The 4-C’s Model: Care Theory for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Classroom teachers strive to create environments in which all students have the possibility of success. As schools become increasingly more diversified, research shows that even experienced teachers struggle with the challenges presented by classroom diversity. In this article we propose the 4-C’s Model, a theoretical framework that provides guidance to teachers for implementing Care Theory in their classrooms.  The design of the 4-C’s Model functions as an efficacious, pedagogical, conceptual structure through which the critical components of school Curriculum, professional Competence and Culture are bridged by Care Theory. The 4-C’s Model, as a socio-constructivist framework, supports efforts to create culturally responsive classrooms. The Model operationalizes the notion of a “caring environment” to include cultural and linguistic diversity, as well as effective pedagogy and authentic learning experiences as pathways toward a classroom environment that is inclusive and empowering for all students. This article offers significant pedagogical directions to support educators as they scaffold learners from diverse backgrounds. Keywords: Care Theory, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Curriculum Design, Diversity, Socio-Cultural Theory DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-21-10 Publication date:June 30th 202

The Legal Protection for the Names of the Cities and Other Places "Changing the Names of the Places in Palestine as an Example"

Despite its importance for the archeology and history especially in the prehistory studies, the issue of the legal protection for cities names and other places was not previously treated in the general international law. This issue could be deal under the concept of the cultural properties protection, thus it demands a legal protection in the wars time and peacetime also. In addition, it demands adapting clear legislations to be added to the international conventions imposing protecting the names of cities, towns, and other places and territories from changing and/ or omission

Childhood Obesity: A Survey of the Nutrition and Physical Activity Components of the Coordinated School Health (CSH) Program in Rural Tennessee

With the rise in childhood overweight and obesity rates in the United States, understanding the issue has become of mainstay importance. This study provides insight into the nutritional knowledge and related health perceptions of parents’ whose children have participated in a Coordinated School Health (CSH) program in rural Tennessee. Surveys were distributed between two elementary grade level school systems in Washington County, Tennessee, to serve the need of interpreting the knowledge, values, and ideas on childhood health regarding CSH program effectiveness. While our findings across both schools revealed moderate levels of parental knowledge on health and nutritional issues, we also identified several disparities surrounding knowledge about the childhood overweight and obesity issue. Based on these results, we conclude that schools in rural areas may benefit from the implementation of a periodic assessment gauging parental knowledge and attitudes. In turn, understanding where these gaps exist may help CSH program administrators identify possible program modifications, provide targeted resource support to parents, and, ultimately, address stalling body mass index improvement rates among students who live in rural areas

Protection of Civil Electronic Consumer at International and Domestic Laws

The world has witnessed a great technological development in the communications and information exchange field. This has opened the way for a new type of transaction using modern means of communication, especially the World Information Net (Internet). The Internet has become a commercial center that can accommodate all the world's population and dominate the majority of businesses Contracts transactions done through it, consumer contracts are considered part of electronic transactions with the risk of shading and fraud by electronic vendors and professional professionals, which requires providing protection to the electronic consumer commensurate with this status quo, Most countries around the world have worked to protect electronic consumers by enacting legislation and laws to protect the weak party and prevent vendors and professional professionals from exploiting, shading, cheating, and circumventing it. Therefore, the protection and care of electronic consumers has become one of the main duties of the modern state, which is responsible for protection in order to obtain the needs of consumer and service methods and new legal mechanisms in line with the requirements of this era. The first topic dealt with the concept of consumer in international and domestic legislations. In the first demand, it dealt with the nature of electronic contracting for the consumer. Then, the second demand dealt with consumer protection in international and domestic laws. In the second topic, The right of the electronic consumer to face the arbitrary conditions of the contract, the protection of his personal data as well as his right to grant him a license to withdraw from the contract. If the contract was free of nodal defects, and reached the results of the most important update the laws currently in force, or the establishment of special laws to protect the electronic consumer, in addition to international cooperation in this area to exchange experiences. Keywords: Consumer - Electronic Consumption - Civil Protection - Online professional vendor and professional - International and local laws for the protection of electronic consumer - Solutions prescribed for the electronic consumer

Deepfake Image Generation for Improved Brain Tumor Segmentation

As the world progresses in technology and health, awareness of disease by revealing asymptomatic signs improves. It is important to detect and treat tumors in early stage as it can be life-threatening. Computer-aided technologies are used to overcome lingering limitations facing disease diagnosis, while brain tumor segmentation remains a difficult process, especially when multi-modality data is involved. This is mainly attributed to ineffective training due to lack of data and corresponding labelling. This work investigates the feasibility of employing deep-fake image generation for effective brain tumor segmentation. To this end, a Generative Adversarial Network was used for image-to-image translation for increasing dataset size, followed by image segmentation using a U-Net-based convolutional neural network trained with deepfake images. Performance of the proposed approach is compared with ground truth of four publicly available datasets. Results show improved performance in terms of image segmentation quality metrics, and could potentially assist when training with limited data.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, conference pape

A Comparison of the Severity of Tinnitus in Patients with and without Hearing Loss Using the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI)

Background: Tinnitus is a disturbing symptom present in approximately 15% of the world population and between 2-7% of tinnitus sufferers seek medical help because of the chronic distress caused. Although well established that tinnitus can be present with and without hearing loss the different characteristics in terms of severity are still not completely known and studied. Aim: The objective of this study was to compare the severity of tinnitus in tinnitus patients with and without hearing loss. Materials and Methods: 73 tinnitus patients were included in this study at an audiology clinic in Amman, Jordan. Participants were assigned to two groups according to hearing status. The severity of tinnitus was evaluated using the Tinnitus Functional Index questionnaire. All participants were interviewed, followed by otoscopic examination, pure tone audiometry and tests for admittance and tinnitus matching. Results: The normal hearing group included 34 participants (46.6%) whose TFI scores were divided as follow: mild annoyance (17), significant annoyance (14) and severe annoyance (3). The sensorineural loss group included 39 participants (53.4%) with mild annoyance (11), significant annoyance (12) and severe annoyance (16). A statistically significant association was found between hearing status and the severity of tinnitus using a Chi Squared test (x2=0.487, p=0.007). There was no association between tinnitus severity and age or gender. Conclusion: Tinnitus severity was significantly worse in tinnitus patients with a hearing loss than tinnitus patients with normal hearing thresholds. This should be taken in consideration when clinicians are planning counselling and management protocols for individual patients

Joint transmitter selection and resource management strategy based on low probability of intercept optimization for distributed radar networks

In this paper, a joint transmitter selection and resource management (JTSRM) strategy based on low probability of intercept (LPI) is proposed for target tracking in distributed radar network system. The basis of the JTSRM strategy is to utilize the optimization technique to control transmitting resources of radar networks in order to improve the LPI performance, while guaranteeing a specified target tracking accuracy. The weighted intercept probability and transmit power of radar networks is defined and subsequently employed as the optimization criterion for the JTSRM strategy. The resulting optimization problem is to minimize the LPI performance criterion of radar networks by optimizing the revisit interval, dwell time, transmitter selection, and transmit power subject to a desired target tracking performance and some resource constraints. An efficient and fast three‐step solution technique is also developed to solve this problem. The presented mechanism implements the optimal working parameters based on the feedback information in the tracking recursion cycle in order to improve the LPI performance for radar networks. Numerical simulations are provided to verify the superior performance of the proposed JTSRM strategy

Optimal Path Planning for Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles to Defeat Radar Tracking

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Variability of systemic and oro-dental phenotype in two families with non-lethal Raine syndrome with FAM20C mutations

Background: Raine syndrome (RS) is a rare autosomal recessive bone dysplasia typified by osteosclerosis and dysmorphic facies due to FAM20C mutations. Initially reported as lethal in infancy, survival is possible into adulthood. We describe the molecular analysis and clinical phenotypes of five individuals from two consanguineous Brazilian families with attenuated Raine Syndrome with previously unreported features. Methods: The medical and dental clinical records were reviewed. Extracted deciduous and permanent teeth as well as oral soft tissues were analysed. Whole exome sequencing was undertaken and FAM20C cDNA sequenced in family 1. Results: Family 1 included 3 siblings with hypoplastic Amelogenesis Imperfecta (AI) (inherited abnormal dental enamel formation). Mild facial dysmorphism was noted in the absence of other obvious skeletal or growth abnormalities. A mild hypophosphataemia and soft tissue ectopic mineralization were present. A homozygous FAM20C donor splice site mutation (c.784 + 5 g > c) was identified which led to abnormal cDNA sequence. Family 2 included 2 siblings with hypoplastic AI and tooth dentine abnormalities as part of a more obvious syndrome with facial dysmorphism. There was hypophosphataemia, soft tissue ectopic mineralization, but no osteosclerosis. A homozygous missense mutation in FAM20C (c.1487C > T; p.P496L) was identified. Conclusions: The clinical phenotype of non-lethal Raine Syndrome is more variable, including between affected siblings, than previously described and an adverse impact on bone growth and health may not be a prominent feature. By contrast, a profound failure of dental enamel formation leading to a distinctive hypoplastic AI in all teeth should alert clinicians to the possibility of FAM20C mutations

Exploring World Language Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Service-Learning Experience: An Action Research Project

This article focuses on a qualitative action research that explores the alignment of a service-learning project, as an intervention strategy, with course standards in a single multicultural foundation course in the teacher education program at a medium-sized university in Alabama. Findings suggest that the multicultural service- learning experience can help in supporting the achievement of course “diversity-related” outcomes. Implications of this study suggest a foundation for using multicultural service-learning as an instructional method in World Language teacher education, in order to: (1) enhance professional effectiveness; (2) maximize assessment opportunities; and, (3) ensure alignment with the intended program learning outcomes. Implications of this study could, therefore, be of interest to educators and scholars investigating the benefits of service-learning in World Language teacher education. Keywords: Action research, pre-service teacher self-efficacy, service-learning, world languages DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/98-01 Publication date:August 31st 2023