The effects of sensory deprivation on sensory, perceptual, motor, cognitive, and physiological functions

Sensory deprivation effects on human sensory, perceptual, and physiological mechanism

Adaptation to visual and nonvisual rearrangement

Role of informational feedback in producing visual adaptation to visual rearrangement and to various head, eye, and arm position

The Status of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the Discipline

The concept of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) was developed over 15 years ago. Because scholarly recognition comes from the discipline, the researchers determined to find out how a range of disciplines deal with the SoTL. In that time, how has the SoTL been integrated into and used by the various academic disciplines? What publication outlets are available to professors within each of the disciplines to present and publish on the SoTL? This survey review of current associations, conferences, and journals examines the SoTL in 20 different disciplines as demonstrated by scholarly production within these disciplines. Adoption levels range from very high in some of the Natural Sciences, to surprisingly low in other disciplinary areas

Total adaptation to prismatic displacement in the absence of reafference

Total adaption to prismatic displacement without self produced movement

PREVALENCE OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN PREOPERATIVE OF ELECTIVE SURGERIES AT A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN CURITIBA

Introduction: In the preoperative period the prevalence of anxiety and depression may increase. Such disorders are considered causes of difficulty in post-surgical recovery, prolonged hospital stay, enhanced need for anesthetics and analgesics, lower adherence to treatment and high cost to the health system. Objectives: Determine the prevalence of anxiety and depression in preoperative period of elective surgeries, in the Parana Red Cross Hospital (HCV-PR) and check possible associations between the presence of these disorders with gender, age, marital status, religion, education, income and type of hospital care. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study with 200 hospitalized patients in preoperative period of elective surgeries between July and October 2013. Data collection instruments: hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) and questionnaire of socioeconomic and demographic data. Results: The prevalence of anxiety (27.5%) was higher than that of depression (13.5%). Anxiety was more frequent among patients with the following characteristics: incomplete secondary education (58.2%), income less than two minimum wages (56.4%), and users of SUS (63.3%), p <0.05. Depression was more common among patients with age ≥ 50 years (81.5%), income less than two minimum wages (59.3%), SUS users (70.4%), p <0.05 Conclusion: It was observed that most patients with disorders showed low income and was attended by SUS, characteristics that make them more vulnerable. It’s important to invest in pre-operative care, promoting assistance and helping the patient to understand the process in order to reduce harmful effects.Introdução: No período pré-operatório a prevalência de ansiedade e depressão pode aumentar. Tais transtornos são considerados causas da dificuldade de recuperação do paciente após a cirurgia, do tempo de internamento prolongado, da necessidade aumentada de anestésicos e analgésicos, da menor adesão ao tratamento e do custo elevado ao sistema de saúde. Objetivo: Conhecer a prevalência de ansiedade e depressão em pacientes no pré-operatório de cirurgias eletivas no Hospital da Cruz Vermelha Paraná (HCV-PR) e verificar possíveis associações entre a presença destes transtornos com as variáveis sexo, idade, estado civil, religião, escolaridade, renda e tipo de atendimento hospitalar. Métodos: Estudo transversal descritivo com 200 pacientes internados no pré-operatório de cirurgias eletivas entre julho e outubro de 2013. Instrumentos de coleta de dados: escala hospitalar de ansiedade e depressão (HADS) e questionário de dados socioeconômicos e demográficos. Resultados: A prevalência de ansiedade (27,5%) foi superior à de depressão (13,5%). A ansiedade foi mais frequente entre os pacientes com as seguintes características: ensino médio incompleto (58,2%), renda inferior a 2 salários mínimos (56,4%), e usuários do SUS (63,3%), com p<0,05.  A depressão foi mais frequente entre os pacientes com: idade ≥ 50 anos (81,5%), renda inferior a 2 salários mínimos (59,3%), usuários do SUS (70,4%), com p<0,05. Conclusão: A maioria dos pacientes com distúrbios apresentou baixa renda e foi atendida pelo SUS, características essas que os tornam mais vulneráveis. Por isso, é importante investir no cuidado pré-operatório, promovendo assistência e auxiliando o paciente na compreensão do processo, a fim de diminuir efeitos deletérios

Students as co-creators of teaching approaches, course design and curricula: implications for academic developers

Within higher education, students’ voices are frequently overlooked in the design of teaching approaches, courses and curricula. In this paper we outline the theoretical background to arguments for including students as partners in pedagogical planning processes. We present examples where students have worked collaboratively in design processes along with the beneficial outcomes of these examples. Finally we focus on some of the implications and opportunities for academic developers of proposing collaborative approaches to pedagogical planning

Oxygen saturation as a predictor of adverse maternal outcomes in women with preeclampsia.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the role of respiratory assessment by cardiorespiratory symptoms and/or oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry (SpO2) in predicting adverse maternal outcomes in women admitted to hospital with preeclampsia. METHODS: These data derive from an international, prospective multicentre cohort study, PIERS (Pre-eclampsia Integrated Estimate of RiSk), which assesses predictors of adverse outcomes in women admitted to tertiary perinatal units with preeclampsia. Univariate and multivariate analyses of cardiorespiratory symptoms and pulse oximetry were performed to assess their ability to predict a combined adverse maternal outcome developed through international Delphi consensus. RESULTS: SpO2 successfully predicted adverse maternal outcomes; the area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve (AUC ROC) was 0.71 (95% CI 0.65 to 0.77). Combining the symptoms of chest pain and/or dyspnea with pulse oximetry improved this predictive ability (AUC ROC 0.73; 95% CI 0.67 to 0.78). When SpO2 was stratified into risk groups using inflection points on the ROC curve, the highest risk group (SpO2 90% to 93%) had an odds ratio of 18.1 (95% CI 8.2 to 40.2) for all outcomes within 48 hours when compared with the baseline group (SpO2 98% to 100%). CONCLUSION: Assessing SpO2 aids in the assessment of maternal risk in women admitted to hospital with preeclampsia. An SpO2 value of ≤ 93% confers particular risk. The symptom complex of chest pain and/or dyspnea adds to the association

Factors that shape pedagogical practices in next generation learning spaces

International figures on university expenditure on the development of next generation learning spaces (NGLS) are not readily available but anecdote suggests that simply retrofitting an existing classroom as an NGLS conservatively costs $AUD200,000, while developing new buildings often cost in the region of 100 million dollars and over the last five years, many universities in Australia, Europe and North America have developed new buildings. Despite this considerable investment, it appears that the full potential of these spaces is not being realised. While researchers argue that a more student centred learning approach to teaching has inspired the design of next generation learning spaces (Tom, Voss, &amp; Scheetz, 2008) and that changed spaces change practice (Joint Information Systems Committee, 2009) when &#039;confronted&#039; with a next generation learning spaces for the first time, anecdotes suggest that many academics resort to teaching as they have always taught and as they were taught. This chapter highlights factors that influence teaching practices, showing that they are to be found in the external, organisational and personal domains. We argue that in order to fully realise significant improvements in student outcomes through the sector&#039;s investment in next generation learning spaces, universities need to provide holistic and systematic support across three domains - the external, the organisational and the personal domains, by changing policies, systems, procedures and localised practices to better facilitate changes in teaching practices that maximise the potential of next generation learning spaces

Play on the proper names of individuals in the Catullan corpus: wordplay, the iambic tradition, and the late Republican culture of public abuse

The paper explores the significance of names and naming in Catullus. Catullus’ use of proper names, and in particular his play on the connotations of the names of individuals who are attacked within his poems, has not been fully explored to date, and the paper identifies several examples of such play which have not previously been recognized. The paper examines Catullan wordplay in the context of both the iambic tradition and the public abuse culture of the late Roman Republic