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Modality Of Scholars’ Books Have Been Sold After Their Death From The Third Century To The Ninth Century Ah: Historical-Analytical Study, Hana Kadham Khalefaa

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The idea of ​​the research revolves around the fate of the books of scholars that were sold exclusively after their death, and the fate they experienced and their contribution to enriching scientific life in one way or another, Of course, this is a refuge and sympathy for its owners who had no desire to sell it after their death, and perhaps they wanted to reward one of them by keeping his library so that the student of knowledge would benefit from it without resorting to selling it, Because many of those who sold books caused their owners to waste their …

Manifestations Of The Question In Al-Baradouni's Poetry, Amin Saleh Ahmed Al-Olayani

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research aims to read the structure of the question in Al-Baradouni's poetry, because the question constitutes a major phenomenon that appears in objective and artistic forms and formations contained in poetry, which in itself constitutes a great question looking at the interpretation of the world, and standing on the secrets of life, homeland, history and the universe in all its details. The research concluded with the following results: The question in Al-Baradouni’s poetry is an objective phenomenon through which the homeland is composed and poetically formed, and reality is exposed with the aim of reforming and purifying it from …

The Level Of Anger And Coexistence With Pressures Of Juvenile Delinquents In Northern Jordan In The Light Of Some Variables, Faisal Issa Abdul Qader Al-Nawasrh

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study aimed to reveal the level of anger and coexistence with pressures among juvenile delinquents in northern Jordan and its relationship to some demographic variables depending on the educational level variable, the level of family relations variable, the economic level of the family and the educational level of the family (father, mother). To achieve the study objectives, the researcher used the anger test and coexistence with pressures. The validity and reliability of the test are acceptable. The sample was formed of (77) juvenile delinquents. The arithmetic means, standard deviation, T.Test were analyzed. The results showed that the level of …

Emotional Infection Of Social Media Users In The Light Of The Corona Pandemic And Its Relationship To Psychological Disability, Amani Ahmad Eskandarani, Falak Hasn

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research aimed to identifying the nature of the relationship between Emotional Contagion of social media users & psychological helplessness , and determine the gender, age,& educational level differences in Emotional Contagion of social media users and psychological helplessness, The sample consisted of (500) male and female in Damascus city, It has been used in this research Emotional Contagion Scale (Doherty), and Psychological helplessness Scale, (Duha Mahmoud), the results showed that There were positive significant relationships between the Emotional Contagion of social media users and psychological helplessness, and there were differences according to the gender in each of Emotional Contagion …

Excerpts From The Prophet's (Pbuh) Remarks On Abu Talib Bin Abdulmutallab, Hossein Mohtadi, Dalal Abbas

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Abutaleb is the first poet whose language has been elaborated by the Prophet (pbuh) before and after the Ba'ath. What is written in the eulogy of the Prophet (PBUH) is divided into two categories: 1- Poems in the eulogy of the Prophet (PBUH) before the Beatitudes; The most important question of the research is what topics and subjects did Abu Talib use before and after the Prophet's (PBUH) prayers? By examining Abu al-Talib's court, we can conclude that the poet had a paternalistic view of the Prophet (PBUH) before the Prophet (PBUH). Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has advocated as a Prophet, …

Love In Narrations In Terms Of Semiotics, Zahra Moazami, Soraya Ghotbi, Farideh Davoudy Moghadam

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The Imams' words include epistemological and ontological foundations to examine various perspectives, including sign-semantics. Sign-semantics is one of the contemporary theories in the interpretation and explanation of thought systems and linguistic features. It is also a scientific tool for analyzing discourse systems that study the meaning formation and production mechanisms in texts. One of these trends is Pierce semiotics, which has extensive dimensions in the analysis of linguistic signs. The present study aimed to analyze the sign-semantic of love in the hadiths based on Pierce's semiotic approach. First, we explored some narrations concerning "love" from the perspective of substitution, companionship, …

Expressions Of Conscience In The Poetry Of Yahya Al-Samawi Diwan Of A Few, Not Many, Extinguish Me With Your Fire, A River With Three Banks, A Model, Firas Khudair Abbas, Yahya Maarouf, Ali Ezz El-Din Al-Khatib, Jahangir Amiri

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Sentimentalist poetry is undoubtedly a landmark in the course of early and modern Arab poetry, as poetry and emotion are strongly connected in the very structure of human beings. When poets composing a poem, regardless of intentions or purposes, such poem must echo those heart-touching, internal feelings. Al-Samawi has been one of those sentimentalist poets whose emotions have dominated poetic structure or whose words have dominated their emotions. The poems made, therefore, have proved to be purely emotional and sentimentalist. This paper investigates sentimentalism in Al-Samawi's poems as to language, mainly the lexicographic structure. The paper, therefore, surveys sentimentalist words …

Teachers’ And Learners’ Attitudes Towards The Place Of The Speaking Skill In The Efl Curriculum, Ahmed Hamid Abdulrazzaq

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The teaching of the speaking skill is given very little weight in the EFL curriculum at many educational institutions due to decision makers' conviction that listening and speaking are not as important as the "academic" skills of reading, writing, and grammar. The present study investigates the attitudes of students and English teachers toward the importance of teaching the speaking skill within the EFL curriculum. Forty-two students and ten English teachers participated in the study, which was designed on a survey basis using an open-ended questionnaire. Analysis of the data revealed participants' appreciation of the role that this skill plays in …

Use Of The Theory Of Conceptual Metaphor In Two Sonnets By Victorian Female Poets, Baidaa Abbas Ghubin

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This paper has applied the theoretical framework of conceptual metaphor theory to the analysis of the source and target domains of metaphors that are used in two English nineteenth century sonnets, both written by contemporaneous female poets. The quantitative and qualitative results of the textual analysis have clearly revealed that Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 23 centres around the conceptual mapping of the journey of love and life with that of possession. In contrast, Christina Rossetti’s sonnet Remember tackles the central conceptual mapping of death as a journey in relation to its further experiential connections. In addition, the application of conceptual …

Tender Is The Night And Scott Fitzgerald’S Artistic Creativity, Narges Bayat, Ali Taghizadeh

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Scott Fitzgerald’s perspective on the film industry is very complicated. His interest in the visual discourse of the cinema can be regarded as an aesthetic yearning for a meaningful and deliberate discourse that would highlight the importance of visual and spatial descriptions over linguistic ones. This research paper aims to provide some new insight into Tender Is the Night (1934). The argument of this article is based on the fact that Fitzgerald’s familiarity with the cinematic sphere did not guarantee him artistic success. Nevertheless, he used the cinematic strategies of visual description to add meaning and imagination to his fiction …

The Importance Of The Indo-Pacific Region In The Geopolitical Perceptions Of Regional And International Actors: The Chinese-Japanese Competition As A Model., Omar Osamah Al-Jumaili, Fadi Khalil

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study seeks to shed light on the reasons that led the academic community and most regional and international actors to adopt the “Indo-Pacific region” term in their declared geopolitical perceptions as a broader geostrategic space instead of the previous term “Asia-Pacific”. The new geographical space represents a regional and international polarization region that extends from the western coasts of the United States to the Indian Ocean region. This study also provides an example of the geostrategic importance posed by the Indo-Pacific region within the geopolitical perceptions of regional and international actors, by reviewing the dynamics of strategic competition between …

Quranic Symbol And Its Impact On Abbasy's Poetry, Mehdi Abedi Jezzini

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Quran and its contents are the main sources for poets to derive their pictures and subjects. The writer aims at analysis Quranic symbols & their appearance in Abbasy's poets, to conclude a kind of literary – analytic from the level of these symbols in Abbasy poetry. The main results of this research that is written according to analytic-descriptive method, reveal that most of these symbols been derived from Quran, don't overstep comparative aspects, because they have been plunged into poem and aren't resulting from poet experience, therefore they are insignificant from artistic point, but they have their historical & religious …

Negation In English, Arabic And Kurdish: A Contrastive Study, Nafal Salih Islam, Ajwad T.

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The present study focuses on the points of similarities and differences found in English, Arabic and Kurdish languages in terms of negation. The three languages belong to different families and they all exist in the researchers own country (Iraq). Arabic is spoken natively in the middle, the western and the southern parts. Kurdish is spoken natively in the northern part called Kurdistan Region. English is a foreign language in all parts of Iraq. All the three languages under study are taught as school subjects all over Iraq in general and higher education. Negation is dealt with in the three languages …

Safety Of Nivolumab Added To Chemoradiation Therapy Platforms For Intermediate And High-Risk Locoregionally Advanced Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Rtog Foundation 3504, Maura L Gillison, Robert L Ferris, Jonathan Harris, A Dimitrios Colevas, Loren K Mell, Christina Kong, Richard C Jordan, Kevin L Moore, Minh-Tam Truong, Claudia Kirsch, Arnab Chakravarti, Dukagjin M Blakaj, David A Clump, James P Ohr, John F Deeken, Michael F Gensheimer, Nabil F Saba, Jennifer A Dorth, David I Rosenthal, Rom S Leidner, Randall J Kimple, Mitchell Machtay, Walter J Curran, Pedro Torres-Saavedra, Quynh Thu Le

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

PURPOSE: Programmed death-1 immune checkpoint blockade improves survival of patients with recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), but the benefits of addition to (chemo)radiation for newly diagnosed patients with HNSCC remain unknown.

METHODS AND MATERIALS: We evaluated the safety of nivolumab concomitant with 70 Gy intensity modulated radiation therapy and weekly cisplatin (arm 1), every 3-week cisplatin (arm 2), cetuximab (arm 3), or alone for platinum-ineligible patients (arm 4) in newly diagnosed intermediate- or high-risk locoregionally advanced HNSCC. Patients received nivolumab from 2 weeks prior to radiation therapy until 3 months post-radiation therapy. The primary endpoint was dose-limiting …

The Alpha7 Integrin Subunit In Astrocytes Promotes Endothelial Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity, Zhihua Chen, Jack R Kelly, John E Morales, Raymond C Sun, Arpan De, Dean J Burkin, Joseph H Mccarty

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a vascular endothelial cell boundary that partitions the circulation from the central nervous system to promote normal brain health. We have a limited understanding of how the BBB is formed during development and maintained in adulthood. We used quantitative transcriptional profiling to investigate whether specific adhesion molecules are involved in BBB functions, with an emphasis on understanding how astrocytes interact with endothelial cells. Our results reveal a striking enrichment of multiple genes encoding laminin subunits as well as the laminin receptor gene Itga7, which encodes the alpha7 integrin subunit, in astrocytes. Genetic ablation of Itga7 …

Sequential Targeting Of Retinoblastoma And Dna Synthesis Pathways Is A Therapeutic Strategy For Sarcomas That Can Be Monitored In Real Time, Tuyen Duong Thanh Nguyen, Yan Wang, Tuyen N Bui, Rossana Lazcano, Davis R Ingram, Min Yi, Varshini Vakulabharanam, Linjie Luo, Marc A Pina, Cansu Karakas, Mi Li, Nicole M Kettner, Neeta Somaiah, Peter J Hougton, Osama Mawlawi, Alexander J Lazar, Kelly K Hunt, Khandan Keyomarsi

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Treatment strategies with a strong scientific rationale based on specific biomarkers are needed to improve outcomes in patients with advanced sarcomas. Suppression of cell cycle progression through reactivation of the tumor suppressor retinoblastoma (Rb) using CDK4/6 inhibitors is a potential avenue for novel targeted therapies in sarcomas that harbor intact Rb signaling. Here, we evaluated combination treatment strategies (sequential and concomitant) with the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemacicib to identify optimal combination strategies. Expression of Rb was examined in 1043 sarcoma tumor specimens, and 50% were found to be Rb-positive. Using in vitro and in vivo models, an effective 2-step sequential combination …

Etnk1 Mutation Occurs In A Wide Spectrum Of Myeloid Neoplasms And Is Not Specific For Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Wen Shuai, Zhuang Zuo, Nianyi Li, Sofia Garces, Fatima Zahra Jelloul, Chi Young Ok, Shaoying Li, Jie Xu, M James You, Wei Wang, Catherine Rehder, Elias J Jabbour, Keyur P Patel, L Jeffrey Medeiros, C Cameron Yin

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: ETNK1 mutation has been suggested as a useful tool to support the diagnosis of atypical chronic myeloid leukemia. ETNK1 mutations, however, occur in other myeloid neoplasms.

Methods: The authors assessed the clinicopathologic and molecular genetic features of 80 ETNK1-mutated myeloid neoplasms.

Results: Thirty-seven neoplasms (46%) were classified as myelodysplastic syndrome, 17 (21%) were classified as myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm, 14 (18%) were classified as acute myeloid leukemia, and 12 (15%) were classified as myeloproliferative neoplasm. ETNK1 mutations were detected at the first test in 96% of patients, suggesting that ETNK1 mutation is an early event in pathogenesis. ETNK1 mutations represented the …

Kdm6a Loss Triggers An Epigenetic Switch That Disrupts Urothelial Differentiation And Drives Cell Proliferation In Bladder Cancer, Hong Qiu, Vladimir Makarov, Jennifer K Bolzenius, Angela Halstead, Yvonne Parker, Allen Wang, Gopakumar V Iyer, Hannah Wise, Daniel Kim, Varna Thayaparan, Daniel J Lindner, Georges-Pascal Haber, Angela H Ting, Bing Ren, Timothy A Chan, Vivek Arora, David B Solit, Byron H Lee

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Disruption of KDM6A, a histone lysine demethylase, is one of the most common somatic alternations in bladder cancer. Insights into how KDM6A mutations affect the epigenetic landscape to promote carcinogenesis could help reveal potential new treatment approaches. Here, we demonstrated that KDM6A loss triggers an epigenetic switch that disrupts urothelial differentiation and induces a neoplastic state characterized by increased cell proliferation. In bladder cancer cells with intact KDM6A, FOXA1 interacted with KDM6A to activate genes instructing urothelial differentiation. KDM6A-deficient cells displayed simultaneous loss of FOXA1 target binding and genome-wide redistribution of the bZIP transcription factor ATF3, which in turn repressed …

Sequential Targeting Of Retinoblastoma And Dna Synthesis Pathways Is A Therapeutic Strategy For Sarcomas That Can Be Monitored In Real Time, Tuyen Duong Thanh Nguyen, Yan Wang, Tuyen N Bui, Rossana Lazcano, Davis R Ingram, Min Yi, Varshini Vakulabharanam, Linjie Luo, Marc A Pina, Cansu Karakas, Mi Li, Nicole M Kettner, Neeta Somaiah, Peter J Hougton, Osama Mawlawi, Alexander J Lazar, Kelly K Hunt, Khandan Keyomarsi

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Treatment strategies with a strong scientific rationale based on specific biomarkers are needed to improve outcomes in patients with advanced sarcomas. Suppression of cell-cycle progression through reactivation of the tumor suppressor retinoblastoma (Rb) using CDK4/6 inhibitors is a potential avenue for novel targeted therapies in sarcomas that harbor intact Rb signaling. Here, we evaluated combination treatment strategies (sequential and concomitant) with the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemacicib to identify optimal combination strategies. Expression of Rb was examined in 1,043 sarcoma tumor specimens, and 50% were found to be Rb-positive. Using in vitro and in vivo models, an effective two-step sequential combination strategy …

Epidemic Highs And Lows: A Stochastic Diffusion Model For Active Cases, Luis F. Gordillo, Priscilla E. Greenwood, Dana Strong

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

We derive a stochastic epidemic model for the evolving density of infective individuals in a large population. Data shows main features of a typical epidemic consist of low periods interspersed without breaks of various intensities and duration. In our stochastic differential model, a novel reproductive term combines a factor expressing the recent notion of ‘attenuated Allee effect’ and a capacity factor is controlling the size of the process. Simulation of this model produces sample paths of the stochastic density of infectives, which behave much like long-time Covid-19 case data of recent years. Writing the process as a stochastic diffusion allows …

The Bg News March 15, 2023, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 15, 2023. Volume 102-Issue 21.

A Literature Review Examining Broadening Participation In Upper Elementary Cs Education, Umar Shehzad, Mimi Recker, Jody Clarke-Midura

Publications

Despite proliferated efforts to integrate computer science in elementary education, there is a dearth of studies that synthesize the current state of CS education research in formal educational contexts, specifically in upper elementary classrooms. Further, while numerous studies have investigated approaches and strategies that broaden participation in computing, the majority of them focus on secondary and post-secondary settings. The present study uses a systematic literature review process to review research conducted with students in formal classroom settings in grades 4, 5, and 6 and published since 2013. We review the research through two questions: What are barriers to broadening participation …

Credit Suisse Reels After Top Shareholder Rules Out Raising Stake, Yousef Gamal El-Din, Marion Halftermeyer

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Differences In Toxicity And Accumulation Of Metal From Copper Oxide Nanomaterials Compared To Copper Sulphate In Zebrafish Embryos: Delayed Hatching, The Chorion Barrier And Physiological Effects, Spp Pereira, D Boyle, A Nogueira, Rd Handy

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The mechanisms of toxicity of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) to the early life stages of freshwater fish, and the relative hazard compared to dissolved metals, is only partially understood. In the present study, zebrafish embryos were exposed to lethal concentrations of copper sulphate (CuSO4) or copper oxide (CuO) ENMs (primary size ∼15 nm), and then the sub-lethal effects investigated at the LC10 concentrations over 96 h. The 96 h-LC50 (mean ± 95% CI) for CuSO4 was 303 ± 14 µg Cu L−1 compared to 53 ± 9.9 mg L−1 of the whole material for CuO ENMs; with the ENMs being orders …

Plantation Pasts, Plantation Futures: Resisting Zombie Water Infrastructures In Maui, Hawai'i, Kelly Kay, Chris Knudson, Alida Cantor

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

Sugar plantations have fundamentally shaped water use in Maui, Hawai’i for over 100 years, with tremendous resulting impacts on ecosystems and Native Hawaiian communities. In this paper, we build on literature on the plantationocene and the political lives of infrastructure to examine plantation irrigation infrastructure. We center Maui’s vast water conveyance ditch system as a means of understanding how infrastructure continues plantation logics into the present, considering both the physical ditches themselves as well as the laws and politics which support continued water extraction. We also consider infrastructural futures, highlighting ongoing efforts of communities seeking water justice via infrastructural control.

Spectrum, Volume 50, Issue 6, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: The Use of Al in Education -- Train Derailment in Ohio -- Roald Dahl Rewritten -- New Degree to Pursue: School Counseling -- Tired of Dining Hall Food? -- The Pogues Journey Continues -- “Mom, I Don’t Want-War” -- New Era For SHU Baseball -- Women’s Wrestling Competes at Nationals -- A Fellow Pioneer in Need

Transborder Literacies Of (In)Visibility, Sarah Gallo, Melissa Adams Corral

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

Drawing from an ethnography with mixed-status families residing in Mexico, we examine what we term transborder literacies of (in)visibility, or diasporic people's innovative interactions around texts that prepare them to move across incompatible mononational institutions divided by borders. Through close attention to the literacy practices families engaged in as they applied for their children's U.S. passports from Mexico, we demonstrate how these literacies were not just about expanding authentic ways of reading and writing to include both U.S. and Mexican ways, but instead required unique transborder literacies across mutually unintelligible, racializing mononational systems so that children could (re)access their rights …

Choosing Act Or Cbt: A Preliminary Test Of Incorporating Client Preferences For Depression Treatment With College Students, Carter H. Davis, Michael P. Twohig, Michael Levin

Psychology Faculty Publications

Background

Depression is a significant concern among college students, who suffer at higher rates and with greater severity than the general population. Online self-help could reduce the burden currently placed on college counseling centers, and programs based in cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs) have a strong evidence base. However, online CBTs for depression often suffer from low adherence rates. An understudied method for improving adherence in this population is offering students a choice between various CBTs.

Methods

We conducted a randomized trial with 142 students with high levels of depression, with a subset of participants randomly receiving either traditional cognitive behavioral …

Powerful Radio Sources In The Southern Sky. I. Optical Identifications, Francesco Massaro, S. V. White, A. García-Pérez, A. Jimenez-Gallardo, A. Capetti, C. C. Cheung, W. R. Forman, C. Mazzucchelli, A. Paggi, Juan P. Madrid

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

Since the early sixties, our view of radio galaxies and quasars has been drastically shaped by discoveries made thanks to observations of radio sources listed in the Third Cambridge Catalog and its revised version (3CR). However, the largest fraction of data collected to date on 3CR sources was performed with relatively old instruments, rarely repeated and/or updated. Importantly, the 3CR contains only objects located in the Northern Hemisphere, thus having limited access to new and innovative astronomical facilities. To mitigate these limitations, we present a new catalog of powerful radio sources visible from the Southern Hemisphere, extracted from the GLEAM …