TEACHING SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-REGULATION TECHNIQUES TO A CHILD WITH AUTISM SPECTUM DISORDER

Self-awareness and self-regulation yoga techniques lead to stress management, reducing anxiety and well-being of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. The current study seeks to investigate the degree of the autonomous involvement of an 11-year-old girl with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the self-awareness and self-regulation yoga exercises. The research was designed as an educational intervention. The intervention was applied once a week for 3 months, and took place at the sensory room of “School for all: Tokei Maru” at Include in Thessaloniki. Research diaries and observation protocols, by participant and external observers, were used for data collection before, during and after the intervention. According to the research findings, girl’s degree and quality of involvement improved during the intervention, so that she managed to use specific techniques autonomously. Research findings cannot be generalized, but they are encouraging in developing effective self-awareness and self-regulation programs for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in future research

Post-conflict situations, conciliatory acts and relationship satisfaction in intimate relationships

The results of three studies are discussed in this thesis. In the first study, possible relationships between jealousy, aggression, sexual desire and post-conflict sex were investigated in a sample of 128 students and professionals from the East Midlands area. A model was proposed which predicted that jealousy will affect aggression; aggression will affect sexual desire and sexual desire will affect the possibility of post-conflict sex. Correlational analysis revealed that jealousy was significantly correlated to aggression and sexual desire; also, a strong significant relationship was found between aggression and post-conflict sex. Correlations were also discovered between aggression and sexual desire and between sexual desire and post-conflict sex. Further analysis using Structural Equation Modelling tested and supported a model which showed that jealousy influenced aggression and sexual desire, which in turn may influence post-conflict sex. The second study explored partners' possible conciliatory acts in post-conflict situations. The aim was to gain insight in the peace-making process and identify the ways in which . partners attempt to reach closure over an argument and return to how they were before the argument occurred. Interviews with 13 males and females were conducted. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using Thematic Networks Analysis. The results revealed that participants reached 'Perceived Closure' through four possible pathways a) Avoiding further conflict, b) Gaining control of the situation, c) Providing/receiving assurances, and d) Achieving normality. The exact processes involved in these pathways were found to be defined by clusters of basic themes. The themes that emerged showed that participants used affection, sex, distancing, apology and humour in order to return to normality and reach closure. This process was shown to be gradual as participants reported adopting a step-by-step approach that involves trying to gain control of their feelings and the situation, avoiding further arguments, reinstating feelings of security and safety and attempting to reinstate a sense of normality. The third study was designed to explore post-conflict conciliatory acts and investigate possible correlations with relationship satisfaction and positive and negative conflict outcomes patterns. The sample consisted of 139 partiCipants from the East Midlands area. The main findings were that participants who adopt constructive conflict styles (as shown from positive conflict outcomes) tend experience higher relationship satisfaction. Use of post-conflict conciliatory strategies was also predictive of higher relationship satisfaction.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

«Η επίδραση της αυτό-αποτελεσματικότητας καθηγητών Φυσικής στην κοινωνική εγκυρότητα της εφαρμογής της εξ-αποστάσεως διδασκαλίας».

Κατά τη διάρκεια της υγειονομικής κρίσης του COVID-19, πολλές χώρες πήραν την απόφαση να κλείσουν τα σχολεία με στόχο τον περιορισμό της μεταδοτικότητας στους πληθυσμούς τους. Οι αποφάσεις αυτές επηρέασαν σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο το εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα, το οποίο έκανε μια σημαντική στροφή στην εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευση. Η εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευση υπήρχε ήδη σαν μέρος της εκπαιδευτικής διαδικασίας ως τρόπος διδασκαλίας, ιδίως στην εκπαίδευση ενηλίκων, όμως για πρώτη φορά σύσσωμη η εκπαιδευτική κοινότητα βρέθηκε αντιμέτωπη με αυτόν τον τρόπο διδασκαλίας. Βασισμένοι στη θεωρία του Bandura (1977), η αυτό-αποτελεσματικότητα των εκπαιδευτικών σχετίζεται με το πόσο ισχυρές είναι οι πεποιθήσεις τους ότι μπορούν να αντιμετωπίσουν δεδομένες καταστάσεις. Η έρευνα αυτή συνοψίζει τις απόψεις 78 καθηγητών Φυσικής Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης που δίδασκαν κατά τη διάρκεια της πανδημίας, την άνοιξη του 2020, και αναλύει την αυτό-αποτελεσματικότητά τους στην κοινωνική εγκυρότητα της εφαρμογής αυτού του τρόπου διδασκαλίας. Σύμφωνα με την ανάλυση η αποδοχή ή μη της εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης επηρεάζεται θετικά από την ικανότητα διαχείρισης των αλλαγών και της παροχής κινήτρων στους μαθητές εκ μέρους των εκπαιδευτικών. Ταυτόχρονα η αποδοχή της κοινωνικής εγκυρότητας της εξ αποστάσεως διδασκαλίας σχετίζεται ισχυρά με τις μεταβλητές χρήση της τεχνολογίας, παροχή κινήτρων στους μαθητές και τη διδασκαλία του μαθήματος της Φυσικής, ενώ σχετίζεται μέτρια και θετικά με τη μεταβλητή ικανότητα διαχείρισης των αλλαγών.During the COVID-19 health crisis, many countries decided to close schools to reduce the contagiousness in their populations. These decisions have affected the education system worldwide, which has made a significant shift to distance education. Distance education already existed as part of the educational process as a way of teaching, especially in adult education, but for the first time the educational community as a whole was confronted with this way of teaching. Based on the theory of Bandura (1977), teachers' self-efficacy is related to how strong they believe that they can handle given situations. This research summarizes the views of 78 Physics teachers in Secondary Education who taught during the pandemic, in the spring of 2020, and analyzes their self-efficacy in the social validity of the application of this method of teaching. According to the analysis, the acceptance or not of distance education is positively affected by the ability of teachers to manage change and provide motivation to students. At the same time, the acceptance of the social validity of distance learning is strongly related to the variables of technology use, motivation of students and the teaching of the Physics lesson, while it is moderately and positively related to the variable ability to manage change

La anastilosis arqueológica de dos tumbas macedonias en un ambiente virtual 3D

[EN] Archaeological restoration of monuments is a practice requiring extreme caution and thorough study. Archaeologists and conservation experts are very reluctant to proceed to restoration and indeed to reconstruction actions without detailed consultation and thought. Nowadays, anastylosis executed on the real object is practically prohibited. Contemporary technologies have provided archaeologists and other conservation experts with the tools to embark on virtual restorations or anastyloses, thus testing various alternatives without physical intervention on the monument itself. In this way, the values of the monuments are respected according to international conventions. In this paper, two such examples of virtual archaeological anastyloses of two important Macedonian tombs in northern Greece are presented. The anastyloses were performed on three-dimensional (3D) models which have been produced using modern digital 3D documentation techniques, such as image-based modelling and terrestrial[ES] La restauración arqueológica de monumentos es una práctica que requiere extrema precaución y un estudio exhaustivo. Los arqueólogos y expertos en conservación evitan normalmente proceder a la restauración y a las acciones de reconstrucción sin reflexión y una consulta detallada. Actualmente, la ejecución de anastilosis sobre el objeto real está generalmente prohibida. Las tecnologías contemporáneas han proporcionado las herramientas a los arqueólogos y otros expertos en conservación para embarcarse en restauraciones virtuales o anastilosis, probando así varias alternativas sin intervención física en el monumento. De esta manera, los valores de los monumentos se respetan de acuerdo a las convenciones internacionales. En este artículo, se presentan dos ejemplos de anastilosis arqueológicas virtuales de dos importantes tumbas macedonias en el norte de Grecia. Las anastilosis se realizaron en los modelos tridimensionales (3D) que se han producido empleando técnicas modernas de documentacióStampouloglou, M.; Toska, O.; Tapinaki, S.; Kontogianni, G.; Skamantzari, M.; Georgopoulos, A. (2020). Archaeological anastylosis of two Macedonian tombs in a 3D virtual environment. Virtual Archaeology Review. 11(22):26-40. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2020.11877OJS26401122Adembri, B., Cipriani, L., & Bertacchi, G. (2018). Virtual anastylosis applied to the architectural decoration of mixtilinear buildings in Villa Adriana: the case study of the scattered friezes of the Teatro Marittimo. Applied Geomatics,10(4), 279-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12518-018-0207-5Andronikos, M. (1987). Some Reflections on the Macedonian Tombs. 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Impact of a 6-wk olive oil supplementation in healthy adults on urinary proteomic biomarkers of coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes (types 1 and 2): a randomized, parallel, controlled, double-blind study

Background: Olive oil (OO) consumption is associated with cardiovascular disease prevention because of both its oleic acid and phenolic contents. The capacity of OO phenolics to protect against low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation is the basis for a health claim by the European Food Safety Authority. Proteomic biomarkers enable an early, presymptomatic diagnosis of disease, which makes them important and effective, but understudied, tools for primary prevention. Objective: We evaluated the impact of supplementation with OO, either low or high in phenolics, on urinary proteomic biomarkers of coronary artery disease (CAD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), and diabetes. Design: Self-reported healthy participants (n = 69) were randomly allocated (stratified block random assignment) according to age and body mass index to supplementation with a daily 20-mL dose of OO either low or high in phenolics (18 compared with 286 mg caffeic acid equivalents per kg, respectively) for 6 wk. Urinary proteomic biomarkers were measured at baseline and 3 and 6 wk alongside blood lipids, the antioxidant capacity, and glycation markers. Results: The consumption of both OOs improved the proteomic CAD score at endpoint compared with baseline (mean improvement: –0.3 for low-phenolic OO and −0.2 for high-phenolic OO; P < 0.01) but not CKD or diabetes proteomic biomarkers. However, there was no difference between groups for changes in proteomic biomarkers or any secondary outcomes including plasma triacylglycerols, oxidized LDL, and LDL cholesterol. Conclusion: In comparison with low-phenolic OO, supplementation for 6 wk with high-phenolic OO does not lead to an improvement in cardiovascular health markers in a healthy cohort. This trial was registered at www.controlled-trials.com as ISRCTN93136746

Effect of Uniaxial Compression Frequency on Osteogenic Cell Responses in Dynamic 3D Cultures

The application of mechanical stimulation on bone tissue engineering constructs aims to mimic the native dynamic nature of bone. Although many attempts have been made to evaluate the effect of applied mechanical stimuli on osteogenic differentiation, the conditions that govern this process have not yet been fully explored. In this study, pre-osteoblastic cells were seeded on PLLA/PCL/PHBV (90/5/5 wt.%) polymeric blend scaffolds. The constructs were subjected every day to cyclic uniaxial compression for 40 min at a displacement of 400 μm, using three frequency values, 0.5, 1, and 1.5 Hz, for up to 21 days, and their osteogenic response was compared to that of static cultures. Finite element simulation was performed to validate the scaffold design and the loading direction, and to assure that cells inside the scaffolds would be subjected to significant levels of strain during stimulation. None of the applied loading conditions negatively affected the cell viability. The alkaline phosphatase activity data indicated significantly higher values at all dynamic conditions compared to the static ones at day 7, with the highest response being observed at 0.5 Hz. Collagen and calcium production were significantly increased compared to static controls. These results indicate that all of the examined frequencies substantially promoted the osteogenic capacity