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This chapter presents an applied model for supporting preschool children's executive function, skills that serve as protective factors against risks associated with poverty, using Rosenblatt's transactional theory. The authors...
Genomics of Parallel Ecological Speciation in Lake Victoria Cichlids.
The genetic basis of parallel evolution of similar species is of great interest in evolutionary biology. In the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes, sister species with either blue or red-back male nuptial...
Variations in whole brain radiation therapy fractionation for brain metastases in Victoria.
INTRODUCTION: We aim to evaluate the use of different whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) fractionation schedules for brain metastases (BM) in Victoria, and the factors associated with it. METHODS: This is a population-based...
How to Design a Research Plan for a Thesis in Social Sciences
This chapter presents the process of how a research work should be conceived in the mind of a novice researcher who wishes to do a doctoral thesis in social sciences. A logical-deductive scheme is followed, which guides the...
Competency-Based Education
This chapter will review what competency-based education is and how delivering traditional educational credentials and degrees in a non-traditional, non-term program can better engage students and promote their success in the...
Dampened motivation as a side effect of contemporary educational policy
Sam Carr
May 03, 2020
It has been suggested that features of contemporary educational policy create and encourage teaching and learning practices that dampen human motivation. This paper sought to analyse and extend this discussion through the lens...
A gradual separation from the world
Sam Carr
Dec 02, 2023

Aims and methods: Loneliness is a prevalent and significant issue. It has been identified as a particularly important physical and mental health risk for older people. This article critically explores and discusses a recent...

Ancient hybridization fuels rapid cichlid fish adaptive radiations.
Understanding why some evolutionary lineages generate exceptionally high species diversity is an important goal in evolutionary biology. Haplochromine cichlid fishes of Africa's Lake Victoria region encompass >700 diverse...
A gradual separation from the world
Sam Carr
Dec 02, 2023

Aims and methods: Loneliness is a prevalent and significant issue. It has been identified as a particularly important physical and mental health risk for older people. This article critically explores and discusses a recent...

Dampened motivation as a side effect of contemporary educational policy
Sam Carr
May 03, 2020
It has been suggested that features of contemporary educational policy create and encourage teaching and learning practices that dampen human motivation. This paper sought to analyse and extend this discussion through the lens...
Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies enhance student learning through the explicit intentional educational design such as Active Learning Classrooms, Flipped Classrooms, Problem Based Learning, and Project Based Learning to empower students....
Experiences of dyadic sport friendships as a function of self and partner attachment characteristics.
Sam Carr, Neil Fitzpatrick
Jul 01, 2011
Objectives: To examine the link between adolescent-parent attachment relationships and experiences of friendship quality in the context of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.
Design and method: One...
Education Policy and mental weakness
Ceri Brown, Sam Carr
Mar 04, 2019
Educationalists have been concerned with the labelling and treatment of children with mental health difficulties in the education system in England for some time (Timimi 2002; Rose 2005; Jull 2008, Cole 2015). These concerns...
Experiences of dyadic sport friendships as a function of self and partner attachment characteristics.
Sam Carr, Neil Fitzpatrick
Jul 01, 2011
Objectives: To examine the link between adolescent-parent attachment relationships and experiences of friendship quality in the context of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.
Design and method: One...
Is Parental Attachment Security Contextual? Exploring Context-Specific Child–Parent Attachment Patterns and Psychological Well-Being in Taiwanese Youths
Ya-Hsin Lai, Sam Carr
Jun 30, 2020

Scant research to date has explored the possibility of context-specific variation in attachment security within a given relationship. In this paper, two cross-sectional studies were designed (1) to develop and validate...

Attachment theory, neoliberalism, and social conscience
There have been calls for psychologists to develop greater awareness in relation to the cultural, ethical, and political utility of theoretical and empirical development. At present, it is particularly important to deliberate...

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