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Views of children and young people in foster care survey: education
No full textThis paper explores the educational experiences of children and young people living in foster care in Queensland. Findings are drawn from the responses of 845 children and 1180 young people to the 2011 Views of Children and Young People in Foster Care survey, which is a rich source of information about children’s and young people’s attitudes towards and perceptions of their own education. Findings relate to educational status, key markers of educational disadvantage including suspensions and exclusions, and specific problems children and young people experience at school, as well as children’s and young people’s enjoyment of school and aspirations for the future. Information about educational support, including Educational Support Plans and support provided by Child Safety Officers and Community Visitors are also presented. Where relevant, comparisons are made between the 2011 survey results and prior surveys conducted in 2006, 2007 and 2009. Relationships between key educational measures as well as relationships to other important measures of health and placement stability are also explored.
The findings suggest that children and young people continue to experience educational disadvantage, including high rates of suspension and exclusion and a range of problems at school including problems with schoolwork, bullying and behaviour and that these difficulties can be exacerbated by the child protection system, for example, through placement instability. However, there are reasons for optimism. Children and young people are overwhelmingly likely to report that they enjoy school, expect to complete Year 12 and that their teachers generally like their schoolwork. Furthermore, over time, the proportions of young people reporting that they have an Educational Support Plan have grown, and, importantly, they are more likely to report that these plans are helpful. Analyses in relation to a number of educational variables reveal that young people with a plan they consider to be helpful fare better. Children and young people were also positive about the important role that CSOs and CVs are able to play in supporting their education.
While educational disadvantage is an enduring problem, the survey findings provide evidence of progress in key areas and suggestions for how continued improvements may be made
Still room for improvement? The educational experiences of looked after children in Scotland
No full textIn this chapter Kirstie Maclean and Graham Connelly present an analysis of joined-up thinking in Scotland from both social services and education perspectives
Exploratory study of risks to stability in foster and kinship care in NSW
No full textThis report describes an exploratory study on various aspects and risks to stability in foster and kinship placements.The report finds that compared to foster care, risks to placement stability are more evident for kinship care. Kinship carers (predominantly grandparents) are older and few have formal agency support. They cope, some not easily, with challenging situations as they arise (e.g. death/separation/divorce of partner/spouse, their birth children’s substance abuse problems, children’s challenging behaviours, their own and grandchildren’s medical conditions). The concept of older carers ‘parenting again’ should not be taken lightly. For many carers there is a continuation and increase in daily housework chores and child care routines, with little time for leisure activities, holidays, hobbies and personal time. Parenting again also requires older carers to make significant changes in the way they conform/adapt to contemporary practices around parenting, child discipline and education. Common themes suggested by foster and kinship carers for keeping placements stable were providing children with routines and boundaries; developing/maintaining strong relationships (with workers, family and birth family); receiving respite; and being supported by workers
Variação cromossômica intraespecífica em Alophia drummondii (Graham) R. Foster (Iridaceae)
No full textO gênero Alophia (Iridaceae) apresenta três espécies no Brasil, sendo Alophia drummondii (Graham) R. Foster a mais amplamente distribuída com vários níveis de ploidia e cariótipo bimodal. Com o objetivo de investigar a variação cromossômica intraespecífica dessa espécie, foram analisados 21 indivíduos utilizando bandeamento CMA/DAPI e FISH com sondas de DNAr 5S e 35S. A fórmula cariotípica observada nesses indivíduos revelou mudanças na morfologia dos cromossomos nos diferentes níveis de ploidia: 2x (2n = 14, 2Mg + 12Mp), 4x (2n = 28, 2Mg + 2SMg + 24Mp), 6x (2n = 42, 4Mg + 2SMg + 36Mp), 8x (2n = 56, 4Mg + 4SMg + 48Mp/ 6Mg + 2SMg + 48Mp). Além disso, foram observadas variações no número e posição das bandas CMA+. Nos indivíduos 2x foram observadas seis bandas, sendo duas no par grande na região intersticial e quatro bandas pericentroméricas em dois pares de cromossomos pequenos. Nos tetraplóides as bandas CMA+ foram localizadas na região pericentromérica do par grande e em dois pares pequenos. O citótipo 6x também apresentou seis bandas CMA+, sendo quatro bandas em dois pares grandes nas regiões intersticial e proximal e uma banda fraca em um par de cromossomos pequenos. No citótipo 8x o número de bandas CMA+ variou de quatro a seis. Além disso, foi observada a presença de bandas DAPI+ centroméricas na maioria dos cromossomos. A maior variação foi observada nos sítios de DNAr 5S e 35S. Os citótipos 4x apresentaram 10 a 18 sítios de DNAr 5S e dois a oito sítios de DNAr 35S, sendo três pares com sítios de DNAr 5S e 35S adjacentes. Entre os indivíduos 6x, houve uma variação de 4 a 12 sítios de 5S e de 8 a 12 sítios de 35S. Desses, um a dois pares eram adjacentes. Entre os indivíduos 8x, foi observada uma variação de 18 a 22 sítios de DNAr 5S e 14 a 24 sítios de DNAr 35S, apresentando de dois a dez sítios adjacentes. Esses resultados revelam que além da variação em nível de ploidia os cariótipos dessa espécie sofreram também diversificação estrutural, com possível implicação para o isolamento genético entre alguns desses citótipos
Sperm sociality: Cooperation, altruism, and spite
No full textCitation: Pizzari, T & Foster, K. R. (2008). 'Sperm sociality: cooperation, altruism, and spite', PLoS Biology, 6(5), e130. [Available at http://biology.plosjournals.org]. Copyright 2008 Pizzari and Foster. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Brain meets brawn: why Grid and agents need each other
No full textThe Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused on “brawn”: infrastructure, tools, and applications for reliable and secure resource sharing within dynamic and geographically distributed virtual organizations. In contrast, the agents community has focused on “brain”: autonomous problem solvers that can act flexibly in uncertain and dynamic environments. Yet as the scale and ambition of both Grid and agent deployments increase, we see a convergence of interests, with agent systems requiring robust infrastructure and Grid systems requiring autonomous, flexible behaviors. Motivated by this convergence of interests, we review the current state of the art in both areas, review the challenges that concern the two communities, and propose research and technology development activities that can allow for mutually supportive effort
The Evolution of IT Standards in Academic & Commercial Communities: Grid Standardization
No full textThis paper considers the emergence of institutions developing standards in a rapidly evolving area of information technology: Grid computing. Grid computing, with its aim of organizations sharing computer resources, inherently depends upon standardization. As grid computing as a technology has developed the community of actors involved has grown from a small homogeneous core of users in research institutes into a global constituency embracing large IT system vendors, leading to the formation of overlapping bodies outside the structures of formal international standardization to reconcile the needs of this diverse group. The study on which this paper is based formed one of a series of seven case studies exploring the social networks within which e-business standards are being negotiated, undertaken within the NO-REST research project, an EU research project studying the dynamics of e-business standardization (www.no-rest.org). This paper discusses the expansion of the Grid constituency, explores the tensions and alliances between the two major constituencies forming the global Grid community, industry and academia, and considers how standardization processes have evolved to accommodate these dynamics. It is found that with growing commercial participation, the future of the Grid is being shaped by three trends: strong competition between the large Grid industry actors, tight collaboration between industry and academia in standardizing the Grid, and the collaborative bodies formed to develop Grid standards increasingly becoming the arenas in which the technology is developed, alliances formed and conflicts resolved
Children found to be in need of care : a study of current management practice
No full textBibliography: leaf 242-246.Children found to be in need of care may be legally removed from their families and recommended to one of four types of placement, or management resource. (Children's Act, 1960 Sections 1(X) and, 31(1)).The study here reported is an investigation designed to determine which features of the children, their families and previous management are differentially associated with the current placement type of the child.160 children at present in care were rated on 30 factors each. From this information a composite picture was developed of the most typical child, family and previous management history associated with each of the placement types. Demographic data from the sample considered as a whole was also presented. The finding that many differences exist between groups defined by placement type was discussed in terms of relevant literature. With reference to these results and features of current management practice revealed by demographic data, some proposals were ma.de which aimed at improving the use to which available welfare resources are put
Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication
No full textScientific research is a competitive business – in order to secure funding, promotion and tenure researchers must demonstrate their work has impact in their field. To maximise impact researchers undertake high priority research, aim to get results first, and publish in the highest impact journals. The Internet now presents a new opportunity to the scholarly author seeking higher impact: s/he can now make their work instantly accessible on the Web through author self-archiving. This growing body of open access literature (coupled with new publishing models that make journals available for-free to the reader) maximises research impact by maximising the number of people who can read it, and making it available sooner. Open access also provides a new opportunity for bibliometric research. This thesis describes the relatively recent phenomenon of open access to research literature, tools that were built to collect and analyse that literature, and the results of analyses of the effect of open access and its effect on author behaviour. It shows that articles self-archived by authors receive between 50-250% more citations, that rapid pre-printing on the Web has dramatically reduced the peak citation rate from over a year to virtually instant and how citation-impact – now widely used for evaluation – can be expanded to include a new web metric of download impact
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