The 4-H Mentoring: Youth and Families with Promise program is a school, family, and community partnership designed to enhance the strengths of at-risk youth. Youth with below-average school performance, poor social skills, and/or weak family bonds are targeted. Participants are engaged by caring adults in three structurally different settings; youth are matched with a young adult mentor, enroll...

This paper looks at the task of predicting word association strengths across three datasets; WordNet Evocation (BoydGraber et al., 2006), University of Southern Florida Free Association norms (Nelson et al., 2004), and Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (Kiss et al., 1973). We achieve results of r = 0.357 and ρ = 0.379, r = 0.344 and ρ = 0.300, an ρ = 0.292 and ρ = 0.363, respectively. We find Wor...

There is considerable enthusiasm about Case-Based Reasoning as a means of developing knowledge-based systems. There are two broad reasons for this enthusiasm. First, it is evident that much of human expert competence is experience based and it makes sense to adopt a reuse-based methodology for developing knowledge based systems. The other reason is the expectation that using Case-Based Reasonin...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationships among three flexural strengths of recent dental ceramics using 3-point and 4-point bending tests and biaxial flexural test. Three brands of porcelain for veneering (d.SIGN, Supper porcelain AAA, Vintage Hallo), two injectable ceramics (Empress 2, OPC 3G), and one castable ceramic (Crys-Cera) were used. Twenty bar-shaped and 10 d...

This paper proposes a heterogeneous multi-core architecture where all of the cores share a single Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). The design is characterized by each of the heterogeneous cores representing a different point in the power/performance design space. They demonstrate, through modeling, that this is an effective mechanism to reduce power dissipation by means of dynamically switch...

BACKGROUND The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) has been widely used as a brief behavioral screening. The aim of this study was to examine the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the 3- to 4-year-old version of the SDQ (SDQ 3-4) in Japanese preschool children. METHODS The SDQ 3-4 was administered to 754 parents who had 4- to 6-year-old children attending kinderga...