Measuring English teaching quality: what teacher effectiveness research can offer?

TEACHING DIVERSITY: What Can History Offer?

To highlight how historical scholarship can be used to teach students about a range of topics in psychology, I have chosen three sample articles from the journal History of Psychology that address gender, race/ethnicity, and the intersection of sexuality and disability in historical perspective. I outline how these articles can be incorporated into courses across the curriculum to deepen studen...

What can biology really offer computer security?

Biological systems can offer computer security insights into how to engineer more effective artificial systems. While the authors believe this statement to be fundamentally true, it is unhelpfully vague what insights exactly? This paper argues that, in the light of recent paradigm shifts in a number of fields, a key insight biology can give us is a number of concrete engineering principles, in ...

What can artificial life offer ecology?

Artificial life is the simulation and synthesis of living systems, and ALife models show how interactions between simple entities give rise to complex effects. Ecology is the study of the distribution and abundance of organisms, and ecological modelling involves fitting a linear model to a large data set and using that model to identify key causal factors at work in a complex ecosystem. We are ...

Bone allografts: What they can offer and what they cannot.

Bone allografts can be used in any kind of surgery involving bone from minor defects to major bone loss after tumour resection. This review describes the various types of bone grafts and the current knowledge on bone allografts, from procurement and preparation to implantation. The surgical conditions for optimising the incorporation of bone are outlined, and surgeon expectations from a bone al...

Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America: What Happiness Research Can (and Cannot) Contribute