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Teachers' recognition of school bullying according to background variables and type of bullying
How teachers identify and judge school bullying may affect their willingness to intervene in bullying situations and influence their strategies for doing so. This study aimed to investigate whether there were significant differences in teachers' identification of bullying incidents according to background variables (gender, teaching experience, and education level). The participants of this study were 150 primary school and middle school teachers in Taiwan, A 24-item Recognition of Bullying incidents Questionnaire (RBIQ) was used in this study to explore whether teachers can identify physical, verbal, and relational scenarios as bullying or non-bullying incidents. A mixed-model two way ANOVA was used to analyze this data. Results revealed that teachers' teaching experiences significantly interacted with behavioral types, and teachers' education levels also sigm candy interacted with behavioral types. In addition, no gender differences in the identification of bullying were observed. Overall, teachers were more likely to identifi physical bullying incidents than relational ones. The results of this study suggest that teachers should participate in training to help them identify bullying incidents, particularly when these involve relational bullying
Cosmological model with local symmetry of very special relativity and constraints on it from supernovae
Based on Cohen \& Glashow's very special relativity [A. G. Cohen and S. L.
Glashow, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 97} (2006) 021601], we propose an anisotropic
modification to the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) line element. An
arbitrarily oriented 1-form is introduced and the FRW spacetime becomes of the
Randers-Finsler type. The 1-form picks out a privileged axis in the universe.
Thus, the cosmological redshift as well as the Hubble diagram of the type Ia
supernovae (SNe Ia) becomes anisotropic. By directly analyzing the Union2
compilation, we obtain the privileged axis pointing to
(). This privileged axis is close to those obtained by
comparing the best-fit Hubble diagrams in pairs of hemispheres. It should be
noticed that the result is consistent with isotropy at the level
since the anisotropic magnitude is .Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures. Published at EPJC(2013
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