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Developing an Online Academic Community of Practice

Constructivist approaches to learning suggest that learning within groups is more effective than individual learning. Communities of practice are an example of how individuals can unite around a common theme and collaboratively work together in order exploit the collective knowledge of the group members. Higher education professionals may find particular benefits of working within such communities due to the diverse nature of the profession and the wide knowledge and experience that can be found among their peers. At St Mary’s University College, London, U.K., a strong tradition of excellence in teaching and learning guides institutional strategies to enhance the learning experience for students. An online academic community of practice is being developed in order to heighten the dissemination of good practice among colleagues and improve the sense of community among staff. This paper describes the stages of the development process. It is argued that the developing community of practice is already improving collaboration and dissemination of good practice among St Mary’s staff. The key benefits are accessibility, interactivity and feeling of ownership. As the community evolves and matures, it is expected that knowledge sharing and collaboration will continue to increase, if the barriers that have been identified can be overcome successfully.
Who is Afraid of Machines?

We study how various types of machines, namely, information and communication technologies, software and especially industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in the composition of workers across countries, industries and time. Our data set comprises 10 high-income countries and 30 industries, which span roughly their entire economies, with annual observations over the period 1982–2005. The results suggest that software and robots reduced the demand for low- and medium-skill workers, the young and women – especially in manufacturing industries; but raised the demand for high-skill workers, older workers and men – especially in service industries. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that automation technologies, contrary to other types of capital, replace humans performing routine tasks. We also find evidence for some types of workers, especially women, having shifted away from such tasks.
Second Language Pragmatics

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives. They cover theories of pragmatics learning and research methods in investigating pragmatics, linking these with findings on the acquisition of second language pragmatics and with practice in teaching and assessing pragmatics. Discussing pragmatics in the context of multilingual societies and diverse contexts of use, they offer a broad perspective on this growing area.
Children’s Exercise Physiology

The reorganized and newly revised "Children's Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, " presents the most up-to-date research, methodology, and approaches related to children's physiologic responses to exercise. The book examines not only the current major issues that separate children from adults, but also the underlying mechanisms of these differences. Readers will learn what makes children different from adults physiologically--such as size, biochemical differences, neuromuscular differences, and lack of sexual and hormonal maturation--and the reasons for these differences. Those involved with young athletes, disease management, and health promotion will gain valuable insight into the physiologic determinants of exercise performance. Children's exercise physiology is a fast-moving field. In the eight years since the first edition of this book was published, much new information has surfaced. This streamlined new edition contains 13 instead of 15 chapters, an introduction, and updated features: -Chapter objectives, discussion questions and research directions, and a glossary of terms promote learning. -A reorganized table of contents improves the flow from chapter to chapter. -A new final chapter covers the role of the central nervous system.Also included is in-depth discussion of the determinants of aerobic fitness and VO2 kinetics and the significance of maximal aerobic power in children. With improved chapters on thermoregulation and metabolic and endocrinologic responses to exercise, you can be confident you're getting the latest information with "Children's Exercise Physiology, Second Edition. "
Foto-kapan Görüntülerinde Hareketli Nesne Tespiti

Camera-traps are usually placed on a fixed point in a forest land and are used to monitor natural life. Millions of images are recorded to investigate the natural life of living things by using camera-traps. Computer based automatic methods are developed for detecting and identifying living things on recorded images. Also problems such as background complexity, moving background, change of light intensity and fragmentations of the object in camera-trap images make moving object detection difficult. In the literature, for this purpose the model images of moving objects obtained from manually are used as preliminary information in classification based methods. Detecting and cropping model images of the objects manually is a difficult, laborious, time-consuming process and requires high workload. In our study, To reduce this workload it was aimed to detect moving objects automatically and to determine the location of moving objects in camera-trap images that obtained from natural environment. In the proposed method for this purpose, background extraction and frame difference methods were applied to the images. Gaussian Average and Mixture of Gaussian were used to create a background model. Gaussian Blur and Median Filter were used to reduce noise and to clarify objects. OTSU thresholding was used to eliminate the errors of foregrounds. In the camera-trap data sets, the success of detecting moving objects was 82% and the object localization success was 80%.
Adherence to treatment in bronchiectasis: A challenge that physiotherapists can’t ignore

The purpose of this article is to highlight the importance for physiotherapists of patient adherence to treatment in bronchiectasis. This review provides evidence that adherence is important in bronchiectasis as it is low and affects health outcomes. We also show that there are a number of potentially modifiable factors that affect adherence that could be targeted through adherence interventions. The most effective methods of measuring adherence or interventions to enhance adherence are not known for bronchiectasis. Therefore, future research should focus on developing accurate and simple methods of adherence Amanda R. McCullough Physiotherapist and Research Fellow, Clinical & Practice Research Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
Conformance or evasion

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how resort managers respond to employment legislation (Law No. 02/2008). Design/methodology/approach The qualitative case study data from seven self-contained tourist resorts in the Maldives were used to investigate the managerial responses to employment legislation. Findings Resort managers’ responses ranged from passive compliance to active resistance, with decoupling through opportunism as the dominant strategy used to circumvent the legislation. Some human resource management (HRM) practices emerged from resort managers’ interactions with external stakeholders and employees. Strategic responses and HRM practices were driven by a search for legitimacy or efficiency and sometimes both. The findings show that there are differences between strategic responses and HRM practices by organisational subfield, local resorts and international hotel chains. The resorts’ market orientation also influenced resort managers’ responses and HRM practices. Research limitations/implications The findings of this paper have limitations because it was limited to a single industry/sector and to a particular piece of legislation. However, it demonstrates the complexity of the relationship between institutional context and HRM. Originality/value This paper shows that responding to employment legislation entails a high level of interplay between the institutional environment and HR actors, and between stakeholders (e.g. employees) and HR actors. It demonstrates the difficulty of reconciling institutional requirements with the preferences of different stakeholders and organisational interests. HR actors actively make sense of institutional requirements and modify HRM practices to accommodate stakeholders’ varying perspectives and preferences. This suggests that in countries such as the Maldives, uneven institutional coverage (e.g. incomplete employment legislation) allows room for organisations to innovate – for better or worse.
Impuesto a las ganancias en Argentina: incidencia distributiva y propuestas de reforma

This paper analyzes the distributional impact of changes to personal income tax in Argentina between 2013-16, and proposes two possible reforms: one aims to index deductions and thresholds in order to mantain equilibrium in real terms, and another to unify income tax and personal contributions. The findings of the Annual Urban Household Survey show that the 2013 tax system had greater collection capacity and greater redistributive impact compared to the system implemented in March 2016. Proposed reforms are then compared with the current situation in 2016, showing that the first proposal leads to an increase in inequality, while the second proposal is a more transparent and progressive tax. Clasificación JEL: D31, D63, H22, H23, H24. Palabras clave: impuesto a las ganancias, distribución del ingreso, reforma tributaria. Este trabajo constituye la tesis de Maestŕıa en Economı́a de la UNLP, realizada bajo la dirección de Jorge P. Puig y co-dirección de Leonardo Gasparini. A ellos agradezco enormemente su valiosa gúıa y apoyo. También agradezco las sugerencias y comentarios de Daniel Artana, Andrés César y Diego Fernández Felices, y de de los participantes del seminario de tesis de Maestŕıa. Los errores son de mi exclusiva responsabilidad. E-mail:victoriavalente03@gmail.com
What are Female University Students' Perceptions of Their Healthcare Needs?

W HAT ARE FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS O F TH EIR HEALTHCARE NEEDS? By Kalhleen K. Loose The purpose of this study was to gain a greater awareness of the self-perceived healthcare needs of female university students. An anonymous questionnaire was sent to a random sampling of the total female enrollment at a midwest university. A Healthcare Concern Score was tabulated on 230 completed questionnaires. There were 21 items identified as concerns. Students in the 17-24 year old age bracket had a h i^ e r healthcare concern score than individuals in the 24-53 year old age bracket. Orem’s Self-care Deficit Theory (1991) was the conceptual framework for this study. The mzyority of identified concerns feU within the category of universal or developmental health care requisites. Information gained from this research effort will assist in developing nursing interventions for this group of individuals.
Transferring Colorization with Smaller Samples

This paper applies transferring learning to colorization and the main body is based on DNN. However, considering the less complexity of the data set and the equipment constraints. We extract global features from vgg pre-trained model instead of Inception-resnet-v2. And we initialize the other parts weights by fix vgg weights. The result shows that we use less training time and sample and get comparable performance.
PROTOTYPING FOR NON-DESIGNERS: REFLECTING ON THE USE OF INTERACTIVE PROTOTYPING TOOLS

Scientists and designers show different problem-solving strategies. Where scientists generally adopt a strategy of analysis; designers are more inclined to solve a problem by synthesis. Instead of striving for a deep understanding and analysis of the problem, a designer tackles a problem by quickly generating a satisfactory solution. Prototyping is one of the tools for designers to conceptualise and realise new product solutions. Fifteen students in their final year at the university following Political and Communication Sciences received an introduction to the programs Makey Makey and Scratch. All participants had little to no experience with programming and prototyping. The reflections on the workshop are described from a teacher and students’ point of view through qualitative interviews and an post survey. Results shine a light on the level of enjoyment, satisfaction and barriers of the students about the new learned tools. We conclude that interactive prototyping for non-designers is valuable and other non-design disciplines can quickly integrate such tools.
India’s 2019 General Election: National Security and the Rise of the Watchmen

ABSTRACT In 2014, Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a landslide victory on a platform that promised rapid economic development, jobs, and prosperity. ‘Good days’ (acche din) were coming, they pledged, and they would deliver them. After five years of lacklustre growth, however, Modi and the BJP approached the 2019 general election in very different terms. Following a terrorist attack in Kashmir and retaliatory air strikes on camps in Pakistani-controlled territory, Modi and his allies restyled themselves as a chowkidars (‘watchmen’), insisting that they were best placed to keep India safe and secure. This article analyses that shift, arguing that far from simply opportunistic, it represented the culmination of a broader push, dating back to 2014, to use foreign and security policy to bolster Modi’s image and consolidate the BJP’s electoral dominance.
TAFE teacher's knowledge bases: Analysis of the Diploma in VET

In a recent article, Robertson (2008) used twelve knowledge bases proposed by Turner-Bisset (2001) to show that completion of the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment does not guarantee development of the full set of knowledge bases required of a professional teacher. In Victoria, under a state-wide agreement, TAFE teachers seeking unhindered progression through salary scales are required to complete the Diploma in Vocational Education and Training Practice (or equivalent). The current paper extends the analysis described above to evaluate if completion of the Diploma in Vocational Education and Training Practice is likely to allow vocational teachers to develop the knowledge bases required of professional educators.
Chronic hip and knee pain in parents and theiradult offspring: family linkage data from the HUNT study

Background: Pain is a complex subjective sensation and is considered to be a huge global health concern. Several studies have suggested pain and chronic pain to cluster within families, but these studies have mainly focused on fibromyalgia and spinal pain. However, there is little knowledge concerning intergenerational transfer of chronic pain in knees and hips.Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate a possible association between parents and their adult offspring occurrence of chronic knee and hip pain, and further to examine if a potential association is stronger for subjects with higher levels of pain due to osteoarthritis.Method: This study is based on answers from 11 080 parent-offspring trios participating in the Nord-Trondelag Health Study (HUNT). The HUNT study includes health and lifestyle related questions - including occurrence and localization of chronic pain. Through a linkage with the Family Registry at Statistics Norway, relations between adult offspring and parents in the HUNT data were established (parental data from HUNT2 (1995-97) and offspring data from HUNT3 (2006-08)). Logistic regression analysis was used to estimate odds ratio (OR) for the association between parents and their adult offspring occurrence of chronic pain in knee and hip.Results: Overall, 4.9% (542) of the sons and 8% (886) of the daughters reported knee pain, whereas corresponding figures for hip pain are 3.6% (398) and 9.5% (1053), respectively. The OR for chronic knee pain when mothers reported chronic knee pain was 1.8 (95% CI 1.5-2.2) in daughters and 1.3 (95% CI 1.0-1.6) in sons. When father reported knee pain the OR was 1.1 (95% CI 0.9-1.4) in daughters and 1.3 (95% CI 1.0-1.6) in sons. The OR for chronic hip pain when mothers reported chronic hip pain was 1.5 (95% CI 1.3-1.8) in daughters and 1.4 (95% CI 1.1-1.8) in sons. When fathers reported hip pain the OR was 1.4 (95%CI 1.2-1.7) in daughters and 1.5 (95% CI 1.1-1.9) in sons. If the pain was accompanied by osteoarthritis, the association was somewhat stronger in sons, compared to the association from the main analyses.Conclusion: In this present study, the results indicate an overall increased OR for chronic knee and hip pain among adult offspring of parents reporting chronic pain in the same region. Although genetic and environmental effects cannot be separated in this study, these results suggest a heritable component in the occurrence of chronic knee and hip pain.
Long-term leisure-time physical activity vs. inactivity, physical fitness, body composition and metabolic health characteristics : a co-twin control study

Leskinen, Tuija Long-term leisure-time physical activity vs. inactivity, physical fitness, body composition and metabolic health characteristics: a co-twin control study Jyvaskyla: University of Jyvaskyla, 2013, 99 p. (Studies in Sport, Physical education and health ISSN 0356-1070; 194) ISBN 978-951-39-5208-2 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-5209-9 (PDF) Finnish summary Diss. If an individual is physically active or inactive, then this may have a major impact on health and disease development. In this thesis, the associations between longterm leisure-time physical activity vs. inactivity and health outcomes were studied among 16 middle-aged and older twin pairs (7 were monozygotic pairs who share all of their genes at the sequence level) with a persistent discordance in their leisure-time physical activity habits. At the end of the follow-up, clinical exercise test with cycle ergometer, maximal isometric knee extensor force, and body composition were assessed. Visceral fat area, liver fat score and thigh composition were measured using MRI. The results revealed that the physically active twins had 23% higher VO2peak values than their inactive co-twins but also 20% higher knee extensor forces although no further significant intrapair differences in skeletal muscle properties were found. The follow-up weight gain was attenuated among the physically active twins but there was no significant intrapair difference in body weight at the end of the follow-up (p=0.12). However, the inactive twins had significantly more body fat, 1.5 times more visceral and midthigh intramuscular (extramyocellular) fat and a higher liver fat score compared to their active co-twins. The intrapair difference in the level of ectopic fat was also significant among monozygotic cotwins. To further understand the underlying mechanisms, biopsies were taken from m. vastus lateralis and abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue from 10 volunteer pairs for the gene expression analysis. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis revealed up-regulated metabolic pathways (such as oxidative phosphorylation and valine, leucine and isoleucine degradation) among the active compared to the inactive twins. The expression centroids of these gene sets were associated with cardio-metabolic risk factors, including fitness. In conclusion, long-term leisure-time physical activity is associated with a better physical fitness and in particular with a lowered rate of ectopic fat accumulation. Therefore regular long-term leisure-time physical activity may confer a major benefit in combatting the appearance of cardio-metabolic disease.
AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL MUSLIM TRAVEL INDEX: A STUDY ON THE PERSPECTIVES OF PERMITTED TOURISM INDUSTRY IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT

The prime objective of this study is to assess the relationship between rank of Global Muslim Travel Index (GMTI) and the services composed into GMTI such as Prayers Places (PRPL), Airport Facilities (AIRP), Unique Experiences (UNIQ), Hotel (HOTE), and Restaurant (REST) which are the independent variables. Cross sectional quantitative data of 30 countries connected to components of the Permitted tourism services are collected from the Institution of Crescent Rating 2018. The dependent variable is RANK: Global Rank of GMTI 2018. The prime tools used in this study are Correlation, ANOVA, Multiple Regression, Histogram, and PP-Plot. It is found that As Hotel (HOTE): Hotel facilities are increased by one unit, Global Rank of GMTI (RANK) of the respective country is lowered by 0. 352. Inverse linear relationship between Global Rank of GMTI 2018 and other factors are significantly estimated in the different degrees of strength.
Teaching and learning terminology in secondary education: Towards specialisation through language

Teaching a second language involves the elicitation and acquisition of the general expressions that may be useful for students in everyday situations in which the target language is spoken. However, in the present context of strong scientific de-velopment, many learners are also faced with the need to become acquainted with terminology (i.e. technical and/or specialised vocabulary) representing complex and abstract concepts. This holds especially true for immersion programmes, in which stu-dents must gain an understanding of curricular subjects such as mathematics or history entirely in a second language. A methodology is proposed in this paper for retriev-ing domain lexicons from texts which can contribute to the acquisition of specialised knowledge at later stages of pre-tertiary education. The paper first discusses the im-plementation of a five-phase learning strategy for students with no prior experience in terminology extraction and management, and then presents DEXTER, a tool suitable both for autonomous and in-class work. As it will be shown, the tool provides relevant results even with a relatively small amount of data, thus allowing a fast learning curve.
First to "Read" the News: New Analytics and Algorithmic Trading

Exploiting a unique identification strategy based on inaccurate news analytics, we document an effect of news analytics on the market independent of the informational content of the news. We show that news analytics speed up the stock price and trading volume response to articles, but reduce liquidity. Inaccurate news analytics lead to small price distortions that are corrected quickly. The market impact of news analytics is greatest for press releases, as news analytics exhibit a particular skill in “seeing through” the positive spin of press releases. Furthermore, we provide evidence that high-frequency traders rely on the information from news analytics for directional trading on company-specific news. Received: May 17, 2018; Editorial decision: June 14, 2019 by Editor: Thierry Foucault. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.