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Assessment Defined
An appraisal or evaluation (e.g., assessment of the degree of success of a remediation procedure at a contamination site).
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Time out with Bruce Frank
Published July 4, 2009, 12:20 am, The St. Helena Star
Whitt: Where did you go to high school? What year did you graduate? Frank: I graduated in 1966 from Orland High in Orland, California. Whitt: Where did you go to college? What was your major?
Summer teachers to get raises
Published July 3, 2009, 8:56 am, Williston Herald
The Williston Public School District 1 summer school teachers are getting raises and the middle school principal is also becoming a half-time curriculum and assessment director while someone steps up to help her with principal duties. Vacant positions throughout the district also were filled by the districtâs school board during its regular monthly meeting on Thursday.
School district touts 'significant gains' in scores
Published July 3, 2009, 3:03 am, The Mooresville Tribune
With newly released state assessment results in hand, the Mooresville Graded School District reports "significant gains" in 2008-09 testing scores as officials optimistically look toward continuing those improvements during the coming school year.
Gray earns PhD
Published July 1, 2009, 9:39 pm, The Meridian Star
Ryan Gray graduated from the University of Texas at Austin on May 23, with a PhD in molecular and cell biology. He will do post-doctorate work at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Experts Available for Obesity, Weight Management Interviews
Published July 1, 2009, 2:35 pm, Newswise
Obesity is an escalating problem for all age groups in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one-third of U.S. adults and 46 percent of children are obese. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is at the forefront of obesity prevention, research and treatment and its faculty members have developed community, education ...
New e-science service could accelerate cancer research
Published July 1, 2009, 6:46 am, EurekAlert!
( University of Manchester ) The University of Manchester and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute have launched a major new e-science resource for biologists -- which could accelerate research into treatments for H1N1 flu and cancer.
BioSeek And EPA Expand ToxCastâ„¢ Contract
Published July 1, 2009, 2:16 am, DrugDiscoveryOnline
BioSeek, Inc., a pioneer in the application of predictive human biology to drug discovery, announced today that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will utilize BioSeek's BioMAP Systems technology to profile the biological effects of compounds in a second phase of the agency's ToxCast program.
Artificial intelligence
Published July 1, 2009, 2:11 am, Independent
What do you come out with? BSc/ MEng. Why do it? Anyone familiar with the film A.I Artificial Intelligence starring Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law may have a confused understanding of the term. To clarify: AI is not about teaching robots to love humans.
Mangrove-dependent animals globally threatened
Published June 30, 2009, 9:04 pm, EurekAlert!
( American Institute of Biological Sciences ) An assessment in the July/August issue of BioScience finds that substantial numbers of terrestrial vertebrates are restricted to mangrove forests. Many of these specialized species are listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Prospects for mangrove-restricted animals are bleak, because more than two percent of ...
Plundering the oceans
Published June 30, 2009, 6:00 pm, Salon.com
Overfishing continues at a shocking rate, as countries break one environmental promise after another
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- Common Currency Project, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
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