“…Often deeply rooted and hard to change, they have an important function, for without them we would continually need to question what we do and what we think. In their absolutist form, these assumptions may become a barrier for open-mindedness, and hence for deep intercultural understanding and exchange. …”

“…The focus of Values Education coincides with the results of research into student achievement that illustrate the vital role played by relationships of care, trust and respect with teachers if students are to ‘do well’ both academically and more broadly. It picks up on a feature of Quality Teaching research concerned with the creation of the positive and supportive learning ambience. …”

“…A compendium of the very latest thinking on the subject, this volume is, like the others in the series, a state-of-the-art sourcebook for researchers, practitioners and policymakers alike. Not only do the chapters offer a timely overview of current issues affecting comparative education and education policy research in what is now a global educational culture, but the work also contains ideas about future directions that policy reforms could take. …”

“…The contributions to this timely and comprehensive volume do just that. This volume incorporates a broad chronological and geographical range of Palaeolithic material from the Lower to Upper Palaeolithic. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cellular Biophysics -- Multiparticle Direct Simulation of Photosynthetic Electron Transport Processes -- Selective Regulation of Protein Activity by Complex Ca2+ Oscillations: A Theoretical Study -- Phase Separation in Eukaryotic Directional Sensing -- Protein Domains of GTPases on Membranes: Do They Rely on Turing’s Mechanism? -- In Vitro Tubulogenesis of Endothelial Cells: Analysis of a Bifurcation Process Controlled by a Mechanical Switch -- Nonexponential Time Distributions in Biocatalytic Systems: Mass Service Replacing Mass Action -- Regulatory Networks -- A Stochastic Model of Gene Regulation Using the Chemical Master Equation -- Piecewise-Linear Models of Genetic Regulatory Networks: Analysis of the Carbon Starvation Response in Escherichia coli -- Predicting Gene Expression from Combined Expression and Promoter Profile Similarity with Application to Missing Value Imputation -- Chemical Organizations in the Central Sugar Metabolism of Escherichia coli -- Transition Networks: A Unifying Theme for Molecular Simulation and Computer Science -- Development -- Pigmentation Pattern Formation in Butterfly Wings: Global Patterns on Fore- and Hindwing -- Agent-Based Model for Developmental Pattern Formation with Multiscale Dynamics and Varying Cell Geometry -- Bacterial Swarming Driven by Rod Shape -- Stability Properties of Some Tissue-Growth Models -- A Modified Backward Euler Scheme for Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Systems -- Biomedical Applications -- Fractional Transport of Cancer Cells Due to Self-Entrapment by Fission -- Mathematical Modelling of Vascular Tumour Growth and Implications for Therapy -- A Stochastic Model of Glioblastoma Invasion -- Morphology of Tumor Vasculature A Theoretical Model -- A Mathematical Model of the Cell Cycle and Its Circadian Control -- Bone Turnover Cycle Model with a Torus-Like Steady State -- Modelling the Early Stages of Atherosclerosis -- Magnetic Nanoparticles for In Vivo Applications: A Numerical Modeling Study -- Fluid Transport in Peritoneal Dialysis: A Mathematical Model and Numerical Solutions -- Relevance of Intracellular Replication to the Evolution of Chagas Disease -- A Finite Volume Spatial Discretisation for Taxis-Diffusion-Reaction Systems with Axi-Symmetry: Application to Fracture Healing -- Information Content Toward a Neonatal Disease Severity Score System -- Data Analysis and Model Validation -- Statistical Analysis and Physical Modelling of Oligonucleotide Microarrays -- Validation of Human Alternative Splice Forms Using the EASED Platform and Multiple Splice Site Discriminating Features -- Gaussian Mixture Decomposition of Time-Course DNA Microarray Data -- SVD Analysis of Gene Expression Data…”

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“…What can we say, in retrospect, about the various foundational programmes of the classical period and the disputes that took place between them? To what extent do the classical programmes of logicism, intuitionism and formalism represent options that are still alive today? …”

“…There is an explosion of community college models that provide educational opportunities and alternative pathways for students who do not fit the traditional higher educational profile. …”

“…In particular, it looks at relations between states and institutions that do not normally attract attention. The chapters analyze the interactions between the South and the North, consider the challenges for "non-elite" institutions, and examine the potential for knowledge flow and creation in across-border partnerships. …”

“…Open innovation increases the profit of companies and organizations via the input and the adoption of new ideas that are transformed into new processes, products, and services. Yet, how do we ensure that adopters of such innovations focus on relevant problems and use appropriate methods? …”

“…Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet as Eric Patashnik shows here, the political struggle does not end when major reforms become enacted. Why do certain highly praised policy reforms endure while others are quietly reversed or eroded away? …”

“…In the post-cold war era, new amorphous challenges to national and international security have emerged. These threats do not stem from the actions of clearly defined individual states but from diffuse issues that transcend sovereign borders and bear directly off the the effects of increasing globalization. …”

“…"How do UN Security Council and International Criminal Court interventions, both part of the Justice Cascade, color representations of mass violence? …”

“…The book asks questions such as: how do we define waste and our relation to it; who is involved in dealing with waste; and what power interactions become manifest over issues of accessing and managing waste? …”

“…What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world - even life-and-death - impact? …”

“…what socio-economic conditions do they correspond to ? The textual and archaeological approach go along with informationobtained by contemporary experiments…”

“…History’s vicissitudes of history in the area concerned do not erase old conceptions of the body, as well as related discourses and legends, but the shock of modernization splits the body between an anatomized one, in search of identity mostly repressed by the nation, and a virtual one, generated by the cyberspace. …”

“…Et s’il fallait voir désormais le langage comme médiation conditionnant l’intériorisation individuelle des déterminations sociales – et ainsi le développement des capacités do pensée et de conscience ? Et si la perspective se révélait capable de refonder durablement à la fois la question de la signification et les problématiques d’enseignement/apprentissage ? …”

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