Complex Story Research Articles

The Effect of Age and Task Complexity on the Microstructure of Child Arabic Narratives.

This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of preschool- and school-age Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children. It also explores the effects of story task complexity on the target microstructural features. This study employed a cross-sectional research design and enrolled 96 monolingual speakers of Kuwaiti Arabic. Four groups of children aged 4;0-7;11 (years;months) were randomly recruited from public schools across Kuwait. The groups consisted of 22 four-year-olds (Kindergarten 1), 24 five-year-olds (Kindergarten 2), 25 six-year-olds (Grade 1), and 25 seven-year-olds (Grade 2). Two sets of sequential pictures from the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument were used to elicit storytelling from all participants: a one-episode story and a more complex three-episode story. The children's stories were analyzed to determine if there were differences in narrative microstructure as a function of age and task complexity. The data indicated that productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic structures increased with task complexity. The length of communication units, the average mean length of the three longest utterances, and the amount and variety of words in the children's productions were all significantly larger in the more complex story. Only one syntactic structure showed age as well as task effects. Clinical recommendations include adapting the coding scheme to fit Arabic data, using the more complex narrative alone for microstructure analysis, and calculating only a few measures for productivity and syntactic complexity to save time.

HSP90 in morphogenesis: taking the heat and keeping the dark.

This article is a Commentary on Zeng et al. (2023), 239: 1253–1265.

The Complex Story Behind a Deep Eutectic Solvent Formation as Revealed by l-Menthol Mixtures with Butylated Hydroxytoluene Derivatives

The Complex Story Behind a Deep Eutectic Solvent Formation as Revealed by <scp>l</scp>-Menthol Mixtures with Butylated Hydroxytoluene Derivatives

Application Of 3-Dimensional Modeling In Android-Based Adventure Game Applications

Role Playing Game (RPG) is a game that has complex story elements and acting that makes a person feel like a character in the game. One of the RPG editing engines is RPG Maker MV, where a 2D RPG can be a standalone program that can be played directly without the help of this program or other programs. Quests are assigned to players by non-player characters (NPCs) that the player cannot control and interact with them through dialogue. In the game mode each player can collect things into an inventory which contains the things needed to solve certain tasks during gameplay. In addition, game objects that represent learning objects have been assigned locations which can be NPCs or other objects. In addition, game objects that represent learning objects have been assigned locations which can be NPCs or other objects. Can apply 3-dimensional modeling to role-playing game applications by placing objects on characters that can walk up, down, left and right. NPC objects can be applied to weapon objects, namely axes, if gold points are collected then the NPC object will appear. It is hoped that this implementation can be a reference not only for 3-dimensional modeling in complex role-playing game applications but also for all circles as the development of Android and IOS-based RPG games.

The eighteen months’ follow‐up, second version, after the intervention using a rehabilitation program of physical and cognitive rec‐Xercise (REPCREC) for the elderly with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

AbstractBackgroundTo prevent or slow down the age‐related cognitive decline is an important issue. Therefore we have conducted intervention study with our rehabilitation program of physical and cognitive Rec‐Xercise (REPCREC) for the elderly with MCI.MethodSeventy‐six cases, out of seventy‐nine enrolled individuals, have undergone our evaluation and intervention program (REPCREC). The subjects have been divided into four groups; group A the cognitive REPCREC, group B physical REPCREC, group C both cognitive and physical REPCREC and group D control. The design of this study is a non‐randomized controlled trial. Intervention groups have received the each session once per week up to twelve times. Before and after the intervention, and 3‐, 6‐, 12‐ &amp; 18‐months after the intervention, we have evaluated the following items: physical function, GDS, POMS2, neuropsychological tests [MMSE, RBMT, TMT, Ravenʼs Colored Progressive Matrices(RCPM), Rey‐Osterrieth Complex Figure Test(ROCF), story retention, coding and Miyake’s paired verbal associate learning test(MPVALT)]. A one‐day booster program has been provided at the time of evaluation. For statistical analysis, Fisher’s exact test and Kruscal‐Wallis test for the baseline data, and linear mixed model(LMM) analysis have been performed.ResultThe median age is 79, median MMSE scare is 27.5, and the numbers of each group are A18, B24, C27, and D7 cases. At the baseline, no difference between groups except POMS‐F (p = 0.026). LMM analysis revealed the significant differences: 1) before REPCREC; RCPM of group A (p = 0.013), story retention delayed (p = 0.001) of group A (p = 0.011)▪C (p = 0.037), story retention immediate (p = 0.022), MPVALT (non‐related) (p = 0.048) and ROCF (recall) (p = 0.006), 2) after REPCREC; coding (p = 0.011) of group A (p = 0.049)▪C (p = 0.032) and ROCF(recall) (p = 0.018), 3) 3 months after REPCREC; TMTB (p = 0.031) of group A (p = 0.032) and story retention delayed of group A (p = 0.011).ConclusionThe program REPCREC showed the better effects after REPCREC on non‐verbal intelligence, visuospatial abilities, memory, attention, planning, working memory etc. [RCPM, ROCF (recall), MPVALT] in especially the cognitive REPCREC (group A). And group A showed the significant improvement in TMTB and story retention delayed, even three months after REPCREC. That may indicate the prolonged efficacy of the REPCREP in shift of attention and coherent memory for MCI

New insights into the Cretaceous evolution of the Western Amazonian paleodrainage system

The geological history of the Amazon River is a complex story driven by geodynamic processes operating in the South American plate. In spite of recent research, the pre-Neogene structure of Amazon paleodrainage is still underconstrained. A recent study has suggested that the western Amazonian paleodrainage system was reversed, cratonic in origin during the Cretaceous. However, the extent and duration of this system are not well-constrained. To add new constraints, we investigated the sources of Cretaceous sedimentary rocks in the Brazilian Acre and Peruvian Madre de Dios basins, based on major and trace element concentrations, Sm–Nd isotopic compositions, and U–Pb detrital zircon dating. The late Cretaceous samples of the Acre Basin have εNd(0) values between −21.2 and −8.4 and zircon grains derived from terranes situated in the easternmost part of the Amazonian Craton: Ventuari–Tapajos (2.0–1.82 Ga) and Rio Negro–Juruena (1.82–1.54 Ga). In contrast, the Madre de Dios Basin samples have εNd(0) values ranging from −15.2 to −7.1 and a wide range of U–Pb zircon age distributions. The samples from the northern part of the basin (MD234 and MD238) are dominated by zircon ages between 0.9 and 1.3 Ga (Grenville/Sunsás, 30 %–43 %) and 0.5 and 0.7 Ga (Brazilian/Pampean, 26 %–16 %) with felsic provenance. The oldest MD234 sample also shows a dominant contribution from Paleozoic zircon (20 %). On the other hand, the samples from the southern part of the Madre de Dios Basin (samples MD-2019-4A; MD-2019-10; MD-2019-13; MD-2019-11D and MD-2019-12A) have U–Pb age distributions dominated by zircon ages between 0.9 and 1.3 Ga (Grenville/Sunsás, 30 %–45 %) and 1.54 and 1.3 Ga (Rondonia–San Ignácio, 16 %–43 %), pointing to a cratonic origin for these sedimentary rocks. To elucidate the distinction in provenance between the samples from the northern and southern parts of the Madre de Dios Basin, we suggest that a structural barrier (the Madidi Arch (?)) was active during the late Cretaceous. In this scenario, the northern part of the Madre de Dios Basin had similar sedimentary sources as the nearby basins like Huallaga, Bagua, Ucayali, and Marañón, whereas, in the southern part of the basin, sedimentation was influenced by local sources. Together with previously published studies, these data indicate that the continent-wide cratonic drainage developed between the Cenomanian and Maastrichtian in response to the Purus Arch uplift was probably driven by a geodynamic process related to the post-rift opening of the Atlantic Equatorial Ocean.

Creating an Adaptable Literacy Tutoring System for Elementary-Age Students in New York City Foster Care

ABSTRACT The researchers present a case study of an ongoing literacy tutoring program for elementary-age students in foster care. The first two authors collaborated with the education program at The New York Foundling, and created a multi-component, data-based program modification to guide tutors to virtually assess and teach core literacy skills. The program combined explicit instruction, fluency building, and ongoing critique of student needs through formative assessments. Students in foster care face significant challenges and begin tutoring with complex stories. The researchers found that using a dynamic approach in tutoring allowed the majority of students in foster care enrolled to make growth in literacy skills during the COVID-19 pandemic. The experimental design was a single-group, pre-to-posttest design with intermittent, repeated measures. Tutors provided detailed responses to a usability survey to assist in better understanding the complex nature of working with this population. Future directions for the program and implications for working with this vulnerable population were discussed.

How Nature Works in Four-Dimensional Space: The Untold Complex Story

How Nature Works in Four-Dimensional Space: The Untold Complex Story

Using the sand tray method as a reflective learning tool in social work practice education

ABSTRACT The article explains a creative technique I developed to reflect on cases in a sand tray during practice supervision. Sand has been used in play therapy since the early 20th century to help children and adults create a visual representation of their world for the purpose of healing personal trauma. I often used the technique in my earlier career as a direct work and life story work tool with children. The sand tray becomes a three-dimensional picture, which the therapist and child explore together. I learned it from an experienced play therapist who took me on my own journey through the sand. The pictures I made were powerful and helped me to explore personal/professional realms. The sand tray becomes an artifact, an object rich with significance and imagery that acts as a metaphor for its maker, providing opportunities to crystalize complex stories in our case work for examination. The article provides instructions for Practice Educators who would like to explore the technique with their students in practice supervision.

Insufficient Accountability? Heterogeneous Effects of Charter Schools Across Authorizing Agencies

We estimate the longitudinal effects of charter schools authorized by different authorizing bodies on student achievement by using student-level data from Indiana. The results of our analysis point to substantial variation, especially between the state’s two largest authorizers: Ball State University and the Indianapolis Mayor’s Office. Some of the variation is driven by the types of operators these bodies authorize to run charter schools. However, operator effects are not consistent across authorizers, suggesting a more complex story about how authorization affects student achievement. These results point to the ways that public and private interests in charter schools may complicate the work of authorizers and suggest a need for policymakers to offer more guidance in how authorizers carry out their various accountability mandates.

It’s not only about the leader: Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium

Research on the electoral personalization of politics has stressed a trend towards a greater role of top prominent political figures (party leaders and ministers). This trend was described as centralized electoral personalization. Yet, this trend is merely one side of a more complex story. No leader attracts all voters’ support, and other candidates manage to stand out despite lower resources and visibility. Using a unique dataset of 47,239 actual ballot papers cast for the 2018 Belgian local elections, we show that candidate-level, list-level and district-level factors result in distinct preference voting behaviour. While these factors lead to unmistakable forms of (de-)centralized personalized forms of elections, we furthermore, show that intermediary situations distinctively emerge. A significant number of ‘subtop’ candidates stand out among candidates, by attracting support from voters who do not support the mere leader of the list. This ‘oligarchized personalization’ would deserve greater attention in the literature.

Towards a Method of Black Feminist Archival Bricolage: Memory-Keeping within, beneath and beyond the Archive

This essay considers the erasure and visceral laceration of Black women’s herstories from white, masculinized archives, timelines, and cartographies of the past. It simultaneously centers the identity-oriented and historically anchored ways everyday Black women collect, curate, and pass down personal archives for the purpose of intergenerational survival and uplift. In centering the life writings and oral narratives of three Black women in the author’s immediate family, this essay disrupts archival silences around the movements, mobilities, and resistance strategies of everyday Black women; rather, it reveals how Black grandmothers, mothers, and othermothers continue to sustain Black women’s viability and visibility through their work as memory-keepers and family historians. By centering the life herstories of her grandmother, mother, and aunt, the author engages in a process of Black feminist archival bricolage, weaving together fragmented pieces of distinct yet overlapping life narratives that—when put together—tell a more complete and complex story of Black women’s movements, resistances, and archival pedagogies. In doing so, archival fissures are collaboratively challenged in order to reclaim, recover, and recenter the invisible cartographies of everyday Black women.

Review: Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, by Page Harrington

Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, by Page Harrington Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites by Page Harrington. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 150 pp.; illustrations, timeline, resources, bibliography; clothbound, $79.00; paperback, $35.00; eBook, $33.00. Allison K. Lange Allison K. Lange Wentworth Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (2): 148–149. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.148 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Allison K. Lange; Review: Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, by Page Harrington. The Public Historian 1 May 2023; 45 (2): 148–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.148 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search In Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, Page Harrington starts with an overview of recent histories of women’s voting rights and addresses the tensions around representing racism within the movement. The book includes four case studies to demonstrate the challenges and successes of portraying the racial divides. An appendix rounds up some of the resources created for the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and features a broad timeline of the history of women’s rights. As a former executive director of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, DC, Harrington has vital firsthand knowledge of the opportunities and obstacles facing those who seek to tell a more complex story of the movement. Her book is a useful resource for anyone telling the history of women’s suffrage to the public. Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites is part of a... You do not currently have access to this content.

Thermobarometry of diamond inclusions: Mantle structure and evolution beneath Archean cratons and mobile belts worldwide

Thermobarometric calculations for mineral inclusions in diamonds provide a systematic comparison of P-T-fO2 conditions for different cratons and mobile belts worldwide, using a database of 4440 mineral EPMA analyses. Beneath all cratons, the cold branch of the mantle geotherm (35-32 mWm−2) relates to PT estimates for sub-calcic garnets and rare omphacitic diamond inclusions, referring to major continental growth events in Archean. High-temperature plume-related geotherms are common in Proterozoic kimberlites such as Premier, Mesozoic-Roberts Victor etc. and are common in Slave and Siberian cratons. Eclogitic and pyroxenitic pyroxenes and garnets and Fe- and Ca-enriched pyrope diamond inclusions prevail in mobile belts like Limpopo, Magondi, Ural, Khapchan and in the marginal parts of cratons (Kimberly in Australia) They refer to diamondiferous eclogite-pyroxenite lens in the mididdle parts of lithospheric mantle. Eclogitic garnets and clinopyroxenes show trends of joint decreasing Mg# and pressures due to differentiation of rising melts. Dunitic Ca pyropes giving high-pressure estimates prevail in the central parts of cratons. The PT for the chromites reflect conditions just above the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary formed due to interaction with the hydrous plume protokimberlite melts. Archean diamond Ca-enrich pyropes inclusions from Wawa province Canada give low-temperature conditions. Inclusions from younger kimberlites in Superior and Slave, Siberian and East European cratons show complex high-temperature geotherms due to plumes influence. Peridotite garnets beneath the Amazonian craton indicate complex layering in the lithosphere base and a pyroxene layer in the middle part of mantle lithosphere. Diamond inclusions from the Kimberley Craton of Australia show the greatest variations in the temperatures and composition. The mobile belts and marginal parts of cratons are favorable for the finding of the abundant colored diamonds. The huge plume influence for hydrated and eclogite-rich mantle like in Premier, Venetia and other kimberlites brings to the formation of giant diamonds. Diamond inclusion reveal the huge variations of PT conditions formed by different agents due to long complex stories of craton deciphered using thermobarometry and trace element and isotopic geochemistry.

Het complexe verhaal van de wiskunde in de Tractatus

The complex story of mathematics in the Tractatus In this paper some thoughts are presented about the treatment of mathematics in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus of Ludwig Wittgenstein. After introducing a metaphor for the mathematical ‘building’, we look at the scattered ideas about mathematics in the Tractatus itself. Although the general consensus is that Wittgenstein rejects the entire ‘building’, there are recent insights that suggest that a more coherent view of ‘Tractarian’ mathematics can be presented, if we are willing to leave behind a foundational form of thinking. What this means will be outlined in some detail. The concluding general assessment is that the final word on the status of mathematics in the Tractatus is still pending.

Telling ‘more complex stories’ of European integration: how a sociotechnical perspective can help explain administrative continuity in the Common European Asylum System

ABSTRACT This article tries to explain an apparent paradox in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS): despite political stalemate over CEAS legislative reform and lack of trust amongst MSs, administrative cooperation shows operational continuity. Drawing on the ‘Infrastructural Europeanism’ approach, we argue that a sociotechnical perspective allows detecting the material means that operationally provide continuity to administrative action, despite policy gaps. It reveals mediating agency exerted by less visible actors who are nevertheless crucial to the integration process. Through a sociotechnical lens, alleged integration failures – like in the post-2015 asylum crisis – can reveal operational cooperation not visible if only legislative outcomes are taken into account. Empirically, the article shows how the International Organization for Migration assumed a role in mediating relocations between MSs, overcoming an implementation gap in health data circulation, thanks to its data infrastructure able to prompt data production, harmonise administrative standardisation and build continuity in time.

Rancang Bangun Media Pembelajaran Berbasis Game menggunakan RPG Maker MV

Game is something made with certain techniques and methods that can give pleasure or inner satisfaction. Game (RPG) is a game that has elements of a complex story and acting that makes one feel like a character in the game. This game is a game in the form of game software in the form of an RPG game using the RPG Maker MV software. This game is based on a true story that is currently happening, namely Covid-19. The research method used in making the RPG game is Rapid Application Development (RAD) where the research stages are in the form of re-quirements planning, design process, and implementation. Plan requirements to achieve a goal of an application or system and find out the information needs in order to achieve the requirements, then the design process includes the design process and make improvements if there are still design discrepancies between users and analysts, and the implementation stage where the programmer develops a design program that can be tested. From the results of this study, it is possible to create a covid-19 educational game entitled "Covid-19". With this game, players can understand the covid-19 disease and the symptoms of covid-19 and also how to overcome the disease.

College Campus Dissent in the 1960s: A Review Essay

Protests and Dangerous IdeasU.S. College Campuses in the 1960s Jason S. Lantzer (bio) Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois By Michael V. Metz (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. Pp. ix, 269. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Clothbound, $110.00; paperbound, $26.95.) Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK By Matthew C. Ehrlich (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. Pp. vii, 216. Illustrations, notes, index. Clothbound, $110.00; paperbound, $24.95.) Matthew C. Ehrlich's Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK presents an account of free speech debates at the University of Illinois in the early 1960s. Ehrlich considers two faculty-inspired cases that defined the Urbana campus for the tumultuous decade and beyond. The first is that of Leo Koch, whose contract to teach was terminated after he wrote a letter to the editor advocating a relaxing of societal norms towards sexual relations, including how they played out on the campus. The second case occurred in the wake of Koch's firing, and involved Classics professor Revilo Oliver, an increasingly radicalized right-wing figure at Illinois, who advanced not just anti-communism and antisemitism, but also conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Ehrlich's account of how the university handled these two ideologically different cases reveals how they were ultimately related, beyond taking place on the same campus. Despite their opposite ideological positions, both Koch and Oliver pushed and prodded the existing hierarchy, challenging the university's leadership, headed by President David Henry. Dangerous Ideas on Campus is driven forward narratively by Ehrlich's prose as well as the campus guide he provides the reader in the person of University of Illinois undergraduate Roger Ebert. The eventually famous movie critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist first burst onto the newsroom scene covering some of the events Ehrlich describes. As a result, readers who might otherwise be unfamiliar with various aspects of law, campus life, politics, or just Illinois outside of Chicago, are given a familiar voice to help them navigate what at times is a disturbing and complex story. The chief strengths of Ehrlich's account are the questions he poses for readers to consider. What is the responsibility of the academic community to professors? What is the difference between free speech and academic freedom? These are important questions that Americans and the nation's universities still wrestle with. Ehrlich also highlights the irony that Koch, the liberal, was fired over exercising opinions about sexual relations between college students and the univerity's stance in loco parentis that eventually became the norm nationally, noting that the blowback over the university's decision to terminate him likely saved Oliver, the conservative, from a similar fate. Facing disgruntled faculty, parents, students, state politicians, and an official inquiry by the American Association of University Professors, the University of Illinois had no stomach for taking on Oliver's stances on a variety of issues. Perhaps one of the more interesting things Ehrlich touches on in his tightly written book, though he does not explore the issue in [End Page 80] depth, is how the status of these two men mattered. Koch was a contract instructor, what we might deem contingent faculty today. Oliver, on the other hand, was a tenured faculty member. If, as Ehrlich notes, tenured faculty are a check on campus administrations, then it is worth pondering the current state of higher education and how that effects modern campus discussions of both free speech and academic freedom. John F. Kennedy, pictured on the cover of Ehrlich's book at a 1960 campaign stop on the campus, is important for our memory and understanding of the 1960s. His election and presidential term, cut short by his murder, provide a convenient demarcation between the decade as Ehrlich describes it and the one that Michael Metz guides us through. Like all historical demarcation lines it is somewhat arbitrary, imperfect, and yet accurate. American life did change in the wake of Kennedy's assassination. Metz's narrative picks up where Ehrlich's ends. Radicals in the...

Rethinking Class Size: The Complex Story of Impact on Teaching and Learning

Rethinking Class Size: The Complex Story of Impact on Teaching and Learning

Story telling in bilingual Urdu-Cantonese ethnic minority children: Macrostructure and its relation to microstructural linguistic skills.

The ability to produce a well-structured, coherent and informative narrative requires the integration of lexical and grammatical skills at different levels of complexity. Investigating how narrative macrostructure competence is predicted by microstructural linguistic skills is conceptually enlightening; yet there have been very few, if any, studies documenting the associations between macrostructure and microstructure in both languages of the same bilinguals. In this paper we attempt to address this research gap and report on the first empirical study of Urdu-Cantonese bilingual children's narrative abilities, bringing in data from a new language pair that is currently understudied. Twenty-four bilinguals (mean age = 9.17 years) acquiring Urdu as first, family and heritage minority language, and Cantonese as second, school and majority language were assessed via Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). We examined these children's macrostructural competence and its relations to microstructural skills in both languages (Urdu and Cantonese). Three macrostructure components were scored as response variables: Story Structure (SS), Story Complexity (SC), Internal State Terms (IST). Four microstructural measures were scored as predictor variables: number of different words (NDW), mean length of Communication Units (MLCU), proportion of grammatical Communication Units (Gproportion), proportion of correct connectives linking the major episodic elements (Cproportion). In regression analyses, NDW emerged consistently as a positive predictor of SS, SC and IST in both languages. MLCU and NDW were positive predictors of SS in the stronger L1, but NDW was the only positive predictor of SS in L2. By contrast, NDW and an index of syntactic competence (MLCU in L1, but Cproportion in L2) were significant or close-to-significant positive predictors of SC in both languages. NDW was the only positive predictor of IST in both languages. These findings suggested that the relationships between narrative macrostructure and specific microstructural abilities could manifest both similarly and differently between L1 and L2. We discuss the findings by considering the unique nature of each macrostructure component and how each component might be related to specific microstructural linguistic skills. We suggest directions for further research and discuss how the current findings bring deeper implications for educators and clinicians in assessment, pedagogy, and intervention.