Hellmuth, Jerome. DISADVANTAGED CHILD

Jerome Fron

There has been intense research in using degrees of freedom (or don't care conditions) to optimize sequential and combinational circuits. The scope of logic synthesis. however. is limited by the lack of information being passed from high-level synthesis tools. In this paper. we present a general framework to model the degrees of frea1om at the behavioral level. in a fonn that can be used by seq...

James Jerome Gibson

Enhancing parent-child book reading in a disadvantaged community

A parent-child dialogic reading program was implemented across four preschools involving 62 caregivers/parents in a low socioeconomic status, disadvantaged community, where English was not the first language in 54% of the homes. The program aimed to enhance children’s language and emergent literacy development, and increase parental involvement in their preschoolers’ education. Over the 6 month...

PREDICTIVE LEARNING VIA RULE ENSEMBLES By Jerome

General regression and classification models are constructed as linear combinations of simple rules derived from the data. Each rule consists of a conjunction of a small number of simple statements concerning the values of individual input variables. These rule ensembles are shown to produce predictive accuracy comparable to the best methods. However, their principal advantage lies in interpret...

Ethnicity and Child Health in Northern Tanzania: Maasai Pastoralists Are Disadvantaged Compared to Neighbouring Ethnic Groups

The Maasai of northern Tanzania, a semi-nomadic ethnic group predominantly reliant on pastoralism, face a number of challenges anticipated to have negative impacts on child health, including marginalisation, vulnerabilities to drought, substandard service provision and on-going land grabbing conflicts. Yet, stemming from a lack of appropriate national survey data, no large-scale comparative stu...