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Sabine Pirchio, Blanca Silvia Fraijo Sing, Ylenia Passiatore
Child development consists of a series of changes that occur in the individual, driven by genetic, biological, social, cultural, and environmental resources and constraints (Bronfenbrenner, [2]; Hendry and Kloep, [13]). Child development has been described and explained through different perspectives, focusing on the…
Tom Williams, Ruchen Wen
Social Justice oriented Engineering Education frameworks have been developed to help guide engineering students' decisions about which projects will genuinely address human needs to create a better and more equitable society. In this paper, we explore the role such theories might play in the field of AI-HRI, consider…
Livio Provenzi, Giorgia Bussu, Valentina Riva
Child development is a non-linear, chaotic process that can be observed across different levels of analysis, each one being only partially predictable and as a whole concerning an open, interacting system that cannot be reduced to simplistic observations of isolated processes concerning the individual child alone…
Mario Coccia, Matteo Bellitto
The concept of progress has characterized human society from millennia. However, this concept is elusive and too often given for certain. The goal of this paper is to suggest a general definition of human progress that satisfies, whenever possible the conditions of independence, generality, epistemological…
Jolinde M.R. Vlaeyen, Bas van Boekholt, Franziska Wegdell, Raymond Katumba + 3 more
Human development is marked by extended immaturity, necessitating extended care throughout infancy and childhood, facilitating advanced cognitive, social, and cultural skill acquisition. Parallels of extended development are also present in our closest living relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan…
Rolando Gonzales Martínez, Hinke Haisma
Children's growth is more than height and weight. In this document we introduce and explain the Multidimensional Index of Child Growth (MICG), developed by the International Union for Nutrition Sciences (IUNS) Task Force "Towards a Multidimensional Approach for Child Growth," to operationalize a capability- and…
Jesus DC Gil, Fernanda Ewerling, Leonardo Z Ferreira, Aluisio JD Barros
'Aluisio JD Barros'] 2Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil Background The Sustainable Development Goals call for inclusive, equitable and quality learning opportunities for all. This is especially important for children, to ensure they all develop to their full potential.…
Agnes Binagwaho, Kirstin W. Scott, Sardis H. Harward
Background Early childhood development (ECD) is a critical period that continues to impact human health and productivity throughout the lifetime. Failing to provide policies and programs that support optimal developmental attainment when such services are financially and logistically feasible can result in negative…
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Akanksha Likhar, Prerna Baghel + 1 more
'Manoj Patil'] In human beings, the development of a child involves biological, emotional, and psychological changes that happen between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. Childhood is divided into three stages: early childhood, middle childhood, and late childhood (preadolescence). Early childhood is typically…
Jeremy Koster, Richard Mcelreath, Kim Hill, Douglas Yu + 38 more
Human adaptation depends upon the integration of slow life history, complex production skills, and extensive sociality. Refining and testing models of the evolution of human life history and cultural learning will benefit from increasingly accurate measurement of knowledge, skills, and rates of production with age. We…
Silvia Benito-Kwiecinski, Stefano L. Giandomenico, Magdalena Sutcliffe, Erlend S. Riis + 6 more
The human brain has undergone rapid expansion since humans diverged from other great apes, but the mechanism of this human-specific enlargement is still unknown. Here, we use cerebral organoids derived from human, gorilla and chimpanzee cells to study developmental mechanisms driving evolutionary brain expansion. We…
Mark Stefik, Robert L. Price
In contrast, mainstream approaches have led to impressive feats and commercially valuable AI systems. The approaches include deep learning and generative AI (e.g., large language models) and manually constructed symbolic modeling. However, manually constructed AIs tend to be brittle even in circumscribed domains.…
Verónica Schiariti, Rune J. Simeonsson, Karen Hall, Mirja Hirvensalo
In the early years of life, children’s interactions with the physical and social environment- including families, schools and communities-play a defining role in developmental trajectories with long-term implications for their health, well-being and earning potential as they become adults. Importantly, failing to reach…
Kefale Mitiku, Tilaye Nega, Mastewal Arefaynie, Degalem Tilahun + 4 more
'Bereket Kefale' 'Yitayish Damtie' 'Bezawit Adane' 'Melaku Yalew'] Background Child psychomotor development and factors affecting it today is the subject of interest of many studies, in particular by the experts involved in the protection and improvement of children’s health. There is limited evidence on developmental…
Luciano L. Correia, Hermano A. L. Rocha, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Sabrina G. M. O. Rocha + 3 more
To assess the prevalence of child development delay and to identify socioeconomic determinants. We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study of children 2 to 72 months of age residing in the state of Ceará, Brazil. In total, 3200 households were randomly selected for participation in the study and had child…
Rachel M. Petersen, Rob Tennyson, Tan Bee Ting A/P Tan Boon Huat, Kar Lye Tam + 10 more
Early life environments can have long-lasting impacts on health and fitness, but the evolutionary significance of these effects remains debated. Two major classes of explanations have been proposed: developmental constraints (DC) explanations posit that early life adversity limits optimal development, leading to…
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Molecular mechanisms governing initiation steps of the assembly of thousands of endogenous multi-protein complexes (EMCs) remain incompletely understood. Here, multiple lines of observations are reported reflecting the biological functions-aligned initiation sequence of hybrid assembly pathways (HAPs) of EMCs. HAPs…
Pawel Lisowski, Selene Lickfett, Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf, Stephanie Le + 27 more
Expansion of the glutamine tract (poly-Q) in the protein Huntingtin (HTT) causes the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease (HD). Emerging evidence suggests that mutant HTT (mHTT) disrupts brain development. To gain mechanistic insights into the neurodevelopmental impact of human mHTT, we engineered induced…
Marcus J. Hamilton
The human niche represents the intersection of biological, ecological, cultural, and technological processes that have co-evolved to shape human adaptation and societal complexity. This paper explores the human niche through the lens of macroecological scaling theory, seeking to define and quantify the dimensions along…
Rumiana Tenchov, Janet Sasso, Xinmei Wang, Qiongqiong Angela Zhou
Aging is a dynamic, time-dependent process characterized by a gradual accumulation of cell damage. Continual functional decline in the intrinsic ability of living organisms to accurately regulate homeostasis leads to increased susceptibility and vulnerability to diseases. Anti-aging research has a long history…