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Alternative fuel vehicles, such as battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, support the imperative to decarbonise the transport sector, but are not yet at a stage in their development where they can successfully compete with conventional fuel vehicles. This paper examines the influence of knowledge and persuasion on the decision to adopt or reject alternative fuel vehicles, a novel and original application of Rogers’ Theory of Diffusion of Innovations. A household questionnaire survey was undertaken with respondents in the Sutton Coldfield suburb of the United Kingdom city of Birmingham. This suburb was previously identified as having a strong spatial cluster of potential early adopters of alternative fuel vehicles. The survey results provide some useful empirical insights around the issues pertaining to the wider adoption of alternative fuel vehicles, even though the data is a bit dated as the survey was conducted in 2013. It is confirmed that respondents have limited knowledge of alternative fuel vehicles and perceptions have led to the development of negative attitudes towards them. The reasons largely relate to three problems: purchase price, limited range and poor infrastructure availability. Most respondents passively rejected alternative fuel vehicles, which confirms that a concerted effort is required to inform the general public about the benefits alternative fuel vehicles.

The idea that academic libraries acquire a great many books that are never used, and that this is because traditional collection development - i.e., professional librarians purchasing books based on subject expertise and local knowledge of student and faculty needs and interests - is ineffective, has been repeated frequently during the last decade. This claim has been used as justification to change collection practices and to bolster ideas about new organizational models for libraries and their work. A closer look at the literature, however, reveals that the data being cited to support this claim has been communicated, for the most part, in an inaccurate and misleading way by its proponents and that a great deal of data exists, in fact, to refute it. This article outlines the genesis and propagation of this idea in the context of the actual findings of libraries' collection use studies to both refute a claim that librarians seem to have been unduly uncritical in accepting and repeating, and also to question why we have done so.

After seeing growing frustration among inexperienced undergraduate researchers searching a popular aggregated interdisciplinary database, the authors questioned whether the leading interdisciplinary databases are serving undergraduates' needs. As a preliminary exploration of this question, the authors queried vendors, analyzed their marketing materials, surveyed librarians and students, and examined what titles were being downloaded at 14 liberal arts institutions. Although librarians are satisfied with these databases, and vendors intend to continue the trend of adding more content, actual usage patterns suggest that these databases are not serving the purpose one might expect. Librarians should learn more about user experiences in order to influence the development of these products. (Contains 9 tables and 29 notes.)

Faculty bullying is an ongoing problem in United States’ nursing schools as it can negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of the targeted individuals, their careers, and the workplace environment. Through nursing faculty descriptions, this study seeks to understand the experience of faculty bullying and its impacts as described by the faculty themselves. Qualitative study design using critical incident technique will be used to interview nursing faculty from mid-western, associate, baccalaureate and/or higher degree nursing programs regarding their experience of faculty bullying. Semi-structured, in depth-interviews will provide nursing faculty the opportunity to share their descriptions of the faculty bullying experience and its impacts. The research question that guides this study is: How do nursing faculty describe the experience of faculty bullying and its impacts? Demographic information will also be collected including: gender, age, ethnicity, faculty/role position, years of employment as nursing faculty, and type of nursing program. Data analysis will be conducted using attribute and descriptive qualitative analysis. Results will be synthesized into a description of the experience of faculty bullying and its impacts.

ObjectiveThe purpose of our study was to determine if cephalexin 500 mg orally four times daily was non-inferior to cefazolin 2 g intravenously daily plus probenecid 1 g orally daily in the management of patients with uncomplicated mild–moderate skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI) presenting to the ED.MethodsThis was a prospective, multicentre, double dummy-blind, randomised controlled non-inferiority trial conducted at two tertiary care teaching hospitals in Canada. Patients were enrolled if they presented to the ED with an uncomplicated SSTI, and randomly assigned in a 1:1 fashion to oral cephalexin or intravenous cefazolin plus oral probenecid for up to 7 days. The primary outcome was failure of therapy at 72 hours. Clinical cure at 7 days, intravenous to oral medication transition admission to hospital and adverse events were also evaluated.Results206 patients were randomised with 104 patients in the cephalexin group and 102 in the cefazolin and probenecid group. The proportion of patients failing therapy at 72 hours was similar between the treatment groups (4.2% and 6.1%, risk difference 1.9%, 95% CI −3.7% to 7.6%). Clinical cure at 7 days was not significantly different (100% and 97.7%, risk difference −2.3%, 95% CI −6.7% to 0.8%).ConclusionCephalexin at appropriate doses appears to be a safe and effective alternative to outpatient parenteral cefazolin in the treatment of uncomplicated mild–moderate SSTIs who present to the ED.Trial registration number NCT01029782; Results.

Employees are holding their employers to a higher standard when it comes to communication. Employees want user-friendly tools to do their jobs and accurate information to manage their personal and professional lives. Faced with this new, more demanding \"employee-consumer,\" internal communication has a significant opportunity to leverage emerging technologies and develop new strategies for engaging employees. Internal communication professionals are now in a position to influence their leaders on the value of emerging technologies in building trust and engagement with employees.

As many promoters of \"roving reference\" have long believed, reference doesn't have to be a passive activity. Making an effort to connect with patrons encourages them to develop a relationship with librarians that should, if retail managers are right, increase the likelihood that they will use the library's services and materials.

Purpose - To keep librarians and colleagues informed about the issues and programs of the Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus in February 2007.Design methodology approach - Provides a review of the conference.Findings - Acquisitions staff, catalogers, public service staff, administrators, IT personnel, information providers from the vendor side, content managers, and others all came together to assess what needs to be done to continue high servicing of both born digital and electronically available resources in a hybrid environment that continues to describe all library settings today. As the percentage of electronic resources quickly grows, there are new challenges in acquiring, caring for, servicing, preserving, using and citing them that keep librarians up at night to consider short-and long-term solutions in how they should be organized bibliometrically and how we can re-engineer some of our procedures to best treat the wide range of e-Resources now common in all libraries.Originality value - The program blended services with processing reinforcing the importance of electronic resources for the \"total\" library environment. It seemed like there was nothing left out.