Hepatic Dysfunction in Typhoid Fever During Pregnancy

We described the hepatic dysfunction found in 10 cases out of 32 women with typhoid fever during pregnancy. This was associated with late diagnosis and maternal and perinatal complications

Insight for Teacher Preparation Program Administrators: Enhancing Pre-service Educators\u27 lntercultural Sensitivity and Deep Proficiency in Culturally Responsive Teaching through Short-Term Study Abroad

Teacher preparation program administrators face the issue of expanding curricula to prepare teacher candidates for the diverse population of students they will encounter {Trent, Kea, Oh, 2008). Globalization demands that teacher candidates grasp how to function in a more integrated and interdependent society (McGrew, 2005). According to Smith-Davis (2004) students from non-English speaking countries compose the fastest growing United States K-12 student population, and those identified as limited English proficient were over 10 million in 2004. The United States Census reported in the New Census Bureau Report the number of individuals five and older who speak languages other than English at home more than doubled in the past three decades (2010). If teacher preparation program leaders fail to prepare future educators with the dispositions, knowledge, and skills necessary to meet the needs of the nation\u27s school population, the national security and economic development may be hindered, and the position of the United States in the world community may be challenged (Zanh, 2011)

Nilai-Nilai Humanisme dalam Novel 99 Cahaya di Langit Eropa

Seiring ramainya karya novel di Indonesia,  beberapa penulis novel yang bergenre religiuspun turut bermunculan, salah satu novel yang bernuasa religi yaitu novel yang berjudul “99 cahaya dilangit erova”. Sayangnya, masih banyak yang menganggap karya sastra novel hanya karya fiksi pengisi waktu luang yang tidak memiliki relevansi dalam kehidupan, sehingga masih banyak yang tidak menghayatinya. Akan tetapi berbeda halnya dengan novel yang satu ini, didalam novel ini tersirat nilai-nilai yang sangat mulya, yakni nilai-nilai humanisme. Dalam tulisan ini peneliti akan mengungkap bagaimana nilai-nilai humanisme yang terdapat didalam novel 99 cahaya di langait eropa. jalannya penelitian ini menggunakan metode konten analisis. Nilai-nilai humanisme yang terdapat didalam novel ini telah menawarkan dirkursus nilai dalam dua entitas sekaligus yaitu secara universal dan partikular. Secara Universal, terkait dengan nilai-nilai religi yang “rahmatan lil alamin”, yang bisa bersentuhan secara positif dengan nilai-nilai universal agama lain. seperti perdamaian, kasih sayang, perhatian dan toleransi. Sementara secara partikular, berhubungan dengan kaidah dan nilai khusus yang membedakan perspektif dalam Islam dengan agama lainnya. Lebih jauh, yang partikular berkaitan dengan urusan khusus yang bersifat nafsi-nafsi terkait dengan ritual keimanan. Sebagai manusia yang berakal, manusia hanya perlu memberikan penghormatan yang tinggi atas kebebasan interpretasi

Simple Experiments and Modeling of Incandescent Lamp Spectra

The purpose of this work is to provide physics students and teachers with a simple experiment in modern physics, which utilizes modern spectroscopic methods and provides computational modeling of incandescent lamp spectra. Captured spectra are modeled with Planck’s radiation distribution, so that a temperature can be extracted. Voltage across and current through the lamp are recorded at the time of spectra capture, and the power and temperature data are fit with the Stefan-Boltzmann law. This experiment is further expanded by investigating the lamp’s resistance as a function of temperature. It is seen that typical incandescent lamps obtained at local retail stores are great examples of blackbody radiators, while the common energy efficient fluorescent lamps are not

Insight for Teacher Preparation Program Administrators: Enhancing Pre-service Educators’ Intercultural Sensitivity and Deep Proficiency in Culturally Responsive Teaching through Short-term Study Abroad

Teacher preparation program administrators face the issue of expanding curricula to prepare teacher candidates for the diverse population of students they will encounter (Trent, Kea, Oh, 2008). Globalization demands that teacher candidates grasp how to function in a more integrated and interdependent society (McGrew, 2005). According to Smith-Davis (2004) students from non-English speaking countries compose the fastest growing United States K-12 student population, and those identified as limited English proficient were over 10 million in 2004. The United States Census reported in the \u27\u27New Census Bureau Report the number of individuals five and older who speak languages other than English at home more than doubled in the past three decades (2010). If teacher preparation program leaders fail to prepare future educators with the dispositions, knowledge, and skills necessary to meet the needs of the nation\u27s school population, the national security and economic development may be hindered, and the position of the United States in the world community may be challenged (Zanh, 2011). Teacher preparation program leaders are faced with how to strengthen teacher candidates\u27 level of intercultural sensitivity and to prepare them to implement culturally responsive pedagogy through course content and other activities (Lin, Lake, & Rice, 2008, p. 188). Integrating multicultural education throughout all courses instead of adding a stand-alone course dedicated to cultural awareness and instruction is one manner to enhance candidates\u27 level of intercultural sensitivity, and this means is supported by many researchers (Cochran-Smith, Davis, & Fries, 2004). Another way to heighten intercultural sensitivity and gain skill in delivering culturally-responsive teaching strategies is through cross-cultural experiences (Foster, 1995; Gay, 2000; McAllister & Irving, 2002; Nieto, 2006). One such cross-cultural experience that deans, department heads, and faculty may explore is short-term study abroad. Short-term study abroad is more affordable and attractive to university students who cannot or will not commit to a semester or yearlong study abroad experience (Donnelly-Smith, 2009). As defined by Donnelly-Smith (2009), short-term study abroad experiences are those where students participate for fewer than eight weeks. These experiences have the potential of positively impacting teacher candidates\u27 intercultural sensitivity (Lawton et al., 2006). DonnellySmith stated that little formal research was displayed in the literature that described study abroad outcomes (2009). The purpose of this paper is to reveal how a short-term study abroad experience affected teacher candidates from a Texas regional university, and thus enhanced their intercultural sensitivity and deepened their knowledge and skill in culturally-responsive teaching strategies. This study was unique from other studies presented in the literature because the focus was how another country implements early childhood education and prepares future teachers. Teacher candidates were afforded an opportunity to compare Italy\u27s early childhood education system to the system they were more familiar with in the United States

Erratum: A NON-LINEAR APPROXIMATE SOLUTION TO THE DAMPED PENDULUM DERIVED USING THE METHOD OF SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATIONS [Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 76, No. 2, Article 9]

In an earlier publication [Hill and Hasbun, 2018] considered an approximate solution to the damped pendulum, named the improved modified method of successive approximations (IMMSA), and compared it to an approximation from the work of [Johannessen, 2014]. Here, a correction is made to that comparison due to an error made in calculating Johannessen\u27s approximation

Death of a PostHuman

Some of the first marks humans left on the planet were the architectures of death and remembrance. From the pyramids of Ancient Egypt to the burial landscapes of the 20th century, today’s architecture of death manifests itself mainly as cemeteries and crematoriums. However, we contend the culture of death in the 21st century has evolved to demand an architecture that acknowledges changes in its culture and its impact on the natural and technological environment. Humans are no longer just human. Our recent evolution has presented two realities, to which the discipline of architecture needs to respond. First, the split presence of the digital and physical identity. Second, the advancements in science and biotechnology that facilitate augmented humanity. From the well established medical devices of today, such as insulin pumps and artificial organs, to more speculative designs such as smart prosthetics and identity microchips. We define this merging of human and technology, of physical and mental, as posthuman. So, when a person dies, the technological parts of them will remain alive through the digital extension of the self, thus making it more plausible to memorialize and perhaps mourn the human, in the absence of the body. Architecture can narrate and recycle our posthuman bodies, creating new types of burial and memorial rituals that can also respond to increasing spatial and environmental challenges presented by traditional burial and cremation

Experimental Behaviour of a Housing Section Built Full Scale With Cold-Formed Steel Shear Wall Panels Under Horizontal Monotonic and Cyclic Loading

This paper presents the results of an experimental study on the behavior of the cold- formed steel shear wall panel (CFSSWP) with fibrocement panels as sheathing, when it is subjected in-plane shear deformations and flexural deformation under perpendicular monotonically increasing horizontal loads on the longest plane. A full-scale housing section was built with three walls and a ceiling using commonly used construction details in El Salvador. The strength and stiffness of the experimental specimen tested overcame significantly critical demand imposed by the technical design standards in this country. Additionally, a simplified finite element model was defined with the objective to analyze stresses in the components. The results of the numerical model were similar to the experimental model tested

Demonstration of a Distributed Bragg Reflector for Polyvinylcarbazole and Cadmium Sulfide Layers: Modeling and Comparison to Experimental Results

Light wave propagation in a periodically stratified medium has many applications in physics, mathematics, and engineering. The subject is of interest to students, teachers, and researchers, as it presents a great opportunity to focus on principles of optics and to understand the basics of mathematical modeling. A complete theory of wave propagation can be derived using Born’s optics theory. We employed that theory to determine the reflectivity of a one-dimensional distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) and do simulations using MATLAB. A DBR is a photonic crystal consisting of alternating layers of materials with different refractive indices. In this study, we modeled theoretical reflectivity of four-period DBR and compared with experimental results previously constructed on a glass substrate and reported by DeSilva et al. (2018). Each period consists of a layer of polyvinyl carbazole and a layer of cadmium sulfide. We used the Cauchy equation for the simulation of the wavelength dependency of the cadmium sulfide refractive index in a wavelength range between 400 and 1000 nm. The theory obtained a center wavelength and a reflectivity for each of the DBR periods in good agreement with the experimental results. Finally, in the appendix, we include a simple MATLAB script that demonstrates the application of the theory to a DBR