Contextualisation
To teach science in a contemporary primary school requires more than a sound knowledge of science. Being able to explain science in a way that is accessible, relevant and inspires interest and confidence among pupils are also other key…

Ethos, although clearly an important rhetorical appeal, remains largely unexamined in our discussions of health-related issues. Increasingly, important health information is exchanged and public discussions take place in online forums, and whose ethos we accept as most valid has important…

Most Hong Kong secondary schools have two teams of guidance and discipline teachers to manage students’ misbehaviour. The guidance team is mainly responsible for providing a personal counselling service and for carrying out guidance programmes, such as sex education. The…

The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift in preclinical drug discovery with structure-based drug design (SBDD) making a comeback while high-throughput screening (HTS) methods have continued to generate disappointing results. There is a deficit of information between identified hits…

CCD quiere seguir mejorando. Por ello, hemos iniciado el proceso de inclusión de nuestra revista en ISI Web of Knowledge, “la plataforma integrada basada en la Web que ofrece a todos los profesionales de la investigación científica y académica la…

Throughout 2006-2009 Elders, Aboriginal resource people, and Aboriginal scholars shared their insights about the learning spirit with the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre’s (ABLKC) Nourishing the Learning Spirit Animation Theme Bundle, led by M'ikmaw education scholar Dr. Marie Battiste. The ABLKC…

A chreia attested in later sources shows enough points of similitarity with Lucian’s ironic tract on rhetorical education to suggest that he is assuming his readers’ knowledge of a particular school exercise.

Enzymes that catalyze carbon-carbon bond formation can be exploited as biocatalyst for synthetic organic chemistry. However, natural enzymes frequently do not possess the required properties or specificities to catalyze industrially useful transformations. This mini-review describes recent work using knowledge-guided site-specific…

Undergraduates use a wide range of information resources for academic and nonacademic purposes, including web sites that range from credible, peer reviewed, online journal sites, to biased and inaccurate promotional web sites. Students are taught basic critical appraisal skills, but…

Cancer and Malaria are the common diseases affecting the citizens of both developed and poor countries. An ethno-botanical survey was conducted at Sardar Bahudar Khan Women’s university campus, From March to November,2010. Ethno-botanical information was collected from faculty and students…