and communities of practice and how they influence a practice-based approach to continuing education. She also describes how a training team implemented these concepts in a course involving inquiry-based partnerships between teachers and librarians in Hawaii, USA. In this article, the author uses the following

First, I would like to thank to Dimka Karastoyanova and Mariano Cilia for all the fruitful discussions, their guidance and support through the course of this project. Thanks also to Prof. Alejandro Buchmann who sponsored my stay at Technische Universität Darmstadt during the spring of 2004

interest and appetite for music in care at Bridgepoint Hospital, and that there is also a commitment from stakeholders to move forward with an actionable plan for music care. An expectation of the project was that recommendations for Bridgepoint Active Healthcare would be made from the findings

of knowledge and a book in Her lotus hands. Dedicated to the Lotus Feet of the revered Sadguru. This thesis presents a new active mask (AM) framework and an algorithm for segmenta-tion of digital images, particularly those of punctate patterns from fluorescence microscopy. Fluorescence microscopy has greatly

referees and the IZA World of Labor editors for many helpful suggestions on earlier drafts. The author also acknowledges the gentle but persistent reminders of the IZA World of Labor editorial staff. Competing interests The IZA World of Labor project is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research

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Abstract. We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a particular emphasis on nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of such self-propelled entities in the framework