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Health & Physical Education Specialist Teachers: What Should Brisbane Catholic Education (Bce) Primary Principals Look For?, Tj Lynch
Plymouth Institute of Education
The Health and Physical Education key learning area within Brisbane Catholic Education was given significant status during the release of the 1999 Health and Physical Education documents along with the adoption of the third enterprise bargaining agreement (EB3). EB3 entitled Catholic primary classroom teachers to 120 minutes of release time per week (Catholic Education Employing Authorities in Queensland, 2000). Release time is usually provided for classroom teachers by employing a specialist teacher. It seems to be a popular choice for many schools to employ a Health and Physical Education teacher so that both demands, to implement the Queensland Health and …
Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Psychosocial Interventions For Individuals With Visible Differences: A Systematic Review Of The Empirical Literature., Alyson Bessell, Timothy P. Moss
Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Psychosocial Interventions For Individuals With Visible Differences: A Systematic Review Of The Empirical Literature., Alyson Bessell, Timothy P. Moss
More Faculty of Health Research
The objective of this review was to systematically identify and evaluate all known studies testing empirically the efficacy of psychosocial intervention programmes for adults with visible differences. Twelve papers met the inclusion criteria. None of the papers demonstrated adequately the clinical effectiveness of the interventions. The review concluded that further research was needed to demonstrate adequately the effectiveness of existing interventions, and a greater number of Randomised Controlled Trials and experimental studies were required to increase the methodological validity of intervention studies.
Festival Publicity Helped Change Fishing Policy., Jm Hall-Spencer
Festival Publicity Helped Change Fishing Policy., Jm Hall-Spencer
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
In the late 1990s, I saw chunks of coral reef being trawled up off the UK at a time when the fishing industry was moving into deeper waters along the European Continental Shelf edge. As a trained marine biologist I was flabbergasted, since the text books said that coral reefs were restricted to warm tropical waters. It turned out that corals were amongst the first life forms discovered during pioneering deep-sea surveys off southwest Ireland in 1869. In fact, at least as many coral species are described from the deep sea as from shallow waters and large, reef-forming corals have …
The Potential Of New Tumor Endothelium-Specific Markers For The Development Of Antivascular Therapy, J-L Li, Al Harris
The Potential Of New Tumor Endothelium-Specific Markers For The Development Of Antivascular Therapy, J-L Li, Al Harris
School of Biomedical Sciences
Angiogenesis is a hallmark of solid tumors, and disruption of tumor vasculature is an active anticancer therapy in some cases. Several proteins expressed on the surface of tumor endothelium have been identified during the last decade. However, due to the expression in both physiological and tumor angiogenesis, only a few targets have been developed for clinical therapeutics. By thorough SAGE analysis of mouse endothelial cells isolated from various normal resting tissues, regenerating liver, and liver-metastasized tumor, Seaman and colleagues in this issue of Cancer Cell have demonstrated organ-specific endothelial markers, physiological angiogenesis endothelial markers, and tumor endothelial markers and revealed …
What Has Changed Since The 1992 Senate Inquiry Into Physical And Sport Education? An Evaluation Of School Responses Within Three Brisbane Catholic Education (Bce) Primary Schools., Tj Lynch
Plymouth Institute of Education
In 1992 a Senate Inquiry into the state of Physical Education and Sport within Australian Education systems was conducted by the Federal Government after claims that the Physical Education (PE) key learning area was in crisis. This was regarded as the most significant review in the history of Physical Education (Kirk, 1998). The Inquiry identified problems with resources, time allocation and the quality in which it was being delivered. Since the Senate Inquiry, detailed Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum documents have been developed and implemented which in Queensland replaced the outdated 1972 PE syllabus. This study found that within …
Compositional Controls On Melting And Dissolving A Salt Into A Ternary Melt, Dc Hatton, Aw Woods
Compositional Controls On Melting And Dissolving A Salt Into A Ternary Melt, Dc Hatton, Aw Woods
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
We explore theoretically the controls on dissolution of salt A, in an undersaturated brine of salts A and B. We show that, as the concentration of B increases, the dissolution rate of A decreases, for brine of given temperature. We also show that there is a sharper decrease in dissolution rate with increasing concentration, for concentrations of B above a critical value, where B limits the equilibrium concentration. We explore the implications of the predictions for dissolution of KCl or NaCl, by a mixed brine of NaCl and KCl, a common reaction that may arise in dissolution of evaporites. We …
Focusing On Body Sites: The Role Of Spatial Attention In Action Perception, P Bach, Na Peatfield, Sp Tipper
Focusing On Body Sites: The Role Of Spatial Attention In Action Perception, P Bach, Na Peatfield, Sp Tipper
School of Psychology
Humans use the same representations to code self-produced and observed actions. Neurophysiological evidence for this view comes from the discovery of the so-called mirror neurons in premotor cortex of the macaque monkey. These neurons respond when the monkey performs a particular action but also when it observes the same behavior in another individual. In humans, such direct links between perception and action seem to mediate action priming, where a response is facilitated when a similar action is observed. An issue that has not been fully resolved concerns the role of selective attention in these processes. Action priming appears to be …
Transpressional Tectonics And Carboniferous Magmatism In The Limousin, Massif Central, France: Structural And40Ar/39Ar Investigations, A Gébelin, M Brunel, P Monié, M Faure, N Arnaud
Transpressional Tectonics And Carboniferous Magmatism In The Limousin, Massif Central, France: Structural And40Ar/39Ar Investigations, A Gébelin, M Brunel, P Monié, M Faure, N Arnaud
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
[1] New structural, microstructural, and 40Ar/39Ar data from the NW Massif Central (France) provide additional constraints on the timing and tectonic setting of late Variscan granite magmatism. Previous studies had emphasized the role of late orogenic extension in the emplacement of granite plutons in the Limousin region. In contrast, the new data set is consistent with syntectonic emplacement of magma in a dextral simple shear active from 350 to 300 Ma in a transpressional regime. As an alternative hypothesis to late orogenic extension, we propose that magmas migrated into tensional bridges between active P shears associated with a lithospheric shear …
Arctic Coral Reefs, T Kerby, Jm Hall-Spencer
Arctic Coral Reefs, T Kerby, Jm Hall-Spencer
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
Recent expeditions to the cold, northern waters of the Arctic have revealed giant deep-sea coral reefs. In this article, Tina Kerby and Jason Hall-Spencer describe the latest findings from a project to study these surprising environments.
A Case Study In Using Electronic Presentation Media To Teach Mathematics, Brian Watson
A Case Study In Using Electronic Presentation Media To Teach Mathematics, Brian Watson
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
Over the past decade the United Kingdom (UK) Government has invested substantially in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in all sectors of education. Investment has been in infrastructure, staff development and educational software. At the same time there has been concern about the achievements in mathematics of school leavers and about the decline in numbers of students choosing to study mathematics in Higher Education. Through its Widening Participation initiative, (UK) Government intends to increase the number of students entering Higher Education. An account is given of a project to make appropriate use of computer-based projection materials in the delivery of …
Implicit Action Encoding Influences Personal-Trait Judgments, P Bach, Sp Tipper
Implicit Action Encoding Influences Personal-Trait Judgments, P Bach, Sp Tipper
School of Psychology
When an observed action (e.g., kicking) is compatible to a to be produced action (e.g., a foot-key response as compared to a finger-key response), then the self-produced action is more fluent, that is, it is more accurate and faster. A series of experiments explore the notion that vision-action compatibility effects can influence personal-trait judgments. It is demonstrated that when an observed individual carries out an action that is compatible with the participants' response, (1) this individual is identified more fluently, and (2) the observed individual's personality is attributed with the properties of the observed action. For example, if it is …
Electronic Signatures For Copyright In The Uk: A Solution To The "Holy Grail" Of Document Delivery, G Titley
Electronic Signatures For Copyright In The Uk: A Solution To The "Holy Grail" Of Document Delivery, G Titley
More Faculty of Health Research
Purpose - The aim of this paper is to show that an electronic signature for copyright can be achieved in the UK.Design/methodology/approach - The article outlines, as a case study, the drivers for change that influenced the revisiting of the issue of electronic signatures for copyright by the University of Plymouth (UoP), how that signature has been achieved, and how the process has improved the document delivery service through the establishment of an electronic "request-to-delivery" service.Findings - The article finds that significant improvements in the ability of document delivery services to provide a fast and efficient service, with regard to …
The Effect Of Gm Label Variation On Perceptions Of Genetically Modified Foods, Alexandra Jane Costello
The Effect Of Gm Label Variation On Perceptions Of Genetically Modified Foods, Alexandra Jane Costello
School of Psychology Theses
This thesis investigates the factors which are suggested to affect perceptions of genetically modified (GM) foods. It first tests the extent to which the components of the Theory of Planned Behaviour and perceived `outrage' are able to predict intentions towards buying GM foods using linear regression. It then focuses on how GM label design characteristics and linguistic variations influence perceptions of GM foods including measures of hazard perception and purchase intention using ANOVA repeated measures. Modelling is then used to identify whether label variations affect the components of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, namely attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural …
Paris Framed: Twentieth-Century French Writers Crossing The City, C Mansfield
Paris Framed: Twentieth-Century French Writers Crossing The City, C Mansfield
Plymouth Business School
Twentieth-century writers frame Paris as a locus of desire for their characters, whether working in fiction or in the more contemporary ethno¬graphic journaling exemplified by the writing of Annie Ernaux in La Vie extérieure (2000) and Journal du dehors (1993). This article draws on the critical approaches taken by Christopher Thompson (1992) and Richard Burton (1988) in their respective works on French nineteenth-century literature and uses their critical frameworks as a starting point with which to explore this travel writing of Ernaux.
Resource-Efficient Strategies For Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking, Zhuoqun Li
Resource-Efficient Strategies For Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking, Zhuoqun Li
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
The ubiquity and widespread availability of wireless mobile devices with ever increasing inter-connectivity (e. g. by means of Bluetooth, WiFi or UWB) have led to new and emerging next generation mobile communication paradigms, such as the Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs). MANETs are differentiated from traditional mobile systems by their unique properties, e. g. unpredictable nodal location, unstable topology and multi-hop packet relay. The success of on-going research in communications involving MANETs has encouraged their applications in areas with stringent performance requirements such as the e-healthcare, e. g. to connect them with existing systems to deliver e-healthcare services anytime anywhere. However, …
Effect-Directed Analysis Of Toxicants In Unresolved Complex Mixtures (Ucms) Of Hydrocarbons From Biodegraded Crude Oils, Alan George Scarlett
Effect-Directed Analysis Of Toxicants In Unresolved Complex Mixtures (Ucms) Of Hydrocarbons From Biodegraded Crude Oils, Alan George Scarlett
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Contamination of the environment by petrogenic hydrocarbons continues to pose a threat to marine biota. Studies into the effects of hydrocarbon contamination have mainly been directed at a small number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that are known to be highly toxic to a wide range of biota. The majority of the hydrocarbons present in sediments and tissues are unresolved by conventional gas chromatography and have received little attention. Studies directed at these unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of hydrocarbons have previously identified the monoaromatic fraction as containing toxic UCM compounds. The studies reported herein have explored the toxicity of UCM …
Two-Tier Intrusion Detection System For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Shukor Abd Razak
Two-Tier Intrusion Detection System For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Shukor Abd Razak
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
Nowadays, a commonly used wireless network (i.e. Wi-Fi) operates with the aid of a fixed infrastructure (i.e. an access point) to facilitate communication between nodes when they roam from one location to another. The need for such a fixed supporting infrastructure limits the adaptability of the wireless network, especially in situations where the deployment of such an infrastructure is impractical. In addition, Wi-Fi limits nodes' communication as it only provides facility for mobile nodes to send and receive information, but not reroute the information across the network. Recent advancements in computer network introduced a new wireless network, known as a …
The Experience Of Obesity, Its Treatment And Weight Loss: A Qualitative Study Of Overweight Couples, Brenda Potz Kieffer
The Experience Of Obesity, Its Treatment And Weight Loss: A Qualitative Study Of Overweight Couples, Brenda Potz Kieffer
Other Faculty of Health Theses
This study utilized a qualitative, phenomenological methodology to study obesity. The purpose was to better understand the experiences of obesity, treatment and weight loss from the perspectives of formerly obese individuals, their partners and as couples. The participants consisted of six couples mostly from rural communities. In each couple, at least one the partners had experienced weight fluctuations into the obese range and had achieved at least 50% of his or her weight loss goal. The couples participated in two semi-structured interviews, both individually and as couples. A genogram was constructed with each couple to help identify family of origin …
Preserving Deep-Sea Natural Heritage: Emerging Issues In Offshore Conservation And Management, Aj Davies, Jm Roberts, J Hall-Spencer
Preserving Deep-Sea Natural Heritage: Emerging Issues In Offshore Conservation And Management, Aj Davies, Jm Roberts, J Hall-Spencer
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Devon-Wide Gypsy And Traveller Housing Needs Analysis: Plymouth Analysis, Z James, R Southern
Devon-Wide Gypsy And Traveller Housing Needs Analysis: Plymouth Analysis, Z James, R Southern
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
No abstract provided.
An Intelligent Navigation System For An Unmanned Surface Vehicle, Tao Xu
An Intelligent Navigation System For An Unmanned Surface Vehicle, Tao Xu
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
A multi-disciplinary research project has been carried out at the University of Plymouth to design and develop an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) named ýpringer. The work presented herein relates to formulation of a robust, reliable, accurate and adaptable navigation system to enable opringei to undertake various environmental monitoring tasks. Synergistically, sensor mathematical modelling, fuzzy logic, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion (MSDF), Multi-Model Adaptive Estimation (MMAE), fault adaptive data acquisition and an user interface system are combined to enhance the robustness and fault tolerance of the onboard navigation system. This thesis not only provides a holistic framework but also a concourse of computational …
Effective Information Assurance With Risk Management, Vassileios Andreas Dimopoulos
Effective Information Assurance With Risk Management, Vassileios Andreas Dimopoulos
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
Today's businesses base their operation on their IT infrastructure, which consequently demands that it should be protected accordingly. Nevertheless, surveys tend to indicate that the number of IT security incidents is increasing, resulting in significant losses for the organisations concerned. Leading in poor security practices, and therefore frequent victims of related security incidents, are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Even though there are a number of solutions, ranging from baseline guidelines to a detailed Risk Assessment (which can be followed to guide organisations through systematically selecting appropriate controls and practices to properly secure their networked assets), evidence suggests that these …
A Social Dimension For Digital Architectural Practice, Chris Speed
A Social Dimension For Digital Architectural Practice, Chris Speed
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
This thesis proceeds from an analysis of practice and critical commentary to claim that the opportunities presented to some architectural practices by the advent of ubiquitous digital technology have not been properly exploited. The missed opportunities, it claims, can be attributed largely to the retention of a model of time and spaces as discrete design parameters, which is inappropriate in the context of the widening awareness of social interconnectedness that digital technology has also facilitated. As a remedy, the thesis shows that some social considerations essential to good architecture - which could have been more fully integrated in practice and …
Looking For A Fairer Assessment Of Children's Learning Development And Attainment In The Infant Years: An Educational Action Research Case Study, Margaret Follows
Looking For A Fairer Assessment Of Children's Learning Development And Attainment In The Infant Years: An Educational Action Research Case Study, Margaret Follows
Plymouth Institute of Education Theses
This thesis tells the story of an infant head teacher researcher's journey into the heart of a living educational assessment landscape. She embarks on this journey to search for a fairer assessment of young children's learning, development and attainment. It is a journey that forces her to question everything about the professional world in which she works and lives. The story is intended to use and evoke the human senses within the context of a real infant school (for children aged 3-7 years) - seeing, touching, hearing, and listening. It provides the vehicle to experience and gain an Insight into …
Late Quaternary Fire Histories In The Eastern Mediterrnean Region From Lake Sedimentary Micro-Charcoals, Rebecca Turner
Late Quaternary Fire Histories In The Eastern Mediterrnean Region From Lake Sedimentary Micro-Charcoals, Rebecca Turner
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
The Eastern Mediterranean has a long history of human occupation, which spans the transition from hunter-gatherers to the establishment of early agro-pastoralist communities, coinciding with the Last Glacial: Interglacial transition. Over the same timeframe a delay in post glacial woodland recolonisation in the region has been identified. Fire has long been used by people to manage and manipulate the landscape, and has been hypothesised to have played a role in this delay. This thesis employed lacustrine microcharcoal (particles less than 180 µm) remains to reconstruct Late Quaternary fire histories for Central Turkey and the Levant, and examine the possible role …
The Marketing Strategies Of Livestock Enterprises In Objective One Regions : A Comparative Study Between Greece And United Kingdom, Lambros Tsourgiannis
The Marketing Strategies Of Livestock Enterprises In Objective One Regions : A Comparative Study Between Greece And United Kingdom, Lambros Tsourgiannis
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
This research aims to identify the marketing decisions made by agricultural producers in two E. U. Objective I regions and to provide insights into the reasons that such decisions are made, with a particular focus on meat and milk products. Two farm business surveys; one in the involving sheep and goat farmers in the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace (EMT11) in Greece and one in the sheep and dairy cow fanners in Cornwall, U. K. were undertaken in order to identify their marketing behaviour. This study used robust predictive models incorporating bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques in order to …
The Photodegradation Of Diazepam And Its Human Metabolites In Water, Charles Edward West
The Photodegradation Of Diazepam And Its Human Metabolites In Water, Charles Edward West
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
In recent years, the environmental occurrence, fate and effects of pharmaceuticals or pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) and their metabolites have received increased attention. PhACs have been detected in wastewater, river water, marine waters and even sewage sludge and soil. Since PhACs are developed with the intention of stimulating or inhibiting physiological responses, these findings have prompted concern over their environmental fate and potential adverse effects on nontarget ecological species. The major source of discharge of PhACs to the environment is through sewage treatment works (STWs) effluents and sludges. Although used in quantities similar to many agrochemicals and other organic micropollutants, …
The Impacts Of Atmospherically Derived Metals On Coastal Marine Systems, Mohammed Orif
The Impacts Of Atmospherically Derived Metals On Coastal Marine Systems, Mohammed Orif
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
The total concentrations of trace metals (Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Na, Cu, Zn, Mo, Ni, V, Cd, Pb) have been determined in the marine aerosol at two contrasting coastal sites, Plymouth UK, (December 2001 to April 2003) and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (August 2002-January 2004). Trace metal concentrations in the Plymouth urban aerosol were lower (2-13 times) than those observed at other comparative UK. urban locations and generally comparable with those observed at European coastal non-urban locations. Statistically significant differences were found in aerosol metal concentrations associated with populations of contrasting air mass sources (i.e. Atlantic and UK/European), being greatest in …
Middle To Late Holocene Sea-Level Change In Western Denmark : A Diatom-Based Study, Katie Szkornik
Middle To Late Holocene Sea-Level Change In Western Denmark : A Diatom-Based Study, Katie Szkornik
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
Modem diatom assemblages and associated environmental variables were collected from six transects across the salt-marsh surface in the Ho Bugt embayment in western Denmark. The relationship between diatom assemblages and environmental variables (elevation, pH, salinity, loss on ignition, grain size) was explored using ordination techniques to assess the potential use of diatoms as sea-level indicators. Results for the two data sets analysed in ordinations indicate that elevation exerts a strong, independent and statistically significant influence on modem diatom distributions in the Ho Bugt embayment. Diatom-based transfer functions were subsequently developed to reconstruct changes in palaeomarsh-surface elevation based on the relationship …
Late Jurassic To Early Cretaceous Stable Isotope And Geochemical Records From The Northern High Latitudes: Implications For Palaeoclimate, Elizabeth Victoria Nunn
Late Jurassic To Early Cretaceous Stable Isotope And Geochemical Records From The Northern High Latitudes: Implications For Palaeoclimate, Elizabeth Victoria Nunn
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
The Jurassic and Cretaceous periods are widely accepted as being dominated by greenhouse conditions with elevated CO2 levels and warm polar regions. Although much compelling evidence to support this idea of global warmth exists, some recent studies propose that the greenhouse climate may at times have been punctuated by sub-freezing polar conditions and the presence of limited polar ice. The evidence, however, is somewhat equivocal and is both spatially and temporally limited with much of this research until now being concentrated in mid- to low latitudes, despite it being generally accepted that global climate is defined to a significant degree …