Atkinson Academy: The Early Years

Obstacles Facing the Iranian Basketball Academy

This study, which is a strategic study with a mixed research approach aimed to identify obstacles facing the academies of Iranian Basketball Federation. The population comprises board of directors and committees responsible for Education and Talent Spotting Association, academy administrators, physical education instructors, qualified experts, professors, coaches, referees and heads of delegati...

Fifty years of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology.

The 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Academy Neurology (BAN) is being celebrated. BAN was founded on May 5th, in 1962. The BAN initial leaders and members are treated with reverence, as well as the honorable place where its foundation took place: the Institute of Neurology, first in Brazil, at the backyards of the ancient National Hospice for the Insane, which is an important and fruitful birt...

The New York Academy of Medicine: Its First Hundred Years

PROBLEMS OF MORPHOGENESIS IN CILIATES. THE KINETOSOMES IN DEVELOPMENT, REPRODUCTION AND EVOLUTION. By Andre Lwoff. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1950. 103 pp. $2.50. This book consists of two parts: first, detailed observations on the behavior of the blepharoplasts in ciliates; and, second, an attempt to relate these observations to current speculations on the regulatory mechanisms guiding cell ...

Early Years

Educational neuroscience: the early years.

A s developmental cognitive neuroscience explores mechanisms of change at the cognitive and neural systems level, a focus is beginning to emerge on the role of educational experiences in shaping the specific functional circuits that give rise to complex cognitive skills such as reading or math. Such studies mark the emergence of educational neuroscience. This interdisciplinary field tackles que...