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This research studied the development of online teaching and learning strategies, and converted to blending learning where staff and students able to access a learning framework that is effective, simple to use. Comparative studies have been conducted in applied arts department, architecture and design college, Jazan University to achieve an approach to how the teaching and learning environment for product design, which normally uses face-to-face. An online educational platform (blackboard) was established, which provided the students with a series of lectures according to the instructional strategies taught. One illustrative case study is presented that outlines how learning strategies were used in planning the product design curriculum. Through identifying and developing, the different design thinking models that is suit particular contexts. And examine of how academics perceive strategies for blended learning and assessing the effectiveness of the educational process and the quality of teaching in product design. A survey of students and analysis of the results were conducted to develop a methodological framework and learning strategies for teaching product design to obtain a creative student capable of solving design problems. It is found that, the quality of online learning currently available in product design curricula is investigating good results. Where online learning trends to supply students with basic knowledge and improves the quality of interactive and collaborative learning assignments. Therefore, blended learning was used for online and face-to-face education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Depression is a prominent cause of mental disability globally, having a severe impact on mental and physical health. Depression rehabilitation and treatment, whether through psychiatric management or counseling therapy, is hampered by stigmatizing attitudes regarding psychiatric illness patients impacted by societal and cultural factors. However, little is known about the stigma toward people with depression among the students in Syria. Methodology: A total of 1,056 students in Syria completed a questionnaire that included a case narrative illustrating depression. A total of 1,056 students in Syria completed a questionnaire that included a case narrative illustrating depression. The survey looked at attitudes toward depression, the desire to keep a safe distance from depressed people, stigma attitudes toward people with depression among college students, perceived beliefs about depressive people, gender (male and female), and the major section (medical and medical and non-medical) differences. Results: Four questionnaires have refused to finish the survey, out of 1259 issued. Around 47.80% of respondents, most of whom were females, felt that sad people might snap out of it. 14.60 percent believe depression isn't even an actual medical condition. Surprisingly, 2% of respondents with a medical background thought the same thing. Regarding more extreme stigmatization, 16.80% of respondents thought depressed persons were harmful. People with depression will be avoided by 19.50 percent of respondents, and people with medical backgrounds will be avoided by 5.20 percent of respondents. Nearly one-fifth of those polled said they would not tell anyone if they were depressed. Only a tiny percentage of respondents (6.90 percent) said they would not hire or vote for a politician who suffers from depression (8.40 percent). Conclusion: According to the study, Syrian college students had a significant level of stigma and social distance toward mentally ill patients. Female students and non-medical students had a higher stigma in most subscale items for people with depression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Aim: Some studies reported a positive link between familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and epicardial adipose tissue. Our meta‐analysis aimed to evaluate whether there is a significant association between FMF and increased epicardial adipose tissue thickness. Methods: We searched the following databases: PUBMED, WOS, OVID, SCOPUS, and EMBASE. Inclusion criteria were any original articles that reported epicardial adipose tissue in FMF patients with no age restriction, excluding reviews, case reports, editorials, animal studies, and non‐English studies. Thirty eligible studies were screened full text but only five studies were suitable. We used RevMan software (5.4) for the meta‐analysis. Results: The total number of patients included in the meta‐analysis in the FMF patients group is 256 (mean age = 24.3), and the total number in the control group is 188 (mean age = 24.98). The pooled analysis between FMF patients and controls was [mean difference = 0.82 (95% CI = 0.25–1.39), p‐value = 0.005]. We observed heterogeneity that was not solved by random effects (p > 0.00001). We performed leave one out test by removing the Kozan et al. study, and the heterogeneity was solved (p = 0.07), and the results were (MD = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.52–1.43, p‐value < 0.0001). Conclusion: FMF patients are at increased risk of developing epicardial adipose tissue compared to controls. More multicenter studies with higher sample sizes are needed to support our results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A set S ⊆ V (G) of a (simple) undirected graph G is a locating-dominating set of G if for each v∈V (G) n S, there exists w∈S such tha vw∈E(G) and NG(x) \ S 6= NG(y) \ S for any distinct vertices x and y in V (G) n S. S is a stable locating-dominating set of G if it is a locating-dominating set of G and S n fvg is a locating-dominating set of G for each v∈S. The minimum cardinality of a stable locating-dominating set of G, denoted by s l (G), is called the stable locating-domination number of G. In this paper, we investigate this concept and the corresponding parameter for some graphs. Further, we introduce other related concepts and use them to characterize the stable locating-dominating sets in some graphs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we first construct a Lie group structure on n × n Hankel matrices over R + by Hadamard product and then we find its Lie algebra structure and finally calculate dimension of this manifold over R +. Moreover, we discuss topological properties of this manifold using Frobenious norm. We pointed out the relation between Lie group and Lie algebra structures of these matrices by exponential map. It is also shown that the Hadamard product on Hankel matrices over R + is not bounded by Frobenious norm. Lastly, we provide some applications of these manifolds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose To demonstrate role of PET-CT (positron emission tomography-computed tomography) in screening for local and distant metastatic deposits from primary renal cell carcinoma and enhancing its advantages over other imaging modalities. Materials and methods Twenty patients were evaluated as post nephrectomy screening for renal malignancy. Positive cases were interpreted whenever a focal area of FDG uptake more than the surrounding tissue whether in or outside abdominal cavity. Final diagnosis after correlation with other conventional radiological modalities as CT, MRI with the gold standard was histopathological diagnosis. Results In current study, there were different sites of distant metastasis of renal cell carcinoma as follow: lung was the commonest (8 patients = 40%), followed with bones (7 patients = 35%), lymph nodes (6 patients = 30%), liver (4 patients = 20%), suprarenal gland (4 patients = 20%) and last were peritoneal deposits (2 patients = 10%). Conclusion PET-CT had limitations in evaluating RCC metastasis due to its inability for adequate characterization of small metastatic lesions, however positive PET-CT results as a good predictive for evaluating metastatic deposits. PET-CT acts mainly as a complementary anatomy-based imaging modality and hence it may decrease or exclude the need for biopsy in some situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, 2-hop domination parameter is introduced and investigated on some special graphs and on the join of two graphs. Characterizations of 2-hop dominating sets in some special graphs are formulated to derive bounds or formulas of the parameter of these graphs. Moreover, new variant of pointwise non-domination is introduced to characterize 2-hop dominating sets in the join of two graphs. This characterization is used to calculate the exact value of 2-hop domination number of the join of two graphs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let G be any graph. A sequence L = (w1, . . ., wk) of distinct vertices of G is called a legal hop independent sequence if k = 1 or L is a hop independent and NG[wi ] \ Uj=1i-1 j=1 NG[wj ] ̸= ∅ for every i ∈ {2, · · ·, k}. The maximum length of a legal hop independent sequence in G, denoted by αℓh(G), is called the legal hop independence number of G. In this paper, we investigate its relationships with the hop independence and grundy domination parameter of a graph, respectively. In fact, the legal hop independence parameter is at most equal to the grundy domination (resp. hop independence) parameter on any graph G. Moreover, we derive some formulas and bounds of this parameter on some families of graphs, join, and corona of two graphs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a prevalent condition and a significant cause of mental disability and poor quality of life. People with GAD have chronic worrying, restlessness, and discrimination from the general public; Little is known about the stigmatizing attitudes toward people with GAD among Syrian students. The questionnaires contained demographic data about age, gender, social status, personal stigma toward GAD scale, perceived stigma toward GAD scale, social distance with those with GAD, the participants' usual source of their knowledge about GAD, helpful interventions, and supporting information. A total of 1,370 replies were collected, but only 1,358 were used for analysis as 12 participants declined to complete the survey. About 44.1% of participants agreed that people with GAD could snap out of the problem, most of them being females (32.4% of the total population). Compared to medical students, more non-medical students (7.1% of the total population) believed that anxiety is a sign of personal weakness. This study demonstrated that Syrian college students showed a high level of stigmatizing and socially distancing attitudes toward people with GAD, particularly female and non-medical students., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2022 Swed, Shoib, Khan, El-Sakka, Almoshantaf, Hassan, Khairy, Bakkour, Muwaili, Motawea, Abdelmajid, Mohammed Sharif Ahmad, Alsharief Ahmed, Hasan, Sawaf, Albuni, Battikh, Zainabo, Alibrahim, Ghaith and Elkalagi.)

Bullying is defined as unpleasant behavior that causes someone to feel disturbed or embarrassed, affecting their self-esteem. Based on this premise, we set out to investigate bullying among Syrian graduate medical education residents and fellows, estimate its prevalence among specific subgroups, and give recommendations to help validate the findings and enhance the graduate medical education training experience. A sample of 278 residents and fellows in Syrian graduate medical school were recruited for the study in a national cross-sectional survey, with 276 participants completing a Bullying survey in 2021 and two people refusing to participate. Participants in the survey were asked to provide basic demographic and programming information and three general Bullying and 20 specific bullying behavior items. Differences across groups were compared for demographic and programmatic stratifications. About 51% of participants had experienced one or more bullying behaviors, 69% said they had been bullied, and 87% said they had witnessed Bullying. Residents and supervisor-attendings were the most common sources of perceived Bullying (~67 and 62%, respectively), followed by patients (58%), nurses (46%), and pharmacists (46%) (33%). More specific bullying behaviors have been recorded by female Arabic Syrians who are shorter than 5'8, have a body mass index (BMI) of 25, and are 30 years old or younger who were -compared to males- more likely to report attempts to minimize and devalue work (55 vs. 34%, P ≤ 0.01) and criticism and work monitoring (56 vs. 33%, P ≤ 0.01). In addition, general medical graduates and PGY-2-PGY-6 respondents reported more specific bullying behaviors than private medical graduates and post-graduate participants in the first year (PGY 1), respectively. For example, a significant difference is noticed when reporting unreasonable pressure to perform work (83 vs. 6%, P ≤ 0.01). Except for physical violence, which does not differ statistically between groups, most bullying behaviors were reported by participants with statistically significant differences between study groups-many residents and fellows in Syria's graduate medical school system report being bullied. Anti-bullying rules and a multidisciplinary strategy including all players in the medical system are essential to eradicating these pervasive practices in healthcare., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2022 Swed, Shoib, Almoshantaf, Bohsas, Hassan, Motawea, Hassan, Ahmad, Sheet, Khairy, Bakkour, Muwaili, Muwaili, Abdelmajid, Ahmad, Hasan and Elkalagi.)