22 research outputs found
Acceptability of a Positive Parenting Programme on a Mother and Baby Unit: Q-Methodology with Staff
Get PDFThe Baby Triple P Positive Parenting Programme, a new addition to the established Triple P programmes, is currently being considered for a trial in a Mother and Baby Unit with the aim of exploring its benefits to mothers presenting with severe mental illness. The aim of the current study was to investigate staff views of the acceptability and feasibility of a parenting programme such as the Baby Triple P Positive Parenting Programme in a Mother and Baby Unit. Q-methodology, using an 88-item Q-sort, was employed to explore the opinions of 16 staff working in a Mother and Baby Unit in the North West of England. Results obtained from the Q-sort analysis identified two distinct factors: (1) staff qualified acceptance and (2) systemic approach/systemic results. Preliminary findings indicate that staff perceived Baby Triple P to be an acceptable and feasible intervention for the Mother and Baby Unit setting and that mothers on the unit would be open and receptive to the programme. Further research is required to expand these findings and assess the potential for this type of intervention to be used more widely across a number of Mother and Baby Unit settings
Acceptability of a Positive Parenting Programme on a Mother and Baby Unit: Q-Methodology with Staff
Full text linkSchool-level variation in health outcomes in adolescence: analysis of three longitudinal studies in England
Get PDFSchool factors are associated with many health outcomes in adolescence. However, previous studies report inconsistent findings regarding the degree of school-level variation for health outcomes, particularly for risk behaviours. This study uses data from three large longitudinal studies in England to investigate school-level variation in a range of health indicators. Participants were drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, the Me and My School Study and the Research with East London Adolescent Community Health Survey. Outcome variables included risk behaviours (smoking, alcohol/cannabis use, sexual behaviour), behavioural difficulties and victimisation, obesity and physical activity, mental and emotional health, and educational attainment. Multi-level models were used to calculate the proportion of variance in outcomes explained at school level, expressed as intraclass correlations (ICCs) adjusted for gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status of the participants. ICCs for health outcomes ranged from nearly nil to .28 and were almost uniformly lower than for attainment (.17-.23). Most adjusted ICCs were smaller than unadjusted values, suggesting that school-level variation partly reflects differences in pupil demographics. School-level variation was highest for risk behaviours. ICCs were largely comparable across datasets, as well as across years within datasets, suggesting that school-level variation in health remains fairly constant across adolescence. School-level variation in health outcomes remains significant after adjustment for individual demographic differences between schools, confirming likely effects for school environment. Variance is highest for risk behaviours, supporting the utility of school environment interventions for these outcomes
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Creep and Fracture of Ice and Surface Strain Measurements on glaciers and sea ice
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The cause of the breakup of fast ice on March 18, 1980 near Syowa Station, East Antarctica
Get PDFThe complete breakup of the fast ice around Ongul Islands occurred on March 18,1980. This rare event gave rise to the disaster of the loss of two airplanes moored on ice near Syowa Station. The breakup is caused by the action of swell originating from a wind-blown open sea under a strong depression. The necessary wave height for the breakup of ice plates into pieces less than 100m length is computed from a theory based on the concept that fracture takes place when an ice plate suffers a critical strain in bending by the passage of swell under it. The critical strain is defined as the strain at which a crack of certain length at the bottom of an ice plate begin to propagate and it can be determined by both the experimentally obtained material constant K_ (fracture toughness of sea ice) and the dimension of a crack. The computed wave height necessary to break an ice plate 1m thick under 12s wave period is approximately 40cm and this coincides well with observed wave height in the tide-gauge record at Syowa Station on the day of the event. Wave analyses carried out from meteorological data obtained at Syowa Station and by satellite imagery indicate that the swell damped a little on the open sea but very much in ice-covered sea as the wave height decreased from several meters to several tens of centimeter after traveling 10 or 20km
John Roundell Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne from John Roundell Palmer, Fourth earl of selborne. 24 March 1940—12 February 2021
No full textOccasionally, the Royal Society confers a fellowship on individuals not because of distinction in any one branch of science but rather for their contribution to science as a whole. Among that select group of Fellows was John Roundell Palmer, fourth Earl of Selborne GBE DL FRS, who was elected in 1991. A member of the House of Lords for nearly 50 years, a primary focus for his work was the interface between science and technology on the one hand, and policy and legislation on the other. He was elected Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology twice, being involved in some of the defining issues in the science agenda over those times. His involvement in the horticultural and agriculture business of his family's estate in Hampshire made him aware of how science research could be of great benefit to the agricultural sector and society at large. His interest led to his becoming the chair of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), where his ability to achieve a consensus between people with diverse views enabled complex projects to progress. He joined the House of Lords in 1971 as a hereditary peer. In addition, he used his skills and wide-ranging interests to engage with a range of bodies across different sectors. He was at different times: President of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers (IBG)); Chair of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Chancellor of the University of Southampton; Chair of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Master of the Mercers’ Company; member of the Board of Lloyds Bank plc; Chair of Living with Environmental Change; Chair of the Foundation for Science and Technology; and chair or adviser to many other organizations. His contribution to the dialogue between science policy and society was recognized by the award of KBE in 1987 and GBE in 2011
