Conceptual Age Research Articles

The Academic Attributes of Best Human Resources Needed in Creative Education

Creative education includes active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving, reasoning, decision making and evaluation. However, the process requires appropriate human resources with the right academic attributes to guide the process along, most especially in the upcoming conceptual age where people will no longer live in the sequential, logical and analytical order of information age but rather a nonlinear, intuitive and holistic world. Therefore, this paper seeks the knowledge regarding the type of brain require in conceptual age, illuminates on the attributes of best academicians required in creative education. It also proposed the learning and teaching method that academicians in creative education can use in teaching and learning process.

Assessment of Social, Economic and Medical Determinant of Safe Motherhood in Dhaka City: A Cross-Sectional Study

Maternal morbidity is high in developing country because of insufficient attention in pregnancy and lactating period. The objective of this study was to assess safe motherhood in Dhaka city of Bangladeshand to investigate the causes of maternal morbidity. A cross-sectional study with detailed questionnaire was used from January 2008 to December 2008 to collect primary data. A total of 410 respondents, including 245 pregnant women, 130 lactating and 45 delivery patients, were randomly selected from residential area and healthcare centers. Marital and conceptual age, living standards, safe drinking water, environmental hygiene, and sanitation, education, family income per month, money spent on food purpose per month food availability, food intake, vaccination and medicine intake, use of contraceptive, food taboos and misconception, infectious diseases, poor socio-economic condition, present of skilled birth attendant, nutritional education were used as important issue for the assessment of safe motherhood.The study showed that 4.4% of pregnant women did not have any concept about safe motherhood. 8.54% of pregnant women did not take any vaccination during pregnancy and7.68% did not regular medical checkup. It was found that 9.36% were severely anemic during pregnancy, 3.84% during lactation and 6.00% were in delivery cases.UTI, APH, vomiting and high BPwere found in most of the pregnant women in respect of other respondents.Strategies need to upgrade health care systems especially availability of emergency obstetric care is required. The results, therefore suggest that both socio-economic status, availability of medicine and health care facilities and role of husbands in safe motherhood are critical for saving lives of woman.

Early pregnancy failure: beware of the pitfalls of modern management

The evolution of the diagnosis and management of women with an early pregnancy loss has been a success story. The mortality from ectopic pregnancy has objectively been decreased in the past few decades. However, modern management has resulted in a new set of issues. Over-interpretation of a single ultrasound, misunderstanding of the utility of serial hCG values, and inappropriate use of methotrexate can result in iatrogenic complications. Modern management has successfully improved the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy before rupture; it should now also focus on ensuring that an intrauterine pregnancy is not interrupted as a result of diagnosis and treatment. This article reviews some of the pitfalls of the modern management of early pregnancy failure and introduces a series of articles on the subject.

Leading the Future Organisation

The age of mass production with its requirement for high levels of controlled interaction is at an end. The outputs of large, relatively unqualified workforces can now be delivered more quickly and efficiently by technology. The organisation of the twenty first century displays very different characteristics from those of its twentieth century predecessor. The organisation of 2020 will be different again. As we move from the post-industrial age of the knowledge economy into what has been described as the conceptual age organisations are becoming progressively more loosely-knit, constantly reconfiguring entities where a premium is placed on the ability rapidly to adapt to changing competitive environments. Providing leadership to this amorphous entity will be quite a challenge but our models of leadership are still rooted largely in the industrial age and are inappropriate for our current needs, still less our future. Please note this paper was written before the sad death of Steve Jobs.

Development of a novel electronic neonatal nutrition assessment tool: Abstract G73 Table 1

<h3>Background</h3> Poor growth is common in preterm infants in the neonatal period, with poor weight gain, short stature and altered body composition when compared to term infants. Achieving recommended nutrient intakes is difficult; however it is not easy to demonstrate this contemporaneously in routine clinical practice. <h3>Methods</h3> We developed a customised electronic tool (SENNAT) to capture and analyse growth and nutritional data, with the aim of gaining better understanding of neonatal nutrition at individual and population level. SENNAT uses pre-loaded information on the nutritional content of feeds and fluids to calculate an individual9s total daily nutrient intake from daily fluid volumes, and compares these to current recommendations (Tsang 2005). Graphical reports are produced to aid clinical decisions. SENNAT was used to carry out a retrospective review of all infants with a birth weight &lt;1500 g or gestational age at birth &lt;30 weeks, in-born during 2009. <h3>Results</h3> From 70 eligible infants, case notes were available for 64. Intakes of selected nutrients compared to recommendations for the first week of life through to 36 weeks post conceptual age (PCA) are shown in table 1, together with standard deviation scores (SDS) for weight and head circumference. Figures are mean (SD). <h3>Conclusions</h3> Patterns of nutrient intake changed, reflecting periods on parental nutrition, transition to milk feeds and use of nutritional supplements. Intakes of protein were low throughout stay, whilst micronutrient intakes varied. At 36 weeks PCA most intakes were below recommended values and this was reflected in poor growth. We anticipate that modifications to our nutrition policy, combined with weekly assessment using SENNAT, will result in improved nutrient intakes and growth during prospective study in 2012.

Navigating the emerging futures in music education

Our globalized world is having to rediscover and reinvent itself in the face of emergent futures resulting from multiple dynamics, including the breakdown of traditional structures, new capabilities of advanced technologies, new educational agendas and new human needs. This article navigates through several key predictions and recent developments relevant to music education and technology, and urges for a new music education future that is strongly linked with the global knowledge economy in the digital and conceptual age. The new future should give more attention to learners who were under-served in the past, be more coherent with real-world issues and problems, harness the powers of ICT to actualize worthy educational and societal transformation, and locate music effectively as an essential, integral and vibrant aspect of human lives and civilization.

Evaluation of Maturation and Function of Visual Pathways in Neonates

The purpose of our study was to establish the guidelines for interpreting neonatal flash visual-evoked potentials (FVEPs) by examining the correlation between maturation of the waveforms and conceptual age (CA). We retrospectively analyzed 220 consecutive neonatal FVEPs performed on premature and full-term infants. The CA of the participants ranged from 28 to 52 weeks. The FVEPs were categorized into 6 groups according to CA: 28 to 31+ weeks, 32 to 35+ weeks, 36 to 39+ weeks, 40 to 43+ weeks, 44 to 47+ weeks, and 48 to 52 weeks. The data were analyzed in each group and compared among these 6 groups. The waveforms changed from 28 weeks to 52 weeks of CA. In the CA age range 28 to 31+ weeks N3 was well visualized, followed by P3. The morphology of P2 including both latency and amplitude became prominent starting from CA age range 32 to 35+ weeks. The triphasic waveform with clear negative-positive-negative components (N2-P2-N3) presented after 32 weeks. Mean P2 latencies decreased steadily with increasing age. Mean amplitudes of all waveforms (P2-N3 and N3-P3) varied except that of N2-P2 which increased steadily with CA. We conclude that FVEPs can be useful in the evaluation of maturation and function of the visual pathway in neonates. The FVEP is abnormal when the waveforms N3 and P3 are nondetectable in neonates at 28 weeks of CA or older; and when the waveform P2 is non-detectable, or has low amplitude or prolonged latency, in neonates at 36 weeks of CA or older.

Thoughts on Sustainable Development of Chinese Medicine Industry in “High Concept” Era

Abstract With a rapid shift from the “Information Age” to the “Conceptual Age,” creative thinking in the “High Concept” era has been advocated for the human society. The large Chinese medicine industry, as the most original thought, is an integral part of Chinese medicine. The question of the entire industry is how to adapt it to time and achieve sustainable development. According to the requirements for sustainable development of Chinese medicine industry in the era of “High Concept,” eight measures have been proposed. The strategies are as follows: to rationalize the standard management system and increase industry consolidation layout; to intensify policy support, strengthen and expand its Chinese brand; to speed up basic medical research and promote traditional Chinese medicine (TCM); to enhance cultivation of leading enterprises and strengthen TCM industry; to speed up innovations in order to guide and promote effective transformation of technical results; to develop conservation strategies and deal with the impact of “foreign Chinese medicines”; to promote multidisciplinary consortium and play advantage of talent from overseas; to encourage enterprises in the international market and enhance international competitiveness of Chinese medicine.

Preservation of Language in the Ataxic Infant in a Case of Cerebellar Agenesis

An eight-month-old male Caucasian infant presented with ataxia and titubations, which had been noticed shortly after birth. He was born to healthy non-consanguineous parents after an unremarkable pregnancy. There was no maternal use of drugs, alcohol or tobacco. A prenatal ultrasound at 36 weeks conceptual age (performed at the request of the parents since the 20 week ultrasound had not been performed) revealed an enlarged posterior fossa, no cerebellar tissue, a normal corpus callosum and no evidence of hydrocephalus. He was delivered via spontaneous vaginal delivery at 37 weeks gestation without complications. Birth weight was 3630g and the neonatal course was unremarkable. Developmentally, at eight months-of-age he could not sit. A formal developmental assessment at 19 months-of-age revealed gross and fine motor delay. He was pulling to stand and was cruising but was not walking independently. He was able to stack two cubes. He was very social, highly imitative and used over 50 words. His words were clear and there was no dysarthria. His receptive and expressive language skills were deemed to be at the 18-21 month level. Family history was non-contributory. Physical examination at 19 months-of-age revealed weight and height between the 10-25 percentiles and head circumference at the 25th percentile. Head titubation was present throughout the examination. Extraocular movements were full, with bilateral intermittent esotropia. Upon fixing of the head, horizontal nystagmus and saccadic intrusions on smooth pursuit exam were noted. Fundoscopic examination was normal. He had mild truncal hypotonia, with appropriate strength for his age.

The relationship between spiritual management and determinants of turnover intention

PurposeBased on the first part of the service profit chain, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between 11 spiritual management tactics and determinants of turnover intention.Design/methodology/approachA survey on managers and manufacturing employees is conducted. Later, the grey relational analysis to process the data is used together with the multi‐criteria‐weighted average in the decision‐making process to identify degree of relatedness between spiritual management and determinants of employee turnover intention.FindingsThe paper finds that a difference in perception between managers and employees exists with regard to appropriate spiritual management tactics; the former put more emphasis on the tangibles aspects; and the later on the intangibles.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is an exploratory research; so there is lack of other empirical studies in this area, more work needs to be done in regard to reliability and validity of measures of spiritual management. The authors suggest cultural comparison to be studied, to see if those 11 spiritual management tactics has the same effect on employees' turnover in different cultural environments.Practical implicationsThe results indicate that conducting appropriate spiritual management will benefit from reducing employee turnover and then increasing the firm performance.Originality/valueThis paper offers some concrete management suggestions both for the academy and the practice, especially in the new era of conceptual age.

Analysis of Factors Affecting the Change in Axial Length of Premature Infant's Eye

Purpose: To analyze the effect of presence with or absent of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and its stage, birth weight, conceptual age and associated diseases on the axial length of premature infants' eye. Methods: A total of 102 eyes of 51 premature infants less than 36 weeks of conceptual age were evaluated in this study. Fundus examination for ROP and axial length measurement were conducted at 40, 52 and 64 weeks of postconceptual age. The medical records were reviewed retrospectively. Independent t-test analysis, simple regression analysis, and one-way ANOVA were performed to assess the influence of each factor on axial length. Results: The mean axial length at 40, 52 and 64 weeks were 17.35, 18.80 and 19.78 mm, respectively. The mean axial length with and without ROP at 40 weeks were 17.10 mm and 17.54 mm, respectively, which were statistically significant (p=0.000). There was a significant decrease in axial length at 40 weeks in the higher ROP stage (p

21st century inventive thinking skills among primary students in Malaysia and Brunei

Our current 21st century workplace requires workers to master the skills that are essential in a knowledge-based society as well as the new skills necessary to move beyond the information age into the conceptual age. Therefore, in order to succeed in this present economic scenario, students need to be equipped with digital age proficiencies. Analysis of current literature on this issue revealed that elements of the 21st century learning outcomes are the skills, knowledge and expertise students should master to succeed in work and later in life within the compound of the 21st century environment. As a social agent, educational systems of every nation need to transform their objectives, curriculum, pedagogies, and as well as assessments to help the younger generation achieve the outcomes required for a prosperous, attractive lifestyle based on effective contributions in work and citizenship. Essentially, the main purposes of this study are to profile the inventive thinking skills among primary school students in Malaysia and Brunei and to compare the inventive thinking skills among the students with regards to gender. The dimension of inventive thinking skills comprised of adaptability and managing complexity, self direction, curiosity, creativity, risk taking and higher order thinking and sound reasoning. This study, which employed cross sectional survey method, involved 1037 Primary school students from both countries. The results of the findings revealed that there are statistically significant differences in student's inventive thinking skills from both countries in term of gender.

Computer science in the conceptual age

University CS departments are incorporating game design and development to prepare their students for the game industry's expectations.

Factors affecting outcomes in very low birth weight infants treated electively with nasal continuous positive airway pressure

Although interest in nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) to avoid intubation is increasing, there is limited data regarding patient selection and outcome. We sought to determine the baseline parameters associated with failure. In all, 938 cases of elective nCPAP use were extracted from our registry. Two primary end points, Treatment Failure (need for intubation) and Bad Outcome (death, need for respiratory support at 40 weeks post conceptual age, grade 4 intraventricular hemorrhage or periventricular leucomalacia), and 12 potentially predictive baseline parameters were prospectively defined and evaluated using logistic regression. Intubation occurred in 31%, and Bad Outcome occurred in 11%. Besides estimated gestational age (EGA), only a few variables were significant predictors in the multivariate models: Intubation (PaO(2)/FiO(2)<150 or pH< 7.25) and Bad Outcome (FiO(2), low weight for EGA). The relative risk doubled between infants of 34 and 26 weeks EGA and increased by about 50% for those meeting the other criteria. We hope these findings will help those using elective nCPAP to refine their practice and those considering its use in establishing reasonable guidelines, as well as be useful for designing clinical research.

Using dramatic role-play to develop emotional aptitude

As university educators, we need to prepare students for the transition from the information age to what Daniel H. Pink (2005) calls the conceptual age, which is governed by artistry, empathy and emotion, by including in the curricula activities that stimulate both hemispheres of the brain. This can be done by promoting activities that energize what Daniel Goleman (1995) refers to as emotional intelligence, and it further maintains that, as Paul Ekman (2003) suggests, the ability to detect feelings improves communication. Recognizing the need to include in the curricula procedures that help develop students’ right brain aptitudes and enhance their communication skills, I have endeavoured to introduce dramatic scene study as a sustained activity in my English for Specific Purposes courses at the Universidad de Valencia. My aim was to energize the students’ creative and emotional aptitudes, as well as to dynamize effective teamwork. This article sustains that dramatic role-play, based on scripted scene study and related improvisational activities, is one way of achieving this.

New soft clinical indicators of neonatal illness severity (Accepted as a poster)

Background: The Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) Score serves as a standard for assessing neonatal illness severity. Clinicians also use the Clinical Risk Index for Babies (CRIB) score, American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) patient classification system, and Patient‐to‐Chart‐Weight Ratio (PCWR).Aims: This study aimed to determine whether parental behaviour itself accurately reflects illness severity.Method: Following Ethics Committee approval, neonates admitted to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) underwent a 12‐week assessment. Investigators determined weekly PRISM and CRIB scores, ASA classifications, and patient and case note weights. Additionally, investigators catalogued possessions in, around, and adhering to patients’ cribs, placing each into ‘soft toys’, ‘spiritual amulets’ or ‘other items’ categories.Results: Investigators followed 102 neonates, collecting 249 observations. PRISM scores correlated best with the ‘spiritual amulets’ category (R2 = 0.82). TOI (Token and Ornament Index), calculated by combining all possessions in the ‘soft toys’, ‘spiritual amulets’, and ‘other items’ categories, correlated nearly so (R2 = 0.71). CRIB Score (R2 = 0.63), ASA classification (R2 = 0.61), and ‘soft toys’ category (R2 = 0.39) all correlated to lesser degrees. Birth and current weight, post conceptual age, NICU days, and PCWR each demonstrated insignificant correlations, the latter even when adjusted for age, NICU days, birth or current weight.Conclusion: Through gift giving, parents reliably reflect PRISM scores and, by extension, neonatal illness severity. Specifically, number of spiritual amulets alone and TOI correlate well and may therefore serve as independent indicators of clinical status and, potentially, anaesthetic risk. Despite widespread application of PCWR, this study found no support for its validity.Keywords: neonatal intensive care; illness severity; PRISM score; parental behaviour.

Transformation from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age: Impact on Outsourcing

The previous decades have seen the emergence of the Information Age, where the key focus was on knowledge acquisition and application. With the emergence of cross domain disciplines like outsourcing, we are witnessing a trend towards creative knowledge, rational application, and innovation. We are now progressing from an era that was information-dependent towards the era that revolves around concept development. This age, referred to as the Conceptual Age, will be dominated by six new senses - Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play and Meaning - creating a need to diverge from the current reliance on linear and sequential algorithmic practices in outsourcing and to adopt cognition based engineering and management approaches. This paper lays the foundation for Offshore Engineering and Management (OEM) and discusses estimation issues in OEM that have their roots in software engineering. Also, this paper identifies the limitations of the current methodologies from an outsourcing point of view, and delineates how they can be deployed effectively for an outsourced environment.

Fundamentalism of the Mind or Wagging the Long Tail? Google and the future of thinking

Statements about 'the Google Generation' and 'Digital Natives' are creating unhelpful generalizations that block the capacity to intervene in superficial information literacy practices. The goal in this paper is to move beyond the cliches of Web 2.0, offering productive and positive trajectories to move librarians, teachers, students and citizens from the information to the conceptual age. The paper has a particular focus on the consequences for education and economic development of investing simplistic phrases with explanatory power.

Autoethnographic identification of realms of learning for art education in a post-digital age

Realms of learning for art education in a post-digital world are identified through autoethnography, a qualitative research methodology congruent with an emerging paradigm shift beyond the digital culture of the Information Age to a post-digital Conceptual Age that honours the ability to create aesthetic significance, to discern patterns, to craft a meaningful narrative and to combine seemingly unrelated ideas into a novel creation. Realms of learning are brought to light through a narrative that highlights episodes in the life of an artist/ researcher/teacher that have special significance for art education. This autoethnographic enquiry, at the intersections of art, science, technology and culture, identifies interweaving realms that create a colourful fabric of lifelong learning: from awesome immersion, playful exploration, aesthetic creativity and morphological analysis, to interdisciplinary imagination, cybersomatic (computerbody) interactivity, polycultural collaboration, and holistic integration.

Visual Literacy in the Age of Participation

We like to categorize and name things. Naming helps us to create meaning about ourselves and our role in the world. The naming of our times has followed a rich lineage starting with the Hunter/Gatherer Age, moving to the Agriculture Age, the Industrial Age, and most recently leading us to the Information Age. The Information Age has defined much of what we do in our professions for the last several decades, and most library and information science practice derives from notions of the Information Age. However, we are now faced with a changing world of information and services, one that potentially goes beyond information. Can we still characterize our times as the Information Age? The answer to that question has an influence on both user expectations and our role as information profes sionals, especially as we examine the skills and competencies the current age requires, among them visual literacy. There is no shortage of theorists trying to determine the answer to the question of what to name the current era in which we live, floating names such as the Web 2.0 Age,2 the Conceptual Age,3 and the Age of Participation.4 The Information Age, as we know it, began in the mid-twentieth century when the economic base of much of the world shifted from the production of physical goods (Industrial Age) to the production and manipulation of data or information. This shift really took hold in the mid-1980s with the development of the personal computer and blossomed further in the 1990s with widespread development and adoption of the Internet. Just a decade after what many are now calling Web 1.0, a potential new age is upon us. The Information Age and associated Web 1.0 era is being eclipsed by a new Web 2.0 era. In 2004, Tim O'Reilly coined the buzzword Web 2.0 to describe a trend in the use of Web tech