Mr Rosario Drago has drawn up the main part of the report on behalf of the MIUR. Professors Giorgio Basaglia and Vittorio Lodolo D'Oria are the authors of the part regarding burnout syndrome affecting teachers. Therefore what stated in this part is not attributable to the MIUR who has commissioned the research.

In this report, we present the ideas behind the notion of quantum random walks. We further restrict our attention to the paper ”Search via quantum walk” by Magniez, Nayak, Roland and Santha and give some general insights and intuition behind their work. The report is intended for the final exam evaluation in the subject ”Quantum Information and Computation”.

This paper presents the SYDOX/MATCOMP/Xi project, funded by the French Ministry of Industry. The goal of the project was to provide the construction professionals with an on-line aid for component specification and selection at different levels of the construction life cycle. This two years project started in 1997 and involved several partners. This paper describes the main features of the info...

objective: administration of amoxicillin and metronidazole along with scaling and root planning (srp) is an effective adjunctive therapy for chronic periodontitis. studies have shown that administration of azithromycin is also effective for treatment of chronic periodontitis. this study aimed to compare the effect of short-term and long-term azithromycin regimen with amoxicillin and metronidazo...

Question 3: The fourth Thesi s on Peuerbach concerns itsel f with, among other matters, the nature of dialectic understanding. A proper dialectic understanding addresses itself to the immanent contradictions in the real concrete, rather than merely the contradictions between this real concrete and its ideological manisfestations -such as religion. Yes, the self as part of the system of religion...

This study investigated the roles of problem structure and strategy use in problem encoding. Fourthgrade students solved and explained a set of typical addition problems (e.g., 5 + 4 + 9 + 5 = ) and mathematical equivalence problems (e.g., 4 + 3 + 6 = 4 + or 6 + 4 + 5 = + 5). Next, they completed an encoding task in which they reconstructed addition and equivalence problems after viewing each f...

Throughout introductory tertiary statistics subjects, students are introduced to a multitude of new terms for statistical concepts and procedures. One such term, significance level, has been considered in the statistical literature. Three themes of discussion relate to this concept the problem of interpretation (and misinterpretation), the selection of an appropriate level, and the evaluation o...