6,640 research outputs found
Accreditation in continuing veterinary education: development of an accreditation system and selection of accreditation criteria
With the increased supply and demand of veterinary continuing education (CE) and the growing number of CE providers, a clear need has arisen for a multinational accreditation system for veterinary CE. The objective of this document is to describe the current state of veterinary CE accreditation and the development of an accreditation system for veterinary CE, and discuss accreditation criteria and their pedagogical and practical significance. The hypothesis is that a profile of essential, pedagogically grounded, accreditation criteria can be established and utilized effectively in quality assessment. Accreditation criteria for veterinary CE can be created based on four selection principles: educational minimum requirements, coherence, efficacy, and assessability. The selected educational quality criteria are related to needs assessment, correlation of target audience and level of instruction, definition of scope, workload, and number of credits, organizer and instructor qualifications, constructive alignment, assessment of learning, learner engagement, and scientific quality of CE content. The created accreditation criteria and protocols should be regularly re-evaluated and modified in close collaboration with the relevant stakeholders. The desired outcome of CE, including behavior change and improvement of practice and ultimately human and animal health, remains challenging to predict based on course descriptions by the providers, and further research is needed
Identity, Power, and Prestige in Switzerland's Multilingual Education
Switzerland is known for its multilingualism, yet not all languages are represented equally in society. The situation is exacerbated by the influx of heritage languages and English through migration and globalization processes which challenge the traditional education system. This study is the first to investigate how schools in Grisons, Fribourg, and Zurich negotiate neoliberal forces leading to a growing necessity of English, a romanticized view on national languages, and the social justice perspective of institutionalizing heritage languages. It uncovers power and legitimacy issues and showcases students' and teachers' complex identities to advocate equitable multilingual education
Multitenant Containers as a Service (CaaS) for Clouds and Edge Clouds
Cloud computing, offering on-demand access to computing resources through the
Internet and the pay-as-you-go model, has marked the last decade with its three
main service models; Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service
(PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). The lightweight nature of containers
compared to virtual machines has led to the rapid uptake of another in recent
years, called Containers as a Service (CaaS), which falls between IaaS and PaaS
regarding control abstraction. However, when CaaS is offered to multiple
independent users, or tenants, a multi-instance approach is used, in which each
tenant receives its own separate cluster, which reimposes significant overhead
due to employing virtual machines for isolation. If CaaS is to be offered not
just at the cloud, but also at the edge cloud, where resources are limited,
another solution is required. We introduce a native CaaS multitenancy
framework, meaning that tenants share a cluster, which is more efficient than
the one tenant per cluster model. Whenever there are shared resources,
isolation of multitenant workloads is an issue. Such workloads can be isolated
by Kata Containers today. Besides, our framework esteems the application
requirements that compel complete isolation and a fully customized environment.
Node-level slicing empowers tenants to programmatically reserve isolated
subclusters where they can choose the container runtime that suits application
needs. The framework is publicly available as liberally-licensed, free,
open-source software that extends Kubernetes, the de facto standard container
orchestration system. It is in production use within the EdgeNet testbed for
researchers
Endogenous measures for contextualising large-scale social phenomena: a corpus-based method for mediated public discourse
This work presents an interdisciplinary methodology for developing endogenous measures of group membership through analysis of pervasive linguistic patterns in public discourse. Focusing on political discourse, this work critiques the conventional approach to the study of political participation, which is premised on decontextualised, exogenous measures to characterise groups. Considering the theoretical and empirical weaknesses of decontextualised approaches to large-scale social phenomena, this work suggests that contextualisation using endogenous measures might provide a complementary perspective to mitigate such weaknesses.
This work develops a sociomaterial perspective on political participation in mediated discourse as affiliatory action performed through language. While the affiliatory function of language is often performed consciously (such as statements of identity), this work is concerned with unconscious features (such as patterns in lexis and grammar). This work argues that pervasive patterns in such features that emerge through socialisation are resistant to change and manipulation, and thus might serve as endogenous measures of sociopolitical contexts, and thus of groups.
In terms of method, the work takes a corpus-based approach to the analysis of data from the Twitter messaging service whereby patterns in usersâ speech are examined statistically in order to trace potential community membership. The method is applied in the US state of Michigan during the second half of 2018â6 November having been the date of midterm (i.e. non-Presidential) elections in the United States. The corpus is assembled from the original posts of 5,889 users, who are nominally geolocalised to 417 municipalities. These users are clustered according to pervasive language features. Comparing the linguistic clusters according to the municipalities they represent finds that there are regular sociodemographic differentials across clusters. This is understood as an indication of social structure, suggesting that endogenous measures derived from pervasive patterns in language may indeed offer a complementary, contextualised perspective on large-scale social phenomena
Tourism and heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) uses an ethnographic lens to explore the dissonances associated with the commodification of Chornobyl's heritage.
The book considers the role of the guides as experience brokers, focusing on the synergy between tourists and guides in the performance of heritage interpretation. Banaszkiewicz proposes to perceive tour guides as important actors in the bottom-up construction of heritage discourse contributing to more inclusive and participatory approach to heritage management. Demonstrating that the CEZ has been going through a dynamic transformation into a mass tourism attraction, the book offers a critical reflection on heritagisation as a meaning-making process in which the resources of the past are interpreted, negotiated, and recognised as a valuable legacy. Applying the concepts of dissonant heritage to describe the heterogeneous character of the CEZ, the book broadens the interpretative scope of dark tourism which takes on a new dimension in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone argues that post-disaster sites such as Chornobyl can teach us a great deal about the importance of preserving cultural and natural heritage for future generations. The book will be of interest to academics and students who are engaged in the study of heritage, tourism, memory, disasters and Eastern Europe
Surveillance on Tactile-Based Media Accessibility Levels for the Visually Impaired in Bandung Train Stations
This paper intended to survey tactile-based media accessibility levels for the visually impaired in train stations incorporated in Operational Region II Bandung. Data collection got conducted on interviews with 30 visually impaired. Research objects included context as an orientation and mobility (OM) system as stated in 'Regulation of the Minister of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 36 of 2019 concerning Minimum Service Standards for Transporting People by Train' and 'Regulation of the Minister of Public Works and Public Housing of the Republic of Indonesia Number 14 of 2017 concerning the Requirements for Building Facilities Convenienceâ, namely: tactile paving, braille sign , signage, map, information board, and ticket. Generally, the visually impaired did not receive good minimum services at the station since the universal design principles had not yet get applied to design tactile-based accessibility standards. The accessibility levels of those media came from the visually impaired pragmatical usage
Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education
Drawing extensively on the expertise of teachers of German in universities across the UK, this volume offers an overview of recent trends, new pedagogical approaches and practical guidance for teaching at beginners level in the higher education classroom. At a time when entries for UK school exams in modern foreign languages are decreasing, this book serves the urgent need for research and guidance on ab initio learning and teaching in HE. Using the example of teaching German, it offers theoretical reflections on teaching ab initio and practice-oriented approaches that will be useful for teachers of both German and other languages in higher education.
The first chapters assess the role of ab initio provision within the wider context of modern languages departments and language centres. They are followed by sections on teaching methods and innovative approaches in the ab initio classroom that include chapters on the use of music, textbook evaluation, the effective use of a flipped classroom and the contribution of language apps. Finally, the book focuses on the learner in the ab initio context and explores issues around autonomy and learner strengths. The whole builds into a theoretically grounded guide that sketches out perspectives for teaching and learning ab initio languages that will benefit current and future generations of students
Enhancing primary care psychological therapy for clients with comorbid physical health conditions: A Critical Discourse Analysis investigation into interprofessional identity
Background / Aim: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services are the largest provider in England of primary care psychological therapy for depression and anxiety disorders. Over recent years there has been increased recognition of the importance of therapists and their physical health colleagues (e.g. nurses, physiotherapists or other allied health professionals) integrating care for patients with comorbid long-term health conditions and common psychological disorders. Specialist teams have been creating differentiating Psychological Therapists as Core and Integrated. The aim is to investigate the implications of this shift for Therapistsâ professional identity.
Method: A Critical Discourse Analysis was conducted based on five focus groups with eighteen professionals from Core IAPT, Integrated IAPT and physical healthcare backgrounds.
Key Findings: Discourses related to expertise, responsibility and innovation / creativity emerged from the corpora. The research highlights the niche set of behaviours, skills, values and attitudes under construction by Integrated Therapists and the way in which their role shapes and is shaped by their interactions with their counterparts.
Implications: The research makes recommendations for Integrated Therapistsâ professional identity including to showcase niche skills and effective collaborative therapy. Future research recommendations are made regarding unheard voices and silenced discourses in professional identity reconstruction.
Key Terms: Professional Identity; Integrated Therapy; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; Long-Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms (LTC/MUS
Late-bound code generation
Each time a function or method is invoked during the execution of a program, a stream of instructions is issued to some underlying hardware platform. But exactly what underlying hardware, and which instructions, is usually left implicit. However in certain situations it becomes important to control these decisions. For example, particular problems can only be solved in real-time when scheduled on specialised accelerators, such as graphics coprocessors or computing clusters.
We introduce a novel operator for hygienically reifying the behaviour of a runtime function instance as a syntactic fragment, in a language which may in general differ from the source function definition. Translation and optimisation are performed by recursively invoked, dynamically dispatched code generators. Side-effecting operations are permitted, and their ordering is preserved.
We compare our operator with other techniques for pragmatic control, observing that: the use of our operator supports lifting arbitrary mutable objects, and neither requires rewriting sections of the source program in a multi-level language, nor interferes with the interface to individual software components. Due to its lack of interference at the abstraction level at which software is composed, we believe that our approach poses a significantly lower barrier to practical adoption than current methods.
The practical efficacy of our operator is demonstrated by using it to offload the user interface rendering of a smartphone application to an FPGA coprocessor, including both statically and procedurally defined user interface components. The generated pipeline is an application-specific, statically scheduled processor-per-primitive rendering pipeline, suitable for place-and-route style optimisation.
To demonstrate the compatibility of our operator with existing languages, we show how it may be defined within the Python programming language. We introduce a transformation for weakening mutable to immutable named bindings, termed let-weakening, to solve the problem of propagating information pertaining to named variables between modular code generating units.Open Acces
Skole and Sabbath as a Way of Being in Classical Educators: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology on Leisure
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to describe the essence of the lived experiences of 10 classical Christian secondary teachers and administrators who embrace Greek skolĂ© and Christian Sabbath at classical Christian schools in the United States. Leisure theory guided this study, particularly Sabbath as described by Heschel and Brueggeman, Christian leisure as understood by Pieper and Heintzman, and Samarasâ description of skolĂ© in Greek philosophy, as they point to a specific type of leisure and way of being understood by classical Christian educators. van Manenâs hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used for data collection and analysis of open-ended response logs, individual interviews, and focus groups. Participants were recruited using snowballing and criterion sampling in United States classical Christian schools who participate in skolĂ© or Sabbath at least four times per week. The study was developed with the following central research question in mind: What are the lived experiences of secondary classical Christian educators who develop skolĂ© and Sabbath practices outside of the classroom? The research sub-questions also sought to uncover how classical Christian educators develop the cross-section of skolĂ© and Sabbath disciplines to enhance meaningful contribution to their work in the classroom. Four essential themes identified through data analysis were intentional boundaries, activity or practice as a medium for contemplation, the human element, and the posture of receptivity leading to thematic interpretations: leisure approach mirrored learning philosophy and skolĂ© and Sabbath practices led to holistic mindfulness for participants, quality relationships, and measurable order and discipline qualities that were transferable to teaching. Keywords: burnout, classical Christian education, leisure, leisure theory, Sabbath, skol
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