At a child care center, 18-month-old Hannah is clinging to her mother and crying as they enter. Her mother pulls Hannah’s hands from her arm, saying, “Don’t be such a crybaby and go play.” In a pediatrician’s waiting room, two-year-old Carlos climbs dangerously high on the furniture. He throws a toy at his mother when she calls his name. His mother laughs nervously and says quietly, “I don’t kn...

The M3-Competition continues to improve the design of forecasting competitions: It examines more series than any previous competition, improves error analyses. and includes commercial forecasting programs as competitors. To judge where to go from here, I step back to look at the M-Competitions as a whole. I discuss the advantages of the M-Competitions in hopes that they will be retained, descri...

OBJECTIVE To assess intraocular pressure (IOP) in conditioned equine athletes and document changes with exercise. A secondary objective was to assess associations between IOP and heart rate, as well as with other subjective physical parameters. SAMPLE POPULATION Horses were evaluated during 50 mile endurance ride competitions. Data were collected on 69 horses during five different competition...

A current and major difficulty in civilizational studies is how to deal with the concepts of “civilization” and culture.” As these terms are simultaneously distinct and overlap, arose through a historical process that was key to modernity and are also at the root of a variety of disciplinary connections, they constitute a perfect case of semantic entanglement. Confusion has resulted from this e...

The aim of the study. To systematize factual data on formation and development competition system components in professional tennis before beginning "tennis open era". Material methods. Facts from history systematicity competitions key period up to 1968 was main material research. results. era modern begins second half 19th century. It found that game began be commercialized already 1894, this ...

The US-China relation becomes the most important part of international new post-pandemic order related to evolution world after Covid-19. We are talking about economies world, giving 25% and 23.5% GDP, countries involved in a number strategic rivalries as well harsh competitions, with lot newly come instruments that do not benefit any regime, rules norms – cyber, a.i., quantum computers, space,...

Background: Robotics competitions are increasingly popular and potentially provide an on-ramp to computer science, which is currently highly gender imbalanced. However, within competitive robotics teams, student participation in programming is not universal. This study gathered surveys from over 500 elementary, middle, and high school robotics competition participants to examine (1) whether pro...

Research on cybersecurity competitions is still in its nascent state, and many questions remain unanswered, including how effective these competitions actually are at influencing career decisions and attracting a diverse participant base. The present research aims to address these questions through surveying a sample of excybersecurity competition participants from New York University’s Cyber-S...

D uring the past century, mathematics competitions have become part of the landscape in mathematics education. The first major mathematics competition in the United States began with an idea of William Lowell Putnam in 1921 [6], and the mathematics competition named in his honor has become the premier mathematics competition in the United States for undergraduates, with 508 schools and 3,640 in...