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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
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Making Sense of Standardised Assessment Data: A Response to Snow et al. (2025)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I write in response to the commentary by Snow et al. (2025) on the paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data published in this journal (Larsen 2024).
Sally A. Larsen
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Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger-level forecasts? A comparison from Switzerland [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
In recent years, physics-based snowpack models combined with machine-learning techniques have gained momentum in public avalanche forecasting. When integrated with spatial interpolation methods, these approaches enable fully model-driven predictions of ...
F. Techel, R. S. Purves, S. Mayer, G. Schmudlach, K. Winkler   +4 more
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Fire and windthrow in forests: Winners and losers in Neuropterida and Mecoptera [PDF]

Alpine Entomology, 2019
The mid-term impact of forest fires and windthrows on species compositions in the insect orders Neuroptera, Raphidioptera and Mecoptera was assessed in Swiss forests using standardized flight interception traps.
Peter Duelli, Beat Wermelinger, Marco Moretti, Martin К. Obrist   +3 more
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Micromechanical modeling of snow failure [PDF]

The Cryosphere, 2020
Dry-snow slab avalanches start with the formation of a local failure in a highly porous weak layer underlying a cohesive snow slab. If followed by rapid crack propagation within the weak layer and finally a tensile fracture through the slab, a slab ...
G. Bobillier, B. Bergfeld, A. Capelli, J. Dual, J. Gaume, J. Gaume, A. van Herwijnen, J. Schweizer   +7 more
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Living Snow Fences; TR-460, 2006 [PDF]

, 2006
Blowing snow can cause significant problems for mobility and safety during winter weather in three distinct ways. It may drift onto the road, thus requiring almost continuous plowing while the wind is blowing (which may occur when a given winter storm is

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‘The person cutting the path does not know his trail is crooked’. Drawing lessons learned from people accessing antiretroviral treatment services to propose a person-centered care (PCC) minimum practice standard

HIV Research & Clinical Practice
Introduction: Person-centered care (PCC) in HIV services aims to improve client experiences, advance service accessibility and treatment outcomes and accelerate progress towards epidemic control.
Malia Duffy, Jessica E. Posner, Caitlin Madevu-Matson, Henry Tagoe, Amy Casella   +4 more
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Wind tunnel experiments: cold-air pooling and atmospheric decoupling above a melting snow patch [PDF]

The Cryosphere, 2016
The longevity of perennial snowfields is not fully understood, but it is known that strong atmospheric stability and thus boundary-layer decoupling limit the amount of (sensible and latent) heat that can be transmitted from the atmosphere to the snow ...
R. Mott, E. Paterna, S. Horender, P. Crivelli, M. Lehning   +4 more
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Micrometeorological and morphological observations of surface hoar dynamics on a mountain snow cover [PDF]

, 2010
The formation, growth, and destruction of surface hoar crystals is an important feature of mountain snow covers as buried surface hoar layers are a frequent weak layer leading to unstable snowpacks.
C. Manes, C. Fierz, Lehning, Manes, Costantino, STOESSEL F, Lehning, M., GUALA M, Guala, M., M. Lehning, M, Manes, C., Fierz, C., FIERZ C, F. Stössel, M. Guala, Stossel, F., Lehning, Michael, Stoessel, F.   +17 more
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Quantitative assessment of masticatory muscles based on skull muscle attachment areas in Carnivora

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Masticatory muscles are composed of the temporalis, masseter, and pterygoid muscles in mammals. Each muscle has a different origin on the skull and insertion on the mandible; thus, all masticatory muscles contract in different directions. Collecting in vivo data and directly measuring the masticatory muscles anatomically in various Carnivora ...
Kai Ito, Mugino O. Kubo, Ryo Kodera, Sei‐ichiro Takeda, Hideki Endo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source