Developing a childcare assisting system is highly necessary due to the lack of nursery teachers, and it will make an important progress on effective utilization of nursery teacher resources. In this paper, we proposed simultaneous children recognition and tracking system by using Kinect sensors for the childcare assisting system to provide information for the nursery teachers. Each of the child...

Longleaf pine is a highly desirable species, resisting fire, insects and pathogens, and produces quality solid-wood products, but regeneration of the species has been difficult. Natural regeneration is feasible only on a small portion of the area considered to be longleaf pine type. Therefore, artificial regeneration must become a reliable means of regenerating the species if restoration of the...

Spatiotemporal patterns in spawning of fish influence growth and survival by affecting the environment experienced offspring during their early life stages. Therefore, identifying changes can help researchers understand population dynamics recruitment fluctuations. The Japanese sardine Sardinops melanostictus is a small pelagic that undergoes large stock Although are known to change spatially t...

/^\N the invitation of the Islington Borough Council a conference of over a hundred delegates from Metropolitan Borough Councils, including in each case the Medical Officer of Health, and various bodies devoted to children's welfare, met in the Islington Town Hall to consider the advisability of establishing Day Nursery Schools in the Metropolis on the lines of the Rachel McMillan School at Gre...

This study compares the parent-child interactions of rejected, neglected, and popular boys in a paradigm emphasizing physical play. Twelve boys, 3 to 5 years of age, of each sociomctric category were recruited from nursery schools and observed in interactions with their parents at home, It was found that the fathers of neglected boys engaged in less affectively arousing, physical play than the ...