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Assessment Of Antimicrobial Sensitivity Patterns For Streptococcus Spp. Isolated From Tonsillitis Among Children And Adults Patients, Zainab Sahib A. Quraish, Noora A. Hassan, Aya Khaled Moaain

Muthanna Medical Journal

Tonsillitis characterizes by sever inflammation; acute or chronic in the pharyngeal tonsil of throat, represent an important clinical issue and commons in all ages over worldwide, caused by streptococcus bacteria especially Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria are responsible for most cases of tonsilitis besides virus, fungal and other type of bacteria. The objective of the present study to assessment of antimicrobial sensitivity patterns rather than the resistant strain of Streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes) among children and adult patients. The present study involved Thirty-six of throat swab specimens taken from children and adults' patients with tonsillitis. The results presented that the most …

Serum Tslp Levels And Rs1837253 Gene Polymorphism In Psoriasis Patients: Correlation With Disease Severity, Atheer Falah Kadhim Al-Fatlawi, Hams Hussain Hashim Handool Alfattli

Muthanna Medical Journal

Background: Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disease driven by IL-23/Th17 axis. TSLP, an epithelial-derived alarmin cytokine, has emerged as an upstream regulator of psoriasis, TSLP rs1837253 has been proposed as a functional variant influencing TSLP secretion, although its role in psoriasis remains insufficiently characterized. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate serum TSLP levels in relation to disease severity (PASI) and to determine the genotypic and allelic distribution of the TSLP rs1837253 polymorphism in psoriasis patients compared with controls. Methods: Sixty patients with psoriasis and 60 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were recruited. Serum TSLP was quantified by ELISA, and …

Integrating Mrcp Into Preoperative Difficulty Scoring To Predict Challenging Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Prospective Iraqi Cohort Study, Raad Fadhel Al-Rubaey

Muthanna Medical Journal

Background: The identification of the difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is important for operative planning, patient counselling, and minimizing intra-operative complications. Abdominal ultrasonography is a routine part of the preoperative evaluation, but may not identify biliary anatomic variations or undetected ductal disease. When used as part of a structured preoperative scoring system, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) may prove to be more helpful in predicting the outcome.
Objective: To determine if the addition of MRCP findings to a modified preoperative score for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) will improve prediction of the difficulty of the procedure.
Methods: In this prospective observational study, 86 patients …

Representations Of The Asian Other In Contemporary Saudi Fiction: The Self–Other Dialectic, Adel Musaylih Salhan Almuthaybiri

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

This study explores how contemporary Saudi fiction represents the Asian Other، using a descriptive-analytical approach informed by image studies، cultural criticism، and postcolonial theory. While modern Arab literary criticism often focuses on the Western Other، the Asian Other remains understudied despite its significant presence in Saudi society. The analysis examines seven novels by authors from various generations and backgrounds. It finds that the depiction of the Asian Other is multidimensional، constructed across three interconnected levels: its geographic context، its role within the social space of the self، and its function in narrative discourse. The findings indicate that the image of …

Methodology Of Sibṭ Ibn Al-ʻAjamī Alābn (Died 1479) In His Book: Kunūz Al-Dhahab Fī Tārīkhḥalab, Sami Ghazi Al-Anzi

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

The research examines the methodology of Sibṭ Ibn al-ʿAjami (the son), who died in 884 AH, as well as his critical approach and the way he structured his book Kunūz al-Dhahab fī Tārīkh Ḥalab (Treasures of Gold in the History of Aleppo). The study primarily aims to analyze his methodology, explore his approach, and examine his writing style. It adopts the historical research methods, analyzing the book’s texts and deriving the characteristics of his methodology in compiling it. One of the main findings of the study is that the book is essentially a concise encyclopedia about the city of Aleppo, …

The Danishmend Dynasty And Their Political Relationship With The Crusader Emirates The Emirates Of Edessa And Antioch As A Model (490-552 Ah / 1097-1157 Ad), Ali Mohammed Al-Neghaimshi

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

This research examines the role of the Danishmend family in Anatolia and northern Syria during the period (490–552 AH / 1097–1157 AD), and analyzes the nature of their political relations with the Crusader states, taking the principalities of Edessa and Antioch as a model for study, with the aim of highlighting their political and military positions in light of the transformations that the region witnessed after the First Crusade. The research focuses on the forms of interaction between the two sides, which varied between direct military conflict, temporary alliances, and political truces, according to the balance of power and regional …

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Saudi National Systems And Regulations In Reducing Domestic Violence The Protection From Abuse System And The Child Protection System As Models, Salwa Daud Saad Bindaud

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Protection from Abuse System and the Child Protection System in reducing domestic violence from the perspective of workers in family protection centers. The researcher employed the social survey method as the study’s methodological approach. The study population consisted of all employees working in family protection centers across all regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, totaling (355) individuals. A sample of (215) participants was selected. The questionnaire was used as the primary data collection instrument.

The study yielded several key findings, including:

1. The level of effectiveness of the Protection from …

Linguistic Collocation And Its Effect On Lexical Cohesion In Surah Saba: A Textual Study, Hamad Bin Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Saif, Ibtisam Bint Abdulaziz Al-Rashidi

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

This research examines one of the means of lexical cohesion: collocation in Surah Saba. It does so through a textual analysis aimed at revealing the function of collocation in achieving cohesion and semantic coherence within the Quranic text. The research comprises an introduction, a preface, three main sections (the first on antonymy, the second on contrast, and the third on the relationship between the part and the whole), and a conclusion summarizing the most important findings. These findings include the conclusion that Surah Saba contains all three means of collocation, and their application contributes to highlighting the cohesion of the …

From Morphological Patterns To Meaning: A Calculus Of Arabic Morphology For Morphologically Aware Machine Translation, Saleh Belhassen, Ahmed Hakami

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

The computational processing of Arabic morphology presents a substantial challenge due to its intricate, non-concatenative root-and-pattern structure, which often leads to semantic ambiguity in translation. This paper introduces the Pattern Matrix Calculus (PMC), a mathematical and algorithmic framework that formalizes Arabic derivational morphology as an algebra of computable functions. Word formation is conceptualized as W = V(P(R)) — meaning that a word (W) is generated by applying a morphological pattern (P) to a consonantal root (R) and then adding vocalization (V). Derivational patterns are encoded as matrices, enabling operations such as comparison, composition, and direct inference of morphological meaning (i.e., …

Emotional Rescue: Junior Women Academic’ Experiences On Emotional Labor And Academic Identity Work, M. Ikhwan Maulana Haeruddin, Sigal G. Barsade, Annisa Ciptagustia

The Qualitative Report

This study explores the emotional challenges and identity work processes experienced by junior women academics as they navigate the complexities of academia. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews, the research highlights how gender-based power imbalances, workplace culture, and pressure to meet high expectations shape their daily experiences. The rationale for this study is built on the growing body of research that has documented the unique challenges and barriers faced by women faculty, particularly at the early stages of their academic careers. Studies have consistently highlighted the emotional toll of managing professional identities, negotiating gendered expectations, and contending with systemic biases and exclusion …

Constructing An Inferior Identity: Special Educational Needs Students Under Inclusive Education In Hong Kong, Jesse W. C. Yip, Anna H. N. Ng

The Qualitative Report

Inclusive education has been in place for approximately three decades in Hong Kong, and previous research has predominantly focused on examining its effectiveness from the perspectives of teachers, policy makers, and healthcare professionals. However, there has been limited investigation into the personal experiences of students with special educational needs (SEN) who are integrated into mainstream schools. This study employing narrative inquiry explores the identity formation of eight SEN students throughout their 20-year learning journey within Hong Kong’s inclusive education system. The results revealed that the participants developed an identity of inferiority, which encompassed three key themes: experiencing school bullying, feeling …

Interpretative Repertoires Of Resilience Among Beginning Teachers In Chile, Paula Villalobos-Vergara, Diego Palacios, Joel Alvarez Ruf, Rodrigo Vergara Ortuzar

The Qualitative Report

In this study, we analyze how beginning teachers in Chile construct meanings around resilience during their first year of professional induction, within a context of intensified teachers’ work and limited institutional support. Drawing on a socioecological perspective and Critical Discursive Psychology, we developed a qualitative design focused on interpretative repertoires. Ten beginning teachers from various subject areas, educational levels, and regions participated, with each being interviewed at two time points, six months apart. Through an abductive analysis, we identified three affective–discursive repertoires. The first construct enters the profession as a generational tension, in which innovation is associated with youth, while, …

Calm, Connection, Or Just Compensation: A Qualitative Investigation Of Subjective Adolescent Experiences With Behavioral Health Interventions Within A Clinical Trial, Talia Thompson, Katherine Thompson, Sarah Perzow, Holly Spinner, Bentley Porterfield-Finn, Lauren D. Gulley, Rachel G. Lucas-Thompson, Isabel Thorstad, Laura Pyle, Molly Basch, Megan J. Moran, Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, Megan M. Kelsey, Eleanor R. Mackey, Lauren B. Shomaker

The Qualitative Report

Adolescent mental health and cardiometabolic concerns are at an all-time high, necessitating the development of acceptable, feasible, and effective interventions. Investigations of behavioral health interventions with teenagers must incorporate a means of understanding how adolescents perceive and engage with an intervention, and the relevance and meaning they ascribe to its therapeutic goals, as these potentially modifiable factors may ultimately influence future uptake, sustainability, and effectiveness of the interventions. Qualitative research methods provide well-established, rigorous frameworks for addressing these questions, but are underutilized in pediatric research. This qualitative study is part of a multisite, pilot, and feasibility randomized controlled trial of …

Asking Questions Of The Data: Operationalizing The Disruptive Aims Of Poststructural Discourse Analysis, Maxxine Rattner

The Qualitative Report

I wrote this paper to support qualitative researchers in accessibly engaging with poststructural discourse analysis. In it, I detail how I flexibly adapted this methodology to meet my study’s aims. I begin by outlining poststructural understandings of discourse and explaining why a researcher may choose a poststructural discourse analysis for a study’s theoretical and methodological framework. While published poststructural discourse analyses commonly draw upon Foucauldian concepts to guide analysis, in this paper I share a more expansive approach. I demonstrate how developing and asking questions of the data can be one way to analyze diverse texts for the presence of …

Dynamic Graph Mamba Model For Crime Count Forecasting Based On Adaptive Geographic Fusion, Wadhah R. Baiee

Journal of Intelligent Informatics, Networking, and Cybersecurity

Daily crime counts are hard to predict due to variations in the patterns of crime across neighborhoods and over time, as well as that the patterns vary by offence type. Areas with a shared border can give different information for forecasts than areas with similar crime histories. This study investigates if the joint use of these two relationships would give better prediction than using one or the other, and whether the algorithm can be adapted to the frequent occurrence of zeros and variance greater than the mean. It evaluates the functionality of Dynamic Graph Mamba for Crime Prediction (DG-Mamba-CP), a …

Academic Performance In College Students: The Roles Of Physical Activity, Perceived Academic Control, And Bmi, Erin Vanderbunt, Jenna Woolley

Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology

Volume 7: Issue 1, Article 3, 2026.  Background: Health behaviors and motivational factors are increasingly recognized as contributors to academic performance in college students. Physical activity (PA), perceived academic control (PAC), and body mass index (BMI) have each been linked to academic outcomes, yet their combined effects remain understudied. Purpose: To examine the relationships between PA, PAC, BMI, and academic performance in undergraduate students. Methods: A total of 299 undergraduates from a regional Midwestern university participated in this study. Students completed a survey assessing demographic variables, physical activity (via IPAQ-SF), PAC, BMI, and self-reported academic performance on a …

Analyzing Accessibility And Efficacy Of One Research Survey Website To Test Readability Of Physical Activity Promotion Material Disseminated Online: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study, Jafra D. Thomas, Anuraj Dhillon, Yi Sheng Wu, Jasmine C. Wong, Regina F. Hockert

Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology

Volume 7: Issue 1, Article 2, 2026.  Accessibility is the effort and ability required to access and navigate environments and participate in activities. Physical activity educational materials disseminated to the public and used within behavior change interventions may be hard to read and navigate, decreasing their accessibility and a study’s validity. This study documented, and addressed, issues that may hinder researchers’ ability to gauge accessibility of their online educational materials using the cloze procedure (a direct readability measure, requires guessing missing words from text passages). A multi-stage, mixed methods pilot study was utilized (August 2022 to May 2023). Phase 1: …

Communication & Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal, Volume 49, Issue 2, 2026

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Volume 49, Issue 2 (2026) of the Communication & Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.

Ctamj Forum On Mshsl Activities: One Act, Tony Hartmann, Allee Nickolauson, Grif Sadow

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

The CTAM Journal seeks to raise up voices from notable interest groups. Occasionally, individuals are asked to share their thoughts on issues that pertain to the target readership of CTAMJ.

For this special forum, three coaches share their voices on Minnesota State High School One Act: Tony Hartmann (Belle Plaine), Allee Nickolauson (Fergus Falls), and Grif Sadow (Stillwater).

Overcoming The Blank Page: In Class Ai Brainstorming For Public Speaking Topics, Jacquelyn K. Seymour

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

This activity introduces students to their speech assignment, allows for a discussion on the ethical uses of AI, and allows for class-wide use of AI to select speech topics (Slade et al., 2025). Ideally, every student will leave class with a topic for their speech to begin the process of research and writing rather than be stuck on selecting a topic.

The Public Speaking Survival Kit: A Personalized And Holistic Approach To Managing Speech Anxiety, Sydney Kamm

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Speech anxiety is a common stressor for students in public speaking classes (McCroskey, 1977) and is a particular worry for Gen Z students (Wahed & Palmer-Wackerly, 2026), yet it is often treated superficially in curricula and textbooks. When instruction centers on generic advice, students are left unequipped to manage anxiety that directly affects performance. Although delivery is graded, many “poor delivery” habits—fidgeting, filler words, lack of eye contact—stem from unmanaged anxiety (Bodie, 2010). This activity addresses that gap through a holistic approach that integrates cognitive, behavioral, and physiological dimensions. Informed by my experience with a neurological condition that causes physical …

"From An Activist Spirit And History": An Examination Of Midwest Professors Who Teach Gender Studies In The Current Political Climate, Mena Faber

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field spanning higher education institutions globally. Yet the experiences of scholars within specific regional contexts remain understudied. This study examines the lived personal and pedagogical experiences of gender studies and gender communication scholars in the Midwest. Using a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore participants’ experiences, perceived pressures, and responses to the current political and academic climate. Interview questions focused on the challenges scholars face as well as the communicative practices they adopt in response to shifting attitudes toward gender studies. This research seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of how scholars …

Welcoming Generation Alpha Through The Lens Of Connectivism: Featuring Ai's Rhetorical Agency, Lin Allen, Shea-Tinn Yeh

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

As students pack for college do they leave space in their carry on for agency—self-empowerment through the strategic use of artificial intelligence?  And in what ways do educators address the need to define and shape their learning experience?  Preparing to welcome the first wave of Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha) by endowing them with agency, this theoretical framework draws upon the eight principles of connectivism. Gen Alpha, digital natives by necessity, demands a new learning archetype incorporating artificial intelligence (AI). However, the contested capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) reveal a disparate, disconnected approach to responding to the ubiquity of GenAI …

Debating Without Format: A Portrait, A Proposal, A Possibility, Stephen M. Llano

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

This essay distinguishes "Debate" — competitive, tournament-driven, and governed by fixed procedural rules — from "debate," rhetoric's older practice of persuading an audience. Drawing on the dual etymology of "format" (to shape, and to arrange data for machine processing) and on Goodhart's law, the essay argues that competitive format has displaced audience assent as debate's real aim, training students to satisfy a judge's rules rather than move real listeners. As an alternative, it proposes a co-curricular model rooted in the university rather than the tournament circuit, treating rules as adaptable paradigms rather than algorithms to execute. Drawing on Perelman and …

Standardized Preprocedure Protocolling Of Stereotactic Breast Biopsies Enables Device-Level Supply Chain Forecasting: A Multisite Quality Improvement Analysis, Megan Kalambo, Mike Everding, Maria Montemayor, Falguni Patel, Mohit Nath

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Background: Breast imaging depends on single-use, vendor-proprietary consumables produced by a concentrated set of manufacturers. During supply shortages in 2026, healthcare organizations faced urgent pressure to shift from reactive to proactive inventory management. Stereotactic breast biopsy needle shortages revealed that traditional forecasting based on procedure volume lacks the granularity needed for device-specific demand. We aimed to enable device-level forecasting through standardized preprocedure protocolling.

Methods: In a retrospective analysis of 1,456 stereotactic biopsies across 4 breast imaging sites (June 2025 to June 2026), compliance with a standardized electronic protocolling tool that captured lesion count and needle size (standard vs. petite) was …

Critical Daily Dose Warning Optimization In An Electronic Health Record At A Tertiary Cancer Center, Mckenzie Erwin, Sadika Eslaminejad, David Perez, Jesni Mathew

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Objectives: Clinical decision support is a form of health information technology utilized by electronic health records (EHRs) to reduce prescribing errors. The challenge of incorporating clinical decision support into medication workflows is balancing alert fatigue with clinical appropriateness. At our 777-bed tertiary cancer center, one form of interruptive clinical decision support is critical dose warnings that appear when the ordered dose deviates by a defined threshold from the maximum dose. Our tertiary cancer center relies on a third-party data vendor to provide maximum dose limits that are integrated into the EHR medication ordering process. At the time of project initiation, …

Actualizing Leaders To Inspire A Group Network (Align): Feasibility And Pilot Of Implementing A Commensality Group Program For Leaders In A Pediatric Healthcare Setting, Thomas B. Ayres, Kristin Ray, Angela Myers

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Background: Leadership behaviors in pediatric health care settings are strongly linked to leader burnout, professional fulfillment, and self-care in addition to influencing their teams. Despite their pivotal role, leaders often face substantial emotional burdens associated with their roles. Commensality groups, defined as small, recurring gatherings centered around shared meals and structured discussions, have emerged as a promising approach to enhancing connection, community, and resilience among health care professionals. A gap in the literature regarding commensality groups is understanding the mechanism of this well-being intervention. Our hypothesis is that commensality groups act as resource caravans and provide psychosocial resources to health …

An Analysis Of The Increasingly Popular Evidentiary Objection That "The Opposing Expert Has 'Cherry-Picked' The Information Supporting Their Opinion"—An Objection That Is At Once Colorful And Dangerous, Edward J. Imwinkelried

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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Combatting Cyber Warfare, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

This paper offers a regulatory behavior for news services that leverages Reinsurance providers as a means to giving news an equivalent metric to Moody's and Standard & Poors methods of measuring debt risk in corporations. Whilst not a all encompassing metric it provides service users with a knowledge of the trustworthiness of their preferred news source.

Trading Deaths For Suffering In Ai Systems, James Miller, David Veldran, Jonathan Leighton, Roman V. Yampolskiy

Economics: Faculty Publications

Optimizing an AI system against objectives that include both deaths and suffering can create a tradeoff between the two harms. When deaths are more readily recorded and audited than suffering, optimization pressure can concentrate on mortality and displace harm toward suffering, which is continuous, private, and hard to measure. Recorded deaths can fall while unmeasured suffering rises through non-lethal control, restriction, and deprivation. We trace six mechanisms that can produce this substitution and argue that manipulation-resistant suffering metrics, backed by enforcement as rigorous as that applied to mortality metrics, would reduce this form of harm displacement.