100 People: A World Portrait 50 would be female 50 would be male 26 would be children There would be 74 adults, 8 of whom would be 65 and olderThere would be: 60 Asians 15 Africans 14 people from the Americas 11 Europeans33 Christians 22 Muslims 14 Hindus 7 Buddhists 12 people who practice other religions 12 people who would not be aligned with a religion12 would speak Chinese 5 would speak Spanish 5 would speak English 3 would speak Arabic 3 would speak Hindi 3 would speak Bengali 3 would speak Portuguese 2 would speak Russian 2 would speak Japanese 62 would speak other languages83 would be able to read and write; 17 would not 7 would have a college degree 22 would own or share a computer77 people would have a place to shelter themfrom the wind and the rain, but 23 would not 1 would be dying of starvation 15 would be undernourished 21 would be overweight 87 would have access to safe drinking water 13 people would have no clean, safe water to drink
É mais fácil fazer negócios na Etiópia do que no Brasil, aponta relatório do Banco Mundial Fazer negócios no Brasil ficou mais difícil, principalmente para as pequenas e médias empresas. É o que aponta o relatório Doing Business 2013: Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises. O país caiu da 126º colocação no ranking anterior, para 130º, em uma relação de 185 países. Os países da América Latina que melhor se destacaram foram Chile (37º), Porto Rico (41º), Peru (43º), Colômbia (45º) e México (48º). O destaque do estudo ficou por conta das nações europeias: a Polônia saiu de 59º lugar para 55º ao implementar quatro reformas estruturais, tornando mais fácil o registro de propriedade, pagamento de impostos, aplicação dos contratos e a resolução de falências. O Brasil implementou três "boas práticas": tornou mais fácil a concessão de crédito, protegeu melhor os investidores e facilitou a aplicação dos contratos.
ENFP Personality Types Each letter in the personality type code - E, N, F, and P - describes a preference for a way of thinking or behaving. There are eight styles and you use all of them, but ENFPs prefer: Extraversion (interacting with people) more than Introversion (thinking things through)iNtuition (perceiving new possibilities) more than Sensing (perceiving tangible facts)Feeling (making decisions using subjective values) more than Thinking (making decisions using objective logic)Perception (a flexible lifestyle) more than Judgement (an organised lifestyle) Find out how close your unique personality is to ENFP. If your closest personality type is ENFP then you are someone who senses the hidden potential in people. Next: ENFP's Mental Functions By Steve Myers (Google+).
FAPESP :: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo High School Study Tips - Ability "You cannot teach a man or woman anything; you can only help them to find it within themselves."Galileo "Just as eating against one's will is injurious to the health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in." The only way to make study work for you is to avoid BOREDOM - the worst enemy of learning. From a very early age, we vary what we do to stop ourselves getting bored. Over time we develop a concentration-span - the time between starting a task to the time we find our minds wandering. The brain receives information from our senses. If you are bored, short term memory is lost very quickly and so can never be passed on. The best way to learn is to limit study periods to the length of our concentration-span. Go to your study area and get settled. Now that you know what your own brain can cope with you can sort out your reading and revision to suit. study beyond your concentration-span. Short-term memory lasts between 12 to 48 hours. Or:
World's richest cities by purchasing power If you think your mayor is among the best in the world, nominate him or her now for the 2014 World Mayor Prize World Mayor 2014: Best mayors wanted The City Mayors Foundation invites you to nominate a candidate for the 2014 World Mayor Prize. The Prize is awarded every two years to a mayor who has made outstanding contributions to his / her community and has developed a vision for urban living and working that is relevant to towns and cities across the world. Previous winners and runners-up include the mayors of Bilbao, Perth, Mexico City, Oklahoma City, Cape Town, Zurich, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Athens, Mississauga and Tirana. During the first round, suitable candidates may be suggested until the middle of May 2014. Please nominate your candidate for World Mayor 2014 now.
How Steelcase Redesigned the 21st Century College Classroom When it comes to creative office spaces, "collaboration" and "flexibility" are the bywords of the moment. Companies happily invest in modular furniture and open-plan layouts that make it easier for workers to actually, well, work together. So wouldn't it be natural for college campuses nationwide — the feeders of tomorrow's office workers — to create like-minded classrooms? The truth is, most college classrooms look shockingly similar to those that our parents and grandparents were educated in. You know exactly what we're talking about: those cavernous lecture halls, with podiums fronting endless rows of one-arm tablet desks. "That model has existed forever," says Elise Valoe, senior design researcher for Steelcase, and has created a real mismatch between the skills employers want and how students actually learn. Steelcase's tech-enabled "LearnLabs" are trying to change that. What does a typical LearnLab look like? [media:scape tables] [A huddle board] [You can't hide!]
NetLogo Home Page NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by many hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge. You can also try it online through NetLogo Web. What can you do with NetLogo? Join mailing lists here. Download NetLogo Go to NetLogo Web NetLogo comes with a large library of sample models. Latest Study Validates Testing, Forced Retrieval and SQRRR Good old-fashioned testing and a comprehensive reading theory developed in 1946 remain great learning tools. It is a practice born of yesteryear and quite frankly appears to be giving way to concept-mapping and other forms of study habits. But yet another new study has confirmed that the practice known as forced retrieval today continues to be one of the best methods for learning new material. In the latest report, “Retrieval Practice Produces More Learning than Elaborative Studying with Concept Mapping,” researchers Jeffrey D. And when these researchers say learning, they include three extremely important elements. But even more importantly than this retention, forced retrieval was deemed to be the best method for helping teach students to draw inferences as well as apply concepts to new settings. Forced Retrieval The term forced retrieval is used to describe the practice of formal testing or quizzing. The Recent Study Why retrieval testing helps is still unknown. Past Practice
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