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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging trends in mid-rise timber construction: insights from the DACH region

Frontiers in Built Environment
Timber has re-emerged as a central material in sustainable construction, offering advantages such as carbon sequestration, reduced embodied energy, and compatibility with circular economy principles.
Aída Santana-Sosa, Aída Santana-Sosa, Emel Simsek, Iva Kovacic   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experimental Study on the Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers with Welded Reinforcement Cages

Applied Sciences
Welded reinforcement cages (WRCs), which connect longitudinal reinforcement and stirrups through welding, have attracted increasing attention for industrialized construction of reinforced concrete (RC) structures.
Juanjuan Chen, Bing Chen, Guansheng Li, Hehui Zheng, Jie Liu, Xiong Xu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Safer construction [PDF]

, 2006
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Overview of Research Progress and Development of Cathode Materials for Aqueous Na‐Ion Batteries

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aqueous sodium‐ion batteries (ASIBs) have now been viewed as the promising energy storage technique for the grid application due to their intrinsic safety and cost‐effectiveness. However, their energy density and cycling stability are still unsatisfactory accompanied by the narrow electrochemical stability window of water and parasitic side ...
Zhiwei Shi, Hongmin Chen, Hongyu Xia, Xiaoyu Zhang, Haojie Lv, Fei Gu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Industrialized Building System In Malaysia Construction Industry [PDF]

, 2013
Malaysia is similar to any other developing country where consider the construction industry as one the main contributors to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Phon Chai, Priyanut
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Advancing Environmental Sustainability: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Monitoring, Predicting, and Controlling Sulfur Dioxide Emissions

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Air pollution from sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions poses significant threats to environmental sustainability, public health, and climate change efforts. Despite advances in monitoring and regulatory frameworks, traditional methods often fall short in accuracy, scalability, and efficiency.
Turkan Kopac
wiley   +1 more source

Historical birth records from 1896 to 1944 from the Basel maternity hospital, Switzerland, reveal significant obstetric selection pressures

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality have declined dramatically during the last century. Historical data are therefore important sources to study the evolutionary selection pressures related to childbirth and how they have fluctuated over time.
Mirella Woodert, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Viktoria A. Krenn, Cédric Cordey, Nicole Torres‐Tamayo, Kaspar Staub, Nicole M. Webb, Martin Haeusler   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Countermeasures for Construction of Industrialized Innovation Platforms

Haiyang Kaifa yu guanli
The marine pharmaceutical and biological product industry is one of the marine strategic emerging industries that China has cultivated. Its development cannot be separated from the scientific research support of first-class innovation platforms ...
Yijun LIN
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Key Technology for Intelligent Construction of Ultra-High Concrete Cable Tower

Zhongwai Gonglu
As the planning and deployment of cross-sea and river-crossing passages continue, prominent issues such as high labor demand and poor working conditions have become evident during the construction of large-span and ultra-high cable towers.
MO Jun, ZHANG Wen, YUAN Hang
doaj   +1 more source