The influence of students' sociocultural background on academic achievement is a well established fact. Research also points out that sociocultural background is related to students' cognitive abilities and these have an effect on their academic achievement. However, the mediator role of cognitive abilities on the relationship between sociocultural background and academic achievement is less we...

With visual analytical tools becoming more sophisticated and prevalent in the analysis communities, it is now apparent that understanding how analysts utilize these tools is more important than ever. Such understanding can lead to improving the tools, but a more subtle and equally important aspect lies in the discovery of the analysts’ reasoning process for solving complex problems through the ...

The title of my talk, “Living Neoplatonism,” is intentionally ambiguous, for it can refer, first, to Neoplatonism as a living philosophy rather than as a historical artifact embodied in the writings of Plotinus, Proclus, and the rest. And second, it can refer to the practice of living Neoplatonically as a modern way of life. But why Neoplatonism, as opposed to some other philosophy? From my per...

Over the past 80 years, open-field method has evolved as a commonly used tool for the analysis of animal behaviour. The study was carried out using 50 kennel-reared purebred puppies of the German Shepherd dog breed. All dogs were tested in 5th, 7th, and 9th week of age. For the purpose of behavioural analysis, an open-field evaluation report was designed prior to testing to ensure the most conv...

Although organized activities (OAs) have been established as important contexts of development, limited work has examined the role of OAs across the high school transition in buffering adolescents' social adjustment by providing opportunities for visibility and peer affiliation. The transition to high school is characterized by numerous changes and OAs may provide an important setting for estab...

Between August 20 and 22, 1995, officials and technical experts from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States gathered at a conference sponsored by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, in cooperation with Harvard University’s Center for Science and International Affairs, to assess the accomplishments, shortcomings, and fu...

is about 4000 each year; between 1911 and 1926 inclusive there were 66,421 deaths from these causes in England and Wales. Septic infection is by far the most important single cause. The official figures show the total maternal mortality in 1926 for England and Wales as 5-14, and the sepsis rate as i-6o, per 1000 live births. But this loss by death is in some ways not the gravest consequence of ...

The visualization has become essential in many application areas. The finite graphs and automata undoubtedly belong to such areas. A problem of a visual image of a directed finite graph has appeared in the study of the road coloring conjecture. Given a finite directed graph, a coloring of its edges turns the graph into finitestate automaton. The visual perception of the structure properties of ...