“…This research review reports on articles presenting empirical research in the area of how teacher-training institutions work on preparing future teachers for the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their future classrooms. It was conducted mainly in English and French and covers research in 11 OECD-countries during the years 2002–2009. …”

“…This study proposes three main ways of combining assessment and innovation: 1) developing a wide range of performance measurements for both students and schools; 2) rethinking the alignment of standards and assessment; 3) measuring the impact of assessments on teaching and learning. …”

“…Although this approach provides a valuable comparison with the main ‘top-down’ assessment, its results must be interpreted with caution. …”

“…This paper highlights the main principles, concepts and criteria framing open government data initiatives and the issues challenging their implementation. …”

“…This report is based on four main sources: an extensive literature review, the analysis of theanswers to a questionnaire sent to FATF and FSRB members; the results of a typology workshop andsubsequent consultation with the football sector. …”

“…When plants suffer from a nutrient deficiency, they develop physiological and morphological responses (mainly in their roots) aimed to facilitate the acquisition and mobilization of such a nutrient. …”

“…Special attention has to be paid to genetic diversity and landraces, and to the key limiting factors affecting yield, including water deficiency and other abiotic and biotic stresses, in order to obtain stable, reliable and sustainable crop production through the introduction and local adaptation of genetically improved varieties. Legumes, the main protein crops worldwide, contribute to the sustainable improvement of the environment due to their ability to fix nitrogen and their beneficial effects on the soil. …”

“…Traditionally and due to technical reasons (including the evolution of our understanding of the underlying processes) the main focus of the research was made on the regulation of expression through transcription factors (TFs), the proteins directly binding to DNA. …”

“…Similar to previous years, the final program includes papers on a variety of topics, including fluids, deformable objects, contact modeling, animation editing, character motion capture and control, or crowd simulation. Other than the main papers program, the symposium continues to highlight promising work in progress as well. …”

“…Nowadays, middleware technologies are the main infrastructure to support the development and execution of distributed systems, providing design abstractions, programming models and tools, frameworks, protocols, deployment mechanisms, and runtime services. …”

“…So we can do no more than speculate about the relationship according to very rare fifteenth century archival documents in which some aspects of the contact between well attested Ottoman history and those of unknown Kurdish emirates is given. The main purpose of the present paper is to bring to the attention of the reader a new edition and English translation of the document TSMA E.3145, a fifteenth century letter by Sharaf b. …”

“…So we can do no more than speculate about the relationship according to very rare fifteenth century archival documents in which some aspects of the contact between well attested Ottoman history and those of unknown Kurdish emirates is given. The main purpose of the present paper is to bring to the attention of the reader a new edition and English translation of the document TSMA E.3145, a fifteenth century letter by Sharaf b. …”

“…Another controversial diagnosis was paranoia querulans or querulous paranoia, a disease that was linked to the emergence of the modern state and its rule of law, and thought to manifest itself mainly in hyperbolic complaints against supposed wrongdoings. …”

“…For several years, the research and development of treatments in this field have been neglected in favor of more common diseases. The main reasons for the lack of interest in rare kidney diseases seem to be the small numbers of patients and limited epidemiological data on the natural history of many of these diseases. …”

“…The book is based on interviews with people who are engaged in Scandinavian associations/clubs or in other ways involved in practices which are associated with a Swedish community in Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol, which are two main destinations for lifestyle migrants in Spain. …”