75 research outputs found
Storyboarding Technique in the Classroom to Address End of Life Experiences in Practice and Engage Student Nurses in Deeper Reflection.
No full textThis paper evaluates the use of storyboarding within a classroom setting as a means of addressing end of life issues and engaging second year student nurses in creative, critical thinking and deeper reflection on practice.
Storyboarding is a process that was developed to encourage learners to use the creative right brain and the critical left brain to formulate ideas in front of a group and then to look at those ideas critically (Lottier, 1986). The session was evaluated using a questionnaire and group discussion to elicit perceived learning from students. The activity was to create the storyboards in small groups, then review the content generated by discussion with the whole group. Main themes identified by the students included breaking bad news, dealing with cardiac arrest situation, coping with families following bereavement and the dying patient. Evaluation of the teaching session suggested that students found storyboarding helped to identify cultural aspects and feelings related to the dying patient. Students valued sharing with each other and the opportunity to have their experiences heard. It was noted that although this method provided as valuable learning experience for the student it is staff and time intensive and attention is required to establish a climate of trust and safety. The risk of exposing unexpected emotions within individual students appears no greater than with other approaches to teaching about loss, death and dying
The Drawer & a Pile of Bricks, by David Berridge
No full textIn the new house the sounds had no space, no sureness of near or far, nothing to attribute them to, apart from My Racist Aunts. That’s us, they said. All of us. Your deal.
Hairdressers on a Central London street freeze, find themselves transported to a desolate seaside town. Ideas and projects are written for the drawer, a realm of the unpublished and unattainable, then inconveniently realised. A monument to the Third Revolution takes shape in a small bar, alongside an open packet of crisps, a way of sitting on a stool, and a resemblance to Sherlock Holmes. What fortunes can be told from the names given to alleyways and steep flights of steps? Who can be glimpsed from behind a fishing boat, or in the lengthening shadows of the tall town houses bordering the park? Is this romance? There is a house to be cleared, and a pile of bricks appears to be immovable. Is an old friend awake for the election? Hatch a plan for escaping disaster, robotic movements on the cliff top, as Aunts of noxious intentions trumpet, amok in the city centre, again.
‘Can you make a life out of a pile of bricks, or make a pile of bricks out of a life? Does Regis equal a question? Does Britain equal birdsong? Is there a good enough way to respond to this book that builds such a slight, solid thing from its own sly language?’
–> Joanna Walsh
David Berridge lives in Hastings. He is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Fluxus President, and self build with no energy bills or dog, a long poem on three scrolls. He works as a bookseller in London
Event experiences: design, management and impact
No full textThe papers submitted for this PhD by publication represent research centered on event experiences and their design, management and impact. They are the result of research projects that have produced seven published peer-reviewed papers and one book. The body of work has made an original, significant and sustained contribution towards the development of an emerging field of study in events. The work has made a major contribution towards furthering understanding of the human experience that results from the management of events, their design and their impact.
At the heart of this submission is a consideration for how events are experienced and what factors and components contribute to the depth of that experience. The majority of papers analyses and reflects upon the construction of experience settings (their design) and essentially seeks knowledge to identify the variables that shape any experience of events (Ryan, 2012). In doing so the research undertaken has embraced a less restrictive set of methodologies usually afforded by statistical exercises in favour of a more embodied, immersive and participative approach. This has included not only observation and autoethnography, but also reflection on that which has been observed. In turn this reflection and analysis has drawn upon a range of theories and models to advance understanding of the social occasions that we call events where human interactions with the designed programme and environment illicit a range of responses that may culminate in a memorable and unique moment in time. The research therefore touches upon the emotional response to event experiences, the study and interpretation of the meaning of events, and notably their signification to an intended audience. In the course of this research I have evaluated and reflected upon the study and practice of event management across a range of event types and genres. Seeking to initially clarify the role of design in creating event experience led me to questioning the paradigmatic model for event management and resulted in the development of an alternative consideration for event planning and management - Event Experience Design Framework (EEDF). Unlike existing models this places design as the central and pivotal driving force that inhabits all areas of the event management process and upon which all events should then be based.
The contribution of this body of work can therefore be summarised as follows:
1. Development of a paradigmatic concept that places design as the central and essential practice that underpins the planned event experience.
2. Theoretical positioning of how designing event experiences impacts on stakeholders
3. Recognition and application of theoretical models and tools relevant to event design and creativity, and further use of conceptual models to analyse experiential outcomes
4. Identification and awareness of the broader socio-cultural impact of planned events This submission provides evidentiary material that I have made a positive and meaningful contribution to raising the profile of events through research, teaching and learning by an acknowledged excellence in events management education and as a recognised (and first) National Teaching Fellow in Events. Furthermore, the submission provides a reflection on this research and development that has enabled me to make such a pivotal contribution to the field. It concludes with an outline of plans for the future
Aspects of Translation Theory, and Comparison to translation English-Albanian from the author G. R. Berridge, Diplomacy Theory and Practice and Albanian version G. R. Berridge Teoria dhe Praktika
No full textThe main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the diplomatic field and to achieve this an in-depth analysis of two chapters from two books is elaborated, one is in Albanian Language and the other in English Language. The author of the book is the renowned scholar of diplomacy G. R. Berridge, Diplomacy Theory and Practice and the version in Albanian “Diplomacia, Teoria dhe Praktika”. To achieve a comparison of translation between the Albanian and English version it was necessary to carefully scrutinize and carry out a detailed analysis of translation aspects such as the Importance of Equivalence, Methods of Analysis, Grammatical Structure, Synchronic Approach and Diachronic Approach to the text and to draw the difference between the Political and Administrative Style. In addition to this it was of significant importance to make an ample lexical analysis of the key words and expressions. The misinterpretations of certain words in the diplomatic terminology may aggravate and take the shape of a conflict. So, contribution in this aspect of translation appears to be essential and in relevance to contemporary problematic
Hypocretin/Orexin selectively increases dopamine efflux within the prefrontal cortex: involvement of the ventral tegmental area
No full textHypocretins (HCRTs) modulate a variety of behavioral and physiological processes, in part via interactions with multiple ascending modulatory systems. Further, HCRT efferents from the lateral hypothalamus innervate midbrain dopamine (DA) nuclei, and DA cell bodies express HCRT receptors. Combined, these observations suggest that HCRT may influence behavioral state and/or state-dependent processes via modulation of DA neurotransmission. The current studies used in vivo microdialysis in the unanesthetized rat to first characterize the effect of intracerebroventricular infusion of HCRT-1 (0.07, 0.7 nmol) on extracellular levels of DA within the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and nucleus accumbens (Acc). Electroencephalographic/electromyographic measures of sleep–wake state were collected along with select behavioral measures (eg locomotor activity, grooming). HCRT-1 dose-dependently increased PFC dialysate DA levels, and these increases were closely correlated with increases in time spent awake. In contrast, Acc DA levels were unaffected. Additional studies examined whether HCRT-1 acts directly within the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to selectively increase PFC DA efflux and modulate behavioral state. Unilateral infusion of HCRT-1 (0.1, 1.0 nmol) within the VTA increased PFC, but not Acc, DA levels. Importantly, intra-VTA infusion of HCRT-1 increased the time spent awake and grooming. Moreover, HCRT-induced increases in both time spent awake and time spent grooming were significantly correlated with post-infusion PFC DA levels. The current observations predict a prominent modulatory influence of HCRT on PFC-dependent cognitive and affective processes that results, in part, from actions within the VTA. Additionally, these observations suggest that the activation of VTA DA neurons contributes to the behavioral state-modulatory actions of HCRT.Peer reviewedFinal article publishedhypocretinorexindopamineprefrontal cortexventral tegmental areaarousa
Hypocretin/orexin preferentially activates caudomedial ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons
No full textThe hypocretin/orexin (HCRT) neuropeptide system modulates behavioral state and state‐dependent processes via actions on multiple neuromodulatory transmitter systems. Recent studies indicate that HCRT selectively increases dopamine (DA) neurotransmission within the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the shell subregion of the nucleus accumbens (NAs), but not the core subregion of the nucleus accumbens (NAc). The circuitry underlying the differential actions of HCRT across distinct DA systems is unclear. The current study examined whether HCRT preferentially activates PFC‐ and NAs‐projecting relative to NAc‐projecting DA neurons within the VTA. One week after infusion of the retrograde tracer fluorogold (FG) into the medial PFC, NAc or NAs, animals received a ventricular infusion of HCRT‐1. Subsequent analyses conducted across the rostral‐caudal extent of the VTA determined the degree to which: (i) Fos‐immunoreactivity (ir) was observed within tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)‐ir neurons; (ii) TH‐ir was observed within FG‐ir neurons; and (iii) Fos‐ir was observed within FG‐ir neurons. HCRT significantly increased Fos‐ir in VTA DA (TH‐ir) neurons, primarily in a restricted population of small‐to‐medium‐sized DA neurons located within the caudomedial VTA. Furthermore, within this region of the VTA, PFC‐ and NAs‐projecting TH‐ir neurons were more likely to contain Fos‐ir than were NAc‐projecting TH‐ir neurons. These results provide novel evidence that HCRT selectively activates PFC‐ and NAs‐projecting DA neurons within the VTA, and suggest a potential role for HCRT in PFC‐ and NAs‐dependent cognitive and/or affective processes. Moreover, these and other observations suggest that the dysregulation of HCRT–DA interactions could contribute to cognitive/affective dysfunction associated with a variety of behavioral disorders.Peer reviewedFinal article publisheddopaminehypocretinnucleus accumbensorexinprefrontal cortexventral tegmental are
Public survivors: the burdens and possibilities of speaking as a survivor
No full textThis chapter will explore the narrative politics of survivor memoirs and autobiographical accounts of sexual violence. I argue that, particularly from the 1980s onwards, these public interventions, largely from otherwise unknown women, have played a significant role in shaping public discourses around survivors and sexual violence more generally. In telling their stories, these women become what I call ‘public survivors’, granted a limited form of authority to speak as experts on sexual violence in the public sphere.
I argue that while, overall, these narratives have helped to construct more overtly ‘pro-survivor’ or less ‘victim-blaming’ public responses, these attitudes have not extended to all survivors or all narratives. Individual public narratives that achieve recognition tend to feature white women able to mobilize narratives of blamelessness in response to stranger rape. In considering the absences within this genre I ask how and why some narratives continue to be less tellable within the public sphere. Additionally, survivor memoirs, and the survivors who author them, have a complicated relationship to feminist politics more broadly. While the need to listen to and believe survivor accounts of sexual violence is a core tenet of contemporary feminist politics, survivor attitudes to feminism, and particularly its institutional manifestations, range from identification to ambivalence and even overt hostility.
Overall, I argue, that the genre of memoirs offers an insight into the complicated relationship between feminism and survivor politics, as well as the strengths and limitations of speaking out about sexual violence as a tool for social and cultural change
On the generality of the “Sit and Reach” Test
No full textHead rotation, shoulder extension and rotation, ankle plantar and dorsiflexion, hip flexion, and sit and reach (SR) scores were examined in 41 women and 39 men, aged 45–75 years. The SR gave more reproducible data than the other measurements (intraclass test/retest correlation over 8 months, r = .83). SR scores were independent of standing height (r 2 = .068) but were greater in women (p < .002). The flexibility at all joints was less than reported for young adults. There were age-related decreases of flexibility scores for the head and shoulder joints (p < .01), with a parallel trend (p < .05) for ankle plantar flexion and SR scores (the last only after inclusion of an age-gender interaction term). A principal components analysis identified three factors (tentatively identified as general trunk, ankle, and shoulder flexibility) accounting for 55.9% of total variance. SR scores had a moderate correlation with the first factor (r = .61) but only weak correlations with the second and third. Although the SR test is the most reliable simple instrument, it provides only limited information about the flexibility at other joints in an older population
Effects of calcium channel blockers on pharmacologically induced contractions of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) intestine
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