Do Expenditures for Student Support Services Lead to Demonstrable Gains in Student Achievement?

Wood, Allemand, Anderson, and Cheslock present a brief overview and analysis of the article, Relationship between types of school district expenditures and student performance, originally published in Applied Economics Letters. The authors present a summary of the key components of the article including the introduction, method and results of the study. They offer an additional analysis of implications for future practice, including a discussion of legislation and the conflicting evidence that school counseling and support services benefit students in academic and social competencies, as well as evidence that the cost seems to outweigh the benefits

La Banque centrale européenne et la nouvelle gouvernance économique européenne: le défi de l’intégration différenciée = The European Central Bank and the new European economic governance: the challenge of differential integration. Research Paper in Law 01/2015

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Internet matarà o salvarà la premsa científica? L'experiència de la revista francesa 'La Recherche'

Des que es va començar a desenvolupar, no fa ni vint anys, Internet ha trasbalsat el paisatge mediàtic, començant per l’escrit. Els diaris de paper han hagut de prendre-ho ben en compte. En aquest article presentem una panoràmica de la situació de la divulgació científica a França a partir de l’experiència de La Recherche, una revista mensual de divulgació científica, i de la d’altres mitjans francesos

Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: epileptic and paretic outcome at one year of age

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The issue concerning neurologic outcome in patients with perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (H.I.E) has inspired many studies which tried to identify adequate prognostic factors. Our work aims to find among neonatal parameters:</p> <p indent="1">- factors which help to predict the risk to develop both Cerebral Palsy (CP) and secondary Epilepsy at one year of age in subjects affected by perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy,</p> <p indent="1">- correlations between the neonatal parameters and the variable severity of above mentioned sequelae.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We have recruited 32 subjects, whose history and neuroimages suggested a perinatal H.I.E and we have retrospectively analysed clinical-instrumental parameters at birth and at one year of age.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>At one year cut-off, 9 patients developed both secondary epilepsy and CP (28%), whereas the other subjects showed only motor delay (31%), only secondary epilepsy (3%) or only CP (38%). Patients with both the severest sequelae were essentially term infants (only 2/9 were pre-term infants), with normal weight (only 3 LBW) and 7 of them with early pathologic EEG and neuroimages pointing out cortex injuries (typical of term infants). A statistic analysis showed the following correlations: birth weight and global prognosis (χ²= 14,03; p = 0,04); neonatal clinical pattern and CP's severity (χ²= 14,03; p = 0,0009); early EEG and CP's severity (χ²= 4,32; p = 0,04); epileptic onset age and CP and Epilepsy's severity (F = 16,01; p = 0,005).</p> <p>Birth weight represented a predictive factor of early neurological outcome (<1,5 kg birth weight neonates are not at risk of both epilepsy and CP); neonatal clinical pattern and early EEG were correlated with variable severity of CP; an epileptic exordium in the first 6 months led up to a more severe epileptic and paretic outcome.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>From a clinical point of view it is of crucial importance to have some parameters which enable to discriminate patients at risk of more severe sequelae from those at risk of moderate severity outcome.</p

Derivation of a two-fluids model for a Bose gas from a quantum kinetic system

We formally derive the hydrodynamic limit of a system modelling a bosons gas having a condensed part, made of a quantum kinetic and a Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The limit model, which is a two-fluids Euler system, is approximated by an isentropic system, which is then studied. We find in particular some conditions for the hyperbolicity, and we study the weak solutions. A numerical example is given at the end.Comment: 29 page

Para formal no centro da cidade

I Congresso Internacional América Latina e Interculturalidade: América Latina e Caribe: cenários linguístico-culturais contemporâneos, 07, 08 e 09 de novembro de 2013 - UNILAEscrito fruto da investigação (financiada pela Chamada MCTI /CNPq /MEC/CAPES N o 07/2011) dedicada a mapear a “para­formalidade” em centros de cidades (inicialmente em casos de atuação da equipe do Laboratório de Urbanismo, da FAUrb/UFPel), a partir de cartografias urbanas, fazendo uso de recursos infográficos e sendo divulgado em tempo real por meio de website. A pesquisa se volta para os espaços não regulados, espaços anarquistas, onde se produzem atividades que tendem a subverter as leis da economia tradicional, do urbanismo e das relações humanas, gerando mudanças importantes, tanto teóricas como práticas, na maneira de pensar e planejar a cidade. Os lugares considerados “para­ formais” nessa pesquisa são aqueles que se encontram no cruzamento do formal (formado) e do informal (em formação), constituídos por três pontos: a cidade em formação, o princípio de acordos, regras e projetos; a cidade em desagregação, os processos de acordos urbanos conflitivos, friccionantes ou catastróficos e; as situações urbanas onde existam fortes “indiferenças” estratégicas entre os atores. Como resultados serão produzidos mapas urbanos, onde serão demarcados os territórios “para­formais”, para posteriormente realizar simulações (cenários de futuro: otimistas/pessimistas, temporais, situacionais, etc.) e cruzamento de tipos/categorias. As principais contribuições esperadas são: os avanços na área de cadastro e mapeamento de configurações complexas; a produção local de metodologia e tecnologia; a produção de conhecimento sobre “para­formais” e; a produção de conhecimento sobre metodologia de cartografia urbana

Correlated responses in lines of Drosophila melanogaster selected for different oviposition behaviours.

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