Connecting with Socially Isolated Seniors: A Service Provider's Guide By Patricia Osage & Mary McCall     

Carolyn A. Peck 《Educational gerontology》2015,41(3):249-250

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A safe place to stay sharp: action learning meets cooperative inquiry in the service of NHS OD capacity building     

James Traeger  Carolyn Norgate 《Action Learning: Research and Practice》2015,12(2):197-207

This is an account of practice. It explores the meeting point between action learning and action research, as a way of doing capacity building in organisational development (OD) in the NHS in the UK. The authors were part of a short cooperative inquiry (Heron, J. 1996. Co-operative Inquiry: Research into the Human Condition. London: Sage). The research found that it was vital in such challenging environments as the current NHS scene to have a ‘safe place to stay sharp.' They outline here what the qualities of such a space might be for themselves, and, following the notion of parallel process (what we experience may be symptomatic of the wider system), for other OD practitioners in the NHS.  相似文献   

Interprofessional Dialogues Within a Senior Mentoring Program: Incorporating Gerontology Students as Facilitation Leaders     

Nancy P. Kropf  Ellen Idler  Jonathan Flacker  Carolyn Clevenger  Elizabeth Rothschild 《Educational gerontology》2015,41(5):373-383

Effective health care with older adults requires that clinicians and practitioners are knowledgeable about aging issues and have the skills to work within an interdisciplinary team context. This article describes a Senior Mentoring Program that paired clinical students in medicine, nursing, and a physician assistant program with community-dwelling seniors for regular interactions. This interprofessional education experience included graduate gerontology students as discussion facilitators. Because including gerontology students as Interprofessional Dialogue Facilitators (IDFs) was an innovative aspect of the program, their participation within interdisciplinary groups was analyzed. IDFs monitored a secure internet site where clinical students discussed their experiences with their mentors. Discussion posts by the IDFs were clustered into three major types: amplifying statements that stimulated and furthered dialogue, augmenting posts that integrated specialized content on aging within the discussions, and analyzing comments that helped students reflect on experiences from different perspectives. The advantages of including aging content experts, such as gerontology students, within aging awareness activities like Seminar Mentoring programs are discussed.  相似文献   

Artefacts at the liquid interface and their impact in miniaturized biochemical assay     

Brett Litten  Carolyn Blackett  Mark Wigglesworth  Nicholas Goddard  Peter Fielden 《Biomicrofluidics》2015,9(5)

Droplet microfluidic technology has the potential to significantly reduce reagent use, and therefore, lower costs of assays employed in drug discovery campaigns. In addition to the reduction in costs, this technology can also reduce evaporation and contamination which are often problems seen in miniaturized microtitre plate formats. Despite these advantages, we currently advise caution in the use of these microfluidic approaches as there remains a lack of understanding of the artefacts of the systems such as reagent partitioning from droplet to carrier oil and interaction of the biological reagents with the water-oil interface. Both types of artefact can lead to inaccurate and misleading data. In this paper, we present a study of the partitioning of a number of drug-like molecules in a range of oils and evidence of protein binding at the water-oil interface which results in reduced activity of a cytochrome P450 enzyme. Data presented show that the drug-like molecules partitioned the least into fluorocarbon oils and the interaction of the 1A2 cytochrome at the water-oil interface resulted in a lower or complete absence of enzyme activity. This loss of activity of cytochrome 1A2 could be restored by the use of secondary blocking proteins although changes in the pharmacology of known 1A2 inhibitors were observed. The artefacts described here due to reagents partitioning into the carrier oil or protein binding at the water-oil interface significantly impact the potential use of these microfluidic systems as a means to carry out miniaturized biological assays, and further work is needed to understand the impact and reduction of these phenomena.  相似文献   

National qualifications in Scotland: A lightning rod for public concern about equity during the pandemic     

Louise Hayward  Jo-Anne Baird  Simon Allan  Thomas Godfrey-Faussett  Carolyn Hutchinson  Ellen MacIntosh  Ashmita Randhawa  Ernest Spencer  Margaret Lesley Wiseman-Orr 《European Journal of Education》2023,58(1):83-97

Scotland, traditionally, has high levels of confidence in teachers. Fairness and justice are key concepts in policy and practice in Scottish education. For more than 100 years, the high-stakes assessment system in Scotland, with the Scottish Higher qualification at its heart, has been crucial to that sense of opportunity and justice. However, in 2019–2020, public confidence in high-stakes assessment in Scotland, as in other United Kingdom countries, was dented. In Scotland, the Covid-19 pandemic meant that schools were closed, teachers provided online learning opportunities for pupils working at home and, for the first time in 130 years, it was not possible to run national examinations. To ensure that learners were not further disadvantaged, alternative approaches to gathering evidence for qualifications were instigated. However, these results were challenged as socially unjust and the results that had been nationally moderated were replaced by results based on locally moderated teachers' professional judgement. As Scotland looks to qualifications beyond Covid-19, trust must be re-built. This article reports on a participative research project that sought to understand public perceptions of standards and fairness across a range of key communities following this experience. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data, we analyse factors which affected trust in National Qualifications under the pandemic. The evidence suggests that when considering what matters for qualifications to be trusted, technocratic solutions are likely to be rejected by stakeholders. Understanding and responding to what led to the mistrust of qualifications in Scotland will be crucial to inform its future qualifications system.  相似文献   

Expanding horizons for GIS services in academic libraries     

Carolyn D. Argentati 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》1997,23(6):463-468

During the past five years, libraries engaged in GIS services have encountered challenges and opportunities related to partnerships, staffing and management, user education, and data access.Many avenues exists for expanding both the scope and depth of these services to meet the user community's needs.  相似文献   

Warm,sunny days     

Carolyn Buhai Haas 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1983,10(3):40-42

Each change in the seasons brings a certain sense of excitement. Perhaps, after a long, cold winter, the most pleasant change of all is when the signs of Spring begin to appear: warm, windy weather; tiny shoots of green peeking through the melting snow; budding trees and bushes; the first robin; rainstorms and puddles; and a chance to go outside to fly a kite or throw a paper glider into the air.... Then, finally,warm, sunny days to let us know that Spring is really here!  相似文献   

Statistics in High School Science     

Carolyn Maher  John Pancari 《Teaching Statistics》1990,12(2):34-36

Exploratory date analysis provides powerful numerical and graphical tools with which to summarise and interpret data. In this article the authors describe their work with students who were given the opportunity to engage in the solution of a real problem in the physics laboratory which requried statistical techniques.  相似文献   

SCOPE: The Scottish Collaborative On–demand Publishing Enterprise     

Carolyn Rowlinson 《Learned Publishing》1995,8(3):145-149

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By guide to UNESCO: By Peter I. Hajnal Dobbs Ferry,NY: Oceana Publications,Inc., 1983. 578 pages, $45.00. ISBN 0-379-20663-3. LC 82-22594     

Carolyn W. Kohler 《Government Information Quarterly》1984,1(1):96-97

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