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Role of Institutions of Higher Education in Community-Centric Risk Reduction
As relatively large organizations, often with substantial resources, institutions of higher education can partner with emergency management actors and schools to multiply education and outreach to help mitigate local hazards and improve general risk reduction. As an example, students in one university’s graduate course in emergency management collaborated with the American Red Cross and the local school district to implement disaster awareness training to children who then shared lessons with their households. The program indicates the potential for such initiatives to increase household resilience. Therefore, universities can partially fulfill their roles as stewards of place by actively partnering with local emergency management to support disaster education and response to improve the safety of people and places
Critical points and resonance of hyperplane arrangements
If F is a master function corresponding to a hyperplane arrangement A and a
collection of weights y, we investigate the relationship between the critical
set of F, the variety defined by the vanishing of the one-form w = d log F, and
the resonance of y. For arrangements satisfying certain conditions, we show
that if y is resonant in dimension p, then the critical set of F has
codimension at most p. These include all free arrangements and all rank 3
arrangements.Comment: revised version, Canadian Journal of Mathematics, to appea
Building young children’s emotional competence and self- regulation from birth : the begin to... ECSEL approach
Neuroscientific advances and child development studies show 0-6 years represents a
sensitive period for the development of emotional competence—the ability to identify,
understand, express and regulate emotion, all foundational to self-regulation. Research
suggests optimum teaching of emotional competence and self-regulation skills from birth
is through interventions emphasizing co-regulation. This study aimed to examine begin
to...ECSEL, an emotional cognitive and social early learning approach that promotes
emotional competence and self-regulation by teaching emotion knowledge and emotion
regulation through causal talk and causal talk in the emotional experience. The study
collected data over three years from 100 students, aged 2-6, receiving begin to...ECSEL.
Study goals were to: (1) examine growth over one academic year among students receiving begin to...ECSEL on measures of attachment/relationship, initiative, self-
regulation, emotion knowledge, emotion regulation, and related constructs involving empathy, prosocial skills, positive reactions to frustration, negative emotions and
aggressive behaviours; (2) examine differences between these students and national normative samples on measures of attachment/relationship, initiative, and self- regulation; and (3) explore differences between these students and normative samples on all the aforementioned constructs. Results demonstrated students significantly improved
over time in these constructs and outperformed normative samples on emotionally
regulated/prosocial skills, empathy, self-regulation, attachment and initiative.peer-reviewe
Computerizing Social-Emotional Assessment for School Readiness: First Steps toward an Assessment Battery for Early Childhood Settings
The transition into formal schooling is a crucial foundation that can set children on a cycle of success or failure in both academic and social domains. A child’s abilities to express healthy emotions, understand emotions of self and others, regulate emotion, attention, and behavior, make good decisions regarding social problems, and engage in a range of prosocial behaviors, all work together to promote a successful school experience.
However, many children have deficits in these skills by school entry, and educators lack the requisite tools to identify, track and assess skills these children need to learn. Thus, because social-emotional learning (SEL) is so crucial, assessment tools to pinpoint children’s skills and progress are vitally necessary. Previous work by the authors and other researchers has led to the development of strong assessment tools; however, these tools are often developed solely for research use, not practitioner application. In the following, using our assessment battery as an example, we will discuss the steps necessary to adapt SEL assessment for computer-based administration and optimal utility in early childhood education programs
Critical Points and Resonance of Hyperplane Arrangements
If is a master function corresponding to a hyperplane arrangement and a collection of weights , we investigate the relationship between the critical set of , the variety defined by the vanishing of the one-form , and the resonance of . For arrangements satisfying certain conditions, we show that if is resonant in dimension , then the critical set of has codimension at most . These include all free arrangements and all rank arrangements
On the Rational Type 0f Moment Angle Complexes
In this note it is shown that the moment angle complexes Z(K;(D^2,,S^1))
which are rationally elliptic are a product of odd spheres and a diskComment: This version avoids the use of an incorrect result from the
literature in the proof of Theorem 1.3. There is some text overlap with
arXiv:1410.645
Modelling the Emergence and Dynamics of Perceptual Organisation in Auditory Streaming
Many sound sources can only be recognised from the pattern of sounds they emit, and not from the individual sound events that make up their emission sequences. Auditory scene analysis addresses the difficult task of interpreting the sound world in terms of an unknown number of discrete sound sources (causes) with possibly overlapping signals, and therefore of associating each event with the appropriate source. There are potentially many different ways in which incoming events can be assigned to different causes, which means that the auditory system has to choose between them. This problem has been studied for many years using the auditory streaming paradigm, and recently it has become apparent that instead of making one fixed perceptual decision, given sufficient time, auditory perception switches back and forth between the alternatives—a phenomenon known as perceptual bi- or multi-stability. We propose a new model of auditory scene analysis at the core of which is a process that seeks to discover predictable patterns in the ongoing sound sequence. Representations of predictable fragments are created on the fly, and are maintained, strengthened or weakened on the basis of their predictive success, and conflict with other representations. Auditory perceptual organisation emerges spontaneously from the nature of the competition between these representations. We present detailed comparisons between the model simulations and data from an auditory streaming experiment, and show that the model accounts for many important findings, including: the emergence of, and switching between, alternative organisations; the influence of stimulus parameters on perceptual dominance, switching rate and perceptual phase durations; and the build-up of auditory streaming. The principal contribution of the model is to show that a two-stage process of pattern discovery and competition between incompatible patterns can account for both the contents (perceptual organisations) and the dynamics of human perception in auditory streaming
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