Student-teacher relational entitlement and its association with students' and teachers' characteristics.

Introduction: One's sense of entitlement-the subjective perception of what one deserves from another person-can contribute to social attitudes and behaviour in positive or negative ways, depending on the way in which one construes this subjective sense. Previous work has examined how adolescents' sense of entitlement towards their parents contributes positively or negatively to their well-being. In this study, we extend this line of research and focus on adolescents' sense of entitlement towards another important authority figure-teachers, while examining its associations with both students' and teachers' characteristics and implications for students' functioning at school.

Brief report: noise reduction in preschool from a self-regulated learning perspective-implementation of a game-based voice regulation training program.

An 8-week voice regulation training program (VRTP) incorporating everyday activities was implemented in an experimental preschool classroom (EG; = 34), which was compared with a control preschool classroom (CG; = 31). The VRTP includes songs, games, and conversations aiming to raise children's awareness of noise levels and teach voice modulation skills. Grounded in the theoretical framework of self-regulated learning, the study's objectives were to evaluate the impact of the VRTP on noise levels, children's self-regulation, and pre-literacy skills.

Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review.

Formal community-based youth mentoring relationships (CBM) are a popular form of intervention worldwide in which caring, non-parental adult figures are matched with at-risk children (i.e., children who experience an intense and/or chronic risk factor, or a combination of risk factors in personal, environmental and/or relational domains that prevent them from pursuing and fulfilling their potential) to promote development and health.

Multiple Pathways to Success: An Examination of Integrative Motivational Profiles Among Upper Elementary and College Students.

Two studies were conducted with distinct samples to investigate how motivational beliefs cohere and function together (i.e., motivational profiles) and predict academic adjustment.

Birds of a feather: Is matching based on shared interests and characteristics associated with longer youth mentoring relationships?

Youth mentoring practitioners and researchers have shown a growing interest in determining the ways in which mentor-youth matching practices might influence the duration and effectiveness of mentoring relationships. The current project tested whether mentor-youth similarities at baseline, in terms of demographic variables and interests in certain activities (e.g.

Biceps Tenotomy Does not Affect the Functional Outcomes of Patients Treated with Spacer Implantation Due to Massive Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears.

Background: Lesions of the long head of the biceps (LHB) tendon are frequently associated with massive rotator cuff tears (RCT) and may be responsible for shoulder pain and disability.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate functional outcomes of arthroscopic biodegradable spacer implantation with or without biceps tenotomy as treatment for persistent shoulder dysfunction and pain due to a massive irreparable RCT.

Methods: A total of 48 patients were implanted with the subacromial spacer using arthroscopic approach with or without biceps tenotomy.

Biodegradable spacer reduces the subacromial pressure: A biomechanical cadaver study.

Background: Failure after rotator cuff repair remains a major clinical problem and could be related to excessive pressures from the acromion. Previous studies with irreparable tears showed good clinical results of tendon healing with arthroscopic insertion of a protective biodegradable spacer balloon between the repaired tendon and the acromion. One hypothesis is that compression pressures on the repaired tendon will be reduced by the spacer.

The biodegradable spacer as a novel treatment modality for massive rotator cuff tears: a prospective study with 5-year follow-up.

Background: The management of massive, irreparable rotator cuff tears (RCT) is challenging and associated with high failure rates. There are no current consensus or definitive guidelines concerning the optimal surgical treatment for this devastating condition. This study was designed to confirm the long-term safety and efficacy of the biodegradable inflatable InSpace™ system in patients with massive reparable or irreparable RCTs.

Magnetic resonance arthrography of the hip: prevalence of diagnoses not suspected by the referring physician and correlation with clinical examination and pain score.

Background: Magnetic resonance arthrography (MRA) of the hip is the most sensitive imaging modality for intra-articular pathologies such as labral tears.

Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of non-suspected pathologies revealed by hip MRA and correlate them to physical examination/pain level.

Material And Methods: All hip MRAs (2011-2013) were retrospectively evaluated for intra- and extra-articular pathologies in consensus by two readers.

Partial lateral patellar facetectomy as an alternative to lateral release in Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA).

This study presents the selective use of partial patellar lateral facetectomy for maltracking during primary TKA, as an alternative to lateral release. Twenty three partial facetectomies were performed out of 191 TKAs (12%). Balanced tracking was achieved in 22 knees.

Prospective clinical study of a novel biodegradable sub-acromial spacer in treatment of massive irreparable rotator cuff tears.

Purpose: The purposes of this prospective non-randomized study were to confirm the feasibility of the biodegradable sub-acromial spacer (InSpace™) implantation in patients with massive irreparable rotator cuff tear and to determine the safety profile and functional results 3 years post-implantation.

Methods: Twenty patients were implanted with the InSpace™ device and assessed up to 3 years of post-implantation. Improvement in shoulder function was assessed using Constant score, while ease of use of the system was recorded by surgeons as were device-related adverse events.

[Guidelines for wise utilization of knee imaging].

Background: The knee is a complex structure afflicted with diverse pathologies. Correct management of knee complaints demands wise utilization of imaging modalities, considering their accuracy in the specific clinical situation, the patient's safety and availability and financial issues. Some of these considerations are universal, while others are local, depending on medical and insurance systems.

Seeing isn't believing: the effect of intergroup exposure on children's essentialist beliefs about ethnic categories.

Adults and children seem to essentialize certain social categories. Three studies investigated whether, and how, exposure to ethnic diversity affects this bias. Participants were 516 kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 6th grade Israeli Jewish and Arab children attending regular (mono-cultural) or integrated schools.

The development of social essentialism: the case of israeli children's inferences about jews and arabs.

Two studies examined the inductive potential of various social categories among 144 kindergarten, 2nd-, and 6th-grade Israeli children from 3 sectors: secular Jews, religious Jews, and Muslim Arabs. Study 1-wherein social categories were labeled-found that ethnic categories were the most inductively powerful, especially for religious Jewish children. Study 2-wherein no social category labels were provided-found no differences across sectors either in the inductive potential of ethnic categories or in children's capacity to visually recognize social categories.

Committing driving violations: an observational study comparing city, town and village.

Introduction: This article compares observed driving behavior in a city, a town, and a village.

Method: Unobtrusive observations were made at intersections in each residential type. Five violation types were observed: (a) not wearing a seat belt (seat belt violation); (b) not using a safety seat for a child (safety seat violation for children); (c) not using a speaker while speaking on the phone (on-phone violation); (d) failing to comply with a 'give way' sign ('give way' sign violation); and (e) stopping in an undesignated area (undesignated stop violation).

Fear and danger appraisals of a road-crossing scenario: a developmental perspective.

Children's actual performance of visual timing task is possibly deficient, and road-crossing training programs focusing on visual timing elements result in questionable improvement in performance. The present study focused on conceptual, rather than perceptual, examination of the visual timing elements of distance and speed, as integrated into appraisals of risks related to a traffic scenario. Preschool children, third-grade children and adults appraised pedestrian fear and danger associated with four scenarios conceptually depicted using a table-top model.

Yielding behavior of Israeli drivers: interaction of age and sex.

The main objective of the present study was to explore the yielding behavior of Israeli drivers. A series of observations were carried out at a busy crosswalk during rush hour to determine the association between demographic factors, i.e.

The double-loop technique for meniscal suture.

The authors describe a modified method for arthroscopic meniscal repair in which polydioxanone sutures are placed in the torn meniscus using needles and nylon loops. Conventional methods require the use of expensive instruments, which are not always available. However, our method is fast and simple.