office building, or school, or replace your heating and cooling system, you may want to consider a geothermal heat pump (GHP) system. GHP systems are also known as GeoExchange, ground-source, or water-source heat pumps (as opposed to air-source heat pumps). Regardless of what you call them, energy-efficient geothermal heat pumps are available today for both residential and commercial building a...

Abstract Student bullying behaviours are a significant social issue in schools worldwide. Whilst school staff have access to quality prevention interventions, can face challenges implementing the whole-school approach required address complexity of these behaviours. This study aimed understand how schools’ capacity implement interventions could be strengthened promote sustainability and improve...

Nature-based tourism's impact on environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behavior: a review and analysis of the literature and potential future research Nicole M. Ardoin, Mele Wheaton, Alison W. Bowers, Carter A. Hunt & William H. Durham a Graduate School of Education & Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 485 Lasuen Mall, Cubberley, Room 212, Stanford, CA, USA b Graduate S...

It is part of the knowledge generation component of the Education in Emergencies and Post-Crisis Transition (EEPCT) programme – a partnership between UNICEF, the Government of the Netherlands and the European Commission. The content of this report does not necessarily reflect UNICEF's official position. Also, the text has not been edited to official publication standards; hence UNICEF accepts n...

This case study investigates the effects of ventilation intervention on measured and 12 perceived indoor air quality (IAQ) in a repaired school where occupants reported IAQ problems. 13 Occupants ́ symptoms were suspected to be related to the impurities leaked indoors through the 14 building envelope. The study’s aim was to determine whether a positive pressure of 5-7 Pa prevents 15 the infiltra...

A theory-based research program is a dedicated effort to focus research studies on certain aspects of organizational life so that a coherent knowledge corpus can be developed. Such an effort also can add to and strengthen the theory under consideration. A focused research program is difficult to plan from the beginning. Even after the goal of the plan is agreed upon, developing the theoretical ...

1 Hypothalamic gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor neurons fire in 2 synchrony with the female reproductive cycle 3 4 Abbreviated title: 5 GnRHR neuron activity during the estrous cycle 6 7 8 9 10 Christian Schauer1, Tong Tong1, Hugues Petitjean1, Thomas Blum1, Sophie Peron1, 11 Oliver Mai, Frank Schmitz, Ulrich Boehm, and Trese Leinders-Zufall 12 13 Department of Physiology and Cent...

Socialization theories posit parenting practices as mechanisms linking socioeconomic status (SES) and children's academic outcomes. A mediational parenting model was tested examining separate effects of maternal education, occupation, and income for a sample of 238 divorced or recently separated mothers of 6- to 9-year-old sons. For the SEM path models, each indicator of SES was associated with...

How can a public educational organization deal with new information requirements from outside the organization when there are problems with the internal data flows? The German school system is currently changing towards data-driven decision-making for school improvement and accountability. Data becomes an important asset and building large-scale information systems becomes a necessity. In other...