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Minimizing Synchronization in Parallel Nested Loops
Get PDFAlthough, computer system architecture and the throughput enhances continuously, the need for high computational speed and power in many scientific applications grows every day. As a result, implementation of parallel applications has gained more attention. Since nested loops are the most time-consuming parts of most programs, we propose a method for scheduling uniform nested loops to processors based on the equation of a straight line which includes the maximum possible number of dependence vectors. Experimental results show that the proposed method imposes a lower communication between processors compared with similar methods
Teaching Ethics in Nursing Education – A case study of teaching in a New Zealand tertiary education context
Get PDFNurses face a plethora of ethical challenges in their everyday practice. In order to help trainees become aware of the multiple issues they will face beyond the classroom, nursing educators have acknowledged the criticality of having an ethical component taught throughout the nursing curriculum of a tertiary education institution. The purpose of this study was to explore what experiences and challenges nursing educators faced teaching such content and to identify the sorts of difficulties being encountered in their own classroom practice.
A self-selecting sample of seven nursing educators working at a large, New Zealand tertiary institution in the North Island were interviewed. After transcribing data from the interviewing process, seven dominant themes emerged from the inductive data analysis process. A general model of teaching was adopted to analyse these multiple themes. In this respect, the variables identified in this model involved considerations of the teaching content, the teacher, the learner, the context, and the educators’ ideals.
Adopting a principled approach to teaching ethics was acknowledged as a challenge by the participants because of the friction identified between culturally specific and universalist principles. Nonetheless, the importance of promoting students’ ethical awareness through the adoption of codes of ethics in the nursing programme was emphasised. Sharing cases from personal experience to supplement textual narratives was an important way to bridge the divide between theory and practice. That ethics be integrated throughout the whole nursing programme was the general consensus.
The challenge in teaching ethics lies in the changing context of nursing and the changing context of ethics itself. Despite such hurdles, the nursing educators in this study were confident teachers who all had positive experiences in teaching ethics to their students
Performance of arrangements of 10 popular songs for Jazz Choir
Get PDFPerformance of arrangements of 10 popular songs for Jazz Choir and rhythm section for performance in concert by The North Shore Camerata Choir (Dir. Jenny Firth) Takapuna May 20 2017.
Titles: Invitation (Bronisław Kaper, Paul Francis Webster), I'm Beginning to See the Light (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, and Harry James), Crazy Rhythm (Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn), No Moon At All (David Mann), How About You/New York/NY (1. Burton Lane, Ralph Freed, 2. John Kander, Fred Ebbs), The Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prevert, Johnny Mercer), The More I See You (Harry Warren), Every time We Say Goodbye (Cole Porter), When I Fall In Love (Victor Young and Edward Heyman), I Honestly Love You (Jeff Barry, Peter Allen)
I Book Show +
Get PDFMark Purdom's Photobook - From Certainty to Doubt, was exhibited at the I Book Show +, Brighton Studio, Brighton, UK
Concert Performance: Piano and Eggs—In Time
No full textCurated programme and performance of works for solo piano by Chopin, Satie, Mozart, Debussy, Schubert, Jeff Wragg, and Nick Braae for the Piano and Eggs concert series, at Creative Waikato, 10 April 2017
Adults and children engaging with eportfolios in an early childhood education setting
No full textThere is a significant body of research on the use of ePortfolios as an assessment tool in the school and tertiary educational sectors, however there is very little documented evidence on how they are used in early childhood education. In New Zealand ePortfolios are becoming more widespread as a platform to present children’s formative assessment documentation but little is known about how they could impact on parent/family engagement with their children’s learning; teachers’ formative assessment practices; how they contribute to children’s learning journeys and indeed how children could use ePortfolios.
This PhD study sought to find a new way to engage parents/families and children in young children’s learning through presenting assessment for learning in an ePortfolio. Furthermore it aimed to investigate that if by using this platform early childhood education teachers changed or adjusted their formative assessment practices.
The study was carried out with a centre-based early childhood education service where this form of assessment presentation was entirely new to their teachers, families and children. Prior to the research the setting was presenting children’s assessment documentation in paper-based portfolios. The research was qualitative using case study methodology. A mixed methods approach was used and data was collected through observations, interviews, surveys, and analysis of assessment documentation.
The notion of an early childhood education setting as the hub of a ‘community of practice’ (Lave & Wenger, 1991) provided a useful theoretical framework for this study. A community of practice in some form was already evident in the setting. This means, something is already known about the connections inside this community of practice (children, teachers, parents/families) utilising paper-based portfolios, but it was not known what connections would be made with the ePortfolio platform, and indeed how members would engage with it. This presentation will present the findings of this research
Assumptions, Attitudes and Beliefs: Tracing the Development ofTeacher Beliefs about Classroom L1/TL
Get PDFResearch into the implementation of English-only pedagogies in South Korea has focused on teacher
perceptions of English-only government policies (Kim, 2002), the different language functions of English
and Korean in the classroom (Kang, 2008, 2013; Liu et al., 2004; Rabbidge & Chappell, 2014), the role of
teacher commitment in language teaching (Moodie & Feryok, 2015), as well as the futility of trying to ban the L1 in South Korean English classrooms (Kelleher, 2013). Research on the beliefs behind teachers’ classroom actions as well as the socio-historical elements that are responsible for the formation of these beliefs has been little more than an afterthought in most studies. This report comes from a larger study which explores why South Korean elementary school English teachers use the TL and the L1 the
way they do
Zagreb, 4x3 Peter project | proyecto de carteles
Get PDF4x3
The international poster project was a shared curatorial exercise recontextualizing posters from diverse cultures and time spans that either reinforced their original political messages or evoked new meanings in that opinionated, vulnerable, ephemeral and bold poster language.
To initiate the process I sent the first proposal. Chris McBride, John Mandelberg and John Phillips responded.
We then each proposed and responded by e-mail. The brief was open and accompanied with a text describing our rational for our selections. This sometimes came easy and other times we waited for the others response, changed our minds coming to new connections.
As John Phillips puts it:
“The exhibition 4x3, is the outcome of this enjoyable, intercontinental, time–travelling escapade, which at times felt as close to a game of poker, as it did an act of collaborative curation”.
The total number of posters is 48, 12 from each one of us, that is 3 proposals and 9 responses.
Now I will show you all the posters, you won’t be able to feel the paper, smell the inks or feel the textures but this digital projection will give you a good idea of our game / project / exhibition
Wai | Water | Woda
No full textA composition for flutes and soundscape.
Commissioned by Adrianna Lis and Tessa Brinckman.
Performed by two flautists on a range of flutes.
Utilises the sonic characteristics of piccolo, flute, alto flute, and bass flute.
Programme Note:
Water|Wai|Woda is a musical exploration of the meaning and importance of water to humanity, presented in three interconnected parts. It is a sonic exploration of the experience of being one with water - how vital it is to human existence.
Through positioning the flutes as the voices of water spirits, the music interprets the playfulness and power of various forms of water, whilst also serving as an echo from the future about the importance of preserving what we have and what that means for our survival.
Alongside the live performers, the track utilises manipulated recordings of the various flutes, which can be heard to be electronically submerged within field recordings of water.
Approx 12min
Ethics education in nursing: Now more complicated than ever
Get PDFNurses face ethical challenges in their everyday practice. Difficulties getting to know ‘right’ from ‘wrong’ can result in moral distress of nurses. Nursing educators have acknowledged the critical importance of having an ethical component taught throughout the nursing curriculum in order to promote nursing students’ ethical awareness. Yet for all of this, there is very little New Zealand research available that explores what experiences and challenges nursing educators faced teaching such content.
A case study of teaching nursing ethics in a New Zealand tertiary education context was therefore conducted and seven nursing educators were interviewed to ascertain their experiences of teaching ethics to trainee nurses. One of the major difficulties identified was the friction between a culturally specific perspective and universalist one where hard-and-fast principles or codes dictated ethical practice. As the interviewees agreed, the challenge in teaching ethics lies in the changing context of nursing and the changing context of ethics itself. Despite such hurdles, the nursing educators in this study were confident teachers who all had positive experiences in teaching ethics to their students. That ethics be integrated throughout the whole nursing programme using textual narratives was a further point of consensus