Post-compulsory teacher educators: connecting professionals

This book provides a call to action for post-compulsory teacher education professionals, both in the UK and internationally, to unite around key principles and practices. The professional, educational and funding turbulence experienced by post-compulsory teacher education since 2008 has been significant. Austerity financing and increasing government intervention have provided many new and difficult challenges. At the same time evidence is building that the quality of teaching is the most important contributor to the quality of learning and achievement, and teacher education is demonstrably one of the most important influences on that teaching quality. The mainly workplace-based partnership model of teacher education used in the post-compulsory education (PCE) sector resonates well with a number of key current developments in the UK and broader field of teacher education. PCE teacher educators are particularly well placed to tell their story and share their vision of a better future for teachers through their own experiences, values and principles. Written by a range of post-compulsory teacher educators, the text therefore is an informed and passionate argument for: improving the professional recognition of teacher education and teacher educators; demonstrating how teacher education already connects teaching professionals into an engaged and collaborative professional community; providing strategies to enact this vision through connected, democratic professionalism. This title is part of the successful Critical Guides for Teacher Educators series edited by Ian Menter

Modeling and optimization of production and distribution of drinking water at VMW

We develop and discuss an operational planning model aiming at minimizing production and distribution costs in large drinking water networks containing buffers with free inflow. Modeling drinking water networks is very challenging due of the presence of complex hydraulic constraints, such as friction losses and pump curves. Non-linear, non-convex constraints result from the relationships between pressure and flow in power terms. Also, binary variables are needed to model the possibility of free inflow or re-injection of water at reservoirs. The resulting model is thus a non-convex Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Program (MINLP). A discrete-time setting is proposed to solve the problem over a finite horizon made of several intervals. A commercial solver, BONMIN, suited for convex MINLP models is used to heuristically solve the problem. We are able to find a good solution for a small part of an existing network operated by the Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Watervoorziening (VMW), a major drinking water company in Flanders

A study of the implementation of selected techniques of positioning in the nursing care of a patient in the early phase of a cerebral vascular accident

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

ADVANCED SPORT TECHNOLOGIES: Enhancing OLYMPIC PERFORMANCE

In the extremely demanding environment of Olympic sport, the difference between standing on the podium and finishing “in the pack” can often be fractions of a percentage point. Coaches and athletes are thus constantly striving to find effective ways to improve sport performance. Biomechanists, physiologists, sport psychologists, strength and conditioning specialists, engineers, and computer scientists offer coaches and athletes an integrated, coordinated approach that is specifically designed to unlock each athlete’s ultimate performance capability

A Motivational Strategy for Teaching Locational Skills: The Name Game

Locating places is of great importance in our daily lives. Because it is crucial, we teach students map locational skills. Yet, merely asking students to locate the name of a city, mountain or river becomes quite boring if done without interest and variety

Serum Transaminase: An Aid to Diagnosis

The purpose of this report is to present a background to the understanding of transaminase reaction and its possible importance as a diagnostic aid in certain pathological conditions to the student of veterinary medicine. In a short treatise of this type, it is not possible to go into the complex mechanisms of the reaction, but it is intended to outline a few of the general principles with which the veterinarian should be familiar. For the most part contact with this subject has been limited to a very brief explanation in biochemistry and physiology, plus information which can be gained from the hospital clinicians during clinic hours

New Aspects In The Treatment of Helminths

With the advent of several new anthelmintic discoveries in the past few years the treatment of the various helmiths of domestic animals has taken on new aspects. The problem of parasites and parasite control is not new. yet, with the ever increasing stress placed on our animals for faster and more economical gains and for greater milk production, the parasitic problem takes on greater significance. It is hoped that a brief discussion of the various anthemithics and the overall parasite problem will enable the practitioners to handle this problem more effectively

The role of institutional and family embeddedness in the failure of Sub-Saharan African migrant family businesses

There is considerable interest among European politicians and policymakers in how to integrate migrants in the local and national economy. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 owners of Sub-Saharan African migrant family businesses (SSAMBs) in the United Kingdom, this article critically examines why SSAMBs fail or underperform. This investigation draws upon three streams of literature – notably migrant business failure, institutional theory and family embeddedness. The findings highlight the challenges of doing business and the reasons for business failure among this group. These are different from other small businesses and include culture, family interference and ethnicity. The main contribution of the article lies in the development of a conceptual model that highlights the relationships between institutional contexts and migrant family business outcomes. The model proposes that institution and family embeddedness results in the enactment of ethnic behaviours that drive migrant businesses into cultural markets leading to business underperformance or failure