This chapter provides an overview of surveys professional forecasters, with a focus on the U.S. Survey Professional Forecasters and European Central Bank Forecasters. A distinguishing feature these is that they collect point density forecasts make data publicly available. We discuss their structure, issues involved in using data, construction measures such as disagreement uncertainty at aggrega...

objectives: the aim of this research was to assess the level of awareness of rehabilitation professionals employed in academic rehabilitation centers in tehran with reference to tele-rehabilitation technology. methods: in this study, a descriptive cross-sectional research method was used. the research was implemented by using a researcher-designed questionnaire which was developed by the integr...

Hypermedia is a broadly accepted technique to develop educational systems since its hypertext structure reflects a model of learning based on the students’ semantic memory model and the use of multimedia provides interactive mechanisms that allow managing, manipulating, and organizing the lessons. A hypermedia electronic book called CIPP (Curso Interactivo de Programacion en Pascal) is introduc...

This special issue focuses on national findings and analyses from five Western European countries that participated in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). TIMSS is an international, comparative study designed to provide policy makers, educators, researchers, and practitioners with information about mathematics and science achievement and its learning contexts in order...

Using thinking tools engages students in a variety of critical and complex thinking, such as evaluating, analyzing, and decision making. The aim of this study was to explore patterns in student critical thinking performance and motivation in Evidence-Centered Concept Map (ECCM) mode, compared to basic notepad mode. One hundred ninety 14-year-old students from the United States, United Kingdom, ...

ITE JOURNAL / FEBRUARY 2001 ALL OVER THE WORLD, ROAD safety appears to be considered a problem with many (social) consequences. Everywhere in the world people are trying to improve road safety. Yet, relevant literature contains many indications that road safety improvements are moving slowly. Several causes for this are given. First, the political priority is relatively low. Second, it is not w...

Within the context of developing creativity discourse and policy, this paper begins by exploring a number of the tensions that emerged from research using an interdisciplinary framework to investigate creativity with English expert specialist dance teachers. The paper then interrogates and articulates the productive dynamics of one of these tensions that occur between individual, collaborative ...

John N Giannios1,2,3,4,5* 1President of the International Academy of Precision Medicine and Oncology 2President of the International College of Clinomics based P4 Medicine 3President of the International Association of Personalised Perioperative Medicine and Nanosurgery 4President of the Hellenic and International Society of Molecular and Genomic Medicine 5Head of the Translational Medicine Ass...

Growth and Senescence in Plant Communities Exposed to Elevated CO2 Concentrations on an Estuarine Marsh Author(s): P. S. Curtis, B. G. Drake, P. W. Leadley, W. J. Arp, D. F. Whigham Reviewed work(s): Source: Oecologia, Vol. 78, No. 1 (1989), pp. 20-26 Published by: Springer in cooperation with International Association for Ecology Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4218826 . Accessed: 04/0...

Background In the 1990s, public sector technicians, mainly pharmacists, were gaining skills to fulfil their responsibilities in supply chain management (SCM) through different training sessions. Supply chain management was neither recognized as a unique profession nor institutionalized under Ministries of Health. The increasing need for global dialogue regarding health supply chain experiences,...