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The search for assessment procedures that are more fair and useful have led to the investigation of alternatives to traditional forms of intellectual assessment. This study explored an alternative ...

Some communities in remote Australia represent the most impoverished people in the country, with the problem especially acute amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Effective remedial intervention is often undermined by the absence of democratically elected, local government institutions. Place-shaping as a developmental process enables local people to become agents of change, and thereby self-determine and shape their places for the future. This paper considers the different institutional structures which could underpin place-shaping in remote settlements. Drawing on a range of governance structures, an emphasis on less traditional entities and polity-forming bodies may better serve the interests of remote people.

In all well completions (oil and gas fields), effective cement job is necessary for zonal isolation. Failure of cement annulus because of large stresses has been reported in various studies, requiring huge costs in remedial intervention. Swellable packers have emerged as a new manufacturing equipment/technique able to replace conventional cement completion. These packers are custom-manufactured by vulcanizing specially developed swelling elastomer elements onto petroleum pipes. Especially designed and manufactured to suit a particular set of downhole conditions, swell packers are being used in a variety of petroleum applications such as zonal isolation and water shutoff in fractured reservoirs, slimming down of oil wells through replacement of conventional cementing, sand screening, reservoir compartmentalization, etc. Performance analysis and seal design improvement is not possible without reliable information about material response of swelling elastomers. This article summarizes the results of a series...

First‐year student dropout in the university sector can reach 20% or higher. Over a two‐year period, a simple instrument was developed to identify potential student low performance and withdrawal. It was based on a measure of students’ early expectation of higher education, matched subsequently with their actual experience. The instrument design was based both on the concept of a psychological contract, taken from the field of employment relations, and Seven Principles of good undergraduate teaching. An intervention programme of interviews was instituted with low‐scoring students. Findings, both statistical and qualitative, indicated a potentially useful role for the instrument, and an improvement in student progression and achievement for those receiving remedial intervention.

Stepping is a prevalent and functional reaction to loss of balance, yet this element of postural control has only recently begun to receive due attention. It is likely that the impaired ability to execute compensatory stepping reactions is an important contributor to the unsteadiness, loss of balance confidence, and risk of falling that is associated with aging and age-related pathology. Even healthy, active older adults appear to experience difficulty in controlling stepping reactions, as evidenced by a tendency to require multiple steps to recover equilibrium. There seems to be a particular problem in controlling lateral stability. When stepping in response to forward or backward loss of balance, older adults often experience difficulty in countering the tendency of the body to fall laterally during the step. When stepping in response to lateral loss of balance, they often have problems controlling movement of the swing foot so as to avoid collision with the stance limb. The problems in controlling late...

It has been common practice to return Japanese armour to Japan for complete restoration. This case history describes in detail the original textile components of a rare seventeenth‐century armour which has not received such treatment. A decision was made to conserve it for further display with minimum remedial intervention whilst retaining the appearance of traditional display. The application of stitched supports for the degraded braids and fabrics weighed down by the lacquered metal components is given in detail. The means by which a traditional wooden support stand can be adapted to provide additional necessary support is described step‐by‐step.

The relationship between sociometric status and behavior ratings was investigated in a sample of 78 boys in residential treatment. The subjects were classified into sociometric groups based on peer nominations. The Devereaux Child Behavior Rating Scale scores (completed by their child-care workers) of these groups were then compared. Boys of rejected status were rated as having significantly more behavioral problems than boys in the other sociometric groups. It is suggested that rejected boys in residential treatment may constitute a subgroup especially meriting remedial intervention.