1,204 research outputs found
A Study of the Concurrent Validity between the Boxall Profile and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
No full textThe aim of the study is to establish the level of concurrent validity between the Boxall Profile, a diagnostic instrument used by teachers and teaching assistants in nurture groups, and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, a widely used screening instrument in the fields of education, mental health and social work. 202 children and adolescents attending nurture groups in England, aged 3-14 years, participated in the study. . These consisted of142 boys and 60 girls and came from 25 schools in 8 LEAs. School staff completed the Boxall Profile and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for all pupils. . The results show a high degree of concordance between the two instruments, with both measures appearing to identify similar behavioural characteristics in the same children. Scores in specific domains of the Boxall Profile are shown to predict performance on particular sub-scales of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. These preliminary findings support the validity claims of the Boxall Profile, indicating that it is a reliable tool for both diagnostic and research purposes
The oceanography classroom: Learning Science in a Post-Truth World
No full textConsider this: Mesodinium Rubrum (Myrionecta rubra), a red toxic algae (or marine ciliate), is widely recognized as a major issue in human health, and it is essential that these harmful algal blooms be eradicated over the next decade to avoid a major impact on bathers in US coastal waters. The key agent that makes the plankton red is FD&C Red 40 (US Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act), which has been proven by a number of researchers to accelerate the appearance of disease-resistant tumors and hyperactivity in children. …It’s true, really
ENRICHER-C: involvement in the criminal justice system & the impact on women's health in Dorset, TV & Hampshire – community comparison
No full textEngaging with women on probation is challenging.We are trialling a number of recruitment strategies and drives within the system
Assessing the exposure risk and impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment on individuals and ecosystems
No full textCopyright @ 2013 The authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.The use of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals is increasing. Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of research into potential environmental impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment. A Royal Society-supported seminar brought together experts from diverse scientific fields to discuss the risks posed by pharmaceuticals to wildlife. Recent analytical advances have revealed that pharmaceuticals are entering habitats via water, sewage, manure and animal carcases, and dispersing through food chains. Pharmaceuticals are designed to alter physiology at low doses and so can be particularly potent contaminants. The near extinction of Asian vultures following exposure to diclofenac is the key example where exposure to a pharmaceutical caused a population-level impact on non-target wildlife. However, more subtle changes to behaviour and physiology are rarely studied and poorly understood. Grand challenges for the future include developing more realistic exposure assessments for wildlife, assessing the impacts of mixtures of pharmaceuticals in combination with other environmental stressors and estimating the risks from pharmaceutical manufacturing and usage in developing countries. We concluded that an integration of diverse approaches is required to predict 'unexpected' risks; specifically, ecologically relevant, often long-term and non-lethal, consequences of pharmaceuticals in the environment for wildlife and ecosystems
The oceanography classroom: How to Run Amok — Or Is It a MOOC?
No full textAn email comes through from my Head of Department: "Simon, are you getting involved in the Exploring Our Ocean MOOC this year? You don't want to miss out!" I try to figure out whether this is a typo and also what it is that I don't want to miss out on. Has her cap-lock key got stuck? What letters are close to M, O, and C that she actually meant to type? Another email grabs my attention, and I decide I have too much to do to worry about decoding an email, which is either mistyped or in a hitherto unseen language. A week later as I walk down the corridor, there it is again. A bright and engaging poster with images of the deep ocean proclaims: "The University of Southampton MOOC on Exploring Our Ocean goes live in October 2014, register today—don't miss out!" As I study the poster, a passing student asks if I am starring in the MOOC this time around—he was surprised I wasn't involved in last year's. Last year's? I suddenly feel like someone who fell asleep in the 1980s comfortable with the fax, VHS tapes, and a mobile phone that occasionally made phone calls, and woke up 20 years later to discover emails, online movies, and the iPhone
The contribution of transforming growth factor-ß and epidermal growth factor signalling to airway remodelling in chronic asthma
No full textAsthma is increasing in prevalence in the developing world, affecting 10% of the world’s population. It is characterised by chronic lung inflammation and airway remodelling associated with wheezing, shortness of breath, acute bronchial hyperresponsiveness to a variety of innocuous stimuli and a more rapid decline in lung function over time. Airway remodelling, involving proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal cells, particularly myofibroblasts and smooth muscle cells, is generally refractory to corticosteroids and makes a major contribution to disease chronicity. Transforming growth factor-ß is a potent profibrogenic factor whose expression is increased in the asthmatic airways and is a prime candidate for the initiation and persistence of airway remodelling in asthma. This review highlights the role of transforming growth factor-ß in the asthmatic lung, incorporating biosynthesis, signalling pathways and functional outcome. In vivo, however, it is the balance between transforming growth factor-ß and other growth factors, such as epidermal growth factor, which will determine the extent of fibrosis in the airways. A fuller comprehension of the actions of transforming growth factor-ß, and its interaction with other signalling pathways, such as the epidermal growth factor receptor signalling cascade, may enable development of therapies that control airway remodelling where there is an unmet clinical need
A Random Utility Analysis of Southern Alberta Sportfishing
No full textThis is the third report resulting from the study: \"A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Sportfishing Activity in Southern Alberta.\" The first report dealt with general results from the survey, while the second focused specifically on the impacts of the Oldman River Dam on recreational fishing in the Crowsnest area. This, the third report, examines the economics of fishing in a more regional framework, and investigates a number of behavioural assumptions in deriving non-market values associated with fishing in the area. A number of resource management scenarios are examined in this study. These were chosen with no particular knowledge of actual or contemplated management actions. However, the treatment of these scenarios illustrate how a vast number of management alternatives which result in changes in environmental or recreational quality could be examined in an economic context. Readers interested in this study should see the other two reports: Adamowicz, W.L., P.C. Boxall, D. Watson, and T. Peters. 1992. A socio-economic evaluation of sportsfishing activity in southern Alberta. Project Report 92-01; and Watson, D., W.L. Adamowicz, and P.C. Boxall. 1993. An economic analysis of recreational fishing and environmental quality changes in the Upper Oldman River Basin. Project Report 93-01. available from the Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Industrial democracy/employee participation: prospects and plans for New Zealand: proceedings of a seminar held at James Cook Hotel, Wellington, 11 May 1989, Auckland City Travelodge, Auckland, 19 May 1989
No full textOpening address / Hon. S. Rodger, Minister of Labour -- Committee of Inquiry: an outline of approach / Dr L. Sissons and Mr R. Wilks -- Historical perspectives / Prof K. Hince -- European experiences / Dr M. Vranken -- Scenarios for New Zealand / Mr. P. Boxall -- Trade Union perspective / Mr K. Douglas -- Employer perspective / Mr R. Jessup -- Case study: Nissan New Zealand Limited / Mr B. W. Owen -- Case study: New Zealand Steel Limited / Mr. R. Mirkin -- Case study: Public Service / Mr C. Clark
The possibility of literature: the novel and the politics of form
No full textThe Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Peter Boxall traces here the profound shifts in the global conditions that make literature possible as these have occurred in the historical passage from 9/11 to Covid 19. Exploring questions such as 'The Idea of Beauty', the nature of 'Mere Being', or the possibilities of Rereading, the author anatomises the myriad forces that shape the literary imagination. At the same time, he gives vivid critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself – those unique forms of communal life that literature makes possible in a dramatically changing world, and that lead us towards a new shared future.
Essays allow the reader to see the evolution of critical thinking through the first decades of the twenty-first century
Addresses a range of writers and topics, from Melville to Ishiguro, and from the uses of beauty to the effects of rereading
Across the range of the essays, the volume develops a new theory of literary possibility, elaborated through a series of close readings of individual writers and text
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