Acquisition of story-telling skills is an aspect of language development that is influenced by hearing parental story telling. Because discourse between parent and child is affected by the sex of both parent and child, we hypothesized that sex differences would affect parental story telling and children's acquisition of story-telling skills. For this study, 24 children (12 girls, 12 boys) told ...

This service aims to observe and disseminate good perceptions of the effectiveness taxation system, knowledge understanding tax regulations, level trust in legal system government paying compliance. The population this study is MSME taxpayer category private individuals who have a free business Rantau Utara, Labuhan Batu. community Service (PKM) activity was carried out by outreach precisely on...

The aim of this research is to make 3D digital Story-telling Media on Batik Learning in Vocational High School. The digital story-telling developed in this research is focused on 3D-based story-telling. In contrast to the digital story-telling that has been developed in existing learning, this research is expected to be able to improve understanding of vocational students about the value of loc...

T N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)type glutamate receptor is one of three major classes of receptors for glutamate, the principle excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. It plays a key role in learning and in the formation of memories by acting as a ‘‘coincidence detector’’ that initiates changes in synaptic strength that lead to the formation of new neural networks (1). It is als...

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Doctor of Philosophy by Sarvapali Dyanand Ramchurn In this thesis, we propose a panoply of tools and techniques to manage inter-agent dependencies in open, distributed multi-agent systems that have significant degrees of uncertainty. In particular, we focus on situations in which agents are involved in repeate...

1 The growing literature on trust, social capital and well-being relies almost exclusively on a single survey measure of interpersonal trust: " Generally speaking, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people? " Efforts at modelling response to this balanced question are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Notable recent examples include...

Story-telling has been a means of bequeathing knowledge since aeons. Whereas the idea of the story-telling remains unaltered, the world around undertakes continuous changes. New media, new technologies and devices, new ways of communication define a new format of the story-telling. This paper proposes a new non-linear version of mobile story-telling in the emerging ubiquity of knowledge sharing...