Cultural Humility and Grace in Explicitly Christian Programs

Cultural Humility is a vital component of healthy attitudes characterized by lack of superiority towards other’s cultural experiences (Hook, Davis, Owen, Worthington, & Utsey, 2013). To date, no published research has examined the impact of cultural competency training on the development of Cultural Humility and Grace among doctoral psychology students. Utilizing Hook et al.’s definition of Cultural Humility, this study examined how participation in an American Psychological Association accredited clinical psychology program affected the Cultural Humility and Grace of enrolled students. Data were collected from students, faculty, and clinical supervisors across three training settings during the 2017-2018 academic year. Students and faculty completed measures developed for this study. Student self-ratings included a Cultural Experiences Measure, Cultural Humility Scale, and the Dimensions of Grace Scale (Bufford, Sisemore, & Blackburn, 2017). Faculty evaluated students utilizing the Cultural Humility Scale. Clinical Supervisor ratings were obtained from archival data that documented achievement of APA competencies. Findings revealed similar underlying concepts between Cultural Experiences, Cultural Humility, and Grace while shedding light on the decline in Grace to Others, that may be attributed to developmental processes and stressors of rigorous professional training, competition for resources and rearranging of faith. Grace and Cultural Humility were found to be somewhat related; specifically, Grace to Others was positively related to Cultural Humility. A small negative correlation was found between students’ program year and level of Grace. No correlation was found between students’ year in the program and levels of Cultural Experience or Cultural Humility. Analysis of covariance found no changes in Cultural Experience or Cultural Humility from Time1 to Time2. Grace scores were significantly lower for Grace to Others at Time2. Gender effects revealed higher levels of Grace of God1 among male participants which could reflect a paternalistic view of God, religious and cultural views of men being the spiritual leader of the family or head of the household. Conversely, women scored higher on measures of Cultural Experiences and Cultural Humility. Age effects revealed older participants scored higher on Grace to Self3, which reflects a developmental process of self-acceptance

Longitudinal associations between parental rejection and bullying/victimization

The present study investigated the direction of the relationship between parental rejection and children’s engagement in bullying and victimization. Using a cross-lagged design, we examined whether (a) bullying and victimization predict an increase in parental rejection six months later, (b) parental rejection predicts an increase in bullying and victimization six months later, and (c) there is a reciprocal association between bullying/victimization and parental rejection. The participants were 846 early adolescents (mean age = 12.63 years) randomly selected from primary and secondary schools in Cyprus and Greece (375 Cypriots, 471 Greek students) and their parents. Children completed a translated version of the Personal Experiences Checklist–(PECK) and the Rejection subscale of the Parental Acceptance/Rejection Questionnaire. The results showed that parental rejection at Time 1 predicted significantly victimization at Time 2. Parental rejection however, was not a significant predictor of bullying. Moreover, bullying and victimization at Time 1 predicted significantly parental rejection at Time 2. These results provide further insight at the theoretical level in as far our understanding of the familial dynamics in bullying victimization and may provide clinical implications in relation to counselling of victimized children and their parents. © 2017 SEBDA

Adding QoS Protection in Order to Enhance MPLS QoS Routing

In this paper, a method for enhancing current QoS routing methods by means of QoS protection is presented. In an MPLS network, the segments (links) to be protected are predefined and an LSP request involves, apart from establishing a working path, creating a specific type of backup path (local, reverse or global). Different QoS parameters, such as network load balancing, resource optimization and minimization of LSP request rejection should be considered. QoS protection is defined as a function of QoS parameters, such as packet loss, restoration time, and resource optimization. A framework to add QoS protection to many of the current QoS routing algorithms is introduced. A Backup Decision Module to select the most suitable protection method is formulated and different case studies are analyzed

Elaboration and characterization of dental plasters obtained from a Moroccan gypsum

Three experimental batches of  plaster elaborated from a Moroccan gypsum were characterized by conductimetry, dimensional variations measurements during setting and mechanical tests. Comparison with commercial dental plasters are undertaken to check whether these experimental materials possess good characteristics for dentistry applications

An Interference-Aware Admission Control Design for Wireless Mesh Networks

In this paper, we present IAC, an interference aware admission control algorithm for use in wireless mesh networks. The core concept of IAC is to use a low overhead dual threshold based approach to share the bandwidth information with its neighbors in the interfering range. As a result, IAC guarantees that the shared wireless bandwidth is not overutilized and the quality of all existing flows are preserved. Moreover, IAC takes into account the intraflow interference effect to estimate the bandwidth consumption of the flow in a multihop path. We have further proposed two approaches of bandwidth allocation, FCFS and MCU, and demonstrated that proper tuning of thresholds can lead to high performance of both schemes. Simulation results illustrate that IAC effectively limits the overutilization of channel resources which in turn results in high throughput, low delay and low packet loss rate for all admitted flows