Book Reviews

Book Review

A preferred vision for administering secondary schools : a reflective essay

Effective principals articulate a clear vision about what they expect of adults and students. They do this more than just the beginning of the year. They spend time explaining to students what they expect in achievement, behavior, attitude,and effort. They don\u27t make excuses. They make sure learners have what they need to meet high expectations. They motivate, inspire, provide direction, and celebrate excellence. If principals don\u27t have high expectations, they cannot expect much of others. Principals must establish high expectations in their schools. You can model high expectations by selecting challenging goals, informing others of your dreams, and keeping people posted as to your progress. Modeling the process of setting a high standard, planning the steps to its achievement, and regularly assessing growth is one of the best lessons you can teach the students in your school

Reimagining NSW: four ways to boost community well-being and why it matters

This is part of our Reimagining New South Wales (NSW) series. For this series, vice-chancellors across NSW asked a select group of early and mid-career researchers to envisage new ways to tackle old problems and identify emerging opportunities across the state

Autologous Blood Transfusion Device

Final report and prototype photo for Project 09 of ME450, Fall 2010 semester.Our team spent one month performing observations in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), a main referral hospital located in Kumasi, Ghana. During this time, we observed a deficit in the supply of donor blood available at the blood bank. As a result, the hospital had developed a manual autologous transfusion method for use in ruptured ectopic pregnancies, which minimizes or eliminates the need for donor blood in these cases. This procedure requires many labor- and material-intensive steps and can cause further harm to the patient due to poor quality control of the blood. Therefore, our team identified the opportunity to create a blood salvage device that can be operated by a health care provider to collect, filter and transfuse blood in the event of severe blood loss that occurs during ruptured ectopic pregnancies and other hemoperitoneum hemorrhage procedures.Kathleen Sienko (Mechanical Engineering, U of M)http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86237/1/ME450 Fall2010 Final Report - Project 09 - Autologous Blood Transfusion Device.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86237/2/ME450 Fall2010 Prototype Photo - Project 09 - Autologous Blood Transfusion Device.jp

The political economy of post-secondary education: A comparison of british columbia, Ontario and québec

Abstract A policy sociology approach is taken to examine the connections between neo-liberalism, post-secondary provincial education (PSE) policy in Canada and the impact of those policies. Our thesis regarding the broad political economy of PSE is that over the last two decades the adoption of this ideology has been a major cause of some dramatic changes in these policies and has brought about a fundamental transformation of PSE in Canada. The discussion builds on a comparative, multiple, nested case study conducted at the provincial (Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia) and national level. Through the analysis of key provincial and federal documents, the team concludes that five themes dominated the PSE policy-making process. These themes are Accessibility, Accountability, Marketization, Labour Force Development and Research and Development. In discussing these themes, we illustrate their impact on and within the three provincial PSE systems: BC, Ontario and Quebec. In the conclusion, we place the changes in their political and economic contexts and explicate the intended and unintended consequences of these policy priorities. We argue that the pressure for access has led to the emergence of new institutional types, raising new questions about differentiation, mandate and identity and new lines of stratification. A trend toward vocationalism in the university sector has coincided with 'academic drift' in the community college sector, leading to convergences in programming and institutional functions across the system, as well as competition for resources, students, and external partners. Unprecedented demand has made education a viable industry, sustaining both a proliferation of private providers and a range of new entrepreneurial activities within public institutions. Levels and objectives of public funding have swung dramatically over the period. Public investments in PSE, in the form of capital grants and tuition subsidies, have alternately expanded and contracted, being at some times applied across the board and at others targeted to specific social groups or economic sectors. Likewise, policymakers have treated PSE at times as a mechanism for social inclusion and equality, at others as an instrument for labour force development, and at yet others as a market sector in its own right

Associations among parental feeding styles and children's food intake in families with limited incomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Although general parenting styles and restrictive parental feeding practices have been associated with children's weight status, few studies have examined the association between feeding styles and proximal outcomes such as children's food intake, especially in multi-ethnic families with limited incomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of parental feeding styles and young children's evening food intake in a multiethnic sample of families in Head Start.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Participants were 715 Head Start children and their parents from Texas and Alabama representing three ethnic groups: African-American (43%), Hispanic (29%), and White (28%). The Caregivers Feeding Styles Questionnaire (Hughes) was used to characterize authoritative, authoritarian (referent), indulgent or uninvolved feeding styles. Food intake in several food groups was calculated from 3 days of dietary recalls for the child for evening food intakes from 3 PM until bedtime.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Compared to children of authoritarian parents, intakes of fruits, juice and vegetables were lowest among children of indulgent or uninvolved parents (1.77 ± 0.09 vs 1.45 ± 0.09 and 1.42 ± 0.11 cups) as were intakes of dairy foods (0.84 ± 0.05 vs 0.67 ± 0.05 and 0.63+0.06 cups), respectively.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Findings suggest that permissive parent feeding styles like indulgent or uninvolved relate negatively to children's intake of nutrient-rich foods fruit, 100% fruit juice, vegetables and dairy foods from 3 PM until bedtime.</p

Blood salvage device for use during ruptured ectopic pregnancy in low‐resource countries

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135522/1/ijgo74.pd