BACKGROUND Environmental lead exposure poses a risk to educational performance, especially among poor, urban children. Previous studies found low-level lead exposure was a risk factor for diminished academic abilities, however, this study is distinct because of the very large sample size and because it controlled for very low birth weight and early preterm birth-two factors closely associated w...

Eighty children (kindergarten through 4th grade) performed discrimination and identification tasks for tachistoscopically-presented letter pairs. Letter pairs manipulated font (Times New Roman, Arial), point size (12and 18-point) and letter-pair discrimination difficulty (easy, medium, and hard). Higher percent correct scores occurred for the Arial font and 18-pt size, and performance was bette...

This Recommendation provides the error performance objectives for real digital radio-relay links forming part of the high-grade portion of international digital connections at a bit rate below the primary rate within an integrated services digital network. This Recommendation also provides the guidance on the factors in determining performance requirements for real digital radio-relay links for...

GRM and PROVE are the monitoring and performance visualisation tools of the P-GRADE graphical parallel program development and execution environment running on clusters. With semion-line monitoring application behaviour data can be requested by the analysis tool without being a real on-line tool. This paper discusses the semi-on-line monitoring method and its use in the performance analysis of ...

This paper considers the automatic design of fuzzy rule-basedclassification systems based on labeled data. The classification performance andinterpretability are of major importance in these systems. In this paper, weutilize the distribution of training patterns in decision subspace of each fuzzyrule to improve its initially assigned certainty grade (i.e. rule weight). Ourapproach uses a punish...

Temporal processing deficit could be associated with a specific difficulty in learning to read. In 1951, Stambak provided preliminary evidence that children with dyslexia performed less well than good readers in reproduction of 21 rhythmic patterns. Stambak's task was administered to 1,028 French children aged 5-6 years. The score distribution (from 0 to 21) was quasi-normal, with some children...

Positive academic efficacy beliefs elevate educational expectations that lead to academic success (Bandura, 1997; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of the variables: past performance, computer self-efficacy, outcome expectations, academic grade goal, and academic performance within social cognitive career theory’s model of performance (Lent...

Grade prediction for courses not yet taken by students is important so as to guide them while registering for nextterm courses. Moreover, it can help their advisers for designing personalized degree plans and modifying them based on the students’ performance. In this paper, we present cumulative knowledge-based regression models with different course-knowledge spaces for the task of next-term g...

AIM To assess the academic performance of students who transferred to the Zagreb School of Medicine from other three medical schools in Croatia. METHODS Academic performance of medical students who moved from Rijeka, Osijek, or Split University Medical Schools to the Zagreb University School of Medicine at the second or third year was compared with academic performance of students enrolled at...