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Operation and control of BESS using frequency‐linked pricing in real‐time market with high wind penetration
Authors: Chanana Saurabh , Kumar Ashwani 
Published: November 2011

PurposeRecently, many countries have been pushing for a higher share of renewable energy sources, especially wind, in their generation mix. However, the intermittent and uncertain nature of wind power imposes a limit on the extent it can replace the conventional generation resources. In a high wind penetration scenario, the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) offers a solution to the grid operation problems. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the merits of price‐based operation of BESS in a real‐time market with high wind penetration using frequency‐linked pricing.Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose a real‐time market in which real‐time prices are based on the grid frequency. A model for real‐time price‐based operation of a conventional generator and a BESS is presented. Simulations for different wind penetration scenarios are carried out on an isolated area test system. Wind speed sequence is generated using composite wind speed model. A simplified model of wind speed to power conversion is adopted to observe the impact of increase in wind power generation on the grid frequency and the real‐time prices.FindingsThe result of simulations show that BESS not only helps in dealing with uncertainty in wind power forecasts, but also reduces the fluctuations in frequency due to wind power's intermittency. Price‐based operation of BESS results in higher operating revenues by discharging it at peak prices and reduces operating costs by charging it at minimum prices.Social implicationsThe study helps in achieving the societal goal of replacing fossil fuel generation by environment friendly generation and reducing green house gas emissions.Originality/valueThe novelty of this paper lies in the use of frequency‐linked pricing in real‐time market and proposing a control algorithm for operating BESS using these price signals.
Employees' perspective of organizational service quality orientation
Authors: Ishaq Bhatti M. , Zafarullah M. , Awan Hayat M. , Bukhari Khuram S. 
Published: November 2011

PurposeInternal organizational orientation of service quality and its impact on service delivery performance of the employees have received considerable attention from financial management literature. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue by conducting empirical research focusing on the Pakistani Islamic banking industry. It conceptualizes and measures key determinants of internal organizational orientation of service quality from the employees' perspective.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected from a sample of 150 employees of pure Islamic banks and conventional banks with IBBs (Islamic Banking Branches or windows) across the entire country. The paper uses principal component factor analysis and regression methods.FindingsStatistical results demonstrate that the employee perceptions of organizational service quality orientation mainly depends upon four main predictors: employees' perception about training and development; development and positioning of Islamic banking products/service concept; customer service orientation; and employees' service quality performance. Principal component factor analysis results indicate four predictive internal organizational service quality orientation factors (ISQF) where 16 per cent of the variation is being explained by employee perception of organizational orientation towards employees' training and development (ISQF1), 13 per cent variation explained employee perception of organizational orientation towards development and positioning of Islamic banking products/service concept (ISQF2), 11 per cent variation explained by employee perception of organizational service quality orientation towards customer service orientation (ISQF3), and 10 per cent variation explained employee perception of organizational service quality orientation towards employees' service quality performance (ISQF4).Originality/valueManagement of Islamic Banks in Pakistan need to be mindful about the fact that ISQFs identified by this study have the potential to indirectly influence customer perceptions through effective employees' recruitment and selection criteria, complemented by training to improve service oriented skills and knowledge development about Sh´ria principles related with the products/services offered by Islamic banks in Pakistan.
Determinants of customer satisfaction in Islamic banking: evidence from Iran
Authors: Estiri Mehrdad , Hosseini Farshid , Yazdani Hamidreza , Javidan Nejad Hooman 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to clarify and extend the conceptualization and measurement of customer satisfaction in the Islamic banking sector in Iran.Design/methodology/approachThe authors perform a review of the set of attributes which are capable of being incorporated in the measure of customer satisfaction for Islamic banks. Later, the possibility is posed of grouping these attributes into dimensions of quality, proceeding to value various alternative structures by means of confirmatory factor analysis methodology and testing their reliability and validity.FindingsThe findings from this study reveal that service quality in Iranian banking adopting the commercial format of Islamic services has a two‐factor structure: Value proposition quality and Service delivery quality.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the literature on Islamic Banking in a Middle Eastern economy.
Organizational climate and turnover in Islamic banking in the UAE
Authors: Suliman Abubakr M. , Al Obaidli Hanan 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the nature, strength and significance of the links between organizational climate and employee turnover.Design/methodology/approachUsing a self‐administered questionnaire, 70 employees from an Islamic bank were surveyed in order to examine the five main hypotheses of the study.FindingsThe study results revealed that employees' perceptions of corporate climate plays a significant role in the rate of staff turnover. Organizational justice, as a component of corporate climate, found to be the most important factor in explaining the variance in employee turnover.Practical implicationsThe theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed in the paper, together with some recommendations for managing corporate climate and turnover in today's diverse work teams and environments.Originality/valueThe paper examines the links between organizational climate and employee turnover for the first time, to the authors' knowledge, in the UAE and the Arabic context.
The assessment of e‐banking readiness in Jordan
Authors: Salhieh Loay , Abu‐Doleh Jamal , Hijazi Nada 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose and validate a framework that can be used for assessing the level of banks' readiness for providing e‐banking services in Jordan.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire‐based data‐gathering technique, descriptive, and analytical analyses are used.FindingsThis study has used three constructs to propose a framework that can assess e‐banking readiness: perceptions of bankers, perceptions of customers, and IT infrastructure in banks. However, there is evidence in this paper to support that e‐banking has achieved a degree of strategic and operational importance among bank managers. Also, customers are positive about embracing new banking channels. But it seems that technological aspects and IT employees' skills are paramount concerns.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper proposes a comprehensive framework to gauge banks' readiness to offer e‐banking services. Also, it suggests that future work could entail investigating the readiness from financial aspects, and the effect of marketing campaigns on customer's acceptance of using e‐banking services.Practical implicationsThe findings presented in this paper can be used by banks to evaluate their readiness to provide e‐banking services to their customers. Also, banks can create a readiness profile, in order to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses of their e‐banking services.Originality/valueThis paper adds to readiness studies by providing a framework to assess e‐banking services. It is of interest to researchers to add to this framework and of interest to banks to evaluate services provided to customers.
An empirical study on banks' clients' sensitivity towards the adoption of Arabic terminology amongst Islamic banks
Authors: Afif Muhamat Amirul , Nizam Jaafar Mohamad , binti Ali Azizan Norfaridah 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to measure the sensitivity of the banks' customers towards the adoption of Arabic terminology in the Islamic banking industry.Design/methodology/approachA sample of 100 respondents who were mainly banks' clients was surveyed through personally administered questionnaire and only 60 questionnaires are usable for the study. The remaining 40 questionnaires were rejected due to incomplete answers and error. The survey executed based on convenience sampling method. The study was conducted at Shah Alam for nearly two and a half months and the city chosen due to the exclusivity of the city's demographic; significant availability of white collar employees as its residents which illustrate a high income population, high literacy and high academic qualification.FindingsThe majority of the respondents agree that Arabic terminology gives competitive edge to the Islamic banks but at the same time they indicate that the catchy Arabic name will give them difficulty in gaining fast information about and comprehension of the product. The trend depicted by the non‐Muslims respondents when answering the questionnaire indicates that, in many cases, they are at the negative side on every statement given. Thus, it signifies a need from the Islamic banking side to manage this issue, since the non‐Muslims are majority clients of the industry in Malaysia.Research limitations/implicationsThe response rate of 60 per cent for this study is considered good. However, the availability of more respondents would give higher rate of representation.Practical implicationsThis paper provides insights for the interested parties to know the banks' clients' needs from the Islamic banking sector and will help to increase the number.Originality/valueThis paper measures the responses of banks' customers towards the adoption of Arabic terminology, in a multi‐racial society in which limited study has been done.
Factors affecting Chinese enterprises' hedging decision making
Authors: Zheng Shi , Xu Pei , Wang Zhigang 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to find factors that explain why some enterprises hedge but others do not. The authors' analysis relies on Heckman model (a probit and Tobit model) with the data obtained from questionnaires collected from Chinese enterprises. Given the fact that only a small portion of Chinese agribusinesses hedge, this paper provides some initial academic evidence to help the agricultural sector devise useful programs to assist participations of hedging.Design/methodology/approachA Heckman selection model was developed to analyze questionnaire information obtained using face‐to‐face interviews with 218 Chinese agribusinesses. This paper presents summary statistics, Heckman estimation results, and interpretations of the results.FindingsSurvey results show that a majority of surveyed firms believe that futures market cannot reduce risks or increase income. According to the study, factors affecting enterprises hedging decisions include: to what degree that Chinese enterprises believe hedging leads to business stability; whether these enterprises had attended a hedge training or seminar; perceived price volatility in the market; and have alternative strategies to reduce price risks.Practical implicationsAgribusiness assistance programs can use this paper's findings to plan effective hedge training to help improve participation of futures hedging.Originality/valueThis study analyzes Chinese agribusiness firms' hedging behaviour, using a new set of questionnaire data collected from main agribusinesses. Chinese agribusiness firms' hedging behavior has not been fully examined. This study fills this gap.
A strategic risk management program for agriculture
Authors: Hoag Dana L.K. 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how an organized framework for risk management called Risk Navigator SRM©can be practically applied to common risk management problems.Design/methodology/approachThe program makes complex risk principles easier to understand and access by linking together disparate and difficult risk management concepts into a single strategic risk management (SRM) framework. The strategic framework is organized into ten steps in order to organize and develop a practical and applied risk management plan. This paper demonstrates the SRM process in a crop insurance example. A simple version of the program, called Risk Navigator Lite©, is also applied to crop insurance to demonstrate how robust the framework is for adaptation to field settings, where data may be limited or where decision makers might have limited capacity to understand complicated principles necessary for risk management.FindingsThis manuscript elaborates upon how the SRM process may be effectively implemented by agricultural producers. The information herein should also help students of risk management better comprehend how to apply what they learn.Originality/valueThe contribution of Risk Navigator is to make underused, sophisticated risk management concepts and tools more available to farm and ranch managers, and others, by putting them into a framework that is both easy to use and comprehensive.
Japanese total quality control, TQM, Deming's system of profound knowledge, BPR, Lean and Six Sigma
Authors: Chiarini Andrea 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare and discuss the evolution of six important management systems: Japanese Total Quality Control (JTQC), Total Quality Management (TQM), Deming's system of profound knowledge, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Lean Thinking and Six Sigma. Indeed, the contribution of this paper lies in the concurrent analysis and classification, by the means of a literature review, of the results and critical implementation factors of the six systems. Deming's Plan‐Do‐Check‐Act (PDCA) has been used to classify the findings from the literature review.Design/methodology/approachThe research methodology is based on a literature review. The literature review has been carried out for each single system, trying subsequently to compare and discuss the results.FindingsInside the six systems, nine common factors have been found and proposed. They are: results and benefits; management style; deployment of the system; employee management, deployment and participation; voice of the customer; tools, techniques and IT; optimisation of the system; day‐by‐day check and control of the results and review of the system.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper presents some limits due to the fact that it is based on a literature review. This implies that more research about the findings should be carried out: TQM in Western companies, Six Sigma that could have substituted TQM, Six Sigma and TQM in Japan, Deming's system developments and the influence of the Japanese style on Lean Six Sigma.Originality/valueFor the first time a paper tries to compare and discuss the six most important systems dedicated to quality and operations improvement.
Syndromic classification of seizure disorders and its relevance to intellectual disability epilepsy
Authors: Winterhalder Robert 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the application of a syndromic approach to seizure disorders in intellectual disabilities, in the light of recent advances in research and the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Report on classification in 2010.Design/methodology/approachThe ILAE Report is reviewed with an emphasis on neurodevelopmental seizure disorders, which may present to clinicians working in the field of adult intellectual disability. The advantages of applying a syndromic approach and the difficulties often encountered are also discussed.FindingsAdopting a syndromic approach to seizure disorders in adults with intellectual disability should lead to rational prescribing, appropriate packages of care, and an improvement in the quality of research in this field.Originality/valueThis paper highlights the importance of identifying epilepsy syndromes in adults with intellectual disability, in the light of recent international reports on classification. It is of value to clinicians (particularly psychiatrists and learning disability nurses) practising in the field of epilepsy and intellectual disability.
Using Learning Study to improve the teaching and learning of accounting in a school in Brunei Darussalam
Authors: Anak Andrew Vincent 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis paper reports on how a group of secondary school teachers collaborated in a school‐based professional development called Learning Study to improve accounting students' performance on the drawing up of cash budgets.Design/methodology/approachIn drawing up cash budgets – the object of learning – a power point presentation incorporating systematic variation was designed to reduce the overwhelming mass of (often irrelevant) data normally presented to students in textbooks and examiners' reports as part of the solutions to cash budget problems. In total, three lessons were designed focusing on how the object of learning could be handled. In each lesson the critical aspects corresponding to the object of learning were identified and a systematic pattern of variation was applied.FindingsIt was found that student learning improved progressively over the three lessons.Originality/valueThere is evidence to suggest that this Learning Study has made an impact, not only on student learning but also on teacher learning, and has contributed in some way to creating a learning culture in this school.
Developing curriculum and pedagogical resources for teacher learning
Authors: Fang Yanping , Lee Christine K.E. , Yang Yudong 
Published: November 2011

PurposeTeacher education and professional development have long been criticized for failing to induct and engage teachers in discourses of classroom deliberation. Lesson studies have contributed to an emerging discourse in which teachers come together to study classroom teaching to improve student learning. The purpose of this paper is to share knowledge about developing video resources to support this emerging discourse.Design/methodology/approachThe authors showcase a digital hypermedia video case developed from research lessons on a third‐grade topic on division with remainder, conducted by teachers and researchers in a lesson study cycle in Singapore. Drawing on anchored instruction and knowledge points of the mathematics education discourse in China, the authors used embedded contexts, case‐based reasoning, critical incidents and facilitation as major design features.FindingsA video documentary traces the research problem and how teachers learned to use the concrete‐pictorial‐abstract (CPA) model to improve teaching for student learning. Critical incidences are created to engage teachers in analyzing the research lessons by describing, interpreting and probing into the object of learning, student difficulties in learning, and how the teacher mediated the subject matter of teaching. A full range of lesson study data and related reading and web resources are provided in the video case to support training and self study.Originality/valueThe paper demonstrates the promise to capitalize on the curricular and pedagogical values of the rich video archives of lesson studies to support continued inquiry of teachers. It has important implications for addressing the issues of depth of implementation and sustainability arising from rapid spread of lesson studies in countries like Singapore.
Gastrointestinal hormones: the regulation of appetite and the anorexia of ageing
Authors: Moss C. , Dhillo W. S. , Frost G. , Hickson M. 
Published: November 2011

AbstractLoss of appetite is frequently observed during ageing, termed the ‘anorexia of ageing’. Ageing is associated with the inability to appropriately increase food intake after under‐eating in the short‐ and long‐term. Older people also report lower feelings of hunger and increased feelings of satiety and fullness. Gastrointestinal peptide hormones are a major part of the appetite regulatory system and are released in response to nutritional stimuli. They can be classified as: anorexigenic (satiety) [e.g. peptide tyrosine tyrosine (PYY), glucagon‐like peptide‐1, pancreatic polypeptide, oxyntomodulin and cholecystokinin (CCK)] or orexigenic (hunger) (e.g. ghrelin). Although the control of appetite is not fully understood, it is clear that these hormones play an important role, and may influence the development and treatment of obesity and under‐nutrition. The literature shows a consistent finding that there is a loss of appetite in those aged over 65 years, although how this loss is mediated is not yet clear. Some evidence suggests that with advancing age there is an increase in satiety hormones, such as CCK and PYY, and a decrease in the hunger hormone, ghrelin. However, not all studies agree, emphasising the need for more in‐depth research to clarify age‐related changes. This knowledge will enable us to develop therapies to help prevent under‐nutrition during ageing. This review explores how age influences gastrointestinal appetite hormones in humans, as well as how this may contribute to the development of age‐related malnutrition.
The Human C‐Type Lectin‐Like Receptor CLEC‐1 is Upregulated by TGF‐β and Primarily Localized in the Endoplasmic Membrane Compartment
Authors: Sattler S. , Reiche D. , Sturtzel C. , Karas I. , Richter S. , Kalb M. L. , Gregor W. , Hofer E. 
Published: November 2011

AbstractThe orphan receptor CLEC‐1 is part of a subfamily of C‐type lectin‐like receptors, which is encoded in the human natural killer gene complex and comprises several pattern recognition receptors important for innate immune functions. As information on human CLEC‐1 is still very limited, we aimed to further characterize this receptor. Similar to another subfamily member, LOX‐1, expression of CLEC‐1 mRNA was detected in myeloid cells as well as in endothelial cells. CLEC‐1 protein displayed N‐linked glycosylation and formed dimers. However, in contrast to other members of the subfamily, expression levels were upregulated by transforming growth factor (TGF)‐β, but not significantly affected by proinflammatory stimuli. It is intriguing that human CLEC‐1 could only be detected intracellularly with a staining pattern resembling endoplasmic reticulum proteins. Neither TGF‐β nor inflammatory stimuli could promote significant translocation to the cell surface. These findings are in accordance with a primarily intracellular localization and function of human CLEC‐1.