The authors of this volume point out that what is ordinarily termed the psychiatric hospital's "social structure" is principally derived from three sources: the number and kinds of professionals who work there; the treatment ideologies and professional identities of these professionals; and the relationships of the institution and its professionals to outside communities, both professional and lay. They describe hospitals as sites where ideological battles characterizing the mental health arena are being fought, implemented, critiqued, modified, and transformed. This classic monograph in...

Teacher Craft is about how teachers learn to use new digital media. Teacher learning is central to reform and change across subject areas and age levels, but how much do we really know about how teachers learn to try new lessons in classrooms? Minecraft is currently the game of choice for millions of youth and also for these seventeen teachers who claim it has transformed their classrooms. Its rapid adoption also provides a unique window of opportunity to look inside the recent memory of innovative teachers and unpack how they learned. Why did they pick Minecraft? More importantly, how did...

This book is an inspirational message about what is possible and practical in the name of learning through mobile media. We present stories from a diverse set of educators, a microcosm of the landscape of mobile media learning. Each author has found a way to create something new and beautiful in their own world. And though their results are exceptional, their surroundings are not. Most are not experts in high-technology, nor highly equipped. They get as far as they do by using what is at hand, in part by making use of accessible, free and open source software. To provide both a deeper look...

A selection of poetry and prose from the Open Mic Poets and Storytellers at The Capel Hotel in Bargoed.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, Note: "-," Europa-Universitat Flensburg (ehem. Universitat Flensburg) (Internationales Management), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Nobody is perfect, but a team can be " Dieses Zitat spiegelt wieder, warum die Team- oder Gruppenarbeit immer haufiger einen festen Bestandteil in der Organisationsstruktur eines Unternehmens darstellt. Haufig ist es effektiver, Problemstellungen oder komplexe Aufgaben von mehreren Personen bearbeiten zu lassen, da jeder Mensch uber unterschiedliches Wissen und...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Medicine - Human Genetics, language: English, abstract: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is an abnormality in the structure and function of the heart and great vessels caused by embryonic development disorders, it is highly complex and is not fully understood yet. This study performs a computational analysis of the nsSNPs in the GATA4 gene, to identify the possible mutations and propose a modeled structure for the mutant protein that potentially affects its function. The nsSNPs were analyzed using 5 prediction tools: SIFT,...

Research Paper from the year 2016 in the subject Computer Science - Bioinformatics, language: English, abstract: Schmallenberg (SBV) is a new virus of the Bunyaviridae family within the genus Orthobunyavirus. The viral infection causes mild clinical signs: fever, reduced milk production and diarrhea, as well as considerable economic loss. There is currently no treatment or vaccine for infected animals. We aimed to design a peptide vaccine using an Immunoinformatics approach to stimulate the immune system and reduce the potentially negative effects of using live vaccines. In this study, a...