School effectiveness is a topic of interest addressed by numerous research projects focused on clarifying which variables contribute to the explanation educational performance. This aims find out what extent social, cultural, and academic at student school levels, as perceived families, influence performance, evaluate relevance high residual gross score criteria in selection effective or ineffe...

If nature is by definition the object of the natural sciences, then the dichotomy ‘natural’ versus ‘chemical’, held by both chemists and nonchemists, suggests an idiosyncrasy of chemistry. The first part of the paper presents a selective historical analysis of the main notions of nature in chemistry, as developed in early Christian views of chemical crafts, alchemy, iatrochemistry, mechanical p...

In the decades after World War Two, professional practice in UK museums was characterised by dissatisfaction with the status quo, accompanied by attempts to bring rigour and order to bear where before there was said to have been slovenliness and idiosyncrasy. Some of these initiatives were focused on the work of individual museums, others across the broader sector. Articulations of curatorial p...

BACKGROUND Greyhounds frequently have laboratory values that are outside reference intervals established for dogs. Our recognition of increased serum creatinine concentrations in several Greyhounds posed a problem when evaluating a Greyhound with suspected renal disease. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare serum creatinine concentrations between Greyhound and non-Greyhound dogs...

Inspired by a type of synesthesia where colour typically induces musical notes the MusiCam project investigates this unusual condition, particularly the transition from colour to sound. MusiCam explores the potential benefits of this idiosyncrasy as a mode of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), providing a host of meaningful applications spanning control, communication and composition. Colour dat...

In this paper we present an analysis of English measure noun phrases. Measure noun phrases exhibit both distributional idiosyncrasy, in that they appear in positions normally filled by degree adverbs: a ten inch long string; and agreement discord: ten inches is enough, it is ten inch/*inches long. The analysis introduces one idiosyncratic construction, the Measure Phrase Rule, which links toget...

Asynchronous collaborative applications and systems have to deal with complexities associated with interaction nature, idiosyncrasy of groups and technical and administrative issues of real settings. Existing solutions address asynchronous collaboration via simplified and centralized models. In this paper we present LaCOLLA, a fully decentralized middleware for building collaborative applicatio...