Developing child friendly environment in early childhood education classroom in Pakistan

(Under the Direction of EILEEN KRAEMER) A graphical, user friendly environment for GFPE (Gene-Finding Program Evaluation), written in Java, is developed to evaluate the prediction accuracy of gene-finding programs GenScan, HMMGene, GeneMark, Pombe and FFG. This tool aims to simplify and/or automate

In the early sixties of the last century Rachel Carson wrote “The Silent Spring”1 – a graphic account of environmental degredation in the United States by anthropogenic actions. The Environmental awareness and the relevant remedial measures that followed is a remarkable story of man’s relentless endeavour to come to terms with nature in a sustainable way. One and half decades later i.e. in 1975, in the wake of a major food shortage in Bangladesh, I wrote a news paper article tittled “ Chemist’s Role in Grow More Food ” in which I mentioned in no uncertain terms that in our effort to achieve autarky in food grain, environmental concerns should under no circumstances be overlooked1b. Way back in 1975 industrial development was not at all significant. Similarly urbanization was paltry. Things have changed radically during these last three and half decades. Like an insideous monster, environmental pollution has spread its tentacles in every aspect of Bangladesh’s life and society. Sadly, our response has been cofusing, chaotic and more after than not misplaced and misdirected. In the following we will make an attempt at identifying some of the environmental challenges that Bangladesh faces and suggest some remedial measures. We will also outline the pivotal role chemistry has to play in this pursuit. But before that it would be useful to mention some of the vital statistics of Bangladesh in the box below. 2

There are many knowledge-based data mining frameworks and it is common to think that new ones can not come up with anything new. This article refutes such claims. We propose a sophisticated unification mechanism and two-tier machine cache system aimed at saving time and memory. No machine is run twice. Instead, machines are reused wherever they are repeatedly requested (regardless of request context). These mechanisms are integrated with hierarchical task scheduler. Its unique design facilitates efficient automatic management of large numbers of tasks with natural adjustment to available computational resources. The system is also equipped with extremely powerful and general module for analysis of learning processes and evaluation of machine configurations with huge bunch of testing procedures of different kinds. Uniform results collection and query system is independent from particular learning machines. All the solutions are possible thanks to very general and universal definition of machine, configuration, machine context, machine information exchange and other necessary concepts. The ideas presented here, have been implemented and tested.

We present a user friendly environment for specifying properties. This has been built upon the Berkeley Hierarchical Sequential Interactive System (HSIS). A library of commonly used properties has been constructed. Several command level functions have been created so that the user can easily

seldom enter-the parents' world of work. Another domain to which children tend to have limited access is the parents' circle of friends and acquaintances-their social network. Such environments "external" to the developing person are referred to as "exosystems." The findings

this, content should be reusable for publication on different media and platforms. Authoring content digitally already has become an integrated part of writing and a number of authoring environments are available to support the author in this process. However, to enable reusability of content

Abstract — In this paper, we study the issue of defending against a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) that has been deployed by a malicious enemy agent in an area of interest to us. While there can be many approaches to defend against maliciously deployed WSNs, we propose the design of a localization centric approach. Specifically, the problem we address is: Given an enemy deployed WSN in an area of interest to us, how can we determine locations of the sensors without co-operating with the sensors themselves during localization. In our approach, we employ a physically mobile agent called the localizer (e.g., a mobile robot) to move in the sensor network and detect raw sensor-to-sensor communication signals. However, the localizer has no information on the message content or the sensor id of any signal (possibly due to message encryption) since the sensors belong to an enemy agent. Based on estimating the angle of arrival and the received signal strength, we design a protocol for the localizer to determine sensor positions. The salient features of our protocol are efficient association of signals with sensors, and filtering many likely false locations over time. Sound theoretical analysis and extensive simulations are used to demonstrate the performance of our protocol from the perspective of localization accuracy. Index Terms — Sensor Networks, Localization, Security. I.

Nonlinear analyses allow simulating, in a more realistic way, the behaviour of structures subjected to several types of complex loading conditions such as earthquakes. However, it is recognized that these analyses normally generate a considerable amount of results, a factor that difficult its interpretation. Over the last years, considerable progresses have been made in structural nonlinear behaviour modelling, associated to the fast growing development of numerical algorithms and computer capacities. Therefore, a number of computational analysis tools have been developed to meet the analysis requirements from the behaviour viewpoint. However, a similar growth in the development of graphical results visualization tools has not been witnessed and the generalized use of such analysis programs is thus made difficult. To face this, a graphical processor called VISUALANL was developed for an existing nonlinear analysis program for plane frame structures. To observe the potentialities of such tool, an application example is presented illustrating both previously referred stages.

Abstract An inclusive learning-friendly environment is a prerequisite for effective inclusive education. Inclusive education is not just about bringing in children with special needs into regular school classrooms, it calls for a carefully planned environment that will recognize, exploit