Balance & Fall Prevention Rehabilitation Program For A 77-Year-Old Patient Following A Trimalleolar Fracture: A Case Report

Balance and fall prevention are typical components of a rehab program in the elderly, however, there is limited research investigating the effects of the combination of balance and fall prevention in an elderly person with a trimalleolar fracture. The purpose of this case report was to describe a comprehensive physical therapy program combining balance training and fall prevention strategies for a 77-year-old patient after a trimalleolar fracture.https://dune.une.edu/pt_studcrposter/1130/thumbnail.jp

Which Way to Happiness: 'Getting Ahead' or 'Getting Along'?

This thesis examined happiness-enhancing behaviours using the framework provided by agency ("getting ahead') and communion ('getting along'). Agency entails a self-focused orientation and involves qualities such as ambition, independence, and competence. An example of an agency behaviour is, "strive to improve my skills". In comparison. communion entails an other-focused orientation and concerns connections with others, solidarity and co-operation. An example of a communion behaviour is, e.g., "spend quality time connecting with others", Three key research questions were addressed: (1) Are agency and communion behaviours beneficial for well-being? (2) Is a balance between agency and communion required for optimum well-being? (3) Are agency behaviours and communion behaviours beneficial for everyone or only for those who achieve a good person-activity fit, i.e., those whose traits fit with the behaviours? A series of studies were conducted involving correlational studies (Studies 1a to 4), naturalistic studies (Study 5, Chapter 6), and an intervention study (Study 6, Chapter 7). The findings revealed that agency and communion behaviours were positively related to and increased well-being. There was some support for the notion that a balance of agency and communion is needed for well-being. Specifically, analyses revealed that lower well-being was significantly associated with instances in which either dimension was so extreme it came at the cost of the other dimension (e.g., behaviour in which agency is performed at the cost of communion). Findings also showed that the co-occurrence of agency and communion in a single behaviour (referred to as a-c behaviour) was positively related to and increased well-being. With regard to person-activity fit, overall, the findings showed that the extent to which agency and communion behaviours were consistent with an individual's traits did not matter. However, the extent to which individuals perceived the behaviour as matching his or her traits did matter. Specifically, the more participants perceived the activity as matching a behaviour they were asked to enact, the more likely they were to experience gains in well-being. This thesis concludes with a discussion of the theoretical and applied implications of its findings and identifies some promising avenues for future research.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

A Luke-Warm Reception: Why Consumers Aren’t Overly Excited by Smart Thermostats.

Technological advances have led to new offerings in home heating systems and to a market that is becoming saturated with variants of “smart” thermostats. But does this seemingly growing market have a growing audience? In this talk I will present quantitative and qualitative data from a large scale survey (N=1007) that investigates the appeal of smart thermostats to prospective consumers. Findings from the survey indicate confusion about what “smart” means and a general apathy for smart thermostats. Survey respondents expressed displeasure towards the idea of “technology for technology’s sake” and were reluctant to part with cash for something they failed to see the benefit of. Given this luke-warm reception I conclude by using insights from the data to derive marketing strategies that may prove effective in bolstering the allure of smart thermostats

Dreams or nightmares? Consumers’ reactions to home energy automation

Smart meters are paving the way for a smarter future where automated appliances and intelligent energy systems present ample opportunities for effortless energy efficiency.In this view of the future, smart self-learning systems will optimize a home’s heating, switch off forgotten devices, and schedule high demand consumption for low demand periods. However, to ensure that such a smart vision canbecome a smart reality, it is vital to understand potential future customers’ reaction to ‘smart automation’ scenarios as a guide to their design, implementation and marketing. Accordingly, in the following paper I will present survey and focus group datathat investigates the issues surrounding automation and identifies consumers’ dreams and nightmares with respect to the “smarter” future.The data suggests that underlying these dreams and nightmares are factors related to the pursuit of subjective well-being through the satiation of some core fundamental human needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness

The British public's perception of the UK smart metering initiative: Threats and opportunities

Consumer acceptance of smart meters remains crucial in achieving the potential carbon emission reductions offered by advanced metering infrastructures. Given this, the present research used deliberative focus groups to examine what is needed to secure acceptance and engagement from domestic consumers with services, products and 'offers' in smarter power systems. Our findings suggest that consumers are able to identify not just threats relating to smart metering initiatives but opportunities as well. In particular, our focus group participants responded positively to the idea of an automated system that could be used to achieve energy savings in combination with time-of-use tariffs. We conclude by outlining suggestions for policy recommendations that may help consumer acceptance of smart meter enabled services be more readily achieved

‘Follow’ Me: Networked Professional Learning for Teachers

Effective professional learning for teachers is fundamental for any school system aiming to make transformative and sustainable change to teacher practice. This paper investigates the efficacy of Twitter as a medium for teachers to participate in professional learning by analysing the tweets of 30 influential users of the popular medium . We find that Twitter primarily acts as a valuable conduit for accessing new and relevant educational resources on the internet and also as a viable means of social support for like minded educators. The cost effective nature of the microblogging platform ensures that it can act as a medium for sustained professional development, while leaving the individual participants to control and take ownership of the learning. These features align with the current literature associated with the characteristics of effective professional learning

Re-definition of the fatherless family in the Early Christian Church

Widows and their fatherless children are commonly perceived to be the most deserving category amongst the poor. The frequent exhortations in the Hebrew Scriptures of the Old Testament clearly and constantly reminded the early Christian Church of the divine expectations God had enjoined upon them in this matter. There appears to be no obstacle, theological or moral, to perceiving them as worthy recipients of Christian charity and pastoral care. Yet the results of this study show that in the early centuries of the church the fatherless family was invisible to its leadership. They were not perceived as needy people deserving support but were regarded as a problem, rather than real human beings. Ambiguous material in the Gospels and in the other writings of the New Testament, where references to them are sparse and sometimes unsympathetic, allowed creativity of interpretation to occur permitting evasion of the giving of straightforward support, and instead facilitated greater management and control by the clergy. Their informal self-organisation and methods of mutual self-help were increasingly eroded. The only extensive study of the support of the fatherless family in Roman society and the Church is the four volume habilitation thesis of Jens-Uwe Krause, Witwen und Waisen im Römischen Reich, published between 1994-1995. This large study deals with the long period 200 BCE – 600 CE diachronically. Apart from the 2009 collection of essays edited by Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan. Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity, which deals mainly with elite, political, and literary figures rather than the poor, little else has been written on the fatherless child in antiquity. The issue of whether 1 Timothy 5:3-16 and similar later material are referring to an ‘Order’ of widows, typified by Bonnie Thurston’s 1989 book, The Widows: A Women's Ministry in the Early Church, has proved a major diversion. Recent work by Steven Friesen and Bruce Longenecker reinforce the conception of the composition of the early church as being primarily that of the poor. My focus is on the neglected area of pastoral care of the poor fatherless family within the earliest church, concentrating on the first 300 years CE. The existence of the poor fatherless family created financial, social and moral difficulties for the church leadership, which forced them to devise novel ways to deal with the duties encumbering them. How could they control these sexually experienced, but vulnerable and dependent, women with their young children? One way was to re-define them as something else. The first method, and the most successful, was to split them up into two distinct groups, old people and full orphans, each requiring a different approach. Another strategy was to make widows represent someone or something other than themselves. Their alter egos will be shown to be human, literary or theological. The third trend observed was an effort towards extinguishing the voice of women. If women and fatherless children were to epitomise something else other than themselves, then their own self-perceived reality had to be kept well hidden. They could not be allowed to speak or socialise. If they did speak their words had to be rendered unheard or to be of no effect. Finally, the young fatherless children of widows have no voice and consequently have been rendered invisible. They do not appear in the Gospels. In the rest of the New Testament and the writings of the early church fathers, they receive little more than a cursory mention as part of a literary trope, or are transformed into barely mentioned full orphans

Money doesn’t matter! Householders’ intentions to reduce standby power are unaffected by personalised pecuniary feedback

Many researchers have examined whether giving people feedback about their energy use can lead them to decrease it. However, to date no consensus has been reached about which type of eco-feedback is the most effective. We aim to test the efficacy of different feedback techniques by providing participants with personalised information about the annual monetary costs of their home’s standby power usage (i.e., appliances that consume electricity despite not being actively used). Using a sample of 708 participants we tested the following feedback strategies: advice, disaggregation, loss vs gain framing, social norms, and collective information. We measured the impact of each of these feedback conditions on knowledge and intention to change behaviour, and compared them to a control condition. Using both frequentist and Bayesian analyses, we found that relative to the control condition all the feedback strategies led participants to report significant gains in knowledge. Yet, neither the additional knowledge gains, nor the feedback approach used significantly affected behavioural intentions. Consequently, the results suggest that while a wide range of feedback strategies emphasizing the financial impact of standby power consumption can effectively improve knowledge, this approach alone is insufficient in inciting intentions to change energy consumption behaviours