Anticounterfeit campaigners go back to school

Is it "time to go back to school"?

Emotion Sensors Go To School

This paper describes the use of sensors in intelligent tutors to detect students' affective states and to embed emotional support. Using four sensors in two classroom experiments the tutor dynamically collected data streams of physiological activity and students’ self-reports of emotions. Evidence indicates that state-based fluctuating student emotions are related to larger, longer-term affecti...

Back to School

school for Team PrISUm. The team was busy as the fall semester began, attending 7 outreach events in the first month of being back in Ames. For the first time in team history, the team was invited to the Des Moines Concours d’Elegance and Mini Maker Faire, both major events that were huge successes. Phaeton was featured as a Star Car in the Concours d’Elegance, putting it with the likes of a 19...

It was time to go back.

I am a pediatric emergency physician in Calgary, Alta, and have been active in international health for more than 25 years. The last time I had been in Africa was in 1985 when I ran a district hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa. My husband and I had always wanted to return to the continent but career, children, and time got in the way. When those factors finally aligned, we were able to onc...

Should Mom go back to school? Post-natal educational attainment and parenting practices.

Although the relationship between educational attainment and parenting practices is well documented, it is typically examined at only one point in time. What happens if mothers acquire more education after the birth of their children: do they alter their parenting practices? Panel data models based on longitudinal data from ECLS-K indicate that changes in mother's educational attainment are pos...