Second chance to live
This online diary - or 'blog' - is provided by a survivor of traumatic brain injury called Craig Philips, based in the USA. He outlines his daily struggle with disability, episodes from his life that have helped him adjust, and provides links to further resources. Articles are indexed by date and a search box is provided, as well as a useful sitemap. This site should be useful for students and teachers.
World Social Science Report 2010
Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and co-published with UNESCO, this Report is the first comprehensive overview of the field in over a decade. Hundreds of social scientists from around the world contributed their expertise to the publication. Key findings include social science research from Western countries continues to have the greatest global influence, but the field is expanding rapidly in Asia and Latin America, particularly in China and Brazil. In sub-Saharan Afr
Olympic security : Better planning can enhance U.S. support to future Olympic Games
This is a United States Government Accountability Office report to the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives on Olympic security. Published in June 2006 the full-text (43 pages) can be downloaded for free as a PDF file. The report recommends that the Secretary of State develop written guidance for providing U.S. government security support to future Games and develop a finance subgroup within the interagency working group to help agencies plan and prepare for future supp
International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (IJSEP)
The International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (IJSEP) is the official publication of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) It is published quarterly (March, June, September, December) and includes empirical and theoretical contributions by an international community of scholars in the science of physical activity, human movement, exercise, and sport. The IJSEP has an international perspective of sport and exercise psychology. Innovative applications and cross-cultural
Assuming Gender
Assuming Gender is an electronic, international, peer-reviewed academic journal produced from the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University that features cutting-edge research in feminist theories, queer theories, critical and cultural theory, literature, film studies, sociology and other relevant fields.
T2M : Energy and innovation
Organised by International Association for the History of transport, traffic and mobility - T2M, to be held at Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne Switzerland from 2009-11-05 to 2009-11-08
Migration and mobility : national responses to cultural diversity
Organised by International Metropolis Project and Academy for Migration Studies, Denmark, to be held at Copenhagen Congress Center Copenhagen Denmark from 2009-09-14 to 2009-09-18
British Institute of International & Comparative Law Annual Conference
Organised by British Institute of International & Comparative Law, to be held at British Institute of International and Comparative Law London United Kingdom from 2009-06-05 to 2009-06-05
Play the Game 2009
Organised by Coventry University’s Centre for the International Business of Sport (CIBS), to be held at CIBS Coventry United Kingdom from 2009-06-08 to 2009-06-12
ATLAS Africa conference 2009 : Tourism for development: Environmental Sustainability, Poverty Reduct
Organised by ATLAS, to be held at University Of Botswana, Department of Management International Tourism Research Centre University Of Botswana, Department of Management International Tourism Research Centre Botswana from 2009-07-01 to 2009-07-03
How is Music Learning Celebrated and Developed?
This review has been written by Professor Welch and Pauline Adams, two eminent music educationalists from the Institute of Education, University of London. It is a thorough review of a number of important challenges facing music education in the 21st century, and a useful summary of related national and international research evidence. It will be a useful source of information for those undertaking a period of initial teacher training or for those commencing a piece of music education research.
What Works in Parenting Support? A Review of the International Evidence
This is a review, completed in 2004, of the international evidence regarding the effectiveness of parenting support programmes, carried out by the Policy Research Unit on behalf of the DfES.
The European Educational Research Journal
The European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) is a ‘a peer-refereed international journal devoted to Europeanization in educational research'. Articles from the EERJ are freely available online once they have been published for eighteen months. More recent articles are freely available as abstracts only.
Fourier series
This unit is concerned with the technique of expressing a periodic function as a sum of terms, where each term is a constant, a sine function or a cosine function. There is a strong analogy with the technique of expressing a (non-periodic) function as a Taylor series, which is a sum of terms that are powers of the independent variable(s); in both cases, working with just the first few terms generally gives a useful approximation. This unit assumes the following background knowledge: the definit
Aims and Values in Primary Education: national and international perspectives
The Primary Review published its most recent research surveys on 18th January 2008. These are interim reports, part of the thirty research surveys commissioned by the Review as evidence and drawn from more than 280 published sources. They ‘offer historical, contemporary and international perspectives on the question of what in a fast-changing and uncertain world the central aims of England's system of primary education should be, and by what values that system might be underpinned'.
Teaching gifted and talented students in all classrooms
This resource is a PRE-online article that combines highlighting the key findings, and the subsequent questions arising from these, of a comprehensive study carried out in New Zealand in 2004, with an exploration of classroom-based strategies for gifted and talented students, as recommended in international literature. It concludes by providing two possible directions for the future development of gifted and talented education in New Zealand.
2.3 Paper-and-glue constructions
Surfaces are a special class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in the world of mathematics. In this unit, you will learn to classify surfaces and will be introduced to such concepts as homeomorphism, orientability, the Euler characteristic and the Classification Theorum.
1 Topological spaces and homeomorphism
Surfaces are a special class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in the world of mathematics. In this unit, you will learn to classify surfaces and will be introduced to such concepts as homeomorphism, orientability, the Euler characteristic and the Classification Theorum.
Rajiv Kumar
Rajiv Kumar, Director and Chief Executive, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) talks about the future of the WTO from an Indian perspective: Does the failure of the Doha Round mean the death of the WTO?
War and Civilization Series Lecture 1: War and Finance
Niall Ferguson is currently Professor of History at Harvard University and Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics. The proposition underlying this year's Wolfson Lectures on 'War and Civilization' is that, as one century of wars seems all too likely to bleed into another, we have become accustomed to think of warfare simply as the destroyer of civilization, the ultimate evil. This understandable view evades the extent to which warfare over the centuries
