Nursing students’ motivation regulation strategies in blended learning: A qualitative study

Although there is a strong body of evidence showing that motivational factors are critical components of self‐regulated professional learning and commitment to work, little is known about nursing students' motivation regulation during their studies. The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of nursing students' motivation regulation (MR) strategies and factors contributing to their reported use along their 3‐year study path in a blended learning environment. A purposeful sampling was used to select 12 undergraduate nursing students, who exhibited different MR profiles and had completed almost 3 years of study in a BL degree program. A qualitative, deductive, content analysis was used to depict students' experiences from their retrospective recollection in the interview situation. Seven motivation strategies were identified: environmental structuring, self‐consequating, goal‐oriented self‐talk, efficacy management, emotion regulation, regulation of value, and interest enhancement. Individual and situational factors were found to enhance and to sustain the use of appropriate MR strategies. The students exhibited versatility in their use of MR strategies, which were related to the study phase. These findings regarding nursing students' MR strategies should be considered in the development of nursing education programs and the implementation of improvements that contribute to professional and self‐regulated learning in BL programs.Peer reviewe

Lapsen ”liikkumavara" varhaiskasvatuksen eetosten ristivedossa

This study restructures the Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) and preschool practice by discussing three different compositions of data. We were interested in the question of what kind of space is left for children in ECEC. The data were document collections of an individual child; a group of toddlers in a kindergarten; and a development project, which was carried out in ten kindergartens and preschools. Those document collections were in this study exposed through the societal, normative, and individual ethos. The data were analyzed by using qualitative methods. As a conclusion it is suggested that finding a balance between the societal, normative and individual ethos creates an educational area, which is described as children’s latitude in ECEC. Discussing the document collections critically opened questions about the need of developing ECEC and the education of ECEC practitioners.Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan suomalaista varhaiskasvatuksen ja esiopetuksen arkea keskusteluttamalla kolmea osa-aineistoa keskenään ja suhteessa teoriaan. Tarkastelua suuntasi kysymys, millainen liikkumavara lapselle jää varhaiskasvatuksessa. Aineistot olivat yksittäisen lapsen kasvunkansioihin liittyvät haastattelut, pienten lasten ryhmässä koottu dokumentointiaineisto ja kymmenessä päiväkodissa toteutetun kehittämishankkeen dokumentointiaineisto. Aineisto analysoitiin laadullisilla menetelmillä aineistolähtöisesti. Keskeiseksi vaiheeksi nousi aineiston tarkastelu yhteisöllisen, normittavan ja yksilöllisen eetoksen valossa. Johtopäätöksenä esitetään, että kolmen eetoksen tasapainoinen esiintyminen varhaiskasvatuksessa tukee lapsen liikkumavaraksi luonnehdittua aluetta varhaiskasvatuksen arjessa. Aineiston kriittinen tarkastelu avaa näkökulmia varhaiskasvatuksen uudistamiseen ja alan koulutuksen kehittämiseen

Smart Campus - Digitalisaatio ja kehittyvät teknologiat työssä ja oppimisessa

Institutions of vocational education and universities of applied sciences (UASs) aim to strengthen the development of work- and industry-oriented education by renewing equipment and applications for learning environments and adding modern technologies to teaching endeavours. Investments alone are not enough. In fact, an updated understanding of learning and pedagogical methods is required. Educational provisions should inspire and support individual learning opportunities during both studies and careers. Work-integrated pedagogy offers to inform and improve models in which universities and working-life partners create learning environments together to combine theory and practice. In this article, we examine the relevance and connection of working life with higher education from the perspectives of teachers, students, and working-life partners in new high-tech learning environments, which have been scarcely studied. The research data were collected in 2021 and 2022 from three group interviews. Moreover, the research takes place in the multidisciplinary setting of the cyber-physical and hybrid learning environments at Oulu University of Applied Sciences.  Through a theory-based content analysis, we map ways to strengthen the working life relevance of higher education, competence needs driven by digitalisation, and the development of generic skills during studies at UAS. As a result, we describe four key development perspectives: 1) digitalisation and developing technologies in learning; 2) curricula; 3) identified generic competences; and 4) competence development. Our results supplement previous research on continuous learning and digital learning environments and guide the planning of future education offerings.Ammatilliset oppilaitokset ja ammattikorkeakoulut vahvistavat työ- ja elinkeinoelämälähtöistä koulutuksen kehittämistä uusimalla opetuksessa käytettäviä laitteita ja sovelluksia sekä lisäämällä modernia teknologiaa opetukseen. Investoinnit eivät yksin riitä, vaan tarvitaan myös uusiin oppimisympäristöihin soveltuvaa käsitystä oppimisesta ja pedagogisista menetelmistä, jotta opinto- ja työuran aikainen koulutus innostaa osallistumaan ja tukee laadukasta oppimista. Työelämäpedagogiikalla tavoitellaan toimintamalleja, joissa korkeakoulut ja työelämä luovat yhdessä teoriaa ja käytäntöä yhdistäviä oppimisympäristöjä. Tarkastelemme artikkelissa korkeakoulutuksen työelämärelevanssia ja työelämäyhteyttä opettajien, opiskelijoiden ja työelämäkumppanien näkökulmista uusissa korkean teknologian oppimisympäristöissä, joita on tutkittu vasta vähän.  Tutkimusaineisto kerättiin vuosina 2021 ja 2022 kolmessa ryhmähaastattelussa. Tutkimus sijoittuu Oulun ammattikorkeakoulun kyberfyysisten, hybridimallisten oppimisympäristöjen monialaiseen kokonaisuuteen. Teoriasidonnaisen sisällönanalyysin avulla kartoitamme digitalisaation esiintuomia osaamistarpeita ja tapoja vahvistaa korkeakoulutuksen työelämärelevanssia ja työelämätaitojen kehittämistä ammattikorkeakoulutuksen aikana.  Tuloksena kuvaamme neljä keskeistä kehitysnäkökulmaa: 1) digitalisaatio ja kehittyvät teknologiat oppimisessa 2) opetussuunnitelmat 3) tunnistetut työelämätaidot ja 4) osaamisen kehittäminen. Tuloksemme täydentävät aiempaa tutkimusta jatkuvasta oppimisesta ja digitaalisista oppimisympäristöistä sekä ohjaavat suunnittelemaan tulevaisuuden koulutustarjontaa

Search for Microscopic Black Hole Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider

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Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Impacts of the Tropical Pacific/Indian Oceans on the Seasonal Cycle of the West African Monsoon

The current consensus is that drought has developed in the Sahel during the second half of the twentieth century as a result of remote effects of oceanic anomalies amplified by local land–atmosphere interactions. This paper focuses on the impacts of oceanic anomalies upon West African climate and specifically aims to identify those from SST anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Oceans during spring and summer seasons, when they were significant. Idealized sensitivity experiments are performed with four atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs). The prescribed SST patterns used in the AGCMs are based on the leading mode of covariability between SST anomalies over the Pacific/Indian Oceans and summer rainfall over West Africa. The results show that such oceanic anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Ocean lead to a northward shift of an anomalous dry belt from the Gulf of Guinea to the Sahel as the season advances. In the Sahel, the magnitude of rainfall anomalies is comparable to that obtained by other authors using SST anomalies confined to the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean. The mechanism connecting the Pacific/Indian SST anomalies with West African rainfall has a strong seasonal cycle. In spring (May and June), anomalous subsidence develops over both the Maritime Continent and the equatorial Atlantic in response to the enhanced equatorial heating. Precipitation increases over continental West Africa in association with stronger zonal convergence of moisture. In addition, precipitation decreases over the Gulf of Guinea. During the monsoon peak (July and August), the SST anomalies move westward over the equatorial Pacific and the two regions where subsidence occurred earlier in the seasons merge over West Africa. The monsoon weakens and rainfall decreases over the Sahel, especially in August.Peer reviewe

Severe early onset preeclampsia: short and long term clinical, psychosocial and biochemical aspects

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific disorder commonly defined as de novo hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks gestational age. It occurs in approximately 3-5% of pregnancies and it is still a major cause of both foetal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide1. As extensive research has not yet elucidated the aetiology of preeclampsia, there are no rational preventive or therapeutic interventions available. The only rational treatment is delivery, which benefits the mother but is not in the interest of the foetus, if remote from term. Early onset preeclampsia (<32 weeks’ gestational age) occurs in less than 1% of pregnancies. It is, however often associated with maternal morbidity as the risk of progression to severe maternal disease is inversely related with gestational age at onset2. Resulting prematurity is therefore the main cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in patients with severe preeclampsia3. Although the discussion is ongoing, perinatal survival is suggested to be increased in patients with preterm preeclampsia by expectant, non-interventional management. This temporising treatment option to lengthen pregnancy includes the use of antihypertensive medication to control hypertension, magnesium sulphate to prevent eclampsia and corticosteroids to enhance foetal lung maturity4. With optimal maternal haemodynamic status and reassuring foetal condition this results on average in an extension of 2 weeks. Prolongation of these pregnancies is a great challenge for clinicians to balance between potential maternal risks on one the eve hand and possible foetal benefits on the other. Clinical controversies regarding prolongation of preterm preeclamptic pregnancies still exist – also taking into account that preeclampsia is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the Netherlands5 - a debate which is even more pronounced in very preterm pregnancies with questionable foetal viability6-9. Do maternal risks of prolongation of these very early pregnancies outweigh the chances of neonatal survival? Counselling of women with very early onset preeclampsia not only comprises of knowledge of the outcome of those particular pregnancies, but also knowledge of outcomes of future pregnancies of these women is of major clinical importance. This thesis opens with a review of the literature on identifiable risk factors of preeclampsia