The prevalence and correlates of cyberbullying in adolescence: Results of a five-year cohort study

POSTER 1: The Prevalence and Correlates of Cyberbullying in Adolescence: Results of a Five-Year Cohort Study. Recent media coverage has highlighted th growing prevalence of cyberbullying, however to date this new form of aggressive hebaviour has received relatively little research attention compared to other aspects of bullying behaviour. In this study, 14,281 pupils were surveyed annually over a five year period (approx. 3,000 per year) using an adapted version of the Olweus Bullying Questionaire. The results shoed that over the five-year period, the prevalence of cyberbullying increased from 14.5% to 20.6% particularly among girls. Analysis also found cyberbullying to be the secon most frequently reported type of bullying, following direct-verbal forms of bullying, such as name-calling. Suggestions as to how cyberbullying can be tackled in line with current anti-bullying strategies as well as future directions for research are discussed --- POSTER 2: Text-Messaging as a Form of Bullying: an Analysis of Content: Cybebullying has ben defined as bullying which occirs through communication and media devices such as the mobile (cell) phone. To date, the majority of research on cyberbullying has focused on identifying the prevalence of this behaviour and any age and gender differences that may exist. As part of a larger survey, the aims of this study was to exmaine the nature of text messages reportedely received by 465 victims of cyberbullying --- Note: Both posters are included in the one PDF file. For clarity, the authors recommend printing onto larger paper (recommended A3 size

CHIP: Community Historical Interest Projects

This practitioner perspective presents a process in which state-wide initiatives can be used as tools for creating place-based, project-based collaborations between students and local organizations within the community. Vermont is focusing on Content Proficiencies, Transferable Skills, Flexible Pathways and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. CHIP is an effort to combine these initiatives and offer students meaningful school work that provides a real service for, and connects students with, the local community

Vortex Production at Phase Transitions in Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Media

We examine string (vortex) formation at a quench for a weakly-coupled global U(1) theory when the excitation spectrum is non-relativistic. It is so similar to vortex production in the corresponding relativistic plasma as to reinforce arguments for the similarity of vorheptex production in the early universe and in low-temperature many-body physics.Comment: 23 pages, replaced version - tex problems correcte

Path Integrals for (Complex) Classical and Quantum Mechanics

An analysis of classical mechanics in a complex extension of phase space shows that a particle in such a space can behave in a way redolant of quantum mechanics; additional degrees of freedom permit 'tunnelling' without recourse to instantons and lead to time/energy uncertainty. In practice, 'classical' particle trajectories with additional degrees of freedom have arisen in several different formulations of quantum mechanics. In this talk we compare the extended phase space of the closed time-path formalism with that of complex classical mechanics, to suggest that $\hbar$ has a role in our understanding of the latter. However, differences in the way that trajectories are used make a deeper comparison problematical. We conclude with some thoughts on quantisation as dimensional reduction.Comment: 13 pages: Published in the Proceedings of AAMP 7, (Prague) 2011. This file differs from the published version by the inclusion of extra references, with minor changes of text (which leave conclusions unaltered