Hannah Arendt, one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, has argued that it is the responsibility of educators not to leave children in their own world but instead to bring them into the adult world so that, as adults, they can carry civilization forward to whatever challenges it will face by bringing to bear the learning of the past. In the same collection of essays,...

Many people want to improve education. So do we. Many researchers argue that such change must be systemic, since attempts at piecemeal change have made little difference in our current education systems, which still operate largely as they have in the past. The major question is: What should we change in the current education system, and how do we know it will work? We argue that what we need i...

Teun P. de Boer, Sape van der Werf, Bas Hennekam, David P. Nickerson, Alan Garny, Michèle Gerbrands, Rianne A. M. Bouwmeester, Anne-Petra Rozendal, Ellen Torfs, and Harold V. M. van Rijen Department of Medical Physiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Center for Research and Development of Education, Education Center, University Medical Center, U...

a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina b Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia c National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina d Departamento de Estudios Psicológicos, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombi...

1 Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3 Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia, 4 Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), Sc...

The World Wide Web is an important channel of information exchange in many domains, including the medical one. The ever increasing amount of freely available healthcare-related information generates, on the one hand, excellent conditions for self-education of patients as well as physicians, but on the other hand, entails substantial risks if such information is trusted irrespective of low compe...

By developing an interactive open source-based WebGIS information portal on war and peace for the online services of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) translates scientific knowledge into easily understandable and subsumable up-to-date information for the general public and young scholars. By aggregating globally scattered data and infor...

In this paper, we introduce data and information activities of the International Center for Space Weather Science and Education (ICSWSE), Kyushu University, Japan. The principal data source is the MAGDAS (MAGnetic Data Acquisition System) project which is a global network of geomagnetic observations operated by collaborations between ICSWSE and institutions in many countries. We operate 66 stat...

Early childhood development is influenced by characteristics of the child, the family, and the broader social environment. Physical health, cognition, language, and social and emotional development underpin school readiness. Publicly funded, center-based, comprehensive early childhood development programs are a community resource that promotes the well-being of young children. Programs such as ...

We thank the patients for contributing to this study; Y. Terado for discussions on immunohistochemistry, K. Tachampa and J. Y. Kim for help in characterization of URAT1; A. Toki, M. Takahashi and M. Ikeda for technical assistance; and Merck Research Laboratories for providing losartan and EXP-3174. The anti-URAT1 polyclonal antibody was supplied by Trans Genic Inc. (formerly Kumamoto Immunochem...