Student identity: transitions through project work

Students entering higher education in the UK must be able to learn independently and understand how knowledge is constructed in their future academic community. This is particularly true for international students, who may come from academic backgrounds with very different practices and conceptions surrounding learning, teaching and the nature of academic discourse. This paper outlines a project-based course innovation involving students on a pre-sessional EAP course in a UK university. We argue that project-based learning not only develops students’ language and academic skills but also provides the means to develop their identities as legitimate participants in their future academic communities

Discovery learning in mathematics education: Using multimedia technology to reach teachers

Being a teacher requires the dual skills ofboth knowing a content area and knowing effective methods for teaching that content. Teachers ofdeafstudents, however, frequently have more training related to deafness rather than their content area. At issue is access to resources which could remedy this problem. This paper outlines the development of an online workshop which will serve as a pilot project to explore ways to get pedagogical and content knowledge from skilled professionals to both teachers in the field and students in teacher preparation programs. The mathematical preparation of teachers of the deaf was reviewed and a workshop topic selected before designing a script and visual aids for the workshop itself. After the workshop was recorded, materials were compiled into a multimedia program, andfeedback was solicitedfrom three audience types. The feedback indicates that there is indeed an audience for this type oflearning experience, although some modifications might be made

Physical Therapy Interventions and Outcomes for a Patient Following Hospitalization for Viral Gastroenteritis and Resulting Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: A Case Report

Background and Purpose: Gastroenteritis is an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, including the stomach and the intestines, and is a major cause of illness in the United States. It is a significant cause of hospitalization and deaths every year, especially in the elderly population. The purpose of this case report was to describe the interventions and outcomes of a patient undergoing physical therapy after hospitalization for viral gastroenteritis using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as the theoretical framework. Case Description: The patient was an 88 year old female who was admitted to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) into their transitional care unit after a four day hospital stay due to viral gastroenteritis. She also was diagnosed with pneumonia on her third day in the SNF. The patient spent 51 days in the SNF and participated in 40 physical therapy sessions. Physical therapy interventions included lower extremity strengthening, postural training, gait training, balance training, aerobic endurance training while monitoring and weaning the patient off of supplemental oxygen. Outcomes: The patient was completely independent with all mobility and walked on a daily basis prior to being hospitalized. At baseline at the SNF, the patient was able to stand for two minutes with upper extremity support and minimal assistance, with oxygen desaturation requiring supplemental oxygen. The patient progressed to complete independence with bed mobility, modified independence with transfers and ambulation up to 910 feet with a rolling walker. Balance test scores included a Tinetti balance score of 24/28 and a Berg Balance Scale score of 42/56. The patient also made gains in functional mobility but did not reach all of her physical therapy goals prior to discharge. Discussion: This case report describes the interventions and outcomes for a patient after hospitalization from viral gastroenteritis and resulting hospitalacquired pneumonia. The interventions described appeared to assist in the patient’s progress towards her prior level of function. Additional research is warranted to establish treatment effects in larger populations

Inevitable Imbalance: Why FTC v. Actavis Was Inadequate to Solve the Reverse Payment Settlement Problem and Proposing a New Amendment to the Hatch-Waxman Act

The law regarding reverse payment settlements is anything but settled. Reverse payment settlements are settlements that occur during a patent infringement litigation in which a pharmaceutical patent holder pays a generic drug producer to not infringe on the pharmaceutical patent. Despite the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court in FTC v. Actavis, Inc., there are still unanswered questions about how the “full rule of reason” analysis will be applied to reverse payment. This Comment argues that despite the outcome in Actavis, the complex regulatory framework of the Hatch–Waxman Act will create repeated conflicts between antitrust law and patent law because it attempts to use private actors as proxies for the interests of externalities. Thus, the only long-term solution is to pass a legislative amendment and have the government assume responsibility for litigating the validity of weak patents in the reverse- payment settlement context

Honors Program for the 7th Grade Language Arts / Social Studies Block Classroom

The focus for this project is to establish a curriculum outline as well as develop appropriate supplementary projects for a seventh-grade Language Arts/Social Studies Honors program. The rationale behind such a program is discussed, as well as outlining the program structure. This includes student selection, entry, and expulsion from the program. There are seven units outlined, each of which has unit goals, activity descriptions, and project information and materials

Data Patterns Discovery Using Unsupervised Learning

Self-care activities classification poses significant challenges in identifying children’s unique functional abilities and needs within the exceptional children healthcare system. The accuracy of diagnosing a child\u27s self-care problem, such as toileting or dressing, is highly influenced by an occupational therapists’ experience and time constraints. Thus, there is a need for objective means to detect and predict in advance the self-care problems of children with physical and motor disabilities. We use clustering to discover interesting information from self-care problems, perform automatic classification of binary data, and discover outliers. The advantages are twofold: the advancement of knowledge on identifying self-care problems in children and comprehensive experimental results on clustering binary healthcare data. By using various distances and linkage methods, resampling techniques of imbalanced data, and feature selection preprocessing in a clustering framework, we find associations among patients and an Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) of 76.26\