OPTIMIZING THE MENTAL QUALITY OF STUDENTS' LEARNING: A HOLISTIC APPROACH AT MAHAD ALY NURUL JADID

Islamic boarding schools are educational institutions that make a real contribution to society, with all their advantages and disadvantages. Each Islamic boarding school has a distinctive character, both in cultural, institutional and scientific excellence aspects. This research aims to investigate and optimize the mental quality of student learning at Mahad Aly Nurul Jadid through a holistic approach. This research methodology involves surveys, interviews, and observations to gain an in-depth understanding of the students' mental learning conditions. The research results show that a holistic approach that includes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects can contribute significantly to improving the mental quality of students' learning. Efforts to optimize the mental quality of learning involve developing holistic mental development programs, improving facilities, and creating an environment that supports the psychological well-being of students. The implication of this research is that a holistic approach in developing the mental learning of santri at Mahad Aly can be the basis for creating a more balanced educational environment and supporting the optimal growth of santri in cognitive, emotional and spiritual aspects. It is hoped that this study can contribute to the development of mental learning development strategies in similar institutions and enrich the literature on holistic Islamic education

Drama Translation as Social Practice: The Case of George Bernard Shaw’s Dramatic Work in Arabic

This thesis attempts to investigate how George Bernard Shaw’s drama has been represented and negotiated in Arabic translation through identifying the socio-cultural and political factors including poetics, patronage, capital, field properties, and censorship practices that conditioned its introduction, production, dissemination and reception. Drawing on concepts from Pierre Bourdieu’s social practice theory and Lefevere’s rewriting theory, the Arabic translations of Shaw’s drama are studied as a socially regulated activity rather than merely linguistic as previously researched. The study aims at analysing the Arabic translations meant for various media against the backdrop of their different contexts textually, contextually and paratextually. After setting out the key problems and strategies and other issues related to drama translation from the perspectives of both translation and theatre studies, the study gives a historical background to the introduction and development of drama in the Arab culture in which translation played a major role. It identifies the socio-cultural and political influences that motivated the translation or rewriting of Shaw’s drama in different time and place. A mapping of both the published drama translations in the twentieth century and of the published material on Shaw in various areas (i.e. academia; reading, stage and radio translations; and cinema and TV adaptations) are provided in tables and charts. Different Arabic stage rewritings of Shaw’s Pygmalion have been analysed in order to determine the different forces in the contexts where they operate that affect their forming. These rewritings range from 1969 to 2017 in Egypt and Lebanon. Then, eight plays by Shaw with their Arabic translations and retranslations are also analysed to identify the socio-cultural and political dynamics that informed their shaping and the reasons behind the presence of multiple retranslations

Characteristics of Foamed Concrete Containing Ultra-fine Drift Sand of the Yangtze River

The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the use of Ultra-fine Drift Sand from the Yangtze River (China) in place of natural sand in the production of foamed concrete. The experimental design included factors with varying levels: the proportion of Ultra-fine Drift Sand at four levels (0 percent, 30%, 60%, and 100%). Ultra-fine Drift Sand was substituted in proportion to the mass of material. Each factor's effect on compressive strength, density (dry and saturated), air voids, and water absorption was assessed. According to the results, all factors had significant findings. The compressive strength of concrete increased due to an increase in curing time; fly ash content up to 30%; increasing the percent of Yangzi river sand; and decreasing slag. The mixture of 10% SF (Silica Fume), 24% FA (Fly Ash) and 100% YS (Yangzi soil) gives the enhanced results in concrete strength, by which it reaches about 7 MPa compared with other findings. The remaining percentages of mixing benefit compression strength results. This method of treatment provides an economical way through providing a cheap material that enhances the mechanical properties of concrete, provides a light weight concrete, and a good isolator material to improve the building's thermal insulation to reduce ecological problems and save energy. Doi: 10.28991/CEJ-2022-08-08-013 Full Text: PD

Uptake of breast and cervical cancer screening in four Gulf Cooperation Council countries

In Gulf Cooperation Council States, there is limited information on national levels of mammography and Pap smear screening uptake. The aim of this study is to provide a baseline for national estimates for mammography and Pap smear screening and to explore associations between screening uptake and socioeconomic factors. The nationally representative World Health Survey Plus, implemented in 2008/2009 in Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE), was used. Uptake of mammography and Pap smear was estimated for each country, followed by the examination of associations between screening and a range of socioeconomic variables. Levels of breast and cervical cancer screening uptake within recommended intervals in all countries were low. The percentages of women aged 40–75 years who had a mammogram were 4.9% in Saudi Arabia, 8.9% in Oman, 13.9% in the UAE and 14.6% in Kuwait. The percentages of women aged 25–49 years who had a Pap smear test were 7.6% in Saudi Arabia, 10.6% in Oman, 17.7% in Kuwait and 28.0% in the UAE. Marital status, wealth, education, nationality and place of residence are associated with screening uptake, with the lower educated, poor and unmarried having the lowest percentages of uptake. The four Gulf Cooperation Council countries need to set clear targets and increase the proportion of women who have regular breast and cervical cancer screening examinations. Health education campaigns and awareness programmes that are fully integrated into the health system are required to ensure women use services that are available to prevent breast and cervical cancers

Predictors of low cervical cancer screening among immigrant women in Ontario, Canada

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Disparities in cervical cancer screening are known to exist in Ontario, Canada for foreign-born women. The relative importance of various barriers to screening may vary across ethnic groups. This study aimed to determine how predictors of low cervical cancer screening, reflective of sociodemographics, the health care system, and migration, varied by region of origin for Ontario's immigrant women.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Using a validated billing code algorithm, we determined the proportion of women who were not screened during the three-year period of 2006-2008 among 455 864 identified immigrant women living in Ontario's urban centres. We created eight identical multivariate Poisson models, stratified by eight regions of origin for immigrant women. In these models, we adjusted for various sociodemographic, health care-related and migration-related variables. We then used the resulting adjusted relative risks to calculate population-attributable fractions for each variable by region of origin.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Region of origin was not a significant source of effect modification for lack of recent cervical cancer screening. Certain variables were significantly associated with lack of screening across all or nearly all world regions. These consisted of not being in the 35-49 year age group, residence in the lowest-income neighbourhoods, not being in a primary care patient enrolment model, a provider from the same region, and not having a female provider. For all women, the highest population-attributable risk was seen for not having a female provider, with values ranging from 16.8% [95% CI 14.6-19.1%] among women from the Middle East and North Africa to 27.4% [95% CI 26.2-28.6%] for women from East Asia and the Pacific.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>To increase screening rates across immigrant groups, efforts should be made to ensure that women have access to a regular source of primary care, and ideally access to a female health professional. Efforts should also be made to increase the enrolment of immigrant women in new primary care patient enrolment models.</p

Innate immunity and transplantation tolerance: the potential role of TLRs/NLRs in GVHD

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a serious complication of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and this occurs as donor T lymphocytes, activated by recipient antigen presenting cells (APC), attack the host tissues or organs. This APC activation is a crucial initial step of influencing the outcome of GVHD and is mediated by innate immune signaling. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and nucleotide binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs) are important components of innate immunity; both families of receptors are known for sensing various microbial ligands or danger signals. Signaling through TLRs/NLRs regulate activities of APCs, through phagocytosis, cytokine and chemokine release, delivery of APCs from peripheral tissues to draining lymph nodes, and antigen presentation. Several TLRs/NLRs have been identified and their ligands and signaling pathways have been described. Recent findings suggest a significant association of TLR/NLR polymorphisms with the increased risk for severe GVHD. Therefore, these TLR/NLR pathways likely contributing to immune response for GVHD may serve as novel therapeutic targets to facilitate allograft tolerance. This review summarizes the role of TLRs/NLRs innate immune receptors and signaling in GVHD pathophysiology

Advances in predicting acute GVHD

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