Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Bioefficacy of an Insect Growth Regulator (Dimilin) as a Larvicide against Mosquito and Housefly Larvae by Shandala Msangi, Ester Lyatuu, Eliningaya J. Kweka

“…Dimilin could be opted as one of the choice of the larval control chemicals to be incorporated in the integrated vector control programmes in urban and rural areas.…”
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User Experiences from L2 Children Using a Speech Learning Application: Implications for Developing Speech Training Applications for Children by Maria Uther, Anna-Riikka Smolander, Katja Junttila, Mikko Kurimo, Reima Karhila, Seppo Enarvi, Sari Ylinen

“…We investigated user experiences from 117 Finnish children aged between 8 and 12 years in a trial of an English language learning programme that used automatic speech recognition (ASR). …”
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Contraction Mapping Theory and Approach to LMI-Based Stability Criteria of T-S Fuzzy Impulsive Time-Delays Integrodifferential Equations by Ruofeng Rao, Shouming Zhong

“…Besides, the LMI-based criteria are programmable for computer MATLAB LMI toolbox. Moreover, an analytical table and a numerical example are presented to illustrate the advantage, feasibility, and effectiveness of the proposed methods.…”
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The European Degree by Sara Cardona Rubio

“…This is due to two of the programme's requirements: multilingualism and international mobility. …”
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Refining resource estimation for the quantum computation of vibrational molecular spectra through Trotter error analysis by Dimitar Trenev, Pauline J Ollitrault, Stuart M. Harwood, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Sumathy Raman, Antonio Mezzacapo, Sarah Mostame

“…In this work we accurately estimate quantum resources, such as number of logical qubits and quantum gates, required for vibrational structure calculations on a programmable quantum computer. Our approach is based on quantum phase estimation and focuses on fault-tolerant quantum devices. …”
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Global, Continental, and Regional Development Agendas – What Does It Mean to Domesticate or Localise These? by Lusanda Batala

“…Global, continental and regional agendas are not separate programmes. They are part of the National Development Plan. …”
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Patterns and Variation in the Weather Forecast: Can Prosodic Features be Predicted Too? by Susan Moore Mauroux

“…The aim of this article is to explore a specific type of media programme: the weather forecast. The analysis is based on a corpus of weather forecasts for the UK, mainly from the Met Office, with five different speakers. …”
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The Anatomy of Teleneurosurgery in China by Xiaohong Gao

“…This paper reviews the latest development in telemedicine infrastructure in China with the focus on the development of teleneurosurgery, drawing from the results gained from a 3-year networking project between Europe and China on telemedicine (TIME, 2005–2007) funded by European Commission under Asia ICT programme, with an aim to shape up envisages of future medical care in China. …”
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Subjective Outcome Evaluation of the Project P.A.T.H.S.: Findings Based on the Perspective of the Program Implementers by Daniel T. L. Shek, Andrew M. H. Siu, Tak Yan Lee

“…(Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programmes). After completion of the Tier 1 Program, 344 instructors completed the Subjective Outcome Evaluation Form (Form B) to assess their views of the program, instructors, and perceived effectiveness of the program. …”
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Process Evaluation of the Implementation of the Secondary 2 Program of Project P.A.T.H.S. in the Experimental Implementation Phase by Daniel T. L. Shek, Tak Yan Lee, Rachel C. F. Sun

“…(Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programmes). Observers carried out process evaluation in the form of systematic observations of curriculum units in four randomly selected schools. …”
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The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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'Hard to know what to do': how residential workers experience the mental health needs of young people by Judith Furnivall, Philip Wilson, Rosaline S. Barbour, Graham Connelly, Graham Bryce, Louise Phin

“…This paper aimed to describe the experiences and perspectives of residential child care practitioners in dealing with the mental health difficulties of the children for whom they are responsible and to compare their experience with that of other professionals. it draws on the findings of the Scottish Needs Assessment Programme (SNAP) which surveyed a wide range of professionals who worked regularly with young people but whose main focus of work was not mental health. …”

Low-Complexity Online Synthesis for AMIDAR Processors by Stefan Döbrich, Christian Hochberger

“…Today, it can be found in two varieties: field programmable gate arrays or coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays. …”
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Políticas de desarrollo en el contexto de la migración. Coherencias y contradicciones en el caso de dos programas de codesarrollo de España en Colombia y Ecuador by Lacomba-Vázquez, J, Cloquell-Lozano, A.

“…Simultaneously, many different countries have designed in the latest years new policies and introduced programmes orientated to reach a positive effect of migration relating to development. …”
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Main marketing trends in the Russian cinema market in the current realities by O. V. Zhuravleva, A. S. Lobacheva

“…Various ways of increasing the audience of cinemas and customer loyalty programmes were analysed. The main societal trends, which influence the creation of cinematographic images in contemporary cinematography, were identified, and the factors of modern society development and their correlation with the world of cinematography, including the degree of their influence, were pointed out. …”
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE by NICOLETA DAMIAN

“…It is a priority task of this country as most of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve lies on its territory, a unique ecosystem in Europe and one of the largest natural wet zones in the world that has a threefold protection statute: UNESCO World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site, Wet Zone of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) and Biosphere Reserve of the “Man and Biosphere” UNESCO Programme. The Danube Delta Project aims at striking a balance between protecting this unique natural and cultural heritage and meeting the aspirations of the local population for better living conditions by creating the best opportunities for its economic development.…”
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QUALITY OF LIFE OF TYPICALLY DEVELOPING SIBLINGS OF PEOPLE WITH PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL AND MULTIPLE DISABILITIES IN POLAND by Jakub Niedbalski

“… Family quality of life (FQOL) is a concept that is gaining increasing importance in family support programmes. However, for some countries, this concept has been insufficiently explored in relation to families with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. …”
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Evaluation of Project P.A.T.H.S. (Secondary 2 Program) by the Program Participants: Findings Based on the Experimental Implementation Phase by Daniel T. L. Shek, Rachel C. F. Sun, Candace W. Y. Chan

“…(Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programmes). After completion of the program, 7,406 students completed a Subjective Outcome Evaluation Form (Form A) designed by the research team to reveal their comments about the program, instructors, and perceived effectiveness of the program. …”
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Connecting the dots: contributions to creative tourism dynamics in Portugal by Ana Rita Cruz, Margarida Perestrelo, Maria Assunção Gato, Pedro Costa

“…The results highlight relationships between various creative tourism pilot programmes and other regional and/or external actors and include an analysis of stakeholders’ expectations regarding the network’s future development…”
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Fractional-Order Memristor Emulator Circuits by C. Sánchez-López, V. H. Carbajal-Gómez, M. A. Carrasco-Aguilar, I. Carro-Pérez

“…Moreover, the FOM emulator circuits can be used for improving future applications such as cellular neural networks, modulators, sensors, chaotic systems, relaxation oscillators, nonvolatile memory devices, and programmable analog circuits.…”
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