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We Do Not Care To Be Silent: Resist The Demand To Self-Censor About Tyranny, Ice, And Genocide, Reece Robinson

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

Silence breaking, I argue, is a tool that must be employed as frequently as possible by as many people as possible. Using the tools of hope and courage, working through the barriers of fear and shame, we must be outspoken in our care for all people. This expression of care is so crucial because there are tyrannical forces at work across the globe who wish for nothing more than our silence. In that silence, the U.S. government is expanding its practices to unjustly detain and deport immigrants. To enforce this silence, the U.S. government, through ICE, is detaining journalists and …

Awkward Voices: How Storytelling Challenges Preconceived Notions To Lessen Affective Polarization In American Politics, Charlie A. Gee

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

The United States is no stranger to violence, whether it be in the past or the present, structural or physical. In recent years, however, tensions within the country have increased, particularly between political parties. Operating under the philosophy that a better world cannot be built upon the mistakes of the past, and that peace is a radical act, it is necessary to urgently address this polarization in order to prevent further violence. This article explores the question of whether storytelling between conflicting groups is a method to address these issues.

This paper is divided into two central parts. The first …

Letter From The Editors, Charlie A. Gee, Bernadette E. Whitely

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

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Tapestries 2026 Artwork: Windows To Embodied Care, Charlie A. Gee

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President's Message

New Orleans Dental Association News

Inaugural monthly update from Dr. Claudia A. Cavallino, D.D.S. with details of recent events, upcoming activities and news from the association.

Noda News January 2026

New Orleans Dental Association News

New Orleans Dental Association (NODA) News includes regular columns with regional news impacting the New Orleans membership including: columns from the President and Executive Director, feature articles relating to the field of dentistry, association events and upcoming activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

This issue welcomes a new president, Dr. Claudia Cavallino.

Saudi Heart Association Position Statement On Early Detection Of Subclinical Atherosclerosis In Clinical Practice, Waleed Alhabeeb, Abdelrahaman Almoghairi, Abdulhalim Kinsara, Abdullah Khoja

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Background: Atherosclerosis is the leading underlying cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which remains the primary cause of mortality in Saudi Arabia. Saudi patients experience CVD events nearly a decade earlier than their Western counterparts. Given the limitations of traditional risk assessment tools, there is a growing need to detect subclinical atherosclerosis to refine risk stratification and improve primary prevention strategies, particularly in younger and asymptomatic individuals.

Methods: The Saudi Heart Association (SHA) developed this position statement through a structured, multistep process that included a comprehensive literature review and two expert panel meetings. Recommendations were formulated based on current evidence, expert …

Prevalence And Characteristics Of Prescription Errors In Community Pharmacies In Mbarara City, South Western Uganda, Tadele Mekuriya Yadesa, Ashaba Comfort, Komukyeya Esther Marvel, Namakula Angela, Tikolu Hope Nancy, Narayana Goruntla, Sarad Pawar Naik Bukke, Bontu Aschale Abebe, Efrata Ashuro Shegena

AUIQ Complementary Biological System

A prescription error is a failure in the prescription writing process that results in a wrong instruction about one or more of the standard features of a prescription. Most adverse drug events are preventable through promoting rational drug use; primarily by mitigating the outstanding high burden of prescribing errors. The main aim of this study is to assess the prevalence and characteristics of prescription errors in the community pharmacies in Mbarara, Uganda. A cross-sectional study was conducted in selected community pharmacies in Mbarara City, South Western Uganda. Consecutive sampling of all prescriptions availed at the selected pharmacies was conducted until …

Kibbutz Megiddo (Al-Lajjun): The Textile Impressions, Orit Shamir

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

During the excavations at Kibbutz Megiddo (al-Lajjun), thirteen linen textile impressions and coiling marks on pottery were discovered. The textile impressions exhibit either a delicate or a crude texture. Textiles were used to cover ceramic vessels to prevent them from drying too quickly, which could cause the vessel to crack. Impressions on the interior of vessels suggest that they were modeled, apparently using clay coils, around a textile bag filled with wet sand, which provided their general rounded shape. The basketry impressions on the bases of pottery vessels were not created intentionally but resulted from placing freshly shaped pots on …

A Contextual Attention-Based Transformer Model For Enhanced Hate Speech Detection On Twitter, Mira Mansour, Nancy Akoum, Seifedine Kadry

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

Hate speech on social media poses significant societal challenges, necessitating accurate and context-sensitive automated detection. Traditional machine learning (ML) models typically rely on lexical or superficial features, limiting their ability to capture nuanced or contextually ambiguous expressions of hate speech. Recent transformer-based methods (e.g., RoBERTa) provide improved contextual understanding but often lack explicit mechanisms guiding the model’s attention to critical semantic tokens, thereby reducing interpretability and sensitivity to nuanced linguistic contexts. This paper introduces a novel contextual attention-guided transformer model that explicitly incorporates lexicon-guided attention supervision into RoBERTa fine-tuning, significantly enhancing semantic precision in hate speech detection on Twitter. Evaluations …

Kibbutz Megiddo (Al-Lajjun): The Faunal Remains, Guy Bar-Oz, Laila Abado

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

This report discusses a small bone assemblage retrieved from the Hellenistic–Mamluk strata at Kibbutz Megiddo (al-Lajjun). The assemblage is predominantly composed of livestock taxa, including sheep, goats, cattle and chickens. Notably, camel bones are present in almost all strata, with the exception of the Hellenistic period stratum. Pathological analysis of cattle foot bones suggests that these animals were also used as beasts of burden.

Kibbutz Megiddo (Al-Lajjun): The Coins, Ariel Berman, Gabriela Bijovsky

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

The 61 coins discovered during the excavations at Kibbutz Megiddo provide modest numismatic evidence for a multi-period site, dating from the Seleucid to the Mamluk periods. However, the starting date of occupation could not be established, as the early coins were found in disturbed loci. The majority of the Islamic coins belong to the Mamluk dynasty. Of special interest is an Il-Khānid fals found in a Mamluk context.

Kibbutz Megiddo (Al-Lajjun): The Glass Finds, Tamar Winter

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

The glass finds from the site at Kibbutz Megiddo cover a long chronological range, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries CE. The significance of this assemblage lies predominantly in the presentation of glass finds from the Early Islamic and Mamluk periods, as published specimens from these periods in the Megiddo region are quite scarce. Moreover, many of the vessels from the Early Islamic and Mamluk periods are elaborately decorated, supporting the notion of an affluent population at the site in these periods.

Kibbutz Megiddo (Al-Lajjun): Remains From The Hellenistic–Mamluk Periods / קיבוץ מגידו (א־לג'ון): שרידים מהתקופות ההלניסטית עד הממלוכית, Yotam Tepper, Edna J. Stern

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

The excavation at Kibbutz Megiddo revealed eight strata dating to the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, Abbasid, Crusader and Mamluk periods, as well as a modern stratum. The remains indicate an almost continuous sequence of settlement at the site from the third century BCE to the present. For the first time, remains dated to the Hellenistic, Early, Middle and Late Islamic periods are documented in the Legio-Megiddo region. The Roman finds likely represent a settlement in the vicinity of the Roman legion base and the Jewish village of Kefar ‘Othnay. Its inhabitants maintained trade connections with nearby settlements and urban centers …

A Hellenistic Site On Shay ‘Agnon Street, Ramat Aviv, Amir Gorzalczany

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A Group Of Mb Iia–B Pottery Vessels From Moshav Ẓafririm, Shlomo Gudovitch

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Two Winepresses From Kefar Sirkin And Mazor, Naomi Sidi, David Amit, Uzi ‘Ad

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The Pottery From The Winepress At Kefar Sirkin, Karen Singer, Uzi ‘Ad

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Another Flavian Inscription Near The Temple Mount Of Jerusalem, Ronny Reich, Ya‘Akov Billig

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A Byzantine-Period Cistern Near The Church Of St. Stephen, Jerusalem, Jon Seligman, Amit Re’Em

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Excavations At Beit Safafa: Iron Age Ii And Byzantine Agricultural Installations South Of Jerusalem, Nurit Feig

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A 24-Sheqel Judean Weight From Beit Ṣafafa, Raz Kletter

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An Old Syrian Cylinder Seal From Azor, Diana L. Stein

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An Iron Age Ib/Iia Burial Cave At Har Yona, Upper Nazareth, Yardenna Alexandre

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Excavations At Tel Gat-Ḥefer In The Lower Galilee, Areas A And B, Yardenna Alexandre, Karen Covello-Paran, Zvi Gal

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A Middle Bronze Age Iib Tomb At Azor, Amir Gorzalczany, Daphna Ben-Tor, Jonathan Rand

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The Flints From Tel Gat-Ḥefer, Rina Y. Bankirer, Ofer Marder

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The Early Bronze Age Occupation At Tel Gat-Ḥefer, Lower Galilee, Areas C And D, Karen Covello-Paran

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Tomb 1 Of The Second Millennium Bce At Yiftaḥ’El, Lower Galilee, Leticia Barda, Eliot Braun

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Radiocarbon Dates Fromḥorbat Ḥani (West), Dror Segal, Israel Carmi

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