Reframing e-assessment: building professional nursing and academic attributes in a first year nursing course

This paper documents the relationships between pedagogy and e-assessment in two nursing courses offered at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. The courses are designed to build the academic, numeracy and technological attributes student nurses need if they are to succeed at university and in the nursing profession. The paper first outlines the management systems supporting the two courses and how they intersect with the e-learning and e-assessment components of course design. These pedagogical choices are then reviewed. While there are lessons to be learnt and improvements to be made, preliminary results suggest students and staff are extremely supportive of the courses. The e-assessment is very positively received with students reporting increased confidence and competency in numeracy, as well as IT, academic, research and communication skills

A comparative histological study of the osteoderms in the lizards Heloderma suspectum (Squamata: Helodermatidae) and Varanus komodoensis (Squamata: Varanidae)

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kirby, A, Vickaryous, M, Boyde, A, et al. A comparative histological study of the osteoderms in the lizards Heloderma suspectum (Squamata: Helodermatidae) and Varanus komodoensis (Squamata: Varanidae). J Anat. 2020; 00: 1– 9. https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.13156 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.13156

Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility

There are four main interconnecting themes around which the contributions in this book are based. This introductory chapter aims to establish the broad context for the chapters that follow by discussing each of the themes. It does so by setting these themes within the overarching demographic challenge of the twenty-first century – demographic ageing. Each chapter is introduced in the context of the specific theme to which it primarily relates and there is a summary of the data sets used by the contributors to illustrate the wide range of cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysed

Histological and Histochemical Methods : Theory and Practice

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histological and histochemical methods:theory and practice

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A special issue devoted to hematoxylin, hematein, and hemalum

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The nature of the internal acid solutions in sulfonated poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) resins

The acidities of a series of fully hydrated sulfonated poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) resins with varying levels of sulfonation from 0.80 to 5.25 mequiv g-1 have been characterized. Enthalpies of neutralization with aqueous NaOH have been measured by titration calorimetry. The degrees of acid dissociation () have been measured using FT-Raman spectroscopy, based on the intensity of the –SO3 - stretching band at 1033 cm-1. The same measurements have been made on aqueous solutions of p-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TsOH), on the basis that these solutions are analogs of the internal solutions in the hydrated resin gels. For resins with low levels of sulfonation, and therefore relatively dilute internal acid solutions, the internal and the equivalent p-TsOH solutions are similar. However, significant differences are seen in highly sulfonated resins where the internal solution concentration is above 4.0 mol kg-1. At these concentrations, p-TsOH solutions show essentially complete dissociation and enthalpies of neutralization typical of a strong, fully dissociated acid in aqueous solution. In contrast, the acid groups in hydrated resins are largely undissociated and exhibit numerically higher enthalpies of neutralization, and catalytic activity measurements indicate that these acid groups are stronger than normal. It is proposed that this acidity enhancement is associated with networks of sulfonic acid groups which form in highly sulfonated resins. Although such networks have been previously proposed in dehydrated resins, this paper reports the first evidence for their existence in resins under conditions of full hydratio