Teaching the Future Teachers: A Teacher Educator’s Self-Study in Making Science Relevant, Useful and Meaningful for New Zealand Pre-Service Teachers by Steven Sexton

“…The initial NSAAQ results indicated where the pre-service teachers understanding of the nature of science were naïve and what aspects needed to be addressed over the course of the programme. Focus group sessions revealed how some of the student teachers’ science attitudes altered over their course of study. …”
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Preparing muslims with diabetes mellitus for Ramadan fasting in Singapore: a clinical approach and review of current practice by Sueziani Binte Zainudin, Ester Yeoh

“…While there are ongoing efforts to reduce risk during this period, larger-scale national programmes are needed to avert complications and assess the long-term effects of Ramadan fasting in the local population.…”
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Green actions for innovative cities. The new agri-food landscape by Emanuele Sommariva, Nicola Valentino Canessa, Giorgia Tucci

“… The role of ecosystem services is interlinked with the growing awareness of research and development funding programmes sensitive to green infrastructure and urban greening strategies. …”
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Fully Integrated Memristor and Its Application on the Scroll-Controllable Hyperchaotic System by Jie Jin, Li Cui

“…By controlling the nonlinear function with programmable switches, the memristor-based hyperchaotic system achieves controllable scroll numbers. …”
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COMPETENCY-BASED STANDARDS OF EDUCATION: PROBLEMS OF IMPLEMENTATION by Ekaterina M. Kuznetsova

“…These problems give rise to a large variety of interpretations of competencies in curricular programmes and other documents. The analysis showed that new standard of higher education presents no clear definition of competency and the suggested lists of competencies are formed without any argumentation. …”
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Histoire de la formation en architecture de paysage à l’Université de Montréal by Nicole Valois, Ron Williams

“…For more than fifty years, the École d’architecture de paysage of the University of Montreal has offered one of the main educational programms in landscape architecture in Canada. As the only French-language school in the Americas, it has trained several generations of teachers and professionals who have made their mark on the history of environmental design in Quebec and Canada. …”
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Promoting High Achievement for Disadvantaged Students: Co-Designing a School Self-Evaluation Process Aligned to Evidence of Successful Leadership Practice Across Five English Distr... by Maria Cockerill, Tom Grieveson, Stephanie Bingham, Joanne O’Keeffe

“…Together, they created the ‘High Achievement Review Programme’ (HARP). We discuss the co-design process of HARP, including the developed evaluation tools for schools.…”
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Robust Flatness Tracking Control for the “DC/DC Buck Converter-DC Motor” System: Renewable Energy-Based Power Supply by Ramón Silva-Ortigoza, Alfredo Roldán-Caballero, Eduardo Hernández-Márquez, José Rafael García-Sánchez, Magdalena Marciano-Melchor, Victor Manuel Hernández-Guzmán, Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza

“…Also, experiments are performed by using a built prototype of the DC/DC Buck converter-DC motor system, a TDK-Lambda G100-17 programmable DC power supply, MATLAB-Simulink, and the DS1104 board from dSPACE. …”
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The Use of Management Control Systems and Operations Management Techniques by Edelcio Koitiro Nisiyama, José Carlos Tiomatsu Oyadomari, Chen Yen-Tsang, Andson Braga de Aguiar

“…Simons’ levers of cont rol framework was used to characterise the uses of MCSs, and OM techniques, such as total quality management (TQM) and continuous improvement programmes, were adopted. The results obtained through the structural equation modelling indicated that the diagno stic use of MCSs is positively associated with the goals of cost reduction. …”
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Injustices épistémiques : lorsqu’autisme et dyscommunication se conjuguent, comment faire entendre ses choix ? by Cécile Lacôte-Coquereau

“…Taking an anthropocentric approach, the Participe 3.0 programme uses innovative virtual reality systems to help dyscommunicative autistic adults to participate more fully and interact socially in their shared inclusive housing project. …”
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Des aspects de collégialité dans le fonctionnement du gouvernement grec: Le cas des gouvernements de coalition à l’époque du Mémorandum by Marie-Iléane Pravita

“… Le gouvernement est l’institution compétente pour la prise de décisions et la surveillance de la mise en application du programme gouvernemental. L’oeuvre de coordination du Premier ministre devient difficile quand il s’agit d’un gouvernement de coalition constitué de nombreux membres, séparés d’un fossé idéologique. …”
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Seeing through the Ground: The Potential of Gravity Gradient as a Complementary Technology by N. Metje, D. N. Chapman, C. D. F. Rogers, K. Bongs

“…This paper describes two major UK initiatives—Mapping the Underworld (MTU) and Gravity Gradient Technologies and Opportunities Programme (GG-TOP)—that aim to improve the way that we locate, map, and share information on buried utility services. …”
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National Team of Greece: Gender, Sports, and the Recession by Georgia Aitaki

“…Specifically, it provides a critical reading of the main narrative strategies of the programme – the female narrator, the female ensemble, and the metaphor of sports – in order to register the ways that the series enters into a dialogue with familiar gender tropes, such as questions of female agency, coping, and empowerment. …”
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Development Education in European Rural Areas: The Work Done by NGODs by Martínez-Scott, S., Monjas-Aguado, R., Torrego-Egido, L.

“…NGODs and CSOs carry out Development Education (DE) projects and programmes, among other tasks. Rural DEAR Agenda-EYD 2015 (Development Education in Rural Areas 2015) is a European project analysing DE initiatives by NGODs and CSOs in rural areas in seven European countries: Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta. …”
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Preserving, improving and rediscovering: The role of the Research Centre of Viticulture and Enology in safeguarding grapevine genetic resources in Italy by Maria Antonietta Palombi, Vittorio Alba, Marco Ammoniaci, Noemi Bevilacqua, Angelo Raffaele Caputo, Roberto Carraro, Stefano Favale, Simone Garavelloni, Massimo Gardiman, Massimo Morassut, Marina Niero, Roberto Nuti, Giuseppina Pipitone, Sergio Puccioni, Alessandra Zombardo

“…Since 2004, the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry has financed a specific programme named ‘Risorse genetiche vegetali – Trattato FAO (RGV-FAO)’ [Plant Genetic Resources – FAO Treaty] to collect, conserve, characterize and document plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. …”
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Horizontal and vertical transmission of microsporidia Nosema pyrausta and Nosema bombycis in the predatory bug Podisus maculiventris (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Arina S. Rumiantseva, Anastasia N. Ignatieva, Inna V. Grushevaya, Alsu M. Utkuzova, Nina V. Binitskaya, Anastasia G. Kononchuk, Ekaterina G. Kozlova, Anastasia A. Khodzhash, Yuri S. Tokarev

“…This indicates low (or no) risk of vertical transmission of these two pathogens, making them suitable for combined application with the predatory bug in the integrated pest management programmes.…”
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‘What’s Your Story?’ Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Candice Harrison-Train, Carmel Marock, Sally Field

“…An external evaluation of the programme used a mix of qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods to assess WYS implementation in church communities and workplaces. …”
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JAPANESE WOMEN'S ACTIVISM SUSTAINS A LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITY IN THE PANDEMIC by J. Peracullo

“…During the pandemic, AWEP attuned its programmes to respond to its challenges. Using ecofeminist theologian Sallie McFague’s ecological model, I demonstrate that AWEP reveals Japanese women’s acute understanding of a need for an ecological ethics of solidarity that includes ecological interests, a consciousness of solidarity, and cooperation through global sisterhood, which posits that women the world over share everyday experiences regardless of race, nationality, ethnicity, class, or economic status and, therefore, should help one another. …”
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An Economic Policy Exit Strategy from the Corona Lockdown by Michael Hüther, Hubertus Bardt

“…A tax policy driven departure signal and a demand side focused growth programme could make an important contribution to a new economic dynamic after the crisis.…”
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Commerce de détail et changement social urbain : immigration, gentrification, déclin by Sandrine Berroir, Anne Clerval, Matthieu Delage, Antoine Fleury, Sylvie Fol, Matthieu Giroud, Lina Raad, Serge Weber

“…Au sein des quartiers populaires centraux ou péricentraux, ils peuvent en particulier accompagner le processus de gentrification ou bien être menacés par elle, d’autant que, de plus en plus, des politiques de renouvellement urbain s’intéressent à la programmation commerciale. Une incursion partielle dans la littérature de différentes disciplines (géographie, économie, sociologie, ethnologie) montre que leur rôle est ambivalent et révèle les contradictions des opérations menant au changement social de ces quartiers. …”
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