(2014).Exploring support mechanisms for learners at-­‐risk through a coupled game environment. Abstract. Dropping out of the schooling system is one of the prevailing problems placing youths at-risk. With this paper we propose possible support mechanisms for learners at–risk by analysing the characteristics of a coupled game. We provide a detailed description of an educational setting that is d...

In England and Wales, 53% of live births were born within marriage in 2013, compared to 59% in 2003 and 93% in 1963 [1] . The average age at marriage has increased and more children are born to women older than 30 years. In the UK, there were 2.0 million lone parents with dependent children in 2015. This figure has grown steadily from 1.9 million in 2005. Lone parents with dependent children re...

Background: Focused Antenatal care (FANC) is personalized care provided to a pregnant woman which prepares her for childbirth and readiness for complications. It provides health promotion and preventive health services, including nutritional support and prevention and treatment of anemia; prevention, detection and treatment of malaria, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections (stis)/HIV...

Dead standing trees (“stags” in Australia) are critical for wildlife in forests throughout the world. Dynamics of stag recruitment and retention are an interaction of tree mortality, size, deterioration rate, human intervention, and variables related to the structure and physiognomy of the forest. Historically in Australia and elsewhere, timber management involved the removal of stags and resul...

this study investigated utilization of electronic learning facilities among agricultural students in michael okpara university of agriculture, umudike. one hundred and twenty (120) students undergoing training in different agricultural courses in the university were randomly selected. data were collected with a structured questionnaire and analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency ...

The Housing Choice Voucher program was created, in part, to help low income households reach a broader range of neighborhoods and schools. Rather than concentrating low income households in designated developments, vouchers allow families to choose their housing units and neighborhoods. In this project we explore whether low income households use the flexibility provided by vouchers to reach ne...

The introduction of a GNU/Linux-based desktop system in a large company is often problematic, in terms of technical issues but especially for employees' training costs. Mainly, these obstacles are represented by different hardware configurations that might require several ad-hoc activities to adapt a standard release to the specific environment, including company's application profile. On the o...

Two experiments tested the ability to distinguish between ordinary and fantastic complex visual displays in 6and 9-year-old children and adults. In Experiment 1, adults found discrimination between ordinary and fantastic visual realities (Task 1) as clear and manageable as the discrimination between pictures that included or did not include human characters (Task 2), but 6and 9-year-old childre...

This paper focuses on the potential of collaborative live coding in educational settings. In particular, it draws from our experience with EarSketch, a free online platform for algorithmic composition and computational music remixing that allows students to learn Computer Science Principles (CSP) by making music using either Python or JavaScript. We argue that collaborative live coding is a pro...