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Selected AbstractsA CORBA Commodity Grid KitCONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION: PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, Issue 13-15 2002Manish Parashar Abstract This paper reports on an ongoing research project aimed at designing and deploying a Common Object Resource Broker Architecture (CORBA) (ww.omg.org) Commodity Grid (CoG) Kit. The overall goal of this project is to enable the development of advanced Grid applications while adhering to state-of-the-art software engineering practices and reusing the existing Grid infrastructure. As part of this activity, we are investigating how CORBA can be used to support the development of Grid applications. In this paper, we outline the design of a CORBA CoG Kit that will provide a software development framework for building a CORBA ,Grid domain'. We also present our experiences in developing a prototype CORBA CoG Kit that supports the development and deployment of CORBA applications on the Grid by providing them access to the Grid services provided by the Globus Toolkit. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Making a Difference in the Lives of Youth: Mapping Success with the "Six Cs"CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 4 2007Jessica J. Luke Many museums offer specialized programs for young people during out-of-school time, yet the consequences of such programs are not well documented. This article explores the potential utility of borrowing a conceptual framework from the youth development literature as a tool for assessment. The authors map findings from three studies of museum youth programs onto the youth development framework as an exercise in understanding the extent to which this model may be useful in developing museum youth programs. Results from this preliminary analysis demonstrate that the framework could serve as a viable tool for program design, and could offer a clear, grounded framework with common language for articulating program impacts often known intuitively and/or anecdotally but not formalized. [source] ,Educator talk' and patient change: some insights from the DESMOND (Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) randomized controlled trialDIABETIC MEDICINE, Issue 9 2008T. C. Skinner Abstract Aims To determine whether differences in the amount of time educators talk during a self-management education programme relate to the degree of change in participants' reported beliefs about diabetes. Method Educators trained to be facilitative and non-didactic in their approach were observed delivering the DESMOND self-management programme for individuals newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Observers used 10-s event coding to estimate the amount of time educators spoke during different sessions in the programme. Facilitative as opposed to didactic delivery was indicated by targets for levels of educator talk set for each session. Targets were based on earlier pilot work. Using the revised Illness Perceptions Questionnaire (IPQ-R) and the Diabetes Illness Representations Questionnaire (DIRQ), participants completed measures of: perceived duration of diabetes (timeline IPQ-R), understanding of diabetes (coherence IPQ-R), personal responsibility for influencing diabetes (personal responsibility IPQ-R), seriousness of diabetes (seriousness DIRQ) and impact on daily life (impact DIRQ), before and after the education programme. Results Where data from the event coding indicated educators were talking less and meeting targets for being less didactic, a greater change in reported illness beliefs of participants was seen. However, educators struggled to meet targets for most sessions of the programme. Conclusion The amount of time educators talk in a self-management programme may provide a practical marker for the effectiveness of the education process, with less educator talk denoting a more facilitative/less didactic approach. This finding has informed subsequent improvements to a comprehensive quality development framework, acknowledging that educators need ongoing support to facilitate change to their normal educational style. [source] Multi-agent application of substation protection coordination with distributed generatorsEUROPEAN TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL POWER, Issue 5 2006H. Wan Abstract This paper presents new explorations into the use of agent technology applied to substation protection coordination of power systems. The impact of distributed generators (DG) on protection coordination in substation with different locations is discussed first. Then a coordination multi-agent system is proposed with the functions of the agents described. In the proposed system, communication will play an important role to provide more information for the relay coordination besides the relay settings. Relay coordination strategy is also discussed and communication simulation has been carried out on the Java agent development framework (JADE) platform. The simulation results shows that proper protection coordination can be achieved by the proposed coordination strategy and information communication. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Developing person-centred practice: nursing outcomes arising from changes to the care environment in residential settings for older peopleINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OLDER PEOPLE NURSING, Issue 2 2010BSc (Hons) Nursing, Brendan McCormack D.Phil (Oxon), PGCEA mccormack b., dewing j., breslin l., coyne-nevin a., kennedy k., manning m., peelo-kilroe l., tobin c. & slater p. (2010) Developing person-centred practice: nursing outcomes arising from changes to the care environment in residential settings for older people. International Journal of Older People Nursing 5, 93,107 Aim., To present the nursing outcomes from the evaluation of developments in the care environment in residential settings for older people. Design., The evaluation data reported here is derived from a larger national programme of work that focused on the development of person-centred practice in residential services for older people using an emancipatory practice development framework. A multi-method evaluation framework was utilised. Outcome data were collected at three time points between December 2007 and September 2009. The data reported here were collected using an instrument called the ,Person-Centred Nursing Index'. Findings., Heavy workload was the main cause of stress among nurses. Personal and professional satisfaction with the job was scored highest by the total sample of nurses. Nineteen factors were examined using the Person-Centred Nursing Index. Statistically significant changes were observed in 12 of these. In addition, there were statistically significant changes in nurses' perceptions of caring, indicating a shift from a dominant focus on ,technical' aspects of care, to one where ,intimate' aspects of care were more highly valued. Relevance to clinical practice., The findings highlight the importance of the development of effective teamwork, workload management, time management and staff relationships in order to create a culture where there is a more democratic and inclusive approach to practice and space for the formation of person-centred relationships. [source] A software framework for fast prototyping of meta-heuristics hybridizationINTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 2 2007Hoong Chuin Lau Abstract Hybrids of meta-heuristics have been shown to be more effective and adaptable than their parents in solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, hybridized schemes are also more tedious to implement due to their increased complexity. We address this problem by proposing the meta-heuristics development framework (MDF). In addition to being a framework that promotes software reuse to reduce developmental effort, the key strength of MDF lies in its ability to model meta-heuristics using a "request, sense and response" schema, which decomposes algorithms into a set of well-defined modules that can be flexibly assembled through a centralized controller. Under this scheme, hybrid schemes become an event-based search that can adaptively trigger a desired parent's behavior in response to search events. MDF can hence be used to design and implement a wide spectrum of hybrids with varying degrees of collaboration, thereby offering algorithm designers quick turnaround in designing and testing their meta-heuristics. Such technicality is illustrated in the paper through the construction of hybrid schemes using ant colony optimization and tabu search. [source] Concept formation: a supportive process for early career nursesJOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 17-18 2010Tracey Thornley Background., Individuals come to understand abstract constructs such as that of the ,expert' through the formation of concepts. Time and repeated opportunity for observation to support the generalisation and abstraction of the developing concept are essential if the concept is to form successfully. Development of an effective concept of the ,expert nurse' is critical for early career nurses who are attempting to integrate theory, values and beliefs as they develop their clinical practice. Aim., This study explores the use of a concept development framework in a grounded theory study of the ,expert nurse'. Design., Qualitative. Method., Using grounded theory methods for data collection and analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted with registered nurses. The participants were asked to describe their concept of the ,expert nurse' and to discuss their experience of developing this. Results., Participants reported forming their concept of the ,expert nurse', after multiple opportunities to engage with nurses identified as ,expert'. This identification did not necessarily relate to the designated position of the ,expert nurse' or assigned mentors. When the early career nurse does not successfully form a concept of the ,expert nurse', difficulties in personal and professional development including skill/knowledge development may arise. Conclusion., To underpin development of their clinical practice effectively, early career nurses need to be provided with opportunities that facilitate the purposive formation of their own concept of the ,expert nurse'. Formation of this concept is not well supported by the common practice of assigning mentors. Relevance to clinical practice., Early career nurses must be provided with the time and the opportunity to individually develop and refine their concept of the ,expert nurse'. To achieve this, strategies including providing opportunities to engage with expert nurses and discussion of the process of concept formation and its place in underpinning personal judgments may be of assistance. [source] Toward a Critique of Latin American NeostructuralismLATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, Issue 4 2008Fernando Ignacio Leiva ABSTRACT This article offers a critical assessment of the first postneoliberalism development framework that emerged in Latin America after 1990. The ability of neostructuralism to present an attractive narrative about a twenty-first-century "modernity with solidarity" is based on abandoning key tenets of ECLAC's structuralism and the thinking of Raśl Prebisch and Celso Furtado; namely, a focus on the distribution and appropriation of economic surplus and a framing of Latin American development problems in a world capitalist system. This article argues that Latin American neostructuralism's discursive strengths, as well as its analytical weaknesses, stem from the marginalization of power relations from key dimensions of the region's political economy. Since 2000, neostructuralism has exacerbated its descriptive, short-term perspective, further dulling its analytical edge, by focusing on policies that promote social cohesion and state intervention in the cultural and the socioemotional realm. [source] An overview of how sports, out-of-school time, and youth well-being can and do intersectNEW DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, Issue 115 2007Suzanne Le Menestrel This article examines the benefits and disadvantages of participation in organized youth sports and describes a youth development approach to sports programming. The authors summarize what is known about the physical, socioemotional, and cognitive benefits of sports participation. These include health benefits (for example, a reduction in heart disease and diabetes) as well as socioemotional benefits, among them the coping skills of being able to bounce back from problems. The authors describe some of the disadvantages of participation as well. In particular, studies in this area have focused on health risk behaviors and engagement in problem behaviors. The authors present an innovative approach to youth sports and the advantages of implementing this approach using the emerging community youth development framework. Specific examples of youth sports programs are provided that use a positive youth development framework. [source] An Examination of Key Factors of Influence in the Development Process of Credit Union IndustriesANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, Issue 3 2002Alexander Sibbald The aim of this paper is to analyse credit union industries within a development framework. Explicit consideration is given to credit union industries in four countries , Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. It is argued that in terms of a developmental typology the credit union industry in Great Britain is at a nascent stage of development, the industries in Ireland and New Zealand are at a transition stage while the US credit union industry is mature in nature. In progression between stages the analysis considers the influence of factors such as situational leadership, the complexion of trade associations, professionalisation, regulatory and legislative initiatives and technology. The analysis concluded that while there was a substantial commonality of experience, there were also significant differences in the impact of these factors. This consequently encouraged the recognition of the existence of ,a variety of the species' in respect of credit union development. [source] Harnessing the social capital of rural communities for youth mental health: An asset-based community development frameworkAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 4 2008Candice P. Boyd Abstract In Australia, we are facing a period of mental health reform with the establishment of federally funded community youth services in rural areas of the country. These new services have great potential to improve the mental health of rural adolescents. In the context of this new initiative, we have four main objectives with this article. First, we consider the notion of social capital in relation to mental health and reflect on the collective characteristics of rural communities. Second, we review lessons learned from two large community development projects targeting youth mental health. Third, we suggest ways in which the social capital of rural communities might be harnessed for the benefit of youth mental health by using asset-based community development strategies and fourth, we consider the role that rural clinicians might play in this process. [source] | ||||||||||||||||