complementation analysis suggests that AtCNGC2 and AtCNGC4 are likely part of the same channel complex.
Charitable donations: empirical evidence from Brunei
Authors: Lwin Michael , Phau Ian , Lim Aaron 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to explore the demographic and psychographic characteristics of Bruneians in relation to charitable donation behaviour.

Design/methodology/approach
– Data were collected via an intercept approach at five major intersections of the central business district in the city of Brunei. Data were analysed using SPSS, with factor analysis being conducted before applying a series of t-tests and ANOVAs.

Findings
– Overall there is no relationship between age, income and gender, and donating behaviour. Results show that perceived generosity does not play an important role in Brunei compared to previous studies. The cause of this phenomenon could be due to the influence of the Bruneian culture. That is, the government takes a large responsibility for charitable events in Brunei and for this reason charitable donations from citizens are limited. Analysis also showed the importance of religion in predicting donation behaviour.

Research limitations/implications
– Further research in this paper should attempt to make more cross-cultural comparisons of donor characteristics. This would provide a more holistic perspective on donor behaviour and thus assist managerial decisions in the marketing of charities. The effects of religiosity on donation behaviour should be further analysed to ascertain the variances of donation behaviour across cultures with high dominance of religion.

Originality/value
– The principal contribution of this paper is that it provides insights into the nuances and characteristics of Bruneians in relation to attitudes and behaviour towards charitable donations.
How much is strategic fit important?
Authors: Agnihotri Arpita 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of fit between the environment of a firm, its resources and strategies.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper is based on secondary resources.

Findings
– Firms can carve opportunities out of an essentially unfavorable environment, either by nurturing resources or implementing innovative business models, thus negating the “fit” effect.

Originality/value
– This paper adds to the fit vs stretch literature.
The barriers to the adoption of environmental management practices in the hotel industry: a study of Malaysian hotels
Authors: Shairullizan KamalulAriffin Noor , Nabiha Abdul Khalid Siti , Abdul Wahid Nabsiah 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The objective of this study is to investigate if the five barriers, namely, Regulation/Government, Customer Demand, Level of Competition, Greenness at the Organizational Level, and Attitude at the Organizational Level towards Change, greatly impact the costs and potential benefits of environmental management practices (EMPs).

Design/methodology/approach
– The target population of this research was 208 hotels, which are four- and five-star hotels in Malaysia. Due to small population, questionnaires were sent by mail to all the targeted four- and five-star hotels in Malaysia.

Findings
– Only Greenness at the Organizational Level was found to have partially supported EMPs. Even though the results show that there is significant impact overall between barriers and EMPs in 40 four- and five-star hotels in Malaysia. In other words, the drivers do influence hotels' application of EMPs but weakly.

Research limitations/implications
– The limitation that is worth mentioning is regarding the drivers of EMPs chosen in this research. While the result indicated that drivers of EMPs significantly influenced hotels' usage of EMPs, the range of R2 of the five drivers and the two dimensions of EMPs was relatively very low.

Originality/value
– A definitive conceptual framework of EMPs is essential, which could only be achieved through consensus and close cooperation amongst scholars and practitioners. For that reason, EMPs should not be seen as a mere collection of management systems but more towards management practices that are used within and for hotels' strategic purpose.
Sustaining a quality management system: process, issues and challenges
Authors: Sanuri Mohd Mokhtar Sany , Adiana Hiau Abdullah Nur , Kardi Nordin , Idzwan Yacob Mohd 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to highlight the planning and implementation processes of a higher education institution ISO 9000 quality management system.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper discusses the issues and challenges faced by the institution in the process of maintaining and going beyond the minimum requirements of a quality management system.

Findings
– The paper finds that senior leaders of an organization play an important role in driving the organization to quality improvement and organizational excellence.

Practical implications
– The paper suggests practical information for management of a higher education institution to maintain and sustain a quality management system.

Originality/value
– Maintaining a quality management system remains critical for an organization that has obtained certification. It has been observed that maintaining a quality management system is a far more daunting task than obtaining one.
Electro-thermal compliant mechanisms design by an evolutionary topology optimization method
Authors: Ansola Rubén , Veguería Estrella , Canales Javier , Alonso Cristina 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to show an evolutionary topology optimization procedure for the design of compliant electro-thermal mechanisms.

Design/methodology/approach
– The adopted methodology is based in the evolutionary structural optimization (ESO) method. This approach has been successfully applied by this group for compliant mechanisms optimization under directly applied input loads and simple thermal loads. This work proposes an extension of this procedure, based on an additive version of the method, to solve the more complicated case of electro-thermal actuators optimum design, based on Joule's resistive heating.

Findings
– Examples solved for the design of plane compliant mechanisms are presented to check the validity of this technique. The designs obtained are compared favorably with results obtained by other authors to illustrate and validate the method, showing the viability of this technique for the optimization of compliant mechanisms under electro-thermal actuation.

Research limitations/implications
– This investigation is based on and additive version of the evolutionary method. Since this approach does not have the capability to remove material it could be combined with the classic element rejection evolutionary method to overcome these deficiencies, developing an improved bi-directional algorithm, which should be analyzed and applied for these types of designs in future works.

Practical implications
– Electro-thermal actuators have widespread use in MicroElectroMechanical Systems applications. Since these elements cannot be manufactured using typical assembly processes compliant mechanisms optimization play a crucial role for their successful design. The proposed methodology could help engineers to rapidly conceive complex and efficient actuators.

Social implications
– The topology optimization procedure developed in this paper enables systematic design of these devices, which can result in a save of manufacturing time and cost.

Originality/value
– Most applications of the ESO method have considered maximum stiffness structure design, and even if it has been successfully applied to some other optimum material distribution problems, electro-thermal actuators design has not been considered yet. This paper shows that this methodology could be useful also in the design of electro-thermal compliant mechanisms, and provides engineers with a very simple and practical alternative design tool.
Achieving high levels of performance as a training instructor by modelling motor sport driving instructors
Authors: Stockdale Sue 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore what training professionals can learn from motor sport driving instructors by modelling how they provide instruction to novices in high-performance vehicles during experience days at Silverstone Race Circuit, England.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) modelling techniques, three instructors were interviewed about how they provide effective instruction. The results highlight their cognitive and behavioural patterns that enable them to achieve high levels of performance in a high-risk environment.

Findings
– The results highlighted how instructors are highly effective in being able to put a novice driver at ease prior to driving; and in communicating effectively with the novice driver in-car whilst on the circuit, so that they achieve more than they imagined was possible.

Research limitations/implications
– Whilst the researcher had the opportunity to experience being driven around a race circuit with one of the instructors to get a sense of the environment being described, there was not the chance to observe the instructor “in action” with novice drivers at the wheel.

Practical implications
– The key implication is the importance of the pre-event stage of a training course that provides the opportunity for an instructor to gauge the learners and build trust.

Originality/value
– This paper provides originality in how it explores the cognitive and behavioural aspects of delivering instruction in an environment that can be translated into the workplace.
Engaging with consumers using social media: a case study of music festivals
Authors: Hudson Simon , Hudson Rupert 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– Social media has fundamentally changed the consumer decision process, and in the last decade a more nuanced view of how consumers engage with brands has emerged. Instead of the traditional purchase funnel, consumers research products and services during an extended evaluation stage, and after purchase, they often enter into an open-ended relationship with the brand, sharing their experience with it using social media. This paper describes the new consumer decision journey, and then adds to the body of research on events and festivals management by applying this new model to events and festivals.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study uses a case study methodology with a multi-method approach to analyze the use of social media at three major music festivals. Case studies offer depth and comprehensiveness for understanding a specific phenomenon, enabling inductive and rich description, and are specifically welcome in new situations where little is known about the phenomenon.

Findings
– In general, the music festivals profiled are proactive in their use of social media, engaging with consumers throughout the consumer decision journey. In particular, social media is making the “evaluate” and “advocate” stages of the decision journey more relevant for festival marketers.

Originality/value
– This paper provides an illuminating view of the use of social media in an event and festival context. It supports the theory previously developed in this area, and is further evidence of the powerful impact that new technology can have on consumer behavior. The results have important implications for both researchers and practitioners interested in the marketing of festivals and events.
Event studies: finding fool's gold at the rainbow's end?
Authors: Baum Tom , Lockstone-Binney Leonie , Robertson Martin 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The aim of this opinion piece is to seek to cast a critical eye over the event studies field to chart its progress as an emerging area of study, relative to its close relations tourism, hospitality and leisure.

Design/methodology/approach
– Viewpoint approach.

Findings
– The paper highlights various challenges that event educators and researchers face in advancing event studies to discipline status.

Originality/value
– It is timely that, as the quantum of event research and the number of event management education programmes surge, those involved in the field engage in greater critical introspection. This opinion piece attempts to provide such a reflective insight, which has been largely absent from the event studies literature to date.
When a music festival goes veggie
Authors: D. Andersson Tommy , Jutbring Henrik , Lundberg Erik 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this study is first to describe and discuss an innovative strategy, pursued by a music festival, to reduce the environmental impact by allowing only vegetarian food in the festival area. A second aim is to discuss the effects of the vegetarian strategy for the festival in terms of branding and communication impacts. A third aim is to assess the effect on the ecological footprint of the festival from the vegetarian food strategy.

Design/methodology/approach
– Festival visitors’ food consumption was surveyed in 2010 (719 responses) and again in 2012 when only vegetarian food was served on festival premises (663 responses). The EPA event calculator, developed in Australia, was used to calculate the ecological footprint of the festival. The implementation and the impacts were studied from the festival organisers’ perspective through two (one hour long) interviews with one of the festival managers.

Findings
– For the festival brand, the vegetarian strategy proved to be extremely successful in terms of media attention and an enhanced “green” image of the festival. An analysis of the environmental impact of the vegetarian strategy indicates a remarkable drop of 40 per cent in the size of the ecological footprint.

Practical implications
– Based on the results of this study, a vegetarian strategy can be recommended as an innovation for festivals that have core values and a brand image grounded both in sustainability and the reduction of environmental impacts and that are truly concerned about the environment.

Originality/value
– Festival Footprint Analysis.
A futurist's thoughts on consumer trends shaping future festivals and events
Authors: Yeoman Ian 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– In order to understand the future of organised events and festivals it is necessary to understand the patterns of change associated with their consumption. This viewpoint paper identifies ten significant consumer trends derived from global omnibus data as key social forces likely to affect the behaviours and actions of future festival and event goers.

Design/methodology/approach
– The trends data has been sourced from http://nvision.futurefoundation.net/, an online consumer omnibus survey of households worldwide.

Findings
– The author identifies ten trends of significant importance which represent the present and future behaviour's of festival and event goers.

Originality/value
– Derived from this viewpoint, an enhanced understanding of what the future could be, and the forces influencing it, provides festival and event organisers with the potential to shape that future. This paper identifies trends of significance in order to inform future decision making.
Risk segmentation in Chilean social health insurance
Authors: Hidalgo Hector , Chipulu Maxwell , Ojiako Udechukwu 
Published: September 2013

Purpose– The objective of this study is to identify how risk and social variables are likely to be impacted by an increase in private sector participation in health insurance provision. The study focuses on the Chilean health insurance industry, traditionally dominated by the public sector.Design/methodology/approach– Predictive risk modelling is conducted using a database containing over 250,000 health insurance policy records provided by the Superintendence of Health of Chile.Findings– Although perceived with suspicion in some circles, risk segmentation serves as a rational approach to risk management from a resource perspective. The variables that have considerable impact on insurance claims include the number of dependents, gender, wages and the duration a claimant has been a customer.Practical implications– As shown in the case study, to ensure that social benefits are realised, increased private sector participation in health insurance must be augmented by regulatory oversight and vigilance.Originality/value– As it is clear that a “community-rated” health insurance provision philosophy impacts on insurance firm's ability to charge “market” prices for insurance provision, the authors explore whether risk segmentation is a feasible means of predicting insurance claim behaviour in Chile's private health insurance industry.
Nurses' understandings of suitable footwear for older people
Authors: Borland Andrea , Hollins Martin Caroline , Locke John 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into nurses' understandings of what constitutes suitable footwear for older people in care homes.

Design/methodology/approach
– An exploratory descriptive qualitative survey was carried out of 20 registered nurses employed in six Scottish care homes for older people. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire that included five open-ended questions. Content analysis was used to theme footwear perceptions.

Findings
– Participants had several views about what encompasses safe footwear; some were erroneous. The link between inappropriate footwear and falls was recognised by 80 per cent of respondents, but some were unclear about the features that effect or inhibit safety. No UK or international standardised guidelines were identified that advise nurses about appropriate footwear for older people.

Practical implications
– It is unknown whether respondents represent the nurse population because findings are restricted by a small sample size. Nonetheless, the group showed variable understanding of what constitutes safe footwear for older people and links with fall prevention. Improved nurse-education about what comprises safe footwear and the links with falls prevention in older people is required. Structured guidelines to direct nurse educators about what to teach student nurses about appropriate footwear for older people may work towards reducing falls.

Originality/value
– No guidelines to direct nurses about appropriate footwear for older people in care homes have been written. Key points have been developed.
The contribution of social area analysis
Authors: Reed Richard 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to draw the disciplines of demography and housing research closer together and looks to social indicators for an insight into the level of house prices.

Design/methodology/approach
– A two-stage process was used to examine a global capital city. The first stage used social area analysis to examine household characteristics for at the suburb level, followed by stage two which examined the relationship between these demographic valuables and the level of house prices.

Findings
– While acknowledging the overall level of house values is also influenced by many other factors including economic and political variables, considerable differences in housing values between different suburbs can reliably be explained by demographic variables.

Originality/value
– These findings provide a new insight into the relationship between demographic variables and house prices at the neighbourhood level.
A panel error correction approach to explore spatial correlation patterns of the dominant housing market in Australian capital cities
Authors: Ma Le , Liu Chunlu 
Published: September 2013

Purpose
– A panel error correction model has been developed to investigate the spatial correlation patterns among house prices. This paper aims to identify a dominant housing market in the ripple down process.

Design/methodology/approach
– Seemingly unrelated regression estimators are adapted to deal with the contemporary correlations and heterogeneity across cities. Impulse response functions are subsequently implemented to simulate the spatial correlation patterns. The newly developed approach is then applied to the Australian capital city house price indices.

Findings
– The results suggest that Melbourne should be recognised as the dominant housing market. Four levels were classified within the Australian house price interconnections, namely: Melbourne; Adelaide, Canberra, Perth and Sydney; Brisbane and Hobart; and Darwin.

Originality/value
– This research develops a panel regression framework in addressing the spatial correlation patterns of house prices across cities. The ripple-down process of house price dynamics across cities was explored by capturing both the contemporary correlations and heterogeneity, and by identifying the dominant housing market.