Reader’s Forum-15

FORUM FORUM FORUM Population: a central concept for ecology?

When my colleague Mauricio Lima sent me the accompanying paper (Camus and Lima 2002) it rekindled my interest in an unfinished manuscript that attempts to address some of the questions and problems they pose. The ideas presented in this essay are based on the premise that ecology needs a central unifying concept upon which to build a coherent and practical discipline. I will argue that, from a ...

Teachers as readers: building communities of readers

Given the narrow scope of primary teachers’ knowledge and use of children’s literature identified in Phase I of Teachers as Readers (2006-7), the core goal of the Phase II project, was to improve teachers’ knowledge and experience of such literature in order to help them increase children's motivation and enthusiasm for reading, especially those less successful in literacy. The year long projec...

Twenty-fifth anniversary meeting of the International Tinnitus Forum, September 15, 2007, Washington, DC.

Captive readers

to entomologists when a rock climber, returning from a 1964 expedition to Ball’s Pyramid in the LHIG, produced a photo of what appeared to be the recently dead remains of one. That they could be living on a menacingly steep and barren volcanic outcrop, 500 metres tall and shaped like a needle, seemed implausible, particularly as there were no trees, only shrubs, on the island. Add to that the f...

Dear Readers

This E-nano Newsletter issue contains two reports providing insights in two relevant areas: modelling at the nanoscale and scientific EU policy. The nanoICT position paper provides an analysis of the current status of modelling at the na-noscale information processing and storage devices in Europe and a comparison with that in the rest of the world. The previous version of the present paper (re...