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Gender Equity in Physics Education: Modeling a Future for Canadian Physics Education Research
Authors: Mainhood Lindsay
Published: November 2023

The purpose of this early-stage study is to determine if and how Canada’s physics education researchers are working to solve the problem of women’s underrepresentation in physics education, and to develop an expert opinion-based model for institutions to address gender equity issues in physics education (at all levels). The study will: 1) identify physics education practices that physics education research (PER) experts have found to be supportive of gender equity; 2) identify Canada’s PER experts and their research focuses; (3) conduct a Delphi study with Canada’s PER experts to gain consensus on how PER can inform and support gender equity

in physics education; and (4) develop a model to guide ongoing PER in Canada to support the achievement of gender equity in physics education. Results of preliminary phases of the study include emergent themes from interviews with international PER experts on gender-equitable physics education practices and initial descriptions of the landscape of PER in Canada. These are based on content analysis of online biographies for all individuals working in Physics or Education departments across all Canadian universities. The presentation aims to generate discussion on these results and the proceeding phases of the study.
Unpacking the Code: Exploring Teachers’ Professional Development in Reading
Authors: Beach Pamela , McConnel Jen , Mendes Barbara
Published: November 2023

Teaching reading requires considerable knowledge and skill acquired over several years, and while communities and families contribute to students’ reading success, teachers are the most influential forces for delivering high-quality reading programs. Professional development opportunities in reading enable teachers to augment their current curriculum content and pedagogical knowledge and can have a powerful effect on their practice and, ultimately, on student learning. We conducted a qualitative study exploring teachers’ perceptions of reading development and instruction with nine elementary educators enrolled in a targeted professional development course. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted: once prior to the start of the professional development course and once following the professional development course. An inductive approach to analysis resulted in four main themes: seeking out new knowledge, evolving definitions of reading, transformative learning moments, and increases in self-efficacy for teaching reading. This study illustrates the transformative power a targeted professional development course can have on teachers’ perceptions of reading. Professional development in reading that is relevant and properly resourced can significantly impact teachers’ perceptions of their practice, their self-efficacy for teaching reading and, ultimately, have a positive effect on their students’ growth in reading development. Additionally, understanding teachers’ perceptions of their professional development in reading can contribute to the development and refinement of professional learning experiences.
Go Hence; Have More Talk of These Sad Things: Reading and Relationality in the English Language Arts Classroom
Authors: Schaufele Morgan
Published: November 2023

Drawing upon my own experiences as a high school English Language Arts teacher, I seek a satisfying response to offer students when they ask, “Why are we reading this?” Such a query often leads teachers and students to consider broader questions of the purposes of literature. This paper presents a hermeneutic exploration of the practice of teaching (with) literature in the high school classroom. Using the writings of Gadamer (1989/2013) and Sumara (1996, 2002), and their conceptualizations of aesthetic (literary) experience, I outline a process of engaging with students in their desire to understand their roles as readers in the classroom. In doing so, I make an argument for playful and dialogic interactions between reader and text—an approach that both retains the integrity of aesthetic experience, and also invites a relational pedagogy among those who share a literary reading.
Composing Together II: The Development of Musical Ideas with Teachers and Students
Authors: Wendzich Tessandra , Andrews Bernard W.
Published: November 2023

Contemporary Canadian pieces are uncommonly performed and studied in school music programs due to their complex nature. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Canadian Music Centre commissioned composers to write a piece of educational music in a multi-year, multi-site research project entitled Making Music: Composing with Young Musicians. The musical pieces were written in collaboration with teachers and students. The following research question was addressed: How can musical ideas be conceptualized and developed with students and teachers? Through composition reports, the composers indicated the importance of listening to students. Listening enabled them to know with what the young musicians were familiar and helped the composers discern the students’ instrumental abilities. Musical ideas were also developed when students worked individually and in groups. Furthermore, composer-teacher feedback as well as teacher facilitation spawned a healthy flow of musical ideas. The findings will be of interest to music teachers, post-secondary music educators, composers and Canadian music publishers.
Teachers and Teacher Candidates Learning Together: Reported Ideas Regarding a Co-Teaching Model
Authors: Rees Carol , Kaur Rupinder Deol , Murphy Colette
Published: November 2023

A recurring issue in science teacher education is how to support teachers using student-centred scientific inquiry projects. This study investigates the first year of a three-year project (Inquire Together) that aims to support teacher candidate/teacher mentor teams using student-centred scientific inquiry projects while co-teaching during practicum. Co-teaching involves two or more teachers working together, co-planning, co-instructing and co-reflecting, for the benefit of students and to support each other’s development as teachers. The steps in the first year of the Inquiry Together project involved the following: a) developing a co-teaching model for our practicum in a two-day workshop, follow up focus groups and interviews; b) modelling student-centred scientific inquiry opportunities for teacher candidates and teachers; and c) supporting two teacher candidate/teacher mentor co-teaching teams implementing this pedagogy with practicum classes. The Covid-19 pandemic led to co-teaching teams moving to online teaching part-way through practicum, and students continuing their projects at home. We used a case study approach to investigate the affordances and constraints of Inquire Together for supporting teachers using student-centred scientific inquiry projects. Data included video and audio recordings of the workshop, focus groups, interviews, co-teacher planning meetings, high school classes and co-teacher reflection meetings, as well as co-teachers’ unit and lesson plans and online communication. Our initial findings from thematic analysis indicate the importance of the following five elements: time together for co-teaching teams outside the classroom (for planning and reflection); co-teachers developing mutual understanding; making equity between co-teachers visible for students; communication; and both teachers’ engagement in all activities.
School Science Students Developing and Mobilizing Eco-Just Engineering Products
Authors: Bencze John Lawrence , Del Gobbo Dave , El Halwany Sarah , Milanovic Minja , Zouda Majd
Published: November 2023

In many contexts worldwide, educators are encouraged to integrate aspects of the traditionally-isolated disciplines, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Among variants of STEM education, promotion of engineering design and consciousness of engineering processes, products and services seem particularly prevalent. Innovations/inventions from STEM are said, for instance, to improve people’s lives and to contribute to jurisdictional economic competitiveness. While there are numerous defenders of such foci, several scholars suggest that many STEM education initiatives minimize or alter students’ consciousness of harms to living and nonliving things associated with influences of powerful people (e.g., financiers) and groups (corporations, think tanks, trade organizations, etc.) on fields of science and technology and on many other entities. Accordingly, we report findings from action research involving a secondary school science teacher’s effort to educate students about such problematic relationships and, for areas of their concern, and to encourage them to design and implement STEM-based engineering products that perform intended functions and also addressed matters of social and/or ecological justice. Students developed, for example, a candle recycling device made from waste material, 3D-printed athletic shoes made from biodegradable material and 3D-printed paralletes supports (also biodegradable) for calisthenics training. At the same time, work still seems necessary to help students with abstract concepts like immutable mobiles and techniques for mobilizing such more eco-just technologies across multiple context to perhaps generate an assemblage of co-supportive living, nonliving and symbolic actants. Claims from Science and Technology Studies, such as sociotechnical imaginaries, show great promise in this regard.
Développement d’un profil stratégique du leadeurship en aménagement linguistique et culturel pour le système d’éducation francophone du Nouveau-Brunswick : une approche collaborative
Authors: Boudreau Lyne Chantal , Bourgoin Francis
Published: November 2023

Les défis de l’apprentissage dans les écoles francophones en milieu minoritaire au Canada sont bien documentés et nécessitent une réflexion profonde afin de les appréhender. Face à une diversité ethnoculturelle et linguistique grandissante observée, dans ces écoles, les leadeurs scolaires sont interpelés à exercer un leadeurship particulier pour répondre à la double mission des écoles francophones (Lapointe & Langlois, 2002). Au Nouveau-Brunswick, seule province officiellement bilingue du Canada, cette situation impose certaines exigences au travail des directions d’école qui doivent réussir là où les familles et l’ensemble des communautés n'y sont pas parvenus. Les directions d’école sont ainsi directement interpelées à exercer leur rôle non seulement pour assurer la réussite scolaire des élèves, mais aussi pour renforcer leur fierté et leur identité francophone et acadienne (MEDPENB, 2014). Toutefois, celles-ci soulignent un manque d’outils qui leur permettraient d’atteindre ces objectifs (Boudreau, 2014). Cette communication présente les résultats d’une recherche appliquée visant à développer un modèle d’accompagnement permettant à ces directions d’écoles de mieux remplir leur rôle en aménagement linguistique et culturel dans l’atteinte de la double mission de l’école francophone.
Feeling Environmental Policing: Possibilities and Challenges for Socio-Ecological Justice.
Authors: Schaffer Kristen , El Halwany Sarah
Published: November 2023

This is a conceptual paper that merges collaborative acts of storying with theoretical contributions from the affective turn (Clough, 2008) to illustrate ways by which mainstream forms of environmentalism (Klein, 2015) may inscribe normative ways of feeling and being with environments while policing others. Methodologically, we draw on our personal and collective storying-while-walking (Springgay & Truman, 2019) in and around the University of British Columbia (UBC) during the Canadian Society for the Study of Education 2019 conference. We consider how our encounters with/in nature are often disciplined by popular environmentalist discourses (e.g., recycling, greening, contaminating). In our walks/storying, we centre material agents (e.g., trash receptacles, kombucha bottle, tree) as part of affective economies (Ahmed, 2013) that align us to particular ways of feeling (with) nature, for example, embarrassment from not knowing how to recycle a kombucha bottle. We attune ourselves to this hegemonic environmental imaginary, in which certain humans assume control and dominion over nature and reinforce that control via green economies. This compels us to ask: in what ways do environmental efforts for cultivating more response-ability towards nature (Wallace, Higgins & Bazzul, 2018) come to exceed our response-ability with each other as part of nature? How might we follow affective economies that discipline how we value, manage and save nature, and how might this open up pedagogical possibilities for relating differently with each other/nature? With science and environmental education and research in mind, we suggest staying with emotions that make visible acts of environmental policing for socio-ecological justice.
Francopass, une nouvelle application mobile pour développer le sentiment d’appartenance à la communauté francophone en Alberta
Authors: Cavanagh Martine , Rao Sathya , Stroulia Eleni , Cammarata Laurent
Published: November 2023

Lors de cette communication, nous présenterons une nouvelle application mobile développée par une équipe interdisciplinaire de l’université de l’Alberta regroupant des chercheurs du Département de Département des langues modernes et des études culturelles (MLCS), du Département des sciences informatiques et du Campus Saint-Jean (éducation), en collaboration avec l’Association Canadienne-Française de l’Alberta (ACFA) et Canadian Parents for French-Alberta. Le but de cette application est d’encourager les futurs enseignants à assister à des activités dans la communauté francophone à Edmonton. Dans un premier temps, nous présenterons l’application elle-même en mettant l’accent sur ses aspects innovants. Dans un second temps, nous verrons comment cette application permet aux étudiants du programme de formation à l’enseignement du Campus Saint-Jean (Université de l’Alberta) de renforcer un sentiment d’appartenance culturelle. Nous nous appuierons sur des résultats obtenus dans le cadre d’un sondage que nous avons mené auprès des utilisateurs du Francopass. Dans un troisième temps, nous ferons part de quelques pistes pour optimiser les bénéfices du Francopass.
Biliteracy Learners’ Enacted Agency in Digital Storytelling: Creativity in a Cross-Border, Online, Emergent, Biliteracy Curriculum
Authors: Zhang Zheng , Li Wanjing
Published: November 2023

This research investigated potentials of bilingual digital story-making for engaging creativity in Canadian biliteracy learners (i.e., learners in Canada who speak their heritage language of Mandarin but are more fluent in English) and Chinese biliteracy learners (i.e., learners in China who are fluent in Mandarin and learning English as a foreign language). Informed by asset-oriented multiliteracies, new media literacies and new materialism, this research adopted an ethnography methodology to explore the communal and socio-material practices embedded in the intra-actions of human, matter and virtual spaces of Seesaw and Skype. Drawing on various data about six focal students, findings show how the intra-actions among researchers, teachers, students, materials and spaces shaped the participants’ creative acts. This research adds to the literature about developing and applying pedagogies that attend to the enacted agency among teachers, students, materials and spaces in processes of creative meaning making.
Histories, Poetry, Haunting
Authors: Nellis Robert Christopher
Published: November 2023

How do histories of this land inform, whisper in the ear and trouble its curricular landscapes? This presentation explores some accounts of pasts, histories and their lingering effects and affects, both in their failures and their unique re-arrivals. What would be some implications of imagining the past, not as a presumably singular, monolithic, universality anchored to a relationship with a presumably static, temporalized subjectivity? What of curricular re-imaginings toward, not Past, but pasts; moreover, pasts that dwell in the footprints laid there, but also refuse to remain there--that keep returning, as revenant? Work informed by Munslow (2010) might suggest that the stories one tells of pasts may be as important as the content of those narratives. The present work moves within a space of considering text, especially creative and poetic work, as offering a modality uniquely attuned to resonances of pasts that are both grounded and fluid. The work imagines a space with enough room for both particularities and their otherwise. It imagines them holding hands in a spectral partnership--conjuring ghosts, if ever unwelcome, nonetheless returning as figures of reminding, offerers of histories, characters of reckoning.
The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Practices Within Transformative Reconciliation
Authors: Kelly Vicki , Rosehart Paula
Published: November 2023

This métissage explores scholarly relations among local Indigenous communities, school districts, teacher-learners and Simon Fraser University’s graduate diploma program titled Indigenous Education: Education for Reconciliation. Through our collective attending to the role of Indigenous knowledge practices and making within transformative reconciliation, a powerful resurgence of Indigenous ways of knowing and being emerged. This resurgence came about through participatory pedagogies of making and through the sharing of Indigenous knowledges, cultural practices, ceremony and language revitalization. The focus on Indigenous knowledge practices, circle processes and artmaking, as well as Indigenous worldviews, knowledges and perspectives, provided an enactment of rigorous resurgence and transformative reconciliation (Ash et al., 2018). Opportunities to be involved in Indigenous making and land practice with Indigenous Knowledge Holders provided occasions for teacher-learners to embody and embed Indigenous pedagogies and “two-eyed seeing” (Bartlett et al., 2012) within their educational practice. Throughout the program, teacher-learners were invited into Indigenous making, creative and critical conversations, exploring circle pedagogies, participatory processes, place-based explorations and intercultural dialogues with Indigenous Knowledge Holders and Elders. The teachers acknowledged and experienced Indigenous protocols and ceremonies, and they actively explored Indigenous teachings through Indigenous participatory pedagogies. An emphasis was placed on creating authentic Indigenous-learning pathways and to do so in relation to knowledge practices within a particular place, peoples and their unique cultural ecology. This Indigenous Métissage (Donald, 2012) weaves together narrative threads into a story of collaboration between teacher-learners and Knowledge Holders. They stand as a family stands, together to share and give witness to the profound learnings that have emerged from the journey.
Computational and Mathematics Thinking Workshops for Elementary School Children and Their Parents
Authors: Zuod Rawia Moh'd Sa'id Ahmad , Namukasa Immaculate K.
Published: November 2023

This qualitative study explores the nature of engagement of students in Mathematics Thinking (MT) activities in the context of Computational Thinking (CT) integration. It specifically investigates the ways that students interact during CT and MT activities. This study uses a constructionist framework of learning by making and is situated in literature on integration of CT in the mathematics curriculum. In this case study, observations, interviews and reflection data were collected from ten students during CT and MT workshops. The data were analyzed to determine the ways in which CT activities enrich mathematical concepts. All children found that the CT activities (Symmetry, Sphero and Scratch) enriched their understanding of mathematical concepts. Several of the children were excited about what they referred to as a more interesting and interactive way of learning math and code. This study was limited to Grade 3 to Grade 6 students in a private school. For future research, the researchers suggest conducting a study in public schools that will involve specific tools of CT. The researchers also recommend conducting CT workshops over a three-day period so that children do one activity each day rather than all three activities in one session.
Practicing Professional Discomfort as Self-Location: White Teacher Experiences With Race Bias Mitigation
Authors: Kempf Arlo , Nayak Preeti
Published: November 2023

This study is among the first in Canada to research implicit race bias mitigation in secondary teacher practice. The findings emerge from data collected from a ten-month engagement period with 12 Ontario teachers who, alongside the research team, codesigned a race bias mitigation plan based on four to six varied mitigation strategies. These included technical and dialogical activities and a required reading of one anti-racist and/or anti-colonial book. Throughout the project, teachers engaged in ongoing reflection, journaling, email exchanges and an in-person interview. A thematic analysis of this data was completed (Ryan & Bernard, 2003). The design of this study was underpinned by a braiding of social psychology with critical race theory, second wave White teacher identity studies and other approaches. This multimodal approach brings a critical and dynamic reading of whiteness in education. Three broad preliminary findings have emerged from this study. First, teacher perceptions of efficacy of implicit race bias mitigation strategies relied on their noticing of conscious changes in their perceptions of and experiences with race, racism and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) students. Second, the concurrent use of critical anti-racist strategies, alongside implicit race bias mitigation strategies, seemed to instigate participants’ deepest reflections on race. Finally, this synergy and the long duration of the project contributed to the participants’ evolving understandings of racism in education as a phenomenon that goes beyond the domain of the individual. The results may deepen our understandings of the challenges and opportunities surrounding implicit race bias mitigation work in terms of teacher practices and theoretical considerations.
La Direction d'école en milieu francophone minoritaire : bâtir des ponts avec les communautés culturelles
Authors: Labelle Jean , Gélinas-Proulx Andréanne , Jacquin Philippe , Cambon Amélie
Published: November 2023

Dans un contexte de diversité ethnoculturelle, linguistique et religieuse, plusieurs recherches mentionnent que les directions d’établissement scolaire doivent posséder une compétence interculturelle de même que promouvoir l’équité et la justice sociale pour assurer la réussite éducative des élèves (Potvin, 2014; Shields, 2018). Or, comment les directions d’établissement scolaire peuvent-elles évaluer le plus objectivement possible le développement de leur compétence interculturelle? Pour répondre à cette question, une première étude a présenté un modèle de compétence interculturelle pour les directions d’établissement scolaire (Gélinas-Proulx, Labelle & Jacquin, 2017). Bien que cette étude ait offert un cadre théorique et conceptuel exhaustif, la présente recherche vise à aller plus loin et valide un questionnaire d’autoévaluation de la compétence interculturelle spécifiquement conçu pour les directions d’établissement scolaire. Cette validation fut effectuée auprès des directions d’établissements scolaires de langue française du Québec et du Nouveau-Brunswick. Le processus de validation du questionnaire a comporté les étapes suivantes : 1) la recension de questionnaires portant sur la compétence interculturelle, 2) la rédaction d’une banque d’items, 3) la validation de contenu, 4) l’élaboration du questionnaire, 5) le prétest et 6) la validation de construit. Au final, un questionnaire d’autoévaluation de 20 items est proposé afin que les directions d’établissement scolaire puissent mieux évaluer leurs connaissances, leurs attitudes et leurs habiletés en matière de compétence interculturelle.
Autochtoniser l’enseignement de l’histoire du Québec et du Canada au secondaire et à l’université : entre volonté, obstacles épistémologiques et tensions identitaires
Authors: Moisan Sabrina , Maltais-Landry Aude , Hirsch Sivane
Published: November 2023

L’appel à l’action 62 de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation (CVR) du Canada (CVR, 2012), qui porte sur l’éducation pour la réconciliation, interpelle directement les institutions scolaires canadiennes, et plus précisément la classe d’histoire. Alors que l’éducation des enfants non-Autochtones est prise en charge par les provinces, il semble que le Québec avance plus lentement que d’autres provinces dans le projet de reconnaissance et d’inclusion des perspectives et des savoirs autochtones dans l’enseignement de l’histoire. Comment expliquer cette spécificité de l’histoire coloniale du Québec? Pour y répondre, nous avons questionné des personnes enseignant l’histoire du Québec et du Canada au secondaire et à l’université (n=46) sur leur position à l’égard de l’inclusion des savoirs et des perspectives autochtones dans l’enseignement de leur discipline et les pistes d’action qu’elles identifient pour mettre en œuvre les appels à l’action de la CVR. De cette analyse, nous constatons d’abord un certain engouement pour l’inclusion de l’histoire autochtone dans les cours, mais se dégagent également des obstacles épistémologiques et identitaires pouvant expliquer la spécificité québécoise dans le projet d’autochtonisation en cours au Canada.
Halal Industrial Village Assistance and Signing Cooperation Agreement With Batu Gadang Village
Authors: Aisman Aisman , Rini Rini , Hasbullah Hasbullah , Sylvi Diana , Hari Purnama Dini , Ismed Ismed , Refdi Cesar Welya , Wellyalina Wellyalina , Rasdiana Felga Zulfia , Koja Reni , Nova Bastian , Wati Linda
Published: November 2023

This community service activity carried out by the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Andalas University, Padang, is in collaboration with the Batu Gadang Village, Lubuk Kilangan District, Padang City. The activity location is in the Batu Gadang (Indarung) Lurah Office which has been prepared in such a good way, in the Batu Gadang Village there are still MSMEs that do not have halal certification and have the potential to be used as a model for a halal food industry village in West Sumatra. The main problem encountered is the lack of information received by MSME actors in the Batu Gadang Village to obtain halal certificates. Therefore, it is necessary to provide assistance to MSME actors in the Batu Gadang sub-district from the beginning until the issuance of the halal certificate
Diversification Of Processed Strawberry Products To Increase The Income Of Strawberry Farming Groups In Limapuluh Kota District
Authors: Fiana Risa Meutia , Murtius Wenny Surya
Published: November 2023

The constraints in strawberry cultivation, namely its perishable nature has a very short shelf life. Processing strawberries into jams and sweets can increase the shelf life, selling value of strawberries and is easy to develop on a household scale. The implementation method carried out is counseling, training and guidance. The purpose of this activity is to increase the knowledge of strawberry farmers regarding standard operating procedures for strawberry cultivation and increase the knowledge and skills of strawberry farmers in Nagari Tanjung Aro Sikabu, Luak District, Lima Puluh Kota Regency, West Sumatra regarding the processing of strawberries into jams and sweets.The results of the activity are increasing the knowledge of the community in Limapuluh Kota Regency on processed strawberry products that can increase the added value of strawberries and can improve the community of Nagari Tanjung Aro Sikabu, Luak District, Lima Puluh Kota Regency.
Sistem Pemberian Air Dan Pupuk Pada Tanaman Melon Menggunakan Irigasi Tetes
Authors: Alfareza Ella , Erlina Tati
Published: November 2023

Melon is one of the high value crops, so it needs to be empowered. Melon growth is closely related to the state of water, soil pH, and nutrients. A mismatch in water content causes stunted growth. Melon grow well in soil with a pH of 6-7, where nutrients are easily absorbed. Human has limitations in watering, fertilising and controlling the pH of the soil manually. Therefore, a system for automatic watering, fertilisation and pH control with drip irrigation is needed. This system uses Arduino Mega2560 as a microcontroller, RTC for scheduling watering and fertiliser, pH sensor for controlling soil pH, water level sensor to measure the contents of the container with notification to Telegram. In this research, the system succeeded in watering and fertilising on schedule with 100% time accuracy, and controlling soil pH with a pH measurement accuracy of 95.57%. The system also successfully detected the solution running out and sent the notification to Telegram. The melon plants grow faster using the system than manually, with a difference in plant height of 1.029 cm on day 7. Thus it can be concluded that the system for automatic watering, fertilising, and pH control of melon plants has been successfully built.
Rancang Bangun Kunci Pintu Perpustakaan Otomatis Menggunakan Algoritma Histogram of oriented gradients Berbasis Mini-PC
Authors: Fauzan Azhim Muhammad , Kasoep Werman , Yolanda Desta
Published: November 2023

Facial recognition has been a long-standing problem in computer vision. Recently, Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOGs) have been shown to be effective descriptors for object recognition in general and face recognition in particular. In this study, HOGs are used as an algorithm to achieve facial recognition, which aims to recognize the faces of registered students when visiting the library without the need to fill in the attendance list in the visitor book and open the door and lock the door automatically.
Verbal and Non-Verbal Sign Found in Titanic Movie Poster
Authors: Darmayanti Made Mei , Marantika I Made Yogi
Published: November 2023

The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the verbal and nonverbal signs on the Titanic movie poster. It is expected to provide information about verbal and non-verbal signs and how they describe the content of that movie. This study used a Titanic Movie poster downloaded from Pinterest as the data source. The descriptive qualitative method was used by applying the Semiotic theory from Barthes (1997) to find out the verbal and non-verbal signs and to analyze the meaning of verbal and non-verbal signs on the Titanic Movie poster. Cerrato's (2012) theory of color meaning was used to support the analysis. In collecting data, there were several steps taken: select and download the movie poster for analysis on Pinterest, followed by reading and taking notes to recognize the posters. The findings indicate that there were 19 signs total, with I1 verbal signs and 8 nonverbal signs. The meanings of these signs were found in the words and pictures on Titanic Movie posters. In the verbal and non-verbal signs of the titanic movie poster, most of them conveys connotative meaning. In the non-verbal signs, almost all movie posters use photos of actors as models, it means the advertisement wants to attract public interest by using visuals of the actors playing the movie.
بناء وتقنين اختبارات للأدراك الحس-حركي لبعض المهارات الأساسية بالريشة الطائرة للاعبين(المتقدمين)
Authors: يوسف كريم طه , محمد رشيد فاتن
Published: November 2023

تهدف الدراسة الى:

بناء اختبارات الاراك الحس – حركي لبعض المهارات الأساسية بلعبة الريشة الطائرة للاعبين (المتقدمين).

تقنين اختبارات الاراك الحس – حركي لبعض المهارات الأساسية بلعبة الريشة الطائرة للاعبين (المتقدمين).

      استخدم الباحث المنهج الوصفي بأسلوب المسحي لملائمته وطبيعة المشكلة ، واشتمل مجتمع البحث على لاعبي الريشة الطائرة لأندية دوري الممتاز العراقي بالريشة الطائرة موسم 2020-2021 وعددهم 52 لاعبا و وبناء على متطلبات بناء وتقنين الاختبارات قيد الدراسة ، تم تقسيم العينة الى عينة استطلاعية البالغ عددها (2)لاعبا وعينة البناء البالغ عددها (12) لاعبا، وعينة التجربة الرئيسية البالغ عددها (35) لاعبا وتم استبعاد (3)لاعبين كونهم مشاركين مع المنتخب العراقي بالريشة الطائرة في بطولات خارجية ، وبعد عرض المواصفات مفردات كل اختبار ، تم التحقق نت الصدق الظاهري والصدق الذاتي والصدق الفرضي(صدق التمييز) والتحقق من الموضوعية ومن صعوبة وسهولة الاختبارات ، وإيجاد معاملات الثبات للوصول الى الصيغة النهائية لكل اختبار وتجريبها استطلاعيا وبعد الانتهاء من هذه الخطوات على وفق محددات القياس والتقويم في علوم التربية البدنية، عمد الباحث على تطبيقها على عينة التجربة الرئيسية (تقنين)، ومعالجة نتائج بالحقيبة الإحصائية الاجتماعية spss لاشتقاق المعايير لكل اختبار واستنتج الباحث ان اختبارات الادراك الحس – حركي لبعض المهارات الأساسية بالريشة الطائرة للاعبين (المتقدمين) تقيس الأغراض التي صممت لأجلها و ملائمة لمستواهم واعمارهم واللعبة التخصصية وتتميز بسهولة تطبيقها وقلة كلفتها المادية ولا تحتاج الى أجهزة او أدوات كثيرة و تم وصول الى جداول الدرجات ومستويات معيارية للاختبارات الادراك الحس – حركي لبعض المهارات الأساسية بالريشة الطائرة للاعبين المتقدمين التي تم بناءها، ويوصي الباحث من الضروري الاعتماد على الاختبارات الأدراك الحس-حركي  لبعض المهارات الأساسية بلعبة الريشة الطائرة عند تقييم الاعبين ،و ضرورة اتباع الخطوات المتسلسلة المنهجية على وفق محددات القياس والتقويم في علوم التربية البدنية وعلوم الرياضة عند بناء اختبارات الادراك الحس-حركي او تعديلها، واجراء دراسات مشابهة على عينات اكبر او مختلفة (اعمار وجنس)،و اجراء دراسات مشابهة باعتماد خطوات هذه الدراسة لبناء اختبارات في العاب والفعاليات الرياضية أخرى، والاستفادة من هذا الاختبار عند وضع البرامج التدريبية وانتقاء الاعبين خدمة لهذه اللعبة.
آلية تفعيل النشاطات الرياضية المدرسية لمدارس الإعدادية والمتوسطة في مركز محافظة نينوى من وجهة نظر مدرسي التربية الرياضية
Authors: ادريس محمد خضر احمد
Published: November 2023

هدف البحث إلى بناء وتطبيق مقياس آلية تفعيل النشاطات الرياضية اللاصفية  للمدارس الحكومية الإعدادية والمتوسطة للبنين في مركز محافظة نينوى . والتعرف على الأبعاد الرئيسة  كالية لتفعيل هذه النشاطات الرياضية اللاصفية من وجهة نظر مدرسي التربية الرياضية. تم بناء مقياس تكون من 6 أبعاد و39  فقرة  وتطبيقه . وكانت أهم الاستنتاجات صلاحية مقياس تفعيل النشاطات الرياضية  واعتباره مقياساً فعالاً في ضوء مستوى الأبعاد الستة  (التخطيط ،التنظيم ،التنفيذ، الإمكانات المتاحة،التحفيز والدوافع) ، والتي جاءت بمستوى جيد جداً ومجال(التقويم والتطوير) بمستوى ممتاز. قدم الباحث من خلال بحثه بعض التوصيات : تطبيق مقياس تفعيل النشاطات الرياضية اللاصفية على كافة مدارس محافظة نينوى خاصة والعراق عامة.
MEMBANGUN REPUTASI DALAM AKTIVITAS TANGGUNG JAWAB SOSIAL PERUSAHAAN DAN DAMPAKNYA TERHADAP KINERJA KEUANGAN
Authors: Daromes Fransiskus E. , Asri Marselinus , Marco Marco
Published: November 2023

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji pengaruh corporate social responsibility terhadap reputasi perusahaan dan dampaknya terhadap kinerja keuangan perusahaan. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori stakeholder dan teori resource-based view. Penelitian ini menggunakan data sekunder yang diperoleh dengan menggunakan metode observasi. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah laporan tahunan dan laporan keberlanjutan seluruh perusahaan yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode tahun 2017 sampai dengan 2021. Pemilihan sampel dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode purposive sampling, dengan jumlah sampel 49 perusahaan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan analisis jalur. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa corporate social responsibility memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap reputasi perusahaan. Namun, corporate social responsibility berpengaruh positif tidak signifikan terhadap kinerja keuangan perusahaan. Reputasi perusahaan berpengaruh positif signifikan terhadap kinerja keuangan.  Uji sobel menunjukkan bahwa reputasi perusahaan memediasi pengaruh corporate social responsibility terhadap kinerja keuangan dan termasuk tipe mediasi penuh.
Reply to “Asking the Right Question Is Key to Getting a Valuable Answer”
Authors: Garrett Joel M. , Peek Kerry , Hoek Daniel J. , Mastrorocco Marco , McGuckian Thomas B.
Published: November 2023

Author response to the JOSPT Letter to the Editor-in-Chief "Asking the Right Question is Key to Getting a Valuable Answer"

J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2023;53(11):726-727. doi:10.2519/jospt.2023.0204-R
Promoção do evelhecimento ativo em idosos intitucionalizados
Authors: Sena Romeika Carla Ferreira de , Oliveira Franklin Learcton Bezerra de , Vale Bruna de Araújo , Silva Edjamarys Suzy da Silva e , Barbosa Sabrina Silva , Soares José Francisco Yhago Dantas , Cabral Ana Michele de Farias , Miranda Francisco Arnoldo Nunes de
Published: November 2023

Objetivo: Identificar na literatura científica os principais fatores que contribuem para o envelhecimento ativo entre idosos institucionalizados. Métodos: Estudo de revisão de literatura do tipo integrativa, através das bases de dados Medline/PubMed, SCOPUS e BVS, no mês de junho de 2023. Resultados: Identificou-se 10 artigos que abordaram o contexto social, a autonomia dos idosos institucionalizados, a disseminação de informação, a autopercepção de saúde e seu desenvolvimento funcional, a ações multiprofissionais e interdisciplinar de forma individual e coletiva que foquem na qualidade de vida e em ações promocionais de saúde que interfiram de forma positiva nas funções psicológicas, afetivas e emocionais dos idosos institucionalizados. Considerações finais: O estudo contribuiu também para refletir sobre as lacunas existentes no cuidado prestado nessas instituições, e sobre a necessidade de estudos que possam avaliar de forma precisa e efetiva o processo do envelhecimento e evidenciar de forma mais robusta os aspectos que envolvem o envelhecimento saudável e ativo.
Essential Elements of Home-based Palliative Care Model: A Rapid Review
Authors: Kirtania Mousami , Katta Ajitha
Published: November 2023

The need for palliative care is increasing due to the rising burden of non-communicable diseases and some communicable diseases. Chronic illnesses demand patient-centred care that focuses on the patient’s individual healthcare needs. Palliative care improves the patients’ and caregivers’ quality of life by providing pain and symptom relief through a holistic approach after the disease is diagnosed. Though there are various models followed in different countries, home-based palliative care is preferred by patients who wish to stay close to their loved ones at their end of life. For providing home-based care, there are certainly important elements that have to be taken care of before planning the implementation because every country has its own healthcare needs, system, and context. India is a developing country where isolated Palliative Care is practiced, hence the situation demands the need of addressing the essential elements that can be included in the protocol of home-based palliative care to enhance the quality of care. Therefore, this study aims to identify a few elements needed to provide home-based palliative care in the Indian context. A rapid review was conducted where seven studies were included that mentioned the elements of home-based palliative care. The electronic databases searched were MedLine, PubMed, and Cochrane databases of systematic reviews. The review was carried out over a period of 8 weeks in June and July 2022. Seven common essential themes were identified; (i) inter-sectoral and inter-professional cooperation, (ii) trust and safety, (iii) holistic management, (iv) non-academic palliative care, (v) spiritual care, (vi) support to caregivers, and (vii) funding and financial support. Our review of effective palliative care models explicates the essential elements for quality home-based care for patients with a terminal illness. The application of the elements must be relevant to the local context due to the huge diversity of the country.
Scrub typhus with opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia-seizure as primary presentations
Authors: Puppala Sumirini , Acharya Abhijit , Choudhury Surjyaprakash S.
Published: November 2023

Scrub typhus is a simple acute febrile illness with rash or an eschar, with up to one-fifth of the patients complicated with the nervous system. Hence, certain cases present to physicians with rather a different systemic manifestation and incidentally have been diagnosed with scrub typhus. We present two such cases of scrub typhus with neurological manifestations. The first case was of a 14-year-old boy with no previous history of any comorbidities who presented with bilateral opsoclonus with multifocal spontaneous myoclonus with cerebellar ataxia with a preceding history of fever and acute gastroenteritis. The second case of a 30-year-old gentleman with no previous history of any comorbidities presented to us with generalized tonic-clonic seizures and spontaneous multifocal myoclonus with a preceding history of fever. Both cases had no motor, sensory, cerebellar, or autonomic involvement. The pathophysiology of central nervous system (CNS) infections in scrub typhus is attributed to three major mechanisms of vasculitis, direct invasion, and immune-mediated. CNS involvement in scrub typhus is a significant marker for risk of mortality or morbidity. The most common CNS manifestations in scrub include meningitis, encephalitis, and seizures. Opsoclonus, myoclonus, and parkinsonism are comparatively rare manifestations.Scrub typhus infection must be considered in the differential diagnosis of clinical neurological features with even a remote history of acute febrile illnesses in endemic regions like ours, despite the absence of any eschar, rashes, and unremarkable neuroimaging.
New possibilities for express identification of difficult-to-cultivate pathogens in cases with infectious keratitis
Authors:   Krasnov Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russian Federation, Kravchik M.V. , Zaicev A.V. ,   Krasnov Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russian Federation, Kasparova E.A. ,   Krasnov Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russian Federation, Rodina E.S. ,   I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation, Subbot A.M. ,   Krasnov Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russian Federation, Novikov I.A. ,   Krasnov Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russian Federation
Published: November 2023

Infectious keratitis poses a significant diagnostic challenge due to the diverse range of causative agents involved, including difficult-to-cultivate and atypical pathogens that are often missed by standard identification methods. Purpose. This study aims to present clinical cases where the successful preliminary verification of difficult-to-cultivate pathogens in infectious keratitis was achieved using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and lantanoid staining. Material and methods. The article describes two cases of infectious keratitis in patients with a special status of the ocular surface, where conventional bacteriological analysis failed to identify the causative agent. Results. The optimal approach to the treatment of patients was chosen taking into account the information obtained from SEM with lanthanide contrast. Conclusion. The results demonstrate the potential of lanthanide staining and SEM as an additional tool for the identification of atypical pathogens in patients with keratitis and concomitant eye diseases. Key words: ocular surface, cornea, keratitis, scanning electron microscopy, microbiome, bacteria, fungi
Extreme fast charging and stable cycling of LiMn2O4 – Li4Ti5O12 system by suppression of cathode phase changes
Authors: Roy Binayak , Pal Urbi , Simondson Darcy , Nguyen Cuong , Kerr Brittany , Hocking Rosalie , Al-Masri Danah , Howlett Patrick , Forsyth Maria , Kar Mega , MacFarlane Douglas
Published: November 2023

Extreme fast charging (XFC, i.e., achieving at least 80% state of charge within 15 minutes) and high current rate cycling remain high desirability criteria for next-generation lithium batteries. While anodes, e.g., graphite and lithium, have been historically acknowledged as the critical hurdles for fast- charging batteries, the stability of cathodes under sustained high current rate cycling has not been well studied. In this work, we have investigated the fast cycling (≦ 15 mins charging time) of LiMn2O4 (LMO) under practical cycling conditions (i.e., 90% loading of cathode material with an areal capacity of 1 mAh/cm2). We find that in the presence of a conventional LiPF6-based carbonate electrolyte, the high rate cycling of LMO brings forth a cascade of bulk LiMn2O4→LiMnO2 phase changes, accompanied by oxygen release, which initiates electrolyte degradation. Together, these factors play a compounding role in the capacity loss during cycling, even with high current rate compatible anodes, e.g., Li4Ti5O12 (LTO). The application of a novel lithium salt, Lithium 1,1,1,3,3,3, (tetrakis) hexafluoroisopropoxy borate (LiBHFip), in a mixture with commercial electrolyte overcomes these limitations due to the formation of a facilitative boron-rich cathode electrolyte interface. Cycling of LMO|LTO cells with the novel electrolyte shows 91% capacity retention after 1500 cycles, thereby demonstrating the long-term stability of this type of Li-ion battery under XFC conditions (e.g., 66% charge within 10 mins) for the first time with 1 mAh/cm2 loading of cathode materials.
Insights into the Adsorption of Copper/Zinc Ions over Aged Polyethylene and Polyethylene Terephthalate Microplastics
Authors: Ma Mengyu , Li Feihu
Published: November 2023

Microplastics (MPs) have aroused growing environmental concerns due to their biotoxicity and vital roles in accelerating the spread of toxic elements. Illuminating the interactions between MPs and heavy metals (HMs) is crucial for understanding the transport and fate of HM-loaded MPs in specific environmentally relevant scenarios. Herein, the adsorption of copper (Cu2+) and zinc (Zn2+) ions over poly-ethylene (PE) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) particulates before and after heat persulfate oxidation (HPO) treatment was comprehensively evaluated in simulated swine wastewater. The effects of intrinsic properties (i.e., degree of weathering, size, type) of MPs and environmental factors (i.e., pH, ionic strength, and co-occurring species) on adsorption were investigated thoroughly. It was observed that HPO treatment expedites the fragmentation of pristine MPs, and renders MPs with a variety of oxygen-rich functional groups, which are likely to act as new active sites for binding both HMs. The adsorption of both HMs is pH- and ionic strength-dependent at a pH of 4 to 6. Co-occurring species such as humic acid (HA) and tetracycline (TC) appear to enhance the affinity of both aged MPs for Cu2+ and Zn2+ ions via bridging complexation. However, co-occurring nutrient species (e.g., phosphate and ammonia) demonstrate different impacts on the adsorption, improving uptake of Cu2+ by precipitation while lowering affinity for Zn2+ owing to the formation of soluble zinc-ammonia complex. Spectroscopic analysis indicates that the dominant adsorption mechanism mainly involves electrostatic interactions and surface complexation. These findings provided fundamental insights into the interactions between aged MPs and HMs in an environmentally rele-vant scenario (i.e., simulated swine wastewater).