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Annarita Annunziata, Giancarlo Artiano, Emilio Balzano* and Pietro Piccialli
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2022.06.000241
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Save the Children gave the definition of the so-called “educational poverty”, describing it as “a process of limitation of children’s right to education and deprivation of their opportunities to learn and develop the skills they will need to succeed in a rapidly changing society.” Contrasting child poverty and supporting the cultural and educational opportunities of children and adolescents is an indispensable commitment, an investment in the future and a goal to be pursued by all means. It is understood that the challenge is particularly demanding and requires not only adequate policies and sufficient funds but also a cultural revolution in the way of rethinking education system. The preparation of all the adults involved (educators, researchers, teachers, family membe.....
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Mistakes of Western Civilisation*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2022.06.000240
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All those who want to live more easily experience that a decisive criterion is being able to let go. And that attachments and clinging make life difficult, that they may even create a burden in the sense of karma. This is a topic of the present. However, some contemporaries also know that this topic is only new in Western, so-called Christian society, while it has been present in Eastern cultures for almost 5,000 years. It should not be concealed that since the decline of their own heritage and the adoption of Western ideas, the principle of performance and profit has displaced much of the good traditions and knowledge there......
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Eugene Borokhovski*, David Pickup and Rana Tamim
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2022.06.000239
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This is an opinion piece, intended to contribute to the timely discussion about the future of Distance Education (DE), which recently has collected quite a number of well-informed and rather speculative projections alike. Emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic in education around the world included a dramatic in-crease in the use of various forms of DE. Emergency is the operative word here as it not only emphasizes the expediency of the measures taken but also reflects their forced nature that inevitably could affect the quality/efficiency of the response in a short, but more importantly, in a long run. All over the mass media the term new normal’ persists reflecting either fears or hopes that the world after the pandemic will never be the same. Indeed, there is very lit-.....
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Research Article
March 31, 2022
Efe I Shavers*, Hayoung Kim, Kimberly A S Howard and V Scott H Solberg
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2022.06.000238
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Existing literature has attempted to understand what factors contribute to teacher burnout and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity for researchers to better understand factors specific to a global pandemic that might contribute to teacher burnout. Utilizing data from the 2020 ATP COVID-19 response survey from American Educational Panel (AEP) and using Machine Learning with R, we addressed the following research questions; R1. Which factors of teacher, school, student, teaching, resources, and needs are most relevant to the burnout of teachers during COVID-19? And R2. How is a level of predictor different between teachers with and without burnout?. Results of this study indicate that several personal and work-related concerns specific to living and teaching during a pandemic predicted teacher burnout. Specifically, tea.....
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Short Communication
March 08, 2022
Claude Frasson*, Hamdi Ben Abdessalem and Alexie Byrns
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2022.06.000237
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Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease affecting behavior, cognitive and physical abilities. Nega-tive emotions such anxiety, frustration, or apathy have an impact on these abilities. Virtual Reality has been applied in the field of psychology to treat various disorders, including brain damage, anxiety disorders and alleviation of fear. Our research has explored how the integration of virtual reality environments and music therapy can alleviate psychological and cognitive symptoms of the disease......
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Short Communication
February 25, 2022
Hugues Scharbach*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2022.06.000236
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Drawings and paintings arouse always notable emotions by all people: the most intellectual as well as the most emotionally fragile. The first one describes them in a logic way and elaborate, the second ones improve mentally, and they can benefit well therapeutically. This is called psychopathological expression or Art-therapy......
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Research Article
February 24, 2022
Rogers Kasirye*, Paul Bukuluki and Eddy J Walakira
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2022.06.000235
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Childhood experiences should be able to bring joy and when children have a positive childhood experience and this allows for improved wellbeing in adulthood [1] and future health outcomes. There are personal vulnerabilities associated and may lead to children’s entry into prostitution, such as being in contact with someone involved in SEC, lack of job skills and limited job opportunities. Many interventions that help survivors exit sexual exploitation have been documented, but fewer are explicit in explaining resilience building and good practices in Uganda setting. How do NGOs in Uganda navigate and help children recover from SEC with many social hardships that they face. This information once collected will help to share the good practices that can be utilised to.....
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Opinion
February 16, 2022
Roy F Baumeister* and Dianne M Tice
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000234
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We suggest four criteria for considering an effect to be well replicated: many supportive findings, preferably with multiple methods and multiple labs, and few or no contrary significant findings; preregistered successful replications; significant findings from multi-site replication; and real-world or non-laboratory findings. Ego depletion is the finding that after expending effort on
one self-control task, performance on other self-control and decision tasks is impaired. It does well by all four criteria. In particular, only five findings have survived multi-site replication attempts in social psychology, and ego depletion is one of them. It has a stronger record by the other criteria than the other four. Although possibly other criteria would yield a different conclusion, the case for ego depletion as social psychology’s best repli.....
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Research Article
December 08, 2021
Ulrike Kipman*, Stephan Bartholdy, Günter Schiepek and Wolfgang Aichhorn
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000232
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Living in a world of growing possibilities, we are continuously surrounded by challenging tasks and problems. Apparently simple sequences of decisions, like finding a destination in an unknown city, turn out to be highly complex if examined in detail. Such situations have certain characteristics and require specific cognitive abilities similar to those inherent in much more challenging situations, like managing a company, or avoiding the next world war. These characteristics and cognitive processes are subjects of problem-solving research. Concluding from such examples, findings from this research area are highly relevant for a wide range of situations in everyday life. One particularly young topic in this field of research investigates individual differences in how people deal with especially complex types of problems. What drives psycho.....
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Mini Review
December 08, 2021
Pınar Özkan Kart and Ali Cansu*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000231
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COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus disease) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus [1]. It first appeared on December 31, 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China, and was later declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020 [2]. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several measures have been taken in health, economic, and social areas and have been especially effective in education. As of March 27, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced more than 1.5 billion students in 188 countries to switch from traditional face-to-face education to a digital one. The closure of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic aimed to reduce the number of new cases by preventing transmission. During this process, children could not attend school for more than a year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital trans.....
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Opinion
December 06, 2021
Jean Schroedel*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000230
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The United States has entered into a scary period, where threats of violence against political opponents are becoming normalized. At the national level, only a few Republican members of Congress are willing to speak out against the January 6th attack on the Capitol, even though some attackers called for the lynching of Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Party leaders, who initially denounced the violence have either gone silent (Senator Mitch McConnell) or completely changed their tune (Representative Kevin McCarthy). This failure, on the part of Republican leaders aside from Representative Liz Cheney, has contributed to the normalization of threatening languages and images. At the national level, Republicans are shrugging off Representative Paul Gosar’s posting of an anime video that showed him killing Representative A.....
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Research Article
December 01, 2021
Manoj Nair*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000229
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Furthermore, student engagement has important policy implications, especially in an Australian high school context where securing a high Year 12 attainment rate has been cited as an important objective [5,9,11], professed to be closely linked to developing national productivity and increasing human capital [19-21]. Notably, over 25% of young people across Australia (and over 40% in the state of Tasmania) do not complete Year 12 or its equivalent [22], with over one-third being stressed about high school [23], and over 40% disengaging from learning in high schools [24]. Thus, educators (teachers, senior school staff) continuously devising interventions to promote engagement in high schools [25-27]. However, addressing low student engagement appears to be a significant contributor to teacher stress and burnout since it occupies most of thei.....
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Research Article
November 30, 2021
Fanny Menuge, Estelle Descout, Sana Arroub, Céline Lafont Lecuelle, Emeline Gautier, Manuel Mengoli* and Patrick Pageat*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000228
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Guide dogs accompany people with visual impairments to increase their independence by providing them assistance in their daily tasks [1]. The relationship is based on mutual trust, which is essential for the proper functioning of the dyad [2]. Indeed, the dog must be able to deal with all sorts of unforeseen circumstances that might be encountered in the course of its work. Not reacting when faced with a sudden event, organizing the environment, and showing the way when encountering an obstacle are all indispensable skills that help ensure the safety of the person and the fluidity of his/ her movement [3]. Emotional balance and the capacity to cope with emotional distress are therefore the most desired characteristics in guide dogs [4]. These characteristics could play a fundamental role in both the acquisition of relevant skills and in t.....
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Review Article
November 17, 2021
Hagar Goldberg*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000227
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Affective empathy involves sharing another person’s emotional experience (I feel your pain), through automatic simulation and mirroring of the other person’s physiology and emotional signals, creating an emotional resonance [14-16]. In contrast, cognitive empathy involves recognizing and understanding another person’s feelings and thoughts (“I see and understand your pain”), through mentalizing, perspective-taking, and theory of mind (TOM) [17-20]. But what makes some children engage and act compassionately in difficult social-emotional situations and others to ignore or avoid them? Are these two components (affective and cognitive) sufficient to predict empathic behavior? What are the dynamics and interconnections between these components? A model of higher granularity is necessary to unravel the developmental pathways of empat.....
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Research Article
November 10, 2021
Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Golam Hossain* and Premananda Bharati
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000226
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Adolescent period is the transitional phase from childhood to adulthood. Since tremendous physical and mental changes occur during this period, the children need to be properly handled and motivated to avoid future calamities. Adolescent is a critical time for the onset of overweight or obesity among children which is being perceived as a public health crisis [1,2]. Mental health like psychological disorders is also closely associated with this period, which may have a high chance to hamper future development [3]. WHO [4] defines “adolescent” as individual between 10 to 19 years of age. According to definition of [5] that ‘Adolescence’ means “to emerge” or to “attain identity” and it is the period when rapid physical and psychological development starting from the onset of puberty to complete growth and development. So, in.....
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Short Communication
October 20, 2021
Sukanya Biswas* and Poonam Sharma
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.05.000225
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Trataka is one of the six cleansing techniques mentioned in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the classical text on the practices of Hatha Yoga. In is defined as “looking intently with an unwavering gaze at a small point until the eyes begin to tear, is called Trataka by the great teachers”. Trataka meditation, also known as a tratak sadhana or candle-gazing meditation, is a meditation technique in which the practitioner center his focus on a single visual point. Trataka can be either internal or external; that is the object that is gazed upon can be an internal object (for example the third eye) or an external one (for example the flame of a candle) [1-3]. Generally our minds get distracted with the objects surrounding us, which stops us from staying focused during meditative practices. To avoid these numerous distractions and obstacle, the .....
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Short Communication
September 28, 2021
Hamidreza Famitafreshi and Morteza Karimian*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.05.000224
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This behavior will be more developed when considering that although COVID-19 infection in some patients is mild however in other people may express as a dangerous disease with symptoms resembling Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [SARS] and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MERS]. In severe cases, this disease is more than a common cold and manifest as heart, and respiratory failure, acute respiratory syndrome, or even death [5]. Besides cognitive reduction in a stress state, the immune system is also greatly influenced by stress. Recent studies suggest immune system dysfunction will impose on people the development of addiction and also exacerbation of pre-existing addiction [6]. Certain immune cells in the brain such as astrocytes and microglia cells will be activated in the brain and result in the alternation of the brain environment. .....
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Research Article
September 21, 2021
Yi Zhang, Jiaqi Lv, Xiao Chen, Yulu Li, Haitao Yang, Qing Miao, Baolier Wuhan, Jingwei Xiao* and Binli*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.05.000223
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Genetic toxicology assessment is an important part of the safety assessment of chemicals and pesticide products, and in-vitro model research instead of animal experiments has become an important direction of toxicology development [1]. In recent years, some new genotoxicity tests have been developed and gradually applied to toxicological safety assessment. Gene mutation analysis of PIG-A is a new genotoxicity detection method based on somatic cell gene mutation. This method saves manpower and material resources, and is more efficient and quick [2]. PIG-A gene encodes to form GPI, which is the catalytic subunit of N- acetylglucosamine transferase needed for biosynthesis in ankyrin. It is highly conserved in structure and function among different species. PIG-A gene is located on X chromosome, and a single mutation in its fragment can affec.....
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Review Article
September 16, 2021
Jean Pierre Rifler*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.05.000222
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The rule of Saint Benedict [1] was created, according to tradition, by Benedict of Nursia from 534 AC. J-C. It was adopted and disclosed following the creation of the Order of Cîteaux, in 1098, by Etienne de Harding. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153 AC) will largely contribute to the dissemination of this rule which served as a model for the one he gave to the poor Children of Christ who became Templars. In rule 40: the measure of the drink; it is stated that one «hemin» of wine per day is sufficient for everyone. This hemin is an ancient Roman measure for liquids corresponding to 27 centiliters [2] that is the equivalent of the current 3 standard glasses considered acceptable daily consumption by the anti-alcoholic leagues. In fact, wine has always been part of the history of mankind, it is, according to the Bible, Noah who planted the.....
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Research Article
September 07, 2021
Rogers Kasirye and Barbara Nakijoba*
DOI : 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.05.000221
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Urban young people face a myriad of problems and during COVID 19 this may have worsened. This study examined the factors associated with suicide, victimization, and coping among youth living in the city and urban towns Uganda. Analyses are based on cross-sectional survey data, collected in 2020, of a convenient sample (n = 583) of rural and urban youth UYDEL beneficiaries of the DREAMS Project at different UYDEL safe spaces. Of the 583-youth interviewed, 21% reported experiencing suicidal ideation in their lifetime. Victimization was also high at 52%. Our findings shed more light on the unmet need of this vulnerable population. However, strategies that specifically seek to address, youth employment, parental factors, problem drinking a modifiable risk factor for suicidal ideation may be particularly warranted in this low-resource setting......
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