greatlv appreciated as are the many helpful comments that I received from participants in the Finance Seminars at Harvard and MIT and at the meetings of the Western Finance Association and the North American Meetings of the International Association of Energy Economists where material from this paper was presented.

objective: to compare the awareness of provisions of consumer protection act among dental and medical professionals in udaipur city, rajasthan, india. materials and methods: in a cross sectional study, a total of 448 professionals (253 males, 195 females) belonging to dental (222) and medical (226) categories were surveyed using a self administered structured questionnaire. the questionnaire co...

Timely topics in pain research and treatment have been selected for publication, but the information provided and opinions expressed in this newsletter have not involved any verification by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) or the SIG on Pain in Older Persons of the findings, conclusions, and opinions stated in this publication. Thus, opinions expressed in this publicat...

The authors present findings from a large 2-year study exploring the development of self-regulatory and metacognitive abilities in young children (aged 3 to 5 years) in educational naturalistic settings in the United Kingdom (English Nursery and Reception classrooms). Three levels of analysis were conducted based on observational codings of categories of metacognitive and self-regulatory behavi...

Here is the latest summary of research abstracts. A reminder that the 2005 Symposium on the Cannabinoids to be held June 24th 27th, 2005 at the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort in Clearwater, Florida USA; registration details are available at http://CannabinoidSociety.org/. In addition a workshop entitled “Cannabinoids: developing clinically useful analgesics” has been announced at the Internatio...

The Federation of European Academies of Medicine (F.E.A.M.), founded in 1993 in Brussels, has the goal of promoting cooperation between national Academies of Medicine. It is the main association functioning as a bridge between the political and administrative authorities of the European Union and the National Medical Academies of Europe, in their role as advisors with concern to medicine and pu...

The recent series of ethics violations in business (e.g., insider trading) has caused number of firms to begin courses in ethics for employees. Unless professionals improve their ethical practices, legislation will force them to do so. The ACM and DPMA curriculum recommendations include ethics topics. An important Issue is the proper education of IS students to deal with on-the-job ethical situ...

The learning system is not only studied on campus but also practicing in the world of work. Industry Practical aims to enable students to develop their skills in accordance with the real world of work. To know the success of the implementation of industry practical program then held evaluation. The evaluation of the program in this study used the CIPP evaluation approach (Context, Input, Proces...

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) provides an objective assessment of the reading comprehension attainment of Grade Four primary school students in countries worldwide. Organized by The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in the USA, PIRLS assesses primary school students’ reading attainment, reading behaviour and attitudes to...

The papers in this special issue of Technology Analysis and Strategic Management are all derived from selected papers presented at the EuroMOT 2006 conference on Management of Technology, organised under the auspices of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT), and for which the overall theme was “Technology and Global Integration”. The conference was hosted and organi...