Teologija roditeljstva: Je li roditeljstvo u krizi danas?

When a child makes all the wrong choices and chooses a path of destruction, parents oft en wonder if they have laid a good foundation or not. Th is research will show that childhood years are crucial in forming character and personality patterns. Furthermore, the foundation of every child’s growth lies in their family history, in the way a child was accepted, felt understood and supported throughout its growing years. A family is not merely a passive background against which child’s development takes place, family plays an active and vital role in constructing, interpreting and transmitting of social behavior, moral values as well as spiritual beliefs. Th us, the knowledge and trust in God is connected to the family and it starts in the infancy. Worshiping together as a family is defi nitely the most important transmitter of religious values. The goal is not only to transmit knowledge of God, but also commitment to His values.Kad djeca donose pogrešne odluke i izabiru put propasti roditelji se često pitaju je su li postavili dobre temelje odgoju svoje djece ili ne. Ovo istraživanje će prikazati kako su djetinje godine bitne u oblikovanju karaktera i stvaranju obrazaca osobnosti. Pored toga, temelj djetinjeg razvoja se nalazi u obiteljskoj povijesti, načinu kako je dijete prihvaćeno, shvaćeno i poduprto tijekom godina odrastanja. Obitelj nije pasivno okružje u kojem se dijete razvija, već ima vitalnu ulogu u stvaranju, tumačenju i prenošenju društvenog ponašanja, moralnih vrijednosti, kao i duhovnih vjerovanja. Tako je spoznaja i povjerenje u Boga usko povezano s obitelji i počinje u djetinjstvu. Obiteljsko bogoslužje je defi nitivno najvažniji prenositelj vjerskih vrijednosti. Cilj nije prenijeti samo znanje o Bogu, već i opredijeljenost Njegovim vrijednostima

The Institute of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum Newsletter Volume 36.2

The 2015 Excavations at Tall Jalul, Paul Gregor, Constance Gane, and Helena Gregor Silva Lecture, Justin Singleton Al-Maktába: The Bookstore Random Surveyhttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/iaham-news/1062/thumbnail.jp

The Institute of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum Newsletter Volume 35.4

San Miceli 2014, Justin Singleton Jalul 2014, Paul Gregor, Constance Gane, and Helena Gregorhttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/iaham-news/1060/thumbnail.jp

Kreativni pokret u učionici kao unapređenje funkcioniranja učenika u različitim područjima

The study focuses on students’ emotion expression during geometry teaching including creative movement (experimental group or EG) and without it (control group or CG). The sample (N = 104) was made up of primary school (second-grade) students: 66 were assigned to the EG and 38 to the CG. Of these, 12 students from the EG and 8 from the CG were randomly selected for observation of emotion: type, intensity, triggering situation, and response of others. For the observed students, the intensity of emotion expression was also measured by the facial expression recognition software FaceReader. All of the students self-assessed their contentedness with the teaching. The students in the EG and the CG expressed various emotions, with joy being the most prevalent, followed by anger. The most frequent situations triggering joy were activities in the EG and the CG. The intensity of joy was higher in the EG than in the CG when assessed by observation, but there was no significant difference when assessed by FaceReader. The intensity of anger expression was at a similar level in both groups. Both students and teachers responded to students’ joy expression, but only the students responded to anger expression in the EG and the CG. The students in both groups expressed a high level of contentedness with the teaching.Kreativni pokret predstavlja aktivan pristup učenju koji studentima omogućuje da kroz pokret i ples izraze i kreiraju različite obrazovne sadržaje. Predstavlja mogućnost integriranja umjetnosti i pokreta u proces učenja. U studijskoj godini 2015./16. provedeno je istraživanje, uključujući i učenike drugog razreda osnovne škole (N = 104) tijekom nastave Matematike (geometrije). Studijom se pokušalo utvrditi utvrditi kako je korištenje kreativnoga pokreta povezano s funkcioniranjem učenika u različitim područjima: kognitivnom, socijalnom, emocionalnom, tijelu/fizičkom. Te su veze uspostavljene usporedbom skupine učenika u kojoj je provedena nastava, integrirajući kreativni pokret (eksperimentalnu skupinu) s grupom učenika u kojoj nastava nije uključivala kreativni pokret (kontrolna skupina). Podaci su prikupljeni različitim mjernim instrumentima, dok je tjelesna aktivnost mjerena narukvicama BodyMedia Core. Rezultati, između ostalog, pokazuju visoko zadovoljstvo nastavnim programom kod obje skupine učenika, ali veća potrošnja energije i dugoročno poznavanje geometrije u eksperimentalnoj grupi učenika poučavanih korištenjem kreativnoga pokreta

An initial psychometric evaluation of the German PROMIS® v1.2 Physical Function item bank in patients with a wide range of health conditions

Objectives: To translate the PROMIS® Physical Function (PF) item bank version 1.2 into German, and to investigate psychometric properties of resulting full bank and seven derived short forms. Design: Cross-sectional psychometric study. Setting: Inpatient and outpatient clinics of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. Subjects: Ten adult patients with various chronic diseases participated in cognitive debriefing interviews. The final item bank was administered to n=266 adult patients with a broad range of medical conditions. Interventions: Patient-reported outcome assessment as part of routine care. Main measures: PROMIS v1.2 PF bank; MOS SF-36® PF scale (PF-10). Results: Cross-cultural adaptation of the item bank followed established guidelines. For the final German translation, the corrected item-total correlations ranged from 0.44 to 0.84. Cronbach’s Alpha was high for each PROMIS PF short form (α=0.88-0.96). The full PROMIS PF bank and most short forms correlated highly with the SF-36 PF-10 (r=0.85-0.90), with the exception of PROMIS Upper Extremity (r=0.64). PROMIS Upper Extremity showed ceiling effects and lower agreement with the full bank than other short forms. Unidimensionality was supported for all PROMIS PF measures using traditional factor analysis and nonparametric item response theory. Conclusions: The German PROMIS PF bank was found to be conceptually equivalent to the English version and fulfilled the psychometric requirements for use of short forms in clinical practice. Future studies should pay particular attention to samples with upper extremity functional limitations to further investigate the dimensional structure of physical function as conceptualized according to PROMIS

Nanoscale Near-Field Tomography of Surface States on (Bi(0.5)b(0.5))(2)Te-3

Three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) have attracted tremendous interest for their possibility to host massless Dirac Fermions in topologically protected surface states (TSSs), which may enable new kinds of high-speed electronics. However, recent reports have outlined the importance of band bending effects within these materials, which results in an additional two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with finite mass at the surface. TI surfaces are also known to be highly inhomogeneous on the nanoscale, which is masked in conventional far-field studies. Here, we use near-field microscopy in the mid infrared spectral range to probe the local surface properties of customtailored (Bi0.5Sb0.5)(2)Te-3 structures with nanometer precision in all three spatial dimensions. Applying nanotomography and nanospectroscopy, we reveal a few-nanometer-thick layer of high surface conductivity and retrieve its local dielectric function without assuming any model for the spectral response. This allows us to directly distinguish between different types of surface states. An intersubband transition within the massive 2DEG formed by quantum confinement in the bent conduction band manifests itself as a sharp, surface-bound, Lorentzian-shaped resonance. An additional broadband background in the imaginary part of the dielectric function may be caused by the TSS. Tracing the intersubband resonance with nanometer spatial precision, we observe changes of its frequency, likely originating from local variations of doping or/and the mixing ratio between Bi and Sb. Our results highlight the importance of studying the surfaces of these novel materials on the nanoscale to directly access the local optical and electronic properties via the dielectric function