The bad-tempered ladybird.

A través las ilustraciones y de la narración de la historia de la malhumorada mariquita, que se enfada con todos los animales con los que se encuentra, los niños exploran los conceptos de tamaño y tiempo.

The bad good manners book.

Consejos muy divertidos sobre buenos y malos modales. Por ejemplo, en el cuarto de baño, no se debe cortar el pelo en el lavabo, no atascar el water con papel y cerrar bien los grifos. Tampoco juegues en la cocina, ni mires por el ojo de la cerradura, ordena tu habitación.

Good days bad days.

En una joven familia hay tiempo para que pasen por sus vidas, días de distintos tipos: días felices y tristes; días de trabajo y de juego; días de estar en casa y de estar de visita muy lejos; días aburridos y divertidos; y también días de sol y nevados. Esta narración sirve para que los niños conozcan conceptos opuestos en la misma página de lectura.

Big bad raps.

Cuatro cuentos tradicionales contados de una forma distinta a ritmos rap y hip-hop.Se puede utilizar para diferentes grupos de edad y en todo el currículo nacional. Las notas para el profesor proporcionan ejemplos y actividades independientes para los alumnos dentro y fuera de la hora de lectura.

How to save a bad element with weak boundary conditions

The P-1-P-1 finite element pair is known to allow the existence of spurious pressure (surface elevation) modes for the shallow water equations and to be unstable for mixed formulations. We show that this behavior is strongly influenced by the strong or the weak enforcement of the impermeability boundary conditions. A numerical analysis of the Stommel model is performed for both P-1-P-1 and P-1(NC)-P-1 mixed formulations. Steady and transient test cases are considered. We observe that the P-1-P-1 element exhibits stable discrete solutions with weak boundary conditions or with fully unstructured meshes. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Milk and meat in our diet: good or bad for health?

Foods derived from animals are an important source of nutrients in the diet but there is considerable uncertainty about whether or not these foods contribute to increased risk of various chronic diseases. For milk in particular there appears to be an enormous mismatch between both the advice given on milk/dairy foods items by various authorities and public perceptions of harm from the consumption of milk and dairy products, and the evidence from long-term prospective cohort studies. Such studies provide convincing evidence that increased consumption of milk can lead to reductions in the risk of vascular disease and possibly some cancers and of an overall survival advantage from the consumption of milk, although the relative effect of milk products is unclear. Accordingly, simply reducing milk consumption in order to reduce saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake is not likely to produce benefits overall though the production of dairy products with reduced SFA contents is likely to be helpful. For red meat there is no evidence of increased risk of vascular diseases though processed meat appears to increase the risk substantially. There is still conflicting and inconsistent evidence on the relationship between consumption of red meat and the development of colorectal cancer, but this topic should not be ignored. Likewise, the role of poultry meat and its products as sources of dietary fat and fatty acids is not fully clear. There is concern about the likely increase in the prevalence of dementia but there are few data on the possible benefits or risks from milk and meat consumption. The future role of animal nutrition in creating foods closer to the optimum composition for long-term human health will be increasingly important. Overall, the case for increased milk consumption seems convincing, although the case for high-fat dairy products and red meat is not. Processed meat products do seem to have negative effects on long-term health and although more research is required, these effects do need to be put into the context of other risk factors to long-term health such as obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption.

Impact Assessment in the EU: a tool for better regulation, less regulation or less bad regulation?

Impact Assessments (IAs) were introduced at the EU level under the rhetorical facade of ‘better regulation’. The actual aim was to improve not only the quality but also the reputation of EU regulation before stakeholders. However, evidence brought forward by a number of evaluations pointed out that IAs are yet to achieve acceptable quality standards. The paper offers an overview of different disciplinary approaches for looking at IAs. It suggests that risk regulation encompasses the theoretical foundations to help understand the role of IAs in the EU decisionmaking process. The analysis of 60 early days preliminary IAs provides empirical evidence regarding policy alternatives, methodology of consultation and use of quantitative techniques. Findings suggest that dawn period IAs were used mainly to provide some empirical evidence for regulatory intervention in front of stakeholders. The paper concludes with assumptions about the future role of IAs at EU level.