Over the past year, development impact bonds, or DIBs—international development’s newest hot trend—have generated a tremendous amount of buzz from champions and detractors alike, along with some ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. As I discussed in my last post, governments and international organizations are ...

Every child develops at their own pace. That's why it's useful to measure development in a uniform way. We can use this to track an individual child's development over time or compare groups of ...

Carbon nanotubes possess extraordinary mechanical, physical and chemical properties including actuation behaviour on both nano and macroscale. Up till now, several mechanisms of carbon nanotube ...

Currently, most surveys assessing adolescent health concerns focus primarily on risk behaviors and negative influences rather than positive influences such as assets. The purpose of this paper is to ...

Ian McEnteggart, Composites Market Manager at Instron, talks to AZoM about the importance of strain measurement in materials development. What is strain and why is strain measurement important to ...

Critics of the controversial Neighborhood Integrity Initiative—now officially known as Measure S—have long argued that it would limit affordable housing opportunities and prevent transit-oriented ...

TAP is a school-reform model oriented around teacher development. Originally founded by Milken Family Foundation and now operated by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, the program ...

Purpose Patient-reported outcomes should ideally be adapted to the individual patient while maintaining comparability of scores across patients. This is achievable using computerized adaptive testing ...