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Sixty-one preschool children and their parents and teachers participated in a cross-sectional study of the social-emotional correlates of emergent literacy skills. The children's emergent literacy skills were assessed with the standard language and literacy tests: "Expressive Vocabulary Test, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test" (third edition), and "Test of Early Reading Ability" (third edition). These tests measure oral language (expressive language and receptive language) and print awareness. The children's positive and negative behaviours were measured by the standard behaviour rating scales: the "Behavior Assessment System for Children" (second edition) and the "Devereux Early Childhood Assessment". These behaviours are grouped into four subcategories, namely, externalising behaviour, internalising behaviour, approaches to learning, and interpersonal skills. Results showed a wide range of significant associations between the components of emergent literacy and social-emotional development. Age and sex were found to moderate these significant correlations in different ways. Implications for educational practitioners and suggestions for future research are discussed.

The English teaching network system is a distant teaching based on the Web. This teaching method can stimulate students’ interests so that students can acquire knowledge voluntarily, and automatic test paper generation is one of the most important modules in the English teaching network system. This article first briefly introduces the architecture of the wireless sensor network and then gives a wireless sensor network teaching experiment system based on a genetic algorithm. The multiple sensor nodes in the system can form a variety of different topologies, the collected data can be sent to the user terminal through the GSM network, and the user can also control the remote sensor node through the GSM network. This paper first describes the automatic test problems, a constrained multi-objective problem, then the design of the genetic algorithm to improve the test paper and puts forward questions based on an encoding method and based on the difficulty and test points of F fitness function for dynamic adjustment of the parameters in the iterative process. Finally, it is verified by experiments that the test paper made by this method satisfies users’ requests for questions, contents, and scores, and at the same time, it also improves the running efficiency of a random optimization algorithm by 7–17 times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To explore the method and effectiveness of laparoscopic bundled fastigiated mesh in repairing inguinal hernia., Methods: Between January 2003 and December 2009, 1 215 patients (1 363 sides) with inguinal hernia were treated. There were 1 132 males (1 268 sides) and 83 females (95 sides), aged from 18 to 89 years (median, 58 years). The cases included 1 187 cases (1 329 sides) of primary hernia and 28 cases (34 sides) of recurrent hernia. There were indirect inguinal hernia in 728 cases (786 sides), direct inguinal hernia in 416 cases (499 sides), femoral hernia in 43 cases (45 sides), and unusual hernia in 28 cases (33 sides). According to the hernia classification criteria, there were 31 cases (38 sides) in type I, 683 cases (754 sides) of type II, 403 cases (452 sides) of type III, and 98 cases (119 sides) of type IV. The disease duration was 1 to 9 days with an average of 3.8 days. To repair the hernia, the bundled fastigiated mesh was patched through the internal inguinal ring and fixed on the internal inguinal fascia by three-point fixation. The mesh would be wrapped in the peritoneum by purse-string suture., Results: The surgeries were performed successfully. The operative time ranged from 18-32 minutes (mean, 22 minutes). Postoperative tractional pain in the inguinal region occurred in 19 cases (21 sides), acute uroschesis in 8 cases, and far-end hernial sac effusion in 2 cases (2 sides); all were cured after symptomatic treatment. All incisions healed by first intention, and no complications of fever, infection, or hematoma occurred. A total of 1 095 cases (1 182 sides) were followed up 1 to 7 years (median, 3 years and 9 months). Five patients died of medical illnesses at 1-3 years after operation. Three cases recurred and then were cured by a second surgery. No intestinal adhesion or obstruction occurred., Conclusion: The bundled fastigiated mesh in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair has the advantages of minimal invasiveness, easy-to-operate, less complications, and lower recurrence rate.