virtual environments for children and teens

... al., 2000; DelBello and Geller, 2001) Before ascertaining symptom presence and absence, children and parents should be asked about children s functioning at home, at school, and with peers (see, ... manic children are full of energy They often get up and wander the house in the middle of the night, looking for things to These children may sleep to hours per night yet appear fresh and energetic ... current DSM-IV criteria for mania were developed for adults and are frequently difficult to apply to children Identifying episode onset and offset can be difficult because many children with BPD present...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... Alexey L Lastovetsky Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing / Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar (Editors) TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Edited ... TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Edited by Salim Hariri Manish Parashar A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED ... to develop, implement, and support high-performance parallel and distributed computing environments and applications In this book we review promising software tools and environments that play...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... anthropometry variable over sex for children and adolescents and over sex and race-ethnicity for adults aged 20 years and older Minimum sample sizes for a specified design effect and percentile were obtained ... Results for children are reported by sex and age group, and the results for adults aged 20 years and older are also presented by sex, race-ethnicity group, and age Results from previous surveys for ... years and older Females 20 years and older Males 20 years and older Males 20 years and older Males and females 2–19 years Males and females 2–19 years Females 20 years and older Females 20 years and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... to make homes warmer and cut energy bills for children and their families NCB is working with children and young people to ensure the voices, stories and views of children and young people are ... healthy future for our children Making homes more energy efficient means children and young people will be growing up in comfortable homes, protected from the negative effects of cold and damp housing ... groups of children are more likely to be affected by fuel poverty and therefore more likely to live in a cold or damp home Over a quarter of lone parent families are fuel poor1 And, children whose...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:21

... aggres- I 11 12 Understanding and Recognizng Anger in Children and Teens sive and violent children and teens lack a true sense of connection in their relationships—with others and with themselves ... hopelessness, and helplessness When children and adolescents hide their anger behind depression, 32 Understanding and Recognizng Anger in Children and Teens anxiety, guilt, and shame, it is difficult for ... developmental challenge for children to understand and constructively handle anger, few schools provide parents or children formal classwork and instruction in the management of this complex and charged...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:04

... resignation ensues as children are challenged to understand the impact of limitations As they develop reasoning abilities, children explore options and choices, and cause and effect relationships ... presentations of structure, format, and content as well as choice of items and response options Life activities change with seasons and overtime as children grow and develop Selecting three activities ... negative emotions They form beliefs for accepting the condition that ushers in the potential for participation in life activities Disease and individual characteristics, and environmental factors...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... qualitatively-derived and theoretically-based instrument were determined to be highly acceptable and relevant by lay and expert reviewers The PLA was deemed appropriate, useful, and applicable for both males and ... qualitatively-derived and theory-guided PLA scale for children and adolescents with asthma demonstrated internal consistency reliability and construct validity based on exploratory and confirmatory ... participation, and evaluate efficacy of interventions to increase participation Older school-age children and early adolescents will hereafter be referred to as children Review of demographic and condition...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... confirmed the validity and reliability of these measures for use in Brazilian children and adolescents [22] Although these questionnaires are standardized and widely used for other oral conditions, ... minimal standards for internal reliability coefficients are 0.70 for group comparisons and 0.900.95 for individual comparisons [66] Accordingly, the reliability coefficients for both CPQ total and ... subscales exceeded standards for group and individual level comparisons [67], except for oral symptoms domains, which were slightly lower at 0.68 for CPQ8-10 and at 0.69 for CPQ11-14 However,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... by proxies and children [15] As part of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) of the Robert Koch Institute, the children self-report- and the parent ... chronically ill children tend to rate their health-related quality of life lower than the children themselves This has been shown for children with cerebral palsy [11] and for children with cancer ... agreement between self-reported and parent-assessed quality of life for children in Germany - Results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) Ute...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Table Coefficients (standard error) of different regression analyses on VAS values for the general population and for the two patient groups based on variables for the domains (for each domain dummies ... (standard error) of different regression analyses on TTO values for the general population and for the two patient groups (for each domain dummies expressing the step from level to level (2), and ... (e.g., calibration) was performed at the respondent level on the basis of the observed VAS scores for the various health states, and the scores that were recorded for “dead” and “full health” (e.g.,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... Alexey L Lastovetsky Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing / Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar (Editors) TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Edited ... TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Edited by Salim Hariri Manish Parashar A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED ... to develop, implement, and support high-performance parallel and distributed computing environments and applications In this book we review promising software tools and environments that play...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21

... is widely developed for both UNIX and PC Windows environments For a programmer, a socket looks and behaves much like a low-level file descriptor Thus, commands such as read() and write() work with ... message-passing for particular systems (e.g., CMMD for CM5 and NX/2 for Intel parallel computers) Since these tools use proprietary communication hardware and software, their performance is better ... as PVM and MPI Given the number and diversity of available systems, the selection of a particular software tool for an application development is nontrivial Factors Tools and Environments for Parallel...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21

... performance on either the same computing platform or on a different platform PVM performs worst on the IBM AIX platform, but shows performance comparable to ACS on both the Sun Solaris platform ... platform (Figure 2.10) For message size smaller than kB, the performance of all four tools is the same, but the performance of p4 on the Sun Solaris platform and the performance of PVM on the ... Figures 2.12 and 2.13 (message size byte and kB) The MPI primitive [MPI_Bcast()] shows a performance comparable to that of ACS and p4 for relatively small message sizes (up to kB) and small group...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21

... of forms in different systems, including: • Page fault and signal handling • System call overheads to protect and unprotect memory • Thread/context switching overheads Tools and Environments for ... efficiency, and scalability • Simplicity DSM systems provide a relatively easy to use and uniform model for accessing all shared data, whether local or remote Beyond such uniformity and ease of ... speeds, mechanisms for reducing the cost of TLB updates, and a high-performance local and global interconnect design Furthermore, the cache coherence protocol minimizes latency and bandwidth per access...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21

... with code segments, followed by a comparison and experimental evalTools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Edited by Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar ISBN 0-471-33288-7 Copyright ... infrastructure and forms the basis for all OMG specifications, including the object model and the reference model The object model underlies the CORBA architecture and defines common object semantics for ... appearance and allows objects to interact with all the features of Java, such as JNI and JDBC It also means that a server object can be run and accessed from any virtual machine, thus achieving platform...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21

... Step 6: Set up DCOMCNFG The level and security and access are defined by DCOMCNFG for each registered class Each registered class is treated as an application and the details pertaining to the ... implementing a DCOM server and client under a Windows environment However, as the objective of this experiment was to measure the performance of DCOM and compare it with RMI and CORBA, the DCOM application ... definition ") ] library PingDCOM { // import the standard OLE library This gives access // to the standard OLE types importlib("STDOLE2.TLB"); // Forward declare all types defined in this IDL file...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21

... of rows and columns in A and B by //calling getRows() and //getCols on matrix references A and B passed to this //method //Perform checks on number of rows and columns in matri//ces A and B ... paradigms and system resources involved are noted in Table 4.3 TABLE 4.1 Comparison Based on Language and Platform Dependencies RMI Can only be implemented using Java Can run on all platforms for which ... responsible for object activation, while the ORB is responsible for locating objects The DCOM-Service Control Manager is responsible for both locating and activating objects Support for Additional...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21

... current, and future research in other disciplines influences this new area and makes answers to Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Edited by Salim Hariri and Manish ... explanations and guidance for accessing Grid resources and developing secure service 5.4.2 Managing Grid Information Within Grids, information about the users and the system is critical User information ... sessions, and system information helps users select the appropriate resources and applications The availability of such information is important for the maintenance, configuration, and use of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21

... in Puerto Rico and the analysis of the data The SETI@Home project developed stable and userappealing screen savers for Macintosh and Windows computers and a command-line client for Unix systems ... system provides a wealth of both user and aggregate information and allows organizations to form teams for corporations and organizations, which then have their standings posted on the Web site SETI@Home ... written for Ninf to be run on NetSolve, and vice versa Currently, however, there are no known plans for the two projects to merge [33] Ninf Ninf (Network Information Library for High Performance...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21