This paper presents and discusses the results of a research project in Education Sciences, which aimed at identifying and understanding the effects of in-service teacher education carried out in schools, on the educational practices of a school of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education (CBE). The training was organized with small project groups consisting of six teachers and a trainer, and lasted thr...

It is a wonderfully exciting time to be involved in undergraduate biology education efforts. The publication of Vision and Change: A Call to Action has motivated many to redouble their efforts in engaging their colleagues and institutions in fundamentally changing the experiences of students in college and university biology classrooms around the country (American Association for the Advancemen...

Occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in office buildings has been positively correlated to self-estimated job performance and, potentially, to overall company productivity. LEED is a voluntary, consensus-based, market-driven program that provides third-party certification of green buildings, contributing to promote sustainability into the mainstream of building design a...

In summary, evaluation of the painful wrist is based upon a thorough knowledge of wrist anatomy. The key is to localize and identify the painful structures through systematic palpation of the wrist's bony and soft-tissue anatomy and to perform provocative tests to reproduce the patient's symptoms and identify instability. It is important to keep in mind that clinical findings must be interprete...

The interesting points.of this case were the facts: 1. That the aneurysm must have been one occurring in thc superior mesenteric artery in its course behind the pancreas,. remnants of the arterial wall being found lying fiat on tlle posterior wall of the cavity. 2. That the gradual dilatation of the large aneurysmal cavity lhad exercised a tractioii on the aorta itself, so that a falsiform aneu...

This brightly colored textbook is designed to be accessible to students with no prior exposure to linguistics or psycholinguistics. As an example of this consideration for first-timers, the author not only defines bolded terms in the glossary at the back of the book, but also includes wide margins where she defines bolded terms like “lexical entrainment” and “Whorf hypothesis.” The text begins ...