Europe's struggling mammals

Europe's struggling mammals

One year ago, JJ1 was Europe's most famous mammal. The male brown bear, also known by the more amiable name of 'Bruno', had wandered into Southern Germany from the Trentino in Italy. The appearance of this charismatic animal in a region where the last bear had been seen and killed 170 years ago seemed to fit a trend. Over the past ten years, wolves, elks, beavers and lynxes have been highly pub...

Ivan Grech Struggling Against Isolation

Islands and their problems have elicited a dominant place in maritime historiography. Whether vital stations along important shipping routes or marginal places often by-passed by civilizations and history, their role and condition, their subsistence, their centrality to the flow of goods and the diffusion of cultures and, most prominently, their supposed isolation have much intrigued scholars o...

Reading Fluency: Critical Issues for Struggling Readers

Intervention for Struggling Writers in Elementary School

Male students perform significantly lower than female students on tests that measure writing achievement. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a visual graphic organizer application to engage elementary-aged male students who struggle with the writing process. The results suggest that teachers of male students should consider using a visual graphic organizer application for writi...

Struggling Towards Diagnosis: Experiences of Iranian Diabetes

BACKGROUND Healthcare-seeking behavior is one of the factors determining the uptake and outcome of healthcare. However, few studies have discussed how and why diabetics seek healthcare assistance before meeting a physician. OBJECTIVES In this study, we explored the subjective experiences of healthcare-seeking behavior among Iranian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. PATIENTS AND METHOD...