bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Front Office Fantasies
Authors: Buehler Branden
Published: October 2024

This book explores the recent ubiquity of sports media texts fixated on managerial figures and managerial responsibilities—a phenomenon evidenced everywhere from the success of films like Moneyball to the increasing television coverage of the NFL and NBA drafts to the expanding popularity of fantasy sports. For one, the book documents the wide scope of this managerial fixation, establishing just how important managerial figures and managerial work have become within sports media. For another, the book examines the industrial origins of this managerial interest, detailing and historicizing significant developments within both the media and sport industries that have precipitated the explosion in managerial content, including, for instance, the rise of league-owned media outlets craving year-round content. At its heart, though, the book is an analysis of the ideological roots and ramifications of the managerial fixation. Accordingly, the book situates sports media’s managerial fixation within wider societal contexts, touching, for example, on interrelated subjects like hegemonic masculinity, financialization, managerialism, neoliberalism, and quantification. As this ideological analysis makes clear, sports media’s managerial fixation has not only reflected a variety of broader societal shifts, such as the growing entwinement of culture and finance, but also played a role in driving many of those same transformations.
“He’s Looking Like a Depressed Asset”
Authors: Buehler Branden
Published: October 2024

This chapter focuses its attention on sports talk—a loosely defined genre of radio and television programming devoted to discussions of sports. As the chapter observes, sports talk continually positions sports administration in financial terms, thereby mapping a financialized orientation onto the world of sport. In beginning its analysis, the chapter first highlights the exact financial logics at work within sports talk—noting, for instance, that sports talk treats sport as a site of investment, with athletes discussed as speculative financial resources and executives discussed as the investors tasked with managing these financial assets. Second, the chapter argues these financial logics work to remasculinize white men by positioning the front office as a site where white men, in particular, can assert authority. More specifically, the chapter argues that sports talk’s financial logics have both aligned sport management with broader reconfigurations in hegemonic masculinity, such as the growing place of technical expertise, and fostered a racialized view of sport that positions athletes as dehumanized, manipulatable assets under the apparent control of powerful executives.
Datavisuality
Authors: Buehler Branden
Published: October 2024

This chapter argues that sports media’s managerial fixation has been accompanied by a marked interest in quantification. To that end, the chapter highlights how sports television has become increasingly data-driven—incorporating both greater quantities of data and ever more complex data. First, the chapter summarizes what it has meant for sports television to become data-driven, in the process suggesting this datafication stems from a confluence of factors, including the sports industry’s increasing fixation with advanced statistical measures, technological changes within the sports television industry, and sports broadcasters’ attempts both to keep pace with the sports industry and to separate themselves from a growing field of competitors. Second, the chapter examines the epistemological and ideological consequences of sports television’s move toward quantification—arguing, for instance, that datavisuality risks reinforcing pernicious big data mythology asserting the superiority of big data tools and techniques.
White-Collar Play
Authors: Buehler Branden
Published: October 2024

This chapter examines digital sports games like Football Manager that emphasize administrative duties rather than action, often via austere interfaces meant to recall office productivity software. As the chapter argues, managerial sports games, in attempting to model the imperatives of both contemporary sport and contemporary work, make explicit rationalities that undergird neoliberal capitalism as well as how those rationalities have rippled across ever more spheres of social life. Indeed, as simulations, managerial sports games offer players unique opportunities to experiment with those rationalities and their effects—probing, for instance, how sport has transformed in the wake of financialization. As the chapter suggests, too, this modeling of the imperatives of contemporary sport and contemporary work speaks to how these games operate as “affective systems” that can meaningfully resonate amid the rhythms and sensations of neoliberal capitalism—allowing players to renegotiate, for instance, the precarious conditions of their everyday work lives. The chapter suggests, then, that while managerial sports games frame the world through neoliberal values, they may also serve as key sites for critical reflection on the spread of those values into everyday life.
Probing Problems Without Passports
Authors: Griffith Ivelaw Lloyd
Published: October 2024

In adopting the term “Problems Without Passports” (PWPs), which former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan introduced into the globalization discourse, this chapter establishes that PWPs are transnational issues that defy political authority and territorial boundaries of states and threaten the safety and security of individuals and groups within states, thereby impacting the sovereignty of states. The chapter explains that drugs, crime, terrorism, and cybercrime are the PWPs studied in the book, and it argues that the threats posed by the four PWPs to Caribbean states exacerbate their vulnerability, presenting a circumstance of challenged sovereignty. It also outlines the rest of the book and provides wide-ranging literature review.
Introduction
Authors: Wiewora Nathaniel
Published: October 2024

Evangelicals responded to their initial contact with Mormonism with predictable religious animus, but anti-Mormonism had wide-ranging consequences in antebellum America. Heresy hunting shaped evangelical beliefs and practices. In their earliest years of encounter, evangelicals developed a diverse and vibrant anti-Mormonism. Evangelicals simultaneously disagreed with their coreligionists over the same complaints they leveled against Mormonism. The sense that Mormonism was too similar to their own faith displayed and deepened divisions within the evangelical movement. They accused each other of being like the followers of Joseph Smith in order to define orthodox evangelical beliefs and practices. Reading this religious intolerance in dialogue with the history of antebellum evangelicalism reveals the ways evangelicals used anti-Mormonism for their own religious purposes. Authors of evangelical books, newspaper articles, and pamphlets explicitly compared their coreligionists to Mormonism. Studying anti-Mormonism as a cultural movement shows the power and uses of religious animus, as well as the dialogue that existed in the story of antebellum evangelicalism and anti-Mormonism.
“Mormonism, Whether Found … in Kentucky, or at Nauvoo”
Authors: Wiewora Nathaniel
Published: October 2024

Much of evangelical criticism of Mormonism coalesced around the founding of the Mormons’ city of Nauvoo in the 1840s. Evangelicals identified a spiritist, martial, and sectarian fanaticism at Nauvoo. They continued to see Mormons participating in popular supernaturalism with the consequence of fostering a blind and dangerous belief. Evangelicals also charged the Mormon community at Nauvoo with acting aggressively through their military displays. Nauvoo finally revealed to evangelicals a sectarian fanaticism, one that encouraged Mormons to see themselves in exclusive terms. The problem for a growing group of evangelicals critical of the revivals of the Second Great Awakening was that evangelicalism itself suffered from the same variety of fanaticisms, and many moderate critics of revivalism began to conclude that the excesses of their own movement were responsible for the rise and shape of Mormonism. These moderate critics of revivalism saw camp meetings replete with popular spiritism and enthusiastic extremes. Revivals, according to these moderate evangelicals, had a militaristic character that led to an aggressive arrogance and inauthentic conversions. Moderates finally came to conclude that some of their more radical coreligionists shared with Mormonism a common sectarian fanaticism.
“Apprehension for the Future”
Authors: Wiewora Nathaniel
Published: October 2024

By the 1840s, evangelicals fully expected that their constant assaults on the heresies of Joseph Smith would have relegated the Latter-Day Saints to a historical footnote, but doubt had already begun to creep in anti-Mormon polemics. At Nauvoo, some moderates concluded that evangelicals needed to respond to Mormonism in a new fashion. They believed evangelicalism itself needed to change or else Mormonism would triumph. Their example for change was, ironically, the religiously devoted Mormons. The successes of Mormonism led moderate evangelicals to focus increasingly on institutional solutions to the spread of Mormonism. Evangelical calls for more missionaries, more religious education, and a more religious infrastructure came at the very moment of evangelical domination of antebellum American culture. The specific remedies to respond to Mormonism suggest that some evangelicals had become concerned about the very methods that had brought evangelicals such favorable outcomes. By calling for a more institutional faith—a reversal of significant aspects of the Second Great Awakening—the evangelical reaction to Mormonism helped to convert Mormonism to a more defensive and less flexible faith.
Bourgeois Modernism for the Proletariat
Authors: Fava Maria Cristina
Published: October 2024

Chapter 1 investigates the goals of the Composers’ Collective of New York and ties their work to the successful songs of protest of the American labor movement. Searching for a musical language that could communicate with the masses and give voice to their needs, the Collective, led by Charles Seeger, aimed to establish an American proletarian music. Yet, as demonstrated, the combination of musical experimentation, populism, and political propaganda did not always help the group to advance left-leaning political ideas nor to produce artistic masterpieces. Two inherent problems, one aesthetic and the other political, prevented the radical movement from reaching its objectives. Still, the stylistic experiments of the Collective contributed to the artistic maturity of composers such as Elie Siegmeister and Marc Blitzstein.
Diaspora’s National Affiliations
Authors: Lee Sangmi
Published: October 2024

Because of national economic and political differences, Hmong in Laos and the United States have developed contrasting perceptions and critical discourses about each other, producing discursive fragmentation along national lines. Each diasporic Hmong community positions itself hierarchically by claiming that their own country is “better” in terms of social and political status, which does not reflect the geopolitical and economic positioning of Laos as “lower” on the global hierarchy. This chapter specifically examines contested interpretations about the meaning of “freedom” among Lao Hmong and Hmong Americans as the source of discursive fragmentation based on different national economic systems and development between the two countries. However, such disagreements occur mainly at the level of discourse and do not necessarily affect their continuing diasporic identities and transnational communities.
Conclusion
Authors: Lee Sangmi
Published: October 2024

The conclusion returns to the main book theme--how diasporic identity and belonging are simultaneously constituted by transnational continuity and national fragmentation. This is essential for examining the identity struggles of geographically dispersed populations and their ongoing relations to multiple nation-states and homelands as part of the diasporic condition. Therefore, diasporas can better be understood from a comparative perspective that illuminates the national differences that result from the continuous presence of the nation-state as well as transnational connections and commonalities beyond territorialized borders. The transnational and national identities of diasporas are fundamentally not in conflict but rather complementary, as they are situated in simultaneous and mutual relations.
Introduction
Authors: Sargent Joseph
Published: October 2024

Leo Sowerby’s music has experienced a complicated reception history. His organ and choral repertory, for which he remains best known, is widely appreciated for its harmonic complexity and technical demands. His concert music, meanwhile, has largely fallen out of fashion, despite Sowerby’s considerable visibility during much of his own lifetime. These sharp reception differences have led some to label Sowerby a sacred specialist, but in fact Sowerby carefully balanced church and concert music across his life. Labels of any kind are in fact problematic, especially because Sowerby himself never aligned himself with particular stylistic markers or compositional schools of thought.
The Emerging Americanist (1895–1918)
Authors: Sargent Joseph
Published: October 2024

Sowerby has often been defined not simply as an American composer, but as a midwestern one. Some of his most acclaimed works take inspiration from the countryside of this region; most of his career was spent in Chicago; and both Sowerby and his critics repeatedly reference his midwestern roots in printed commentary. Many aspects of Sowerby’s “midwestern-ness” originate in his earliest years, from a Michigan childhood to schooling in Chicago. Though he drew inspiration from beyond the Midwest as well, the first inklings of his interest in American and other folk idioms—ideals that are fundamental to his compositional thinking—stem from these formative years. Sowerby might further be considered as a child prodigy, in terms of his early manifestations of deep talent, youthful concert successes, and insatiable hunger for musical growth.
Home and Away
Authors: Sargent Joseph
Published: October 2024

Post–World War I American composers pursued extremely diverse stylistic paths, from extending traditional models to cultivating experimental aesthetics. Sowerby is often aligned with the former group, yet he was far from a mere derivative. His manipulation of folk and jazz idioms branded him as a provocateur, and he was also highly regarded for his advanced chromatic vocabulary within a tonal framework. Sowerby strengthened his hold on the Chicago music scene during these years while also reaching out to Europe, including three years’ study in Rome. He further emerged in print as a commentator, addressing modernism and the question of “American” music. Sowerby rejected Teutonic models in favor of new nationalist paths, ones that nevertheless used tradition as a necessary foundation rather than embracing the avant-garde.
Epilogue
Authors: Sargent Joseph
Published: October 2024

In the twenty-first century Sowerby’s sacred music is often admired and regularly performed, while his concert music remains obscure. Nevertheless, recent decades have seen various efforts to bring Sowerby to greater attention, often led by former students or associates and centered in Chicago. More broadly, efforts to recover “lost” voices have recently gained considerable traction, in particular the long-overdue attention now given to musicians from diverse gender, racial, and stylistic backgrounds. Composers like Sowerby, who cultivated traditional musical forms and do not necessarily fall within these demographic profiles, may not appear fashionable in this milieu. Yet Sowerby’s music can still speak to today’s listeners, and indeed greater familiarity with it is essential to appreciating the construction of America’s national music tradition.
Clinical Characteristics of the Extensively Prolonged Hospitalization: A Retrospective Analysis at a Large Tertiary Medical Center
Authors: Altshuler Ellery , Austin Adam , Jones Kirk , Lin Rick Y , Lee Lindsay , Sherman Sarah R , Gittess David A , Donabedian Patrick , Smoot Madeline , Keeley-Mehrad Maeve , Budd Jeffrey
Published: October 2024

Background

Prolonged hospitalizations have contributed to the concentration of American healthcare spending in a small subset of patients. Research related to such events is scarce.

Methods

The authors performed a retrospective analysis of hospitalizations at a tertiary care center between 2012 and 2022. Extensively prolonged hospitalization (EPH) was defined as an uninterrupted hospital stay of at least 183 days. Patient data, including past medical history, hospital complications, barriers to discharge, and long-term outcomes were collected.

Results

Among 393,474 unique adult hospitalizations, mean length of stay was 5.49 days. There were 42 EPH, making up 0.01% of all admissions and 0.69% of hospital days. Patients with EPH were 62% male and had a median age of 58.5 years old. EPH featured a mean of 8.88 CTs and 2.12 MRIs. MRSA blood culture positivity was documented in 48% of cases. Mechanical ventilation and gastrostomy tube placement were performed in 88% and 71% of EPH, respectively. In 64% of cases, patients were medically stable for discharge and awaiting post-acute facility bed availability for at least three months. In-hospital death occurred in 31% of cases. Among patients who survived hospitalization, none were able to live independently, and median post-discharge survival was 94 days. At five-year follow-up, 1 patient (2%) was still alive.

Conclusions

These findings emphasize the importance of non-medical barriers to discharge in EPH. While larger studies are needed, this study suggests that long-term outcomes in EPH are grim.
Neuroimagem de Doenças Neurodegenerativas
Authors: Feltrin Fernando
Published: October 2024

Um compêndio sobre o processo de diagnóstico por imagem de encefalopatias degenerativas.
Эмпати чадварыг тодорхойлох асуулгын психометрик чанарыг судалсан нь
Authors: Баатарсүрэн Баттогоо , Сандаг Гэндэнжамц , Бишхорлоо Болдсүрэн , Лхамсүрэн Зүчи
Published: October 2024

Empathy is an important skill in social communication, and a high score of empathy is associated with relationships with others, psychological well-being, and high life satisfaction. There is no methodology for studying aspects of empathy that have been translated and validated in the Mongolian context yet. In this study, we evaluate the psychometric properties of the Mongolian version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (M-IRI). The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) was translated into Mongolian following the method committee approach, and an expert panel working in their field assessed its content validity. The final version of the questionnaire was prepared and administered to 381 teenagers in four schools located in the capital of Mongolia. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that the four-factor structure 18-item (M-IRI) is better than the original version 28-item. Thus, the 18-item M-IRI questionnaire demonstrates acceptable internal consistency and is a reliable measure for Mongolian adolescents.
KHẢO SÁT THỰC TRẠNG KIỂM SOÁT GLUCOSE MÁU, HUYẾT ÁP VÀ LIPID MÁU Ở BỆNH NHÂN ĐÁI THÁO ĐƯỜNG KHỞI PHÁT SAU GHÉP THẬN
Authors: Vũ Thị Loan , Lê Việt Thắng
Published: October 2024

Mục tiêu: Khảo sát thực trạng kiểm soát glucose máu, lipid máu và huyết áp ở bệnh nhân (BN) đái tháo đường khởi phát sau ghép thận (new-onset diabetes mellitus after transplantation - NODAT). Phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu mô tả cắt ngang trên 118 BN được chẩn đoán NODAT; tuổi trung bình của BN là 46,59 ± 10,26, tỷ lệ nam:nữ là 2:1. Tất cả BN được định lượng glucose máu lúc đói, lipid máu và đo huyết áp. Kết quả: Có 86,44% BN kiểm soát glucose máu đạt mục tiêu, 70,34% đạt mục tiêu HbA1c. Tỷ lệ BN kiểm soát Cholesterol TP đạt mục tiêu là 57,6%, TG là 52,5%, LDL-C là 78,8%, HDL-C là 29,67%. Kiểm soát huyết áp đạt mục tiêu là 36,93%. Kiểm soát được cả 3 yếu tố HbA1c, LDL-C và huyết áp đạt mục tiêu điều trị là 8,5%. Kết luận: Kết quả kiểm soát glucose máu, lipid máu và huyết áp tốt.
BIẾN ĐỔI NỒNG ĐỘ TESTOSTERONE HUYẾT TƯƠNG Ở BỆNH NHÂN NAM SAU GHÉP THẬN TẠI BỆNH VIỆN QUÂN Y 103
Authors: Đinh Trọng Hà , Phan Bá Nghĩa , Lê Việt Thắng
Published: October 2024

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá biển đổi nồng độ testosterone huyết tương ở người bệnh sau ghép thận từ người hiến sống tại Bệnh viện Quân y 103. Phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu tiến cứu, mô tả cắt ngang 2 thời điểm trên 45 bệnh nhân (BN) nam giới được ghép thận thành công từ tháng 3/2023 - 5/2024. Kết quả: Nồng độ testosterone huyết tương ở nam giới sau ghép thận là 13,64 (11,4 - 15,99) nmol/L, cải thiện có ý nghĩa thống kê so với trước ghép là 12,09 (10,09 - 15,0) nmol/L, p = 0,04; có 13,33% (6/45 BN) giảm testosterone, trong đó, có 8,89% mới xuất hiện sau ghép thận. Nồng độ testosterone có tương quan thuận mức độ vừa với điểm IIEF-5 (đánh giá tình trạng cương), r = 0,32, p = 0,031. Phân tích hồi quy logistic cho thấy nồng độ đáy C0 Tacrolimus là yếu tố độc lập liên quan xuất hiện giảm testosterone huyết tương ở BN nam sau ghép thận, OR = 1,933 (95%CI 1,008 - 3,707). Kết luận: Nồng độ testosterone huyết tương ở BN nam sau ghép thận 6 tháng có cải thiện so với trước ghép, tuy nhiên, còn ở mức thấp, liên quan với tình trạng rối loạn cương và nồng độ đáy C0 của Tacrolimus.
Infecciones urinarias recurrentes en personas con discapacidad; su asociación con los factores clínicos y sociodemográficos
Authors: Molin Clotilde
Published: October 2024

Las infecciones urinarias recurrentes (ITU-R) en las personas con discapacidad (PcD) constituyen un grave problema en la salud pública debido a que, si no son diagnosticadas y tratadas a tiempo puede traer complicaciones muy graves pudiendo comprometer la vida del paciente. El objetivo de este trabajo fue relacionar las ITU-R con los factores clínicos y sociodemográficos, así con el tipo de discapacidad y las patologías asociadas a ellas, también su relación con el uso de dispositivos urinarios y el germen aislado.  Se trata de un estudio cuantitativo, correlacional, donde se incluyeron 71 pacientes que presentaron ITU de los cuales 48 tenían ITU a repetición. Los datos fueron recolectados por medio de entrevistas y fichas de laboratorio. En los mayores de 65 años se observó mayor porcentaje de ITU. De las 48 ITU-R, 41/48 (74,5%) presentan discapacidad física, de las personas con ACV 11/48 (23%) presentaron ITU-R, así como las que tienen paraplejia 16/48 (33%).  E. coli, fue el uropatógeno aislado con mayor frecuencia. La discapacidad física es un importante factor de riesgo, que predispone a adquirir ITU-R. Es importante mantener buenos hábitos de higiene, para poder evitar dichas infecciones, y tener en cuenta todos los factores profilácticos necesarios, para poder evitar este tipo de afecciones, que disminuyen la calidad de vida y pone en peligro su vida.
Implementing universal design for learning (UDL) in classrooms
Authors: Salama Muhammad Islam Muhammad , Paredes Montero Jorge Manuel , Medina Revelo Mayra Tatiana , Cerón Silva Silvana Andrea , Soria Pacheco Pamela Carolina
Published: October 2024

La implementación del Diseño Universal para el Aprendizaje (DUA) en aulas en entornos rurales con recursos limitados presenta oportunidades y desafíos. Este estudio examinó el impacto de las estrategias DUA en la participación y el rendimiento de los estudiantes, revelando información valiosa sobre su efectividad y áreas de mejora. Los datos mostraron que los principios de DUA, como los "Múltiples Medios de Representación" y los "Múltiples Medios de Participación," fueron muy valorados por estudiantes y docentes. Estos principios mejoraron significativamente la participación y comprensión de los estudiantes, con un aumento del 20% en su participación, gracias al uso de recursos multimedia y actividades interactivas. No obstante, persisten desafíos. Las limitaciones de recursos, como el acceso a la tecnología y el tiempo insuficiente de preparación, fueron reportadas frecuentemente por los docentes. El 40% de los maestros mencionó restricciones tecnológicas, mientras que el 35% citó la falta de tiempo como una barrera importante. Abordar estas limitaciones es esencial para implementar el DUA con éxito. A pesar de estos obstáculos, el estudio concluye que las estrategias DUA, cuando se aplican correctamente, mejoran notablemente los resultados de aprendizaje. Se observó una mejora del 15% en la calidad del trabajo de los estudiantes, lo que resalta el potencial del DUA para promover la inclusión y satisfacer diversas necesidades de aprendizaje.
Innovación: Factor Clave en la Gestión Administrativa desde la Praxeología Empresarial Educativa en Panamá
Authors: De La Cruz Medina Santiago
Published: October 2024

La innovación en la gestión administrativa implica la adopción de nuevas estrategias y métodos para mejorar la eficiencia operativa. El ámbito educativo empresarial debe estar actualizado y alineado con las tendencias y demandas actuales del mercado, lo que requiere la incorporación constante de nuevas ideas y enfoques pedagógicos. El objetivo que se persigue es analizar la innovación desde la perspectiva de la praxeología empresarial educativa. La investigación fue desarrollada bajo un enfoque mixto, de tipo descriptivo con diseño no experimental. De los resultados se pudo conocer que la innovación juega un rol determinante en el contexto panameño puesto que presenta desafíos y oportunidades únicas, específicamente en el contexto empresarial educativo de Panamá, se presentan limitaciones financieras o barreras culturales. Sin embargo, también podría destacar oportunidades, como la creciente demanda de educación de calidad y la apertura a la adopción de nuevas tecnologías. Por lo que resulta indispensable que las universidades inviertan en tecnología, puesto que la misma desempeña un papel crucial en la innovación en la gestión administrativa educativa, para lo cual se pueden recomendar inversiones en la adquisición de tecnologías educativas avanzadas, sistemas de gestión escolar eficientes y plataformas de aprendizaje en línea para mejorar la eficiencia y la calidad de la educación. Igualmente, se deben desarrollar programas de formación en innovación, los cuales deben estar enfocados en proporcionar capacitación profesional para los líderes docentes, lo que resultará de gran utilidad al permitirles adquirir las habilidades y conocimientos necesarios para aplicar enfoques innovadores en la gestión y la enseñanza.
Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills in Somali Islamic Institutes: Current State and Development Need
Authors:   Assistant Professor of Jurisprudence and Arabic Language || Department of Sharia and Law || Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies || Somali National University Phone: +252907101081|| Email: ammyusuf1976@gmail.com, Ahmed Dr. Mahmoud Mohammed
Published: October 2024

The study aimed to explore the reality of teaching listening and speaking skills to non-native Arabic speakers and to highlight the methods and tools used for teaching Arabic in Islamic institutes in Somalia, as well as their appropriateness for developing these two skills and the evaluation methods. The researcher employed the descriptive, analytical, and survey methods, using interviews as a tool applied to a purposive sample of (20) experts in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers. The study's results indicated that the methods and tools used were unsuitable for teaching listening and speaking skills in Islamic institutes, as the content of the Arabic curriculum neglected these two skills, leading to weak linguistic fluency among students in these institutes. Additionally, the evaluation methods were limited to written tests only. Based on these findings, the researcher recommended conducting training courses for Arabic teachers in Islamic institutes in Somalia, utilizing audiovisual aids and language laboratories to enhance students' listening and speaking skills, diversifying formative and summative assessment methods, reducing the use of the grammar-translation method in Arabic teaching, and selecting teachers specialized in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers. The researcher also proposed complementary studies on the topic.///هدفت الدراسة إلى التعرف على واقع تدريس مهارتي الاستماع والكلام للناطقين بغير اللغة العربية، وبيان الطرائق والوسائل المستخدمة لتدريس العربية في المعاهد الشرعية بالصومال، ومدى مناسبتها لتنمية المهارتين، وأساليب التقييم، واعتمد الباحث المنهج الوصفي التحليلي المسحي، واستخدم المقابلة كأداة تم تطبيقها على عينة قصدية بلغت (20) خبيرا في تعليم اللغة العربية للناطقين بغيرها، وبينت نتائج الدراسة أن الطرائق والوسائل المستخدمة غير مناسبة لتدريس مهارتي الاستماع والكلام في المعاهد الشرعية، حيث أهمل محتوى منهج العربية مهارتي الاستماع والكلام مما أفضى إلى ضعف الطلاقة اللغوية لدى الدارسين في المعاهد الشرعية بالصومال، كما أن أساليب التقويم تقتصر على الاختبار التحريري فقط، بناء على النتائج أوصى الباحث بعقد دورات تدريبية لمعلمي العربية في المعاهد الشرعية بالصومال، واستخدام الوسائل السمعية البصرية ومختبرات اللغة المساعدة على تنمية مهارتي الاستماع والكلام للطلبة، وتنويع أساليب التقويم البنائي والنهائي، مع تقليل استخدام طريقة القواعد والترجمة في تعليم العربية، واختيار معلمين متخصصين في تعليم العربية للناطقين بغيرها، كما قدم مقترحات بدراسات مكملة في الموضوع.
Small Pseudo Principally Quasi-Injective Acts
Authors: Abdul Kareem Shaymaa Amer
Published: October 2024

This work aims to present a small pseudo principally quasi-injective acts as a novel generalization of pseudo principally quasi-injective S-acts over monoids. If each S-monomorphism from a small principal subact of an S-act MS into NS can be extended to S-homomorphism from MS into NS , an S-act NS is termed as a small pseudo principally M-injective. If an S-act MS is a small pseudo principally M-injective, it is called a small pseudo principally quasi-injective. This type of generalization has several properties. Additionally, the circumstances under which subacts inherit the Small Pseudo, principally quasi-injective acts, are studied. Examples are provided to demonstrate this concept. Small pseudo principally quasi-injective acts can coincide with small principally quasi-injective acts if certain criteria are met. We discuss new characterizations of small principally quasi-injective acts. The link between classes of small, principally quasi-injective acts with other classes of injectivity is shown.
Effects of organic and inorganic selenium mixes in pregnant sows on piglet growth, selenium levels in serum and milk, and selenium deposition in newborn piglet tissues
Authors: Jin Xing Hao , Park Min Soo , Jang Min Hyuk , Kim Cheon Soo , Kim Yoo Yong
Published: October 2024

Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of organic and inorganic selenium mixes in pregnant sows on piglet growth, selenium levels in serum and milk, and selenium deposition in newborn piglet tissues.Methods: A total of 44 multiparous sows (Yorkshire×Landrace) with average body weight (BW), backfat thickness, and parity were assigned to one of the three treatments with 14 or 15 sows per treatment in a completely randomized design. The treatments were as follows: i) Control, corn-soybean meal-based diet with no addition of selenium premix; ii) ISOS (mixed inorganic selenium and organic selenium) 30, a basal diet supplemented with 0.15 ppm of inorganic Se and 0.15 ppm of organic Se; iii) ISOS50, a basal diet supplemented with 0.25 ppm of inorganic Se and 0.25 ppm of organic Se.Results: At day 21 of lactation, supplementing a high level of mixed Se at 0.50 ppm resulted in higher piglet BW and weight gain than adding a low level of mixed Se at 0.30 ppm (p<0.05). Selenium concentration of colostrum in sows fed ISOS50 diet was significantly higher than those in sows fed ISOS30 diet (p<0.05). Selenium concentrations in the serum at days 90 and 110 of gestation and 24 hours postpartum were highest when sows were fed ISOS50 diet (p<0.05). Additionally, increasing levels of mixed Se led to an increase in piglet serum Se concentration at 24 hours postpartum (p<0.05). Before ingesting colostrum, piglets from sows fed a mixed selenium (Se) diet had significantly higher kidney Se concentrations compared to those from the control group, with the ISOS50 treatment showing the most significant difference (p<0.05).Conclusion: Supplementation of the gestation diet with 0.5 ppm of mixed Se may improve piglet growth performance, increase Se concentrations in milk, and enhance Se status in the serum of sows, as well as in the serum and tissues of their offspring.
Sometimes More is More: Adding a Course Manual to Your Syllabus
Authors: Waters Kayla
Published: October 2024

This article presents a rationale, as well as practical guidelines, for incorporating a “Course Manual” into the standard course syllabus. The primary goal is to simultaneously increase student success and decrease faculty workload. Relevant literature on effective syllabus construction is reviewed. A novel approach, based on the application of lean principles and strategies, is proposed to reduce student frustration and capitalize on intrinsic motivation. Common benefits for both students and faculty are described, and sample content is provided
Know Better, Do Better: Enhancing K-3 Students’ Early Literacy Skills Through Professional Training
Authors: Lemke Jennifer , Wilcoxen Chris
Published: October 2024

Educational reform over the past several decades has consistently had the same goal, to close the achievement gap or large academic disparities that exist amongst students. Recently, national trends and revised English-Language Arts (ELA) standards across the United States have shifted to promoting foundational skills and science-aligned approaches which require PK-12 teachers to be prepared to integrate and provide scientifically based strategies to support students in learning how to read. These shifting landscapes have left district leaders evaluating current curriculums and seeking professional development opportunities that are more aligned with scientific findings and evidence-based practices. To better understand the outcomes or effects of the workshop, authors used a convergent parallel mixed methods design. The findings show that the early literacy workshop’s format and content significantly impacted teachers’ knowledge and perceptions of the important role that foundational skills play in developing skilled readers. As others look to develop professional training that mirrors the effectiveness of this one, they must thoughtfully consider the structure, application and the culture of the experience.
Ventriküloperitoneal Şanta Bağlı Gelişen Nadir Bir İntraperitoneal Komplikasyon: İntraabdominal Serbest Şant Kateteri ve Buna Bağlı Gelişen Dev Hemorajik Psödokist
Authors: Güneş Gizem
Published: October 2024

amaç: Hidrosefali tedavisinde ventriküloperitoneal şant uygulanmaktadır. Ventriküloperitoneal şanta bağlı peritoneal komplikasyonlar görülebilmektedir. Abdominal komplikasyon gelişimi %25 olarak bildirilmiştir (1). Bunlardan psödokist gelişimi nadir iken hemorajik psödokist tüm literatürde 1 kez bildirilmiştir. Biz de bu olgumuzda şant kateteri intraperitoneal alana tamamen migrate olmuş ve dev hemorajik psödokiste sebebiyet vermiş hastamızı sunmayı amaçladık.
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63 YAŞ ERKEK HASTAYA SUBARAKNOİD KANAMA SONRASI HİDROSEFALİ GELİŞMESİ ÜZERİNE VENTRİKÜLOPERİTONEAL (VP) ŞANT TAKILMIŞ ANCAK ŞANT ENFEKSİYONU OLMASI ÜZERİNE HASTANEMİZ BEYİN CERRAHİ SERVİSİNE İNTERNE EDİLMİŞ .MEVCUT ŞANTI DİSFONKİYONİZE OLUNCA HASTAYA YENİ VP ŞANT TAKILMIŞ.ÖNCEKİ ŞANTIN tamamiyle batına migrate olmuş vaziyette idi..postoperatif 30 . gününde TAKİPLERİNDE KARIN AĞRISI GELİŞMESİ ÜZERİNE HASTAYA TOMOGRAFİ ÇEKİLİP TARAFIMIZA KONSULTE EDİLDİ.HASTANIN FİZİK MUAYENESİNDE BATIN SOL KADRANDA PALPABL KİTLE MEVCUTTU. ATEŞİ YOKTU. CRP Sİ 169 ,PLATELETİ 1000. WBC 21 BİN İDİ. AYNI ZAMANDA ŞANT ENFEKSİYONU MEVCUT OLDUĞU İÇİN VANKOMİSİN VE MEROPENEM ALMAKTA İDİ.TOMOGRAFİ (BT RAPORUNDA Batın sol orta kadrandan başlayıp alt kadran düzeyine kadar devam eden 117x85 mm boyutlarda ön kesimi kistik , posterior kesimi solid komponentler içeren kitle lezyonundan bahsedilmiş idi. Tarif edilen kitlenin barsak segmentleri arasında ve Mezenterik lokalizasyonlu olduğu ve Komşuluğunda mezenterik yağlı dokuda belirgin kirlenme izlendiği belirtilmişti .Retroçekal alandan başlayıp mesane komşuluğuna kadar uzanım gösteren muhtemel kateter ile uyumlu görünüm raporlanmış idi.batındaki serbest kataterin çekilmesi için tarafımıza danışılan hasta operasyona alındı operasyonda batın açılır açılmaz serbest kateter görüldü ve kültüre gönderildi.ardından eksplorasyon yapıldı . kateterin ciltteki giriş yerinde yapılan insizyonun hemen altında sol kadranı tamamen dolduran 10x 10 cm lik mezo tarafından kuşatılmış kitle görüldü.kitle çevre dokulardan izole edildi ve total eksize edildi.kistin duvarının da mezodan oluştuğu görüldü.içeriği hemorajık idi.patolojı sonucu iç granulasyon dokusu ile fibroepitelyal yapı kist içeriği ise hematomla uyumglu geldi. ile uyumlu geldi. postop 1. gün crp 69 a düştü hastanın ateşi olmadı . batın drenine gelen olmayınca dren 3. gün çekildi.
sonuçlarSonuç
Ventriküloperitoneal şant sonrası abdominal şikayetleri ve görüntülemeleri olan hastalarda intraabdominal komplikasyon gelişmiş olabileceği akılda tutulmalıdır.Serebrospinal psödokist ,tomografide görüntülenen kistik lezyonlarda akıla gelmelidir.
Lökositoklastik Vaskülit: Beş Farklı Etyolojik Tanılı Hastanın Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: Demirci Yıldırım Tuba
Published: October 2024

Amaç: Lökositoklastik vaskülit (LSV), histopatolojik olarak dermal kapiller ve venüllerin immün kompleks aracılı vasküliti ile karakterize küçük damar vaskülitidir. Lökositoklastik vaskülit birçok hastalığın ilk bulgusu olarak karşımıza çıkabilir. Cilde sınırlı vaskülit olarak tek atakla sonlanabileceği gibi, lenfoproliferatif hastalıklar, inflamatuvar bağırsak hastalıkları gibi ciddi hastalıklardan da kaynaklanabilir. Vakalarımız bu çeşitliliğe dikkat çekerek, LSV’ nin etyolojisinin araştırılmasının önemini vurgulamaktadır.
Olgular: Kliniğimizde son iki yılda lökositoklastik vaskülit ön tanısı ile yatırılmış beş farklı olgunun tanısal süreçleri ve tedavileri tartışılmıştır. Cilt bulguları aynı olan beş olgunun tanıları Hodgkin Lenfoma, Sistemik Lupus Eritematozus (SLE), Crohn hastalığı, idiyopatik kutanöz küçük damar vasküliti ve İnsan İmmun Yetmezlik Virusu hastalığı ve Sifiliz birlikteliği olarak farklılık göstermiştir.
Sonuç: Vakalarımızın benzer fizik muayene bulguları ile gelerek farklı tanı ve tedaviler alması, lökositoklastik vaskülitin tanısal yaklaşımının ve tedavisinin multidisipliner bir yaklaşım gerektirdiğini göstermiştir.
The Maya Materialization of Time
Authors: Chase Arlen F. , Dowd Anne S. , Freidel David A. , Murdock Jerry
Published: October 2024

In this introductory chapter, the editors begin by pointing out that the materialization of time, the most famous intellectual interest of the ancient Maya, was aspirational through charting of the future through prophecy and divination as well as contemplative of the past in myth and historical chronicle. They then outline important themes of the ensuing chapters beginning with the gathering of sustained collective labor to create the ceremonial centers celebrating and counting the passage of days and nights that precede and anticipate the complex communities that would emerge surrounding them, investments in the future termed landesque cosmography. From identifying sacred places as embodiments of mythical creatures of creation time, to the centering and laying out of civic-religious architecture as calendrical cosmographs, to the places of learning and study of time through mathematics and calendar calculation, to the summary recognition that some contemporary Maya speakers sustain the balanced notions that cyclical and accumulative time materializations are embodied by people just as time is a living force to be nurtured and embraced, the editors invite readers to continue.
Spatial and Temporal Standardization in Southern Mesoamerica during the Preclassic Period
Authors: Inomata Takeshi , Triadan Daniela
Published: October 2024

Recent discoveries of early monumental constructions across the world indicate that diverse social practices and organizations existed among hunter-gatherers and early agriculturalists. In southern Mesoamerica, the recently discovered site of Aguada Fénix and related complexes were probably constructed between 1100 and 700 BC by communities without marked social inequality, which included groups practicing different subsistence strategies and different levels of residential mobilities. Some complexes were aligned with the directions of sunrise on specific days, which possibly marked the timings of ritual gatherings. Ritual participants, who followed different rhythms of life according to their subsistence practices, shared the same temporality through collective rituals. These observations indicate that, instead of assuming fundamental divides in temporal concepts among different societies, we need to explore how different concepts of time may coexist in one society and how standardized temporal regimes may emerge in certain contexts. These practices at Aguada Fénix and related complexes may have formed a basis for the later development of more complex calendrical concepts and more hierarchical organization, in which elite power was partly based on the possession of esoteric knowledge of time and ritual.
Scorpion Star
Authors: Rossi Franco D.
Published: October 2024

This chapter revisits the corpus of stellar scorpion imagery with an eye toward Classic period Maya examples and texts. Drawing on primary research from the Los Sabios Group at the site of Xultun, it synthesizes previous work on the topic and builds on arguments that the scorpion and scorpion attributes of particular entities in Maya imagery are seasonally tied to the dry season. It then presents three Classic period examples, each of which references a specific scorpion-tailed deity. These examples reveal significance related not only to seasonality, but to obsidian, fire, night, the planet Venus, and the direction west, as well.
The Chamber of Secrets at Xunantunich
Authors: Brown M. Kathryn , McCurdy Leah , Yaeger Jason
Published: October 2024

Sealed vaulted masonry chambers in the Classic center of Xunantunich had incised texts and images on their walls. Called graffiti by Maya archaeologists, they are here described as evidence of training in literacy and numeracy of the kind carried out in schools at the time of the Spanish arrival. The authors review the scholarship on Maya graffiti to show that there is reason to argue that such incised writing could be the work of children or novices and that the corpus of graffiti needs to be reviewed from the vantage of pedagogical tool. Such training was essential to the materialization of time in Maya centers. They present and discuss the examples of incised images and texts on the walls of the proposed school at Xunantunich. They compare the architectural design of the school and its habitations with schools described from the time of the Spanish arrival in Mexico.
The Ideas and Images of Cities and Centers
Authors: Freidel David A. , Sugiyama Saburo , Sugiyama Nawa
Published: October 2024

Teotihuacan’s civic center was planned and constructed in a matter of generations. The Teotihuacan Measuring Unit shows that the major buildings, and in particular the Moon Pyramid, Sun Pyramid, and Feathered Serpent Pyramid, were laid out on the north-south axis as an in-line triad. That motif, alone and with the down-turned crescent, was a symbol of the city and its realm that we see as a name of the goddess embodied in the Moon Pyramid. The city center was an axial world tree base in the north, top in the south. This cosmogram defined the grid of the city. Teotihuacan and Maya lowland polities interacted for five centuries, and beginning in the first century CE monarchs at Teotihuacan and Tikal introduced dynastic succession. In the southern Maya lowlands, dynastic rulers declared their pedigrees on carved stone stelae, shining stones that conveyed axial power of the cosmos. At Teotihuacan, dynasts designed the civic center as an axial world tree, its roots in Cerro Gordo and its effigy, the Moon Pyramid, and its crown in the Ciudadela. Teotihuacan-Tikal relations remained exceptionally strong through the fifth century CE.
Textual and Critical Intersections
Authors: New Melvyn
Published: October 2024

In this collection of essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne into conversation with other authors—both his contemporaries, such as James Boswell and Samuel Richardson, and modernists, such as Marcel Proust and James Joyce. New begins by focusing on Sterne’s texts and their sources, discussing the purposes of his famous borrowings from past writings, his Anglicanism, and his reliance on John Norris of Bemerton. This section concludes with an argument for the removal from Sterne’s canon of “The Unknown World.” New then offers several readings based on placing diverse texts in proximity: Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son alongside the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and Samuel Johnson’s “London” against T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” The final section offers several proximate readings of Sterne alongside his contemporaries, Jonathan Swift, Richardson, and Boswell, and modernist authors and texts-Proust, Bruno Schulz, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. As he brings these varied authors together, New suggests that literary greatness inheres in the uncertainties and mysteries-in the words of Keats-of works proven capable of attracting thoughtful attention over varying times and wide spaces. He encourages the continued teaching of these challenging texts in the future of literary studies.
Laurence Sterne’s Sermons and The Pulpit-Fool
Authors: New Melvyn
Published: October 2024

A long poem, “The Pulpit Fool” written by John Dunton in 1707 casts into great doubt modern readings of Laurence Sterne’s eighteenth-century sermons as uniquely sentimental, non-doctrinal, and even non-religious. The poem lists more than a hundred preachers of the seventeenth century who Dunton praises for their refusal to engage in theological hostilities from the pulpit but instead preach “to the heart.” At the beginning of the century, well before sentimentalism took hold in literature, Dunton found many preachers for whom Jesus was the man of sentiment. This chapter thus establishes the importance of Laurence Sterne and his work to the history of religion.
Taking Care
Authors: New Melvyn
Published: October 2024

Thinking through the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this essay defends Dickens’s portrayal of two women, Miss Tox and Florence Dombey, by demonstrating the ethics of total responsibility for the other, which entails the total effacement of the self. This may seem like a Christ-like sacrifice, but Dickens writes within the framework of domestic and social relationships whereby our place in the sun means the displacement of someone else, for which the only ethical course is apology. The sneers of critics directed toward the two women (and Dickens as a sentimentalist or worse) can be corrected by an absorption with modern ethical theory, represented by Levinas.
“The Life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth”
Authors: New Melvyn
Published: October 2024

Putting Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy into proximity with James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist suggests that both writers see their respective writers, Tristram and Stephen emerging from worlds intent on promulgating its own opinions, whether by argument or warfare, whether opinions about nonsensical subjects or about the deepest religious and political thoughts of our society. Where Tristram quite readily enters into this world of his father and his uncle, Stephen resists, although in both instances a sequel is needed to release the real artist, which is why Yorick (i.e., Sterne) and not Tristram represents the true intentions of Sterne’s career as an artist; and why Stephen must accompany Bloom in order to deal with his own inheritance, the enduring legacy, despite himself, of his Christian and Irish environment.