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The STELLAR European network of Excellence (NoE) (http://www.stellarnet.eu) represents the effort of leading European institutions and projects in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) to unify their diverse and sometimes fragmented community. The Network is executed via a series of integration instruments designed to increase the research capacity of European TEL at all levels. One level is that ...

The Regulatory Policy Program at the Center for Business and Government provides an environment in which to develop and test leading ideas on regulation and regulatory institutions. RPP's research aims to improve the global society and economy by understanding the impacts of regulation and creating better decisions about the design and implementation of regulatory strategies around the world. R...

This paper is Part II of a series of articles on Terahertz heterodyne imaging. In Part I introductory information and techniques were presented. In this paper the authors describe four different types of heterodyne imaging instruments that have been established at their facilities. In Part III (to appear in a future issue of this journal) selected applications of these instruments are discussed.

For over 50 years in the middle of the 20’h century we had financial institutions that were bounded geographically as well as by type of product or service. They were insulated from other financial and non-financial institutions by restrictive charters and by regulations designed to limit competition between charters. All of this was in the name of safety and soundness, an outgrowth of the fina...

Purpose: In France, the development of integrated services delivery for elderly (ISDE) has been hindered by the fragmentation of the decision-making institutions. By merging the healthcare and medicosocial institutions, the Health Regional Agencies (HRA), responsible for developing ISDE, theoretically constitutes a solution. The study examines how the HRA received and implemented the legislativ...

Forest ecosystems provide various services that are crucial to human beings, in which carbon sequestration and storage is one of them with the most market potential usually governed by market-based instruments (MBIs). MBIs do not operate alone but hybrid governance arrangements. While importance public institutions has been identified, there still a need examine specific role market-oriented me...

The successful reintroduction of juvenile offenders from correctional facilities into the communities in which they live is fraught with challenges. It is, however, an essential process in which schools play a key role in ensuring the offender’s chances for success and the classroom’s status as a safe environment of learning. In fact, the transition that a juvenile offender makes from secure co...