Basic physical setting

Child development reflects interactions between personal characteristics and the physical and social environment. Psychology, however, lacks analysis of physical features that influence child development. In this article, I describe a preliminary taxonomy of physical-setting characteristics that can influence child development, focusing on environmental stressors such as noise, crowding, and chaos along with structural quality of housing, day care, and schools. Adverse outcomes associated with suboptimal physical settings during childhood include cognitive and socioemotional difficulties along with chronic physiological stress. Both direct effects on the child as well as indirect effects occurring via significant persons surrounding the child are described. Methodological limitations, particularly reliance on observational studies, are a weakness in the current literature, but increasingly more rigorously obtained findings yield converging evidence of the effects of physical settings on child development.

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SURG-29. A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE OF USING INTRA-OPERATIVE MRI IN MANAGING PEDIATRIC CRANIAL NEURO-ONCOLOGY CASES

Neuro-Oncology ◽

10.1093/neuonc/noaa222.818 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (Supplement_3) ◽

pp. iii464-iii464

Author(s):

Dharmendra Ganesan ◽

Nor Faizal Ahmad Bahuri ◽

Revathi Rajagopal ◽

Jasmine Loh PY ◽

Kein Seong Mun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Standard Operating Procedure ◽

Ferromagnetic Material ◽

Extent Of Resection ◽

Kuala Lumpur ◽

Data Set ◽

Single Centre Experience ◽

Physical Setting ◽

Paediatric Case ◽

High Level ◽

The University

Abstract The University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur had acquired a intraoperative MRI (iMRI) brain suite via a public private initiative in September 2015. The MRI brain suite has a SIEMENS 1.5T system with NORAS coil system and NORAS head clamps in a two room solution. We would like to retrospectively review the cranial paediatric neuro-oncology cases that had surgery in this facility from September 2015 till December 2019. We would like to discuss our experience with regard to the clear benefits and the challenges in using such technology to aid in the surgery. The challenges include the physical setting up the paediatric case preoperatively, the preparation and performing the intraoperative scan, the interpretation of intraoperative images and making a decision and the utilisation of the new MRI data set to assist in the navigation to locate the residue safely. Also discuss the utility of the intraoperative images in the decision of subsequent adjuvant management. The use of iMRI also has other technical challenges such as ensuring the perimeter around the patient is free of ferromagnetic material, the process of transfer of the patient to the scanner and as a consequence increased duration of the surgery. CONCLUSION: Many elements in the use of iMRI has a learning curve and it improves with exposure and experience. In some areas only a high level of vigilance and SOP (Standard operating procedure) is required to minimize mishaps. Currently, the iMRI gives the best means of determining extent of resection before concluding the surgery.

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Symbolism in Coleridge

PMLA ◽

10.1632/459414 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 214-233

Author(s):

Elmer Edgar Stoll

Keyword(s):

Blood Stream ◽

Human Existence ◽

The Tempest ◽

The Feminine ◽

Physical Setting ◽

Hunting Ground ◽

Holy Place

After The Tempest, The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan are now the happiest hunting-ground for the symbolist. Mr. Wilson Knight's interpretation of both poems, but particularly of the latter, in The Starlit Dome (1941), is, to say the least, extraordinary; still more so than the similar one of Mr. Robert Graves in The Meaning of Dreams (1924), though not so entangled with inaccurate biography and irrelevant psychoanalysis. “We may imagine a sexual union,” says Mr. Knight, between life, the masculine, and death, the feminine. Then our “romantic chasm” and “cedarn cover,” the savage and enchanted yet holy place with its “half intermitted burst” may be, in spite of our former reading, vaguely related to the functioning of man's creative organs and their physical setting and, too, to all principles of manly and adventurous action; while the caverns that engulf the sacred river will be correspondingly feminine with a dark passivity and infinite peace. The pleasure-dome we may fancy as the pleasure of a sexual union in which birth and death are the great contesting partners, with human existence as the life-stream, the blood-stream, of a mighty coition [p. 95].

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Challenges for Collecting Questionnaire-Based Onsite Survey Data in a Niche Tourism Market Context: The Case of Wine Tourism in Rural Areas

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132112251 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (21) ◽

pp. 12251

Author(s):

Diana Cunha ◽

Elisabeth Kastenholz ◽

Bernard Lane

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Best Practice ◽

Online Forums ◽

Research Subjects ◽

Wine Tourism ◽

The Social ◽

Physical Setting ◽

Data Validity ◽

Sample Recruitment

Questionnaire-based surveys are among the most widespread data collection methods in tourism research. However, the special features of rural tourism, with frequently spontaneous, non-massive visitation patterns and sparse visitor numbers, pose challenges to onsite questionnaire administration. Researchers must address these problems to make sample recruitment easier and more effective, while maintaining the goals of representativeness of population and data validity. Using the rural wine tourism context, this article identifies the major challenges for questionnaire-based onsite surveys and suggests best practice procedures. Challenges are discussed using three complementary perspectives: of the supply agents, of the research subjects (the visitors) and of the researchers. The article presents the theory and case study-inspired reflection on the potential strategies of overcoming these challenges and guaranteeing the largest possible number of visitors surveyed in contexts where visitors are few. The discussion includes the questionnaire’s characteristics; the physical setting of its administration; the researchers involved; the visitors approached; the social interactions and influences occurring during the process. Issues with the future use of alternative online forums are also discussed.

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Chapter 1. Physical Setting

Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands ◽

10.1515/9780824843441-002 ◽

1989 ◽

pp. 1-13

Keyword(s):

Physical Setting

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HUBUNGAN KONSEP SETING FISIK DAN KONSEP PERILAKU DI AREA DEPAN GEDUNG REKTORAT Studi Kasus: Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta

ATRIUM - Jurnal Arsitektur ◽

10.21460/atrium.v2i1.54 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 65-75

Author(s):

Adimas Kristiadi

Keyword(s):

Behavior Pattern ◽

State University ◽

Quality Factors ◽

Behavior Setting ◽

Physical Setting ◽

Social Comfort ◽

Activity Behavior ◽

Physical Comfort ◽

And Behavior ◽

The University

Title: The Relation of Physical Setting Concept and Behavior Concept in the Front of Rectorate Building, Case Study: Yogyakarta State University Students are the "actors" in the university because of their activities. Students need a certain space in the environment around the university. It becomes interesting when students do their activities around the building that is also the environment for rector and university employees, those happened at the area in front of Yogyakarta State University (UNY) rectorate building. There was a cozy quality (fit) space in there based on perception (cognition and schemata) and adaptation of UNY students for area of the UNY rectorate building. There were some quality factors (property) which is included as environment (physical setting) that affect the activity (behavior) of UNY students. The correlation between activity (behavior pattern) and specific environmental order (physical setting) interpreted as behavior setting. The method used is deductive-qualitative with rationalist paradigm. The data obtained were the result of observation, behavior mapping, interviews, questionnaires, with induction analyzed. The results are: 1) the vertical property provided physical comfort and social comfort; 2) the proximity property provided environmental comfort; 3) the artificial lighting distribution property provided social comfort; 4) the property of which describes the situation of natural protection provided physical comfort and environmental comfort.

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Practical barriers in using educational computer games

On the Horizon ◽

10.1108/10748120410540454 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 18-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Simon Egenfeldt‐Nielsen

Keyword(s):

Computer Games ◽

Educational Setting ◽

Time Schedule ◽

Technical Problems ◽

Teacher Background ◽

Physical Setting ◽

Educational Computer ◽

The Subject ◽

Strategy Game ◽

Educational Computer Games

This paper outlines the barriers for using computer games in an educational setting by drawing on a study of a two‐month history course with the historical strategy game Europa Universalis II. The paper draws on the limited earlier literature on the subject to identify classic areas of difficulty. Some of these are time schedule, physical setting, class expectations, teacher background, genre knowledge, technical problems, experience with group work, teacher preparation, perception of games, class size, priority issue. It is concluded that these factors add up to a tremendous workload on teachers that wish to engage with educational computer games and demands that the teacher possesses a variety of skills.

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