CORRELAÇÃO ENTRE PROCESSAMENTO SENSORIAL E ENGAJAMENTO DE CRIANÇAS NAS ROTINAS DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL NA PERSPECTIVA DO PROFESSOR

O estudo identificou as correlações entre os padrões do processamento sensorial e o engajamento nas rotinas de crianças na educação infantil com desenvolvimento típico. Participaram deste estudo 9 educadoras vinculadas a 5 escolas municipais e 70 crianças com idade de 3 anos e desenvolvimento típico, matriculadas em período integral na educação infantil. Como instrumentos de avaliação foram utilizados: Sensory Processing Measure-Preschool – SPM-P e o Classroom Measure of Engagement, Independence, and Social Relationships – ClaMEISR, sendo a coleta de dados realizada através do preenchimento dos questionários pelos professores. O estudo mostrou correlações leves e moderadas em todas as categorias apresentadas pelos questionários, com scores iguais ou superiores a 0.5. Dessas correlações as rotinas de música, parque, refeições, pequeno grupo e brincar livre, apresentaram maior correlação com as variáveis do processamento sensorial, principalmente a participação social, consciência corporal, que se refere ao sistema proprioceptivo, planejamento e ideação, referindo-se a práxis e valor total de reatividade. Dessa forma o estudo aponta para importante relação entre o processamento sensorial e o engajamento sofisticado em rotinas escolares. Considerando que na escola é esperado que a criança se engaje em suas rotinas para o bom desempenho, e que o terapeuta ocupacional tem dedicado seus estudos para compreender o engajamento e padrões do processamento sensorial, o estudo destaca que a aproximação desse profissional com educadores e crianças pode minimizar possíveis déficits em áreas como relações sociais, desenvolvimento cognitivo e motor que possa ser apresentado por crianças.

Estimation of aerator air demand by an embedded multi-gene genetic programming

A spillway discharging a high-speed flow is susceptible to cavitation damages. As a countermeasure, an aerator is often used to artificially entrain air into the flow. Its air demand is of relevance to cavitation reduction and requires accurate estimations. The main contribution of this study is to establish an embedded multi-gene genetic programming (EMGGP) model for improved prediction of air demand. It is an MGGP-based framework coupled with the gene expression programming acting as a pre-processing technique for input determination and the Pareto front serving as a post-processing measure for solution optimization. Experimental data from a spillway aerator are used to develop and validate the proposed technique. Its performance is statistically evaluated by the coefficient of determination (CD), Nash–Sutcliffe coefficient (NSC), root-mean-square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE). Satisfactory predictions are yielded with CD = 0.95, NSC = 0.94, RMSE = 0.17 m3/s and MAE = 0.12 m3/s. Compared with the best empirical formula, the EMGGP approach enhances the fitness (CD and NSC) by 23% and reduces the errors (RMSE and MAE) by 48%. It also exhibits higher prediction accuracy and a simpler expressional form than the genetic programming solution. This study provides a procedure for the establishment of parameter relationships for similar hydraulic issues.

Assessing Mothers’ Automatic Affective and Discipline Reactions to Child Behavior in Relation to Child Abuse Risk: A Dual-Processing Investigation

Given the scope and adverse clinical consequences of child abuse, assessment of salient etiological factors can lend critical insights needed for abuse prevention. Increasingly, dual-processing models have been applied to aggression, which postulate that parallel automatic and conscious processes can evoke aggressive behavior, implicating both affective and cognitive elements in both routes. Using two samples of mothers ( n = 110 and n = 195), the current investigation considered evidence of the reliability and convergent, concurrent, and construct validity of the new Automatic Parent Emotion Analog Response task relevant to parent–child aggression, contrasted with a self-reported conscious processing measure. Findings provide evidence that affective reactions of both anger and worry relate to child abuse risk and inclination to respond aggressively, and demonstrate how mothers’ automatic reactions relate to both perceived child misbehavior and child dangerous behavior. Current results lend psychometric support for automatic processing in parent–child aggression consistent with other dual-processing theories of aggression.

An exploratory study of the relationship between typically-developing school-age children’s sensory processing and their activity participation

Introduction Children encounter several types of sensory input from their daily living environments and take in and process this information using their sensory systems. Few studies have considered the impact of children’s sensory preferences on their activity participation. This study investigated the relationship between children’s sensory processing factors and the daily activities they chose to participate in. Method Twenty-three parents of typically developing school-aged children completed the Sensory Processing Measure Home Form and Children Participation Questionnaire-School. Spearman correlations were conducted between sensory preferences and participation, as measured by frequency, intensity, independence level, children’s enjoyment and parental satisfaction. Regression models were also completed between each of the participation measures and sensory processing factors. Results Sensory processing accounted for 69.8% ( p = 0.001) of participation diversity’s total variance with unique contributions made by body awareness (proprioception) and planning and ideas ( p = 0.040); 45.9% ( p = 0.024) of participation intensity’s variance with touch made a unique contribution ( p = 0.030) and 42.4% ( p = 0.034) of participation independence’s variance with body awareness (proprioception) made a unique contribution ( p = 0.038). Conclusion Considerations should be made for sensory processing screening for typically developing children and the impacts this could potentially have on their daily participation.

Cybersecurity Threats Detection In IoT Using Krill Based Deep Neural Network Stacked Auto Encoders

The Internet of things (IoT) has concerned much significance for some manufacturing sectors including clinical fields, co-ordinations following, savvy urban communities, and automobiles. Anyway as a worldview, it is sensitive to different sorts of cyber-attacks. Customary very good quality security resolutions for guarantee an IoT structure are not reasonable. This deduces clever organization-based security plans as AI arrangements ought to be made. In this work, we propose Cyber Security Threats recognition in IoT utilizing Krill Based Deep Neural Network Stacked Auto Encoders (KDNN-SAE). In our proposed approach, first, the information pre-processing measure was acted in the underlying development before isolating the dataset into two segments: preparing and test. At that point, flow-based features are extracted from the pre-processed information. By then, the properties to be utilized by the algorithms are chosen in the attribute determination utilizing the Genetic Algorithm (GA). At last, our methodology completes with the execution of the machine learning algorithm KDNN-SAE. The exploratory results show that the introduced method beats the existing techniques to different execution measures.

The Effect of the Gardens of Ideas on Achievement , the Skills of Information Processing Among Middle Schools Students in Mathematics

The aim of the research is to investigate the effect of idea gardens on the performance and information processing skills of high school students in mathematics. The research community represents the school's first graders, July 14th for girls. The research sample consisted of (70) male and female students. The number of students in the experimental group was (35) and the number of students in the control group was (35). The researcher found a relationship between the two in variables of IQ test, previous collection and life expectancy, measured in months, in information processing skills of the tribes. The researcher has prepared a collection of tests with (20) paragraphs. After being presented to a group of judges, the validity of the test was verified. The researcher also developed an information processing measure consisting of (20) paragraphs and extracted the obvious honesty by presenting it to a group of reviewers and extracting it in the form way to repeat the test (0.87). The researcher has achieved the following results: 1- There were statistically significant differences in favor of the experimental group, which studied the gardens of ideas, compared with the control group, which studied the conventional collection method. 2- There are statistically significant differences in favor of the experimental group studied using idea gardens versus members of the control group studied using conventional information processing Keywords: Gardens of Ideas, Collection, Mathematics

Touch and olfaction/taste differentiate children carrying a 16p11.2 deletion from children with ASD

Background Sensory processing atypicalities are frequent in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). Different domains of sensory processing appear to be differentially altered in these disorders. In this study, we explored the sensory profile of two clinical cohorts, in comparison with a sample of typically developing children. Methods Behavioral responses to sensory stimuli were assessed using the Sensory Processing Measure (parent-report questionnaire). We included 121 ASD children, 17 carriers of the 16p11.2 deletion (Del 16p11.2) and 45 typically developing (TD) children. All participants were aged between 2 and 12 years. Additional measures included the Tactile Defensiveness and Discrimination Test-Revised, Wechsler Intelligence Scales and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2). Statistical analyses included MANCOVA and regression analyses. Results ASD children score significantly higher on all SPM subscales compared to TD. Del16p11.2 also scored higher than TD on all subscales except for tactile and olfactory/taste processing, in which they score similarly to TD. When assessing sensory modulation patterns (hyper-, hypo-responsiveness and seeking), ASD did not significantly differ from del16p11.2. Both groups had significantly higher scores across all patterns than the TD group. There was no significant association between the SPM Touch subscale and the TDDT-R. Limitations Sensory processing was assessed using a parent-report questionnaire. Even though it captures observable behavior, a questionnaire does not assess sensory processing in all its complexity. The sample size of the genetic cohort and the small subset of ASD children with TDDT-R data render some of our results exploratory. Divergence between SPM Touch and TDDT-R raises important questions about the nature of the process that is assessed. Conclusions Touch and olfaction/taste seem to be particularly affected in ASD children compared to del16p11.2. These results indicate that parent report measures can provide a useful perspective on behavioral expression. Sensory phenotyping, when combined with neurobiological and psychophysical methods, might have the potential to provide a better understanding of the sensory processing in ASD and in other NDD.

Clinical utility of three sensory modulation measures for the child with ASD in South Africa: A practitioner's perspective

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: There is need for the assessment of sensory modulation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to be culturally, environmentally, economically and language sensitive to the South African population. It is assumed that the measures in current use are not appropriate, acceptable, practical or accessible for the South African child with ASD AIM: This study sought the practitioners' perspective on the clinical utility of three sensory modulation measures for children diagnosed with ASD in South Africa METHODS: A quantitative survey method was used to collect data from a purposive sample of 31 SAISI Occupational Therapy members nationwide RESULTS: Urban participants accounted for 83% of the sample, 80% were in private practice and 67% from English-speaking practices. All three measures demonstrated some level of clinical utility. The Sensory Processing Measure (SPM) was found to be more appropriate than the Sensory Profile (SP) (p<0.007), although the SP was more accessible than the SPM (p<0.002). Amongst non- English speakers the Sensory Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ) was more acceptable than the SPM (p<0.045 RECOMMENDATIONS: The SPM should be used in an interview format, with recommended changes and translation into the caregivers' home language, until a South African specific sensory screening measure, which can be readily reproducible in several local languages, is developed Keywords: Sensory Profile, the Sensory Processing Measure, Sensory Experiences Questionnaire, culturally sensitive, language appropriate