100 science lessons : Year 3 : Scottish primary 4.

Recurso que ayuda a los profesores a vincular sus conocimientos a los aspectos clave del aprendizaje y del currículo. Está estructurado en cinco unidades que se relacionan con los objetivos de aprendizaje de ciencias para la educación infantil. Cada unidad se divide en lecciones y termina con hojas fotocopiables para la evaluación. Una de las características principales del recurso es la flexibilidad de su estructura que permitirá a los profesores adaptarse a las necesidades de cada niño. Cuenta con un CD-ROM que incluye recursos multimedia como vídeo, audio, imágenes, actividades interactivas.

100 science lessons : Year 2 : Scottish primary 3.

Recurso que ayuda a los profesores a vincular sus conocimientos a los aspectos clave del aprendizaje y del currículo. Está estructurado en cuatro unidades que se relacionan con los objetivos de aprendizaje de ciencias para la educación infantil. Cada unidad se divide en una serie de lecciones y termina con hojas fotocopiables para la evaluación. Una de las características principales del recurso es la flexibilidad de su estructura que permitirá a los profesores adaptarse a las necesidades de cada niño. Cuenta con un CD-ROM que incluye recursos multimedia como vídeo, audio, imágenes, actividades interactivas.

Songs of ourselves : the University of Cambridge International Examinations anthology of poetry in english.

Antología de poesías pertenecientes a cien poetas de todo el mundo de habla inglesa. Es una introducción a una gran variedad de formas, estilos y contenidos de versos de los últimos cuatro siglos, desde el siglo XVI hasta la actualidad. Su contenido se adapta al estudio del CIE, IGCSE y al programa de estudios del nivel AS y nivel avanzado de literatura en inglés.

GCSE AQA English literature : poetry and anthology.

Libro de texto para estudiantes de enseñanza secundaria de segundo ciclo que estén preparando el examen GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) en el área de Literatura Inglesa según la especificación de AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance). Está estructurado en tres secciones (leer poesía, antología poética, y cuentos) divididas en lecciones que incluyen los objetivos a alcanzar, ejercicios, un resumen con los temas clave, biografías o información contextual sobre determinados escritores o textos, definiciones de los términos literarios más importantes, comentarios de examinadores, y referencias a recursos en línea con materiales adicionales.

Promoting innovation and exceptional performance in the Scottish construction industry

Demonstration Projects are an initiative developed in response to demands presented in the 1998 Egan Report. Scotland has witnessed an attempt to keep the momentum and the so called Demonstration Projects Team at the University of Dundee was introduced in late 2003. The team’s responsibility was to revitalise and restructure Scottish Demonstration Projects. These are now a major initiative within the newly established Scottish Construction Innovation and Excellence Centre, a part of Scottish Construction Forum that is an umbrella organisation funded by the Scottish Executive through Scottish Enterprise Glasgow.

Changing management in Scottish birch woodlands: a potential threat to local invertebrate biodiversity

The silvicultural management of Scottish birch woodlands for timber production is replacing traditional low intensity management practices, such as domesticated livestock grazing. These new management practices involve thinning of existing woodlands to prescribed densities to maximize biomass and timber quality. Although presently infrequent, the wide scale adoption of this practice could affect invertebrate community diversity. The impact of these changes in management on Staphylinidae and Carabidae (Coleoptera) in 19 woodlands in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland was investigated. Grazing and logging practices were important determinants of beetle community structure. Woodland area had no effect on any measure of beetle community structure, although isolation did influence the abundance of one carabid species. Changes towards timber production forestry will influence the structure of invertebrate communities, although the scale at which this occurs will determine its effect.

The cotter's kailyard

An examination of the critical reception of the poetry of Robert Burns from his death in 1796 to the end of the nineteenth century. The essay shows how a selective reading of Burns's poems was used to construct and reinforce moral and political arguments, and argues that the identification of the poet as national Bard influenced ideas about Scottish literature generally in the nineteenth century.

Corynebacterium testudinoris sp. nov., from a tortoise, and Corynebacterium felinum sp. nov., from a Scottish wild cat

Two unknown gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria isolated from a tortoise and a Scottish wild cat were subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic analysis. Chemical analysis revealed the presence of straight-chain and monounsaturated fatty acids and short-chain mycolic acids in the two isolates consistent with the genus Corynebacterium. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing confirmed that the unknown isolates were members of the genus Corynebacterium, with the two organisms displaying greater than 3% sequence divergence from each other and from established species of the genus. The unknown Corynebacterium isolates were readily distinguished from each other and from all recognized species of the genus by biochemical tests. Based on phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence, it is proposed that the unknown organisms from a tortoise and a cat be classified in the genus Corynebacterium as Corynebacterium testudinoris sp. nov. and Corynebacterium felinum sp. nov., respectively. The respective type strains of C. testudinoris and C. felinum are CCUG 41823T and CCUG 39943T.