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The Development Of Positive Thinking In Children, Ghada Ali Hadi Jaafar

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current research aimed to identify positive thinking and its skills (self- talk, imagination, and positive expectation) in children according to the variables of age (8, 9, 10, 11) years and gender (males, females). The significance of the differences in it is known according to the variables of age and gender. The research has adopted the Daniel (2018) scale of positive thinking skills. After the researcher verified its standard characteristics, the scale was applied to a sample of (200) boys and girls, who were chosen by stratified random method, with (50) boys and girls in each age group, equally between …

Memory Beliefs And Their Relationship To Academic Resilience ‎For Students Of The Faculty Of Education For Human Sciences At The ‎University Of Mosul, Aaseel Mahmoud Jarjees

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the memory beliefs and the statistically significant difference in memory beliefs and academic resilience according to the gender and grade variables and the relationship between memory beliefs and academic resilience among students of the College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Mosul, The research sample consisted of (683) male and female students and the two tools used in the research were: a belief scale which was prepared by the researcher and the Academic Resilience Scale (Cassidy, 2016). And those students have academic resilience, and that the statistically significant differences were …

The Aesthetics Of Fantasy And Metanarrative Manifestations In The ‎Novels Of Ahmed Saadawi ‎(D'S Notes) As A Model, Zainab Abdilameer Hussein

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The novel “Diary of D” is a new fantasy extension in the worlds of novelist Ahmed Saadawi, and it is a new feature that is an evolution of the fantasy formation that his previous novels came aboutOur study is the pioneer in critical theorizing of this novel, especially since it was published in 2020, so there is no critical study about it. The importance of our study appears in the rooting of the aesthetics of fantasy through the narratives that constitute various mirrors of reality, and the hypothesis is that the main theme in the novel describes the struggle (masculinity …

Spatial Variation Of Large-Scale Industries In Diyala Governorate For 2019‎, May Thamer Ragab

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research aims to identify the large-sized industries in the province of Diyala and their spatial distribution to the administrative units, as well as to know the important locational factors that contributed to signing them in their current locations. Hence the question is: Have the large-sized industries in Diyala province invested all the potentials available for the activity? Is there a discrepancy in the distribution of large-sized industries at the level of the districts of Diyala Governorate? And that their investment was not efficient and was not distributed in a balanced and fair manner in the districts of the governorate, …

Civilized Values In The Hadiths Of Ahl Al-Bayt, Nora Hussein Ali Abbas

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study constitutes an element of scientific defense of our true religion (Islam) and the people that represent it. And stand on the means adopted by the Islamic religion in building man and social life. The result come up with a set of criteria that contribute to the formulation of the Islamic identity and express the culture of Islam in all aspects of life.

The Place Of Archaeological Studies And Historical Geography In ‎Contemporary Interpretations, Tahereh Sadat Tabataba’I Amin

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Since Allah sometimes speaks of the location of historical stories in the verses of the Qur'an, understanding some of these verses requires historical ‌archaeological and geographical studies. The advancement of science in the new age and the existence of spiritual crises due to the distance from religion require interpreters to interpret with a scientific perspective. Social and cultural developments and the expansion of the field of science due to the relationship between the Islamic world and Western civilization have created some innovative factors that have had a profound effect on the content and style of interpretation. This is why contemporary …

The Effect Of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy On The Fourth ‎Preparatory School Students’ Reading Comprehension ‎Performance And Retention, Mohammed Talib Yassein Hussein

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

There are two aims in the present study. The first is to find out the effect of reciprocal teaching strategy on reading comprehension performance of EFL preparatory school students. The second is to check out the effect of the same strategy on Students’ retention of the reading texts. This study is limited to the fourth scientific preparatory school students in the city of Ramadi during the first course of the academic year 2019-2020. Two hypotheses are set. The first assumed that there is no significant difference between the mean score of the experimental group and the mean score of the …

The Effect Of The Interaction Between The Two Infographic Types ‎And The Cognitive Style And Their Impact On Developing The ‎Cognitive And Performance Aspects Of Digital Graphics Design ‎Skills And Motivation Towards Them Among Students Of ‎Educational Technology At The University Of Jeddah, Hosam Abdulhameed Althibyani, Nabeel Alsayid

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current research aims to investigate the effect of the interaction between the two types of infographics in terms of presentation and cognitive style in developing digital graphics design skills and motivation towards it among undergraduate students in the Department of Educational Technology, College of Education, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. To achieve this, the experimental method was used and the study sample consisted of (109) students, who were divided into four experimental groups according to the cognitive style and the infographic technique used in education. The research reached a number of results. The most important of which are: the …

Establishing History In Sabir Rashid's Novel Shiri Musa, Sangar Qadir Sheikh Mohammed, Hawkar Jamil

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

There is no doubt that there is a strong relationship between history and literature. The first step of literature starts with registration and recording the history of heroes, and the upper layer of society. This research is an attempt to shows the link between these two majors. This research entitled (Using the History in the Novel (Shiri Musa) by (Sabir Rashid). The first section forms the similarity and difference between novel and history. Also in the second part, the features of the historical novel displayed, and in other sections the historian and novelist deal with the subject and language of …

Hydrological Analysis Of Groundwater In East Of Wasit Province ‎Using Geographic Information Systems (Gis)‎, Liqaa Jabbar Kaki

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study of the hydrological characteristics of groundwater in the governorate is prepared by showing the concentrations of salinity and the main elements by adopting fifteen water models collected from several sites in the governorate in different periods representing the increase and decrease of water, as the spread of saline and nitrate pollution in the groundwater in the open reservoir as well as the spread of pollution The salinity is only in the water of the confined reservoir, whether in the sediments of the Quaternary age or the reservoir of the Muqdadiya and Bey Hasan formation. The analysis models were …

Csf Tau Phosphorylation At Thr205 Is Associated With Loss Of White Matter Integrity In Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease, Jeremy F. Strain, Nicolas Barthelemy, Kanta Horie, Brian A. Gordon, Collin Kilgore, Andrew Aschenbrenner, Carlos Cruchaga, Chengjie Xiong, Nelly Joseph-Mathurin, Jason Hassenstab, Anne M. Fagan, Yan Li, Celeste M. Karch, Richard J. Perrin, Sarah B. Berman, Jasmeer P. Chhatwal, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Hiroshi Mori, Johannes Levin, James M. Noble, Ricardo Allegri, Peter R. Schofield, Daniel S. Marcus, David M. Holtzman, John C. Morris, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, Eric M. Mcdade, Randall J. Bateman, Beau M. Ances

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Hyperphosphorylation of tau leads to conformational changes that destabilize microtubules and hinder axonal transport in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, it remains unknown whether white matter (WM) decline due to AD is associated with specific Tau phosphorylation site(s).

METHODS: In autosomal dominant AD (ADAD) mutation carriers (MC) and non-carriers (NC) we compared cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) phosphorylation at tau sites (pT217, pT181, pS202, and pT205) and total tau with WM measures, as derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and cognition. A WM composite metric, derived from a principal component analysis, was used to identify spatial decline seen in ADAD.

RESULTS: The …

B- And T-Cell Subset Abnormalities In Monogenic Common Variable Immunodeficiency, Saba Fekrvand, Shaghayegh Khanmohammadi, Hassan Abolhassani, Reza Yazdani

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a heterogeneous group of inborn errors of immunity characterized by reduced serum concentrations of different immunoglobulin isotypes. CVID is the most prevalent symptomatic antibody deficiency with a broad range of infectious and non-infectious clinical manifestations. Various genetic and immunological defects are known to be involved in the pathogenesis of CVID. Monogenic defects account for the pathogenesis of about 20-50% of CVID patients, while a variety of cases do not have a defined genetic background. Deficiencies in molecules of B cell receptor signaling or other pathways involving B-cell development, activation, and proliferation could be associated with …

The Burden Of Short-Term Major Adverse Cardiac Events And Its Determinants After Emergency Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization: A Prospective Follow-Up Study, Rajesh Kumar, Jehangir Ali Shah, Bashir Ahmed Solangi, Ali Ammar, Mukesh Kumar, Naveedullah Khan, Jawaid Akbar Sial, Tahir Saghir, Nadeem Qamar, Musa Karim

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Objectives: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains recommended reperfusion therapy for patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. This study aimed to evaluate the short-term major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and their determinants among patients who underwent primary PCI at a tertiary care cardiac center of Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: A cohort of patients who underwent primary PCI were followed for the MACE. Multivariable Cox-regression analysis was performed with backward conditional variable selection and hazard ratio (HR) along with 95% confidence interval (CI) were obtained. Results: A total of 1150 patients were included, of which follow-up was successful in 95.8% (1102) and …

A Simplified Model For The Intermediate Structure Of Strong Fire Whirls, Forman A. Williams

Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal

A model is described for the overall structure of intense fire whirls, based on a spatially evolving vortex, with circulation enhancement driven by the axial acceleration of low-density gas in the core through the axial pressure gradient. The axial acceleration increases the entrainment rate into the core which, through mass conservation, increases the circulation if the angle between the tangential and radial velocity components remains fixed. The two-zone model employs general balance equations for regions inside and outside a cylinder of fixed radius, each inviscid, the inside region being presumed to have a constant density small compared with the (constant) …

Vehicular Daylight-Saving Time Changes Watch Dog

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Predictive Activation Of Device Components Based On Partially Decoded Command, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Users often invoke a virtual assistant to quickly accomplish routine tasks that require the corresponding components of a device to be woken up from an idle state prior to performing the desired action. Activating the components introduces an inherent latency that can noticeably raise the task completion time and degrade the user experience. This disclosure describes techniques to reduce the latency involved by proactively waking up idle device components by predicting the intended task based on the initial words in a user’s spoken command to a voice based virtual assistant. The net effect of starting the wake-up process based on …

Enterprise Access Policies Utilizing 3gpp Operator Barring, Timothy P. Stammers, Bhavik Adhvaryu, Irfan Ali

Defensive Publications Series

Enterprises wish to provide access policies for private cellular networks that are tailored to a building's use. In support of such an enterprise use case, techniques are presented herein that apply 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) approaches for geographies, tracking areas, and access barring in innovative ways to realize a standards-compliant solution. Aspects of the presented techniques encompass novel floor-centric policies, whereby an enterprise may maintain a mapping of tracking areas to the floors of a building such that a floor may be uniquely determined by an association with one or more tracking areas. Under further aspects of the presented …

Identifying A Color With Sufficient Contrast Against Two Distinct Background Colors, Peter Kasting, Peter Boström

Defensive Publications Series

A good user interface design provides user interface elements that contrast sufficiently with their surroundings. While color contrasting is relatively simple to do when there is one surrounding color, when choosing foreground colors between two background colors, the foreground must simultaneously contrast with both background colors. Given two background colors and an initial foreground color, this disclosure describes techniques to automatically select a foreground color that contrasts with both background colors and is similar in hue to the initial foreground color. The choice of colors can be constrained to a palette of valid colors grouped by similar hue. Given a …

Battery Pack Electrical Connector Leak Test Plug, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

The Covid-19 Pandemic Led To The Redesign Of Library Resources And Services: Turning Crisis Into An Opportunity, Dr. Rajender Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper describes the opportunities to redesign library resources and services during and after the COVID-19 crisis that has affected the lives of billions of people around the world. During this crisis, Universities, colleges, and schools suspended their normal teaching and learning activities. Crisis can sometimes transform challenges into opportunities. A crisis can be turned into an opportunity if new ways of looking, thinking, and responding are embraced. A result of COVID-19's pandemic outbreaks provided an enormous opportunity to change the information-providing way. Thus, libraries can take it as an opportunity to redesign their information resources and services. By redesigning …

Perspective Social Networking Effect In Academic Libraries: Student Perspectives, Dr. Raja Suresh Kumar Pitla , Librarian, Kutty Kumar Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study is to identify how minor collision of Social Networks on the enlightening results as shallow by the understudies in the impression of building and drug store understudies. This examination utilized and the way to deal with advance 303 understudies of under-graduate class to distinguish them for the most part inclination of Social Networks, and to investigate the reason, recurrence and area of utilizing Social and express the preferences, and weaknesses, however, using informal academic communities. Data gathered through a self-structured online poll study and analyzed using SPSS software version 23. The outcomes find a striking …

Supporting The Academic Library Workforce: Updates From The Canadian Association Of Research Libraries, Vivian Lewis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has invested significant energy over the last 20 years in building workforce capacity across the country’s academic libraries. The global pandemic has given this work a whole new intensity as directors find themselves seeking to fill large numbers of vacancies in a highly competitive market, to encourage more candidates from equity-deserving groups to apply, to prepare both new and long-serving staff members to take on new kinds of work, and to create workplace environments that encourage staff to stay.

This paper will update the international community on a number of CARL initiatives that …

Out Of The Darkness: How Can Librarians' Skills Help Us To Change Our Organization?, Frederic G.A. Brodkom

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2020-2021, the libraries of the Catholic University of Louvain have been confronted with major challenges: new objectives for providing support to research (RDM, …), the development of new learning centers, the announced retirement of our Chief Librarian, the installation of a new ILS platform, and the pandemic which has involved new services for faculties (loan of co-modal teaching material, click & collect, …). Too many challenges together and it soon became clear that the structure of our organization, which had remained unchanged since 2001, was not adapted to meet these challenges. For our librarians, facing the changes was like …

Developing An Assessment Program: From Zero To Sixty, Valrie I. Minson, Laura Spears

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2016, the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries created a new position and hired an Assessment Librarian. Five years later, the program is highly agile and supports a larger culture of assessment. This talk will outline the steps, and missteps, as well as the scope of a program that includes an Assessment Advisory Team and multiple sub-teams. The program supports grant applications, IRB submissions, assessment resource recommendations, user engagement, usability and user-experience studies, public service assessment, dashboard development, and continues to expand. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the key steps for implementing a successful program, …

Bio-Vascular 3d, Wisdom Shadrach

ORBioM (Open Research BioSciences Meeting)

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity across the world and according to the world health organization account for 32% of mortality rate globally. There still remain a need to develop better in vitro vascular models that would aid further in-depth understanding of cardiovascular pathogenesis and proposed therapeutic intervention.

This study intends to characterize four novel medically relevant synthetic polymer scaffolds, and one hydrogel, for their biocompatibility and potential application in a tissue engineered blood vessel (TEBV). A primary human endothelial cell line derived from the vein of the umbilical cord (HUVEC), and a human primary smooth …

Dairy By-Product Derived Cardioprotective Lipids, Hannah Ring

ORBioM (Open Research BioSciences Meeting)

Background: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder, characterised by the accumulation of plaque on the walls of the arteries. Rupture of this plaque often results in life threatening clinical complications such as heart attack and stroke, which currently are the two leading causes of global mortality. Dietary guidelines usually condemn the consumption of whole fat dairy products due to their saturated fat content and this ingredient’s association with cholesterol and cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis. This viewpoint however, is dated and controversial as much data is emerging on the cardiometabolic benefits of polar lipids found in dairy products which are …

Investigating The Antagonistic Activity Of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Against Uropathogenic E. Coli., Ciara Kenneally

ORBioM (Open Research BioSciences Meeting)

Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) is the presence of bacteria in urine, resembling a state of commensalism. Bacteria are characterised as ABU when they have been isolated from two consecutive urine samples (≥ 10⁵ CFU/ml) from individuals, but without symptoms attributable to a urinary tract infection (UTI). ABU Escherichia coli strains have evolved from uropathogenic ancestors and lack virulence factors associated with uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC). UPEC are the main etiological agent of urinary tract infections (UTIs), attributable to > 80% of cases. The frequency at which multidrug-resistant UPEC are isolated is affecting guidelines for use of former first-line antibiotics for UTIs, …

Biowill - Characterising Willow Bark Bio-Actives For Skin Therapies, Arnold Marisa

ORBioM (Open Research BioSciences Meeting)

Willow bark is considered as a disposable by-product when processing willow for biomass. Willow (Salix) is known to contain high value bioactive compounds which include salicin and its derivatives, and other phytochemicals of interest such as polyphenols and flavonoids. The plant is historically known as the primary source of salicylates to which the well-known drug aspirin is derived from. The work forms part of the Interreg project BioWILL, which is focused on integrated “Zero Waste” biorefinery utilising all fractions of willow feedstock for the production of biochemicals and renewable energy. This project aims to investigate the crude and …

Current And Emerging Space Priorities In University Libraries Across The Globe: An Interactive, Participatory Session With The Special Interest Group (Sig) On Library Space, Kelly E. Miller

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Anatomy Of A Renovation, Michael Crumpton

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The seeds of innovation are changing how libraries use their space and plan for future remodels, renovations or expansions, especially post-COVID. Examples of this range from converting space from materials storage to user space needs along with technology enhancements. Technology driven initiatives that impact space usually start as small ideas or seeds of innovative initiatives, such as makerspaces, but are growing into digital media centers, video and imaging rooms, gaming labs and augmented reality spaces.

This presentation shares a case study approach to a master space planning project but goes beyond the typical consultant led project into developing a boarder …