bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Authors: Talha Hanfi Abu , Ahmad Sana
Published: February 2024

This chapter describes the chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) its diagnosis, management and recent advances. Because it is third leading cause of death in world. It must be given more attention and discussion. COPD was broadly divided into Stable COPD, Infective COPD and Exacerbation COPD all of which have different management criteria. COPD is frequently misdiagnosed with other chronic respiratory diseases but the Global initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease score and the COPD assessment test score help to assess the disease. It is preventable and treatable diseases so the multidisciplinary approach should be followed so that the care of the patient is done in all the dimensions. Pulmonary rehabilitation is one of the advances and it shows major benefits for COPD patients.
Perspective Chapter: Experimental Analysis of Black Hole Algorithm with Heuristic Algorithms in Traveling Salesman Problem
Authors: Fatih Demiral Mehmet
Published: February 2024

Black hole algorithm (BHA) is a popular metaheuristic algorithm proposed and applied for data clustering in 2013. BHA was applied to continuous and discrete problems; it is also hybridized with some algorithms in the literature. The pure BHA shows better performance than others in discrete optimization, such as traveling salesman problems. However, it requires improving the algorithm with competitive heuristics. Many heuristics have often been used to construct the initial tour of a salesman, such as the nearest neighbor algorithm (NN), nearest insertion algorithm (NI), cheapest insertion algorithm (CI), random insertion algorithm (RI), furthest insertion algorithm (FI), and minimal spanning tree algorithm (MST). In addition, the black hole algorithm is combined with popular heuristics, such as swap/or insert, reverse/or 2-opt swap, and swap-reverse/or 3-opt swap, and tested with proper parameters in this study. In the experimentation, classical datasets are used via TSP-library. The experimental results are given as best, average solutions/or deviations, and CPU time for all datasets. Besides, the hybrid algorithms demonstrate a better performance rate to get optimality. Finally, hybrid algorithms solve the discrete optimization problem in a short computing time for all datasets.
Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Challenges for Now and the Future
Authors: Navaratnarajah Manoraj , Modi Amit , Ohri Sunil
Published: February 2024

The recent years have seen a huge expansion in the number of bioprostheses implanted, and this number is likely to increase further in the future. This is likely to lead to a pandemic of patients requiring reoperation/re-intervention for structural deterioration of the valve. Valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (ViV-TAVR) has become a safe and effective alternative to redo aortic valve surgery and has gained approval for use in high-risk patients with prohibitive operative risk. ViV-TAVR is a complex procedure requiring rigorous planning, technical expertise and patient anatomical appreciation. In this chapter, we examine the evidence supporting the use of ViV-TAVR along with the primary technical issues surrounding this procedure such as: elevated postprocedural gradients, coronary obstruction and valve-related thrombosis. TAVR use is also expanding towards an increasingly young patient profile with extended life expectancy, likely to outlive the implanted bioprosthesis. We therefore also examine the huge current challenge of establishing what is the best lifetime strategy for the management of aortic valve disease in younger patients.
Lector Inmersivo para desarrollar la lectoescritura postpandemia en estudiantes de cuarto año de primaria.
Authors: Arteaga Mueses Valeria Abigail , Muñoz Correa Karlita Elizabeth , Betancourt Sánchez Carol Mabel , Nieto Báez Kerlly Michelle , Pagllacho Churochumbi Jessica Tatiana
Published: February 2024

El “Lector Inmersivo” es un software educativo diseñado para desarrollar las habilidades de lectura y escritura a través de sus múltiples funcionalidades. El objetivo del estudio es proponer el uso del Lector Inmersivo para el proceso lecto-escritor en los estudiantes de cuarto año de Educación General Básica, quienes durante la crisis sanitaria COVID-19 no lo desarrollaron correctamente. La investigación es documental, descriptiva con enfoque cualitativo, la misma desempeña un análisis de comparación entre estudios relevantes, como, los datos emitidos por el INEVAL en el año 2019, donde el 16,4% de los escolares demostraron deficiencia en los procesos de lectura y escritura; a partir, de la pandemia con los resultados de la Prueba “Ser Estudiante 2021-2022”, se evidenció que las dificultades en mencionado proceso incrementaron a un 22,2%. En definitiva, el uso del Lector Inmersivo es una solución viable para que los educadores atiendan significativamente las dificultades de lectoescritura.
Pengaruh Video Tutorial Penggunaan Software Mastercam terhadap Minat Belajar Siswa pada Mata Pelajaran NC/CNC dan CAM di SMK Negeri 1 Padang
Authors: Hidayat Rohman , Purwantono Purwantono , Prasetya Febri , Kurniawan Andre
Published: February 2024

This research aims at the following two things. First, to find out how the level of interest in learning class XII students at SMK Negeri 1 Padang after being given the treatment of video tutorial-based learning media. Second, to determine whether or not there is an influence given before and after being given the treatment of video tutorial-based learning media, besides that it also sees how much influence is obtained. This study uses a quantitative type approach and with a quasi experimental method and this research design uses One group pretest-posttest design. Based on the results of research conducted related to the effect of video tutorial-based learning media on student learning interest, the following 3 conclusions can be drawn. First, the pretest value is included in the good category while the posttest value is included in the very good category when viewed based on the reference category of pretest and posttest learning interest. Second, the provision of learning media can have a significant effect on increasing the value of students' interest in learning because of an increase. Third, there is an influence given based on the results of the t-test hypothesis which states Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. This indicates that there is a significant influence between the provision of tutorial video-based learning media on student interest in learning.
Pengaruh Media Terbuka dan Tertutup terhadap Kadar Asam Lemak Bebas pada Kondisi Suhu Kamar
Authors: Lestari Destriani Umi , Wicaksono Dimas Aji
Published: February 2024

Free fatty acids (ALB) are fatty acids that exist in a free state and are no longer related to glycerol. The method used in ALB analysis in CPO uses the alkalimetric titration method with the principle of determining acid levels using a standard alkaline solution that has known the exact concentration. The data collection process is carried out by calculating the % ALB in open and closed media CPO which is then calculated in excel to find out the comparison of the increase in % ALB so that the graph is obtained. a significant increase occurs in open media CPO because open media is more rapidly oxidized and more susceptible to contamination by air so that there is a faster increase in open media samples so that in open media the smell is more rancid than closed media due to the result of oxidation, namely hydroperoxide which gives a rancid smell and gives a brownish color to CPO.
Presidential Address
Authors: Morrell Ernest
Published: February 2024

An excerpt from Ernest Morrell’s Presidential Address from the NCTE Annual Convention in Washington, DC, November 2014: Powerful English at NCTE, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Students’ Literacy Blossoms at Summer Learning Labsx
Authors: Collopy Trisha
Published: February 2024

Summer labs give students a safe space to read and write, give teachers a chance to collaborate and try new strategies.
The Outsider Is Welcomed In: An Interview with Alison Bechdel
Authors: Aronson Deb
Published: February 2024

Bechdel, the NCTE’ Convention’s Friday General Session Speaker, seems nonplussed about her success.
Flipping Accountability on Its Head
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: February 2024

Keeping Students at the Center of ELL Instruction
Writing in Diverse Walks of Life: Four Voices
Authors: Barnwell Paul
Published: February 2024

An NCTE member and veteran middle and high school English teacher reflects on the value of writing, through four interviews that illustrate its many benefits in diverse walks of life.
The Imposition of Narrative
Authors: Smith Christian
Published: February 2024

A literacy narrative.
Emerging Voices: “The pageant is the thing”: The Contradictions of Women’s Clubs and Civic Education during the Americanization Era
Authors: White Kate
Published: February 2024

Faced with the need to educate women collectively about politics and government, Jane Croly established the General Federation of Womenâ€™s Clubs (GFWC) in 1890. Based on archival documents from the GFWC, this article seeks to address the following research questions: What do the patriotic pageants sponsored by the GFWC illustrate about civic education in the Americanization era? What can we learn about civic education and the use of particular rhetorical forms from twentieth-century pageants and organizations such as the GFWC? By exploring the organizationâ€™s contribution to civic education alongside other pageants in the same era, it is possible to better contextualize the competing histories of civic education for ourselves and our students. This article also focuses on the patriotic pageants that club women used to develop a model of social change rooted in education, which had contradictory results. The GFWC both supported and resisted whiteness as the position of authority in its promotion of pageants. Embracing the contradictions of pageants and their role in civic education in the Americanization era allows for a more nuanced and accurate picture of the history of civic education.
The Blurry Borders of College Writing: Remediation and the Assessment of Student Readiness
Authors: Hassel Holly , Giordano Joanne
Published: February 2024

The essay reports the findings of a study of 911 students’ academic outcomes in relation to their placement profiles and a closer, qualitative analysis of 54 participating
Review: Identity, Critical Literacy, and the Pursuit of Inclusion and Justice in Writing Center
Authors: Blazer Sarah , Fitzgerald Lauren
Published: February 2024

Four texts are reviewed that exemplify an important strand of writing center scholarship focused on power dynamics and identity politics in literacy teaching and learning, particularly but not exclusively within college writing centers. Each text takes up the entrenched problem of oppression and injustice toward students identified as being minority by institutional standards; each addresses possibilities for more productive, humane, and inclusive practice. Considered alongside scholarship by authors participating in this January's symposium issue and others concerned with disrupting monolingual, monocultural ideologies and institutionalized oppression, these texts add significantly to the conversation on theory and practice of critical literacy teaching and learning.
Queered Writing Assessment
Authors: Alexander Jonathan
Published: February 2024

ost writing assessment at the college level is geared toward “homegrown” or “traditional” students: the ones who start their first year of college education at the same institution from which they later graduate. Assessment at Alexander’s institution was mostly effective for those same students but was less successful for some transfer students, as shown in assessment data. Instead of trying to force those students to learn the “norm” standards, the author, as WPA, began conversations with faculty at the community colleges where these students begin their college careers to determine how to honor the many different writing knowledges that these students bring to the classroom. Looked at through a lens of queer theory, this is the path to “queering” writing assessment.
Review: Seeing Settler Colonialism
Authors: Toth Christie
Published: February 2024

This column reviews four books that illustrate the idea that our locations shape our meaning-making processes. She notes how each author frames the social justice issue at the heart of her or his analysis, paying close attention to how visible the Indigenous presence is as well as the settler colonialism involved in each. The resulting readings are not so much as critique of these studies, but rather show how explicit attention to the settler colonial situation might inform understandings of the relationships between rhetoric, writing, and structures of oppression in the United States, whether or not one’s work focuses primarily on Native American issues.
“Looking Back I Can See” Literate Tensions and Changes: A Veteran Teacher’s Cross-Contextual Analysis of His Literate Life
Authors: Schappe Julie F.
Published: February 2024

This article details the results of a survey project that seeks to understand the factors that influence teachers’ decisions about instructional texts in the English classroom. The survey, delivered to 339 teachers in a western state where the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been adopted, asked teachers to identify influential factors in these decisions, to discuss challenges they face in selecting texts, and to speculate about the possible influence of the CCSS on these decisions. The results indicate that teachers attempt to make careful decisions about texts, weighing curricular factors as well as student needs and interests. However, teachers make these decisions in complicated contexts where resources are tight, and practices such as whole-class novel study make these decisions difficult to make well. These results suggest that teacher educators evaluate traditional practices such as the whole-class novel to improve educational practice in English classrooms.
Navigating the Text Selection Gauntlet: Exploring Factors That Influence English Teachers’ Choices
Authors: Watkins Naomi , Ostenson Jonathan
Published: February 2024

This article details the results of a survey project that seeks to understand the factors that influence teachers’ decisions about instructional texts in the English classroom. The survey, delivered to 339 teachers in a western state where the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been adopted, asked teachers to identify influential factors in these decisions, to discuss challenges they face in selecting texts, and to speculate about the possible influence of the CCSS on these decisions. The results indicate that teachers attempt to make careful decisions about texts, weighing curricular factors as well as student needs and interests. However, teachers make these decisions in complicated contexts where resources are tight, and practices such as whole-class novel study make these decisions difficult to make well. These results suggest that teacher educators evaluate traditional practices such as the whole-class novel to improve educational practice in English classrooms.
Racial and Related Forms of Specialist Knowledge on English Education Blogs
Authors: Skerrett Allison , Pruitt Alina Adonyi , Warrington Amber S.
Published: February 2024

This article explores how the computer-mediated communication (CMC) tool of blogging served as a teaching and learning tool about diversity and inequity in English education. It analyzes the blog writings of two preservice teachers who used their blogs as a space to encourage themselves and their peers to consider racial, linguistic, and other forms of diversity and inequality, and what these issues meant for English education. The analysis advances understandings of the potentials and limits of CMCs to foster dialogue and knowledge building among preservice teachers in relation to diversity and inequality in education.
Using Nonfiction to Advocate for Change
Authors: Polleck Jody
Published: February 2024

The author provides an overview of a unit plan that integrates nonfiction and issues surrounding social justice.
Using the Author-Out Workshop to Counter Students’ Assumptions and Anxieties about Reading and Writing Poetry
Authors: Apol Laura , Macaluso Kati
Published: February 2024

The authors describe how an Author-Out poetry writing workshop challenges students’ pervading beliefs and assumptions about poetry and cultivates students’ proficiency as readers and writers of poems.
Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners: Supporting Second Language Acquisition with Twenty-First-Century Literacies
Authors: Bryan Kisha , Garland Kathy
Published: February 2024

“Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners” discusses critical, transformative, and powerful ways to support students’ acquisition of Standard English.
The Precarious Position of the Black Settler Pedagogue: Decolonizing (De-weaponizing) Our Praxis through the Critical Reading of Native Feminist Texts
Authors: Cherry-McDaniel Monique
Published: February 2024

This article explains how Native feminist texts are helpful in challenging preservice secondary English teachers to examine what the author calls “settler teacher syndrome,” a condition in which classroom teachers make instructional, pedagogical, and disciplinary decisions that support settler colonialism.
Under Discussion: Teaching Speaking and Listening--Joyful Reading Is Our Goal
Authors: Brown Michelle
Published: February 2024

This column seeks to provide a forum in which we can lean on each other to investigate and improve the quality of our classroom discussion leadership.
High School Matters: Swinging Open Our Classroom Doors
Authors: Greene Katie
Published: February 2024

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
Speaking Truth to Power
Authors: Burdick Melanie N.
Published: February 2024

“Speaking Truth to Power” seeks to explore the experiences and possibilities that arise when educators speak Truth to power.
Genius Hour: Critical Inquiry and Differentiation
Authors: Simos Elaine
Published: February 2024

This article covers one teacher’s experiences using the Genius Hour model with her high school students.
Translating Argumentative Writing as a Constructive Activity
Authors: Nystrom Kris , Alberico Christian , Bianchi Amelia
Published: February 2024

The aim of this paper is to contribute a discussion point in the discourse about what argumentative writing is, what elemental skills are involved, and how students develop them. At face value, there seems broad consensus that argumentative writing is vital to academic study, civic engagement, and even the perpetuation of democracy. But as contexts change, so do the things we teach and how we teach them. The authors present a case for what they view as a decomposition of the genre as it is learned and practiced among students. At the very least, they claim it is time to translate argumentative writing in our classes.
Be a Leader without Becoming an Administrator
Authors: Warner Latasha B.
Published: February 2024

The author focuses on ways to be a teacher-leader without leaving the classroom for an administrative position.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree: Exploring Religion and Race in the Elementary Classroom
Authors: Damico James S. , Hall Ted
Published: February 2024

We explore what happened during a literature discussion in a fifth-grade classroom when the students and teacher interpreted the experience of enslaved Blacks through "the cross." We also examine a digital video two of the students created about riots that ensued in Cincinnati after an unarmed African American teenager was killed by a White police officer. We begin with a framework that integrates culturally responsive teaching with Critical Race Theory (CRT). We then explain how we needed to include another perspective, Black liberation theology, to more richly frame, understand, and make explicit links among religion, racism, and suffering. Implications center on what we might learn from the teacher and children in this classroom, especially about the spaces that might be cultivated in classrooms when the topics of religion and the history of enslaved peoples intersect.—
Professional Book Reviews: Embodiment through Performance, Movement, and Making
Authors: Spence Lucy , Milling Stephanie
Published: February 2024

Three books are reviewed including A Reason to Read by Eileen Landay and Kurt Wootton, Smart Moves: Why Learning IS Not All in Your Head (2nd ed.) by Carla Hannaford, and Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary S. Stager. These books explore literacy through a movement or activity perspective.
Professional Book Reviews: Limiting Curricular Bias: Creating Relevance through Authentic Instruction and Assessment
Authors: DeFord Diane , Goodman Janie , Laman Tasha , Oglan Victoria A.
Published: February 2024

The professional literature we review in this issue explores a variety of ways teachers can expand opportunities their students have to read and write utilizing cutting-edge literature, and connect the variety of genre they study to their personal lives. We also address assessment practices that keep the learner sharply in focus rather than the resulting numbers. Finally, we consider professional literature that can help us explore recent events that have begun to shape our lives and impact the schools we work within. The potential impact of this professional literature is to highlight ways to remove bias from the curriculum and transform our schools and communities through dialogue and critical inquiry.
Closely Reading “Reading Closely”
Authors: Aukerman Maren , Schuldt Lorien Chambers
Published: February 2024

Should the Common Core-inspired emphasis on close reading be taken to mean that children should arrive upon one agreed understanding, or should it be taken to mean that many different close readings are possible and likely in the classroom? We closely examined what students said during and after a text discussion in their classroom in order to answer the following related research questions: Did a dialogic discussion in which there was no push for students to reach agreement-a communal close reading-still enable students to engage in and witness close readings of the text? What is the relationship between the positions students took publicly during discussion and the positions they took privately when the discussion was over? Our findings suggest that students did engage in close reading in the context of the public discussion. Indeed, they diverged in their textual opinions precisely because differing close readings emphasized different aspects of the text. We also found that students’ private positions did not always align with their public ones, making us wonder whether consensus-driven communal close reading is even a theoretical possibility for more complex text, let alone a desirable one.
Children’s Literature Reviews: 2015 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
Authors: Schroeder Jean , Clark Shanetia P. , Draper Christine A. , Freeman Evelyn B. , Jewett Pamela , Koblitz Dick , Sims Holly
Published: February 2024

This column presents the 2015 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts. In selecting these books, particular attention is paid to language and how it is used. NCBLA books must, (1) explicitly deal with language, such as play on words, word origins, or the history of language; (2) demonstrate uniqueness in the use of language or styles; and (3) invite child response or participation.
Education Activist Bess Altwerger, NCTE’s 2016 Outstanding Elementary Educator in the English Language Arts
Authors: J.Meyer Richard
Published: February 2024

Educational activist Bess Altwerger describes and discusses the influences upon and nature of her work in support of literacy in public schools.
Childrenâ€™s Literature Reviews: Courage, Compassion, Connection: Building Community through Powerful Characters
Authors: Enrique Grace , Cappiello Mary Ann , Thulin Dawes Erika , Egan Cunningham Katie
Published: February 2024

In this column we review a selection of childrenâ€™s books focusing on characters and communities that connect and grow with one another through their courage and compassion.
Creative Failures in Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Authors: Puzio Kelly , Newcomer Sarah , Pratt Kristen , McNeely Kate , Jacobs Michelle , Hooker Samantha
Published: February 2024

Although there is widespread support for culturally sustaining pedagogy, there is a lack of understanding about the challenges that teachers face while trying to do this. This kind of instruction can be difficult because teachers often have different backgrounds from their students. Our goal is to help construct a more coherent vision of culturally sustaining pedagogy through a narrative inquiry approach by sharing teachers’ stories of their experiences. Here, each teacher shared a moment when she tried to enact a culturally sustaining lesson but it failed in some way. We hope these narratives will inspire reflection, debate, and dialogue about how to incorporate and respond to students’ cultural, linguistic, and historical backgrounds.
Resisting Readers’ Identity (Re)Construction across English and Young Adult Literature Course Contexts
Authors: Glenn Wendy J. , Ginsberg Ricki
Published: February 2024

This phenomenological case study explores the disconnect that high school readers labeled as struggling perceived between their reading identities and experiences in traditional English classes. It analyzes how participation in a young adult literature (YAL) elective provided participants space in which to enact identities and exhibit agency in ways that were different from those afforded in their English classes. This paper contributes uniquely to the larger research conversation by examining two different spaces (traditional English classes and a YAL class) and demonstrating how students’ identities as readers manifested in different ways across two contexts. Using Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, and Cain’s (1998) theory of identity as a lens of analysis across student-generated oral reflections gathered through Seidman’s (2006) interview protocol, the study reveals how student participants were supported in their attempts to deconstruct their experiences in traditional classroom spaces, build new conceptions of their reading selves in a unique classroom setting, and, in the process, assume greater agency in shaping their individual reader identities, advancing the argument that differing classroom contexts can provide students with varying levels of opportunity to reject and/or accept ascribed reading identities. This work is significant in the way it emphasizes the importance of classroom and school contexts, the possibilities that come with inviting students to engage as readers in school rather than engage in school reading, the benefits and risks of reimagined relationships between students and teachers and students and peers, and the possibility that young adult literature in and of itself offers implications for reader agency.
Secondary Students’ Perceptions of Peer Review of Writing
Authors: Loretto Adam , DeMartino Sara , Godley Amanda
Published: February 2024

Although multiple studies have found that peer review is an effective instructional practice for the teaching of academic writing in K–12 settings, little research exists that documents students’ views of peer review and the features that make peer review tasks useful or challenging for writing development. In this study, we investigated high school students’ perceptions of peer review through a questionnaire administered to 513 students from four schools who had used SWoRD, an online peer review system. Data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Our findings demonstrate that most students viewed peer review as helpful to their writing development and that students consistently viewed three features of the SWoRD peer review system as most beneficial: anonymity of writers and reviewers, opportunities to review other students’ writing, and feedback from multiple readers. Students reported difficulty with managing conflicting reviews and wording their feedback. Our study contributes to existing research on peer review of writing by suggesting that secondary peer review activities would be more helpful to students if they considered students’ concerns about social positioning and face-saving, allowed writers to receive feedback from multiple reviewers, and taught students how to manage conflicting reviews. Additionally, our study suggests that the benefits of reviewing have been greatly underestimated in existing research and that students would benefit from more opportunities to give, as well as receive, feedback on academic writing.
Instructional Note: Persistence, Responsibility, and Flexibility in First-Year Writing
Authors: Albertson Kathy
Published: February 2024

Through genre awareness, first-year writing students compose a book review to practice habits of mind.
Feature: Learning in Practice: Increasing the Number of Hybrid Course Offerings in Community Colleges
Authors: Crawley Kristy Liles
Published: February 2024

This essay provides a comparative analysis of a large number of texts devoted to writing assessment, analyses that help answer questions about writing assessment volumes and that provide a picture of writing assessment scholarship over a twenty-five-year period.
The Literature of Work: Developing a Thematic Unit on Work
Authors: Raymond David B.
Published: February 2024

This essay outlines a plan for developing a thematic unit on work to better engage career and technical students in the study of literature. Included in the essay are strategies for course structure, pedagogy, and writing assignments.
Instructional Note: Sophists or SMEs? Teaching Rhetoric Across the Curriculum in the Professional and Technical Writing Classroom
Authors: Beemer Cristy
Published: February 2024

An instructional note on foregrounding rhetoric across the curriculum to convey the rigor of professional and technical writing and assist instructors in claiming pedagogical ethos in a course that spans many disciplines.
Miscue Analysis v. DIBELS: A Tale of Resistance
Authors: Crowell Caryl G.
Published: February 2024

Caryl Crowell pushes back against her school’s assessment policies and uses miscue analysis to learn about the readers in her class, finding it to be a valuable tool for informing instruction.
Secrets, Lies, and Algebra: Using a Novel to Explore Mathematics Concepts
Authors: C. Jett Christopher
Published: February 2024

In this article, the author recounts his experience teaching mathematics through the novel, Secrets, Lies, and Algebra, with preservice teachers. With the emphasis on infusing literary aspects (i.e., reading, writing, speaking, and listening) into mathematics, the author shares this mathematical text useful for doing this work with middle level students and educators alike. In so doing, he shares an innovative instructional strategy to engage middle level constituents in this interdisciplinary work. He recommends for other middle level educators to conjoin literature and mathematics in their pedagogical practices.
Thinking While Reading: The Beautiful Mess of Helping Adolescents Discover and Celebrate How Their Minds Work
Authors: Roberts Maggie Beattie , Warren Kristin Robbins
Published: February 2024

Adolescents are in the midst of deep analytical thinking. Our middle level kids are doing the beautifully messy work of understanding themselves, creating ideas about how the world works, and figuring out how to fit into it all. It’s surprising, then, when we ask them to do similar thinking as readers of texts, it falls flat or doesn’t translate. The same thinking skills vibrant in their social-emotional lives can, at times, lay dormant when asked to analyze, interpret, or synthesize ideas from a text. We want the work of literacy to be a journey of self-discovery—the discovery of oneself as a thinker and reader.
Notes From the Middle Level Section: Celebrating the Gangles: Convergence and the Middle Level
Authors: Griffith Jason
Published: February 2024

It’s no wonder that many teachers take one look at a middle school classroom and head the other way, turning back only to say something like, “It takes a special person to teach middle school.” Indeed, a successful middle school teacher is one who celebrates the gangles. One who sees not chaos, but rather a patchwork quilt of potential. One who approaches instruction and relationships with what Dr. Jim Blasingame calls an “adjustable wrench.”
Verticality Assessment of the Objects With a Circular Base: Method Comparison
Authors: Hamzić Adis , Kamber Hamzić Dina
Published: February 2024

The inclination is the most important criteria for determining stability of the object for objects for which the ratio of height and width is high (industrial chimneys, towers, tall buildings, etc.). In this paper, two methods for testing the verticality of objects with a circular base will be presented: principal components analysis (PCA), and a new method based on fitting circles and analytical geometry in space presented in the paper "Rapid assessment of verticality of structural objects with a circular base" (Hamzić, Kamber Hamzić i Avdagić, 2021). The cases when the verticality of the object is calculated from the cloud of measuring points of all or part of the object and when the verticality is calculated from the measurement of the circular arc of the object in two levels are analyzed. The results showed that both methods give quality results when the point cloud covers the entire circular arc of the object. In cases where only a part of the circular arc was observed, the method based on the circle fitting gave better results. In the case when the measurement is performed only in two levels on the object, the method based on circle fitting gave good results while the PCA method had large errors in estimating the inclination of the object.
Application of Geospatial Technologies in the Analysis of Changes in Land Use and Land Coverage in the Wider Location of Babin Do, Bjelašnica
Authors: Sivac Amina , Hrelja Edin
Published: February 2024

The subject of the research is the analysis of the change in land cover in the area of Babin do on Bjelašnica mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the period after 1995, throughout the entire Bosnia and Herzegovina, visible spontaneous spatial planning contributed to significant changes in the land cover. The research aims to determine changes in coverage and land use that happened in the last few decades in the researched area. The analysis of land cover changes in the research area was performed for the period from 2000 to 2018. Due to the lack of data resulting from insufficient spatial resolution of CLC, vectorization of spatial infrastructure elements from available remote sensing images was additionally carried out. This procedure implied a detailed land cover change analysis visible from the topographic map at a scale of 1:25:000 and relevant Google Earth images. Research on the topic was conducted through several phases. The first part of the paper refers to determining the geographical location of the research area and defining all its components. The second part of the paper deals with a detailed analysis of all categories of land cover in the last twenty years. The third part of the paper involves a comparative analysis of quantitative and qualitative indicators of land cover in the research area. The complete procedure of the analysis was performed using GIS, where the corresponding databases were created and a cartographic visualization for the investigated area was performed. The results of the conducted research point to the conclusion that significant changes in land cover have occurred in the Babin do in the analyzed period, which is particularly pronounced in sports and recreation areas, as a result of the development of the tourism industry. In the last part of the paper, conclusions are given regarding the changes and causes of changes of the land coverage in the analyzed area, with recommendations for further activities.
A True “Uomo Universale” from the 1800s - Dr. George Watt
Authors: Gutmann James L.
Published: February 2024

A hot bed of organized dental leadership and visionary thinking in the mid-to-late 1800s came from Ohio, as many presidents of the American Dental Association were from that state. They were quite influential in leading this organization into the 20th century. One of the most dynamic and well-rounded individuals was Dr. George Watt…this paper will highlight his life as viewed by one of his peers.
The Influence Of Intellectual Capital And Good Corporate Governance On The Value Of Infrastructure Sector Companies Listed On The Indonesia Stock Exchange
Authors: Adi Firdaus Maulana , Kurniasih Augustina
Published: February 2024

This research is a quantitative analysis that aims to evaluate the impact of intellectual capital and good corporate governance on company value. The study was conducted on companies engaged in infrastructure listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during the 2017-2021 period.  Corporate Value is identified through Price to Book Value (PBV), while Intellectual Capital is identified using Value Added Capital Employee (VACA), Value Added Human Capital (VAHU), Structure Capital Value Added (STVA), while Good Corporate Governance identified using Independent Commissioners, Audit Committee and Internal Auditor as well as Managerial Ownership. The research sample amounted to 30 issuers obtained through the purposive sampling method. The results of the study explained that VACA has a significant negative effect on the Company's value, VAHU has a significant positive effect on the Company's value, STVA has a positive but not significant effect on the Company's corporate value, Independent Commissioners have a negative and insignificant effect on the Company's value, the Audit Committee and Internal Auditors and Managerial Ownership have a significant negative effect on the Company's value.
Proses Pembentukan Konfrimtas Dalam Pendampingan Anak yang Berhadapan Dengan Hukum di Kota Tanjungpinang
Authors: Herdany Venny , Aieta Siti , Suryaningsih Suryaningsih
Published: February 2024

ABSTRAK
Latar Belakang : Anak yang mendapat hukuman penjara dan telah mendapatkan bebas bersyarat akan dikembalikan ke orang tua dan kembali lagi ke masyarakat. Sehingga kembalinya anak berhadapan dengan hukum mengalami penyesuaian terhadap lingkungan dan teman sebaya.
 
Tujuan:  Tujuan  penelitian ini untuk mengetahui bagaimana pembentukan konformitas dalam pendampingan anak berhadapan dengan hukum di Kota Tanjungpinang.
Metode:  Metode dalam  penelitian dengan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif . Pengumpulan data yang digunakan observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi.
Hasil: Hasil penelitian proses ketaatan anak terbiasa melakukan sholat 5 waktu karena saat berada di penjara jika tidak melaksanakan sholat akan mendapatkan saksi melalui tekanan tersebut anak menjadi taat. Anak juga melakukan kesepakatan dengan cara metaati aturan batasan keluar malam. Melalui proses memilih untuk melanjutkan pendidikan, mengikuti kegiatan sosial dan memilih untuk bekerja. Bentuk kekompakan yang dilakukan anak berhadapan dengan hukum (ABH) setelah kembali ke masyarakat dengan cara membantu anggota keluarga dalam mengajar, yang mana lama-kelamaan masyarakat sekitar percaya bahwa anak berhadapan dengan hukum (ABH) dapat memberikan perubahan baru, masyarakat sekitar mulai meminta kepada ABH untuk mengajarkan anak-anaknya juga. Informasional yang dilakukan oleh pendamping kemasyakaratan (PK) dalam memberikan Informasi kepada masyarakat bahwa penanaman nilai-nilai sangat perlu di pertegas untuk meminimalisirkan tindak kriminal yang dilakukan.
Kesimpulan: Melalui proses memilih untuk melanjutkan pendidikan, mengikuti kegiatan sosial dan memilih untuk bekerja. Bentuk kekompakan yang dilakukan anak berhadapan dengan hukum (ABH) setelah kembali ke masyarakat dengan cara membantu anggota keluarga dalam mengajar, yang mana lama-kelamaan masyarakat sekitar percaya bahwa anak berhadapan dengan hukum (ABH) dapat memberikan perubahan baru, masyarakat sekitar mulai meminta kepada ABH untuk mengajarkan anak-anaknya juga. Informasional yang dilakukan oleh pendamping kemasyakaratan (PK) dalam memberikan Informasi kepada masyarakat bahwa penanaman nilai-nilai sangat perlu di pertegas untuk meminimalisirkan tindak kriminal yang dilakukan
Navigating the Landscape of Brain-Computer Interfaces in Medicine: Unveiling Benefits, Mechanisms, and Challenges
Authors: Tehrani Nik , Chapman Margit
Published: February 2024

Advancements in understanding brain function combined with technology have unleashed enormous benefits to the disabled and even able-bodied persons. The evolution of utilizing brain signals to communicate with or control various computerized devices has proven to be effective in the world of medicine as well as other industries such as gaming, robotics, military, and work environments. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) represent a cutting-edge technology enabling machine control through thought. Though most wearable devices employ EEG-based technologies, current research is going into a method known as fNRIS. However, despite proven advantages, challenges are yet to be resolved. Costs, extensive training requirements, exposure to potential cyberattacks, security, and privacy issues are being researched. However, greater study in each area is required to fully realize the vast benefits of this combination of science and technology but with consideration to lowering related risks. This paper discusses what we currently know and the potential of this knowledge but also exposes what we don’t know, encouraging more extensive study and testing.
Importance of Barretstown Serious Fun Concept from a Scientific Point of View
Authors: Shosha Mohammed
Published: February 2024

When a child has a serious medical problem, it’s stressful for everyone in the family. This child needs extra support to manage the distress that comes with being sick. This support is not limited only to the medical team accompanying or responsible for the treatment process; it also extends to include many stakeholders and individuals who may be able to provide significant assistance and support in various aspects and related fields. Here, comes Barretstown, as one of the most important organisations which standing beside sick children and their families. Barretstown offering a unique, serious, fun, therapeutic recreation-based program that seeks to provide a positive lifelong experience for children with life-threatening illnesses, and their families. Each program and activity at Barretstown is specially designed to help each child cope and recover from the devastating effects of a serious illness. In this short article, I want to enlighten readers on the importance of the Barretstown therapeutic concept from a scientific point of view by reviewing the available evidence related to that topic.
Securing Cloud Environment Using Hybrid (Adaptive Public Key) Model
Authors: Kelechi Douglas Allswell , Chinagolum Ituma , Kelechi Ukabuiro Ikenna , Betrand Chidi Ukamaka , Benson-Emenike Mercy Eberechi
Published: February 2024

Although data security has always been important, it is now even more so given the significance of cloud computing and the enormous amounts of complex data it holds. In cloud computing, having data accessible at all times is vital, as is collecting and preserving data without loss or corruption. The use of appropriate algorithms is one of the most important aspects of security. These protocols protect data by limiting unauthorized access. In order to ensure the security of your data, you need to conduct research on the security risks associated with public clouds. The purpose of this document is to provide an in-depth review of public clouds and the security issues associated with them. In order to review the literature review that provides an in-depth understanding of cloud storage and security issues, it is necessary to overcome several obstacles. As a result, based on an analysis of cloud architecture, we provide the data security model that can be applied to cloud computing. Our cloud computing data security model is now better. Lastly, the work can be done in a direction that benefits from faster encryption times and increased data secrecy by utilising machine learning and authentication technologies for safe cloud storage.
Revues.org : davantage de métadonnées transmises à Zotero
Authors: Dacos Marin
Published: February 2024

Revues.org annonce avoir développé la possibilité d’extraire de nombreuses métadonnées de ses revues dans Zotero.
Un blog consacré à Zotero à retenir: “The Zoteroist”
Authors: Clavert Frédéric
Published: February 2024

The Zoteroist est le blog consacré à Zotero tenu par Sebastian Karcher – que certains connaissent sous le pseudo d’adamsmith sur les forums de zotero et d’@adam42smith sur Twitter. Spécialiste de sciences politiques, Sebastian est aujourd’hui un pilier de la communauté Zotero.
Pleiten, Pech und Pannen: Rechtsdurchsetzung im Netz
Authors: Pachali David
Published: February 2024

Microsoft möchte eigene Websites entfernen, auch der Wikipedia-Eintrag über „Office 2007“ landet in den Löschanfragen bei Google: Was passiert, wenn Rechteinhaber automatisch nach Urheberrechtsverletzungen fahnden lassen. Im September dieses Jahres veröffentlichte Google einen Bericht und verkündete darin ein „bemerkenswertes Wachstum“. Doch wer dabei an Quartalszahlen denkt, liegt falsch: Es ging um Löschanfragen von Rechteinhabern.
Influencing factors on consumer behavior when purchasing apples
Authors: Prodanović Radivoj , Dimitrijević Ljiljana , Elqadini Mohamad , Ivanišević Dragan
Published: February 2024

The aim of the study is to identify factors influencing consumer behavior when purchasing apples of different origins, in order to leverage them for promoting a preference for domestic production in marketing communications. Secondary research involves an analysis of relevant scientific and expert literature. Primary research was conducted using a quantitative method. For this purpose, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to consumers. The results indicate that domestic consumers prefer apples, as two-thirds of the respondents buy apples 1 to 3 times a week. Apples are most commonly purchased in large supermarkets and markets. Taste, freshness, impact on health, product quality, and origin are considered the most important factors influencing the decision to buy apples. Price, the presence of an organic certificate, as well as the desire to support local producers, have varying effects on consumers. Consumers who prefer imported apples often cite their better availability and appearance. Domestic consumers often lack sufficient knowledge about different apple varieties, and their choice is often made on the spot or the variety is not crucial in their purchase decision. It is possible to increase the share of domestic apples in the overall market realization primarily by raising awareness and highlighting the advantages of domestic apples. Similarly, improving availability in supermarkets and diversifying the assortment would deter a portion of consumers from choosing imported apples. These conclusions provide a basis for further consideration of strategies that could support domestic apple production within the consumer market.