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Conversations from the Commissions: Exploring Gender Issues in English Education
Authors: Pace Barbara G.
Published: March 2024

Considers how practicing and prospective teachers might address the needs and capabilities of both female and male students. Notes that current projects of the Commission on Gender Issues in English Teacher Education of the National Council of Teachers of English will explore how teachers negotiate the demands of discussing literature in a diverse society.
What’s Good about the Best?
Authors: Hipple Ted , Maupin Amy B.
Published: March 2024

Discusses three award-winning novels for young adults that are very popular with school teachers: “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, “Out of the Dust” by Karen Hesse, and “Holes” by Louis Sachar. Examines the quality of plots, characters, and themes but also considers the artistry in details and emotional impact. Offers suggestions for teaching these novels in the classroom.
Contemporary American Indian Life in The Owl’s Song and Smoke Signals
Authors: Charles Jim
Published: March 2024

Discusses “Smoke Signals” (a 1998 award-winning film) and “The Owl’s Song” (a 1974 novel), both of which feature young adult American Indian protagonists. Suggests instructional strategies for teaching these works in tandem. Argues that teaching these works informs students about relevant literary, historical, social, and cultural topics in ways that undermine prevalent and damaging misunderstandings of contemporary American Indian people.
Reading Adolescents: Book Clubs for YA Readers
Authors: O’Donnell-Allen Cindy , Hunt Bud
Published: March 2024

Examines what happened when college students enrolled in an adolescent literature class met young readers encountering young adult literature in a Book Club setting. Describes this inquiry-based partnership between classrooms, and the accompanying challenges and benefits a university classroom and junior high and elementary for preservice teachers, partner teachers, and their students.
Acknowledging the Language of African American Students: Instructional Strategies
Authors: Hollie Sharroky
Published: March 2024

Describes the Linguistic Affirmation Program (LAP), a comprehensive nonstandard language awareness program for students not proficient in Standard American English, that facilitates the acquisition of Standard American English without devaluing students’ home language and culture. Notes its six research-based critical instructional approaches. Outlines four linguistic schools of thought regarding nonstandard language forms. Notes classroom applications for success in the LAP.
Composition and a Prison Community of Writers
Authors: Shafer Gregory
Published: March 2024

Describes the author’s experiences teaching composition to inmates at a women’s minimum security prison. Describes how these students wrote with alacrity and passion, using writing as a tool to solve problems and enlighten. Discusses how mandated curriculum and assignment requirements were met, revisions made and issues of dialect discussed, while students used writing as a tool for exploration and empowerment.
From the Secondary Section: Service Learning Reinforces Language Arts Skills
Authors: Graff Pat S.
Published: March 2024

Discusses the many benefits of service learning, and offers examples from the author’s high school students. Notes literacy and language arts service learning projects; the importance of integrating service learning into a regular program of instruction; programs and resource materials that support service learning at the K-12 level; and students’ positive responses.
What I Learned on My Summer Vacation
Authors: Barr Katherine J.
Published: March 2024

A summer job with the Literacy Project at Alisal High teaching at-risk secondary students, taught this elementary teacher that there is more to teaching reading at the secondary level that what she had previously expected. Through this article, Barr describes the various methods she used in the classroom (cognitive active reading strategies, phonics and study skills, reciprocal teaching instruction, grade level content instruction, writing instruction, and rubric instruction) and reflects on her efforts.
Senior English: A Story
Authors: Skulnick Rebecca A.
Published: March 2024

Does her teaching make a difference for Jordan, the junior honors lit dropout and supposed physics genius, or did he make more of a difference for her?
From the Editor
Authors: Monseau Virginia R.
Published: March 2024

The editor answers frequently asked questions about submission guidelines.
Succeeding against the Odds in English
Authors: Langer Judith A.
Published: March 2024

Judith Langer writes about her research study to discover what makes some reading programs successful and others not so
Writing beyond Testing: “The Word as an Instrument of Creation”
Authors: Nelson G. Lynn
Published: March 2024

Students need and deserve more than just to pass a test, says Nelson. They deserve writing classes that go beyond teaching skills and correctness. They need classes that show them the power of the Word. Demonstrating the power of the Word as a tool of creation, she relates the experiences of students participating in the Young Adult Writing Project, an offshoot of the Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project and the National Writing Project. Students were allowed to write from their own experiences and feelings, without the pressure of testing or assessment. In just three weeks, the group became a community of strong writers.
Standards, Standards Everywhere, and Not a Spot to Think
Authors: Thomas P. L.
Published: March 2024

Though well-intentioned, the current standards and testing movement has had a serious negative impact on the teaching of reading and writing and we have seen the return to isolated instruction and inauthentic purposes for both reading and writing in classrooms at all grade levels.Thomas says that the English classroom is the central place to take a stand against these inauthentic and reductionist assessment approaches.
Poetry
Authors: Hassler David
Published: March 2024

Poems by Alessandra Lynch, Julia Kasdorf, and Gary Metras.
Professional Links: Considering the Costs: Rethinking Standardized Testing
Authors: Zitlow Connie S.
Published: March 2024

Reviews of Alfie Kohn’s The Case against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools (Heinemann, 2000) and Failing our Kids: Why the Testing Graze Won't Fix Our Schools (Rethinking Schools, Ltd., 2000) by Kathy Swope and Barbara Miner. Includes related websites.
Telling the Tale: Sharing Elie Wiesel’s Night with Middle School Readers
Authors: Hernandez Alexander A.
Published: March 2024

The job of teachers, explains Hernandez, is to impart lessons from the past to the next generation. Here he explains how he uses Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, Night, in a nine-week unit on tolerance and prejudice, and relates how his tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau personalized his classroom instruction and affected his students’ responses to the concept of bearing witness and to Weisel’s autobiography.
Professional Links: The Power of Words: Teaching Writing, Vocabulary, and Literary Classics
Authors: Zitlow Connie S.
Published: March 2024

The three books reviewed in this column show ways that we as teachers can engage our students in learning more about what words can accomplish and what they convey in various kinds of writing.
When History Talks Back: Teaching Nonfiction Literature of the Vietnam War
Authors: Johannessen Larry R.
Published: March 2024

Larry Johannessen prefer using nonfiction (e.g. “personal narratives, memoirs, or oral histories”) in order to introduce his high school students to rich literary depictions of the Vietnam War. These works usually elicit a response from the students far beyond any teachers’ expectations. Find out why this genre of literature is so appealing to teenage readers by reading more about Johannessen’s curriculum choices.
Linkages of Nonfiction and Selfhood: The Places of Personal Essaays
Authors: Holmes Leigh Howard
Published: March 2024

Literary fiction offers teachers interesting “What if ?” situations to mull over with students. Through the vicarious explorations of fiction students learn to choose or avoid life situations, as Louise Rosenblatt taught us over seventy years ago. However, nonfiction literary prose offers advantages that literary fiction does not. One of these is the directness and sense of honesty that comes with a single voice telling things as they are seen by that person. Other advantages rest in the potential classroom linkages between reading this form of literature and writing the personal essay. Read more about these advantages that Holmes discovers.
Contemplative Reading—The Experience, the Idea, the Applications
Authors: Suhor Charles
Published: March 2024

The weight of academic tradition and current trends is powerful. We are inclined to work with conventional and popular terms, categories, and ideas about literature and teaching, even when our personal experience gives us different cues. For example, the term “contemplative reading” is not usually seen in textbooks or discussions of literary genres. But I believe that certain nonfiction works evoke an experience of contemplative response that is familiar to innumerable teachers and other readers.
Travelers, Not Tourists: A World Literature Curriculum
Authors: Downing Karen
Published: March 2024

Describes a high school world literature course. Outlines four “destinations” for topics including: searching for meaning; injustice; romantic love; and border crossing. Discusses teaching techniques and literature the author uses to teach the class.
Appreciating Ethnic Diversity with When I Was Puerto Rican
Authors: Ruggieri Colleen A.
Published: March 2024

Notes there are many resources available that will stimulate student thinking about the diverse people in the world. Considers Esmeralda Santiago’s “When I Was Puerto Rican,” and notes how it provides a great tool for helping high school students explore their understanding and appreciation of the emerging Hispanic culture.
From the Secondary Section: Constructing Knowledge in a New World
Authors: Solis Ed
Published: March 2024

Considers how the events of September 11th made fear drive students away from acceptance and interest in what was before a cultural learning experience. Discusses students’ reactions to Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart,” which depicts colonization from the point of the Ibo people. Concludes that curriculum may need to address issues of culture more sensitively than ever before.
Speaking My Mind: The Diversity Challenge in Rural Education
Authors: Nelson Carol G.
Published: March 2024

Speaking My Mind invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Using a Sense of Place to Teach At-Risk Rural Students
Authors: Hodges V. Pauline
Published: March 2024

A teacher with experience at many levels, V. Pauline Hodges details the methods she uses to engage at-risk high school students in reading and writing. Investigating and reporting on the history of their area provides students with “the first steps of success, language awareness, and a sense of belonging in the school and the community.”
Just the FAQs: An Alternative to Teaching the Research Paper
Authors: Strickland James
Published: March 2024

Changing the form of the traditional research paper could result in a greater emphasis on inquiry. James Strickland advocates use of an alternative form of presentation that capitalizes on available technology and requires students to develop thinking, reading, writing, and presentation skills.
The 2003 Honor List—A Book for All Reasons
Authors: Blasingame James , Nilsen Alleen Pace , Donelson Ken
Published: March 2024

Three specialists in young adult literature compile an Honor List that includes those eight titles most often mentioned on lists of the best books published in 2003.
English in the City: Getting Fired Up!
Authors: Hamilton Greg
Published: March 2024

“English in the City” focuses on the particular challenges, choices, and celebrations relevant to teaching in an urban setting.
Chas Weingartner Today
Authors: Golub Jeffrey N.
Published: March 2024

An influential educator himself, Jeffrey N. Golub offers a personal perspective on the impact of Charles Weingartner’s life and work.
Research Matters: Expert Students, Successful intellegence, and Wisdom
Authors: VanDeWeghe Rick
Published: March 2024

“Research Matters” provides teachers with review and application of research that illuminates the daily concerns and activities of English language arts teachers and classrooms.
Teaching English in the World: On the Necessity for Subversion
Authors: Lindblom Kenneth
Published: March 2024

“Teaching English in the World” examines the teaching of English in a global context.
Transforming Seniors Who Don’t Read into Graduates Who Do
Authors: Bell Sherri
Published: March 2024

Understanding that graduating seniors will need a range of reading skills in college, Sherri Bell designs her senior English class to help students develop task commitment, comprehension, evaluation, fluency, and speed. Many students find that their enjoyment of reading grows along with their confidence “to tackle whatever reading may be in their future.”
Research Matters: Reading Apprenticeships
Authors: VanDeWeghe Rick
Published: March 2024

“Research Matters” provides teachers with review and application of research that illuminates the daily concerns and activities of English language arts teachers and classrooms.
New Voices: Reading Successfully? Just What Does Success Mean, Anyway?
Authors: Hunt Tiffany J. , Hunt Bud
Published: March 2024

“New Voices” raises questions, offers insights, and provides a forum for novice teachers to engage in the professional conversation surrounding the teaching of English.
Professional Links: All Students as Willing and Successful Readers in English Class
Authors: Zitlow Connie S.
Published: March 2024

“Professional Links” reviews professional books and materials, linking them to complementary software and appropriate Web sites.
From the Secondary Section: The Graying of Our Profession
Authors: Swensson Jackie E.
Published: March 2024

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
Snapshots: The Thank-You Letter
Authors: Poole Rebecca J.
Published: March 2024

“Snapshots” offers insights about teaching and learning through teacher stories about a particular classroom event.
Feeding Reading: Writing from an Information-Processing Perspective
Authors: Crow John T.
Published: March 2024

Using examples of successful classroom activities, John T. Crow shows how he helps his students become better writers by first helping them to understand how we construct meaning as readers.
Hypermedia Composing: Questions Arising from Writing in Three Dimensions
Authors: Garthwait Abigail
Published: March 2024

Abigail Garthwait observes sixth graders composing nonfiction projects in hypermedia and finds more questions than answers.
Talk, I Will Listen
Authors: Reder Claudia M.
Published: March 2024

Spoken language as a kind of written embodiment, a text that is created, or written, in the mind and on the soul of the listener, is explored in Reder’s poetic text.
Cinderella Meets Ulysses
Authors: Mello Robin
Published: March 2024

Mello’s study of boys’ and girls’ conversations about traditional folktales reveals the power of stories to “furnish students with a broader cultural lens in which to view the world.”
The Woodcrafters’ City
Authors: Traw Rick
Published: March 2024

Tells a story of woodcrafters’ city as a metaphor for testing and learning in today’s educational system. Considers the structure of organized education addressing standards, logic and science.
When Vision, Not Test Scores, Sets School Priorities
Authors: Youngerman Nan
Published: March 2024

Questions if it is possible that any place still exists without pressure to teach to the test. Describes one school district that has been able to do so by creating a vision that allows educators to work as professionals.
Thoughts from the Editors
Authors: Schroeder Jean , Short Kathy , Kauffman Gloria , Kaser Sandy
Published: March 2024

The articles in this issue examine theories that frame a critical literacy perspective and explore ways these beliefs are being enacted within classroom and family contexts.
Reading Corner for Children: Social Justice and Critical Literacy
Authors: Yokota Junko , Cai Mingshui
Published: March 2024

Junko Yokota and Mingshui Cai review new children’s books that consider how people’s lives are affected by social justice issues.
About Writing: A Letter to Stacie: Writing as a grandmother to her granddaughter, the author reflects on her wishes for the kind of writing classrooms she hopes her granddaughter will experience when she goes to school.
Authors: Dressel Janice Hartwick
Published: March 2024

This article provides an overview of what makes a good writing workshop through a grandmother’s wishes for her own grandchild and, by implication, for all children. Written as a letter to her granddaughter, the grandmother reflects on the kinds of writing classrooms she hopes her granddaughter will experience when she goes to school, specifically classrooms that will sustain the child’s love for writing while helping her to write more effectively. Using a letter format and the tender tone of a grandmother, the author provides readers with a look at the “big picture” of what really matters for children as writers.
Helping Students Analyze Business Documents
Authors: Devet Bonnie
Published: March 2024

Notes that student writers gain greater insight into the importance of audience by analyzing business documents. Discusses how business writing teachers can help students understand the rhetorical refinements of writing to an audience. Presents an assignment designed to lead writers systematically through an analysis of two advertisements.
EDITORIAL: Scholarship and Research
Authors: Tinberg Howard
Published: March 2024

The editor expresses concerns that not enough instructors at the 2-year college level see themselves as researchers and scholars. He challenges readers to show colleagues how to integrate teaching with scholarship and research.
Literary Transactions and Women Writers
Authors: Shafer Gregory
Published: March 2024

Considers how reading Jane Tompkins’ “Sensational Designs” helps foster a new appreciation of the ways in which students contribute to the creation of a literary work. Discusses how students responded to their semester-long study of various “neglected” 19th-century women writers.
Identifying and Negotiating Conflict in the Classroom: Reflections of Freshman Composition Students
Authors: Baker Tracey
Published: March 2024

Presents and discusses a study of 129 first-year composition students that identifies both their expectations and frustrations. Focuses on how such results demonstrate students’ ambivalence about classes and educators as well as their ability to function as effective writers.
Instructional Note: The T Analysis: An Exercise in Literary Inquiry
Authors: Hartvigsen M. Kip
Published: March 2024

This article describes a reading/writing strategy that teaches students how to engage literary texts more intensely
Scholarship, Textbooks, and Mythology
Authors: Noell Laura K.
Published: March 2024

A new textbook designed for first- or second-year courses in mythology as an introduction to literature shows that a community college faculty member who writes a textbook adds teaching experience to scholarship.
Institutional Models for Engaging Faculty in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Authors: Miller Susan Kay , Rodrigo Shelley , Pantoja Veronica , Roen Duane
Published: March 2024

This article describes the initiatives of one community college district and its individual colleges to engage faculty in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Assessing outside the Classroom
Authors: Houston Linda , Johnson Linda , McDoniel Larry
Published: March 2024

What occurs when we address writing outcomes from the perspective of the student and the student’s world?
Image Grammar: Painting Images with Grammatical Structures
Authors: Noden Harry
Published: March 2024

Argues that writers view grammar as a method of image construction. Describes image painting techniques from four grammatical perspectives: images of style, form, content, and convention. Describes how to teach these to eighth graders, offering numerous examples of class writing activities that use images as a doorway into the writer’s art and engage students in the imaginative world of grammar.
One Last Thought: From Adolescent Students Who Struggle with Reading to Adult Illiterates Who Struggle to Read
Authors: Beaulieu Evelyn
Published: March 2024

Watch and listen for clues that tell you that students are giving up on reading, and find ways to help them develop lifelong literacy skills.
A Framework for Choosing Topics for, with, and by Adolescent Writers
Authors: Chandler-Olcott Kelly , Mahar Donna
Published: March 2024

Successful teachers of writing have found ways to support and extend self-selection of writing topics. Educators Kelly Chandler-Olcott and Donna Mahar share a framework they developed and an example of its use with a set of women’s history month assignments.
From Student to Student: Reading and Writing: Two Sides of a Coin
Authors: Ford Kim
Published: March 2024

Student reviewed books.
Spellbound: Commitment to Correctness
Authors: Thibodeau Gail
Published: March 2024

Gail Thibodeau discusses how the “Spelling Unforgivables” were eventually incorporated into the language arts curriculum in order to emphasize the importance of spelling instruction.
Response to Reading: We Are All on the Margins
Authors: Probst Bob
Published: March 2024

Not every marginalized student looks marginalized, Probst reminds us. Most students, no matter how mainstream their looks, income, and habits, feel marginalized in some way. Offering books that feature characters suffering the same sense of disconnection can draw students into discussion in a safe environment.
Professional Book Reviews: Responding to Diversity with Inclusive Literacy Experiences
Authors: Van Horn Leigh
Published: March 2024

Reviews of: Confronting Racism, Poverty, and Power: Classroom Strategies to Change the World; Listening: A Framework for Teaching across Differences; What Keeps Teachers Going?; “It’s Our World Too” : Socially Responsive Learners in Middle School Language Arts; Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms; Stories Matter: The Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children’s Literature.
The Five Ancestors-Book 1: Tiger
Authors: Stone Jeff
Published: March 2024

Losing a job is an awfully low point—until it turns into the opportunity to pursue writing full time, and a book like The Five Ancestors: Tiger results. Jeff Stone looks back to his own experience as a young reader and taps that experience to help frame his own writing. An intriguing snapshot of his new book follows.
Funny Little Monkey
Authors: Auseon Andrew
Published: March 2024

Auseon likens getting to know his characters to a rowdy party to which the “weirdos off the street” have been invited. He comes to believe they’re real and then spills them onto a page so we can get to know them, as well. Many boys will identify with Auseon’s insecure and awkward protagonist in Funny Little Monkey, an excerpt of which follows the essay.
The Trial
Authors: Bryant Jen
Published: March 2024

Growing up in Flemington, New Jersey, put Jen Bryant in the heart of the lore behind the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Family stories of the events of the day and extensive research led to The Trial, a novel in verse. The first several parts of this novel are included here.
Rosenblatt the Radical
Authors: Christenbury Leila
Published: March 2024

The March 2005 issue of Voices from the Middle is a tribute to the life and work of Louise M. Rosenblatt, a pioneer in reading theory and the teaching of literature, who died on February 8, 2005, at age 100. Through her groundbreaking books, Literature as Exploration (1938) and The Reader, the Text, the Poem (1978/1994), and her years as a teacher, researcher, and speaker, Dr. Rosenblatt affected the thinking and teaching of generations of teachers. These pages are filled with stories and perspectives from those who knew her and learned from her, articles from those whose work has been indelibly imprinted with the principles of her theories, and excerpts from Rosenblatt’s own writing over 70 years of publishing. There is even a poignant piece from her son, Jonathan Ratner. A selected bibliography is included to encourage deeper reading.
Readers Just Want to Have Fun
Authors: Jago Carol
Published: March 2024

The March 2005 issue of Voices from the Middle is a tribute to the life and work of Louise M. Rosenblatt, a pioneer in reading theory and the teaching of literature, who died on February 8, 2005, at age 100. Through her groundbreaking books, Literature as Exploration (1938) and The Reader, the Text, the Poem (1978/1994), and her years as a teacher, researcher, and speaker, Dr. Rosenblatt affected the thinking and teaching of generations of teachers. These pages are filled with stories and perspectives from those who knew her and learned from her, articles from those whose work has been indelibly imprinted with the principles of her theories, and excerpts from Rosenblatt’s own writing over 70 years of publishing. There is even a poignant piece from her son, Jonathan Ratner. A selected bibliography is included to encourage deeper reading.
Perspectives on the Written Words
Authors: Van Horn Leigh
Published: March 2024

The March 2005 issue of Voices from the Middle is a tribute to the life and work of Louise M. Rosenblatt, a pioneer in reading theory and the teaching of literature, who died on February 8, 2005, at age 100. Through her groundbreaking books, Literature as Exploration (1938) and The Reader, the Text, the Poem (1978/1994), and her years as a teacher, researcher, and speaker, Dr. Rosenblatt affected the thinking and teaching of generations of teachers. These pages are filled with stories and perspectives from those who knew her and learned from her, articles from those whose work has been indelibly imprinted with the principles of her theories, and excerpts from Rosenblatt’s own writing over 70 years of publishing. There is even a poignant piece from her son, Jonathan Ratner. A selected bibliography is included to encourage deeper reading.
Gestión administrativa de la Dirección de Gestión Financiera del GAD Municipal del cantón Santa Ana
Authors: Anchundia Bailón Fernando Josué , Morejón Santistevan Maryury Elizabeth
Published: March 2024

En el mundo moderno las instrucciones científicas engloban nuevas necesidades que aportan a la innovación y mejora continua en procesos de gestión administrativa dentro de las entidades públicas y privadas, alcanzando de manera eficiente sus objetivos y metas, donde refleje su gestión y conlleve al buen proceso administrativo de planeación, organización, dirección y control. Ante estos antecedentes el objetivo principal fue “Describir cómo incide la gestión administrativa en el alcance de los objetivos de la Dirección de Gestión Financiera del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal del Cantón Santa Ana” buscando evaluar los principales elementos de cumplimiento o incumplimiento por la Dirección Financiera, para su ejecución se propone un diseño metodológico no experimental, con enfoque cualitativo y mixto, determinando un método no probabilístico donde no evidencia fórmula alguna en la interpretación de su población por ser un porcentaje menor, dado esto, como instrumentos se promulgo un análisis estadístico de lo encuestado, entre sus principales resultados se midió la incidencia que da el alcance de objetivos por la Dirección Financiera, donde cumple sus actividades ejecutadas en el reglamento interno, manual de procesos, de cumplimiento, objetivos institucionales y objetivos del área, presentando sus conclusiones con datos reales abordados en la elaboración de este fragmento.
Chemotherapeutic Potential of AgNP Orchestrated Semecarpus anacardium Nut Extracts Against Ovarian Cancer Cell Line, PA-1
Authors: Lavudi Kousalya , Kokkanti Rekha Rani , Patnaik Srinivas , Penchalaneni Josthna
Published: March 2024

Several plants have been studied to find their efficacy and anti-cancer activity in various cancers by synthesizing organic metal nanoparticles. However, usage of Semecarpus anacardium (SA) and production of green synthesized nanoparticles have not been exposed. In our study we have focused on synthesizing silver nanoparticles using the nut extracts from SA. Characterization studies including UV-Visible spectrophotometry have confirmed the silver nanoparticle formation at 412 nm using 0.1 mM and 427 nm using 0.2 mM AgNPs. Particle size was recorded at 1.4 nm confirming their effectivity and zeta potential studies confirmed the respective charge of -38.6 mV of the particle. Anti-microbial activity was shown against gram negative bacteria. MTT assay studies confirmed the anti-cancer activity against ovarian cancer cell line, PA-1. These results depict the excellent cytotoxic effect on the PA-1 ovarian cancer cell line, with an IC50 value of 250 μg/ml. Flow cytometry studies confirmed that SA methanolic nut extracts inhibited cell cycle at G0/G1 phase and induced apoptosis. Taken together, we are confirming that SA methanolic extracts have anti-cancer properties against ovarian cancer cell line, PA-1.
ҚАЗАҚ ҰЛТТЫҚ ТАНЫМЫНДАҒЫ КИЕЛІ САНДАР
Authors: MANSUROV Nurlan
Published: March 2024

Мақалада қазақтың ұлттық танымындағы киелі сандар ұғымы тілдік деректер негізінде сараланады. Алғаш адамзат баласы кие тұтатын қасиеттер сөз етіліп, оның ұғымы мен мағынасы талданады. Халықтық ұғымдағы жанды әрі жансыз заттардың киелі қасиеттері қарастырылып, олардың танымындағы сандар зерделенеді. Расында, көп халықтың ұғымында тілдік қолданыста кей сандар киелі әрі қасиетті саналады. Сондықтан сандардың да адамзат өмірінде тек сандық қасиеті ғана емес, танымдық сипаты тұрғысынан да саралануы маңызды. Мақалада ұлттық танымдағы үш, жеті, тоғыз, қырық сандарының этномәдени мазмұнда киелі, қасиеттері басшылыққа алынды. Онда келтірілген сандардың халықтың рухани болмысымен араласып, этномәдени мазмұнда танылып, тілдік бірліктер қалыптастырғандығы, мәдениет лексикасын құрайтын рухани мұраның бірі ретінде, қарастырылады. Сондай-ақ күнделікті тіршілікте уақыт пен кеңістік әрі өлшем ретінде де қызмет атқарып, мазмұндық сипатта киелі қасиеттері жан-жақты талданады. Онда сан есімдердің киелі қасиеті тек қана қазақтың ұлттық немесе түркілік танымында ғана емес, әлемдік тілдерде де қасиетті саналатыны сөз етіледі. Әлем халықтарының этномәдени дүниетанымындағы киелілігі жайлы зерттеулер негізге алынады.

Жалпы алғанда, зерттеуге негіз болған сандардың халықтың ұлттық дүниетанымындағы орны, салт-дәстүр мен әдет-ғұрыптағы киелілігі, адамзат баласының дүниеге келуі мен ақыретке кетуіне орай өмір сүрудің түрлі қырларында көрініс табатыны, оған қоса ұлттық тілдік танымдағы қолданысы мен сырлары айқындалады.
Principal Strategies in School Management at the State Vocational High School
Authors: Rohmadiyah Bulan , Zamroni M Afif , Ismawati
Published: March 2024

This article aims to describe the principal's management in implementing education management in vocational high schools. This article uses case study research with data collection from observation interviews and documentation. The informants consist of the principal, vice principal, teachers, staff, and some school members. The findings of this study are Program implementation at SMK Negeri 1 Dlanggu has a prominent position compared to other elements of the education management standard. Each program is implemented by each school community with a high level of awareness and with a predetermined division of tasks. Monitoring and evaluation are carried out based on the education management standards that have been set. School leadership at SMK Negeri 1 Dlanggu follows the education management standard. This can be seen from the hierarchical structure consisting of the Principal, Vice Principal, and Affairs Coordinator. Each member of the leadership team is aware of their respective roles and responsibilities, and they work collaboratively to improve overall school management, with the ultimate goal of achieving educational excellence. The development of the management information system shows relatively good results, although there is still room for further improvement in the utilization of resources to facilitate school administration and management.
Pembentukan Karakter Religius Siswa Melalui Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam di Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan
Authors: Azizah Mar'atul , Jariah Safinatul , Aprilianto Andika
Published: March 2024

In the learning process, the teacher not only transmits knowledge to students, but the teacher must also have the ability to understand students and their various uniqueness in order to be able to help them face their learning difficulties. Religious character development can be formed through PAI learning. As well, learning activities must be carried out properly and optimally so that learning objectives can be achieved. Research objectives: 1: To describe the formation of students through learning Islamic religious education in class X, SMK Mastna Karim Diwek Jombang. 2. To describe the religiousness of students in class X at SMK Mastna Karim Diwek Jombang, 3. To describe the supporting and guiding factors in the formation of student character through learning Islamic religion in class X at SMK Mastna Karim Diwek Jombang. The research method used by researchers is a qualitative method with a qualitative descriptive design. Data collection techniques included interviews, observation, and documentation. The results of the study: 1. The formation of religious character at SMK Matsna Karim Diwek Jombang goes through three stages, namely, implementation planning and evaluation. 2. The religious character of students at SMK Matsna Karim Diwek Jombang, namely: familiarizing students to pray before and after doing work; celebrating religious holidays such as Mawlid Nabi, Israj Miraj, Living in harmony with adherents of other religions when students are accustomed to religious subjects and respect each other's religious subjects 3. Supporting and inhibiting factors in the formation of religious character at SMK Matsna Karim Diwek Jombang The supporting factors are teachers and parents; the inhibiting factor is the lack of facilities.
Implementation of the Global Minimum Tax in Italy and EU Directive Proposals: Does this Approach Effectively Pave the Way for the Establishment of a More Sustainable Tax System?
Authors: Giuliano I. , Ceresi L.
Published: March 2024

This contribution describes the implementation of a global minimum tax in Italy and provides an initial assessment of its anticipated impact, both financially and in respect of the sustainable evolution of the tax system in economic, social and environmental terms, considering the latest directive proposals, i.e. the directives on Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation, transfer pricing and Head Office Tax system for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Incidencia de habilidades directivas y clima organizacional en productividad laboral de los despachos de las fiscalías fiscales especializadas, Tumbes, 2023
Authors: Álvarez Rodríguez Carlos Javier
Published: March 2024

Las organizaciones para garantizar el enfoque institucional, planifican, programan y establecen metas asociadas a las habilidades directivas, cuyos resultados desarrollan un clima organizacional estimulando la productividad laboral, por ello es que, el objetivo principal del presente artículo fue determinar la incidencia de las habilidades directivas y clima organizacional en la productividad laboral de los despachos de las Fiscalías Especializadas, Tumbes 2023, cuyo sistema de trabajo es corporativo en la gestión de Casos. Se ha considerado un enfoque cuantitativo, básico y no experimental, descriptivo y correlacional-causal, aplicado en una muestra no probabilística consistente en la encuesta a 54 trabajadores de los despachos de investigación de las fiscalías especializadas del Distrito Fiscal de Tumbes, utilizando tres (3) cuestionarios validados por expertos, que han establecido que, las variables independientes (habilidades directivas y clima organizacional) inciden en la variable dependiente (productividad laboral) por el valor de Nagelkerke, con 79,1% (0,791) de la variabilidad del modelo. Para demostrar la hipótesis, se efectuó la prueba de relación, consiguiendo un p-valor menor a 0.05; confirmando la relación entre las variables independientes y la dependiente, lo cual permite concluir la incidencia de las habilidades directivas y clima organizacional en la productividad laboral en los despachos de las fiscalías especializadas del distrito fiscal de Tumbes.
Participación ciudadana en la gestión de la política pública contra la violencia familiar. Lima Metropolitana
Authors: Sánchez Camargo Mario Rodolfo
Published: March 2024

EL objetivo de la presente investigación fue evaluar como la participación ciudadana influye en la gestión de la política pública contra la violencia familiar, Lima Metropolitana, 2022. Se relaciona con el tipo aplicado, nivel explicativo, diseño no experimental, la población se conformó por 66 alumnos y la muestra fueron 54 alumnos de una escuela de posgrado de una universidad Pública en Lima Metropolitana (muestreo probabilistico). El 29.6% de alumnos de posgrado encuestados señalaron estar totalmente de acuerdo que se necesita que las personas participen más en su comunidad, que se involucren más con un tema importante como es la violencia familiar, la participación ciudadana debe fortalecerse en componentes como el presupuesto participativo, la consulta previa y una adecuada rendición de cuentas. Se logró obtener un coeficiente sig. De 0.000, que es menor al sig, en libros de 0.005, entonces: La participación ciudadana influye positivamente en la gestión de la política pública contra la violencia familiar, Lima Metropolitana, 2022. Además, el Pseudo R cuadrado señala que la gestión de la política pública contra la violencia familiar depende de la participación ciudadana con un coeficiente de Nagelkerke de 84%.
Um monumento anti-corpo: para além do tecido orgânico em “O corpo de Afonso”
Authors: Cevallos Vivar Fabián , Camargo de Barros Lucas
Published: March 2024

Neste artigo estudamos a subversão da corporalidade no filme “O corpo de Afonso” do realizador português João Pedro Rodrigues. A partir dessa nova relação de corpo nos interessa ler a masculinidade heteropatriarcal deslocada de sua posição de poder, a narrativa propõe romper com uma somateca hegemônica para entender outras formas de saber e representação que produzem o corpo e que se afastam da dicotomia são/patológico. Assim propomos estudar a somateca como metodologia para produzir novos saberes.
Reflexiones Sahoesaenghwal-e daehae: un acercamiento al manga japonés como reflejo de la estructura social
Authors: Santofimio Rojas Germán Andrés
Published: March 2024

Sahoesaenghwal-e daehae que en español significa “sobre la vida social”, es así como este articulo integra reflexiones personales sobre el manga, como expresión cultural japonesa, que ha venido ganado importancia en la estructura social tanto en Japón como a nivel global. Su impacto se extiende a diversos aspectos de la sociedad y desempeña un papel significativo en la configuración de la cultura popular, la economía, la formación de identidades/subculturas, permite la expresión emocional, y la reflexión social, promoviendo el diálogo intercultural dando apertura a campos como la tecnología y lo cyborg. Como resultado se extiende una mira amplia y susceptible al debatible sobre los mangas como dispositivo ético político en los escenarios sociales, ampliando campos poco explorados como el género, la tecnología y lo cyborg.
Ophthalmology Encounters During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Student Run Free Clinic
Authors: Samanta Anindya , Park Alexander , Mitchell Kelly
Published: March 2024

Background: Ophthalmology services at student run free clinics (SRFC) serve an important role for the socioeconomically underserved within a city. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has worsened gaps in care for ophthalmology tertiary clinics, but its effects on ophthalmology encounters at SRFCs are not known.

Methods: This was a retrospective chart review from a single center that compared patient encounters in the ophthalmology SRFC six months prior to its closure (pre-COVID group) with patient encounters in the ophthalmology SRFC six months after its reopening (post-COVID closure group).

Results: There was a decline (47.3%) in the number of encounters in the post-COVID closure group (n=20) when compared to the pre-COVID group (n=38). While the number of encounters for routine screening stayed about the same in both groups, there was a 90.5% decline in encounters with active disease (21 pre-COVID vs. 2 post-COVID closure). Sub-group analysis of the pre-COVID group showed that patients with active disease tended to have worse vision (-0.33 logMAR, p=0.034 OD; -0.27 logMAR, p=0.048 OS) than those undergoing routine screening.

Conclusions: Patients in West Texas with active eye diseases are not presenting to SRFC after its reopening. Early recognition of this is critical to address the potential gap in care in a vulnerable population.
Environmental Study about Sirte Sabkhas Impact on The Surface Salinity at Western Coastal of Libya Using MODIS Satellite Techniques
Authors: Ageel Dawi Muftah
Published: March 2024

In this study, MODIS sensor techniques were used because of their quality images, and their data is available for seven years (2015-2021) to surface salinity in the study area. It was discovered that Sirte Sabkhas contributed to the surface salinity of the Libyan western coast. Surface salinity degrees were more intense in the summer and spring seasons and less in the winter and autumn seasons due to the feeding of Sirte Sabkhas. The south, southeast, and southwest winds had an important role in Sirte Sabkhas's effect on surface salinity on the western coast. The differences between salinity values during study seasons are considered evidence of the Sabkhas' impact.
The Anti-Mitotic Effects of Annona Muricata Extracts to Allium Cepa Root Meristems
Authors: Limbana Therese Anne , Concepcion Louis , Baron Azel , Gascon Blessy , Godin Giselle , Mary  , Amistoso Margaret
Published: March 2024

Guyabano (Annona muricata) harbors a wide array of bioactive compounds that confer significant therapeutic properties. In an attempt to uncover its anti-cancer properties, we investigated the antimitotic effects of guyabano seed extracts on onion (Allium cepa) root meristems.

Methods

The present study utilized the Posttest Only Control Group Design. Onion root meristems were exposed to four distinct concentrations of aqueous and ethanolic extracts of guyabano seeds for 48 hours. For baseline conditions, the negative control group was treated with water whereas the positive control group received methotrexate.

Results

Among the various concentrations of guyabano seed extract treatments, the 800mg/100mL concentration exhibited the lowest mean mitotic index (MMI) in both aqueous and ethanolic solutions (40.33±24.50 and 32.00±9.85, respectively). However, statistical analysis revealed no significant differences between the aqueous and ethanolic treatment concentrations when compared to the negative and positive controls (P=0.40).

Conclusion

The antimitotic effects of aqueous and ethanolic seed extracts of guyabano on onion root meristems were found to be insignificant. However, the lower MMI of both aqueous and ethanolic concentrations of 800mg/100 mL guyabano compared to positive control (methotrexate) warrants further research to assess the antimitotic effects of guyabano.
RELIGIOSITY, SHAREHOLDER LAWSUITS, AND EMPLOYEE WHISTLEBLOWING
Authors: Huang Ying (Julie) , John Kose , Xin Hua Christine
Published: March 2024

We investigate how the level of religiosity in the county in which a firm is headquartered affects the incidence of shareholder lawsuits and employee whistleblowing. We hypothesize that the local religiosity promotes an environment in which employees are prone to be more truthful, less expedient and more prone to whistleblowing if their managers make untruthful disclosures and/or unethical decisions. Consequently, firm shareholders are more likely to trust managers by giving them the benefit of the doubt, which mitigates the prospective elements of the harmful deed and fraudulent intent associated with shareholder lawsuits. We find monetary incentives to be positively related to employee whistleblowing, but this effect disappears in religious firms. The effect of religiosity on lawsuits and whistleblowing is more pronounced. With weaker external monitoring. Collectively, these results are consistent with religiosity inducing a corporate environment with enhanced whistleblowing and ethical managerial decisions, leading to fewer outside shareholder lawsuits. Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things. —Hebrew 13:18, Christian New Testament I’ve got a very deep faith, and I was led every step of the way. —Citigroup whistleblower Professor Richard Bowen Half
IMPACT OF RELIGIOSITY ON LGBTQ INCLUSIVENESS AND CORPORATE VALUE
Authors: Foster Benjamin P. , Manikas Andrew S. , Preece Dianna C.
Published: March 2024

Previous research finds that diversity and inclusion efforts improve corporate value. Likewise, previous research finds a positive correlation between some desired accounting measures and the religiosity of the population in an area. This study examines the relationship between Corporate Equality Index (CEI) ratings of support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community, the religiosity of populations in the county in which corporate headquarters are located, and corporate value. A common notion is that religious people are less likely to support policies desired by LGBTQ people, and by extension, less LGBTQ support exists in more highly-religious communities. We find little indication that the religiosity of the people in the county where a corporate headquarters is located affects corporate CEI ratings or shareholder value as measured by Tobin’s q in general. This study offers a primary contribution because examination of the relationship between religiosity and LGBTQ policies is relevant and rare in the literature.
ON HIRING A CISO: CHANGES TO GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY’S “SAFEGUARDS RULE” MANDATE HIRING OF A QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL TO MANAGE ORGANIZATIONAL SECURITY
Authors: Ryle Patrick M. , Hicks Robin , Culp Robert
Published: March 2024

Pending changes to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley-Act "Safeguards Rule" will soon mandate the hiring of a qualified individual to manage firm IT and security needs. This requirement will force many firms to hire a Chief Information Security Officer ("CISO") for the first time. Due to the uniquely difficult nature of a CISO's role, the dearth of available talent, and the high costs associated with hiring a qualified professional, firms require a sound understanding of elements to consider in making this choice. In this light, this paper examines essential in-depth factors to consider in finding and retaining the right CISO. While finding the right CISO is a tough challenge, hiring the right person should yield substantial positive contributions to organizational security and the best interests of stakeholders, clients, and the firm itself.