Variables Affecting Veterinary Students’ Ability to Accurately Interpret Ovulation in Live Mare Palpation

2021 ◽  
pp. e20210031
Author(s):  
Diana Fanelli ◽  
Matteo Tesi ◽  
Alessandra Rota ◽  
Duccio Panzani ◽  
Francesco Camillo
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Difference ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Prospective Evaluation ◽  
Dominant Follicle ◽  
Retrospective Evaluation ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Large Follicle ◽  
Hands On

In a veterinary medicine curriculum, students’ hands-on practice is essential but is still considered one of the major deficiencies in veterinary schools in Europe. After theoretical and basic practical training, students, under the control of experienced veterinarians (supervisors), monitored the reproductive cycle of embryo recipients by transrectal palpation and ultrasound. To evaluate the skills of students, the question “Has she ovulated?” was posed when a dominant follicle ≥ 35 mm was recorded in the previous day’s examination and a score of 1 or 0 was assigned in the case of a correct or incorrect answer (test palpation), respectively. Study 1 involved the retrospective evaluation of 3,509 test palpation records of 43 students (31 females, 12 males) and showed a statistically significant positive correlation between the number of test palpations performed and the proportion of correct answers. There was a statistically significant effect of the number of test palpations performed by each student, their gender, and the season on the correct answers. When performing > 50 test palpations, a statistical difference between gender was observed ( p < .05). Study 2 involved the prospective evaluation of 687 records on 52 standardbred or thoroughbred recipient mares collected from nine right-handed female students. The different mares, breed, occurrence of ovulation on the left or right ovary, and the presence of one or more large follicle(s) per ovary had no effect on the correct answers ( p > .05). Individual students’ performances were statistically different ( p < .05), ranging from 60% to 92%.

scholarly journals The Impact of a Training Program for Families of Students with Learning Disabilities in Activating Familial Participation and Reducing Learning Disabilities Aspects and Developing the Academic Achievement of Their Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ahmad Bairat ◽  
Akef Abdullah Al-Khateeb
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Training Period ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Performance Scale

The study aimed at building a training program for the families of students with learning disabilities to activate the familial participation and reduce learning disabilities aspects and develop the academic achievement of such students. The study’s sample composed of (46) families and (46) male and female students from these families. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers prepared a list to assist the familial participation applied on the families before and after the training period; they used the scale of (Sartawi,1995) to reveal the learning disabilities of their children applied before and after the training period, as well as the scale of academic achievement (educational packages,2010), moreover; they built the suggested program to activate the familial participation. The study concluded that there were statistically significant differences between the pre-measurement and post-measurement in favor of the post-measurement regarding the students’ performance in relation to the learning disabilities aspects. It also showed that there were statistically significant differences between the pre-measurement and post-measurement in favor of the post-measurement regarding the students’ performance in relation to the academic performance scale (educational packages,2010), furthermore; there were statistically significant positive correlation between the familial participation and learning disabilities aspects, and between the familial participation and the academic achievement.

Sex Differences in Mental Rotation Performance Through Holding Weights By the Hands

2020 ◽  
pp. 027623662095233
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Muto ◽  
Soyogu Matsushita ◽  
Kazunori Morikawa
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Error Rates ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Mental Rotation Task ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Sensorimotor Processes

Mental rotation is known to be mediated by sensorimotor processes. To deepen our understanding of the role of somatosensory inputs in mental rotation, we investigated the effects of holding weight by the hands on mental rotation performance. In an experiment, 22 male and 22 female students performed a chronometric mental rotation task while holding either light or heavy bags in both hands. Results showed that females holding heavy bags were quicker and more accurate at mental rotation than females holding light bags, as evidenced by shallower slopes for response times (RTs) and error rates. In contrast, males showed no such heavy-bag-induced improvement. Unlike slopes, intercepts for RTs and error rates were equivalent regardless of sex and bag weight. Consistent with previous research on embodied cognition, the present findings demonstrated the facilitatory role of somatosensory cues by weight in mental rotation and suggested sex differences in embodied processes in mental rotation.

scholarly journals Online Plasma Diagnostics in the Remote Spectroscopy Laboratory for Practical Training and Experimental Research

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Alexander Zimin ◽  
Andrey Shumov ◽  
Vladislav Troynov ◽  
Ivan Zemtsov
Keyword(s):  
Computer Network ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Plasma Spectroscopy ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Remote Lab ◽  
Remote Spectroscopy ◽  
Experimental Facilities ◽  
Computerized System ◽  
Control Facility ◽  
Global Computer

This paper deals with an integrated Internet-based education laboratory that allows both practical lab sessions and full-blown research projects to be carried out using state-of-the-art experimental facilities. The setup of a system that controls lab equipment via a global computer network is described, and a distributed hardware and software control facility supporting remote lab operations is considered in terms of its structural arrangement and component interaction. We present a computer-aided dispatch-and-information system that allows students to generate their own experiment scenarios, conduct experiments remotely, and store/process experimental results from their personal cabinets. We also discuss the peculiarities of developing a computerized system to support plasma spectroscopy hands-on education and research. Further emphasis is given to the laboratory modernization, regarding both hardware and result processing software.

scholarly journals Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNe) Preparedness: Perceptions of Australian Emergency Department (ED) Doctors and Nurses

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s9-s9
Author(s):  
Karen Hammad ◽  
Jamie Ranse ◽  
Luc Mortelmans
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Statistical Difference ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Binary Responses ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Disaster Training ◽  
Previous Training ◽  
Doctors And Nurses

Introduction:Clinicians working in emergency departments (ED) play a vital role in the healthcare response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNe) events. However, ED clinicians’ individual and workplace preparedness for CBRNe events is largely unknown.Aim:The aim of this research was to explore Australian ED nurses and doctors’ perceptions of individual and workplace preparedness related to CBRNe events.Methods:The study populations were Australian nurses and doctors who work in EDs. Data was collected via a survey with 43 questions requiring binary responses or a rating on a Likert scale. The survey consisted of questions relating to the participant’s previous disaster training, perceived likelihood of a CBRNe event impacting their ED, perceived level of knowledge, perceived personal preparedness, perception of ED preparedness, and willingness to attend their workplace. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Results:There were 244 complete responses, 92 (37.7%) doctors and 152 (62.3%) nurses. When comparing doctors and nurses, there was a statistical difference between gender (p = < 0.001), length of employment (p = < 0.001), and role in the ED (p = < 0.001). Doctors and nurses had a similar level of previous training except for practical training in mask fitting (p = 0.033). CBRNe events were considered separately. Perceived level of knowledge, perceived personal preparedness, and perception of ED preparedness were significant predictors of willingness to work in all CBRNe event. Perceived likelihood of a CBRNe event impacting their ED was not a predictor of willingness.Discussion:This research contributes to an overview of the current status of Australian ED clinicians’ preparedness for CBRNe response. To increase the willingness of ED doctors and nurses attending their workplace for a CBRNe event, strategies should focus on enhancing individuals perceived level of knowledge, perceived personal preparedness, and perception of ED preparedness.

Some specifics of conducting health and safety hands-on training in the higher school as part of the teaching practice of a graduate student

2017 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Leonid Kiyashko ◽  
Gulnara Manyakova ◽  
Evelina Riyanova ◽  
Tatyana Bredneva ◽  
Aleksey Elizarev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Hands On

Objective: studying some specifics of providing training in preparing a person for choosing the right solution in the face of most probable emergencies against the background of growing manmade activities of modern society, more frequent destructive natural calamities, political, interracial and military conflicts for the purpose of ensuring human health and safety. In the higher school, such training is conducted in studying a compulsory general professional subject called “Health and safety training course” that takes its rightful place in a set of subjects where life and health are of the first priority on the human values scale and is compulsory for all educational institutions irrespective of their specialization profile. Methods: The subjects of the theoretical part of the course may be of a general nature and be prepared by a lecturer based on a tentative syllabus of the course. At the same time, practical training and laboratory practicals in the course may be conducted as part of the teaching practice of 280401 “Technosphere safety” graduate students that have as a rule had higher education as a bachelor’s degree in the major during their senior years. Results: An extensive list of university majors requires a reasonable approach to choosing subjects for practical training and laboratory practicals in the “Health and safety training course”. It has a special significance in deciding on students’ research papers. Practical importance: A wide variety of subjects in the above training is a singularly burning issue in conducting hands-on training sessions for engineering students and also humanities or economics students in the higher education system (a bachelor’s degree, specialist degree).

scholarly journals Power Electronics Education A Contemporary Teaching Appproach

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
José Roberto Quezada Peña ◽  
Brenda Irla Cardoso Feitosa ◽  
Jefferson William Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Power Electronics ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Logic Device ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Labview Fpga

Currently, there is a growing demand for methodologies that best qualify engineering students at universities. These methodologies require a substantial change in Engineering Teaching programs improving or even changing the traditional ways of imparting knowledge to students. In Power Electronics (PE) study the factors that make learning difficult for Electrical Engineering students, in order for them to achieve full understanding of the subjects addressed in a first discipline in this area, are the academic maturity required coupled with their multidisciplinary nature. The problem is aggravated in practical activities, which demand the availability of a laboratory infrastructure with specific characteristics not always available. An alternative for the study of PE, with a more contemporary focus, is to introduce, through a new Instructional Design (ID) Project, not only the incorporation of more Hands-On activities that approach truly meaningful (authentic) contents. But also, new methodologies and technologies to support educational objectives that make full use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICTs).This work proposes to develop and carry out a methodological design of a blended teaching for a power-electronics-based practical training program (PEBPTP) for students of the Electrical Engineering Course of the Federal University of Maranhão in Brazil. The proposed program is mainly based on the use of a digital controller (unified) based on FPGA, developed and realized specifically for control and power inverters study. From controller´s VHDL Code already realized, a Reuse Logic Block is generated (Intellectual Property Core (IP Core)), for use within the LabVIEW FPGA Hardware Description Environment. A Graphical Interface (GUI), more intuitive, and developed from the LabVIEW environment, will support the realization of the PEBPTP, for parameterizing the Controller, and show relevant figures of merit of the performance of the converter being study. The active methodologies, converging with the diverse possibilities of resources of the DICTs, implanted in the classroom, with the adequate contextualization of the specific resources of each area, contribute increasingly to the student being protagonist of their own knowledge construction. Finally is proposed, and in full adherence to a novel trend, that both the PEBPTP and the unified controller previously developed in FPGA are embedded in what is being named Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC). This embedded structure will allow access to the laboratory hands-on program via a web service that uses a fully programmable logic device (PLD) that incorporates an integrated structure known as System-on-a-Chip (SoC). The above proposals and experiences involve the mastery not only of curricular and technological knowledge, inherent to the training of an engineer, but of mainly, the pedagogical technological knowledge and correct use of DICTs. At this point, in particular, is founded our contribution within the context of Engineering Teaching, to advance in the improvement or perhaps in the modification of the "classroom" of engineering courses, which today go beyond the physical space of the university.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL AND PEER ATTACHMENT ON SELF-ESTEEM AT LATE ADOLESCENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
Migena Kecaj ◽  
Edmond Rapti ◽  
Aigars Andersons
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Late Adolescence ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Peer Attachment ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

The present study investigates the relationship between parent and peer attachment bonds on the development of self-esteem during late adolescence. The sample was randomly selected. Data was collected from 387 participants including 166 male and 221 female students from seven high schools of the Shkoder Municipality in Albania. A self-developed Demographic Questionnaire, Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987) and Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) were administered. A Pearson Correlation and Independent sample t-test were applied. Specific attention is focused on the assessment of attachment in adolescence. The results show the existence of a significant positive correlation between parental/peer attachment and self-esteem. Concerning gender differences during late adolescence, females showed higher attachment with parents and peers than males, but there were no gender differences in self-esteem. This research enables us to develop new insight into the importance of parent and peer attachment for a healthy adolescence.

scholarly journals Religiosity and Prosocial Behavior on Student of Islamic and Public Schools at Banda Aceh, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Safrilsyah Safrilsyah ◽  
Mohd. Zailani Mohd. Yusoff ◽  
Mohamad Khairi Othman ◽  
Ibrahim Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Banda Aceh

This study aimed to examine religiosity's relationship with prosocial students' behavior in Aceh, Indonesia. This research was a quantitative survey using cross-sectional studies and data collected from selected individuals over a specific period. The researchers collected data from 649 students (299 male and 350 females) using a non-proportional stratified sampling. Data were collected using two questionnaires, (1) Islamic Religiosity by using SPPIM-R and (2) Prosocial Behavior by using PTM-R. The data were analyzed descriptively. The statistical analysis (hypothesis testing) was done using product-moment correlation assisted by SPSS/PC Ver.16.00. The result showed that there was a significant positive correlation between religiosity and prosocial behavior among students. The respective R-square was 0.494, and the result of the coefficient was 0.703. However, there was no significant difference in prosocial behavior among religious high school and public school students, although female students were more prosocial than male students.

scholarly journals Attitudes of students of psychology departments in Sudanese universities towards people with disabilities (Psychology male and female students in universities in the state of Gezira as a model)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Hayat Abdel Rahim Mohamed Amin ◽  
Makki Babiker Saeed Deiwa ◽  
Al-Fateh Mustafa Suleiman Al-Kinani
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Random Method

The level of disability is determined by the environment's ability to create legal conditions, and the concept of disability has carried several connotations throughout history and cultures that have been affected by the moral character sometimes, medical, educational, and rehabilitative at other times, and the material and social that enables the individual to participate, interact and integrate. The study aimed to identify the trends of the departments of psychology Towards people with disabilities, and the research community consisted of male and female students from the psychology departments of universities (Al-Jazeera, Al-Batana, and the Holy Qur’an), from whom the researcher chose (313) male and female students by the stratified random method to represent the study community. For the study, the data were analyzed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The study found several findings, including: the attitudes of students of psychology departments in Sudanese universities towards people with disabilities are positive, there are no differences in the attitudes of psychology students towards people with disabilities according to the gender variable, and there are no differences in the attitudes of psychology students towards people with disabilities according to the Al-Jakea variable, The study recommends the importance of raising the practical training quota for psychology students in Sudanese universities.

scholarly journals Comparison of two doses of eCG for obtaining embryos in llama

SPERMOVA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-178
Author(s):  
Cesar A Olaguivel ◽  
◽  
Jaime Ruiz ◽  
Pedro Coila
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Difference ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Dominant Follicle ◽  
Linear Transducer ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
National University ◽  
Applied Dose ◽  
T1 And T2 ◽  
Ovulatory Follicles

The study was developed at the Pampa del Arco Experimental Center of the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, the objective was to evaluate doses of 800 IU (T1) and doses of 1000 IU (T2) of eCG to obtain embryos. Eight adult female llamas were used, distributed four in each treatment (T1 and T2), with a body condition of 2.5, these were evaluated by ultrasound with a 7.5 MHz rectal linear transducer. Hormonal treatments began when the animals had a follicle> 7 mm. The application of eCG was 72 hours after the induction of ovulation of the dominant follicle with GnRH, on day 7 PGF2α was applied, natural mounting was performed plus GnRH (1ml), on day 15 the collection and evaluation of embryos was performed. The results obtained were the pre-ovarian stimulation follicular diameter of 8.3 mm and 9.1 mm for T1 and T2 respectively, the number of pre-ovulatory follicles was 6.33 and 5.50 for T1 and T2 respectively, the diameter of follicles pre-ovulatory was 11.2mm and 10.6 mm for T1 and T2 respectively, average of embryos recovered per donor was 4.66 ± 0.81 and 3.50 ± 0.54 embryos for T1 and T2 respectively, with a significant difference (p <0.05) and the quality of embryos had 35.7% and 38.1% of embryos of excellent quality, 28.6% and 33.3% of good quality, 10.7% and 9 , 5% of regular quality, 10.7% and 0% of poor quality, for T1 and T2 respectively and 14.3% and 19.0% of non-transferable embryos for T1 and T2 respectively, with no statistical difference (p≥0, 05). It is concluded that the number of embryos recovered with a dose of 800 IU of eCG is higher compared to the dose of 1000 IU of eCG (p <0.05) and that there is no association between the applied dose of eCG and the quality of the llama embryos (p≥0.05)

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