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SERC – Industry Project on Metal Bioavailability Research

The NSERC Strategic Grant project, with industrial co-funding from Rio Tinto Alcan and in kind support from Environment Canada, awarded to Dr. Chris Wood (McMaster University) and Dr. Jim McGeer (Wilfrid Laurier University) has officially started in September. The project is titled “Development of a Tissue Residue Approach for Risk Assessment of Metals in the Canadian Freshwater Environment. Th...

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Rules of (Digital) Evidence and Prosecution's Actual Needs. When the Law Falls Behind Technology

This paper analyses the evolution of the methods applied by the Italian Public Prosecution Service and Law Enforcement community to the digital investigations. Starting from the early criminal trials, back in 1994, the paper shows how specific investigative trends have been anticipated by the "field necessity", and how the inability of the law to keep the pace with the rapidly-changing scenario...

Kindergarten children's growth trajectories in reading and mathematics: who falls increasingly behind?

The authors used a large sample of children (N ≈ 7,400) participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) to estimate kindergarten children's academic achievement growth trajectories in reading and mathematics. The authors were particularly interested in whether the growth trajectories of children with learning disabilities (LD) or speech language impairments...

Serc/epsrc Gr/g56478 Cooperative Kbs Browsing (ckb) Final Report