Distinct Qualification Research Articles

Role of OT in Traumatic Brain Injury Transitional Care

Abstract Date Presented 03/23/24 This study reports needs of and barriers for traumatic brain injury (TBI) patient-family dyads in BETTER , a new TBI transitional care intervention, and describes the distinct qualifications of OTs for providing TBI transitional care. Primary Author and Speaker: Melissa Kandel Additional Authors and Speakers: Karen Tracy Johnson Contributing Authors: Tolu O. Oyesanya, HyunBin You

Questions of Identity in Sport Psychology Scholar-Practitioners.

As with other academic disciplines, sport psychology academics working in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK) in lecturer and senior lecturer positions are typically required to hold a PhD in sport psychology or a related discipline. To work in applied practice with athletes, coaches, National Governing Bodies (NGBs), and sporting organisations, practitioners are required to acquire a qualification that affords registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) through either the British Psychology Society (BPS) or the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES). Accordingly, scholar-practitioners, who have "a foot in both worlds" (Tenkasi and Hay, 2008), are required to have two related but distinct qualifications, each of which requires considerable resources (i.e., time, finances, and commitment) to achieve. This paper addresses some of the dilemmas and conflicts that these individuals may encounter in their primary workplace, which typically does not provide for applied practice (either in time or financial incentives). Specifically, issues around the knowledge-transfer gap will be addressed. Real-world examples will be in the form of reflections from the author's own experiences. I am a senior lecturer in sport and exercise psychology at Cardiff Metropolitan University and the programme director of the MSc Sport Psychology. The role requires me to be HCPC registered, as well as have a PhD in sport psychology. I am also an HCPC Practitioner Psychologist, registered following completion of the BPS Qualification in Sport and Exercise Psychology (QSEP). My practice is limited to minimal private work and the supervision of trainee sport psychologists (BPS). At the end of the paper, I leave the reader with three questions to prompt reflection on what being a sport psychologist means and what contributions scholar-practitioners may offer to academic institutions and the clients we work with.

Euthanasia under French law

Under criminal law, euthanasia can have two distinct qualifications: that of homicide in the event that the act of directly killing another person is characterized, or that of assisting a third party in the suicide. These two qualifications are applicable on the condition that the agent — the author of the act of causing death — is not the one who went through it. In fact, selfeuthanasia is nothing more than suicide.In addition to euthanasia imposed to a third party (such as in the case of Malevre, nurse from Mantes-la-Jolie, tried in 2003), the euthanasia requested and subscribed constitutes a complex legal question. Answering this question first involves specifying the position of contemporary criminal law in the face of suicide.In the event that suicide is only decriminalized, in fact, the author of the act — regardless of the outcome of his actions, who is himself the victim, cannot be prosecuted. Nor ultimately receive any condemnation.However, this lack of prosecution and conviction is by no means an endorsement of the act — suicide — by the law.Moreover, in the event that suicide is a right, it would then be necessary to agree that any candidate for this act can request assistance in the accomplishment of his death. Given these two opposing approaches, imposed on us the question of whether there is a right to die.Although the euthanasia imposed is unequivocally under ordinary criminal law, the euthanasia requested and granted is not based on any rights. To date, there is no right to approve a death request, but on the other hand, it does allow it to be respected and to some extent promotes its approach with dignity. This work will focus on two central points which are the possibility that euthanasia is a homicide under common law (I) and the attitude of French law concerning the right to death (II).

Bibliometric Review of Medical Student Research Before Matching Integrated Vascular Surgery

BackgroundResearch output is one element of a multifactorial process that residency programs consider when evaluating applicants. However, there are minimal data assessing research productivity on admittance into research-oriented integrated vascular surgery residency (RO-IVSR) programs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of peer-reviewed research and the RO-IVSR match process. Material and methodsVascular surgery residents who matched into an RO-IVSR in 2015-2017 were divided into those matching an RO-IVSR top 10 program versus other. Total publications, first authorships, and type of research were compared between groups. Mann-Whitney U-tests were then performed between discrete levels of research productivity (0-1 versus ≥2 publications) to detect differences in ability to match a top 10 program. ResultsOne hundred and fifty-eight residents published a total of 214 original research articles (83%), 26 case reports (10%), and 19 systematic reviews (7%). There were 66 first authorships (25%). Median total publications at RO-IVSR top 10 versus other programs were 2 versus 1 (P < 0.01). Top 10 IVSR had a significant difference in median publications for all other research categories. The ability to match into a top 10 program by discrete levels of research productivity at 0-1 versus 2+ showed significance (P < 0.05) in all research categories, including total publications, first authorships, and H-index. ConclusionsThere was significantly higher research productivity among medical students who matriculate to top 10 IVSR programs. Furthermore, having 2 or more publications significantly increased the likelihood of attending a top 10 program. Thus, top programs likely use an applicants’ research productivity as a distinct qualification category and a marker of future success.

Do more severe incidents lead to more drastic decisions? A study of professional child protection decision making in Spain

In the field of child protection, decision-making is a very complex task involving professionals with distinct qualifications, working in diverse sectors of the system (from social services to the courts) and incidents that vary in the type and seriousness of suspected maltreatment. Decisions made at the various levels of the child protection system encounter frequent disagreements. In an attempt to better understand differences in the assessment of suspected child maltreatment and the protection measure taken, and using vignettes involving neglect, physical and sexual abuse, four professional sectors that are typically involved in child protection cases in Spain were analyzed: local social services, emergency residential units, specialized child protection professionals and judges. The sample was comprised of 84 professionals. The results showed that the correlation between the severity of the assessment and the intensity of the action taken was significant, but only moderate. The reason may lay in the differences between the various professional sectors (more than in the professionals’ qualifications) and in the scant use, in the decision making process, of the available professional tools, such as checklists of indicators and professional protocols.

The History of the Glasgow School of Art Fashion Show an Evolving Pedagogy

This article discusses a research project which utilized archive sources to construct the history of an art school fashion show, to examine the event as higher education (HE) learning and teaching method. The study of textiles has been part of the activities of the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) since its inception. Fashion as a discipline resulting in a distinct qualification is relatively new to the School. However, GSA’s fashion show began in 1947 and this article focuses on a study undertaken to celebrate the seventieth-anniversary of the event. The collaborative project involved staff from GSA’s Department of Fashion & Textiles, Archives & Collections (A&C) and Alumni Relations. The GSA archive was essential to the inquiry as it contains a wealth of information relating to the history of the School, its staff and students. The project methodology combined archival investigation, documentary and visual analysis, and participant feedback, towards exhibition curation. Outcomes from the project included an exhibition which ran alongside the 2017 student fashion shows and accompanying student-led events. This article provides insight into the types of archival material utilized and discusses the historical development of the show focusing on its evolving role in learning and teaching. The concluding section proposes areas for further investigation and highlights issues for consideration by collectors, institutions and archives.

Combined and sequential liver\u2013kidney transplantation in children

Combined and sequential liver–kidney transplantation (CLKT and SLKT) is a definitive treatment in children with end-stage organ failure. There are two major indications: - terminal insufficiency of both organs, or - need for transplanting new liver as a source of lacking enzyme or specific regulator of the immune system in a patient with renal failure. A third (uncommon) option is secondary end-stage renal failure in liver transplant recipients. These three clinical settings use distinct qualification algorithms. The most common indications include primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD), followed by liver diseases associated with occasional kidney failure. Availability of anti-C5a antibody (eculizumab) has limited the validity of CLKT in genetic atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS). The liver coming from the same donor as renal graft (in CLKT) is immunologically protective for the kidney and this provides long-term rejection-free follow-up. No such protection is observed in SLKT, when both organs come from different donors, except uncommon cases of living donation of both organs. Overall long-term outcome in CLKT in terms of graft survival is good and not different from isolated liver or kidney transplantation, however patient survival is inferior due to complexity of this procedure.

ПРАВОВА ПРИПОДА ДЕРИВАТИВІВ ТА ПОХІДНИХ ЦІННИХ ПАПЕРІВ ЯК ІНСТРУМЕНТІВ ФІНАНСОВИХ РИНКІВ

The article reveals the issues of legal nature of derivative securities and derivatives as financial instruments, their characteristic features in comparison with ordinary securities, explores theoretical background for their differentiation and distinct qualification of these two different legal categories. The author of the article analyzes broad and narrow interpretation of the concept of a derivative security in doctrinal and practical dimensions, specific features of derivatives as standardized financial contracts and outlines their key attributes which allows to distinguish them from similar instruments. This article also deals with an important theoretical issue concerning the possibility of qualification of depositary receipts as derivative securities, taking into consideration the distinctive features of legal relationship arising in the area of issue and trading in depositary receipts.

An occupational ergonomics in the Indonesian state mandatory sustainable forest management instrument: A review

Designed as a biodiversity-maintenance concept, Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) considers not only forest for its ecological function, but also forestry workers whom play a significant role in executing the SFM program in the implementation stage. By using occupational ergonomics approach, this paper aims to examine how the Indonesian mandatory SFM certification, the so-called Pengelolaan Hutan Produksi Lestari (PHPL) positioned forestry workers in its SFM scheme. This issue is important since forestry work is a well-known profession with high occupational safety and health (OSH) risk. Content analysis on occupational ergonomics-related national policies and the mandatory PHPL Criteria and Indicators (C&I), and interviews with forest managers, PHPL auditor, and forestry workers indicate the poor performance of the instrument to assess the occupational-ergonomics-related factors at a practical level. This study reveals that PHPL is more of administrative liability obligation fulfillments rather than performance-based fulfillments (meanwhile, OSH status should be seen as an outcome of a good safety culture rather than an artifact/document). This study verifies content-overlap among the verifiers, content mismatch between the verifiers and the actual characteristic of forest operation, and the absence of distinct assessment standard. This study also discovers the existence of “ergonomics holes” in the PHPL C&I: (1) promoting a safe working environment for forestry workers, (2) distinct organization structural linkage on safety responsibility assignments, (3) emergency procedure, (4) distinct qualification for heavy machine operator and chemical technician, (5) sub-contract workers, and (6) the importance of management commitment and workers' participation. Revision on PHPL should seriously consider integrating OSH and well-being aspect as mentioned in Indonesia's national policies concerning manpower and occupational safety.

Physical therapy clinical specialization and management of red and yellow flags in patients with low back pain in the United States

ObjectivesPhysical therapists (PTs) may practice in direct access or act as primary care practitioners, which necessitate patients’ screening and management for red, orange and yellow flags. The objective of the project was to assess the American PT’s ability to manage red, orange and yellow flags in patients with low back pain (LBP), and to compare this ability among PTs with different qualifications.MethodsThe project was an electronic cross-sectional survey. The investigators contacted 2,861 PTs. Participants made clinical decisions for three vignettes: LBP with red flag for ectopic pregnancy, with orange flag for depression and with yellow flag for fear avoidance behaviour (FAB). The investigators used logistic regression to compare management of warning flags among PTs with distinct qualifications: orthopaedic clinical specialists (PTOs), fellows of the AAOMPT (PTFs), PTOs and PTFs (PTFOs), and PTs without clinical specialization (PTMSs).ResultsA total of 410 PTs completed all sections of the survey (142 PTOs, 110 PTFOs, 74 PTFs and 84 PTMSs). Two hundred and seventeen PTs (53%) managed the patient with LBP and symptoms of ectopic pregnancy correctly, 115 PTs (28.5%) of them managed the patient with LBP and symptoms of depression correctly, and 177 (43.2%) managed the patient with LBP and FAB correctly.DiscussionIn general, PTs with specialization performed significantly better than PTMSs in all three clinical vignettes. PTs ability to manage patients with warning flags was relatively low. Based on our results, further education on patients with LBP and warning flags is needed. The survey had the potential for non-response and self-selection bias.Level of Evidence: 3b.

Schizophrenia in adolescence

Schizophrenia with childhood and adolescent onset is a serious clinical/social problem. It has been attempted to specify main clinical/dynamic sex-related characteristics of early onset schizophrenia, prognostic criteria and parameters of outcome. The results of a long-term (1995-2014) clinical follow-up study of outpatients of a psychoneurological dispensary and inpatients of a Moscow Psychiatric Hospital №15, aged 15-17 years, were analyzed. There was the predominance of men over women (4:1). The evidence of poor outcome of childhood and adolescent onset schizophrenia was obtained. At the age of 18 years, no one patient had stable remission, more than 40% of the patients were disabled since childhood. Most of adolescents were disabled in one or another activity. At the same time, there was a relative stabilization of the early malignant variants of schizophrenia resulted in oligophrenia-like deficit. The delayed (for several years) and frequently mistaken diagnosis and the absence of adequate treatment are the most robust premises of the development of early disability, along with the severity of destructive potential of the disease. The more distinct qualification of early symptoms of schizophrenia with childhood and adolescent onset, search for social/therapeutic approaches directed to the prevention of exacerbations and prophylaxis of social incompetence of adolescents are needed.

Social Pedagogy – A New Paradigm in Romanian School Education?

Social pedagogy is not, for now, a distinct qualification in the Romanian university environment. It means that nobody having a qualification of a high level plays in the Romanian school educational environment some specific roles. That is why the author proposes several basic coordinates for an academic qualification in social pedagogy, revealing a series of competences remained uncovered with respect to child welfare in Romania. Such coordinates are relevant for an occupational analysis. DACUM methodology was applied to highlight certain duties, tasks and main competencies associated to the occupation of social pedagogue directed to a bachelor degree level. The criteria based on which such roles were described are those mentioned by Zane Berge (1995), namely: pedagogical, social, managerial, technical.

Diploma to degree 1976 to 1993

The debate on degree education for radiographers began in earnest in the mid-1970s. Initially the debate hinged around whether a degree education was necessary for radiographers. One argument was that it was felt that a degree would separate academic and clinical training but eventually when degrees were introduced practical skills were assessed formally for the first time; something that had not been achieved with the Diploma of the College of Radiographers (DCR).The DCR itself became a barrier to degree education as the College of Radiographers (CoR) insisted that it was the only qualification recognised for state registration and as such would have to remain embedded as a distinct qualification within a degree.A major breakthrough came when the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) recognised the DCR at the same level as an ordinary degree. Around the same time the CoR published its Degree Rationale which announced a change in policy by not insisting that the DCR was sacrosanct.Developments followed rapidly and the first honours degree in radiography was validated in 1989 despite opposition from scientific officers at the Department of Health. Degrees were approved for state registration and radiography became a graduate profession by 1993 following years of debate and after overcoming opposition from both within and external to the profession.

Toward a Clarification of the Block-Demsetz Debate on Psychic Income and Externalities

For over a quarter of a century, one small corner of the voluminous literature on the Coase theorem has been the scene of an animated and, at times, heated debate between Walter Block and Harold Demsetz. Over the entire course of the debate, Block (1977, 1995, 2000) has argued that when individuals have only psychic income with which to maintain their property rights, the Coase theorem fails. And Block (1977, 1995) holds the position that his psychic income case represents a conceptually distinct qualification to the Coasian position. Demsetz (1979, 1997) maintains that Block’s case against the Coase theorem, at least in its weak form, involves nothing more than a demonstration of the potential importance of income effects and as such does not constitute a conceptually distinct qualification.

The Journal of Vascular Surgery: 1982 to 1990

The Journal of Vascular Surgery: 1982 to 1990

Synthetic Membranes: State of the art

Synthetic membranes are used for a great variety of separation processes such as dialysis, electrodialysis, hemodialysis and hemofiltration, ultra-and hyperfiltration, and pervaporation, listing the most usual ones, where the process is generally designated according to the applied driving force such as a concentration, electrical potential, or pressure difference, respectively, across the membrane. Rather common requirements on the membranes used for separation processes are high flux, excellent permselectivity, chemical and partially temperature resistivity as well as high durability (long life time), to name the most important ones out of additional distinct qualifications which a membrane has to meet regarding an individual application. Therefore, a great deal of work was spent during the last 25 years for the development of the best possible membranes using almost every available polymeric material. At the beginning of membrane research, natural polymers such as cellulose and cellulose derivatives were essentially employed for the preparation of appropriate membranes such as collodion and cellulose acetate, for instance. These polymeric materials became rediscovered for the preparation of desalination membranes installed into hyperfiltration modules for the production of fresh water from brackish and seawater. In this connection, new membrane structures and configurations were designed besides the common homogeneous flat sheet membrane in order to meet the demands of high flux and high packaging density of a corresponding membrane module. With respect to an improved packaging density, spiral-wound, tubular, capillary, and hollow-fine fiber modules were designed in addition to the classical plate and frame module. Moreover, asymmetric and so-called composite membranes were developed to generate high flux membranes possessing the same selectivity as the corresponding homogeneous ones. Concurrently to the development of new membrane structures and configurations, new polymeric materials such as polyamides, polyimides, polysulfone, polypropylene, polycarbonate, polyurethane, copolyacryl nitriles, silicone, polytetrafluor ethylene (PTFE), and polybenzimidazolone, for example, were cast into membranes of improved transport properties and chemical resistivity. The different membranes together with their structure and field of application as well as their advantages and disadvantages will be discussed.