Her project aims to utilise datasets from
the early Human Capability Index (eHCI) in low and middle income countries in order to explore the tool's psychometric properties and inform future strategies in measuring and monitoring early childhood development.
Other measures of caregiver - or parent - reported young child development exist or are under development, including the Early Development Instrument and the Index of
Early Human Capability, which incorporate items representing each of these domains and are being used across high -, middle -, and low - income countries.1 Important complements to this form of measure are those assessments that can capture development in specific areas over time (e.g. growth in language or emotional skills).
Not exact matches
The cognitive model has been validated using a database of about 1500 input sentences, based on literature on
early language development, and has responded by producing a total of about 500 sentences in output, containing nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and other word classes, demonstrating the ability to express a wide range of
capabilities in
human language processing.
Eventually, given the probable intellectual
capability of
early humans, it is likely that they would have wondered about their status in the universe, something akin to the «where from» and «where to» questions that still haunt us today.
«The
capabilities of our ancestors and the environmental forces leading to
early stone technology are a great scientific mystery,» said Richard Potts, director of the
Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the research.
And it invests Mowgli with a touch of optimistic environmentalist fantasy: where
human mastery of fire and tools was presented in
earlier films as a threat, and Mowgli's fated exit from the jungle as an unfortunate necessity, in this film the boy is shown using his ingrained ingenuity to solve problems beyond the
capabilities of his animal pals, as when he builds a rappel and pulley system to help Baloo claim honey from a cliffside beehive he's been coveting.
And Roald Dahl's imagination seems to have given us a glimpse into the future
early - on, by delving into the
human mind and withdrawing its
capabilities in terms of a story.
This is why super-computers are needed to replace the great
human brain
capabilities in predicting outcomes based on
earlier experiences.
It is understood that life success, health and emotional well - being have their roots in
early childhood.1, 2 Consequently
early childhood development outcomes have become important indicators of not only the welfare of children but also predictors of future health and
human capability.