The Relationship between the Level of School-Involvement and Learned Helplessness among Special-Education Teachers in the Arab Sector

Acquired or learned helplessness is one of the most popular research subjects reported in the psychological literature in recent decades. The present study examined the relationship between involvement in decision-making at the school and learned helplessness among special-education teachers in the Israeli Arab sector. The importance of this study lies in its focused examination of variables that correlate with states that have an adverse effect on the education system, such as stress and burnout. Special-education teachers were randomly selected from several special-education schools. The findings gave considerable support to the hypotheses that predicted a negative correlation between school involvement and learned helplessness. The conclusions of this study support greater involvement of teachers in the school in order to improve their well-being and work efficiency

The return of the Turāth : the Arab Rationalist Association 1959-2000

The Six-Day War in 1967 ended an era characterized by cultural exuberance and political optimism, ushering the Arab world into a period rife with economic anxiety and political unrest. Formerly powerful Arab armies disbanded. Firm social conventions were called into question. Radical movements (right and left) were on the rise. Maverick writers, philosophers, poets, and cultural critics authored influential critiques that profoundly undermined the ideals holding Arab society together, including Islamic faith and nationalism. The sea changes triggered by the war, however, resist easy categorization and defy simple historical narration that would attribute them only to the diverging trends of iconoclasm on the Left and traditionalism on the Right. The question of what exactly was defeated in the 1967 war continues to harangue historians and remains as relevant as it was in those tumultuous times. Historians may never stop arguing about which historical currents reignited the new intellectual debates that came to the fore in the wake of the defeat. These debates increasingly focused on the Turāth (roughly defined as the Arab past, cultural heritage, and authenticity) that irrevocably changed the political vocabulary and intellectual frameworks in the contemporary Arab region. For the vanquished Arab nations, the 1967 war marked two fundamental developments: First, it asserted the growing power of culture on shaping people’s political orientation and social choices. Formerly it was economic disparity that seemed to hold Arab society back. After the defeat, however, it was dated cultural norms, values and mores that seemed to bedevil Arab society even more. Increasingly the military defeat in the Arab-Israeli war in 1967 was conceived as a cultural defeat, steering many Leftist intellectuals to engage in cultural debates that relegated economic and political factors to the margins. Second, the defeat made it clear that the so-called Arab Turāth was not withering away. The war resuscitated Arab intellectuals’ attention to their past, cementing new cultural orientations that increasingly focused on Arab authenticity. While the debate surrounding the Turāth dates back to the late nineteenth century, it acquired new meanings and cultural relevance in the post-1967 era, as intellectuals began to take Arab post-colonial conditions into account. The Turāth challenged certain basic precepts that had been part of Arab culture, especially the faith in Western philosophies, the inevitability of progress, the linearity and homogeneity of time, and the universality of secularism. The Turāth encouraged a search for a forgotten Arab culture and gave rise to words like authenticity (Asalah) and cultural onslaught, which grew increasingly common. The discourse on the Turāth transformed Arab political and intellectual conversations in a variety of ways. It produced major political realignment, creating a coalition of previously left-wing and moderate Islamists in big-cities. It also strengthened North-African scholars’ presence in the post-1967 Arab intellectual landscape, spawning scholars like Jabiri who outlined the Turāth as the defining problem with which Arab intellectuals had to cope. It fundamentally altered the authority of the intellectual tradition that originated in Beirut and Cairo. It transformed the economy of the intellectual debates by introducing new cultural references, such as self-critique, that had been unpopular before the war. Above all, it led Arab intellectuals to view the Turāth less as a reservoir of archaic norms, and more as the ultimate protector of Arabs’ human dignity under Arab regimes, which were prone to viewing modern constitutions and legal laws as instruments of power rather than justice. The debate over the Turāth not only brought a new breed of Arab voices into the intellectual landscape, but it also led to the creation of the first anti-Turāth movement in the Arab world. The Arab Rationalist Association, a constellation of Arab intellectuals who gathered around Syrian writer Jūrj Ṭarābīshī in Paris, formed in protest against the cultural obsession with “things authentic.” These intellectuals argued that the Turāth literature was a mere means of escapism, distracting Arabs from their real and pressing problems, reinforcing older values, and dampening political radicalism. For these cultural critics, the Turāth literature is not politically neutral, but rather a literature that fosters cultural sensibilities that antagonize difference and look suspiciously at Western philosophies. The Arab Rationalist Association questioned everything from false attempts to fashion modern forms of reliving the past, to moderate Islamic moral codes, through different forms of patriotism. Who were the members of the association? What are the cultural and social concerns that banded them together? Why did they reject the Turāth and to what ends? This dissertation illuminates why the Turāth gained more traction in post-colonial society and how it changed the Arab intellectual conversation.Histor

Self- Efficacy and Participation in Choosing the Teaching Profession as Predictors of Academic Motivation among Arab Student\u27s Girls

The purpose of this study is to examine the link between learning motivation among teaching trainees and self- efficacy and the rate of participation in choosing the profession of teaching. The main assumptions: There will be a clear positive link between the rate of self-efficacy of students and academic motivation, with its various elements. There will be a clear positive link between the rate of participation in choosing the profession (teaching) and academic motivation. The sample included 181 female students. The sample was random relative to students of each academic year and specialization. The findings of the study corroborated most of the assumptions, and we found clear links between motivation and its variety of elements and participation in the process of choosing the academic institution

The Association Between Attachment Patterns and Parenting Styles With Emotion Regulation Among Palestinian Preschoolers

In the current study, we investigated the contribution of attachment and parenting to emotion regulation among preschool children in Palestine. Specifically, we set out to test the hypothesis that both parenting styles and patterns of attachment would be associated with children's emotion regulation abilities. The sample comprised 150 children from 10 public preschools in Northern Palestine. The preschoolers' levels of emotion regulation were found to be associated with their parents' parenting styles. More specifically, permissive and authoritative parenting styles were positively associated with emotion regulation and authoritarian and uninvolved parenting styles were negatively associated with emotion regulation. In addition, a statistically significant positive correlation was found between secure attachment and emotion regulation

Overcoming Byzantine Failures Using Checkpointing

Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems LaboratoryDARPA / F30602-00-C-0172 and F30602-02-C-013

The errors and complications in the endodontic treatment

Rezumat. În baza analizei a 145 de radiograme a 145 pacienţi, în vârsta de la 19 la 62 de ani, care s‑au adresat cu scop de diagnostic, din cauza unor dureri, s‑a determinat că în 64,8% din cazuri erau prezente diferite erori şi complicaţii în tratamentul endodontic.Summary. Based on analysis of 145 radiograms of 145 pacients, with the age from 19 to 62 years old, that had adressed with diagnostic purpose, caused by pains, was determined that in 64.8% of cases were present different errors and complications in endodontic treatment

Cevdet Akbay

Monomeric and polymeric anionic gemini surfactants and mixed surfactant systems in micellar electrokinetic chromatography. Part II: Characterization of chemical selectivity using two linear solvation energy relationship models Sodium di(undecenyl) tartarate monomer (SDUT), a vesicle-forming amphiphilic compound possessing two hydrophilic carboxylate headgroups and two hydrophobic undecenyl chains, was prepared and polymerized to form a polymeric vesicle (i.e., poly-SDUT). The anionic surfactants of SDUTand poly-SDUT (carboxylate head group) and sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS (sulfate head groups) as well as mixed surfactant systems (SDS/SDUT, SDS/poly-SDUT, and SDUT/poly-SDUT) were applied as pseudostationary phases in micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC). Two linear solvation energy relationship (LSER) models, i.e., solvatochromic and solvation parameter models, were successfully applied to investigate the effect of the type and composition of pseudostationary phases on the retention mechanism and selectivity in MEKC. The solvatochromic and solvation parameter models were used to help understand the fundamental nature of the solute-pseudostationary phase interactions and to characterize the properties of the pseudostationary phases (e.g., solute size and hydrogen bond-accepting ability for all pseudostationary phases). The solute types were found to have a significant effect on the LSER system coefficients and on the predicted retention factors. Although both LSER models provide the same information, the solvation parameter model is found to provide much better results both statistically and chemically than the solvatochromic model

Overtaking CPU DBMSes with a GPU in whole-query analytic processing with parallelism-friendly execution plan optimization

Existing work on accelerating analytic DB query processing with (discrete) GPUs fails to fully realize their potential for speedup through parallelism: Published results do not achieve significant speedup over more performant CPU-only DBMSes when processing complete queries. This paper presents a successful

Interventions to increase vaccine uptake among people who live and work in prisons : a global multistage scoping review

The objective of this study is to examine interventions implemented to increase vaccine uptake among people who live and work in prisons around the world. Peer-reviewed and gray literature databases were searched systematically to identify relevant information published from 2012 to 2022. Publications were evaluated by two researchers independently and underwent quality assessment through established tools. Of the 11,281 publications identified through peer-reviewed (2607) and gray literature (8674) search, 17 met the inclusion criteria. In light of limited data, the identified interventions were categorized into two categories of educational and organizational interventions, and are discussed in the text. The lack of availability of vaccination services and interventions to increase vaccine uptake among people who live and work in prisons, worldwide, is a serious public health concern. These interventions reported in this review can be adapted and adopted to mitigate the burden of infectious diseases among people who live and work in prisons

Новизна в диагностике предраковыx поражений желудка.

Introduction: Detection and close monitoring of patients with precancerous lesions - chronic atrophic gastritis (GCA), gastric intestinal metaplasia (MIG) and gastric mucosal epithelial dysplasia (DEMG) is a priority to increase early detection and, implicitly, decrease mortality and mortality. by gastric cancer (GC). The aim of the present study is to develop a narrative synthesis of contemporary studies on GCA diagnostic methods. Material and methods: Eligible studies were searched in the PubMed, Hinari, SpringerLink and Scopus (Elsevier) databases during the years 2000-2020. Results: Out of 575 articles addressing the topic of precancerous lesions, 59 articles were qualified representative for the materials published on the topic of this synthesis article. Conclusions: There are two main methodological approaches for GCA evaluation: non-invasive serological examination using gastric function markers and invasive examination, which requires histological analysis of biopsy samples taken during upper digestive endoscopy, the latter being the „gold standard” for diagnosis.Introducere: Decelarea și supravegherea atentă a pacienților cu leziuni precanceroase – gastrita cronică atrofică (GCA), metaplazia intestinală gastrică (MIG) și displazia epiteliului mucoasei gastrice (DEMG) este o prioritate în vederea creșterii depistării precoce și, implicit, a scăderii mortalității și morbidității prin cancer gastric (CG). Scopul studiului prezent constă în elaborarea unei sinteze narative a studiilor contemporane privind metodele de diagnostic ale GCA. Material și metode: A fost efectuată căutarea studiilor eligibile în bazele de date PubMed, Hinari, SpringerLink şi Scopus (Elsevier) în perioada anilor 2000-2020. Rezultate: Din 575 de articole care abordează tematica leziunilor precanceroase, 59 de articole au fost calificate reprezentative pentru materialele publicate la tema acestui articol de sinteză. Concluzii: Există două abordări metodologice principale pentru evaluarea GCA: examenul non-invaziv serologic folosind marcherii funcției gastrice și examenul invaziv, care necesită analize histologice ale probelor de biopsie prelevate pe parcursul endoscopiei digestive superioare, ultima constituind ”standardul de aur” pentru stabilirea diagnosticului.Введение: Выявление и тщательный мониторинг пациентов с предраковыми поражениями - хроническим атрофическим гастритом (ХАГ), кишечной метаплазией желудка (КМЗ) и эпителиальной дисплазией слизистой оболочки желудка (ДСОЖ) является приоритетом для повышения раннего выявления и, косвенно, снижения смертности и смертности рак желудка (РЖ). Целью данного исследования является разработка нарративного синтеза современных исследований методов диагностики ХАГ. Материалы и методы. В течение 2000-2020 годов проводилось изучение подходящих исследований в базах данных PubMed, Hinari, SpringerLink и Scopus (Elsevier). Результаты: Из 575--ти статей, посвященных теме предраковых поражений, 59 статей были квалифицированным представителем материалов, опубликованных по теме данной сводной статьи. Выводы: существует два основных методологических подхода к оценке GCA: неинвазивное серологическое исследование с использованием маркеров функции желудка и инвазивное исследование, которое требует гистологического анализа биоптатов, взятых во время эндоскопии верхних отделов пищеварения, последнее является «золотым стандартом» для диагностики