The roots of success: industrial growth in Italy reconsidered, 1911- 1951

This article reconsiders the growth of Italian industry from the First World War to the eve of the economic miracle, with the aid of sector-specific new value-added series, at three different price-bases. The new estimates reduce growth during the First World War, making the Italian case comparable to the other belligerent countries, while improving the performance of the 1920s. The 1929 crisis looks more profound than before, while the recovery after 1933 is now stronger. During the 1920s and the 1930s, a significant shift from traditional to more advanced activities took place: when confronted with the rest of Europe, the interwar period was a relative success, which laid the ground for the following economic boom.

School Leader Update, March 2005

Monthly newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Education

School Leader Update, May 2005

Monthly newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Education

Individual reproductive success and effective population size in the greater white-toothed shrew Crocidura russula.

In order to investigate the determinants of effective population size in the socially monogamous Crocidura russula, the reproductive output of 44 individuals was estimated through genetic assignment methods. The individual variance in breeding success turned out to be surprisingly high, mostly because the males were markedly less monogamous than expected from previous behavioural data. Males paired simultaneously with up to four females and polygynous males had significantly more offspring than monogamous ones. The variance in female reproductive success also exceeded that of a Poisson distribution (though to a lesser extent), partly because females paired with multiply mated males weaned significantly more offspring. Polyandry also occurred occasionally, but only sequentially (i.e. without multiple paternity of litters). Estimates of the effective to census size ratio were ca. 0.60, which excluded the mating system as a potential explanation for the high genetic variance found in this shrew's populations. Our data suggest that gene flow from the neighbourhood (up to one-third of the total recruitment) is the most likely cause of the high levels of genetic diversity observed in this shrew's subpopulations.

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, June 30, 2004

State University Audit Report

School Leader Update, June 2005

Monthly newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Education

Mid-Iowa School Improvement Consortium, Independent Auditor's Reports, Basic Financial Statements and Schedule of Findings, June 30, 2004

Other Audit Reports - 28E Organizations

Report on Special Investigation of Before and After School Services, For the Period July 1, 2000 through December 31, 2004

Other Audit Reports - Special Investigation

Perry Community School District, July 1, 2004 through March 31, 2005

Community School District Audit Report

School Leader Update, August 2005

Monthly newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Education

School Leader Update, July 2005

Monthly newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Education

High School Review Summary, 2005

A status report identifying technical assistance, policies, and promising practices to facilitate high school improvement statewide.

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa School for the Deaf, June 30, 2004

State University Audit Report - Iowa School for the Deaf

Ames Community School District, Auditor of State's Report on Reaudit, For the Period July 1st, 2003 through June 30th, 2004

Other Audit Reports - Reaudit Community School District

Early Christian School Texts on Papyri: the database

Database of papyrus school texts which may be identified as Christian on the basis of the presence of some internal indicator: Christian symbols, textual content originating from the Bible or of a clearly Christian origin proposed as a copying exercise, or Christian contents not part of the exercise itself, such as prayers or invocations.