63 research outputs found
Motor control or graded activity exercises for chronic low back pain? A randomised controlled trial
Background: Chronic low back pain remains a major health problem in Australia and around the world. Unfortunately the majority of treatments for this condition produce small effects because not all patients respond to each treatment. It appears that only 25-50% of patients respond to exercise. The two most popular types of exercise for low back pain are graded activity and motor control exercises. At present however, there are no guidelines to help clinicians select the best treatment for a patient. As a result, time and money are wasted on treatments which ultimately fail to help the patient
Conspicuous practice: self-surveillance and commodification in education
Teachers have always been watched; only more recently have they been surveilled, with senior leaders, peers, students and external stakeholders all collecting performance data. Yet contemporary surveillance in schools and colleges increasingly relies on watching the self, with teachers voluntarily participating in their own surveillance, making their practice visible for easy consumption by interested parties. This article builds on previous work on the surveillance of teachers to argue that this ‘conspicuous practice’ represents a convergence of surveillance and consumerism, with teachers being recreated as commodities, becoming both the ‘merchandise and the marketing agent’ in Bauman’s (2007) terms, embodying the entrepreneurial self to maximise employability. Through social media promotion such as Twitter and LinkedIn to exploiting open plan learning spaces, teachers engage in conspicuous practice for three main reasons: from fear, to avoid sanction; as a result of acculturation into commodified corporate environments; finally as a means of routine resistance, employing the dramaturgical self for personal gain, to avoid work or to re-appropriate professional practice
Meningite bacteriana neonatal: estudo prospectivo da evolução a longo prazo de 55 crianças
A institucionalização dos estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos: advento, consolidação e transformações
Comparative Study of Vaginal, Abdominal, and Robotic Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: Clinical Outcome and Cost
Diphenylphosphinamide (DPPA) lanthanide salt adducts. Considerations about Nd3+ and Eu3+ spectra
Cumulative smoking exposure and cessation associated with the recurrence of periodontitis in periodontal maintenance therapy: A 6‐year follow‐up
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