Although falls can happen to anyone of any age group, they are undoubtedly more common in the elderly population. While risk factors for falls tend to increase as we age, in most cases they are easily avoidable. Considering the serious impacts of injury or morbidity, more must be done to identify risk and implement preventative strategies. The causes of falls being multi-factorial in nature, calls for an approach which encompasses accurate identification and effective management. Falls prevention programs play a valuable role and an understanding of what this comprises is crucial if we are to tackle this increasing problem.
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Pathways Planning (Student Version)
No matter what your age, career planning is an essential part of our life development. Due to the constantly evolving job market and the continual changes occurring in higher education and college courses, everyone needs to develop a career pathway plan that identifies three career areas of interest and the ways each of them can be achieved, short-term and long-term. This program explores the method that can be used to assist career pathway planning and the support a career professional can bring to it. The program also looks at ways of updating and renewing your pathway plans at regular interviews.
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Introducing Hospitality
The hospitality industry in Australia and globally is vast. It offers never ending career opportunities. Develop a basic understanding of the hospitality industry and the variety of departments which interrelate to make a business successful. Meet people in the job and those who are training the ever increasing number of people who are seeking careers in this diverse industry. Is the hospitality industry for you? Find out more about job seeking, occupations and career paths that you could follow.
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Easy Ways to Use e-Learning
e-Learning has become an important area of professional development for teachers. Many are unsure of what these changes will really mean for the classroom and their life as teachers. There are many possibilities and future directions are unclear. We need to deal with what is there now and be open to changes that excite our students.
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The Role of Enzymes
Enzymes are proteins which are manufactured by the human body during the process of protein synthesis. Enzymes are catalysts and drive every chemical reaction that takes place in the human body and enable our bodies to be built from proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Enzymes are highly specific in their activity and form an enzyme-substrate complex speeding up processes as they lower the activation energy during a given reaction period. Through genetic engineering and by isolating specific enzymes, it has become possible to harness the power of enzymes. The isolation of the enzyme, polymerase, from Themus aquaticus has enormously facilitated the process of PCR. Science has, however, more recently made immense progress in the manufacturing of synthetic and therapeutic enzymes.
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Understanding Ratio and Proportion
Ratios appear all around us, often in disguise. This program is designed to enhance viewers understanding of ratios and develop their proportional reasoning skills. The program covers the concept of ratios and proportions, the correct way to express and write ratios and proportions, ratios and proportions in their simplest form and comparing ratios and proportions. Viewers will discover how people apply ratios and proportions in everyday situations such as mixing paint, reading and interpreting map scales and calculating map distances.
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Designing On Screen
Design is a wide ranging discipline that encompasses art, engineering, communications, web design, graphic design and many other areas. The use of information and communications technology can assist graphic designers throughout the design process. In this program we look at using ICT in design while applying different elements and processes to both student and professional scenarios. We discuss the basic principles of good design, the importance of the audience, purpose of the task, evaluating and testing and design in practice. An informative introduction to computer aided design that will stimulate creative minds while answering many common questions.
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Getting Into Games
Electronic gaming has progressed a long way since the days the first Space Invaders machines began to appear in local shopping centres. Today, electronic games are highly sophisticated and interactive, part of a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide – an industry that is now larger than the film and music industries combined. Ask many keen game players about their ideal job, and the answer would be designing or testing electronic games. This Australian-made, curriculum fit program hears from gamers and game developers alike, taking a look behind the scenes at the gaming industry, the making of games, use of games for leisure and education, and taking a glimpse into the future of games. This program is essential viewing for students who are researching the gaming industry, looking at designing their own games, or interested in a career in the electronic gaming industry.
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Mutations: Changing the Code
A mutagen is any agent (physical, chemical or biological) capable of altering the structure of DNA within our cells. This program explores how some mutations are a natural process resulting from errors in the copying and repair of DNA and how some mutagens naturally exist in the world around us (UV radiation, cosmic rays and some radioactive isotopes). Others are specific chemicals that have been synthesized for use in manufacturing or other industries. Mutagens may also arise during the metabolism of certain foods. In general mutagens act either directly on the DNA themselves or produce chemicals that then act directly on the DNA to cause substitutions, deletions, insertions, or rearrangements of the important genetic code. If DNA alterations occur in germline (egg or sperm) cells the altered DNA may become the basis for an inherited disease. In many cases mutagens may also lead to the development of cancers.
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Transportation Systems in Plants
This program explores the need for many multicellular plants to have specialized internal transport systems. These are systems that can efficiently distribute materials from soil and from leaves to the parts of the plants where they are needed. An overview of how plants obtain their nutrients is provided. The structure and function of root hairs is explored, explaining their remarkable ability to facilitate an enormous uptake of water and dissolved minerals for the plant. Following this, the separate transport systems of the xylem and phloem are explored in detail. The program explains the mechanisms by which vascular plants transport water and minerals upwards from the roots, and sugars from leaves and other sugar sources throughout the plant for storage or for growth and repair.