MOTOR GAMES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Achieving success is influenced in a significant percentage by the difficulties of adaptation, motivation, but also by the skills with which the student is endowed. Practice has shown that most of the time, the stronger the motivation and the activity is appreciated and rewarded, the more intense the learning. An important means for motivating students is the game, which is an excellent means of experimentation and continuous improvement of children's sensory-motor resources, thus giving free rein to the imagination structuring new movements, which they repeat in various combinations, thus contributing to the progressive development of thinking, memory and creativityWe can say that the true measure of intelligence is not only given by IQ, but also EQ which seems to have a major contribution. It translates into self-control, despite difficulties, and the ability to "read" the feelings of others as well as one's own. The game gets people used to accept defeats, but also victories with dignity. These qualities learned on the sports field will be successfully transposed into social and professional life and into life. One could enumerate a multitude of moral qualities that are cultivated through play: the spirit of sacrifice, perseverance, courage, which can be developed even by using the simplest games. A series of games develop visual acuity, hearing, intelligence, observation. There are no physical or intellectual qualities that cannot be developed through games.

Validation of a Frailty Ladder Using Rasch Analysis: If the Shoe Fits

The current measurement approach to frailty is to classify people on frailty status, rather than measure the degree to which they are frail. Here, we test the extent to which a set of items identified within the frailty concept fits a hierarchical linear model (Rasch model) and form a true measure reflective of the frailty construct and confirm the model using the NuAge dataset. The development sample included 234 individuals (aged 57 to 97) drawn from three sources: at-risk seniors (n=141); post-colorectal surgery (n=47); and post-rehabilitation hip fracture (n=46). We defined our frailty construct based on items commonly used in frailty indices, self-report measures, and performance tests. Of the 68 items, 29 fit the Rasch Model: 19 self-report items on physical function and 10 performance tests including one for cognition. Items typically identified as reflecting the frailty concept fit the Rasch model. The Frailty Ladder would facilitate personalized intervention.

Teaching mathematics in ‘different tongues’

Language choice in teaching mathematics is a legitimate area of concern. It is noted that tension exists in classrooms where mathematics is taught in a language different from the first language spoken by the learners (Martínez & Dominguez, 2018). It is then a logical supposition to make that if students in mathematics classes are taught and tested in a language that is not their native their scores and proficiency levels may not be a true measure of their abilities, but a reflection of their mastery of the language used as medium of instruction (Haag, Heppt, Stanat, Kuhl & Pant, 2013). Against this contention, this study is conducted to determine the mathematics proficiency and anxiety of students learning mathematics across different local languages. In addition, the study analyzed whether significant differences exist in the investigated variables across gender. The study disclosed interesting results which were discussed herein.

A Metaphysics of Love

The book is the third and final part of a philosophy of Christian life. The first part applied a phenomenological approach to the literature of the devout life tradition, focussing on the feeling of being drawn to devotion to God; the second part examined what happens when this feeling is interpreted as a call or vocation. At its heart, this is the call to love that is made explicit in the Christian love-commandment but is shown to be implied every time human beings address each other in speech. A metaphysics of love explores the conditions for the possibility of such a call to love. Taking into account contemporary critiques of metaphysics, Dante’s vision of ‘the love that moves the sun and other stars’ challenges us to account for the mutual entwining of human and cosmic love and of being/God and beings/creatures in love. Conditions for the possibility of love are shown to include language, time, and social forms that mediate between immediate individual existence and society as a whole. Faced with the history of human malevolence, love also supposes the possibility of a new beginning, which Christianity sees in the Incarnation, manifest as forgiveness. Where existential phenomenology sees death as definitive of human existence, Christianity finds life’s true measure in love. Thus understood, love reveals the truth of being.

Inflammatory Biomarkers and Chronic Diseases: The Link to COVID-19.

1. Abstract The COVID-19 disease and pandemic eruption have caused a major concern for patients and healthcare systems globally. Immunological therapies are among the areas that require a lot of attention as the immunological consequences of the infection are neither well defined nor well understood. All medical reports indicate that severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 infection has a fatal outcome often results from alveolar injury that impedes airway capacity and multi-organ failure. Both of these complications are associated with the hyper production of cytokines that is known by the term cytokine storm and also called cytokine release syndrome. Strong body of clinical reports show that both mild and severe forms of disease result in cytokine secretion through changes in circulating leukocyte subsets. This is accompanied by elevated level of cytokines production. The milieu of cytokines produced includes IL-6, IL-1β, IL-10, TNF, GM-CSF, IP-10 (IFN-induced protein 10), IL-17, MCP-1, MCP-3 and IL-1ra. With no surprise immune-therapies that target the immune response and curtail the cytokine storm in coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) patients have become a focus of recent clinical trials. In this mini-review we are also highlighting the importance of monitoring closely the levels of the cytokines as a true measure for the patient`s status and immunity level.

Getting the true measure of your organization

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings The study develops four case-studies of manufacturing SME’s in morocco, demonstrating that organizational culture has an impact on their performance management systems. Originality The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

A quasi-annual record of time-transgressive esker formation: implications for ice-sheet reconstruction and subglacial hydrology

We identify and map chains of esker beads (series of aligned mounds) up to 15 m high and on average ∼ 65 m wide in central Nunavut, Canada, from the high-resolution (2 m) ArcticDEM. Based on the close 1 : 1 association with regularly spaced, sharp-crested ridges interpreted as De Geer moraines, we interpret the esker beads to be quasi-annual ice-marginal deposits formed time-transgressively at the mouth of subglacial conduits during deglaciation. Esker beads therefore preserve a high-resolution record of ice-margin retreat and subglacial hydrology. The well-organised beaded esker network implies that subglacial channelised drainage was relatively fixed in space and through time. Downstream esker bead spacing constrains the typical pace of deglaciation in central Nunavut between 8.1 and 6.8 cal kyr BP to 165–370 m yr−1, although with short periods of more rapid retreat (> 400 m yr−1). Under our time-transgressive interpretation, the lateral spacing of the observed eskers provides a true measure of subglacial conduit spacing for testing mathematical models of subglacial hydrology. Esker beads also record the volume of sediment deposited from conduits in each melt season, thus providing a minimum bound on annual sediment fluxes, which is in the range of 103–104 m3 yr−1 in each 6–10 km wide subglacial conduit catchment. We suggest that the prevalence of esker beads across this predominantly marine-terminating sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet is a result of sediment fluxes that were unable to backfill conduits at a rate faster than ice-margin retreat. Conversely, we hypothesise that esker ridges form when sediment backfilling of the subglacial conduit outpaced retreat, resulting in headward esker growth close to but behind the margin. The implication, in accordance with recent modelling results, is that eskers in general record a composite signature of ice-marginal drainage rather than a temporal snapshot of ice-sheet-wide subglacial drainage.

Estimates of COVID-19 case-fatality risk from individual-level data

ABSTRACTWhen calculated from aggregate data on confirmed cases and deaths, the case-fatality risk (CFR) is a simple ratio between the former and the latter, which is prone to numerous biases. With individual-level data, the CFR can be estimated as a true measure of risk as the proportion of incidence for the disease. We present the first estimates of the CFR for COVID-19 by age and sex based on event history modelling of the risk of dying among confirmed positive individuals in the Canadian province of Ontario, which maintains one of the few individual-level datasets on COVID-19 in the world.

THE THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF CREATIVE ABILITIES AS THEY PRESENTED IN FRANCIS GALTON’S WORKS

The study purpose was to analyze Francis Galton’s works in order to determine the methodology that should be used to study creativity and its heredity. The article author clarified the definitions of the following concepts: “ability”, “giftedness”, “talent” and also examined the relations between the theories on heredity and eugenics, formulated by Galton. Via the performed theoretical analysis, we have found that Francis Galton, studying the heredity of talent, erroneously hypothesised that a high reputation was a true measure of high abilities. In his works, Galton did not use a single term to define “talent” or “giftedness”. Also, no explanation was given for criteria describing subjects as: “having high abilities” or “high reputation”. Also, Galton did not develop clear criteria determining whether certain relatives of famous people were also outstanding or talented. Accordingly, the article author proposes her own approach defining an outstanding individual that excludes from consideration on creativity people who are famous, but, at the same time, are not highly talented. Francis Galton did not explain exactly what abilities had people of different occupations; he was not able to describe specific signs of talent in a particular area. Galton divided talented individuals into classes, but the basis for such division did not meet any reasonable criterion. He also compared talents of students studied at different classes but did not explain rules determining talent levels. Because of these and other facts, Francis Galton’ research results were unreliable. Omissions were also made in the study on talent heredity, which, in turn, led to incorrectly formulated goals for such an approach as “Eugenics”.

A quasi-annual record of time-transgressive esker formation: implications for ice sheet reconstruction and subglacial hydrology

We identify and map chains of esker beads (series of aligned mounds) up to 15 m high and on average ~ 65 m wide across central Nunavut, Canada from the high-resolution (2 m) ArcticDEM. Based on the close one-to-one association with regularly spaced, sharp crested ridges interpreted as De Geer moraines, we interpret the esker beads to be quasi-annual ice-marginal deposits formed time-transgressively at the mouth of subglacial conduits during deglaciation. Esker beads therefore preserve a high-resolution record of ice-margin retreat and subglacial hydrology. The well-organised beaded esker network implies that subglacial channelised drainage was relatively fixed in space and through time. Downstream esker bead spacing constrains the typical pace of deglaciation in central Nunavut between 7.2 and 6 ka 14C BP to 165–370 m yr−1, although with short periods of more rapid retreat (> 400 m yr−1). Under our time-transgressive interpretation, the lateral spacing of the observed eskers provides a true measure of subglacial conduit spacing for testing mathematical models of subglacial hydrology. Esker beads also record the volume of sediment deposited in each melt season, thus providing a minimum bound on annual sediment fluxes, which is in the range of 103–104 m3 yr−1 in each 6–10 km wide subglacial conduit catchment. We suggest the prevalence of esker beads across this predominantly marine terminating sector of the former Laurentide Ice Sheet is a result of sediment fluxes that were unable to backfill conduits at a rate faster than ice-margin retreat. Esker ridges, conversely, are hypothesised to form when sediment backfilling of the subglacial conduit outpaced retreat resulting in headward esker growth close to but behind the margin. The implication, in accordance with recent modelling results, is that eskers in general record a composite signature of ice-marginal drainage rather than a temporal snapshot of ice-sheet wide subglacial drainage.