The Effect of Classroom Management Ability and Teaching Style on the Teaching Readiness of Students of the Social Sciences Study Program of UIN North Sumatra Medan in the Micro Teaching Class for the 2023-2024 Academic Year

This study examines and analyzes the readiness of students in teaching, especially those who can manage classes and teach classroom social studies students for the 2023-2024 academic year at UIN North Sumatra Medan. This study focuses on the ability to manage courses, teaching styles, and readiness to teach students using quantitative research with an ex post facto approach. Data collection uses a questionnaire using the spss test version 2.2. This study uses two variables, namely classroom management (X1), teaching style (X2), and student teaching readiness (Y). The primary data used in this study is in the form of a questionnaire with 103 respondents. There was an influence between classroom management and teaching readiness because the t-value of the t-table > ( 7,994 > 1,984) and the significance level was 0.000 < 0.05. There was an influence between teaching style and teaching readiness because the t-value of the t-calculation > t table (9.224 > 1.984) and the significance level was 0.000 < 0.05. The simultaneity of Teaching Style and Classroom Management affects teaching readiness because of the value of f calculation > f table (27,635 > 3.09) and the significance level of 0.000 < 0.05. &nbsp

Brain Abscess in a Child. Case Report

Brain abscesses in children are rare, but can lead to severe complications, especially if they are not recognized and treated promptly.We present the clinical case of a four-year-old girl who was admitted in the Second pediatric clinic at St. Marina University hospital in Varna because of attacks of severe frontal headache, sometimes accompanied by vomiting. The child was first hospitalized at the Infectious disease clinic for a bacterial intestinal infection, but during the hospital stay the attacks became more frequent. After the child was discharged, the parents noticed that the movements of the left limbs were severely impaired, with the left leg being swayed during walking. At the Second pediatric clinic, the child was conscious, afebrile, with normal general exam, but with pronounced syndrome of meningeal irritation and with left hemiparesis. Blood tests showed evidence of bacterial infection. Computed tomography was performed, where a large cystic formation (70/50 mm) was visualized in the right cerebral hemisphere, corresponding to an abscess with severe dislocation, requiring surgery to be performed urgently. The child had a smooth post-operative period, with no evidence of infection and no seizures. The focal neurological signs regressed over the following few days. A repeat CT scan of the head showed complete evacuation of the abscess and reduction of the edema. The girl was discharged on the fifteenth day, in good overall condition, with no headaches, and with fully restored motor activity. We discuss the diagnosis, differential diagnosis, the role of timely imaging and the treatment applied for the good prognosis of the patient

Endogenous Testosterone Modulates Prefrontal–Amygdala Connectivity during Social Emotional Behavior

It is clear that the steroid hormone testosterone plays an important role in the regulation of social emotional behavior, but it remains unknown which neural circuits mediate these hormonal influences in humans. We investigated the modulatory effects of endogenous testosterone on the control of social emotional behavior by applying functional magnetic resonance imaging while healthy male participants performed a social approach–avoidance task. This task operationalized social emotional behavior by having participants approach and avoid emotional faces by pulling and pushing a joystick, respectively. Affect-congruent trials mapped the automatic tendency to approach happy faces and avoid angry faces. Affect-incongruent trials required participants to override those automatic action tendencies and select the opposite response (approach-angry, avoid-happy). The social emotional control required by affect-incongruent responses resulted in longer reaction times (RTs) and increased activity at the border of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and frontal pole (VLPFC/FP). We show that endogenous testosterone modulates these cerebral congruency effects through 2 mechanisms. First, participants with lower testosterone levels generate larger VLPFC/FP responses during affect-incongruent trials. Second, during the same trials, endogenous testosterone modulates the effective connectivity between the VLPFC/FP and the amygdala. These results indicate that endogenous testosterone influences local prefrontal activity and interregional connectivity supporting the control of social emotional behavior

AGGRERESSION IN THE WORKING ENVIRNOMENT: A CROSS-SECTORAL SURVEY IN CROATIA

Background: Workplace aggression constitutes a serious problem in individual, organizational and social cause-effect relations. The aim is to determine the prevalence of such aggression on the pilot sample to test the appropriateness of the research design for the further conduct of a national survey on the specified topic. Subjects and methods: The sample included 113 employees in the city of Split, deployed within the public, profit and non-profit sectors. The research was conducted through an online survey. The questionnaire consisted of pre-coded questions on the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents and their perception of interrelations with colleagues and clients/customers of products and services, exposure to various forms of physical and verbal aggression and the frequency of somatic and psychical problems caused by the workplace conditions and interrelations in this context. Results: Although participants did not suffer direct physical assault from associates, and only two of them have experienced it from clients/customers, they emphasize the frequency of psychical workplace abuse through more subtle forms of physical and verbal aggression.The training of employees at all hierarchical levels is required for the better understanding of the roles of their associates and clients/customers. Its effects strengthen their mutual respect, tolerance and solidarity. In this way, the interrelations that many respondents do not see as good or excellent can be improved, hence improving the prevention of aggression. Conclusions: The study of aggression should include a broader social context. Aggression tends towards a quantitative and qualitative expansion in different environments. When individuals seek some benefit for themselves in a dubious way, while neglecting others, aggressive acts are foreseeable. Therefore, Croatian society has the foundation for aggressive behavior, as it is unable to make the consensual practice of a moral, political and economic recovery

Iron overload as a consequence of red blood cell transfusions in patients with hematological diseases

Preopterećenje željezom česta je i ozbiljna komplikacija višestrukih transfuzija deplazmatiziranih eritrocita koja pridonosi oštećenju organa te utječe na preživljenje bolesnika s hematološkim bolestima. U ruti nskoj praksi koristi se više metoda za procjenu preopterećenja željezom. Liječenje kelatorima željeza preporučuje se kada serumski feriti n premaši 1.000 ug/L i/ili ako je bolesnik primio više od 20 jedinica deplazmati ziranih eritrocita. Učinkoviti kelatori željeza neprocjenjivo su važni u liječenju preopterećenja željezom bolesnika s hematološkim bolesti ma koji zahti jevaju višestruke transfuzije krvi te dokazano smanjuju njihov morbiditet i poboljšavaju kvalitetu života.Iron overload is a very common and serious complicati on of repeated red blood cell transfusions which contributes to organ dysfuncti on and influences survival in patients with hematological diseases. Several methods for measuring ti ssue iron content are used in every-day practice. Iron chelation therapy is recommanded when serum ferriti n levels reach 1000 ug/L and/or in pati ents who have previously received more then 20 units of red blood cell. Effective iron chelators are essenti al in the management of iron overload of hematological patients that require repeted blood transfusions with proved reducti on of morbidity and improvement of their quality of life