The Relationship Between Grit and Montessori: An Educational System

Montessori and Grit 3 Abstract Grit, patience and perseverance are cornerstones of Maria Montessori\u27s pedagogy and the basis of this research. The purpose of this study is to describe how grit, patience and perseverance are character traits that help students reach their highest academic potential, and are essential to students\u27 capacity to succeed and accomplish long-term goals. I used qualitative and quantitative inquiry to determine if the Montessori method elaborates grit and patience in children. The research took place in a children\u27s house classroom located in an urban Montessori school. The results determined that students who received a Montessori education did have more grit and patience toward their long-term goals

Fund Family Selectivity Skills and Market Timing Ability: Comparison Study

This study aims to examine fund family performance, in terms of selectivity skills and marketing timing ability, in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Pakistan in 2007–2021. The sample is divided into three levels. First, analysis of the whole sample. Second, analysis by country. Third, analysis of Islamic- and conventional-focused families. The main results are: First, the fund family provides numerous advantages and facilities to managers, for instance diversification opportunities and market research, allowing them to select stocks well. However, their timing ability is still poor. Second, Saudi Arabia has the best performance while Pakistan has the worst performance. Third, as a novel contribution, there are difference in skills and ability between Islamic and conventional family managers due to their difference in main objectives. The findings are important for managers and investors. Managers can position themselves better relative to their competitors, while investors can more effectively allocate their resources to funds that are managed well by fund families

The Effect of System Quality and User Quality of Information Technology on Internal Audit Effectiveness in Jordan, And the Moderating Effect of Management Support

The goal of this study is to ascertain the moderating role that management support has in internal audit effectiveness in Jordan, as well as the impact of system quality and user quality of information technology. There were 172 responders in all, and they were split across Jordanian auditors. In the data analysis process, the quantitative analysis test— which consists of the validity test, reliability test, test of conventional assumptions, and hypothesis test—is applied. Information technology system and user quality are independent variables in this study. The dependent variable in this study is internal audit effectiveness, and the moderating variable is management support. The results of this study show that the effectiveness of internal audits is significantly impacted by the system quality and user quality of information technology. Additionally, with Management support acting as a moderating factor, the link between System quality and Audit effectiveness improves. The findings also indicate that when moderating variables are present, the connection between User quality and Audit effectiveness changes from positive to negative. Future research might look at risk management

“We are the soul, pearl and beauty of Hindu Kush Mountains”: exploring resilience and psychological wellbeing of Kalasha, an ethnic and religious minority group in Pakistan

The Kalasha are a marginalized ethnic and religious minority group in northern Pakistan. The Kalasha minority is known for their divergent polytheistic beliefs, and represents the outliers of the collectively monotheistic Muslim population of Pakistan. This study aimed to explore the psychological resilience beliefs and lived experiences of the Kalasha and to identify cultural protective factors and indigenous beliefs that help them maintain psychological wellbeing and resilience. Seven semi-structured interviews and two focus-group discussions were conducted. The total sample consisted of 6 women and 8 men, aged 20–58 years (Mage = 36.29, SD = 12.58). The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis qualitative method was chosen. Study findings identified that factors contributing to the wellbeing, happiness and resilience enhancement beliefs of Kalasha included five main themes, all influenced by their unique spirituality: contentment, pride in social identity, tolerance, gender collaboration and gratitude. The study also revealed the Kalasha’s perception of their marginalization related to challenges and threats. The Kalasha emphasized bringing these resilience enhancement beliefs into practice, as a mean to buffer against challenges. In conclusion, this study revealed Kalasha’s wellbeing and resilience enhancement factors, which they believed in and practiced as an element of their indigenous culture and religion

Acute inflammatory myelopathies

Inflammatory injury to the spinal cord causes a well-recognized clinical syndrome. Patients typically develop bilateral weakness, usually involving the legs, although the arms may also become affected, in association with a pattern of sensory changes that suggests a spinal cord dermatomal level. Bowel and bladder impairment is also common in many patients. Recognition of the clinical pattern of spinal cord injury should lead clinicians to perform imaging studies to evaluate for compressive etiologies. MRI of the spine is particularly useful in helping visualize intraparenchymal lesions and when these lesions enhance following contrast administration a diagnosis of myelitis is made. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis can also confirm a diagnosis of myelitis when a leukocytosis is present. There are many causes of non-compressive spinal cord injury including infectious, parainfectious, toxic, nutritional, vascular, systemic as well as idiopathic inflammatory etiologies. This review focuses on inflammatory spinal cord injury and its relationships with multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and systemic collagen vascular and paraneoplastic diseases

دور المعرفة السوقية في اختيار الاستراتيجيات التنافسية في مؤسسات التعليم العالي الخاصة الأردنية

This study aimed for clarifying the role of market knowledge for determining the competitive strategic alternatives, within the sample of (7) private Jordanian universities within the capital Amman. And showing the level of accomplishing the competitive advantages resulting from the chosen alternatives over the students in the universities. Two samples were taken the first one of the management consists of (150) samples, and the other sample of the students consists of (450) students. The main results of this research were: the importance of market knowledge presented by students’ knowledge and competitors’ knowledge for determining the competitive strategic alternatives. The researcher recommended that , the importance of focusing on the core product differentiation strategy and investing in scientific research and the community services due to their low levels in the Jordanian private universities according to the statistical results of this research

Minimal Path Technique for Congestion Management in Electrical Market

 Restructuring of electric power system was mainly introduced in order to create a competition through an electricity market, in such a way to dispatch generators with the lowest bidding prices. However, limitations on the power carrying capability of transmission lines created the problem of congestion. This paper presents a developed technique based on the minimal path concept for managing the congestion problem. The main achievement of this technique, in comparison with other developed methods, is that it does not have to evaluate the contribution of each generator (i.e. distribution factors) in the power flow through each line in the given system, which results in the formulation of a large number of equations to be solved. Instead, it identifies the generators connected to the receiving and sending ends of the congested line, classify these generators into three types (increasing, decreasing and critical) and according to this classification their outputs are decreased and/or increased by specified increments until congestion is solved. Hence, one does not need to formulate equations and then solve it