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"Bringing what's on the inside out": arts-based cancer education with Alaska Native peoples.

Alaska Native peoples have a strong tradition of learning and passing knowledge through stories, drummings, songs, and dances. This study explored the use of expressive arts as a culturally respectful pathway for cancer education. The expressive arts of moving, drawing, and sculpting were woven into seven cancer education workshops during September and October 2009, in which 98 (85%) participants completed a written evaluation. The majority (91%) of workshop participants were female. By ethnicity, 46% were Alaska Native, 13% American Indian, 33% Caucasian, and 2% Hispanic. As described by participants on written post-cancer-education evaluations, the use of expressive arts awakened possibilities, inspired creativity, and expanded perspectives; brought learners together; helped participants talk about cancer; supported holistic ways of knowing and remembering; empowered wellness ways and self-care; and energized learning with fun, laughter, and play. Examples of ways the expressive arts were integrated into cancer education curriculum and participant comments are shared in this article. The expres1. Acknowledgements: Received from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Anchorage, Alaska. Supported by: Mentored Research Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Thank you to my ACS Project Officer Dr Ronit Elk and my mentors Dr Anne Lanier, Dr Deborah Bowen, and Dr Mark Dignan for believing in my potential. I appreciate their continued support, guidance, and inspiration. I am eternally grateful for the many people whose stories have become woven into who I am and who I am becoming as a researcher passionately committed to decreasing health disparities. The title comes from a cancer education course participant. 2 © Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health 9(1) 2011 sive arts nurtured heart, head, and body ways of knowing to provide culturally relevant, learner-centred cancer education which served as a catalyst for cancer conversations and deeper understandings.
ADV Preview Based Nonlinear Predictive Control for Maximizing Power Generation of a Tidal Turbine With Hydrostatic Transmission

As the development of tidal turbines attracts more and more attention in recent years, reliable design and efficient control of tidal turbines are becoming increasingly important. However, the majority of existing tidal turbines still utilize traditional fixed ratio geared transmissions and the associated control designs focus on simple feedback controllers that use measurements or possibly estimates of the turbine itself or current local tidal profile. Therefore, the measurement and control are inevitably affected by the inherent delay with respect to the current tidal speeds. This paper proposes a novel tidal turbine with continuously variable speed hydrostatic transmissions and a nonlinear predictive controller that uses short-term predictions of the approaching tidal speed field to enhance the maximum tidal power generations when the tidal speed is below the rated value. The controller is designed based on an offline finite-horizon continuous time minimization of a cost function, and an integral action is incorporated into the control loop to increase the robustness against parameter variations and uncertainties. A smooth second order sliding mode observer is also designed for parameter estimations in the control loop. A 150 kW tidal turbine with hydrostatic transmission is designed and implemented. The results demonstrate that the averaged generator power increases by 6.76% with this preview based nonlinear predictive controller compared with a classical non-predictive controller.
Boosting the research mindset of school librarians: a case study from Croatia

This study explores the functionality of the Moodle-based professional development program, Research in School Libraries (RSL), created for school librarians in Croatia. The main goal of this study is to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the RSL program as well as the suitability of the e-learning platform Loomen for running professional development programs for school librarians. In this case study, multiple sources of evidence are used: RSL program, statistics of RSL program participants’ activities from the Loomen platform and responses from the online survey conducted with the program participants. The findings show that school librarians in Croatia actively participate in the RSL program, highly rate the quality of the program and find it useful. Furthermore, school librarians find the Loomen platform suitable for their professional development and value its many advantages. Based on this research, it can be concluded that the model for professional development used in the RSL program works well for school librarians in Croatia. Therefore, following the ideas and principles behind this model, the RSL program will be further developed and new modules will be introduced and added to the program.
Mindfulness-Based Attention Training: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcomes of a Digital Course for High School Students

Digital mindfulness-based interventions (d-MBIs) present an unprecedented opportunity to share mindfulness training at scale. However, the feasibility of digital mindfulness training for high schools remains unknown. Using a one-group pre–post design, this feasibility study evaluated the adoption of a digital mindfulness course in a public high school. The 22-day course was delivered on laptops, tablets, or phones via a custom digital learning platform. The course included a total of 2.25 h of instruction designed to improve focus, stress management, and emotion regulation. The intervention was implemented across 11 classrooms with 9th–12th grade students. On average across all classes, students completed 80% of lessons and 77% of daily exercises. Although the one-group design precludes definitive conclusions about the intervention’s effects, paired t-tests from pretest to post-test (N = 190) revealed improved emotional regulation and stress management despite students experiencing significantly increased life demands toward the end of the academic term. Results suggest that students also adopted a stronger growth mindset about their ability to focus, and they felt more motivated and confident to train this ability. A total of 64% of students indicated that the course improved their focus. Among the 81.6% of students who reported at baseline that they paid attention in class less than they should, focus during class increased significantly. This investigation supports the feasibility of digital mindfulness training for high schools and highlights strategies for increasing fidelity of implementation of digital interventions in school settings.
Internalisasi Nilai Moderasi Melalui Pendidikan Agama Islam di Perguruan Tinggi Umum

AbstractThis article describes the internalization of the value of Islamic moderation through Islamic Religious Education in the general higher education. Religious moderation, including Islam, is important to be internalized, amid the diversity of Indonesian people who have the motto of Unity in Diversity, and in the midst of the development of a dynamic environment that can damage the joints of unity because of the wrong understanding. Writing from the results of research located at the Indonesian University of Education (UPI) in Bandung uses a qualitative approach. Data collection is done through observation and interview techniques. This paper shows that the pattern of internalization of moderating values through Islamic Religious Education courses at the Indonesian Education University in Bandung. The material is adapted to student input, the competence of lecturers and subject matter support from the UPI campus environment. The curriculum is designed according to the provisions of the College. The internalization method is done through face-to-face meetings in lectures, tutorials, seminars and the like. The evaluation is done through screening Islamic insights in an orderly and written periodic report from lecturers and tutors.Abstrak Artikel ini memaparkan internalisasi nilai moderasi Islam melalui Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) di Perguruan Tinggi Umum (PTU). Moderasi beragama, termasuk Islam, penting untuk diinternalisasikan, di tengah kemajemukan masyarakat Indonesia yang memiliki semboyan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, dan di tengah perkembangan lingkungan yang dinamis yang dapat merusak sendi-sendi persatuan karena adanya pemahaman yang salah. Tulisan dari hasil penelitian yang berlokasi di Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) Bandung ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik observasi dan wawancara. Tulisan ini memperlihatkan bahwa pola internalisasi nilai-nilai moderasi melalui mata kuliah PAI di UPI Bandung. Materinya disesuaikan dengan input mahasiswa, kompetensi dosen pengampu mata kuliah dan dukungan dari lingkungan kampus UPI. Kurikulum yang dirancang sesuai ketentuan Perguruan Tinggi (PT). Metode internalisasi dilakukan melalui tatap muka dalam perkuliahan, tutorial, seminar dan yang semisalnya. Evaluasinya dilakukan melalui screening wawasan keislaman secara lisan dan tertulis secara laporan berkala dari dosen dan tutor.
Explicit, Implicit, and Blended Vocabulary Instruction: Efficiency in an Aviation English Course

This paper reports on the results of vocabulary teaching sessions in an Aviation English Course conducted with three different groups of 12 fourth-year undergraduate students at the Flight Academy of the National Aviation University in Ukraine . The research objective was to identify how the explicit, the implicit, and the blended instruction influenced the students’ progress in Aviation English vocabulary acquisition. Experimental data was analyzed following the grounded theory approach. Each group took a pretest, a post-test, and a delayed test. The results showed that all three types of vocabulary instruction had a positive effect on the learning and recall of aviation vocabulary. The students who received the explicit treatment statistically outperformed the other two treatment groups in the posttest, based on immediate word acquisition. The results of the delayed test demonstrated that blended instruction was the most efficient approach in terms of delayed vocabulary retention as compared to a solely implicit or explicit teaching method. Therefore, we conclude that Aviation English classroom practices should incorporate a balanced approach employing both implicit and explicit vocabulary instruction.
The Role of Frequency in the Processing of giving and receiving Events in Korean

This study aimed to examine the processing benefits of frequency information associated with the case marker -eykey in comprehending Korean declarative sentences. By using a picture description task in which pictures ambiguously illustrated either a giving event (-eykeyREC . cwuta ‘give . to’) or a receiving event (-eykeySOURCE . patta ‘receive . from’), we found that giving events were predominantly preferred to receiving events. The results of the online sentence comprehension study revealed that 1) give-type verbs were integrated into sentences faster than receive-type verbs overall and 2) the reading-time differences between the verb types were significant when role NPs were canonically ordered (NP-eykey . NP-(l)ul) but not when they were noncanonically presented (NP-(l)ul . NP-eykey). We claim that structural and semantic frequency bias associated with -eykey facilitates readers’ anticipatory processing in the integration of upcoming information. We further discuss how the processing differences in giving and receiving events might attribute to the argument-adjunct distinction between recipients and sources.
Being late, going with the flow, always doing more: the cruel optimism of higher education in Jordan

Abstract Berlant’s notion of cruel optimism refers to investments in material structures, social norms, and ideological claims of being that work against individual and collective flourishing. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data spanning 2007–2016, this longitudinal study utilizes cruel optimism to explore material and affective investments of middle class Jordanian men into becoming educated, despite their acknowledgement that education delivers limited social mobility. Analyses of school-to-work transitions suggest Jordanian youth is confronting longer periods of transition, rather than indefinitely living in times of compromised possibility. However, a focus on ameliorating transitions and ‘mismatches’ in youth skills and expectations, does not adequately consider how shared understandings of the promise of education change over time, nor how uncertainties of transition become normalized as everyday life. Through participants’ life trajectories, this article examines youth modes of improvisation when ‘transitions’ persist indeterminately, and sanctioned means of future-building fail to deliver normative ideals of the present.
The Station “Scientist”: Examining the Impact of Race, Sex, and Education of Broadcast Meteorologists on Credibility, Trust, and Information Retention

Broadcast meteorologists hold a set of skills unique in a newsroom. Not only must a broadcast meteorologist utilize communication skills similar to that of a newscaster, they are also typically versed in some physical science. In addition, the field of meteorology has an unfortunate disparity when examining job statistics as they relate to race and biological sex. Generally speaking, men outnumber women in broadcast television positions three to one, and minorities are often outnumbered or excluded from coverage altogether. Drawing on Uses and Gratifications and Media System Dependency Theory, this dissertation project examines the effects of race, biological sex, and forecaster education on the audience perceptions of forecaster trust, credibility, and information retention. Two experiments are proposed, and analysis of variance and mediation testing will be used to examine the hypotheses and research questions. The first experiment tests the manipulations of forecaster race and sex in the form of a mock weather hit using a student sample. The results generally suggest that there are mixed findings for the effects of forecaster race and sex on the dependent variables of trust, credibility, and information retention. The second experiment tests the same two manipulations from experiment one, with an additional manipulation of forecaster education added. No significant findings emerged for whether the forecaster held a science or non-science degree. The results are discussed in terms of how individuals may perceive forecasters given their race, sex, or degree level, and the potential implications for processing information or forming attitudes and decisions based off this behavior.
Motivating the Motivators: An Examination of High School Principals’ Drive to Succeed

While much has been written about how principals motivate their teachers, there is a surprising paucity of research on what motivates principals themselves. Because a principal significantly impacts the academic achievement of students and because principal turnover disproportionately impacts low-income schools, it is imperative that we find a way to keep principals feeling motivated. We examined what principals say provides them motivation to succeed and found that praise—from students, supervisors, and parents—is very meaningful to them.
What Parents Want: Designing an Interactive Web-Based Program to Improve Parent-Adolescent Communication About Sex

Background: Parent-child communication is associated with decreased adolescent sexual risk-taking. To date, interventions targeting parent-child communication have been delivered via face-to-face formats. However, online interventions offer several advantages: cost, reach, program fidelity, anonymity and opportunity for individualized feedback. Objective: The present study sought to identify parents’ preferences regarding interactive features for a web-based program to improve parent-child communication about sex. Methods: We conducted seven focus groups with parents (n=29) in Allegheny County, PA to identify their preferences for interactive features to be included in the web program. Results: Parents identified four main interactive features: Ask the Expert, Chat Rooms, Supplementary Information Delivery Modes and Links to Face-to-Face Programming. Parents were interested in receiving individualized feedback regarding their questions/concerns, as well as online peer support. They were also interested in receiving information through other communication tools (texts, email, mail) and having the program connect them to face-to-face programs or seminars. Lastly, parents expressed their desire that the web intervention include a component for children. Conclusions: Understanding what interactive features parents want can help optimize program completion and satisfaction. Public Health Significance: Web-based programs have the potential to reach a large number of parents equipping them with new knowledge and skills to influence their adolescent’s sexual health behaviors.
Influence of Hostile Attribution Bias on Cyberbullying Perpetration in Middle School Students and the Multiple Additive Moderating Effect of Justice Sensitivity

©The Korean Association of Child Studies This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Corresponding Author: Ju Hee Park, Professor, Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea E-mail: juheepark@yonsei.ac. kr M. A. , Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Professor, Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Garam Yoo, Ju Hee Park
Optimization and acceptance of enteric MRI in inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of bowel. CT and barium fluoroscopy are main stay of radiological investigation but impart high radiation dose. MRI is a safe and less invasive technique to assess bowel. The thesis examines the use of magnetic resonance Imaging in enteric inflammatory bowel disease. A discussion on inflammatory bowel disease and overview of MRI techniques, diagnostic features and review of literature is described. A national survey about the uptake of MRI for the investigation of IBD showed that 38% of radiology departments offered enteric MRI and barium studies remaining the main imaging investigation performed. A proforma administered to clinicians in OPD showed significant increase in their diagnostic confidence for small bowel disease after MRE, which had positive impact on therapeutic strategy of 61% of patients. The results of a prospective studies investigating MR colonography as a biomarker of disease activity are then presented. Quantitative measurements of contrast enhancement in normal colon have shown intersegmental differences. Three proposed qualitative MRI scores of disease activity correlated with endoscopic disease activity, but correlation with histopathological scores was less apparent. The use of unprepared colonic MRI in assessment of acute colitis is then investigated. A qualitative total colonic inflammation score (TCIS) proposed and validated against clinical standards including stool frequency and CRP. It also has prognostic ability for length of hospital stay. Region of interest derived quantitative measurements from the colon wall including T2 signal and contrast enhancement are then compared to a validated clinical score of colitis activity. Quantitative markers seemed less robust then qualitative scores, although quantified contrast enhancement is correlated with disease severity. Patient experiences of MR Colonography and colonoscopy are investigated by using face-to-face qualitative interviews, together with a quantitative questionnaire. Patient preference is highly complex but patients expressed overall preference for MRC.
Seeking help for mental illness: A qualitative study among greekaustralians and Anglo-Australians

Despite the high prevalence of mental illness, research indicates that many people who experience mental illness do not access help and therefore go unnecessarily without treatment. It was the aim in this study to investigate reasons why people do not seek help for mental illness and to determine if there were any cultural differences between AngloAustralians and the large Greek-Australian population. Nine Greek-Australians (six males) (age M = 29.84 years, SD = 8.75) and eight Anglo-Australians (one male) (age M = 34.93 years, SD = 14.10) participated in interviews focused on their attitudes towards, and willingness to seek help for, mental illness. Results revealed participants had a poor understanding of mental illness per se, and in terms of help seeking suggested similar factors to those reported in the literature. Participants indicated embarrassment is associated with mental illness despite ongoing media campaigns and awareness-raising concerning mental illness. While both groups acknowledged that professional help may be useful they stressed the importance of a trusting and confidential relationship with the therapist. Anglo-Australians sampled were somewhat more willing to utilise professional help, while the Greek-Australian participants were more likely, in the first instance, to seek-out informal support such as from a priest.
An exploratory study of factors that relate to academic success among high-achieving African American males

This exploratory study explored three factorsself-efficacy, resiliency, and leadershipthat relate to academic success in African American male freshman college students. The study explored how self-efficacy, resiliency, and leadership interrelate, how a pilot group and study group differ in respect to self-efficacy, resiliency, and leadership, and how African American freshman males differ on these factors in respect to key demographic variables. The study utilized the Student Academic Success Scale (SASS), which was an instrument developed by the researcher in a graduate course. The instrument was administered to 1 04 participants. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, and a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were data analysis techniques used to interpret data. Data revealed that participants perceive themselves rather highly on the SASS and that there were positive correlations among all three variables. Furthermore, a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that freshmen male students perceive themselves higher on the SASS than students from a pilot group of upperclassmen. Lastly, an ANOVA revealed that African American male freshmen who participated in art programs rated themselves significantly higher on self-efficacy and leadership, while students who participated in mentorship or internship programs rated themselves significantly higher on self-efficacy and resiliency. Implications of this study indicate that there is a need to develop mentorship and internship opportunities in the elementary, middle, and high school settings for African American males. Moreover, future research should look closely at studying this group