This study examines the relationship between various measures of parental and student expectations and aspirations and math achievement among Latino 12th graders of immigrant parents in the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS): 2002 database. Findings indicate parental expectations and aspirations were not significant predictors of student achievement after controlling for an index of covariate...

Article history: Received 28 January 2010 Received in revised form 24 June 2010 Accepted 3 August 2010 Available online xxxx Although academic achievement is a heritable construct, to date research has yet to explore its molecular genetic underpinnings. Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the current longitudinal study investigated the associations between...

Background: Academic achievement is the result of a number of socio-occupational variables. Procrastination and stress are important predictors of such variables. The purpose of this study is to distinguish students with high and low academic achievement based on procrastination factors and psychosocial stressors. Materials and Methods: The research method is correlational. Given that the dif...

Facial expression is an essential and impressive means of human contact. This is important connection of information for knowing emotional case and motive. A facial expression pursues not only emotions, but other creative action, social cooperation and psychological characteristics. Appearance based facial expression recognition systems are analyzed and have pulled widen application. A new stud...

In this work, an adaptive and efficient basis function is presented by which the Schrodinger equation can be solved using meshless method in an accurate and fast approach. The base of this achievement is the quantum wave packet. The proposed basis function reduces time consumption of the meshless method, approximately to half. Also, it inherits the fundamental properties of wave packets. Theref...

In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements (in terms of both the average attainments and its concentration). Even if theoretical considerations suggest a non-linear relationship between th...

A pilot scale membrane bioreactor hybrid system (MBR-HS) was evaluated for municipal wastewater treatment. This novel system comprised of a granular activated carbon-sponge fluidized bed bioreactor (GACS-FBBR) followed by a submerge membrane bioreactor (MBR) with the capacity of 2 L/min. The results indicated that the MBR-HS could effectively remove 90% DOC and 95% NH₄-N. PO₄-P removal efficien...

Decision support systems (DSS) have been used in many applications to speed up decision making. This article will discuss the implementation of DSS for decision-making for scholarships "bidik misi". In terms of processing data related to the bidik misi scholarship are accordance with the regulations set by UBD. To facilitate the selection process of bidik misi scholarship then the authors used ...

Facial expression is an essential and impressive means of human contact. This is important connection of information for knowing emotional case and motive. A facial expression pursues not only emotions, but other creative action, social cooperation and psychological characteristics. Appearance based facial expression recognition systems are analyzed and have pulled widen application. A new stud...