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Review of educational strategies to facilitate desirable attitudes toward gerontological nursing

Purpose: This study reviewed the innovative educational strategies that have been implemented successfully in US baccalaureate nursing education programs to facilitate appropriate attitudes about caring for older adults. Methods: The data were collected through a search of PubMed and CINAHL using the key words, gerontological or geriatric, attitudes about aging or older people, baccalaureate or undergraduate nursing education or curriculum. Results: The successful strategies are categorized as follows: 1) a multidisciplinary approach integrating aging issues and gerontological contents into diverse nursing courses, 2) active participation of community-dwelling healthy older individuals as an educational mentor, 3) use of audiovisual materials to investigate the misconceptions and attitudes about aging, and 4) discussion through critical thinking and self-reflection toward aging. Implications: For the interdisciplinary approach within nursing courses, it is essential to derive the key contents for gerontological nursing applicable to integration into diverse nursing courses. In addition, it is necessary to provide administrative support for implementing innovative strategies and constructing consistent partnerships with the community for active participation of the elderly as a mentor. Lastly, recognizing the significance of educational strategies for enhancing desirable attitudes toward gerontological nursing and supporting the development of educational capability of a faculty are key issues.
Interactive Avatars for Triggering Emotional Responses

Virtual reality technology has seen explosive growth in the last few years, continuously improving user immersion on virtual environments. The affordability and diversity of such technology has led on to a wide array of applications being developed and released. This thesis focus on a usually neglected part of these environments, the avatars that populate them. It proposes the use of an emotional model to control the avatars’ behaviour, endowing them with some semblance of intelligence. This allows for the creation of applications where the avatars play a central role instead of just being there for decorative purposes. During the course of this dissertation three different scenarios were developed, exploring some of the many uses such avatars might have. The first and second scenarios were also evaluated by a group of participants in terms of usability and effectiveness respectively.
“This is a Learning Opportunity”: How Parent–Child Interactions and Exhibit Design Foster the Museum Learning of Prior-to-School Aged Children

Abstract Recent research indicates that museums hold great potential for children’s engagement and learning. To date, most research has either focused on school-aged children or young children’s independent learning engagement and, as a result, little research has investigated how museum spaces may foster and enhance the interactive learning of families with prior-to-school-age children. The current study sought to investigate which features of museum spaces might promote rich learning conversations within such families when visiting three metropolitan museums. Applying an interpretivist lens on video data generated from child and parent videos, and analyzing postvisit interview data, this study found shared attention, questioning, technical vocabulary, and cognitive connections featured in the learning conversations in such spaces. Further, intricate detail, different perspectives, interactivity and multimodality were significant exhibit design features that appeared to promote such learning conversations. Implications for exhibit design are discussed in relation to the undergirding concept of sustained shared thinking.
Blurred lines: A phenomenological study of maternal-child interconnection.

This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of maternal-child interconnection among 12 mothers raising children with developmental disabilities who also had communication challenges. During semistructured interviews, mothers told stories of maternal-child interconnection that described a sacred, mutual, and unique interpenetration of experiences between mother and child that was nurtured and sustained by ongoing togetherness. Maternalchild interconnection allowed mothers to understand their children’s unique communication; therefore, they effectively advocated for their children amid health care environments. Mothers noted that their children’s care was compromised when their unique “knowing” of their children was ignored. The results indicated similarities to the existing literature that defined a complex, leaky body and challenged the traditional notion of Cartesian dualism, as well as offered insight into the value of maternal knowledge. Theologically speaking, the results of this study explored pastoral and spiritual care within communities that endorsed a supportive, affirming, and nonanxious form of authentic friendship for caregiving mothers who might vicariously enter their children’s experiences. Similarly, the imago Dei was considered as a source of insight for interconnected, embodied knowledge.
Educational platform of region’s digital modernization in Industry 4.0

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to substantiate the importance of an educational platform for digital modernization of modern Russia’s regions in Industry 4.0 and to determine the functions and conceptual foundations of organization of regional market of educational services for execution of functions for stimulation of digital modernization of Russia’s regional economy. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the method of regression analysis for studying the influence of the indicators of adaptation of the market of educational services to the conditions of Industry 4.0 on efficiency of digital modernization of economy of the regions of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation as of late 2018-early 2019. The information and empirical basis of the paper is materials of the index “Digital Russia” of the Moscow School of Management “Skolkovo. ” Findings It is determined that the market of educational services plays an important role in the process of transition of regions of modern Russia to Industry 4.0, performing two functions: training of personnel who are capable of working with digital technologies and training of personnel who are capable of creating new digital technologies at a region’s companies. As a result, the educational platform of digital modernization of the regional economy is formed. The developed conceptual foundations of an organization of the regional market of educational services for execution of its functions on stimulating the digital modernization of Russia’s regional economy allow for three variants of the process of training of personnel: within execution of the order of partner companies in a regional technological park, within participation of the region’s companies in a tender for training of personnel and within an independent initiation of the process of training of personnel by universities based on the results of digital marketing. Originality/value The offered authors’ recommendations ensure the following advantages during the creation and development of the educational platform of a region’s digital modernization in Industry 4.0: high marketing activity of universities, direct sequence of training of personnel and improved treatment of the effectiveness of regional universities as the ratio of efficiency in personnel training to expenditures, which stimulates competition between universities and maximization of effectiveness of educational platform of a region’s digital modernization in Industry 4.0.
Making-based coding activities for young students: Design meaningful learning experiences

The Maker Movement has gathered much attention recently and has been one of the fastest-growing topics, due to contemporary technical and infrastructural developments. The maker culture can be described as a philosophy in which individuals or groups of individuals create artifacts that are recreated and assembled using software and/or physical objects. Typical topics of interest in maker culture include engineering-oriented pursuits such as electronics, robotics, 3D printing, and computer numerical control tools, as well as more traditional activities such as sewing or arts and crafts. Scholars and educators have reported a variety of outcomes from the Maker Movement as an instructional process;
Impersonal statements: aspiration and cruel optimism in the English higher education application process

ABSTRACT Full-time undergraduate applicants to English universities must apply via the University and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS). By analysing the UCAS statements of 15 undergraduate applicants this article attempts to develop a critical understanding of the role that the personal statement has in applicants’ formation of themselves as subjects within higher education. The article explores how UCAS’s advice around the personal statements draws on discourses that frame higher education as an investment in human capital. Through a textual analysis of applicants’ statements, the article explores how applicants come to present themselves as competitive subjects within their personal statements, and suggests they adopt this position not because they are preparing themselves for the unlimited number of student places in higher education, but for the limited number of graduate jobs that await afterwards. The article suggests there is a ‘cruel optimism’ to this element of the application process, linked to structural inequalities.
A focus group consultation round exploring patient experiences of comfort during radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

Abstract Purpose The aim of this study was to consult patients about their experiences of comfort while wearing a thermoplastic mask during head and neck radiotherapy before designing a study to develop a comfort scale for radiotherapy. Methods A qualitative method using a focus group of patients receiving radiotherapy for head and neck cancer was deployed. Five patients were invited and agreed to participate. Semi-structured questions guided the focus group interview. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes. Findings Three patients participated in the focus group. Three main themes were identified: Physical comfort, Mental perception, Passivity. Physical comfort derived from feelings of pressure, unpleasantness, and generally being uncomfortable. Mental perception derived from how the physical comfort was perceived and derived from feelings of shock, anxiety, indifference and sensory systems. Passivity arose from feelings such as the ‘doctor knows best’, ‘putting up with it’, and ‘being taken for a ride’. Conclusion The insight of patient’s comfort and experiences are valuable for clinicians to provide patient-centred care. Findings of this study implicate further investigation of how the themes of patient comfort can be measured in radiotherapy to improve the patient experience.
Talking About and Beyond Censorship: Mapping Topic Clusters in the Chinese Twitter Sphere

As a social media platform officially blocked in mainland China, Chinese Twitter has turned into an alternative and transnational digital space. Through the perspective of alternative spaces, this study explores the views and attitudes of Chinese Twitter users toward Internet censorship and how Chinese Twitter is generated and maintained as an alternative digital space. We applied latent Dirichlet allocation and identified 5 distinctive thematic clusters characterizing this alternative space, which spanned three types of activities: sharing technical knowledge, expressing political opinions, and disseminating alternative news items. Users employed spatial markers in their discussions to distinguish the Chinese Twitter sphere from other spaces. To maintain Chinese Twitter as an alternative digital space, sharing technical knowledge and information is as important as political resistance. Although it is a transnational digital space, the Chinese Twitter sphere is influenced by Chinese culture and takes advantage of it.
What newborn screening doesn't tell us

It has been the goal of the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) since 1970 to identify hearing loss in infants and provide them with habilitation as early in life as possible. Unfortunately, even as late as the 1990s, most studies found that the median age of identification of hearing loss was 12 to 24 months of age. It has been only from reports where universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) programs were in place that the median age of identification of congenital hearing loss was approximately 3 months. UNHS has been recommended by the National Institutes of Health, JCIH, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the European Consensus Development Conference. The recommended screening tools are transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs), distortionproduct otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs), and auditory brainstem response (ABR). It is the goal of any screening program to identify all the infants with hearing loss (100% sensitivity) and pass all the infants with normal hearing (100% specificity). These calculations require that the result of every screening test (not just the fails) be compared to a “gold standard” (behavioral audiogram), and, ideally, both should be measured at the same time. Because newborns cannot comply with behavioral threshold testing, newborn hearing screening tests must be compared to behavioral testing performed when the infant is older. Norton and her colleagues compared DPOAE, TEOAE, and ABR results performed at birth to behavioral thresholds measured using ear-specific visual reinforcement audiometry at 8 to 12 months corrected age in 2995 infants. Using relative operating characteristic curves, they found that the best test performance for any of the three measures was approximately 90%. Davis et al. concluded that 90% detection of hearing loss in newborns would be achieved by screening every child at birth, based on a critical review of the literature and study of newborn hearing programs in the United Kingdom. Lutman et al. found an 80% sensitivity for TEOAEs measured at birth for a small group (n=45) of children behaviorally tested at 2 to 8 years of age. Suffice it to say, at this time, technology and procedures to screen for hearing loss at birth can detect the great majority of early childhood hearing loss, but not 100%. WHAT ARE WE MISSING? The important question to ask is, “What hearing loss are we missing in infants? ” The answer can be divided into three categories:
The course changes in maximal strength velocity following a traditional strength- or power orientated training session

8 Introduction . 10 Research Questions and Hypothesis . 13 Limitations . 14 Delimitations . 14 Review of the Literature . 15 Strength and Power Training . 17 Measuring Movement Velocity . 18 Load-Velocity Relationship . 20 Load-Velocity Profiles. 22 1RM Predictions . 23 Athlete Fatigue Monitoring . 25 Conclusion . 26 Methods. 27 Study Participants . 27 Experimental Protocol . 27 Data Collection . 28 Data Analysis . 30 Statistical Analysis . 30 Results . 31 Descriptive Results . 31 Strength-Orientated Training Velocities and Force . 31 Power-Orientated Training Velocities and Force . 34 Maximal Strength Return . 36
Stepparent–Child Relationship Quality and Couple Relationship Quality: Stepfamily Household Type as a Moderating Influence

Stepparent–child relationships and new couple relationships are core pillars of stepfamily functioning and well-being. Although research generally indicates that stepparent–child relationship quality and couple relationship quality are positively associated, questions remain about in which contexts and from whose perspective this association holds. Using reports from parents and stepparents in a sample of 291 stepfamily heterosexual couples, we assess whether stepfamily household type (i.e., mother–stepfather, father–stepmother) moderates the association between stepparent–child relationship quality and couple relationship quality. Results indicate that stepparent–child relationship quality and couple relationship quality are positively associated in both mother–stepfather and father–stepmother families, and from the vantage point of both parents and stepparents. The positive association is significantly larger in mother–stepfather families from the vantage point of stepfathers. Implications for future research and practice with stepfamilies are discussed.
Learning to yield: body psychotherapy and complex posttraumatic stress disorder

ABSTRACT Historically, the symptoms of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) have been difficult to treat. Due to the complex and varied manifestation of C-PTSD, treatment of symptoms is not easily resolved with current pharmacologic and therapeutic modalities and approaches alone. Untreated childhood trauma inhibits the ability to regulate arousal to stimulus that may be perceived as threatening; creating chronic nervous system activation even when actual threats are not present. The experiences of our lives shape our bodies and our patterns of movement. Working with the body’s developmental movement patterns as a somatic resource can provide an entry point into the client’s psyche in a way that cognition alone cannot provide. Using techniques, like breathwork, to learn how to notice body sensations improves self-regulation, developing body-based resources the client can use to yield; improving regulation of the nervous system and promoting the reduction of C-PTSD symptoms.
The Various Roles of Th17 cells and Th17-related Cytokines in Pathophysiology of Autoimmune Arthritis and Allied Conditions

There is an increasing amount of evidence suggesting the importance of CD4+ T cells, particularly IL-17-producing helper T cells (Th17), in the pathology of rheumatoid diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. In various mouse models, arthritis has been reported to be markedly decreased because of IL-17 deficiency. Genetic polymorphisms in Th17 and Th17-related cytokines have also been reported in association with human rheumatoid diseases. This review summarizes the role of Th17 in mouse and human joint pathology and discusses the role of Th17 cells in the pathology of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and Behcet’s disease. Th17 cells play a significant role in the main pathology of these diseases. They are involved in the onset of arthritis and articular bone destruction due to osteoclastogenesis in rheumatoid arthritis. They are also involved in acanthosis and parakeratosis of the skin in psoriasis and migration and activation of neutrophils in Behcet\'s disease. Therefore, Th17 cells may have significant potential to function as therapeutic targets for these diseases.
Motivating Smokers to Quit Through a Computer-based Conversational System

Motivating Smokers to Quit Through a Computer-Based Conversational System Fahad Almusharraf Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2019 Cigarette smoking contributes to one in every five deaths annually in the United States according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The majority of cigarette smokers are unmotivated to quit, meaning that they don’t plan to attempt to quit or seek help in quitting within the next six months. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an effective counselling style for eliciting behaviour change. This thesis presents an Artificial Intelligent (AI) conversational system that uses MI to engage smokers in a conversation about smoking, with the goal of moving them towards a decision to quit. A total of 221 subjects were recruited online to participate in two studies. The first study engages 121 subjects in a conversation to improve the system’s Natural Language Understanding (NLU) abilities. The second study engages 100 subjects in a conversation and measures the effectiveness of the system in increasing their motivation to quit. The result of the two studies shows potential for the conversational system to help an unmotivated smoker to move towards the decision to quit.
HARMONI DI BANJARAN: INTERAKSI SUNNI-SYIAH

This paper shows the interaction of Sunni- Shia followers in Banjaran Bangsri, Jepara and the violence impact experienced by Shia followers in many regions toward Shia followers in Banjaran Bangsri.The relationship between Sunni and Shia shows a harmonious life in social interaction. They realize that they have different ways of worship but they do not want to widen those differences. They live together in socio-humanitarian relation. They respect each other. It occurs because the existence of Mbah Muhammad Arif who unified Sunni and Syiah. Mbah Muhammad Arif was the founder of Banjaran as well as the Islam disseminator at Banjaran. There is no conflict between Sunni-Shia followers although there was any religious sentiment after Sunni-Syiah conflict in Sampang Madura and it does not influence the relationship between Sunni-Syiah at Banjaran Bangsri Jepara.
‘Collaborate to graduate’: what works and why?

ABSTRACT Collaboration is recognised as valuable in enhancing students’ learning as well as their social integration and sense of belonging at an institution, which lead to higher retention rates. We investigate the informal, self-organised collaborative practices of military and civilian engineering students in out-of-class settings using a mixed-methods approach including a weekly survey and in-depth interviews. We find that these students collaborate frequently and pervasively and have developed informal codes of ethics around sharing. Most of the students believe that collaboration with peers is the most effective form of study support. However, we also find that some students may remain isolated. The aspects of the institution and the engineering programme that support these collaborative processes are identified. These aspects include the concurrent military training, which fosters a collaborative rather than competitive or individualistic culture, residential accommodation, and the type of assessment used in engineering. Implications for non-military campuses are discussed.
Using Learning Media to Increase Learning Motivation in Elementary School

This research is a preliminary study that aims to find out how the learning process is implemented in the classroom and how the students' learning motivation. The method used in this research is qualitative research method. Methods of data collection in the form of observation and interview. The results of observations made with elementary school teachers in Purbalingga, Indonesia found that in the learning of teachers using lecture methods and learning resources used were books. The use of lecture methods in the learning process does not attract students so students do not understand the material presented and student learning motivation decreased. In addition, students are also more interested in chatting with the classmate, daydreaming, and busy by themselves. Learning resources are always used is a book, where the delivery of all material comes from the book so that students quickly get bored and difficult to understand the material. Interview results make students more interested in the learning process using media other than books. Therefore, another alternative in the learning process is needed to improve students' learning motivation. One alternative is to utilize technology as a medium in the learning process.