UNLABELLED Inner-city youth must overcome many environmental challenges as they strive for success. Their outcome is influenced by the interplay of protective forces and risk factors. OBJECTIVE To learn directly from youth what solutions they believe would most influence their likelihood of achieving a positive future. DESIGN In-school 8th-, 9th-, and 12th-graders in north Philadelphia gene...

In two phases, this study assessed the ability of two video image analysis (VIA) instruments, VIASCAN and Computer Vision System (CVS), to augment assignment of yield grades (YG) to beef carcasses to 0.1 of a YG at commercial packing plant speeds and to test cutout prediction accuracy of a YG augmentation system that used a prototype augmentation touchpanel grading display (designed to operate ...

PURPOSE We aimed to assess the agreement between clinical assessment of diabetic retinopathy and Optomap ultrawide-field imaging (UWFI) in a real-life clinic setting. METHODS Structured examination findings, from diabetic patients attending routine medical retina clinics in July 2011, were retrospectively compared with the grade obtained from Optomap UWFI images, graded independently by two o...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relations among Taiwanese elementary school children’s effortful control, social relationships and their adjustment at school. Data were gathered on 407 thirdto sixth-grade children (81 third graders, 79 fourth graders, 116 fifth graders, and 131 sixth graders) attending three lowto middleclass public elementary schools in Taipei County, Taiwa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the percentage of body weight represented by school backpacks, to determine the dimensions of school packs, and to identify the methods of carrying book bags by elementary school boys. METHODS A cross-sectional study, using a multistage random sampling technique, was conducted during the Spring of 2005. Six elementary schools from Riyadh were included involving 702 Sa...

Evolution by natural selection is key to understanding life and of considerable practical importance in public health, medicine, biotechnology, agriculture. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) include among several evolutionary concepts that all third-graders should know. This article explores a novel approach developing testing curricula for teaching related children. College students...

This research was conducted to examine the effects of socioscientific issue approach (SSI) with thinking wheel map (TM) on entrepreneurial science (EST) and constructs Observation, New Ideas, Innovation, Creativity, Value. A teaching learning (TL) module developed guide teachers in implementing infusion SSI TM TL EST among fifth graders. Quasi-experimental quantitative 345 graders urban primary...

A Comparison in Reading Ability and Achievement between Mono-Lingual and Bilingual Fifth Graders Y. Adib, Ph.D. Z. Sharifi N. Mahmoodi To  compare both the reading ability and academic achievement among Farsi speaking mono-lingual fifth graders and their bilingual Aazari and Kordi counterparts, three samples of 153, 132, and 145 (total 430) such students from three cities o...