3,033 research outputs found
Safe Spaces UK Says No More: Safe Spaces Initial Impact Report
This is an initial impact report on the Safe Spaces Survey, conducted by UK Says No Mor
HIDVA Final Report
The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the impact of hospital-based IDVAs in Surrey with reference to five Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
1. Trust staff are confident in identifying and safely enquiring with patients about DA and know how to seek support within the Trust with DA-related matters.
2. DA survivors supported by the IDVAs have access to the right information, services, and support, at the right time, in the right place, at the earliest opportunity, through clearly defined referral pathways.
3. IDVAs enhance the Trusts’ Safeguarding response to DA.
4. DA survivors feel enabled to access IDVA and outreach support services. DA survivors are viewed as experts by experience and their feedback on the IDVA service informs the delivery of IDVA services.
5. IDVA data collection in the Trusts provides the Trusts and Commissioners with a better understanding of the level of DA need in Surrey
Engineering - young people want to be informed
Young people in developed nations recognise the contribution that science and technology make to society and acknowledge their importance now and in the future, yet few view their study as leading to interesting careers. Some countries are taking action to raise interest in science, technologies, engineering and mathematics and increase the number of students studying these subjects. One of the barriers to young people pursuing engineering is their limited or distorted perception of it - they associate it only with building and fixing things. Young people rarely encounter engineers, unlike other professionals, engineering has little or no advocacy in the media and there are few opportunities to experience engineering. Many of the pupils surveyed at the start of Engineering the Future, a three year EPSRC-funded project, wrote “don’t know what engineering is” and/or “would like more information”. This paper reports on work with researchers, policy makers and practitioners in Scotland to develop a sustainable model of activities and interactions that develops pupils’ understanding of the nature of engineering, embeds experiences of engineering within the school classroom and curriculum and promotes engineering as a career. After learning about engineering through the activities the pupils’ perceptions had improved. Almost all considered it important that young people know about engineering, because it is an essential part of everyday life and, in the words of one pupil - “If we know more about it, our minds wouldn’t stay closed to it. We would maybe take it up.
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'Oh no, no, no, we haven't got time to be doing that': Challenges encountered introducing a breast-feeding support intervention on a postnatal ward
Objective: to identify elements in the environment of a postnatal ward which impacted on the introduction of a breast-feeding support intervention. Design: a concurrent, realist evaluation including practice observations and semi-structured interviews. Setting: a typical British maternity ward. Participants: five midwives and two maternity support workers were observed. Seven midwives and three maternity support workers were interviewed. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Ethical approval was granted by the relevant authorities. Findings: a high level of non-compliance with the intervention was driven by a lack of time and staff, and the ward staffs' lack of control of the organisation of their time and space. This was compounded by a propensity towards task orientation, workload reduction and resistance to change - all of which supported the existing medical approach to care. Limited support for the intervention was underpinned by staff willingness to reconsider their views and a widespread frustration with current ways of working. Key conclusions: this small, local study suggests that the environment and working conditions on a typical British postnatal ward present significant barriers to the introduction of breast-feeding support interventions requiring a relational approach to care. Implications for practice: midwives and maternity support workers need to be able to control their time and space, and feel able to provide the relational care they perceive that women need, before breast-feeding support interventions can be successfully implemented in practice. Frustration with current ways of working, and a willingness to consider other approaches, could be harnessed to initiate change that would benefit health professionals and the women and families in their care. However, without appropriate leadership or facilitation for change, this could alternatively encourage learned helplessness and passive resistance
Evaluation of the Kent Serious Youth Violence Project
This report summarises the findings in relation to the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness over a period of two years and began in September 2020
Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify Perpetrators of Technology Facilitated Coercive Control.
This study investigated the feasibility of using Artificial Intelligence to identify perpetrators of coercive control through digital data held on mobile phones. The research also sought the views of the police and victim/survivors of domestic abuse to using technology in this way
Snowmass 2001: Jet Energy Flow Project
Conventional cone jet algorithms arose from heuristic considerations of LO
hard scattering coupled to independent showering. These algorithms implicitly
assume that the final states of individual events can be mapped onto a unique
set of jets that are in turn associated with a unique set of underlying hard
scattering partons. Thus each final state hadron is assigned to a unique
underlying parton. The Jet Energy Flow (JEF) analysis described here does not
make such assumptions. The final states of individual events are instead
described in terms of flow distributions of hadronic energy. Quantities of
physical interest are constructed from the energy flow distribution summed over
all events. The resulting analysis is less sensitive to higher order
perturbative corrections and the impact of showering and hadronization than the
standard cone algorithms.Comment: REVTeX4, 13 pages, 6 figures; Contribution to the P5 Working Group on
QCD and Strong Interactions at Snowmass 200
Co- Creating a Blended learning Curriculum in Transition to Higher Education: A Student Viewpoint.
Involving students in the design and development of their curriculum is well established in Higher
Education but comes with challenges and concerns for both the staff and students. This is not a
simple concept and understanding more about the experiences of the student co-creators supports
others in developing this aspect of curriculum design. This small scale project uses the individual
and collective voices of five second year students who worked with one programme team to
co-create a transition module to support new learners entering university. The study explores the
co-creation experience and the student’s response to the feedback their co-created curriculum
received when it was run for the first time. The study was designed to consider if co-creation of a
module was beneficial to the students involved in its co-creation. The findings explored issues in
relation to the experience, the actual design of the materials and how this could be developed. The
students enjoyed the co-creation, felt appreciated and listened to and felt that this was a positive
learning experience. They realised how difficult it is to please everybody and gained a much better
appreciation of building learning experiences for others to use. The research highlights the fact
that with regards to curriculum development within universities that students should be involved
in co-creation as they have an understanding of the requirements of learning form a student perspective.
Whilst student satisfaction cannot be necessarily be measured directly, the anecdotal
comments from students involved in this project as they graduate are the values they place on the
opportunities afforded to them
Cell-Type-Specific Recruitment of Amygdala Interneurons to Hippocampal Theta Rhythm and Noxious Stimuli In Vivo
Neuronal synchrony in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) is critical for emotional behavior. Coordinated theta-frequency oscillations between the BLA and the hippocampus and precisely timed integration of salient sensory stimuli in the BLA are involved in fear conditioning. We characterized GABAergic interneuron types of the BLA and determined their contribution to shaping these network activities. Using in vivo recordings in rats combined with the anatomical identification of neurons, we found that the firing of BLA interneurons associated with network activities was cell type specific. The firing of calbindin-positive interneurons targeting dendrites was precisely theta-modulated, but other cell types were heterogeneously modulated, including parvalbumin-positive basket cells. Salient sensory stimuli selectively triggered axo-axonic cells firing and inhibited firing of a disctinct projecting interneuron type. Thus, GABA is released onto BLA principal neurons in a time-, domain-, and sensory-specific manner. These specific synaptic actions likely cooperate to promote amygdalo-hippocampal synchrony involved in emotional memory formation
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