HiSPARC is a project where high school teachers and students work together to study cosmic rays. The combination of hands-on experience and truly participating in a scientific collaboration opens the eyes of many high-school students for the scientific and technological world surrounding us. In this way HiSPARC helps to achieve the targets set in Lisbon 2000 to increase the number of students c...

It has long been acknowledged that there is little interaction between National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) in the North and even less between those in the North and those in the South. Three international meetings of NITAGs recommended establishing an international network of NITAGs centred on a core functional structure and platform to facilitate future exchanges. The SIVA...

The GEM cycle is a teaching approach with the objective of fostering understanding of unobservable phenomena in science, such as electricity, cellular respiration, or molecular structures. Simulations have enabled science students to experience and support the development of mental models. Traditionally, computer simulations have been used to support individual learning and inquiry, the cogniti...

Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological parents may be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and child fixed effects regressions to address the endogeneity of fostering. Data collection by the author involved tracking and interviewing the sending and recei...

introduction: the articles indexed in accredited citation databases essentially indicate how scientists share knowledge and promote sustainable development in each country. therefore, according to citations to the papers of individuals, it could be possible to assess the rate of their acceptability in the scientific community. the main objective of this study was to review lotka's law of scient...