Ethics masterclass programme

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) recently launched ‘Guidance for developing ethical research projects involving children’. The Guidance considers ethical principles and concepts in research with children and presents a checklist for the design and conduct of research.  In this the third master class of the Children's Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland, participants will have an opportunity to respond to the Guidance and to discuss ethical issues in their work. The workshop will also provide participants with the opportunity to discuss the challenges facing the community and voluntary sector in applying and monitoring ethical standards in their work in the absence of formal/institutional ethics committees

Masterclass: Excellentie in het onderwijs.

In deze Masterclass worden de begrippen ‘excellent’ en ‘hoogbegaafd’ met elkaar vergeleken vanuit multiniveau perspectief. Ingegaan wordt op verschillen die zich tijdens het doen van onderzoek manifesteren en waarmee niet altijd adequaat rekening wordt gehouden. Ook worden leerpsychologische en pedagogische accenten verhelderd. Tenslotte wordt ingegaan op noodzakelijke schoolontwikkeling in het primair en voortgezet onderwijs.

Lateral epicondylalgia: a musculoskeletal physiotherapy perspective

Tennis elbow or lateral epicondylalgia (LE) is a challenging musculoskeletal condition to treat. This is largely due to the lack of research-based evidence of the clinical efficacy of the myriad of treatment approaches espoused in the literature. In view of this, successful rehabilitation of LE is based on choosing treatments that address the physical impairments found during clinical examination. The primary physical impairment in LE is a deficit in grip strength predominately due to pain and its consequences on motor function. Hence the mainstay of successful management of this condition is therapeutic exercise, providing it is not pain provocative. Adjunctive procedures such as manipulative therapy and sports taping techniques have recently been shown to provide substantial initial pain relief. Early relief of pain in the rehabilitation program helps accelerate recovery and most importantly motivates the client to persist with the therapeutic exercise program. The manipulative therapy and taping treatments presented in this masterclass warrant consideration in the clinical best practice management of LE, and serve as a model for other similar musculoskeletal conditions. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Ensino da Física e da Química e as concepções alternativas dos alunos do ensino secundário sobre o conceito de energia: relatório de estágio

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Ensino de Física e de Química

Stochastische Modelle der aktuariellen Risikotheorie. Eine mathematische Einführung

Stochastische Modelle sind bei der Bewertung von Schadensbeträgen für Versicherungen von besonderer Bedeutung. Das Buch gibt eine Einführung in die dabei verwendeten Modelle für kleine und große Schadensbeträge wie auch in die stochastische Prozesse der aktuariellen Risikotheorie (Zählprozesse und Poisson-Prozess). Zentrales Thema ist die Analyse der Ruinwahrscheinlichkeit, wobei exakte Berechnungsmethoden, asymptotische Approximationen und numerische Algorithmen wie Monte Carlo-Simulation und schnelle Fourier-Transformation vorgestellt werden. Ein Appendix mit wichtigen Resultaten der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie erleichtert die Lektüre dieses Buches.

Unravelling the complexity of muscle impairment in chronic neck pain

Exercise interventions are deemed essential for the effective management of patients with neck pain. However, there has been a lack of consensus on optimal exercise prescription, which has resulted from a paucity of studies to quantify the precise nature of muscle impairment, in people with neck pain. This masterclass will present recent research from our laboratory, which has utilized surface electromyography to investigate cervical flexor muscle impairment in patients with chronic neck pain. This research has identified deficits in the motor control of the deep and superficial cervical flexor muscles in people with chronic neck pain, characterized by a delay in onset of neck muscle contraction associated with movement of the upper limb. In addition, people with neck pain demonstrate an altered pattern of muscle activation, which is characterized by reduced deep cervical flexor muscle activity during a low load cognitive task and increased activity of the superficial cervical flexor muscles during both cognitive tasks and functional activities. The results have demonstrated the complex, multifaceted nature of cervical muscle impairment, which exists in people with a history of neck pain. In turn, this has considerable implications for the rehabilitation of muscle function in people with neck pain disorders. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

De Digitale Revolutie

Maakt ICT ons nou knapper of juist dommer? In amper twintig jaar is het maatschappelijk leven voor een groot deel verplaatst naar de virtuele ruimte. Alles en iedereen wordt digitaal met elkaar verbonden. Wat is de invloed van al die nieuwe technologie op ons begrip van de wereld, op ons gedrag, op onze cultuur? Wat betekent het voor het onderwijs? Deze sessie bespreekt de rol van media voor onze cognitieve ontwikkeling. Daartoe worden de ervaringen met oude media zoals geschreven tekst, radio en TV gekoppeld aan de wereld van Twitter, Apple, Facebook en Google, en wordt de blik gericht op wat ons nog te wachten staat.

Health equity in all policies

Public Health England (PHE) worked with the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) and the Local Government Association (LGA) to develop a masterclass to understand what PHE could do to support directors and consultants of public health to embed health and health equity in all policies at a local level. These documents provide a full report and executive summary of 2 pilot masterclasses held on: 25 February 2015 in London 17 March 2015 in Manchester The masterclasses aimed to: frame public health challenges and use appropriate language within the context of overarching local authority priorities effectively position health and wellbeing in the context of competing (and sometimes conflicting) policy agendas engage wider service and policy areas in the pursuit of health and health equity within current economic and funding contexts

Le startup sport tech in Italia: struttura dell'ecosistema e il caso dell'acceleratore WeSportUp

L'ecosistema dello sport tech, caratterizzato dalle complesse relazioni che avvengono tra chi sviluppa innovazione per lo sport, chi ne usufruisce e chi investe su di essa, ha vissuto una vera e propria impennata negli ultimi 5 anni, sia in termini di investimenti che di nascita di nuove realtà. Nel corso degli ultimi 3 anni in particolare, lo sport tech ha saputo fronteggiare in maniera ottimale la crisi pandemica, che avrebbe potuto destabilizzare il sistema causandone un forte rallentamento, mentre in realtà ha permesso alle startup di dimostrare alle organizzazioni sportive e agli investitori le proprie capacità di innovare i modelli di business per rispondere a cambiamenti improvvisi e imprevedibili degli scenari. Nonostante la svolta vissuta a livello globale, in Italia le startup dello sport tech si trovano in una condizione singolare: nonostante operino in un settore di grande interesse per il Paese (muove circa il 3% del Pil) caratterizzato da un forte interesse, trovano difficoltà importanti nel momento in cui si trovano a dover rendere scalabile il proprio business, fondamentalmente per la mancanza di un ecosistema strutturato che regoli le interazioni tra i vari attori. Lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di fornire, in primo luogo, una contestualizzazione dell'ecosistema a livello globale, attraverso l'analisi di report e di alcuni successi di startup internazionali, e successivamente di analizzare la situazione italiana, evidenziando i motivi per cui non si può ancora parlare di ecosistema sport tech nonostante la presenza di diversi casi di successo, e documentando gli sforzi attualmente in essere finalizzati alla creazione del suddetto ecosistema, ovvero l'incubatore di startup sport tech Wylab e l'acceleratore WeSportUp. Per la ricostruzione delle attività di questi ultimi, si è fatto ricorso a dichiarazioni di addetti ai lavori ed esperti del settore, rilasciate durante video interviste sul web, masterclass o colloqui con i diretti interessati.