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The Reality Of Mobile Learning Use In Public Secondary Schools In The Ramallah And Al-Bireh Governorate From The Viewpoint Of Its Teachers, Hussain Hamayel

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

The study aimed to identify the status quo of mobile learning use in public secondary schools in Ramallah and Al-Bireh from the perspective of its teachers. The researcher employed an analytical descriptive method and designed a four-part questionnaire for this purpose. The arithmetic averages for the four fields were as follows: the students' field had the highest mean (3.98), while the third field, concerning the requirements for using mobile learning, had the lowest mean (3.55). The overall score for the fields was high, with an arithmetic mean of (3.73). The study was conducted on a sample consisting of 100 teachers, …

The Role Of The School Principal In Teachers' Reflective Practice And The Development Of Their Leadership Capacities As Perceived By Secondary School Teachers In Benghazi, Eman Elfaidy, Aref Al-Attari

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to identify the role of secondary school principals in Benghazi, Libya, in the reflective practice of their teachers and the development of teachers' leadership potential in those schools. The study employed a descriptive methodology. A questionnaire consisting of fifty-three items was administered to a sample of 363 teachers, representing 2.5% of the study population in the secondary schools of Benghazi. The findings indicate that principals minimally fulfill their role in the reflective practice of teachers and in the development of their leadership potential. Additionally, the results highlight a significant relationship between reflective practice and the development of …

The New Modifications To The Diagnostic Criteria For Autism Spectrum Disorder In Dsm-5 And Their Impact On The Field Of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Imam Al-Qazzaz

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to highlight the modifications that affected the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fifth Edition (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in May 2013. These modifications impacted many aspects related to the disorder, such as the creation of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a separate category that represents a spectrum of symptoms, replacing the category of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDDs) that included Autistic Disorder and other disorders according to DSM-IV-TR. Additionally, the revisions involved the integration, development, and deletion of certain diagnostic criteria related to …

The Compatibility Between The Two-Parameter Logistic Model And Classical Theory In Constructing An Achievement Test In General Science For 6th Grade Students, Husni Salem, Nidal Al-Shraifin

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to assess the compatibility between the two-parameter logistic model and classical theory in constructing an achievement test in science for sixth grade students. To achieve this purpose, a science achievement test consisting of 50 multiple-choice items was constructed and applied to a sample of 567 sixth graders from eight randomly selected public schools in Jarash. The responses were analyzed using SPSS, BILOG-MG 3, NOHARM, and LDID programs to obtain statistical indicators for both examinees and items. The results indicate that the items of the sixth-grade science test can be classified as either matching or non-matching according to …

Social Support And Its Relationship To Self-Determination Among Students With Disabilities In Jordanian Universities, Ahmad Khazalah

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to highlight the importance of social support and its relationship with self-determination for disabled students in Jordanian universities. The sample consisted of 275 disabled students from various Jordanian universities. To achieve the study’s objectives, the researcher developed two questionnaires: the Social Support Scale and the Self-Determination Tool. A test was conducted to check the validity and reliability of the tools. The results revealed that social support scores were high, while self-determination scores were moderate. No significant differences were found in social support and self-determination based on gender. However, significant differences were observed in social support and self-determination …

Spending In Islam: Nurturing And Education, Sereen Ashour, “Mohammad Adnan” Al-Aishat, Abdullah Hardan, Yousef Saadeh

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

Islam urges its followers to spend on their parents, offspring, and lineage. This paper addresses spending in the way of Islam for its protection (preserving its authenticity), advocacy (Da’wah), and to support its adherents against those who manifest enmity towards it. Thus, spending aims to instill in Muslims the practice of giving for the sake of their faith and to educate them about the principles of this type of spending. Da’wah to Islam has been associated with calls to spend in the way of Allah to seek His satisfaction and pleasure. Even before the establishment of an Islamic state, or …

Turkey And The Exit From The International Monetary Fund Predicament: Stages Of Transition From Dependence To Independence, Bassmah Tom

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

The study aims to identify the reasons for Turkey's borrowing from the International Monetary Fund and its implications for the country's economic reality. It explains how the AKP managed to pull the country out of its economic crisis and achieve a state of prosperity, ultimately enabling Turkey to pay off its entire debt to the International Monetary Fund in 2013. The study is based on a key assumption: "There is a correlation between the ability of the AKP to extract Turkey from the IMF's predicament and to pay off the entire Turkish debt in 2013, and the economic policies implemented …

The Impact Of Board Structure On Earnings Quality In Jordanian Commercial Banks, Nimr Al-Slaihat, Mohammad Shubita, Moataz Al-Zoubi, Mazen Al-Omari

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to examine the impact of the board of directors' structure on earnings quality in Jordanian commercial banks. The study sample consists of all Jordanian commercial banks during the period from 2009 to 2016. The study employed pooled data regression models and reached the following results: there is no statistical impact of board of directors' structure on earnings quality; there is no statistical impact of board size on earnings quality in Jordanian commercial banks; there is no statistical impact of board independence on earnings quality in Jordanian commercial banks; there is a statistical impact of CEO/chairman separation on …

Publication Citations (Calendar Year 2024), Valparaiso University

Valparaiso Scholarship and Creative Works Reception

No abstract provided.

Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching And Community-Engaged Learning: Integrating Community Case Studies To Teach Ethics, Justice, And Grassroots Leadership, Ziwei Qi, Lori E. Kniffin, Sammuel Byer (Rob)

Leadership Faculty Publications

This paper serves as a teaching report examining an interdisciplinary, co-taught course at a rural, regional state university designed to promote ethics, justice, and grassroots leadership through community-engaged learning (CEL). Faculty from criminal justice, philosophy, and leadership studies co-developed and taught the course using Socratic dialogue and reflective journaling to help students analyze community challenges from multiple disciplinary angles. Students also engaged in training on positionality, power dynamics, and cultural humility, incorporating their reflections into final reports to deepen ethical engagement. Regular faculty collaboration aligned teaching strategies across disciplines, while a case study presentation and analysis allowed community partners to …

The Indiana Statesman, August 28, 2025, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

STARS Exhibit: STARS Exhibition in Turman Gallery; Largest freshmen Sycamore class since 2020

Master’S Of Education Self-Study Final Portfolio, Julia Gabrielle Kane

Master of Education in Teacher Leadership Portfolios

No abstract provided.

August 28, 2025, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2020-

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Rethinking Aquaculture Regulation In A Post-Chevron World, Kamaile A. N. Turčan

Fordham Environmental Law Review

After the Supreme Court overruled Chevron deference in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, commentators warned of the detriment to federal agencies resulting from the loss of judicial deference to agencies’ interpretations of the statutes they administer. This Essay takes a different approach and examines how advocates for agency authority can use this shift away from judicial deference to their advantage—by refocusing litigation strategy toward congressional delegations. Statutory interpretation arguments need no longer focus on whether an agency is intruding on the judicial prerogative to interpret the law and can now focus instead on whether a court is intruding on the …

Strategies To Improve Project Portfolio Management In The Pharmaceutical Industry, Emely Nhi Thi Ai Nguyen

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Poor management of pharmaceutical project portfolios can negatively impact a pharmaceutical company’s product development and profitability. Project portfolio managers must ensure the successful development of new products in the pharmaceutical pipeline as the financial investment in new product development is significant and if not managed effectively can negatively impact profitability and prevent launch of new treatment therapies. Grounded in the project portfolio management framework, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry study was to explore successful project portfolio management (PPM) strategies that drug project portfolio managers use to contribute to business success. The participants were six employees that managed portfolios …

Staff Education On Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder, Mukisha Livingston Gunter

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder (POUD) constitutes a significant public health issue with important ramifications for both mothers and their newborns. The gap in practice identified for this Doctor of Nursing Practice staff education project was the perinatal nurses’ lack of knowledge regarding POUD. The problem was the need for POUD education for the nurses. The practice focus questions were: Will there be a change in knowledge by perinatal nurses following the delivery of the education as shown by a pretest/posttest? Will the participants evaluate the education as having met the program objectives related to the curriculum presented? Guided by the …

Social Media Vetting Governance And The Impact On Hiring Capacity, Jimmy Lampkin

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Human resource managers are concerned with weak social media vetting governance, as it is the number one predictor of reduced organizational capacity to hire candidates. Grounded in Lewin’s Situational Strength Theory, the purpose of this quantitative correlational project was to examine the relationship between social media vetting governance and organizational capacity to hire. The participants were 500 human resource leaders and hiring managers from organizations in the southwestern United States who completed the Job-Related Situational Strength Questionnaire and the Decision to Hire Scale. Although a priori power analysis required a minimum of 103 participants to detect a medium effect size, …

2025 August 28 - Academic Council Agenda And Minutes, Academic Council, East Tennessee State University

Academic Council Agenda and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Peggy Clinger, Myrna J. Layton

Faculty Publications

Catherine Peggy Clinger (January 11, 1949 – August 9, 1975) was an American singer, voice actress and composer.

Instructional Leadership Practices To Advance Secondary Student Mathematics Achievement In A British Commonwealth Country, Dawn Agdomar-Jean

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem addressed in this study was that school leaders are challenged in providing instructional leadership to teachers to advance secondary students' mathematics achievement in a British Commonwealth Country (BCC). The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to investigate secondary school leaders’ perceptions of the challenges to providing instructional leadership practices found to be effective to support teachers to advance secondary students' mathematics achievement in a BCC. The conceptual framework for this study was Hallinger and Murphy's model of instructional leadership. A self-designed semistructured interview protocol with open-ended questions was used to interview participants. Purposive sampling was used to …

An Alternate History Of Chevron, With A Lesson For Today, Michael Herz

Fordham Environmental Law Review

It is a banal truism that judicial deference to agency decisionmaking enables the executive branch to pursue its agenda, whatever that agenda may be. That was obvious to all in the early years of the Chevron decision, which was greeted enthusiastically on the right and skeptically on the left. In Chevron itself, and for a while thereafter, deference advanced the Reagan deregulatory program. Over the years, a subtler conclusion gained consensus: overall and in the long haul, judicial deference is likely to have a net pro-regulatory impact. Hence the right’s hardened opposition to Chevron leading up to its demise. But …

Drs. Amy Estlund And Shelly Meyer Receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award For 2025-26, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Modeling, Control, And Learning For Whole-Body Manipulation With Large-Scale Soft Robots, Curtis C. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation addresses the challenge of enabling soft robots to perform contact-rich manipulation tasks by overcoming limitations in hardware, modeling, control, and learning. First, we present hardware advancements with PneuDrive, a pneumatic control system for actuating soft robots. We also introduce Baloo, a hybrid soft-rigid robotic torso which achieves a single-arm payload capacity of 19.3 kg and robust whole-body grasping capabilities. We also develop a full-body tactile sensing system enabling piezoresistive sensor arrays to cover large areas (1 square meter) with over 8000 distributed sensing points. Second, we focus on developing tractable dynamic models based on the Recursive Newton-Euler algorithm …

Gravitational Torques From Lopsided Young Stellar Component Sustain High Black Hole Accretion Rates In Ngc 4593, N. Winkel, K. Jahnke, J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros, T. A. Davis, F. Combes, M. Gaspari, J. Neumann, M. Singha, J. S. Elford, Vardha N. Bennert, M. A. Malkan

Physics

Context. Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow primarily through gas accretion, observed as active galactic nuclei (AGNs). While mergers can drive luminous AGN episodes, secular processes may fuel a substantial portion of cosmic black hole growth. Whether these mechanisms can sustain high black hole accretion rates remains uncertain.

Aims. The aim of this study is to identify the secular mechanism driving high SMBH accretion rates, by targeting a galaxy with a moderately massive SMBH, high central gas densities, accretion rates of a few percent of the Eddington limit, and gas kinematics resolved close to black-hole-dominated scales.

Methods. A blind search led …

Caredx Inc V. Natera Inc

2025 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Evolution Of Industrial Structure And Economic Growth In Hebei Province, China, Jianguang Hou, Danlin Yu, Hao Song

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Over the past several decades, old industrialized regions worldwide have faced immense pressure to adapt to global economic shifts. Using one of China’s major industrial provinces, Hebei, as a representative case study, this study examines how the evolution of one of China’s old industrial provinces, Hebei’s industrial structure has influenced its economic growth from 1990 to 2023. Drawing on theories of structural transformation and endogenous growth, we argue that the reallocation of resources from lower-productivity sectors (e.g., agriculture) to higher-productivity sectors (manufacturing and services) can act as an engine of growth. We employ a shift-share analysis (SSA) to decompose Hebei’s …

Abundance And Demography Of The Wood Turtle (Glyptemys Insculpta) Across Two River Systems In Michigan’S Lower Peninsula, Marianne Kelso

Masters Theses

Turtles worldwide are declining from habitat loss and fragmentation, predation, and illegal collection, and their slow life histories and sensitivity to environmental change make reliable abundance and demographic data critical for conservation. Wood turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) are declining across much of their range, yet baseline information is lacking in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. To fill that gap, we performed standardized visual mark–recapture surveys at 27 one-kilometer river reaches in two distinct watershed systems during springs of 2022 and 2023. Using hierarchical N-mixture models with negative binomial mixtures to account for imperfect detection, we estimated site-level latent abundance and evaluated …

Southtalks Focus On 'Reading The South', Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Center for the Study of Southern Culture focuses its programming for the University of Mississippi's 2025-26 academic year on the idea of "Reading the South." The center's SouthTalks events begin next week and support the theme.

Dna Double-Stranded Breaks, A Hallmark Of Aging, Defined At The Nucleotide Resolution, Are Increased And Associated With Transcription In The Cardiac Myocytes In Lmna-Cardiomyopathy, Benjamin Cathcart, Sirisha M Cheedipudi, Leila Rouhi, Zhongming Zhao, Priyatansh Gurha, Ali J Marian

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Aims: An intrinsic feature of gene transcription is the formation of DNA superhelices near the transcription bubble, which are resolved upon induction of transient double-stranded breaks (DSBs) by topoisomerases. Unrepaired DSBs are pathogenic as they lead to cell cycle arrest, senescence, inflammation, and organ dysfunction. We posit that DSBs would be more prevalent at the genomic sites that are associated with gene expression. The objectives were to identify and characterize genome-wide DSBs at the nucleotide resolution and determine the association of DSBs with transcription in cardiac myocytes.

Methods and results: We identified the genome-wide DSBs in ∼1 million cardiac myocytes …

Timely Resection Of Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma Following Embolization For Uncontrolled Acute Epistaxis Case Report., Koffi L. Lakpa, Timothy Mcculloch, Michael D. Puricelli

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Uncontrolled epistaxis in patients with juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma requires prompt intervention. When embolization is required, neovascularization can occur, making expedited surgical resection essential. We conducted a single-institution, retrospective review of one patient. This case study details the patient's clinical presentation and his preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative course. We present the management of a 14-year-old male with a juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, who 3 days after initial evaluation at our institution, developed uncontrolled epistaxis requiring embolization at an outside hospital before transfer back to our institution for further management. He initially presented to an outside emergency department with acute epistaxis refractory to …