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The lived experiences of ICT and Engineering Faculty teaching in higher education institutions in Ireland and the United Kingdom, who adopt and implement mobile technology enhanced learning initiatives : a phenomenological investigation

This qualitative phenomenological study was designed to gain an in-depth understanding of the perceptions and lived experiences of information and communications technology teaching faculty and engineering teaching faculty in higher education institutions (all participant and institutional names herein are pseudonyms) who adopt and implement Mobile Technology Enhanced Learning. The theoretical framework was based upon innovation research and informed by applying Rogers’s Diffusion of Innovation and Wenger’s Communities of Practice theories. Purposeful sampling was used to target twelve information and communications technology and engineering teachers in Ireland and the United Kingdom who utilised a variety of mobile devices across multiple platforms to enhance teaching and learning. Using phenomenological reduction to analyse data gathered through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, observations, and an online focus group, the study revealed several overarching lessons. Participants experienced feelings of frustration, anxiety and uncertainty due to inadequate and obsolete mobile tools, issues with unreliable technical infrastructure and wireless networking connectivity, and time constraints arising from a sharp learning curve. Participants felt many higher education institute executives need to consult teachers when formulating and implementing an adoption strategy as they perceived a lack of appreciation by many higher education institute executives of their needs for successful adoption and implementation. Participants clearly required significantly more mobile Technology Enhanced Learning focused pedagogies. Learning about mobile Technology Enhanced Learning was mostly personal, predominantly through informal discussions but also professional learning communities of practice. Participants also required more collaboration and networked learning and practically focused continuing professional development and the associated time to acquire it. Participants perceived increased learner collaboration, global communication, motivation, engagement and achievement, and larger number of resources and improved teaching. Most significantly, teachers recognised the superior ability of mobile Technology Enhanced Learning to convey information and communications technology and engineering concepts to learners and consequently improved attrition rates. Keywords: Communities of Practice, CPD, Diffusion of Innovations, learner, mobile learning, mobile technologies, mobile TEL, PLC, teacher, technology adoption, technology enhanced learning, technology implementation, TEL.
ECE teachers’ views on play-based learning: a systematic review

ABSTRACT In recent years, play-based learning (PBL) has attracted attention, debate and controversy across different national contexts. There is no definitional consensus which may have undesirable consequences for enacting its potential in professional practice. The aim of our study was to synthesize international research on ECE practitioners’ views on PBL. Based on a meta-synthesis of 62 studies from 24 national contexts, we show that they have differing views on the degree of conceptual compatibility between play and learning. While they may adopt numerous roles in PBL, they also express uncertainties as to how and when to get involved. Lastly, practitioners report on experiencing many challenges in enacting PBL, most importantly, policy and curricular delivery pressure. Throughout our review, we underscore both general trends and local nuances.
Pathways toward Change: Ideologies and Gender Equality in a Silicon Valley Technology Company

Companies have devoted significant resources to diversity programs, yet such programs are often largely ineffective. Cultivating an organizational commitment to diversity is critical, but scholars lack a clear understanding of how top executives conceptualize change. In this article, I analyze data from a year-long case study of a Silicon Valley technology company implementing a gender equality initiative. The data include 50 in-depth interviews and observation of 80 executive meetings. I pay special attention to longitudinal interviews with 19 high-level executives and explore how their ideologies about inequality affected their change efforts. I find that executives tend to favor individualistic and societal explanations of gender differences and inequality, and these explanations correspond with change efforts focused mainly on altering individuals or affecting external communities. Executives rarely engaged in attempts to change the organization structurally. Thus, the implementation of gender equality remains limited by top executives’ ideas and assumptions about the sources of inequality.
Etiological Prevention Trial for Esophageal Cancer among High-risk Population in Linzhou City,China

[Purpose] To explore the effective countermeasure and means of prophylaxis to decrease incidence of the esophageal cancer. [Methods] To counter the primary carcinogenic,promote,and protective factors identified by epidemiological and etiological investigation of esophageal cancer,five comprehensive countermeasure and means of etiological prevention were carried out and their preventive effects were evaluated in Linzhou city using quasi-experiment method nonequivalent control group,pre-post self-controlled to compare the outcome of pre-and post-intervention with standardized incidence rates of esophageal cancer among inhabitants in Linzhou city as end-point and exposure levels of the primary carcinogenic,promote,and protective factors as intermediate end-point. [Results] In the past 20 years,the standardized incidence rates of esophageal cancer among inhabitants in Linzhou city significantly declined.Compared with those of 1980's,incidence rates in 2003 were decreased for 56.33% among males and 45.07% among females.At the same time,exposure levels of the carcinogenic nitrosamines and mycotoxins in vivo among inhabitants in Linzhou city clearly declined and their concentrations in vivo of the vitamins A and B2 obviously increased.The risk factors from individual behaviors and social environment evidently decreased and the protective factors significantly increased. [Conclusion] The five comprehensive measures of prophylaxis carried out in high risk population of esophageal cancer in Linzhou city might be associated with the decline of incidence rate of esophageal cancer among residents.
Perspectives on University Student Engagement in England

While national quantitative research has been conducted that measured satisfaction and engagement of undergraduate students in England, fewer qualitative studies exist that focused on the needs of students and their perceptions of the totality of their university experiences. This study examined the multifaceted phenomena of student engagement in a non-US setting to explore student attitudes and needs that contribute to retention and engaged decisions at an English university. Findings suggested that US research has applicability in the English university context. As is the case in the US, English student engagement in academics and societies was affected by factors associated with stress, belonging, career aspirations, support, and social involvement.
The Potential Impact of Art Therapy Approaches in an Alternative Learning School Setting in Urban West Virginia

The Potential Impact of Art Therapy Approaches in an Alternative Learning School Setting in Urban West Virginia Brianna Saddler Now more than ever American adolescents are suffering from severe anxiety (Lewis, 2017). In the past, over-achieving students were those parents least worried about when it came to experiencing anxiety but now studies show these students are just as likely to experience anxiety as those learners considered to be underachievers. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader how art therapy approaches embedded into daily lesson plans could be used in alternative learning school settings to help students deal with anxiety. Through my own experiences as a practicing art teacher in both general education art classrooms and alternative learning school settings, this paper explores how using specific art therapy approaches may help students deal with some of the social stressors they face every day in these classrooms. While more research is needed to identify lessons that will engage students in creating meaningful and purposeful art, which will help to reduce stress among this group, this paper is a starting point to help students deal with their stress caused by many outside factors from family and social life to feelings of failure and inadequacy.
Bringing p53 into the Clinic

The use of p53 as a biological marker to predict chemotherapeutic outcome has been challenging, with clinical research showing positive as well as negative correlations with p53 mutations. Recent research reveals the complexity that underlies the use of p53 as a single predictive marker as well as the challenges associated with classifying p53 mutations. It is becoming clear that various p53 mutations are associated with differential treatment response and outcomes. In addition, different drug regimens could also play a role in modifying the effects of p53 mutations on therapeutic outcome. Finally, we discuss improvements in the diagnostic detection of p53 mutations and gene signatures that may better reflect p53 functionality in tumors, which may serve as a more reliable tool in correlating p53 mutations to clinical response.
Application du modèle du « Job/Demand/Resource » à l’analyse des niveaux de stress des cadres

Les recherches sur le stress permettent d’identifier des métiers fortement exposés tel que le métier de cadre. Cependant, peu d’études permettent d’identifier les différences intra-profession entre les contextes négatifs et ceux positifs. Nous retenons le cadre du « Job/Demand/Resource » pour identifier des configurations des niveaux de stress qui résultent de l’articulation entre la charge de travail et les ressources organisationnelles. Les configurations identifiées résultent d’une étude qualitative par entretiens semi-directifs menés auprès de 20 cadres. Nos résultats permettent d’affiner la lecture binaire du modèle J/D/R en identifiant quatre configurations qui composent un continuum de situations plus ou moins stressantes.
EVALUATION, VALIDATION AND MODIFICATION OF SCIENCE MOTIVATION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL

Motivation to learn a school subject is crucial for achieving knowledge and skills and, consequently, for good academic performance in the subject. There are several approved questionnaires dedicated to assessing motivation for science and biology but none for upper secondary school Czech students. Therefore, existing Science Motivation Questionnaire was evaluated, validated and modified in order to create a Czech version of a Biology motivation questionnaire (BMQ). The original version of the questionnaire had 30 questions, arranged in the following subscales: Internal Motivation, External Motivation, Personal Relevance, Responsibility, Self-efficacy and Anxiety. Validation was based on a survey of 517 upper secondary school Czech students. Analysis of the questionnaires revealed that, although the questionnaire could be used as a whole with satisfactory Cronbach alpha values, the underlying constructs in the Czech version were different from the six ones originally suggested. Based on Exploratory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling, 14 questions retained in three constructs: a) Self–efficacy, b) Responsibility and c) Motivation as a combination of Internal Motivation, External Motivation and Personal Relevance. This shorter version of the BMQ showed satisfactory Goodness of Fit Indices in contrast to the original 30-item version. Keywords: biology motivation questionnaire, questionnaire modification, EFA, secondary school students.
Estudiantes universitarios y efectos socioespaciales en la ciudad: el caso de Agüita de la Perdiz (Concepción, Chile)

This work analyzes and interprets the socio-spatial changes produced in Aguita de la Perdiz (Concepcion, Chile) as a consequence of the arrival of university students. Although international studies have shown the importance of the so-called studentification processes as detonators of physical, social, economic and cultural effects in traditional residential neighborhoods, there is a shortage of contributions from other socio-spatial contexts. Based on these premises, this work analyzes this phenomenon, emphasizing on the dissolution of community bonds, the economic heterogenization of the neighborhood, and the creation of a specific real estate market for the student sector in this space as main dynamics produced by the arrival of students. To do this, it uses a methodology that combines the use of quantitative and qualitative data, obtaining results that confirm the existence of some common elements with other cases of study, along with other particular aspects, explainable by the origin of the neighborhood.
Low-frequency components in complex noise and their perceived loudness and annoyance

Olika ljudtrycksbaserade prediktorers (A-, B-, C- & D-filtret) och kalkyleringsmetoders (ISO 532 B & MARK VII) formaga att predicera ljudstyrka och storningsgrad hos bredbandigt vitt brus p .
Shared reading for teaching English as a Foreign Language to young learners in Russia

Shared Reading has proven to be very effective in developing language and literacy skills of children in the West. This project introduces Shared Reading as a curriculum component of English as a foreign language for young children in Russia. Review of the literature regarding the effectiveness of Shared Reading is described. The project includes two units of four lessons each that illustrate implementation of Shared Reading, oral language and other literacy activities. The project concludes with specific recommendations for dissemination of this work. This open access graduate research paper is available at UNI ScholarWorks: https://scholarworks.uni. edu/grp/1057 Shared Reading for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners in Russia A Graduate Research Project
Balance and falls in the frail older person: A review of the literature

Falls represent a major source of injury and death for the frail older person. This article briefly surveys the literature on experiments relating to issues involved in falls in the frail older person. The theoretical model of postural control, methods for assessing balance, and clinical interventions for improving balance are explored. Current literature on physiologic changes that occur during the aging process and risk factors associated with age-related falls is also reviewed. Directions for further research are discussed briefly.
Can changes in hoof wall temperature and digital pulse pressure be used to predict laminitis onset?

PICO question In horses and ponies at risk of laminitis, does the use of hoof wall temperature and digital pulse pressure as diagnostic techniques for acute laminitis provide a method of detecting acute laminitis in the prodromal stage? Clinical bottom line A palpable bilateral increase in forelimb hoof temperature maintained for longer than half a day may indicate that the horse is 18–­24 hours from acute laminitis onset. A period of increased digital pulse may also be expected up to 11 hours prior to onset. Further studies using larger and more representative cohorts are required to confirm the accuracy of the times at which such changes can be expected.
The clinical observation of the effect of indomethacin on gingivitis in the seamen

Aim:To study the effect of indomethacin(IND)on gingivitis in the seamen with com-parison of the effect of metronidazole(MET),and to clarify the action mechanism of its superior thera-peutic effect. Methods:189 OPD cases of seamen with gingivitis were selected and were randomly divid-ed into the IND group(64 cases),the MET group(63 cases)and the routine treatment control group(62 cases). Gingival index(GI)was used as the main parameter for comparison after one week of respective treatments in each group.Results:The GIs,of group IND and group MET were decreased very signifi-cantly after respective treatments (P0.01 ),at the same time,very significant differences were found between these two groups and the control group,while there were no significant difference between the groups IND and MET.In the IND group,the GI were decreased significantly all alike after the treat-ment irrespective of different age or types of gingivitis,while the GI of marginal gingivitis was de-creased more prominently than that of hypertrophic gingivitis. Conclusion:IND has better effect on gin-givitis in the seamen especially on marginal gingivitis and it has a widespread usage.It is easy to use and carry,the refore it may be used as a routine drug during long voyage for the seamen.
Historical Notes on Diabetes and Pregnancy

During the past two decades, as the culmination of many years of basic and clinical research in different fields of maternal–fetal–neonatal medicine, there has been a dramatic improvement in perinatal mortality and morbidity in diabetes pregnancy. Today, the chances for most women with diabetes mellitus to have a successful pregnancy are almost as good as those of a woman without diabetes mellitus, providing the health care professional and the patient adhere to the guidelines and recommendations accepted by most workers in this area. In this brief historical review, several stages in the diagnosis and management of diabetes and pregnancy are discussed, based on hallmark articles from the medical literature. After a review of the years before the discovery of insulin, the author describes each decade from 1922 until the end of 1970s [Fig. 1), in which, in his opinion, the most remarkable gains in the care of pregnant women with diabetes and neonatal health had occurred. During the past twenty years, numerous reports in the literature have reaffirmed the success of strict metabolic control, before and during pregnancy, and the proper use and interpretation of fetal well-being tests in the improvement of fetal outcome. The mechanisms of the cause of congenital malformations, the multiple factors affecting fetal growth and development, and its potential long-term effects on the offspring of diabetic mothers are the focus at the present time of intensive investigation.
Report from the Tau Front: Cantoblanco 2013

The recent interest in tau and its role in neurodegenerative disease (NDD) has been part of a sea change in how we view protein aggregate toxicity in NDD pathogenesis. The longstanding focus on protein aggregate formation as a common mechanism linked to NDD pathogenesis remains largely intact, but there has been a shift away from large cellular and extracellular aggregates [neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), senile plaques (SPs), Lewy Bodies (LBs) and the like) toward the importance of oligomers and other aggregate intermediates [1-3]. We have also seen an expansion of the hitherto largely cellular focus on toxicity to include interneuronal aspects of the pathogenesis of diverse NDDs, including Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, ALS and non-AD tauopathies such as corticobasal degeneration and Pick’s Disease. This has been accompanied by an increasing understanding of the importance of micro RNA and mRNA-mediated mechanisms [4-7] as well as other cellular and intercellular mechanisms and the cytopathogenesis of multiple neurodegenerative syndromes [8-10]. This expansion of research scope at both cellular and intercellular levels of analysis has had particularly notable effects on research into basic and disease-associated functions of tau protein and have elucidated the hitherto shadowy zones separating the traditional cellular focus of tauopathy research (protein aggregate formation) from other important disease features involving cell cycle re-entry [11-14], signal transduction abnormalities [15,16], and the disruption of protein turnover [17] localization [18] and secretion [19-21] mechanisms. Perhaps the largest influence on the direction of recent NDD research has been the idea that oligomer formation may itself be the agent of interneuronal lesion spreading via a “prionlike” mechanism [22-26]. In the case of tauopathy, this concept has tended to both expand and narrow the scope of recent investigations as it focuses attention the link between molecular [templated misfolding] and global (lesion spreading) aspects of tauopathy at the expense of cellular considerations. All of these developments were reflected in the focus of last year’s Cantoblanco meeting in Madrid. While that meeting was ostensibly focused on the title subject “Is Tau a prionlike protein? ” it also brought together current research on a variety of novel cellular and intercellular facets of tau biology and pathobiology, which I will attempt here to frame in a larger context.
Improving Use of Medicines

In 1994 the Government of Delhi (India) implemented an essential medicines policy in public health facilities (HF) to improve the availability and rational use of medicines (RUM). An essential medicines list (EML) was made. Training programmes in RUM were initiated. After 13 years the outcome of the policy on RUM within public HF was evaluated. Policy implementation improved the availability of medicines to 91.4 per cent. Prescribing of medicines from EML increased (94.6 per cent) and antimicrobials declined (51.7 per cent). The number of patients with complete knowledge of how to take prescribed medicines improved (53.4 per cent). However, the use of generic medicines declined (18.1 per cent) and prescriptions were mostly incomplete (79.6 percent). Majority of prescribers lacked awareness about the Drug Policy, including not having undergone training sessions on RUM. There were no Drugs and Therapeutic Committees within HF, and only a few doctors had information about medicines available within the HF. The most common sources of information for medicines were commercial published sources and medical representatives of pharmaceutical companies. The regulatory intervention of enforcing an EML in public HF has been successful in increasing the use of medicines from the EML and improving some prescribing indicators. However, educational interventions have been inadequate and need to be combined and strengthened to improve the policy outcomes in RUM.
Teratogens and Congenital Heart Disease

The antenatal diagnosis of fetal congenital heart disease (CHD) allows for identification of potentially life-threatening conditions that may occur in the early neonatal period. A suspicion of congenital heart disease often occurs during the routine fetal anatomical survey. Subsequently, fetal echocardiography allows for a more detailed assessment of the cardiac lesion that is necessary in order to plan for delivery and postnatal surgical management. To enhance detection of congenital cardiac anomalies, and in particular ones that are potentially serious, it is important for the obstetrical sonographer to have an understanding of potential teratogenic agents associated with an increased risk of congenital heart disease.