Peer Social Acceptance of Students with Special Needs

The purpose of this research is to investigate how kids with ASD are accepted socially by their peers. Peer social acceptability may be seen in the manner in which autistic kids are treated by their peers as well as in how they show and demonstrate their desire to participate in various activities. In addition, the many kinds of connections that may be seen between ordinary students and pupils who have ASD. This research is a qualitative study that focuses on description. The participants in this research were classmates and their respective professors. Interviews and observations were the methods of data collection that were employed for this investigation. The method of data analysis that was employed was called descriptive analysis, and it included reducing the amount of data, presenting the data, and deriving conclusions from the data. Verifying the accuracy of the authors claims by using methods such as triangulation, extended observations, and consultation with others. Students who have ASD spectrum disorder may participate in social activities with their peers. The classroom instructors support and understanding helps ordinary students better appreciate the condition of students with ASD. The teacher also understands children with ASD when they have tantrums and may be an aid when students with ASD are having problems. Social interactions and group relations are the types of relationships that may develop between children with ASD and their typical classmates. Regular students are able to create group interactions with students who have ASD with the assistance of the class teachers promotion of the formation of study groups

Agricultural Academy

Abstract ShalabY, M. Y., K. h. al-Zahrani, M. b. baig and g. S. Straquadine, 2012. realizing sustainable agriculture through rural extension and environmental friendly farming technologies: basic ingredients. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., With an only 3% percent farming area, egypt is still an agricultural country. its development primarily depends upon agricultural resources. agriculture contributes approximately 14% of the gdP and absorbs about 31% of workforce. about 53% population lives in rural areas where directly or indirectly their livelihood depends upon agricultural sector. despite its positive and significant contributions to food security/supply, economy, employment, export earnings, ecological balance, agriculture faces many threats and challenges which, in turn, result unsustainable crop productions. the prominent challenges faced include land and water issues; high degree of land fragmentations; old cultivation techniques, low yields with old traditional varieties, lack of information on marketing; post-harvest losses; degradation of natural resources and environmental issues;, inadequate support services; framework and institutional constraints; and lack of agricultural development policies etc. in the present scenario, it seems imperative for agriculture sector to adopt new environmental friendly farming systems primarily based on the principles of sustainable agriculture. On the other hand, the role of rural extension has also been changed due to the low contributions made by old primitive cultivation techniques, the promising emerging new farming technologies, and the declining socio-economic conditions of rural etc. this article examines the changing scenarios, possibility of employing environmental friendly farming practices and elevating the working capabilities of the extension workers through well-planned capacity building programs. an effort has been made to identify and enlist the basic ingredients essential for the sustainable farming and efficient rural extension

threats and challenges to sustainable agriculture and rural development in egypt: implications for agricultural extension.

ABSTRACT Egypt is an agricultural based country. Its development primarily depends upon rural resources. Agriculture contributes approximately 14% of the GDP and absorbs about 31% of workforce. About 53% population lives in rural areas where directly or indirectly their livelihood depends upon agricultural sector. Despite its positive and significant contributions to food security/supply, economy, employment, export earnings, ecological balance, yet the agriculture of the country faces many threats and challenges which, in turn, impacts rural development initiatives. The prominent challenges include land and water issues; old cultivation techniques; lack of information on marketing; poverty; degradation of natural resources and environmental issues; population growth; inadequate support services; framework and institutional constraints; and lack of agricultural and rural development policies. In this article, an effort has been made to identify the constraints faced by the agricultural sector, discuss the available farm management options, and to outline the vibrant strategy backed by an efficient and effective Extension to realize sustainable yields and rural development in the country

Dark-Bright Solitons in Inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensates

We investigate dark-bright vector solitary wave solutions to the coupled non-linear Schr\"odinger equations which describe an inhomogeneous two-species Bose-Einstein condensate. While these structures are well known in non-linear fiber optics, we show that spatial inhomogeneity strongly affects their motion, stability, and interaction, and that current technology suffices for their creation and control in ultracold trapped gases. The effects of controllably different interparticle scattering lengths, and stability against three-dimensional deformations, are also examined.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure

Magnetoplasmonic design rules for active magneto-optics

Light polarization rotators and non-reciprocal optical isolators are essential building blocks in photonics technology. These macroscopic passive devices are commonly based on magneto-optical Faraday and Kerr polarization rotation. Magnetoplasmonics - the combination of magnetism and plasmonics - is a promising route to bring these devices to the nanoscale. We introduce design rules for highly tunable active magnetoplasmonic elements in which we can tailor the amplitude and sign of the Kerr response over a broad spectral range

Titanium dioxide engineered for near-dispersionless high terahertz permittivity and ultra-low-loss

Realising engineering ceramics to serve as substrate materials in high-performance terahertz(THz) that are low-cost, have low dielectric loss and near-dispersionless broadband, high permittivity, is exceedingly demanding. Such substrates are deployed in, for example, integrated circuits for synthesizing and converting nonplanar and 3D structures into planar forms. The Rutile form of titanium dioxide (TiO2) has been widely accepted as commercially economical candidate substrate that meets demands for both low-loss and high permittivities at sub-THz bands. However, the relationship between its mechanisms of dielectric response to the microstructure have never been systematically investigated in order to engineer ultra-low dielectric-loss and high value, dispersionless permittivities. Here we show TiO2 THz dielectrics with high permittivity (ca. 102.30) and ultra-low loss (ca. 0.0042). These were prepared by insight gleaned from a broad use of materials characterisation methods to successfully engineer porosities, second phase, crystallography shear-planes and oxygen vacancies during sintering. The dielectric loss achieved here is not only with negligible dispersion over 0.2-0.8 THz, but also has the lowest value measured for known high-permittivity dielectrics. We expect the insight afforded by this study will underpin the development of subwavelength-scale, planar integrated circuits, compact high Q-resonators and broadband, slow-light devices in the THz band

Mutants in the Mouse NuRD/Mi2 Component P66α Are Embryonic Lethal

The NuRD/Mi2 chromatin complex is involved in histone modifications and contains a large number of subunits, including the p66 protein. There are two mouse and human p66 paralogs, p66alpha and p66beta. The functions of these genes are not clear, in part because there are no mutants available, except in invertebrate model systems.We made loss of function mutants in the mouse p66alpha gene (mp66alpha, official name Gatad2a, MGI:2384585). We found that mp66alpha is essential for development, as mutant embryos die around day 10 of embryogenesis. The gene is not required for normal blastocyst development or for implantation. The phenotype of mutant embryos and the pattern of gene expression in mutants are consistent with a role of mp66alpha in gene silencing.mp66alpha is an essential gene, required for early mouse development. The lethal phenotype supports a role in execution of methylated DNA silencing

Bioluminescence Imaging of Angiogenesis in a Murine Orthotopic Pancreatic Cancer Model

Angiogenesis is essential for physiological processes as well as for carcinogenesis. New approaches to cancer therapy include targeting angiogenesis. One target is VEGF-A and its receptor VEGFR2. In this study, we sought to investigate pancreatic cancer angiogenesis in a genetically modified VEGFR2-luc-KI mouse