108 INTRODUCTION Altruistic behaviours have been the object of abundant theoretical and empirical social science research for some thirty years (Chac—n, 1985, Piliavin and Charng, 1990). In this field there are two tendencies that have captured the majority of research attention. The first of these is represented by unexpected situations in which help is offered to strangers, reflecting the alt...

Researchers at Washington State University conducted an independent evaluation of the first year of the Washington State Early Childhood Education Career and Wage Ladder Pilot Program. The evaluation, which compared ladder centers with a control group, verified that the career and wage ladder works to improve the quality of early childhood education by reducing teacher turnover and encouraging ...

Figure 1. PILOT telescope, enclosure and tower INTRODUCTION PILOT (The Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a 2.4m optical/infrared telescope, proposed for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light at the end of 2012.

Scientific problems that depend on processing large amounts of data require overcoming challenges in multiple areas: managing large-scale data distribution, controlling co-placement and scheduling of data with compute resources, and storing, transferring, and managing large volumes of data. Although there exist multiple approaches to addressing each of these challenges and the complexity of dis...

Creativity can be understood in analogous ways across both arts and sciences. A central component of artistic creativity is the ability to generate many different expressions. Scientific creativity involves the ability to generate various novel solutions to problems. This means a possible way to augment creativity in both arts and science is to seek to increase our ability to generate many expr...

MESSAGES ON STUDENT KNOWLEDGE, MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOR: RESULTS FROM THE TEAM NUTRITION PILOT STUDY. R. Craig Lefebvre, Carol Olander & Elyse Levine Presented at the Innovations in Social Marketing Conference, Montreal, Canada, 1999. Reprinted in Proceedings of the Conference as: Lefebvre, RC, Olander C, Levine E. The impact of multiple channel delivery of nutrition messages on student knowledg...

This paper presents the design of a solar tracking system driven by a mnicrochip PIC 18F452 micro controller. The system is based on two mechanisms. The first one is the search mechanism (PILOT) which locates the position of the sun. The second mechanism(intelligent PANELS) aligns itself with the PILOT only if maximum energy possible could be extracted. On top of that the main advantage of the ...

Pilot projects appear in many forms in policy making and management. In an effort to understand the nature and use of pilot projects and improve their effectiveness, we undertake a practicebased and theoretical study of the pilot project phenomenon. First, we examine the roles assigned to pilot projects in the policy development literature and explore their use in a Dutch water innovation platf...