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Self-Efficacy In The Arabic Language Among Intermediate School Students And Its Relationship To The Attitudes Towards Its Learning, Mahmood Halal Abdulalbst Abdulalqader

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The objective of the current research is to reveal the level of self-efficacy and its relationship with the trend towards learning Arabic language among the third grade students. Then, the selection of the research sample from the third grade students in the city of Abha, Saudi Arabia, and then apply the study tools to the research sample, and then statistical analysis and interpretation of the results and provide recommendations and proposals. Level of trend towards learning Arabic, and there is a relationship between the level of self-efficacy and the trend towards learning Arabic.

The Effect Of The Difference In The Response Model Of The Item (1pl, 2pl, 3pl) On The Differential Item Functioning, Hiba Abdullateef Dodouh

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study aimed to examine the effect of choosing the item response model (One- Parameter, Two-Parameters, Three-Parameters) in revealing the Differential Item Functioning and comparison percentage of item with Differential Item Functioning and knowing the significance of the differences in the value of the Differential Item Functioning and its mean. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher relied on the results of the master’s enrollment test held at the Higher Institute of Languages at the University of Aleppo, which consisted of (60) items of the objective type, dual response (0 or 1), and their response to (1000) applicants …

Standard Characteristics Of The Technical Thinking Test For Vocational Education Students By Using The Three-Parameter Logistic Model, Zshyan Yahya Bilal

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current research aims to extract the standard characteristics of the technical thinking test for vocational education students using the three-parameter model. To achieve this goal, the researcher followed the scientific steps starting with adopting the (Hassan 2021) scale prepared for university students. It was presented to arbitrators in educational and psychological sciences, to ensure the availability of appropriate characteristics for it and its alternatives in terms of form and content, and the researcher took their opinions, and all test items were considered valid. Logically measure what you set out to measure. In order to ensure the clarity of the …

Ferdinand De Susseur: The Known That Is Not Known About, Asmaa Hassan Shalash

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The studies that dealt with Su Sir’s thought and its truth were equal to the studies that dealt with his theory of language, in their abundance. Indeed, many of them were found to deal with Su Sir’s thought and theory under one research, and yet this linguist is still a subject of curiosity and suspicion by scholars; because he did not publish what he wrote, nor did he write what was published about him. Therefore, this research deems that Su Sir did not intend to put the concepts of the language that he studied in contrasting binaries, and perhaps this …

Irrational Thoughts And Their Relationship To Moral Behavior For Teenage Students In Secondary School, Yousra Mousa Jafer

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current research aimed to identify irrational thoughts and its relationship to moral behavior among adolescent students. A male and female student from secondary schools/fourth preparatory grade, and psychometric characteristics were extracted, the results of the research found that the research sample of adolescent students suffers from a moderate rate of irrational thoughts and a large degree of moral behavior, and there is a direct relationship between irrational thoughts and moral behavior.Irrationality in educational institutions and dissemination of awareness programs within educational institutions.

Manifestations Of Reification In The Iraq Novel: The Novel Of The Virgin Of Sinjar As A Model, Doaa Adel Abd Al-Kareem

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Reification is a serious human problem that has touched the doors of our modem age, after its roots that were planted in the past were nourished on the remnants of ancient inhuman practices up to the prehistoric era of slavery, self-monopolization, and crushing human values, modem narrative studies, like other sciences, have discussed these phenomena, including the narration of the virgin of sinjar which talked about the objectification of woman and their transformation from a being enjoying human rights into a tool and a tool that benefits from them for the purposes of displaying morals, religion and human rights in …

The Stylistics Of The Rhythmic Formation In The Lamentation Poem In The Poetry Of Rushdi The Al-Amel, Samira Khadem Abbas

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research deals with the method of rhythmic formation in the poem of lamentation for one of the contemporary Iraqi poets, as he subjected that Stylistics through the study of the internal rhythm and the external rhythm, and since the poetry of (Rushdi Al-Amel) is more general than it is an activation poetry, so the rhythmic structure varies in it, and this leads to the contrast of the rhythmic stylistic visions. From here it can be said: The studies that dealt with Rushdie’s working poetry, especially the poems of lamentation, did not give the poet his right in terms of …

The Poem (We Drank On The Remembrance Of The Beloved Madamah) By Ibn Al-Farid: A Reading In Preparation: In The Light Of The Criteria Of Coherence And Textual Harmony, Salah Rahi Ibrahim Hamza

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research studies the two standards of textual consistency and harmony by standing on the two elements (casting and knitting) between the word and the meaning on which the Sufi poet’s speech is based as it parallels the literary discourse. Several readings, including the aspect of language that has not been studied in all its parts and manifestations. This research came to shed light on this aspect and shows the words and meanings that are formed with the set of seven criteria that occupied the rhetorical and critical lesson, ancient and modern, although there is no place for agreement in …

The Concept Of Patience In The Holy Qurán (An Objective Study), Yasmeen Thiban Abass

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Patience is the characteristic of the righteous who desire the pleasure of God Almighty and win the gardens of bliss. God, the prophets, the imams, and the scholars all urged it, and He, the Most High, said: And be patient over what befalls you. Winning the pleasure of God Almighty, His forgiveness, and His gardens. As for the world, patience is the key to relief, and we have drawn the curriculum in the light of scientific research. The study of patience among the prophets and guardians, as they took it as a means to face adversity and obey God's commands. …

Ways Of Assessing Students' Progress In School Learning By Language Teachers During The Lockdown And Remote Learning In Poland, Małgorzata Przybysz-Zaremba Puz, Krzysztof Polok

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The aim of the study was to check how language teachers employed in Polish schools assessed students' progress in learning during the period of remote learning. This study used the original questionnaire, which consisted of 15 questions regarding the implementation of a specific research goal. 110 language teachers employed in state primary, secondary and vocational schools located in the central and northern part of Poland participated in the study. In assessing students' progress in school learning during the remote learning period, language teachers most often used: homework assigned to students; various types of oral and written assignments (essays, tests, oral …

Extroversion - Introversion Traits And Their Influence On The Humanistic Culture In Edward Albee’S The Zoo Story, Inam Hashim Hadi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The social, political, and cultural scene of post-world war II America witnessed considerable changes where lack of communication, meaninglessness, solitude, class distinction, and other related issues prevailed, stripping man of his humanity. In the mid-twentieth century, dramatists including Edward Albee, among other writers, tried to revive a new vitalized social ideology to transform the current mode of human's thought whose effect exceeded the limits leading man to segregate himself from others. Albee was resentful of the cultural orientation during his time and he criticized the contemporary social standards in his attempt to sublimate human's life experiences partly as a self-healing …

The Translatability Of Qur’Anic Allusions In Darwish’S Poetry: A Comparative Transtextual Approach, Belqes Saif Abdulelah Al-Sowaidi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study investigates the translation of the Qur’anic allusions in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and how transtextuality has shaped his literary work. This study’s analysis of the translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, ʾanā Yūsuf yā ʾabī incorporated Ritva Leppihalme’s (1994) classification of references as well as Julia Kristeva’s (1980) and Gérard Genette’s (1992) transtextuality models to construct a translation transtextual- based model. It is mainly qualitative in nature, which allows the translation to be analyzed based on an eclectic approach. This study concludes that the literal translation of the poem captures only the surface meaning of the …

The Using Vark In Teaching Idioms To Iraqi Efl Students, Tamara Adil Mekki

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The major goal of this research is to determine the impact of using the Vark learning style to teach idioms to Iraqi EFL university students. To fulfill the study's goal, the Vark learning style tactics and features were presented as a style for teaching Iraqi EFL idioms, with the goal of determining if there is a statically significant difference in the experimental group's achievement and the control group's achievement in the posttest. In fact, there is a large disparity in the degrees of recognition and productivity. The study's sample consists of 35 EFL Iraqi students in their 3^rd year …

A Unique Case Of Post-Biopsy Bleeding In A Jehovah's Witness With A Rare Inherited Undetermined Coagulopathy, Bailey A. Balinski, William R. Kilgore 3rd

Student Publications

No abstract provided.

Evolutionarily Conserved Regulators Of Tau Identify Targets For New Therapies, Jiyoen Kim, Maria De Haro, Ismael Al-Ramahi, Lorena Laura Garaicoechea, Hyun-Hwan Jeong, Jun Young Sonn, Bakhos Tadros, Zhandong Liu, Juan Botas, Huda Yahya Zoghbi

Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications

Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases that involve the pathological accumulation of tau proteins; in this family are Alzheimer disease, corticobasal degeneration, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, among others. Hypothesizing that reducing this accumulation could mitigate pathogenesis, we performed a cross-species genetic screen targeting 6,600 potentially druggable genes in human cells and Drosophila. We found and validated 83 hits in cells and further validated 11 hits in the mouse brain. Three of these hits (USP7, RNF130, and RNF149) converge on the C terminus of Hsc70-interacting protein (CHIP) to regulate tau levels, highlighting the role of CHIP in maintaining tau proteostasis in the brain. …

The Mechanics Of Share Repurchases Or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Stock Buybacks, Richard A. Booth

Faculty Publications

Stock repurchases by issuing corporations have always been controversial. They have become even more so recently because of the perception that the excess funds used to finance them have come from tax cuts and other sources (such as government bailouts) that were intended to stimulate reinvestment or enhanced wages and benefits for workers. As a result, critics have proposed amendments to tax law that discourage buybacks (and possibly dividends as well). The theory is that the benefits of such distributions go mostly to executives (who are compensated in large part with equity) and to already wealthy stockholders. The controversy is …

Daily Posture Behavior Patterns Derived From Multitime-Scale Topic Models Using Wearable Triaxial Acceleration For Assessment Of Concern About Falling, Changhong Wang, Yu Wang, Haitao Zhao, Guanzheng Liu, Bijan Najafi

Center on Aging Staff Publications

Concern about falling is prevalent in older population. This condition would cause a series of adverse physical and psychological consequences for older adults' health. Traditional assessment of concern about falling is relied on self-reported questionnaires and thus is too subjective. Therefore, we proposed a novel multi-time-scale topic modelling approach to quantitatively evaluate concern about falling by analyzing triaxial acceleration signals collected from a wearable pendent sensor. Different posture segments were firstly recognized to extract their corresponding feature subsets. Then, each selected feature related to concern about falling was clustered into discrete levels as feature letters of artificial words in different …

With A Little Help From My Friends: Acculturation And Mental Health In Arabic-Speaking Refugee Youth Living With Their Families, Caroline Meyer, Lina Alhaddad, Nadine Stammel, Frederick Sixtus, Jenny Sarah Wesche, Rudolf Kerschreiter, Patricia Kanngiesser, Christine Knaevelsrud

School of Psychology

Introduction: Refugee youth are often faced with the compounding challenges of heightened exposure to traumatic events and acculturating to a new country during a developmental period when their sense of self is still forming. This study investigated whether refugee youth’s acculturation orientation (separation, integration, marginalization, and assimilation) is associated with depressive and posttraumatic stress symptoms and aimed to identify additional indicators of acculturation that may contribute to mental health. Methods: A total of 101 Arabic-speaking refugee youths (aged 14–20 years), who were living with their families and attending school in Germany, took part in the study. They answered questions concerning …

Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2020s

This issue of the The Winonan was published on March 15, 2023.

Fabo V. Kushner Cos. Llc

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Fairy Tales Of London: British Fantasy, 1840 To The Present, By Hadas Elber-Aviram. Reviewed By Jessica Dickinson Goodman., Jessica Dickinson Goodman

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined, Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined,And Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined, By Stephen Fry. Reviewed By Phillip Fitzsimmons., Phillip Fitzsimmons

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

Spontaneous Activity Patterns In Human Attention Networks Code For Hand Movements, Lu Zhang, Lorenzo Pini, Dohyun Kim, Gordon L Shulman, Maurizio Corbetta

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Recent evidence suggests that, in the absence of any task, spontaneous brain activity patterns and connectivity in the visual and motor cortex code for natural stimuli and actions, respectively. These "resting-state" activity patterns may underlie the maintenance and consolidation (replay) of information states coding for ecological stimuli and behaviors. In this study, we examine whether replay patterns occur in resting-state activity in association cortex grouped into high-order cognitive networks not directly processing sensory inputs or motor outputs. Fifteen participants (7 females) performed four hand movements during an fMRI study. Three movements were ecological. The fourth movement as control was less …

Injection Adipocytolysis For Body And Jawline Contouring: Real-World Experience And Treatment Considerations, Sachin M Shridharani, Grace M Tisch, Mackenzie L Kennedy

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: The role of ATX-101 in submental fat reduction has been well documented; however, its applicability across multiple anatomic areas is to be explored.

OBJECTIVES: The authors sought to describe the experience with ATX-101 subcutaneous injections for body and jawline contouring and evaluate its safety.

METHODS: This single-arm, single-center observational study included 201 patients who underwent injection adipocytolysis with ATX-101 (area-adjusted dose of 2 mg/cm2) in the jowl, abdomen (upper/lower), thigh (inner/outer/banana roll), arm, anterior periaxillary fat, back (lower/upper/nape/lipoma), knee (anterior/medial), chest, and/or neck. The number of treatment sessions, treatment volumes, doses, injections required for each anatomic area, and associated …

West 115 11-13 Assoc. Llc V. Pierre

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Propaganda: More Than Flawed Messaging, Cory Wimberly

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Most of the recent work on propaganda in philosophy has come from a narrowly epistemological standpoint that sees it as flawed messaging that negatively impacts public reasonableness and deliberation. This article posits two problems with this approach: first, it obscures the full range of propaganda's activities; and second, it prevents effective ameliorative measures by offering an overly truncated assessment of the problems to be addressed. Following Ellul and Hyska, I argue that propaganda aims at shaping actions and not just beliefs, and that the propaganda activities that shape action include modifying beliefs but also much more. Examining this larger set …

Teaching Tip: A Teaching Module Illustrating Erp Item Value Automation, Anil Singh, Vikram Bhadauria, George Mangalaraj

Information Systems Faculty Publications

Large parts of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes are automated. One example is the item values in the sales order process. To execute a sales order, the ERP system applies a specific “find” strategy on a wide variety of data sources such as customer master, material master, and customer price-specific data tables, and extracts information such as customer class, discounts, and dates for computations of line items, namely, prices, discounts, and taxes. While completing their ERP assignments on the sales order process, students often see only the final sales order amount and ignore—and thereby fail to appreciate and understand—the …

Kdm6a Loss Triggers An Epigenetic Switch That Disrupts Urothelial Differentiation And Drives Cell Proliferation In Bladder Cancer, Hong Qiu, Jennifer K Bolzenius, Angela Halstead, Vivek Arora, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

UNLABELLED: 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 …

Stepwise Multimodality Imaging Assists In Atrial Myxoma Diagnosis And Management, Kristen E Wong, Kartik Mani, Spencer J Melby, Ping Hou, Jiafu Ou

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The case of a 67-year-old man who presented for elective gastroenterology procedures and was in atrial fibrillation is discussed. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large atrial mass. Preoperative coronary angiography revealed a heavily vascularized mass. Use of cardiac magnetic resonance identified the cardiac mass as likely an atrial myxoma. (

An Essential Endoplasmic Reticulum-Resident N-Acetyltransferase Ortholog In Plasmodium Falciparum, Alexander J Polino, Muhammad M Hasan, Katherine Floyd, Yolotzin Avila-Cruz, Yujuan Yang, Daniel E Goldberg

2020-Current year OA Pubs

N-terminal acetylation is a common eukaryotic protein modification that involves the addition of an acetyl group to the N-terminus of a polypeptide. This modification is largely performed by cytosolic N-terminal acetyltransferases (NATs). Most associate with the ribosome, acetylating nascent polypeptides co-translationally. In the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, exported effectors are thought to be translated into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), processed by the aspartic protease plasmepsin V and then N-acetylated, despite having no clear access to cytosolic NATs. Here, we used inducible gene deletion and post-transcriptional knockdown to investigate the primary ER-resident NAT candidate, Pf3D7_1437000. We found that it localizes to …