718 research outputs found
Introducing Emotion Coaching into primary, secondary and early years educational settings: the voice of practitioners and model of engagement
Emotion Coaching is an observed parenting style considered to promote children's mental, physical and academic outcomes. It informs a successful parenting programme (Gottman et al., 1996, 1997; Gottman and DeClaire, 1997). In 2011, Emotion Coaching was adapted to provide a novel, relational-based practitioner approach to support emotional regulation and behaviours in UK educational and early-years setting (*Rose, McGuire-Snieckus and Gilbert, 2015).
This inductive qualitative study, guided by constructivist grounded theory, gives a voice to the practitioners' experience of Emotion Coaching in educational and early-years settings.
Twenty-one practitioners (18 female, 3 males) working in primary and secondary and early-years settings, voluntarily participated in intensive, semi-structured interviews. Their voice informed the exploration or their engagement with emotions, their Emotion Coaching training experience and practice and their views on Emotion Coaching efficacy and sustainability. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed, before undergoing constructivist grounded theory analysis.
Practitioners both viewed and used Emotion Coaching as a technique and an approach for managing emotions and emotional behaviours. Emotion Coaching practice was positioned on a 'spectrum of Emotion Coaching use', reflecting discourses of welfare and control. Conceptualization of the practitioner's Emotion Coaching experience identified: Structuring emotional identities; Positioning educational settings; Emotional journeying; and Building emotional toolkits, as integral to practitioner engagement in training and use of Emotion Coaching in practice.
A model of practitioner Emotion Coaching engagement is proposed, which evidences four states in the integration of Emotion Coaching into practice (Accept, Adopt, Adapt, Sustain). The model of practitioner Emotion Coaching engagement recognises the centrality of the practitioner's emotional awareness in their acceptance of the Emotion Coaching premise 'emotions matter to learning' and the training experience. Successful use increased practitioner Emotion Coaching adoption, leading to adaption and assimilation into routine practice repertoires.
The model of practitioner Emotion Coaching engagement proposes Emotion Coaching practice can be marginalized or disregarded if practitioners are unreceptive to, or challenged by, the Emotion Coaching premise or had compromised training experiences. Practitioner perceptions of unsatisfactory outcomes of lack of supportive colleagues can contribute to a reluctance to practise, which compromises Emotion Coaching adoption. Lack of use increases Emotion Coaching marginalization and can lead to eventual abandonment from practice.
Although some practitioners' practice appears to be innately Emotion Coaching - informed, the consensus was that Emotion Coaching had to be practised to be effectively adopted and adapted. Regardless of the practitioners' receptivity to Emotion Coaching, all participants in the study evidenced increased emotional awareness
Electron correlation energy in confined two-electron systems
Radial, angular and total correlation energies are calculated for four
two-electron systems with atomic numbers Z=0-3 confined within an impenetrable
sphere of radius R. We report accurate results for the non-relativistic,
restricted Hartree-Fock and radial limit energies over a range of confinement
radii from 0.05 - 10 a0. At small R, the correlation energies approach limiting
values that are independent of Z while at intermediate R, systems with Z > 1
exhibit a characteristic maximum in the correlation energy resulting from an
increase in the angular correlation energy which is offset by a decrease in the
radial correlation energy
An argument for pandemic risk management using a multidisciplinary One Health approach to governance: an Australian case study
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant global impact. However, COVID-19 is just one of several high-impact infectious diseases that emerged from wildlife and are linked to the human relationship with nature. The rate of emergence of new zoonoses (diseases of animal origin) is increasing, driven by human-induced environmental changes that threaten biodiversity on a global scale. This increase is directly linked to environmental drivers including biodiversity loss, climate change and unsustainable resource extraction. Australia is a biodiversity hotspot and is subject to sustained and significant environmental change, increasing the risk of it being a location for pandemic origin. Moreover, the global integration of markets means that consumption trends in Australia contributes to the risk of disease spill-over in our regional neighbours in Asia-Pacific, and beyond. Despite the clear causal link between anthropogenic pressures on the environment and increasing pandemic risks, Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, like most of the world, has centred largely on public health strategies, with a clear focus on reactive management. Yet, the span of expertise and evidence relevant to the governance of pandemic risk management is much wider than public health and epidemiology. It involves animal/wildlife health, biosecurity, conservation sciences, social sciences, behavioural psychology, law, policy and economic analyses to name just a few.
The authors are a team of multidisciplinary practitioners and researchers who have worked together to analyse, synthesise, and harmonise the links between pandemic risk management approaches and issues in different disciplines to provide a holistic overview of current practice, and conclude the need for reform in Australia. We discuss the adoption of a comprehensive and interdisciplinary ‘One Health’ approach to pandemic risk management in Australia. A key goal of the One Health approach is to be proactive in countering threats of emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses through a recognition of the interdependence between human, animal, and environmental health. Developing ways to implement a One Health approach to pandemic prevention would not only reduce the risk of future pandemics emerging in or entering Australia, but also provide a model for prevention strategies around the world
Banking union in historical perspective: the initiative of the European Commission in the 1960s-1970s
This article shows that planning for the organization of EU banking regulation and supervision did not just appear on the agenda in recent years with discussions over the creation of the eurozone banking union. It unveils a hitherto neglected initiative of the European Commission in the 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival work, this article explains that this initiative, however, rested on a number of different assumptions, and emerged in a much different context. It first explains that the Commission's initial project was not crisis-driven; that it articulated the link between monetary integration and banking regulation; and finally that it did not set out to move the supervisory framework to the supranational level, unlike present-day developments
The 21 cm Signature of Cosmic String Wakes
We discuss the signature of a cosmic string wake in 21cm redshift surveys.
Since 21cm surveys probe higher redshifts than optical large-scale structure
surveys, the signatures of cosmic strings are more manifest in 21cm maps than
they are in optical galaxy surveys. We find that, provided the tension of the
cosmic string exceeds a critical value (which depends on both the redshift when
the string wake is created and the redshift of observation), a cosmic string
wake will generate an emission signal with a brightness temperature which
approaches a limiting value which at a redshift of is close to 400
mK in the limit of large string tension. The signal will have a specific
signature in position space: the excess 21cm radiation will be confined to a
wedge-shaped region whose tip corresponds to the position of the string, whose
planar dimensions are set by the planar dimensions of the string wake, and
whose thickness (in redshift direction) depends on the string tension. For
wakes created at , then at a redshift of the
critical value of the string tension is , and
it decreases linearly with redshift (for wakes created at the time of equal
matter and radiation, the critical value is a factor of two lower at the same
redshift). For smaller tensions, cosmic strings lead to an observable
absorption signal with the same wedge geometry.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures; a couple of comments added in the discussion
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Measurement of Pion Enhancement at Low Transverse Momentum and of the Delta-Resonance Abundance in Si-Nucleus Collisions at AGS Energy
We present measurements of the pion transverse momentum (p_t) spectra in
central Si-nucleus collisions in the rapidity range 2.0<y<5.0 for p_t down to
and including p_t=0. The data exhibit an enhanced pion yield at low p_t
compared to what is expected for a purely thermal spectral shape. This
enhancement is used to determine the Delta-resonance abundance at freeze-out.
The results are consistent with a direct measurement of the Delta-resonance
yield by reconstruction of proton-pion pairs and imply a temperature of the
system at freeze-out close to 140 MeV.Comment: 12 pages + 4 figures (uuencoded at end-of-file
Physics of Solar Prominences: I - Spectral Diagnostics and Non-LTE Modelling
This review paper outlines background information and covers recent advances
made via the analysis of spectra and images of prominence plasma and the
increased sophistication of non-LTE (ie when there is a departure from Local
Thermodynamic Equilibrium) radiative transfer models. We first describe the
spectral inversion techniques that have been used to infer the plasma
parameters important for the general properties of the prominence plasma in
both its cool core and the hotter prominence-corona transition region. We also
review studies devoted to the observation of bulk motions of the prominence
plasma and to the determination of prominence mass. However, a simple inversion
of spectroscopic data usually fails when the lines become optically thick at
certain wavelengths. Therefore, complex non-LTE models become necessary. We
thus present the basics of non-LTE radiative transfer theory and the associated
multi-level radiative transfer problems. The main results of one- and
two-dimensional models of the prominences and their fine-structures are
presented. We then discuss the energy balance in various prominence models.
Finally, we outline the outstanding observational and theoretical questions,
and the directions for future progress in our understanding of solar
prominences.Comment: 96 pages, 37 figures, Space Science Reviews. Some figures may have a
better resolution in the published version. New version reflects minor
changes brought after proof editin
Physics of Solar Prominences: II - Magnetic Structure and Dynamics
Observations and models of solar prominences are reviewed. We focus on
non-eruptive prominences, and describe recent progress in four areas of
prominence research: (1) magnetic structure deduced from observations and
models, (2) the dynamics of prominence plasmas (formation and flows), (3)
Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) waves in prominences and (4) the formation and
large-scale patterns of the filament channels in which prominences are located.
Finally, several outstanding issues in prominence research are discussed, along
with observations and models required to resolve them.Comment: 75 pages, 31 pictures, review pape
Connecting Earth Observation to High-Throughput Biodiversity Data
There is much interest in using Earth Observation (EO) technology to track biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and ecosystem services, understandable given the fast pace of biodiversity loss. However, because most biodiversity is invisible to EO, EO-based indicators could be misleading, which can reduce the effectiveness of nature conservation and even unintentionally decrease conservation effort. We describe an approach that combines automated recording devices, high-throughput DNA sequencing, and modern ecological modelling to extract much more of the information available in EO data. This approach is achievable now, 62 offering efficient and near-real time monitoring of management impacts on biodiversity and its functions and services
Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data
Understandably, given the fast pace of biodiversity loss, there is much interest in using Earth observation technology to track biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services. However, because most biodiversity is invisible to Earth observation, indicators based on Earth observation could be misleading and reduce the effectiveness of nature conservation and even unintentionally decrease conservation effort. We describe an approach that combines automated recording devices, high-throughput DNA sequencing and modern ecological modelling to extract much more of the information available in Earth observation data. This approach is achievable now, offering efficient and near-real-time monitoring of management impacts on biodiversity and its functions and services
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