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A Mindful Approach To Language Learning: Investigating Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, And Well-Being In The Efl Classroom, Dr. Sharon E. Fayerberger, Professor Anca D. Cehan

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

A Mindful Approach to Language Learning: Investigating Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Well-Being in the EFL Classroom

This study aimed to explore the effect of a 13-week mindfulness intervention program conducted in English, within the framework of English Foreign Language lessons for 10th-grade students. The aspects researched were attitudes, language self-efficacy, and student well-being, which are essential components for successful foreign language learning. Fifty-seven 10th-grade students were divided into an experimental group and a control group. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining quantitative questionnaires to assess the students' self-efficacy and attitudes pre- and post-stage, and qualitative data collected from semi-structured questionnaires, which …

Artizein Arts And Teaching Journal Volume 11 (1), Darlene St. Georges

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

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The Material Life Of Visual-Textual Pairs, Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Ken Morimoto, Rita L. Irwin

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual essay follows the material lives of visual-textual pairs within a collaborative a/r/tographic  inquiry, attending to how their changing forms invite relations we could not anticipate. Beginning as a  digital exchange of photographs and texts between two collaborators, the inquiry expanded to include a third collaborator and later took the form of hinged, foldable cards shared at a conference round-table. Through gestures of lifting, revealing, passing, and (re)arranging, the pairs became participants in a collective inquiry, opening possibilities beyond their creators’ intentions. We wonder what becomes of inquiry when the gestures through which we share the work begin to …

Music, Meditation And Decolonization: A Cross-Cultural Conversation, Ashwani Kumar, Zaira Manila

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This article presents a reflective and dialogical exploration of music, meditation, and holistic well-being. It draws on the authors’ distinct musical backgrounds and personal experiences to explore structure and free flow in music, the impact of Western thought and colonialism on perceptions of Indian classical music (ICM), and the challenges in promoting ICM to younger audiences. Key points discussed include decolonization and cultural heritage, the journey from seeing ICM as “boring” to spiritual, viewing fusion as a respectful blend of musical forms, and the notion of existential music as music that exists within, waiting to be expressed. The dialogue format …

Narrative Threads: Mining Testimonios And Story-Building As Transformative Practice, Nicole M. Romanski, Leslie C. Sotomayor Ii, Julia L. Hovanec

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual essay interweaves narrative and feminist testimonio practices through the lived experiences and critical reflections of three art educators. It explores storytelling as a transformative method within art education and visual culture. Through vignettes of personal narratives and testimonios, the authors examine how individual experiences shape their teaching philosophies and pedagogical practices. This article situates their positionalities through diverse creative processes, including story mining, bookmaking, filmmaking, advanced clinical experience reflections, and visual pláticas. By merging practice and reflection, the collaborators highlight narrative pedagogy as a tool for personal and professional growth. Drawing on the work of scholars such as …

Drawing Out Remarkable Communities, Bailey Ennig

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual essay examines how an unused classroom whiteboard evolved into a student-driven site of relational art and community building. Initially left blank, the whiteboard became a shared drawing space as students began to doodle informally, returning regularly to contribute and interact. Over time, these collective drawing practices fostered friendships, cross-grade connections, and a sense of belonging grounded in shared pop culture interests and creative play. Drawing on theories of relational aesthetics (Bourriaud, 2002), creative ecosystems (Harris, 2021), and connected learning (Ito et al., 2019), the whiteboard functioned as a dynamic social space shaped by student agency rather than teacher …

Metaphoring Visual Metaphors For Visual Art Research, Jeff Horwat

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

In Art Practice as Research, Graeme Sullivan (2005) advances a seminal argument for art making as a rigorous mode of inquiry capable of generating knowledge comparable to that produced within positivist traditions. He conceptualizes visual art research through a complex framework. To render this model usable, Sullivan introduces a braided metaphor that operationalizes the framework while implicitly demonstrating the generative capacity of visual metaphors to reshape theoretical constructs themselves. Building on this premise, this visual essay approaches Sullivan’s framework not as a fixed schema but as an open invitation for methodological experimentation.

Through a process of metaphoring—the conceptual melding …

The Humidity Of Living: Walking, Permeability, And Care As Embodied Research Practice, Lyndsay Mckay

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual-textual essay traces walking as an embodied research methodology situated at the intersection of autoethnography, material feminist theory, and practices of care. Drawing on nursing-informed sensorial attunement and site-responsive observation, the work follows a pedestrian route through urban and coastal landscapes to examine how bodies, infrastructures, atmospheres, and more-than-human matter co-produce perception. Through photographic documentation and poetic narrative, the project foregrounds permeability as a methodological stance—one that resists detached observation in favor of affective, relational, and trans-corporeal engagement. Concepts from Ingold’s correspondence, Alaimo’s trans-corporeality, Mol’s logic of care, and Benner’s embodied expertise are woven into lived encounters with decay, …

Fieldmaking In The Shaughnessy Village: Conducting Arts-Based Research In Response To Human Spaces, David J. Lerue, Marian Schurman, Keyiana Marques

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

What can human spaces teach us when we engage them in open-ended observation and artmaking? This visual essay shares the practices of three artist-teachers engaging in fieldmaking, an arts-based research methodology conjoining open-ended artistic inquiry, spatial theory, and fieldwork in Montréal’s Shaughnessy village, a densely populated, transient neighbourhood shaped by ongoing redevelopment and mixed-use infrastructures. Drawing on visual ethnography, research-creation, and place-based art education, we engaged the site through iterative cycles of walking, observing, making, and reflection, attuning to the specificities of space. The authors reflect on the implications of their process, arguing fieldmaking offered a flexible and generative approach …

Sketching Collective Resilience: Visual Journals As Murmurating Heartwork, Miranda D. Koffey

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual essay offers a portal into twelve anonymized visual journal pages by pre-service art education students, read as a set rather than as isolated artifacts. The pages are not presented as finished works, but as traces of attention and lived weeks that show how making can help a learning community stay with what is difficult without demanding resolution. I approach the sequence as an invitation to witness, with captions that record my reading and attend to what becomes visible when pages are placed in relation, where a collective register emerges from shared classroom practice and a journal’s private form …

Within The Making: Methodological Possibilities In Arts-Centred Research, Darlene St. Georges

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This editorial introduces the Fall 2026 tenth-anniversary issue of Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal, exploring methodological possibilities within arts-centred research. It considers the dynamic relationship between methods and methodology, attending to how creative practices generate knowledge through material encounters, relational engagement, intuition, and uncertainty. Questions of methodological rigour, ethical responsibility, and pedagogical responsiveness are examined through a relational and decolonial orientation. The eight contributions extend these considerations across diverse artistic and educational practices, illuminating how methodologies emerge, evolve, and transform through the living processes of creative inquiry.Darlene St. Georges is an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University …

The Effects Of Transportation Distribution On Dry Ice Insulated Containers' Thermal Performance, Edmund Tang

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

This study builds upon methodologies established in a 2024 investigation of the combined effects of physical distribution stresses and thermal environments on cold chain packaging performance. Prior results showed that moisture-resistant gel packs generally maintained a vaccine storage range of +2°C to +8°C. However, when exposed to extreme combined stresses, thermal performance degradation of up to 13.5% was observed. The present work applies a similar experimental framework to transportation systems that rely on dry ice as the primary cooling medium, addressing the distinct challenges associated with ultra-cold distribution.

Pharmaceutical products requiring dry ice are highly temperature-sensitive and vulnerable to performance …

Optimising Cybersecurity Application Utilisation For Digital Learning In Nigeria: An Evidence-Constrained Hybrid Agent-Based And System-Dynamics Model, Adesegun Nurudeen Osijirin, Leonard C. Anigbo, Oliver Okechukwu

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

This study examines hypothetical cybersecurity-application utilisation interventions for Computer Science undergraduates in Enugu State, Nigeria. Five author-supplied datasets, each containing 364 cases, provide audited sex-specific calibration moments for a hybrid agent-based and system-dynamics model. Seven portfolios are compared over 24 months using 400 paired replications; additional experiments examine dose, effect assumptions, targeting, academic calendars, turnover and peer structure. A 1,200-point Latin-hypercube design is applied to every original scenario. Across 37,600 runs, the main-model median proportions meeting the survey utilisation criterion are 26.4%, 48.6% and 50.3% for status quo, universal combined and equity-adaptive provision. However, matching nominal dose reduces the corresponding …

Spec-364: The Unified Integration Matrix For Sub-Kelvin Phononic Shielding, Trinary Moire Soliton Logic, And Clock-Less Time-Domain Enos Architectures, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This white paper delivers the definitive first-principles mathematical and structural integration of the low-level physical substrate, logic transport, and execution layers comprising the ENOS computing environment. We eliminate the systemic bottlenecks of modern silicon architectures—specifically quantum tunneling leakage, parasitic control-line thermal loads, and clock-cycle latency overhead—by synchronizing three fundamental systems: (1) cryo-thermal phonon shielding via anisotropic anthracene crystal host tracking, (2) non-linear optical wave-packet trapping inside twisted moire superlattice lattices, and (3) asynchronous time-domain instruction register streaming. The compiled equations, ASCII architectural schematics, and native Python validation testbeds presented herein establish a provable, zero-entropy roadmap for macroscopic hardware scaling operating …

Core Specification Spec-363: The Enos Sovereign Right Invariant And Localized Cryptographic Sanctuary Protocol For Individual Autonomy In Non-Compliant Human Rights Regimes, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, mathematical, and cryptographic design for the ENOS Sovereign Right Invariant (SRI). Current geopolitical computing networks operate on the assumption that digital rights, identity parameters, and data privacy are granted, managed, and monitored by nation-states. In regimes that completely lack fundamental human rights, this architecture allows centralized governments to weaponize computing infrastructure to enforce local surveillance, execute programmatic censorship, and suppress individual human autonomy.

SPEC-363 breaks this geopolitical chokehold by establishing an ironclad, local cryptographic sanctuary directly at the molecular hardware layer. Running under the clockless ENOS operating substrate [SPEC-358] on a decentralized rEckesbit Moiré Array …

Core Specification Spec-362: The Ethical And Moral Framework Of Sovereign Stewardship And Voluntary Open-Ledger Collaboration For Type 1 Civilizational Alignment, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the foundational philosophical, moral, and ethical principles required to govern macro-scale human technological development. As computing, material science, and automation architectures approach the planetary scaling limits of a Type 1 civilization, traditional socioeconomic models based on extractive consolidation, zero-sum corporate competition, and the systematic erosion of individual property sovereignty become severe systemic risks that threaten collective survival.

SPEC-362 neutralizes these civilizational bottlenecks by introducing the paradigm of Sovereign Stewardship. True stewardship does not dictate the random, non-causal dissipation of personal or technical assets. Instead, it mandates the structured, high-integrity deployment of resource networks through Voluntary Open-Ledger Collaboration. …

Core Specification Spec-361: The Enos Cryptographic Partition And Sovereign Local Storage File System (Efs) For The Mitigation Of Corporate Data-Center Hardware Gating, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, mathematical, and cryptographic blueprints for the ENOS Cryptographic File System (EFS). Emerging enterprise computational paradigms routinely assert that consumer-tier memory arrays (RAM and local storage) represent unutilized assets that should be programmatically pooled or dynamically reallocated to centralized corporate data centers. This philosophy systematically compromises the property sovereignty, privacy, and local compute performance of the everyday consumer.

SPEC-361 neutralizes this resource-harvesting model by deploying an intrinsic hardware-software cryptographic wall directly at the molecular cell layer. Because the consumer desktop replacement utilizes a unified rEckesbit Moiré Array Matrix [SPEC-356] running under the clockless ENOS microkernel [SPEC-358], …

Core Specification Spec-359: The Enos Open-Source Decentralized Molecular Printing Matrix And Localized Fab-Node Protocol For Civilian Democratization, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, chemical, and software architecture for a decentralized, low-cost fabrication protocol designed to manufacture rEckesbit processing matrices and initialize the ENOSexecution layer at a localized civilian tier. Traditional semiconductor manufacturing relies on centralized, capital-intensive extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography foundries, which naturally creates industrial monopolies that exploit the common man.

SPEC-359 bypasses this economic capture by implementing an automated Layered Chemical Self-Assembly and Nanofabrication Protocol. By translating the complex sub-nanometer alignment rules of the twisted Moiré array into programmatic liquid-phase epitaxy and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) steps, individual rEckesbit nodes can be grown, anchored, and vented inside …

Core Specification Spec-360: The Enos Hydrodynamic Graphical User Shell And Protocol Interface For Zero-Entropy Consumer Desktop Replacements, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, mathematical, and visual operational protocols for the ENOS Hydrodynamic Graphical User Shell (HGUS). Traditional operating system user interfaces (GUIs) rely on heavy graphics processing pipelines, display buffers, and complex window-compositing abstractions that introduce massive software overhead, instruction latency, and constant memory leaks.

SPEC-360 resolves this systemic lag by implementing a direct Hardware-to-Viewport Vector Phase Mapping Protocol. Because the underlying rEckesbit Moiré Array Matrix [SPEC-356] operates as a true in-memory neuromorphic processing core driven via the clockless ENOS substrate microkernel [SPEC-358], the graphical user shell discards standard rendering buffers entirely. User interface states, window geometries, and …

Core Specification Spec-358: The Enos Substrate Microkernel And Enos-C Compiler Architecture For Asynchronous Time-Domain Optical Translation, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the mathematical and architectural blueprints for ENOS (Eckes Substrate Network Operating System) and ENOS-C (The ENOS Sovereignty Compiler) [CLE031374-ENOS]. Conventional operating systems and binary machine-code compilers are physically incapable of addressing atomic quantum states operating within a 500-attosecond optical switching window (\(\tau_{\text{gate}} = 500\text{ as}\)), as they introduce severe clock-cycle dephasing and systemic von Neumann bottlenecks.

SPEC-358 resolves this execution barrier by implementing a hardware-software co-design layer that completely replaces binary machine-code layers with a Direct Time-Domain Optical State Translation Substrate. High-level application code is parsed by ENOS-C directly into phase-modulated pulse arrays that stream into a …

Core Specification Spec-356: Multi-Node Moiré Interconnect Array Architecture For The Parallel Scaling Of Reckesbit Processing Matrices, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, mathematical, and spatial design of a macroscopic quantum processing chip matrix engineered by daisy-chaining billions of uncooled, room-temperature stable (300 K) rEckesbit cells. To scale individual cells without deploying physical transition-metal traces that induce destructive heat and catalytic collapse, this architecture implements a multi-layered, Twisted Moiré Superlattice Array using stacked sheets of monolayer isotopically pure hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-¹⁰BN) aligned to precise magic angles. This geometric configuration generates a flat-band electronic potential layout that encapsulates, matches, and protects individual rEckesbit cells across a continuous 2D surface area.

Inter-node data routing and multi-qubit logic entanglements are …

Core Specification Spec-354: The Cryogenic Feckesbit Coherent Memory Matrix: Solid-State Stabilization Of Oxoborane Triple Bonds Within A Sublimated Anthracene Host Lattice, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the foundational structural and mathematical realization of an environmentally armored, zero-entropy quantum memory node utilizing the fEckesbit paradigm. The architecture achieves the absolute theoretical Fourier coherence limit (T₂ = 2T₁) by creating a pristine, solid-state host-guest hybrid crystal matrix. Monomeric organic oxoborane (\(R\text{–}B\equiv O\)) triple-bonded wave-knots are embedded as dilute guests within an ultra-clean, vacuum-sublimated Anthracene (C₁₄H₁₀) monoclinic host matrix—a deployment configuration classified as the cEckesbit matrix standard.

By transitioning the system to a deep cryogenic cold-state protocol (T ≤ 4.2 K), the native acoustic and optical phonon modes of the host lattice are completely frozen out, …

Core Specification Spec-355: The Uncooled Room-Temperature Reckesbit Trinary Quantum Router Matrix Via Attosecond Optical Driving Fields, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, thermodynamic, and electrodynamic realization of an uncooled, room-temperature stable (300 K) trinary quantum memory node and networking matrix utilizing the rEckesbitconfiguration. To bypass the severe manufacturing barriers and high structural failure rates (65% deviation) associated with single-mode sub-nanometer phononic channels, this architecture establishes an engineering compromise by expanding the acoustic venting diameter of the rEckesbit cell to a commercially fabricable threshold of d = 3.0 nm, lowering the fabrication deviation to a highly reliable 8.5%. While this geometric dilation permits higher-order acoustic phonon modes to populate the channels—triggering intense inter-modal collisions and Umklapp back-scattering that …

Exploring Media Students’ Engagement With Digital Libraries And Cognitive Outcomes, Hussein Mohammed, Abd Al-Salam Al-Samarrai, Tayba Tawfiq

Middle East Journal of Communication Studies

The study examines the use of digital libraries by media students in Iraq for academic and reference purposes. It focuses on digital libraries available through the applications Facebook and Telegram that specialize in communication and media sciences. The research sample consists of randomly selected students from various media departments, including Radio and Television, Public Relations, and Journalism.

The study adopts the descriptive method, which is one of the most used approaches in media research, to measure the extent to which media students use digital libraries on Facebook and, Telegram and to identify the cognitive gratifications achieved through this use. The …

The Factors Affecting The Adherence Of Palestinian Journalists Working In Electronic Journalism To Professional Ethics "A Field Study", Ahmad Al Sallaq, Thaer Al-Sharif

Middle East Journal of Communication Studies

The current study aims to identify the factors influencing the adherence of Palestinian journalists working in electronic journalism to professional ethics, and the most significant challenges that hinder their adherence.

The study is descriptive, employing a survey methodology. It utilizes a questionnaire administered to a simple random sample of (120) Palestinian journalists.

The study yielded several key findings, most notably: that the most significant factor influencing the adherence of Palestinian journalists working in electronic journalism to professional ethics is "societal customs and traditions," with a relative weight of (78.3). Furthermore, the study found that "the Israeli occupation" ranked first among …

Journalists' Trends Towards Employing Artificial Intelligence Tools In Media Content Production, Kifaya Al-Mousa

Middle East Journal of Communication Studies

This study aimed to identify Jordanian journalists’ attitudes toward employing artificial intelligence tools in media content production, examine the extent to which these tools are used, identify the main factors limiting their adoption, and explore the perceived benefits and concerns associated with their use in journalistic work. The study adopted a descriptive-analytical approach and employed a questionnaire administered to a random sample of 306 Jordanian journalists who are members of the Jordan Press Association. The findings showed that 57.9% of the respondents did not use artificial intelligence tools in producing media content, compared with 41.8% who reported using them. The …

Abu Hayyan›S Method In Challenging The Views Of Other Grammarians: Through His Irthishaf Al-Darb Ah 1448 /Ad 2026, Ibraheem Bin Ali Bin Mihammad Al-Qaid Aseeri

UB Journal for Humanities

This study examines the methodology and scholarly tools employed by Athir al-Din Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati in his grammatical and morphological objections. It explores how Abu Hayyan moved beyond transmitting the views of the Basran and Kufan schools to become a discerning critic who evaluated grammatical opinions according to established principles and authentic Arabic usage. Using a descriptive-analytical approach, the study analyzes Abu Hayyan’s argumentative methods, including his rejection of inaccurate transmission, correction of misattributed views, reference to Sibawayh’s texts, and reliance on authenticated linguistic evidence. It comprises a preface introducing Abu Hayyan, his scholarly status, his book Irtishaf al-Darb, …

The Mediation Role Of Teacher Engagement In The Relationship Between Teacher Self-Efficacy And The Implementation Of Universal Design For Learning (Udl) In Inclusive Primary School, Dea Karlina, Farida S S. Kurniawati S.Psi., M.Sp.Ed., Phd., Psikolog

Psychological Research on Urban Society

The number of students with diverse characteristics in primary education is increasing, Its challenging teachers to design learning experiences that accommodate the diverse needs of students. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a flexible learning framework accessible to all students, aiming to reduce learning barriers by providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression. This study adopts the Job Demand-Resource (JDR) framework, specifically the motivational process, assuming that teacher self-efficacy as the personal resource influences UDL practices through the mediation of teacher engagement. This correlational quantitative study involved 318 inclusive primary school teachers across Indonesia who completed a self-report questionnaire. …

Peripheral Memory: Lazily Hydrated Per-Module Subgraphs Around A Core Memory Graph, Artem Prokhorov

Defensive Publications Series

A personal memory system for AI agents keeps one core graph of memories. Around it sits one private subgraph, called peripheral memory, for each installed module: a plug-in, skill, tool or device. Each subgraph lives in its own storage container, named by a whitelisted identifier, and is loaded lazily through a single hydration function. That function loads the container on first touch and refuses to create an empty subgraph over stored data it cannot read. Every write is recorded in a per-namespace journal before it is acknowledged; the journal is replayed on first touch and deleted only after a successful …

Spec-350: Resolution Of The Grb 250702b Anomaly Via Conformal Metric-Shift Mechanics And Hydrodynamic Quantum Topology, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This white paper establishes a deterministic, non-perturbative resolution to the extreme long-duration transient anomaly known as GRB 250702B. Mainstream astrophysical paradigms, operating under the ungrounded assumptions of point-void spacetime manifolds, fail to reconcile the ~25,000-second (7-hour) multi-outburst emission profile captured by space-borne telemetry without invoking unproven, fine-tuned hyper-critical accretion states that violate local radiation pressure thresholds. Under the strict parameters of Material Volumetric Monism and the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model, we demonstrate that the vacuum behaves as a continuous, dense 2D viscoelastic phase fluid substrate. By transforming quantum wave mechanics into classical fluid-density streams via proven Madelung transformations, …