VIDEO PROMPTS FOR SELF-REGULATED LEARNING: METACOGNITION AND REFLECTION ACTIVITY

This study explored video metacognitive prompts as a method of engaging students in self-regulated learning. The study was completed in the naturalistic setting of fully online learning. Such learning environments imply a distance between faculty and students that makes student self-direction vital to success. However students are only infrequently practicing self-regulated learning skills

Current Eschatology: Militarism Superimposed Upon Daniel?

The objective of this study is to look at current eschatological literature in an attempt to determine if it reads militarism back into the book of Daniel. Current is defined to mean books dating from 1960 to the present, 1983. Eschatological is interpreted to mean the doctrine of Christ\u27s second coming. It does not, for the purposes of this project, include the doctrines of death, resurrection or immortality. Militarism is defined as predominance of the military class or prevalence of their ideals; the spirit which exalts military virtues or ideals: the policy of aggressive military preparedness. Both the ideals and spirit of militarism appear to be summarized in the last statement, the policy of aggressive military preparedness. Thus the criterion for militarism will be any mention of aggressiveness (disposed to attack or encroach; self-assertive; pushing; enterprising) or military accountrements (soldiers, weapons, armies or war activities)

The role of industrial innovation in growth and convergence across the United States states

This dissertation is concerned with testing economic growth theory using data from US States. Work on endogenous growth has recently been extended to determine the rate of technological change across economies where the incentive to innovate is linked to economic rewards. These models of endogenous innovation are on the cutting edge of theoretical advances in economic growth. I extend the endogenous innovation literature to study the consequences of knowledge spillovers and the different industrial concentrations that clearly exist across states. This extension of the theory suggests it is reasonable to expect rates of innovation to differ across states if knowledge spillovers across economies are not significant, even though states are similar in most respects. Two important empirical anomalies existing in the area of economic growth are addressed. First, the most basic model of economic growth suggests that convergence in labor productivity should occur at a rate higher than the rate actually observed. This could be due to an omitted variable in the empirical specification, or it could be due to theoretical problems with neoclassical production theory raised a number of decades ago during the Cambridge Capital Controversies. A re-estimation of the rate of convergence after accounting for potential differences in rates of technological advance across states is provided. Using data for the period 1972 to 1996 it is found that differing rates of technological advance are important in explaining inter state differences in productivity growth. The exclusion of such a measure biases the estimate of convergence in the expected direction, but it cannot account for the slow speed of convergence. A prediction of scale effects in innovation as suggested by the endogenous innovation approach is tested. While evidence of absolute scale effects are not found, evidence that the density of economic activity is important for determining the rate of innovation is strongly supported. This finding suggests that scale effects in innovation have an important spatial component and are likely to be related to what are known as agglomeration effects in the urban and regional economics literature. A synthesis of these approaches provides an important direction for future research

Social tourism and well-being in later life

Social tourism research has tended to concentrate on its benefits for young families and people with disabilities; few studies have explored its wellbeing value for economically disadvantaged older people. Based on participant-driven interviews during a UK social tourism trip, this paper informs understandings of social tourism as a set of experiences and illuminates the links between wellbeing and social tourism opportunities for older people. It reveals that social tourism presents older individuals with occasions for escape, respite, companionship, and reminiscence and for renegotiation of self-identity following spousal bereavement, but that these trips can be anxiously anticipated. The study suggests a research agenda is needed which explores the physiological, psychological, social and spiritual impacts of social tourism on older people’s wellbeing

Interspecific hybridization within Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae): Subgenus Symphyomyrtus, sections Bisectae and Adnataria

Copyright © 2001 The University of Chicago PressThe potential for interspecific hybridization within the genus Eucalyptus was investigated through controlled pollination and measurement of seedling leaf morphology. Eucalyptus gillii and E. socialis (subgen. Symphyomyrtus sect. Bisectae ser. Subulatae) were used as the female parents, and pollen was sourced from 16 Eucalyptus species from a number of series within sections Bisectae and Adnataria (subgen. Symphyomyrtus). Thirty-four out of 36 crosses produced seeds; however, the percentage of seeds produced per flower pollinated varied considerably between crosses, as did germination percentage and seedling survival. At 3 mo of age, all surviving seedlings were measured for 15 leaf and stem characters. Multivariate analysis (ordination) of the data from each cross placed the seedlings in relation to their parents, with most crosses intermediate, albeit closer to the maternal parent. Successful hybridization occurred within sect. Bisectae ser. Subulatae and between ser. Subulatae and sect. Bisectae ser. Kruseanae, ser. Levispermae, ser. Curviptera, ser. Erectae and sect. Adnataria ser. Heterophloiae. In contrast, crosses between sect. Bisectae ser. Subulatae and sect. Adnataria ser. Aquilonares and ser. Melliodorae did not produce hybrids. Crosses between closely related species showed a greater degree of success than those between distant crosses, as did those between species with similar flower size.K. L. Delaporte; J. G. Conran; M. Sedgle

Understanding older women\u27s leisure: The value of biographical research methods

The phenomenal growth in the number of older people in the western world is well documented, with the fastest growing group being those aged over 80 years, the majority of whom are women. Despite this demographic transformation, little research has sought to understand the meaning of tourism and leisure both for older people in general and specifically for women in the \u27oldest old\u27 phase. The research that does exist is typically quantitative and provides an essentialist view of leisure in old age, often failing to recognise the diversity of older people\u27s experiences. In contrast, this paper aims to provide a more fine-grained discussion of older people\u27s leisure. Drawn from the first author\u27s doctoral study, it reports and considers a biographical interview with a seventy-nine year old woman in order to provide insight into how a person\u27s history and the cultural, social and historical contexts of their life can determine their life choices. We conclude that it is not possible to study older people\u27s leisure behaviour through \u27snapshot\u27 research (which isolates one moment in time); instead if we are to more fully understand how their leisure and tourism experiences are constructed, we must try to engage with the context from which those experiences emerged

Oral gram-negative rods and yeasts in hospitalized patients

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Social tourism & older people: the IMSERSO initiative

Extant demand-perspective social tourism studies have generally focused on children, families and the disabled whilst older people remain an under-researched group in relation to the personal and social benefits of social tourism initiatives. This study discusses the lack of research on social tourism and older people and takes a demand-side perspective to examine one of the world’s most developed and large-scale social tourism schemes for older people, the Spanish Government’s IMSERSO programme. A qualitative approach explores the nature of older people’s engagement with the scheme and its impact on their wellbeing, through individual in-depth interviews with twenty-seven IMSERSO participants in Benidorm, Spain – a popular IMSERSO destination. The thematic analysis is structured around five themes: social connectivity, the impact of caring responsibilities, a new beginning, escape and practical support. The findings for these IMSERSO participants suggest that, as factors such as caring obligations and hardship experienced in early life are reduced in later life, they have the capacity for increased holiday-taking and social activity and consequently for participation in the IMSERSO scheme. The scheme is found to have a positive impact on their wellbeing by providing opportunities for meeting and interacting with new people, acting as a distraction from ill-health and thus reducing stress, depression and anxiety. However, the article raises questions over the ability of those without strong social networks, including no partner, and those with ongoing caring responsibilities (those who, it could be argued, are most in need of a holiday) to participate in the scheme