Early childhood teachers may differ regarding the knowledge base they use when making professional decisions. In this study two orientations are distinguished: the orientation towards scientific knowledge vs. the orientation towards intuition and subjective experience. As different tracks in early childhood teacher education qualify for professional practice, and as education of early childhood...

As a global feature of fingerprint, orientation field is very important to automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS). Establishing an accurate and concise model for orientation field will not only improve the performance of orientation estimation, but also make it feasible to apply orientation information into the matching process. In this paper, such a novel model for orientation fiel...

* Corresponding Authors ABSTRACT This paper studies the geometric design of spatial open loop prismatic-revolute-revolute (PRR) robot manipulators. Four spatial positions and orientations are defined and the dimensions of the geometric parameters of the PRR manipulator are computed so that the manipulator will be able to place its end-effector at these four pre-specified locations. Denavit and ...

Microtubules and actin filaments interact and cooperate in many processes in eukaryotic cells, but the functional implications of such interactions are not well understood. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, both cytoplasmic microtubules and actin filaments are needed for spindle orientation. In addition, this process requires the type V myosin protein Myo2, the microtubule end-binding prot...

Seedling emergence and subsequent survival and growth are vital for natural forest restoration or plantation establishment by means of seeds. Such information is lacking for the African bamboo species. Two experiments were carried out in a greenhouse to evaluate the influence of seed orientation and sowing depth of the lowland bamboo Oxytenanthera abyssinica on seedling emergence, survival and ...

To examine the chromosomal stability of repetitions of the trinucleotide CAG, we have cloned CAG repeat tracts onto the 3' end of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADE2 gene and placed the appended gene into the ARO2 locus of chromosome VII. Examination of chromosomal DNA from sibling colonies arising from clonal expansion of strains harboring repeat tracts showed that repeat tracts often change in ...