Co-teaching in Classrooms: Literature review of teachers’ perspective, readiness, and knowledge

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a literature review of teachers’ beliefs and knowledge regarding co-teaching. It offers an analysis of studies that address how teachers of students with disabilities viewed co-teaching in the classroom. The resultant discussion indicates that co-teaching is a supportive and meaningful teaching practice for increasing the access of students with disabilities to general education. The literature review shows that a positive perspective on the use of co-teaching has been observed. However, this review also highlights the need for additional training to create an appropriate learning environment while co-teaching. Finally, this paper discusses how educators can support the use of co-teaching and how to resolve barriers impinging successful co-teaching. Keywords: Co-teaching, teaching students with disabilities, special education teachers, inclusive education

From Powerlessness to Control: Psychosis, Spirit Possession and Recovery in the Western Desert of Egypt

This article explores an aspect of the cultural modulation of recovery in psychosis. It begins with the idea that recovery hinges on the ability of subjects to relate to their distressing experiences in ways that expand rather than diminish agency.  Based on fieldwork in the Dakhla oasis of Egypt and subsequent analysis, it is argued that interpretations of psychosis as spirit possession offer a broader range of intentionality than biomedical interpretations and therefore broader possibilities of relating to psychotic states. Modes of relating to spirits may take active or passive forms, the former consistent with the recovery goal of symptom control. Factors constitutive of the active, agency-expanding mode of relating include: the nature of spirits; the values and beliefs of the subject; the broader cultural/religious discourses which may make it either more or less likely for the subject to achieve the desired state of control over symptoms

Neuroendocrine differentiation in a case of cervical cancer

Neuroendocrine neoplasms may occur in the uterine cervix, although rarely; it accounts for 0.5-1% of all malignant tumors of the uterine cervix. A case report of an Ethiopian female presented at the Gynecology Out-Patient Clinic at Jimma University Hospital, complaining from irregular vaginal bleeding over the previous three months. Clinically there was a cauliflower cervical mass; histopathologically it was formed of sheets of small cell tumor; that further showed neuroendocrine differentiation, as demonstrated by chromogranin-A positivity. It is important to differentiate small cell carcinoma from other malignant tumors of the uterine cervix. Morphological features play an important role in making a diagnosis and the immunohistochemistry study can offer an additional useful assistance

Higher Education Leadership and the Internationalization Imaginary: Where Personal Biography Meets the Socio-Historical

In this chapter, we explore how higher education institution (HEI) leaders perceive the relationship between their international background and their commitment to and vision for internationalization. Our 10 Canadian HEI participants thought there was a direct link between their international backgrounds and commitment to internationalization. While all spoke of the benefits of internationalization, some viewed internationalization through an ethical, socio-cultural lens whereas others privileged internationalization’s instrumental values. We point to tensions facing some leaders in reconciling their ideal visions of internationalization with neoliberal pressures facing HEIs in a global era. We demonstrate the importance of attending to the inter-relationships between broader socio-historical drivers of internationalization and the personal biographies of those charged with advancing internationalization agendas. Our findings lead us to develop a new theoretical concept, which we term the ‘internationalization imaginary’, to understand the interplay between the individual, local, national and global forces shaping internationalization in higher education

Probing Z′Z^\prime Mediated Charged Lepton Flavor Violation with Taus at the LHeC

While charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) with taus is often expected to be largest in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM), it is currently much less constrained than cLFV with electrons and muons. We study the sensitivity of the LHeC to $e$-$\tau$ (and $e$-$\mu$) conversion processes $p e^- \to \tau^- + j$ (and $p e^- \to \mu^- + j$) mediated by a $Z'$ with flavor-violating couplings to charged leptons in the $t$-channel. Compared to current tests at the LHC, where cLFV decays of the $Z'$ (produced in the s-channel) are searched for, the LHeC has sensitivity to much higher $Z'$ masses, up to O(10) TeV. For cLFV with taus, we find that the LHeC sensitivity from the process $p e^- \to \tau^- + j$ can exceed the current limits from collider and non-collider experiments in the whole considered $Z'$ mass range (above $500$ GeV) by more than two orders of magnitude. In particular for extensions of the SM with a heavy $Z'$, where direct production at colliders is kinematically suppressed, $e-\tau$ conversion at LHeC provides an exciting new discovery channel for this type of new physics.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure

Searching for charged lepton flavor violation at epep colliders

We investigate the sensitivity of electron-proton ($ep$) colliders for charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) in an effective theory approach, considering a general effective Lagrangian for the conversion of an electron into a muon or a tau via the effective coupling to a neutral gauge boson or a neutral scalar field. For the photon, the $Z$ boson and the Higgs particle of the Standard Model, we present the sensitivities of the LHeC for the coefficients of the effective operators, calculated from an analysis at the reconstructed level. As an example model where such flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) operators are generated at loop level, we consider the extension of the Standard Model by sterile neutrinos. We show that the LHeC could already probe the LFV conversion of an electron into a muon beyond the current experimental bounds, and could reach more than an order of magnitude higher sensitivity than the present limits for LFV conversion of an electron into a tau. We discuss that the high sensitivities are possible because the converted charged lepton is dominantly emitted in the backward direction, enabling an efficient separation of the signal from the background.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures; matches version published in JHE

Effective vibrating barriers design for the Zoser pyramid using artificial neural network

Vibrating Barrier (ViBa) is a non-invasive strategy used to protect buildings, especially ancient and historic structures, from seismic wave vibrations. The ViBa is a spring-mass device installed at a separate location beneath the ground surrounding the structure in concern, for the purpose of reducing ground motion energy, without any intervention with the structure itself. The step pyramid of Zoser was one of the archeological monuments affected by the 1992 Earthquake in Egypt. In this work, a new approach of ViBa design is proposed to protect the step pyramid of Zoser using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). A numerical model was developed to test the predicted pyramid seismic behavior using the ANN-derived ViBa parameters. The ANN optimization approach shows a reduction in the peak step pyramid acceleration by 46 %. This reduction was obtained using tuning and optimization of the developed ANN