Sentimentality Has its Place in Human Rights Activism: Nadia Murad Basee Taha’s Testimony and The Yazidi Story

This project tells the story of Nadia Murad and the Yazidi genocide of 2014 through analysis of her own testimony and considers the success and the intricacies of her approach to aiding the Yazidis who suffer to this day. It discusses the power of using sentimentality and emotion in human rights activism

EVALUATION OF MOTIVATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUM FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION (CASE) LEAD AND MASTER TEACHERS

Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education™ (CASE) is an instructional system of support that provides professional development, curriculum, and assessments to agricultural educators. Through the CASE model, two CASE Lead or Master Teachers facilitate professional development, known as a CASE Institute. This study utilizes three sets of surveys to describe the motivation for CASE certified teachers applying to become CASE Lead and Master Teachers, determine the effectiveness of the professional development provided to Lead and Master Teachers during the Lead Teacher Orientation, and determine the Lead and Master Teachers’ demographic information

Is Busk and Serlin’s measure of therapy effect size d a suitable measure for use in therapy studies? Evidence from simulations

Beeson & Robey (2006) advocate Busk & Serlin’s d as a good measure of effect size, suitable for meta-analysis of single case experimental designs of therapy. Unfortunately there are no available data supporting the use of this measure. We propose a set of criteria for a suitable measure of effect size and investigate whether d meets them in 1360 simulations each involving 10000 measures of d. We show that d always overestimates the true effect size and this is primarily related to the number of items in the baseline series and the degree of lag 1 autocorrelation in the series. We show that Busk & Serlin’s d does not meet any of our suggested criteria. It is difficult to see how its use can be justified

Palliative care for people with dementia living at home: a systematic review of interventions

Background: The European Association for Palliative Care White Paper defined optimal palliative care in dementia based on evidence and expert consensus. Yet, we know little on how to achieve this for people with dementia living and dying at home. Aims: To examine evidence on home palliative care interventions in dementia, in terms of their effectiveness on end-of-life care outcomes, factors influencing implementation, the extent to which they address the European Association for Palliative Care palliative care domains and evidence gaps. Design: A systematic review of home palliative care interventions in dementia. Data sources: The review adhered to the PRISMA guidelines and the protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42018093607). We searched four electronic databases up to April 2018 (PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane library and CINAHL) and conducted lateral searches. Results: We retrieved eight relevant studies, none of which was of high quality. The evidence, albeit of generally weak quality, showed the potential benefits of the interventions in improving end-of-life care outcomes, for example, behavioural disturbances. The interventions most commonly focused on optimal symptom management, continuity of care and psychosocial support. Other European Association for Palliative Care domains identified as important in palliative care for people with dementia, for example, prognostication of dying or avoidance of burdensome interventions were under-reported. No direct evidence on facilitators and barriers to implementation was found. Conclusions: The review highlights the paucity of high-quality dementia-specific research in this area and recommends key areas for future work, for example, the need for process evaluation to identify facilitators and barriers to implementing interventions.Peer reviewedFinal Published versio

PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN MENGENAL BILANGAN MELALUI MEDIA VISUAL DARI BAHAN BEKAS PADA ANAK USIA TK

Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui: 1) perencanaan penggunaan media bahan bekas dalam meningkatkan kemampuan mengenal bilangan pada anak usia 5-6 Tahun di Taman Kanak-kanak Kristen Immanuel Pontianak, 2) pelaksanaan penggunaan media bahan bekas dalam meningkatkan kemampuan mengenal bilangan pada anak usia 5-6 Tahun di Taman Kanak-kanak Kristen Immanuel Pontianak dan 3) hasil penggunaan media bahan bekas  dalam peningkatan kemampuan mengenal bilangan pada anak usia 5-6 Tahun di Taman Kanak-kanak Kristen Immanuel Pontianak. Adapun bentuk penelitian ini adalah penelitian tindakan kelas. Analisis data yang digunakan berupa observasi, IPKG I, IPKG 2 dan wawancara. Langkah-langkah penelitian ini adalah sebagai berikut: 1). Perencanaan, 2). Pelaksanaan, 3). Pengamatan atau Observasi dan 4). Refleksi. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah observasi/pengamatan dan wawancara/percakapan, sesuai dengan teknik pengumpul data yang digunakakan, maka alat pengumpulnya adalah format observasi dan panduan wawancara. Hasil peneltian menunjukkan kemampuan mengenal bilangan berkembang cukup baik pada siklus I memperoleh rata-rata sebesar 68,75% dan meningkat pada siklus II menjadi 90,41. Hal ini berarti motorik halus anak mengalami peningkatan sangat baik.   Kata Kunci: Mengenal Bilangan, Media Bahan Bekas   Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine: 1) planning of media use of scrap materials in improving the ability to know the number of children aged 5-6 years in kindergarten Immanuel Christian Pontianak, 2) the implementation of media use of scrap materials in improving the ability to know the numbers in 5-6 year old children in kindergarten Immanuel Christian Pontianak and 3) the results of the use of scrap materials media in improving the ability to know the number of children aged 5-6 years in kindergarten Immanuel Christian Pontianak. The form of this research is a class act. Analysis of the data used in the form of observation, IPKG I, IPKG 2 and interviews. The steps of this study are as follows: 1). Planning, 2). Implementation, 3). Observations or observation and 4). Reflection. The data analysis technique used is the observation / observation and interviews / conversations, according to the data collecting techniques be adopted, then the tool is a format pengumpulnya observation and interview guides. Research findings show the ability to know the number developing quite well in the first cycle to obtain an average of 68.75% and increased in the second cycle into 90.41. This means increased fine motor children very well. Keywords: Know Your Numbers, Media Materials Used    

Susceptibility inhomogeneity and non-Fermi liquid behavior in UCu_{5-x}Pt_x

Transverse-field muSR shifts and relaxation rates have been measured in the non-Fermi liquid (NFL) alloy system UCu_{5-x}Pt_x, x = 1.0, 1.5, and 2.5. At low temperatures the fractional spread in Knight shifts delta K/K approx deltachi/chi is gtrsim 2 for x = 1, but is only half this value for x = 1.5 and 2.5. In a disorder-driven scenario where the NFL behavior is due to a broadly distributed (Kondo or Griffiths-phase cluster) characteristic energy E, our results indicate that delta E/E_{rm av} approx (delta K/K)_{T=0} is similar for UCu_{5-x}Pd_x (x = 1 and 1.5) and UCu_4Pt, but is reduced for UCu_{5-x}Pt_x, x = 1.5 and 2.5. This reduction is due to a marked increase of E with increasing x; the spread delta E is found to be roughly independent of x. Our results correlate with the observed suppression of other NFL anomalies for x > 1 in UCu_{5-x}Pt_x but not in UCu_{5-x}Pd_x, and are further evidence for the importance of disorder in the NFL behavior of both these alloy systems.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to 10th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation, and Resonance, Oxford, UK, August 200

Examining the potency of verb retrieval treatments in aphasia: The components matter- A pilot study

This study examined the potency of various components of common treatments for verb retrieval deficits in Broca’s aphasia. We examined the effects of semantic, word repetition, gesture, and combined semantic plus gesture treatments in five single-subject multiple-baseline across conditions designs. Participants with word form deficits showed significantly improved verb production on trained items while control items showed minimal change, and generalization to picture description was demonstrated with modest generalization to discourse tasks. However, the participant with semantic verb impairment showed a minimal response to treatment. Participants demonstrated a unique degree of response to the different treatment components

The Comparative Effects of Multi-modality and Constraint-induced Aphasia Therapy-Plus Treatments for Severe Chronic Aphasia

Anomia is a characteristic symptom of aphasia. Impairments in functional communication associated with aphasia have been found to negatively impact upon an individual‟s quality of life (QoL) in a number of areas, including independence and the ability to participate in social and leisure activities (Cruice, Worrall, & Hickson, 2006). Our review of the literature suggests that measurement of treatment effects has been influenced by treatment type and intensity, the measurement phases applied, the outcome measures used, aphasia severity and type, and the presence of concomitant impairments. It is clear that both constraint-induced and alternative/multi-modality treatments can be effective for reducing anomia. However, the question of which treatments, particularly constraint-induced and alternative/multi-modality treatments, are most efficacious for certain types, severities, and chronicities of aphasia remains unanswered. Only three known studies (Barthel, Meinzer, Djundja, & Rockstroh, 2008; Kurland, Baldwin, & Tauer, 2010; Maher et al., 2006) have involved direct comparisons between constraint-induced and multi-modality interventions. This is a particularly interesting comparison, given the great distinction between the two forms of therapy, and the interpretation that the research underpinning the principle of constraint in aphasia rehabilitation is inconclusive. Further, a number of methodological flaws in the reviewed studies weaken the research findings. Thus, we identified a need for continued study in this area