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Building Parent Engagement in Schools
Authors: Ferlazzo Larry , Hammond Lorie 
Published: September 2024

This work is a report on the positive impact of parental involvement on their child's academics and on the school at large.
Building Parent Engagement in Schoolsis an introduction to educators, particularly in lower-income and urban schools, who want to promote increased parental engagement in both the classroom and at home—an effort required by provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. It is both an authoritative review of research that confirms the positive impact of parental involvement on student achievement and a guide for implementing proven strategies for increasing that involvement.
WithBuilding Parent Engagement in Schools, educators can start to develop a hybrid culture between home and school, so that school can serve as a cultural bridge for the students. Filled with the voices of real educators, students, and parents, the book documents a number of parent-involved efforts to improve low-income communities, gain greater resources for schools, and improve academic achievement. Coverage includes details of real initiatives in action, including programs for home visits, innovative uses of technology, joint enterprises like school/community gardens, and community organization efforts.
Chicano Folklore
Authors: Herrera-Sobek María 
Published: September 2024

Chicanos and Chicanas, or Mexican Americans, are deeply rooted in the cultures of African, European, and Native American groups. The richness of Chicano culture is especially evident in such folklore genres as myths, tales, legends, traditional beliefs, songs, games, and riddles. Written especially for high school students and general readers, this book is an introductory guide to Chicano folklore. It defines and classifies the folklore, provides numerous examples and texts, discusses the presence of Chicano folklore in literature and popular culture, and reviews scholarship and criticism.
Written expressly for high school students and general readers, the volume classifies and defines Chicano folklore and provides background information on the historical contexts in which Chicanos have thrived. It also provides numerous examples and texts from various folklore genres and discusses the importance of Chicano folklore to literature and popular culture. In addition, it reviews scholarship and critical approaches and closes with a bibliography and glossary. This book will help students appreciate America's cultural diversity as they learn about the fascinating traditions of this important ethnic group.
Crash Course in Family Literacy Programs
Authors: Chance Rosemary , Sheneman Laura 
Published: September 2024

This book collects the research on literacy, information regarding the importance of reading to children, sources of funding, and places to find information about literacy programs in the 50 states—all in a single volume.
Family literacy programs can be remarkably effective in helping families who struggle in various areas of literacy or supporting their children's academic needs.Crash Course in Family Literacy Programsprovides an introduction and an overview of this critical subject, defining what literacy, family literacy, and family literacy events are, and covering critical topics such as sources of funding, conclusions of recent research, and bilingual family literacy.
The first half of the book is focused on laying out background information about family literacy, while the remainder provides practical how-to information for public and school libraries to develop their own family literacy programming. The book shows perspectives of public librarians, school principals, children's book store owners, and school personnel who have successfully implemented a family literacy program. Planning sheets and lesson templates are included, making it easy to develop a family literacy program.
Gendering of American Politics
Authors: Kann Mark E. 
Published: September 2024

America's founding mothers and fathers built gender bias into American politics. This book examines traditional prejudices against women's political participation as well as efforts to overcome these prejudices during a revolutionary era. It inquires into the shifting male hierarchies that kept some men out of politics, admitted others to a limited citizenship, and privileged a few men with leadership authority. It also assesses the impact of the founders' gender bias on modern American politics.
The gendering of American poltics began as a compromise between traditional patriarchal ideals that subordinated all women to male authority and revolutionary norms that recognized women's capacity for independence, reason, and patriotism. That compromise was manifested in the doctrine of republican womanhood which perpetuated women's exclusion from citizenship but afforded women sufficient educational opportunity and family influence to raise citizens and educate statesmen for the new republic. The gendering of American politics was concluded by a second compromise. The founders often expressed a desire to exclude disorderly men from public life and empower a few heroic men to exercise great leadership powers, but they generally settled for granting weak citizenship to most white family men and supporting elite government by accomplished gentleman legislators.
Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers
Authors: Dees Pamela Youngdahl 
Published: September 2024

Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers,A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century. The work also features biographies and extensive bibliographical information for each composer. Arranged alphabetically by composer into categories including single works, collections, and anthologies, the music is also described in terms of grade level, genre, mood, style characteristics, and technical requirements, and ranges in difficulty from late elementary to virtuoso concert repertoire.
Far too many teachers, students, professional musicians, and audiences are unaware of the contributions made by women in music, and of the beauty and merit of their specific compositions. This reference work provides an invaluable addition to the current literature.
Handbook of Egyptian Mythology
Authors: Pinch Geraldine 
Published: September 2024

Spanning ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 B.C.E. to C.E. 400), theHandbook of Egyptian Mythologyis the only complete survey of Egyptian mythology of its kind available in English.
In this comprehensive introduction to Egyptian mythology, author Geraldine Pinch shows how the mythology of Ancient Egypt must be pieced together from a variety of written and visual sources. Relationships between deities changed, and the Egyptian myths were never gathered by priests into an "authorized version."
Handbook of Egyptian Mythologyprovides a brief discussion about the nature of myths; the concept of time in Egyptian mythology; a historical overview of the sources of Egyptian myth; and a dictionary of deities, themes, and concepts, which concentrates on the prominent gods and goddesses in Egyptian myth. The book also includes references to general works on Egyptian culture, religion, and myth; translations of ancient texts; and a selection of literature influenced by Egyptian myth.
Human Resources in a Changing Society
Authors: Williams Lloyd C. 
Published: September 2024

With compliance now its main goal, human resource management has become a hodgepodge of unconnected functions and tasks. Williams argues persuasively that lost in the day-to-day effort is another, equally important goal: employee and organizational development. One result is that human resource management has lost credibility as a profession and in its own way, much like many of the organizations it serves, has become dysfuntional. To correct this imbalance—compliance over development—and in fact to salvage the HR profession itself Williams challenges HR people to abandon their search for power and money in organizational life, and instead to redirect their efforts to helping, truly helping, employees realize their potential in organizational settings. With surveys, checklists, advice, and revealing anecdotes drawn from his own extensive academic and consulting experiences, Williams provides a provocative, controversial analysis of the new crisis in human resource management, and a workable set of strategies to help HR professionals emerge from it.
Williams begins by calling the human resource function a bogged-down process. He identifies the problems this causes, and articulates a need for a new set of synergistic processes that will pull HR people out of the past and into the future he envisions for them. In Part II he digs into specific strategies to accomplish the HR makeover. He identifies a new role for HR, traces a process of change, and illustrates the effects of technological advances on the entire HR restrategizing effort. Part III tells HR professionals how to do it. In what he calls a series of workshop chapters, Williams helps HR people reassess their position in their own organizations, determine whether they are on the wrong paths and if so how to get off them, and then provides ways to reinstate the development function to its rightful place as equal in importance to compliance.
International Encyclopedia of Gambling
Authors: Thompson William N. 
Published: September 2024

The most complete single-source collection on gambling ever assembled gives readers access to the best possible information about one of the fastest growing industries in the world.
The International Encyclopedia of Gamblingseeks to explain the gambling phenomenon through an in-depth exploration of gambling operations around the world. More than 300 entries reflect the global stretch of the industry as they examine games, venues, players and other leading figures, legal issues, the history of gaming, and the literature on the subject.
The work is enhanced with a dozen contributed articles on gambling-related topics, including commentaries on the history and growth of Las Vegas and a description of major law cases involving gambling. Coverage includes Internet gambling and a section incorporating reviews of more than 50 films about gambling.
Nepal and Bangladesh
Authors: Shrestha Nanda R. 
Published: September 2024

This authoritative, thorough volume covers a broad range of topics from history to culture to current struggles in these fascinating countries.
Often overshadowed on the world stage by issues surrounding India and Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh are nonetheless vital players in this theater of Asia.Nepal and Bangladeshbrings a refreshing level of clarity to a wide variety of topics surrounding both nations including history, current affairs, business and economics, culture, literature, political science, and travel.
Written in a voice that speaks to general audiences from secondary instructors to interested business people and travelers to the region, this handbook paints a portrait of both countries that is at once complete and accessible. Beginning with far-reaching narrative histories of both nations the text also contains a compendium of important people and events and concludes with an exhaustive reference section.
Evolution of the Western
Authors: Kich Martin 
Published: September 2024

Explore the enduring influence of the Western – the quintessential American film genre – and its essential role in US and world culture.
Follow the entire history of the Western, from its roots in the pulp novels of the early 20th century, through the serials of the silent era and the mid-century classics of John Ford and John Wayne, to the recent award-winning revisionist works, likeUnforgivenandNo Country for Old Men, that provide a more complex and nuanced take on history of the West. Perhaps more than any other pop culture genre, the Western allows us to view how Americans have seen themselves over the last 150 years.
Build a foundational understanding of the genre with 5 introductory essays, exploring the development of the Western Mythos in the traditional Western, the heyday of the traditional Western in the post-WWII period, revisionist Westerns and the counterculture, race and identify, and the Western outside of the USA. Close to 100 encyclopedia entries examine one or more movies or television programs and show how their creation and plots demonstrate the overall evolution of the genre. Easily compare films and TV programs – from early genre favorites such asGunsmoketo more recent releases likeDjango Unchained– with essential facts boxes accompanying each entry, with information on the director, studio, key actors, and box office receipts.
Edge of the Screen
Authors: Pomerance Murray 
Published: September 2024

This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer’s placement at the edge of the screen. Every page is an opportunity to think about an aspect of film, or of film viewing, in new ways, and to begin reconsidering deeply ingrained ways of unthinkingly characterizing and accounting for what it is that we watch when we watch a film, what happens to us, and how we make sense of and appreciate it.
This volume follows from three others by the author:Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic(2020);The Film Cheat: Cinematic Artifice and Viewing Pleasure(2021); andUncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience(2022). All of these, includingEdge of the Screen, meander and interrogate cinema as we watch it, both connecting us to and disconnecting us from the moment of pleasure.
Each meditation is characterized by a deep penetration of the inquiring, continually hungry authorial mind and a very extensive set of analyses of filmic moments from myriad films, including2001: A Space Odyssey, Memento, Zabriskie Point, An American in Paris, Planet of the Apes(1968),Superman(1978),Possessed, The Jungle Book(1942),The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Toll of the Sea, Rope,and numerous others. These meditations are careful and philosophical as much as energetically ruminative, yet are written in an accessible style for all interested readers who both love cinema and wonder about that love.
Each chapter can stand alone, even though all work together to challenge perspectives on what we encounter, experience, think, and feel when we watch films. Across its chapters,Edge of the Screentakes on a wide range of topics: the ontology of film; the relation between characters, actors, and the figures who appear onscreen; film’s relationships to the other arts, especially painting but also novels and theatre; the passage of time in film, and its momentary character; film criticism, including deeply held values such as coherence; film’s relationship to mortality; and more.
Exploring the link between kidney dimensions and anthropometric measurements: insights from a Saudi population study
Authors: Almanaa Mansour , Alahmad Haitham , Alarifi Mohammad , Alenazi Khaled , Abanomy Ahmad , Alneghaimishi Khalid , Alshamrani Bashayr , Albathi Raed 
Published: September 2024

IntroductionUltrasound (US) measurements of kidney dimensions are essential for correlating with height, weight, and body mass index (BMI), establishing kidney size baselines, and assessing renal health. The global rise in obesity has increased interest in the links between BMI and chronic kidney disease (CKD). This study investigates the relationship between renal dimensions (length, width, and thickness) and anthropometric measures (height, weight, and BMI) in a Saudi population.Material and methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted at two ultrasound clinics in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with 129 participants (73 males and 56 females) aged 18–60 years. Kidney dimensions were measured using ultrasound machines. Spearman correlation assessed relationships between kidney dimensions and age, height, weight, and BMI, while the Mann-Whitney U test investigated sex differences.ResultsSignificant correlations were identified between kidney dimensions and anthropometric measures. Age negatively correlated with kidney thickness for both kidneys (right: r = –0.502, p < 0.0001; left: r = –0.542, p < 0.0001) and left kidney width (r = –0.204, p = 0.020). Height positively correlated with all kidney dimensions. Weight also positively correlated with kidney dimensions. BMI showed positive correlations with right kidney length (r = 0.219, p = 0.013) and width (r = 0.319, p < 0.0001), and left kidney length (r = 0.209, p = 0.018). Males had greater kidney thickness and left kidney width compared to females.ConclusionsThis study establishes significant correlations between renal dimensions and anthropometric measures in a Saudi population, highlighting the importance of considering individual characteristics in renal assessments. These findings support the development of personalized clinical guidelines for improved renal condition management.
Meningkatkan Perkembangan Bahasa Anak Usia Dini Melalui Permainan Bisik Berantai di Kelompok B Raudhatul Athfal Al Falah Kecamatan Rimbo Bujang Kabupaten Tebo
Authors: Purnama Dewi , Istikomah  , Hidayah Novita Nurul 
Published: September 2024

Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu bertujuan untuk meningkatkan perkembangan bahasa melalui permainan bisik berantai. Penelitian ini merupakan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK). Subjek penelitian ini adalah anak kelompok B Raudhatul Athfal Al falah yang berjumlah 15 anak. Penelitian ini meliputi 2 siklus terdapat 3 kali pertemuan. Setiap siklus terdiri dari 4 tahap yaitu perencanaan, pelaksanaan Tindakan dan pengamatan,serta refleksi. Untuk pengumpulan datanya berupa lembar observasi, dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian yang diperoleh pada pra siklus terlihat persentase kemampuan dalam mengenal permainan bisik berantai anak pada pra siklus sebesar 13% mengalami peningkatan pada Siklus I sebesar 33,3% dan mengalami peningkatan pada siklus II sebesar 86,6% dari jumlah keseluruhan anak di kelompok B Raudhatul Athfal Al falah. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian tersebut, disimpulkan bahwa melalui permainan bisik berantai yang dilakukan telah terbukti dapat meningkatkan perkembangan bahasa anak kelompok B Raudhatul Athfal Al falah.
Changes in the gut microbiome in children with atopic dermatitis
Authors: Paroshyna L. A. , S. Sadchenko P. 
Published: September 2024

Objective. To determine the peculiarities of species composition and quantitative ratios of microorganisms in the intestine of patients with atopic dermatitis.Materials and methods. Fecal microbiologic examination was carried out in 50 children with atopic dermatitis aged from 1 to 17 years to determine the species composition and quantitative ratios of microorganisms in the intestine.Results. The change in the species composition and quantitative ratios of microorganisms in the intestine was detected in 84% of children with atopic dermatitis. Decreases in the number of lactobacilli and/or bifidobacteria were observed in half of the patients, changes in the qualitative and quantitative composition of Escherichia coli were detected in 50% of children with atopic dermatitis. The I severity level of intestinal dysbiosis was detected in 5 (10%) patients with atopic dermatitis, II level - in 16 (32%) patients, III level - in 21 (42%) children.Conclusion. In children suffering from atopic dermatitis the frequent occurrence of intestinal dysbiosis was revealed mainly due to the decrease of the main representatives of the obligate intestinal microflora, bifido- and lactobacilli, as well as due to changes in the qualitative and quantitative composition of Escherichia coli.
Polymorphism of PNPLA3 and TM6SF2 genes in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease resident at Gomel region
Authors: Branovitskaya N. S. 
Published: September 2024

Objective. To conduct a comparative analysis of the genotype distribution of polymorphic variants of the PNPLA3 gene (rs738409) and the TM6SF2 gene (rs58542926) in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and healthy volunteers residen at Gomel region.Materials and methods. 127 patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease without liver cirrhosis aged 55 (46; 62) and 98 healthy volunteers aged 41 (31;44) were examined. DNA was isolated using a set of reagents manufactured by «ArtBioTech» LLC, according to the manufacturer’s instructions (the kit is designed to isolate RNA and DNA from a wide range of clinical material).Results. The rs738409 polymorphism in the PNPLA3 gene and rs58542926 of the TM6SF2 gene is associated with the progressive course of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (the development of steatosis, fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma). Through the study of the polymorphism of the PNPLA3 gene the GG genotype occurred in 43 (34%) patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and it showed a significant difference with the comparison group — 21 people (21,4%), p=0.0356, the GC genotype was determined in 17 patients (13,3%) and 15 healthy individuals (15,3%), p=0.7040. When analyzing the polymorphism of the TM6SF2 gene, TT genotype was found in 2 (1.5%) patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, 3 (3%) healthy individuals; the TC genotype was determined in 24 (19%) patients and 16 (16.4%) healthy individuals.Conclusion. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the prevalence of the GG genotype of the PNPLA3 gene is significantly higher in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease than in healthy individuals. In healthy individuals the CC genotype was the most common (63,3%) among the genotypes of the polymorphic locus rs738409 PNPLA3. The polymorphic locus rs58542926 TM6SF2 was characterized by a more frequent presence of the CC genotype (80,6%).
Results of one-step surgery in periampullary tumors complicated by obstructive jaundice
Authors: Mikhailov I. G. 
Published: September 2024

Objective. To analyse the immediate and remote results of surgical treatment of patients with periampullary tumors, depending on the presurgery biliary drainage (PBD).Materials and methods. In an observational retrospective study, the results of surgical treatment of 249 patients with malignant periampullary tumors were analyzed, depending on the PBD (performed in 119 cases). The main indication for PBD was the level of total bilirubin above 200 μmol/l (since 2015 – above 250 μmol /l).Results. The overall incidence of postsurgery complications in patients underwent one–step surgery and underwent PBD was 43.1 and 41.2%, the incidence of severe complications (≥IIIa according to Clavien – Dindo) was 20.8 and 17.6% (p>0.05), pancreatic fistula – 26.2 and 25.2% (p>0.05), hospital mortality – 7.7 and 3.4% (p=0.14), 90-day mortality – 8.7 and 4.3% (p=0.17). The overall five–year survival rate in the groups without PBD and with PBD was 45.0±8.5 and 20.2±8.4 (p=0.36) for cancer of the Fater papilla, 66.7±19.2 and 55.6±16.6 (p=0.77) for cancer of the common bile duct, 34.7±5.9, and 4.2±2.7 for pancreatic cancer (PC) of all histological variants – 34.7±5.9 and 4.2±2.7 (p=0.00001), ductal adenocarcinoma PC – 27.0±6.2 and 2.3±2.2% (p=0.002).Conclusion. One-step surgeries for periampullary tumors were not accompanied by an increase in the overall frequency of postsurgery complications, the frequency of severe (grade IIIa according to Clavien - Dindo) complications, hospital and 90-day mortality, compared with two-stage surgeries. In patients with cancer of the Fater papilla and cancer of the common bile duct, there were no differences in survival rate depending on the PBD. In pancreatic head cancer, there was a decrease in the overall survival rate of patients underwent PBD in comparison with those surgically operated without PBD, especially among patients with ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, which requires improved approaches to the treatment of this category of patients.