“…Knowledgeable projections are vital in shaping the agenda for research; for alerting educators, policy makers, and practitioners to new issues; and for formulating thoughtful responses to emerging dilemmas. …”

“…It includes an example scenario of a public health alert based on Avian Influenza (bird flu) and Avian Influenza A (H5N1). …”

“…The book contains an extensive set of preparation tools, including topic overviews, exam alerts, CramSavers, CramQuizzes, chapter-ending review questions, author notes, tips, and an extensive glossary. …”

“…Throughout, readers are alerted to textual difficulties whose proper resolution is crucial to understanding Plato's often abstract arguments"…”

“…No conservamos ningún otro ejemplar de estas ediciones sino el contenido en la biblioteca vienessa, que pudiera haber pertenecido a Félix de Azara; fue luego adquirido en Roma el 29 de julio de 1834 por un joven estudioso llamado Krone que lo vendió al barón de Reinhart, con cuya biblioteca entró en la Imperial de Viena. …”

“…In addition, the inherent complexity of the pore structure in nanomaterials requires consideration of local or nanoscale transport at the single pore level, and averaging over the macroscale, which further impedes the application and validation of the formulated mechanical models. …”

“…While members of the culture public are more often discerning internauts than the general average, they do not give particular preference to the cultural uses of the Internet. …”

“…Student clusters with inconsistent motivational profiles were found in all countries; mathematics self-confidence then emerged as the variable more closely associated with average achievement. The findings demonstrate that teachers, researchers, and policymakers need to take into account differential student profiles, prioritizing techniques that target skill and competence in mathematics, in educational efforts to develop student motivation…”

“…Majority of forecasting algorithms historically were focused on average load prediction. In order to model the peaks, methods from extreme value theory are applied. …”

“…The external surplus is comfortable, and the public debt-to-GDP ratio, already well below the OECD average, is still falling. However, Israeli society remains marked by weak social cohesion and significant disparities, which penalise parts of the population and threaten the longer-term sustainability of these good results. …”

“…A broad reform package that would align Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicators to the average of the top half of the best performers and would cut regulatory heterogeneity by one fifth could increase trade intensity within the EU by more than 10%. …”

“…Public spending has been below the OECD average and private sector participation is limited. …”

“…Europe has been at the epicentre of market tensions since the beginning of the heating season, resulting from the combination of lower than average underground storage inventory - principally from sites partly owned or controlled by Gazprom - and a sharp year-on-year drop in Russian pipeline supplies. …”

“…The exam of data on costs and demand shows that the case for investing in HSR is strongly dependent on the existing volume of traffic where the new lines are built, the expected time savings and generated traffic and the average willingness to pay of potential users, the release of capacity in congested roads, airports or conventional rail lines and the net reduction of external effects. …”

“…Knowledge creation in the Netherlands is strong -- scientific publications per capita are the sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries according to the EIS Summary Innovation Index. …”

“…While the African situation displays disparities both within and between countries in terms of economic and human development, on average, many African countries have relatively low school enrolment ratios, highly informal labour markets, high poverty rates, as well as low financial inclusion and financial literacy levels. …”

“…At the same time, inflation was stronger than expected on average. Analysis of the growth errors shows that the OECD projections in the crisis years were larger in countries with more international trade openness and greater presence of foreign banks. …”

“…This paper uses a period-average model estimated on data for OECD countries since the late 1960s to investigate the determinants of current account imbalances. …”

“…Avoidable admission rates are amongst the very best in the OECD, and case-fatality after stroke or heart attack are also well below OECD averages. These figures, however, mask profound regional differences. …”

“…Students in schools with hiring autonomy perform better on average, while they perform worse in schools with autonomy in formulating their budget. …”