National Humanities Center

Teachers guide children's behavior by building a different emotional climate through the use of educational strategies in the classroom. This study seeks to describe the analysis of the leadership style of teachers who apply parenting models. Initially, the literature analysis was carried out with Direct Science and using the Descriptive Method: teacher leadership style, teacher teaching style, and school leadership. Through this research, it was found that several definitions, methods of analysis, and variables were studied in accordance with the adopted theory. Next, analyze the teacher-student relationship by applying parenting patterns or styles, which presents an analysis of the relationship system from two dimensions: responsiveness and demand. In this case, there are four leadership styles that can be categorized: authoritarian, permissive, negligent, and participative. It is concluded that this model or parenting pattern is expected to be able to provide a good theoretical basis to guide the analysis of teacher leadership styles.

We recently developed a rat whole exome sequencing (WES) panel and used it to evaluate early somatic mutations in archival liver tissues from F344/N rats exposed to the hepatocarcinogen, Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a widely studied, potent mutagen and hepatocarcinogen associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Rats were exposed to 1-ppm AFB1 in feed for 14, 90, and 90 days plus a recovery 60-day, non-exposure period (150-day) timepoint. Isolated liver DNA was exome sequenced. We identified 172 sequence variants across all timepoints, of which 101 were non-synonymous variants. Well-annotated genes carried a diverse set of 29 non-synonymous mutations at 14 days, increasing to 39 mutations at 90 days and then decreasing to 33 mutations following the 60-day recovery. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis conducted on previously reported, available RNA expression data of the same exome sequenced archival samples identified altered transcripts in pathways associated with malignant transformation. These included HALLMARK gene sets associated with cell proliferation (MYC Targets Version 1 and Version 2, E2F targets), cell cycle (G2M checkpoint, mitotic spindle), cell death (apoptosis), and DNA damage (DNA repair, UV response Up, Reactive oxygen species) pathways. DriverNet Impact analysis integrated exome-seq and expression data to reveal somatic mutations in Mcm8, Bdp1, and Cct6a that may drive cancer formation. Connectivity with transcript expression changes identified these genes as the top-ranked candidate driver genes associated with hepatocellular transformation. In conclusion, exome sequencing revealed early somatic mutations that may play a role in cancer cell transformation that are translatable to aflatoxin-induced HCC.

Since the latter half of the nineteenth century, Coptic Christians in Egypt have gradually become integrated as Egyptian citizens. Previous studies took for granted that the Copts developed their sense of belonging to the Egyptian nation-state. However, because the Copts’ cultural traits and historical views differ from those of the Muslim majority, it is important to analyze how the Copts constructed their Egyptian national identity.

To compare affect recognition by people with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI) for (1) unimodal and context-enriched multimodal media; (2) positive (happy) and negative emotions; and (3) neutral multimodal stimuli. A total of 60 people with moderate to severe TBI and 60 matched controls. (1) facial affect, (2) vocal affect, and (3) multimodal affect. Compared with controls, people with TBI scored significantly lower on both unimodal measures but not on the multimodal measure. Within- group comparisons for people with TBI revealed that they were better at recognizing affect from multimodal than unimodal stimuli. As a group, participants with TBI who were categorized as having impaired facial/vocal affect recognition were less accurate at recognizing all emotions, including happy, than unimpaired participants. Neutral stimuli were more poorly identified by participants with TBI than by those with controls. Context-enriched multimodal stimuli may enhance affect recognition for people with TBI. People with TBI who have impaired affect recognition may have problems identifying both positive (happy) and negative expressions. Furthermore, people with TBI may perceive affect when there is none.

After World War II Americans learned that the democratic values of the United States were founded on the core beliefs of a plural tri-faith majority. By the end of the 1960s—as signaled by the publication of Arthur A. Cohen's The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition (1970)— it had become much more difficult to defend the existence of an inclusive, broadly representative civil religion. Subsequently, the tri-faith norm, and the Judeo-Christian fundament upon which it supposedly rested, has been deconstructed as a wish-fulfilling construct of consensus historians, as an abstraction of sociologists who wished to diminish the reality of ethnic particularism, and as a Cold War ideology co-opted by the Religious Right. Kevin M. Schultz's new book asserts, to the contrary, that “tri-faith” was the principle of an interreligious movement that successfully challenged Protestant hegemony and created new liberties and rights for religious minorities. Schultz tracks the rise of the tri-faith...

Early college high schools are a new and rapidly spreading model that merges the high school and college experiences and that is designed to increase the number of students who graduate from high school and enroll and succeed in postsecondary education. This article presents results from a federally funded experimental study of the impact of the early college model on Grade 9 outcomes. Results show that, as compared to control group students, a statistically significant and substantively higher proportion of treatment group students are taking core college preparatory courses and succeeding in them. Students in the treatment group also have statistically significantly higher attendance and lower suspension rates than students in the control group.

The Blithedale Romance, has been overshadowed for many years by The Scarlett Letter and The House of the Seven Gables.Perhaps its unsparing analysis of the psychology of Utopian reformers still strikes a little too close to home for it to make its way onto reading lists at most schools and colleges.Perhaps it still tells us something too true about who we are.It ought to be better known if for no other reason than for Hawthorne's sophisticated handling of America's public and private face in the mid-nineteenth century-an insight perhaps unique in the nation's literary canon.In a meditative chapter simply called "The Hotel," Hawthorne's narrator.Miles Coverdale, takes up temporary residence in town, having left behind the Utopian community of Blithedale (a stand-in for the real Brook Farm).From his back room on the hotel's third floor, away from the noise and bustle of the street, Coverdale, seated comfortably in a rocking chair, with a pipe in one hand and a boring book in the other, looks out his window onto one "little portion of the backside of the universe."We could think of him as Jimmy Stewart in a nineteenth-century version of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.