PARENTE is a user-friendly software package that conducts parentage inference using molecular data from diploid codominant markers. Based on the principle of genetic compatibility, PARENTE looks for maternity, paternity, or simultaneously for both potential parents, using multilocus genotypes and birth and death dates of individuals (if available). It also calculates the probability of successf...

This paper describes self-organized complexity of an ecosystem consisting of computer programs that exhibit life-like behavior. As an artificial life approach to simulating the life-like behavior on a computer, attention should be given to the emergent dynamics by which a new action is brought forth. In considering how to implement such a notion onto a computer, it could be interpreted as the g...

Developmental dyslexia is a specific learning disorder of neurobio‐ logical origin that causes a reading impairment. Since music and language share common mechanisms and the core deficit underlying dyslexia has been identified in difficulties in dynamic and rapidly changing auditory information processing, it has been argued that enhancing basic musical rhythm perception skills in chil‐ dren wi...

a simplified approach for nonlinear analysis of the load-displacement response of a single pile and a pile group is presented using the load-transfer approach. a hyperbolic model is used to capture the relationship between unit skin friction and pile-soil relative displacement developed at the pile-soil interface and the load-displacement relationship developed at the pile end. as to the nonlin...

PyPedal is a pedigree analysis package that provides tools for error checking, mathematical analysis, report generation, pedigree simulation, and data visualization. A number of measures of genetic variability are provided, including coefficients of inbreeding and relationship, effective founder and ancestor numbers, and founder genome equivalents. Routines are also included for identifying anc...

The importance of teaching computer ethics is shown by its inclusion as core content in both information systems and computer science model curricula. This paper outlines a method for evaluating undergraduate computer ethics programs using the Defining Issues Test of moral judgment. A “before-and-after with a control group” research design was used. The experimental group exhibited a significan...

l We like to thank Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Ton van Schaik for testing the program and providing useful suggestions. Henri de Groot acknowledges financial support fiom the Netherlands Organisation for Scientifïc Research (NWO).

The authors are part of a committee that has been designing a new high-school curriculum in computer science and supervising the preparation of a comprehensive study program based on it. The new program emphasizes the foundations of algorithmic thinking, and teaches programming as a way to get the computer to carry out an algorithm. The paper discusses the program and its initial implementation.

The evaluation of new reagents and instruments in clinical chemistry leads to complex studies with large volumes of data, which are difficult to handle. This paper presents the design and development of a program that supports an evaluator in the definition of a study, the generation of data structures, communication with the instrument (analyser), online and offline data capture and in the pro...

C an a machine think ? Can a ma­ chine have conscious thoughts in exactly the same sense that you and I have? If by "machine" one means a physical system capable of performing certain functions (and what else can one mean?), then hu­ mans are machines of a special biolog­ ical kind, and humans can think, and so of course machines can think. And, for all we know, it might be possible to produce ...