scholarly journals Toward an Understanding of Childhood Bereavement: an Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Miraglia
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Classroom Climate ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Childhood Bereavement ◽  
Childhood Grief ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Death Of A Parent ◽  
Death And Loss ◽  
The Stability

The death of a parent is one of the most significant and traumatic events children encounter throughout their lives. During this difficult time, educators are uniquely positioned to support grieving children because the classroom may be the primary setting in which children begin to express their grief. The extent to which students express their feelings depends on the classroom climate. The classroom can provide the stability and security grieving children need. Trust and rapport can also be established as educators discuss illness and death. Providing children with accurate information helps prevent misconceptions and worrying associations that can complicate reactions to death and loss. This study explores childhood grief with a focus on how the death of a parent affects children, as perceived/understood through their parents, and aims to provide educators with knowledge and skills to enhance their support of grieving children and their families.

scholarly journals Toward an Understanding of Childhood Bereavement: an Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Miraglia
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Classroom Climate ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Childhood Bereavement ◽  
Childhood Grief ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Death Of A Parent ◽  
Death And Loss ◽  
The Stability

The death of a parent is one of the most significant and traumatic events children encounter throughout their lives. During this difficult time, educators are uniquely positioned to support grieving children because the classroom may be the primary setting in which children begin to express their grief. The extent to which students express their feelings depends on the classroom climate. The classroom can provide the stability and security grieving children need. Trust and rapport can also be established as educators discuss illness and death. Providing children with accurate information helps prevent misconceptions and worrying associations that can complicate reactions to death and loss. This study explores childhood grief with a focus on how the death of a parent affects children, as perceived/understood through their parents, and aims to provide educators with knowledge and skills to enhance their support of grieving children and their families.

Promoting the Adjustment of Parentally Bereaved Children

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Parental Death ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Childhood Bereavement ◽  
Parentally Bereaved ◽  
Bereaved Children ◽  
Death Of A Parent ◽  
Detrimental Impact

The death of a parent is one of the most stressful life events to encounter during childhood. Given its detrimental impact on psychological development, a better understanding of outcomes associated with childhood bereavement and factors that affect these outcomes is necessary. The adjustment of bereaved children is linked to such factors as age of the child, sex of child and parent, circumstances of parent death, and the adjustment of the surviving caregiver. In this article I highlight considerations that may increase children's positive adjustment to parental death and also discuss specific treatment recommendations.

Phase chemistry in the Ti-Si-N system: Thermochemical review with phase stability diagrams

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 2362-2369 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sambasivan ◽  
W.T. Petuskey
Keyword(s):  
Phase Stability ◽  
Ternary Phase ◽  
Ternary Phase Diagram ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Thermodynamic Activity ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Stability Diagrams ◽  
Phase Compatibility ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Phase Chemistry

The phase chemistry and thermodynamics of the Ti-Si-N system are reviewed leading to a revision of the ternary phase diagram at 1273 K to include the extended compositional ranges of δ-TiNx and Ti5Si3(Ny) and the compounds Ti3Si, Ti5Si4, and α-Ti. This same information is presented in the form of phase stability diagrams which plot the stability criteria for each phase as a function of thermodynamic activity of one component and the relative composition of the other two components. Plots in terms of log asi vs Ti/(Ti + N), log aN2 vs Si/(Ti + Si), and log aTi vs N/(Si + N) were constructed. All diagrams are consistent with current knowledge of phase compatibility and, therefore, are topologically correct. Further refinement will be possible as more accurate information on thermodynamics and compositional limits of solid solutions becomes available.

scholarly journals Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Patients With Breast Cancer: Exploratory Study of Social Network Forum Data

JMIR Cancer ◽  
10.2196/12536 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. e12536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Béatrice Lognos ◽  
François Carbonnel ◽  
Isabelle Boulze Launay ◽  
Sandra Bringay ◽  
Estelle Guerdoux-Ninot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Nutritional Interventions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

Background Patients and health care professionals are becoming increasingly preoccupied in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) that can also be called nonpharmacological interventions (NPIs). In just a few years, this supportive care has gone from solutions aimed at improving the quality of life to solutions intended to reduce symptoms, supplement oncological treatments, and prevent recurrences. Digital social networks are a major vector for disseminating these practices that are not always disclosed to doctors by patients. An exploration of the content of exchanges on social networks by patients suffering from breast cancer can help to better identify the extent and diversity of these practices. Objective This study aimed to explore the interest of patients with breast cancer in CAM from posts published in health forums and French-language social media groups. Methods The retrospective study was based on a French database of 2 forums and 4 Facebook groups between June 3, 2006, and November 17, 2015. The extracted, anonymized, and compiled data (264,249 posts) were analyzed according to the occurrences associated with the NPI categories and NPI subcategories, their synonyms, and their related terms. Results The results showed that patients with breast cancer use mainly physical (37.6%) and nutritional (31.3%) interventions. Herbal medicine is a subcategory that was cited frequently. However, the patients did not mention digital interventions. Conclusions This exploratory study of the main French forums and discussion groups indicates a significant interest in CAM during and after treatments for breast cancer, with primarily physical and nutritional interventions complementing approved treatments. This study highlights the importance of accurate information (vs fake medicine), prescription and monitoring of these interventions, and the mediating role that health professionals must play in this regard.

Exploratory Study on the Stability of Consumer Rationality in Judging Online Reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makoto Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Electronic Products ◽  
True Value ◽  
Second Look ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Valuation Criteria

Consumers are often asked valuate the quality of online reviews. However, they often misjudge the true value of reviews because their thoughts on reviews are not well formed with criteria. This exploratory study conducted stylized survey-based experiments using 217 consumers. Consumers typically underestimate the value of reviews because they do not always use valuation criteria when reading reviews. The extent of such underestimations ranges from 12% to 15% for goods with objective attributes like electronic products. In addition, nearly half of the consumers revised their review valuations upon taking a second look at the same review for these goods. Close to one-third of the consumers changed their review valuations for subjective goods like music albums. Such valuation changes are specific to consumer profiles. Their predominant emotional sentiment also has a varying effect on subjective and non-subjective goods.

Using Research in Teaching: Fourth-grade division: how much is retained in grade five

1973 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Ray Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Division Problems ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Division Process ◽  
Grade Division ◽  
Do So

Teachers acknowledge that the division process is difficult for children due to its unique nature of involving all basic mathematics operations. Fifth-grade teachers perennially have a difficult time understanding why they must do so much reteaching of division problems that are similar to those that the students studied during the fourth grade. It is also difficult for fourth-grade teachers to understand why the children need the reteaching in the fifth grade when they have observed, at the close of the fourth year, that the students seem to have the mathematical knowledge and skills needed for the next grade.

Childhood Bereavement and Adult Depression

1967 ◽  
Vol 113 (500) ◽  
pp. 743-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. W. Hill ◽  
J. S. Price
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Behavioural Pattern ◽  
Childhood Bereavement ◽  
Childhood Experience ◽  
Adult Depression ◽  
Death Of A Parent ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mourning And Melancholia

The effect that childhood experience may have upon the individual's adult life has always been a subject of great interest.Since the publication of Freud's essay on “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917), much thought has been devoted to the influence of bereavement in childhood, more especially as an antecedent to depressive illness in the adult. Bereavement is peculiarsluyitable for such an investigation since the death of a parent is one of the few reasonably frequent events which are largely independent of the behavioural pattern of the family.

scholarly journals Psychometric Features of the General Teacher Test under the D-Scoring Model: The Case of Teacher Certification Assessment in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Dimiter M. Dimitrov ◽  
Abdullah Alsadaawi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Teacher Certification ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Scoring Model ◽  
Test Scoring ◽  
Professional Teacher ◽  
Teacher Standards ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Teacher Test

<p><em>The teachers’ knowledge and skills on general standards under the Saudi National Professional Teacher Standards is assessed with the use of the General Teacher Test (GTT) administered by the National Center for Assessment (NCA) in Saudi Arabia. This paper examines the psychometric features of the GTT in the framework of a new approach to test scoring, referred to as D-scoring model, which is used with assessments at the NCA. The stability of such features across four test forms of the GTT is also examined. The study findings provide valuable information about the accuracy of the GTT scores and the validity of their interpretation and decisions regarding the licensure of teachers.</em></p>

scholarly journals Immunoinformatics-Based Designing of a Multi-Epitope Chimeric Vaccine From Multi-Domain Outer Surface Antigens of Leptospira

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kumar ◽  
Surabhi Lata ◽  
Umate Nachiket Shankar ◽  
Mohd. Akif
Keyword(s):  
Outer Surface ◽  
Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Effective Vaccine ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Cell Mediated Immunity ◽  
Heparin Binding ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Chimeric Vaccine

Accurate information on antigenic epitopes within a multi-domain antigen would provide insights into vaccine design and immunotherapy. The multi-domain outer surface Leptospira immunoglobulin-like (Lig) proteins LigA and LigB, consisting of 12–13 homologous bacterial Ig (Big)-like domains, are potential antigens of Leptospira interrogans. Currently, no effective vaccine is available against pathogenic Leptospira. Both the humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity of the host play critical roles in defending against Leptospira infection. Here, we used immunoinformatics approaches to evaluate antigenic B-cell lymphocyte (BCL) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) epitopes from Lig proteins. Based on certain crucial parameters, potential epitopes that can stimulate both types of adaptive immune responses were selected to design a chimeric vaccine construct. Additionally, an adjuvant, the mycobacterial heparin-binding hemagglutinin adhesin (HBHA), was incorporated into the final multi-epitope vaccine construct with a suitable linker. The final construct was further scored for its antigenicity, allergenicity, and physicochemical parameters. A three-dimensional (3D) modeled construct of the vaccine was implied to interact with Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) using molecular docking. The stability of the vaccine construct with TLR4 was predicted with molecular dynamics simulation. Our results demonstrate the application of immunoinformatics and structure biology strategies to develop an epitope-specific chimeric vaccine from multi-domain proteins. The current findings will be useful for future experimental validation to ratify the immunogenicity of the chimera.

Teaching Recording and Documentation to BSW Students: An Exploratory Study of Field Instructors' Views

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Natalie Ames
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Field Instructors ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Social Work Educators

This exploratory study examined field instructors' perspectives on teaching recording skills to BSW students. The author used structured interviews with open-ended questions to gather data from 16 experienced social work field instructors. The study sought to explore (1) field instructors' methods of teaching about recording and the content of that instruction, and (2) the foundation knowledge and skills that would be helpful before students enter field. The findings suggest some avenues for developing content on recording within the BSW curriculum as well as for opening a dialogue between social work educators and field instructors on how to coordinate instruction on this critical topic.

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