Interview with Dee Breeden

In his July 1984 interview with Michael Cooke, Dee C. Breeden discussed his involvement with DHEC’s sickle cell anemia program. Breeden covered topics of genetic screening and counseling, community organization relations, state funding, and sickle cell anemia. Breeden also discussed the difficulties and controversies surrounding testing people for sickle cell. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1306/thumbnail.jp

Reading Role Models: Fictional Readers in Children\u27s Books

Teachers and librarians know how important reading role models are in fostering a positive attitude toward books. This crucial aspect of a child\u27s education should go beyond decoding and comprehension to encompass a true enjoyment of reading. Educators also hope that youngsters will value literature for what it is and what it has to offer. Such a mind set is frequently incubated at home and further developed early on in the elementary grades

A Contribution to Reading: The Nebraska Golden Sower Reading/Award Program

Child-choice state book awards are a double-edged sword. On one hand they are popular with children and librarians and they provide an invitation to reading. (Jordan, 1979) On the other hand, they are criticized for being popularity contests with lists of nominees that often overlook the better books. Detractors feel that titles in state book award programs are assumed to be of lesser quality than the national winners such as Newbery or Caldecott books. Opponents also believe that children are incapable of making decisions/judgments regarding literary quality when voting for a state book award winner. (Kaye, 1984) One critic noted that if the matter were food and the children selected \u27Twinkies\u27 over fresh fruit, no nutritionist would be asked to kowtow to the choice. (Gerhardt, 1982) However, inasmuch as there are some 23 state and one regional child-choice award programs, the issue gains importance

Reading Comprehension, Visual Literacy and Picture Book Illustrations

The books selected for this article demand close inspection of the pictures by readers of varied ages. Children and adults alike will be challenged in the investifations that will lead toward a more comprehensive understanding of illustrations and their value

Data Dissemination Performance in Large-Scale Sensor Networks

As the use of wireless sensor networks increases, the need for (energy-)efficient and reliable broadcasting algorithms grows. Ideally, a broadcasting algorithm should have the ability to quickly disseminate data, while keeping the number of transmissions low. In this paper we develop a model describing the message count in large-scale wireless sensor networks. We focus our attention on the popular Trickle algorithm, which has been proposed as a suitable communication protocol for code maintenance and propagation in wireless sensor networks. Besides providing a mathematical analysis of the algorithm, we propose a generalized version of Trickle, with an additional parameter defining the length of a listen-only period. This generalization proves to be useful for optimizing the design and usage of the algorithm. For single-cell networks we show how the message count increases with the size of the network and how this depends on the Trickle parameters. Furthermore, we derive distributions of inter-broadcasting times and investigate their asymptotic behavior. Our results prove conjectures made in the literature concerning the effect of a listen-only period. Additionally, we develop an approximation for the expected number of transmissions in multi-cell networks. All results are validated by simulations

Detecting inexplicable behaviour

This paper presents a novel approach to the detection of unusual or interesting events in videos involving certain types of intentional behaviour, such as pedestrian scenes. The approach is not based upon a statistical measure of typicality, but upon building an understanding of the way people navigate towards a goal. The activity of agents moving around within the scene is evaluated based upon whether the behaviour in question is consistent with a simple model of goal-directed behaviour and a model of those goals and obstacles known to be in the scene. The advantages of such an approach are multiple: it handles the presence of movable obstacles (for example, parked cars) with ease; trajectories which have never before been presented to the system can be classified as explicable; and the technique as a whole has a prima facie psychological plausibility. A system based upon these principles is demonstrated in two scenes: a car-park, and in a foyer scenario 1.