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Coping Processes Used by Mothers of Triplets

COPING PROCESSES USED BY MOTHERS OF TRIPLETS Susan Mullen Kaplan Old Dominion University, 1997 Director: Dr. Laurel Garzon The purpose of the study was to identify and describe the coping processes used by mothers of triplets. Using a descriptive design, interpersonal comparisons of 92 mothers of triplets attending a national meeting of families of higher order multiples were made. Variables, in addition to sociodemographic characteristics, included coping processes, levels of depression, perceived availability' of social support, and current stress levels. Coping processes were measured using the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (Folkman & Lazarus, 1988). derived from their cognitive-phenomenological theory of stress and coping. Level of depression was measured using the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (Zung. 1965). Perceived availability of social support was measured by the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (Sherbourne & Stewart, 1991). Current level of stress was measured by the Derogatis Stress Profile (Derogatis. 1980). Results from these self-report instruments were analyzed using descriptive statistics in order to Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. describe the sample and to determine whether significant correlations between the variables existed. Results indicated that the subjects were all married, with a mean age of 36.4 years, the majority were college-educated, and had triplets ranging in ages from 8 months to 12 years. Mothers were found to use a variety of coping processes in dealing with the stresses related to the mothering of triplets, supporting the theoretical framework. Planful problem-solving was used most often with escape-avoidance used least. Current levels of stress were described by the mothers as being derived from a variety of sources in their lives, with time pressure most highly rated. The majority o f mothers scored within the normal range for depression. Subjects perceived levels of social support from a variety of sources. Statistically significant correlations were found to exist between level of depression and current level of stress as well as between levels of stress, depression, and perceived levels of social support. Coping processes were also found to be related to the other variables. Recommendations for further study included evaluating the nature of interrelatedness of the variables, and through the use of a comparison group. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Evolutionary monkey oscillomics: Generating linking hypotheses from preserved brain rhythms

In a recent attempt to naturalise core features of phonological theory, Samuels (2015: 161) writes that the success of any biological approach to language is measured ‘in terms of how much contact the study of language is able to make with the other cognitive sciences and other areas of biology more generally, and to what extent various components of language and the mind are more deeply understood as a result’. By making novel linking hypotheses between the formal study of semantics, pragmatics and monkey call systems, Schlenker et al. succeed on all counts. Given the apparent ability to formalise the semantics of nonhuman primate calls and explain their functionality in terms of general, universal pragmatic principles, a number of avenues open up regarding how to theorise about the evolution and implementation of such systems. In this commentary, I will focus my attention on questions (i), (ii) and (v) of Schlenker et al.’s article; namely, the syntax, semantics and evolution of monkey call systems. Exploring the implementation of call comprehension in the primate brain not only has the potential to fruitfully employ pre-existing theoretical tools (as with formal monkey semantics), but could also generate insights into the evolutionary questions briefly discussed by Schlenker et al. Given the extraordinarily preserved nature of mammalian brain rhythms (Buszaki et al. 2013) and recent attempts to establish connecting hypotheses between them and language comprehension (Murphy 2015c), along with the similar structure of a number of primate calls, in what follows emerging models of neural oscillations will be used as a device to explore the similarly preserved structure of primate call systems. Schlenker et al.’s Evolutionary Monkey Linguistics will be discussed alongside a model of ‘Evolutionary Monkey Oscillomics’, using neural dynamics as a way of exploring the structure and development of primate call systems.
Negotiating Trust, Power, and Culture in a Research–Practice Partnership

This article describes the role of culture and power in building a research–practice partnership (RPP). The original aims that drove the building of the RPP were to generate and use research to inform the programs and services provided by the youth-serving organization to Latinx youth and to use the findings to inform research on how to broaden participation in computing. In this article, we describe how the RPP evolved. Data include documentation from meeting notes, e-mails, and observations as well as interviews with practitioners. The results suggest that the research goals and process changed when the partners began to critically analyze and discuss the role of power and culture, and adjustments to the methods and theoretical grounding of the research were made as a result. The lessons learned are summarized in terms of their implications for generating research that has both theoretical and social justice implications.
Exploring the Use of Journal Writing in Mathematics Classroom

This paper focuses on secondary mathematics lessons that integrated journal writing with the use of the writing-to-learn pedagogical strategy. Investigations were conducted on the influence of journal writing on Year 10 secondary students’ mathematical performance. It is an action research study that comprised of two cycles and involved 35 students from two classes in a secondary school in Brunei Darussalam. The analyses of the data were extracted from the students’ pre- and post-test scores and their journal entries. The findings revealed that even though the students’ journal entry score was high, this does not necessarily imply improvements in their mathematical performance. Furthermore, other factors such as classwork and homework given during and after the lessons may have also contributed to the students’ mathematical achievements.
Discriminative learning from partially annotated examples

A number of algorithms and its applications for automatic classifiers learning from examples is ever growing. Most of existing algorithms require a training set of completely annotated examples, which are often hard to obtain. In this thesis, we tackle the problem of learning from partially annotated examples, which means that each training input comes with a set of admissible labels only one of which is correct. We contributed to two different cases of this scenario. In the first case, we studied the problem of learning the ordinal classifiers from examples with interval annotation of labels. We designed a convex learning algorithm for this case and demonstrated its advantage on real data empirically. At the same time, we made several contributions to the supervised learning of the ordinal classifiers, namely, we proposed new parametrization of the ordinal classifier, we introduced more flexible piece wise version of the ordinal classifier, and we proposed a generic cutting plane solver with convergence guarantees. In the second case, we studied the problem of learning the structured output classifiers from examples with missing annotation of a subset of labels. We have defined the concept of a surrogate classification calibrated partial loss, the minimization of which guarantees that learning is statistical consistent under fairly general conditions on the data generating process. We proved the existence of a convex classification calibrated surrogate loss for learning from partially annotated examples. We showed which existing surrogate losses are classification calibrated and which are not. Our work thus provides a missing theoretical justification for so far heuristic methods which have been successfully used in practice.
The Ethnocentric Origins of the Learning Style Idea

In recent years, researchers have questioned the legitimacy of the so-called myth of learning styles and expressed confusion about exactly when and why the idea first emerged. This historical study traces the origin and emergence of the learning style idea. The author argues that the learning style idea originated in the 1960s as part of a broader effort to reach inner-city African American youth that certain educators deemed culturally deficient. By the time scholars developed learning style inventory instruments for mostly white children, they removed the race-specific language, and educators quickly forget the ethnocentric origins of the learning style idea.
Principals’ Perceptions of the Impact of School Library on Student Academic Achievement in Rural Thailand and Factors Driving Their Perceptions

School libraries in rural Thailand have faced a serious long-term problem in developing effective libraries, and could not achieve a minimum criteria of school library standard. Key people who influences in supporting and contributing an effective library are school principals because they have authorities in directing and administration the facilitation of change in the schools. Therefore, school principals require to understand the values and impacts of school library on students’ academic achievement. The principals’ perceptions about the impact of school library on students’ academic achievement not only present their awareness of the value of school library on student’s academic achievement, but also reflect their attention on contributing effective libraries. This paper presents the principals’ perceptions of small public primary school in rural Thailand and the factors that drive their perceptions about the impact of school library on students’ academic achievement, which is one part of the study of school libraries and their roles in rural Thailand. These perceptions meaningfully presented the understanding and awareness of school principals about the library values on increasing students’ academic achievement, and revealed the factors influencing those principals’ perceptions. This information was further integrated with rural school libraries’ characteristics and situations to clarify their scenarios and local context, which is important to understand the causes making these libraries struggle to be effective, how to manage with school library issues and develop effective school libraries in rural Thailand.
Personality, drinking motives and protective behavioural strategies among undergraduates

4 Introduction . 5 Method . 16! Participants . 16 Procedure . 16 Measures . 17 Data Analysis . 19 Results . 19 Discussion . 24 References . 37 Tables . 46 Figures . 52 Appendix A. Measures . 54! PERSONALITY, MOTIVES, AND PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOURAL STRATEGIES !
The use of clinical role-play and reflection in learning therapeutic communication skills in mental health education: an integrative review

Background: An important goal in mental health education is for students to develop their ability to provide care and help to people with different degrees of mental problems. Positive experiences with the use of clinical role-play and subsequent reflection inspired us to investigate whether previous empirical studies had evaluated similar methods of teaching and to scrutinize the effects on students’ development of therapeutic skills and clinical reflection. Method: An integrative review was conducted to search the literature for findings from both qualitative and quantitative research. Systematic searches of literature were done in Ovid (MEDLINE, PsycInfo), Cinahl, Cochrane, ScienceDirect, SweMed, Norart, ProQuest, and Google Scholar. Results: The systematic literature search provided 42 full-text articles and four articles met the inclusion criteria. The results suggest that role-play in health education enhances students’ therapeutic and communicative skills. Nevertheless, there is limited research on the use of role-play in teaching therapeutic skills, and few studies that investigate how role-play affects students’ reflections on own practice. The literature search did not discover studies investigating whether practicing role-play in educational settings has consequences for clinical practice. Conclusion: Based on this current review, role-playing in supervised groups seems to promote reflection and insight not only for students in the patient and therapist roles, but also for peers observing the group sessions. According to the included studies, clinical role-play facilitates helper–user equality and increases students’ involvement, self-efficacy, and empathic abilities in mental health practice.
Free energy landscapes in spherical spin glasses

We study the free energy landscape defined by associating to each point in the interior of the ball the free energy corresponding to a thin spherical band around it. This landscape is closely related to several fundamental objects from spin glass theory. For example, the pure states in the decomposition proved by Talagrand (2010) concentrate on bands corresponding to points on the sphere of radius $\sqrt{N q_\star}$ which asymptotically maximize the free energy, where $q_\star$ it the rightmost point in the support of the overlap distribution. The ultrametricity property proved by Panchenko (2013) defines a tree whose branching points have the same property with $q<q_\star$. We prove that each of those points $\boldsymbol{\sigma}$, either a center of a pure state or a branching point, also asymptotically minimizes the (extended) Hamiltonian over the sphere of radius $\| \boldsymbol{\sigma} \|$. By computing the values of the free energy landscape at the points above, we derive a TAP formula for the free energy for any $q\in(0,q_\star]$ in the support of the overlap distribution. The formula depends on the free energy of an explicit (deterministic) mixture corresponding to the restriction of the Hamiltonian to an appropriate band and a ground state energy. For $q=q_\star$ and large $\beta$, the latter free energy has a trivial (replica symmetric) expression. We also obtain bounds on the support of the overlap distribution at positive temperature in terms of the overlap distribution of the restriction of the Hamiltonian to the sphere of radius $\sqrt{N q_\star}$, in the $0$-temperature limit. Those bounds generalize to overlaps of samples from the system at two different temperatures. The latter is used to prove that temperature chaos cannot be detected at the level of free energies, for a class of models arising in the work of Chen and Panchenko (2017).
Sodium abundances of AGB and RGB stars in Galactic globular clusters II. Analysis and results of NGC 104, NGC 6121 and NGC 6809

We analyzed the high-resolution spectra of a large sample of AGB and RGB stars in the Galactic globular clusters (GCs) NGC 104, NGC 6121, and NGC 6809 obtained with FLAMES/GIRAFFE at ESO/VLT, and determined their Na abundances. This is the first time that the AGB stars in NGC 6809 are targeted. Moreover, we reanalyzed with the same method the data archive for NGC 6752. To investigate the dependence of AGB Na abundance dispersion on GC parameters, we compared the AGB [Na/H] distributions we obtained (including NGC 2808 presented in the first paper of this series) with literature data for four other GCs, i.e., a total of nine GCs, covering a wide range of GC parameters. We find that NGC 104 and NGC 6809 have comparable AGB and RGB Na abundance distributions revealed by the K-S test, while NGC 6121 shows a lack of very Na-rich AGB star. By analyzing all the nine GCs, the Na abundances and multiple populations of AGB stars show a complex picture. In some GCs, AGB stars have similar Na abundances and/or second-population fractions as their RGB counterparts, while some GCs do not have Na-rich second-population AGB star, and various cases exist between the two extremes. In addition, the fitted relations between fractions of AGB second population and GC global parameters show that AGB second-population fraction slightly anticorrelates with GC central concentration, while no robust dependency can be confirmed with other GC parameters. Current data roughly support the prediction of FRMS scenario. However, considering the weak observational and theoretical trends where scatter and exceptions exist, the fraction of second-population AGB stars can be affected by more than one or two factors, and may even be a result of stochasticity.
EARLY EFL LEARNING IN CONTEXT – Evidence from a country case study

The author investigated early learning of EFL from a contextualised perspective. Data were collected from 173 Croatian YLs of EFL who were followed for three years (Grades Two, Three and Four). Processes and outcomes of early EFL are analysed considering a number of relevant contextual and individual learner factors as well as their interactions. Based on the findings it is concluded that contextualised approaches can offer a broader and deeper insight into early EFL learning.
Pengaruh Promosi Berbasis Sosial Media Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Produk Sepatu Exodos57

Abstrak Saat ini, banyak bisnis yang memanfaatkan akun social media untuk mengiklankan produknya. Pelaku bisnis harus memerhatikan kegunaan social media yang sesuai dengan target pasarnya sehingga pesan yang diberikan efektif, efisien dan memenuhi tujuan dari penggunaannya. Kecepatan akses internet dan pertumbuhan pesat industri ponsel pintar mempermudah orang untuk mendapatkan informasi. Di bidang pemasaran, ini memengaruhi cara promosi dilakukan. Penggunaan media sosial sebenarnya untuk interaksi sosial antara individu online menjadi umum, perusahaan menggunakannya sebagai alat untuk promosi. Salah satu media sosial yang sering digunakan adalah Instagram, sebuah aplikasi yang memungkinkan pengguna untuk berbagi foto dan gambar bersama dengan pesan singkat dengan pengguna lain. Studi ini membahas bagaimana Instagram sebagai media sosial dapat mempengaruhi minat beli konsumen. Subjek penelitian adalah Exodos57. Metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif (kausal), dengan menggunakan model regresi linier berganda. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan nonprobability sampling dengan jenis purposive sampling. Data dikumpulkan melalui kuesioner online melalui google form hingga 100 responden dengan 18 item pernyataan. Teknik pengolahan data menggunakan analisis regresi linier berganda dan uji hipotesis. Kata kunci: media sosial, instagram, promosi, keputusan pembelian Abstract Today, many businesses use social media accounts to advertise their products. Business people must pay attention to the use of social media in accordance with the target market so that the message provided is effective, efficient and meets the purpose of its use. The speed of internet access and the rapid growth of the smart phone industry make it easier for people to get information. In the field of marketing, this affects the way promotions are carried out. The actual use of social media for social interaction between individuals online is becoming common, companies use it as a tool for promotion. One of the frequently used social media is Instagram, an application that allows users to share photos and images along with short messages with other users. This study discusses how Instagram as social media can influence consumer buying interest. The research subject was Exodos57. The method in this study uses quantitative research methods. This research is a descriptive (causal) study, using multiple linear regression models. The sampling technique uses nonprobability sampling with a type of purposive sampling. Data was collected through an online questionnaire through google form for up to 100 respondents with 18 item statements. Data processing techniques using multiple linear regression analysis and hypothesis testing. Keywords: social media, Instagram, promotions, purchasing decisions
Relationship Between Perceived Contribution, Professional Respect, and Employee Engagement

Relationship Between Perceived Contribution, Professional Respect, and Employee Engagement by Rafael E. Guarin MBA, Universidad del Norte, Colombia, 1995 BS, Universidad de la Costa, Colombia, 1986 BS, Kaplan University, 2010 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration Walden University June 2019 Abstract Disengaged employees are a threat to a company’s survival in a highly competitiveDisengaged employees are a threat to a company’s survival in a highly competitive world. Despite employee engagement benefits, the mediation of interactions between leaders and followers and the specific drivers of engagement remain poorly understood. This correlational study was grounded on leader member exchange (LMX) theory and examined the relationship between 2 dimensions of LMX (perceived contribution and professional respect) and employee engagement. In this study, 68 manufacturing employees from the southern region of the United States responded to 2 surveys to measure the LMX dimensions and the level of employee engagement. Using multiple regression analysis, the existence of a positive correlation, p < . 001 and R= . 277, was demonstrated, which explained 28% of the variation in engagement. This research may serve as a roadmap for studying additional variables and providing workable tools for developing strategies to improve engagement in the workplace. The results of this study might contribute to positive social change by helping managers develop strategies to engage employees and reduce turnover, by improving the sense of stability for employees and their families, and by helping companies become more competitive and generate new jobs. Relationship Between Perceived Contribution, Professional Respect, and Employee Engagement
An Examination of Effect of Parental Involvement in Child Education, on Pupil Academic Performance at Primary Schools in Kiambu County, Kenya

The main purpose of this research was to examine how parental involvement in pupil education influenced their academic achievement. The study was carried out in Ruiru Sub-County of Kiambu Kenya. A total of eight schools were sampled, 3 rural and 5 urban using stratified sampling. The sample size comprised of 124 respondents, including 48 teachers and 76 pupils. A pilot study was done in two schools on a sample of 12 teachers and 17 pupils to pre-test the research instruments. A descriptive research design was adopted in which questionnaire and document analyses were used for data collection and management. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS-17.0) facilitated the analysis of data. The results were presented in the form of frequency tables and graphs The study found that parental involvement in children education had an influence on how they perform in school. The study further revealed that gifts constituted the highest form of incentives that majority of parents gave to their children in recognition of good performance. The study concluded that parents were the most important stakeholders in childrenâ€™s education, apart from the teacher and schools could achieve better performance by capitalizing on this support. The study recommended that parents take a more active role in their childrenâ€™s education especially at the primary level. Moreover, the government, through the Ministry of Education (MoE), should develop policies that encourage the development of school-family-community partnerships as an essential component of academic achievement of pupils.