The critical importance of early grade reading and assessment

Working paper education sector analytical and capacity development partnership contains information about the critical importance of early grade reading and assessment with sub-sections as the importance of early grade reading, the science of reading, acquiring the skills-what should we expect?, early grade reading assessment, EGRA in Indonesia, and how can early grade literacy be improved

Newsletter analytical and capacity development partnership (ACDP), June 2015

The newsletter ACDP have information about development of quality assurance system for early childhood education, overview of the Islamic education sub-sector in Indonesia, improving teacher workforce planning in Aceh, and evaluation of ict in education in Papua Province

Knudsen heat capacity

We present a "Knudsen heat capacity" as a more appropriate and useful fluid property in micro/nanoscale gas systems than the constant pressure heat capacity. At these scales, different fluid processes come to the fore that are not normally observed at the macroscale. For thermodynamic analyses that include these Knudsen processes, using the Knudsen heat capacity can be more effective and physical. We calculate this heat capacity theoretically for non-ideal monatomic and diatomic gases, in particular, helium, nitrogen, and hydrogen. The quantum modification for para and ortho hydrogen is also considered. We numerically model the Knudsen heat capacity using molecular dynamics simulations for the considered gases, and compare these results with the theoretical ones.</p

Intrinsic Capacity

Every channel can be expressed as a convex combination of deterministic channels with each deterministic channel corresponding to one particular intrinsic state. Such convex combinations are in general not unique, each giving rise to a specific intrinsic-state distribution. In this paper we study the maximum and the minimum capacities of a channel when the realization of its intrinsic state is causally available at the encoder and/or the decoder. Several conclusive results are obtained for binary-input channels and binary-output channels. Byproducts of our investigation include a generalization of the Birkhoff-von Neumann theorem and a condition on the uselessness of causal state information at the encoder.Comment: v0.6.3.677d35, 28 pages, 5 figures, submitted for publication, to be presented in part at ISIT 201

Embedding mutually supportive implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol in the context of broader national policy goals: A Workshop for National Teams of Policy Actors, 16th – 20th November 2015

This report provides highlights from a workshop entitled “Embedding mutually supportive implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol in the context of broader national policy goals. A workshop for national teams of policy actors”. The workshop brought together eleven national teams comprised of National Focal Points for the Nagoya Protocol, the Plant Treaty and the GEF and representatives of lead national agencies dealing with climate change adaptation and agriculture and national finance and planning authorities. As the title of the workshop suggests, the participants examined options to embed the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and the Plant Treaty in national programmess and strategies to promote climate change adaptation, poverty alleviation, food security and conservation. It was organized by the ABS Capacity Development Initiative and Bioversity International in cooperation with the African Union Commission and the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, held at the International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 16th – 20th November 2015

Markets and Institutional Capacity

Adequate explanations concerning the introduction of production and consumption of organic food in Denmark imply the necessity to engage a certain understanding of markets. Markets should subsequently not be seen as entities nor places but as complex relations between human actors. Further, the establishment, maintenance and development of markets are depending on the capacity of the actors to enter into continuous and enhancing interplay