High Fives Research Articles

High fives in the classroom: A potential impact on language learning

High fives in the classroom: A potential impact on language learning

The Design of Making Pre-K count and High Fives: Two-Stage, Multiyear Random Assignment at Different Levels.

The Making Pre-K Count and High 5s studies represent a recent application of a phased two-stage, multi-level design, which was used to examine the effects of two aligned math programs implemented in early childhood settings. The purpose of this paper is to describe the challenges encountered in implementing this two-stage design and to describe approaches to resolving them. We then present a set of sensitivity analyses the study team used to examine the robustness of the findings. During the pre-K year, pre-K centers were randomly assigned either to receive an evidence-based early math curriculum and associated professional development (Making Pre-K Count) or to a pre-K-as-usual control condition. In the kindergarten year, students who had been in Making Pre-K Count program classrooms in pre-K were then individually randomly assigned within schools to small-group supplemental math clubs that were designed to sustain the gains from the pre-K program, or to a business-as-usual kindergarten experience. Making Pre-K Count took place in 69 pre-K sites, comprising 173 classrooms across New York City. High 5s took place in the 24 sites that were part of the public school treatment arm of the Making Pre-K Count study and included 613 students. The study focuses on the effect of the Making Pre-K Count and High 5s programs on children's math skills at the end of kindergarten as measured by two instruments, the Research-Based Early Math Assessment-Kindergarten (REMA-K) and the Woodcock-Johnson Applied Problems test. The multi-armed design, while logistically and analytically challenging, balanced multiple considerations of power, the number of research questions that could be answered, and efficiency of resources. Robustness checks suggest that the design created groups that were both meaningfully and statistically equivalent. Decisions to use a phased multi-armed design should consider both its strengths and weaknesses. While the design allows for a more flexible, expansive research study, it also introduces complexities that need to be addressed both logistically and analytically.

“A series of little high fives”: mental health and digital habituation in women’s Instagram practices

ABSTRACT Headlines about the negative impact of Instagram on women’s mental health abound in public conversations. Yet, in a neoliberal context of limited care services and gendered pressures to “control” one’s emotions, many women are also turning to Instagram for dealing with the disabling effects of mental illness. Looking at how women use Instagram for creating and finding resources, this article complicates the general assumption that “bad” social media habits maintain psychological status quo. It considers, instead, the complex role that digital habits play in women’s experience of mental illness. Making a feminist media studies intervention into the study of mediated care, it argues that women's use of Instagram for mental health shapes their experience of mental illness through what the author calls digital habituation. The article focuses on the stories of three women—collected through in-depth interviews and media go-alongs – to demonstrate that however contradictory their digital habits may be, at times participating in postfeminist self-regulation, they simultaneously provide soothing affects. While popular discourses around gender, social media, and mental illness are tainted with moral panic, digital habituation offers a capacious framework for considering the potential and limits of using social media for women’s health.

The Award for Every Student

I was a high school principal for 11 of my 40+ years ineducation. Prior to that experience I’d worked with highschool dropouts for a dozen years in alternative educationprograms that were quite different from the traditional highschool to which I moved.When you work with students who struggle, you learn thattheir successes are real – if not newsworthy on a worldlyway. The celebrations of their successes – even if justbetween the teacher and the student – are important. Thereare high fives, hugs, hair ruffles, handshakes and any otherspontaneous celebration of that success that fits the moment.My oldest son struggled in school. He was so unrewarded forschool successes that he began to become celebrated for hisanti-school behaviors. Fortunately, there was an alternativehigh school in our school district that helped him find hisway to graduation and then through few semesters at acommunity college. Today he is a good husband, father andson. He is surrounded by loving people who he loves. He isamong the working poor yet never discourages for what hedoesn’t have. In short, he turned out to be a great success tome in all the ways that matter most.

Music Theory Splintered Up, Not Broken Down: The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory. Edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings

At the 2020 meeting of the Society for Music Theory, the award for Outstanding Multi-Author Collection went to The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory (hereafter, CCMT). I hope that editors Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings have gotten their chance to pour the champange and trade high fives with each other and the other authors of its 26 chapters. In reading it, I learned and I was exercised; the collection is outstanding indeed—this shall not be in dispute in the pages that follow. There are numerous reviews of the volume already, including an excellent and quite comprehensive four-author undertaking published in Music Theory Online.1 It is to that essay that I would point readers for an in-depth survey of the volume’s contents and achievements. The task that I pursue in this single-author review, however, will not be to document a journey from first recto to...

Flexible sea butterflies embrace to thrust

Remarkable as it may seem, some snails – sea butterflies – have more in common with the insects buzzing in your garden than the molluscs munching on your brassicas. Limacina helicina, a species of sea butterfly, waft through the Pacific Ocean much like flying insects, flapping their pseudopod wings in the same figure-of-eight wingbeat pattern. But David Murphy from the University of South Florida, USA, explains that sea butterfly wings are far more flexible than the rigid wings of insects. To find out whether this flexibility affects how some sea butterflies swim, Leocadio Blanco-Bercial, from the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences (BIOS) and Ferhat Karakas, from the University of South Florida, set sail in the tropical ocean off Bermuda in search of members of the sea butterfly family to discover more about their unconventional swimming styles.‘We have a lobster pot hauler that we use to deploy and retrieve the net’, says zooplankton ecologist Amy Maas, also at BIOS, describing how the net sinks down 100 m before they haul it back to the surface. Back on shore, Maas identified each of the 30 or so sea butterflies retrieved from the depths, before rushing the molluscs to Murphy and Karakas in the lab to film the animals’ manoeuvres in 3D. Placing several of the 0.05–1 cm long animals in a tiny tank, Murphy trained two high-speed cameras on the centre of the tank and hoped that some of the molluscs would swim into view. ‘There were high fives all around’, says Murphy, recalling the moment when their patience was rewarded and the first Cuvierina atlantica wobbled into shot, swinging back and forth like a pendulum, swimming at 3.5 cm s–1.Slowing the movies and reconstructing the flapping motion of the wings in 3D, Murphy and Karakas realised that C. atlantica have evolved a completely unique flapping style. Instead of pulling their wings back and clapping them together before peeling them apart to generate lift and propel themselves forward – like L. helicina – C. atlantica sweep their wings widely from front to back, overlapping the tips in an embrace as they meet, forming a cylinder. Cuvierina atlantica then angle the wings upward while peeling them apart and sweeping them wide around to the other side of the body where they meet again in another embrace during the second half of the wingbeat cycle.‘We also put a lot of algae in the water – much higher than would occur in nature – so that we could track the water motion’, says Murphy, describing how they filmed the water's movement with a high-speed camera through a microscope lens to track the trajectory of the algae and hence the water flow, with the added advantage that the molluscs could also dine on the morsels. And when the team analysed the swirling motion of the water, they realised that the sea butterflies generated lift when they tilted the wings back when opening out of the first embrace, before forcing a propulsive jet of water down as the wings came together to form the second embrace on the other side of the body.By flexing their wings and bringing them together on both sides of their elongated shell and body, C. atlantica are able to generate thrust on two occasions during each wingbeat cycle, in comparison with sea butterflies that swim like flapping insects, which only generate thrust once. And Murphy is excited about C. atlantica’s flexible approach, which has inspired him to build a pneumatically operated soft-bodied robot to learn more about their exotic propulsion mechanism.

Pengaruh Penyuluhan Perorangan dengan Media Lembar Balik terhadap Tingkat Pengetahuan Ibu Balita dalam Pemberian MP-ASI pada Balita BGM Usia 6-59 Bulan Dilingkungan Babakan Kebon

Background: Data on the assessment of nutritional status in West Nusa Tenggara in 2016 lack of nutrition problems increased, namely in 2016 as many as 15.6% while in 2017 there was an increase of 19.1%. From the data from the SKDN Babakan health center in 2017 it was found that there were still high fives who experienced malnutrition status. This can be seen from the data below the red line in Babakan health center, one of the high-fives health center working areas. 40 toddlers. Below the red line is a severe level of malnutrition so that when weighed the weight is below the red line on the card towards health. An understanding of how to provide proper food so that children want to eat is still not widely known and often does not provide complementary food for breast milk by reason of their children not wanting to eat. This study aims to determine the level of knowledge of mothers of children under five after counseling. The Purpose Of Study : The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of individual counseling with media backsheet on the knowledge of mothers of children under five in the provision of complementary food for breast milk in infants under the age of 6 - 59 months. Methods: This study was conducted in April. This type of research is experimental using the design of the one group pretest posttest. The sample used in this study used saturated samples or used all populations as samples. Data analysis using analysis of Wilcoxon Sign Rank with the help of computers. Counseling of individuals is carried out 3 meetings for 50 minutes each meeting for 23 days. It is expected to increase the knowledge of mothers of children under five in the provision of complementary food for breast milk Results: The results of the study showed that there was an influence of individual counseling on increasing the knowledge of mothers under five about giving MP-ASI, with a value (p = 0.00 <0.05) Conclusion : : Increased knowledge of mothers of children under five in providing complementary food for breast milk to infants Under the red line after being given counseling with flipchart media.

Exploring the healing touch of pickup basketball as a self-care method for educators and helping professionals: an ethnographic approach

ABSTRACT Pickup basketball involves plenty of moments in which positive physical contact occurs when exchanging celebratory gestures, such as high fives, handshakes, or hugs after a game of victory. This type of physical touch accrues significant health and mental benefits, which is the underpinning of Healing Touch – a physical touch-based energy therapy that helps to restore harmony and balance in the energy system enabling a person to self-heal from physical, psychological, and emotional stressors. This study explores the Healing Touch of pickup basketball as a self-care method using an ethnographic approach. Data were collected through active and complete participant observations, semi-structured face-to-face, and telephone interviews. The findings reveal the sport’s potential to serve as a self-care practice. Emerging themes from the study centered on pickup basketball’s affirmative, unique intimacy and physicality, and empowering nature, as well as ways in which healing in the form of positive touch transcends race, gender, and cultural differences. Practical recommendations include the creation of more skill-level specific pickup basketball opportunities to reduce potential barriers and intimidations, specifically for women and older individuals, while bringing more public and general awareness to the existence of pickup basketball as an affordable and abundantly available physical activity and self-care method.

Teaching a Robot Bimanual Hand-Clapping Games via Wrist-Worn IMUs.

Colleagues often shake hands in greeting, friends connect through high fives, and children around the world rejoice in hand-clapping games. As robots become more common in everyday human life, they will have the opportunity to join in these social-physical interactions, but few current robots are intended to touch people in friendly ways. This article describes how we enabled a Baxter Research Robot to both teach and learn bimanual hand-clapping games with a human partner. Our system monitors the user's motions via a pair of inertial measurement units (IMUs) worn on the wrists. We recorded a labeled library of 10 common hand-clapping movements from 10 participants; this dataset was used to train an SVM classifier to automatically identify hand-clapping motions from previously unseen participants with a test-set classification accuracy of 97.0%. Baxter uses these sensors and this classifier to quickly identify the motions of its human gameplay partner, so that it can join in hand-clapping games. This system was evaluated by N = 24 naïve users in an experiment that involved learning sequences of eight motions from Baxter, teaching Baxter eight-motion game patterns, and completing a free interaction period. The motion classification accuracy in this less structured setting was 85.9%, primarily due to unexpected variations in motion timing. The quantitative task performance results and qualitative participant survey responses showed that learning games from Baxter was significantly easier than teaching games to Baxter, and that the teaching role caused users to consider more teamwork aspects of the gameplay. Over the course of the experiment, people felt more understood by Baxter and became more willing to follow the example of the robot. Users felt uniformly safe interacting with Baxter, and they expressed positive opinions of Baxter and reported fun interacting with the robot. Taken together, the results indicate that this robot achieved credible social-physical interaction with humans and that its ability to both lead and follow systematically changed the human partner's experience.

Categorizing coordination from the perception of joint actions.

The ability to perceive others' actions and coordinate our own body movements accordingly is essential for humans to interact with the social world. However, it is still unclear how the visual system achieves the remarkable feat of identifying temporally coordinated joint actions between individuals. Specifically, do humans rely on certain visual features of coordinated movements to facilitate the detection of meaningful interactivity? To address this question, participants viewed short video sequences of two actors performing different joint actions, such as handshakes, high fives, etc. Temporal misalignments were introduced to shift one actor's movements forward or backward in time relative to the partner actor. Participants rated the degree of interactivity for the temporally shifted joint actions. The impact of temporal offsets on human interactivity ratings varied for different types of joint actions. Based on human rating distributions, we used a probabilistic cluster model to infer latent categories, each revealing shared characteristics of coordinated movements among sets of joint actions. Further analysis on the clustered structure suggested that global motion synchrony, spatial proximity between actors, and highly salient moments of interpersonal coordination are critical features that impact judgments of interactivity.

Reclaiming Hope in Extinction Storytelling.

Critics often take conservationists to task for delivering a constant barrage of bad news without offering a compelling vision of the future. Could recent advances in synthetic biology-an optimistic, forward-looking field with a can-do attitude-let conservationists develop a new vision and generate some better news? Synthetic biology and related gene-editing applications could be used to address threats to species. Genetic interventions might also be used in plants to better protect biodiversity in U.S. rangelands and forests. One possibility has stood out in its ability to capture media attention and the public imagination-recreating extinct species. And perhaps a de-extinction story could counter the seemingly relentless negativity in biodiversity talk. De-extinction proponent Stewart Brand writes that resurrecting species could shift the "conservation story … from negative to positive, from constant whining and guilt-tripping to high fives and new excitement." So, why do many people in conservation oppose the de-extinction narrative? This essay is an inquiry into whether there are intrinsic social reactions to these types of conservation solutions that might offset their potential benefits. If genetic tools are to be applied to address conservation issues in a realistic and responsible way, their broader social-cultural implications deserve far more attention than they have so far received.

States, cities raise age for tobacco purchase

States, cities raise age for tobacco purchase

High fives and sixes for Americium ions

Actinide Chemistry You've probably heard of uranium and plutonium. Americium (Am) is less widely discussed outside chemistry circles, but the separation of this heavier radioactive element from nuclear waste streams is a major goal of fuel reprocessing research. The trouble is that trivalent Am ions are hard to tease apart from similarly charged lanthanide ions. Dares et al. now show that terpyridyl ligands appended to an electrode can promote the oxidation of trivalent Am ions to the pentavalent and hexavalent states (see the Perspective by Soderquist). These more highly charged ions should be easier to isolate for the subsequent use of the Am in next-generation nuclear reactors. Science , this issue p. [652][1]; see also p. [635][2] [1]: /lookup/volpage/350/652?iss=6261 [2]: /lookup/volpage/350/635?iss=6261

Electrochemical oxidation of ²⁴³Am(III) in nitric acid by a terpyridyl-derivatized electrode.

Selective oxidation of trivalent americium (Am) could facilitate its separation from lanthanides in nuclear waste streams. Here, we report the application of a high-surface-area, tin-doped indium oxide electrode surface-derivatized with a terpyridine ligand to the oxidation of Am(III) to Am(V) and Am(VI) in nitric acid. Potentials as low as 1.8 volts (V) versus the saturated calomel electrode were applied, 0.7 V lower than the 2.6 V potential for one-electron oxidation of Am(III) to Am(IV) in 1 molar acid. This simple electrochemical procedure provides a method to access the higher oxidation states of Am in noncomplexing media for the study of the associated coordination chemistry and, more important, for more efficient separation protocols.

The Importance of Touch in Sport: Athletes’ and Coaches’ Reflections

This study examined athletes’ and coaches’ experiences of positive touch within the coach-athlete relationship, including examples of positive touch, reasons for the use of touch, and factors affecting athletes’ acceptability of touch. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 coaches and 10 athletes from various sports. Data were coded using inductive and deductive coding techniques. All participants shared examples of positive touch in sport including: hugs, high fives, physical manipulation of the body, pats on the back, hand shaking, and spotting. Positive touch was reportedly used for affective, behavioural, safety, and cultural reasons. Touch was viewed by these athletes and coaches as being important and even necessary in the sport environment and within the coach-athlete relationship provided that it was individualized and contextualized. The findings are interpreted to suggest that the recent trend to avoid touch in child-populated domains ignores the many benefits of touch for health, instruction, and development.

High fives motivate: the effects of gestural and ambiguous verbal praise on motivation

The type of praise children receive influences whether children choose to persist after failure. One mechanism through which praise affects motivation is through the causal attributions inferred from language. For example, telling a child “You got an A on the test because you’re smart,” provides an explicit link between possessing a trait and an outcome, specifically that intelligence causes success. Nonetheless, most praise given to children is ambiguous, or lacks explicit attributions (e.g., “yea” or a thumbs up). To investigate the effects of ambiguous praise on motivation, we randomly assigned 95 5–6-year-old children to a praise condition (verbal trait; verbal effort; verbal ambiguous; or gestural) and measured motivation using task persistence, self-evaluations, and eye fixations on errors. Ambiguous praise, similar to verbal effort praise, produced higher persistence and self-evaluations, and fewer fixations on error after failure compared to verbal trait praise. Interestingly, gestures produced the highest self-evaluations. Thus, praise without explicit attributions motivated as well or better than praise explicitly focused on effort, which may suggest that children interpret ambiguous praise in the most beneficial manner.

High Fives and Neil Young for the Road: Lynda Barry’s "Writing the Unthinkable" as an Aesthetic Experience

High Fives and Neil Young for the Road: Lynda Barry’s "Writing the Unthinkable" as an Aesthetic Experience

More Than Just A Friend

Let me introduce you to some of my friends.My most vivid recollection of Benjamin takes me back to his 5-year-old visit, just before he started kindergarten. He was sitting on the examining table wearing only two things: underpants, on which were emblazoned various superheroes, and a backpack, which proudly displayed the same defenders of the universe. He removed his backpack and said, with a grin, “Wanna see my stuff?” At that moment, the contents of his backpack defined the most important aspect of his world, perhaps his very identity. It made me yearn for a time when things were that simple.Nevaeh was only 2 weeks old when I got to hold her. She stared into my eyes with her penetrating, light brown eyes, a pink headband accentuating her dark curly hair. I wondered then, as I have done a thousand times, what was going on in her mind. What I would give to have just 10 minutes inside the head of an infant! Incidentally, “Nevaeh” is Heaven spelled backwards, and I had a few questions about the place from which she had recently arrived.For some reason, Nicholas occupies a special place in my memory. He was 4 years old at the time, and I was examining his infant brother, who was lying on the table. Nicholas was gazing up at the whole procedure with a look of awe. I had to leave the room temporarily, and as I walked out, Nicholas, a most perceptive and precocious child, proclaimed in a loud voice, “Now there goes a great man!”I have become known among the residents I precept for urging them to do two things in their daily work. One admonition is to take advantage of the joy that is part of interacting with children of all ages. This gift is an integral part of our work, and it is a shame to waste it. Savor Benjamin's pride in his backpack, Nevaeh's innocent but questioning stare, and Nicholas’ unconditional faith in your abilities. Have some fun with the kids. Joke with them and give them high fives. It will make your day, and maybe theirs, and will go a long way to neutralize the effects of volume overload, red tape, and fatigue.The other mantra I tend to repeat is, “Look in fundi!” This instruction refers not just to eye examinations, but is a metaphor for “Prepare yourself. Learn what you have to learn. Give the patient what he deserves.” Funduscopic examination takes practice, and the excuse, “I didn't look in the fundi because I'm not very good at it” is not sufficient. Get good at it. As important as it is to enjoy the children, they are not in the office primarily to socialize but to receive medical care, and we are there to give them the best possible care, the highest quality evaluation, judgment, and management.As we start Volume 33 of Pediatrics in Review, all of us involved in the production of the journal (and there are a great many, from authors and reviewers to editorial board members to staff) recognize the role we play in preparing our readers to provide the best care to their patients. The main service we offer is knowledge. We attempt to convey that knowledge clearly, with an emphasis on the evidence that backs it up.We strive to be comprehensive, covering the broad spectrum of pediatric medicine. Although our core content is based on the content specifications of the American Board of Pediatrics, we are alert to topics outside that core that deserve coverage. We listen to your feedback and will continue to do so. Concepts of adult education, which are constantly being refined, affect the manner in which we present our material.So come along with us on another year of learning so that we can give our patients the best we have. And along the way, we just might make some good friends and have a little fun.

Our President, Our Selves

I went to Barack Obama’s inauguration. I did not have a ticket, so I would have seen and heard more if I had stayed at home in North Carolina. But I had experienced the Bush II years as a coup d’etat, as the seizure of the government by a dangerous cabal. I wanted to stand as a witness to the restoration of the proper relation between me, as citizen, and the national state. The occasion did not disappoint. It was not the ceremony itself or Obama’s speech that made me glad I went. It was the experience of solidarity with the crowd, of the almost giddy well-being that we all felt while exchanging silly smiles and high fives with strangers in the shadow of the Washington Monument. That Obama is half-black and that the fellow-feeling in the crowd conspicuously crossed racial lines only heightened the sense that I was experiencing what America could be if my (our?) deepest fantasies came true. After reading the four books reviewed here, I felt chastened. My feelings and hopes on that day not only repeat time-worn cliches in American history, but, if Dana Nelson, Peter Shane, and Sean McCann are to be believed, undermine the possibility of true democracy in these US. In their view, “Presidentialism,” the increasing power of the executive branch plus the tendency of citizens to look to the president to transcend the petty squabbles and difficult negotiations of politics, alienates sovereignty from the people to a potent figure from whom we expect/demand redemption. We passively cede power to this charismatic leader, abrogating deliberative democratic processes. Jeff Smith takes a more benign view of the (to him) inevitable creation of narratives that feature the president as protagonist. Those stories reflect our hopes and fears, but he does not sit judgment on some of those imaginings as less legitimate or more harmful than others. He is more interested in how presidents

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Three Case Studies

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Three Case Studies