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...

/^\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 ...

Fifty-two 44-month-cld children were observed in a nursery school over a period of two weeks. Peer and adult oriented behaviours were recorded, and data were analysed in terms of subjects' sex and birth order. Sex effects were as expected, but birth-order effects highlighted the secondborn child as representing a distinct category. In particular, second-born children manifested greater dependen...

Three trials using 240 weanling pigs were conducted during winter months to determine the influence of nursery temperature ("comfortable" vs "cold") on the response of weanling pigs to added vitamin C (700 ppm) or E (55 IU/kg) to a corn-soybean meal diet. A "comfortable" temperature schedule (27 C initially with a weekly 2 C drop) was maintained in one nursery, with the temperature schedule in ...

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This study was conducted in the Kordofan region of Sudan during 2011–12. It was devoted to the morphology associated to the juvenile development and performance of tree species of Capparaceae and Combretaceae in a nursery and early field growth. The nursery experiment was conducted to study morphological characters to identify seedlings of tree species under study. Seedlings were transplanted t...

Time study of six nursery teachers of children aged 0 to 5 was conducted at a public nursery school to ascertain their work load, and the results obtained were examined from the following two viewpoints. First, comparison was made between the results obtained by the following two methods of analysis; 1) An observer recorded the work contents and the working postures of a nursery teacher at plac...

Artificial excision of the distal part of acorns in order to promote germination is well researched in oak seedling cultivation studies. However, studies of combined effects of cotyledon excision and nursery fertilization on container seedlings are lacking, especially for seedling root growth and outplanting performance. This study aimed to explore the main effects of cotyledon excision on Quer...