There is a strong and optimistic commitment by all staff to the school improvement strategy and a clear belief that further improvement is possible. Teachers take responsibility for the changes in their practice required to achieve school targets and are using data on a regular basis to monitor the effectiveness of their own efforts to meet those targets. The school has developed an agenda for ...

In Suriname, the Maroons have practiced shifting cultivation for generations, but now the increasing influence of modern society is causing a trend of decreasing fallow periods with potentially adverse effects for the vulnerable tropical soils. Adoption of appropriate soil fertility management (SFM) practices is currently slow. Combining methods from cultural ecology and environmental psycholog...

HE conversion of 2-amino-4-hydroxypteridine into isoxanthopterin in wildtype Drosophila melanogaster has been demonstrated and investigated by several groups (FORREST, GLASSMAN and MITCHELL 1956; HADORN and SCHWINCK 1956; NAWA, TAIRA and SAKAGUCHI 1958). This reaction is catalyzed by an enzyme which will also catalyze the oxidation of hypoxanthine through xanthine into uric acid, xanthopterin i...

BACKGROUND Herbal baths play an important role in the traditional health care of Maroons living in the interior of Suriname. However, little is known on the differences in plant ingredients used among and within the Maroon groups. We compared plant use in herbal baths documented for Saramaccan and Aucan Maroons, to see whether similarity in species was related to bath type, ethnic group, or geo...

plant cell cultures could be used as an important tool for biochemical production, ranging from natural pigments to pharmaceutical products. anthocyanin is affected by a variety of factors. light, an important plant environmental factor, influences the anthocyanin production in vegetative plant tissues. here, we have investigated the influence of the blue laser-diode (bld) and red laser-he ne (...