“…The INRA addressed these questions by performing a collective scientific assessment of animal consciousness. …”

“…Therefore tensile tests for the description of the bonding behavior of the fibers, shear tests on three-stone small specimen, small static cyclic shear wall tests, bending tests of wall segments, large format dynamically loaded wall plates and five building experiments were performed under realistic time history acceleration. …”

“…Therefore climate simulations with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM, coupled to two different Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Transfer Models, are performed. Based on the simulation results sensitive processes in the West African Monsoon system are identified and their impact on its decadal variability is evaluated…”

“…The report uses statistical analyses to identify change management practices associated with high-performing organizations. It also features insights from subject matter experts who add context to the report's findings…”

“…Tendances et politiques du tourisme, publié tous les deux ans, analyse les performances du tourisme et les principales tendances, initiatives et réformes liées aux politiques du tourisme pour 50 pays de l'OCDE et pays partenaires, en fournissant les données et analyses les plus récentes…”

“…La préscolarisation est associée à de meilleures performances pour les élèves lors de la poursuite de leur scolarité. …”

“…It is important for a contracting authority to ensure that it will enter into a contract with an economic operator that has the ability to perform and complete the contract. Selection of economic operators means the process of assessing and deciding which economic operators are qualified to participate in the tendering procedure. …”

“…Students who spent more than six hours per day on line outside of school were more likely to feel lonely at school, arrive late and perform at lower levels in mathematics. On average across OECD countries, 7% of students spend this much time on line during a typical weekday…”

“…This report presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive cross-country assessment of long-term care (LTC) workers, the tasks they perform and the policies to address shortages in OECD countries. …”

“…This may discourage the highest-performing students from joining the teaching profession. …”

“…Fifteen-year-old students who attended early childhood education (ECE) tend to perform better on PISA than those who did not, even after accounting for their socio-economic backgrounds. …”

“…The PISA 2000 Assessment of Reading, Mathematical and Scientific Literacy introduces the PISA approach to assessing reading, mathematical and scientific literacy and describes the PISA 2000 assessment instruments in terms of: the content that students need to acquire, the processes that need to be performed, and the contexts in which knowledge and skills are applied. …”

“…It provides guidance on how to interpret the outcome of individual tests and how to increase evidence on whether or not a substance may be an endocrine disrupter; to this end, it recommends a test method that may be performed if regulatory authorities need more evidence…”

“…Within each domain, the framework defines the content that students need to acquire, the processes that need to be performed, and the contexts in which knowledge and skills are applied. …”

“…Companies with high-performing supply chains enjoy essential competitive ad- vantages. …”

“…A lot of research on aluminium alloys has been performed. Currently, the research efforts are connected to the relatively new methods and processes. …”

“…The education sector performs well for information and communication technology (ICT) and problem-solving skills, although it still lags behind the professional, scientific and technical activities sector. …”

“…Examining poetry, fiction, journalism, and performances, Hsy shows how cultural icons such as Frederick Douglass, Wong Chin Foo, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Sui Sin Far reinvented medieval traditions to promote social change. …”

“…We will be accessing spatial data in several formats-html, xml, shapefiles, and text-locally and over the web to produce a map of home foreclosure auctions and perform statistical analysis on these events…”