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Reflections on learning how to play a violin left-handed: Motor Learning aspects Background Playi... more Reflections on learning how to play a violin left-handed: Motor Learning aspects Background Playing the violin is a highly-skilled activity, requiring a high level of motor control, combined with other cognitive skills that include processing rhythm and intonation, and reading musical notation, with the goal of emotional expression. But adult expert violinists remember very little about the process of first learning how to play. Purpose This qualitative study aimed to describe what an expert violinist/ violin teacher would reveal about the learning challenges encountered in relearning her skill ‘left-handed’ and the learning strategies adopted to overcome them. Normally a violinist uses the left hand to stop the strings, while the right hand is responsible for drawing the bow across the strings to make the sound; in this experiment the violin and bow were held in the opposite hands. Methods A qualitative approach was undertaken, in which the expert player (VM) recorded her responses...
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2000
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2000
Central States Speech Journal, 1981
Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1981
Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1974
Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1981
Communication Studies, 1974
Most men, regardless of the breadth of differences in life experience, recognise that fathering t... more Most men, regardless of the breadth of differences in life experience, recognise that fathering today is different to how they were fathered. While society has changed, few men discuss these changes with other men or have the opportunity to talk about them with health professionals. This guide is primarily focused on engaging fathers in community services, health contexts and programs who otherwise are often less involved for a wide variety of reasons. It has been written to support health professionals to engage with the fathers in the families that they work with, encourage them to discuss the significance of the role they play and the impact that this has on other family members. The term ‘father’ in this guide reflects the different ideas, responsibilities, duties, and activities that men play today in family life. In contemporary society, a father can be both biological and social and described as the significant male role model in a child’s life. Men who are the significant ro...
Phytoplankton require carbon dioxide (CO2) as the primary substrate for carbon fixation and there... more Phytoplankton require carbon dioxide (CO2) as the primary substrate for carbon fixation and therefore growth. The response of phytoplankton to variability in partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) depends upon inorganic carbon acquisition and the efficiency of these process. Shifts in phytoplankton community structure are expected, but it is unclear whether these shifts will favor more- or less-nutritious phytoplankton to support fisheries and aquaculture production of human food. To anticipate how both natural and anthropogenic changes in ocean pCO2 (a predicted doubling in atmospheric pCO2 over the next century) will affect the base of the marine food web, we have begun efforts to determine competitive interactions between phytoplankton species under experimentally-simulated ocean-acidification conditions. We will characterize physiological (i.e., lipid and fatty acid composition) and growth responses to different pCO2/pH conditions of species representing main phytoplankton functional gr...
Cell reports, Sep 27, 2016
DNA methylation is one of a number of modes of epigenetic gene regulation. Here, we profile the D... more DNA methylation is one of a number of modes of epigenetic gene regulation. Here, we profile the DNA methylome, transcriptome, and global occupancy of histone modifications (H3K4me1, H3K4me3, H3K27me3, and H3K27ac) in a series of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) with varying DNA methylation levels to study the effects of DNA methylation on deposition of histone modifications. We find that genome-wide DNA demethylation alters occupancy of histone modifications at both promoters and enhancers. This is reversed upon remethylation by Dnmt expression. DNA methylation promotes H3K27me3 deposition at bivalent promoters, while opposing H3K27me3 at silent promoters. DNA methylation also reversibly regulates H3K27ac and H3K27me3 at previously identified tissue-specific enhancers. These effects require DNMT catalytic activity. Collectively, our data show that DNA methylation is essential and instructive for deposition of specific histone modifications across regulatory regions, which together...
Reflections on learning how to play a violin left-handed: Motor Learning aspects Background Playi... more Reflections on learning how to play a violin left-handed: Motor Learning aspects Background Playing the violin is a highly-skilled activity, requiring a high level of motor control, combined with other cognitive skills that include processing rhythm and intonation, and reading musical notation, with the goal of emotional expression. But adult expert violinists remember very little about the process of first learning how to play. Purpose This qualitative study aimed to describe what an expert violinist/ violin teacher would reveal about the learning challenges encountered in relearning her skill ‘left-handed’ and the learning strategies adopted to overcome them. Normally a violinist uses the left hand to stop the strings, while the right hand is responsible for drawing the bow across the strings to make the sound; in this experiment the violin and bow were held in the opposite hands. Methods A qualitative approach was undertaken, in which the expert player (VM) recorded her responses...
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2000
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2000
Central States Speech Journal, 1981
Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1981
Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1974
Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1981
Communication Studies, 1974
Most men, regardless of the breadth of differences in life experience, recognise that fathering t... more Most men, regardless of the breadth of differences in life experience, recognise that fathering today is different to how they were fathered. While society has changed, few men discuss these changes with other men or have the opportunity to talk about them with health professionals. This guide is primarily focused on engaging fathers in community services, health contexts and programs who otherwise are often less involved for a wide variety of reasons. It has been written to support health professionals to engage with the fathers in the families that they work with, encourage them to discuss the significance of the role they play and the impact that this has on other family members. The term ‘father’ in this guide reflects the different ideas, responsibilities, duties, and activities that men play today in family life. In contemporary society, a father can be both biological and social and described as the significant male role model in a child’s life. Men who are the significant ro...
Phytoplankton require carbon dioxide (CO2) as the primary substrate for carbon fixation and there... more Phytoplankton require carbon dioxide (CO2) as the primary substrate for carbon fixation and therefore growth. The response of phytoplankton to variability in partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) depends upon inorganic carbon acquisition and the efficiency of these process. Shifts in phytoplankton community structure are expected, but it is unclear whether these shifts will favor more- or less-nutritious phytoplankton to support fisheries and aquaculture production of human food. To anticipate how both natural and anthropogenic changes in ocean pCO2 (a predicted doubling in atmospheric pCO2 over the next century) will affect the base of the marine food web, we have begun efforts to determine competitive interactions between phytoplankton species under experimentally-simulated ocean-acidification conditions. We will characterize physiological (i.e., lipid and fatty acid composition) and growth responses to different pCO2/pH conditions of species representing main phytoplankton functional gr...
Cell reports, Sep 27, 2016
DNA methylation is one of a number of modes of epigenetic gene regulation. Here, we profile the D... more DNA methylation is one of a number of modes of epigenetic gene regulation. Here, we profile the DNA methylome, transcriptome, and global occupancy of histone modifications (H3K4me1, H3K4me3, H3K27me3, and H3K27ac) in a series of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) with varying DNA methylation levels to study the effects of DNA methylation on deposition of histone modifications. We find that genome-wide DNA demethylation alters occupancy of histone modifications at both promoters and enhancers. This is reversed upon remethylation by Dnmt expression. DNA methylation promotes H3K27me3 deposition at bivalent promoters, while opposing H3K27me3 at silent promoters. DNA methylation also reversibly regulates H3K27ac and H3K27me3 at previously identified tissue-specific enhancers. These effects require DNMT catalytic activity. Collectively, our data show that DNA methylation is essential and instructive for deposition of specific histone modifications across regulatory regions, which together...
IMPACT OF COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE , 2019
The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of computerized accounting applications on fin... more The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of computerized accounting applications on financial management control at Mother Manjeri Primary School. Mother Majeri Primary School uses computerised accounting application in its accounting control for the past four years with the hope of total elimination of accounting challenges like fraud, errors and omissions and high administration costs. However, these advantages of computerised accounting have not been realised as the school continues to suffer losses, errors and poor performance as shown by the 25% increase in annual losses suffered in the year 2017. The objectives were to establish how and why the computerized accounting system is usedat Mother Majeri Primary School, to examine the financial management control measures employed by Mother Majeri Primary School and to assess the effect of computerized accounting applications on financial management control.
The research design for the current study was cross sectional and this used quantitative data. A case study design was chosen as the most appropriate research strategy where a number of 59 from the school were chosen using simple random sampling.
That Mother Majeri Primary School actually make use of a computerized accounting system. The results revealed that much as a computerized accounting system has got satisfactory advantages, it also comes with its disadvantages. The study established a number of qualities of financial management controls generated through computerized accounting. It was therefore recommended that the school and others should continuously adopt a culture of utilizing computerized accounting systems that provide