Science Lives: School choices and ‘natural tendencies’

Especial New Tendencies in Training Science

Training science in the european countries has emerged from two main sources: the sports medicine and the methodology of training. But already within the next ten years, the discipline grew more and more independent, so that in the Soviet Union training science was soon accepted as the core of sports science. Soviet training scientists started to determine the state of the art in that new scien...

Science and Natural History

P rior to the blight epidemic, American chestnut (Castanea dentata Borkh.) was one of the most important timber and nut-producing tree species in eastern North America (U.S. Census Bureau 1908). Its native range extended from southern Maine and Ontario in the north to Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi in the south (Sargent 1905). It now exists primarily as stump sprouts across its entire native ...

Can Parents Make Well - Informed School Choices ?

School Quality, School Cost, and the Public/Private School Choices of Low-Income Households in Pakistan

Variation in school attributes, proximity, and fees across neighborhoods is used to identify factors which affect whether poor households send their children to government school, private school, or no school. Analysis shows that even the poorest households use private schools extensively, and that utilization increases with income. Lowering private school fees or distance or raising measured q...

Choices: The Science of Bela Julesz

Throughout his career, Bela Julesz created new scientifi c disciplines by remarkable combinations of seemingly disparate approaches. The selection of his major discipline, which would eventually be called visual neuroscience, may have been serendipity or choice. When the unexpected Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 spurred his emigration to the United States, Bela Julesz, with his Hungarian do...