Reflecting on Illyrian helmets

Reflecting on posture.

Cardiovascular parameters are most often assessed at rest, and in many cases in the supine position. This generally facilitates measurement procedures and obviates the need to account for external and usually complex confounding factors, other than those related to the inherent physiology being investigated. Although the supine resting position may be relevant for some part of circadian living,...

Reflecting on Quality

JULY/AUGUST 2016 | IEEE SOFTWARE 5 MONITORING ROADWORK quality differs completely from actually building roads. When the road is being built, you take samples of materials and test them in a lab. When it’s ready, you use specialized equipment to look for slippery or uneven pavements. And when the road is opened to traf c, you set up cameras and other sensors to see how it’s used. In software en...

Reflecting on early arthritis.

Safety helmets

helmet of the water flea (Daphnia spp.) does not make it invisible, but it does confer some protection against predators by making the fleas harder to catch. Water fleas do not necessarily begin life with a helmet but can form one as a morphological defence in response to chemicals released by their predators. The images above show three pairs of water fleas from different species; the non-helm...

Reflecting on ‘ Reflective practice ’

Reflective practice has burgeoned over the last few decades throughout various fields of professional practice and education. In some professions it has become one of the defining features of competence, even if on occasion it has been adopted mistakenly and unreflectively to rationalise existing practice. The allure of the ‘reflection bandwagon’ lies in the fact that it ‘rings true’ (Loughran,...