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From the buzzing in Turingâs head to machine intelligence contests
This paper presents an analysis of three major contests for machine intelligence. We conclude that a new era for Turingâs test requires a fillip in the guise of a committed
sponsor, not unlike DARPA, funders of the successful 2007
Urban Challenge
Sure Start Widnes Trailblazer user satisfaction survey
This project report discusses a user satisifaction survey with Sure Start services in the WidnesTrailblazer area.The project report was commissioned by Sure Start Widnes Trialblazer and funded by Halton Brough Council
A Tight Squeeze
Many beginning writers are easily disheartened when their work is criticized for that inevitable tyro vice, wordiness. Others, indignant over what they consider to be an impugnment of their artistic sensitivity, ignore all admonitions to tighten up their styles, choosing instead to continue at the ration of one sentence per ream of paper. Still others, intent on pleasing their mentors, plunge immediately into the kind of ellipticism that would make J.P. Donleavy seem like a chatterbox. The following hypothetical situation concerns such a fellow
Widnes Sure Start user satisfaction survey
This report discusses levels of satisfaction with Sure Start Widnes, levels of knowledge of the existence of Sure Start Widnes, and how people access the services offered by Sure Start Widnes.Sure Start Widne
Every Child a Talker: Guidance for consultants and early language lead practitioners (Third instalment: Autumn 2009)
"Every Child a Talker (ECAT) is designed to help practitioners and parents create a developmentally
appropriate, supportive and stimulating environment in which children can enjoy experimenting
with and learning language... Every Early Language Consultant (ELC) and Early Language Lead Practitioner (ELLP) will have
followed a different route on their journey towards âEvery Child a Talkerâ... Within all
these diverse journeys, however, there are some common elements.
This third instalment of the Every Child a Talker (ECAT) file looks at the commonalities of the journeys
through a series of case studies." - page
Affordance of garden towards restorative process of hospitalized children
This study investigates sense of affordance attains by hospitalized children participating in a pediatric-ward garden during their restoration in hospital. Affordances are the functional meanings generated when children play with the garden features, either alone or with peers. According to ecological perceptual psychology, the affordances are interrelated with stimulation and feedback when the children interact with the garden contents. The functional meanings of the garden can be seen in four different levels of affordances: potential, perceived, utilized and shaped affordances. The affordances generate movement through play and positive perceptual judgments such as attachment, affiliation, memory, bonding and affection toward the garden features. Responses from 31 patients, aged 6-12 years, are elicited by semi-structured interview. It is found that 84% (n=26) patients perceived and utilized the affordances of play equipment. However, less number of patients (52%; n=16) perceived the plant as significant element of the garden. This perception suggests the affordances of the play equipment are greater than the plant. Moreover, all patients recognized the affordances of microclimatic factors (rain, sunlight, temperature and wind). Thus through play participation with the garden elements afford the patients to increase their cognitive performances, improve performance tasks (i.e. play) and increased social performances. In healthcare delivery, these improvements are considered restoration. This seems to suggest that garden is an environmental intervention in affording hospitalized children to foster health recovery
Chatterbox
This essay articulates the creative process and artistic influences of two plays written by Rebecca M. SĂĄnchez. The plays, Chatterbox and Re: Living are influenced by a variety of artists including Emilio Carballido and Maria Irene Fornes. Chatterbox details the ill fated love of Valentina and Marco. In both linear and memory sequences the audience can view the complexity of obsession, and the role of perception and memory in reality. Re: Living begins and ends with four university professors locked in a campus closet during an active shooter situation. This play address a normalized state of violence and emergency preparedness and compares this aggressive social overtone with small workplace relationships. An exploration of how time and space, character and relationship, and theme operate in each of the plays included. Finally, the essay describes new directions and creative possibilities for the playwright
Textg 4 help: an evaluation of Metro Vancouver Transit Police's SMS texting program
In 2013, the Metro Vancouver Transit Police implemented a SMS texting program named Chatterbox that allows the public to report concerns about social disorder and criminal offences on or near the transit system. Using individual interviews with dispatchers, focus groups with police officers, an online survey with Chatterbox users, and an analysis of Transit statistics, the purpose, process, and use of the program was reviewed. Overall, Chatterbox has provided transit users with an alternative and discrete method of contacting the police to investigate a variety of criminal offences ranging from minor delinquent incidents to major criminal acts
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