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Attitudes to parenthood in youth with ID – intervention as a means for informed choices
No full textAbstract IASSIDD 2021Attitudes to parenthood in youth with ID – intervention as a means for informed choicesEva Randell, Patrik Arvidsson, Gunnel Janeslätt, Berit HöglundAIM The aim of our study was to investigate the attitudes to future parenthood in youth with intellectual disabilities (ID) before and after an intervention in special upper schools. Methods: This is a controlled intervention study, with inclusions of new students in autumn each year for three consecutive years. Participants (n=107) were students with mild or moderate ID age 16 – 20 years old with informed consent. Data were collected before and after the intervention. The Infant Simulator Attitude Scale (ISA) was used to measure attitudes concerning future parenthood. The intervention included a combination of 13 weekly theoretical lessons and practical care with the RCB simulator during 3 days. The theoretical lessons were held at school ones a week using the Toolkit “Children—what does that involve?” (ASVZ). The practical care endured a three day and night caring session when the RCB simulator at home.Results: Preliminary data shows no significant differences but some change in attitudes were discovered.Conclusions: Possibly the instrument was not optimal for this purpose. However, the results indicate that the intervention can change attitudes and thereby give insights and help youth with ID to make informed choices of adult life and of parenthood. Key words: intervention study, youth with ID, parenthood, school_____________AuthorsEva Randell, PhD, Senior Lecturer Social Work, Dalarna University, SwedenPatrik Arvidsson, PhD, Clin. Psychologist, Centre for Research & Development, Uppsala University/Region Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden and Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, South AfricaGunnel Janeslätt, PhD, OT(reg) Center for Clinical Research in Dalarna, Associated to Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Disability and Habilitation, Uppsala University, SwedenBerit Höglund, Associate Professor, midwife, Department of Women´s and Children´s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden </p
Attitudes to parenthood in youth with ID – intervention as a means for informed choices
No full textAbstract IASSIDD 2021Attitudes to parenthood in youth with ID – intervention as a means for informed choicesEva Randell, Patrik Arvidsson, Gunnel Janeslätt, Berit HöglundAIM The aim of our study was to investigate the attitudes to future parenthood in youth with intellectual disabilities (ID) before and after an intervention in special upper schools. Methods: This is a controlled intervention study, with inclusions of new students in autumn each year for three consecutive years. Participants (n=107) were students with mild or moderate ID age 16 – 20 years old with informed consent. Data were collected before and after the intervention. The Infant Simulator Attitude Scale (ISA) was used to measure attitudes concerning future parenthood. The intervention included a combination of 13 weekly theoretical lessons and practical care with the RCB simulator during 3 days. The theoretical lessons were held at school ones a week using the Toolkit “Children—what does that involve?” (ASVZ). The practical care endured a three day and night caring session when the RCB simulator at home.Results: Preliminary data shows no significant differences but some change in attitudes were discovered.Conclusions: Possibly the instrument was not optimal for this purpose. However, the results indicate that the intervention can change attitudes and thereby give insights and help youth with ID to make informed choices of adult life and of parenthood. Key words: intervention study, youth with ID, parenthood, school_____________AuthorsEva Randell, PhD, Senior Lecturer Social Work, Dalarna University, SwedenPatrik Arvidsson, PhD, Clin. Psychologist, Centre for Research & Development, Uppsala University/Region Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden and Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, South AfricaGunnel Janeslätt, PhD, OT(reg) Center for Clinical Research in Dalarna, Associated to Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Disability and Habilitation, Uppsala University, SwedenBerit Höglund, Associate Professor, midwife, Department of Women´s and Children´s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden </p
Velarifictorus Randell 1964
No full textGenus <i>Velarifictorus</i> Randell, 1964 <p> <i>Velarifictorus</i> Randell, 1964: 1586</p> <p> Type species: <i>Scapsipedus micado</i> Saussure</p>Published as part of <i>Ma, Libin, Qiao, Min & Zhang, Tao, 2019, A new species of Velarifictorus Randell, 1964 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllnae Modicoryllini) bearing similarities to the Landrevinae from China, pp. 103-108 in Zootaxa 4612 (1)</i> on page 104, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.1.7, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3233663">http://zenodo.org/record/3233663</a>
Attention to primes modulates affective priming of pronunciation responses
No full textIn studies on affective priming of pronunciation responses, two words are presented on each trial and participants are asked to read the second word out loud. Whereas some studies revealed shorter reaction times when the two words had the same valence than when they had a different valence, other studies either found no effect of affective congruence or revealed a reversed effect. In the present experiments, a significant effect of affective congruence only emerged when filler trials were presented in which the prime and target were identical and participants were instructed to attend to the primes (Experiment 2). No effects were found when participants were merely instructed to attend to or ignore the primes (Experiment 1), or when affectively incongruent filler trials were presented and participants were instructed to ignore the primes (Experiment 2)
Velarifictorus Randell 1964
No full text<i>Velarifictorus</i> Randell, 1964 <p> <i>Velarifictorus</i> Randell, 1964: 1586; Gorochov, 2019: 282; Ma, Qiao & Zhang, 2019: 104; Zheng, Cai & Ma, 2022: 103</p> <p> <b>Type species.</b> <i>Scapsipedus micado</i> Saussure, 1877</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Medium-sized body for Gryllinae. Head relatively rounded, often with several brown stripes on the occiput. The posterior femora strong and longer dorsal spurs of posterior tibiae with a wide distribution range.</p>Published as part of <i>Wang, Ning, Huang, Huateng & Ma, Li-Bin, 2023, Redescription of two species and a new distribution record for China of the genus Melanogryllus Chopard, 1961 and a report of one new species of the genus Velarifictorus Randell, 1964 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Gryllinae), pp. 269-278 in Zootaxa 5360 (2)</i> on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.2.6, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10085067">http://zenodo.org/record/10085067</a>
I'm alone
No full textCaptain Jack Randell was born in Port Rexton, Newfoundland in 1879, and began a life at sea at a young age; this book is an autobiographical account of that life. The first two chapters cover his time at sea as a young man, and then chapters three through eleven recount his military experience, for which Randell was highly decorated. The rest of the book focuses on the captain's experience as a rum runner, including the international incident of the sinking of the ship for which the book is titled. -- Publisher's postscript gives the current state of the arbitration between the United States and Canada with regards to the sinking of the I'm Alone at the time of publication; a further handwritten note at the end of the postscript (p. 287) gives the amounts eventually awarded in the matter including the amounts given to Captain Randell and the 7 members of the crew who had been wrongly arrested with him
Stimulus equivalence and naming
No full textThe functionality of verbal behaviour in stimulus equivalence was demonstrated by training verbally able adults with different combinations of easily nameable, yet formally unrelated, pictorial stimuli. Study One indicated that participants who were trained with combinations of pictures whose names rhymed with each other demonstrated the formation and generalisation of equivalence classes more readily than participants who were trained with non-rhyming combinations of the same stimuli. Studies Two and Three provided within-participant confirmations of this finding, and further indicated that previously established contextual control of baseline relations may be superseded by verbal control during testing without reinforcement. That verbal control and contextual cues may both provide a basis for the formation of generalised classes was also indicated. Study Four investigated the formation of contextually controlled equivalence classes using a think-aloud procedure, and additionally compared the performance of participants who were required to think aloud during experimentation with that of participants who were not required so to do. The results indicated that use of such procedures may disrupt the formation of contextually controlled equivalence classes. Studies Five and Six demonstrated the emergence and generalisation of stimulus classes on the basis of verbal control in the absence of reinforcement baseline training. Overall, the findings indicated that visual stimuli are named, that the phonological properties of those names can influence equivalence class formation and generalisation, and that the emergence of untrained behaviour may, under certain circumstances, be verbally controlled.</p
The ReSIST Resilience Knowledge Base
No full textWe describe a prototype knowledge base that uses semantic web technologies to provide a service for querying a large and expanding collection of public data about resilience, dependability and security. We report progress and identify opportunities to support resilience-explicit computing by developing metadata-based descriptions of resilience mechanisms that can be used to support design time and, potentially, run-time decision making
Development and Evaluation of Community Affairs Management Information System for Municipality of Torrijos
No full text<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The Municipality of Torrijos understands the necessity for a comprehensive Community Affairs Management Information System (CAMIS) combined with strong data analytics capabilities in an era of increased digitization and community participation. The objective of this study aims to design and implement a user-friendly CAMIS platform tailored to the specific needs and requirements of the Municipality of Torrijos; incorporate data analytics functionalities to extract insights from community-related data and support evidence-based decision-making; utilize data analytics to identify community needs, prioritize initiatives, and allocate resources efficiently to maximize impact; and, conduct rigorous evaluation and assessment to measure the functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability, and portability of CAMIS the on community relations and governance. The development and evaluation of CAMIS using data analytics for the Municipality of Torrijos is presented in this paper.</p>
Blowin' in the wind
No full textIt is increasingly important to quantify emissions of environmentally sensitive gases into the atmosphere. Bill Hirst, Philip Jonathan, David Randell and colleagues show that provided you understand how the atmosphere mixes as it moves, the answer to "who is emitting what, how much and where" is literally blowing in the wind. © 2013 The Royal Statistical Society
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