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Popular Culture in the Classroom: Engaging With Ancient History Through Contemporary Media
No full textAbstract:Many students are fascinated by Ancient Greece and Rome, but they May also find it difficult to relate to or understand these ancient cultures. Students commonly bring preconceived notions about the past to their studies, which May be based on their exposure to popular media such as films, television shows, video games, books and comics. Preconceptions often result in inaccurate perceptions of the past: perhaps they think of Greeks as perpetually surrounded by beautiful white statues, while Romans were never happy unless slaughtering animals in the arena. Preconceptions often reinforce stereotypes because the popular texts depicting ancient societies are mediated through a modern lens designed to appeal to twenty-first century audiences. As well as updating accepted fashions and cultural norms, antiquity May be sanitised to be made more familiar, for example, modernising conceptions of gender or race, centring nuclear family values, or downplaying slavery.</p
Statistical sampling of missing environmental variables improves biophysical genomic prediction in wheat
No full textKey message: The integration of genomic prediction with crop growth models enabled the estimation of missing environmental variables which improved the prediction accuracy of grain yield. Abstract: Since the invention of whole-genome prediction (WGP) more than two decades ago, breeding programmes have established extensive reference populations that are cultivated under diverse environmental conditions. The introduction of the CGM–WGP model, which integrates crop growth models (CGM) with WGP, has expanded the applications of WGP to the prediction of unphenotyped traits in untested environments, including future climates. However, CGMs require multiple seasonal environmental records, unlike WGP, which makes CGM–WGP less accurate when applied to historical reference populations that lack crucial environmental inputs. Here, we investigated the ability of CGM–WGP to approximate missing environmental variables to improve prediction accuracy. Two environmental variables in a wheat CGM, initial soil water content (InitlSoilWCont) and initial nitrate profile, were sampled from different normal distributions separately or jointly in each iteration within the CGM–WGP algorithm. Our results showed that sampling InitlSoilWCont alone gave the best results and improved the prediction accuracy of grain number by 0.07, yield by 0.06 and protein content by 0.03. When using the sampled InitlSoilWCont values as an input for the traditional CGM, the average narrow-sense heritability of the genotype-specific parameters (GSPs) improved by 0.05, with GNSlope, PreAnthRes, and VernSen showing the greatest improvements. Moreover, the root mean square of errors for grain number and yield was reduced by about 7% for CGM and 31% for CGM–WGP when using the sampled InitlSoilWCont values. Our results demonstrate the advantage of sampling missing environmental variables in CGM–WGP to improve prediction accuracy and increase the size of the reference population by enabling the utilisation of historical data that are missing environmental records.</p
Influence of Cooperatives’ Socialized Services on Agricultural Households’ Chemical Fertilizer and Pesticide Use Intensity Based on Evidence from Two Counties, Hubei, China
No full textAbuse of chemical fertilizer and pesticide will not only impair the quality of agricultural products, but also damage the agricultural ecological environment. From the perspective of cooperatives’ socialized services, this paper studies agricultural households’ chemical fertilizer and pesticide use behavior, attempting to provide references for the government’s formulation of relevant policies and cooperatives’ adjustment of their operation strategies. The survey data of 518 agricultural households in Zigui County and Badong County, Hubei Province, China are used to examine the influence of cooperatives and their socialized services on agricultural households’ chemical fertilizer and pesticide use intensity via propensity score matching. Research reveals that: (1) Joining cooperatives has a significantly negative influence on agricultural households’ chemical fertilizer and pesticide use intensity, and the average treatment effect is –341.505 yuan mu–1. (2) Agricultural materials supply services and technical support services can significantly bring down agricultural households’ chemical fertilizer and pesticide use intensity, and the average treatment effect is –225.966 yuan mu–1 and –163.580 yuan mu–1, respectively. While the influence of agricultural products sale services on chemical fertilizer and pesticide use intensity is not significant. (3) Grouped investigation is carried out by age, education years and planting scale, and the influence of socialized services on agricultural householders’ chemical fertilizer and pesticide use intensity is obviously varied among different groups. The influence of agricultural materials supply services on agricultural households who are elder, with smaller education years and small planting scale is significant; the influence of technical support services on agricultural households who are younger, with higher education years and small planting scale is significant; the influence of agricultural products sale services on agricultural households who are elder is significant. It is necessary to improve the percentage of agricultural households joining cooperatives, increase the supply level of cooperatives’ socialized services, and make socialized services of cooperatives more targeted. All this can contribute to further reduction of agricultural households’ chemical fertilizer and pesticide use intensity.Duan Yuefang, Chen Shaopeng, and Brooke Wilmsen "Influence of Cooperatives' Socialized Services on Agricultural Households' Chemical Fertilizer and Pesticide Use Intensity —Based on the Evidence from Two Counties, Hubei, China," Journal of Resources and Ecology 15(5), 1286-1298, (14 October 2024). https://doi.org/10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2024.05.016</p
Metrical properties of finite product of partial quotients in arithmetic progressions
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Return to Cycling After a Multiple Pelvic Fracture: A Case Report of a Strength and Conditioning Based Approach to Rehabilitation
No full textThis case report describes the integrated rehabilitation and strength and conditioning approach that was adopted after the diagnosis of a fracture of the inferior pubic ramus, as well as a fracture to the lateral aspect of the superior pubic ramus, in a semi-professional triathlete and cyclist. The male athlete also incurred a minimal displacement of the medial acetabular, fracture of the superolateral acetabular and a fracture of the left sacral ala. Bleeding into both adductor muscles, and sacroiliac joint dysfunction were also diagnosed. The athlete suffered these injuries within a standard field-based training routine. No surgery was performed on the athlete. He was prescribed a progressive, yet structured, rehabilitation and strength and conditioning program by an allied health team. The program was adhered to by the athlete for four months. The strength and conditioning program included adaptations in the execution of most of the prescribed exercises. It required the athlete to initially perform the exercises twice weekly. At seven weeks post fracture, the athlete’s weight bearing capabilities were increased to partial weight bearing on the injured side. Over the following month a gradual increase in the athlete´s level of strength and conditioning, as he performed both upper and lower body isometric exercises, occurred. These exercises were subsequently followed up with various isotonic exercises. The athlete reported no pain when he returned to spin cycling. On clinical follow-up, three months post-accident, a healing fracture was confirmed via radiographs of the athlete´s pelvis. Bone healing was assumed, on review, when no evidence of a fracture gap was obtained.https://www.jsc-journal.com/index.php/JSC/article/view/861</p
Developing quality community connections through a regional preservice teacher placement program
No full textAbstract: The recruitment and retention of teachers in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia remains a persistent challenge. Greater awareness of and experience in regional, rural and remote schools is a common strategy adopted by initial teacher education providers to mediate this challenge. This paper examines the quality of connection between preservice teachers and a regional community developed through a multi-university placement program. The program adopted a multi-faceted approach to building quality community connections—fostering preservice teacher connections to a cohort of preservice teachers, to regional schools, and to a regional area. Findings suggest this tripartite approach enhanced the quality of all connections, positioning the program as a useful model for developing a pipeline of preservice teachers to regional schools struggling to find teaching staff.</p
Restorative Play: Shared Reading and the Recovery from the Pandemic
No full textThis article outlines the findings from research project into community reading groups (Shared Reading) at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Evaluating the potential of Shared Reading to aid in the societal recovery from extensive lockdowns during the pandemic, three themes have emerged: participants found the groups broadened their minds after the diminished intellectual stimulation during social isolation; brought them a sense of calm and focus; and helped them form new social connections. We contextualize these findings using a range of approaches, from reception studies and psychoanalysis to creative/social bibliotherapy and close reading. In particular, we draw on D. W. Winnicott's notion of the transitional space of play and research into the mental health benefits of Shared Reading.</p
Activism, rights and hope: Young people and their advocates mobilising for social change
No full textThis opening chapter of the edited volume, Childhood, Youth and Activism: Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and Their Advocates, explores activism and advocacy – by and for children and young people. It begins by considering how activism has been understood in the scholarly literature, before making a case for a broad and inclusive conceptualisation of what counts as this particular form of social action. Relatedly, it examines the contours of the relationship between activism and advocacy, drawing attention to the ways in which these concepts converge, an issue that is particularly salient when applied to the categories of child and youth. Themes that emerge in research on child and youth activism are then drawn out and we identify some of the key issues that animate this work across various disciplines. These include observations that young people have long been central to social movements, the role of social media in youth activism, the nature of child and adult relationships in social movement organisations, and some of the issues that arise for young activists in relation to intersectional identities. To this we add debates regarding the politics of recognition, questions of voice and agency,</p
Catalysing Climate Conscious Legal Education Through Open Educational Resources
No full textThis case study outlines an integrated project called Climate Conscious Lawyers that aims to transform legal education. It uses Open Education Resources (OER) to address climate change challenges in the legal profession. The project’s vision is to ensure the next generation of legal professionals are equipped with the expertise to deliver legal services and promote justice in a world transformed by climate change.</p
Securing the right to assimilate: How the drafting of the genocide convention helped undermine language rights
No full textAbstract: This article focuses broadly on the problem of global language loss, and the underlying political dynamics that drive it. Noting that the United Nations currently promotes a rights-based approach to addressing this problem, I explore why language rights mechanisms are currently weak and fragmented. To do this, I focus on the tensions that exist between language rights and the sovereign rights claimed by states, based on a genealogical analysis of the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Specifically, I examine why many drafters wanted to exclude protections for languages and linguistic minorities from the convention. My detailed narrative reconstruction shows that drafters removed consideration of languages from the convention in order to assert states’ rights to promote national languages, assimilate minorities, and prevent outside influence in domestic affairs. The article concludes by making suggestions for further research to deepen our understanding of the connections between sovereignty and language rights, while also arguing that effective solutions to the global crisis of language loss require the creation of a more robust language rights regime that acknowledges and confronts the implicit rights that states claim for themselves.</p