Character education

The focus of this project was to develop and implement a character education program at the Upper Township Elementary School. This intern has endeavored to develop and implement a character education program at the Upper Township Elementary School in an attempt to improve interpersonal relations. This intern created a resource manual for teachers, assisted in the training necessary to implement this program, collected and analyzed data evaluating the effectiveness of the program. During the duration of this research study, the intern developed and refined several leadership competencies in the area of school administration. This intern effectively applied human relations skills when interacting with the major stakeholders of the organization. Positive communication was cultivated with individuals as well as with groups. The researcher actively listened and appropriately responded to the ideas and opinions of others. The change process was initiated and managed by the intern both as a leader and a participant of the leadership team. The intern formed a character education committee and the major stakeholders were encouraged to assist in the development and assessment of the scope and sequence and content of the character education curriculum

Review of meteoroid-bumper interaction studies at McGill University

Experimental investigation of meteoroid-bumper impact, debris cloud expansion, and second surface pressure loadin

Enhanced milieu training does not confer additional benefit over standard community interventions for toddlers with language delay

Study question: Setting: Nashville, USA. Patients: 97 toddlers aged 24–42 months with primary language delay. Exposure: Enhanced milieu training (EMT) compared with standard community interventions. Outcomes: Improvement in language ability at 6 and 12 months. Main results: Children in both the intervention and control arms showed significant improvement in language ability at 6 and 12 months. There was no significant difference between the two groups, with toddlers in both arms gaining an average of six points on the PLS-4 Auditory comprehension test Expressive subscale and seven points on the Receptive subscale. Toddlers in both arms used an average of 26 new words in a language sample. Conclusion: EMT results in improved language ability at 6 and 12 months, but the result is not significantly better than when standard community interventions are used

Pressure-induced delocalization of photoexcited states in a semiconducting polymer.

We present broadband transient absorption spectroscopy on the fluorescent copolymer poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-benzothiadiazole) under hydrostatic pressure of up to 75 kbar. We observe a strong reduction of the stimulated emission intensity under pressure, coupled with slower decay kinetics and reduced fluorescence intensity. These observations indicate increased delocalization of photogenerated singlet excitons, facilitated by an increased dielectric constant at high pressure. Spin triplet excitons, generated via an iridium complex-F8BT oligomer, show reduced lifetimes under pressure

A systematic review of associations between environmental exposures and development of asthma in children aged up to 9 years

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Challenges in identifying cancer genes by analysis of exome sequencing data.

Massively parallel sequencing has permitted an unprecedented examination of the cancer exome, leading to predictions that all genes important to cancer will soon be identified by genetic analysis of tumours. To examine this potential, here we evaluate the ability of state-of-the-art sequence analysis methods to specifically recover known cancer genes. While some cancer genes are identified by analysis of recurrence, spatial clustering or predicted impact of somatic mutations, many remain undetected due to lack of power to discriminate driver mutations from the background mutational load (13-60% recall of cancer genes impacted by somatic single-nucleotide variants, depending on the method). Cancer genes not detected by mutation recurrence also tend to be missed by all types of exome analysis. Nonetheless, these genes are implicated by other experiments such as functional genetic screens and expression profiling. These challenges are only partially addressed by increasing sample size and will likely hold even as greater numbers of tumours are analysed