A curriculum is a complex entity. Stenhouse' wrote that 'a curriculum is an attempt to communicate the essential principles and features of an educational proposal in such a form that it is open to critical scrutiny and capable ofeffective translation into practice.' In thinking about the development of education for general practice, it is necessary to consider a range of practical learning ac...

Teachers need to know what they can do in their classroom practice to help pupils acquire the knowledge and skills of learning how to learn. At the same time, the transfer of knowledge among teachers and between networked schools needs to be investigated and an evidence-based model of knowledge creation and transfer in school settings needs to be developed. The Teaching and Learning Research Pr...

—Research on amphibian movement patterns can aid in strengthening amphibian conservation strategies. Yet for many species, there remain substantial gaps in our knowledge of such movement patterns. From 1999–2002, we documented movement patterns to and from breeding pools of both adult and juvenile Rana sylvatica LeConte (Wood Frog) and Ambystoma maculatum Shaw (Spotted Salamander) by using drif...

Researchers using drift-fence sampling with associated pitfall traps have analyzed a number of problems associated with this technique. One unquantified problem is the effect foraging vertebrate predators might have on animals captured in pitfall traps. We used Deer CamH cameras and track-monitoring stations to estimate amount and variety of vertebrate predators attending pitfall arrays in Bast...

Three isoskeletal tetranuclear coordination clusters with general formula [M2Dy III 2L4(EtOH)6](ClO4)2·2(EtOH), (M = Co, 1; M= Ni, 2) and [Ni2Dy III 2L4Cl2(CH3CN)2]·2(CH3CN) (3), have been synthesized and characterized. These air-stable compounds, and in particular 3, display efficient homogeneous catalytic behavior towards the room temperature synthesis of trans-4,5diaminocyclopent-2-enones fr...

-   ahmadi, m., kaboli, m., imani harsini, j., khosravi sharifabadi, r., almasi, m., 2012. strategic management plan for wolf (canis lupus) in hamedan province: an approach to reducing human-wolf conflicts. journal of natural environment, iranian journal of natural resources. 65, 271–281. -   ballard, w.b., dau, j.r., 1983. characteristics of gray wolf, canis lupus, den and rendezvous sites in ...

•Urban caracals select to be close urban areas at night; wildland do not•Subadult the matrix and marginal habitat more than adults•Urban use microhabitat refugia mitigate risk of human detection•Caracals not become nocturnal in Human activities increasingly challenge wild animal populations by disrupting ecological connectivity population persistence. Yet, human-modified habitats can provide re...