OBJECTIVES This study examines changes in functional and activity limitations 1998-2012 for individuals 55-69. METHODS Logistic models are used to estimate trends in limitations in vision, hearing, physical and cognitive functioning, IADLs, and ADLs. Additional models assess the extent to which trends are associated with and differ by education, smoking, and BMI. RESULTS Changes in prevalen...

Construction kits represent a venerable, creative, and (occasionally) even beautiful genre of educational toys for children. Nonetheless, traditional construction kits have limitations as educational media. In the past decade, a number of research efforts have attempted to address these limitations by augmenting construction kit design with various types of computational media. This paper descr...

BACKGROUND Health impairments can result in disability and changed work productivity imposing considerable costs for the employee, employer and society as a whole. A large number of instruments exist to measure health-related productivity changes; however their methodological quality remains unclear. This systematic review critically appraised the measurement properties in generic self-reported...

This paper will refer to STEAM education, focusing first on clarifying the acronym and then principles which this methodology is based. Suggested pedagogical practices that can be adopted integrate education in educational program presented, followed by a reference interdisciplinary approach of robotics its introduction kindergarten. The research part include survey conducted kindergartens Prim...

Increasingly, researchers have suggested the benefits of temporal analysis to improve our understanding learning process. Sequential pattern mining (SPM), as a recognition technique, has potential reveal aspects and can be valuable tool in educational data science. However, its is not well understood exploited. This chapter addresses this gap by reviewing work that utilizes sequential contexts....

Applying the WWW for educational purposes is a major eld of research nowadays. Discussions in the public arena are largely being led by wild enthusiasm for the far-reaching possibilities ooered by this new technology and there appears to be no place for an objective review. Everything seems to be possible, no limitations are in sight. The WWW and its applications are seen as the panacea for edu...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the impact of 'sit less, move more' interventions on workplace performance. This study assessed the short and mid-term impacts of and patterns of change within, a 19-week workplace web-based intervention (Walk@WorkSpain; W@WS; 2010-11) on employees´ presenteeism, mental well-being and lost work performance. METHODS A site randomised control trial recruited...

The issue of educational evaluation has long been a research hotspot. Using big data analysis method to conduct educational evaluation can improve the pertinence and effectiveness of education. Conventional Apriori algorithm has certain limitations in the application of educational evaluation. This paper introduces an improved Apriori-Gen algorithm and describes its application in evaluation of...

Educational metadata are attracting increasing attention, since they can facilitate the description, indexing, searching and retrieving on-line learning objects and educational resources. This paper describes the difficulties raised in retrieving educational resources from the Web, and discusses the current state-of-theart in educational metadata technologies and the advantages of their use. Th...