bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Social deprivation and use of mental health legislation in New Zealand
Authors: O’Brien Anthony John , Kydd Robert , Frampton Christopher 
Published: August 2011

Background: Low socioeconomic status has consistently been associated with poorer health outcomes. Few studies have used ecological analysis to explore relationships between area measures of deprivation and use of mental health legislation. Methods: We used an ecological design to explore associations between two area measures of relative deprivation and the two most commonly used sections of New Zealand mental health legislation. Results: High levels of relative deprivation were positively correlated with use of both acute and long-term community care provisions of mental health legislation with the correlation with long-term care achieving significance ( r = .518, p = .016). Low levels of relative deprivation showed negative correlations with use of both provisions. The correlation of −.493 between low levels of relative deprivation and acute care provisions was significant at p = .023. In stepwise regression, the proportion of the population aged 15–64 contributed to the model for section 11, but ethnicity contributed to neither model. Conclusion: Mental health legislation is used disproportionately in areas with high levels of relative deprivation. The results have implications for regional allocation of funding for mental health and social services to support community-based care. Further research is needed to explore other factors that may account for the regional variation.
Profile of Patients with Completion Thyroidectomy and Assessment of Their Suitability for Outpatient Surgery
Authors: Wu Gaosong , Pai Sara I. , Agrawal Nishant , Richmon Jeremy , Dackiw Alan , Tufano Ralph P. 
Published: August 2011

ObjectiveOutpatient thyroid surgery for thyroid lobectomy has been shown to be safe and feasible. The safety of outpatient completion thyroidectomy in patients who have previously undergone thyroid lobectomy has not been extensively evaluated in the medical literature to date. The authors sought to evaluate postoperative complications associated with completion thyroidectomy in their institution to determine if it would be safe and feasible to perform as an outpatient procedure.Study DesignCase series with chart review.SettingTertiary care teaching hospital.Subjects and MethodsTwo hundred four consecutive patients, who underwent completion thyroidectomy after previous thyroid lobectomy from January 2000 to June 2010, comprised the study population. Medical records were reviewed for preoperative and postoperative serum calcium levels, preoperative and postoperative fiber‐optic laryngoscopic examination of vocal fold mobility, associated comorbidities, length of hospital stay, drain use, seroma or hematoma formation, final thyroid pathology, and postoperative follow‐up.ResultsOverall, 9 patients (4.4%) developed postoperative complications, including transient symptomatic hypocalcemia in 4 patients (2.0%), transient laboratory hypocalcemia in 3 patients (1.5%), seroma formation in 1 patient (0.5%), and hematoma development in 1 patient (0.5%). There were no cases with permanent or temporary vocal fold paralysis. No significant difference was found in the overall complication rate before and after 4 hours of observation (P =. 50).ConclusionSelected patients who undergo completion thyroidectomy after previous thyroid lobectomy can be safely discharged after 4 hours of postoperative observation with appropriate instructions.
Evidence‐Based Medicine in Health Care Reform
Authors: Hughes Gordon B. 
Published: August 2011

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 mandates a national comparative outcomes research project agenda. Comparative effectiveness research includes both clinical trials and observational studies and is facilitated by electronic health records. A national network of electronic health records will create a vast electronic data “warehouse” with exponential growth of observational data. High‐quality associations will identify research topics for pragmatic clinical trials, and systematic reviews of clinical trials will provide optimal evidence‐based medicine. Evidence‐based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. Thus, health care reform will provide a robust environment for comparative effectiveness research, systematic reviews, and evidence‐based medicine, and implementation of evidence‐based medicine should lead to improved quality of care.
Laser fluorescence angiography reveals perfusion defects in retrograde cardioplegia
Authors: Gorki H , Patel NC , Balacumaraswami L , Pillai JB , Subramanian VA 
Published: August 2011

Background: Adequate perfusion of the right ventricle with retrograde cardioplegia has always been questioned. However, clinical studies suggested sufficient protection and, up to now, intraoperative assessment of cardioplegia distribution has been difficult. Methods: As a pilot study in 14 patients, we used indocyanine green laser fluorescence angiography (ICGLA) to assess vascular and myocardial perfusion of different areas of the right anterior ventricular wall. Regions of interest were analyzed quantitatively using a new software package. Results: ICGLA allowed rapid and reliable visualization of cardioplegic flow and distribution. Retrograde cardioplegia revealed perfusion defects in the territory of the right anterior cardiac veins when compared to antegrade delivery and to areas close to the left anterior descending vein(s), confirmed by quantitative analyses of maximal fluorescence intensity. Five patients were excluded from quantitative analyses. The learning curve, pitfalls, limitations and special image details are described. Conclusion: A larger study is necessary to examine the relevance of perfusion defects to metabolic changes in affected myocytes and to global right ventricular function.
Role of IT as an Enabler of Supply Chain Management
Authors: Singh Rakesh 
Published: August 2011

Indian firms have realised that adopting supply chain as a strategic competitive advantage tool has early payoffs. Information technology has played an important role among the firms that have been successful. They realised the importance of state-of-the-art information technology in linking supply with demand to achieve competitive advantage. Why do firms still fail to capitalise on the use of information technology? What inhibits this seamless flow of information across the supply chain? What are the lessons that can be drawn from those firms that have been able to use Information Technology successfully to add value and create sustainable value chain? This paper attempts to answer the above questions. It is an attempt to understand the role of Information Technology in supply chain management. We have reviewed the literature in order to understand how IT can effectively help supply chain become a strategic tool. With the help of exploratory research tools we have tried to find out how IT can be effectively utilised as a supply chain enabler. Our research findings are that aligning IT application to overall business strategy, managing processes rather than functions, developing cross functional teams, strategic alliance with suppliers and distributors, etc., create the right kind of organisational architecture, which help IT become a strategic competitive advantage tool.
Roles of Management Teams in Management Development
Authors: Singh Kavita 
Published: August 2011

Integrative organisations are the organisations of the future - the 21st century model. The focus in these organisations is shining from inflexible, bureaucratic structures to flexible, organic structures. Management teams in such organisations will have to play a variety of team roles in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the organisations. This paper is based on a study which examines the extent to which the management teams discharge expeditiously, a set of eight mutually supportive team roles, so that its individual members know how to contribute what is needed and how to limit their contributions. The findings of the study are that the two public sectors studied are dominated by Company Workers (CW), who actually are a fleet of people ready for implementation. But in the absence of other significant roles like Plants and Resource Investigators, there is scarcity of generation of new ideas and willingness to explore resources outside the organisation. The requirement is that a change has to occur from CW culture to a more dynamic and flexible culture to keep adapting the organisation to environmental changes. A few recommendations have been provided to bring about the desirable changes.
Supplementing Management Skills in SSI Sector
Authors: Chhikara M S 
Published: August 2011

In the last decade of the 20th century we find great change in the business environment. In contrast to the earlier period, this closing decade, popularly known as an era of ‘reforms’, can be called a period of delicensing, deregulation and decontrol for Indian industries. The process of privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation of economic activities has affected the whole economy in one way or the other. Even the small-scale sector, growing under a protective umbrella, since independence, has been left open to the invisible hands of market forces. It has increased the sphere of competition both horizontally and vertically in national as well as international markets and created an environment where only the fittest survive and inefficient get weeded out. The compulsions of the changing economic scenario have made their operations more complex and increased uncertainty in achieving goals. It has underlined the concepts of productivity, quality, effectiveness and efficiency. In sum, the successive rounds of economic reforms have changed the macro-economic scene for small enterprise development. Healthy sustenance may be ensured and the potential benefits may be realised only if SSIs are managed professionally especially when management deficiency and a low level of skill and technology have been one of the major weaknesses of the SSI sector. But, operationally, due to various factors, employing professional managers by SSIs is limited which is eroding their competitive strength and healthy survival. In this regard Small Industries Development Bank of India, the apex institution for SSIs, not only reviewed the ground realities, reinforced the demand for managerial skills to ensure longer and healthy sustenance of SSIs but also launched a Small Industries Management Programme (SIMAP) for providing cost-effective managerial cadre prepared from the vast pool of unemployed graduates. For imparting managerial knowledge and skills through specially designed courses, reputed institutes of technology and management, that have linkage with SSIs sector, have been involved. A special Task Force has been constituted to follow-up and monitor the programme.
Effective Human Resource Planning Using Quantitative Tools - A Suggestive Approach
Authors: Bhattacharyya Dipak Kumar 
Published: August 2011

Basic process of Human Resource Planning (HRP) is not only to compare present human resources to future needs but also to identify skill and competency gaps. Competency gap analysis helps to develop required competency in line with the organisational mission, vision and strategic objectives. HRP provides strategic basis for taking HR decisions, anticipating change. Of-late HRP has become an important enterprise-wide strategic function not only to achieve goals and objectives but also to sustain present level in organisations. Globally, skill shortages, competency gap, redundancies, downsizing, rightsizing are the major issues in today's organisations. The biggest problem for manpower or human resource redundancy lies with inadequate Human Resource Planning (HRP). To achieve any goal, manpower requirement needs to be assessed, located and harnessed. HRP is not mere assessment of number of men required. An organisation also has to categorise men as per their knowledge and skills and so also to ensure their balanced allocation. This study discusses the contemporary HRP process, without, however, discarding the importance of traditional processes altogether. Traditional processes, by and large follow logical sequence to study the job and then translate the job information into manpower requirement. Here, however, we have discussed the importance of application of some selected quantitative manpower planning models and then suggested their consideration for reducing the risk of inaccurate manpower planning. While doing so, some theoretical discussions with illustrations have been made deliberately to avoid any possible gap in understanding the models.
Corporate Governance: An Alternate Approach
Authors: Panchali Jinesh N. , Baid Rachana 
Published: August 2011

The modern public corporation command huge societal resources at their disposal. They need to be accountable for its use to society. Apparently, since shareholders provide the risk capital (and hence own the company), it should be accountable to them. However, can a company legitimize its existence by confining its accountability towards specific section of stakeholders? Can a company abuse its market position by indulging in undesirable trade practices to avoid competition for serving the interests of shareholders? Thus, a matter of debate is, in whose interests the company should be governed and in what manner a balance may be maintained among the interests of the various stakeholders? Shareholders' wealth maximisation argument is based on a number of restrictive assumptions may not be valid, at least, in emerging economies like India. Also, there have been evidences where companies have done well despite maximising interests of stakeholders (other than shareholders) wealth. For lasting success of the business, its top priority need not be its shareholders. In fact, precedence of shareholders' interests over other stakeholders may adversely affect the long term survival and success of the business. It requires optimisation of interests of various stakeholders over lop-sided maximisation of one class of stakeholders.
Life Insurance Potential in India: An Economic Approach
Authors: Thampy Ashok , Sitharamu S. 
Published: August 2011

The market for life insurance in India has evolved in the context of the specific socio-economic and political environment that existed over the years. Prior to nationalisation, although the insurance business had grown considerably, it remained an essentially urban phenomena. This limited spread of life insurance was also marked by many malpractices, deficiencies and frequent liquidation of insurance companies, shaking public confidence in purchasing insurance. The objectives of nationalisation were to spread insurance coverage, to provide a stable environment thus increasing the confidence of the people in insurance, and to harness the resources generated for nation building activities as determined by the government. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the size of the individual life insurance market that exists in India. In this study, we have not provided an estimate of the potential for group life insurance. It is hoped that these estimates will help to plan the business strategy and set goals in the life insurance sector.
E-Governance: An Emerging Paradigm
Authors: Lai Ram , Haleem Abid 
Published: August 2011

The information age has opened powerful new business and social development opportunities throughout the world. The core requirement to realize these opportunities is to provide an environment that allows for the free access of information. Information Technology is changing the way the society functions. Internet is the biggest revolution in human society. The impact of IT can be felt in all economic and social activities in every conceivable manner. The convergence of all forms of communications on the digital play field is opening immense new possibilities of achieving speed, versatility and space-time independence. This paper discusses the paradigm shift in the governance of the citizen. This shift has been possible with the IT revolution and Internet. The e-governance has become citizen-centric. Various issues are being explored to provide the best possible services to citizens. As per the need of the citizens, there is a requirement to identify the issues related to deal with the problems of high level of illiteracy, social diversity and unequal distribution of wealth and low level of woman empowerment so as to conceptualize, design and implement a e-governance model. A brief review of the existing models of e-governance has also been made to crystallize the issues involved.
From Revolutionary Peasants to Leaders of Export Revolution: A Saga of 1990's
Authors: Prakash Ajai , Bahadur Animesh 
Published: August 2011

Floriculture as a sunrise industry has still not been the fancy of business researchers but as a sector which often marks an entrepreneurial shift directly from the primary sector to high end export, shift in market networking from human interface to global information technology networking and from localized sale and purchase to dependence on complex international logistics, it offers potential for studies in strategic change in a host of economic and management areas. Based on in-depth interviews with floriculturists, bankers, scientists, officials of the Government of Uttar Pradesh, wholesalers and retailers of the flower markets, the paper examines some key elements that mark the transformation from traditional agriculture to export oriented floriculture in and around Lucknow. The paper discusses the basic supply chain models in different kinds of floriculture and the bottlenecks in the rise to the level of exports.
Relationship between Communication Satisfaction and Organizational Identification: An Empirical Study
Authors: Nakra Rashmi 
Published: August 2011

The purpose of this study was to take a preliminary look at the relationship between communication satisfaction and organizational identification. Communication Satisfaction refers to the degree of satisfaction of tin employee with the organization's total communication and Organizational Identification is one of the forms of an individual's attachment to an organization that has been recognized as having important implications for organizational effectiveness. Data was collected using an adapted version of the Down's, (1990) Communication Audit Questionnaire (CAQ) and the six-item Organizational Identification Scale developed by Ashforth (1992). The results were analysed with correlation analysis for studying the relationships between the employee's overall communication satisfaction, the various dimensions of communication satisfaction and organizational identification. It was found that the communication satisfaction composite and its dimensions have significant positive relationships with organizational identification. The limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
Economic Contribution of Public Passenger Transport Organisations—An Application of EVAR Methodology
Authors: Ramesh G. , Ramanayya T. V. 
Published: August 2011

Economic Value Added (EVAR) has immense potential for evaluating State Owned Enterprises as it provides an excellent methodology for capturing social and economic contributions of these organisations, instead of merely going by financial returns. If EVA is applied in private enterprises to correct accounting distortions, in public enterprises it can be applied to correct earnings distortions. In this paper we have attempted to extend the EVA Methodology to a State Passenger Road Transport Undertaking (SRTU) in India. This SRTU is relatively a better performing one on operational parameters though it is loss making. This paper captures the opportunity cost of the following three factors which make significant difference to their performance: 1. Loss of revenue from providing concessional fares to students. 2. Opportunity cost of providing services in interior rural areas. 3. Opportunity cost of providing unviable urban schedules. Motor Vehicle Tax is another factor considered. The analysis shows that EVA reflects better performance of SRTUs than accounting profits. The analysis also shows this SRTU has positive EVA under all alternatives for the six years considered, though it has been loss making according to accounting statements. EVA gives a valuable framework for inter and intra-organizational performance evaluation across SRTUs.
Investment Strategies of Fiis in the Indian Equity Market
Authors: Sehgal Sanjay , Tripathi Neeta 
Published: August 2011

In this paper, we empirically evaluate if Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) adopt positive feedback and herding strategies in the Indian environment. We find that FIIs exhibit return chasing behaviour when we use monthly data. However, they do not seem to be working on the positive feedback strategy when we use daily files. This may be owing to the fact that they wait for the market information to crystallize and do not react to it in an instantaneous manner. We also observe that the FIIs display strong herding behaviour based on quarterly shareholding pattern. The herding behaviour seems to be stronger at the aggregate level than at the individual stock level. This may be explained by the fact that FIIs are more cognizant of corporate fundamentals at the individual stock level. Further, the market cycle behaviour may vary from such cycles for individual stocks. Our findings have strong implications for domestic financial institutions, portfolio managers, wealth managers and other investors as well as market regulators who wish to have better understanding of FII's behaviour as the later are the dominant investors in the Indian equity market.
Parenting Transformational Leaders
Authors: Bhandarker Asha , Singh Pritam 
Published: August 2011

To overcome the present crisis of leadership which is the outcome of inappropriate parenting, India needs transformational leaders—who can inspire, facilitate and channelise collective energies of those whom they lead in the right direction. Good parenting which encompasses grooming, building and socialising within the family, in schools and in the workplace, empowers and prepares human beings to attain higher consciousness and self-actualisation which are the most important and integral aspects of the profile of a transformational leader. Of the various modes of parenting like tutoring, coaching, mentoring, enlightening and metaparenting, the last two create transformational leaders who are actualising and continuously evolving human beings. Thus, the creation of transformational leaders calls for role models to play the roles of philosopher, teacher and guide.