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The Use of Social Stories to Teach Appropriate Social Skills to Create a Peaceful Classroom Environment

This action research was motivated by the researcher\u27s own classroom observations of student behavior and social interactions as well as an interest in how social stories have been proven to help individual students in social situations. Having had individual students who benefitted from social stories, the researcher\u27s interest grew; the researcher wondered if this same process could be used with an entire class. The researcher is a kindergarten teacher in her fifth year of teaching and had her own students participate in the implementation of reviewing social stories to practice social skills to improve the overall quality of the classroom environment. This study took place over a 14-week period where a new social skill was introduced via social story each week. Over the course of the week, the given social story was repeated each day as well as on an as-needed basis for individual students. The data reflected irregularities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making the study inconclusive

The Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Neuronal Cell Morphology In Vitro

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and subsequent rises in intracranial pressure (ICP) are associated with high mortality and has a number of physical and behavorial consequences to which the specific causes are unknown. We hypothesized that exposure of neuronal cells to elevated pressure can cause neurite retraction and / or apoptosis. Loss of communication between neurons due to these cellular-level events may play a part in complications seen in TBI patients, such as neurodegenerative diseases, increased anxiety, fear, depression, cognitive problems, as well as motor and visual deficits. In the present study, the effect of elevated hydrostatic pressure was evaluated at the cellular level in vitro by examining cell morphology, particularly neurite retraction and extension, as well as apoptosis. Neuro-2A cells (a mouse neuroblastoma cell line) were plated in cell culture dishes, as well as on soft polyacrylamide gel + type I collagen substrates. The cells were imaged using phase contrast microscopy (Nikon) before and after exposure to 25 or 35 mmHg of hydrostatic pressure in a custom-made pressure chamber for 15, 30, 60 min, as well as 4 and 6 hours. Pressure values were chosen to model elevated ICP correlated with moderate to severe TBI. Using the Fiji software, the post-pressure images were compared with the pre-pressure images of the same cells and the data were reported as normalized change in neurite length per cell. Additionally, TUNEL assay was performed using a commercially available kit (TiterTACSTM, Trevigen) to quantify apoptotic cells after exposure of Neuro-2A cells to 35 mmHg pressure. Results indicate that neurite length decreased significantly (p\u3c0.05) when Neuro-2A cells were exposed to a pressure of 35 mmHg. When results are compared from 15, 30, 60 minutes and 4 hours of pressure exposure, it appears that neurite retraction is correlated with exposure time. To further understand these morphological changes, the Rho/ROCK pathway was examined as a potential pathway involved in the mechanotransduction of hydrostatic pressure by neuronal cells. By using Y-27632 as a p160ROCK inhibitor, it was demonstrated that the pressure-induced neurite retraction response was blocked, therefore indicating the pathway\u27s involvement. The results of TUNEL assay indicated that the number of apoptotic cells were similar between the no pressure control and the cells exposed to 35 mmHg of pressure for 24 hours. The results of the present study provide evidence that elevated hydrostatic pressure causes Neuro-2A cell neurite retraction in a time-dependent manner in vitro. The model highlights the importance of urgent ICP clinical management, as elevated ICP caused by TBI may have a negative impact on neuronal tissue and contribute to further consequences

Becoming a Master Manager: An Analysis of SNAP Recipient Stories of Navigating Government Assistance

This study examines experiences of utilizing government assistance in the United States. It focuses on the ways in which persons participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) communicatively managed their lives in relation to their role in the program. Specifically, the research reveals that SNAP recipients are master managers. After synthesizing the pre-existing body of research concerning social assistance in the U.S. and its effects on those who utilize it, the author argues that sharing the stories of marginalized groups can serve to reduce stigma surrounding government assistance participation. Employing a Feminist Standpoint Theory sensibility to elicit such stories, the author drew out narratives gathered through qualitative interviews with current SNAP participants. Findings indicate that communicative management of SNAP participation was experienced as multi-layered and complex. Positioned to navigate the carceral environment of the SNAP program, participants adopted various disciplined communicative actions as they managed program membership, stigmatized identity, and behavioral surveillance

Land Policy and \u3ci\u3eAdat\u3c/i\u3e Law in Indonesia\u27s Forests

The Indonesian government\u27s land laws and policies lead to displacement of and hardship for the indigenous peoples of the archipelago. The Basic Agrarian Law, Basic Forestry Law, and Spatial Planning Law all allow for expropriation of indigenous lands formerly governed under the adat legal system. In addition, the central government\u27s policy of transmigration—the shifting of people from the populous Inner Islands of Java, Bali, and Madura to the Outer Islands—only increases the economic and cultural pressure on indigenous peoples of the Outer Islands. The hopelessness and anger that result from the marginalization of traditional adat societies fuel violent ethnic conflicts, in which tribes such as the Dayak of Kalimantan seek to drive out the transmigrants and the timber and mining interests that have acquired rights to the Dayak\u27s traditional lands. Thousands of people have been killed or displaced as a result of these clashes. The government of Indonesia needs to reform its land laws and honor adat principles of land use, before further violence erupts. The ultimate stake in this bloody game is the very survival of the indigenous peoples\u27 way of life

A Work in Progress: Establishing, Growing, and Maintaining Working Relationships Between Educational Interpreters and their Administrators

Since the implication of federal laws, such as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) Deaf and Hard of Hearing children are able to attend public school districts (Seal, 2004). While an educational interpreter is working in a unique setting, often alone, it is important to have an administrator and network of professionals to reach out to share successes with and to have support from, in times of need. Through personal experiences and conversation with colleagues, it has been shared that working relationships between educational interpreters and their administrator can vary. This thesis identifies who is being assigned as an administrator to educational interpreters and it looks at the working relationships that educational interpreters have with their administrator. Data relating to current working relationships between educational interpreters and their administrators was gathered via an online survey. This survey was sent out across the United States to collect a range of perspectives from educational interpreters. This thesis also takes a look at the personalities of educational interpreters, as well as their administrators and how that could impact their working relationships. It is the hope that the research found can act as a basis for educational interpreters to conduct conversations around creating, building, and maintaining a working relationship with their administrators to ensure their success in the field

PAREIDOLIA : A Photographic Exploration of Multistable Perception

“The whole is other than the sum of the parts. ‐Kurt Koffka1 I have always been fascinated by the potential to explore visual perception uninhibited by traditional perspectives. I believe there are multiple ways to interpret and perceive a single object in a work of art. I was driven to create a series of images that embrace ambiguity by changing the normal perspective by which we usually perceive a scene. By flipping, mirroring, and reflecting my traditional landscape and nude photographs, I strive to produce an experience of transformational surrealism. This allows the imagination to see what it wants to see by offering a scene that requires its viewer to discern it piece by piece. Influenced by the psychological theories of Rorschach and the ideas of gestaltism, I explore perception. I photographed the New Mexico, Arkansas, and Texas landscape juxtaposed with the female nude and applied the idea of multistable perception to my pieces, so that the viewer may have an ambiguous visual experience and derive multiple interpretations. In addition to questioning perception as a whole, I am also interested in examining the interdependent relationship between humans and nature. I strive to separate the photographs of the natural landscape and the female body from labels that are usually associated with these subjects. I want a rock to be more than just a rock, a cave to be more than just a cave, the curve of a body to be more than just the curve of a body. I want to create a work of art in which the whole is other than the sum of the parts (Koffka).