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Abstract: There is a widespread opinion that gifted children – as well as gifted adults – have an over-sensitive, fragile, even vulnerable personality. This opinion is to be found both in the case study literature of gifted and creative people in all areas, among the general population, and also among gifted people who tend to explain their emotional, social and familial difficulties as a result – sometimes inevitable – of their exceptional cognitive abilities or their extremely high level of creativity. This paper aims to find out whether this opinion suits the clinical findings –both as informed by the literature and in my clinic. As expected, the results are quite mixed. Indeed, many highly gifted people have a fragile personality that might cause malfunctioning. On the other hand, many individuals with exceptional abilities, extra-ordinary achievements and proven achievements lead a “normal” family, social and emotional life. My conclusion is that in addition to individual characteristics of each and every child, gifted or not, with or without disabilities, the influence of giftedness on any child’s wellbeing is substantially influenced by the support this child gets from school, home and the social environment he is exposed to. However, there is a large difference between a gifted child with a learning disability and a child who suffers from an emotional problem, whether caused by a disability or not. I will hereby give some examples of children belonging to both groups. In a series of case studies of highly gifted children with a variety of problems, I will confirm the assumption that giftedness per se is not directly related to emotional difficulties, but rather connected to it in many cases. There are many risk factors that contribute to the possibility of a gifted child to be prone to emotional problem; among them are creativity, non-conformity, and even being female, especially in traditional society. The article suggests a few steps aimed to help gifted children to overcome learning disabilities, as well as emotional problems.

Abstract: The next generation sequencing platform produces massive short reads data. It is needed to assemble these short reads for further analysis. Unfortunately, gene assembly algorithm is still faced by a variety of complex challenges, especially for repetitive sequences. Based on De Bruijn Graph and SWA, we proposed a new genome scaffold algorithm named HashRepScaffold for extending repetitive contigs and non-repetitive contigs. By aligning original reads back to both ends of repetitive contigs and non-repetitive contigs, HashRepScaffold finds the best repetitive contig to exend the non-repetitive contig. Finally, simulation study was used to evaluate the performances of HashRepScaffold. The results indicated that HashRepScaffold have an excellent performances in extending repetitive and non-repetitive contigs.

Abstract: It has become clear that repetitive sequences have played multiple roles in eukaryotic genome evolution. However, identification of repetitive elements can be difficult in the ab initio manner from reference sequence. Currently, some classical ab initio tools of finding repeats have already presented. The completeness and accuracy of detecting repeats of them are very low and need to be improved. To this end, we proposed a complete and accurate ab initio repeat finding tool, named UnSaReper, which is based on unbiased sampling and dynamic overlapping extension strategy. The performances of UnSaReper are compared in human genome data Hg19 with RepeatScout and RepeatFinder. The results indicate the following conclusions: 1) The completeness of UnSaReper is the best one in almost all chromosomes; 2) In terms of total size, UnSaReper is also more powerful than others. Consequently, UnSaReper is a complete and accurate ab initio repeat finding tool.

Abstract: Region 2 UHF Frequency band is the frequency range which is used for transmitting Television signals in East Africa. Yagi-uda antenna is an array Antenna designed for various applications, in this paper a 5-element yagi-uda antenna is designed and optimized for operating on the frequency of 500 MHz for digital television signal reception. 4NEC2 and FEKO software’s were used for simulation and optimization was done using genetic algorithm. A comparative analysis was done using the two software’s with respect to the current used antenna in DVB-T2 digital television systems in Tanzania. The results shows that; the FEKO optimized antennas gives a better performance compared to the currently antenna used for digital television reception in homes.

Abstract: The stakeholder relationships between any university leadership and its university student clientele are important indicators of effective governance. In the post 1994, South African higher education dispensation, and of the 2015 the Rhodes must fall and fees must fall university students across the South African universities, the key symbolic characteristics of these stakeholder relationships between the stakeholder governed university councils and the university students has been the discourse of animosity, university protests, disruption of learning and destruction of university properties. Subsequently, in light of the 2015 fees must fall and Rhodes must fall university student movements, the role of the university councils in bringing effective governance as a result has come under heavy review. As a consequence, this paper examines the extent to which the relationship between university student representation in the university council and modes of institutional engagement platforms of the university council with its stakeholders are contributing to effective governance in the former historically black South African universities. This paper argues that there are strong stakeholder’s influences on the kinds of institutional governance processes and procedures used to enhance or coordinate university student representation and engagement relationships between the university council and its different stakeholders in this case university students. As such to engage with these institutional contexts requires the university council to understand the relationship between modes of student representation in institutional governance and the ways of institutional engagement platforms between the university councils and its key stakeholders the different university student’s formations across the university campuses. The paper used the concept of culture as a guiding framework to bring understanding of the ways the relationship between student representation and the modes of institutional engagement by stakeholder governed university councils can be used to improve governance practise. The date for this paper was collected from documentarily sources, interviews with the members of the university council and surveys of the university staff and students. The paper ends with a re-imagination of governance practises that enhance sustainable university student representation and suitable engagement avenues as enablers of good practise.

Dear Readers, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) wishes to announce the publication of its first issue in November 2017 bringing together an assessment of the articles from the interdisciplinary sciences. This issue covers subjects from the disciplines of education, engineering, humanities, and science. It is our pleasure to disseminate the deep well researched knowledge to the readership. The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) is an academic platform for author(s) and readers where researched knowledge and intelligence can be shared through that is assimilated from various interdisciplinary field of study. It is the journal mission to join and collaborate with authors to strengthen the hidden and scattered knowledge to disseminate widely through as JIS act as the proficient outlet for academic, scientific endeavor that supports and help the author(s) through the scientific peer review from the expert reviewers. The beginning is yet a step forward for the JIS to embark on the life-wide and life-long academic journey. Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) commitment towards consistency in publication is another walk towards the academic journey. It has been a pleasure to share and learn from authors and reviewers from interdisciplinary sciences, which is also the mission of the JIS. The next issue will be published in May 2018. We invite the authors, scientists, scholars, researchers, students, managers, leaders from interdisciplinary sciences to submit their papers. The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) is thankful to all the editorial team, support team and the expert/advisors for their contributions. Most of all, JIS appreciate and is thankful to all the reviewers for their valuable input and scientific and academic rigor in commenting and suggesting the authors work and for their time spared to review the papers. Let us join and collaborate together to ENRICH the BEAUTIFUL MINDS TOWARDS INTELLIGENT MINDS Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari. Ph.D. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS)