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Learning for and about sustainability in higher education – a regional perspective based on experiences from the Baltic and the Mediterranean
Authors: Scoullos Michael , Malotidi Vicky , Lindroos Paula , Suomalainen Sinikka 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of the paper is to present and compare collective efforts of higher education institutions working through regional networks in introducing and promoting education for sustainable development (ESD) and environmental education (EE) in two most significant EU boarder regions. Efforts to support EE/ESD in higher education are usually undertaken at individual universities and, in some cases, at national level, still remaining very fragmented; therefore, the examples of University networks in the Baltic and the Mediterranean regions are of particular interest and importance. Both regions have regional conventions, protocols and strategies for the relevant seas, bringing EU and neighbouring countries of the regions together for the protection of the environment and the promotion of sustainable development (SD) within which EE and ESD are embedded.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents the driving forces for the establishment, evolution and design of relevant activities of these two networks, making also a few inter-comparisons and recommendations for further improvements.

Findings
Both regions, the Baltic and the Mediterranean, have multiple needs and high potential for more efficient linking of SD with higher education. Early enough it was realised that regional networking could stimulate countries and universities towards this task. Two networks were set up: the Baltic University Programme (starting already in 1991) and the Mediterranean Universities Network for SD focusing on ESD (starting in 2007). The paper reviews main activities of the networks together with lessons learned and gives directions for their future operations.

Originality/value
This paper is one of the rare case studies related to higher education networking on ESD and demonstrates how networking on ESD, apart from enhancing professional development, supports also SD and promotes cooperation and peace in regions that have a history of frequently turbulent relationships.
Multisensory mathematical gaming with the Energizer Bunny®
Authors: Kalish Mia 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
Educational mathematics game models tend to be simplistic because they are target-oriented. This paper aims to show how game models that facilitate discovery and analysis can be derived from successful implementations already existing in the popular culture.

Design/methodology/approach
Based loosely on Rivera’s Toward a visually-oriented school mathematics curriculum, the analysis combines perspectives from psychology, the graphic arts and object-oriented technology to illustrate the depth and breadth of mathematics in a popular commercial.

Findings
This paper offers an cross-disciplinary justification for expanding curricular resources beyond traditional alphanumeric metonymies. Illustrations show the mathematical concepts underlying the commercial structure as well as the multimodal, sensuous, semiotic aspects.

Research limitations/implications
This analytical approach is intended to precede development of game mechanics. It is focused on expanding the psychology of mathematics beyond the metonymic, canned problem approach and toward more dynamic examples.

Practical implications
Games based on real examples from popular culture can provide learners with an answer to the following question: When will I ever use this in real life?

Social implications
The philosophy here is that learners will be excited and challenged by engaging real-life mathematics. The issue has always been that people cannot imagine what they have never seen, and this approach gives them a way to see the math in action, answering Rivera’s question, “Can we make a game based on visualizing the mathematics” with a resounding “Yes!”

Originality/value
This paper offers a fresh approach to designing games for learning mathematics.
Innovation in times of uncertainty
Authors: Squire Kurt 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
This paper (published in two consecutive issues of On the Horizon) aims to contextualize research on games for learning by describing the current drivers of innovation in learning technologies situated within broader trends in open educational publishing.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper begins with an overview of changes, driven largely by technology in educational technology and publishing. Using massively open online courseware as an example, it describes how these factors are aligning to challenge the status quo. Next, it provides a brief discussion of changes in higher education more generally, including changes in education as a marketplace, reductions to state funding for education and changes in the research enterprise, particularly the rapid growth of the scientific enterprise and leveling off of federal support.

Findings
The paper pivots to describe the most recent chapter of over 15 years of work within the Games + Learning + Society (GLS) Center, which has sought to create innovative models of learning, innovative models for funding and conducting research in light of these challenges, and innovative ways of engaging the public.

Practical implications
The assumption driving GLS (and this paper) is that rather than wait for these changes to happen to us, educational technologists can help drive the future by creating it. A good way to get the kinds of learning systems we want is to go about creating them and seeing what works. During this time, GLS developed and released over a dozen game-based learning titles, raised US$10,000,000s in grants and contracts, graduated over 30 doctoral students and post docs, spun out multiple companies, created materials in use by 10,000s (or more) students across the world, and helped build a nascent field of games and learning.

Originality/value
The paper pivots to describe the most recent chapter of over 15 years of work within the GLS Center, which has sought to create innovative models of learning, innovative models for funding and conducting research in light of these challenges and innovative ways of engaging the public.
Novel games can come from novice game makers
Authors: Chen Mark 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to describe how a novice to game design pushed theory about what makes a good game.

Design/methodology/approach
The game in question was developed in Twine for an introductory undergraduate course in interactive media.

Findings
It featured very little player agency, which ironically served to give players a richer experience.

Originality/value
That a novice could create something deeply personal that butted against conventional game design guidelines highlights the importance of opening game design up to as broad an audience as possible.
Links between community ecology theory and ecological restoration are on the rise
Authors: Wainwright Claire E. , Staples Timothy L. , Charles Lachlan S. , Flanagan Thomas C. , Lai Hao Ran , Loy Xingwen , Reynolds Victoria A. , Mayfield Margaret M. 
Published: July 2017

AbstractCommunity ecology is frequently invoked as complementary to and useful for guiding ecological restoration. While the conceptual literature is devoted to this unification, first‐hand accounts from practitioners and ecologists suggest that integration may be weak in practice. To date, there have been no analyses of how extensively community ecology theory appears in the empirical restoration literature.We address this knowledge gap with the first quantitative assessment of the extent to which community ecology concepts appear in empirical restoration literature by analysing the use of community ecology theories, concepts and conceptually derived tools in the design and interpretation of 1,000+ experimental ecological restoration studies over time (20 years) across all global regions. We also gauge general trends in author demographics, focal ecosystems and taxa targeted by these studies.We found that the incorporation of community ecology into restoration research has increased significantly in recent years.Community assembly and succession theories were the community ecology concepts integrated most often, while the functional traits framework and evolutionary theory have increased in usage recently.Synthesis and applications. Restoration endeavours are increasingly infused with elements of community ecology. Our results highlight the widespread application of deterministic models of community structure in restoration design and the rise of ecosystem service and function‐focused restoration. With this diagnostic summary of these applications, ecologists and restoration practitioners can move forward while directly exploring underdeveloped synergies between theory and practice.
Practice Based Evidence Based Practice. Navigating based on coordinated improvisation, collaborative learning and multi‐methods research in Feedback Informed Systemic Therapy
Authors: van Hennik Robert , Hillewaere Bruno 
Published: July 2017

In times when therapy is legitimized by transparency through control, standardization and benchmarking, the authors present a fluid manual of Feedback Informed Integrative Therapy within Systems (FITS) as a Practice Based Evidence Based Practice (PBEBP). The fluid manual FITS corresponds to the locality and complexity of social and cultural life and is substantiated by practice‐based research. The FITS therapist navigates her reflected responses on the basis of coordinated improvisation, organized feedback, collaborative learning and multi‐methods research. Accountability and transparency are offered through i) quantitative measurement of effects, developments and points of collaboration in therapy and ii) qualitative inquiry into navigational activities using improvisation and collaborative learning. FITS is a Practice Based Evidence Based Practice (PBEBP). The therapist is both practitioner and researcher and involves clients as co‐researchers. Therapist and clients examine the effects of their collaboration. The output of research is input for therapy in the ‘collaborative learning community’ constituted together.Practitioner points

This article may inspire practitioners to manualize and research their own family therapy practice as a Practice Based Evidence Based Practice
In FITS, a PBEBP therapist and family members constitute a ‘collaborative learning community’, learning together how they learn and evaluating their collaboration in therapy
Practice Based Evidence Based Practice could be an alternative to standardized therapy models and manuals
Multi family member interview studies: a focus on data analysis
Authors: Van Parys Hanna , Provoost Veerle , De Sutter Petra , Pennings Guido , Buysse Ann 
Published: July 2017

Although qualitative research about couples and families is becoming increasingly widespread, the aspect of data analysis remains largely underrepresented in the literature. In this methodological paper, we outline one specific approach to data analysis in the context of multi family member interview studies. Inspired by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Dyadic Interview Analysis, this approach allows for the detailed and systematic analysis of family practices and the co‐construction of shared family realities. Based on an example study in the field of medically assisted reproduction, we give a detailed explanation of the aim of this approach, the different steps in the analysis process and the output of a multi family member interview study. The findings of this example study are discussed in light of the methodological challenges and opportunities.Practitioner points

Multi family member interview analysis allows for the systematic analysis of family practices and the co‐construction of shared family realities
The findings might approximate to the therapeutic complexities that systemic therapists often encounter better than classical quantitative or qualitative research
One specific data analysis approach in the context of multi family member interview studies is outlined as data analysis remains underrepresented in the literature
New paradigms of parenthood: researching practice in a fertility clinic incarnating new forms of family
Authors: Bohme Helen 
Published: July 2017

Traditional notions of parenthood are being challenged by the requests for treatment in a licensed fertility clinic. The unprecedented fast‐moving changes in assisted reproductive technology, especially gamete (sperm, eggs, embryo) donation, are enabling the creation of new forms of family. For this to be the subject of new systemic research, a reflexive intertwining of both research activities and professional practice activities is required with each informing and forming the other. Indeed, practitioners are researchers by virtue of rigorously using reflexive analytical processes in daily practice moment by moment. If we author ourselves in conversation with others, the ‘thing’ we are studying are ways of talking and relating to each other. Thus a paradigm shift has to be made, from examining entities to attending to language or language processes – especially in the counselling conversation that precedes treatment. This article presents a model where the ‘small’ stories of everyday lives are turned from a passing event into a research enterprise as witness to social change. For the social skills we use to do both practice and research attach us to real human beings in deeply human ways.Practitioner points

One counselling conversation can help people to reflect on creating the new forms of family they envision and place this in an ethical context.
Conversational practice challenges institutional traditions and moves towards a more philosophical model of collaborative inquiry
Clients telling their story become observers of their own thinking and see themselves as experts in their own lives
The practitioner uses reflexive analytical processes, foregrounding the ethical in order to minimize social and power inequalities
Putting public health infrastructures to the test: introducing HPV vaccination in Austria and the Netherlands
Authors: Paul Katharina T. , Wallenburg Iris , Bal Roland 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThis article presents two cases of policymaking concerning the vaccine against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted and carcinogenic. Our analysis focuses on its introduction in Austria and the Netherlands. In both contexts, we find prevention and screening to be at once complementary and competing public health logics and we draw on the concept of ‘infrastructure’ to understand their roles in shaping the reception of the vaccine. We reveal how the HPV vaccine had to be made ‘good enough’, much like the Pap smear (Casper and Clarke ), by means of diverse tinkering practices that transformed both the technology and the infrastructures in which they emerged. At the same time, it was important that the vaccine would not come to problematise Pap smear‐based screening. The article points to the contextually contingent nature of policymaking around new medical technologies, and the skillful care with which public health infrastructures such as immunisation and screening programmes are handled and tinkered with.
Mobile text alerts are an effective way of communicating emergency information to adolescents: Results from focus groups with 12‐ to 18‐year‐olds
Authors: Wong Daniel Jinghe , Jones Emma , Rubin Gideon James 
Published: July 2017

Mobile phone text messages can be used to disseminate information and advice to the public in disasters. We sought to identify factors influencing how adolescents would respond to receiving emergency text messages. Qualitative interviews were conducted with participants aged 12–18 years. Participants discussed scenarios relating to flooding and the discovery of an unexploded World War Two bomb and were shown example alerts that might be sent out in these circumstances. Intended compliance with the alerts was high. Participants noted that compliance would be more likely if: they were familiar with the system; the messages were sent by a trusted source; messages were reserved for serious incidents; multiple messages were sent; messages were kept short and formal.
Survival of Atherosclerotic Calcifications in Skeletonized Material: Forensic and Pathological Implications
Authors: Biehler‐Gomez Lucie , Cappella Annalisa , Castoldi Elisa , Martrille Laurent , Cattaneo Cristina 
Published: July 2017

AbstractAtherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease creating calcifying plaques in the arterial walls. Because its paleopathological diagnosis remains little studied on skeletal remains, its impact on forensic and archeological data is completely underestimated. Here, 24 skeletal remains from the Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection have been studied to evaluate the chance of atherosclerotic calcification survival, retrieval, and identification. Through direct comparison with a known autopsy collection and literature, the identification and categorization of several types of calcifications were performed. Clothing elements such as tights or socks played a definitive role in the preservation of the calcifications; hence they are more likely to be found in forensic cases than in archeological ones. Therefore, vascular calcifications are possible to collect and identify in skeletal remains if sufficient care is given to their recovery. Consequently and as markers of the disease, such identification can provide valuable pathological information for forensic and archeological cases.
USB Storage Device Forensics for Windows 10
Authors: Arshad Ayesha , Iqbal Waseem , Abbas Haider 
Published: July 2017

AbstractSignificantly increased use of USB devices due to their user‐friendliness and large storage capacities poses various threats for many users/companies in terms of data theft that becomes easier due to their efficient mobility. Investigations for such data theft activities would require gathering critical digital information capable of recovering digital forensics artifacts like date, time, and device information. This research gathers three sets of registry and logs data: first, before insertion; second, during insertion; and the third, after removal of a USB device. These sets are analyzed to gather evidentiary information from Registry and Windows Event log that helps in tracking a USB device. This research furthers the prior research on earlier versions of Microsoft Windows and compares it with latest Windows 10 system. Comparison of Windows 8 and Windows 10 does not show much difference except for new subkey under USB Key in registry. However, comparison of Windows 7 with latest version indicates significant variances.
Takotsubo syndrome in hemodynamically unstable patients admitted to the intensive care unit – a retrospective study
Authors: Oras J. , Lundgren J. , Redfors B. , Brandin D. , Omerovic E. , Seeman‐Lodding H. , Ricksten S.‐E. 
Published: July 2017

IntroductionTakotsubo syndrome (TS) is an acute cardiac condition that is often triggered by critical illness but that has rarely been studied in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. The aim of this study was to (i) estimate the incidence of TS in a hemodynamically unstable ICU‐population; (ii) identify predictors of TS in this population; (iii) study the impact of TS on prognosis and course of hospitalization.MethodsMedical records from all patients admitted to our general ICU from 2012 to 2015 were analyzed. TS was defined as having transient regional wall motion abnormalities (RWMA) with a typical pattern not attributable to a history of coronary artery disease or acute coronary syndromes.ResultsOut of 6470 patients admitted to the ICU, echocardiography due to hemodynamic instability was performed in 1051 patients; 467 had LV dysfunction and 59 fulfilled TS criteria. Patients with TS had higher SAPS 3 scores on admission than patients with normal LV function. Septic shock, cardiac arrest, cerebral mass lesion, female sex and low pH were independently associated with TS on admission. Patients with TS needed more ICU resources measured by higher NEMS scores and longer ICU‐stay. Crude mortality was higher in TS patients (32%) vs the ICU‐population (20%, P = 0.020), but there were no differences in a SAPS 3 adjusted analysis.ConclusionTS was not an uncommon cause of LV dysfunction in hemodynamically unstable ICU‐patients. Furthermore, TS was associated with a more complex disease. TS is a complication to take in consideration in the critically ill.
Health economic analysis of allergen immunotherapy for the management of allergic rhinitis, asthma, food allergy and venom allergy: A systematic overview
Authors: Asaria M. , Dhami S. , van Ree R. , Gerth van Wijk R. , Muraro A. , Roberts G. , Sheikh A. 
Published: July 2017

AbstractBackgroundThe European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) is developing guidelines for allergen immunotherapy (AIT) for the management of allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma, IgE‐mediated food allergy and venom allergy. To inform the development of clinical recommendations, we undertook systematic reviews to critically assess evidence on the effectiveness, safety and cost‐effectiveness of AIT for these conditions. This study focusses on synthesizing data and gaps in the evidence on the cost‐effectiveness of AIT for these conditions.MethodsWe produced summaries of evidence in each domain, and then, synthesized findings on health economic data identified from four recent systematic reviews on allergic rhinitis, asthma, food allergy and venom allergy, respectively. The quality of these studies was independently assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme tool for health economic evaluations.ResultsTwenty‐three studies satisfied our inclusion criteria. Of these, 19 studies investigated the cost‐effectiveness of AIT in allergic rhinitis, of which seven were based on data from randomized controlled trials with economic evaluations conducted from a health system perspective. This body of evidence suggested that sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) and subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) would be considered cost‐effective using the (English) National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) cost‐effectiveness threshold of £20 000/quality‐adjusted life year (QALY). However, the quality of the studies and the general lack of attention to characterizing uncertainty and handling missing data should be taken into account when interpreting these results. For asthma, there were three eligible studies, all of which had significant methodological limitations; these suggested that SLIT, when used in patients with both asthma and allergic rhinitis, may be cost‐effective with an incremental cost‐effectiveness ratio (ICER) of £10 726 per QALY. We found one economic modelling study for venom allergy which, despite being based largely on expert opinion and plausible assumptions, suggested that AIT for bee and wasp venom allergy is only likely to be cost‐effective for very high‐risk groups who may be exposed to multiple exposures to venom/year (eg bee keepers). We found no eligible studies investigating the cost‐effectiveness of AIT for food allergy.ConclusionsOverall, the evidence to support the cost‐effectiveness of AIT is limited and of low methodological quality, but suggests that AIT may be cost‐effective for people with allergic rhinitis with or without asthma and in high‐risk subgroups for venom allergy. We were unable to draw any conclusions on the cost‐effectiveness of AIT for food allergy.