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    The Community Project: Creating community and promoting social integration between refugees and host community through physical activities and sport

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    Refugees are not refugees of their own free will, as they have been forced to flee their homes to save their lives or freedom. When they arrive in a host community, they find many difficulties integrating because they do not know the culture or language, they lack family or friends and they often suffer from discrimination and xenophobia. This makes them highly vulnerable and can put them at risk or in a situation of social exclusion

    Religious revelation, secrecy and the limits of visual representation

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    This article seeks to contribute to a more adequate understanding of the adoption of modern audiovisual mass media by contemporary religious groups. It does so by examining Pentecostal-charismatic churches as well as the Christian mass culture instigated by its popularity, and so-called traditional religion in Ghana, which develop markedly different attitudes towards audiovisual mass media and assume different positions in the public sphere. Taking into account the complicated entanglement of traditional religion and Pentecostalism, approaching both religions from a perspective of mediation which regards media as intrinsic to religion, and seeking to avoid the pitfall of overestimating the power of modern mass media to determine the world, this article seeks to move beyond an unproductive recurrence to oppositions such as tradition and modernity, or religion and technology. It is argued that instead of taking as a point of departure more or less set ideas about the nexus of vision and modernity, the adoption of new mass media by religious groups needs to be analyzed by a detailed ethnographic investigation of how these new media transform existing practices of religious mediation. Special emphasis is placed on the tension between the possibilities of gaining public presence through new media, and the difficulty in authorizing these media, and the experiences they induce, as authentic. Copyright © 2006 SAGE Publications

    Relació entre les habilitats de processament fonològic (llengua catalana i castellana) i les habilitats de processament ortogràfic (llengua anglesa) en nens i nenes dislèctics d’entre 8 i 14 anys

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    The main objective of this piece of research was to look in greater depth at the relationship between the phonological processing abilities and the orthographic processing abilities in Catalan, Spanish and English of dyslexic children aged between 8 and 14. We based the research on the Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis and the theory of orthographic depth. We administered a battery of tasks to evaluate phonological processing and orthographic processing abilities. The results indicate that the development of phonological and orthographic abilities in dyslexic people is lower than in the control group, We also found a very slight dependency relationship between phonological processing skills in Catalan and in Spanish and orthographic processing skills in English in both groups. The results do not allow sufficient comparison of the two theories to be madeL’objectiu de la investigació ha estat aprofundir en la relació entre les habilitats de processament fonològic i les habilitats de processament ortogràfic en llengua catalana, castellana i anglesa, en infants dislèctics de 8 a 14 anys. Hem sustentat la investigació en la teoria de la interdependència lingüística i la teoria de la profunditat ortogràfica. Per a fer-ho, hem administrat una bateria de tasques per avaluar les HPF (consciència fonèmica, lectura de pseudoparaules i repetició de pseudoparaules) i les HPO (lectura homòfons, elecció homòfons/pseudohomòfons, fluïdesa ortogràfica en les tres llengües i codificació ortogràfica expressiva). Els resultats, indiquen que el desenvolupament de les HPF i les HPO en els dislèctics és inferior que el grup control .També s’ha trobat una relació de dependència molt discreta entre les HPF en català i castellà i les HPO en anglès en ambdós grups. Els resultats no permeten contrastar suficientment les dues teorie

    Relació entre les habilitats de processament fonològic (llengua catalana i castellana) i les habilitats de processament ortogràfic (llengua anglesa) en nens i nenes dislèctics d’entre 8 i 14 anys

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    The main objective of this piece of research was to look in greater depth at the relationship between the phonological processing abilities and the orthographic processing abilities in Catalan, Spanish and English of dyslexic children aged between 8 and 14. We based the research on the Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis and the theory of orthographic depth. We administered a battery of tasks to evaluate phonological processing and orthographic processing abilities. The results indicate that the development of phonological and orthographic abilities in dyslexic people is lower than in the control group, We also found a very slight dependency relationship between phonological processing skills in Catalan and in Spanish and orthographic processing skills in English in both groups. The results do not allow sufficient comparison of the two theories to be madeL’objectiu de la investigació ha estat aprofundir en la relació entre les habilitats de processament fonològic i les habilitats de processament ortogràfic en llengua catalana, castellana i anglesa, en infants dislèctics de 8 a 14 anys. Hem sustentat la investigació en la teoria de la interdependència lingüística i la teoria de la profunditat ortogràfica. Per a fer-ho, hem administrat una bateria de tasques per avaluar les HPF (consciència fonèmica, lectura de pseudoparaules i repetició de pseudoparaules) i les HPO (lectura homòfons, elecció homòfons/pseudohomòfons, fluïdesa ortogràfica en les tres llengües i codificació ortogràfica expressiva). Els resultats, indiquen que el desenvolupament de les HPF i les HPO en els dislèctics és inferior que el grup control .També s’ha trobat una relació de dependència molt discreta entre les HPF en català i castellà i les HPO en anglès en ambdós grups. Els resultats no permeten contrastar suficientment les dues teorie

    Els rols de gènere en l'àmbit de l'educació física

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    El projecte Pràctica Bimba és una col·lecció de contes infantils que pretén trencar amb la rigidesa de l’educació dels rols de gènere que anem experimentant en el procés de socialització. Aquesta rigidesa en les expectatives conductuals i en el reforç o el càstig, ni que sigui subtil, de les nostres conductes o preferències, dificulta el desenvolupament ple de la formació integral de les persones. En aquest article, s’hi fa un repàs als possibles motius d’aquesta situació i s’hi presenta un projecte pedagògic que es proposa intervenir en aquest àmbit emprant l’esport com a eina educativa

    Joves, oci i risc

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    Taula rodona coordinada per Jaume Trilla que se centra en els riscos i les oportunitats que poden trobar els joves en els espais i temps d’oci, com a àmbits de consum, però també de socialització. S’inclou en aquest àmbit el lleure comercial i no comercial, les pràctiques esportives, competitives i amateurs, les pràctiques culturals, així com també els temes relacionats amb els mitjans de comunicació i les noves tecnologie

    ANEMIA, MOTOR, LANGUAGE, SOCIAL PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTS AMONG CHILDREN UNDER TWO YEARS OLD IN RURAL AREAS, WONOSOBO, CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA

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    Background: Anemia is a condition where the hemoglobin level in the blood is lower than normal, which can be caused by malnutrition of micronutrients. Several studies that examine anemia among children under two years old, allegedly showed a negative impact on child development. This study aimed to determine the relationship between anemia and developmental status among children under two years old. Subjects and Method: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Wonosobo Regency, Central Java, in 2019. A total of 290 children under two years old was selected for this study. The dependent variables were motor development, language development, and social personal development. The independent variable was anemia. The data of anemia was based on the results of hemoglobin levels examination using the Hemocue technique. The measurement of developmental status was measured using Developmental Milestone Checklist II. The data were analyzed using Chi-square test. Results: Most of the children under two years old had anemia (69.3%), experienced motor development problems (27.6%); language development barrier (11.0%), and experiencing barriers to personal social development (68.3%). This study showed that anemia was not related with motor development, language development, and social personal development, and there were not statistically significant. Conclusion: There is no relationship between anemia among children under two years old and the three aspects of child development in Wonosobo Regency, Central Java, Indonesia Keywords: anemia, development, children, children under two years old Correspondence: Hadi Ashar. Research and Development Center for Health Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. Email: [email protected]

    A systematic linguistic profile of spontaneous narrative speech in pre-symptomatic and early stage Huntington's disease

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    Cognitive decline accompanying the clinically more salient motor symptoms of Huntington's disease (HD) has been widely noted and can precede motor symptoms onset. Less clear is how such decline bears on language functions in everyday life, though a small number of experimental studies have revealed difficulties with the application of rule-based aspects of language in early stages of the disease. Here we aimed to determine whether there is a systematic linguistic profile that characterizes spontaneous narrative speech in both pre-manifest and/or early manifest HD, and how it is related to striatal degeneration and neuropsychological profiles. Twenty-eight early-stage patients (19 manifest and 9 gene-carriers in the pre-manifest stage), matched with 28 controls, participated in a story-telling task. Speech was blindly scored by independent raters according to fine-grained linguistic variables distributed over 5 domains for which composite scores were computed (Quantitative, Fluency, Reference, Connectivity, and Concordance). Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to link specific brain degeneration patterns to loci of linguistic decline. In all of these domains, significant differences were observed between groups. Deficits in Reference and Connectivity were seen in the pre-manifest stage, where no other neuropsychological impairment was detected. Among HD patients, there was a significant positive correlation only between the values in the Quantitative domain and gray matter volume bilaterally in the putamen and pallidum. These results fill the gap of qualitative data of spontaneous narrative speech in HD and reveal that HD is characterized by systematic linguistic impairments leading to dysfluencies and disorganization in core domains of grammatical organization. This includes the referential use of noun phrases and the embedding of clauses, which mediate crucial dimensions of meaning in language in its normal social use. Moreover, such impairment is seen prior to motor symptoms onset and when standardized neuropsychological test profiles are otherwise normal
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