Ladies and gentlemen good morning! I am delighted to welcome you all to this stakeholders‟ workshop on aflatoxin control in Nigeria. With the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ministry of agriculture in partnership with Abt-Associates has called this meeting to offer an opportunity to review and discuss the findings from a recent Aflatoxin Country and Economic Impact Assessm...

In this article, we present our views of the psychology of E-learning as a field of study that is important, interdisciplinary, emerging, and promising. We first define E-learning as the third learning system in the history of human learning, specify two major E-learning practices in education and corporations, and indicate the importance of psychological studies of E-learning. We then point ou...

Chief guest of the day, Shri. Lov Verma, Hon’ble Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, esteemed office bearers of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) on the dias, executive board members, distinguished guests of the evening – including IMA President Padmasree Dr Marthandan Pillai, President of American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Sandra Hassink, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Kerala Univer...

As a former student of Professor Ostrowski—one of his last— I am delighted to recall here the life and work of one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. Needless to say that, in view of Ostrowski’s immense and vastly diverse mathematical legacy, this can be done only in a most summary fashion. Further literature on Ostrowski can be found in some of the references at the end of this a...

We are delighted to write these editorials on what has been a very exciting project involving world leading experts on the development of sensors and imaging agents for these two themed issues on sensor targets and imaging agents. Through the coordination and editing of these two issues we were able to take advantage of each other’s extensive knowledge in the areas of sensing and imaging. The c...

ALTHOUGH I SHALL HAVE highly critical things to say about Murphy and Callahan (2006), I am delighted they have written it, and very happy that the refereeing system organized by the editor of The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Roderick Long, saw fit to accept it for publication. And this for two reasons. First, a minor one: there are those who accuse libertarianism of being a cult. A necessary...

This study on India is part of the Vodafone Public Policy series launched in 2004. Our aim is to provide a platform for leading experts to write on issues that are important to us at Vodafone and which may help policy makers as they strive to provide a regulatory environment which stimulates growth and economic development. We hope you find this report informative. Foreword In this report, we h...

In the January/February issue of Change, Carl Wieman argues, in “A Better Way to Evaluate Undergraduate Teaching,” the current methods of evaluating teaching effectiveness in higher education lack validity and do little to offer the means for improvement. He proposes an alternative based on an inventory of instructor selfreported teaching practices, which are suggested by education research to ...