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Perceptions of Preparedness to Teach Primary School Physical Education: Transformative Learning in Generalist Pre-Service Teacher Education

The research reported in this thesis is the outcome of investigating a recommendation from the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Recreation and the Arts (1992) to improve the delivery and quality of school Physical Education in Australia. The recommendation called for a determination of national minimum course requirements in Physical Education for generalist teachers at primary level. One regional university responded with a curriculum innovation that increased opportunity for pre-service teachers to study tertiary Physical Education beyond minimum requirements. This investigation measured the degree to which pre-service generalist teachers’ perceptions of preparedness to teach Primary School Physical Education (PE) were influenced by varying levels of study. A mixed method, cross-sectional research design was employed. Participants were volunteers who had completed one or more units of study in PE. Purposively selected survey respondents (n=400) engaged further in the study through in-depth interview (n=19). Instruments, namely a survey, a Visual Language Icon (VLI), and an interview schedule were developed to elicit aspects of participants’ preparedness to teach, and contributors to those perceptions. Survey data were analysed using uni-variate and bi-variate techniques. Results indicated high levels of agreement to being prepared to teach classes of primary school-aged children in the syllabus content strands of Games and Sports, and other aspects of the syllabus, namely Movement Skills and Primary School Physical Education generally. The syllabus strands of Dance and Gymnastics attracted marginally lower perceived levels of preparedness. The Visual Language Icon (VLI) elicited students’ perceptions of being very prepared to teach primary Physical Education by selecting Icon 2 of 5. The two methods of analysis of the interview data both confirmed and reinforced the results of the VLI. Leximancer software produced themes of think, teach, feel, icon, and prepared. Manual coding employing the Colaizzi framework resulted in the theme Conceptions of Physical Education being identified as integral to understanding perceptions of preparedness. This finding informed the development of a new, three-level
Physical layer network coding in generalized shadowed fading channels

Although there has been a growing literature on physical layer network coding (PLNC) technique, to the best of our knowledge, performance analysis of the PLNC systems over the generalized shadowed fading channels modelled by independent but not necessarily identically distributed generalized-K distribution has not been reported so far. Generalized-K channel is versatile model which is capable of representing different levels of shadowing and multipath fading effects in the wireless environment. In this paper, we investigate outage and symbol error rate performance of the PLNC system consisting of two sources and one relay with one transmit/receive antenna in each node. Amplify and forward relaying method is used at the relay. More specifically, we utilize the moment generating function of the SNR which is obtained by the Padé approximation to evaluate the system performance. We also investigate the energy allocation problem to improve the system error performance by allocating the total energy optimally among the sources and the relay in different channel conditions. The analytical results are verified by Monte Carlo simulations.
Comparison of the Gut Microbiotas of Healthy Adult Twins Living in South Korea and the United States

ABSTRACT We compared the composition of the fecal microbiotas of Korean and U.S. adult twins. Our data indicated that the gut microbiota shows some signature of biogeography, potentially mediated by differences in diet and/or other environmental factors; however, these regional differences may be masked by other phenotypic variations, such as obesity.
New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences

Contemporary studies show the major impact of early education on the future development of children, that justifies a quality educational approach from the early childhood, to meet the needs of children ’ s education for the onset of schooling. The dynamics of society and the updates in the field of education make it necessary to create an educational context as a response of the current needs of children ’ s competencies. In many countries, social-emotional education gains importance as an essential element of education, emotional intelligence being considered a determinant for success in life. The methods used were the pedagogical experiment, surveys, curricular analysis and systematic observation. When children experience well-being, the ability to think is increased. The active involvement of the teachers in the implementation of the programme, the use of recommended practices and the solving of the challenges that have appeared have led to an increase in the impact of the intervention
Use of a single injection femoral nerve block in the patients of total knee replacement with concomitant epidural analgesia.

BACKGROUND Since central neuraxial analgesia cannot provide adequate post operative pain relief when it is used alone in patients who had undergone Total Knee Replacement Surgery (TKR), an alternative analgesic method is usually advised. The alternatives include either systemic analgesics (opioids, Non Steroidal Anti Inflamatory Drugs, [NSAIDs], etc) or peripheral nerve blocks. When complete analgesia is aimed in such patients, combining the sciatic nerve blocks along with the Femoral Nerve Blocks (FNBs) will be beneficial. But performing femoral and sciatic nerve blocks together in patients with regional or general anaesthesia will be too cumbersome and in this direction, the major clinical trials are yet to decide on their feasibility. Thus, in an attempt to keep the analgesia methods very simple and effective, the physicians may decide on doing a single nerve block when an ongoing epidural analgesia infusion is in situ. AIM To evaluate the safety, convenience and the efficacy of a single injection femoral nerve block in patients who had undergone TKR surgeries, who had received concomitant epidural sensory analgesia. METHODS The patients who had undergone TKR were inserted with an epidural catheter for continuous analgesia and this was supplemented with an additional single injection femoral block. Postoperatively, each patient was recorded with a Visual Analogue Score (VAS) of pain assessment. The total number of patients who required additional bolus doses of epidural and additional analgesics, the individual patient ratings, and the complications, if any, were noted and analyzed on day 1(D1) and day 2(D2) of the surgery. RESULTS The mean time for developing a VAS score of at least 3 was 8.55±1.78 hours. The VAS assessment mean scores were compared to that of D2 and the ratio which was obtained was 0.4±0.32. The mean VAS scores were higher on D2 as compared to those on D1 and they were statistically significant (P<.0001). A categorical score comparison too revealed higher scores on D2 (P<.001). A total of 52% patients required bolus doses of epidural analgesia with bupivacaine on D2 as compared to those on D1 (16%). Additional analgesia on demand was noted in 21% patients on D1 in contrast to 67% patients on D2. The rating of the analgesia as 'excellent' by 29% patients, as 'good' by 46% patients, as 'adequate' by 17% patients and as 'poor' by 8% patients was noted on D1. Similarly, the ratings as 'excellent' by 4% patients, as 'good' by 29% patients, as 'adequate' by 58% patients, and as 'poor' by 8% patients, was recorded for D2, respectively (P<.001). CONCLUSION A single injection femoral nerve block provides adequate analgesia for the patients who undergo TKR surgery, when an active epidural is in-situ on the day of the surgery. It keeps the analgesic mode as simple and comfortable and it achieves lower pain scores on the day of the surgery, also with least complications, in patients with an ongoing epidural local anaesthetic infusion.
The Lived Experience of Ojibwa and Cree Women Healers

The purpose of this phenomenological research study was to describe the meaning and essence of the lived experience of Ojibwa and Cree women healers. The research question, “What is the experience of being an Ojibwa or Cree woman healer? ” was asked of a purposive sample of four indigenous women healers, aged 48 to 59, residing in Canada and the United States. The data were collected and analyzed utilizing methods to preserve integrity within the indigenous community. Seven themes emerged from the data. They are as follows: recognizing and unfolding the healing gift; placing faith in the healing ability; mastering indigenous culture, values and traditions; wholesome use of self; interconnection with all; living a balanced, circular life way; and embracing mankind. These seven themes can be employed by nurse healers and/or holistic nurses to practice the art of holistic nursing.
POIROT: a logic fault diagnosis tool and its applications

Logic fault diagnosis or fault isolation is the process of analyzing the failing logic portions of an integrated circuit to isolate the cause of failure. Fault diagnosis plays an important role in multiple applications at different stages of design and manufacturing. A logic diagnosis tool with applicability to a spectrum of logic DFT, ATPG and test strategies including full/almost fullscan circuits with combinational ATPG, partial-scan and non-scan circuits with sequential ATPG and to functional patterns in general is presented. Novel features incorporated into the tool include static and dynamic structural processing for partial-scan circuits, windowed fault simulation, and diagnostic models for open defects and cover algorithms for multiple fault diagnosis. Experimental results include simulation results on processor functional blocks and silicon results on chipsets and processors from artificially induced defects and production fallout.
Management of precancerous anal intraepithelial lesions in human immunodeficiency virus–positive men who have sex with men: Clinical effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–positive men who have sex with men (MSM) are at disproportionately high risk for anal cancer. There is no definitive approach to the management of high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), which are precursors of anal cancer, and evidence suggests that posttreatment adjuvant quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccination improves HSIL treatment effectiveness. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the optimal HSIL management strategy with respect to clinical effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness and to identify the optimal age for initiating HSIL management.
Implementation of an automated system to measure the breathability of different fabrics

In this paper the design of an automated measuring system to study and characterize different fabrics in terms of breathability is presented. This system came as a solution to the actual problem in the fabric industry regarding the measurement of breathability. Currently the systems used are not automated, expensive and slow, and the few automated systems used do not often recreate the real sweating conditions. That leads to breathability results that do not match the real performance of the fabrics. This paper presents a system that simulates better the human perspiration. A low-cost system based in Arduino was built and Matlab models were extracted and used to finely tune the PIDs that control the parameters. The software was designed to provide an user friendly operation and to calculate the breathability expressed in commonly used units. This system was proved to be an 80% faster than the current systems in the market, providing a good instrument to perform further studies of different kind of fabrics.
TEG: a hybrid approach to information extraction

This paper describes a hybrid statistical and knowledge-based information extraction model, able to extract entities and relations at the sentence level. The model attempts to retain and improve the high accuracy levels of knowledge-based systems while drastically reducing the amount of manual labor by relying on statistics drawn from a training corpus. The implementation of the model, called TEG (Trainable Extraction Grammar), can be adapted to any IE domain by writing a suitable set of rules in a SCFG (Stochastic Context Free Grammar) based extraction language, and training them using an annotated corpus. The system does not contain any purely linguistic components, such as PoS tagger or parser. We demonstrate the performance of the system on several named entity extraction and relation extraction tasks. The experiments show that our hybrid approach outperforms both purely statistical and purely knowledge-based systems, while requiring orders of magnitude less manual rule writing and smaller amount of training data. The improvement in accuracy is slight for named entity extraction task and more pronounced for relation extraction.
Structural and functional analysis of mutations at the human hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT1) locus

Hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT, also known as HGPRT) is an often‐used genetic marker in eukaryotic cells. The gene is conserved from bacteria to human, with retained catalytic activity, although substrate specificity may have changed, and the enzyme is essential in malaria‐causing protozoans. Inherited mutations in the human HPRT1 gene result in three different phenotypes: Lesch‐Nyhan syndrome (LNS or LND), LND variants, and HPRT‐related hyperuricemia (HRH). In cultured cells, loss of HPRT activity gives rise to 6‐thioguanine (6‐TG) resistance. In general, cells from LND patients are also 6‐TG resistant, whereas cells from HRH patients are not, with some interesting exceptions. Using modeling methods, we have studied the correlation between the mutable and nonmutated amino acid residues on one hand, and sequence conservation and predicted phenotypic effects on the other hand. Our results demonstrate that most of the mutations are explainable by the predicted effect on protein structure and function. They are also consistent with sequence conservation. Moreover, the mutational profiles of TG‐resistant cells and LND overlap to a great extent, while most of the mutations in HRH are unique to that condition. We have also noticed a strong correlation between mutations in the tetramer interfaces and observed phenotypes, suggesting a functional role for a tetramer transition during catalysis. Hum Mutat 23:599–611, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The identity of the base following the stop codon determines the efficiency of in vivo translational termination in Escherichia coli.

A statistical analysis of > 2000 Escherichia coli genes suggested that the base following the translational stop codon might be an important feature of the signal for termination. The strengths of each of 12 possible ‘four base stop signals’ (UAAN, UGAN and UAGN) were tested in an in vivo termination assay that measured termination efficiency by its direct competition with frameshifting. Termination efficiencies varied significantly depending on both the stop codon and the fourth base, ranging from 80 (UAAU) to 7% (UGAC). For both the UAAN and UGAN series, the fourth base hierarchy was U > G > A approximately C. UAG stop codons, which are used rarely in E. coli, showed efficiencies comparable with UAAN and UGAN, but differed in that the hierarchy of the fourth base was G > U approximately A > C. The rate of release factor selection varied 30‐fold at UGAN stop signals, and 10‐fold for both the UAAN and UAGN series; it correlated well with the frequency with which the different UAAN and UGAN signals are found at natural termination sites. The results suggest that the identity of the base following the stop codon determines the efficiency of translational termination in E. coli. They also provide a rationale for the use of the strong UAAU signal in highly expressed genes and for the occurrence of the weaker UGAC signal at several recording sites.
Ski Negatively Regulates Erythroid Differentiation through Its Interaction with GATA1

ABSTRACT The Ski oncoprotein dramatically affects cell growth, differentiation, and/or survival. Recently, Ski was shown to act in distinct signaling pathways including those involving nuclear receptors, transforming growth factor β, and tumor suppressors. These divergent roles of Ski are probably dependent on Ski's capacity to bind multiple partners with disparate functions. In particular, Ski alters the growth and differentiation program of erythroid progenitor cells, leading to malignant leukemia. However, the mechanism underlying this important effect has remained elusive. Here we show that Ski interacts with GATA1, a transcription factor essential in erythropoiesis. Using a Ski mutant deficient in GATA1 binding, we show that this Ski-GATA1 interaction is critical for Ski's ability to repress GATA1-mediated transcription and block erythroid differentiation. Furthermore, the repression of GATA1-mediated transcription involves Ski's ability to block DNA binding of GATA1. This finding is in marked contrast to those in previous reports on the mechanism of repression by Ski, which have described a model involving the recruitment of corepressors into DNA-bound transcription complexes. We propose that Ski cooperates in the process of transformation in erythroid cells by interfering with GATA1 function, thereby contributing to erythroleukemia.
Clustering the polymorphic malware traces

A common threat for maximum computers today are due to malwares. In recent years attackers created different types of malwares which has become a challenge for many anti malware software. The malware companies have generated various forms of same malware. The different forms of the same malware will have similar functionality and same behaviour but with various representation. Here we cluster (group) the similar behaviour malware using number of distance measure. For clustering (group) malware samples we have many approaches which are published. There by different similarity measures are used but without thoroughly discussing their choice. Here we discuss about various similarity measure and their properties to get the accurate output. Our main focus is on behavioural features of malware and compare. Here we have used K means for clustering the malware samples.
Improving the noise performance of communication systems: 1930s to early 1940s [History of Communications]

The development of an understanding of the impact of noise on communication system performance during the 1930s and early 1940s. This followed on earlier work in the 1920s. We described the invention of wideband FM and PCM as being quite pivotal in showing how the proper design of communication systems could lead to a considerable decrease in the impact of noise. In these two cases engineers became aware of the concept that purposely increasing bandwidth could, with certain designs, result in a considerable reduction of noise.
Enzymatic detoxification of gluten by germinating wheat proteases: Implications for new treatment of celiac disease

Introduction. Currently the only treatment for celiac disease is a lifelong gluten-free diet. The diet is, however, often burdensome, and thus new treatment options are warranted. We isolated proteases from germinating wheat grain naturally meant for total digestion of wheat storage proteins and investigated whether these enzymes can diminish toxic effects of gluten in vitro and ex vivo. Methods. Pepsin and trypsin digested (PT) gliadin was pretreated with proteases from germinating wheat, whereafter the degradation was analyzed by HPLC-MS (high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy) and sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The toxicity of cleaved PT-gliadin products was assessed in Caco-2 epithelial cells, celiac patient-derived T cells, and in human small intestinal mucosal organ culture biopsies. Results. Proteases from germinating wheat degraded gliadin into small peptide fragments, which, unlike unprocessed PT-gliadin, did not increase epithelial permeability, induce cytoskeletal rearrangement or changes in ZO-1 expression in Caco-2 cells. Pretreated gliadin did not stimulate T cell proliferation in vitro or enhance the production of autoantibodies to culture supernatants and the activation of CD25+ lymphocytes in the organ culture to the same extent as unprocessed PT-gliadin. Discussion. Germinating wheat enzymes reduce the toxicity of wheat gliadin in vitro and ex vivo. Further studies are justified to develop an alternative therapy for celiac disease.
Utilization of petroleum hydrocarbons by Pseudomonas sp. and transformed Escherichia coli

Our previous studies showed that the biodegradation of petroleum oil by a pseudomonas isolated from a petroleum-contaminated soil was instable. In this work, it is shown that when the isolates are immobilized on Perlite, they are more stable for oil degradation. Although the isolate did not have any chemotaxis to octadecane, dodecane and octane but utilize octadecane and dodecane better than octane and it did not utilized hexane, benzene, kerosene, pentane, heptane or thiophenol. The generation time for degradation of petroleum oil, dodecane and octadecane was 20, 22, and 25 h respectively. This phenotype was not transformed to Pseudomonas by conjugation even with lysozyme treatment, however the petroleum oil and octadecane utilization were transformed to Escherichia coli by lysozyme treatment. The transformed E. coli lost the ability to use octadecane after three subcultures on nutrient broth and 34 generations.
A Conversion of Empirical MOS Transistor Model Extracted from 180 nm Technology to EKV3.0 Model using MATLAB

In this paper, the EKV3.0 model used for RF analog designs was validated in all-inversion regions under bias conditions and geometrical effects. A conversion of empirical data of 180nm CMOS process to EKV model was proposed. A MATLAB developed algorithm for parameter extraction was set up to evaluate the basic EKV model parameters. Respecting the substrate, and as long as the source and drain voltages remain constant, the DC currents and gm/ID real transistors ratio can be reconstructed by means of the EKV model with acceptable accuracy even with short channel devices. The results verify that the model takes into account the second order effects such as DIBL and CLM. The sizing of the elementary amplifier was considered in the studied example. The sizing procedure based on gm/ID methodology was described considering a semi-empirical model and an EKV model. The two gave close results.
Mott transition in degenerate Hubbard models: Application to doped fullerenes.

The Mott-Hubbard transition is studied for a Hubbard model with orbital degeneracy $N$, using a diffusion Monte Carlo method. Based on general arguments, we conjecture that the Mott-Hubbard transition takes place for $\frac{U}{W}\ensuremath{\sim}\sqrt{N}$, where $U$ is the Coulomb interaction and $W$ is the bandwidth. This is supported by exact-diagonalization and Monte Carlo calculations. Realistic parameters for the doped fullerenes lead to the conclusions that stoichiometric ${A}_{3}{\mathrm{C}}_{60}(A=\mathrm{K},\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}\mathrm{R}\mathrm{b})$ are near the Mott-Hubbard transition, in a correlated metallic state.