Super Parent Research Articles

Genetic evaluation of iodent hard kernel maize inbred lines

In the present study, 12 introduced Iodent hard kernel maize inbred lines were used as test materials, and four backbone maize inbred lines (JM005, JM006, JF003 and JF004) selected by the present team were tested. NC II genetic mating design was used for combining ability determination and genetic analysis. Results showed that the yield general combining ability effect of test varieties JM005 and JM006 were excellent. Among the Iodent hard maize inbred lines tested, I215, I308, I130, I102, I120, I209 and I401 showed excellent yield GCA effect. Hybrid combination I215 × JM005, I130×JM005, I598×JM005, I102×JM006, I120×JM005, I215×JF004 had a strong super parent advantage in yield, which can be further tested. Bangladesh J. Bot. 53(3): 643-651, 2024 (September) Special

ISSR-Assisted Breeding of Excellent New Strains of Ganoderma lingzhi through Single-Spore Selfing

ISSR-Assisted Breeding of Excellent New Strains of Ganoderma lingzhi through Single-Spore Selfing

Super Parents: Preliminary Findings of a Group-Based Parenting Intervention

Super Parents is a group-based, Extension-led parenting program developed to enhance the parent-child relationship. Implemented by trained Head Start staff using the train-the-trainer model, this effort is achieved by teaching positive parenting practices, increasing parents’ knowledge of child development, instructing parents in activities and exercises for enhancing their child’s executive function skills, and encouraging the use of mindfulness techniques in parenting. The specific aims of our study were to evaluate the program's effectiveness among parents of young children ages 0 to 5 by examining changes in parenting attitudes, mindfulness, executive function, parenting efficacy, stress, and child behavior. Through the use of pre-program and post-program measures, increases were observed in a number of positive parenting behaviors and child outcomes, along with decreases in multiple negative parenting and child behaviors. Findings from this study can inform implementation decisions of other parenting programs or trainings administered by Extension educators.

An Intention Understanding Algorithm Based on Multimodal Information Fusion

This paper proposes an intention understanding algorithm (KDI) based on an elderly service robot, which combines Neural Network with a seminaive Bayesian classifier to infer user’s intention. KDI algorithm uses CNN to analyze gesture and action information, and YOLOV3 is used for object detection to provide scene information. Then, we enter them into a seminaive Bayesian classifier and set key properties as super parent to enhance its contribution to an intent, realizing intention understanding based on prior knowledge. In addition, we introduce the actual distance between the users and objects and give each object a different purpose to implement intent understanding based on object-user distance. The two methods are combined to enhance the intention understanding. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) an intention reasoning model (KDI) is proposed based on prior knowledge and distance, which combines Neural Network with seminaive Bayesian classifier. (2) A set of robot accompanying systems based on the robot is formed, which is applied in the elderly service scene.

Challenges Faced by Nigerian Parents with Disabled Children in Caring for Them

Disabilities in children pose a lot of challenges, fear and worries for the parents and careers of the disabled children. This study tried to find out those challenges faced by parents of disabled children while caring for them. Questionnaires designed to gather the needed information, were distributed to parents of children with disabilities who bring their children for treatment at a Federal government hospital in the eastern part of Nigeria. Same questionnaire was also filled online by parents with disabled children on a Facebook platform that goes by the name “Super Parent”. Our study revealed that parenting disabled children can be very stressful as there are lots of challenges faced by parents of disabled ranging from emotional and financial stress, lack of supports, discrimination, loss of social life and others which result in psychological problems, depression, physical exhaustion and reduced quality of life.

Children with single ventricle congenital heart defects: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived parent experience

ObjectivesCongenital heart defects (CHD) can be detected during routine antenatal scans or go undiagnosed until birth. Parents of children with Single Ventricle CHD (SVCHD) have a complex experience. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of parents of children with SVCHD from diagnosis through to adolescence. DesignInterviews were conducted with 12 parents whose children had completed the Fontan procedure. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) identified themes across parents' accounts. ResultsData were analysed into three superordinate themes of super parents, striving for normality and accepting SVCHD and their role. Through accepting SVCHD, becoming experts, and taking responsibility for the management of their child's physical healthcare, parents developed their own sense of normality. Following distress at the point of diagnosis, parents found their own way of accepting and integrating SVCHD into family life and regained a sense of control and normality within the family. ConclusionsTransition points such as starting nursery, final surgery, puberty, and reaching adulthood are key time points when parents may struggle with their changing roles and the gradual shift of responsibility and independence onto their children. There are implications for supporting parents to educate their children in terms of the management and long-term prognosis of their condition, especially when the child with SVCHD enters puberty or moves into adult services where they gain agency of their condition and its management. The role of healthcare professionals promoting emotional wellbeing and providing support to families during significant periods is discussed.

Parental behaviour and children’s sports participation: evidence from a Danish longitudinal school study

ABSTRACTParental involvement in their children’s organised sports has increased dramatically in the last decade. Recent debate has started to question whether parental involvement actually has a beneficial impact on child sports participation, and whether this is damaging for the children’s development of identity and autonomy. Prompted by this debate, we are using a longitudinal dataset of 1,096 Danish schoolchildren in the Municipality of Aalborg to explore the extent to which parental involvement or parental role modelling has a beneficial impact on children’s participation in organised sports. Our results suggest that parental involvement in children’s sport increases the likelihood that the child will participate in organised sports. When considering four types of parents, i.e. unengaged parents, servicing parents, self-realisation parents and super parents, our results remain unchanged. Further, we find that disadvantaged parents’ involvement increases children’s participation in organised sport whereas the involvement of advantaged parents’ has the opposite effect. From a policy perspective, embedding organised sport in a school context might be considered as a method of levelling the playing field.

Sample-Based Attribute Selective A$n$ DE for Large Data

More and more applications have come with large data sets in the past decade. However, existing algorithms cannot guarantee to scale well on large data. Averaged n -Dependence Estimators (A n DE) allows for flexible learning from out-of-core data, by varying the value of $n$ (number of super parents). Hence, A n DE is especially appropriate for large data learning. In this paper, we propose a sample-based attribute selection technique for A n DE. It needs one more pass through the training data, in which a multitude of approximate A n DE models are built and efficiently assessed by leave-one-out cross validation. The use of a sample reduces the training time. Experiments on 15 large data sets demonstrate that the proposed technique significantly reduces A n DE's error at the cost of a modest increase in training time. This efficient and scalable out-of-core approach delivers superior or comparable performance to typical in-core Bayesian network classifiers.

Selective AnDE for large data learning: a low-bias memory constrained approach

Learning from data that are too big to fit into memory poses great challenges to currently available learning approaches. Averaged n-Dependence Estimators (AnDE) allows for a flexible learning from out-of-core data, by varying the value of n (number of super parents). Hence, AnDE is especially appropriate for learning from large quantities of data. Memory requirement in AnDE, however, increases combinatorially with the number of attributes and the parameter n. In large data learning, number of attributes is often large and we also expect high n to achieve low-bias classification. In order to achieve the lower bias of AnDE with higher n but with less memory requirement, we propose a memory constrained selective AnDE algorithm, in which two passes of learning through training examples are involved. The first pass performs attribute selection on super parents according to available memory, whereas the second one learns an AnDE model with parents only on the selected attributes. Extensive experiments show that the new selective AnDE has considerably lower bias and prediction error relative to A$$n'$$nźDE, where $$n' = n-1$$nź=n-1, while maintaining the same space complexity and similar time complexity. The proposed algorithm works well on categorical data. Numerical data sets need to be discretized first.

Not always simple classification: Learning SuperParent for class probability estimation

Of numerous proposals to improve naive Bayes (NB) by weakening its attribute independence assumption, SuperParent (SP) has demonstrated remarkable classification performance. In many real-world applications, however, accurate class probability estimation of instances is more desirable than simple classification. For example, we often need to recommend commodities to customers with the higher likelihood (class probability) of purchase. Conditional log likelihood (CLL) is currently a well-accepted measure for the quality of class probability estimation. Inspired by this, in this paper, we firstly investigate the class probability estimation performance of SP in terms of CLL and find that its class probability estimation performance almost ties the original distribution-based tree augmented naive Bayes (TAN). In order to scale up its class probability estimation performance, we then propose an improved CLL-based SuperParent algorithm (CLL-SP). In CLL-SP, a CLL-based approach, instead of a classification-based approach, is used to find the augmenting arcs. The experimental results on a large suite of benchmark datasets show that our CLL-based approach (CLL-SP) significantly outperforms the classification-based approach (SP) and the original distribution-based approach (TAN) in terms of CLL, yet at the same time maintains the high classification accuracy that characterizes the classification-based approach (SP).

Study on Diesel Engine Fault Diagnosis Based on Integration of Bayesian and Genetic Neural Network Method

The characteristic vector of cylinder vibration signal is extracted by wavelet packet decomposition. The factor of selection is proposed to take adaptive integration on basis of improved super parent one dependence estimator Bayesian method and back propagation genetic algorithm neural network method. Experimental results on WD615 diesel engine showed that the method has high accuracy rate of detection.

Principal Considerations: Super Parent or Super Pain?

This case highlights teacher and family conflict about how best to meet the needs of a 9th-grade student with a disability. The student’s teachers view his highly involved mother as interfering with their work. The student’s mother views her involvement as advocating for her child. Aspiring administrators are invited to consider how best to resolve these competing tensions, especially given their status as a new principal in the school and the long history of educational inequity toward students with disabilities and students of color. Key questions are asked about social justice and social capital as well as ISLCC standards of establishing vision, culture, and community. A brief review of relevant literature introduces discussion questions on these topics.

Practices and Prospects of Super Hybrid Rice Breeding

The great progress in super rice breeding both in China and other countries has been made in recent years. However, there were three main problems in super rice breeding: 1) the super rice varieties were still rare; 2) most super rice varieties exhibited narrow adaptability; and 3) current breeding theories emphasized too much on the rice growth model, but they were unpractical in guidance for rice breeding. According to the authors’ experience on the rice breeding, the breeding strategies including three steps (super parent breeding, super hybrid rice breeding and super hybrid rice seed production) were proposed, and the objectives of each step and the key technologies to achieve the goals were elucidated in detail. The super parent of hybrid rice should exhibit excellent performance in all agronomic traits, with the yield or sink capacity reached the level of the hybrid rice control in regional trials. The super hybrid rice combination should meet the following criteria: good rice quality, wide adaptation, lodging resistance, resistance to main insects and diseases, and the yield exceeded above 8% over the control varieties in the national and provincial regional trials. To achieve the goal, the technical strategies, such as selecting optimal combination of the parents, increasing selection pressure, paying more attention to harmony of ideal plant type, excellent physiological traits and all the agronomic traits, should be emphasized. The yield of seed production should reach 3.75 t/ha and 5.25 t/ha for the super hybrid rice combinations derived from early-season and middle-season types of male sterile lines, respectively. The main technologies for raising seed production yield included selecting optimum seed production site, using the male sterile line with large sink capacity and good outcrossing characteristics, and improving the amount of the pollen by intensive cultivation of the male parent. According to the technologies of the three-step breeding on super hybrid rice, two super rice parents, including a male parent 996 and a thermo(photo)-genic male sterile [T(P)GMS] line C815S, were bred. Furthermore, a super early hybrid rice combination, Luliangyou 996, which could be used as a double-season early rice variety in middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China, was bred by using the super rice variety 996 as the male parent, and several hybrid rice combinations with higher yield than control variety in regional trials both of Hunan Province and state were bred with the T(P)GMS line C815S as the female parent.

Miles That Bind: Commuter Marriage and Family Strengths

Commuter marriages are characterized by one spouse being resident in the family home, often with work and child-care responsibilities, while the other spouse works and lives away from home for extended periods. This arrangement of family life poses unique challenges for families drawn to the potential benefits of commuting. Commuter marriage entails enormous sacrifices and emotional costs and is not for most families. Still, it may work for others.Long distance commuter marriages are growing in number. Organizing marital and family life around the absence of a spouse is becoming a more familiar part of America's social landscape, making this an opportune time to familiarize readers with the literature in this area, while offering two examples of how commuting has worked for the authors' families. The literature on commuter marriage remains fairly thin, despite strong beginnings twenty years ago. Much relevant data draws from the area of Work and Families and from the corporate world.There are differing motivations for commuting. Commuters having a short or limited time-line for commuting may accept it as part of occupation, or feel that enduring the short term stress and disruption of commuting may bring long term benefits. These benefits include possible advancement, acquiring new skills, recognition as a loyal team player, or even the attractiveness of a temporary change in routine or locale. Receiving emotional support and encouragement from friends, family or colleagues, with office work, child care, and home maintenance are also easier to come by when the need is of limited duration. This regimen of commuting is easier to explain to children and negotiate with one's spouse.Long term commuters may be motivated by other factors. Wanting to stay in one's occupation or profession when work is not readily available is a strong motivator, particularly when work is unavailable locally or available employment involves a lower salary. Leveraging commuting into quality of life issue may be another motivator. For example, commuters working in New York or Boston during the week but live in Up-State New York, Western Massachusetts or rural New England, often stress quality of life issues for families, noting that purchasing power is increased by residential choices. Family relationships surely suffer the emotional and logistical dislocations of long distance commuting yet the commuting spouse remains in a readily accessible regional orbit.Longer distance open-ended commutes are most difficult. Visits home for the commuting spouse take longer, entail more expense, and are of shorter frequency and duration. These types of commuter marriages are hardest on the emotional bonds, routines and intimacy of couples. Such commutes are also hardest on children, pressing one parent into a super parent role while the other parent struggles to make parenting real to children. Commuters in this category, like regional commuters, tend to have a strong identification with careers and derive a strong sense of satisfaction from them. The opportunity to work for extended periods on assignments or projects without the interruption of family life is often satisfying to such individuals. Association with professional colleagues and independence in scheduling time is also a plus, as is personal freedom and their own environment. These considerations clash directly with the values associated with being part of a family, and it not surprising that such relationships work best when couples are enjoying an empty nest. The most successful commuters are those that can, like single residence dual career couples, compartmentalize work and family life (Franklin & Ramage, 1999; Schnittger & Bird, 1990). Commuters who tend to meld work and family together have the hardest time with commuting. Neither offers much to children or the remaining spouse with the emotional dislocations of commuting. …

Parenthood, the Police Power, and Criminal Justice Administration

HE VIOLENT IMPACT of technological change upon the sociopolitical institutions of Western society has made it imperative to reexamine and re-assess the role of the family, and likewise the social institutions which stand in loco parentis. A socio-psychological analysis of parenthood in transition is, therefore, of supreme importance. It may appear, at the outset, that we are dealing merely with the natural or biological parent, whose traditional responsibilities are in a of flux or transition. However, the broader view taken in this analysis has to do with the general subject of parenthood, whether the role be assumed by the natural parent or by the as the super parent, parens patriae. We shall first examine family sovereignty as the legal and moral responsibility of the natural parent, and later the nature and increasing scope of the surrogate responsibilities assumed by the under the police power. Even the most cursory study of social history, especially of the past century, reveals the shrinkage of the natural family and the corresponding expansion of the state family. The nature and consequences of this transition are often too little understood by those who make and enforce public policy. Our failure to deal effectively with current social problems is due, largely, to our faulty and inadequate understanding of society and the dynamic social forces at work within it. It is, therefore, the major task of social analysis to clarify the situation. Moreover, if we are to avoid the tendency to tinker with our social institutions, we must find a valid theory for our endeavors; otherwise, we shall merely be inventing gimmicks which have no fundamental relation to the problem.