The high minimum light requirement of eelgrass Zosfera marina L. suggests that this species has difficulty in maintaining a positive carbon balance except under high fight conditions. The carbon balance of Z. marina can be studied by following seasonal changes in non&ructural carbohydrate (NSC) reserves, however, little is known about the seasonal variation in NSC reserves in seagrasses or the ...

BACKGROUND Many different components factor into the final grade assigned for the internal medicine clerkship. Failure of one or more of these requires consideration of remedial measures. PURPOSE To determine which assessment components are used to assign students a passing grade for the clerkship and what remediation measures are required when students do not pass a component. METHODS A na...

proposed to establish a service packages, whether through a single obligatory list or through the definition of a flexible, high priority set to be offered to specific populations according to their economic possibilities. For the strategic purchasing of services, two alternatives are proposed: to assign the fund either to a single national manager or to each of the existing public provider ins...

Archives of Physiotherapy is a new journal dedicated to the publication of scientific papers in the field of rehabilitation particularly physiotherapy. It is the continuation of the Italian Journal of Physiotherapy (It J Physiother), the scientific journal of the Italian Society of Physiotherapy (Società Italiana di Fisioterapia SIF) that has been published by the Italian publisher Minerva Medi...

Our vision at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is to stimulate and support scientific discovery and its application to achieve a future when all cancers are uncommon and easily treated. Cancer researchers have made significant progress but extensive work remains. In 2003, in USA alone, 1.3 million people were diagnosed with cancer and over 500 000 deaths occurred because of cancer. Technolog...

In December 2003, seventeen years after the first UK research assessment exercise, Italy started up its first-ever national research evaluation, with the aim to evaluate, using the peer review method, the excellence of the national research production. The evaluation involved 20 disciplinary areas, 102 research structures, 18,500 research products and 6,661 peer reviewers (1,465 from abroad); i...