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Innovation and Re-Invention: A Brief Review Of Educational Technology In Australia

Educational technology in Australia has seen a diverse and rich history across the various education sectors. The face of educational technology, the thinking behind the technology and the terminology used to describe the undertakings has changed considerably over time. However, a number of characteristics have remained constant. This article tells the story of educational technology in Australia over the past 30 years, tracing the ebb and flow, decline of the old and adoption of new technologies and approaches. Finally, it draws together some propositions for the future of educational technology in Australia. Innovation et re-invention : brève revue de la technologie de l'éducation en Australie. La technologie de l'éducation a connu une histoire variée et riche dans des secteurs d'éducation variés. La nature de la technologie de l'éducation et la terminologie utilisée pour décrire les initiatives ont changé considérablement au cours des années. Cependant un certain nombre de caractéristiques sont demeurées constantes - cet article décrit les 30 derniers années retracant le flux et reflux, le déclin des veilles technologies et l'adoption de nouvelles ainsi que de nouvelles approches. Finalement il regroupe des propositions pour l'avenir de la technologie de l'éducation en Australie. Innovation und Wiederentdeckung : die Entwicklung der Bildungstechnologien in Australien. Die Unterrichtstechnologie in Australien hat eine reiche Tradition in den vielfältigen Bildungsangeboten. Die Beschaffenheit der Technologie, das damit verbundene technische Denken und die Terminologie, die benutzt wurde um die Vorgänge zu erläutern, haben sich inzwischen verändert, aber gewisse Eigenheiten sind geblieben. Dieser Artikel berichtet über die Entwicklung der Bildungstechnologie in Australien während der letzten 30 Jahre, dem Auf und Ab, dem Untergang alter und die Einführung neuer Technologien und ihrer Anwendungen. Daraus ergeben sich zwei Vorschläge für die Bildungstechnologie der Zukunft in Australien.
Signalling from endoplasmic reticulum to nucleus: transcription factor with a basic‐leucine zipper motif is required for the unfolded protein‐response pathway

Background: Accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) triggers the transcriptional induction of molecular chaperones and folding enzymes localized in the ER. Thus, eukaryotic cells possess an intracellular signalling pathway from the ER to the nucleus, called the unfolded protein‐response (UPR) pathway. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, such induction is mediated by the cis‐acting unfolded protein‐response element (UPRE) which has been thought to be recognized by one or more transcription factor(s).
A Regional Supply and Demand Model for Inpatient Hospital Care

In this paper a regional supply and demand model for hospital admissions is developed which can be used for policymaking and planning purposes. It incorporates spatial factors such as travel-time costs into a model of market equilibrium in which waiting time acts implicitly as the equilibrating device. By distinguishing travel-time costs or distances it is shown that both supply and demand within local markets strongly influence admissions in a way which cannot be observed on aggregated levels: the tension between supply and demand is cushioned by a strong redistribution of patients. The model encompasses several well-known models for patient flows and hospital utilization originating in regional economics.
Multihospital surveillance of pneumonia burden among children aged <5 years hospitalized for pneumonia in Bangladesh.

BACKGROUND Pneumonia contributes substantially to childhood mortality in Bangladesh. We conducted a study to characterize the disease severity and risk factors for mortality among children hospitalized for pneumonia in Bangladesh. METHODS We analyzed data on hospitalization, patient characteristics, and mortality collected by a multicenter hospital-based surveillance of pneumonia in Bangladesh. RESULTS From May 2004 through April 2007, 4155 children aged 2-59 months who met a pneumonia case definition adopted by GAVI's Pneumococcal Vaccines Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan-sponsored surveillance networks were enrolled after blood culture specimens were obtained. The mean duration (+/-SD) from illness onset to hospital admission was 6+/- days; 1842 children (44%) received antimicrobial treatment before hospitalization, and an additional 924 (22%) received antimicrobial treatment after admission to the hospital. Bacteria were isolated from 161 (4%) of the 4155 specimens, including 10 (6%) Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates and 5 (3%) Haemophilus influenzae type b isolates. The case-fatality rate for pneumonia in the hospital was 4% (150 deaths), and the children who died did so after a median of 2 days of hospitalization (range, 0-24 days). Infancy was highly associated with death due to pneumonia (odds ratio [OR], 2.0; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.3-3.2), as were very severe pneumonia (OR, 7.9; 95% CI, 5.6-11.2), a blood culture positive for bacteria (OR, 3.4; 95% CI, 2.0-5.8), severe malnutrition (OR, 4.6; 95% CI, 2.9-7.4), and delayed admission (mean [+/-SD] duration from illness onset to admission, 6+/-6 days, compared with 5+/-4 days for survivors; P< .04). CONCLUSIONS The prevalence of pneumonia among children aged <5 years in hospitals in Bangladesh is high. However, the isolation rate of bacteria is low, possibly because of the high (68%) background use of antibiotics. Multiple risk factors associated with pneumonia case fatality suggest multiple strategies, including vaccines, to reduce pneumonia-related and overall child mortality in Bangladesh.
A Step Forward in Teaching Addiction Counselors How to Supervise Motivational Interviewing Using a Clinical Trials Training Approach

ABSTRACT A clinical trials training approach to supervision is a promising and empirically supported method for preparing addiction counselors to implement evidence-based behavioral treatments in community treatment programs. This supervision approach has three main components: (1) direct observation of treatment sessions; (2) structured performance feedback about counselors' treatment adherence and competence; and (3) coaching to improve the ability of counselors to implement psychosocial treatments proficiently. This article describes how to teach addiction counselors this approach to supervision as it is applied to Motivational Interviewing (MI) using a clinical supervision procedure called Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency. We describe teaching points and strategies instructors may use to develop supervisory skills in each of the three main supervision components (performance observation, feedback, and coaching), how to supervise in a MI consistent manne.
'I know a 2:1 when I see it': Understanding criteria for degree classifications in franchised university programmes

Assessment in higher education is criticised for subjective and norm-referenced criteria. It is widely assumed that clear learning outcomes and criteria make assessment more accessible to students and enable teachers to make more reliable grading decisions. Meanwhile, university programmes are increasingly fragmented amongst other departments or franchised to external providers. Universities must therefore communicate expectations of 'standards' to staff who are not part of a day-to-day university culture. The paper argues that, on their own, assessment criteria cannot generate common interpretations of the required level and standard of work. Instead, internalising and using criteria require a more strategic approach to inducting and socialising staff into an academic community. Unless this socialisation takes account of professional, social and affective dimensions, criteria and guidelines will have limited effects on communicating reliable standards and on raising standards of achievement.
Slow Feature Analysis for Recognizing Prisoner ’ s Activities to Assist Jail Authorities

-Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) has been established as a robust and versatile technique from the neurosciences to learn slowly varying functions from quickly changing signals. SFA framework is introduced to the problem of recognizing prisoner’s actions by incorporating the supervised information with the original unsupervised SFA learning. Firstly, large amount of cuboids are collected in the motion boundaries, and local feature is described with SFA method. Each action sequence is represented by the Accumulated Squared Derivative (ASD), which is a statistical distribution of the slow features in an action sequence [1]. The descriptive statistical features are extracted inorder to reduce the dimension of the ASD feature is proposed. Finally, one against all support vector machine (SVM) is trained to classify action represented by statistical features.
A Mediational Model Linking Self-Objectification, Body Shame, and Disordered Eating

This study tests a mediational model of disordered eating derived from objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). The model proposes that the emotion of body shame mediates the relationship between self-objectification and disordered eating. Two samples of undergraduate women (n = 93, n = 111) completed self-report questionnaires assessing self-objectification, body shame, anorexic and bulimic symptoms, and dietary restraint. Findings in both samples supported the mediational model. Additionally, a direct relationship between self-objectification and disordered eating was also observed. Implications and future research directions are discussed.
Chrononymes. La politisation du temps

Nous appelons chrononyme une expression, simple ou complexe, servant a designer en propre une portion de temps que la communaute sociale apprehende, singularise, associe a des actes censes lui donner une coherence, ce qui s’accompagne du besoin de la nommer. A cote des etiquettes strictement calendaires existe en effet tout un appareil de denominations seul a meme de permettre a une societe de penser son histoire, et dont la categorie fait l’objet des etudes rassemblees dans ce dossier.Catego.
Overcoming Requirements Engineering Challenges: Lessons from Offshore Outsourcing

With outsourcing on the rise, every relation between an outsourcer and a vendor calls for collaboration between multiple organizations across multiple locations. As part of a global IT-services organization with high process maturity, we have had many opportunities to understand the requirements engineering life cycle related to global software development. RE is a software project's most critical phase; the RE phase's success is essential for the project's success. Case studies from an Indian IT-services firm provide insights into the root causes of RE phase conflicts in client-vendor offshore-outsourcing relationships
Automatic Parameter Optimization Based on CSP in Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interface

The Common Spatial Pattern (CSP) algorithm is a popular method for calculating spatial� lters in motor imagery braincomputerinterfacesystem. However,the performanceofCSP is in�A uenced by several factors such as the selection of channels, time window length, frequency band and etc. One of the existing problems is that some above parameters for CSP is tuned manually in most of papers in the literature. Hence, a strategy of automatic parameter optimization for CSP feature is great helpful to reduce the exhausting tuning work. In this paper, we focus on exploring a step by step method to tune most of the parameters automatically. The experiment results show that high classi� cation accuracy is achieved by the strategy of automatic parameter optimization.
Power Constrained Test Scheduling for 3D Stacked Chips: poster

This paper addresses test application time (TAT) reduction for core-based 3D Stacked ICs (SICs). Applying traditional test scheduling methods for non-stacked chip testing where the same test schedule is applied both at wafer test and at final test to SICs, lead to unnecessarily high TAT. This is because the final test of 3D SICs includes the testing of all the stacked chips. A key challenge in 3D SIC testing is to reduce TAT by cooptimizing the wafer test and the final test while meeting power constraints. We consider a system of chips with cores equipped with dedicated BIST-engines and propose a test scheduling approach that reduces TAT while power constraints are met. Depending on the test schedule, the control lines that are required for BIST can be shared among several BIST engines. This is taken into account in the test scheduling approach and experiments show significant savings in TAT.
Prosocial primates: selfish and unselfish motivations

Non-human primates are marked by well-developed prosocial and cooperative tendencies as reflected in the way they support each other in fights, hunt together, share food and console victims of aggression. The proximate motivation behind such behaviour is not to be confused with the ultimate reasons for its evolution. Even if a behaviour is ultimately self-serving, the motivation behind it may be genuinely unselfish. A sharp distinction needs to be drawn, therefore, between (i) altruistic and cooperative behaviour with knowable benefits to the actor, which may lead actors aware of these benefits to seek them by acting cooperatively or altruistically and (ii) altruistic behaviour that offers the actor no knowable rewards. The latter is the case if return benefits occur too unpredictably, too distantly in time or are of an indirect nature, such as increased inclusive fitness. The second category of behaviour can be explained only by assuming an altruistic impulse, which—as in humans—may be born from empathy with the recipient's need, pain or distress. Empathy, a proximate mechanism for prosocial behaviour that makes one individual share another's emotional state, is biased the way one would predict from evolutionary theories of cooperation (i.e. by kinship, social closeness and reciprocation). There is increasing evidence in non-human primates (and other mammals) for this proximate mechanism as well as for the unselfish, spontaneous nature of the resulting prosocial tendencies. This paper further reviews observational and experimental evidence for the reciprocity mechanisms that underlie cooperation among non-relatives, for inequity aversion as a constraint on cooperation and on the way defection is dealt with.
Pathogenesis of Peritoneal Fibrosis and Peritoneal Small Vessel Changes

C ontinuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis ( CAPD ) has been accepted as one of the important treat ment modalities for chronic renal failure and used for many patients despite some disadvantages, which have not been overcome yet, for the peritoneum is used as a living membrane. In western countries, few reports have been published about the deterioration of the peritoneum associated with long-term CAPD. This is mainly because CAPD patients tend to receive renal transplantation within several years following the introduction of CAPD in these countries. In Japan, long-term CAPD has been experienced since the dawn of CAPD due to a shortage of cadaver donors for renal transplantation. Many patients, however, are forced to give up CAPD since ultrafiltration capacity (UFC) becomes worse within several years of initiation of CAPD. Loss of UFC occurs in almost every patient on longterm CAPD, regardless of the frequency of the peritonitis episode. Thus, the number of CAPD patients does not increase markedly in Japan for this reason. The morphological findings in the peritoneum of longterm CAPD patients are known as loss of mesothelial cells, severe interstitial fibrosis, and thickening and hyalinization of the peritoneal small vessels. In this study, we investigated and discussed peritoneal fibrosis and the changes of the peritoneal small vessels from the clinical and experimental points of view.
Meta-analysis of Polyploid Cotton QTL Shows Unequal Contributions of Subgenomes to a Complex Network of Genes and Gene Clusters Implicated in Lint Fiber Development

QTL mapping experiments yield heterogeneous results due to the use of different genotypes, environments, and sampling variation. Compilation of QTL mapping results yields a more complete picture of the genetic control of a trait and reveals patterns in organization of trait variation. A total of 432 QTL mapped in one diploid and 10 tetraploid interspecific cotton populations were aligned using a reference map and depicted in a CMap resource. Early demonstrations that genes from the non-fiber-producing diploid ancestor contribute to tetraploid lint fiber genetics gain further support from multiple populations and environments and advanced-generation studies detecting QTL of small phenotypic effect. Both tetraploid subgenomes contribute QTL at largely non-homeologous locations, suggesting divergent selection acting on many corresponding genes before and/or after polyploid formation. QTL correspondence across studies was only modest, suggesting that additional QTL for the target traits remain to be discovered. Crosses between closely-related genotypes differing by single-gene mutants yield profoundly different QTL landscapes, suggesting that fiber variation involves a complex network of interacting genes. Members of the lint fiber development network appear clustered, with cluster members showing heterogeneous phenotypic effects. Meta-analysis linked to synteny-based and expression-based information provides clues about specific genes and families involved in QTL networks.
Differential Diagnosis of Depression and Alzheimer's Disease Using the Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory

Clinical differentiation between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and depression is often difficult due to symptom overlap and similar clinical presentation. Concise and accurate diagnostic tests have been of interest for many years. Furthermore, with the continued growth of the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory, there has been an emergence of measures such as the Woodcock-Johnson-III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-III COG), which are being more commonly used in clinical practice yet have not been fully evaluated in terms of their efficacy in various domains of clinical practice. This study investigated the predictive and diagnostic properties of the WJ-III COG as a CHC-based test in differentiating between AD and depression in the elderly population. A discriminative function used in the study was able to correctly classify 89.02% of cases using six areas of the CHC framework. The variables that had the highest predictive weights were: long-term retrieval, fluid reasoning, processing speed, and working memory. The main implication is that a theory-based approach is crucial in the support of differential diagnosis and in decreasing the length of assessment for elderly populations.
PERVALE-S: a new cognitive task to assess deaf people’s ability to perceive basic and social emotions

A poorly understood aspect of deaf people (DP) is how their emotional information is processed. Verbal ability is key to improve emotional knowledge in people. Nevertheless, DP are unable to distinguish intonation, intensity, and the rhythm of language due to lack of hearing. Some DP have acquired both lip-reading abilities and sign language, but others have developed only sign language. PERVALE-S was developed to assess the ability of DP to perceive both social and basic emotions. PERVALE-S presents different sets of visual images of a real deaf person expressing both basic and social emotions, according to the normative standard of emotional expressions in Spanish Sign Language. Emotional expression stimuli were presented at two different levels of intensity (1: low; and 2: high) because DP do not distinguish an object in the same way as hearing people (HP) do. Then, participants had to click on the more suitable emotional expression. PERVALE-S contains video instructions (given by a sign language interpreter) to improve DP’s understanding about how to use the software. DP had to watch the videos before answering the items. To test PERVALE-S, a sample of 56 individuals was recruited (18 signers, 8 lip-readers, and 30 HP). Participants also performed a personality test (High School Personality Questionnaire adapted) and a fluid intelligence (Gf) measure (RAPM). Moreover, all deaf participants were rated by four teachers for the deaf. Results: there were no significant differences between deaf and HP in performance in PERVALE-S. Confusion matrices revealed that embarrassment, envy, and jealousy were worse perceived. Age was just related to social-emotional tasks (but not in basic emotional tasks). Emotional perception ability was related mainly to warmth and consciousness, but negatively related to tension. Meanwhile, Gf was related to only social-emotional tasks. There were no gender differences.
Traditional Bullying, Cyber Bullying, and Deviance: A General Strain Theory Approach

Agnew’s general strain theory (GST) has received significant empirical attention, but important issues remain unresolved. This study addresses three such issues. First, the authors examine the effects of bullying—a source of strain that may be consequential, but that has been neglected in GST research to date. Second, drawing from recent research on deliberate self-harm among adolescents, the authors examine the effects of bullying not just on externalizing deviance (aggressive acts committed against others and their property) but also on internalizing deviance directed against the self. Third, the authors examine these relationships separately for males and females to assess sex differences in responses to strain. These three issues are examined with self-report data collected from a sample of middle and high school students in a Southeastern state. The analysis reveals that bullying is consequential for both externalizing and internalizing forms of deviance and that these relationships are in some instances moderated by sex.
Education, Inclusion and Individual Differences: Recognising and Resolving Dilemmas

The case is presented for a dilemmatic perspective to the educational provision for pupils and students with difficulties and disabilities. This perspective recognises the links and tensions between social and individual values and models. The paper focuses on the central significance of dilemmas of difference in understanding policy and practice issues in the field. One of the central arguments is that a commitment to inclusion implies a commitment to meeting the needs of a minority and therefore to arrangements which may not be required by the majority. Inclusion is about mainstream schools accommodating a full diversity, and in doing so leads inevitably to adopting dedicated or specialised support systems for some. The paper provides an overview of recent changes in policy and practice as well as looking at possible future trends. An inter–disciplinary model which connects individual and social perspectives is proposed both for explanatory purposes and for designing provision in terms of the interaction between the inclusivity of the system and responding to additional individual needs.