317 research outputs found
The national forest inventory in China: history - results - international context
No full textBackground
National forest resource assessments and monitoring, commonly known as National Forest Inventories (NFI’s), constitute an important national information infrastructure in many countries.
Methods
This study presents details about developments of the NFI in China, including sampling and plot design, and the uses of alternative data sources, and specifically
• reviews the evolution of the national forest inventory in China through the 20th and 21st centuries, with some reference to Europe and the US;
• highlights the emergence of some common international themes: consistency of measurement; more efficient sampling designs; implementation of improved technology; expansion of the variables monitored; scientific transparency;
• presents an example of how China’s expanding NFI exemplifies these global trends.
Results
Main results and important changes in China’s NFI are documented, both to support continued trend analysis and to provide data users with historical perspective.
Conclusions
New technologies and data needs ensure that the Chinese NFI, like the national inventories in other countries, will continue to evolve. Within the context of historical change and current conditions, likely directions for this evolution are suggested
Writing Partnerships in Higher Education: A Guide for Academics and HE Professionals
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in [Writing partnerships in higher education: A guide for academics and HE professionals] on [date of publication], available online: http://www.routledge.com/[BOOK ISBN URL]International collaborative writing groups (ICWGs), working with a sponsoring organization, have had a major impact on capacity building and developing learning communities, as well as producing quality outputs (Healey, 2017; ISSOTL, nd). They are about “working creatively, critically and collaboratively to address a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) challenge from a multi-perspective lens” (Abrahamson, 2023). ICWGs usually involve groups of staff and students from different countries working together with a leader in small teams to write articles about pre-selected topics for submission to an international peer-reviewed journal. The process normally lasts around 18 months from announcement to submission, with participants working mostly online. The highlight is when all the teams come together for between 2 and 3 days, before or after an international conference, to work intensively on their articles. Whilst this model has predominantly been used within the context of SoTL, it is easily transferable to other topics and disciplines.
We ran the first full ICWG in SoTL from 2004-06 for geographers, drawing on the experience of running an international seminar in 1999 that piloted many of the features that subsequently came to characterise ICWGs (Healey, 2006; Healey et al., 2000)). Subsequently in 2012 we introduced ICWGs to ISSOTL (Healey et al., 2013). We have experienced each of the three ICWG roles – event facilitator, group leader, and co-author – several times in the last 25 years (Table 1). In this chapter we offer advice based on our reflections on these experiences, and the research evidence on the opportunities and challenges ICWGs have provided for participants. We outline some suggestions for how participants playing the different ICWG roles may make the most of their experiences, and how the model might be used by the wider SoTL community and other academic communities to support local, national, and institutional collaborative writing groups. We begin by exploring the nature and purposes of ICWGs in SoTL
Divergence in Dialogue
No full textCopyright: 2014 Healey et al. 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.This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC; http://www.esrc.ac.uk/) through the DynDial project (Dynamics of Conversational Dialogue, RES-062-23-0962) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC; http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/) through the RISER
project (Robust Incremental Semantic Resources for Dialogue, EP/J010383/1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
A polygenic risk score predicts functional progression in early primary open-angle glaucoma
No full textAbstract #A0353Owen Siggs, Ayub Qassim, Xikun Han, Henry Marshall, Sean Mullany, Emmanuelle Souzeau, Anna Galanopoulos, Ashish Agar, John Landers, Robert Casson, Alex W Hewitt, Paul Healey, Stuart L Graham, Stuart MacGregor, Jamie Crai
High polygenic risk is associated with earlier treatment initiation and escalation in glaucoma suspects
No full textAbstract #A0360Henry Marshall, Xikun Han, Sean Mullany, Georgie Hollitt, Ella Claire Berry, Lachlan Knight, Richard A Mills, John Landers, Paul Healey, Alex W Hewitt, Stuart L Graham, Robert Casson, Stuart MacGregor, Owen Siggs, Jamie E Crai
Sleep Apnoea Syndrome Correlated with Progression of Normal Tension Glaucoma
No full textElla Claire Berry, Henry Marshall, Mark Hassall, Antonia Kolovos, Joshua Schmidt, Sean Mullany, Stewart Lake, Anna Galanopoulos, John Landers, Paul Healey, Stuart L Graham, Alex W Hewitt, Stuart MacGregor, Robert Casson, Owen Siggs, Jamie E Crai
Training to Enhance Psychiatrist Communication with patients with Psychosis (TEMPO): A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the Royal College of Psychiatrists via the DOI in this record.Background: A better therapeutic relationship predicts better outcomes. However, there is no trial based evidence on how to improve therapeutic relationships in psychosis.
Aims: To test the effectiveness of communication training for psychiatrists on improving shared understanding and the therapeutic relationship.
Methods: In a cluster randomized controlled trial in the U.K., 21 psychiatrists were randomized. 97 (51% of those approached) outpatients with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder were recruited. 64 (66% of the sample recruited at baseline) were followed up after 5 months. The intervention group received four group and one individualized session. The primary outcome, rated blind, was psychiatrist effort in establishing shared understanding, self-repair. Secondary outcome was the therapeutic relationship.
Results: Psychiatrists receiving the intervention used 44% more self-repair than the control group (6.4, 95% CI 1.46 to 11.33, p<.011, a large effect) adjusting for baseline self-repair. Psychiatrists rated the therapeutic relationship more positively (0.20, 95%CI 0.03 to 0.37, p=.022, a large effect), as did patients (0.21, 95% CI 0.01 to 0.41, p=.043, a medium effect).
Conclusions: Shared understanding can be successfully targeted in training and improves relationships in treating psychosis.
Trial Registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN94846422National Institute for Health Research (NIHR
Gwendolyne Stevens
No full text"Gwendolyne Daphne was born on 7 June 1908 at Quorn, South Australia, daughter of Hugo Albert Valentine Healey, painter and later publican, and his wife Jessie Gwendolyne, n?e Napier, both South Australian born.
Gwendolyne attended several rural schools, including Innamincka Public, before proceeding to St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School, Adelaide. Miss Healey trained at Burra public and (Royal) Adelaide hospitals, and was registered as a nurse on 11 July 1929. She then moved to Parkside Mental Hospital where she gained a certificate in psychiatric nursing in 1931 and became sister-in-charge. In 1934 she bought a large house at Payneham that had been built by James Marshall, converted it into a private psychiatric hospital and named it St Margarets. As its owner and matron for eighteen years, she cared for patients suffering the early stages of nervous disorders, and provided them with a secure and restful setting, with aviaries amid beautiful gardens. That she took on such a task during the depression, and succeeded in it, testified to her business acumen, organizing ability and compassion for those in need.
At the chapel of the Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide, on 12 April 1940, she married George Dempster Stevens, a clerk employed by Dalgety & Co. Ltd. They were to have two daughters.
Pursuing her interest in community health, Mrs Stevens was founding president (1944-50) and a committee-member (until 1961) of the Payneham branch of the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association.
After she sold her hospital in 1952, she set up Sterling Downs, a Poll Dorset stud on 2200 acres (890 ha) at Currency Creek, in 1957. She employed a manager to supervise the stud and visited it each week. In the 1960s she sold part of the land and moved the stud to Sterling Park, McLaren Vale. The stud was later sold and its sheep replaced with cattle.
Having noticed particular outcrops of rock at Sterling Park, Stevens arranged for drilling to be conducted, as a result of which she opened a quarry and sold building sands to the local council.
In 1968 she became interested in the mining potential of the Northern Territory. She studied maps, obtained advice from geologists and concentrated on an area near Oenpelli, Arnhem Land. She received permission to prospect on 1282 sq. miles (3320 km?) of Aboriginal reserve and negotiated an exploration programme with Queensland Mines Ltd.
In 1970 that company discovered what was then described as the richest body of uranium ore in the world, at a site known to local Aborigines as Nabarlek.
Newspapers referred to Stevens as 'probably the first woman in the world with a right to mine uranium'. She visited the area twice during the early stages of exploration and was staggered by the size of the find.
In August 1971, however, Queensland Mines downgraded the ore reserves to about one-sixth of those announced a year earlier. Intending to use some of the proceeds of her investment to benefit the health of the Aborigines, she transferred the exploration licences to Queensland Mines in May 1973 and negotiated a royalty agreement. Mining at Nabarlek began in 1979.
Mrs Stevens both created and took advantage of opportunities in the areas of mental health, sheep-breeding and mining. Suffering from hypertension, she died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 3 March 1974 in her Kensington Park home and was cremated. She was survived by her husband and their daughters. Her estate was sworn for probate at $416,266." [author Tony Bott].NurseSheep BreederMining EntrepreneurHospital Proprieto
Long-term forest health implications of roadlessness
No full textThe 2001 Forest Service Roadless Rule prohibits roadbuilding in forests across an area equivalent to the combined states of New York and Maine (236 000 km ^2 ). There have been recent assertions that roads are needed to prevent fire and to keep forests healthy. Despite twenty years of ongoing forest health monitoring and the unique scope and ecological significance of this network of roadless areas, there has to date been no integrated assessment of the relationship between roads and forest health. Here, this question was addressed by synthesizing different sources of nationally consistent, longitudinal monitoring data. Agency management records show that a lack of roads has not stopped fire prevention measures; fuel management activities in roadless areas have actually been more numerous on a per-square kilometer basis than elsewhere in the National Forest System, although activities in areas with roads cover larger areas. Historical fire maps indicate that forests with and without roads have burned at similar rates since the Rule took effect. The apparent neutrality of roads with respect to fire occurrence may be due to higher rates of human caused ignition near roads offsetting advantages related to more agile positioning of fire-fighting assets. Beyond the fire dimension of forest health, analysis of over 15 000 inventory plots showed that while tree root disease is only weakly correlated with proximity to roads, roads are strongly associated with the spread of invasive plant species in national forests. Non-native plants are twice as common within 152 meters (500 feet) of a road as farther away. Speculation that eliminating road prohibitions would improve forest health is not supported by nearly twenty years of monitoring data
Collaborative Planning in Perspective
No full textThis article presents a personal review by the author of Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies, published in 1997. It explains how the book came to be written and makes some comments on the various criticisms it has attracted. The first section introduces key experiences that fed into the book followed by a brief summary of the key ideas that underpin its arguments. In reviewing the critiques, the article focuses in particular on the treatment of `context\u27, the emphasis on `process\u27, the use of `social theory\u27, and `power\u27, and the development of `institutionalist\u27 analysis. This is followed by a comment on the normative biases in the work. In conclusion, the author makes a plea for continuing attention to the complexity and diversity of urban governance contexts and the importance for practical action of grasping the particularities of situated governance dynamics
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