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A simulator for teaching risk and probability: building the Monopoly® board game into a probability simulator.
Get PDFThis paper describes the adaptation and use of the Monopoly® board game as a simple simulator to help introduce the principles of probability and risk. It can be used across a range of programmes from undergraduate to postgraduate studies and executive training and offers a new approach to teaching probability and risk with dice to produce a collaborative simulated gaming environment. It allows students to be actively involved in developing the probability of throwing dice numbers and analyses risk and decision making in a competitive environment. Concluding with a probability analysis technique, it allows the student to reflect on formal and informal approaches to decision-making in risk environments and helps build communication for discussion, collaborative learning and self-analysis among students
Remarkable Lives : Shelley Seaton in conversation with Jerome Carson
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of Shelley Seaton.
Shelley gives a short background to her life story and is then interviewed by Jerome.
Shelley tells us about a number of life events that impacted on her mental health issues, starting with childhood bullying and also abusive relationships.
The Case Study approach privileges the person’s lived experience. It also lets us see the unique complexity of each person’s story.
Shelley received little help in the form of counselling either at school or when she experienced post-natal depression.
When mental health problems start in childhood, schools have a vital role to play. While the bullying stopped when Shelley’s Mum went to the school, the damage was already done. She was given no support to help her through this.
Patricia Deegan has asked, “Could you have survived what this person has survived?”(Deegan, 1996, p.95). Shelley’s story is a tale of surviva
Life skills development and enjoyment in youth soccer: The importance of parental behaviours
No full textThis study investigated the relationships between parental behaviours and players’ life skills development and enjoyment within youth soccer. In total, 317 players (Mage = 12.83, SD = 1.70, age range = 10–16 years) completed a survey assessing parental behaviours (praise and understanding, directive behaviour, and pressure), perceived life skills development (teamwork, goal setting, time management, emotional skills, interpersonal communication, social skills, leadership, and problem solving and decision making), and enjoyment of soccer. Multiple regression analyses found that praise and understanding was the key contributor to the outcome variables, making the largest unique contribution to teamwork, goal setting, leadership, and total life skills. Directive behaviour made the largest unique contribution to emotional skills, and problem solving and decision making; whereas pressure made the largest unique contribution to participants’ time management and social skills. In practice, the results suggest that parents should display praise and understanding behaviours, which were the main contributor to players’ development of life skills within soccer
Inequalities: a concern for capitalism and global strategy
No full textThis chapter explores the concern of inequalities in human history and throughout the globe. It aims to be a holistic perspective upon the inequality phenomenon with its multi-faceted aspects. The authors analyze capitalism and its main inequalities and question the origin of inequalities, their determinants, and their evolution across the history and nations. Within this context, the authors raise awareness of gender inequality as a component of the inequality concept. The authors undertook a systematic and unsystematic literature review to investigate the concept of inequality with its aspects and the role of capitalism in creating and supporting inequalities. An in-depth analysis was conducted by authors on both inequality and strategy in order to highlight gaps in the knowledge and to indicate trends for further research. Across the centuries there was a range of inequalities within the countries and between different countries, as well as between social categories, between men and women, between rich and poor
Perfume consumption in India
No full textPerfumes have been important in India for millennia and so have the stories connected with them. The perfume business in India is worth billions. A background from which the Indian perfume industry can be understood in terms of the Berger's STEPP model, the consumers' cognitive schemas, consumers' behaviors, and the story of the product, brand, and their customers' stories. Three sets of themes—product perceptions, concerns, and consumers' lifestyle—are identified, each with their own sub-themes that are antecedents to perfume purchasing behavior. Segments in the Indian perfume market are also identified. Each consumer segment has their own behavioral nuances and they consider different aspects of the perfume product taking into account their own income and aspects of the three themes and 19 sub-themes. It is important for perfume marketing managers to consider each aspect of the STEPPs modeland for the Indian government to locate and develop a “Place of Perfume” within India that will eventually challenge the region of Grasse in France as the global perfume marketplace
Intumescent fire-retardant coatings for plastics based on poly(vinylphosphonic acid): improving water resistance with comonomers
Get PDFCoatings based on the in situ photopolymerization of vinyl phosphonic acid (VPA)
with triallyl cyanurate as a crosslinking agent are shown to be effective not only for fire-protecting
glass fibre-reinforced epoxy resin (GRE) composites but also poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA),
a typical meltable and flammable thermoplastic. Dry adhesion of polyVPA coatings to PMMA
surfaces is excellent but, as with coatings on GRE, adhesion following water-soak tests is poor.
Copolymerising VPA with more hydrophobic monomers improves wet adhesion, albeit with some
impairment of fire performance, with copolymers of VPA and acrylonitrile giving the best result
Stigma towards non-suicidal self-harm: evaluating a brief educational intervention.
No full textHealth professionals' attitudes towards self-harming behaviour are predominantly negative. Research examining educational interventions to change negative attitudes is limited. This study aimed to provide an educational intervention for student nurses to change negative attitudes around self-harm. attitudes around self-harm and mental health in general were assessed through the Self-Harm Antipathy Scale and the Mental Health Attitude Scale. Fifty-five adult nursing students took part in the 45-minute intervention. This included facts and figures, celebrity stories and personal stories regarding self-harm, all intended to increase understanding. After the intervention, attitudes measured by the Self-Harm Antipathy Scale had improved significantly. patients who self-harm will without doubt continue to experience negative attitudes from health professionals. This study shows an educational intervention can change attitudes towards those who self-harm
Pregnancy-specific health anxiety: symptom or diagnosis?
No full textAnxiety is an innate human response to situations that cause fear, worry or concern. One such type is health anxiety. Health anxiety is a term derived from hypochondriasis and divided into two disorders: illness anxiety disorder and somatic symptom disorder. Symptoms can range from mild-to-moderate expressions of worry to clinical diagnoses. Previous research has shown pregnancy-specific anxiety to be an autonomous anxiety disorder. When a woman conceives, immediate somatic changes are experienced, and although all pregnancies are different, these changes could cause either illness anxiety disorder or somatic symptom disorder. This review explores the possibility of pregnancy-specific health anxiety in greater detail
