This study compares PISA 2003 Mathematics and Science results with TIMSS 2003 Grade 8 Mathematics and Science results, using country mean scores for 22 participants of both studies. In Mathematics, it is found that Western countries generally performed better in PISA than in TIMSS, and Eastern European and Asian countries generally performed better in TIMSS than in PISA. Furthermore, two factor...

Paolo Allegrini, Gianluca Ascolani, Mauro Bologna, and Paolo Grigolini Dipartimento di Fisica “E.Fermi” Università di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo, 3 56127 Pisa, Italy 2 Departamento de Física, Universidad de Tarapacá, Campus Velásquez, Velásquez 1775, Casilla 7-D, Arica, Chile Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 311427, Denton, Texas 76203-1427, USA and Istituto dei Pro...

Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio, Università di Pisa, via Roma 79, I-56011 Calci (Pisa), Italy Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Università di Pavia, p.za Botta 9, I-27100 Pavia, Italy Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, CNRS, F-79360 Villiers en Bois, France FIZV (Ecology), via Olona 7, I-00198 Rome, Italy Dipartimento di Biologia (Unità di ProtistologiaZoologia), Università di Pisa...

1Access Networks Division, Alcatel, Francis Wellesplein 1, Antwerpen 2018, Belgium 2Research & Innovation Department, Alcatel, Francis Wellesplein 1, Antwerpen 2018, Belgium 3Department of Telecommunication Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy 4Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy 5 School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering...

In the last decade, the results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) have raised the debate about the quality of the Spanish education system, influencing public opinion and policy decisions. This study aims to analyze the impact the results PISA have had in Spanish society through the articles that appeared in El País (the non-sport newspaper with the biggest circulation ...

F. MAGGI, E. ANDREOLI, L. RIENTE, S. MESCHI, J. ROCCHI, A. DELLE SEDIE, M. L. VATTERONI, L. CECCHERINI-NELLI, S. SPECTER, M. BENDINELLI Virology Section and Retrovirus Center, Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy and Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Present Address: S. Specter, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tamp...

WP5 involves an investigation of issues associated with network, scalability and user interfaces for privacy enhancing technologies. The goal of this work is to produce an analysis of the design of PISA privacy enhancing technologies with a view to improving network security, scalability and usability of implementations. For deliverable 5.2 we outline approaches for scalability for privacy prov...

a School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA b Research Center ‘E. Piaggio’, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy c Advanced Robotics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy d Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy e Clinical Psychology Branch, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy f ...

Purpose A novel index, the periodontal inflamed surface area (PISA), represents the sum of the periodontal pocket depth of bleeding on probing (BOP)-positive sites. In the present study, we evaluated correlations between PISA and periodontal classifications, and examined PISA as an index integrating the discrete conventional periodontal indexes. Methods This study was a cross-sectional subgro...

Alberto Lupidi 1,*, Daniele Staglianò 1,2, Marco Martorella 1,2 and Fabrizio Berizzi 1,2 1 Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario delle Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)-National Laboratory of Radar and Surveillance Systems (RaSS), 56124 Pisa, Italy; [email protected] (D.S.); [email protected] (M.M.); [email protected] (F.B.) 2 Department of Information Engineering, ...