I. Overview T wraparound process is an intensive, individualized care planning and management process for children and adolescents1 with complex mental health and/or other needs. Wraparound is often implemented for young people who have involvement in multiple child-serving agencies and whose families would thus benefit from coordination of effort across these systems. Wraparound is also often ...

BACKGROUND Low income is related to food insecurity, and research has suggested that a scarcity of resources associated with low income can shift attention to the present, thereby discounting the future. OBJECTIVE We tested whether attending to the present and discounting the future may moderate the influence of income on food insecurity. DESIGN Delay discounting and measures of future time...

We investigated the acquisition of music performance skills in novice and expert pianists. Temporal disruptions in novice performances coincided with constraints in planning capacities. Child and adult pianists ranging in age (9-26 years), training (3-15 years) and sight-reading ability learned to perform a novel musical piece in eleven practice trials. Computer-detected pitch and timing errors...

This paper attempts to investigate if the undergraduates’ core competencies are able to meet with the requirements set by the employers and to analyse the effectiveness of personal qualities and employability skills development in private university in Malaysia. Questionnaires survey, mean score comparison, and independent sample t-test are used to capture the perception differential between 30...

Simulation games are an effective educational tool that offer life-like scenarios and develop valuable functional business knowledge and decision-making skills. These skills have been shown to be invaluable in the current job market. This paper describes a novel adaptation of the HEC Montreal Enterprise Resource Planning Simulation Game into an interinstitutional competition. Teams of universit...

Several topics in projects for mechatronics studies, which are ʹHuman Adaptive Mechatronics (HAM)ʹ and ʹHuman‐System Modelling (HSM)ʹ, are presented in this paper. The main research theme of the HAM project is a design strategy for a new intelligent mechatronics system, which enhances operatorsʹ skills during machine operation. Skill analyses and control system design have ...