The Missing Link: Students Discuss School Discipline

The Missing Link in School Reform (PDF)

Healthier students are better learners: a missing link in school reforms to close the achievement gap.

OBJECTIVES This article provides an introduction to the October 2011 special issue of the Journal of School Health on "Healthier Students Are Better Learners." METHODS Literature was reviewed and synthesized to identify health problems affecting school-aged youth that are highly prevalent, disproportionately affect urban minority youth, directly and indirectly causally affect academic achieve...

Finding the missing link

The discovery of an ancient protein complex reveals the evolutionary relationships between the proteins that help to form vesicles.

The (formerly) missing link

hen endothelial cells adhere to the extracellular matrix protein fibronectin, they can proliferate in response to growth factors. Adhesion to laminin, however, brings their cell cycles to a dead stop. Why? Given that the response depends on the composition of the extracellular matrix, Filippo Giancotti and his colleagues at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY) proposed in 1...

The Missing Link

state-transition relation are mapped onto physical states-types related by a corresponding causal state-transition relation.” (Chalmers, 1994, p. 392) There is a little ambiguity in the two phrasings as to what the exact meaning of “mirrors” is supposed to be. Prima facie one would expect “mirrors” to mean something like “is isomorphic to,” as “mirrors” usually indicates sameness in structure. ...