Utilizing Mindfulness and Movement to Promote Executive Function and Self-Regulation

Self-regulation and executive function skills are imperative to learning in school and success later in life. The current reality shows that these skills are not often taught, yet early childhood remains a vital time of development and is an ideal time to introduce these skills. This school improvement plan presents mindfulness and movement as strategies to explicitly teach self-regulation and executive function skills in an inclusive setting. As strategies are implemented, reflection and assessment will occur to better understand their effectiveness. Families will also be involved to encourage application of skills and strategies outside of academic settings

Cultural differences in applying Kansei Engineering to services

It is imperative for companies to provide competitive products and services at a competitive price. Products and services need to offer features and properties which can makethem distinguishable and attractive to customers. Emotions and feelings are prominent during product interaction and service encounter. Kansei Engineering (KE) enables interpretation and translation of customer emotions into design parameters. The application of KE covers both products and services design. Besides dealing with attractive exterior appearances, KE has an ability to optimize properties that are not directly detectable or visible, such as the comfort of hospital and concert hall. There are few empirical studies. Kansei management should recognize cultural differences in Kansei. However, for analysis of cultural values we need to understand the different needs of different customers. A study of luxury hotel services for Indonesian, Japanese and Singaporean tourists, was conducted using interviews and a tri-lingual face-to-face questionnaire. 425 responses were collected. Japanese tourists were found to be the most Kansei-oriented. They tended to value luxury hotels as “clean” and “quiet” places to stay. Indonesian and Singaporean tourists shared a common response to the Kansei word “elegant” which correlates with their common cultural dimension of “power distance”. Incorporation of cultural issues into Kansei studies can provide marketing strategies for customers of different cultural backgrounds

Gender Portrayal and Sex Relevance of Advertising which Makes It Valuable

This research study elaborates the gender portrayal and sex relevance of Advertising which makes it more valuable, attractive and effective. Observation of perceptional differences on gender process information was gathered from literature review. The portrayals of gender role in advertising and the outlook to the use of sex application strategies in advertising vary in dissimilar traditions. Men have a tendency to be appreciated by what they do and think, where as women are appreciated by what they physically appear and give the impression of being look like. To become the advertising more attractive and effective, it is very imperative to consider the combination of male and female role and to welcome the factors acknowledged even though they are by no resources meticulous. Furthermore, this paper perceives sex in advertising of businesses as an attempt by businesses to enhance sales in the most simplistic way, probably because they are running out of advertising ideas. Keywords: Gender, Advertising, Process information, Sex Application Strategies. Resource Meticulous

New water-soluble amine-reactive reagents for labeling microbial cells: application to mural paintings

Mural paintings are continuously exposed to physical, chemical and biological degradation, however, among the biological agents that cause deterioration, microorganisms are of critical importance, due to their metabolic versatility and flexibility, and their ability to tolerate unfavourable conditions. Thereby, microorganisms can cause damages in mural paintings surfaces through a variety of mechanisms, including biofilm formation, chemical reactions, physical penetration into the substrate and production of pigments [1-3]. It is imperative the development of new strategies that detect microbial contamination in order to plan effective remediation strategies. This research focuses on the application of fluorescent compounds. In this context we developed new water-soluble coumarin derivatives (4-Sulfotetrafluorophenyl Esters) as long-wavelength fluorescent labels for biomolecules[4]. These esters are easily synthesized, and react readily with primary amines to give acylation products

SUPERARMED GLYCOSYL DONORS IN CHEMICAL GLYCOSYLATION

Only recently has the tremendous biological significance and therapeutic potential of carbohydrates and conjugates thereof (glycoproteins, glycolipids, proteoglycans, etc.) begun to emerge. As the appreciation for the biological roles of carbohydrates a growing demand for efficient and scalable methods towards the synthesis of these challenging molecules has become even more imperative. This has led to the development of a variety of expeditious strategies for oligosaccharide assembly. Amongst these strategies, the so-called armed-disarmed strategy introduced by Fraser-Reid is of particular attractiveness as it allows for chemoselective oligosaccharide synthesis. Recently, the conformational changes as well as the strategic placement of common protecting groups have led to the discovery of new methods for “superarming” of glycosyl donors. This doctoral dissertation is dedicated to the exploration of new methods and strategies for efficient oligosaccharide assembly. The main focus of this work is centered on the detailed study of the superarmed glycosyl donors and broadening their application to the chemoselective oligosaccharide assembly. This study was supplemented by the discovery of new leaving groups and application to the synthesis of biologically important oligosaccharides containing residues of sialic acid

Verification of Imperative Programs by Constraint Logic Program Transformation

We present a method for verifying partial correctness properties of imperative programs that manipulate integers and arrays by using techniques based on the transformation of constraint logic programs (CLP). We use CLP as a metalanguage for representing imperative programs, their executions, and their properties. First, we encode the correctness of an imperative program, say prog, as the negation of a predicate 'incorrect' defined by a CLP program T. By construction, 'incorrect' holds in the least model of T if and only if the execution of prog from an initial configuration eventually halts in an error configuration. Then, we apply to program T a sequence of transformations that preserve its least model semantics. These transformations are based on well-known transformation rules, such as unfolding and folding, guided by suitable transformation strategies, such as specialization and generalization. The objective of the transformations is to derive a new CLP program TransfT where the predicate 'incorrect' is defined either by (i) the fact 'incorrect.' (and in this case prog is not correct), or by (ii) the empty set of clauses (and in this case prog is correct). In the case where we derive a CLP program such that neither (i) nor (ii) holds, we iterate the transformation. Since the problem is undecidable, this process may not terminate. We show through examples that our method can be applied in a rather systematic way, and is amenable to automation by transferring to the field of program verification many techniques developed in the field of program transformation.Comment: In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.455

Mitigating risk for graduates and potential employers: The moral imperative for students in delivering superior value for employers

By applying the conceptual model outlined in this paper, those charged with or concerned about graduate employability will find the transformation of a series of "employability" steps into a relevant and easy to communicate philosophy of Graduate Employability. Furthermore, the model affords the potential to generate a viable "added value" metric for employers applicable to assessing the impact of their graduate employee cohorts over non-graduate permanent staff

Probabilistic forecast reconciliation with applications to wind power and electric load

New methods are proposed for adjusting probabilistic forecasts to ensure coherence with the aggregation constraints inherent in temporal hierarchies. The different approaches nested within this framework include methods that exploit information at all levels of the hierarchy as well as a novel method based on cross-validation. The methods are evaluated using real data from two wind farms in Crete, an application where it is imperative for optimal decisions related to grid operations and bidding strategies to be based on coherent probabilistic forecasts of wind power. Empirical evidence is also presented showing that probabilistic forecast reconciliation improves the accuracy of both point forecasts and probabilistic forecasts