University of Windsor

About: University of Windsor is a education organization based out in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Argumentation theory. The organization has 10654 authors who have published 22307 publications receiving 435906 citations. The organization is also known as: UWindsor & Assumption University of Windsor.

Cognitive Deficits in Nonretarded Adults with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Abstract: Persons with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) who are not mentally retarded often have difficulty qualifying for special educational and vocational services. In this pilot study, 16 nonretarded young adults with FAS were divided into two groups--one with average to above-average IQ and one with borderline to low-average IQ. Participants in both groups manifested clear deficits on neuropsychological measures sensitive to complex attention, verbal learning, and executive function. The frequency and severity of cognitive impairment demonstrated in both FAS groups were greater than what would have been predicted on the basis of IQ alone. The implications of these findings for identification and management of cognitive impairment in individuals with FAS are discussed.

Impacts of fine sediment addition to tussock, pasture, dairy and deer farming streams in New Zealand

Abstract: Summary 1. Increased fine sediment input caused by agricultural development is expected to act as a stressor for stream ecosystems. In a large-scale field experiment, we added fine river sand to 50-m reaches of three second-order streams in each of four categories of catchment development (ungrazed tussock grasslands, grazed pasture, dairying and deer farming) and measured the responses of macroinvertebrates and aquatic moss. 2. Before addition, fine sediment cover differed between land uses, being lowest in tussock (7%), intermediate in pasture (30%) and dairy (47%) and highest in deer streams (88%). Sediment addition increased cover by one land-use category (e.g. augmented sediment cover in tussock streams was similar to pre-existing cover in pasture streams), and cover remained high in impact reaches (compared with controls) throughout the 5-week experiment. Sediment addition did not change concentrations of phosphate, nitrate and ammonium, which were generally highest in dairy streams and lowest in tussock streams. 3. Aquatic mosses (most common in tussock, absent in dairy and deer), invertebrate density (highest in deer, lowest in tussock), taxon richness (highest in pasture, lowest in deer) and diversity (highest in pasture and tussock, lowest in dairy and deer) all differed between land uses. Sediment addition resulted in reductions of moss cover, invertebrate taxon richness and richness of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera in impact relative to control reaches. 4. The impact of sediment addition was strongest in pasture streams where pre-existing sediment cover was moderate and richness and diversity of the invertebrate community highest. However, even in the already sediment-rich and species-poor deer streams, density of one common taxon was reduced significantly by sediment addition, and another two were affected in the same way in dairy streams, the second-most intense land use. 5. Our experiment has disentangled the impact of sediment addition from other concomitant land-use effects that could not be reliably distinguished in previous research, which has mainly consisted of correlative studies or unrealistically small-scale experiments.

The non-negative matrix factorization toolbox for biological data mining

Abstract: Background Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has been introduced as an important method for mining biological data. Though there currently exists packages implemented in R and other programming languages, they either provide only a few optimization algorithms or focus on a specific application field. There does not exist a complete NMF package for the bioinformatics community, and in order to perform various data mining tasks on biological data.

A Survey of the Use of Business Games in Academia and Business

Abstract: Business simulation games have now been available for thirty years. The growing number and variety of business simulations, ranging from general management to specific functional activities and from very complex to very simple, would seem to indicate that usage has been expanding (McRaith and Goeldner, 1962; Dale and Klasson, 1964; Graham and Gray, 1969; Horn and Cleaves, 1980). However, while a wide and growing body of research on conditions of simulation use and its merits vis-h-vis other teaching methods exists, there is little material available on the number of simulation users. At a meeting of the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL) ten years ago, Goosen (1977:208) stated, &dquo;No studies have been made to ascertain the number of business simulation users in the United States.&dquo; Only a few studies addressing usage in limited areas have appeared since Goosen’s comments (Biggs, 1979; Faria and Schumacher, 1984). As such, the research presented here is the first major attempt to determine the number of simulation users in universities and in the business community.