“…Nonetheless, gaps in living standards vis-à-vis other OECD countries remain large and there are strong differences in well-being across the Chilean population. …”

“…For more than 50 years, the OECD has sought to promote better policies for better lives in almost all areas of policy making and implementation through co-operation, dialogue, consensus and peer review. …”

“…Poland has seen impressive growth in recent years, and yet regional disparities in economic and social outcomes remain large by OECD standards. The overall living conditions in rural communities generally remain below those of urban communities, and rural households face higher poverty rates. …”

“…It represents a sound base for state and local policy makers, political leaders and citizens to better understand people’s living conditions, gauge progress in various aspects of economy and society and use these indicators to improve the design and implementation of policies. …”

“…Emphasizing the demand and supply of support for the government by the various interest groups and the population, this model helps to explain not only the programmes' effects on the standard of living, but also on the use of instruments by the groups involved. …”

“…It explores new ideas to improve the lives of workers in the informal economy based on the ILO indicators of informality and the new OECD Key Indicators of Informality based on Individuals and their Household (KIIbIH). …”

“…Each essay explores an area of ​​interest - quality of life, social innovation and sharing economy, smart city, urban mobility, new workplaces, shared living, eHealth, urban security, youth and tourism, food policy, educational innovation and shared administration - offering a reference overview for the study, design and implementation of new intervention strategies and public policies. …”

“…Rapid scientific and technological progress enables the application of biosensors for the online detection of minute concentrations of different chemical compounds in a wide selection of matrixes and monitoring extremely low levels of biomarkers even in living organisms and individual cells. This book, including 16 chapters, characterizes the present state of the art and prospective options for micro and nanoscale activities in biosensors construction and applications…”

“…Ideas of reference, however, is a pathologically delusional phenomenon in which people experience innocuous events as being enormously significant to their personal lives. (Example: A person may believe that an advertisement on TV was designed as an exclusive personal message. …”

“…Ideas of reference, however, is a pathologically delusional phenomenon in which people experience innocuous events as being enormously significant to their personal lives. (Example: A person may believe that an advertisement on TV was designed as an exclusive personal message. …”

“…The current world biodiversity consists of an inestimable amount of living forms, that at all levels, from genes to biomes, from individuals to populations, from species to communities, are in constant pursuit of the best strategies to react to the natural and anthropic environmental changes. …”

“…It presents knowledge we must possess to better protect ourselves and, more importantly, to adopt a more holistic approach to our relationships with animals and the living world…”

“…This event has been a great forum where the scientific community presents and discusses ideas to advance research on the design, use, and evaluation of technologies to improve people's lives and their impact on society…”

“…Much more than a simple necessary task, Textual Criticism is fundamental to the biblical enterprise and is a lively and stimulating discipline…”

“…Accompanying activities establish a framework for lively, in-depth discussion and the development of analytical thinking skills, which are so crucial to effective writing in higher education. …”

“…Accompanying activities establish a framework for lively, in-depth discussion and the development of analytical thinking skills, which are so crucial to effective writing in higher education. …”

“…The author aims to provide a didactic framework that integrates the lived experiences of professionals to improve students' oral abilities. …”

“…Depicted in stages according to the criteria of Comenius (a Moravian pedagogue who lived between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) with the audiovisual medium. …”

“…These are two intersecting and mutual reflecting perspectives that are primarily united by the evidence of the repercussions that digital technologies have on our lives. In fact, technological development impacts our communication, interactive and cognitive skills, redefining our relationships with others at all levels, even including relations with public institutions and the political sphere, and modifying, at the same time, our way of learning and understanding the world…”

“…During the celebrations for Leonardo's fifth centenary, and under the patronage of their Italian Committee, a "21st century workshop of knowledge" worked eagerly in an interdisciplinary key, ranging on many aspects (from engineering to philosophy of nature, to history of architecture, reading of sources, technical knowledge, project analysis, cartographic interpretation), with the aim of contributing to the advancement of studies on an artist-researcher who synthesized the knowledge of his time in an extraordinary verbal-visual language, pushing them forward with anticipations and intuitions which are still relevant for the contemporary project, interpreting the territory as a common good and a living being. The volume presents the outcomes of this intense work…”