Signs Of Engagement Research Articles

BRAIN METASTASES FROM PRIMARY UTERINE CERVICAL CANCER: A CASE REPORT AND A LITERATURE REVIEW

Background :Brain metastasesfromprimarycervical cancer are very rare.Wepresentthis report, to describe a case of brainmetastasesfromprimaryuterine cervical cancer and to conduct a literaturereview about clinicalpresentation, treatment, and prognosis of thisdesease. Case Presentation :A 51-year-old woman, followed since 2017 for squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix for which she had underwent surgical treatment and received radiotherapy, being asymptomatic for 4 years after completion of treatment.She is brought to the Emergency Department in February 2021 forintracranial hypertension syndrome associated with behavioral troubles, symptoms that developed progressively during the last two months before her consultation.The clinical examination found a conscious patient without sensory or motor deficit and without damage to the cranial nerves. A cerebral Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) revealed a left frontal tumor process 50 mm in diameter enhanced peripherally after injection of contrast product, necrotic and surrounded by significant cerebral edema determining a mass effect on the median structures with signs of engagement under falcoriel (figure 1). The patientunderwent asurgicalresectionofthetumor, themassbeingremoved en bloc. Histopathologicalandimmunohistologicalexaminationoftheresectedtumorrevealed a metastaticoriginfrom a primarycervicalsquamoscellcarcinoma. A postoperative brain scan revealed the persistence of a left frontal tumor process 14 mm in diameter with significant perilesional edema. The patient subsequently received total brain radiotherapy at a dose of 37.5 Gy (15 fractions of 2.5 Gy) then an additional dose on the tumor residue at a total dose of 10 Gy (4 fractions of 2.5 Gy). A control scan performed one month after the end of radiotherapy showed a regression in size of the lesion of the left frontal cerebral lesion and the perilesional oedema.Twelve months after the end of radiotherapy, a CT scan revealed progression of the secondary cerebral localization.Sixteen months after the end of radiotherapy, the patient was still alive and followed in oncology. Conclusion: Brain metastases from primary uterine cervical tumors are extremely rare and generally have a poor prognosis.Multimodal therapy such as surgery and radiotherapy, depending on the clinical status of individual patients,should be recommended in patients with brain metastasis to improve survival.

Bridges and Barriers: An Exploration of Engagements of the Research Community with the OpenStreetMap Community

The academic community frequently engages with OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a data source and research subject, acknowledging its complex and contextual nature. However, existing literature rarely considers the position of academic research in relation to the OSM community. In this paper we explore the extent and nature of engagement between the academic research community and the larger communities in OSM. An analysis of OSM-related publications from 2016 to 2019 and seven interviews conducted with members of one research group engaged in OSM-related research are described. The literature analysis seeks to uncover general engagement patterns while the interviews are used to identify possible causal structures explaining how these patterns may emerge within the context of a specific research group. Results indicate that academic papers generally show few signs of engagement and adopt data-oriented perspectives on the OSM project and product. The interviews expose that more complex perspectives and deeper engagement exist within the research group to which the interviewees belong, e.g., engaging in OSM mapping and direct interactions based on specific points-of-contact in the OSM community. Several conclusions and recommendations emerge, most notably: that every engagement with OSM includes an interpretive act which must be acknowledged and that the academic community should act to triangulate its interpretation of the data and OSM community by diversifying their engagement. This could be achieved through channels such as more direct interactions and inviting members of the OSM community to participate in the design and evaluation of research projects and programmes.

Matrimonial Typology in the Mongolian Heroic Epic, J̌angγar

The Mongolian heroic epic J̌angγar cycles include many independent chapters, which are all connected to the deeds of the king, J̌angγar qaγan and his warriors. N. Poppe, A. S. Kichikov, W. Heissig and Rinčindorǰi studied the structure and pattern of the Mongolian heroic epics and agreed that matrimony is a notable pattern in Mongolian epics. The marriage of Qongγor is a classical story which reflects the typology of matrimony. In this article, I analyse the chapters describing different versions of the marriage of Qongγor in Kalmyk, Mongolia and Xinjiang. In the epic, the hero’s marriage follows the monogamous pattern, and a horse and a knife are presented as signs of engagement. This is evidence of the bride-price system. In addition, the custom of competition for the bride and the exogamy are the most notable features of the matrimonial system described in J̌angγar.

Music therapy enhances preterm infant’s signs of engagement and sustains maternal singing in the NICU

Hospitalized preterm infants are exposed to stressful stimuli and early parental separation, which can undermine their long-term development and mother-infant bonding. Family-centered music therapy can enable positive mother-infant interactions, mediated by maternal infant-directed singing. This study aimed to investigate the effects of music therapy on preterm infant’s signs of engagement, namely Eye Opening (EO) and Smiling (SM), and maternal vocalizations. Participants were 30 mother-preterm infant dyads in a Brazilian Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), divided into a Music Therapy Group (MTG) and a Comparison Group (CG). The MTG participated in 6 sessions of the Music Therapy Intervention for the Mother-Preterm Infant Dyad (MUSIP), with the aim of supporting maternal singing with the infant. Prior to discharge, all mothers were filmed during a Non-singing (NS) and Singing (S) interactional condition; in the S condition, mothers were explicitly asked to address their infants by singing. Results of video and audio analysis showed that infants in the MTG displayed greater Eye Opening (EO) frequency compared to CG, but only when they were in an initial awake state at test, suggesting that music therapy can potentialize infants’ alertness, by increasing their disposition and chances of being engaged in the interaction with the mother. Non-religious mothers appeared to sing significantly more in the MTG than in the CG. These preliminary findings indicate that music therapy in the NICU could promote infant’s signs of engagement during interactions and can sustain maternal singing, especially with non-religious mothers in Brazil.

Gamification and L2 vocabulary learning: The Vocabox Experience in the Languages without Borders Program

This study investigated a gamified vocabulary teaching and learning intervention, the Vocabox Experience , which was implemented in the context of the Languages without Borders. The research was developed collaboratively among the English teachers and coordinators, with classroom data being collected with 32 students by twelve teachers and one coordinator. The data were collected using an observation grid during classes and conducting two focal discussion sessions, one with the students and one with the teachers who implemented the games in their classes. The qualitative results indicate that both teachers and students see the Vocabox Experience as a significant learning opportunity, although teachers tend to see learning in a broader perspective while students tend to see it more as the memorization of new words. The quantitative data show that teachers preferred to use vocabulary games to warm up their classes and balanced both competition and collaboration elements when designing the games. As for the students, they showed more signs of engagement than disengagement, overall.

Signs of engagement in children with profound/multiple disabilities

Signs of engagement in children with profound/multiple disabilities

The Teaching and Learning of English For Academic Purposes in Blended Environment

Learners and educators worldwide have been exposed to new information and communication technologies in order to stimulate and further enhance the learning process. The introduction of blended learning environment using learning management system (LMS) chosen by universities can indeed bring about positive impact on students’ performance in their studies. This study was a blended learning pilot project for English for Academic Purposes. This study examined the students’ perception, engagement and performance in the blended learning environment. A total of 963 students and 23 lecturers of Universiti Teknologi MARA Melaka took part in this study for the July– November 2010 academic semester. The study was both exploratory and experimental in nature. A set of questionnaire was used to gather students’ perception, examination of students and lecturers’ interaction in i- discussion was done to determine students’ engagement and t-tests were carried out to seek the difference of students’ performance between the blended learning group and the face-to-face group. Results of frequency count from the questionnaire showed that the students viewed blended learning positively. There were also signs of engagement in the learning environment from the examination of i-discussion.. However, their reservation was on the lack of technical support and the inefficiency of the LMS system. As for the students’ performance, it was reported that there was no significant difference between students who involved in blended learning and those students who did not. Based on the analysis of this study, a number of implications have been drawn regarding the use of blended learning in the EAP course suggesting that, blended learning is a viable method to be utilized for this course.

Friends in the region: A comparative study on friendship building in regional integration

The role of international friendship in regional integration—be it as a factor encouraging it or as a by-product of it—tends to be overshadowed by (realist) assumptions of naked self-interest. This article aims to open up a space for friendship in the study of the regional integration, by exploring the structuration of a series of speech acts and institutional facts that can be interpreted as signs of engagement in, and proofs of, friendship. In doing this, it puts forward a new analytical perspective and methodological framework. The case studies chosen to illustrate the analysis—the Franco-German and the Argentine-Brazilian dyads—reflect the historical meaning of the experience of moving away from enmity/antagonism towards building relationships based on mutual trust, which put these dyads at the centre of regional integration processes.

Human mate choice and the wedding ring effect : Are married men more attractive?

Individuals are often restricted to indirect cues when assessing the mate value of a potential partner. Females of some species have been shown to copy each other's choice; in other words, the probability of a female choosing a particular male increases if he has already been chosen by other females. Recently it has been suggested that mate-choice copying could be an important aspect of human mate choice as well. We tested one of the hypotheses, the so-called wedding ring effect-that women would prefer men who are already engaged or married-in a series of live interactions between men and women. The results show that women do not find men signaling engagement, or being perceived as having a partner, more attractive or higher in socioeconomic status. Furthermore, signs of engagement did not influence the women's reported willingness to engage in short-term or long-term relationships with the men. Thus, this study casts doubt on some simplified theories of human mate-choice copying, and alternative, more complex scenarios are outlined and discussed.