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A national UK survey of peripatetic support teams for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disability who display challenging behaviour
Background: The service provision model of peripatetic support teams for people with intellectual disabilities who present challenging behaviour has been well established in the United Kingdom, with a small but growing evidence base. The current context in the UK would appear to indicate an ever-increasing role for such teams, in order to support people in their own communities and reduce the reliance on out-of-area placements. This study sought to establish the current position of such teams within the UK.
Method and materials: 46 teams were given the opportunity to complete an online questionnaire regarding the team's day to day functioning.
Results: 20 services responded to the survey providing a range of data. The results suggested that the services were mainly targeted towards adults, had a range of working practices and therapeutic orientations, with broadly successful outcomes (albeit self reported). The data would also suggest that this type of provision had diminished in recent years.
Conclusions: The implications of the survey are discussed within the context of the current policy in the UK. In particular, the lack of provision for children, the use of evidence based practice and what appears to be a diminishing resource just at the time when it is most needed are explored
Industry-Academic Partnerships The View from the Corner Office
Industry-academic partnerships are described and discussed from the perspective of industry. Eight types of partnerships are discussed, including internships, mentoring, site visits, faculty-directed research, student research, consulting, in-class visits, and industry advisory boards. The benefits, problems, costs, motivation to participate, and advice for managing industry-academic partnerships are presented.industry partnerships, industry collaboration, internship, mentor, field trip, consulting, advisory board, Industrial Organization, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession, Q10, Q16,
In Vivo Evaluation of the Secure Opportunistic Schemes Middleware using a Delay Tolerant Social Network
Over the past decade, online social networks (OSNs) such as Twitter and
Facebook have thrived and experienced rapid growth to over 1 billion users. A
major evolution would be to leverage the characteristics of OSNs to evaluate
the effectiveness of the many routing schemes developed by the research
community in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we showcase the Secure
Opportunistic Schemes (SOS) middleware which allows different routing schemes
to be easily implemented relieving the burden of security and connection
establishment. The feasibility of creating a delay tolerant social network is
demonstrated by using SOS to power AlleyOop Social, a secure delay tolerant
networking research platform that serves as a real-life mobile social
networking application for iOS devices. SOS and AlleyOop Social allow users to
interact, publish messages, and discover others that share common interests in
an intermittent network using Bluetooth, peer-to-peer WiFi, and infrastructure
WiFi.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted in ICDCS 2017. arXiv admin note: text
overlap with arXiv:1702.0565
A general mass transference principle
In this paper we prove a general form of the Mass Transference Principle for
sets defined via neighbourhoods of sets satisfying a certain local
scaling property. Such sets include self-similar sets satisfying the open set
condition and smooth compact manifolds embedded in . Our main
result is applicable in locally compact metric spaces and allows one to
transfer Hausdorff -measure statements to Hausdorff -measure statements.
This work extends previous results of this type in several distinct directions
The relationship between music and visual arts formal study and academic achievement on the eighth-grade Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) test
The purpose of this study was to examine the policy implications allowing administrators to exempt a student from required arts instruction if the student obtained unsatisfactory scores on the high-stake state mandated tests in English and mathematics. This study examined English language arts and math test scores for 37,222 eighth grade students enrolled in music and/or visual arts classes and those students not enrolled in arts courses. There were more than 12,000 students who were eligible, but not enrolled in arts courses. Methodology consisted of comparing the mean scores of students receiving music and visual arts instruction with the mean scores of students excluded from this instruction. The sample consisted of all non-special education students who took the statewide assessment spring 2008 in public schools. Students enrolled in music had significantly higher mean scores than those not enrolled in music where (p \u3c .001). Music enrollment was a positive predictor of academic achievement. Results for visual arts and dual arts were not as conclusive. The study found a lack of evidence supporting the exclusion of students from required arts instruction for the purpose of increasing test scores in English and math. The conclusions were that students enrolled in music perform significantly better; there is an access gap; and arts should be included in the curriculum of all middle school students. More study is required for visual arts, dual arts study, as well as, dance and theatre effects. Future research is required as to academic effectiveness of remediation implemented during the instructional day, thereby denying arts instruction to students. School Performance Scores must reflect all components of the curriculum to be valid. Instructional time in the arts must be enforced if all students are to receive a whole, effective, and relevant education. The practice of recommending more time in English and math in lieu of music for students should be reexamined. Administrators should construct schedules, including appropriate attention, so that all students receive a balanced whole education
Hybrid Hibiscadelphus (Malvaceae) in the Hawaiian Islands
First- and second-generation hybrids of Hibiscadelphus
giffardianus Rock and H. hualalaiensis Rock have been found in Hawaii
Volcanoes National Park, and elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands. They are
under cultivation from interspecifically cross-fertilized seed which occurred on
parent trees within the park. A history of parent and hybrid species is given,
and floral characteristics are analyzed. Hybrid occurrence and the implications
to natural resource management in trying to preserve the integrity of native
Hawaiian species and ecosystems are discussed
Industry-Academic Partnerships â Benefit or Burden?
In an applied discipline such as agribusiness management, there are many opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry. This article highlights opportunities for industry-academic partnerships through research, sabbatical leaves, consulting, outreach, student enrichment activities, and industry advisory boards. The principal benefits and pitfalls associated with each type of collaboration are discussed along with tips for managing industry-academic partnerships.industry partnerships, industry collaboration, Industrial Organization, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession, Q10,
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