733 research outputs found
Am I doing the right thing? Plunket nurses' experience in making decisions to report suspected child abuse and neglect
No full textSuspected child abuse and neglect is not a new phenomenon in community nursing. Child abuse and/or neglect is prevalent globally and is a major community concern. Plunket Nurses have a primary responsibility to protect the health and well being of the women and children with whom they come into contact. Detecting suspected child abuse and/or neglect and making decisions to report to Child, Youth and Family, New Zealand’s Statutory Agency, is difficult. There are professional, legal, ethical and moral complexities in this work. Boyne (2003) states that there has not been enough research about what it is like to work with and manage risks in child protection work. This study set out to report these experiences in view of understanding them and finding possible gaps in literature, policy, and education.
Hermeneutic phenomenology was the methodology thought most appropriate to study the experiences of Plunket Nurses making decisions to report suspected child abuse and/or neglect in uncertain situations. A purposeful sample was selected to ensure participants were able to provide rich data that was captured in semi-structured, face to face and telephone recorded interviews. Data analysis was guided by the framework developed by van Manen (1990) to formulate meaning from participant experiences. Four major themes developed.
Ethical considerations were extensively explored due to the sensitive nature of the study. Management of possible ethical situation have been described, with a planned approach to an ongoing consent process throughout the data collection. The results have identified gaps in the literature, Plunket policy and the educational needs of Plunket Nurses. Opportunities for future research are suggested
Risk and persistence of youth externalizing disorders: relations with parental psychopathology and family interaction
No full textResearch has established that families of youth with externalizing disorders are characterized by risky parent-child interaction (including high levels conflict and lower levels of both involvement and structure) and parents affected by psychopathology (major depression (MDD) and antisocial behavior (ASB)). However, given mixed results in this field, more comprehensive study of specific family risk factors among the spectrum of externalizing disorders is merited, especially given recent evidence that parental psychopathology and family interaction may be connected. Additionally, parental psychopathologies and risky parent-child interactions were investigated longitudinally, addressing how these family factors influence the persistence of externalizing disorders. Participating families were drawn from the Minnesota Twin Family Study (MTFS), a community-based longitudinal study of twins and their families. Externalizing youth had lifetime diagnoses of CD, ODD, and ADHD; affected parents had lifetime diagnoses of MDD and antisocial behavior (DSM-III-R criteria, American Psychological Association, 1987). Parent-child interaction was assessed by the Parental Environment Questionnaire (PEQ). Youth externalizing was generally related to parental MDD and ASB; with maternal diagnoses more strongly associated than paternal diagnoses. Higher levels of parent-child conflict, lower levels of parent-child involvement, and lower levels of parent-child structure (but not for mothers) were associated with externalizing disorders. Interactions of youth externalizing and maternal MDD indicated lower mother-child involvement for CD/ODD youth was not dependent upon depression. Interactions for externalizing youth and parental ASB similarly indicated that higher parent-child conflict, lower involvement and structure were not dependent upon parental ASB for CD/ODD youth, but may be for ADHD youth. Longitudinal results indicate that lower levels of involvement and higher levels of conflict predict both CD and ODD persistence, but parental ASB was only predictive of CD persistence. Possible mechanisms for the how interaction of youth and parent psychopathologies may relate to changes in parent-child interaction are discussed, including framing findings within a coercion theory model. This framework (Granic & Patterson, 2006) emphasizes that real time coercive parent-child interactions may develop into persistent patterns of rigid interactions over time, which may ultimately affect the child’s developmental trajectory towards future antisocial behavior. Potential pathways to externalizing disorders are discussed.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jennifer Lynn Hettenbac
A Field Experience Involving the Development of a Handbook for Beginning School Board Members
No full textA field study involving the development of a handbook for beginning school board members, by the writer, under the direction of Dr. Matzner of the Eastern Illinois University Department of School Service Personnel, is summarized in this paper. A handbook for beginning school board members was developed to assist them in the difficult areas of school operations as designated by board members now serving school districts in central Illinois.
The field study involved gathering information from boards of education on the problems they encountered as beginning school board members. The problems were categorized into major topics and a handbook was developed discussing pertinent information for a new board member on each topic.
The author gathered information for the individual topics based on his sixteen years of personal experiences in public education as a teacher and administrator. School board members, superintendents, and instructional staff were used as resource persons to give a wide spectrum of opinion as to the knowledge needed to function efficiently as a school board member. The library served as a valuable resource since much has been written in recent years on the duties, powers, and responsibilities of school board members.
The largest part of the paper is the actual handbook. The topics addressed are duties, powers, and responsibilities of school board members, revenue, employment practices for the district\u27s staff, evaluation, collective bargaining, federal funded programs, expenditures, curriculum, and budget. The topics are presented in such a manner that the average layperson in the community would be able to understand the material.
The writer includes recommended materials from the National School Boards Association and the Illinois School Boards Association as a supplement on the various topics. Tables, charts, and data were selected for use, by the writer, from the Illinois State Board of Education.
The handbook prepared is an attempt to present items which school board members designated as being important when they were first elected to the board of education. The information should serve only as a starting point for new board members and should not be intended to serve as a comprehensive guide for all board members
Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling 2022
No full textLynne Cote is an ānihšināpēhkwē from Cote First Nation. She is a mother of 4 sons and grandmother of 4 grandsons and 1 granddaughter. She obtained a BA of Saulteaux Language Studies from First Nations University of Canada and a MA in Canadian Plains Research from the Univ. of Regina. Lynn is an Assistant Professor at First Nations University of Canada where she teaches the Saulteaux language, history, culture and literature. She is co-author of a book titled Mācī-anihšināpēmowin: Beginning Saulteaux, published in 2020 by the U of R Press
Gallai-Colorings of Triples and 2-Factors of B[subscript 3]
No full textA coloring of the edges of the r-uniform complete hypergraph is a G[subscript r]-coloring if there is no rainbow simplex; that is, every set of r + l vertices contains two edges of the same color. The notion extends G[subscript 2]-colorings which are often called Gallai-colorings and originates from a seminal paper of Gallai. One well-known property of G[subscript 2]-colorings is that at least one color class has a spanning tree. J. Lehel and the senior author observed that this property does not hold for G[subscript r]-colorings and proposed to study f[subscript r](n), the size of the largest monochromatic component which can be found in every G[subscript r]-coloring of K[r over n], the complete r-uniform hypergraph. The previous remark says that f[subscript 2](n) = n, and in this note, we address the case r = 3. We prove that [(n + 3)/2] ≤ f[subscript 3](n) ≤ [4n/5], and this determines f[subscript 3](n) for n < 7. We also prove that f[subscript 3](7) = 6 by excluding certain 2-factors from the middle layer of the Boolean lattice on seven elements
Effect of hardwood leaf litter on water quality and treatment in a western Oregon municipal watershed
No full textby R. Lynn Taylor and Paul W. Adams (Department of Forest Engineering, O.S.U.), Peter O. Nelson (Department of Civil Engineering, O.S.U.), and Ramon J. Seidler (Department of Microbiology, O.S.U.)"Final technical completion report for project no. A-058-ORE to United States Department of the Interior."Based on Taylor's thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 1983 entitled, The effects of red alder leaf fall on the water color and other water quality characteristics of a small watershed in northwest Oregon.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).Financed in part by the U.S. Department of the Interior; project sponsored by Water Resources Research Institute, Oregon State University.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Sex differences in Cognitive Abilities Test scores: a UK national picture
No full textBackground and aims. There is uncertainty about the extent or even existence of sex differences in the mean and variability of reasoning test scores ( Jensen, 1998; Lynn, 1994, ; Mackintosh, 1996). This paper analyses the Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) scores of a large and representative sample of UK pupils to determine the extent of any sex differences.
Sample. A nationally representative UK sample of over 320,000 school pupils aged 11-12 years was assessed on the CAT (third edition) between September 2001 and August 2003. The CAT includes separate nationally standardized tests for verbal, quantitative, and non-verbal reasoning. The size and recency of the sample is unprecedented in research on this issue.
Methods. The sheer size of the sample ensures that any sex difference will achieve statistical significance. Therefore, effect sizes (d) and variance ratios (VR) are employed to evaluate the magnitude of sex differences in mean scores and in score variability, respectively.
Results. The mean verbal reasoning score for girls was 2.2 standard score points higher than the mean for boys, but only 0.3 standard points in favour of girls for non-verbal reasoning (NVR), and 0.7 points in favour of boys for quantitative reasoning (QR). However, for all three tests there were substantial sex differences in the standard deviation of scores, with greater variance among boys. Boys were over represented relative to girls at both the top and the bottom extremes for all tests, with the exception of the top 10% in verbal reasoning.
Conclusions. Given the small differences in means, explanations for sex differences in wider domains such examination attainment at age 16 need to look beyond conceptions of `ability'. Boys tend to be both the lowest and the highest performers in terms of their reasoning abilities, which warns against the danger of stereotyping boys as low achievers
‘Born to Shop’: Malls, Dream-Worlds and Capitalism
No full textIt has been twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a new generation, untouched by the previous communist regimes, has come to adulthood throughout the post-communist world. The Iulius Group’s logo – ‘Born to shop!’ – suggests that these are born shoppers: the capitalist babies of Central and Eastern Europe who are sustaining the largest growth in retail and shopping malls in Europe. With no living memory of shortages, queuing, or government restrictions, they know only the limit of their own – or their parents’ – pocket/credit. Their world could not be more different from the one that their parents and grandparents experienced: both the abundance of goods and services, as well as the opulent settings under which they are now sold, offer striking visual contrasts to the not-so-distant past. In addition, the very experience of consumption is directly connected to the way in which the current social fabric – and new social divisions within it – is interwoven with the physical and architectural changes taking place in the urban setting
Active control of an automobile suspension system for reduction of vibration and noise
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2005.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-82).A new method for controlling road noise transmitted through the suspension system of an automobile was developed, using a Lincoln LS automobile as the target vehicle. In this vehicle, road surface roughness generates vibrations that are transmitted into the automobile primary through a single bushing (the "point 4 bushing") on each of the front suspension control arms. An electromagnetic actuator was designed, built, and tested on a Lincoln LS with simulated roads noise. The actuator applies a force across the point 4 bushing, in response to accelerations of the vehicle frame, just inboard of the bushing, with the goal of reducing the net forces transmitted into the vehicle frame, which ultimately produce unwanted interior noise. Several tonal controllers were developed, each designed to operate in a narrow frequency band, and to eliminate the cross member (frame) vibration just inside the point 4 bushing. The tonal controllers were able to eliminate cross member vibration at the desired frequency. Eliminating the cross member vibration resulted in modest reductions interior sound levels. A successful vibration control system (in this vehicle) would need to eliminate cross member vibrations over frequency range 100 to 200 Hz. However, a broadband controller with this electromagnetic actuator system proved to be difficult, due to undesirable non-minimum phase dynamics.by Kristen Lynn Clements.S.M
SPATIAL MOVEMENTS AND ECOLOGY OF MOUNTAIN LIONS IN SOUTHERN
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