3 INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo, 3, Ed. C, 56127 Pisa, Italy 4 Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7, 56100 Pisa, Italy 5 Department of Physics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, JAPAN 6 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo 152-8551, JAPAN 7 Theoretical Physics Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2...

Luca Bonci, Paolo Grigolini, Adam Laux, and Roberto Roncaglia Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Pisa, Piazza Torricelli 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy Istituto di Biofisica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via San Lorenzo 26, 56127 Pisa, Italy Department of Physics of the University of North Texas, P.O. Box 5368, Denton, Texas 76203 Department of Solid State Physics, Loránd Eötvös Universi...

D. G. Luchinsky,1,2 R. S. Maier,3,4 R. Mannella,5 P. V. E. McClintock,1 and D. L. Stein4,3 1Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, United Kingdom 2Russian Research Institute for Metrological Service, Ozernaya 46, 119361 Moscow, Russia 3Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 4Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 8...

In this article, the concept of “Literacy in Informatics” is developed in analogy with the literacy concept of OECD-PISA. To this end, competencies in informatics are grouped in three classes reflecting different kinds of informatics-related occupation. The idea of these classes is further illustrated by sample test items. A small number of pupils of a secondary school answered these items, whi...

Large-scale assessments of reading comprehension, notably OECD’s Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA) and IEA’s Progress in Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), generally use paper-and-pencil tests in which a reading passage, with different questions based on it, is presented to the student. The PISA mathematics and science literacy tests also consist of a hierarchically embedded s...

The thesis is made up by four studies, on the comprehensive theme of integrated and subjectspecific science education in Swedish compulsory school. A literature study on the matter is followed by an expert survey, then a case study and ending with two analyses of students’ science results from PISA 2003 and PISA 2006. The first two studies explore similarities and differences between integrated...

Previously described Doppler color flow mapping methods for estimating the severity of valvular regurgitation have focused on the distal jet. In this study, a newer Doppler color flow technique, focusing on the flow proximal to an orifice, was used. This method identifies a proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) by displaying an aliasing interface. Volume flow rate (cm3/s) can be calculated a...

A. Allocca, A. Gatto, M. Tacca, R. A. Day, M. Barsuglia, G. Pillant, C. Buy, and G. Vajente INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pis...

State Machines and High-Level System Design and Analysis A special issue of the TCS Journal, edited 2004 by Egon Borger, aDipartimento di Informatica, Universit a di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

Target space duality and discrete symmetries in string theory are reviewed in different settings. Email: [email protected] 2 On leave of absence from INFN, sez. di Pisa, Pisa, Italy. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]