Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in young people : the challenge for policy makers

This paper considers some of the policy issues associated with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) in young people. After briefly defining SEBD the paper goes on to consider some of the ways in which SEBD impinges on different areas of social policy. Emphasis is placed on the need for coherence between different policy areas. Particular attention is given to the area of education and the need for more sophisticated conceptions of the meaning of inclusive education.peer-reviewe

Implications of the marketization of higher education for social emotional development in schools : a personal view

Implications of the Marketization of Higher Education for Social Emotional Development in Schools: A Personal Viewpeer-reviewe

Social, emotional and behaviour difficulties in Maltese schools

This paper reports the first national study of social, emotional and behaviour difficulties (SEBD) in Maltese schools. The study secured a sample of ten percent of the school population in state and non-state primary and secondary schools in Malta and Gozo, with 7000 students and their respective class teachers and parents selected to participate in the study. The study sought to explore the nature and distribution of SEBD in Maltese schools; to examine the relationships between SEBD and socio-cultural factors as reflected in the school, family and community contexts, and identify the risk and protective factors for SEBD. This paper presents the key findings of the study, and makes various recommendations in the prevention and management of SEBD and the promotion of socioemotional literacy in schools. A key message is the complexity and multi-factorial nature of this phenomenon, and the need for multilevel, multisystemic interventions.peer-reviewe

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IMAT graphics manual

The Integrated Multidisciplinary Analysis Tool (IMAT) consists of a menu driven executive system coupled with a relational database which links commercial structures, structural dynamics and control codes. The IMAT graphics system, a key element of the software, provides a common interface for storing, retrieving, and displaying graphical information. The IMAT Graphics Manual shows users of commercial analysis codes (MATRIXx, MSC/NASTRAN and I-DEAS) how to use the IMAT graphics system to obtain high quality graphical output using familiar plotting procedures. The manual explains the key features of the IMAT graphics system, illustrates their use with simple step-by-step examples, and provides a reference for users who wish to take advantage of the flexibility of the software to customize their own applications

Micro-teaching: Concepts of Law: The Concept of Consideration in Contract Formation in Common Law Contracts

This paper shares the experience of using an illustrative approach to teaching the concept of consideration in the formation of Common Law contracts. The focus is on teaching and learning rather than attempting to provide a legal treatise. Consideration is a particularly abstract concept of the Common Law legal system and one which is foreign to the thinking of people from a Civil Law jurisdiction. In the author’s experience, students have traditionally had difficulty absorbing, and more particularly, articulating the concept. Yet, without consideration, there can be no enforceable contract. Hence understanding the concept is fundamental to all business (and other) contractual transactions. The paper looks at statements of law from a number of sources and then outlines an illustrative whiteboard approach in the classroom to approaching the concept. Finally, the author looks at before and after samples of actual student responses to an assignment task requiring articulation of the concept

A co-evolutionary arms race: trypanosomes shaping the human genome, humans shaping the trypanosome genome

<i>Trypanosoma brucei</i> is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness in humans and one of several pathogens that cause the related veterinary disease Nagana. A complex co-evolution has occurred between these parasites and primates that led to the emergence of trypanosome-specific defences and counter-measures. The first line of defence in humans and several other <i>catarrhine</i> primates is the trypanolytic protein apolipoprotein-L1 (APOL1) found within two serum protein complexes, trypanosome lytic factor 1 and 2 (TLF-1 and TLF-2). Two sub-species of <i>T. Brucei</i> have evolved specific mechanisms to overcome this innate resistance, <i>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</i> and <i>Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense</i>. In <i>T. b. Rhodesiense</i>, the presence of the serum resistance associated (SRA) gene, a truncated variable surface glycoprotein (VSG), is sufficient to confer resistance to lysis. The resistance mechanism of <i>T. b. Gambiense</i> is more complex, involving multiple components: reduction in binding affinity of a receptor for TLF, increased cysteine protease activity and the presence of the truncated VSG, <i>T. b. Gambiense</i>-specific glycoprotein <i>(TgsGP)</i>. In a striking example of co-evolution, evidence is emerging that primates are responding to challenge by <i>T. b. Gambiense</i> and <i>T. b. Rhodesiense</i>, with several populations of humans and primates displaying resistance to infection by these two sub-species

A Regular Demand System with Commodity-Specific Demographic Effects

Regular consumer demand systems almost invariably employ specifications that involve common functional forms in all equations. When applications involve crosssectional data it is often the case that demographic effects are important. However it is plausible that demographic effects are commodity-specific. In this case, there may be a loss of efficiency if a common functional form across commodities is imposed artificially by entering redundant explanators in demand equations for which specific demographic influences are unwarranted. This paper explores an approach to specifying a complete system of demand equations which is fully regular but which nevertheless allows for commodity-specific variation in the functional form of the demand equations.Consumer Economics: Theory, Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis, Demographic Economics