Senior Capstone Project : Monterey County Child Abuse Response Team protocol (C.A.R.T.) -- law enforcement

This capstone project is designed to motivate others involved in the Child Abuse Response Team Protocol by promoting a shared vision on understanding and following the CART Protocol. This capstone project includes a power point presentation on a CD which will be used as part of Law Enforcement\u27s training, thus will enable everyone to have a better understanding on the CART Protocol

Myelomeningocele and the Neuropsychological Functioning of Bilingual Children

Myelomeningocele is the most common and most severe form of spina bifida, affecting the brain and spinal cord of millions of children. Children of Hispanic background have the highest prevalence rate of this condition. Despite this fact, research that examines the cognitive profiles of Hispanic children with myelomeningocele is limited. A review on bilingualism and neurocognitive performance suggests that a cognitive advantage is present among those who are able to learn and utilize two languages. Although some have investigated the neuropsychological performance of children with myelomeningocele, research has yet to examine whether a bilingual cognitive advantage is present among bilingual children with this condition. Furthermore, it is unknown whether bilingualism gives a cognitive advantage to those who undergo additional brain insults such as multiple shunt revisions, which are commonly seen in those with myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus (MM-HC). Therefore, this study aimed to examine the neurocognitive profiles of bilingual Hispanic children with myelomeningocele and evaluate whether they benefit from the bilingual cognitive advantage. Twenty seven monolingual children and 22 bilingual children with MM-HC were administered a neuropsychological battery to assess various cognitive domains. In addition, the influence of cultural variables (such as level of language fluency, acculturation, parental income and education) was also considered. Analyses of Covariance indicated that after controlling for cultural variables, the scores of bilingual and monolingual children with MM-HC in the domains of General Intellectual Abilities, Verbal abilities, Motor Abilities, Processing Speed and Executive Functions were not significantly different. However, significant differences were found in the domains of Visual Memory/Abilities and Verbal/Working Memory, indicating that monolingual children with MM-HC significantly outperformed their bilingual counterparts. Subsequent analyses among those who had undergone additional shunt related surgeries revealed no significant differences between bilingual and monolingual children with MM-HC who had a history of shunt revisions. Results from this study suggest that the cognitive advantage seen among bilinguals with intact brains (i.e., no previous brain insults/traumas) is not present among bilingual children with MM-HC. Several explanations of these findings are discussed

Why did Mexico not privatise the electricity sector? - an application of prospect theory

Between 1982 and 2003, as part of an ambitious programme of market reforms, the total number of state-owned enterprises in Mexico was cut from 1,155 to 210. Despite this, the country’s energy sector, including the electricity industry, has largely remained in state hands. Presidents Ernesto Zedillo and Vicente Fox presented their projects to privatise the Mexican electricity industry (MEI). However, they were unable to reach agreements with key political players to carry out this strategy. This thesis explores the underlying reasons for this “non-privatisation” by applying the most important behavioural theory of choice under risk, Prospect Theory (PT). The thesis hypotheses that privatisation of the Mexican electricity industry was not implemented because there were specific conditions that led decision-makers to behave in a risk-averse way. For instance, the privatisation of the MEI is more likely to occur in conditions of a severe crisis in that sector, and that these conditions have yet to occur. This hypothesis draws on psychological arguments derived from PT, which explore behaviour in terms of risk aversion in the domain of gains and risk-seeking in the domain of losses. According to PT, people tend to opt for risky choices when they are experiencing losses. On the other hand, people behave in a very cautious way when they see themselves in the domain of gains. The research offers evidence that the decision-makers involved in the debate of the electricity privatisation projects were in the domain of gains and therefore they did not implement the privatisation. In this way, the thesis offers a new perspective for understanding the political dynamics of the privatisation proposals. The thesis also makes important contribution to empirical knowledge, offering original insights that cannot be provided by other theoretical frameworks such as rational choice theories. Moreover, the thesis offers an interesting analysis of different economic, social and political factors. This provides key information that is used in a context that supports our PT application. For instance, we study the partial participation of the private sector in the MEI and reviewed historical events that strongly influenced the country’s economic and social development

Mechanical Horse Project

This document outlines our senior design project for the Cal Poly Mechanical Engineering Department on behalf of Jack’s Helping Hand. As a team of two Mechanical Engineering students, we developed a structure that can support a rider and can move in three degrees of freedom to model the gait patterns of a horse. This senior project will be continued by another group that will focus on electronics and implement the motors that will induce motion on the structure that our team has built. We collected baseline data by attaching an iPhone to a horse and used that motion to compare the results of our ideation process. Our design is a body suspended by a frame on a manufactured joint that can move in three degrees of freedom to accommodate the pitch, yaw, and roll angles that we observed during our testing, to ensure that our project feels like riding a horse

Database management system (DBMS) at Mazatlan Academic Unit of ICML, UNAM.

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Infinitival Clauses in Children With Typical and Late Language Emergence: Supporting a Dimensional Account of Language Delay

Children who do not speak single words by 2 years of age have been labeled as having late language emergence (LLE). While the majority of children with LLE recover by school-age, it has been argued that they often still perform below the level of their typical peers for specific linguistic skills. In this case, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) should consider language skills as varying along a dimension, rather than as simply impaired vs. unimpaired. To examine the dimensionality of language skill, this study compared infinitival clause production in 22 school-age children with and without LLE. The infinitive clauses were: catenatives, such as gonna; let us + verb, typically produced as let’s; unmarked infinitives such as make it go; and simple infinitives such as We want to run. The 22 participants included 11 with typical development and 11 with a history of LLE, sampled in a conversational context at 8-years of age. Analysis indicated that the groups did not statistically differ for use of the four types of infinitival clauses. However, the LLE group did use fewer simple infinitives, offering support for a dimensional model of language development

Participative Production of Students in the Development of Math Video Games at Higher Level Education

This paper shows how, through a participative production of student’s community of the Metropolitan Polytechnic University of Hidalgo in Mexico, it is possible to improve the academic performance of new students in the propedeutic course of mathematics. The production consists of the design, development and application of an educational video game focused on mathematics, specifically algebra. As a result of the participation of students, there is a larger identification and a sense of belonging to their engineering. This is a benefit for students who aspire to be admitted in the Engineering of Animation and Visual Effects because, in addition to receiving feedback about the topics that are learnt in class, they can observe digital scenes and 3D animations that they will be able to create during their university studies