The dynamics of self-confidence are modelled in an environment where rational individuals optimally choose educations and occupations with the aim to acquire productive skills while learning about ability. It is shown how the presence of uninformative options can trap individuals below their potential. Furthermore, the trade-off between probability of success and value of skills may induce unce...

In the fast-paced life of 21st century, computerization plays a crucial part in mortal life. Home allows us to control home electrical appliances like lights, doors, AC, etc. It also provides security and an emergency system be activated. refers not only reducing fatal attempts but increasing energy efficiency saving time. The main idea is help handicapped elderly people by enabling them warn c...

This article examines the serious potential for a clash between two sets of values: (1) the stated values of the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, that persons handicapped within its terms should not be denied access to decent housing on that account, and that mentally handicapped tenants, especially those who may have, but do not necessarily possess, a propensity for violence, have privacy ...

brampton and Kowell, both ot Teachers' College, Columbia University, U.S.A. Volume One?History, 260 pages, price 7s. 6d. Volume Two?Problems, 440 pages, price 9s. Published in Britain by Harrap & Co., Ltd. These transatlantic editors set themselves an ambitious task in dealing with a subject that rarely receives the attention it deserves. In Volume One they aimed at defining the various groups ...

Mits. ? ,aged 84, was admitted into hospital on the 7th October 1890 with a previous history of having had five children and one abortion. The last child was born two years ago. She stated that she had been regular up to August last when she missed a period. About September 9th when her period was due she felt very bad suddenly, and this was followed by great pain shooting up from the left side...

A new adaptive L₁/₂ shooting regularization method for variable selection based on the Cox's proportional hazards mode being proposed. This adaptive L₁/₂ shooting algorithm can be easily obtained by the optimization of a reweighed iterative series of L₁ penalties and a shooting strategy of L₁/₂ penalty. Simulation results based on high dimensional artificial data show that the adaptive L₁/₂ sho...

This paper presents a gathering and shooting progressive refinement radiosity method. Our method integrates the iterative process of light energy gathering used in the standard full matrix method and the iterative process of light energy shooting used in the conventional progressive refinement method. As usual, in each iteration, the algorithm first selects the patch which holds the maximum unp...

Disability is generally defined as a physical, mental, or psychological injury that causes harm to the child’s physical mental development, both, and may affect his state development of education training. Thus, individual child becomes person with special needs less than peers same age in functions perception, both. Handicapped children are usually classified into following groups: Physically ...