The current emphasis on rising educational standards in Australian society (eg A Commonwealth Government Quality Teacher Initiative, 2000) has stimulated a growing interest in Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory widely renowned for its profound understanding of teaching and learning. The metaphor of scaffolding commonly viewed as underpinned by socio-cultural theory and the zone of proximal develo...

Along with other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, New Zealand's society is aging such that an increase in the number of older people requiring residential care is predicted. What cannot be foreseen is how culturally defined health beliefs affect the care given to older people in residential care. In this article, the authors describe and discuss the cultur...

This paper analyzes the composition of the pit coal in Petrila, Romania in order to determine the possibilities of ensuring medium and long-term stable sources of energy to supply power plants using solid fuel. If we observe the distribution of coal deposits in Romania, we can conclude that they are spread over the entire territory, which means that everything is under control in what coal rese...

Long-term care is a cross-cutting policy issue that encompasses a range of services for persons who are dependent on help for the basic activities of daily living. When the baby boom generation reaches the oldest age groups over the next three decades, demand for long-term care will rise steeply. How do governments in OECD countries respond to this growing demand? What has been done to increase...

BACKGROUND The OECD countries have recently promoted policies of deinstitutionalisation and community-based care for the elderly. These policies respond to common cost pressures associated with population aging, and the challenge of providing improved care for the elderly. They aim to substitute less costly services for institutional ones, to improve patient satisfaction and decrease expenses. ...

Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Correspondence should be addressed to G.B. (bejerano@stan...