PRECIOUS Professional Resources in Early Childhood Intervention: Online tools and standards

NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation

Resources, standards and tools for systems biology.

Modelling and simulation techniques are valuable tools for the understanding of complex biological systems. The design of a computer model necessarily has many diverse inputs, such as information on the model topology, reaction kinetics and experimental data, derived either from the literature, databases or direct experimental investigation. In this review, we describe different data resources,...

Instructional Conversations in Early Childhood Classrooms: Policy Suggestions for Curriculum Standards and Professional Development

The purpose of this article is to provide suggestions for two early education policy levers proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that can be specifically applied to oral language instructional in the classroom: Policy Lever 2—Designing and implementing curriculum and standards; and Policy Lever 3—Improving qualifications, training and working conditions. ...

Nucleosome positioning: resources and tools online

Nucleosome positioning is an important process required for proper genome packing and its accessibility to execute the genetic program in a cell-specific, timely manner. In the recent years hundreds of papers have been devoted to the bioinformatics, physics and biology of nucleosome positioning. The purpose of this review is to cover a practical aspect of this field, namely, to provide a guide ...

Early intervention in childhood asthma.

The supplement which accompanies this edition of the Journal explores the methodological issues which face all those who are interested in the subject of early intervention in childhood asthma (and other wheezing disorders) [1]. This has become a topical issue as evidence has increased that a number of factors which can affect the development of the foetus and young child may determine respirat...