This paper is a summary, or overview, of a much larger paper which the Centre for Confidence and Well-being has published called 'The potential dangers of a systematic, explicit approach to teaching social and emotional skills' (SEAL). This overview paper summarises some of the main arguments of the large paper. It does so by telescoping the arguments and presenting them largely without the ext...

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The web software CHOP was developed to visualize the 'wobbling' in the third codon position of aligned DNA sequences. The simple features of this tool allow users to easily find regions suspected of containing coding sequences (CDSs). The program also allows visualization of the nucleotide diversity between two genomic or gene sequences by graphically plotting the percentage identity between th...

A review of various innovation indicators for the Latin American and Carribbean countries suggests that these countries are underperforming in a number of dimensions when compared to others with similar levels of GDP per capita, especially in the area of business R&D and the contribution of universities and public research institutions to business innovation. The paper presents the arguments fo...

Set expansion refers to expanding a partial set of “seed” objects into a more complete set. One system that does set expansion is SEAL (Set Expander for Any Language), which expands entities automatically by utilizing resources from the Web in a language-independent fashion. In this paper, we illustrated in detail the construction of character-level wrappers for set expansion implemented in SEA...

Most encryption algorithms are designed without regard to their performance on top-of-the-line microprocessors. This paper discusses general optimization principles algorithms designers should keep in mind when designing algorithms, and analyzes the performance of RC4, SEAL, RC5, Blowfish, and Khufu/Khafre on the Intel Pentium with respect to those principles. Finally, we suggest directions for...

South East Asia Journal Of Public Health ISSN: 2220-9476

BACKGROUND There is little information on the detailed patterns of cervical screening uptake in older migrant women in Australia. This linkage study was performed to assess cervical screening participation in older migrants. METHODS We linked year 2000-2001 records for 14,228 Middle Eastern/Asian-born women 40-64 years of age, and an age and area matched random sample of 13,939 Australian-bor...

Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) has threatened East Asia for more than three decades and has become an important public health issue owing to its severe sequelae and mortality among children. The lack of effective treatment and vaccine for HFMD highlights the urgent need for efficiently integrated early warning surveillance systems in the region. In this study, we try to integrate the avai...