Authority and Esteem Effects of Enhancing Remote Indigenous Teacher-Assistants' Mathematics-Education Knowledge and Skills

The interaction between Australia's Eurocentric education and the complex culture of remote Indigenous communities often results in Indigenous disempowerment and educational underperformance. This paper reports on a mathematics-education research project in a remote community to support Indigenous teacher assistants (ITAs) in mathematics and mathematics tutoring in an attempt to reverse Indigenous mathematics underperformance. It discusses teachers' and ITAs' power and authority within school and community, describes the project's design, and summarises the project's results in terms of affects and knowledge. It draws implications on the relation between ITA professional development (PD), affect, esteem, knowledge, authority, teacher-ITA partnerships, and enhanced Indigenous mathematics outcomes

Figures on the Threshold: Refugees and the Politics of Hospitality, 1930–51

If, as Peter Gatrell has suggested, the figure of the refugee was defined and even constructed during the twentieth century, then the Second World War was a crucial period in this process (Gatrell, 2013). This article looks at three representations of refugee figures from this period, Graham Greene's novel The Name of Action (1930), Rebecca West's short story ‘Around Us the Wail of Sirens’ (1941) and Storm Jameson's novel The Black Laurel (1947), evaluating them in light of recent scholarship around hospitality and asylum to suggest that these refugee characters subvert the norms and customs of British hospitality. It argues that in these three texts, refugees act as ‘threshold figures’, exposing the realities of war and the inadequacy of British social processes to contain them. In doing so, they point towards a different way of representing the refugee as an active agent, rather than a passive recipient in both political processes and social interactions

Spiritual Care Missing from Student Training

Spiritual support has a long tradition in nursing dating back to the Middle Ages but contemporary nurses often feel ill-prepared to provide this form of care in their daily practice

Community Based Rehabilitation in the Dominican Republic: Efficacy of an Occupation-Based Training Program

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of an occupation-based training program for community rehabilitation workers (CRW) and parents of children with disabilities in the Dominican Republic. This training program focused on seating and positioning children with disabilities and specific occupations and activities that children can do while seated. Participants were recruited from Fundacion Cuidado Infantil Dominicano, a community-based rehabilitation program, which sends CRWs into the impoverished communities of the Dominican Republic to teach caregivers simple rehabilitation exercises and techniques in order to improve the individual\u27s function. The study\u27s research questions included: 1) Is this training program effective in increasing the knowledge-base of participants? 2) Do participant demographics correlate with the test scores? 3) Are the participants satisfied with the training program? The researcher utilized a pre-post-test design to measure the efficacy of this program in increasing participants\u27 knowledge of the seating and positioning training principles. In addition, participants completed satisfaction surveys for qualitative feedback on the program. Two months following the training program, participants responded to follow-up post-tests and satisfaction surveys to measure retention of the training material. Data analysis demonstrated a significant relationship between the change in test scores from the pre-test to the post-test, and the pre-test to the two-month follow-up test. Satisfaction surveys demonstrated that participants found the training program valuable and used the information from the training program with children with disabilities. These results demonstrate that the training program was effective in increasing knowledge of participants on occupation-based seating and positioning principles

Impurity analysis of MDA synthesized from unrestricted compounds

University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Science.Methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) is classified as an illegal substance in many countries and jurisdictions around the world. Its popularity for illicit use is due to its stimulant and hallucinogenic effects. MDA can be synthesized from starting materials and reagents that are uncontrolled. These syntheses are attractive to clandestine laboratories as they can source large quantities of reagents without causing suspicion or risk of detection. Procedures for these syntheses require very little synthetic chemistry knowledge and are readily available online. Examination of the chemical profile of products from these syntheses can provide information about the starting material and synthetic pathway. This provides valuable information regarding linking cases, and tracking and limiting the supply of reagents used in clandestine laboratories. This thesis examines the impurity profile of two synthetic pathways to MDA, from helional and piperonal, both of which involve few restricted compounds and would therefore be ideal to clandestine chemists. Helional is a fragrant oil available for wholesale purchase for home perfume makers and piperonal can be extracted from pepper. This thesis focuses on the organic impurities from side reactions between precursors, intermediates, and reagents, or reaction by-products. The products of each step were analysed using proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹HNMR) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS). The results were examined to determine the identity of the impurities and to determine the presence of route specific impurities. The results of this investigation show the identity of multiple impurities in the free base product of MDA synthesized from both helional and piperonal. Piperonal and MDP2P were shown to be common impurities between the syntheses. Most of the impurities identified within the helional product had been seen and recorded previously as impurities from other methods and none of the impurities carried through to the HCl product. Therefore, no route specific impurities were identified for the synthesis of MDA from helional

The quantitative and qualitative bacteriological analysis of the Manhattan city water

Citation: Cooper, Katherine. The quantitative and qualitative bacteriological analysis of the Manhattan city water. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1908.Introduction: It has only been within the past few years that scientists have discovered the value of bacteriological examination of drinking water. There have been terrible epidemics of water borne contagious diseases, but only since the advent of bacteriology has it been known how these diseases were spread

Voices On The Web: Online Learners And Their Experiences

Online teaching and learning is the current push in education. While much research has been done on the numbers, there is still a perception that online learning is substandard. This interpretive study looks at the learner perceptions as they participate in masters’ level courses on the web. Themes of schedule, geography, and family responsibility, as well as interaction, communication, and time are explored

Can I See Some ID? Banning Access to Cosmetic Breast Implant Surgery for Minors Under Eighteen

In many situations it is perfectly reasonable, and in fact preferable, to allow parents to consent to medical interventions on the behalf of their minor children. Parents enjoy a constitutional liberty interest in directing the upbringing of their children; it is presumed that parents will act in the best interests of their children when they substitute their experiences and judgment for a child’s in making important life decisions.8 This article highlights, however, that when it comes to providing consent for their children to undergo medically unnecessary breast implant surgery, the rationales underlying the presumption of deference to parents and medical providers fail. Because there are reasons to believe this traditional consent framework will not protect the best interests of minors who seek breast implants, this article argues that it is appropriate for the federal government to mandate a national minimum age of eighteen for receiving breast implants. This article begins in Part II by providing a brief background on breast implant surgery and its prevalence amongst minors. Part III outlines representative situations in which the federal government sets a national minimum age for access to products or procedures that can be unsafe for minors. Part IV illustrates scenarios where national age minimums are not deemed appropriate. Part V explores the rationales underlying both the use and rejection of age restrictions; it explains why a national minimum age for breast implants would serve similar policy goals as other age-based access controls. Part VI specifically addresses two primary counterarguments: highlighting why it is appropriate to impinge on both the physician-patient relationship and parental autonomy in the context of breast implants for minors

Can I See Some ID? Banning Access to Cosmetic Breast Implant Surgery for Minors Under Eighteen

In many situations it is perfectly reasonable, and in fact preferable, to allow parents to consent to medical interventions on the behalf of their minor children. Parents enjoy a constitutional liberty interest in directing the upbringing of their children; it is presumed that parents will act in the best interests of their children when they substitute their experiences and judgment for a child’s in making important life decisions.8 This article highlights, however, that when it comes to providing consent for their children to undergo medically unnecessary breast implant surgery, the rationales underlying the presumption of deference to parents and medical providers fail. Because there are reasons to believe this traditional consent framework will not protect the best interests of minors who seek breast implants, this article argues that it is appropriate for the federal government to mandate a national minimum age of eighteen for receiving breast implants. This article begins in Part II by providing a brief background on breast implant surgery and its prevalence amongst minors. Part III outlines representative situations in which the federal government sets a national minimum age for access to products or procedures that can be unsafe for minors. Part IV illustrates scenarios where national age minimums are not deemed appropriate. Part V explores the rationales underlying both the use and rejection of age restrictions; it explains why a national minimum age for breast implants would serve similar policy goals as other age-based access controls. Part VI specifically addresses two primary counterarguments: highlighting why it is appropriate to impinge on both the physician-patient relationship and parental autonomy in the context of breast implants for minors