Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education Authors : Paula Cowan & Henry Maitles London: Sage Publications (2017) pp. 120 Paperback £20.00 ISBN 978-1473919341

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A Girl Called Echo : Northwest Resistance (Vol 3)

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The Wisdom of Not-Knowing : essays on psychotherapy, Buddhism and life experience. Editors: Bob Chisholm and Jeff Harrison Axminster: Triarchy Press (2016) pp. 184 Paperback £12.50 ISBN 978-1-909470-91-0

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Evidence of diet, deification, and death within ancient Egyptian mummified animals

The clues to life and death of mummified animals can remain hidden beneath their wrappings. Developments in non-invasive imaging have enabled detailed study of their internal structures. Laboratory-based X-ray microcomputed tomography (microCT) and focussed imaging protocols permit smaller mummified remains, such as animals, to be studied at higher resolution. In this study, we use microCT to image three different animal mummies. Revealing the internal structures provides insights into their biography, the conditions in which they were kept, complex mummification practices, possible causes of death, and subsequent handling damage. Thousands of years after the production of these mummified animals, the X-ray microCT technique facilitates new investigations, revealing ‘harder’ skeletal structures, mummification materials, and even desiccated soft tissues. Potential evidence for an ‘opening of the mouth’ procedure was found in a snake, along with indicators of the poor conditions in which the snake was kept when alive, leading to dehydration. Examination of a cat mummy revealed it was less than five months old and had its neck purposefully broken. It was also possible to identify a bird mummy to species level from the X-ray data. Improved understanding of animal mummification through scientific imaging can thus inform conservation and understanding of past human-animal relationships

Annual risk of falls resulting in emergency department and hospital attendances for older people: an observational study of 781,081 individuals living in Wales (United Kingdom) including deprivation, frailty and dementia diagnoses between 2010 and 2020

Backgroundfalls are common in older people, but associations between falls, dementia and frailty are relatively unknown. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on falls admissions has not been studied.Aimto investigate the impact of dementia, frailty, deprivation, previous falls and the differences between years for falls resulting in an emergency department (ED) or hospital admission.Study Designlongitudinal cross-sectional observational study.Settingolder people (aged 65+) resident in Wales between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2020.Methodswe created a binary (yes/no) indicator for a fall resulting in an attendance to an ED, hospital or both, per person, per year. We analysed the outcomes using multilevel logistic and multinomial models.Resultswe analysed a total of 5,141,244 person years of data from 781,081 individuals. Fall admission rates were highest in 2012 (4.27%) and lowest in 2020 (4.27%). We found an increased odds ratio (OR [95% confidence interval]) of a fall admission for age (1.05 [1.05, 1.05] per year of age), people with dementia (2.03 [2.00, 2.06]) and people who had a previous fall (2.55 [2.51, 2.60]). Compared with fit individuals, those with frailty had ORs of 1.60 [1.58, 1.62], 2.24 [2.21, 2.28] and 2.94 [2.89, 3.00] for mild, moderate and severe frailty respectively. Reduced odds were observed for males (0.73 [0.73, 0.74]) and less deprived areas; most deprived compared with least OR 0.75 [0.74, 0.76].Conclusionsfalls prevention should be targeted to those at highest risk, and investigations into the reduction in admissions in 2020 is warranted

Space, Place and Pedagogy : Local Contexts in a Globalised World

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Pedagogically-driven Ontology Network for Conceptualizing the e-Learning Assessment Domain

The use of ontologies as tools to guide the generation, organization and personalization of e-learning content, including e-assessment, has drawn attention of the researchers because ontologies can represent the knowledge of a given domain and researchers use the ontology to reason about it. Although the use of these semantic technologies tends to enhance technology-based educational processes, the lack of validation to improve the quality of learning in their use makes the educator feel reluctant to use them. This paper presents progress in the development of an ontology network, called AONet, that conceptualizes the e-assessment domain with the aim of supporting the semi-automatic generation of assessment, taking into account not only technical aspects but also pedagogical ones.Fil: Romero, Lucila. Universidad Nacional del Litoral; ArgentinaFil: North, Matthew. The college of Idabo; Estados UnidosFil: Gutierrez, Milagros. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información; ArgentinaFil: Caliusco, Maria Laura. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe; Argentin

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Hidden Pines

Hidden Pines is a coming of age novel that is a work in progress. It gives a voice to girls in a therapeutic boarding school, where characters struggle with terminal illness, abuse, loss, self-harm, low self-esteem, and personality disorders. The work is based on the author’s experiences in both the education and mental health fields

Pawpaws in American Culture

Pawpaws are the largest edible fruit native to North America, and in this video, the author traces their history, with a focus on the Appalachian region