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Making mindful moments : made artefacts as a form of data visualisation to monitor and respond to self-care and wellbeing

- McDonough, Sharon, Lemon, Narelle

Authors: McDonough, Sharon , Lemon, Narelle
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education: Making and Movement as Mindful Moments of Self-care Chapter 7 p. 105-118
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Description: As academics working in higher education, we find that the embodied practice of making returns us from our heads to our hands, and in this chapter, we provide an insight into the ways that knitting is a form of self-care that fosters and supports our wellbeing. We draw on narratives to illuminate how we use knitting as a form of data visualisation that enables us to monitor our working practices and to adapt and respond to our self-care and wellbeing needs. © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Narelle Lemon; individual chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved.

Multi-objective dynamic virtual machine consolidation algorithm for cloud data centers with highly energy proportional servers and heterogeneous workload

- Khan, Md Anit, Paplinski, Andrew, Khan, Abdul, Murshed, Manzur, Buyya, Rajkumar

Authors: Khan, Md Anit , Paplinski, Andrew , Khan, Abdul , Murshed, Manzur , Buyya, Rajkumar
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: New Frontiers in Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Chapter 3 p. 69-106
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Description: Present Dynamic VM Consolidation (DVMC) algorithms assume that optimal energy efficiency can be achieved via maximum load on Physical Machines (PMs). Such assumption has become invalid with the advent of the highly energy proportional PMs. Additionally, these algorithms consider only varying resource demand, ignoring dissimilarity of workload finishing time, aka the VM Release Time (VMRT), whereas both aspects are strongly associated with energy consumption. Consequently, traditional algorithms fail to proffer optimal performance under real Cloud scenarios. Although minimization of VM migration brings massive benefit for Cloud Data Center (CDC), it is complete opposite of what is needed to minimize energy consumption through DVMC. As such, our proposed multi-objective Stochastic Release Time aware DVMC (SRTDVMC) algorithm is unique in addressing concomitant minimization of energy consumption and VM migration in the presence of state-of-the-art PMs and heterogeneous workloads. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Parent-child stress on school mathematics homework in a multicultural society

- Weerasinghe, Daya

Authors: Weerasinghe, Daya
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Research Anthology on Balancing Family-Teacher Partnerships for Student Success Chapter 18 p. 366-386
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Description: The aim of this chapter is to discuss parent-child stress among different cultures in relation to parents' perceptions and their involvement in mathematics homework and children's academic achievement. Several decades of research have demonstrated that parental involvement in children's achievement is associated with a variety of positive and negative academic and motivational outcomes. It is argued that parents' involvement may matter more for some children than for others and parents are active participants rather than passive observers in children's education. This chapter provides insights on how parental involvement in homework can make a difference and why excessive involvement of parents can cause stress for both parents and children. Further, it is discussed how the cultural differences between Asian and European groups appear to narrow down with acculturation over the years. © 2023, IGI Global.

Patterns in the occurrence of fecal bacterial indicators at Public Mineral Springs of Central Victoria, 1986-2013

- Shugg, Andrew

Authors: Shugg, Andrew
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Threats to Springs in a Changing World: Science and Policies for Protection Chapter 14 p. 199-207
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Description: In central Victoria monitoring of the fecal indicators Total Coliform and Escherichia Coliform at around 50 mineral spring sites over a period of more than three decades show distinct patterns in contamination. Criteria for examination include both the count levels and occurrence of positive readings. Initially, the springs were unsanitary dug wells, pits, and shallow 3-7 m deep bores. To overcome the recidivism, a replacement program utilizing 30-150 m deep bores was initiated. All the springs had been sited near evidence of subaqueous discharge or exfiltration of mineralized water in the base of highland valleys. Mineral water evolves and circulates in conductive fissure fault and joint systems in the bedrock. Historically a gold-mining region, nearly all sites owe their discovery to alluvial mining activities. Situated in seasonally active mixing zones at the confluence of flow systems, the vulnerability has been reflected in both the development technique and the bacteriological ambience. Catchment use, forest practices, urbanization, subdivision, and the increasing sewerage backlog in settled areas now contribute to a fecal bacterial load in the catchments of the springs and, in particular, the proximal streams and gullies. Within the data set, distinct seasonal patterns appear in the presence, count, ratio between indicators, and/or the absence of fecal bacteria. Spring contamination and bacterial predominance correlate with seasonal catchment hydrodynamics, in spite of event-related episodes. Deep replacement bores reduce or extinguish the occurrence of scherichia Coliform, while some sites may return positive Total Coliform counts, which suggests the need for disinfection during maintenance procedures. © 2023 American Geophysical Union.

Remote patient monitoring for healthcare : a big challenge for big data

- Stranieri, Andrew, Balasubramanian, Venki

Authors: Stranieri, Andrew , Balasubramanian, Venki
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Research Anthology on Big Data Analytics, Architectures, and Applications Chapter 50 p. 1054-1070
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Description: Remote patient monitoring involves the collection of data from wearable sensors that typically requires analysis in real time. The real-time analysis of data streaming continuously to a server challenges data mining algorithms that have mostly been developed for static data residing in central repositories. Remote patient monitoring also generates huge data sets that present storage and management problems. Although virtual records of every health event throughout an individual’s lifespan known as the electronic health record are rapidly emerging, few electronic records accommodate data from continuous remote patient monitoring. These factors combine to make data analytics with continuous patient data very challenging. In this chapter, benefits for data analytics inherent in the use of standards for clinical concepts for remote patient monitoring is presented. The openEHR standard that describes the way in which concepts are used in clinical practice is well suited to be adopted as the standard required to record meta-data about remote monitoring. The claim is advanced that this is likely to facilitate meaningful real time analyses with big remote patient monitoring data. The point is made by drawing on a case study involving the transmission of patient vital sign data collected from wearable sensors in an Indian hospital. © 2022 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.

Retooling school surveillance research: Foucault and (post)panopticism

- Hope, Andrew

Authors: Hope, Andrew
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Social Theory and Education Research: Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida Chapter 4 p. 65-83
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Description: This chapter explores academic writing on panopticism, whilst also considering issues and challenges faced by researchers wishing to use this concept to make sense of the social impact of surveillance technologies within schools. Initially, Foucault’s discussion of the panopticon in his influential text Discipline and punish (1977) is examined, before some contemporary developments of key (post)panoptic ideas are analysed. These insights are then applied as panoptic themes are developed that could aid researchers focusing upon school observational practices. Some of the practical limitations of the panoptic metaphor are discussed as student resistance to school discipline is pondered. Ultimately, it is argued that while panopticism still holds some value for school surveillance researchers, an awareness of the inherent limitations should also encourage them to retool, as and when appropriate, through occasionally abandoning the concept and drawing on other insights. Staying within Foucault’s writings, ‘technologies of the self’ and biopower are offered as two possible alternatives

Secure IoT data using blockchain

- Dhatrak, Aishwarya, Gong, Mingwei, Naha, Ranesh, Mahanti, Aniket

Authors: Dhatrak, Aishwarya , Gong, Mingwei , Naha, Ranesh , Mahanti, Aniket
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Emerging real world applications of Internet of things Chapter 1 p. 1-20
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Description: Internet of things (IoT) is a network of physical objects with embedded systems that are able to communicate with each other via the Internet. It leads to a distributed network of devices that can communicate with humans and objects. The implementation of IoT will provide benefits, but it also raises security issues that affect data integrity and privacy of the companies. In order to overcome security issues, blockchain technology is used. This chapter is based on up-to-date research on the blockchain as well as IoT with the purpose of studying the blockchain as potential solutions to secure IoT data. Both blockchain and IoT are new research areas into existing research, which support the use of a qualitative research method. The results indicate that blockchain is used to secure data management, but it is not a complete solution. Most of the security issues are related to devices, and blockchain technology handles information and secures identities, stock traceability and transactions, which are made without human interaction and with automated storage management. There are still some barriers to creating benefits work into reality. This chapter is focused on investigating the integration of IoT and blockchain to analyze and improve security issues.

Social media analytics, learning analytics and healthcare industry : risky drinking

- Ahmed, Ashir, Martin, Jennifer, McKay, Elspeth, Towl, David, Haussegger, Zac

Authors: Ahmed, Ashir , Martin, Jennifer , McKay, Elspeth , Towl, David , Haussegger, Zac
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Manage Your Own Learning Analytics : Implement a Rasch Modelling Approach Chapter 5 p. 113-136
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Description: Much is written about social media analytics, learning analytics and health care industry research projects. However, it is rare to find all three domains in the same study, as each discipline is usually kept separate from another. The concern with this isolation approach is the probability of missing essential synergies, leading to a combined effect more significant than the sum of their particular products. Social media analytics may uncover key social media search terms that reflect the language used by groups of people engaging in risky drinking behaviour. At the same time, the view of behaviour through a psychometric testing lens may reveal other things. This chapter describes both social media analytics and learning analytics from the perspective of the health care industry. The chapter explains the intersection of social media analytics and learning analytics; in the first instance, the Rasch measurement model is used to discover the probability of agreement relating to human behaviour issues; a case study amplifies health services provision outcomes. The results from the social media analytics revealed that groups’ risky drinking behaviour data collected by Talkwalker showed linguistic variations with the double meanings of words used, which affected results. The learning analytics of alcohol consumption included a post-hoc comparison using a Bonferroni correction t-test which revealed the mean of never-married people was significantly higher than married people. The significance of these findings demonstrates that data analysis should be open to using a mixture of data analytics tools to reach a finer-grained interpretation to model other complex problems. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Stepping into a shared vulnerability

- McDonough, Sharon, Lemon, Narelle

Authors: McDonough, Sharon , Lemon, Narelle
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Creating a place for self-care and wellbeing in higher education : finding meaning across academia Chapter 14 p. 187-196
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Description: Those working in higher education face challenging and complex work environments, with academic staff subject to multiple accountability demands. In this chapter we engage in dialogic writing to examine ways to create and promote self-care and wellbeing in the space of higher education. We begin with a brief narrative about our own collaborative relationship before exploring strategies and provocations for ways to create authentic spaces for wellbeing. In doing so, we critique the concept of self-care and wellbeing as a performative tool that functions to reinforce individual responsibility and contend that creating space for self-care and wellbeing is a shared, collective and systemic responsibility that invites us to stand in a shared vulnerability.

Tai Chi exercise to improve balance and prevent falls among older people with dementia

- Barrado-Martín, Yolanda, Polman, Remco, Nyman, Samuel

Authors: Barrado-Martín, Yolanda , Polman, Remco , Nyman, Samuel
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Exercise to Prevent and Manage Chronic Disease Across the Lifespan Chapter 27 p. 363-372
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Description: The number of people affected by dementia across the world is estimated to grow over the coming decades. It is a condition that leads to global and nonreversible cognitive impairment. As well as creating dependency in everyday activities, dementia increases the risk of older people experiencing a fall. Falls are globally recognized as a public health problem, given their high prevalence and severe consequences among older people. Several interventions have been developed to prevent falls, with robust evidence to support exercise-based interventions and in particular Tai Chi. Tai Chi exercise is a mind-body exercise that has evidence to support its potential to improve physical, cognitive, and mental health more generally as well as prevent falls. Most exercise trials to date have excluded people with dementia, and so there is little evidence to guide the use of Tai Chi for this patient group. Further, the methodological quality and heterogeneity of approaches used in Tai Chi studies such as the exercise dose, outcomes measured, and how adherence was reported, makes it difficult to make firm conclusions. Emergent evidence suggests Tai Chi is an enjoyable and safe form of exercise for community-dwelling older people with mild to moderate dementia and their informal carers. It has strong potential to improve quality of life and prevent falls among this patient group. The mechanism for its effectiveness is not clear but it is potentially via a positive impact on both cognitive and physical functioning. Clinical practice recommendations for exercise prescribers are provided with an emphasis on how to attract and sustain high levels of adherence. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Talkin’ Bout my generation: The utility of different age cohorts to predict antisocial behaviour on social media

- Branson, Molly, March, Evita, Marrington, Jessica

Authors: Branson, Molly , March, Evita , Marrington, Jessica
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Social media and technology across the lifespan p. 27-42
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Description: Experiencing antisocial online behaviour such as cyberbullying and internet trollingcyberbullying and internet trolling is associated with a range of negative psychological and physical outcomes. To understand why people are motivated to engage in antisocial online behaviour, researchers have explored a variety of individual differences including traitstraits, motivations, and cognitions. In the current study, we adopted developmental frameworks to explore antisocial use of social media across different age cohorts. Participants (N = 665, 51% female) with an average age of 28 years (SD = 8.86) completed an online questionnaire assessing antisocial use of social media. Adopting previous guidelines, participants were categorised as emerging adults (aged 18–25 years; 50%), adults (aged 26–44 years; 42%), and middle age (aged 45–59 years; 8%). A one-way ANOVA showed a statistically significant effect of age cohort on antisocial use; however, contrary to expectations, adults reported higher antisocial use of social media compared to emerging adults and middle-aged adults. There was no statistically significant difference between emerging adults and middle-aged adults. Results are discussed through the lens of Erikson’s psychosocial theoryErikson’s psychosocial model and Social Convoy ModelSocial Convoy Model and recommendations are provided to manage and prevent perpetration of antisocial online behaviour.

The diagnosis of human and companion animal Strongyloides stercoralis infection : challenges and solutions. A scoping review

- Buonfrate, Dora, Tamarozzi, Francesca, Paradies, Paola, Watts, Matthew, Bradbury, Richard, Bisoffi, Zweno

Authors: Buonfrate, Dora , Tamarozzi, Francesca , Paradies, Paola , Watts, Matthew , Bradbury, Richard , Bisoffi, Zweno
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Advances in Parasitology: Advances in Automated Diagnosis of Intestinal Parasites of Animals and Humans Chapter 1 p. 1-84
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Description: Strongyloidiasis is the infection caused by soil-transmitted nematodes of Strongyloides species, infecting humans and some animals. Strongyloides stercoralis is the species with most clinical and epidemiological relevance in humans and dogs, due to its high prevalence and its capacity of inducing a life-threatening hyperinfection. Diagnosis of strongyloidiasis is challenging, due to the absence of a single reference standard test with high sensitivity and specificity, which also hampers the estimation of the accuracy of other diagnostic tests. In this chapter, we review the deployment and performance of the parasitological, immunological, molecular tests for the diagnosis of strongyloidiasis in humans and in dogs. Further, we comment the available evidence from genotyping studies that have addressed the zoonotic potential of S. stercoralis. Finally, we discuss the use of different diagnostic methods in relation to the purpose (i.e., screening, individual diagnosis, inclusion in a clinical trial) and the setting (endemic/non-endemic areas) and report the accuracy figures reported by systematic reviews on either parasitological, serological or molecular techniques published in literature. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd

The social context of osteosarcopenia : risk factors and social impact

- Brennan-Olsen, Sharon, Anderson, Kate, Beauchamp, Alison, O’Connor, Jordan, Duckham, Rachel

Authors: Brennan-Olsen, Sharon , Anderson, Kate , Beauchamp, Alison , O’Connor, Jordan , Duckham, Rachel
Date: 2022
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Relation: Osteosarcopenia Chapter 17 p. 287-306
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Description: This multidisciplinary chapter discusses the social context of osteosarcopenia: often a neglected area of consideration for this geriatric condition. It begins by discussing the evidence regarding associations between social conditions and lifestyle risk factors for osteosarcopenia. It then argues that lifestyle risk factors during childhood and adolescence may predispose individuals to present with this geriatric condition later in life. The notion of lifecourse accumulation for osteosarcopenia risk is further explored as a conceptual model based on the psychosocial and lifestyle-related exposures beginning in utero and continuing across the lifespan. This social-biological model posits how relationships between social factors, adversity, psychological stress, inflammation, adaptation, and changes to the epigenetic signature over the lifecourse may contribute to the development of osteosarcopenia in later life. Evidence regarding a key role for health literacy in osteosarcopenia risk, prevention, and treatment is presented. Finally, a discussion of the social impact of osteosarcopenia, including identity and social isolation, brings the chapter to a close. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Thirty years of competency-based training : how Australia painted itself into a curriculum corner in vocational education and training

- Smith, Erica

Authors: Smith, Erica
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: International Encyclopedia of Education: Fourth Edition p. 491-503
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Description: This chapter chronicles the 30 years of competency-based training (CBT), a curriculum approach which characterized the Australian vocational education and training (VET) system, during that time. The chapter draws upon and brings up to date two previous published accounts by the author, of 10 years and 20 years of CBT, and covers key events, significant policy changes and debates in each 10 year period, including a detail description of current processes for competency standards and curriculum development. CBT has become increasingly narrowly defined, to the detriment of the VET system and of learners, and so the chapter ends by suggesting specific possibilities for improvement. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

“We’re in it for the long haul” : connection, generation and transformation through a school-university partnership

- Goriss-Hunter, Anitra, Burke, Jenene, Sellings, Peter

Authors: Goriss-Hunter, Anitra , Burke, Jenene , Sellings, Peter
Date: 2022
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Relation: School-University Partnerships-Innovation in Initial Teacher Education Chapter 7 p. 91-108
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Description: This paper investigates a transformational school-university partnership project designed to provide authentic learning experiences for pre-service teachers (PSTs); broaden aspirations for regional students in disadvantaged areas; and, work within government policies. Initiated in 2012, the Activity Day project involved two regional secondary colleges and their Years 8 and 9 students who took part in a learning event organised and implemented by second year PSTs as part of their teacher education program. The project has endured ten years of delivery and changes of personnel, having been developed from the learnings of a similar project. A qualitative mixed methods approach was used to evaluate and report on this project. Collaborative self-study combined with semi-structured interviews and feedback from PSTs, teachers and students were used to examine the benefits and challenges of the project. The findings indicate that all parties felt the project was beneficial to them and that there was also scope for future expansion and enhancement. A model known as the RESET model is presented in this chapter. This model draws on our years of school and university partnership activities to highlight important factors that we believe are vital to the success of any school and university partnership. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.

A critical eye on british economic policy

- Millmow, Alex

Authors: Millmow, Alex
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The gypsy economist: the life and times of Colin Clark Chapter 14 p. 243-255
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Description: This chapter looks at two pamphlets written by Colin Clark in the 1960s which outlined his criticisms of British economic policy. In Growthmanship (1961), Clark assailed the popular convention that Britain simply needed to invest more to achieve higher growth rates. Capital, he argued, was created by growth rather than growth being a function of investment. Moreover, productivity growth came more from ‘human factors’ such as knowledge, organisation, education and enterprise. All this this meant a revival of the competitive spirit, fewer restrictive practices and lower taxation. In Taxmanship (1964). Clark recycled his views that high taxation impaired productivity and aggregate supply, as well as his espousal of the 25% tax limit. Elsewhere he was aghast that the British Labour Party was embracing ‘ancient errors’ such as the idea that services ‘do not really count’ and that ‘only material goods constitute the national product’. Clark was unimpressed with the Wilson Government’s espousal of planning and growth targets, likening it to reducing economic policy to medieval alchemy or witchcraft. He was also sceptical about the efficacy of incomes or wages policy. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

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