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Selected AbstractsFuture Directions for the Teaching and Learning of Statistics at the Tertiary LevelINTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW, Issue 1 2001Des F. Nicholl Summary Significant advances in, and the resultant impact of, Information Technology (IT) during the last fifteen years has resulted in a much more data based society, a trend that can be expected to continue into the foreseeable future. This phenomenon has had a real impact on the Statistics discipline and will continue to result in changes in both content and course delivery. Major research directions have also evolved during the last ten years directly as a result of advances in IT. The impact of these advances has started to flow into course content, at least for advanced courses. One question which arises relates to what impact will this have on the future training of statisticians, both with respect to course content and mode of delivery. At the tertiary level the last 40 years has seen significant advances in theoretical aspects of the Statistics discipline. Universities have been outstanding at producing scholars with a strong theoretical background but questions have been asked as to whether this has, to some degree, been at the expense of appropriate training of the users of statistics (the ,tradespersons'). Future directions in the teaching and learning of Statistics must take into account the impact of IT together with the competing need to produce scholars as well as competent users of statistics to meet the future needs of the market place. For Statistics to survive as a recognizable discipline the need to be able to train statisticians with an ability to communicate is also seen as an areā of crucial importance. Satisfying the needs of society as well as meeting the needs of the profession are considered as the basic determinants which will derive the future teaching and training of statisticians at the tertiary level and will form the basis of this presentation. [source] Managing infant feeding practices: the competing needs of bulimic mothers and their childrenJOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 6 2009Helen Stapleton Aim., This paper seeks to explain how bulimic mothers accommodated infant feeding demands in conjunction with managing their disordered eating practices. Background., Eating disorders are chronic and disabling illnesses primarily affecting women. There are few qualitative studies describing bulimia in the context of motherhood. Design., The study employed an inductive qualitative approach. Methods., A purposive sample of childbearing women (n = 16), who self-defined as living with an eating disorder, were recruited. Data were generated from one-to-one interviews; a thematic analysis identified key issues. Results., Participants were primarily responsible for ensuring child/ren's socialisation processes, including modelling appropriate dietary behaviours and these demands often conflicted with their personal needs for food restraint. Pressures to participate in social activities with children were widely experienced as stressful especially when these events focused on food. Participants viewed early and repeated exposure to ,healthy' eating as protective against their children acquiring an eating disorder and in this respect commercial child-care facilities provided alternative environments for children to explore food-related activities. Conclusions., Participants employed a variety of strategies to ensure children's exposure to normalising influences and socialising processes. Concerns about personal competencies with respect to food preparation and storage were articulated by all participants. Relevance to clinical practice., Professionals involved with providing care to mothers and their infants are well placed to support bulimic clients and to foster confidence in their mothering skills. Early and appropriate intervention is key to effecting positive changes in bulimic patterns, with potential benefits to women's future health and well-being and that of their children. [source] A conceptual framework for understanding the process of family caregiving to frail elders in Taiwan,RESEARCH IN NURSING & HEALTH, Issue 2 2002Yea-Ing Lotus Shyu Abstract This descriptive, correlational study of family caregivers (N=125) tested a conceptual framework for family caregiving to frail elders in Taiwan, using the concept of "finding a balance point" derived from a previous qualitative study. It was hypothesized that caregivers who were better able to find a balance point among competing needs would provide better-quality care to frail elders, which would lead to more positive caregiver and family outcomes. After controlling for the influence of caregiving characteristics and caregiving factors, finding a balance point significantly explained 7% of the variance in overall caregiving consequences. The findings of this study add a new perspective to the caregiving process in Taiwan. Š 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 25:111,121, 2002 [source] Evaluation of probabilistic prediction systems for a scalar variableTHE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, Issue 609 2005G. Candille Abstract A systematic study is performed of a number of scores that can be used for objective validation of probabilistic prediction of scalar variables: Rank Histograms, Discrete and Continuous Ranked Probability Scores (DRPS and CRPS, respectively). The reliability-resolution-uncertainty decomposition, defined by Murphy for the DRPS, and extended here to the CRPS, is studied in detail. The decomposition is applied to the results of the Ensemble Prediction Systems of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Comparison is made with the decomposition of the CRPS defined by Hersbach. The possibility of determining an accurate reliability-resolution decomposition of the RPSs is severely limited by the unavoidably (relatively) small number of available realizations of the prediction system. The Hersbach decomposition may be an appropriate compromise between the competing needs for accuracy and practical computability. Copyright Š 2005 Royal Meteorological Society. [source] Australian Child Support Reforms: A Case Study of the Use of Microsimulation Modelling in the Policy Development ProcessAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 4 2007Ann Harding Child support is always a difficult area of public policy, balancing the sometimes competing needs of children, resident and non-resident parents and the state. This article provides a relatively rare insight into some of the processes involved in developing the new Australian Child Support Scheme (CSS), which will commence full operation in July 2008. In particular, this article shows how microsimulation modelling was used by the Ministerial Taskforce on Child Support and the government in the policy reform process. The availability of such sophisticated distributional analysis and modelling allowed the development of a comprehensive picture of how the reforms would affect CSS clients, thereby facilitating the adoption of major policy change. This article also provides a blueprint for policy-makers of how modelling can facilitate their policy development processes. [source] | ||||||||||