What influences students in their development of socio-emotional intelligence whilst at university?

This qualitative study undertaken at a University in England investigates what influences the development of undergraduate students’ socio-emotional intelligence (SEI). Through a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with students and lecturers, the study highlights various approaches that the learning environment, both physical and cultural influenced their development of SEI. Learning in small groups where students felt safe and supported impacted on their sense of self, and helped develop their confidence. Reflecting on their own experience without constraints or assessed outcomes was also beneficial to these students. The lecturer’s knowledge and expertise, and how they modelled SEI were seen as imperative and meaningful to the development of students’ SEI. This paper concludes that students must be supported to develop holistically, integrating cognition and emotion, making practical suggestions as to how this may be achieved. Given the paucity of research in this area, opportunities for further research are highlighte

Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3�6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean BMI segregated by place of residence (a rural or urban area) from 1985 to 2017. We show that, contrary to the dominant paradigm, more than 55 of the global rise in mean BMI from 1985 to 2017�and more than 80 in some low- and middle-income regions�was due to increases in BMI in rural areas. This large contribution stems from the fact that, with the exception of women in sub-Saharan Africa, BMI is increasing at the same rate or faster in rural areas than in cities in low- and middle-income regions. These trends have in turn resulted in a closing�and in some countries reversal�of the gap in BMI between urban and rural areas in low- and middle-income countries, especially for women. In high-income and industrialized countries, we noted a persistently higher rural BMI, especially for women. There is an urgent need for an integrated approach to rural nutrition that enhances financial and physical access to healthy foods, to avoid replacing the rural undernutrition disadvantage in poor countries with a more general malnutrition disadvantage that entails excessive consumption of low-quality calories. © 2019, The Author(s)

Níveis de metionina + cistina para pintos de corte mantidos em ambiente termoneutro Levels of methionine + cystine for broiler chicks on thermoneutral environment

O experimento foi realizado para determinação da exigência de metionina + cistina (met + cis) da ração para pintos de corte do 1º ao 21º dia de idade mantidos em ambiente termoneutro. Foram utilizados 400 pintos de corte machos Avian Farms, distribuídos em delineamento inteiramente casualizado, com cinco tratamentos (0,756; 0,810; 0,866; 0,920 e 0,976% de met + cis), oito repetições e dez aves por unidade experimental. O aumento do nível de met + cis influenciou o ganho de peso (GP), a conversão alimentar, o consumo de met + cis, a deposição de proteína, o peso absoluto do fígado, da moela, dos pulmões e o peso relativo dos pulmões. Não foi verificado efeito dos níveis de met + cis sobre o consumo de ração, a deposição de gordura, o peso absoluto da carcaça, do coração, do proventrículo e do intestino, nem sobre o peso relativo do coração, do fígado, da moela, do proventrículo e do intestino. O nível de 0,866% de met + cis total (0,790% de met + cis digestível calculado), correspondente à relação met + cis/lis total de 69% (72% para digestível), proporcionou o melhor GP, enquanto o nível de 0,898% de met + cis total (0,822% digestível calculado), correspondente à relação met + cis/lis total de 72% (74% para digestível), proporcionou melhor valor de conversão alimentar de pintos de corte mantidos em ambiente termoneutro.<br>The experiment was conducted to determine the effect of dietary methionine + cystine (met + cys) requirement of 1-to-21-day-old broiler chicks on thermoneutral environment. Four hundred Avian Farm male broiler chicks were assigned to a randomized experimental design with five treatments (0.756, 0.810, 0.866, 0.920, and 0.976% of met + cys), eight replicates of ten birds. Weight gain (WG), feed:gain ratio, met + cys intake, protein deposition of absolute weights of liver, gizzard, and lung and relative weights of lung were affected by the increasing dietary met + cys levels. No effect of met + cys levels on feed intake, fat deposition, absolute weights of carcass, proventriculus, heart, and intestine or relative weights of heart, liver, gizzard, proventriculus, lung and intestines was verified. The best WG was observed at 0.866% met + total cys (0.790% met + digestible cys calculated) level, corresponding to 69% met + cys/total lys ratio (72% for digestible) and the best feed:gain ratio value was observed at 0.894% met + total cys (0.822% digestible calculated) level, corresponding to 72% met + cys/ digestible lys total ratio (74% met + cys/digestible lys ratio), for broiler chicks on thermoneutral environment