The chapter describes a case of a 24-year-old female with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. The patient is uncomfortable and lying still on a stretcher. The primary survey shows no apparent respiratory distress and regular rate and rhythm. The abdomen is tender to palpation in the right lower quadrant with guarding, and there is no rebound tenderness. The patient undergoes several tests, including CBC, BMP, pregnancy test, T&S, and UA, and is placed on a monitor. The CT abdomen/pelvis with oral contrast confirms the diagnosis of acute appendicitis, and the patient is taken to the OR for appendectomy. The chapter highlights the importance of early actions, including pain management, obtaining an appropriate imaging study, and performing a pelvic examination in women of child-bearing age with lower abdominal pain. It also provides several pearls related to appendicitis diagnosis and management.

This chapter first situates our field with reference to discussions around the numerous “turns” in applied linguistics and SLA, e.g., social, multilingual, decolonial and racial. While the time seems ripe for transdisciplinary SLA pursuits because of facilitative conditions created by the open science and the slow science movements, for instance, there are also obstacles including the neoliberal management structure in academia which can challenge such undertakings. The chapter provides some pointers for how transdisciplinary research can be conducted. Reflecting on transdisciplinarity can stimulate the rethinking of a monolithic conceptualization of language, the reexamination of the monolingual basis against which development and success are measured and the interrogation of the nature of multilingual competence. Moreover, working transdisciplinarily can potentially help better serve the users we need to serve and mitigate against the misapplication or misinterpretation of our findings. Importantly, as a field that sits on and benefits from intersections (e.g., between languages, cultures, experiences), the chapter argues that SLA researchers have a moral and ethical duty to try to alleviate the plight and tackle injustice that some of our learners and participants are subject to in their contexts.

This chapter examines the mounting unease regarding the project of public education. By the mid-1960s, technocratic, Afrocentric, and Marxist critiques articulated a growing sense of worldwide educational crisis. These critiques presented differently in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, but in both countries popular frustrations were palpable. In response, both states attempted to reform public schooling: by introducing manual training in Ghanaian middle schools and television sets in Ivorian primary schools. Both reforms failed spectacularly, ultimately confirming the state’s abdication of its promise that education would lead to a better future for all. Public education systems crumbled along with public faith in the state, creating space for the privatization of education. The erosion of the anticolonial development ideology helped pave the way for neoliberalism to take root.

Prior to colonisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples thrived on the continent now known as Australia. However, long-term health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory illnesses are disproportionately prevalent in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities due to systemic inequities, intergenerational trauma and barriers to healthcare access. This chapter examines the prevalence and impact of long-term health conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the determinants that shape health outcomes and the importance of self-management in long-term health conditions. Also underscored is the need for healthcare systems to prioritise Indigenous-led solutions, community empowerment and a strengths-based approach to improving long-term health condition outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

An introduction to the book and outline of its contents.

This chapter demonstrates the positive impact of the pedagogical intervention on students’ attitudes, expressed in their own words. It presents key highlights and recommendations, followed by an in-depth discussion. The sustained influence of the intervention on students’ engagement with lectures is revealed through their reflections, alongside insights into research supervisees’ experiences during their third-year projects.

The differential diagnosis of a patient with altered mental status and an elevated temperature is broad, and requires multiple simultaneous actions to manage properly. The practitioner must consider infectious, iatrogenic, and environmental causes, among others, and move decisively to stabilize and treat this serious presentation.

Complex fluids can be found all around us, from molten plastics to mayonnaise, and understanding their highly nonlinear dynamics is the subject of much research.

This text introduces a common theoretical framework for understanding and predicting the flow behavior of complex fluids. This framework allows for results including a qualitative understanding of the relationship between a fluid’s behavior at the microscale of particles or macromolecules, and its macroscopic, viscoelastic properties. The author uses a microstructural approach to derive constitutive theories that remain simple enough to allow computational predictions of complicated macroscale flows.

Readers develop their intuition to learn how to approach the description of materials not covered in the book, as well as limits such as higher concentrations that require computational methods for microstructural analysis.

This monograph’s unique breadth and depth make it a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students in fluid mechanics.

Most regression methods estimate the mean of Y given X. But it can also be useful to estimate the quantiles of Y given X. This provides more information about the relationship between X and Y.

Turning from the pulpit to the courtroom, Chapter 4 demonstrates the centrality of frenzy to what would later come to be termed the ‘insanity defence’. The English common law had its own framework for classifying mental illness, one which ran parallel to the medical nosologies explored in Chapter 1. This chapter explores the different categories of ‘madness’ recognizsed by early modern common lawyers – partial versus total, continual versus intermittent – and shows where frenzy fitted within this framework. It then turns to look at how these theories were mobilized in a specific legal context: coroners’ inquests into unexplained drownings. Where suicide was suspected, it argues, a story about frenzy – told right – offered an escape route for suspects and their families. Crucial, here, was the issue of culpability: frantic persons could not be held accountable for what they did while their wits were impaired. Without the capacity for consent, crime was impossible.

In Chapter 3, we achieved speedup by reducing the precision used throughout the model using low-precision techniques. In this chapter, we introduce pruning, a method that transforms the model at a finer granularity to accelerate computation.